US11246652B2
Surgical tissue fusion instrument and support structure having two gripping structures which are movable relative to each other and which are designed to bring together biological tissue sections that are to be connected to each other, with heat-generating means which are assigned to the gripping structures and, during tissue fusion, cause heat to be introduced in the area of a connection site of the biological tissue sections, and also with a support structure which is held between the gripping structures and, during tissue fusion, is operatively connected to the tissue sections. The support structure has at least one additional physical functional structure for aiding or promoting the tissue fusion.
US11246650B2
An arthroscopic tissue resecting probe includes an elongated shaft having outer and inner sleeves which are formed from an electrically conductive material extending about an axis to a working end. Outer and inner resecting windows are formed in the sleeves in the working end. The working end includes a ceramic body having a collar portion extending fully around a region of the outer sleeve proximal to outer resecting window. A radiofrequency (RF) electrode is disposed on an outer surface of the ceramic body and is spaced-apart from the outer resecting window.
US11246649B2
A resecting probe includes a shaft assembly having an outer sleeve and an inner sleeve. The outer sleeve has an axial bore and an outer window in a distal side thereof, and the inner sleeve has an axial extraction channel and inner window in a distal side thereof. The inner sleeve is rotationally disposed in the axial bore of the outer sleeve to allow the inner sleeve window to be rotated in and out of alignment with the outer sleeve window, and the shaft assembly forms a flow aperture in a distal portion when the inner cutting window and the outer cutting window are out of alignment. An electrode is carried on the inner sleeve, and a motor drive is coupled to rotate the inner sleeve relative to the outer sleeve. A controller is coupled to the motor drive and controls rotation of the inner sleeve.
US11246625B2
A drive assembly for use with a delivery catheter for delivering an implantable medical device includes a drive motor configured to be operably coupled to an inner shaft of the delivery catheter such that operation of the drive motor causes the inner shaft to translate relative to the outer shaft and a controller. The controller is configured to receive a position signal from a position sensor indicating a position of the implantable medical device relative to the outer shaft as well as a motor signal indicating a rotational position of an output shaft of the drive motor. The controller is configured to output a control signal instructing operation of the drive motor based upon the indicated rotational position of the output shaft of the drive motor and the indicated position of the implantable medical device relative to the outer shaft.
US11246623B2
A device and method for visualization of the intravascular creation of autologous valves, and particularly venous valve, is disclosed herein. One aspect of the present technology, for example, is directed toward a delivery catheter that can include a lumen configured to receive a dissection assembly and a trough having a plurality of transducers electrically coupled to a proximal portion of the delivery catheter. At least one of the transducers can be configured to emit a signal towards a portion of a blood vessel adjacent the trough, and at least one of the transducers can be configured to receive a reflection of the emitted signal.
US11246621B2
An ultrasonic transducer for an ultrasonic surgical instrument includes a proximal hub, a piezoelectric rod array including a plurality of piezoelectric rods spaced-apart from one another and disposed in parallel and longitudinally-extending orientation relative to one another, and a distal horn including a distal connector configured to engage a waveguide. The proximal hub and the distal horn are configured to engage one another to retain the piezoelectric rod array therebetween under compression.
US11246602B2
Pressure wraps include an elongated elastic strap and an adjustable loop formed in the elongated elastic strap. The elongated elastic strap is wrapped around a subject to form a plurality of loops, and provides selectively variable amounts of pressure depending on the amount of tension applied to the elongated elastic strap as the loops are formed around the subject. The size of the adjustable loop is configured to be selectively varied via an adjustment component. Pressure wraps may include a plurality of discrete regions of hooks compatible with the pile of the elongated elastic strap, which are configured to inhibit unintentional unwrapping during application. A securement is configured to secure the distal end of the elongated elastic strap to an intermediate portion of the strap, thereby securing the pressure wrap with respect to the subject. The securement may include a manipulatable fastener and/or an automatic fastener for securing the strap.
US11246598B2
A surgical anvil assembly for use with a circular stapling instrument includes an anvil center rod defining a longitudinal axis and an anvil head pivotally coupled to the anvil center rod and movable between a first operative condition and a second tilted condition. The anvil assembly further includes a locking assembly configured to selectively lock the anvil head in each of the first and second conditions.
US11246583B2
In one embodiment, a medical device includes a delivery tool having a carrier member, and a cartridge. The cartridge is coupled to the delivery tool. The cartridge defines an opening. The cartridge is configured to retain an anchor defining a lumen. The carrier member has a retracted configuration and an extended configuration. The carrier member is configured to extend through the lumen defined by the anchor and through the opening defined by the cartridge when the cartridge is coupled to the delivery tool and the carrier member is in its extended configuration.
US11246582B2
A dual-motion rotation and retraction system for forming a pathway to a patient's intervertebral disc space includes a dilator, retractable dual-blade assembly, and dual-motion retractor. The dilator may feature a narrow rectangular, elliptical, or elongated configuration body for insertion parallel to the fibers of the psoas muscle, including an angle of 0 to 90 degrees to the patient's spine. The dual-blade assembly includes opposing blade subassemblies, each having a blade bordered by adjustable wings, along with built-in lighting and video capabilities. The dual-blade assembly may be passed over the dilator at the insertion orientation. The dual-motion retractor may be disposed about the dual-blade assembly and dilator and employed to both rotate the dual-blade assembly and the dilator 0 to 90 degrees to a final rotated orientation parallel to the intervertebral disc space and to retract the opposing blade subassemblies away from one another to create the surgical pathway. Other embodiments are also disclosed.
US11246580B2
Intra-abdominal liver retraction devices and methods of use. One device includes a body, a stabilizing member, and a lifting filament. The stabilizing member is configured to be swiveled so that the device can be introduced through a trocar into the abdomen of a patient. The filament pulls the stabilizing member into engagement with the abdominal wall while a foot section lifts the liver. Another device includes first, second and third sections coupled together by a filament. The first and second sections are pivotably connected by a first pivotable joint. The second and third sections are pivotably connected by a second pivotable joint including the flexible filament. The second and third sections are pivoted with respect to each other to form a support surface to lift the liver by pulling the filament. The second pivotable joint separates to enable the device to be removed.
US11246571B2
Configurable absorbent articles with improved bodily exudate separation and sampling are provided.
US11246564B2
The present invention relates to an ultrasound diagnosis apparatus (10), in particular for analyzing a fetus (62). An ultrasound data interface (66) is configured to receive 3D (three dimensional) ultrasound data from an object (12). The ultrasound diagnosis apparatus further comprises a measurement unit (70) for measuring anatomical structures of the object based on the segmentation data and a calculation unit (72) configured to calculate at least one biometric parameter based on the 3D ultrasound data.
US11246562B2
Apparatus and methods are described herein for use in the alignment and deployment of a prosthetic heart valve, such as a mitral valve. In some embodiments, an apparatus includes a tube assembly and a needle assembly configured to be received through a lumen of an outer tube member of the tube assembly. The needle assembly includes an elongate needle having a distal tip configured to be inserted through the epicardial surface of a heart. An imaging probe is coupled to a coupling member and includes an imaging element. The imaging probe is configured to provide image data associated with a location of a commissural-commissural (C-C) plane and a location of the anterior-posterior (A-P) plane of the mitral valve and the annular region of the heart such that a prosthetic mitral valve can be positioned within the heart based at least in part on the C-C plane and the A-P plane.
US11246560B2
Provided are an ultrasound probe, an ultrasound imaging apparatus, an ultrasound imaging system including the ultrasound imaging apparatus, and a method of controlling the ultrasound imaging apparatus. In accordance with one aspect, the ultrasound probe includes a transducer configured to receive an echo ultrasound signal by emitting a plane wave at least three times at different emission angles or at emission angles which are dependent on each other; and a probe controller configured to obtain an ultrasound image by determining a Doppler shift frequency from the received echo ultrasound signal and calculating at least one of a speed of an object and a speed of the object in each of directions on the basis of the determined Doppler shift frequency and either the different emission angles or the dependent emission angles.
US11246554B2
A radiographic imaging system uses an automatic exposure control device configured at a default shut-off threshold. If the radiographic imaging system includes a processor programmed to process the image by executing a scatter removal algorithm thereupon, the shut-off threshold of the AEC is increased prior to capturing the radiographic image.
US11246551B2
The present disclosure relates to a system, method, and computer program product for computer-aided detection (CAD) of suspicious lesions in digital breast specimen radiographs, wherein single-view feature vectors from a first digital radiograph of the breast specimen are processed in a classification algorithm along with information computed from a plurality of related digital specimen radiographs to assign an overall probability of suspiciousness to potentially suspicious lesions in the first digital breast specimen radiography. In one embodiment, a greater probability of suspiciousness is determined where there are similar corresponding lesions in the first digital breast specimen radiography and in an alternate digital breast specimen radiography view of the same breast specimen. In another preferred embodiment, a lesser probability of suspiciousness is found where there are symmetric lesions or structures located in the first digital breast specimen radiography and a digital breast specimen radiography of another view.
US11246550B2
Use of tissue composition and anthropomorphic measures in a method for the detection and quantification of arterial calcification in an organ is described for disease risk prediction and stratification. A radiographic image of an organ is transformed quantitatively to a tissue composition map indicating a total amount of organ tissue; a calcification map is generated indicating position in the tissue composition map of calcified tissue; calcification free tissue composition map is generated from the tissue composition map using the position of calcified tissue in the calcification map; a vessel map of the position of vessels in the tissue composition map is generated; and the vessel map is combined with the calcification map to generate a map of vessel calcification indicating the position of calcified vessels in the tissue composition map. Scores are based on arterial calcification in a breast which indicates disease in the breast and other organs.
US11246548B2
Various systems are provided for damping vibration in a mobile radiographic imaging system. In one embodiment, a vibration damping assembly for a C-arm imaging system comprises a pivot element rotatably coupled to a toe portion of the C-arm imaging system and configured to form an interface between the toe portion, a damping element, and a ground surface on which the C-arm imaging system sits.
US11246539B2
A system for automated detection and type classification of central venous catheters. The system includes an electronic processor that is configured to, based on an image, generate a segmentation of a potential central venous catheter using a segmentation method and extract, from the segmentation, one or more image features associated with the potential central venous catheter. The electronic processor is also configured to, based on the one or more image features, determine, using a first classifier, whether the image includes a central venous catheters and determine, using a second classifier, a type of central venous catheter included in the image.
US11246535B2
An electrode support structure assembly is provided comprising an electrode support structure including a plurality of splines. Each of the plurality of splines can have a proximal end portion and a distal end portion. The assembly further comprises a first element defining an axis and comprising an outer surface. The outer surface comprises a plurality of slots configured to receive the distal end portion of each of the plurality of splines. The first element is configured such that the distal end portion of each of the plurality of splines may move with respect to each slot. In accordance with some embodiments, the distal end portion of each of the plurality of splines comprises a section configured for engagement with the first element, wherein the section comprises a shoulder.
US11246534B2
A catheter includes a shaft for insertion into an organ of a patient, an extendable distal-end assembly, and two or more strengthening elements. The extendable distal-end assembly is coupled to the shaft and includes multiple splines, at least one spline includes a flexible circuit board having one or more electrodes disposed thereon, the circuit board is configured, when the distal-end assembly is extended in the organ, to conform to a surface of the organ so as to make contact between the electrodes and the surface. The strengthening elements are distributed along the circuit board of the spline and are configured to mechanically strengthen the spline.
US11246533B2
The present disclosure is directed to intravascular devices, systems, and methods having a core wire with multiple flattened sections. In one aspect, a sensing guide wire is provided. The guide wire includes a first flexible elongate member; a sensing element positioned at a distal portion of the first flexible elongate member; and a second flexible elongate member coupled to the first flexible elongate member such that the second flexible elongate member extends distally from the first flexible elongate member; and wherein a distal portion of the first flexible elongate member includes at least two flattened sections, and wherein the first and second flexible elongate members are coupled along a portion of one of the at least two flattened sections. In other aspects, methods of forming a sensing guide wire are provided.
US11246532B2
An electronic device to be mounted around a finger includes: a top part on which a nail of the finger is located; a bottom part disposed opposite to the top part, where a fingerprint surface of the finger is located on the bottom part; and a side part connecting the top part and the bottom part to each other, where the top part generates a nail image by image-picking up the nail, and senses a movement of the finger, based on the nail image.
US11246516B2
A measuring apparatus includes a first light source for emitting light of a first wavelength, a second light source for emitting laser light of a second wavelength different from the first wavelength, a first optical detector for receiving scattered laser light of the second wavelength from a measured part, a second optical detector for receiving transmitted light of the first wavelength from the measured part, a third optical detector for receiving transmitted laser light of the second wavelength from the measured part, and a controller configured to measure a blood flow amount based on an output of the first optical detector and an oxygen saturation based on outputs of the second optical detector and the third optical detector.
US11246514B2
A non-invasive optical internal substance detector includes: a diode array including a plurality of light emitting diodes (LEDs) for emitting light toward a target where an internal substance is detected, and a plurality of photodiodes (PDs) for receiving light which is reflected from the target after being emitted from the plurality of light emitting diodes; and a controller for controlling the plurality of light emitting diodes to be turned on or off and for processing a signal obtained from the photodiodes. The plurality of light emitting diodes and the plurality of photodiodes each have a size of several micrometers to several tens of micrometers and are arranged at intervals of several micrometers to several tens of micrometers from each other.
US11246512B2
A measuring apparatus includes: a measuring unit to measure a signal value corresponding to a concentration of a specified substance contained in a first sample; an acquiring unit to acquire a reference value pertaining to the specified substance contained in a second sample; a calculation unit to calculate a concentration value of the specified substance contained in the first sample, based on the signal value and the reference value; a determination unit to determine whether a variation in the concentration value of the specified substance contained in the first sample is equal to or less than a threshold value; and an output unit to output, to a display unit, recommendation information representing recommendation for acquiring the reference value when the variation in the concentration value of the specified substance contained in the first sample is equal to or less than the threshold value.
US11246511B2
A system for analyzing a patient using a transcutaneous sensor, having a base unit for attaching to the patient, an injector, releasably connectable to the base unit, for the transcutaneous insertion of the sensor into the patient, and a detection unit, releasably connectable to the base unit, for generating measurement data by the sensor. The base unit has a holding device which is configured to cooperate with the injector and detection unit such that, in a detection configuration with the detection unit arranged on the base unit, a contact pressure is applied to the sensor by the holding device for frictional fixing, and in an injection configuration with the injector arranged on the base unit, a lower contact pressure than in the detection configuration is applied to the sensor by the holding device.
US11246507B2
An apparatus includes left and right shoe sensor systems. A shoe sensor system includes pressure sensing elements, an accelerometer, and a control circuit that includes a power source circuit, a clock circuit, a processing module, memory, a wireless communication transceiver, sensor communication links, and an accelerometer communication link. The processing module samples data from the pressure sensing element to produce foot force data and samples data from the first accelerometer to produce three-dimensional foot data. The wireless communication transmits as outbound radio frequency (RF) signals regarding the foot force data and the three-dimensional foot data.
US11246506B2
A respiratory gas analyzer device (10), such as a capnograph device, is disclosed. A gas measurement component (28), such as a carbon dioxide measurement component in the case of a capnograph, is configured to measure at least one respired gas component (e.g. carbon dioxide). A pump (20) is connected to draw respired gas through the gas measurement component. A pressure gauge (30) is connected to measure pressure in an airflow pathway including the gas measurement component and the pump. An electronic pump controller (40) is programmed to start the pump in response to pressure measured by the pressure gauge satisfying a pump turn on criterion.
US11246505B2
A method includes receiving, from a probe that includes electrodes and is positioned inside a cavity in an organ of a patient, (i) proximity signals indicative of proximity of the electrodes to a wall of the cavity, and (ii) position signals indicative of positions of the electrodes within the cavity. Based on the proximity signals and the position signals, at least a portion of a volume of the cavity is represented by a sphere model including multiple spheres. A direction is identified along which one or more spheres are larger than one or more surrounding spheres by at least a given factor. Based on the indicated direction, a location of an opening in the wall of the cavity is estimated and presented to a user.
US11246502B2
A novel medical imaging system that is based on radio-wave signals at microwave frequencies and has unique properties. The system can be used for various diagnostic applications such as breast cancer detection, brain stroke detection, and assessment of internal bleeding (trauma emergencies).
US11246499B2
A far-infrared emitters with physiological signal detection and method of operating the same is disclosed. A far-infrared beam module is switched on and generates far-infrared beam irradiating to a human body when a control unit starting up a microwave detecting module detecting physiological signal of the human body. The control unit is switched off when the time that the far-infrared beam irradiating on the human body reach a presetting period of time, thereby achieving the purpose of energy conservation.
US11246490B2
A 3D scanner system for detecting and/or visualizing cariogenic regions in teeth based on fluorescence emitted from said teeth, the 3D scanner system including data processing means configured for mapping a representation of fluorescence emitted from the teeth onto the corresponding portion of a digital 3D representation of the teeth to provide a combined digital 3D representation.
US11246479B2
An integrated endoscope cleansing system (IECS) comprises both an independent cleansing system (ICS) evacuation conduit in communication with an independent cleansing system working station (IWS), and an endoscope insertion tube with a working channel functionally coupled to a vacuum source, under control of an endoscope working station (EWS). In some embodiments, the ICS evacuation conduit is located within the insertion tube, while being functionally coupled to an ICS vacuum source, controlled by the IWS.
US11246469B2
A dish washer includes: a washing tank having an accommodation space for storing dishes therein; an injection arm disposed inside the washing tank, and provided with a plurality of nozzles to selectively inject washing water and air to the dishes according to a washing stroke and a drying stroke; a duct unit that defines a passage for delivering the air to the injection arm; a suction fan provided inside the duct unit to suction the air and supply the air to the injection arm; and an air heating element that heats the air to be supplied to the injection arm.
US11246467B2
A cleaner includes a nozzle assembly, a cleaner body coupled to the nozzle assembly, and a water cleaning device coupled to the nozzle assembly. The water cleaning device includes a water tank that is configured to hold a cloth and that defines a water storage area and an air hole, and a control device that is configured to open or close the air hole and that includes a movable member located outside of the water storage area and configured to move between a first position and a second position to open or close the air hole.
US11246458B2
A towel bar includes a retractable and extendable robe hook. The robe hook may be formed in a wall-mounted first base joined by a towel bar to a wall-mounted second base. A shaft may be extended from the base to reveal the robe hook. When extended, the robe hook provides a location from which objects may be hung. When not needed, the robe hook may be pushed into the base and reside within an internal cavity, thereby concealed from view.
US11246456B2
A shower gripping accessory device is provided which may comprise an elongate cylindrical body having a plurality of terminal ends. The elongate cylindrical body may comprise an outer shell body and a cavity therein. The thickness value of the outer shell body may be substantially between one-quarter to one-half a radius value of the cavity. Further, a multilayered frictional surface substrate may be disposed over the outer shell body. The multilayered frictional surface substrate may comprise a flexible polymer base layer, one or more adhesive resin layers and a frictional material layer. The one or more adhesive resin layers may couple the frictional material layer to the flexible polymer base layer.
US11246454B2
A fingertip grinder mechanism is provided with which a user can manually grind spices, herbs, and other organic materials without pain, fatigue, or other discomforts. Five specific types of fingertip grinders include the thumb grinder, the fore fingertip grinder, the two fingertip grinder, the three fingertip grinder, and the four fingertip grinder. An individual puts on one type of fingertip grinder on one hand and another type on the other hand and proceeds to rub their hands back and forth together to effect the grinding of the contents between the hands. The grinder element can have holes as well as the grinding spikes and a tray built in under the grinder element to catch and store the residue of the grinding process that enters through the holes. Magnets can be embedded in the fingertip elements so that they can cling to each other and not get misplaced.
US11246453B2
Embodiment provides a food processor with overflow detection ring. The overflow detection ring includes an annular body, a detecting portion connected to an inner edge of the annular body and extending along one side of the annular body, and a lead connecting structure connected to an outer edge of the annular body. The annular body, the detecting portion, and the lead connecting structure are in electrically conduction with one another.
US11246448B2
A machine (1) for dispensing a beverage (7) includes a module (10) having a cavity (10a) and a cavity outlet (10a′) for guiding said beverage out of the cavity (10a). The cavity (10a) is delimited by a first module part (11) and a second module part (12). At least one (11) of the parts (11, 12) is movable along a module direction (10′) into a position distant from the other part (12) for transferring an ingredient capsule (2) to and/or from the cavity (10a) and into a position close to the other part (12) for processing the capsule (2) in the cavity (10a) to form said beverage (7). The machine (1) includes a guide (100) that has a guide outlet (102) and that is movable between: a dispensing position for receiving the beverage (7) from the cavity outlet (10a′) and guiding the beverage (7) along a guide direction (100′) to the guide outlet (102) to a beverage dispensing area; and a non-dispensing position for preventing liquid from being guided to the dispensing area. The guide direction (100′) is horizontally angled away from the module direction (10′) such as horizontally angled away by an angle in the range of 45 to 135 deg.
US11246442B2
A bottle cage is attached to an adjustable clamp that attaches to the edge of the table top of a domestic ironing board. An upper jaw and a lower jaw mechanically engage each other so that they can be squeezed together and immovably lock on the table top edge of an ironing board. One of the jaws (the first jaw) has at least one rack with evenly spaced teeth. The other jaw (the second jaw) has locking teeth, affixed to a resilient upright, which ratchet against the at least one rack as the jaws are squeezed together. The second jaw also incorporates a button on a stalk that protrudes through a slot in the first jaw. A bottle cage incorporates an open-ended slot connector that slides over the button to lock the first jaw to the second jaw. A bottle fits within the bottle cage.
US11246433B2
Various implementations include an extended repeated-use table cover device. The device includes a roller, a non-silicone mat, a disinfecting enclosure, a table mount, and a winding mechanism. An outer surface of the roller is coupled to a first mat end such that rotation of the roller about a roller axis causes the mat to wind around the outer surface of the roller. An outer surface of the disinfecting enclosure defines an opening extending from the outer surface to a cavity defined by an inner surface of the disinfecting enclosure. The roller is disposed within the cavity, and the mat is extendable through the opening. The winding mechanism is for rotating the roller from an extended position to a retracted position. The mat is durable enough to be used for at least three months under expected standard use without needing to be replaced.
US11246432B2
Devices, systems and methods for hanging one or more objects, such as frames, on a surface. A marking device for marking a surface for hanging one or more objects. The marking device can have a main body portion having first and second arms pivotably attached thereto. The first and second arms, as well as the main body, can each have a marker to mark a target surface. The marking device can optionally have a level indicator and the first and second arms can have markers which can slide along a ruled measure for convenient positioning of marks on the target surface. Optionally, the markers can have biased, retractable, or sheathed marker pins.
US11246430B2
Kinematic mounts are used frequently to hold objects such as mirrors, lenses, and other optical equipment. To adjust kinematic mounts, adjustment mechanisms are often required. Adjustment mechanisms can be used to make fine adjustments in applications where precision is required (e.g., laser system prototyping). Kinematic mounts that include never-before implemented form factors and structural elements require new adjustment solutions. This application describes systems that include both novel kinematic mounts as well as new adjustment mechanisms developed to reorient the new kinematic mounts. Adjustment mechanisms described in this application include a main body, a control frame, and control screws to adjust the orientation of the control frame. The control frame is coupled with a kinematic mount's housing, which rotates about a center of curvature of a bottom surface of the housing.
US11246429B2
An image display device according to the present embodiment includes: a display panel; a power line; and an outer frame. The display panel is switchable between an image display mode in which an image is displayed and a transmissive mode in which the display panel is in a transmissive state where an object behind the display panel is visible in a front view of the display panel. The power line is disposed along a periphery of the display panel. The outer frame is disposed along an edge of the display panel, and includes a first housing space for housing the power line and a second housing space for housing the edge of the display panel.
US11246425B2
A bed system includes a fixed frame, a movable frame, and first and second end boards disposed at the head and foot ends of the fixed frame, respectively. The system may be assembled and/or configured such that: a first electric or manual actuator is coupled between the fixed frame assembly and a first linkage assembly of the movable frame assembly for powered or manual movement of a first movable section of the movable frame assembly; a second electric or manual actuator is coupled between the fixed frame assembly and a second linkage assembly for powered or manual movement of a second movable section of the movable frame assembly; and/or a third electric or manual actuator is coupled between the first and second end boards for powered or manual height adjustment of the head and foot ends of the fixed frame assembly.
US11246420B1
An adjustable lumbar support system for a chair having a single swing bar. An actuator is mounted between the lumbar support base and the chair frame and may be motorized. Extending the extension shaft of the actuator provides additional support to a user seated in the chair.
US11246418B2
An apparatus that supports a person in a variety of positions so that a tattoo artist can comfortably apply a tattoo to the skin of the supported person is herein disclosed. The apparatus can be articulated to cause a person's legs and arms to be optimally positioned and supported to receive a tattoo.
US11246414B1
A furniture leg protector apparatus for preventing stubbed toes includes an anchor base having a base top side, a base bottom side, and a base perimeter. The base top side is placed underneath a leg of a furniture item. A wraparound backing has a backing top edge, a backing bottom edge, a backing left edge, a backing right edge, a backing inner face, and a backing outer face. A midpoint of the backing bottom edge is coupled to the base top side proximal the base perimeter. The wraparound backing moves between a planar position and a wrapped position to encompass the leg of the furniture item with the backing inner face. An outer layer is coupled to the wraparound backing. The outer layer is continuously coupled to the backing outer face and is sufficiently shock-absorptive to prevent injury to a person's toes when accidentally kicked.
US11246413B2
A furniture base (10) is disclosed comprising a frame structure (12) and an actuator device (33) that is rotatably supported in the frame structure about a rotational axis. The furniture base (10) further comprises a plurality of wheel units (76, 77, 78, 79) that are movably attached to the frame structure (12) between an upper position and lower position relative to the frame structure (12). The wheel units (76, 77, 78, 79) are connected to the actuator device (33) for movement of the wheel unit (76, 77, 78, 79) between the upper and lower position. The furniture base (10) further comprises a locking mechanism (46) for locking of the wheel units (76, 77, 78, 79) in the lower position of the wheel units (76, 77, 78, 79). The locking mechanism (46) comprises a guide pin (47) that projects out from the actuator device (33) and is attached to the actuator device (33) swingably relative to the actuator device (33). The furniture base (10) further comprises a guide device (53) that guides the movement of the guide pin (47) when the actuator device (33) is rotated for movement of the wheel units (76, 77, 78, 79) between the upper and lower positions of the wheel units (76, 77, 78, 79).
US11246412B2
An appliance storage assembly includes a storage feature that includes a base and a plurality of walls that extend from the base. The base and the plurality of walls define a storage cavity. A rail assembly includes a rail and a rail slide. The rail slide is coupled to the storage feature and enables the storage feature to move along a length of the rail. A divider includes an upper retaining member and a lower retaining member spaced-apart from one another by at least one connecting member. The upper retaining member defines upper grooves and the lower retaining member defines corresponding lower grooves. A magnet is coupled to the lower retaining member and selectively engages the base of the storage feature.
US11246404B2
A plaque detecting device including a light emitting unit which irradiates light toward a tooth, and first and second light receiving units which receive radiated light from the tooth. The first light receiving unit extracts the spectral component of a first wavelength region containing fluorescent light specific to plaque and obtains a first output value corresponding to intensity of that spectral component. The second light receiving unit extracts the spectral component of a second wavelength region containing fluorescent light specific to enamel and obtains a second output value corresponding to the intensity of this spectral component. Determination of the relative magnitude of the ratio between the first output value and the second output value as compared to a first threshold value is performed. Determination of the relative magnitude of the difference between the first output value and the second output value as compared to a second threshold value is performed.
US11246397B2
A harness for quick attachment to and release from a golf bag is described that includes a plurality of interrelated weight shifting adjustments. The harness is easily coupled to a variety of golf bags to carry the bag in an approximately horizontal orientation. The harness is further easily adjusted to accommodate various statures of users.
US11246395B2
A method is provided for preparing a hair dye color mixture. The method includes: accessing a control system having at least a processor, a memory, and user input controls, the memory configured to store ingredients of a hair dye color mixture, each ingredient of the hair dye color mixture being from an initial product brand; receiving user input from the user input controls to change one or more ingredients of the hair dye color mixture from the initial product brand to one or more subsequent product brands; matching the color of the hair dye color mixture made from one or more ingredients of the initial product brand using one or more ingredients of the one or more subsequent product brands, in response to the user input; and displaying the ingredients of the hair dye color mixture in the one or more subsequent product brands on a display.
US11246379B2
Adjustable connectors disclosed herein are adapted to connect webbing to a buckle. The webbing can be, e.g., a urethane coated webbing, some other type of coated webbing, or a non-coated webbing. The adjustable connector includes a baseplate, a tongue at a front end of the baseplate, a webbing aperture within the baseplate, first and second walls extending perpendicularly from the baseplate, and first and second slots respectively within the first and second walls. In certain embodiments, the slots are tapered. In certain embodiments, the adjustable connector includes a rotatable lock bar including a central portion having an outer surface and first and second tabs. In certain embodiments, each of the tabs has a cross-section with a major-axis that is greater than a minor-axis that is orthogonal to the major-axis. In certain embodiments, a front edge of the webbing aperture comprises an arced front edge.
US11246373B2
Provided is a shoe sole member partially or entirely made of a resin composite in which a plurality of resin foam particles, and one or a plurality of non-foamed elastic bodies having an initial elastic modulus at 23° C. being smaller than that of the resin foam particles are integrated together. Also provided is a shoe including the shoe sole member.
US11246372B2
The article of footwear for grounding the human body to earth includes a covered upper; a sole having an outer sole face distal from a user and an inner sole face proximate to the user; one or more electrically conductive portions which extend through the sole from the outer sole face to the inner sole face; and an electrically conductive layer which extends over a portion of the inner sole face and being configured to make conductive contact with the foot of the human body.
US11246363B2
Implementations of a hair extension washboard are provided. In some implementations, the hair extension washboard comprises a hair extensions board, a hair clip assembly, and a board support. In some implementations, the hair extension washboard further comprises a hair drying enclosure. In some implementations, the hair extension washboard also comprises surface connectors. In some implementations, a method of using the hair extension washboard comprises positioning the hair extension washboard in a sink or other suitable location, holding hair extensions with the hair extension washboard, and washing, coloring, drying, etc. the hair extensions while held by the hair extension washboard.
US11246360B1
An arm compression garment according to various implementations includes a right arm section and a left arm section. Each arm section includes a first compressive area that is configured to extend around at least a portion of a humerus bone of a wearer's arm and a second compressive area adjacent the first area and extending distally therefrom. The first compressive area has a first compressive strength, and the second compressive area has a second compressive strength that is less than the first compressive strength. In certain implementations, each arm section is integrally formed on a hosiery machine with a bodice section. The bodice sections are then sewn together at the front and back edges thereof, such that there is a front seam configured to fit adjacent the wearer's sternum and a back seam configured to fit adjacent the wearer's spine.
US11246355B1
An athletic garment includes a body-fitting portion and a skirt draped over the body-fitting portion. The skirt includes an attached portion fixedly attached to the body-fitting portion, and a dual-position panel forming a detachably connected portion of the skirt. The dual-position panel is repositionable by a wearer between a first position and a second position. The garment also includes a concealable decoration layer fixedly attached to the body-fitting portion, such that the dual-position panel detachably connected in the first position overlays and substantially conceals the concealable decoration layer. The concealable decoration layer overlays at least a portion of the dual-position panel in the second position.
US11246346B2
This application relates to a vaporization device. The provided vaporization device includes a cartridge. The cartridge includes a heating component top cap, a heating component base, a first sealing member disposed on the heating component top cap, and a heating component disposed between the heating component top cap and the heating component base. The heating component top cap includes a first channel, the first channel forming a first opening on a first surface of the heating component top cap and forming a second opening on a second surface of the heating component top cap. The first sealing member covers the first opening and exposes the second opening.
US11246344B2
The present invention provides a conductive substrate useful for Joule heating, such as in an electronic smoking article. Particularly, the invention provides a resistive heating element formed of a conductive substrate. The conductive substrate comprises an electrically conductive material and a carbonaceous additive, such as a binder material. The conductive substrate is carbonized in that it is subjected to calcining conditions to effectively reduce the carbonaceous additive to its carbon skeleton. It has been found that such carbonized substrate has surprisingly improved resistance properties in relation a substrate of the same formulation that is not carbonized. The carbonized substrate can include an aerosol precursor material. The formed resistive heating element can be included in an electronic smoking article to simultaneously provide resistive heating and aerosol formation with a single, unitary component.
US11246334B2
An encapsulated flavorant or artificial sweetener for use with smokeless tobacco and related products. The encapsulated flavorant or artificial sweetener comprises a core encapsulated with a lipid-based coating that provides stability when in contact with tobacco, yet releases flavor over time when the product is used. The core comprises a carrier, such as silica, tobacco, beet fiber, citrus fiber, artificial sweetener, or the like, coated or loaded with a flavorant. Flavor loading may be in the range of approximately 10% to 60%, by weight. Flavorants include, but are not limited to, methyl salicylate (oil of wintergreen), cinnamon (e.g., cinnamon oil), peppermint (e.g., peppermint oil), and spearmint (oil of spearmint).
US11246324B2
The invention relates to a high melting point chicken fat produced by dry fractionation of semi-liquid chicken fat. In particularly the invention relates to a chicken fat wherein the chicken fat having a total saturated fat content of 48 to 72 wt % (based on weight of total fat) comprising the fatty acids C16:0 in the range of 36 to 55 wt % (based on weight of total fat) and C18:0 in the range of 11 to 19 wt % (based on weight of total fat).
US11246318B1
A submersion conveyor system for processing materials that need to be completely submersed in a processing liquid, such as food products, the submersion conveyor system providing a continual looping motion with a conveyor belt and flights providing a semi-enclosed volume for containing the material to be processed, the semi-enclosed volume containing the material to be processed being completely submersed in at least a portion of a processing tank during operation to provide a washing, rinsing, coating, treating, sanitizing and/or chilling or heating of the processing materials.
US11246316B2
The present invention encompasses edible carriers for foods that are soft but still hold a preformed shape. Specifically encompassed are soft shaped tortilla products that can be used to hold food fillings. Exemplary shapes and sizes are provided for the products. Also encompassed are methods of making, packaging, and using the products.
US11246284B2
Pet litter systems and methods for sanitary servicing are disclosed. In some implementations, a pet litter system may comprise a bottom housing, a disposable inner box which may receive pet litter and pet waste, a service gap, and a safety liner which may be positioned in between the bottom housing and the disposable inner box, wherein the safety liner may protect interior surfaces of the bottom housing from contamination. In some implementations, a safety liner may be closable and usable as a disposal bag to seal contents comprising a disposable inner box, pet litter and pet waste therein, and may be safely removed from a bottom housing of a pet litter system and surrounding areas by a servicer of the pet litter system for disposal.
US11246283B2
A method and teat cleaner for producing, by injection moulding, a teat cleaner of a teat cleaning cup that includes an inner body forming a central cavity for enclosing a teat, an exterior part, and channels therebetween for injection moulding the inner body in a first tool having a core, sliders that each include a protrusion for forming an aperture in the inner body, and channel walls, and an outer casting mould; separating the inner body from the first tool; placing the inner body in a second tool that includes a casting mould and rods; inserting the rods for forming the channels; fixating the rods; and injection moulding the exterior part in the second tool; separating the second tool from the fused teat cleaner; and removing the rods.
US11246278B2
A novel hybrid sweet corn plant, designated HMX59YS614 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of hybrid sweet corn designated HMX59YS614, to the plants and plant parts of hybrid sweet corn designated HMX59YS614, and to methods for producing a sweet corn plant by crossing the hybrid sweet corn HMX59YS614 with itself or another sweet corn plant.
US11246274B2
A planting device, a multilayer stereo-planting system using the planting device, and a planting system of a plant factory using the multilayer stereo-planting system are provided. The planting device includes the planting tray and the planting board which can be moved as a whole. The nutrient solution inlet and the nutrient solution outlet are located on the same side of the planting tray. The multilayer stereo-planting system includes the support rack and the nutrient solution supply system installed on the support rack. The planting device can be detachably installed on the support rack as a whole. The planting tray and the planting board of the planting device can be taken out and placed in together, protects the plant seedlings from injuries, and avoids the leakage phenomenon of the nutrient solution.
US11246272B2
A turf sweeper includes a hopper mounted on a frame. A debris loading duct mounted on the frame includes an intake opening supported in closely spaced relation above the ground and a discharge opening at a discharge end communicating with a hopper inlet. A broom is rotatably mounted within an intake section of the debris loading duct proximate and across the intake opening. A paddle rotor, having a plurality of paddles outwardly projecting paddles is rotatably mounted within and across a transfer section of the debris loading duct with a path of rotation of tips of the paddles extending in closely spaced relation to a path of rotation of tips of the pick-up members of the pick-up head. A return air duct flow connects a return air outlet to the hopper with a return air opening through the transfer section of the debris loading duct.
US11246271B2
A blower including a base having a housing, a handle extending from the housing, a power source positioned within the housing, the blower including: a drive shaft extending forwardly from the power source, wherein the drive shaft is rotatable by the power source; a fan member operatively connected to the drive shaft; a flywheel extending rearwardly from the power source, the flywheel being positioned adjacent to a rear of the housing; and at least one rear vent formed into the rear of the housing adjacent to the flywheel, wherein rotation of the flywheel draws ambient air into the housing through the at least one rear vent, and rotation of the flywheel generates a cooling air flow that directs the ambient air across the power source to cool the power source during operation thereof.
US11246265B2
An agricultural system including an agricultural baler and a control unit. The baler includes a driveline including at least one heat generating component; a rotatable flywheel; a rotary input shaft connectable by the driveline to the rotatable flywheel; and at least one pump for supplying cooling fluid at a cooling fluid pressure to the at least one heat generating component. The control unit is configured to: receive baler-data indicative of one or more operating conditions of the agricultural baler; receive cooling-pressure-data indicative of a flow of the cooling fluid supplied by the at least one pump; set a threshold-condition based on the baler-data; and provide a control-signal to the agricultural baler based on a comparison between the cooling-pressure-data and the threshold-condition.
US11246264B2
A harvesting machine includes a chassis; an engine to propel the harvesting machine; a header mounted on a front of the chassis; a cutter bar arranged on the header to cut crops during operation of the harvesting machine; a plurality of implements on the chassis configured to facilitate processing the crops cut by the cutter bar; at least one cutter bar load sensor arranged on the header and configured to collect cutter bar load data representing a load on the cutter bar resulting from cutting the crops; and a controller operatively coupled to the at least one cutter bar sensor. The controller is configured to receive the cutter bar load data, determine a cutter bar load value based on the cutter bar load data, and generate an adjustment command for an operational parameter associated with at least one of the implements based on the cutter bar load value.
US11246262B2
A lawncare apparatus includes a main body, multiple wheels supporting the main body, a cutting blade disposed in the main body, a motor driving the cutting blade, and an operating arm connected to the first end of the main body. The distance in the horizontal direction between the axial central line of the cylindrical gripping portion of the operating arm and the axes of the elongated handle of the main body along the length direction is less than 5 cm. Because of the structure mate relationship between the operating arm and the cylindrical gripping portion, the operator feels more comfortable during the transporting process, the volume of lawncare apparatus during transporting is reduced and the convenience of transporting is improved.
US11252847B2
Heat dissipation system, a power converter using such a heat dissipation system, and an associated method of thermal management of the power converter are disclosed. The heat dissipation system includes a condenser, a first cooling loop, and a second cooling loop. The first cooling loop is coupled to the condenser and includes a first two-phase heat transfer device. The second cooling loop is coupled to the condenser and includes a second two-phase heat transfer device. The condenser is disposed above the first and second two-phase heat transfer devices.
US11252843B2
An air baffle for optimizing thermal performance of memory components provided in a chassis is disclosed. The air baffle has a body and one or more venting units provided on the body. The body is configured to be removably coupled to the chassis. The body covers the memory components when coupled to the chassis. The one or more venting units direct air flowing through the chassis. Each of the venting units includes vent openings and a corresponding number of adjustable venting plates. The vent openings are each aligned with the memory components when the body is coupled to the chassis. Each of the adjustable venting plates have an open position or a closed position. A respective venting plate of the adjustable venting plates in the open position allows airflow through a respective vent opening of the vent openings. The respective venting plate of the adjustable venting plates in the closed position blocks airflow through the respective vent opening of the vent openings.
US11252842B2
A composite pin fin heat sink configured to dissipate heat generated by a heating element including a background region and a hot spot region having a higher temperature than the background region while the heating element is generating heat, the heat sink including a base plate having a first surface and a second surface, the first surface being configured to contact the heating element; and an array of pin fins protruding from the second surface and arranged at regular intervals. The base plate and the array of pin fins are divided into a first heat sink region corresponding to the hot spot region of the heating element, and a second heat sink region corresponding to the background region of the heating element. The first heat sink region is made of a material having a higher thermal conductivity than a material of which the second heat sink region is made.
US11252841B1
The heat sink with slotted pin fins includes a thermally conductive base and a plurality of pin fins, which may be substantially cylindrical. Each pin fin has axially opposed upper and lower ends, the lower ends being attached to the base. Each of the pin fins is formed of a thermally conductive material and extends from the base. Each of the pin fins has a slot formed therein extending both diametrically and axially through the pin fin, such that a surrounding fluid medium can flow through the slot formed through pin fin, thus reducing the drag force on the surrounding fluid medium as it impinges upon and flows through the pin fins, increasing the rate of thermal transfer.
US11252839B2
A computer liquid cooling system includes a radiator having a built-in fluid tank, at least one heat exchanger pump and a plurality of fluid conduits. The radiator includes at least one first flow port and at least one second flow port for attachment of the plurality of fluid conduits thereto for actively moving a cooling fluid to and from the at least one heat exchanger pump. Heat generated from a heat generating device is transferred to cooling fluid flowing through the at least one heat exchanger pump, and then output to the radiator. The heated cooling fluid flows through the radiator having the built-in fluid tank, cooling along a plurality of heat exchanger fins. The cooling fluid flows to the heat exchanger pump to once again begin the cooling loop.
US11252830B2
A housing arrangement comprising a housing an inner space for accommodating components capable of forming sources of ignition. The housing arrangement further comprises a partial housing arranged in or on the housing and the interior space. The interior space acts as a pressure relief volume. The interior space and the pressure relief volume are connected together via a passage in which a gas-permeable and flame-arresting arrangement is provided. This can be formed from a porous body, for instance, which is gas permeable and acts in a throttling and cooling manner on a gas flow passing through it.
US11252829B2
An electronic device includes a casing, a main circuit board, a detachable component and a flexible circuit board. The main circuit board is disposed in the casing. The main circuit board includes a processor and a memory, wherein the memory stores data. The detachable component is disposed in the casing. The flexible circuit board includes a first end portion, a second end portion, a middle portion and a first detection loop, wherein the first detection loop is disposed at the first end portion and the middle portion. The first end portion is electrically connected to the main circuit board and the second end portion is fixed on the detachable component. When the detachable component is detached from the casing, the middle portion breaks, such that the first detection loop is cut off. When the first detection loop is cut off, the processor erases the data stored in the memory.
US11252825B2
A voice-activated electronic device including a first portion with a first internal surface having a first attachment structure, and a second portion with a second internal surface having a second attachment structure. The first and second internal surfaces have compatible shapes that permit the first and second portions to be moved from a separated position to a joined position, where when the first portion and the second portion are in the joined position the first and second internal surfaces form a nested arrangement. The first and second attachment structures form a secure but separable connection to one another when the first and second portions are in the joined position. The first and second portions are configured to be joined securely and separated through manual human manipulation of one or both of the first portion and the second portion to move the first and second portions between separated and joined positions.
US11252821B2
An optical surface-mount device has a dielectric body and a solderable support connected with the dielectric body to facilitate solder reflow mounting of the device to a printed circuit board. The device can include a reflector or other functional features that enhance or protect the functionality of an electronic component mounted on the same printed circuit board.
US11252819B2
An electronic device comprising: a substrate having a curved surface, a printed circuit board, and plural flexible wiring substrates, each of two of the plural flexible substrates has a terminal portion that is connected to the curved surface, the printed circuit board has a cutout between the two flexible wiring substrates.
US11252818B2
A method for manufacturing a printed circuit board (PCB) with high component density includes at least two reinforcing plates, at least two connecting plates, a first circuit board unit, and a second circuit board unit. The reinforcing plate includes a supporting portion, a first connecting portion, and a second connecting portion. The first connecting portion and the second connecting portion connect to ends of the supporting portion. The connecting plates are bendable circuit boards. Each connecting plate is attached to the supporting portion, the first connecting portion, and the second connecting portion of a reinforcing plate. The first circuit board unit is fixed and electrically connected to a connecting plate away from first connecting portion. The second circuit board unit is fixed and electrically connected to a connecting plate away from the second connecting portion.
US11252817B1
A printed wiring board includes first, second, and third wiring layers, first and second insulating members, and first and second vias. The first wiring layer includes a recognition mark and a first wiring on a first surface. The second wiring layer includes a first pad and a second wiring. The third wiring layer includes a third wiring. The first via penetrates the first insulating member and electrically connects the recognition mark to the first pad. The second via penetrates the second insulating member and electrically connects the first pad to the third wiring. The first pad and the first and second vias are in a region within an outer perimeter of the recognition mark when viewed from a direction orthogonal to the first surface.
US11252816B2
A composite with hollow nano-structures includes multiple one dimensional hollow nanowires being dispersed into a polymer film. The polymer film is flexible, a dielectric constant of the one dimensional hollow nanowire is lower than a dielectric constant of the polymer film, and a dielectric constant of the composite is between the dielectric constant of the one dimensional hollow nanowire and the dielectric constant of the polymer film.
US11252814B2
A grounding structure of the high-frequency circuit board includes a dielectric substrate, a back surface ground electrode, an upper ground electrode, and a microstripline upper electrode. The dielectric substrate has a first surface and a second surface, and is provided with a first through-hole. A first opening of the first through-hole at the first surface is smaller than a second opening of the first through-hole at the second surface. A first grounding conductor layer is provided in the first through-hole. The back surface ground electrode is provided at the second surface and is connected with the first grounding conductor layer. The upper ground electrode is provided at the first surface and is connected with the first ground conductor layer. The microstripline upper electrode is provided at the first surface.
US11252810B2
A radiation source contains a collector module comprising an optical collector, positioned in a vacuum chamber with an emitting plasma, further comprising a means for debris mitigation which include at least two casings arranged to output debris-free homocentric beams of the short-wavelength radiation, coming to the optical collector preferably consisting of several identical mirrors. Outside each casing there are permanent magnets that create a magnetic field inside the casings to mitigate charged fraction of debris particles and provide the debris-free homocentric beams of short-wavelength radiation. Other debris mitigating techniques are additionally used. Preferably the plasma is laser-produced plasma of a liquid metal target supplied by a rotating target assembly to a focus area of a laser beam. The technical result of the invention is the creation of high-powerful high-brightness debris-free sources of short-wavelength radiation with large, preferably more than 0.25 sr, collection solid angle.
US11252809B2
A solar-powered lamp is disclosed. The lamp includes a plurality of radiating extensions, each being formed from a plurality of flat panels that can fold relative to each other along lines between respective ones of the plurality of flat panels; and an electronics assembly, wherein the lamp is collapsible, and the flat panels for each of the radiating extensions fold relative to each other as the lamp is collapsed.
US11252805B2
An illumination device and method is provided herein for calibrating individual LEDs in the illumination device, so as to obtain a desired luminous flux and a desired chromaticity of the device over changes in drive current, temperature, and over time as the LEDs age. The calibration method may include subjecting the illumination device to a first ambient temperature, successively applying at least three different drive currents to a first LED to produce illumination at three or more different levels of brightness, obtaining a plurality of optical measurements from the illumination produced by the first LED at each of the at least three different drive currents, obtaining a plurality of electrical measurements from the photodetector and storing results of the obtaining steps within the illumination device to calibrate the first LED at the first ambient temperature. The plurality of optical measurements may generally include luminous flux and chromaticity, the plurality of electrical measurements may generally include induced photocurrents and forward voltages, and the calibration method steps may be repeated for each LED included within the illumination device and upon subjecting the illumination device to a second ambient temperature.
US11252803B2
In order to achieve a universal, flexible and highly integrated operating device for driving various lamps, ensuring the protection of the entire operating device and of the appliances connected thereto by means of staggered protective measures at both the input and the output, starting from the preamble of claim 1, a first branch for connecting a lamp to a first of the interface circuits (SS1) and a second branch for connecting at least one communication module to a second of the interface circuits (SS2) are connected to the coarse protection circuit (G) which short-circuits an overvoltage of the mains voltage occurring at the input of the operating device. In the first branch, a line filter (NF) is connected to the coarse protection circuit (G) and a clamp circuit (K) consisting of the fine protection circuit (F) and of a first energy absorber (E1) is connected to the line filter (NF). When the residual pulse voltage is too high, the fine protection circuit (F) activates the first energy absorber (E1), the overvoltage pulse is short-circuited and the short-circuit is deactivated again when the mains voltage reaches the next zero crossing. A second energy absorber (E2) which, when it is switched on, limits the current with the aid of a temperature-dependent resistor (NTC), is connected to the first energy absorber (E1). Moreover, the first interface circuit (SS1) comprises a protection circuit (ÜS) against overvoltage and overcurrent, and an intermediate protection circuit (M) consisting of a transmitter (Ü) and of a first fine protection circuit (F1) is connected to the coarse protection circuit (G) in the second branch. A filter (FK) for separating communication signals fed in parallel into the power supply grid is connected to the first fine protection circuit (F) and a second fine protection circuit (F2) is connected to this filter (FK). In order to protect the second interface circuit (SS2) of the operating device from overvoltage and overcurrent coming from the communication module and acting upon the operating device, the second interface circuit (SS2) comprises a protection circuit (ÜS) against overvoltage and overcurrent. The invention is used in the field of protection systems against overvoltage.
US11252797B2
Certain exemplary embodiments relate to entertainment systems that interact with users to provide access to media appropriate to and/or customized for a particular user using the entertainment system, the location at which the entertainment system is being accessed, and/or a predefined event. For example, in certain exemplary embodiments, an entertainment system in a location is configured to provide jukebox-related and entertainment system mediated services that are accessible from within and from the outside of the location, and provide (1) attract or flight media operations, (2) browsing services, and/or (3) search screens appropriate to and/or customized for a particular user using the entertainment system, the location at which the entertainment system is being accessed, and/or a predefined event. Such screens may be provided with a three-dimensional look-and-feel in certain exemplary embodiments.
US11252792B2
A selective heating device may include a chamber, at least one heating element, and a circuit. The at least one heating element may selectively heat a first portion of a target in the chamber at a first energy level for a first period of time. The at least one heating element may also selectively heat a second portion of the target at a second energy level for a second period of time, wherein the second energy level and/or the second period of time are different from the first energy level and/or the first period of time; or refrain from heating a third portion of the target; or a combination thereof. The circuit may receive a heating instruction and control the at least one heating element based on the heating instruction.
US11252790B2
An object of the present invention is to suppress adhesion of scale to a surface of a ceramic heater that is used for fluid heating. The ceramic heater has a ceramic body and a coating layer. The ceramic body has a heat generation resistor. The coating layer contains glass as a main component and is formed so as to coat a surface of the ceramic body. The coating layer has a function of smoothing the surface of the ceramic body.
US11252785B2
A communication apparatus and a communication method for performing wireless data transmission using multiple channels are provided. The communication apparatus operating as a base station includes: a communication section that transmits and receives a wireless signal; and a control section that controls a channel used by a subordinate wireless terminal, the control section designates a first transmission scheme to a first wireless terminal that uses a specific primary channel, and designates a second transmission scheme different from the first transmission scheme to a second wireless terminal that uses a non-primary channel that does not include the primary channel. The second transmission scheme has a lower data rate or higher transmission power than that of the first transmission scheme.
US11252784B2
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a communication circuit, a display, a memory, and at least one processor configured to identify a request for executing an application, based on identification information about the application, perform at least one operation of the application via a first communication network or a second communication network among the plurality of communication networks, in response to no communication network allocated to the application being identified based on the identification information about the application, perform at least one first operation of the application via the first communication network designated for the electronic device, and in response to at least one communication network allocated to the application being identified based on the identification information about the application, perform at least one second operation of the application via the second communication network allocated to the application among the plurality of communication networks.
US11252780B2
Embodiments are presented herein of apparatuses, systems, and methods for a user equipment device (UE) to determine whether or not a mobile alert message is in effect. Such a determination may be based on a cancellation message (or other message(s) received from the network, possibly in response to a query from the UE. Alternatively or additionally, such a determination may be based on monitoring rebroadcasts of the alert and/or determining that no rebroadcast has been received for a period of time.
US11252768B2
A terminal device may acquire a first identifier identifying a first AP from an OS program in a case where a first wireless connection has been established with the first AP, send a search instruction to a communication device using a second wireless connection in a case where the second wireless connection is established with the communication device, receive search result information including N identifiers identifying N access points from the communication device, and determine whether the first identifier exists in the N identifiers. The terminal device may send a first connection instruction including the first identifier to the communication device in a case where it is determined that the first identifier exists, and send a second connection instruction including a second identifier to the communication device in a case where it is determined that the first identifier does not exist.
US11252767B2
Provided are a data radio bearer (DRB) identifier (ID) allocation method, a network node, and a computer storage medium. The method includes: when a first network node modifies a DRB, selecting ID information of the DRB within a stored DRB ID range, or, acquiring ID information of the DRB from a second network node.
US11252763B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for providing an uplink specific backoff indicator in a wireless communication network.
US11252762B2
Wireless communications for a plurality of cell groups are described. Uplink transmissions, such as uplink transport blocks, hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) transmission, and/or channel state information transmission, may be based on one or more time alignment timers associated with a cell group.
US11252743B2
The present disclosure relates to a 5G or a pre-5G communication system for supporting higher data transmission rates in a beyond-4G communication system, such as LTE. Particularly, the present disclosure relates to a method for a base station in a wireless communication system, comprising the steps of: transmitting resource information of a scheduling request (SR) for each transmission type, to a terminal accessing the base station; and receiving an SR corresponding to the transmission type of the terminal from the terminal, in response to the transmission of the resource information of the SR.
US11252741B2
Methods, systems, and devices are described for resource scheduling for different services in a wireless communications system. A base station or a user equipment (UE) operating within a wireless communication system may, for example, communicate using two or more different configurations of resource (e.g., symbol) duration, while maintaining a common tone spacing, bandwidth, transmission time interval (TTI) designation, or the like. For instance, an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbol may be subdivided or segmented, and each segment, which may include a cyclic prefix, may be utilized as a resource unit.
US11252736B2
A method for transmit timing adjustment by a second network node includes obtaining an indication of beam link failure of a current beam that is used for ongoing communication with a first network node. The method further includes switching over to a backup beam of the current beam for continuing the ongoing communication with the first network node, and adjusting transmit timing for transmitting a signal as part of the ongoing communication in the backup beam based on earlier communicated timing information with the first network node before making any transmission of the signal on the backup beam.
US11252730B2
The present specification provides a beam management method in a wireless communication system. The beam management method performed by a serving base station according to the present specification comprise setting, to a UE, a plurality of beam management reference signals (RSs) for downlink beam scanning of the UE, transmitting at least one beam management reference signal to the UE through at least one transmission beam; receiving beam index information corresponding to a predetermined number of transmission beams from the UE; and based on the received beam index information, transmitting indication information for controlling a beam used for transmission of a downlink reference signal of the neighboring eNB and/or transmission of an uplink reference signal of the neighboring UE to the neighboring eNB and/or the neighboring UE.
US11252728B2
A receiver including a plurality of primary antennas configured to receive a plurality of first carrier signals corresponding to at least a first frequency band; a plurality of diversity antennas configured to receive a plurality of second carrier signals corresponding to at least a second frequency band; a first local oscillator configured to generate a first oscillation signal; a first load circuit pair connected to the first local oscillator, and configured to frequency down-convert at least one of the plurality of first carrier signals, and having a first load circuit and a second load circuit adjacent to the first load circuit; and a second load circuit pair connected to the first local oscillator, configured to frequency down-convert at least of the plurality of second carrier signals, and having a third load circuit and a fourth load circuit adjacent to the third load circuit.
US11252723B1
The disclosure includes embodiments for modifying a vehicle-to-everything (V2X) radio of an ego vehicle that is a connected vehicle. In some embodiments, a method includes analyzing, by a machine learning module executed by a processor, a local dynamic map generated by the ego vehicle to determine schedule data describing a schedule for the ego vehicle to transmit a millimeter wave (mmWave) message to a remote vehicle. The method includes transmitting a V2X message including the schedule data for receipt by the remote vehicle so that the remote vehicle has access to the schedule. The method includes modifying an operation of the V2X radio of the ego vehicle based on the schedule so that the V2X radio transmits the mmWave message to the remote vehicle in compliance with the schedule. The method includes transmitting the mmWave message to the remote vehicle in compliance with the schedule.
US11252722B2
The disclosure provides a method and a device in a User Equipment (UE) and a base station for wireless communication. The UE receives a first signaling, receives a first radio signal in a first time window, and then transmits a feedback on the first radio signal in a second time window. The first signaling is used for determining time-domain resources occupied by the first radio signal; a first time-domain deviation is a deviation in time domain between the second time window and the first time window; when the first signaling carries a first identifier, the first time-domain deviation is one of K1 first-type candidate deviation(s), and K1 is a positive integer; when the first signaling carries a second identifier, the first time-domain deviation is one of K2 second-type candidate deviation(s), and K2 is a positive integer.
US11252717B2
Some user equipments (UEs) served by a base station may need to receive data from the base station and/or transmit data to the base station with lower latency than other UEs. It is desired to accommodate the presence of both low latency and latency tolerant communications in shared time-frequency resources to try to improve resource utilization. Embodiments are disclosed in which low latency and latency tolerant communications coexist in the same time-frequency resources. In some embodiments, a latency tolerant transmission is postponed to free resources to send a low latency transmission.
US11252712B2
A user equipment (UE) for receiving control information in a wireless communication system includes a transceiver configured to receive a synchronization signal/physical broadcasting channel (SS/PBCH) block of an index i from a BS, wherein SS/PBCH block comprises a PBCH carrying master information block (MIB). The UE includes a processor configured to for the SS/PBCH block of the index i, determine a slot index n0 as a sum of an offset value and [i*M]. The offset value is determined based on a first value O determined according to the index indicated in the MIB, wherein the index configures PDCCH monitoring occasions, and a second value μ indicated in the MIB, wherein the second value μ represents a subcarrier spacing configuration, wherein M is a positive number determined according to the index indicated in the MIB, and cause the transceiver to decode a PDCCH in the slot index n0.
US11252706B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may identify, based at least in part on monitoring a set of channels for signals during a monitoring window, a subset of channels in which signals were detected during the monitoring window. The UE may select, based at least in part on the subset of channels, a format for a first sub-codebook and a second sub-codebook, the second sub-codebook indicating a feedback state for corresponding data transmissions received on the channels within the subset of channels. The UE may transmit the first uplink control message using a first sub-codebook, the first uplink control message identifying the format for the second sub-codebook and identifying the channels within the subset of channels. The UE may transmit a second uplink control message using the second sub-codebook according to the selected format.
US11252704B2
A design is provided for spatially multiplexing uplink channels. A user equipment (UE) detects that a Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH) and a Sounding Reference Signal (SRS) are to be transmitted simultaneously. The UE decides to spatially multiplex the PUCCH and the SRS for simultaneous transmission via different sets of one or more antennas. The UE determines time and frequency resources for the PUCCH and the SRS to avoid collision of at least a portion of the PUCCH with the SRS. The UE transmits the spatially multiplexed PUCCH and SRS using the determined time and frequency resources.
US11252701B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to the communication processes in a wireless communication system based on short TTIs. According to one embodiment of the present disclosure, there provide a method for communication by a base station. The method comprise: receiving, from a user equipment, an uplink demodulation reference signal, DMRS, in an uplink transmission time interval, TTI, of an uplink subframe, which supports two or more uplink TTIs. At least one uplink TTI supported by the uplink subframe is configured to only transmit uplink control information and/or uplink data without any uplink DMRS. In the other aspects of the present disclosure, there also provides methods for communication by a user equipment and corresponding apparatuses.
US11252696B2
Disclosed are a method and a device for performing sidelink communication in a wireless communication system. Specifically, the method performed by a terminal may comprise the steps of: receiving information on a resource pool related to narrowband sidelink communication from a base station, wherein the information includes information on at least one of a resource pool index and/or an initial allocation timing of the resource pool; and performing the narrowband sidelink communication through at least one resource pool determined on the basis of the information and a specific hopping pattern on a frequency domain, wherein the specific hopping pattern is determined on the basis of a hopping pattern set for another narrowband-based communication of the terminal.
US11252693B2
Device and/or line event awareness and smart synchronization is described. In at least one example, a related device of a group of related devices may receive a communication notification representative of a communication event. Such communication notifications may enable event awareness for each of the devices in the group of related devices. In an example, the related device may compare data items (e.g., participants, timestamps, etc.) associated with the communication notification with data items associated with entries stored in a local data store. The entries may correspond to communication events associated with at least the related device. Based at least in part on comparing the data items, the related device may determine whether a new entry associated with the communication notification should be added to a local data store or the communication notification should be disregarded as a duplication.
US11252690B2
In one embodiment, a system includes an interface and a communicatively coupled processor. The interface is configured to receive first future location information of a first user and receive second future location information of a second user. The processor is configured to determine that the first and second future location information each correspond to a future location and determine that a characteristic related to the first user corresponds to a preference related to the second user. In response to these determinations, the processor is configured to cause information to be presented to the second user, the information to be presented to the second user comprising the future location and that the first user and the second user have the future location in common.
US11252687B2
A method of synchronizing signals is disclosed. The method comprises using a clock tracking system to convert a future event target time specified in a time base of a master device into the local unsynchronized time bases of one or more slave devices. Each of the slave devices then generates an event signal at the converted time, such that a coordinated delivery of synchronized signals is achieved.
US11252684B2
Disclosed is a communication method of a V2X communication device. The communication method of a V2X communication device comprises the steps of: accessing a control channel (CCH) by using a CCH transceiver; and accessing a service channel (SCH) by using a SCH transceiver.
US11252677B2
Embodiments create the present method, communication module, vehicle, system, and computer program for authenticating a mobile radio device for a location-specific function of a vehicle. The vehicle comprises a transmitter designed for transmitting mobile radio signals in a mobile radio system and a receiver designed for receiving mobile radio signals in a mobile radio system. Furthermore, a control module designed for controlling the transmitter and the receiver is provided, said control module being coupled to the transmitter and the receiver, and the control module is additionally designed to convert the transmitter from a first mode to a second mode when the vehicle is parked. The transmitter consumes less energy in the second mode than in the first mode. Furthermore, a received mobile radio signal of the mobile radio device is evaluated, said signal comprising information on the identity of the mobile radio device. Finally, an authentication of the mobile radio device is carried out on the basis of the mobile radio signal, wherein the mobile radio device is authorized to use at least one location-specific function of the vehicle after a successful authentication.
US11252662B2
A method and an apparatus for waking up a WUR terminal in a wireless network are disclosed. The method includes: A radio access point sends a group identifier to at least one WUR terminal; and sends a WUR wake-up packet including a group identifier of a target group, to attempt to wake up all WUR terminals in the target group.
US11252660B2
A method and an apparatus for measuring an inter-frequency neighboring cell is provided. The method comprises obtaining a time requirement of cell identification of a specific carrier, obtaining a time requirement of cell measurement of the specific carrier, identifying a new cell on the corresponding specific carrier in the time requirement of the cell identification of the specific carrier, measuring Reference Signal Receiving Power (RSRP) and/or Reference Signal Receiving Quality (RSRQ) of an identified cell in the time requirement of the cell measurement of the specific carrier, and reporting a measurement result of the identified cell according to a configured measurement event, wherein the specific carrier is different from other carriers, and the time requirement of the cell identification of the specific carrier is different from time requirements of the cell identification of other carriers.
US11252656B2
A method and system for determining an optimal wireless channel for a Wi-Fi access point in a cloud-based software defined network (SDN) using an Application Programming Interface (API) is described. Initially, the API collects the measurement information and media access control (MAC) addresses from a plurality of nearby Wi-Fi access points to a client device. The measurement information is analyzed to determine a location of the client device using an Artificial Intelligence (AI) model. To determine the location of the client device, the API creates a plurality of clusters of Wi-Fi access points and updates the plurality of clusters with one or more newly identified Wi-Fi access points. Thereafter, the API calculates an optimal wireless channel for a Wi-Fi access point from the cluster using the AI model and enables the client device to automatically switch to the optimal wireless channel for connecting with the Wi-Fi access point.
US11252655B1
Disclosed are various embodiments for managing assignments of network slices. In one embodiment, a request is received to allocate a network slice in a radio-based network having a radio access network and an associated core network to an application connected to the radio-based network. The request specifies a set of quality-of-service constraints required for the network slice. A set of network functions in the radio-based network is configured to implement the network slice.
US11252651B2
Methods and systems are provided for selecting a network slice to which a User Equipment (UE) can connect in the telecommunications network. A Cache Inventory Repository (CIR) stores cache associations indicating content cached at each of a plurality of Cache Network Functions (Cache NFs) and the network slice in which each Cache NR is located. A Network Slice Selection Function (NSSF) transmits to the CIR a request for cache data indicating a particular content cached in one or more network slices. The CIR determines the requested cache data based on the stored cache associations and transmits the requested cache data to the NSSF. The NSSF selects a network slice to which the UE can connect, based at least in part on the received cache data identifying the one or more network slices.
US11252647B2
Disclosed as a method of controlling access to a network in a wireless communication system and an apparatus therefor. Specifically, a method of performing access to a network by a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system may include receiving first information on whether a specific access identity is valid in a specific public land mobile network (PLMN) from the network, when the UE selects a PLMN and attempts access, determining whether the specific access identity is valid in the PLMN selected by the UE based on the first information, selecting an access identity based on the determination, and performing an access control procedure based on the selected access identity.
US11252645B2
A discovery measurement timing configuration (DMTC) window reservation signal is disclosed for new radio (NR) shared spectrum (NR-SS) networks. The DMTC window is defined providing a reserved location for transmission of essential control signaling and potentially high priority traffic that may be transmitted in a prioritized manner. Access within the DMTC window may be provided with a clear channel assessment (CCA) exempt transmission (CET) option or a non-CET option. When the CET option is used, the reservation duration and period may be conveyed through the channel reservation signal. User equipments (UEs) that detect the reservation signal may re-transmit with added offset to inform neighboring base station that may not be within range of the serving base station. Base station that receive either the transmitted or re-transmitted reservation signal will refrain from communications that may interfere with the reception at the UEs.
US11252637B1
Limiting dual connectivity in a wireless sector served by at least two wireless air interfaces includes monitoring a pairing efficiency metric of wireless devices in the wireless sector. When the pairing efficiency metric rises above a threshold, a maximum number of wireless devices able to attach to one of the at least two wireless air interfaces is increased, and when the pairing efficiency metric falls below the threshold, the maximum number of wireless devices able to attach to one of the at least two wireless air interfaces is decreased. The wireless air interface for which dual connectivity is limited can be a 5G interface, and load is alleviated by limiting dual connectivity thereto.
US11252627B2
A network node includes control plane functionality for managing a session of a user equipment (UE) which is anchored at a User Plane Function (UPF) anchor for communicating traffic between the UE and a data network. The node operates to obtain, from an Access and Mobility Management Function (AMF), a session context request responsive to a handover indication indicating a handover of the session from a Fifth Generation System (5GS) to an Evolved Packet System (EPS). The node identifies whether an uplink classifier (UL-CL) UPF is in use for local offloading to a local UPF anchor for delivery to a local area data network. Based on the identifying, the node obtains uplink tunnel information of the UL-CL UPF instead of the UPF anchor for establishing at least one bearer for the session and sends to the AMF a session context response including the uplink tunnel information of the UL-CL UPF.
US11252623B2
Aspects of the disclosure provide a network switching method, device, and storage medium. In an exemplary method, a terminal may determine whether a target wireless access network is capable of establishing a connection with an IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) network. If the target wireless access network is capable of establishing the connection with the IMS network, then a wireless access network corresponding to the terminal can be switched to the target wireless access network.
US11252620B2
Some embodiments herein relate to a method performed by a wireless device (10) for handling communication of the wireless device (10) in a wireless communication network (1), wherein a first radio network node serves the wireless device (10) and the wireless communication network (1) further comprises a second radio network node (13). The wireless device receives a handover command from the first radio network node (12) indicating a handover to a cell served by the second radio network node (13), the handover command comprises a beam indication, such as a threshold, controlling which beam of the cell to select by the wireless device (10). The wireless device (10) further selects a beam of the cell based on at least the beam indication.
US11252619B2
Systems, apparatuses, and methods are described for wireless communications. Random access procedures may include various types of procedures, such as 4-step or 2-step random access procedures. One or more indicators may be included in one or more messages for a handover to indicate a type of a random access procedure.
US11252618B2
User equipment, apparatus and method perform dual connectivity with a first base station acting as a master base station and a second base station acting as a secondary base station, transmit to the master base station capability information indicating that the user equipment supports a function of skipping a random access procedure, and receive from the master base station, a message instructing to change the secondary base station from the second base station to a third base station. The message includes information indicating that random access procedure for the third base station is skipped and an including an uplink grant indicating radio resources allocated by the third base station and a timing advance (TA) value to be applied to an uplink transmission to the third base station. The user equipment transmits the uplink transmission to the third base station by using the uplink radio resources indicated by the uplink grant.
US11252615B2
This application provides a handover method that is based on DC, including: sending, by a source base station, a handover request to a target base station, where the handover request carries a target base station user equipment (UE) aggregate maximum bit rate (UE-AMBR) and/or network slice information of UE; and receiving, by the source base station, a handover request feedback sent by the target base station. A UE capability is coordinated between the source base station and the target base station, so that it is ensured that a technical effect of the UE capability is not exceeded during a DC-based handover. The coordination of the UE capability may be implemented by the source base station, or may be implemented by the target base station.
US11252609B2
A wireless LAN access point is configured to perform a shaping operation to calculate and set an upper limit of communication speeds of belonging mobile units when the number of the belonging mobile units is equal to or more than a preset threshold. The wireless LAN access point is configured to extract a highest one or a lowest one of data transfer rates that are detected by analyzing header parts of communication packets to be exchanged respectively with the belonging mobile units as a shaping data-transfer rate. The wireless LAN access point is configured to calculate the upper limit of the communication speeds of the belonging mobile units on the basis of a correction factor that is arbitrarily set for converting the shaping data-transfer rate to an effective data-transfer rate, on the basis of the shaping data-transfer rate, and on the basis of the number of the belonging mobile units.
US11252601B2
Example resource allocation methods and apparatus are described to resolve a problem of resource congestion and collision occurring in a communications system when virtual resource blocks (VRBs) scheduled for different terminal devices are mapped to physical resource blocks (PRBs). In one example method, system bandwidth of the communications system is divided into a plurality of fixed interleaving regions. Therefore, a network device can indicate a type of a virtual resource unit in a form of a frequency domain range occupied by one interleaving region. Using the foregoing solution can enable the network device to set the type of the virtual resource unit more conveniently.
US11252600B2
The described technology is generally directed towards a transport protocol for latency sensitive applications. The disclosed transport protocol is “semi-reliable” in that it allows for specification of an importance of data being transmitted, thereby allowing important data to be sent reliably, while other data can be dropped if necessary, e.g., under bad network conditions. A deadline can be specified for such other data, and if the other data cannot be sent prior to the deadline, it can be dropped. Furthermore, the disclosed transport protocol can allow for early discovery of network jitter. A client device can send regular acknowledgments which identify most recently received data packets as well as a number of “heartbeat transmissions” received at the client device. A server device can use the acknowledgments to discover and respond to jitter.
US11252584B2
The invention provides a method and system for controlling a plurality of Wi-Fi access points in a wireless network using a cloud platform. To start with, a connection is established between one or more Wi-Fi access points of the plurality of Wi-Fi access points and a client device using the cloud platform. Subsequently, details pertaining to the plurality of Wi-Fi access points are collected and analyzed using an Artificial Intelligence (AI) model. The AI model then derives configurations for the plurality of Wi-Fi access points in response to analyzing the details. Thereafter, the derived configurations are transmitted to the client device. The transmitted configurations are finally implemented at the plurality of access points using either the cloud platform or the client device. The derived configurations include optimization of Wi-Fi access point network parameters based on a frequency and a set of constraints.
US11252567B2
Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed to detect attacks in V2X networks. An example apparatus includes a challenge handler to (a) transmit a first challenge packet to a first vehicle to request a transmission of a first response, (b) instruct a second challenge packet to be transmitted to a second vehicle to request a transmission of a second response, (c) increment a first counter when the first response is not obtained, (d) increment a second counter when the second response is not obtained, and (e) after repeating (a)-(d), determine that the first and second vehicles are phantom vehicles associated with an attacker with a half-duplex radio when at least one of the first or second counters satisfy a threshold, and a network interface to instruct a third vehicle associated with the V2X network to ignore future messages from the phantom vehicles based on the determination.
US11252556B2
A method and system for content filtering. A network repository function unit registers a session management function unit. The session management function unit initiates a session in response to a session request from a user equipment. The session management function unit accesses a subscriber profile stored by a data management unit, and the subscriber profile includes one or more content filtering settings. In response to the session being established, the session management function unit is configured to determine data packets for the user equipment to be filtered based on the one or more content filtering settings. Absent triggering an instruction to be sent via a Gx interface, an access and mobility management function (AMF) unit is configured to select the session management function unit in compliance with the one or more content filtering settings for filtering the data packets for the user equipment.
US11252555B2
Embodiments described herein relate to a system and method for providing flexible receiver configuration in wireless communication systems, such as 802.11 WLAN systems. In one embodiment, a wireless device may transmit a first data frame including first configuration information specifying a first configuration of the receiver to notify a remote device that the wireless device intends to configure its receiver according to the first configuration. After receiving an acknowledgement frame confirming the first configuration information, the wireless device may configure the receiver according to the first configuration. In another embodiment, a wireless device may receive a first data frame including first configuration information and further including a request that the wireless device configure its receiver according to the first configuration. In response, the wireless device may configure the receiver according to the first configuration. In either case, the wireless device may receive subsequent communications according to the first configuration.
US11252554B2
This application relates to the field of wireless communications technologies, and provides a user equipment tracing method and a device, to implement joint trace for user equipment by two devices. The user equipment tracing method includes: receiving, by a master base station, a request message sent by a core network device, where the request message requests the master base station to initiate trace for user equipment UE; and sending, by the master base station, a first message to a secondary base station, where the first message carries first instruction information, and the first instruction information instructs the secondary base station to trace the UE.
US11252553B2
Disclosed herein is a method for allowing a first device to be connected to a second device in a wireless communication system. The method includes performing a procedure for setting an advertising packet for providing a transport discovery service (TDS) and transmitting the set advertising packet to the second device, wherein the advertising packet comprises at least one advertising (AD) structure field, and one of the at least one AD structure field comprises a first length field, an AD type field indicating a type of data for providing the TDS, and an AD data field comprising TDS data for providing the TDS.
US11252542B2
The present invention utilizes an application which is loaded onto the mobile devices of attendees who will be attending festivals, concerts, etc, where the large crowds attending the event will create wireless and mobile network congestion. The application will enable the attendees and promoters to communicate without the need for a network connection. Communication and instructions are communicated between attendees and promoters using encoded network signals.
US11252540B2
In a system and method for transporting SMS message between sending MNO and receiving MNO, wherein the receiving MNO uses a sponsor, a component is provided either in the network of the receiving MNO or, preferably, at the carrier of the receiving MNO. The component is in the routing path between the sending MNO and the routing MNO and/or in the return path and preferably in both paths. The component (WB) manages and enforces the proper SMS delivery methods to the receiving MNO by introducing itself in the SRI for the SMS request as a sending party, using a sponsored network entity (SMSC-WB), and/or introducing itself in the SRI of the SMS response message as a receiving party using a sponsored network identity (VMSC-WB, HLR-WB). The component may further gather information relating to arrangements on transport of SMS messages between the sending MNO and the receiving MNO and sponsoring and/or roaming agreement of the receiving MNO and is capable of using the gathered information for amending SRI data for the SMS request and/or the SMS response message. The method and system of the invention allows any MNO to instantly adopt and cherry-pick on the SMS interworking portfolio of sponsor MNOs without the hassle of negotiating bilateral agreements or hub provider agreements.
US11252534B2
Aspects of the disclosure provide a method of determining types of user geographical locations. A target geographical location corresponding to a plurality of uploading times can be obtained. At least one time-location type mapping relationship table can be obtained. Based on the obtained at least one time-location type mapping relationship table, for each of location types in the at least one time-relation type mapping relationship table, a sum of probability values of the respective location type can be calculated to obtain a degree that the target geographical location belongs to each of the location types. Each of the probability values corresponds to one of the uploading times of the target geographical location. Which of the location types corresponds to the target geographical location can be determined according to the degrees that the target geographical location belongs to each of the location types.
US11252532B2
A user computing device for identifying a driver of a vehicle on a trip is provided. The user computing device is associated with a first vehicle occupant, and is programmed to: (i) detect a second user computing device associated with a second vehicle occupant, (ii) initiate a ping exchange process including emitting a set of non-audible sonic ping signals and detecting a set of signals from the second user computing device over a duration of the trip, (iii) generate a relative positioning map of the user computing device with respect to the second user computing device, (iv) determine that the first vehicle occupant is one of a driver and a passenger of the vehicle, and (v) transmit, to a driver identification (“DI”) server, a trip report including the determination and the generated relative positioning map.
US11252530B2
A method and apparatus for providing location specific information. Event data pertaining to an event is received. The event data includes location identification data from which a location of the event may be determined and event description data that describes the event. At least one geofence associated with the location identification data is identified from the location identification data in the received event data. A topic associated with the event type data and associated with the identified at least one geofence is identified. Subscribers having a subscription to the topic in association with the geographic area are identified. The subscription entitles the subscribers to be notified about events pertaining to the topic in association with the selected geographic area. The event description data is published to each subscriber.
US11252521B2
The present subject matter relates to an improved connection assembly for hearing assistance devices. The improved connection assembly provides a connection system that is reliable, straightforward to manufacture, and easy to use. The present connection assembly provides a rapid replacement option for the cable and/or the receiver or other electronics connected to the cable. The present subject matter provides for a connection assembly that can be extended to provide connections for a variety of applications which are not limited to a speaker (receiver) in the ear. Sensors and new configurations of component placement are supported using the present assembly, including, but not limited to telecoils, and GMR or TMR sensors. Various electromagnetic interference issues are addressed. In some examples a shielded set of wires are included. In some examples a twisted pair of wires is included. Various combinations of wires for different applications are supported with the present connector system.
US11252519B2
A hearing device includes: a multi-chip assembly including a plurality of integrated circuit chips, the plurality of integrated circuit chips including one or a combination of a wireless communication chip, a power management chip, and a signal processing chip; wherein the multi-chip assembly comprises: a first layer having a surface, a spacer layer being configured to accommodate one or more of the plurality of integrated circuit chips as one or more embedded chips, and a ground layer below the first layer and the spacer layer, and a first shielding layer between the spacer layer and the first layer.
US11252517B2
An assistive listening device includes a set of microphones including an array arranged into pairs about a nominal listening axis with respective distinct intra-pair microphone spacings, and a pair of ear-worn loudspeakers. Audio circuitry performs arrayed-microphone short-time target cancellation processing including (1) applying short-time frequency transforms to convert time-domain audio input signals into frequency-domain signals for every short-time analysis frame, (2) calculating ratio masks from the frequency-domain signals of respective microphone pairs, wherein the calculation of a ratio mask includes both a frequency domain subtraction of signal values of a microphone pair and a scaling of a resulting frequency domain noise estimate by a pre-computed phase difference normalization vector, (3) calculating a global ratio mask from the plurality of ratio masks, and (4) applying the global ratio mask, and inverse short-time frequency transforms, to selected ones of the frequency-domain signals, thereby generating audio output signals for driving the loudspeakers. The circuitry and processing may also be realized in a machine hearing device executing a human-computer interface application.
US11252514B2
Presented herein are non-surgical or superficial coupling apparatuses for transcutaneous bone conduction devices. A coupling apparatus comprises a drive plate configured to be detachably connected to a transcutaneous bone conduction device. The drive plate is also connected to an earhook (ear hook) configured to fit over/around a recipient's pinna (auricle) to at least partially support the drive plate. An adhesive member may also be provided to secure the drive plate to the recipient's skin.
US11252511B2
A package structure includes a housing and a sound producing chip. The sound producing chip is disposed within the housing. The sound producing chip includes a membrane and an actuator. The membrane includes a coupling plate and a spring structure connected to the coupling plate. The actuator is configured to receive a driving signal to actuate the membrane. The spring structure is situated between the coupling plate and the actuator. The coupling plate is actuated to move by the actuator via the spring structure.
US11252509B2
An audio processor for providing loudspeaker signals on the basis of input signals, like channel signals and/or object signals, obtains an information about the position of a listener and an information about the position of a plurality of loudspeakers, or sound transducers. The audio processor selects one or more loudspeakers for a rendering of the objects and/or of the channel objects and/or of the adapted signals, derived from the input signals. The selection depends on the information about the position of the listener and about the positions of the loudspeakers and takes into consideration the information about one or more acoustic obstacles. The audio signal processor renders the objects/channel objects/adapted signals derived from the input signals, in dependence on the information about the position of the listener and about positions of the loudspeakers, in order to obtain the loudspeaker signals, such that a rendered sound follows a listener.
US11252502B2
The disclosure provides a sound emitting device includes a housing in which a corner is formed by an inner surface of a first outer wall part and an inner surface of a second outer wall part; a speaker device which includes a sound emitting part that emits a sound toward a main opening formed to penetrate through the first outer wall part and is arranged inside the housing; and a guide that is arranged between the second outer wall part and the speaker device. An auxiliary opening is provided to penetrate through the second outer wall part, and at least a part of multiple auxiliary openings is located at the same position as the sound emitting part in a length direction of the corner, and the guide includes a bottom part that projects from one of the speaker device and the second outer wall part toward the other thereof.
US11252500B2
Asymmetrical high-frequency waveguide, 3-axis rigging, and spherical enclosure for surround speakers
Embodiments are described for a high-frequency waveguide that improves the performance of large-scale surround sound and immersive audio environments. A horn waveguide is configured to be asymmetric about one of a vertical axis and horizontal axis of the waveguide to form an asymmetric horn waveguide. A spherical enclosure surrounds the asymmetric horn waveguide to form a horn speaker, and a three-axis mounting system is configured to fix the horn speaker to one of a wall or ceiling surface of the venue, wherein the mounting system facilitates rotating the horn speaker to a location that provides maximum coverage of the venue within the passband of the asymmetric horn waveguide.
US11252493B2
A hearing device includes: an earphone that is adapted to be worn in a concha auriculae or an external auditory canal of an ear; and a cord that is adapted to extend so as to pass through an upper portion of a root of the ear from a back side of an auricle of the ear when the earphone is worn, and that is connected to the earphone, the cord that is adapted to abut against a cymba conchae of the ear when the earphone is worn.
US11252491B1
Disclosed herein is a multifunctional Bluetooth microphone and a multifunctional Bluetooth microphone with the touch screen receiving a voice signal by performing short-range communication and the wireless microphone system including a two-channel UHF (Ultra high frequency) by transmitting the voice signal to a third device for playback.
US11252490B2
A system and a method for generated synchronized audible communications are provided. In one aspect, a system includes a suite of appliances, including at least a first and second appliance. Each appliance has a speaker operable to generate one or more audible communications. The system includes one or more controllers that output one or more sound commands that cause the speakers of the appliances to generate their respective audible communications. One or more of the appliances include a proximity device operable to detect whether a user is within a proximity range thereof. In some instances, the speakers can generate audible communications to amplify their audible communications. In other instances, the speakers can generate audible communications to create localization cues for directing a user's attention to a particular appliance.
US11252488B2
Systems and methods to incrementally scale robotic software-defined cross-connects from 100 to more than 100,000 ports are disclosed. A system is comprised of individual cross-connect units that individually scale in increments of say, 96 interconnects in tier 1 to, for example, 1,008 interconnects total. A system comprised of multiple cross-connect units arranged and interconnected in a two-tier approach is disclosed, one which achieves fully non-blocking, any-to-any connectivity with the flexibility to grow incrementally. Methods to build out this system over time, in an incremental and non-service interrupting fashion, are described.
US11252479B2
In some embodiments, a method for recommending content comprises: receiving an authorization to access a media content consumption history, wherein the media content consumption history includes a plurality of viewing sessions that each include media content items that have been consumed during that viewing session and wherein each of the plurality of viewing sessions is associated with session attribute information; generating a plurality of session group profiles by grouping a subset of viewing sessions from the plurality of viewing sessions based on the session attribute information; determining that a user device is consuming a media content item in a current viewing session; in response to determining that the current viewing session matches a session group profile from the plurality of session group profiles, and causing a recommended media content item to be presented on the user device.
US11252474B2
A gateway for location at a user premises is provided. Bother users and user devices are registered with the gateway which is provided by a service provider. Users access services, such as video streaming, on their user devices via the gateway. The gateway allows users to share content. The gateway collects information about the user's patterns of behaviour for the system provider, and can be used to directly obtain feedback from the user.
US11252462B2
A graphical user interface (GUI) for an audio video display device (AVDD) such as a TV includes content panels which can be selected for searching for additional information related to the content underlying the content panels. A history of previous searches is maintained in memory “stacked” notionally to the left or right of the current display so that a viewer can easily review previous search results using a simple scroll command.
US11252434B2
Reconstructing a coded current picture for video decoding including decoding picture partitioning information corresponding to the current picture; determining whether padding is applied to sub-regions of the current picture using the picture partitioning information; based on determining that padding is not applied, decoding the sub-regions without padding the sub-regions; based on determining that padding is applied, determining whether the padding includes wrap-around padding using the picture partitioning information; based on determining that the padding does not include wrap-around padding, applying repetition padding to the sub-regions, and decoding the sub-regions using the repetition padding; based on determining that the padding includes wrap-around padding, applying the wrap-around padding to the sub-regions, and decoding the sub-regions using the wrap-around padding; and reconstructing the current picture based on the decoded sub-regions.
US11252432B2
In the present disclosure, a method of decoding a video signal and a device therefor are disclosed. Specifically, a method of decoding an image based on an inter prediction mode includes deriving a motion vector of an available spatial neighboring block around a current block; deriving a collocated block of the current block based on the motion vector of the spatial neighboring block; deriving a motion vector in a sub-block unit in the current block based on a motion vector of the collocated block; and generating a prediction block of the current block using the motion vector derived in the sub-block unit, wherein the collocated block may be specified by the motion vector of the spatial neighboring block in one pre-defined reference picture.
US11252428B2
Provided is a method for encoding parameter sets at slice level. The method includes: when there are one or more parameter sets, in which the coding tool parameters are identical to the coding tool parameters of a part of coding tools used for the current slice, in the existing parameter sets, encoding the identifiers of parameter sets into bit-stream of the current slice, wherein a parameter set contains common information of the coding tools used in the process of encoding/decoding slice(s). Correspondingly, also provided is a method for decoding parameter sets at slice level and a device for encoding and decoding parameter sets at slice level, which can make full use of the encoded parameter set information when the slice header refers to a plurality of parameter sets, implement flexible configuration of the coding tools used in the process of encoding/decoding slice(s) and reduce information redundancy.
US11252419B2
A higher coding efficiency for coding a significance map indicating positions of significant transform coefficients within a transform coefficient block is achieved by the scan order by which the sequentially extracted syntax elements indicating, for associated positions within the transform coefficient block, as to whether at the respective position a significant or insignificant transform coefficient is situated, are sequentially associated to the positions of the transform coefficient block, among the positions of the transform coefficient block depends on the positions of the significant transform coefficients indicated by previously associated syntax elements. Alternatively, the first-type elements may be context-adaptively entropy decoded using contexts which are individually selected for each of the syntax elements dependent on a number of significant transform coefficients in a neighborhood of the respective syntax element, indicated as being significant by any of the preceding syntax elements.
US11252417B2
A method of configuring an image encoder emulator. Input image data is encoded at an encoding stage comprising a network of inter-connected weights, and decoded at a decoding stage to generate a first distorted version of the input image data. The first distorted version is compared with a second distorted version of the input image data generated using an external encoder to determine a distortion difference score. A rate prediction model is used to predict an encoding bitrate associated with encoding the input image data to a quality corresponding to the first distorted version. A rate difference score is determined by comparing the predicted encoding bitrate with an encoding bitrate used by the external encoder to encode the input image data to a quality corresponding to the second distorted version. The weights of the encoding stage are trained based on the distortion difference score and the rate difference score.
US11252396B2
An advanced communication system is provided. The advanced communication system comprises generating a first signal with a polyphase coding based on a DFT spread OFDM with at least one CAZAC sequence in accordance with a configuration condition, applying a digital transmit beamforming to the generated first signal, converting the first signal to analog from digital, modulating the converted first signal with an energy source, emitting, using at least one energy emit element, the modulated first signal, detecting a second signal comprising at least a portion of the emitted first signal that is reflected from at least one object in a scene in a field-of-view, demodulating the detected second signal, converting the second signal to digital from analog, converting the converted second signal to a computational image, and generating a 3D image by applying coherent detection to the computational image. The first signal comprises a polyphase sequence.
US11252395B2
A calibration target comprises a target pattern plane having a planar surface and a plurality of markers disposed on the planar surface. An optical axis of the imaging system is at a first angle with respect to the planar surface of the target pattern plane when the calibration target is being used to calibrate the imaging system. The plurality of markers is pre-warped in size and aspect ratio using a set of trigonometric functions that use the first angle and a distance from the imaging system to the marker, so that each of the plurality of markers appears a substantially same size as all others of the plurality of markers when viewed by the imaging system at the first angle. The plurality of markers includes a plurality of localizer features that have known relative positions on the target pattern plane and are used to determine an orientation for each marker.
US11252382B1
A 3 MOS camera includes a first prism that causes a first image sensor to receive IR light of light from an observation part, a second prism that causes a second image sensor to receive visible light of A % (A: a predetermined real number) of the light from the observation part, a third prism that causes a third image sensor to receive remaining visible light of (100−A) % of the light from the observation part, and a video signal processor that combines a color video signal based on imaging outputs of the second image sensor and the third image sensor and an IR video signal based on an imaging output of the first image sensor and outputs the combined signal to a monitor, the second image sensor and the third image sensor being respectively bonded to positions optically shifted by substantially one pixel.
US11252381B2
An image sensor includes a plurality of photodiodes, a plurality of color filters, and a plurality of microlenses. The plurality of photodiodes are arranged as a photodiode array, each of the plurality of photodiodes disposed within respective portions of a semiconductor material with a first lateral area. The plurality of color filters are arranged as a color filter array optically aligned with the photodiode array. Each of the plurality of color filters having a second lateral area greater than the first lateral area. The plurality of microlenses are arranged as a microlens array optically aligned with the color filter array and the photodiode array. Each of the plurality of microlenses have a third later area greater than the first lateral area and less than the second lateral area.
US11252377B2
A camera device includes a cooling unit that cools an imaging element, a first generation unit that generates stored information (the stored information includes current time and a current position acquired with use of a GPS signal during an operating term of the cooling unit, operating time of the cooling unit measured during the operating term, and identification information of the camera device), a communication unit that transmits the stored information to a server device, a second generation unit that generates image capturing information (the image capturing information includes the current time and the current position acquired with use of the GPS signal during the operating term, the operating time of the cooling unit measured during the operating term, and the identification information of the camera device), and a third generation unit that generates an image associated with the image capturing information based on an infrared image captured by the imaging element during the operating term.
US11252352B2
The present invention relates to a pixel sensor cell (1) for a CMOS sensor device comprising: —a photodiode (11) for generating photoelectrons; —a first transfer transistor (12) coupling the photodiode (11) with an intermediate node (IN) and configured to be controlled by a first control signal (TX1); —a gain reducing capacitance (CHD) applied on the intermediate node (IN); —a second transfer transistor (14) coupling the intermediate node (IN) with a sense node (SN) and configured to be controlled by a second control signal (TX2); —an output buffer (15) coupled with the sense node (SN) and configured to amplify a potential on the sense node (SN).
US11252351B2
When imaging bright objects, a conventional detector array can saturate, making it difficult to produce an image with a dynamic range that equals the scene's dynamic range. Conversely, a digital focal plane array (DFPA) with one or more m-bit counters can produce an image whose dynamic range is greater than the native dynamic range. In one example, the DFPA acquires a first image over a relatively brief integration period at a relatively low gain setting. The DFPA then acquires a second image over longer integration period and/or a higher gain setting. During this second integration period, counters may roll over, possibly several times, to capture a residue modulus 2m of the number of counts (as opposed to the actual number of counts). A processor in or coupled to the DFPA generates a high-dynamic range image based on the first image and the residues modulus 2m.
US11252350B2
An image sensor, a camera module, a mobile terminal, and an image acquisition method are provided in the present disclosure. The image sensor includes a repeating unit in a two-dimensional pixel array. The repeating unit includes a plurality of color pixels and a plurality of transparent pixels. In the repeating unit, the plurality of transparent pixels are disposed along a first diagonal line and one or more first parallel lines parallel to the first diagonal line, and the color pixels are disposed along a second diagonal line and one or more second parallel lines parallel to the second diagonal line. The first diagonal line is different from the second diagonal line.
US11252339B2
The present disclosure relates to an apparatus and methods for generating a hybrid image by high-dynamic-range counting. In an embodiment, the apparatus includes a processing circuitry configured to acquire an image from a pixelated detector, obtain a sparsity map of the acquired image, the sparsity map indicating low-flux regions of the acquired image and high-flux regions of the acquired image, generate a low-flux image and a high-flux image based on the sparsity map, perform event analysis of the acquired image based on the low-flux image and the high-flux image, the event analysis including detecting, within the low-flux image, incident events by an event counting mode, multiply, by a normalization constant, resulting intensities of the high-flux image and the detected incident events of the low-flux image, and generate the hybrid image by merging the low-flux image and the high-flux image.
US11252332B2
An information processing apparatus that includes a camera unit including an imaging sensor that captures an image; a display that displays an image; and a processor that: clips an image region having a size corresponding to a photography zoom power from an image captured by the camera unit; adjusts a clipping position at a time of clipping the image region from the image; and controls the display to display the clipped image region on the display.
US11252330B2
A display control apparatus includes detection means (a proximity sensor 75) configured to detect that an object has approached, and control means (a system control unit 50) configured to perform control such that in response to the detection means detecting that the object has approached, a display of a first display unit (a monitor 28) is turned off. In a case where interval shooting or long exposure shooting is performed, the control means performs control such that in response to the detection means detecting that the object has approached (S411), the display of the first display unit is turned on (S413).
US11252313B1
Described herein is a sensor device. The sensor device includes a housing with a front plate and a back plate. The front plate includes mounting holes and the back plate includes second mounting holes and alignment holes. The sensor device includes a printed circuit board encased by the housing, wherein the printed circuit board comprises an image sensor, an image sensor processor, and a serializer.
US11252305B2
Provided is a processing apparatus including a processing unit that is connectable to a data bus, and performs output control on respective images captured by a plurality of image sensors connected to the data bus during a predetermined period of time. A timing of output of the image performed by each of the plurality of image sensors is changed by the output control.
US11252299B1
Embodiments relate to pixel conversion of images for display. A circuit converts input pixel values of an image using a color conversion function. The circuit is operable in different modes where each mode uses a different color conversion function. A lookup table memory circuit stores a mapping of color converted values and input pixel values according to the mode of operation where the mapping represents the color conversion function associated with the mode. The circuit produces a color converted value from the lookup table as a color converted version of a first input pixel value responsive to the first input pixel value being within a first range. The circuit may also produce a color converted version of a second input pixel value by interpolating a subset of the color converted values received from the lookup table responsive to the second input pixel being within a second input range.
US11252294B2
A document conveyance apparatus includes a first conveyance path, a first image reading part, a second conveyance path, a third conveyance path and a branch guide. The first conveyance path extends linearly. The first image reading part reads an image on one face of the document conveyed along the first conveyance path. The second conveyance path branches from the first conveyance path at a branch point on a downstream side of the first reading part in a conveyance direction of the document and is formed to be curved. The third conveyance path branches from the first conveyance path at the branch point and extends linearly in a same extending direction as an extending direction of the first conveyance path. The branch guide is provided at the branch point and guides the document to the second conveyance path or to the third conveyance path.
US11252286B2
In the case where a voice control device can communicate with a printing apparatus and a display apparatus, a user is provided with visual presentations of notifications on the display apparatus where print processing instructions are provided to the printing apparatus based on user instructions issued to the voice control device by voice.
US11252282B2
There are provided a data playback system, a data playback method, a data playback terminal, a printer, and a server which are capable of playing sound from a printout and viewing a favorable image. Image data of an image printed on an instant film and sound data associated with the image data are stored in a data storage server. In a case where a two-dimensional code printed with the image on the instant film is read by a data playback terminal, access information to the image data of the printed image and the sound data associated with the image data is obtained. The data playback terminal accesses the data storage server based on the obtained access information, and downloads and plays the image data of the printed image and the sound data.
US11252277B2
Filtering incoming calls according to predicted preferences of a user. User preferences are predicted by analysis of user behavior, online activity, oral queues, and purchasing history. Data analysis includes weighting caller and user attributes according to a scheme that is dynamically updated by applying user feedback and/or machine learning processes.
US11252271B2
A portable communication terminal equipment case attached to terminal equipment including an enclosure having a front surface and a rear surface in which a camera lens is located, the equipment case includes a case body and a support unit including a first rotary section making a support unit rotatable around an axis perpendicular to an exterior surface of the case body, a first plate-piece section integral with the first rotary section, a second rotary section rotatable around an axis parallel with the exterior surface; and a second plate-piece section coupled to one end of the first plate-piece section via the second rotary section. A rotation axis center of the first rotary section is located adjacent to other-end short side in a longitudinal direction, at which the camera lens is not located, and offset in a direction toward one of corners with respect to a middle position of the short side.
US11252267B2
A system can include one or more content distribution sites to provide content to one or more content satellite offices for delivery toward a set of destination devices for display. A content distribution site, of the one or more content distribution sites, can include one or more streamer devices. The one or more streamer devices can be associated with a single spoofed Internet protocol (IP) address. The spoofed IP address can facilitate failover among the one or more streamer devices. The one or more streamer devices can be configured to provide the content toward the set of destination devices using multicast with forward error correction (FEC). A content satellite office, of the one or more content satellite offices, can be configured to subscribe to a multicast group associated with the one or more streamer devices. The multicast group can be associated with the spoofed IP address to facilitate the failover among the one or more streamer devices.
US11252258B2
An example consistent with this disclosure includes a controller that is communicatively coupled to dataflow devices in a network. The controller receives device information from a dataflow device and determines features supported by the dataflow device based, in part, on the device information received from the dataflow device. Using a driver configured to use the features supported by the dataflow device, the controller transmits a command to the dataflow device. The controller then receives a response to the command from the dataflow device. The response to the command may include information that indicates different features are supported by the dataflow device than previously determined. The controller updates its determination of the features supported by the dataflow device and updates the driver used to transmit the command to the dataflow device.
US11252257B2
Techniques and solutions are described for providing access to data using web services, such as OData services. OData services can be dynamically added to a routing table used by a router. The router can be statically registered with an application instance, such as a server associated with the application instance. A web service can be generated from a definition of a data artefact, such as a table or view, stored in a database. A virtual data artefact corresponding to the data artefact can be generated, and used to generate the web service. A message service can cause web services to be generated when a data artefact is added or changed.
US11252255B2
A method for aggregating outage data via an edge computing system is provided. The method may include transmitting, by each edge-node included in a network, a self-identifying, self-locating, communication. The method may include receiving, at each edge-node included in the network, self-identifying, self-locating, communications from one or more edge-nodes included in the network. The method may include detecting an outage relating to a first edge-node included in the network. The outage may be detected by at least one edge-node included in the network. The at least one edge-node may not be the first edge-node. The at least one edge-node may be the first edge-node operating in limited capacity. The method may include identifying a most-recently confirmed location of an entity co-located with the first edge-node. The method may include dispatching outage-restoration-assistance to the most-recently confirmed real-time location of the entity co-located with the first edge-node.
US11252252B2
According to one general aspect, a method of executing a web application installed on an apparatus may include executing, via a processor included by the apparatus, a web browser. The method may include loading, via the web browser, the web application. In some embodiments, the web application may include a manifest and at least a portion of a web site and wherein the web application was packaged as an installable entity. The method may further include managing, by the web browser, the execution of the web application. The method may include accessing, via the web browser, from a local storage medium one or more portions of the web site included by the web application. In some embodiments, the one or more portions of the web site may have been stored in the local storage medium when the web application was installed.
US11252250B1
A system, method, and computer program product are provided for managing a plurality of heterogeneous services and/or a plurality of heterogeneous devices linked to at least one customer. In operation, a system links a customer identifier associated with at least one customer with one or more of a plurality of heterogeneous services and/or a plurality of heterogeneous devices. Moreover, the system manages the plurality of heterogeneous services and/or the plurality of heterogeneous devices linked to the customer(s).
US11252247B1
A method, computer system, and a computer program product for interest-based digital content caching is provided. Hints regarding content of interest associated with a user are determined and used to identify portions of streaming media that are uninteresting to the user. Then the streaming media is played for the user and a portion of the post-uninteresting content is stored in a child cache before the portion of uninterest is played.
US11252245B2
Embodiments can include an information pushing method and device. An embodiment of the method can include: receiving an information stream data acquisition request sent by a terminal, wherein the information stream data acquisition request comprises query information; performing a query according to the query information to obtain first information stream data; acquiring at least one of a search record or a browsing record of an account associated with the terminal with respect to a predetermined time period; determining, based on the at least one of the search record or the browsing record, a keyword; determining second information stream data located in a preset information stream data set and matching the key word; generating, based on the first information stream data and the determined second information stream data, data to be pushed; and pushing to the terminal the data to be pushed. The embodiment can achieve targeted information pushing.
US11252218B2
A mobile device is coupled to a computer system configured to access media content sources and play media content items provided thereby on a media device. The mobile device receives a first control specification that includes a plurality of first information items each associated with one of the media content sources and a first action definition. The first information items are concurrently displayed on a remote control user interface of the mobile device. In accordance with a selection of one of the first information items corresponding to a first content source, the mobile device transmits a command of a first action definition corresponding to the selected first information item to the computer system, and receives a second control specification that includes a plurality of second information items. Each second information item is associated with a respective content item provided by the first content source and a second action definition.
US11252200B2
Described herein are apparatus and methods for detecting and handling Proxy-Call Session Control Function (P-CSCF) failures. A method may include sending, by a serving-CSCF (S-CSCF), a message to the P-CSCF to check operability. The S-CSCF may mark in a list that the P-CSCF is unavailable if a negative response or no response is received from the P-CSCF and may set a timer to recheck availability of the unavailable P-CSCF. A message is sent by the S-CSCF to a device management system to force a user device to stop using the unavailable P-CSCF and register with a different P-CSCF. The S-CSCF may recheck availability of the unavailable P-CSCF upon expiration of the timer and may remove the unavailable P-CSCF from the list when a positive response is received from the unavailable P-CSCF.
US11252198B2
Technologies for providing policy-based secure containers for multiple enterprise applications include a client computing device and an enterprise policy server. The client computing device sends device attribute information and a request for access to an enterprise application to the enterprise policy server. The enterprise policy server determines a device trust level based on the device attribute information and a data sensitivity level based on the enterprise application, and sends a security policy to the client computing device based on the device trust level and the data sensitivity level. The client computing device references or creates a secure container for the security policy, adds the enterprise application to the secure container, and enforces the security policy while executing the enterprise application in the secure container. Multiple enterprise applications may be added to each secure container. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US11252196B2
A reference monitor (RM) operates within a network having controllers that each control a corresponding network part having a forwarding element (FE) for forwarding data within the network. The RM enforces the security policy for a first network part managed by a first controller. The method includes: receiving a first rule request from the first controller, checking the first rule request for policy compliance, authorizing a part of the first rule request that is policy compliant, receiving a second rule request, the second rule request being from a second controller configured to control a second part of the network, the second rule request comprising an outside modification impacting the first network part, which is not managed by the second controller, checking the outside modification part for policy compliance, and based on determining that the outside modification part is policy compliant, authorizing the outside modification part of the second rule request.
US11252194B2
Methods and apparatuses for automatic determination of a content security policy for a network resource are described. A proxy server receives from a first authenticated client device a first request for a first network resource, retrieves the first network resource and transmits a first response to the first client device that includes a content tracker that causes the client device to report information on additional network resources identified when the first client device interprets the first network resource. A content security policy is determined based on the reported information. The proxy server receives, from a second client device, a second request for the first network resource. The proxy server transmits, to the second client device, a second response that includes the content security policy that is determined based on the information on the additional network resources.
US11252192B1
An indication that a change implicating security in a network environment needs to be made is received. In response to receiving the indication, a first set of instructions for reconfiguring at least one network device is determined, and a second set of instructions for reconfiguring at least one security device is determined. At least one network device and at least one security device are, respectively, caused to be reconfigured in accordance with the respective first and second set of instructions.
US11252189B2
Introduced here are computer programs and computer-implemented techniques for discovering malicious emails and then remediating the threat posed by those malicious emails in an automated manner. A threat detection platform may monitor a mailbox to which employees of an enterprise are able to forward emails deemed to be suspicious for analysis. This mailbox may be referred to as an “abuse mailbox” or “phishing mailbox.” The threat detection platform can examine emails contained in the abuse mailbox and then determine whether any of those emails represent threats to the security of the enterprise. For example, the threat detection platform may classify each email contained in the abuse mailbox as being malicious or non-malicious. Thereafter, the threat detection platform may determine what remediation actions, if any, are appropriate for addressing the threat posed by those emails determined to be malicious.
US11252186B2
There are provided systems and methods for a proxy and navigation code injection to prevent malicious messaging attacks. One or more proxy servers may reside in a perimeter network and be used to remove malicious links from messages transmitted to devices protected by the proxy server(s). The proxy server(s) may detect links to external (e.g., Internet-based) resources, such as websites and databases, and may extract data from the external resources. The proxy server(s) may generate static data that prevents processes on the external resources from being executed by devices protects by the proxy server(s). The proxy server(s) may further generate a link to the static data by adding a proxy server network address to the original link. Once the link is generated, it may be used to replace the original link to the external resource to prevent navigation to malicious data.
US11252184B2
An anti-attack data transmission method and an apparatus thereof are provided. The method includes obtaining a communication protocol message to be transmitted; performing an anti-attack pre-processing for data on information bit(s) located at a message header in the communication protocol message, and generating processing information; storing the processing information in extension bit(s) at the message header of the communication protocol message to obtain a converted communication protocol message, wherein the message header of the communication protocol message includes the information bit(s) and the extension bit(s); and sending the converted communication protocol message to a receiving device. The present disclosure solves the problem of false negatives associated with normally transmitted data flow caused by existing anti-attack methods.
US11252178B1
A system and method for determining a point in time compliance status of a computing system with a security guideline standard (SGS) wherein the computing system has a command line shell available through a native operating system, the method comprising inputting into a host computer of the computing system a SGS package that represents a scripted SGS that is a non-text file and is encrypted that provides instructions for an evaluation of a computing system's compliance with the SGS under consideration wherein the SGS package performs at least a portion of an automated evaluation of a compliance status at the point in time of the computing system under consideration when the SGS package is decrypted by the computing system; sending a command query from the decrypted SGS package to the selected device of the computer system; compiling in a locally hosted database of the host computer compliance results sent from the selected device of the computing system in response to the command query from the decrypted SGS package that is applicable for the selected device; and generating a report for the compliance results of the selected device with the SGS package that is applicable.
US11252177B2
Methods and systems for automated ad hoc customer premise equipment (CPE) bi-directional vulnerability scanning. A method includes an auto provisioning server receiving CPE information for a designated CPE to initiate a bi-directional vulnerability scan, obtaining telemetry data from a cable modem termination system (CMTS) based on the CPE information, configuring switches to form a virtual local area network channel between a LAN scanner and the designated CPE using the CPE information, provisioning the LAN scanner to obtain a LAN side Internet Protocol (IP) address from the designated CPE, initiating vulnerability scans at a wide area network (WAN) scanner and the LAN scanner using a stored WAN side IP address and a stored LAN side IP address, respectively, and generating a vulnerability scan report based on results from the WAN scanner and the LAN scanner. At least one network device can be configured based on the report.
US11252175B2
Implementations of the present disclosure include providing, by a security platform, graph data defining a graph that is representative of an enterprise network, the graph comprising nodes and edges between nodes, a set of nodes representing respective assets within the enterprise network, each edge representing at least a portion of one or more lateral movement paths between assets in the enterprise network, determining, for each asset, a criticality of the respective asset to operation of a process, determining a lateral movement path between a first node represented by a first asset and a second node represented by second asset within the graph, determining a path value representative of a criticality in preventing an attack through the lateral movement path, and providing an indication of the path value representative of the criticality in preventing an attack through the lateral movement path.
US11252173B2
A method, system and non-transitory computer-readable medium used for testing a plurality of circuits to determine open surfaces are disclosed. The method includes: receiving one or more of attack techniques, and known open surfaces; carrying out attacks on a circuit to determine vulnerable surfaces of the circuit; determining when new open surfaces exist in the circuit; updating an attack plan based on the new open surfaces; carrying out the attack plan; generating a report of the open and vulnerable surfaces; and updating a repository to include new attack techniques against newly discovered open surfaces of the circuit.
US11252172B1
A system for analyzing computer systems and networks for potential vulnerabilities to cyber-attacks configured to (i) receive scan data from a scan of a target computer device; (ii) search for one or more vulnerabilities based on the scan data; (iii) determine at least one attack vector based on the one or more vulnerabilities; (iv) generate one or more exploits based on the one or more attack vectors and the one or more vulnerabilities; and (v) execute the one or more exploits on the target computer device.
US11252169B2
A Cyber-Physical System (“CPS”) may have monitoring nodes that generate a series of current monitoring node values representing current operation of the CPS. A normal space data source may store, for each monitoring node, a series of normal monitoring node values representing normal operation of the CPS. An abnormal data generation platform may utilize information in the normal space data source and a generative model to create generated abnormal to represent abnormal operation of the CPS. An abnormality detection model creation computer may receive the normal monitoring node values (and generate normal feature vectors) and automatically calculate and output an abnormality detection model including information about a decision boundary created via supervised learning based on the normal feature vectors and the generated abnormal data.
US11252158B2
A method of presenting an interactive user interface includes presenting member data within a social network interface, the member data being presented at a fixed position within the social network interface. A plurality of posts, arranged in a temporal order or according to category, are also presented within the social network interface. Further, a privacy bar interface element is presented at a first position within the social network interface. An action, as applied to a touch display of a client device, is detected, the action being to move the privacy bar interface element from the first position to a second position relative to the plurality of posts within the social network interface, and to divide the plurality of posts within the social network interface into a first subset of posts and a second subset of posts. First and second social profile access privileges are applied to the respective first and second subsets of posts responsive to the detecting of the action to move the privacy bar interface element from the first position to the second position, the first and second social profile access privileges being different from each other.
US11252157B1
Various embodiments provide for a pre-validation of various aspects of an application deployment before any resources are provisioned in a user account. Pre-validation can perform checks on aspects such as connectivity and credential-based access for instances to be provisioned in a user account. A determination can also be made as to whether a role exists in the user account that has the appropriate policies and permissions to enable these instances, if provisioned, to have access to external services and resources needed to support the application. These checks can be performed through a launch wizard or deployment service that can collect information though a single console, and can ensure that these checks succeed before the requested instances are provisioned in the user account.
US11252149B1
A resource of a dialog-driven management service is allocated for a first set of requests based on determining that a population of capacity indicators in a throttling data structure exceeds a threshold. One or more capacity indicator deduction iterations associated with the resource are conducted during a time interval for which the resource remains allocated for the first set of requests. In a given iteration, a number of capacity indicators is deducted from the throttling data structure based on a resource throttling setting. A second set of requests is rejected based on the population of the throttling data structure.
US11252142B2
Systems and methods for continuous secure single sign on for secure access services. A user device stores a first authentication factor associated with a user for authorizing access. An authentication server receives an authentication request by the user to a secure access service and establishes a secure communication channel between the authentication server and the user device. The user device performs a user authentication according to a second authentication factor, generates an authentication response indicating the first authentication factor and confirming the authentication, the authentication response and transmits the response to the authentication server via the secure communication channel. The authentication server grants access to the secure access service based on the authentication response, repeatedly determines whether the secure communication channel is maintained while the user accesses the secure access service, and permits access to the secure access service by the user while the secure communication channel is maintained.
US11252136B2
Embodiments are directed to methods, apparatuses, computer readable media and systems for authenticating a user on a user device across multiple mobile applications. The identity of the user is validated by encoding and subsequently validating cryptographically encrypted data in a shared data store accessible by the mobile applications tied to the same entity. Specifically, the application leverages the authentication process of a trusted mobile application (e.g. a banking mobile application) to authenticate the same user on a untrusted mobile application (e.g. a merchant mobile application).
US11252135B2
The present invention discloses a method of processing data, comprising: sending, a first data to a first image capturing device, by the first computer, through an image output interface of the first computer; sending, the first data to the second computer, by the first image capturing device. The first data comprises a first information and a second information, the second data comprises a third information and a forth information. The second computer processes the third data or the forth data by a first method if the third information is consistent with the first information and the forth information is consistent with the second information; and the second computer processes the third data or the forth data by a second method if the third information is inconsistent with the first information and the forth information is inconsistent with the second information.
US11252131B2
A method, apparatus, and computer program product are disclosed for facilitating two-way email communication in manner that obfuscates sender and recipient email addresses. The method includes receiving a correspondence request indication; assigning a first transaction address to a sender and a second transaction address to a recipient; receiving a message from the sender; associating the message from the sender with the first transaction address; and causing a transmission of the message from the sender to the recipient using the first transaction address. A corresponding apparatus and computer program product are also provided.
US11252130B2
The invention relates to a computer-implemented system and method for automating the secure deployment of application identity manager (AIM) security agents to ensure integrity of identity assertion during the security sensitive agent installation process, while providing significant cost and time savings in the deployment process. The invention also relates to a command line interface (CLI) to representational state transfer (REST) web services proxy, which provides a standards-based REST web service that interfaces with a Microsoft .NET MVC framework to enable cross platform automation and integration with vault management functions. The invention also relates to a multi-vault management platform comprising a graphical user interface-based portal to manage vault functions across a number of vaults with advanced error handling and process integration.
US11252128B2
A mobile cellular network (MCN) communication system can provide an independent mobile cellular network to devices within a covered area. In addition, the MCN communication system can communicate with other MCN communication systems using a wireless standard that is similar to the wireless standard used to communicate with user equipment within the covered area. In some instances, the MCN communication system can be registered as a user equipment of another MCN communication system and/or have another MCN communication system registered with it as a user equipment.
US11252122B2
Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media can determine a first ephemeral message to be shared through a first unified message thread corresponding to a group of recipients, the first ephemeral message being created by a user operating the computing device. The first ephemeral message can be provided to a social networking system for distribution to the group of recipients through the first unified message thread, wherein both ephemeral messages and non-ephemeral messages are exchanged between the group of recipients through the same first unified message thread.
US11252119B2
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are provided for logging message data with reduced the latency and decreased overhead in multi-tenant systems. A message server may implement a two-stage process for logging the message data. In the first stage, the message server may create job-specific and write-optimized staging tables for each message processing job, and may store the message data for each job in a corresponding staging table. This may be done as the message server is building and sending the messages for each job. Additionally, the message server may partition or shard the staging tables so that the write operations are spread to multiple storage disks to avoid creating a storage server hotspot or bottleneck. In the second stage, the message server may move the accumulated message data from the individual staging tables to a corresponding tenant space at regular intervals. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
US11252110B1
A first network device transmits, to a second network device, a first indication indicating that the first network device is willing to transmit data to the second network device using an alignment mode for aligning protocol data units (PDUs) that include data with transport packets that encapsulate the PDUs for transmission of the data to the second network device. The first network device receives, from the second network device, a second indication indicating that the second network device is requesting use of the alignment mode for transmission of data from the first network device to the second network device. In response to transmitting the first indication to the second network device and receiving the second indication from the second network device, the first network device enables the alignment mode for transmission of data from the first network device to the second network device.
US11252107B2
A method for operating an Ethernet communication device having multiple external physical interfaces for a motor vehicle includes the following steps: detecting a special state on at least one of the interfaces, generating a control signal to adapt the interface in the special state if the special state is detected; and blocking a forwarding of a message packet arriving on the interface in the special state to a media access control unit of the Ethernet communication device on the basis of the control signal.
US11252094B1
A computer-implemented method for controlling data traffic in a network system is disclosed. The method includes establishing a list of prioritized applications on a user device. The applications are monitored for network activity. One or more management packets are assembled in response to detecting network activity corresponding to one of the prioritized applications. The one or more management packets include network attribute information. The management packet is then transferred to a network switch for use in configuring the prioritization of data traffic on the network system.
US11252086B2
A method and device for operating a network component and a control instance in a software-defined networking communication infrastructure. The software-defined networking communication infrastructure is switched from an operation according to a first strategy for forwarding time-critical data streams in network components of the communication infrastructure to an operation according to a second strategy for forwarding time-critical data streams in network components as a function of at least one trigger signal, the at least one trigger signal being received in an operation according to the first strategy from a control instance in a unicast message or in a broadcast message.
US11252071B2
This document describes systems, devices, and methods for testing the integration of a content provider's origin infrastructure with a content delivery network (CDN). In embodiments, the teachings hereof enable a content provider's developer to rapidly and flexibly create test environments that send test traffic through the same CDN hardware and software that handle (or at least have the ability to handle) production traffic, but in isolation from that production traffic and from each other. Furthermore, in embodiments, the teachings hereof enable the content provider to specify an arbitrary test origin behind its corporate firewall with which the CDN should communicate.
US11252064B2
One embodiment can provide a method and system for monitoring network traffic. During operation, the system may receive a request to monitor packets ingressing or egressing a device. The request can indicate a set of parameters for monitoring the packets. In response to receiving the request, the system may configure a network switch coupled to the device to replicate the packets ingressing or egressing the device. The system can then encapsulate the replicated packets, based on the set of parameters, with a destination address associated with the request, thereby allowing the packets to be analyzed remotely.
US11252060B2
A network analytics system can receive first sensor data, including first network activity and a first timestamp associated with a first clock of a first node, and second sensor data, including second network activity and a second timestamp associated with a second clock of a second node. The system can determine a first delta between the first clock and a third clock based on the first timestamp, and a second delta between the second clock and the third clock. The system can determine a first communication latency associated with a first sensor of the first node, and a second communication latency associated with a second sensor of the second node. The system can generate a report that synchronizes one or more data flows between the first node and the second node based on the first delta, the second delta, the first communication latency, and the second communication latency.
US11252058B2
This disclosure generally relate to a method and system for mapping application dependency information. The present technology relates techniques that enable user-adjustable application dependency mapping of a network system. By collecting internal network data using various sensors in conjunction with external user inputs, the present technology can provide optimized application dependency mapping using user inputs.
US11252056B2
The disclosed embodiments provide a method and system for processing network data. During operation, the system obtains, at a remote capture agent, configuration information for the remote capture agent from a configuration server over a network. Next, the system uses the configuration information to configure the generation of event data from network data obtained from network packets at the remote capture agent. The system then uses the configuration information to configure transformation of the event data or the network data into transformed event data at the remote capture agent.
US11252045B1
A wireless network system includes a base station (BS) having a number of array antennas and a controller. The network system also includes a number of mobile stations (MS) each having its own antenna array. The base station modulates a transmit signal directed to a MS with a transmit beamformer as specified by the controller. The MS equalizes a received signal with a receive beamformer. The controller is configured to calculate an outage probability of the MS based on statistical channel state information at the BS, for a given set of a transmit beamformer wk, a receive beamformer vk, and a predetermined threshold of a signal-to-noise-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR) at the MS. The controller is also configured to obtain a solution set comprising a transmit beamformer wk and a receive beamformer vk. The controller is further configured to specify, based on the obtained solution set, the beamformers to be adopted.
US11252043B2
Embodiments of this application provide a link group configuration method and an apparatus. The link group configuration method includes: obtaining, by a first network device, candidate groups to which M physical ports of the first network device belong respectively; obtaining, by the first network device from a second network device, candidate groups to which M physical ports of the second network device belong respectively; and selecting N physical links from M physical links, as a link group between the first network device and the second network device, based on the candidate groups to which the M physical ports of the first network device belong respectively and the candidate groups to which the M physical ports of the second network device belong respectively.
US11252037B2
A system for network virtualization in which physical network resources in different physical contexts are configured to implement one or more distributed logical network elements, at least some of the physical network resources implementing the distributed logical network elements configured according the physical context of those network resources. The local configuration of a physical locale is a version of the logical configuration that is modified specifically for the physical locale. Such modification is based on locale identifiers that are assigned to the physical locales. Some systems use locale-specific information to modify next-hop preference. Some system use locally modified configurations to determine the placement of VMs.
US11252035B2
A data configuration method includes receiving a control packet sent by a control device, where the control packet is generated by the control device based on a yet another next generation (YANG) model and includes a configuration fragment, parsing the control packet to obtain the configuration fragment, and parsing the configuration fragment based on the general module to obtain a configuration command line, and executing the configuration command line.
US11252034B1
A device receives network data associated with a network that includes network devices interconnected by links, and receives parameters associated with determining a network plan for the network. The device generates candidate links for each potential network plan of multiple potential network plans for the network, based on the parameters and based on a criterion associated with generating the candidate links. The device generates candidate paths for each potential network plan based on the parameters, and selects a portion of the candidate links and a portion of the candidate paths. The device generates each potential network plan based on the portion of the candidate links and the portion of the candidate paths, and identifies a potential network plan, of the multiple potential network plans, that reduces resource usage associated with operating the network. The device causes the potential network plan to be implemented in the network.
US11252031B2
A system for coordinated management of Internet of Things (IoT) devices to minimize power consumption and network congestion is provided. A mobile device designated as local group management device (LGMD) identifies a group of IoT devices that are configured to access a network. The mobile device receives information regarding an upcoming event involving the group of IoT devices. The mobile device generates usage knowledge specifying the group of IoT devices, a location, and a time associated with the upcoming event. The mobile device receives configuration update data that are generated based on the usage knowledge for scheduling operations of the group IoT devices. The mobile device delivers the configuration update data to the group of IoT devices.
US11252023B2
Systems and methods for application of virtual host channel adapter configuration policies. An exemplary embodiment can provide a host channel adapter (HCA) with a control circuit and a memory, and at least one port operative to connect the HCA to a network fabric. A software driver of the HCA can provide a control API that exposes functionality to hyper-privileged software executing on the host. The hyper privileged software, through the control API, can request registration of a virtual HCA (vHCA) with a virtual function of the HCA. The HCA can forward the registration request to a subnet manger, which can retrieve configuration policies from a cache and return the policies to the HCA for implementation with the virtual function of the HCA.
US11252020B2
A service region management method and apparatus. The method includes sending, by a network management system, a first message to a network storage network element, the first message including identification information of a network function region and information about a service region corresponding to the network function region, and the first message is used to request to register the network function region, receiving, by the network storage network element, the first message storing, by the network storage network element, the identification information of the network function region and the information about the service region, and sending, by the network storage network element, notification information to the network management system, the notification information notifying that registration of the network function region is completed, receiving, by the network management system, the notification information.
US11252016B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for detecting and classifying faults in a networked system. An offline training offline storage and training function can store network data and periodically train machine learning models for identifying faults. Machine learning models can include separate detection and classification models. These machine learning models can be periodically provided to an online anomaly detection function and an online anomaly classification function for detecting and classifying anomalies in real time.
US11252002B2
There is disclosed a radio node for a wireless communication network, the radio node being adapted for processing reference signaling based on a coding, the coding being based on a Golay sequence. The disclosure also pertains to related devices and methods.
US11251994B2
Systems, methods and computer software are disclosed providing a distributed cloud virtualizing gateway fabric. In one example embodiment, a method includes providing at least one virtualizing gateway device in a cloud; wherein at least one of a virtual machine (VM) and a container are created as needed to provide services for the at least one RAN and the at least one core network for each HNG device.
US11251980B2
To ensure that an electronic device is a secure electronic device, a communication device transmits a request to authenticate the electronic device to a remote electronic device across a network. The communication device receives a security challenge. One or more processors of the electronic device obtain a response to the security challenge using a secret key stored in an encrypted memory of the electronic device. The communication device then transmits the response to the response to the security challenge to the remote electronic device. If the remote electronic device recognizes the response, it transmits a shared secret content marker, which can optionally be presented at a user interface of the electronic device. The request can be automatically initiated by a companion electronic device.
US11251978B2
A system for securely customizing a computing environment based on cryptographic protections includes providing a key device; bringing the key device proximate to a computing environment (510); beginning an authentication protocol when the user approaches the environment with the device; validating user to the key device (520); comparing certificates (525); unlocking/regenerating a device split key (530); if authentication of certificates is not valid, log & return (540); if it is valid, a full key is generated on the computing environment in volatile memory, and the full key unlocks personal settings on the computing environment (545). Using the computing environment with the personal settings (550); disconnecting (555); and logging activity (560). The device can be a smart phone. Bringing the key proximate to a computing environment (510) can initiate Bluetooth or other near field communications. Initial steps can include enrolling the key (505). The environment can be a vehicle.
US11251973B1
A computer system module(s) substitutes a double scalar multiplication, used for signature verification in an encryption/decryption system, for two single scalar multiplications. The modules verify a group equation defined by [S]B=R+[k]A′ of the encryption/decryption system, where S is an integer characterized by the signature, K is an integer generated by a message being encrypted, B is a base point on the elliptic curve, R is a point on the elliptic curve and characterized by the signature, and A′ is a public key. The modules optionally rearrange the group equation to [S]B+[−k]A′=R, and convert it to [S]B+[n−k]A′=R, where n is the order of the base point. The modules determine a joint sparse form for the integers S and n−k and apply the Shamir's algorithm to the joint sparse form to verify the group equation.
US11251972B2
A method of establishing a remote control session between a first computing device and a second computing device to enable a graphical user interface of an application executed by a processor of the first computing device to be remotely controlled and viewed on the second computing device, the method implemented on the first computing device and comprising: establishing a connection with a bridging module, the bridging module external to the first computing device; performing an authentication procedure with the bridging module using the connection; establishing a secure communication channel to the bridging module on the connection; receiving, from the bridging module, an authentication request transmitted from the second computing device; in response to receiving the authentication request (i) accessing a projection certificate chain stored in a secure data store of the bridging module using the secure communication channel, (ii) generating a response including the projection certificate chain, and (iii) instructing, via the secure communication channel, the bridging module to cryptographically sign the response using a private key which is associated with the bridging module and is stored in the secure data store, and in response receiving a signature from the bridging module via the secure communication channel; and transmitting a signed authentication response to the second computing device via the bridging module to establish the remote control session, the signed authentication response comprising the projection certificate chain and the signature.
US11251964B2
A hash contract is disclosed herein. A hash contract may be a value generated by a device using a hash function. The hash contract itself may represent a legally enforceable contract. The hash contract may be structured in a manner such that a device operated by a contracting party can transmit a legally enforceable contract over a network using a smaller file size than is possible with conventional secure transaction techniques. In addition, the manner in which the hash contract is generated allows a receiving device to verify that the contract elements of the contract are as expected and to verify an identity of a user that allegedly accepted the contract. Thus, even if a malicious user attempts to alter contract elements or perform other fraudulent activity, the receiving device can use the hash contract to identify such activity and prevent a transaction from being completed.
US11251963B2
One or more implementations of the present specification provide a blockchain-based data authorization method and apparatus. The method can include receiving, by a blockchain node, an authentication transaction submitted by a privacy computing platform, where the authentication transaction queries whether a data user has obtained authorization of target data possessed by a data owner, and in response to determining that the data user has obtained authorization of the target data, executing, by the blockchain node, a smart contract invoked by the authentication transaction to provide an authorization token to the privacy computing platform that instructs the privacy computing platform to obtain the target data, and send a computational result of one or more predetermined computational operations based on the target data to the data user.
US11251960B1
Techniques for providing a server-based Wi-Fi Protected Setup (WPS) PIN procedure are described. In an example, a computing device generates a PIN associated with a WPS-PIN procedure. The computing device encrypts the PIN to generate an encrypted PIN based on a public key associated with a server. Further, the computing device sends, to another computing device that is communicatively coupled with the server via an access point, a WPS probe request that includes the encrypted PIN. Based on the WPS probe request, the computing device receives, from at least one of the other computing devices or the server, a credential associated with the access point. The computing devices connects to the access point based on the credential.
US11251955B2
A wireless communication device for use with a communication device and a network gateway connected to the Internet, wherein the communication device can communicate with the network gateway. The wireless communication device includes: a communication component operable to communicate with the network gateway; a memory component having temporary network access credentials stored therein; and a credential feature associated with the temporary network access credentials and being accessible by the communication device. The communication component can further establish a temporary network connection with the gateway based on the temporary network access credentials, and can further join a permanent network with the gateway.
US11251954B2
A broadcast encryption method that allows a broadcaster to send encrypted content to a set of users such that only a subset of authorized users can decrypt the content, and to perform both temporary and permanent revocation of users. Accordingly, during a Setup stage, a Key Service generates a public key and a Master Secret Key (MSK) and sends the Public Parameters PP used to generate the public key to a broadcaster and to all users. The broadcaster uses the Public Parameters PP to create a message M, with which the broadcaster encrypts the content, and further creates a Cipher Text (CT), which is sent to all users. During a Key Gen stage, whenever a user wishes to decrypt the message M for decrypting the content, the user sends a request with his ID1 to the Key Service. The Key Service generates a corresponding secret key SKID1 and the secret key SKID1 is sent to the user ID1 via a secure data channel. During a Decrypt stage, the user uses the secret key SKID1, to decrypt the Cipher Text (CT) and obtain the message M. During a Revoke stage of k users (k=1, 2, 3, . . . ) a State Update Message (SUM) which is sent to all users, is provided and each user updates his state with the SUM he received, such that the k users having identities ID1, ID2, . . . IDk will not be able to update their state and will be permanently revoked, while all the remaining users being admitted users will be able to update their state and will not be revoked. Temporary revocation is done by inserting a list of IDs (ID1, ID2, . . . IDk) to be revoked into the CT.
US11251941B2
Disclosed herein are methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for managing cryptographic keys based on user identity information. One of the methods includes receiving biometric information associated with a user and a request to store a user key pair to a memory on an identity cryptographic chip (ICC); comparing the biometric information associated with the user with biometric information pre-stored in the memory as pre-stored biometric information; in response to determining that the biometric information associated with the user matches the pre-stored biometric information, encrypting the user key pair to provide an encrypted user key pair; and storing the encrypted user key pair to the memory.
US11251939B2
The APPARATUSES, METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR COMMON KEY IDENTIFICATION IN DISTRIBUTED DATA ENVIRONMENTS (“KEY IDENTIFIER”) provides a platform that, in various embodiments, is configurable to efficiently identify and display top keys for a keyspace (e.g., social media posts, financial data feeds, and/or the like) distributed across a plurality of worker nodes, such as in response to a client request. For example, the KEY IDENTIFIER may be configured to identify a likely set of candidate keys across the keyspace, and to count and rank those candidates. Once identified, top keys may be employed for a variety of applications or end goals, including but not limited to report generation, natural language insights, data (re-)distributing, and/or the like.
US11251935B2
A value corresponding to an input for a cryptographic operation may be received. The value may blinded by multiplying the value based on an exponentiation of a random number raised to an exponent value that is associated with a public key. A cryptographic operation may be performed based on the blinded value.
US11251931B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. Generally, the described techniques provide for limiting a number of active beams available for communications between a user equipment (UE) and a base station (e.g., to limit the complexity at the UE). In one example, transmission configuration indication (TCI) states may correspond to active beams available for downlink reception that are identified based on configured quasi co-location (QCL) relationships and active QCL assumptions (i.e., the TCI states may include configured QCL relationships and QCL assumptions). Because the TCI states may include configured QCL relationships and active QCL assumptions, the number of active beams available for communications between a UE and a base station may be limited by the number of active TCI states (e.g., where the number of active TCI states may be determined based on a UE capability).
US11251930B2
This application provides a control information transmission method, and relates to the field of wireless communications. The method includes: determining, by a terminal device, whether to monitor an uplink preemption indication (PI) based on whether a time-frequency resource used to transmit uplink data overlaps a reference uplink resource (RUR), to effectively avoid blind detection performed on the uplink PI by terminal devices that do not need to receive the uplink PI, and reduce overheads of blind detection performed on the uplink PI by the terminal devices.
US11251929B2
A resource indication method, a device, and a system relate to the field of communications technologies. The method includes: allocating, by a base station, a BP to a terminal device, and sending, to the terminal device, a first message indicating a resource position of the BP; and receiving, by the terminal device, the first message sent by the base station, and then determining the resource position of the BP based on resource position information of at least one sub-BP, where the BP includes the at least one sub-BP, the BP is not greater than a maximum bandwidth supported by the terminal device, and the first message includes the resource position information of the at least one sub-BP. The BP is allocated by using a sub-BP as a granularity, so that signaling overheads can be reduced while a requirement for more flexible resource allocation is satisfied.
US11251922B2
The present invention relates to a method for receiving a downlink control signal in a wireless communication system including monitoring EPDCCH (enhanced physical downlink control channel) candidates to decode an EPDCCH in one or two EPDCCH sets on a first serving cell configured for the UE, and receiving a PDSCH (physical downlink shared channel) corresponding to the decoded EPDCCH. The EPDCCH candidates may include EPDCCH candidates for the first serving cell and EPDCCH candidates for a second serving cell scheduled by the first serving cell. Aggregation levels and the number of the EPDCCH candidates for the second serving cell at each of the aggregation levels are associated with bandwidth of the second serving cell.
US11251914B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described to enable a user equipment (UE) or a base station to transmit and receive single carrier (SC) waveforms (e.g., corresponding to uplink or downlink transmissions) using an SC transmission configuration. In some cases, a UE and a base station may employ an SC configuration to identify resource elements (REs) for uplink or downlink SC signals. Additionally or alternatively, the UE and the base station may employ an SC configuration with a different cyclic prefix (CP) length in order to change a base amount of REs that may be allocated for an SC transmission, where the different CP length may be either static or dynamic. The base station may transmit an indication of an SC configuration to the UE, and the UE and the base station may process corresponding SC downlink or uplink communications according to the indicated SC configuration.
US11251913B2
A method for controlling a bandwidth used for processing a baseband transmit signal by a transmit path of a transmitter is provided. The method includes generating a first comparison result by comparing, to a threshold value, a first number of physical resource blocks allocated to the transmitter for a first transmission time interval. Further, the method includes generating a second comparison result by comparing, to the threshold value, a second number of physical resource blocks allocated to the transmitter for a subsequent second transmission time interval. The method additionally includes adjusting the bandwidth based on the first and the second comparison results.
US11251906B2
It is determined whether hardware acceleration is available for the incoming data packet. Responsive to hardware acceleration availability, and based on the received FEC conditions, it is determined, for a session associated with the incoming data packet, whether to hardware decrypt the incoming data packet before decoding the incoming data packet or to hardware decrypt after decoding the incoming data packet.
US11251900B2
A wireless device may include: a radio frequency (RF) front end circuit to receive and process an RF signal; a mixer to downconvert the RF signal to a second frequency signal; a digitizer to digitize the second frequency signal; a channel filter to channel filter the digitized signal; a selection circuit having a first input coupled to the channel filter and a plurality of outputs each to couple to one of a plurality of demodulators; and the plurality of demodulators coupled to the selection circuit. The selection circuit may route the channel filtered digitized signal to a first demodulator of the plurality of demodulators based on a first configuration setting. The wireless device may also include a non-volatile storage with a configuration file including the first configuration setting. The configuration file may be automatically generated by a hardware configurator in response to a plurality of user input parameters.
US11251897B2
Methods, systems, and optical power controllers are disclosed. Various problems caused by the use of a single L0 power controller in the prior art are addressed by using first and second L0 power controllers with the first L0 power controller managing first optical components with the optical network, and the second L0 power controller managing second optical components within the optical network.
US11251896B2
A system is provided for training a device design network. The system includes an interface configured to input data of a device, a memory to store the device design network including an encoder, a decoder, and an adversarial block, and a processor. The processor is, in connection with the memory, configured to update the encoder and the decoder based on a first loss function to reduce the difference between the input data and output data of the decoder, wherein the encoder is constructed by at least one convolutional layer followed by at least one parallel fully connected layer to extract features of a layout of the device, and update the adversarial block to construct by maximizing a second loss function.
US11251886B2
A wave shaping device which comprises a tunable impedance surface and a controller connected to the surface in order to control its impedance. The shaping device further comprises a transmission module for receiving a pilot signal used to control the impedance of the surface.
US11251878B2
Optical network systems and components are disclosed including a transmitter comprising a digital signal processor receiving a plurality of independent data streams, the digital signal processor supplying outputs based on the plurality of independent data streams, the digital signal processor comprising a plurality of pulse shape filters corresponding to the plurality of independent data streams, the plurality of pulse shape filters configured to filter the independent data streams to produce a first subcarrier having a first frequency bandwidth and a second subcarrier having a second frequency bandwidth different than the first frequency bandwidth for the outputs.
US11251877B2
[Problem] It is possible to cancel out beat noises in a WDM signal to obtain a high-quality signal component, and a configuration thereof is achieved with low mounting costs. [Solution] An optical reception device converts a WDM signal rs(t) of an optical signal to electrical signals d(t)1 to d(t)n expressed as complex numbers of orthogonal phases, cancels out beat noises from the electrical signals, and then demodulates the signals to obtain signals D1 to Dn of a transmission source. This optical reception device includes an absolute value calculation units 31a to 31n that generate a signal component including a beat noise component through absolute value squaring calculation processing for squaring an absolute value of the electrical signal, scaling units 32a to 32n that multiply the generated beat noise component by a proportional constant to restore beat noise associated with n types of wavelengths in the electrical signal, and subtraction units 33a to 33n that subtract the n type of beat noises restored from the electrical signal to cancel out then types of beat noises included in the electrical signal.
US11251875B2
An embodiment method includes: mapping a to-be-transmitted optical channel unit signal of n times a benchmark rate to X first optical channel physical link signals; adding a link sequence indicator overhead to each of the X first optical channel physical link signals, to generate X second optical channel physical link signals; and modulating and sending the X second optical channel physical link signals by using X preset optical modules in a one-to-one manner. A rate of the first optical channel physical link signal is mi times the benchmark rate, n≥2, X≥2, mi≥1, and ∑ t - 1 X m i = n .
US11251864B1
An optical switch configuration is disclosed that gives the appearance of a logical cut in a fiber optic line. The inputs to the optical switch are redundant so that if a fiber event occurs on one input, the optical switch can switch to the other input. In the case where both paths of an optical fiber have fiber events, router convergence is delayed. One mechanism to mitigate a prolonged fiber degradation is to dampen the optical power on the output optical fiber of the optical switch, such that it creates a loss of light and appears as a clean cut of the optical fiber. Another solution uses optical switches to inject an alternate light source onto the output optical fiber, wherein the alternate light source is of a wavelength to be filtered out giving an appearance of a clean cut of the optical fiber.
US11251860B2
An network of wireless RF repeaters includes a first communication device and a second communication device. The first communication device obtains a plurality of radio frequency (RF) signals corresponding to different communication protocols from a plurality of communication systems. A frequency of each of the plurality of RF signals is upconverted to a different frequency, which introduces a phase noise in the plurality of RF signals. The plurality of RF signals corresponding to different communication protocols are merged into a mmWave RF signal of a specified frequency and a defined pilot tone is inserted into the mmWave RF signal. The second communication device captures the mmWave RF signal having the defined pilot tone over-the-air. At least one RF signal is down converted to a source frequency and the phase noise in the one extracted RF signal is reduced concurrently based on a reference of the defined pilot tone.
US11251855B2
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) are provided. The communication method and system may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. A method performed by a terminal for handling scheduling request (SR) cancellation in a wireless communication system is provided. The method comprises identifying that at least one first SR is triggered, identifying whether each of the at least one first SR is triggered for beam failure recovery (BFR) of a secondary cell (SCell), and determining whether to cancel each of the at least one SR based on the identification.
US11251846B2
One example method includes receiving first indication information through a higher layer signaling, the first indication information indicating an available codebook subset, receiving downlink control information, determining a precoding matrix corresponding to a transmission precoding matrix indicator (TPMI) and a transmission rank obtained from the downlink control information, where the precoding matrix belongs to the available codebook subset indicated by the first indication information, precoding a signal based on the determined precoding matrix, and sending the precoded signal to a network device.
US11251843B2
A method and a device for sending parameters of a precoder in a wireless communication system are disclosed. According to one aspect, the method comprises: sending, to a network node, an indication of a subset of beams selected from a plurality of orthogonal beams and an indication of power levels of the selected subset of beams, for a first frequency granularity; and sending, to the network node, an indication of phases of the selected subset of beams, for a second frequency granularity, wherein the indication of the selected beams, the indication of the power levels of the selected subset of beams and the indication of the phases of the selected subset of beams are part of the parameters of the precoder.
US11251835B2
A technique for performing power level control of one or more beams transmitted by a wireless transmission device to a wireless reception device is disclosed. A method implementation of the technique is performed by the wireless transmission device and comprises transmitting (S202) each of the one or more beams at a default power level of the respective beam, detecting (S204) an obstacle entering the one or more beams based on a change in an electromagnetic environment associated with the one or more beams, the obstacle, once entered, at least partially blocking the one or more beams with respect to the wireless reception device, and decreasing (S206), for each of the one or more beams, an output power of the respective beam from the default power level of the respective beam to a predetermined threshold power level of the respective beam.
US11251833B2
A communication system uses multiple communications links, preferably links that use different communications media. The multiple communications links may include a high latency/high bandwidth link using a fiber-optic cable configured to carry large volumes of data but having a high latency. The communications links may also include a low latency/low bandwidth link implemented using skywave propagation of radio waves and configured to carry smaller volumes of triggering data with a lower latency across a substantial portion of the earth's surface. The triggering data may be sent in a data stream as data frames without headers, security information, or error checking codes. The two communications links may be used together to coordinate various activities such as the buying and selling of financial instruments.
US11251819B1
A transmitter for a communication system comprises a digital pre-distortion (DPD) circuit configured to generate a digital intermediate signal by compensating an input signal for distortions resulting from an amplifier, and an adaptation circuitry configured to update the first parameter based on the adjustment signal, the input signal, and an output signal output by the amplifier and based on the digital intermediate signal. The DPD circuit includes an infinite impulse response filter configured to implement a transfer function based on a first parameter, and thermal tracking circuitry configured to generate an adjustment signal corresponding to a thermal change of the amplifier.
US11251818B2
An architecture of radio frequency front-end includes a power amplifier module (PAM), a front-end module integrated duplexer (FEMiD), an antenna and at least one tunable matching network. The PAM includes a power amplifier, and the at least one tunable matching network is located between the power amplifier and the antenna and is configured to adjust at least one of the impedance of the output end of the power amplifier or the impedance of the input end of the antenna.
US11251817B2
A radio frequency module includes: a module board including a first principal surface and a second principal surface on opposite sides of the module board; a power amplifier configured to amplify a radio frequency transmission signal that has been input through a transmission input terminal; a low noise amplifier configured to amplify a radio frequency reception signal; a switch disposed on the second principal surface and connected between the transmission input terminal and the power amplifier; and an inductor of a matching circuit connected to an input terminal of the low noise amplifier. In the radio frequency module, at least one of the low noise amplifier or the inductor is disposed on the first principal surface.
US11251816B2
The present disclosure provides a full-band radio frequency device based on a frequency band B41, which includes a main part and a diversity part; the main part includes a power amplifier circuit configured to perform amplification processing on an output signal, a first filter circuit configured to perform filter processing on a transmitted or received signal in a first frequency band, and a duplex circuit configured to transmit or receive signals in a second frequency band; the diversity part includes a second filter circuit configured to perform filter processing on a received signal in a third frequency band, and a third filter circuit configured to perform filter processing on a received signal in a fourth frequency band; the first frequency band and the second frequency band are combined into a full-band B41, and the third frequency band and the fourth frequency band are combined into a full-band B41.
US11251813B2
A system and method for allocating network resources are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, the system and method are configured to perform: determining a redundancy version and a new data indicator indicated by control information; determining a base graph of a low density parity check code based on which of a plurality of predefined conditions the redundancy version, and/or the new data indicator satisfy; and sending a signal comprising information bits that are encoded based on the determined base graph of the low density parity check code.
US11251809B2
A hard-decision (HD) forward error correcting (FEC) coded signal is decoded by a decoder to produce decoded bits using marked reliable bits of the HD-FEC coded signal and marked unreliable bits of the HD-FEC coded signal. The marked reliable and unreliable bits are computed by calculation and marking blocks based on an absolute value of log-likelihood ratios of the HD-FEC coded signal. The HD-FEC coded signal may be, for example, a staircase code coded signal or a product code coded signal.
US11251808B2
An input control unit collectively sends a plurality of pieces of variable length code data. A primary analysis processing unit processes a first piece of variable length code data, recognizes zero run information, group number information, and overhead bit information relating thereto, and outputs them to a frequency conversion unit. A continuous analysis processing unit processes one or more pieces of variable length code data subsequent to the first piece of variable length code data. In the case of variable length code data targeted for a predetermined process, the continuous analysis processing unit recognizes zero run information, group number information, and overhead bit information relating thereto, and output them to the frequency conversion unit. In the case of not the variable length code data targeted for the predetermined process, the continuous analysis processing unit discards this and subsequent pieces of data.
US11251804B2
A receiver circuit for an antenna array system (AAS) is disclosed. The receiver circuit (10) comprises a set of receivers (151-15p). Each receiver (151-15p) comprises a first TI-ADC (351) in a receive path of the receiver. The first TI-ADC (351) comprises a plurality of sub ADCs (A1-AM+N). Each receiver (151-15p) comprises a control circuit (40) configured to select which sub ADC (A1-AM+N) is to operate on what input sample based on a first selection sequence. The control circuits (40) in the different receivers (151-15p) in said set of receivers (151-15p) are configured to use different first selection sequences.
US11251803B2
A method for non-linearity correction includes receiving a first output signal from a data signal path containing a first analog-to-digital converter and receiving a second output signal from a second analog-to-digital converter. The method also includes generating first non-linearity coefficients using the first output signal and generating second non-linearity coefficients using the first and second output signals. The method further includes applying, by a non-linearity corrector in the data signal path, the first and second non-linearity coefficients to compensate for non-linearity components in a digitized signal output from the first analog-to-digital converter to generate a corrected digitized signal.
US11251795B2
A family of digital logic functions has the same specifications for input and output voltages and the same number of bond pads. A digital logic integrated circuit for the family includes a substrate of semiconductor material having a core area and a peripheral area; a certain number of bond pads formed in the peripheral area, the certain number of bond pads determining the total area of the substrate; programmable digital logic transistor circuitry formed in the core area for each of the digital logic functions in the family; programmable input and output circuitry formed in the peripheral area; programming circuitry for programming the programmable digital logic transistor circuitry into a selected digital logic function; and programmable input and output means for programming the input and output circuitry into input and output circuits for the selected digital logic function.
US11251786B1
A supply-to-digital regulation loop (SDRL) circuit, including a reference supply circuit and a local supply circuit. The reference supply circuit includes a reference supply-to-digital converter (SDC) to convert an analog reference supply voltage to a digital reference signal. The local supply circuit is coupled to the reference supply circuit. The local supply circuit includes a local SDC to convert an analog local supply voltage to a digital local supply signal based on a digital feedback signal, and a local monitoring circuit to monitor the digital feedback signal based on a comparison of the digital local supply signal with the digital reference signal routed from the reference SDC of the reference supply circuit.
US11251771B2
In a crystal unit, a substrate is rectangle-shaped. A frame includes a pair of portions located in regions on the sides of a pair of short sides of the substrate on the lower surface of the substrate and forms a concave portion between these pair of portions. An electrode pad is located on the upper surface of the substrate. A connection pad is located on the lower surface of the substrate within the frame. A plurality of external terminals are located on the lower surface of the frame. A crystal element is mounted on the electrode pad. A temperature sensing element is mounted on the connection pad. A ratio S2/S1 of an area S1 of a rectangular region formed by an outer edge of the lower surface of the frame and an area S2 of a smallest rectangular region containing all of the external terminals is 0.75 to 0.91.
US11251767B2
A bulk acoustic resonator includes: a substrate including an upper surface on which a substrate protection layer is disposed; and a membrane layer forming a cavity together with the substrate, wherein a thickness deviation of either one or both of the substrate protection layer and the membrane layer is 170 Å or less.
US11251765B2
A flexible multi-path RF adaptive tuning network switch architecture that counteracts impedance mismatch conditions arising from various combinations of coupled RF band filters, particularly in a Carrier Aggregation-based (CA) radio system. In one version, a digitally-controlled tunable matching network is coupled to a multi-path RF switch in order to provide adaptive impedance matching for various combinations of RF band filters. Optionally, some or all RF band filters include an associated digitally-controlled filter pre-match network to further improve impedance matching. In a second version, some or all RF band filters coupled to a multi-path RF switch include a digitally-controlled phase matching network to provide necessary per-band impedance matching. Optionally, a digitally-controlled tunable matching network may be included on the common port of the multi-path RF switch to provide additional impedance matching capability. In a third version, CA direct mapped adaptive tuning networks include filter tuning blocks for selected lower frequency bands.
US11251759B2
An apparatus has four transistors. The first and third transistors each have a gate coupled to a first input terminal and second input terminal respectively, a source coupled to a current source and to a first terminal of a bias voltage source, and a substrate coupled to a second terminal of the bias voltage source. The second and fourth transistors each have a gate coupled to the first input terminal and the second input terminal respectively, a source coupled to the drain of the first and third transistors respectively, a drain coupled to a lower voltage supply and a substrate coupled to its source. The bias voltage source increases the threshold voltages of the first and third transistors above the second and fourth transistors, respectively. This ensures that the first and third transistors turn on after the second and fourth transistors, respectively.
US11251754B2
A clipping detector circuit includes a timer circuit and a counter circuit. The timer circuit is configured to monitor a time period elapsing since a last occurrence of an edge in a PWM signal, assert a first signal when the time period elapses, and de-assert the first signal and reset the time period as a result of an edge occurring in the PWM signal. The counter circuit is configured to determine a number of pulses in the PWM signal since the last de-assertion of the first signal, and assert a second signal when the number of pulses in the PWM signal since the last de-assertion of the first signal reaches m pulses. The clipping detector circuit is configured to generate a clipping detection signal indicative of whether the pulse-width modulated signal is clipped or not as a function of the first signal and the second signal.
US11251753B2
An envelope tracking supply modulator includes an amplifier circuit and a zero peaking circuit. The amplifier circuit receives an envelope input, generates a modulated supply voltage according to the envelope input, and provides the modulated supply voltage to a power amplifier. The zero peaking circuit is coupled to the amplifier circuit, and applies zero peaking to the amplifier circuit, where the zero peaking inserts a zero at a frequency.
US11251743B2
A click-on clamping mechanism is for attaching, without tools, a clamp+tower subassembly to a slider bar (which is attached to a roof substrate with lag screws). The clamp+tower sub-assembly can have a height-adjustable, rail-less solar panel mounting assembly attached to it for mounting one or more photovoltaic solar panels thereto. The height of the solar panel mounting assembly can be easily adjusted, either before or after mounting of the solar panels. The click-on clamp+tower sub-assembly is easily removable from the slider bar. A click-on L-foot mount for attaching solar mount rails is also described. The click-on structures can be spring-loaded.
US11251738B2
A drive circuit comprises a two port LC inductive network with a source switch operable to switch the network between an ST state and an active state; an inverter and a controller for controlling the On-Off state of the switches of the inverter and the On-OFF state of the source switch, wherein the controller in use operates the switches to provide: a non-drive portion of the PWM period in which the source switch is held open and the top and bottom switches of at least one phase are held closed so that the drive circuit is operating in an ST mode, a drive portion of the PWM period which immediately follows or immediately precedes the non-drive portion in which the source switch is closed and the top and bottom switches are arranged, and in which the controller is configured to employ a PWM pattern in which all of the bottom switches or all of the top switches are moved from the closed state to an open state simultaneously, and further in which the source switch is moved from the open state to the closed state substantially at the start of the drive portion and is moved from the closed state to the open state substantially at the end of the drive portion.
US11251734B2
A method of operating a Brushless Direct Current Motor (BLDCM), the BLDCM of the type including: a series of concentric independently activated electromagnetic phase coils interacting with a series of permanent magnets to provide relative movement therebetween, the phase coils having temporal periods of activation time and deactivation time, the method including the steps of: (a) activating at least one of the phase coils for a short period of activation; and (b) measuring the voltage response across the phase coil of the deactivated phase coil during the short period of activation to determine the rotor position.
US11251732B2
A motor control device includes processing circuitry configured to calculate a current command value corresponding to torque that should be generated by a motor, divide the calculated current command value into individual current command values for coil groups, control power feeding to the coil groups independently for each of the coil groups based on a corresponding one of the individual current command values, set, for each one of the coil groups, an upper limit value of a corresponding one of the individual current command values and, when the individual current command value for any one of the coil groups is limited to a value that is smaller than a corresponding one of the upper limit values, supplement an amount limited in the individual current command value by increasing the individual current command value for at least a remaining one of the coil groups.
US11251729B2
An over-current protection device for a power generator includes a first pin, configured to receive a signal; a detection and control module, coupled to the first pin, and configured to detect the signal to determine whether the signal conforms to a pre-determined condition or not, and to output a control signal when the signal conforms to the pre-determined condition; and an auto-trim and memory module, coupled to the detection and control module, and configured to receive the control signal from the detection and control module for executing corresponding auto-trim measurements and storing corresponding adjustment data.
US11251726B2
An inverter assembly for an electric vehicle. The inverter assembly includes three inverters driving at least one wheel of the vehicle. Each inverter has a different phases angle relative to the other inverters in order to minimize current ripple and reduce the capacitor size to allow a smaller package for the inverter assembly.
US11251722B2
A converter scheme (30) comprises a plurality of poles and a plurality of converters (32), the plurality of poles (60,62,64) including at least one positive pole (60), at least one negative pole (62) and a neutral pole (64), the plurality of converters (32) including at least one first converter (32a) and at least one second converter (32b), the or each first converter (32a) connected to the neutral pole (64) and the or the respective positive pole (60), the or each first converter (32a) operable to control a converter voltage across the neutral pole (64) and the corresponding positive pole (60), the or each second converter (32b) connected to the neutral pole (64) and the or the respective negative pole (62), the or each second converter (32b) operable to control a converter voltage across the neutral pole (64) and the corresponding negative pole (62), wherein the converter scheme (30) includes a controller (36) programmed to perform a voltage control mode when there is an imbalance between power or current levels of the positive and negative poles (60,62) and when the neutral pole (64) is at a non-zero potential, the controller (36) programmed to perform the voltage control mode to operate each converter (32a,32b) to control the corresponding converter voltage so that a pole-to-ground voltage of the corresponding positive or negative pole (60,62) is equal to or lower than a voltage rating of the corresponding positive or negative pole (60,62).
US11251721B2
A power supply device is provided with an output unit, an input unit, a rectifier circuit, a switching circuit, and a controller. The input unit inputs an AC input. The rectifier circuit has a smoothing capacitor and converts the AC input into a rectified output. The switching circuit switches between an ON-state in which input impedance is low and an OFF-state in which input impedance is higher than that in the ON-state. The controller sets a modulation ratio such that, when controlling the switching circuit to switch between the ON-state and the OFF-state, at least a portion of a period, in which the modulation width of the modulation duty ratio becomes maximum, is included in a period from a time when an input current inputted to the smoothing capacitor is generated to a time when the voltage of the smoothing capacitor reaches a maximum value.
US11251719B1
Switched capacitor multilevel inverter (SCMLI) configuration for high-frequency medium voltage applications is presented. A 5L-SCMLI basic configuration is further extended to 9L operation with a reduced number of active switches having self voltage boosting and balancing ability. Further, the proposed 9L-SCMLI is extended up to n level being considered as the basic configuration for the extension of horizontal extension (HE) and vertical extension (VE). A generalized switching table is provided for the proposed extensions. Design of the size of capacitor demonstrated for the proposed 9L-SCMLI.
US11251715B2
A synchronous rectification control circuit includes a first drive unit that outputs a signal for controlling turning on/off of a synchronous rectification element disposed on a secondary side, a second drive unit that performs control to make a voltage between both ends of the synchronous rectification element equal to a predetermined threshold voltage during a predetermined period during which a rectification current flows on the secondary side, and a drive switching unit that selectively supplies an output from the first drive unit and an output from the second drive unit to the synchronous rectification element.
US11251708B2
An inverting switching regulator is provided. The inverting switching regulator is used to generate a negative output voltage based on a positive input voltage. The inverting switching regulator includes an inductor configured to pass an inductor current from a first terminal to a second terminal; a flying capacitor coupled to the second terminal of the inductor; and a plurality of switches configured to apply a negative voltage to the second terminal of the inductor by charging the flying capacitor by the positive input voltage during a first phase, and by connecting the flying capacitor in series to a ground node and the inductor during a second phase.
US11251706B2
Multiphase switched mode power supply clock apparatus, systems, articles of manufacture, and related methods are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a first clock recovery circuit to in response to obtaining a first clock pulse, transmit the first clock pulse to a power converter to cause the power converter to switch based on the first clock pulse, in response to obtaining a second clock pulse after the first clock pulse re-transmit the second clock pulse to a second clock recovery circuit, and increment a count value, and in response to the count value meeting a phase selection value, reset the count value.
US11251700B2
A voltage regulation circuit can include: a power stage circuit with a single inductor and a plurality of output circuits; each output circuit having an output control switch configured to control a duration of an on time of the output circuit, and an output switch control circuit configured to control the output control switch in accordance with an output voltage sampling signal, a reference current signal that represents an output current of the output circuit, and a clock signal, in order to maintain an output voltage of the output circuit as constant and to decrease interference from load variations of any other of the plurality of output circuits; and where the output control switches are controlled to be on in sequence in each switching period.
US11251698B2
A power factor correction circuit includes an input power source, a first bridge arm, a second bridge arm, an output capacitor and an active clamp unit. The first bridge arm includes a first switch and a second switch in series. The second bridge arm includes a third switch and a fourth switch in series. The active clamp unit includes a second inductor, a clamp capacitor and a fifth switch. The power factor correction circuit may realize the ZVS function of the first switch and the second switch by the collaboration of the active clamp unit and the conduction/non-conducting state of the first switch, the second switch, the third switch and the fourth switch.
US11251696B2
A circuit includes two thyristors coupled in anti-series. An AC capacitor has first and second electrodes respectively coupled to two different electrodes of the two thyristors. The first and second electrodes are coupled to receive an AC voltage. A control circuit detects discontinuance of application of the AC voltage to the AC capacitor and in response thereto simultaneously applies same gate currents to the two thyristors. A current path through the two thyristors (one passing current in forward mode and the other in reverse mode) discharges a residual voltage stored on the AC capacitor.
US11251690B2
Methods and systems for controlling an output voltage of a resonant converter during a light load condition. One such method includes generating a normalised conduction time of the resonant converter that varies inversely with a switching frequency of the resonant converter by continuing to operate the resonant converter in a Pulse Frequency Modulation mode at a low switching frequency that is similar to the resonant frequency. The method also includes controlling a power level delivered to a secondary winding of a transformer positioned between a resonant tank and an output rectifier of the resonant converter by regulating the normalised conduction time, where the delivered power level is variable based on load conditions. The method further includes generating an output voltage using the output rectifier wherein the magnitude of the output voltage corresponds to the power level delivered to the secondary winding.
US11251686B2
The present disclosure provides a radially oriented solid cylindrical magnet, a method and device for molding and manufacturing the same, and a rotor and motor component using the same. The radial orientation degree of the solid cylindrical magnet is greater than or equal to 90%. A mold includes no mold core. Magnetic particles in the mold are continuously rotated in a magnetic field during molding, and an oriented magnetic field is applied during molding. The manufactured solid cylindrical magnet can be directly used as a rotor of a micro-motor to replace a conventional rotor with a radially oriented magnet ring, or can be used for producing radially oriented magnet rings with an arbitrary inner diameter, so as to obtain radially oriented magnet rings having an inner diameter less than 3 mm or even less for micro-motors.
US11251676B2
A brushless motor includes a stator assembly including a generally-cylindrical stator body having a center bore, teeth extending from the stator body towards the center bore and defining slots in between, and windings wound around the teeth; and a rotor assembly rotatably received within the center bore and includes a rotor shaft and a generally-cylindrical rotor body. The motor further includes at least one rotor bearing mounted on the rotor shaft, and at least one bearing support member supporting the rotor bearing. The bearing support member includes a radial body forming a bearing pocket for receiving the rotor bearing therein, and axial post inserts received within the slots of the stator assembly between adjacent sets of windings and in contact with an inner curved surface of the stator body to support the rotor bearing with respect to the stator assembly along a center axis of the center bore.
US11251674B2
A cooling apparatus for an electric linear motor includes a carrier element configured for placement on an active part of the electric linear motor, a cooling element, and a retaining element configured to mount the cooling element on the carrier element. The retaining element has a first planar area on a side facing the active part of the electric linear motor and a second planar area on a side facing away from the active part of the electric linear motor. The retaining element has an opening sized to extend between the first and second planar areas for passage of a fastening element. Each of the first and second planar areas has formed therein a cutout circulating around the opening, with a sealing element being received in the cutout.
US11251672B2
A motor including a rotor, a stator, an inverter, a housing, and a cover member. The housing is a single member that includes: a stator housing portion; an inverter housing portion housing the inverter; and a partition wall located between the stator housing portion and the inverter housing portion. The housing opening through which at least a part of the stator, an end on one side in an axial direction of the partition wall, and at least a part of the inverter housing portion are exposed is provided at an end on the one side in the axial direction of the housing. A three-phase coil wire extending from the stator passes through the end of the partition wall to the inverter, extends up to the inverter, and is connected to a connector terminal provided at an end on the one side in the axial direction of the inverter.
US11251668B2
A brushless motor with a rotor (17) which is axially supported within a stator in a rotatable manner is provided. The rotor (17) includes: a cylindrical rotor core (26) into which a shaft (19) is inserted; a ring magnet (29) which is affixed to the outer circumference of the rotor core (26), with an adhesive (28) being interposed therebetween; and a magnet cover (53). The magnet cover (53) covers the end faces of the rotor core (26) and the ring magnet (29) in the axial direction. The magnet cover (53) is provided with an adhesive pocket (58) which is in communication with the rotor core (26) and the ring magnet (29).
US11251667B2
Each permanent magnet module for a permanent magnet rotor includes a base-plate and a permanent magnet element attached to the base-plate. The base-plate includes a bottom section and an upper section between the bottom section and the permanent magnet element. The permanent magnet modules constitute subsets so that permanent magnet modules of different subsets differ from each other by positions of the upper sections of the base-plates with respect to the bottom sections of the base-plates so that the permanent magnet elements of the permanent magnet modules of the different subsets are axially successive and circumferentially shifted when the bottom sections of these permanent magnet modules are axially successive and circumferentially aligned. Thus, the permanent magnet elements of the permanent magnet modules can be arranged into, for example, skewed rows on a surface of the rotor.
US11251666B2
A motor includes a rotating shaft extending along a central axis, a stator core arranged about the rotating shaft by being centered on the central axis, a housing arranged about the stator core in a circumferential direction and including an opening on one side in an axial direction, and a support covering the opening. A functional component is mounted on at least one side of the support in the axial direction. The motor further includes a fastener disposed in the axial direction to secure the support, the stator core, and the housing.
US11251665B2
The present invention discloses a motor rotor and a permanent magnet motor. The motor rotor includes a rotor core and a plurality of magnetic poles provided in the rotor core, wherein each magnetic pole includes a first permanent magnet, a second permanent magnet and a third permanent magnet; the first permanent magnet being arranged on a central position of the magnetic pole on which said first permanent magnet is located, the second permanent magnet being arranged at two sides of the first permanent magnet, the third permanent magnet being arranged at one side of the second permanent magnet far away from the first permanent magnet; the coercivity of the first permanent magnet is smaller than that of the second permanent magnet and that of the third permanent magnet; and the third permanent magnet is arranged on a q axis of the motor.
US11251659B2
The present specification discloses a method for receiving wireless power from a wireless power transmission device on the basis of foreign object detection, the method comprising the steps of: receiving a digital ping from the wireless power transmission device; transmitting identification and configuration packets to the wireless power transmission device; transmitting a foreign substance detection state packet indicating a reference Q factor value of a wireless power reception device to the wireless power transmission device; and receiving wireless power through magnetic coupling from the wireless power transmission device, on the basis of a result of foreign substance detection using the reference Q factor value by the wireless power transmission device.
US11251657B2
A method includes configuring a hybrid converter to operate in a hybrid mode comprising four operating phases in response to an input voltage of the hybrid converter greater than a first threshold, configuring the hybrid converter to operate in a buck mode comprising two operating phases in response to the input voltage of the hybrid converter less than a second threshold, and configuring the hybrid converter to operate in a charge pump mode comprising two operating phases in response to the input voltage of the hybrid converter less than the first threshold and greater than the second threshold.
US11251653B2
Disclosed is a system for tracking a maximum power point. The system includes an energy harvesting device, a power management integrated circuit including a switching circuit that adjusts an input voltage that is transmitted from the energy harvesting device and a conversion circuit that converts the input voltage adjusted by the switching circuit to output an output voltage, and a measuring device that calculates a ratio of a second power based on the input voltage to a first power based on an open circuit voltage of the energy harvesting device, using an internal impedance of the energy harvesting device and an input impedance of the power management integrated circuit.
US11251631B2
A power supply for providing power and charging electronic devices in remote locations comprising: a case having a device pocket and a power unit pocket; a power unit including a USB port, indicators, power switch, induction coil, battery, solar panel, and power unit controller. A top flap for at least partially covering the device pocket and the power unit pocket; and so that when an electronic device is placed in the device pocket, its internal battery is charged.
US11251626B2
A lithium battery designed to replace lead-acid battery. The lithium battery comprises a plurality of battery cells connected in series and a battery management unit. The battery management unit comprises a controller, a sensing unit connected to the plurality of battery cells and the controller, a charging control unit connected the controller, and a discharging control unit connected to the controller. The battery management unit prevents the batteries connected in parallel from mutual charging each other and also prevents the batteries being depleted completely by outputting a low voltage in pulse mode when the battery has low charge.
US11251624B2
An energy efficiency control method and apparatus are provided. The method, implemented by a communications device comprising a primary power supply, a secondary power supply, and a control apparatus, includes: obtaining a current load rate of the primary power supply and a load power of the secondary power supply; determining, based on the obtained current load rate and the load power, a target output voltage of the primary power supply and a target input voltage of the secondary power supply that satisfy an energy efficiency requirement of the communications device, wherein energy efficiency of the communications device is related to the energy efficiency of the primary power supply and the energy efficiency of the secondary power supply; and controlling the primary power supply to output the target output voltage, and controlling an input voltage of the secondary power supply to be the target input voltage.
US11251620B2
A device may receive a power demand for a load and a weather forecast for a time period. The device may determine a first supply of power available from a photo-voltaic (PV) installation for the time period based on the weather forecast. The device may determine a power deficit for the time period based on the power demand and the first supply of power. The device may determine a first cost associated with utilizing a second supply of power available from a battery and a second cost associated with utilizing a third supply of power available from an engine for the time period. The device may determine a power source to overcome the power deficit based on the first cost and the second cost and may cause the PV installation and the power source to supply power to satisfy the power demand for the load.
US11251616B2
Provided are a method and system for managing power grid stability utilising local dynamic load control, the method being performed by a virtual load manager (VLM) comprising one or more processors configured to: configure a plurality of electrical devices connected to a mains supply grid to individually react to grid fluctuations such that the plurality of electrical devices act as one or more virtual load groups each comprising one or more electrical devices with the same response to the grid fluctuations; and manage the individual electrical devices and operating characteristics of the electrical devices in the one or more virtual load groups on behalf of a central grid controller (CGC) of the mains supply grid, wherein each of the electrical devices comprises a local controller configured to provide dynamic control of their respective load in response to fluctuations of the mains supply grid based on the configuration provided by the virtual load manager (VLM).
US11251611B2
A power management circuitry for a peripheral electronic device includes a power regeneration circuitry, a power selector, a power switch and an audio signal detection circuitry. The power regeneration circuitry receives a continuous periodic sound wave from an audio device and converts the continuous periodic sound wave into an amplified DC electrical signal. The power source selector receives the amplified DC electrical signal and input from a primary power source and provides a power signal output. The audio signal detection circuitry receives the amplified DC electrical signal and transmits a wake-up signal to the power switch circuitry. The power switch circuitry is turned on by the wake-up signal and connects the power source selector to the peripheral electronic device main circuitry and transfers the power signal output to the peripheral electronic device main circuitry.
US11251606B2
A method for controlling a power distribution network includes receiving, by an electronic processor, a fault indication associated with a fault in the power distribution network from a first isolation device of a plurality of isolation devices. The processor identifies a first subset of a plurality of phases associated with the fault indication and a second subset of the plurality of phases not associated with the fault indication. The first and second subsets each include at least one member. The processor identifies an upstream isolation device upstream of the fault. The processor identifies a downstream isolation device downstream of the fault. The processor sends an open command to the downstream isolation device for each phase in the first subset. Responsive to the first isolation device not being the upstream isolation device, the processor sends a close command to the first isolation device for each phase in the first subset.
US11251604B2
A voltage transformer includes: a body with primary windings and secondary windings coupled to each other by electromagnetic induction; a measuring device electrically connected to the secondary windings via a first fuse; and a relay having a coil and at least one pole with normally open contacts, the at least one pole being configured to be thrown by an energizing of the coil. The coil is arranged in series with the primary windings. The at least one pole with normally open contacts is arranged between the secondary windings via the first fuse in order to short circuit the first fuse when the at least one pole is thrown.
US11251600B2
Protection circuitry configured to protect an electrical load from both overvoltage and overcurrent and includes a recovery period timer configured to set a recovery time. The recovery time allows a system, including a power supply, voltage regulator, protection circuitry and electrical load to dissipate heat and reset components. The protection circuitry is configured to monitor downstream performance of the electrical load and disconnect upstream power based on a downstream failure or other performance characteristics. The protection circuitry may include a downstream overvoltage sensing circuit that controls a current source. The current source injects current into an overcurrent protection loop in the protection circuitry that includes the configurable recovery period timer. In this manner both an overvoltage and an overcurrent event may take advantage of the configurable recovery period timer without the need for a separate time delay circuit.
US11251587B2
A laser diode and a method for manufacturing a laser diode are disclosed. In an embodiment a laser diode includes a surface emitting semiconductor laser configured to emit electromagnetic radiation and an optical element arranged downstream of the semiconductor laser in a radiation direction, wherein the optical element includes a diffractive structure or a meta-optical structure or a lens structure, and wherein the optical element and the semiconductor laser are cohesively connected to each other.
US11251584B2
A tunable wavelength laser comprising a laser cavity formed by a broadband mirror and a comb mirror. The laser cavity comprising a gain region. The laser cavity is configured such that a non-integer number of cavity modes of the laser cavity are between two consecutive reflection peaks of the comb mirror.
US11251582B2
Aspects of the present disclosure are directed to methods and apparatuses for generating laser light. As may be implemented in accordance with one or more embodiments, laser light is generated at a laser light source and is modulated in response to a frequency modulation signal, to generate a plurality of different wavelengths of laser light. The frequency modulation signal is generated, for each particular one of the wavelengths of laser light, at a respective seeding frequency corresponding to the particular one of the wavelengths in which the seeding frequency is different for each of the different wavelengths. Such an approach may, for example, involve generating the frequency modulation signal with a frequency generator circuit and using the frequency modulation signal to control an electro-optical modulator for modulating the wavelength of the laser light.
US11251577B2
A fabrication apparatus for the fabrication or prefabrication—preferably in an automated or semi-automated manner—of individual wire sections, comprising at least one arrangement apparatus for receiving and arranging a plurality of individual wire sections, in particular prepared wire sections from the fabrication apparatus, wherein the at least one arrangement apparatus comprises a main body and an arrangement section for receiving the wire sections, wherein the arrangement section is designed to string a plurality of individual wire sections through a gap that extends along the base body and along said gap, wherein the at least one arrangement apparatus can be attached to the fabrication apparatus in a releasable manner.
US11251575B2
An electronics housing assembly includes a first housing portion and a second housing portion removably connected to the first housing portion to define an interior space that contains electronics components. A first group of the electronics components is connected to the first housing portion and a second group of the electronics components is connected to the second housing portion. A connector alignment and retention panel is connected to the first housing portion. The connector alignment and retention panel includes a connector support platform with a first connector mounting location. A first electrical connector that is part of the first group of the electronics components is operatively engaged with the first connector mounting location of the panel such that the first electrical connector is mounted on the panel and located in a select position relative to the first housing portion. A first corresponding electrical connector that is part of the second group of said electronics components is operatively secured to the second housing portion and is operatively engaged with the first electrical connector mounted on the panel.
US11251572B2
A connector includes an insulated member, a plurality of first conductive terminals, a plurality of second conductive terminals, a shielding shell, and a metal housing. The first conductive terminals are disposed on an upper surface of the insulated member and extending rearward. The second conductive terminals are disposed on a lower surface of the insulated member, extending rearward, and located below the first conductive terminals. The shielding shell is fitted over the insulated member, and the shielding shell has a plug end and a mounting end. The metal housing has a plurality of grounding structures, the metal housing is fitted over the mounting end of the shielding shell, and the grounding structures are completely located below the second conductive terminals.
US11251568B2
A first connector for electrically connecting a first unit power terminal through a third unit power terminal to a power converter for performing conversion between a DC power and an AC power is mounted to a mounting port. In a status in which the first connector is being removed from the mounting port, it is impossible to mount the first connector to the mounting port while the first unit power terminal through the third unit power terminal are inputting and outputting a DC power, and it is possible to mount the first connector to the mounting port while the first unit power terminal through the third unit power terminal are not inputting and outputting a DC power.
US11251566B2
A lever-type connector includes a mating housing, a housing that is fitted into and removed from the mating housing, and a lever that is rotatably supported by the housing and fits the housings to each other. The lever includes a temporary locking arm portion that has a temporary locking portion, the housing includes a temporarily locked portion that is temporarily locked to and unlocked from the temporary locking portion of the temporary locking arm portion, the mating housing includes a release rib portion that releases a temporary locking state of the temporary locking portion of the temporary locking arm portion and the temporarily locked portion of the housing, and a cam groove of the lever includes a boss receiving portion that receives the cam boss when the mating housing and the housing are temporarily set.
US11251563B1
An electrical connector is provided that includes a plurality of electric cables. A first adapter is configured to receive the electrical cables. The first adapter protects the electrical cables and allows for an electrical connection between the electrical cables and a plurality of electrical pins. A second adapter is coupled to the first adapter. The second adapter allows for an electrical connection between the electrical pins and a plurality of electrical terminals. A cable kit is provided that is at least partially housed within the second adapter. The cable kit has a plurality of projections extending therefrom. An insulator body is coupled to the second adapter. The insulator body includes a plurality of openings. Each of the openings has a tapered end portion configured to receive a corresponding one of the plurality of projections of the cable kit to form a mechanical seal with the cable kit.
US11251562B2
An electrical power or electronic data unit includes an outer housing and an inner housing that is insertable into the outer housing. The outer housing has an outer front face panel defining an outer receptacle opening and the inner housing has an inner rear housing portion plus an inner front face portion defining an inner receptacle opening aligned with the outer receptacle opening. A circuit board substrate is positioned inside the inner housing with an electrical contact mounted to the board substrate and aligned with and accessible through the inner and outer receptacle openings. A contact support extends rearwardly from the inner front face portion adjacent the inner receptacle opening, the contact support serving to limit movement of the electrical contact during insertion of a plug or prong into engagement with the electrical contact.
US11251556B2
A connector is provided that includes a housing and a terminal installed in the housing. The housing includes a receiving space in which the upper face receiving a counterpart connector is opened, a pair of side wall parts defining at least a portion of both the left and right sides of the receiving space, a front wall part defining at least a portion of the front of the receiving space, and a pair of rear wall parts defining at least a portion of the rear of the receiving space. The terminal includes a front contact part provided on the front of the receiving space so as to be adjacent to each side wall part, and a rear contact part provided on the rear of the receiving space so as to be adjacent to each side wall part. The front contact part and the rear contact part are disposed in nearly a straight line extending in the anteroposterior direction, face each other, and are capable of holding a counterpart terminal of the counterpart connector from the front and rear thereof.
US11251552B2
Embodiments may comprise forming a rigid, tubular outer housing of an electrically conductive material; inserting an electrical cable longitudinally into the outer housing, the electrical cable having an inner conductor and a dielectric jacket surrounding the inner conductor; and, reshaping at least one longitudinal segment of the outer housing to fix the electrical cable inside the outer housing.
US11251547B2
Various implementations of grounding cross connectors are disclosed. The grounding cross connectors may be used to clamp together two or more, often perpendicular, conductors. In some implementations, a grounding cross connector includes an upper clamping pad and a lower clamping pad held together by a pair of threaded fasteners. A pair of perpendicular conductors may be placed in between the clamping pads and secured together by torqueing nuts on the threaded fasteners. The upper clamping pad may include a hook through which one of the threaded fasteners may pass, thereby allowing the upper clamping to rotate relative to the lower clamping pad.
US11251537B2
Systems and methods for dynamically controlling connections between a plurality of servers in a data center, where the data center includes at least a first reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) and a first RIS controller (RISC) configured to control physical propagation settings of physical propagation elements of the first RIS, wherein each server of the plurality of servers includes or is communicably connected with a wireless connection component enabling communication via directive wireless propagation via the physical propagation elements of the first RIS. A controller device pushes a set of one or more RIS configurations to the RIS and a set of one or more transceiver beamforming configurations to the wireless connection components and jointly determines an optimal transceiver beamforming configuration and an optimal RIS configuration using the connection feedback information.
US11251534B2
An antenna radiates signals in Band41 whose center frequency is λ1 and Band42 whose center frequency is λ2. A medium substrate is used as a carrier of a top radiating element, a phase inversion unit, and a bottom radiating element; an end of the top radiating element is connected to an end of the phase inversion unit; the other end of the phase inversion unit is connected to an end of the bottom radiating element, a length of the phase inversion unit is 3λ2/2, and the length of the phase inversion unit is greater than λ1/2; and the phase inversion unit includes at least two current phase inversion points, a part between the at least two current phase inversion points does not produce radiation, and the top radiating element and the bottom radiating element horizontally radiate the signal in the Band41 and the signal in the Band42 omnidirectionally.
US11251522B2
A radio frequency antenna system is provided and can include a radio printed circuit board, a first antenna element located proximate an edge of the radio printed circuit board, a second antenna element located proximate the edge of the radio printed circuit board, and a cancelation circuit located on the radio printed circuit board and connected to feeding points of the first antenna and the second antenna, wherein the cancelation circuit can provide a cancelation effect at output ports of the cancelation circuit with respect to signals broadcast by the first antenna element and the second antenna element over air.
US11251519B2
Embodiments include an antenna assembly for a wireless microphone, comprising a helical antenna including a feed point and at least one contact pin coupling the feed point to the wireless microphone. The helical antenna is configured for operation in first and second frequency bands. Embodiments also include a wireless microphone comprising a main body having top and bottom ends and an antenna assembly coupled to the bottom end. The antenna assembly comprises a helical antenna configured to transmit and receive wireless signals, an inner core configured to support the helical antenna on an outer surface of the inner core, and an outer shell formed over the inner core and the helical antenna. Embodiments further include a method of manufacturing an antenna assembly for a wireless microphone using a first manufacturing process to form a core unit of the antenna assembly and a second manufacturing process to form an overmold.
US11251516B2
A semiconductor device, or semiconductor device package, that includes a substrate having an antenna structure on a surface of the substrate and a wire bond that electrically connects the antenna structure to the substrate to form an antenna or a first antenna configuration. The substrate may include a second antenna structure with the wire bond connected to the second antenna structure forming a second antenna or antenna configuration. The semiconductor device may include a radio communication device electrically connected to the substrate. The antenna or antenna configuration may be tuned to the requirements of the radio communication device. The antenna configuration may be tuned by connected to different antenna structures on the surface of the substrate. The antenna configuration may be tuned by changing a length of the wire bond, changing a diameter of the wire bond, and/or changing the material of the wire bond.
US11251513B2
A feed line to waveguide lateral transition is described consisting of: a proximity coupled antenna element on the top surface of a composite RF board, an embedded microstrip or stripline feed line, a ground plane on the bottom surface of the RF board, and a waveguide with an aperture enclosing the antenna element with a signal propagation through the waveguide being perpendicular to the antenna element.
US11251509B2
An energy storage device includes a case. The case includes a cover body where an electrolyte solution filling port is formed, and an electrolyte solution plug that closes the electrolyte solution filling port. The electrolyte solution plug includes a shaft part inserted into the electrolyte solution filling port, and a projecting part that projects from a periphery of the shaft part and is bonded to the cover body. In the cover body, a space adjacent to the shaft part is formed around the electrolyte solution filling port, and a tip end of the shaft part is disposed in the electrolyte solution filling port.
US11251507B2
A battery, for example, a rechargeable battery (e.g. lithium ion battery) having a casing with battery terminals. The casing, for example, includes an upper section, middle section, and lower section connected together. The battery can be connected to one or more battery trays having the same height or different heights for various applications.
US11251505B2
A battery module according to the present disclosure includes a cell assembly including a plurality of battery cells stacked in a vertical direction, each battery cell having an electrode lead in a shape of a plate that protrudes forward in a depth direction perpendicular to the vertical direction, the electrode lead being bent for surface contact in the vertical direction with an adjacent electrode lead, the electrode lead having a protruding part that protrudes forward in the depth direction from a front side end thereof, and a sensing terminal module having a plurality of sensing terminals made of an electrically conductive material and a plurality terminal seating holes in which corresponding ones of the sensing terminals are seated and supported, the protruding part of each electrode lead being press-fit into a corresponding one of the sensing terminals which compresses around the protruding part.
US11251500B2
This disclosure provides a battery module and a battery pack. The battery module includes: a battery set including a plurality of batteries arranged in an array, each of the batteries includes an explosion-proof valve; a cover plate disposed on the battery set; and a thermosensitive assembly disposed between the battery set and the cover plate, the thermosensitive assembly being connected with the cover plate, the thermosensitive assembly including a thermosensitive wire, and thermosensitive wire can provide a prompt signal indicating that the explosion-proof valve of the battery is burst. The battery module according to embodiments of the present disclosure can accurately and effectively transmit the information regarding thermal runaway occurring in the battery to the outside, such that the battery module has a performance of alerting the thermal runaway.
US11251499B2
A battery cover includes: a case for housing a battery; and a rib formed on an inner peripheral face of the case to form a first space between the inner peripheral face of the case and an outer peripheral face of the battery. The case has an air hole that communicates the inside and outside of the case, a first housing part for housing a positive electrode of the battery, and a second housing part for housing a negative electrode of the battery. The air hole is disposed in a position in the case closer to the second housing part than to the first housing part.
US11251488B2
To provide a highly reliable battery pack having excellent manufacturability, a battery pack according to the present invention includes a stack of a plurality of battery cells 100 that each include a positive electrode lead tab and a negative electrode lead tab led out of a laminate film casing in a same direction, a coupling assisting member 300 that assists in electrically connecting adjoining battery cells 100, and a reinforcing member 200 interposed between the stacked battery cells 100. The reinforcing member 200 includes a protrusion 240 protruding in the same direction as that in which the positive electrode lead tabs and the negative electrode lead tabs of the battery cells 100 are led out. The coupling assisting member 300 includes a guide portion 340 that engages with the protrusion 240 and guides the protrusion 240 in combining the coupling assisting member 300 and the reinforcing member 200.
US11251485B2
A lead-acid battery (100) is provided with a lid (14). An external flow passage (530) communicating with a communication chamber (520) through a vent hole (321) and communicating with a discharge port (405) of a lid (14) is formed inside the lid (14). A compartment fence (452, 454) continuously extending over the entire width of the external flow passage (530) is formed in the external flow passage (530). A residual volume is larger than the volume of the communication chamber (520), the residual volume being obtained by subtracting, from the total volume of a plurality of external spaces (460, 462, 464) divided by the compartment fence (452, 454), the volume of the discharge-side external space (464) closest to the discharge port among the plurality of external spaces.
US11251469B2
A lamination apparatus for a secondary battery comprises a roller part comprising a separator supply roller that supplies a separator sheet and an electrode supply roller that supplies an electrode sheet, a cutting part that cuts the electrode sheet supplied by the electrode supply roller to manufacture a plurality of electrode plates, a first transfer part that transfers the electrode plates cut by the cutting part at a same interval, an inspection part that inspects whether the electrode plates transferred by the first transfer part are defective, a second transfer part that transfers a normal electrode plate, which is determined as the normal electrode plate by the inspection part, among the electrode plates, and a lamination part that thermally bonds the normal electrode plate transferred by the second transfer part to the separator sheet supplied by the separator supply roller.
US11251457B2
A redox flow battery is described that does not include an ion exchange resin such as a proton exchange membrane but rather uses a generally stationary separator liquid that separates the anolyte from the catholyte at immiscible liquid-liquid interfaces. Solvents and electrochemically active components of the anolyte and catholyte would not cross the liquid-liquid interfaces between the separator liquid and the anolyte and catholyte, but certain ions in each of the anolyte and catholyte would cross the interface during charging and discharging of the redox flow battery. The separator liquid comprises a relatively small total volume of liquid in such a flow battery arrangement as compared to the anolyte and catholyte. Suitable chemical options are described along with system options for utilizing immiscible phases.
US11251455B2
A solid, ionically conductive, polymer material with a crystallinity greater than 30%; a glassy state; and both at least one cationic and anionic diffusing ion, wherein each diffusing ion is mobile in the glassy state.
US11251439B2
A fuel cell includes: a solid oxide electrolyte layer that has oxygen ion conductivity; an electrode layer that is provided on the solid oxide electrolyte layer; a separator that is provided on the electrode layer and is made of a metal material; and a sealing member that is provided from a circumference region of the solid oxide electrolyte layer to a circumference region of the dense metal layer, wherein the electrode layer, the separator and the sealing member demarcate at least a part of a gas passage, wherein at least a part of the sealing member is a mixed layer of a ceramic and a metal.
US11251433B2
The invention is directed in a first aspect to electron-conducting porous compositions comprising an organic polymer matrix doped with nitrogen atoms and having elemental sulfur dispersed therein, particularly such compositions having an ordered framework structure. The invention is also directed to composites of such S/N-doped electron-conducting porous aromatic framework (PAF) compositions, or composites of an S/N-doped mesoporous carbon composition, which includes the S/N-doped composition in admixture with a binder, and optionally, conductive carbon. The invention is further directed to cathodes for a lithium-sulfur battery in which such composites are incorporated.
US11251425B2
Provided is a lithium secondary battery including a cathode containing a cathode active material in which a central part has a different concentration from a surface part, and a conductive material having a specific composition ratio, and specifically, a lithium secondary battery including a cathode containing a cathode active material in which a central part of one or more kinds of metals configuring the cathode active material has a different concentration from a surface part thereof, and two or more kinds of conductive materials mixed at a specific ratio, thereby having excellent stability and high low-temperature characteristic and high output characteristic as compared to a conventional lithium secondary battery.
US11251418B2
Provided is a method for manufacturing a slurry for a positive electrode of a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery containing an alkali metal complex oxide, the method making it possible to reliably deaerate surplus carbonic acid gas after an alkali component of a slurry containing the alkali metal complex oxide is neutralized within a short period of time. The method for manufacturing a slurry for a positive electrode of a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery includes a step of manufacturing an electrode slurry including a step of performing a neutralization treatment on an alkali component in the slurry by using inorganic carbon dissolved in a solvent of the slurry and a step of deaerating the inorganic carbon in the slurry as carbonic acid gas by causing cavitation.
US11251416B2
A positive electrode of a lithium-sulfur battery including maghemite as an additive and a lithium-sulfur battery including the same. The maghemite obtained by heat treatment of lepidocrocite adsorbs lithium polysulfide (LiPS) generated from a lithium-sulfur battery, thereby improving the charging/discharging efficiency and capacity of the battery, as well as increasing the life of the battery.
US11251399B2
The present application provides a display substrate. The display substrate includes a base substrate; a crack barrier layer on the base substrate defining a plurality of crack barrier regions in the display substrate; and a plurality of encapsulated islands on the base substrate and respectively in the plurality of crack barrier regions. Each of the plurality of encapsulated islands includes at least one of a plurality of light emitting elements; and an encapsulating layer encapsulating the at least one of a plurality of light emitting elements and forming a lateral side of a respective one of the plurality of encapsulated islands. The crack barrier layer forms a barrier wall for preventing cracks in one or more sublayers of the display substrate outside the plurality of encapsulated islands from propagating into inside of each of the plurality of encapsulated islands.
US11251393B2
A flexible display module according to the present application includes a number of module material layers superposed; and at least one strain isolation layer disposed between the two adjacent the module material layers. The strain isolation layer includes a chamber and an elastic material layer surrounding an outer periphery of the chamber.
US11251375B2
A white organic electroluminescent (EL) element including an anode, a cathode, and a light-emitting layer disposed between the anode and the cathode. The light-emitting layer includes a first light-emitting layer and a second light-emitting layer. The first light-emitting layer and the second light-emitting layer each contain a host material and a light-emitting dopant material. The first light-emitting layer contains, as the light-emitting dopant material, a green-light-emitting dopant material and a blue-light-emitting dopant material and is a dual-color light-emitting layer that emits green light and blue light. The second light-emitting layer contains, as the light-emitting dopant material, a red-light-emitting dopant material and a green-light-emitting dopant material and is a dual-color light-emitting layer that emits red light and green light.
US11251374B2
A nanotube spectrometer array includes: a substrate including block receivers; photodetectors arranged in an array with each photodetector including: a single wall carbon nanotube disposed on the substrate in a block receiver and disposed laterally along the block receiver; a source electrode on the single wall carbon nanotube; a drain electrode on the single wall carbon nanotube, such that the source and drain electrodes are separated from each other by a photoreceiver portion of the single wall carbon nanotube; and a gate electrode disposed on the substrate such that substrate is interposed between the gate electrode and the single wall carbon nanotube. The single wall carbon nanotube in each photodetector is a different chirality so that each photodetector absorbs light with a maximum photon absorptivity at a difference wavelength that is based on the chirality of the single wall carbon nanotube of the photodetector.
US11251368B2
A method includes forming a first metallization layer containing a first metal-containing line and a second metal-containing line disposed in a first interlevel dielectric layer. The first metal-containing line includes a first conductive metal and the second metal-containing line includes a second conductive metal. The first metal-containing line and the second metal-containing line are recessed to below a top surface of the interlevel dielectric layer. A metal-containing cap protection layer is deposited in a recessed portion of the first metal-containing line and the second metal-containing line. The metal-containing cap protection layer includes a third conductive metal which is different than the first conductive metal and the second conductive metal.
US11251366B2
A magnetic junction usable in a magnetic device is described. The magnetic junction includes a free layer and an oxide interlayer on the free layer. The oxide interlayer includes at least one glass-forming agent. In some aspects, the magnetic junction includes a reference layer and a nonmagnetic spacer layer being between the reference layer and the free layer. The free layer is between the nonmagnetic spacer layer and the oxide interlayer.
US11251360B2
A magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) stack structure having an enhanced write performance and thermal stability (i.e., retention) is provided which can be used as an element/component of a spin-transfer torque (STT) MRAM device. The improved write performance, particularly the write error rate slope as a function of write voltage (Vfrc) which is essential in defining the overdrive voltage needed to successfully write a bit at low write error floors, is provided by a MTJ stack structure in which a zirconium (Zr) cap layer is inserted between a MTJ capping layer and an etch stop layer.
US11251352B2
A wiring board according to one embodiment of the present disclosure includes: partitions each having insulating property; and conductive members that are respectively disposed in at least two adjacent regions among a plurality of regions partitioned by the partitions. Two of the conductive members respectively disposed in the adjacent regions are joined to each other through an opening formed on one of the partitions interposed between the two of the conductive members, to serve as part of a wiring.
US11251347B2
A semiconductor light source includes at least one first emission unit, at least one second emission unit, and an optics, wherein the optical system has an inner region that converges radiation from the first emission unit, the optical system has an outer region that expands radiation from the second emission unit, a first light emission region of the inner region completely covers the first emission unit when viewed in plan view, and at least partially covers the second emission unit, a second light emission region of the outer region is partially or completely beside the second emission unit when viewed in plan view, and the inner region and the outer region have differently shaped light entry regions.
US11251341B2
A micro light emitting diode (micro LED) display panel includes a carrier substrate layer; a plurality of vias respectively extending into the carrier substrate layer; a plurality of micro LEDs on the carrier substrate layer; and a wavelength conversion layer including a wavelength conversion material filled in the plurality of vias.
US11251339B2
A process for fabricating an optoelectronic device for emitting infrared radiation, including: i) producing a first stack containing a light source, and a first bonding sublayer made from a metal of interest chosen from gold, titanium and copper, ii) producing a second stack containing a GeSn-based active layer obtained by epitaxy at an epitaxy temperature (Tepi), and a second bonding sublayer made from the metal of interest, iii) determining an assembly temperature (Tc) substantially between an ambient temperature (Tamb) and the epitaxy temperature (Tepi), such that a direct bonding energy per unit area of the metal of interest is higher than or equal to 0.5 J/m2; and iv) joining, by direct bonding, at the assembly temperature (Tc), the stacks.
US11251336B2
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor stack having a first-type semiconductor structure, an active structure, and a second-type semiconductor structure disposed on the first-type semiconductor structure. The second-type semiconductor structure has a doping concentration. A first portion includes a part of the first-type semiconductor structure, the active structure, and the second-type semiconductor structure, and has a current confining region. A second portion includes a part of the first-type semiconductor structure, the active structure, and the second-type semiconductor structure, and includes a first-type heavily doped region in the second-type semiconductor structure. The first-type heavily doped region includes a doping concentration higher than that of the second-type semiconductor structure.
US11251322B2
Disclosed is a photovoltaic power generation module having a single layer structure in which a pattern glass and a solar cell module are integrated. The disclosed photovoltaic power generation module comprises: a pattern glass comprising a base member, and a pattern member provided thereon in which an optical pattern is formed; a solar cell module provided with a solar cell; a plurality of supportive adhering parts in a pillar shape adhered to the pattern member; and a filler filled between the supportive adhering part and the solar cell module, wherein the pattern glass and the solar cell module are integrated through the supportive adhering parts and the filler, and the height of the supportive adhering parts are configured to be greater than the height of the pattern member so that a gap for forming an air layer between the pattern member and the filler can be provided.
US11251304B2
A method of forming a vertical transport fin field effect transistor device is provided. The method includes replacing a portion of a sacrificial exclusion layer between one or more vertical fins and a substrate with a temporary inner spacer. The method further includes removing a portion of a fin layer and the sacrificial exclusion layer between the one or more vertical fins and the substrate, and forming a bottom source/drain on the temporary inner spacer and between the one or more vertical fins and the substrate. The method further includes replacing a portion of the bottom source/drain with a temporary gap filler, and replacing the temporary gap filler and temporary inner spacer with a wrap-around source/drain contact having an L-shaped cross-section.
US11251294B2
A semiconductor device includes type IV semiconductor base substrate, first and second device areas that are electrically isolated from one another, a first region of type III-V semiconductor material formed over the first device area, a second region of type III-V semiconductor material formed over the second device area, the second region of type III-V semiconductor material being laterally electrically insulated from the first region of type III-V semiconductor material, a first high-electron mobility transistor integrally formed in the first region, and a second high-electron mobility transistor integrally formed in the second region. The first and second high-electron mobility transistors are connected in series. A source terminal of the first high-electron mobility transistor is electrically connected to the first device area. The first device area is electrically isolated from a subjacent intrinsically doped region of the base substrate by a first two-way voltage blocking device.
US11251293B2
According to one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes first to fourth semiconductor regions, and an insulating part. The third electrode is between the first and second electrodes in a first direction from the first electrode toward the second electrode. The first semiconductor region includes Alx1Ga1-x1N and includes first to fifth partial regions. A second direction from the first partial region toward the first electrode crosses the first direction. The second semiconductor region includes Alx2Ga1-x2N and includes sixth and seventh partial regions. The third semiconductor region includes Alx3Ga1-x3N and includes an eighth partial region between the fifth and seventh partial regions. The fourth semiconductor region includes Alx4Ga1-x4N and includes a first portion between the fifth and eighth partial regions. The fourth semiconductor region includes a first element not included the first to third semiconductor regions. The insulating part includes first to third insulating regions.
US11251289B2
A method includes forming a first active fin structure and a second active fin structure on a substrate. A dummy fin structure is formed on the substrate, the dummy fin structure being interposed between the first active fin structure and the second active fin structure. The dummy fin structure is removed to expose a first portion of the substrate, the first portion of the substrate being disposed directly below the dummy fin structure. A plurality of protruding features is formed on the first portion of the substrate. A shallow trench isolation (STI) region is formed over the first portion of the substrate, the STI region covering the plurality of protruding features, at least a portion of the first active fin structure and at least a portion of the second active fin structure extending above a topmost surface of the STI region.
US11251284B2
A method includes forming a dummy gate stack, etching the dummy gate stack to form an opening, depositing a first dielectric layer extending into the opening, and depositing a second dielectric layer on the first dielectric layer and extending into the opening. A planarization process is then performed to form a gate isolation region including the first dielectric layer and the second dielectric layer. The dummy gate stack is then removed to form trenches on opposing sides of the gate isolation region. The method further includes performing a first etching process to remove sidewall portions of the first dielectric layer, performing a second etching process to thin the second dielectric layer, and forming replacement gates in the trenches.
US11251280B2
Forming a fin, where the fin includes a nanowire stack on a semiconductor substrate, where the nanowire stack includes a plurality of silicon layers and a plurality of silicon germanium layers stacked one on top of the other in an alternating fashion, removing a portion of the fin to form an opening and expose vertical sidewalls of the plurality of silicon layers and the plurality of silicon germanium layer, and epitaxially growing a source drain region/structure in the opening from the exposed vertical sidewalls of the plurality of silicon layers and the plurality of silicon germanium layers, where the source drain region/structure substantially fills the opening.
US11251277B2
An electrode having an embedded charge contains a substrate, a first electronic charge trap defined at the interface of a first insulating layer and a second insulating layer; and a first conductive layer disposed on the first electronic charge trap; wherein the first conductive layer contains a conductive material configured to permit an external electric field to penetrate the electrode from the first electronic charge trap; and wherein the first insulating layer is not the same as the second insulating layer.
US11251274B2
A semiconductor device includes a substrate; a semiconductor structure arranged on the substrate, the semiconductor structure including at least one first semiconductor layer; an insulator layer arranged on the semiconductor structure; a field plate covering a part of the insulator layer, wherein the insulator layer includes a non-linear dielectric material having a permittivity that decreases as an electric field traversing the dielectric material increases.
US11251255B2
The present inventive concept relates to a display device. A display device according to an exemplary embodiment of the present inventive concept include: a base layer including a plurality of islands in which a pixel is disposed, a plurality of bridges disposed around each of the plurality of islands, a plurality of first wires disposed in a bridge of the plurality of bridges connected to the pixel is disposed; an inorganic insulating layer disposed on the base layer and having an opening exposing a portion of the bridge; and an organic material layer covering the opening, wherein adjacent islands of the plurality of islands are connected to each other through at least the bridge of the plurality of bridges, and the plurality of first wires are disposed on the organic material layer.
US11251250B2
A display substrate and a display device are provided. The display substrate includes a base substrate; a first electrode, located on the base substrate; a second electrode, located on the base substrate, an orthographic projection of the second electrode on the base substrate being adjacent to an orthographic projection of the first electrode on the base substrate; and a conductive layer, including a blocking part between opposite side surfaces of the first electrode and the second electrode, the conductive layer being grounded, and every two selected from the group consisting of the first electrode, the second electrode, and the conductive layer being insulated from each other.
US11251238B2
Disclosed are a display device and a manufacturing method therefor. The display device comprises a touch trace and a photonic crystal structure provided in a common layer, wherein an orthographic projection of the photonic crystal structure on a substrate is overlapped with an orthographic projection of a pixel light emitting unit on the substrate.
US11251233B2
The present disclosure provides an OLED display substrate including a substrate, a pixel defining layer on the substrate, for defining a plurality of sub-pixel regions having different colors; and cavity length adjusting layers in the sub-pixel regions, wherein the cavity length adjusting layers comprise a conductive ink, and the cavity length adjusting layers have different thicknesses in the sub-pixel regions having different colors.
US11251232B2
The device includes a substrate, a green light emitting element on the substrate, and a green color film layer disposed on a light exit side of the green light emitting element correspondingly, a travel distance of the light emitted from the green light emitting element in the green color film layer remains substantially unchanged with a change of a light exit angle of the light. Thus, the present disclosure can prevent a color purity of a green light passing through the green color film layer from changing, thereby improving the color shift performance of a green light passing through the green color film layer, and improving the optical performance of the green light, and thus further improving the display effect of the device and the display panel.
US11251221B2
An imaging panel includes a photoelectric conversion element disposed on a substrate. The photoelectric conversion element includes a cathode electrode, a first semiconductor layer having a first conductive type, the first semiconductor layer being in contact with the cathode electrode, a second semiconductor layer having a second conductive type different from the first conductive type, the second semiconductor layer being joined to the first semiconductor layer, and an anode electrode in contact with the second semiconductor layer. The second semiconductor layer has a greater extinction coefficient as closer to the anode electrode.
US11251217B2
A photodetector sensor array device as usable for camera chips comprises upper and lower contact layers of n+ and p+ semiconductor material either side of a light absorbing region made of either one layer, or two oppositely doped layers, of semiconductor material. Insulating trenches of dielectric material extending through the layers to form the individual pixels. Respective contacts are connected to the upper and lower contact layers so that each pixel can be reverse biased or forward biased. In operation, the device is reset with a reverse bias, and then switched to forward bias for sensing. After switching, carriers generated in response to photon absorption accumulate in potential wells in the light absorbing region and so reduce the potential barriers to the contact layers, which causes current to start to flow between the contacts after a time delay which is inversely proportional to the incident light intensity.
US11251204B2
An array substrate includes: a base substrate; one or more first signal lines provided on the base substrate; a plurality of repair line sets also provided on the base substrate and configured to repair the first signal lines, each of the repair line sets comprising one or more repair lines which intersect with and are insulated from at least one of the first signal lines; and one or more second signal lines also provided on the base substrate, at least one of the one or more second signal lines having one end which is arranged to intersect with and be insulated from the one or more repair lines, and the other end which is connected to a driving circuit for supplying an electrical signal to the one or more first signal lines. The second signal line is different from the first signal line.
US11251197B2
A semiconductor device including a lower structure, an upper pattern, a stacked structure, a separation structure passing through the stacked structure, a vertical structure comprising a channel layer, wherein the stacked structure comprises a plurality of interlayer insulating layers and a plurality of gate layers, the lower structure comprises a first lower pattern and a second lower pattern of a material different from a material of the first lower pattern, the first lower pattern comprises a first portion between the second lower pattern and the channel layer, a second portion extending from the first portion to a region between the second lower pattern and the upper pattern, and a third portion extending from the first portion to a region between the second lower pattern and the substrate structure, and the first lower pattern does not extend toward a side surface of the upper pattern.
US11251195B2
Embodiments of structure and methods for forming a three-dimensional (3D) memory device are provided. In an example, the 3D memory device includes a stack structure. The stack structure includes a plurality of conductor layers and a plurality of insulating layers interleaved over a substrate. The plurality of conductor layers include a pair of top select conductor layers divided by a first top select structure and a pair of bottom select conductor layers divided by a bottom select structure. The first top select structure and the bottom select structure extend along a horizontal direction and are aligned along a vertical direction. A plurality of channel structures extend along a vertical direction and into the substrate and are distributed on both sides of the top select structure and the bottom select structure.
US11251194B2
A semiconductor device and a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device may be provided. The semiconductor device may include a source line formed over a substrate. The semiconductor device may include a channel pattern including a connection part disposed over the source line, and pillar parts protruding from the connection part in a first direction. The semiconductor device may include a well structure protruding from the connection part in the first direction and spaced apart from the source line. The semiconductor device may include a source contact structure protruding from the source line in the first direction and passing through the connection part. The semiconductor device may include a gate stack disposed between the source contact structure and the well structure and enclosing the pillar parts over the connection part.
US11251193B2
A semiconductor memory device includes a substrate, gate electrodes arranged in a thickness direction of the substrate, first and second semiconductor layers, a gate insulating film, and a first contact. The first semiconductor layer extends in the thickness direction and faces the gate electrodes. The gate insulating film is between the gate electrodes and the first semiconductor layer. The second semiconductor layer is between the substrate and the gate electrodes and connected to a side surface of the first semiconductor layer in a surface direction. The first contact extends in the thickness direction and electrically connected to the second semiconductor layer. The second semiconductor layer includes a first region in contact with the side surface of the first semiconductor layer and containing P-type impurities, and a first contact region electrically connected to the first contact and having a higher concentration of N-type impurities than the first region.
US11251192B2
A semiconductor device includes a vertical stack of gate electrodes. The gate electrodes extend in different lengths to provide contact regions. The gate electrodes have a conductive region and an insulating region. Contact plugs fills contact holes that pass through the stack of gate electrodes in the contact regions. The contact plugs are connected to the gate electrodes. The contact plugs pass through a conductive region of one gate electrode and are electrically connected to the one gate electrode and pass through the insulating region of other gate electrodes in the contact region. The insulating region is disposed outside of the contact holes in a region in which the gate electrodes intersect the contact plugs.
US11251190B2
A memory array comprising strings of memory cells comprises laterally-spaced memory blocks individually comprising a vertical stack comprising alternating insulative tiers and conductive tiers. Channel-material-string structures of memory cells extend through the insulative tiers and the conductive tiers. The channel-material-string structures individually comprise an upper portion above and joined with a lower portion. Individual of the channel-material-string structures comprise at least one external jog surface in a vertical cross-section where the upper and lower portions join. Other embodiments, including method are disclosed.
US11251188B2
A semiconductor memory device including: a substrate including a cell array region and a boundary region; a first recess region at an upper portion of the substrate in the cell array region; a first bit line extending onto the boundary region and crossing the first recess region; a bit line contact in the first recess region and contacting the first bit line; a second bit line spaced apart from the first recess region and adjacent to the first bit line, the second bit line crossing the cell array region and the boundary region; a cell buried insulation pattern between a side surface of the first bit line contact and an inner wall of the first recess region; and a boundary buried insulation pattern covering sidewalls of the first bit line and the second bit line in the boundary region and including a same material as the cell buried insulation pattern.
US11251187B2
A method for fabricating buried word line of a dynamic random access memory (DRAM) includes the steps of: forming a trench in a substrate; forming a first conductive layer in the trench; forming a second conductive layer on the first conductive layer, in which the second conductive layer above the substrate and the second conductive layer below the substrate comprise different thickness; and forming a third conductive layer on the second conductive layer to fill the trench.
US11251181B2
Embodiments of the disclosure provide a semiconductor device including a substrate, an insulating layer formed over the substrate, a plurality of fins formed vertically from a surface of the substrate, the fins extending through the insulating layer and above a top surface of the insulating layer, a gate structure formed over a portion of fins and over the top surface of the insulating layer, a source/drain structure disposed adjacent to opposing sides of the gate structure, the source/drain structure contacting the fin, a dielectric layer formed over the insulating layer, a first contact trench extending a first depth through the dielectric layer to expose the source/drain structure, the first contact trench containing an electrical conductive material, and a second contact trench extending a second depth into the dielectric layer, the second contact trench containing the electrical conductive material, and the second depth is greater than the first depth.
US11251177B2
A semiconductor device 1 has an IGBT region and a MOSFET region. A plurality of channel doped P layers formed in the MOSFET region include a trench-adjacent channel doped P layer whose side surface is in contact with a boundary trench gate formed between the IGBT region and the MOSFET region. A formation depth of the trench-adjacent channel doped P layer is set deeper than a formation depth of the boundary trench gate. In the MOSFET region, an N type MOSFET having a planar structure is configured including a channel region in the channel doped P layer, a gate insulating film in an interlayer oxide film, and a gate polysilicon serving as a planar gate.
US11251161B2
An object of the present invention is to suppress reduction in a temperature cycle life of a wiring in a two-in-one type chopper module. A two-in-one type chopper module according to the present invention includes: a switching transistor; a first diode inverse-parallelly connected to the switching transistor; a second diode serially connected to the switching transistor and the first diode; a first wiring pattern mounting the switching transistor and the first diode; and a second wiring pattern mounting the second diode, wherein each of the switching transistor and the first diode has a power loss substantially identical with each other at a time of a forward direction current conduction, and an effective area of the second diode is larger than an effective area of the first diode.
US11251156B2
An apparatus including a circuit structure including a device stratum; one or more electrically conductive interconnect levels on a first side of the device stratum and coupled to ones of the transistor devices; and a substrate including an electrically conductive through silicon via coupled to the one or more electrically conductive interconnect levels so that the one or more inter connect levels are between the through silicon via and the device stratum. A method including forming a plurality of transistor devices on a substrate, the plurality of transistor devices defining a device stratum; forming one or more interconnect levels on a first side of the device stratum; removing a portion of the substrate; and coupling a through silicon via to the one or more interconnect levels such that the one or more interconnect levels is disposed between the device stratum and the through silicon via.
US11251151B2
The present invention concerns a system for allowing the restoration of an interconnection of a die of a power module, a first terminal of the interconnection being fixed on the die and a second terminal of the interconnection being connected to an electric circuit. The system comprises:—at least one material located in the vicinity of the first terminal of the interconnection, the material having a predetermined melting temperature,—means for controlling the temperature of the die at the predetermined melting temperature during a predetermined period of time. The present invention concerns also the method.
US11251150B2
Discussed generally herein are devices that include high density interconnects between dice and techniques for making and using those devices. In one or more embodiments a device can include a bumpless buildup layer (BBUL) substrate including a first die at least partially embedded in the BBUL substrate, the first die including a first plurality of high density interconnect pads. A second die can be at least partially embedded in the BBUL substrate, the second die including a second plurality of high density interconnect pads. A high density interconnect element can be embedded in the BBUL substrate, the high density interconnect element including a third plurality of high density interconnect pads electrically coupled to the first and second plurality of high density interconnect pads.
US11251141B2
A package structure includes a semiconductor device, a molding compound, a first dielectric layer, and a through-via. The molding compound is in contact with a sidewall of the semiconductor device. The first dielectric layer is over the molding compound and the semiconductor device. The through-via is in the molding compound and the first dielectric layer. The through-via is a continuous element and in contact with the first dielectric layer.
US11251139B2
A method of making a secure integrated-circuit system comprises providing a first integrated circuit in a first die having a first die size and providing a second integrated circuit in a second die. The second die size is smaller than the first die size. The second die is transfer printed onto the first die and connected to the first integrated circuit, forming a compound die. The compound die is packaged. The second integrated circuit is operable to monitor the operation of the first integrated circuit and provides a monitor signal responsive to the operation of the first integrated circuit. The first integrated circuit can be constructed in an insecure facility and the second integrated circuit can be constructed in a secure facility.
US11251138B2
In described examples of an integrated circuit (IC) there is a substrate of semiconductor material having a first region with a first transistor formed therein and a second region with a second transistor formed therein. An isolation trench extends through the substrate and separates the first region of the substrate from the second region of the substrate. An interconnect region having layers of dielectric is disposed on a top surface of the substrate. A dielectric polymer is disposed in the isolation trench and in a layer over the backside surface of the substrate. An edge of the polymer layer is separated from the perimeter edge of the substrate by a space.
US11251137B2
A semiconductor device includes a lead frame having a die pad; a semiconductor chip having a front surface in which an integrated circuit is formed, and a back surface that is die-bonded onto the die pad through intermediation of an interposing film and an adhesive layer; and an encapsulating resin for encapsulating the lead frame, the adhesive layer, the interposing film, and the semiconductor chip. The interposing film has a first opening which forms a space between a part of the back surface of the semiconductor chip and the adhesive layer.
US11251135B2
An electronic device module includes a substrate, at least one first component and at least one second component disposed on one surface of the substrate, a second sealing portion having the at least one second component embedded therein, and disposed on the substrate, and a first sealing portion disposed outside of the second sealing portion, at least a portion of the first sealing portion being disposed between the at least one first component and the substrate.
US11251131B2
A device includes a conductive layer including a bottom portion, and a sidewall portion over the bottom portion, wherein the sidewall portion is connected to an end of the bottom portion. An aluminum-containing layer overlaps the bottom portion of the conductive layer, wherein a top surface of the aluminum-containing layer is substantially level with a top edge of the sidewall portion of the conductive layer. An aluminum oxide layer is overlying the aluminum-containing layer. A copper-containing region is over the aluminum oxide layer, and is spaced apart from the aluminum-containing layer by the aluminum oxide layer. The copper-containing region is electrically coupled to the aluminum-containing layer through the top edge of the sidewall portion of the conductive layer.
US11251123B1
Static random access memory (SRAM) bit cells employing asymmetric width read and write word lines (WWL) for reduced memory write latency and improved memory write access performance, and related fabrication methods are disclosed. In exemplary aspects, the SRAM bit cell employs an increased width write word line based on a circuit cell layout area savings achieved by employing a reduced width read word line. Increasing the width of the write word line can reduce the resistance of the write word line and decrease memory write latency to the SRAM bit cell as a result. In certain exemplary aspects, the metal line pitch and minimum distance between metal lines of the SRAM bit cell can be maintained for maintaining fabrication compatibility with existing fabrication processes with decreasing the resistance of the write word line of the SRAM bit cell.
US11251115B1
A redistribution structure including a first redistribution layer is provided. The first redistribution layer includes a dielectric layer; at least one conductive structure located in the dielectric layer, wherein the at least one conductive structure has a width L; and at least one dummy structure located adjacent to the at least one conductive structure and located in the dielectric layer, and the at least one dummy structure has a width D, wherein there is a gap width S between the at least one dummy structure and the at least one conductive structure, and a degree of planarization DOP of the first redistribution layer is greater than or equal to 95%, wherein DOP=[1−(h/T)]*100%, and h refers to a difference between a highest height and a lowest height of a top surface of the dielectric layer; and T refers to a thickness of the at least one conductive structure.
US11251112B2
A dual side cooling power module includes: a lower substrate including a recessed portion on at least one surface thereof, a semiconductor chip formed in the recessed portion, lead frames formed at both ends of the lower substrate, and an upper substrate formed on the semiconductor chip, a portion of the lead frames, and the lower substrate.
US11251108B2
A semiconductor module includes a semiconductor device, and a cooling device. The semiconductor device has: an input terminal; a wiring portion that includes a first end portion, and a second end portion, and extends in one direction, the first end portion being connected to the input terminal; a circuit substrate that includes a top surface, and a bottom surface, the top surface being provided with a first circuit board and a second circuit board along the one direction, the bottom surface being arranged on a top surface of the cooling device; a metal body connected between the wiring portion, and a top surface of the first circuit board; and a semiconductor chip that includes a top surface electrode, and a bottom surface electrode, the top surface electrode being connected to the second end portion, the bottom surface electrode being connected to a top surface of the second circuit board.
US11251104B2
A semiconductor device includes: a base plate having a heat dissipation surface and a mounting surface opposite to each other; a semiconductor chip mounted on the mounting surface of the base plate; a sealing material sealing the semiconductor chip; a first sheet adhering to the heat dissipation surface of the base plate and having plural openings; and a second sheet covering the first sheet.
US11251098B2
In the semiconductor device, a screw has a head section embedded in a case groove section provided in a frame placing stage of a case to cause side and front surfaces of the head section to be covered by the case, thereby fixing the screw to the case. A threaded section passes through a frame through hole of a frame exposed section disposed above the head section to protrude upward to be exposed on a side facing away from the base plate.
US11251087B2
A method of forming a semiconductor device including a fin field effect transistor (FinFET) includes forming a first sacrificial layer over a source/drain structure of a FinFET structure and an isolation insulating layer. The first sacrificial layer is patterned, thereby forming an opening. A first liner layer is formed on the isolation insulating layer in a bottom of the opening and on at least side faces of the patterned first sacrificial layer. After the first liner layer is formed, forming a dielectric layer in the opening. After the dielectric layer is formed, removing the patterned first sacrificial layer, thereby forming a contact opening over the source/drain structure. A conductive layer is formed in the contact opening. The FinFET is an n-type FET, and the source/drain structure includes an epitaxial layer including Si1−x−yM1xM2y, where M1 includes Sn, M2 is one or more of P and As, and 0.01≤x≤0.1, and 0.01≤y≤0.1.
US11251082B2
A wafer processing method includes a polyester sheet providing step of positioning a wafer in an inside opening of a ring frame and providing a polyester sheet on a back side or a front side of the wafer and on a back side of the ring frame, a uniting step of heating the polyester sheet as applying a pressure to the polyester sheet to thereby unite the wafer and the ring frame through the polyester sheet by thermocompression bonding, a dividing step of applying a laser beam to the wafer to form modified layers in the wafer, thereby dividing the wafer into individual device chips, and a pickup step of heating the polyester sheet in each of the plurality of separate regions corresponding to each device chip, pushing up each device chip through the polyester sheet, then picking up each device chip from the polyester sheet.
US11251081B2
The method of manufacturing a plurality of semiconductor chips (100) comprises a step A) of providing a semiconductor substrate (1) having a plurality of integrated electronic circuits (2) on a top side (10) thereof. In a step B), a sacrificial layer (3) is applied on one side of the semiconductor substrate. In a step C), holes (30) are introduced in the sacrificial layer so that at least one hole is formed above each electronic circuit. In a step D), the semiconductor substrate is adhered to a carrier (5) with the sacrificial layer at the front, an adhesive layer (4) being used between the sacrificial layer and the carrier, and the adhesive layer filling the holes so that holding elements (40) from the adhesive layer are formed in the holes. In a step E) the semiconductor substrate is thinned. In a step F) separation trenches (6) are introduced between the electronic circuits, which extend from a side of the electronic circuits facing away from the carrier to the sacrificial layer and penetrate the thinned semiconductor substrate. In a step G) the sacrificial layer is removed in the region between the electronic circuits and the carrier.
US11251078B2
A method for forming a semiconductor device structure is provided. The method includes forming a first conductive feature over a semiconductor substrate. The method includes forming an oxygen-absorbing layer on a surface of the first conductive feature. The oxygen-absorbing layer absorbs oxygen from the first conductive feature and becomes an oxygen-containing layer. The method includes removing the oxygen-containing layer to expose the surface originally covered by the oxygen-containing layer. The method includes forming a metal-containing layer on the surface. The method includes forming a second conductive feature on the metal-containing layer.
US11251075B2
Plasma processing systems and methods are provided. In one example, a system includes a processing chamber having a workpiece support. The workpiece is configured to support a workpiece. The system includes a plasma source configured to induce a plasma from a process gas in a plasma chamber to generate one or more species of negative ions. The system includes a grid structure configured to accelerate the one or more negative ions towards the workpiece. The grid structure can include a first grid plate, a second grid plate, and one or more magnetic elements positioned between the first grid plate and second grid plate to reduce electrons accelerated through the first grid plate. The system can include a neutralizer cell disposed downstream of the grid structure configured to detach extra electrons from ions of the one or more species of negative ions to generate energetic neutral species for processing the workpiece.
US11251071B2
A method includes forming a metal layer extending into openings of a dielectric layer to contact a first metal pad and a second metal pad, and bonding a bottom terminal of a component device to the metal layer. The metal layer has a first portion directly underlying and bonded to the component device. A raised via is formed on the metal layer, and the metal layer has a second portion directly underlying the raised via. The metal layer is etched to separate the first portion and the second portion of the metal layer from each other. The method further includes coating the raised via and the component device in a dielectric layer, revealing the raised via and a top terminal of the component device, and forming a redistribution line connecting the raised via to the top terminal.
US11251070B2
A method of fabricating a semiconductor device includes providing a substrate, and forming an interlayered insulating layer on the substrate. The method includes forming a preliminary via hole in the interlayered insulating layer. The method includes forming a passivation spacer on an inner side surface of the preliminary via hole. The method includes forming a via hole using the passivation spacer as an etch mask. The method includes forming a conductive via in the via hole. The passivation spacer includes an insulating material different from an insulating material included in the interlayered insulating layer.
US11251069B2
A method for forming a semiconductor device structure is provided. The method includes forming first and second well regions with different conductivity types in a semiconductor substrate. A well interface is formed between the first and second well regions. The method also includes patterning the semiconductor substrate to form a first fin structure in the first well region, a second fin structure in the second well region, and a first trench between the first and second fin structures. The first trench exposes the well interface in the semiconductor substrate. The method further includes forming insulating spacers on opposite sidewalls of the first trench and etching the semiconductor substrate below the first trench using the insulating spacers as an etch mask, to form a second trench below the first trench. In addition, the method includes filling the first and second trenches with an insulating material.
US11251063B2
A transporter for transporting an article used in semiconductor fabrication is provided. The transporter includes a robotic arm. The transporter further includes two platens connected to the robotic arm. Each of the two platens an inner surface facing the other, and a number of gas holes are formed on each of the inner surfaces of the two platens. The transporter also includes a gas supplier placed in communication with the gas holes. The gas supplier is used to control the flow of gas through the gas holes.
US11251061B2
Disclosed are: an electrostatic chuck having a high volume resistivity so as to reduce a leakage current, thereby improving the adsorption and desorption response characteristics of a semiconductor wafer; and a manufacturing method therefor. The electrostatic chuck is a sintered body in which an electrode is impregnated so as to fix a semiconductor wafer by electrostatic force, and comprises alumina, a sintering aid, and a rare earth composite oxide comprising two to five different rare earth metals, has adsorption and desorption response characteristics of a semiconductor wafer of two seconds or less, and has a volume resistivity at room temperature of 1.0E+16 Ω·cm to 1.0E+17 Ω·cm.
US11251047B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide for apparatus used to detect clogs in a fluid delivery system during CMP processes and methods of detecting clogs in a fluid delivery system during CMP processes. In particular, embodiments herein provide a flow splitter manifold configured to enable monitoring of the pressure of the polishing fluid disposed therein. Monitoring the fluid pressure in the flow splitter manifold enables the detection of clogs in the delivery lines and/or dispense nozzles that inhibit and/or prevent the flow of polishing fluid therethrough or therefrom.
US11251046B2
An object of the present invention is to improve the flatness of a surface electrode without increasing the number of steps in a semiconductor device having gate structures. A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device of the present invention includes the steps of discretely forming a plurality of gate structures on a first main surface of the semiconductor substrate, discretely forming a plurality of gate interlayer films covering the plurality of gate structures of the semiconductor substrate, forming a first surface electrode being thicker than the gate interlayer films on the first main surface of the semiconductor substrate between the plurality of the gate interlayer films and on the plurality of the gate interlayer films by sputtering, and removing convex portions of concave portions and the convex portions on the first surface electrode by dry etching using photolithography, to flatten an upper surface of the first surface electrode.
US11251043B2
A method for forming a semiconductor structure including forming a plurality of mandrel lines on a first dielectric layer and forming one or more groups of discontinuous mandrel line pairs with a first mask. The method further includes disposing a second dielectric layer, and forming dielectric spacers on sidewalls of the mandrel lines and the discontinuous mandrel line pairs. The method further includes removing the mandrel lines and the discontinuous mandrel line pairs to form spacer masks, forming one or more groups of blocked regions using a second mask, and forming openings extended through the first dielectric layer with a conjunction of the spacer masks and the second mask. The method also includes removing the spacer masks and the second mask, disposing an objective material in the openings, and forming objective lines with top surfaces coplanar with the top surfaces of the first dielectric layer.
US11251040B2
A method and apparatus for depositing a material on a surface of a substrate are disclosed. The method can include a treatment step to suppress a rate of material deposition on the surface of the substrate. The method can result in higher-quality deposited material. Additionally or alternatively, the method can be used to fill a recess within the surface of the substrate with reduced or no seam formation.
US11251038B2
A film where a first layer and a second layer are laminated is formed on a substrate by performing: forming the first layer by performing a first cycle a predetermined number of times, the first cycle including non-simultaneously performing: supplying a source to the substrate, and supplying a reactant to the substrate, under a first temperature at which neither the source nor the reactant is thermally decomposed when the source and the reactant are present alone, respectively; and forming the second layer by performing a second cycle a predetermined number of times, the second cycle including non-simultaneously performing: supplying the source to the substrate, and supplying the reactant to the substrate, under a second temperature at which neither the source nor the reactant is thermally decomposed when the source and the reactant are present alone, respectively, the second temperature being different from the first temperature.
US11251036B2
The disclosed technology generally relates to semiconductor devices and methods of manufacturing semiconductor devices such as both logic and memory semiconductor devices. In one aspect, a semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate having a channel region between a source and a drain region, a gate structure arranged to control the channel region and a dielectric structure arranged between the channel region and the gate structure. The dielectric structure includes a high-k dielectric layer or a high-k ferroelectric layer and at least one two dimensional (2D) hexagonal boron-nitride (h-BN) layer in direct contact with the high-k dielectric layer or the high-k ferroelectric layer.
US11251027B2
A stage device for holding a substrate in a processing apparatus for processing the substrate includes a stage, a stage rotating mechanism, and a cold heat transfer mechanism. The stage is configured to hold the substrate in a processing chamber. The stage rotating mechanism includes a rotation shaft extending downward from a center of a bottom surface of the stage and a motor configured to rotate the stage via the rotation shaft. The cold heat transfer mechanism includes at least one cold heat transfer body that is fixedly disposed at a position spaced away from the rotation shaft below the stage and is configured to transfer cold heat of a chiller. The cold heat transfer mechanism is disposed with a gap between the cold heat transfer mechanism and the stage.
US11251016B2
A method of controlling a transmission electron microscope includes: causing a first magnetic field lens to generate a first magnetic field and causing a second magnetic field lens to generate a second magnetic field; causing the magnetic field applying unit to generate a magnetic field of a direction along an optical axis on a specimen mounting surface; and changing excitations of the first excitation coil and the second excitation coil to correct a deviation of a focal length of an objective lens due to the magnetic field generated by the magnetic field applying unit.
US11251011B2
To provide an electron microscope capable of performing the switching-over between normal illumination and annular illumination, wide-area irradiation, an interference pattern as desired or normal illumination in an expeditious and readily manner or achieving a better S/N ratio, the electron microscope comprises a photocathode 101 with negative electron affinity in use; an excitation optical system to excite the photocathode; and an electron optics system to irradiate an electron beam 13 generated from the photocathode by excitation light 12 irradiated through the excitation optical system onto a sample, the excitation optical system including a light source device 107 for the excitation light; and an optical modulation means 108 which is disposed in an optical path of the excitation light to perform spatial phase modulation to the excitation light.
US11250987B2
A transformer includes a magnetic core, a first winding and at least one second winding. The magnetic core has a window through which the first winding passes through without contacting the magnetic core. The second winding passes through the window of the magnetic core and is wound on the magnetic core. The second winding has a distance from the first winding, and the second winding has a first insulating part disposed on an outer surface of the second winding facing the first winding.
US11250984B2
Presented herein are methods and apparatus for biasing magnetic circuits to reduce audible noise from a switching power supply. A magnetic component (e.g., a magnet) is constructed and provided to a core (e.g., a ferromagnetic core) to offset (i.e., bias) an applied magnetomotive force. By selecting and/or manufacturing the magnetic component based on a circuit operating condition, the offset may be tailored to advantageously shift a frequency of mechanical deformation outside the audible noise range. In a switching power supply with fixed peak current, the offset to the applied magnetomotive force may be determined, at least in part, by the fixed peak.
US11250978B2
A system and method for perturbing a permanent magnet asymmetric field to move a body includes a rotating body configured to rotate about a rotation axis, a permanent magnet arrangement arranged on the rotating body containing two or more permanent magnets, and a perturbation element. The permanent magnet arrangement is configured such that an asymmetric magnetic field is generated by the permanent magnets about a perturbation point. Actuation of the perturbation element at or near the perturbation point causes a tangential magnetic force on the rotating body and/or the permanent magnet arrangement, thereby causing the rotating body to rotate about the rotation axis. The disclosure may also be used for linear motion of a body.
US11250973B2
An electrosurgical device: (a) power cable comprising: (i) a primary lead that connects to a first pole of an AC power source and (ii) one or more auxiliary leads; wherein the power cable includes a dual core having the primary lead on a first side and the one or more auxiliary leads on a second side with a web being located between the first side and the second side.
US11250972B1
A hybrid cable may include a central strength member and a plurality of buffer tubes helically wrapped around the central member. Each of the plurality of buffer tubes may house at least one optical fiber, and an outer jacket may surround the plurality of buffer tubes and the central strength member. Additionally, the central strength member may include one or more carbon nanotubes capable of transmitting a power signal.
US11250952B1
The method of event-driven health and wellness decision support considers an individual's medical records and lifestyle; applies healthcare best practices; and recommends next steps. Medical and lifestyle records are input, converted to events and inserted in timestamp order in an event queue. Events are processed in queued order by handlers, and results recorded in a data structure called a “person state”. Some handlers create additional events and insert them in the event queue in timestamp order. Those events are in turn processed in timestamp order. Other handlers create no events, allowing processing of all queued events to eventually complete. After events representing actual occurrences are processed, events representing postulated activities are created, queued, and processed until a specific patient state representing a health and wellness goal obtains. This allows several activity paths to be compared to determine the best path to an optimal health goal. Next steps are recommended as output.
US11250945B2
A facility for procuring and analyzing information about an anatomical surface feature from a caregiver that is usable to generate an assessment of the surface feature is described. The facility displays information about the surface feature used in the assessment of the surface feature. The facility obtains user input and/or data generated by an image capture device to assess the surface feature or update an existing assessment of the surface feature.
US11250944B2
Systems and methods for a color board for use in reagent strip testing are disclosed. One implementation may include a color board surface, a first colored reference element printed on the color board surface, and a second colored reference element printed on the color board surface. The color board may also include a test region on the color board surface configured to receive at least one reagent pad. The color board may also include a unique code, and the code may reflect specific chromatic properties associated with each of the first colored reference element and the second color reference element at a time of printing. The unique code may be machine readable to enable a machine to later normalize a comparison color, for determining chromatic properties of the at least one reagent pad.
US11250933B2
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.
US11250932B2
Disclosed herein are methods of identifying infections, such as methods of identifying bacterial infections which utilize whole metagenome sequence analysis to sequence the entire wound microbiome of clinical samples. The disclosed methods use fast k-mer based sequence analysis, predictive modeling, and Bayesian network analysis, to analyze bacterial metagenomic sequence compositions in conjunction with clinical factors to stratify communities of bacteria into healing versus non-healing clusters. The methods of identifying infections can include performing molecular analysis of a patient wound sample, preparing the data obtained from the molecular analysis, diagnosing the wound sample and/or prognosing the wound sample. The disclosed methods can also be used to identify protein function as well as novel biomarkers.
US11250929B2
An arrangement to guarantee boot up of a computer includes a control center microchip with BIOS boot block and BIOS program, and a flash memory divided into a first protected block, a main block, and a second protected block. In the computer, an embedded controller (EC) with stored modules is electrically connected to the flash memory and the control center microchip. The modules include a determining module to check that the code of the first protected block is identical with the code of the second protected block and a recovery module able to reinstate correct code from the second protected block into the first protected block if required. A method applied to the disclosed computer startup detection system is also disclosed.
US11250927B2
Hardware monitors which can be used by a formal verification tool to exhaustively verify a hardware design for a memory unit. The hardware monitors include detection logic to monitor one or more control signals and/or data signals of an instantiation of the memory unit to detect symbolic writes and symbolic reads. In some examples a symbolic write is a write of symbolic data to a symbolic address; and in other examples a symbolic write is a write of any data to a symbolic address. A symbolic read is a read of the symbolic address. The hardware monitors also include assertion verification logic that verifies an assertion that read data corresponding to a symbolic reads matches write data associated with one or more symbolic writes preceding the read.
US11250922B2
A memory cell includes: a latch, powered by a first reference voltage and a second reference voltage different from the first reference voltage, and having a first connecting terminal and a second connecting terminal; a first programmable fuse, having a first terminal coupled to the first connecting terminal and a second terminal coupled to the second reference voltage; and a second programmable fuse, having a first terminal coupled to the second connecting terminal and a second terminal coupled to the second reference voltage.
US11250914B2
A control method, for a memory array, the control method comprises programming the bit-cell of the memory array in a programming stage; and discharging the bit-cell of the memory array in a discharge stage; wherein the programming stage comprises: programming the bit-cell of the memory array with a plurality of programming voltage pulses; wherein the discharge stage comprises: isolating a select line of the bit-cell of the memory array; and generating a programming voltage pulse to the bit-cell of the memory array; wherein the programming stage can be suspended to a suspend stage by a suspend command after the discharge stage; wherein the suspend command is received during one of the plurality of programming voltage pulse.
US11250899B2
A 1S-1T ferroelectric memory cell is provided that include a transistor and a two-terminal selector device. The transistor exhibits a low conductive state and a high conductive state (channel resistance), depending on drive voltage. The two-terminal selector device exhibits one of an ON-state and an OFF-state depending upon whether the transistor is in its low conductive state or its high conductive state. The transistor may be, for instance, a ferroelectric gate vertical transistor. Modulation of a polarization state of ferroelectric material of the vertical transistor may be utilized to switch the state of the selector device. The memory cell may thus selectively be operated in one of an ON-state and an OFF-state depending upon whether the selector device is in its ON-state or OFF-state.
US11250897B2
Spin current magnetization rotational element, magnetoresistance effect element, and magnetic memory
Provided is a spin current magnetization rotational element, including: a first ferromagnetic metal layer for a magnetization direction to be changed; and a spin-orbit torque wiring which extends in a second direction intersecting a first direction that is a plane-orthogonal direction of the first ferromagnetic metal layer, the first ferromagnetic metal layer being located on one surface of the spin-orbit torque wiring, wherein the spin-orbit torque wiring has a structure in which a spin conduction layer and an interfacial spin generation layer are alternately laminated in the first direction, a number of a plurality of the interfacial spin generation layers is two or more, and at least one of the plurality of the interfacial spin generation layer is made of a compound.
US11250896B2
A memory cell is disclosed which includes a conductive layer, an insulating layer disposed atop the conducting layer, a semiconductor layer disposed atop the insulating layer, a first electrode coupled to the semiconductor layer, a second electrode coupled to the semiconductor layer, wherein the first and second electrodes are separated from one another and wherein the semiconductor layer extends beyond the first and second electrodes forming a first wing, a third electrode coupled to the conductive layer, a first magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) disposed on the first wing, and a first read electrode coupled to the first MTJ.
US11250893B2
Apparatuses and methods for setting a duty cycler adjuster for improving clock duty cycle are disclosed. The duty cycle adjuster may be adjusted by different amounts, at least one smaller than another. Determining when to use the smaller adjustment may be based on duty cycle results. A duty cycle monitor may have an offset. A duty cycle code for the duty cycle adjuster may be set to an intermediate value of a duty cycle monitor offset. The duty cycle monitor offset may be determined by identifying duty cycle codes for an upper and for a lower boundary of the duty cycle monitor offset.
US11250889B2
The present disclosure includes apparatuses and methods for providing power availability information to memory. A number of embodiments include a memory and a controller. The controller is configured to provide power and power availability information to the memory, and the memory is configured to determine whether to adjust its operation based, at least in part, on the power availability information.
US11250885B2
Methods, systems, and products insert markers into recorded media modules. A pair of reference points is received that marks a position and another position in a recorded media module. A copy of the recorded media module is retrieved from memory. Portions of the copy of the recorded media module occurring before the position, and occurring after the another position, are discarded. The copy of the recorded media module occurring between the position and the another position is then presented to a user.
US11250883B2
Disclosed is a device for recording information on a magnetic data storage medium which comprises a magnetic field source designed to be capable of generating a magnetic field in the region where the magnetic data storage medium is arranged; a source of electromagnetic radiation at a matrix of controllable mirrors; and a matrix of controllable mirrors mounted in a housing so as to be capable of reflecting electromagnetic radiation by means of the controllable mirrors into the region where the magnetic data storage medium is arranged and/or in another direction. The present invention makes it possible to record information on a fixed magnetic data storage medium.
US11250878B2
A hearing aid includes a sound classification module to classify environmental sound sensed by a microphone. The sound classification module executes an advanced sound classification algorithm. The hearing aid then processes the sound according to the classification.
US11250872B2
Method, apparatus, and computer program product are provided for customizing an automatic closed captioning system. In some embodiments, at a data use (DU) location, an automatic closed captioning system that includes a base model is provided, search criteria are defined to request from one or more data collection (DC) locations, a search request based on the search criteria is sent to the one or more DC locations, relevant closed caption data from the one or more DC locations are received responsive to the search request, the received relevant closed caption data are processed by computing a confidence score for each of a plurality of data sub-sets of the received relevant closed caption data and selecting one or more of the data sub-sets based on the confidence scores, and the automatic closed captioning system is customized by using the selected one or more data sub-sets to train the base model.
US11250866B2
An improved concept for coding sample values of a spectral envelope is obtained by combining spectrotemporal prediction on the one hand and context-based entropy coding the residuals, on the other hand, while particularly determining the context for a current sample value dependent on a measure of a deviation between a pair of already coded/decoded sample values of the spectral envelope in a spectrotemporal neighborhood of the current sample value. The combination of the spectrotemporal prediction on the one hand and the context-based entropy coding of the prediction residuals with selecting the context depending on the deviation measure on the other hand harmonizes with the nature of spectral envelopes.
US11250849B2
A voice wake-up apparatus used in an electronic device that includes a voice activity detection circuit, a storage circuit and a smart detection circuit is provided. The voice activity detection circuit receives an input sound signal and detects a voice activity section of the input sound signal. The storage circuit stores a predetermined voice sample. The smart detection circuit receives the input sound signal to perform a time domain and a frequency domain detection on the voice activity section to generate a syllable and frequency characteristic detection result, compare the syllable and frequency characteristic detection result with the predetermined voice sample and generate a wake-up signal to a processing circuit of the electronic device when the syllable and frequency characteristic detection result matches the predetermined voice sample to wake up the processing circuit.
US11250828B2
Embodiments are generally directed to a sound-dampening light fixture. In one embodiment, the sound-dampening light fixture includes the following: a structural center portion that includes a housing for a light source, and at least one interconnecting ring that includes connection points for connecting panels to the interconnecting ring. The sound-dampening light fixture also includes panels arranged circumferentially around the structural center portion. The panels are connected to the interconnecting ring at the connection points. The panels are arranged at angles that are designed to dampen sound waves, and are constructed from material that further dampens sound waves coming into contact therewith.
US11250826B2
Digital signal processing and machine learning techniques can be employed in a vocal capture and performance social network to computationally generate vocal pitch tracks from a collection of vocal performances captured against a common temporal baseline such as a backing track or an original performance by a popularizing artist. In this way, crowd-sourced pitch tracks may be generated and distributed for use in subsequent karaoke-style vocal audio captures or other applications. Large numbers of performances of a song can be used to generate a pitch track. Computationally determined pitch trackings from individual audio signal encodings of the crowd-sourced vocal performance set are aggregated and processed as an observation sequence of a trained Hidden Markov Model (HMM) or other statistical model to produce an output pitch track.
US11250818B2
A head-up display device used in augmented reality is provided. The head-up display device includes a set of reflectors, a first optical module and a reflector adjustment mechanism. The set of reflectors includes at least one moveable reflector. The first optical module is configured to project a first image to at least one moveable reflector and to further project the first image to a target position through the set of reflectors. The reflector adjustment mechanism is configured to adjust the position of at least one moveable reflector to change the height of the target position.
US11250816B2
A method, a device and a computer-readable storage medium with instructions for controlling a display of an augmented-reality head-up display device for a transportation vehicle. Interfering movements of the transportation vehicle are detected, a graphics generator generates a dynamically-embodied marker for display by the augmented-reality head-up display device, and the generated marker is outputted for display by the augmented-reality head-up display device.
US11250808B2
A display system comprises a processing circuit configured to receive image data from a video source, and generate a current image frame by generating pixel data as a function of the image data and storing the pixel data to a frame buffer. A graphic video driver is configured to display the image frame by reading the pixel data from the frame buffer and generating drive signals for the graphic display as a function of the pixel data read. The processing circuit also is configured to insert integrity data into the pixel data of the current image frame, wherein the position of the integrity data within the pixel data changes. The display system comprises a further processing circuit configured to read the pixel data from the frame buffer and verify whether the position of the integrity data within the pixel data changes.
US11250806B2
The present disclosure provides a common voltage regulating circuit and a common voltage regulating method, a display driving circuit and a display device, the common voltage regulating circuit is applied to a display panel, and the display panel includes a pixel electrode and a common electrode, the common voltage regulating circuit includes: a first regulating sub-circuit configured to provide a signal from a second signal input terminal to a first signal output terminal under the control of an enabling signal terminal in a power-on stage of the display panel; the first signal input terminal is configured to input a signal to be provided to the common electrode in a display stage of the display panel, the second signal input terminal is configured to input a signal to be provided to the pixel electrode in the power-on stage, the first signal output terminal is coupled with the common electrode.
US11250793B1
The present application discloses a driving method and a driver chip for a display panel, and a display device, where the driving method includes steps of: acquiring a refresh rate of a first data information; performing local dimming on the first data information to generate a first backlight driving information and a first data driving information; and adjusting the first backlight driving information and the first data driving information according to the refresh rate to generate a second backlight driving information and a second data driving information, respectively.
US11250791B2
A first brightness value and a second brightness value are determined. The first brightness value relates to display performed by the display during a display time window. The second brightness value relates to an off state of the display during an off time window. The display is off during the off time window. A first drop depth value is determined according to the first brightness value and the second brightness value. A second ambient brightness value is acquired by adjusting a first ambient brightness value detected by the light sensor based on a brightness adjusting model acquired under predetermined ambient light and the first drop depth value.
US11250784B2
The present disclosure discloses a shift register, a driving method thereof, a gate drive circuit, an array substrate and a display device. With a signal control circuit, a branch control circuit, a cascade signal output circuit and at least two scan signal output circuits, each shift register can output at least two scan signals to correspond to different gate lines in a display panel. This can reduce the number of shift registers in a gate drive circuit and the space occupied by the gate drive circuit and can achieve an ultra-narrow frame design, as compared with an existing shift register that can only output one scan signal. Moreover, as signals of different output control node do not influence each other, the output stability can also be improved.
US11250766B2
A first receiver receives serial data including multiple odd-numbered pixels arranged horizontally at odd-numbered positions in a frame. A second receiver receives serial data including multiple even-numbered pixels arranged horizontally at even-numbered positions in a frame. A signal processing unit integrates the multiple odd-numbered and even-numbered pixels, so as to generate line data. A first reception abnormal state detector detects an abnormal state in the first receiver. A second reception abnormal state detector detects an abnormal state in the second receiver. When the first reception abnormal state detector detects an abnormal state, the signal processing unit restores odd-numbered pixels using even-numbered pixels. When the second reception abnormal state detector detects an abnormal state, the signal processing unit restores even-numbered pixels using odd-numbered pixels.
US11250765B2
A display driving circuit is provided. The display driving circuit includes a multi-stage driving unit, and each stage of the driving unit includes a pull-up control unit and a pull-up unit. The pull-up unit is electrically connected to a second high voltage signal input terminal, so that high voltage signal input from the second high voltage signal input terminal is directly transmitted to a cascade signal output terminal through the pull-up unit, which further enables the display driving circuit to output a high voltage driving signal while a gate of a thin film transistor inside the display driving circuit is kept at low voltage.
US11250752B2
In some examples, a display includes a plurality of display pixels, an integrated timing controller and driver circuit to drive the display pixels, and a de-multiplexer circuit including one or more transistors coupled to the integrated timing controller and driver circuit and coupled to one or more of the plurality of display pixels.
US11250747B2
A display device includes: a display panel having a plurality of sub-pixels sharing a single reference voltage line, each of the sub-pixels comprising a switching transistor, a driving transistor, a sensing transistor, a storage capacitor, and a light-emitting element; a data driver configured to supply a data voltage to the plurality of sub-pixels; a gate driver configured to supply a gate signal to the plurality of sub-pixels; a timing controller configured to control the data driver and the gate driver; and a detector configured to sense a threshold voltage and mobility of the driving transistor to detect if there is a short-circuit between a gate electrode and an output terminal of the driving transistor.
US11250744B2
An optical adjustment method and an optical adjustment device for a display panel, and a display device are provided. The optical adjustment method includes: displaying N groups of testing images sequentially on the display panel, each group of testing images including M images distributed at different display regions of the display panel, each image corresponding to one to-be-adjusted reference color, N being an integer greater than or equal to 1, M being an integer greater than or equal to 1; and when each group of testing images are displayed on the display panel, detecting, by an optical detection unit, optical parameters of the M images in the group of testing images simultaneously, and performing optical adjustment on the display panel in accordance with the optical parameters.
US11250742B2
A method, system and apparatus are provided for generating indicia in the sky using a single pass of an aircraft. A system of an embodiment for communicating a message from an aircraft includes: a plurality of valves; a plurality of nozzles, where each nozzle is associated with a corresponding valve, and where the plurality of nozzles are distributed along a span of a wing of the aircraft; at least one tank in fluid communication with the plurality of valves; and a controller configured to individually control each of the plurality of valves, where the controller is configured to individually actuate the plurality of valves to generate, from contents of the tank received at each nozzle, cloud bursts to be suspended in the air.
US11250737B2
A method of manufacturing a foldable display device includes providing a first structure including a first flexible member, a first release film having a first release force, and a lower release film having a second release force, detaching the first release film without detaching the lower release film, providing a second structure including a second flexible member, a second release film having a third release force, and a first adhesive layer on the first flexible member, and detaching the lower release film without detaching the second release film, in which an adhesive force of the first adhesive layer to the first or second flexible members is greater than the second and third release force, the second release force is larger than the first release force by about “n” times and the third release force by about “m” times, “n” and “m” each being a real number larger than about one.
US11250736B2
The disclosure provides a display panel and a flexible display device. The display panel includes: a non-bending region, which includes a first non-bending region and a second non-bending region; a bending region, configured to connect with the first non-bending region and the second non-bending region; a supporting structure, between the first non-bending region and the second non-bending region and close to the bending region, where the supporting structure is configured to support the first non-bending region and the second non-bending region; and a buffer structure, on at least one edge of the supporting structure close to the bending region, and configured to buffer pressing of the edge of the supporting structure on the non-bending region.
US11250733B2
A method for manufacturing a label with a suspension handle includes i) providing a first layered material including a support layer and a first front layer joined in a releasable manner; ii) covering a front surface of the first front layer with a detachment promoter layer, leaving a free zone where the promoter layer is absent; iii) providing a second layered material including a second front layer transparent to light and an adhesive layer iv) joining the products of steps ii) and iii) in a coupled material and v) separating a suspension handle in the handle area, at least one secondary label of the label in a different area, and forming a label surround in the first front layer. At the secondary label, the label includes an opaque contrast layer superposed on the second front layer eliminate transparency, a second graphic layer superposed on the contrast layer, and a protective layer.
US11250731B1
A display column system that includes interchangeable custom printed outer shells surrounds a structural internal frame and support. The display columns are particularly well suited for surrounding and coupling suspended poles or conduits elevated at various heights above the floor. Both the outer shell and internal frame are easily collapsed and fold flat for efficient transportation.
US11250723B1
A system and methodology combines virtual reality (VR) with a plurality of machine learning analyses, and uses majority voting to detect dementia and the diseases under dementia. The accuracy of the classification in the Medical Visuospatial Dementia test is very high.
US11250720B2
Systems and methods for automated and direct network positioning are disclosed herein. The system can include memory that can include a content library database and a structure sub-database. The system can include at least one server. The at least one server can: receive a data packet previously unassociated with the hierarchy in the structure sub-database; identify one of the plurality of positions within the hierarchy for the data packet; receive user information; present a series of assessment data packets to the user; receive a response from the user subsequent to presentation of each of the assessment data packets; evaluate the received responses; adjust a location of the user within the hierarchy based on the evaluating of the received responses; and present a content data packet to the user.
US11250715B1
Described herein are various technologies pertaining to presenting training data for a task performed using an electronic health records application (EHR) to healthcare workers. A context for a task to be performed within the EHR is transmitted to a server from a client EHR. The context includes data indicative of or pertaining to a healthcare worker using the client EHR, an element of a graphical user interface (GUI) of the client EHR, or other data indicative of the task to be performed within the EHR. The server transmits a list of training materials to the client EHR based upon the context, where the training materials comprise data pertaining to performance of one or more tasks by way of the client EHR. Responsive to receiving the list, the client EHR displays an indication of a training material in the training materials within the GUI of the client EHR.
US11250712B2
Circuitry for an aerial vehicle that includes processing circuitry that acquires altitude information indicating a measurement result of altitude of the aerial vehicle, receives a reference signal transmitted from a base station, receives altitude zone setting information transmitted from the base station, the altitude zone setting information being information for setting an altitude zone for classifying a state of the altitude zone of the aerial vehicle, identifies the altitude zone of the aerial vehicle based on the altitude information and the altitude zone setting information, and controls measurement report processing of reporting a measurement report message including reference signal information indicating a measurement result of the reference signal and the altitude information to the base station based on the altitude zone of the aerial vehicle, such that a frequency of transmitting the measurement report message is changed according to the identified altitude zone.
US11250706B2
A method for the operation of a parking assistance system of a transportation vehicle in which a parking space in a surroundings of the transportation vehicle is recognized with reference to sensor data of at least one surroundings sensor of the transportation vehicle and a predetermined parking space category is assigned to the parking space, and a parking maneuver into the parking space with the assigned parking space category is offered to a user of the transportation vehicle, wherein parking space surroundings data that describe a location of the parking space and/or a surroundings of the parking space are determined, a driving direction along which the transportation vehicle will be maneuvered into the parking space is determined with reference to the parking space surroundings data, and the parking maneuver along the determined driving direction is offered to the user.
US11250704B2
An information provision device transmits, by near field communication, fixed phrase information, of guidance information that guides a user, representative of a fixed phrase and insertion phrase information selected from among a plurality of pieces of insertion phrase information representative of different insertion phrases to be inserted in the fixed phrase, to a terminal device capable of presenting, to the user, presentation information corresponding to the guidance information where the insertion phrase represented by the insertion phrase information is inserted in the fixed phrase represented by the fixed phrase information.
US11250677B2
A security device is provided that includes an electronic article surveillance tag that may be configured to resonate to provide a wireless response signal to a deactivator to trigger generation of a deactivation field. Further, the security device may include tamper detection circuitry which may include a tamper sensor configured to generate a tamper signal in response to detecting a tamper event, a deactivation sensor configured to generate a deactivation signal in response to detecting the deactivation field, and a sounder. In this regard, the tamper detection circuitry may be configured to deactivate the tamper detection circuitry in response to receiving the deactivation signal from the deactivation sensor such that receipt of the tamper signal after deactivation of the tamper detection circuitry does not trigger the sounder to emit the alarm.
US11250671B2
A sportsbook odds optimization and parlay correlation analysis platform may be provided. The platform may be configured to assess the correlation value for proposition bet parlays. The platform may be employed by a sportsbooks or other betting event hosting establishment. The platform may be configured to establish parameters for processing at least one parlay offered to the establishment. The parameters may include, for example, but not be limited to, a correlation value and a payout type. Next, at least one parlay may be received for processing. A correlation value and a payout value associated with the at least one parlay may be calculated. The platform may be configured to determine whether to accept or decline the at least one parlay offering based on the parameters defined by the establishment. The at least one parlay may then be accepted or declined in accordance to the determination.
US11250667B2
A system and method for evaluating a persistent bonus game jackpot includes providing a persistent bonus game jackpot including an amount that defines a state of the persistent bonus game jackpot, storing, within a memory, a plurality of paytables, each paytable of the plurality of paytables associated with a state of the persistent bonus game jackpot and including a probability of awarding the persistent bonus game jackpot at the associated state, determining a current state of the persistent bonus game jackpot, dynamically selecting, based upon the determined current state, a paytable from the plurality of paytables stored in the memory, evaluating a bingo card provided in association with the persistent bonus game jackpot against the dynamically selected paytable and a ball call, and determining, in response to the evaluating, to credit the amount of the persistent bonus game jackpot to a player credit balance associated with the evaluated bingo card.
US11250665B1
A method and apparatus for playing a wagering game where the objective is to predict a second segment in a sequence of visual narrative segments presented in a series comprising a first segment and a second segment, where each visual narrative segment in the series shows one or more events depicted in visual form as a video, film, or animation.
US11250657B2
Provided is a power plant operation history device. The power plant operation history device includes: a communication unit configured to detect RFID of a wearable device and communicate with a signal conversion device; and a control unit configured to determine a power plant control authority of a user based on user identification information obtained through the communication unit, transmit an operation permission signal allowing operation of an input device of a power plant control facility control device to the signal conversion device when it is determined that the user's power plant control authority exists, and normally process a user input from the input device through the signal conversion device.
US11250656B2
According to various embodiments, an electronic device including a touch screen display may receive first information associated with a first electronic key of a first door lock, display a first graphic user interface (GUI) associated with the first electronic key to indicate an inactive status of the first electronic key on the display, receive first credential information associated with the first electronic key, and after receiving the first credential information, change the first GUI to indicate an active status of the first electronic key.
US11250653B2
A remote control system for a marine vessel includes a helm transceiver positioned on the marine vessel and configured to communicate with one or more fobs, and at least one operator fob configured to wirelessly transmit a fob signal to the helm transceiver on the marine vessel. A controller is configured to receive the fob signal transmitted by the operator fob and to determine an operator distance based on the fob signal. The operator distance is compared with one or more threshold distances, and then a system command is generated based on the comparison of the operator distance to the one or more threshold distances so as to control operation of one or more devices on the marine vessel.
US11250652B2
A smart delivery receptacle and related systems and techniques are disclosed. The disclosed receptacle may be configured to detect and securely report wirelessly on whether a package has been delivered thereto. Moreover, the disclosed receptacle may be configured to alert an owner or other authorized party if the receptacle has been compromised or a package has been removed without authorization. To such ends, the disclosed receptacle may include RF wireless communication device(s) configured to transmit RF signal(s) including data pertaining to various conditions to be monitored. Information from the RF signal(s) may be delivered through the internet to a server, which may be cloud-based in some instances, allowing for inter-networking of the system components and other elements as part of the internet of things (IOT). Mobile and other computing devices may access the information stored at the server to monitor the receptacle, as well as control overall system operation.
US11250647B2
The present disclosure provides various examples of a self-declaring wireless device installed on a vehicle operable to automatically detect, determine and declare occupancy information of the vehicle traveling on a restricted traffic lane to an electronic toll collection (ETC) system. According to one aspect, a process for performing self-declaration by a vehicle traveling on a restricted traffic lane includes the steps of: receiving sensor data collected by one or more sensors installed on the vehicle; determining occupancy data of the vehicle based on the received sensor data; and controlling a wireless transceiver installed on the vehicle to communicate with an electronic toll collection (ETC) system associated with the restricted traffic lane based on the determined occupancy data.
US11250641B2
Mating virtual objects in virtual reality environment, involves generating a bounding box having a plurality of faces corresponding to a plurality of exterior surfaces of a subject virtual object. A spatial mesh corresponding to surfaces of the real world environment is generated. A magnetic mate is generated to initially align a bounding box first face to a first spatial mesh surface. A shadow mate is provided between a bounding box second face and a second spatial mesh surface, by projecting a virtual ray from the subject virtual object bounding box second face toward the second spatial mesh surface, determining a mate point corresponding to an intersection of the virtual ray and the second spatial mesh surface, and displaying a mating button in the virtual reality environment at the mate point.
US11250632B2
The disclosure is directed to embodiments for producing high-quality images simulating the application of a material (e.g., virtual cosmetics) to a person's body. Example implementations can generate an augmented image displaying a virtual cosmetic layer (e.g., lipstick) on a person's face. For instance, a computing system can obtain an image depicting the face and identify a region for applying the cosmetic. The system can use augmented reality and/or image filtering to process the image into datasets that can be combined with material data related to the virtual cosmetic to generate augmented image(s) simulating application of the material.
US11250624B2
Methods for displaying an augmented reality (AR) model on an AR device are disclosed. Alignment between a geospatial reference frame and an AR reference frame is monitored and adjusted to improve placement of the AR model displayed on the AR device.
