US11315362B2
Emotion-recognition-based service provision apparatus for vehicle and method of controlling the same
A method of providing an emotion-recognition-based service for a vehicle includes monitoring an occupant and a driving situation, when recognizing an emotion of the occupant during the monitoring, comparing at least one of a first emotion as a type of a currently generated emotion or a first driving situation as a driving situation corresponding to a first time which is as a time at which the emotion is recognized, with at least one of a second emotion as a type of an emotion that is previously recognized compared with the emotion or a second driving situation as a driving situation corresponding to a second time which is as a time at which the previously generated emotion is recognized, and based on a result of the comparing, determining the currently generated emotion as one of a transient emotion, a sequential emotion, and a repetitive emotion.
US11315361B2
An occupant state determining device includes an image data acquiring unit for acquiring image data indicating an image captured by a camera used for image capturing in a vehicle cabin, an image recognition processing unit for performing image recognition processing on the captured image by using the image data, a moveless state determining unit for determining whether an occupant is in a moveless state by using a result of the image recognition processing, and an abnormal state determining unit for determining whether the occupant is in an abnormal state due to decrease in the degree of awakening by using a result of the determination by the moveless state determining unit, and the abnormal state determining unit determines that the occupant is in an abnormal state when the duration of the moveless state exceeds a reference time.
US11315358B1
A method for detection of altered fingerprints includes receiving, by at least one processor, an image of a fingerprint from a fingerprint reader. The image has an image resolution. The processor determines a spatial location of the fingerprint within the image. The processor crops the image around the spatial location to provide a cropped image. The processor generates multiple derived images using the cropped image, such that each derived image has the image resolution. The processor generates a multiple-channel image using the derived images. The processor scales the multiple-channel image to an image size. The processor generates a score using a machine learning model. The score is based on the multiple-channel image and is indicative of a likelihood that the fingerprint has been altered.
US11315351B2
The information processing device includes: a reception unit configured to receive image data regarding an accounting supporting document; a first acquisition unit configured to recognize characters in the image data and acquire the recognized characters as character data; a first identification unit configured to identify a purpose classification on the basis of the character data acquired by the first acquisition unit and the image data; an allocation unit configured to identify a standard item regarding the accounting supporting document on the basis of the character data and allocate characters to the standard item; an association unit configured to associate the characters with other characters adjacent to the characters; and an output unit configured to output the purpose classification identified by the first identification unit and the standard item and the other characters in a format in which the standard item and the other characters are associated by the association unit.
US11315344B2
Disclosed is a reconfigurable convolution engine for performing a convolution operation on an image. A data receiving module receives image data. A determination module determines a kernel size based on the image data, clock speed associated to the convolution engine and number of available on-chip resources. An allocation module allocates a plurality of instances based on the kernel size. Each instance of the plurality of instances further comprises a set of computing blocks operating concurrently. Each computing block is configured to perform convolution operation on the feature map of the image. An aggregation module aggregates the convolution output of each computing block for each instance of the plurality of instances to produce a convolution result for the image.
US11315337B2
A method for managing, by an electronic device, content in an augmented reality (AR) system is provided. The method includes identifying a digital artefact that is used by a first application of an electronic device, executing and displaying an image capturing application to capture images, displaying the digital artefact on a captured image which includes an object of a real world where the digital artefact is displayed on or around the object, and, while the digital artefact is displayed, receiving an user input on at least one of the digital artefact or the object for performing an action associated with the digital artefact.
US11315336B2
The present disclosure relates to a method and a device for editing a virtual scene, and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium. The method includes determining a second location, in the virtual scene played on a terminal, corresponding to a first location of the terminal in a real space; generating one or more virtual objects editable within a predetermined range of the second location in the virtual scene; detecting an edit request for the virtual object; displaying an edit option in the virtual scene in response to the edit request; detecting an operation on the edit option; editing the virtual scene based on the operation on the edit option; and displaying the edited virtual scene.
US11315335B1
A system for mixed-reality interaction with a touch device may include a mixed-reality device including a sensor, a mapping device, a simulator, and a display and a touch device including an input device. The input device of the touch device and the sensor of the mixed-reality device may detect a human-touch-device interaction. The mapping device may calibrate, correlate, and map the human-touch-device interaction from a real-world environment to a mixed-reality environment. The input device of the touch device may receive an input based on the human-touch-device interaction. The simulator of the mixed-reality device may render a view of the human-touch-device interaction within the mixed-reality environment and a view of an action within the mixed-reality environment corresponding to the input determined based on the human-touch-device interaction. The display of the mixed-reality device may display the rendered views.
US11315334B1
A display apparatus including light source(s), camera(s), head-tracking means, and processor configured to: obtain three-dimensional model of real-world environment; control camera(s) to capture given image of real-world environment, whilst processing head-tracking data obtained from head-tracking means to determine pose of users head with respect to which given image is captured; determine region of three-dimensional model that corresponds to said pose of users head; compare plurality of features extracted from region of three-dimensional model with plurality of features extracted from given image, to detect object(s) present in real-world environment; employ environment map of extended-reality environment to generate intermediate extended-reality image based on pose of users head; embed object(s) in intermediate extended-reality image to generate extended-reality image; and display extended-reality image via light source(s).
US11315333B2
Image processing techniques for rendering holographic images are described. Image data captured from cameras can be converted into a triangle mesh. The triangle mesh may be processed by determining the location of edges, normals, and edge distances in the mesh. Mesh and edge smoothing can be performed on the mesh to reduce noise and jagged edges. Additional mesh cleanup and simplification can be performed to reduce the number of vertices and triangles and enhance the qualify of the mesh. Data from the resulting mesh can be transmitted to a receiving device where the mesh data is used to reproduce a holographic image of the image data captured by the depth sensors.
US11315330B1
A sensor assembly for determining one or more features of a local area is presented herein. The sensor assembly includes a plurality of stacked sensor layers. A first sensor layer of the plurality of stacked sensor layers located on top of the sensor assembly includes an array of pixels. The top sensor layer can be configured to capture one or more images of light reflected from one or more objects in the local area. The sensor assembly further includes one or more sensor layers located beneath the top sensor layer. The one or more sensor layers can be configured to process data related to the captured one or more images. A plurality of sensor assemblies can be integrated into an artificial reality system, e.g., a head-mounted display.
US11315328B2
A system can include a device and a graphics processing unit (GPU). The device can be configured to receive a first image from one or more cameras corresponding to a first view and a second image from the one or more cameras corresponding to a second view. The GPU can include a motion estimator and configured to receive the first image and the second image and be configured to receive the first image and the second image. The motion estimator can be configured to determine first disparity offsets for the first image and second disparity offsets for the second image. The device can be configured to generate, for rendering 3D image using the first image and the second image, a first depth buffer for the first image derived from the first disparity offsets and a second depth buffer for the second image derived from the second disparity offsets.
US11315327B1
In one embodiment, a method includes determining a first time interval for rendering pixel values for a first portion of a display, where the first portion of the display is one of a plurality of portions of the display, accessing a representation of virtual objects in a virtual scene, and determining that the first time interval is insufficient for rendering pixel values for the first portion of the display based on the representation of virtual objects. The method further includes, for each of the portions of the display, determining a current viewpoint of a user, rendering, based on the current viewpoint of the user, pixel values for that portion of the display, and sending the rendered pixel values to be output by the display, where the rendered pixel values for the first portion of the display are rendered based on a simplified representation of virtual objects in the virtual scene.
US11315324B2
According to an embodiment, an acquisition unit of a first terminal acquires a try-on subject image. A first calculator calculates composite position information indicating a composite position of a clothing image in the try-on subject image. A first transmission unit transmits, to a server device, user information including the try-on subject image and the composite position information. A second reception unit of the server device receives the user information from the first terminal. Upon receipt of second information including a signal of request for execution of virtual try-on from a portable second terminal, a second transmission unit transmits third information including the user information and the clothing image to the second terminal. A third transmission unit of the second terminal transmits the second information to the server device. A third reception unit receives the third information from the server device. A third storage unit stores the received third information.
US11315322B2
In various example embodiments, techniques are provided for representing uncertainty when displaying a rendered view of a multi-dimensional mesh (e.g., created by SfM photogrammetry) in a user interface by applying a real-time, obfuscation filter that modifies the rendered view based on uncertainty in screen space. Where the multi-dimensional mesh is within a limit of data accuracy, the rendered view is shown without modification (i.e. as normal), and a user may trust the information displayed. Where the multi-dimensional mesh is beyond the limit of data accuracy, the obfuscation filter obfuscates detail (e.g., by blurring, pixilating, edge enforcing, etc.) in the rendered view so that a user may visually perceive the uncertainty. The amount of obfuscation may be weighted based on uncertainty to allow the user to visually quantify uncertainty.
US11315320B2
There is provided an information processing apparatus and method that makes it possible to suppress a reduction in a subjective image quality. Point cloud data before update of position information is searched for a point to be compared, the point to be compared being a point to be compared with a current point, the current point being a processing target point of the point cloud data with the updated position information, and the retrieved point to be compared is compared with the current point, and attribute information of the current point is set. The present disclosure is applicable to, for example, an information processing apparatus, an image processing apparatus, electronic equipment, an information processing method, a program, etc.
US11315316B2
A method is disclosed, the method comprising the steps of receiving, from a first client application, first graphical data comprising a first node; receiving, from a second client application independent of the first client application, second graphical data comprising a second node; and generating a scenegraph, wherein the scenegraph describes a hierarchical relationship between the first node and the second node.
US11315310B2
A global illumination data structure (e.g., a data structure created to store global illumination information for geometry within a scene to be rendered) is computed for the scene. Additionally, reservoir-based spatiotemporal importance resampling (RESTIR) is used to perform illumination gathering, utilizing the global illumination data structure. The illumination gathering includes identifying light values for points within the scene, where one or more points are selected within the scene based on the light values in order to perform ray tracing during the rendering of the scene.
US11315309B2
An apparatus includes: an object data storage section that stores polygon identification data for polygons of an object to be displayed; a reference image data storage section that stores data of reference images each representing an image when a space including the object to be displayed is viewed from one of a plurality of prescribed reference viewing points, and further stores polygon identification data corresponding to each reference image; a viewing point information acquisition section that acquires information relating to a viewing point; a projection section that represents on a plane of a display image the position and shape of an image of the object when the space is viewed from the viewing point; a pixel value determination section that determines the values of pixels constituting the image of the object in the display image, using the values of the pixels representing the same image in one or more of the plurality of reference images; and an output section that outputs the data of the display image; wherein for a subject pixel, the pixel value determination section is arranged to determine the position on a reference image corresponding to the position of the subject pixel on the object, obtain the polygon identification corresponding to the determined position on the reference image, compare the obtained polygon identification with the polygon identification of the polygon corresponding to the position of the subject pixel on the object; and select the reference image if the compared polygon identifications match.
US11315305B1
Presented here is a system and method to increase the speed of computation of a volumetric scattering render technique. The volumetric scattering can include path tracing which simulates interactions between a virtual ray of light and a volume. The interaction can include reflection of the virtual ray of light of a particle within the volume. The system can obtain a threshold number of interactions between a virtual ray of light and a three-dimensional object through which the virtual ray of light is traveling. As the system performs the simulation, the system can compare a number of the interactions to the threshold number. Upon determining that the number of interactions is equal to or exceeds the threshold number, the system can terminate the simulation and approximate interactions between the virtual ray of light and the volume using a second rendering technique that is computationally less expensive than simulating the interactions.
US11315303B2
When a programmable execution unit of a graphics processor is executing a graphics processing program to render a frame that represents a view of a scene using a ray tracing process, and the ray tracing process requires the determination of geometry that will be intersected by a ray, the programmable execution unit sends a message to a ray tracing acceleration data structure traversal circuit of the graphics processor, for the ray tracing acceleration data structure traversal circuit to perform a traversal of a ray tracing acceleration data structure for the scene to determine geometry for the scene that may be intersected by the ray. The ray tracing acceleration data structure traversal circuit then returns to the programmable execution unit an indication of geometry that may be intersected by the ray, and the programmable execution unit uses the indicated geometry to determine any geometry that is intersected by the ray.
US11315302B2
A ray tracing unit is implemented in a graphics rendering system. The ray tracing unit comprises: processing logic configured to perform ray tracing operations on rays, a dedicated ray memory coupled to the processing logic and configured to store ray data for rays to be processed by the processing logic, an interface to a memory system, and control logic configured to manage allocation of ray data to either the dedicated ray memory or the memory system. Core ray data for rays to be processed by the processing logic is stored in the dedicated ray memory, and at least some non-core ray data for the rays is stored in the memory system. This allows core ray data for many rays to be stored in the dedicated ray memory without the size of the dedicated ray memory becoming too wasteful when the ray tracing unit is not in use.
US11315297B2
To securely create an electronic album of photos taken of various keys owned by a person regardless of types of the keys, the electronic key photo album (10) includes a dummy photo generator (11) that cuts out a key image from a photo of a key taken together with a background of the key and complements the photo with a dummy image to generate a dummy photo; a photo storage controller (12) that stores the dummy photo in a first storage (101) together with metadata of the photo of the key and stores the key image in a second storage (102) in association with the dummy photo together with a relative position of the key image in the photo of the key; a photo restorer (13) that reads out a dummy photo from the first storage, reads out, from the second storage, a key image associated with the dummy photo thus read out and a relative position of the key image thus read out, and pastes the key image thus read out to the relative position thus read out in the dummy photo thus read out to restore an original photo of a key in the key image thus read out, and a photo forwarder (14) that transfers the original photo of the key to a display device.
US11315288B2
An eye tracking system can include an eye-tracking camera configured to obtain images of the eye at different exposure times or different frame rates. For example, longer exposure images of the eye taken at a longer exposure time can show iris or pupil features, and shorter exposure, glint images can show peaks of glints reflected from the cornea. The shorter exposure glint images may be taken at a higher frame rate (than the longer exposure images) for accurate gaze prediction. The shorter exposure glint images can be analyzed to provide glint locations to subpixel accuracy. The longer exposure images can be analyzed for pupil center or center of rotation. The eye tracking system can predict future gaze direction, which can be used for foveated rendering by a wearable display system. In some instances, the eye-tracking system may estimate the location of a partially or totally occluded glint.
US11315282B2
A system and method for documenting a scene having evidence markers is provided. The method includes placing the evidence markers in the scene. A plurality of 3D coordinates of points are measured on surfaces in the environment, a first portion of the plurality of 3D coordinates being on a first evidence marker of the evidence markers, the evidence marker having a photogrammetric symbol on one surface. A point cloud is generated from the plurality of 3D coordinates. The first evidence marker in the point cloud based is automatically identified at least in part on the photogrammetric symbol. The location and at least one attribute of the evidence marker are stored.
US11315281B2
The present disclosure relates to a pupil positioning method. The pupil positioning method may include: obtaining an eye image under illumination of a light source; determining a first internal point in a pupil of the eye image; calculating gradient changes of pixel points along a straight line starting from the first internal point toward outside of the pupil; determining a plurality of edge points at an edge of the pupil based on the gradient changes of the pixel points along the straight line; and performing ellipse fitting on the edge points to obtain a pupil center.
US11315276B2
Methods for stereo calibration of a dual-camera that includes a first camera and a second camera and system for performing such methods. In some embodiments, a method comprises obtaining optimized extrinsic and intrinsic parameters using initial intrinsic parameters and, optionally, initial extrinsic parameters of the cameras, estimating an infinity offset e using the optimized extrinsic and extrinsic parameters, and estimating a scaling factor s using the optimized extrinsic and extrinsic parameters and infinity offset parameter e, wherein the optimized extrinsic and extrinsic parameters, infinity offset e and scaling factor s are used together to provide stereo calibration that leads to improved depth estimation.
US11315273B2
The present invention discloses a disparity estimation method for weakly supervised trusted cost propagation, which utilizes a deep learning method to optimize the initial cost obtained by the traditional method. By combining and making full use of respective advantages, the problems of false matching and difficult matching of untextured regions in the traditional method are solved, and the method for weakly supervised trusted cost propagation avoids the problem of data label dependency of the deep learning method.
US11315269B2
A system for generating point clouds having surface normal information includes one or more processors and a memory having a depth map generating module, a point cloud generating module, and surface normal generating module. The depth map generating module causes the one or more processors to generate a depth map from one or more images of a scene. The point cloud causes the one or more processors to generate a point cloud from the depth map having a plurality of points corresponding to one or more pixels of the depth map. The surface normal generating module causes the one or more processors to generate surface normal information for at least a portion of the one or more pixels of the depth map and inject the surface normal information into the point cloud such that the plurality of points of the point cloud include three-dimensional location information and surface normal information.
US11315268B2
The present disclosure relates to an image processing method, an image processing apparatus, and an electronic device. The method includes projecting structured light to a current user based on a preset rule; capturing a structured-light image modulated by the current user each time; and superposing the structured-light images to acquire a target image.
US11315260B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for associating a new measurement of an object surrounding a vehicle with a maintained track. One of the methods includes receiving an object track for a particular object, receiving a new measurement characterizing a new object at a new time step, and determining whether the new object is the same as the particular object, comprising: generating a representation of the new object at the new and preceding time steps; generating a representation of the particular object at the new and preceding time steps; processing a first network input comprising the representations using a first neural network to generate an embedding of the first network input; and processing the embedding of the first network input using a second neural network to generate a predicted likelihood that the new object and the particular object are the same.
US11315250B2
Systems and methods for rapidly analyzing cell containing samples, for example to identify morphology or to localize and quantitate biomarkers are disclosed.
US11315248B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for identifying one or more invalid images characterizing the brain of a patient. One of the methods includes obtaining a data object comprising one or more images characterizing a brain of a patient; processing the data object to determine one or more particular images that are invalid; and providing, for display to a user on a graphical interface, data characterizing i) each particular image and ii) a respective reason that each particular image is invalid selected from a set of possible reasons that an image may be invalid.
US11315245B2
Semi-automated system for real-time wound image segmentation and photogrammetry on a mobile platform
In one example embodiment, a wound imaging system includes a user interface, a computer processor, and an active contouring module. The user interface is configured to display an image of a wound acquired by the wound imaging system and selectively receive inputs from a user defining an initial perimeter of the wound. An active contouring module is configured to operate on the computer processor to receive the inputs defining the initial perimeter of the wound, identify features of the image on opposing sides of the initial perimeter of the wound, and identify an actual perimeter of the wound based on the initial perimeter of the wound and the identified features. The user interface is further configured to display, on the image of the wound, the actual perimeter of the wound as identified by the active contouring module and selectively receive inputs from the user to modify the actual perimeter of the wound.
US11315243B2
The present disclosure relates to techniques to expand the dynamic range of a detector and achieve smooth transition in images used for X-ray image processing. The image finally obtained can fully retain useful information.
US11315242B2
Techniques for fracture detection are provided. A first image is received to be processed to identify rib fractures. A first set of regions of interest (ROIs) is identified by processing the first image using a first machine learning model, where each ROI in the first set of ROIs corresponds to a first potential fracture. Further, a first ROI of the first set of ROIs is upsampled, and the system attempts to verify the first potential fracture in the first ROI by processing the upsampled first ROI using a second machine learning model.
US11315236B2
The present disclosure relates to a method and an apparatus for assuring quality of a component, and more particularly, to a method and an apparatus for quality assurance of an automobile component using a marker, that can remove human error and apply a user-oriented display method, by utilizing image analysis techniques, such as a compensation technique according to shooting distance of a high-resolution camera of a terminal having a shooting function, a reference measurement technique where a marker itself includes information such as spatial information and measurement specifications and the like, and distortion correction of a taken image.
US11315235B2
An input unit 132 receives an input of an image subject to a process. A processing unit subjects the image input to the input unit 132 to a process of a convolutional neural network in which a fully connected layer is excluded. The convolutional neural network in the processing unit 114 includes a convolutional layer and a pooling layer. An output unit outputs a result of the process in the processing unit 114. A filter of the convolutional layer in the convolutional neural network in the processing unit 114 is trained to learn the result of the process having a 1×1 spatial dimension.
US11315229B2
A method for training a defect detector comprises: obtaining a first reference image of a first reference object, wherein the first reference object has a defect and the first reference image has a first label indicating the defect; training a reconstruction model according to a second reference image of a second reference object associated with the first reference object, wherein a defect level of the second reference object is in a tolerable range with an upper limit; obtaining a target image of a target object associated with the first reference object and the second reference object; generating a second label according to the target image, the reconstruction model and an error calculation procedure, wherein the second label comprises a defect of the target object; and training a defect detector by performing a machine learning algorithm according to the first reference image, the target image and the second label.
US11315222B2
An image processing apparatus obtains a first output image by applying an image to a first training network model, obtains a second output image by applying the image to a second training network model, and obtains a reconstructed image based on the first output image and the second output image. The first training network model is a model that uses a fixed parameter obtained through training of a plurality of sample images, the second training network model is trained to minimize a difference between a target image corresponding to the image and the reconstructed image.
US11315221B2
A method and apparatus is provided to perform medical imaging in which feature-aware reconstruction is performed using a neural network. The neural network is trained to perform feature-aware reconstruction by using a training dataset in which the target data has a spatially-dependent degree of denoising and artifact reduction based on the features represented in the image. For example, a target image can be generated by reconstructing multiple images, each using a respective regularization parameter that is optimized for a different anatomy/organ (e.g., abdomen, lung, bone, etc.). And a target image can be generated using artifact reduction method (e.g. metal artifact reduction, aliasing artifact reduction, etc.). Then respective regions/features (e.g., abdomen, lung, and bone, artifact free, regions/features) can be extracted from the corresponding images and combined into a single combined image, which is used as the target data to train the neural network.
US11315217B2
A smartphone may be freely moved in three dimensions as it captures a stream of images of an object. Multiple image frames may be captured in different orientations and distances from the object and combined into a composite image representing an image of the object. The image frames may be formed into the composite image based on representing features of each image frame as a set of points in a three dimensional point cloud. Inconsistencies between the image frames may be adjusted when projecting respective points in the point cloud into the composite image. Quality of the image frames may be improved by processing the image frames to correct errors. Further, operating conditions may be selected, automatically or based on instructions provided to a user, to reduce motion blur. Techniques, including relocalization such that, allow for user-selected regions of the composite image to be changed.
US11315216B2
Methods, systems, and computer programs for improving compressed image chroma information. In one aspect of the invention, a resolution for a red color component of a color video image is used that is higher than the resolution for a blue color component of the color video image. Another aspect includes utilizing a lower or higher value of a quantization parameter (QP) for one or more chroma channels as compared to the luminance channel. Another aspect is use of a logarithmic representation of a video image to benefit image coding. Another aspect uses more than two chroma channels to represent a video image.
US11315211B2
The present disclosure relates to methods and apparatus for graphics processing. The apparatus can determine a motion estimation priority for one or more regions in a frame. In some aspects, each of the one or more regions can include a group of pixels. Additionally, the apparatus can adjust a quality of a motion estimation procedure for each group of pixels based on the motion estimation priority of the region including the group of pixels. The apparatus can also perform the motion estimation procedure for each of the at least one group of pixels to generate a motion vector for the at least one group of pixels based on the adjusted quality of the motion estimation procedure.
US11315209B2
An example method of image signal processing, comprising at least one of, receiving a set of high priority signals, receiving a set of low priority signals, reconfiguring a first portion of a pipeline to route the high priority signals through an in-line mode process and reconfiguring a second portion of the pipeline to route the low priority signals through an offline mode process.
US11315206B2
A system includes a kiosk configured to collect information associated with a traveler. The information includes information from a passport of the traveler, a photograph of the traveler, and travel-related information associated with the traveler. The system also includes a camera configured to obtain an image of the traveler approaching or within a specified portion of a customs/border enforcement area. The system further includes at least one computing device configured to receive the information from the kiosk, provide at least a portion of the information to an external system, and receive a disposition code from the external system. The disposition code identifies whether the traveler is allowed to pass the customs/border enforcement area. The at least one computing device is also configured to receive the image, perform facial recognition to identify the traveler, and provide at least some of the information to an agent associated with the customs/border enforcement area.
US11315203B1
Information analysis and display systems and methods include receiving first financial information regarding a user, and calculating a target home price based on the received financial information. A user interface display is generated that displays the target home price, and modifications to the target home price from the user are received via the user interface. Homes for sale are evaluated based on the target price.
US11315192B2
Disclosed herein are selection systems and methods for selecting a disability insurance package from a plurality of disability insurance packages, and for recommending the selected disability insurance package to a client. A selection system can include a query unit, a scoring unit and a recommendation unit. The query unit can present two or more prompts related to disability insurance, each prompt being associated with two or more response choices. A client can select a response choice for each prompt, and the query unit can receive the selected response choices. The scoring unit can associate point values with each of the selected response choices and can calculate a response score by combining the point values. The recommendation unit can select a disability insurance package corresponding the response score resulting from the user's responses to the prompts. Other embodiments of selection systems are also disclosed herein.
US11315169B2
An information distribution system includes an electronic device; and a server system including at least one information distribution apparatus that communicates with the electronic device via a network. The electronic device includes an information requester configured to transmit, to the server system, a request to distribute information, the request being transmitted together with identification information of the electronic device; and an information displayer configured to display, on a display device, the information transmitted from the server system. The server system includes a contract information acquirer configured to acquire contract information relating to a contract for a service provided to the electronic device; an information generator configured to identify the contract information of the electronic device based on the identification information, and generate the information according to the contract information; and an information distributor configured to distribute the information generated by the information generator, to the electronic device.
US11315167B1
According to various example embodiment of the present disclosure, a method of sharing item information by an electronic apparatus includes acquiring a request for link information related to at least one item from a user, acquiring first selection information related to an attribute of the link information, and providing link information on a first page including information related to the at least one item based on the request for the link information and the first selection information, in which the link information may include information related to the attribute.
US11315166B2
Systems and methods for providing recommendations of healthcare service providers are provided. A method includes receiving search criteria from a computing device of a search user. The method also includes determining at least one group of users associated with the search user. The method additionally includes determining recommendations that satisfy the search criteria and that are associated with at least one user in the at least one group of users. The method further includes transmitting the determined recommendations to the computing device of the search user. The determining the at least one group of users and the determining the recommendations are performed by a recommendation tool running on a computing device.
US11315165B2
An approach is disclosed for recommending complementary items based on customer shopping routines. The approach receives anchor item data. The approach identifies a routine that corresponds to the anchor item data. The routine is based on an item purchasing behavior of a customer. The approach determines categorical data within the identified routine by applying a ranking algorithm to the categorical data of the categories and the anchor item data. The categorical data is relevant to the anchor item data. The approach generates relevant item data from the categorical data by applying an item recommendation model to item data that corresponds to the categorical data.
US11315162B2
An apparatus and corresponding method include a web-based database solution that may be referred to as the “IoT Configurator.” In one example, the IoT Configurator is a machine learning software tool that assists consumers by identifying compatible IoT products for devices they already own or plan to buy in the near future. The IoT Configurator may be configured to provide reviews, news, advice and recommendations regarding IoT devices and services. The IoT Configurator enables a user to learn which IoT products and services are right for them, and how such IoT products/services may be connected. The IoT Configurator enables a user to identify IoT devices that are compatible, that is, IoT devices that may interoperate with each other and share data. The IoT Configurator may employ data stored in at least one IoT database and use that data to help a consumer understand an IoT product's connectivity and compatibility, thereby simplifying the complexity of the IoT product for the user.
US11315158B1
Implementations of a method of adding an item to an online shopping cart may include providing a sales communication interface on a portable computing device associated with a sales representative. During a video, audio, or video and audio connection, the method may include receiving an item scan request, receiving a scanned item code at a web server, forwarding the scanned item code to a database server, retrieving a retailer item identity associated with the scanned item code, and forwarding the retailer item identity to the web server, the portable computing device, and a computing device associated with an online shopper. The method may include receiving a request to add an item associated with the retailer item identity to a shopping cart associated with a website controlled by a retailer that owns the item. Adding the item to the shopping cart may be done without intervention by the online shopper.
US11315156B2
A method includes obtaining, by a first computing device, a digital exchange item. The method further includes sending, to a server, a request to share the digital exchange item with a group of computing devices. The method further includes determining, by the server, whether the digital exchange item can be shared based on one or more of: an issuer agreement and exchange item rules. When the digital exchange item can be shared, the method further includes the server establishing secure custody rights for each computing device, determining haring rights regarding the digital exchange item, and generating replications of the digital exchange item. The method further includes the server uploading the replications and the sharing rights to digital wallets associated with the computing devices of the group.
US11315154B2
A method for sharing surveillance video and receiving payment therefor utilizing a video sharing operator/manager is provided including providing access to video segments created by video surveillance camera systems tagged with capture information, providing a connection from each of the camera systems to the video sharing operator/manager and registering sellers of video. The method continues with receiving uploaded capture information on a searchable database from the camera systems and registering buyers. The method continues with receiving a search request from a buyer based on a specific set of capture information and receiving an uploaded requested video segment in response to the search request. The seller receives payment for the video segment from the buyer and, the video segment is downloaded to the buyer.
US11315147B2
A system and method for online marketing, comprises reading, by an electronic device, a machine-readable code corresponding to an object of interest or interpreting one or more characteristics of the object of interest itself in order to identify it; generating a request to a designated computer server for content related to the object of interest in response to processing a decoded address on the machine-readable code or the value of the one or more characteristics of the object of interest; and outputting a link to the content or outputting the content itself to a device in response to a receipt of the request.
US11315145B1
A method and associated system of managing advertising spending in an advertising campaign for an online marketplace seller, including, under control of one or more processors configured with executable instructions, defining a sales goal; setting a daily advertising budget and a bid value for an advertising campaign of the product; executing the advertising campaign; automatically collecting sales data relating to the product on the online marketplace; executing a machine learning component of an adaptive machine learning platform to generate a machine learning component output, at least in part based on the sales data; generating, based at least in part on the machine learning component output of the machine learning component, one or more sales milestones for the product on the online marketplace; comparing the sales data to the one or more sales milestones; and adjusting the daily advertising budget or the bid value to meet the sales goal.
US11315144B2
The present invention relates to methods for evaluating the effectiveness of all types of communication carried on offline communication media so as to generate data equivalent to the data obtained in online communication media. The present invention uses tangible tools such as fixed-line telephones, cellphones, computers, tablets and any other wearable mobile device to generate that data that will be used in media plans that are much more precise and efficient than the plans currently known. Finally, the present invention relates to said media plan obtained using one of said methods as well as the purchase of optimized media.
US11315143B2
A technique for dynamically adjusting a digital advertising campaign during an active campaign flight is discussed. Using feedback from a digital survey over an exposed audience of user populations, brand lift may be calculated on a per ad creative and/or per site basis. User characteristics derived from content consumption patterns may be used to optimize ongoing campaigns and formulate target audiences and target creative formats for new campaigns.
US11315134B1
Auto-detecting an electronic shopping basket and auto-completing offer redemption codes on the shopping basket webpage. When the user selects an item to add to the shopping basket, the shopping basket webpage loads. A plug-in detects a load event and communicates that information to an offer system. The offer system reviews the information, identifies the merchant, and determines offer codes applicable to a purchase. The offer system communicates the offer code to the plug-in, which auto-completes the code on the electronic shopping basket. The user completes the online transaction and the merchant provides a notification of completed transaction webpage. The plug-in detects a load event for the completed transaction webpage and communicates information regarding the load event to the offer system. The offer system reviews the information, identifies the offer code previously transmitted for auto-completion, marks the offer code as redeemed, and calculates the redemption rate of the transmitted offer code.
US11315121B2
A computer implemented method including receiving guest data corresponding to a transaction. The method determining a guest transaction total based on the number of prior transactions associated with the guest identifying information. The method includes determining that the guest transaction total is greater than the predetermined threshold number of transactions and responding accordingly.
US11315107B2
Systems and methods for automatically enabling and disabling a purchase card based on predetermined preferences set by a cardholder are provided. The systems and methods enable users to set preferences in advance, and then automatically determine whether to accept or decline a transaction based on the preset preferences. The systems and methods may also implement a learning algorithm to develop preferences based on historical cardholder behavior.
US11315097B2
A store system includes a server and a store terminal. The server receives data based on purchased commodities respectively input in a plurality of mobile terminals. The server stores the received data based on the purchased commodities. The store terminal acquires, from the stored data, the data based on the purchased commodity input in any one of the mobile terminals. The store terminal instructs correction of the acquired data. The server executes the instructed correction concerning the stored data.
US11315092B1
An exemplary system includes at least one physical computing device that is communicatively coupled, by way of a network, to an automated teller machine (ATM), and that receives a transaction identifier from the ATM, uses the transaction identifier to query an electronic payment system, receives, from the electronic payment system in response to the query, data representative of a pending electronic payment that is associated with the transaction identifier and is awaiting funding, sends data representative of information about the pending electronic payment to the ATM, the information indicating an amount to fund the pending electronic payment, receives, from the ATM, a confirmation that the ATM has received the amount to fund the pending electronic payment, and notifies the electronic payment system that the pending electronic payment has been funded.
US11315089B2
A device implementing a user configurable direct transfer system may include at least one processor configured to receive, from an electronic device associated with a user account, a request to establish a type of transfer between a first account associated with an entity and a second account associated with the user account, the request including an entity identifier and a transfer type identifier. The at least one processor may be further configured to generate a transfer alias that is stored in association with the entity identifier, a second account identifier, and the transfer type identifier, and provide the transfer alias to the electronic device and a server associated with the entity to facilitate the type of transfer between the first account associated with the entity and the second account associated with the user account.
US11315086B2
An API management device includes: a reception unit configured to receive a selection of a charging condition when using an API; a receiver configured to receive a request for the API from the application; a transmitter configured to transmit a response according to the request to the application; and a history storage configured to store a history of the request for the API and the response for each of the applications that use the API. A charging management device includes: a charging condition storage configured to store the charging condition received by the reception unit for each of the applications that use the API when using the API; an acquisition unit configured to acquire information on the history from the history storage; and a determination unit configured to determine a charge value for the application that uses the API based on the charging condition and the information on the history.
US11315085B2
A system, method and device for waste measurement for garbage truck fleets operated by waste pickup service are provided. The waste measurement device comprises one or more visible light cameras; one or more volume sensors; and a controller. The waste measurement device is deployed in front of a hopper of the garbage truck and the device is configured to measure the waste volume in the hopper using the volume sensors. The method calculates the waste volume emptied from the waste container by at least subtracting the measurement of the volume in the hopper before loading from the measurement of the volume after loading. The system manages the waste pickup services having garbage truck fleet with the waste measurement devices. The system optimizes and monitors the system operation conditioned upon the measurements provided from the waste measuring devices.
US11315075B2
For an enterprise system, a data system has data records identifying logical items and logical containers that correspond to physical items and physical containers, the data records reflecting the storage of physical items and physical containers with other physical containers. An indication is received that a particular physical item has been moved from a first physical container to as second physical container. At least one identified data record is identified that reflects the storage of the physical item in the first physical container. The identified data records are updated to reflect the storage of the physical item in the second physical container.
US11315073B1
Described is a system and method for presenting event information to a user and, if necessary, obtaining confirmation of different aspects (user, item, action) of the event. In some implementations, an event includes a user, an action, and an item. For example, an event may include a user picking an item from an inventory location, a user placing an item into a tote associated with the user, etc. if the aspects of the event cannot be determined with a high enough degree of confidence, a user interface may be generated and sent to the user requesting confirmation of one or more of the aspects of the event.
US11315072B2
A system comprising a fully automated supply chain, in combination with tracking technology and the unified commerce engine (UCE). Such a system enables the exact location of every item (or each) to be tracked from the manufacturer's facility to a customer's bag. In accordance with one example, the supply chain comprises an order fulfillment system having a regional distribution center with RDC robotic automation configured to accept one or more incoming pallets, each pallet having a plurality of common cases of goods with each case of goods containing a plurality of common eaches; the RDC robotic automation further configured to remove and store the common cases of goods; the RDC robotic automation further configured to provide one or more outgoing pallets in response to a distribution center order, each outgoing pallet having a plurality of mixed cases of goods; a market distribution center having MDC robotic automation configured to accept one or more of the outgoing pallets, the MDC robotic automation further configured to remove mixed cases of goods from the one or more outgoing pallets; the MDC robotic automation further configured to remove and store eaches from each of the mixed cases of goods in an MDC storage system, the MDC robotic automation further configured to selectively retrieve eaches from the MDC storage system and fill order totes with mixed each subtotes in response to a market order. The MDC robotic automation further configured to fulfill the market order with a plurality of common or different order totes and subtotes that flexibly match the sales velocity of the market.
US11315065B1
Method starts with processing, by a processor, audio signal to generate audio caller utterance. Processor generates an agent action ranking score associated with the audio caller utterance and determines whether the agent action ranking score is below a minimum threshold. In response to determining that the agent action ranking score is below the minimum threshold, processor generates a transcribed caller utterance using a speech-to-text processor and generates an identified task based on the transcribed caller utterance. Using the transcribed caller utterance and a task-specific agent coaching neural network associated with the identified task, processor generates an ideal response. Processor generates a feedback result and causes the feedback result to be displayed on a display device of the agent client device. Other embodiments are disclosed herein.
US11315063B2
Disclosed is a system for testing batteries, comprising: a battery tester comprising: a tester scanner or camera for capturing an obtained battery identifier; a tester network hardware for transmitting the obtained battery identifier; and a server comprising: a database having data, the data comprising at least one historic battery identifier and associated historic battery characteristic and configured to compare the data with the obtained battery identifier; wherein the battery tester is configured to capture a battery identifier from a battery and transmit the battery identifier to the server.
US11315061B2
A method (and system) includes retrieving a dataset from a database, creating a report including a graphical representation of the dataset, the graphical representation of the dataset including a customizable, responsive visualization of a key performance indicator and displaying the report on a graphical user interface. The visualization of the key performance indicator displays all necessary data in a single visualization. The method (and system) provides responsive layout creating to automatically generate and arrange the visualization of the key performance indicator.
US11315055B2
A computer-implemented method in a visualization module is provided. The visualization module comprises a processor configured by programming instructions encoded in non-transient computer readable media. The method comprises: receiving, by the processor from a user interface, a request for a visualization of decision steps made in an order allocation process; retrieving, by the processor from a database system, a plurality of data items belonging to the same order that identify rules applied at each decision step in the order allocation process, parameters used during rule application, and decisions resulting from rule application; generating, by the processor using the retrieved data items, a visualization that identifies the decision made at each decision step; and causing the visualization to be displayed on the user interface.
US11315049B1
A system and method for evaluating socio-economic and/or environmental impact automatically identifies and transmits to a user computing device a socio-economic and/or environmental impact web page of an organization. A computer database coupled to a server contains data for various socio-economic and/or environmental impact web pages, defining formatting elements configured to display impact data. The computer database receives a data feed of the impact data from the organization and/or from one or more of the organization's vendors, and automatically updates the organization's socio-economic and/or environmental impact web page. The system automatically generates in the socio-economic and/or environmental impact web page, a socio-economic and/or environmental impact quotient depiction representing socio-economic and/or environmental impact of resource allocations of the associated organization. The system uses hybrid input-output, econometric and environmental models to calculate a total economic impact ratio of the SGA (Selling, General & Administrative) costs of the organization on local communities.
US11315039B1
Improved systems and methods for improved management of models for data science can facilitate seamless collaboration of data science teams and integration of data science workflows. Systems and methods provided herein can provide an open, unified platform to build, validate, deliver, and monitor models at scale. Systems and methods of the present disclosure may accelerate research, spark collaboration, increase iteration speed, and remove deployment friction to deliver impactful models. In particular, users may be allowed to visualize statistics about models and monitor models in real-time via a graphical user interface provided by the systems.
US11315038B2
A computer-implemented method comprises: inputting into an autoencoder sets of input samples, each of the sets of input samples comprising: a reference input sample of a reference dataset and one or more target input samples of one or more target datasets, the autoencoder being trained using the reference dataset. The autoencoder generates a respective set of outputs for each set of the input samples to thereby form one or more respective sets of outputs, each of the one or more sets of outputs comprising the reference output and the one or more target outputs for a respective set of input samples; and determining the similarity of each of the one or more target datasets to the reference dataset by comparing each of the one or more target outputs to respective target input samples of each of the sets of input samples.
US11315029B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for receiving a target image corresponding to a target specimen, the target specimen comprising a tissue sample of a patient, applying a machine learning model, which may also be known as a machine learning system, to the target image to determine at least one characteristic of the target specimen and/or at least one characteristic of the target image, the machine learning model having been generated by processing a plurality of training images to predict at least one characteristic, the training images comprising images of human tissue and/or images that are algorithmically generated, and outputting the at least one characteristic of the target specimen and/or the at least one characteristic of the target image.
US11315028B2
A method of increasing the accuracy of predicting future IO operations on a storage system includes creating a snapshot of a production volume, linking the snapshot to a thin device, mounting the thin device in a cloud tethering subsystem, and tagging the thin device to identify the thin device as being used by the cloud tethering subsystem. When data read operations are issued by the cloud tethering subsystem on the tagged thin device, the data read operations are executed by a front-end adapter of the storage system to forward data associated with the data read operations to a cloud repository. The cache manager, however, does not use information about data read operations on tagged thin devices in connection with predicting future IO operations on the cache, so that movement of snapshots to the cloud repository do not skew the algorithms being used by the cache manager to perform cache management.
US11315026B2
Data processing techniques and systems for processing telematics data associated with a vehicle, such as an automobile, to classify how the vehicle is being operated by a driver. The telematics data can include the use of image data captured by a camera of the vehicle. The image data is processed in conjunction with vehicular telematics data such as position, speed, and acceleration data of the vehicle obtained from, for example, smartphone sensors. The image data is processed and used by a processing system to provide a context for the telematics data. The image data and the telematics data are classified by the processing system to identify driving behavior of the driver, determine driving maneuvers that have occurred, scoring driving quality of the driver, or a combination of them.
US11315025B2
A method and system provide the ability to forecast events that match a criterion. Input is received and includes an event set and a criterion. The event set includes events and each of the events is a record with features. Each feature is an instance of a feature type (FT) and feature value (FV) combination. The criterion is a logical statement that specifies a criterion FT, a criterion FV, and an operator. The event set is partitioned and a partition BitSet is built for each partition. Each partition length of each partition BitSet is based on a number of the events. Based on the partition BitSets, a partition FT-FV count is created. For each partition, a partition FT criterion BitSet is created and a partition Criterion BitSet is computed based thereon. The forecast is then computed based on the partition Criterion BitSet.
US11315017B2
In one aspect, the invention comprises a system and method for control of a transaction state system utilizing a distributed ledger. First, the system and method includes an application plane layer adapted to receive instructions regarding operation of the transaction state system. Preferably, the application plane layer is coupled to the application plane layer interface. Second, a control plane layer is provided, the control plane layer including an adaptive control unit, such as a cognitive computing unit, artificial intelligence unit or machine-learning unit. Third, a data plane layer includes an input interface to receive data input from one or more data sources and to provide output coupled to a decentralized distributed ledger, the data plane layer is coupled to the control plane layer. Optionally, the system and method serve to transfer digital assets on a decentralized distributed ledger.
US11315016B2
The technology disclosed relates to constructing a convolutional neural network-based classifier for variant classification. In particular, it relates to training a convolutional neural network-based classifier on training data using a backpropagation-based gradient update technique that progressively match outputs of the convolutional neural network-based classifier with corresponding ground truth labels. The convolutional neural network-based classifier comprises groups of residual blocks, each group of residual blocks is parameterized by a number of convolution filters in the residual blocks, a convolution window size of the residual blocks, and an atrous convolution rate of the residual blocks, the size of convolution window varies between groups of residual blocks, the atrous convolution rate varies between groups of residual blocks. The training data includes benign training examples and pathogenic training examples of translated sequence pairs generated from benign variants and pathogenic variants.
US11315014B2
A computer implemented method, computer program product, and system for managing execution of a workflow comprising a set of subworkflows, comprising optimizing the set of subworkflows using a deep neural network, wherein each subworkflow of the set of subworkflows has a set of tasks, wherein each task of the sets of tasks has a requirement of resources of a set of resources; wherein each task of the sets of tasks is enabled to be dependent on another task of the sets of tasks, training the deep neural network by: executing the set of subworkflows, collecting provenance data from the execution, and collecting monitoring data that represents the state of said set of resources, wherein the training causes the neural network to learn relationships between the states of said set of resources, the said sets of tasks, their parameters and the obtained performance, optimizing an allocation of resources of the set of resources to each task of the sets of tasks to ensure compliance with a user-defined quality metric based on the deep neural network output.
US11315006B2
A method for inferring patterns in multi-dimensional image data comprises providing a recursive network of sub-networks with a parent feature node and at least two child feature nodes; wherein each sub-network is associated with a distinct subset of the space; configuring nodes of the sub-networks with posterior distribution component; receiving image data feature input at the final child feature nodes; propagating node activation through the network layer hierarchy in a manner consistent with node connections of sub-networks of the network and the posterior prediction of child nodes; and outputting parent feature node selection to an inferred output.
US11315002B2
A process for making a transaction card defined by a plurality of layers is described. The process includes providing a first portion of the card, the first portion comprising a non-plastic layer having first and second faces and a thickness therebetween; forming an opening in the non-plastic layer, the opening defined through the first face; disposing embedded electronics in the opening; providing a second portion of the card; and providing a fill disposed in portions of the opening not occupied by the embedded electronics and attaching the first portion of the card to the second portion of the card.
US11315001B2
An industrial system includes an electronic badge worn or otherwise transported by an industrial vehicle operator. The electronic badge has a housing, a processor, and a transceiver coupled to the processor that communicates on a personal-area network with a badge communicator that is provided on an industrial vehicle when the electronic badge and the badge communicator are in range of each other. Further, an activity sensor collects activity information about the industrial vehicle operator as the industrial vehicle operator performs work tasks. The electronic badge exchanges data collected by the activity sensor with the industrial vehicle, for communication to a remote server. An electronic message is communicated to the industrial vehicle for output to a display thereon, and the electronic message defines an assigned task that is based upon previously collected data from the activity sensor.
US11314994B2
A mask structure optimization device includes a classification target image size acquisition unit that is configured to acquire a size of a classification target image which is an image including a classification target, a mask size setting unit that is configured to set a size of a mask applied to the classification target image, a brightness detection unit that is configured to detect a brightness of each pixel within the classification target image at a position on an opposite side of the mask from the classification target image, a sum total brightness calculation unit that is configured to calculate the sum total brightness of the each pixel within the classification target image detected by the brightness detection unit, an initial value setting unit that is configured to set an initial value for a mask pattern of the mask, and a movement unit that is configured to relatively move the mask with respect to the classification target image. The sum total brightness calculation unit is configured to calculate the sum total brightness of the each pixel within the classification target image every time the movement unit relatively moves the mask by a predetermined movement amount. The mask structure optimization device further includes a mask pattern optimization unit that is configured to optimize the mask pattern of the mask on the basis of the sum total brightness.
US11314979B2
Method and apparatus for evaluating image acquisition accuracy, electronic device and storage medium
The present disclosure provides a method for evaluating an image acquisition accuracy of a Demura device, including: controlling a display panel to display a detection picture, wherein the detection picture includes a plurality of test point patterns with an interval therebetween; acquiring an image of the detection picture by the Demura device to obtain a preprocessed image corresponding to the detection picture, wherein the preprocessed image and a corresponding detection picture have a same size and a same shape; and determining the image acquisition accuracy of the Demura device according to a difference between a position of each of the plurality of test point patterns in the detection picture and a corresponding position of the test point pattern in the preprocessed image. The present disclosure also provides an apparatus for evaluating an image acquisition accuracy of a Demura device, an electronic device and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium.
US11314977B2
A Personal Identity Verification System for verifying the identity of an individual (600) carrying a wireless mobile communications device (400) is proposed, comprising image data of an area of the individual's body, said image data being stored in the wireless mobile communications device (400), at least one image capture device (100) configured to capture visual data of an area of the individual's body and at least one wireless communications module (200) configured to receive the image data from the wireless mobile communications device (400). Further, an electronic circuit (300) is provided that is configured to compare the visual data with the image data and to generate positive verification information when the visual data and the image data are established to be similar within a similarity-tolerance.
US11314976B2
A vehicle control device is disclosed. The vehicle control device includes: an interface unit that is connected to a camera for capturing a vehicle passenger and to a plurality of devices installed inside the vehicle; and a processor that receives an image captured by the camera through the interface unit and exchanges information with the plurality of devices through the interface unit, wherein the processor detects the position of the passenger from the image acquired by the camera, configures a space adjacent to the passenger as a virtual control space, matches a device corresponding to the position of the passenger, among the plurality of devices, to the virtual control device, and, upon detecting a preset gesture through the virtual control space, controls the device based on the preset gesture.
US11314975B2
Systems and methods for object identification are provided. In a method, primary data is received. The primary data is generated by a primary sensor that receives signals that are human perceptible and records a scene. Secondary data generated by a secondary sensor that simultaneously records the same scene is received. The secondary sensor receives signals that are not human perceptible. The primary data is processed to identify object signatures relating to objects present in the scene. The processed primary data is used to train a secondary data-based object identification model configured to identify, in the secondary data, object signatures relating to objects present in the scene. A method includes using the secondary data-based object identification model to process the secondary data to identify object signatures relating to objects present in the scene. A method includes augmenting the processed primary data with the processed secondary data.
US11314973B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a lane line-based intelligent driving control method and apparatus, and an electronic device. The method includes: obtaining a lane line detection result of a vehicle traveling environment; determining, according to a traveling state of the vehicle and the lane line detection result, an estimated distance of traveling out of the lane line by the vehicle and/or estimated time of traveling out of the lane line by the vehicle; and performing intelligent driving control on the vehicle according to the estimated distance and/or the estimated time. The embodiments of the present disclosure implement lane line-based intelligent control on the vehicle traveling state, thereby helping to improve the driving safety.
US11314969B2
Disclosed systems and methods categorize text regions of an electronic document into document object types based on a combination of semantic information and appearance information from the electronic document. A page segmentation application executing on a computing device provides a textual feature representation and a visual feature representation to a neural network. The application identifies a correspondence between a location of the set of pixels in the electronic document and a location of a particular document object type in an output page segmentation. The application further outputs a classification of the set of pixels as being the particular document object type based on the identified correspondence.
US11314955B2
The disclosure describes an RFID system having chip-based novel Simple Random-Access Procedure (SRAP) and Dynamic Simple Random-Access Procedure (DSRAP) tags, and chip-less time and frequency coded tags, for inventory management. The SRAP process contains static (pre-defined) size Frame Structures, and RFID tags compete for network resources by transmitting random preambles to contend for resources to send its Tag-ID to the RFID Reader. The DSRAP process contains dynamic (changing) size Frame Structures and is more efficient than SRAP if the number of tags is lower. The disclosed memory-based variants, save the orthogonal preambles in the tag's memory to reduce the number of transmitted bits and processing necessary to calculate the preambles. To further improve system efficiency and reduce the number of transmitted bits, disclosed memory-based variants may use a pre-defined memory-based modulation (QAM) signal in the memory of the transmitter of the Tags. The disclosure also presents a frequency and time coded chip-less RFID tag system. Each printed chip-less tag has a unique frequency signature, where each chip-less tag's ID is saved in a table in the main memory of the Reader (look-up-table) or in the middleware database. A variable time-delay is added to some chip-less tags to reuse the frequency signatures for a given frame, allowing millions and billions of products to be uniquely identified within a pre-defined time (˜1 sec).
US11314950B2
A computer-implemented method is provided for transferring a target text style using Reinforcement Learning (RL). The method includes pre-determining, by a Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) Neural Network (NN), the target text style of a target-style natural language sentence. The method further includes transforming, by a hardware processor using the LSTM NN, a source-style natural language sentence into the target-style natural language sentence that maintains the target text style of the target-style natural language sentence. The method also includes calculating an accuracy rating of a transformation of the source-style natural language sentence into the target-style natural language sentence based upon rewards relating to at least the target text style of the source-style natural language sentence.
US11314946B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a text translation method, a text translation apparatus, a device and a storage medium. The method includes: obtaining a source language text; and translating the source language text with a modified translation model to obtain a target language text corresponding to the source language text, the modified translation model being obtained by modifying an original translation model based on a text evaluation result of one or more translated texts for training, the translated text for training being an output result after translating through the original translation model, and the text evaluation result for evaluating a contextual semantic relation in the translated text for training.
US11314931B2
A domain-specific document is retrieved. The domain-specific document is related to the performance of a process in the domain and includes a plurality of document spans and a plurality of annotations that annotate the spans. A goal-based framework is generated from the domain-specific document. The generation is based on the plurality of annotations and based on the plurality of document spans. The goal-based framework includes entities and entity relationships related to performance of the process. The goal-based framework is transformed into a platform agnostic dialog model based on the entities and the entity relationships. At least one platform specific dialog model is provided to at least one automated response system based on the platform agnostic dialog model.
US11314929B2
Embodiments described herein are directed to an annotation system having a remote processor, and a client processor in data communication with the remote processor. The client processor is adapted to send a first request for an electronic file to the remote processor, receive the electronic file from the remote processor, define at least one new annotation about the electronic file, and define at least one anchor associated with the at least one annotation. The at least one of the remote processor and the client processor is adapted to store the at least one anchor and the at least one annotation in an annotation file that is separate from the electronic file.
US11314928B1
Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with configuring related links and controlling of a display are described. In one embodiment, a data page is configured that includes a plurality of input fields and metadata, wherein the metadata includes a plurality of related links. The plurality of input fields is monitored for input values to determine if a user activates the data page to input values into the plurality of input fields. A determination is made to see if the input values trigger a criterion to provide further information related to the related links to the user. The related links information can then be provided in the form of a graphical badge, wherein the graphical badge includes a number to inform the user that a certain number of related links are available for further review. The related links are highlighted to visually distinguish them from the other related links.
US11314922B1
A computer-implemented method for generating regulatory content requirement descriptions is disclosed and involves receiving requirement data including a plurality of requirements including hierarchical information extracted from regulatory content. The method involves identifying parent requirements based on the existence of child requirements on a lower hierarchical level and generating requirement pairs including the parent requirement and at least one child requirement. The method also involves feeding each of the pairs through a conjunction classifier which has been trained to generate a classification output indicative of the pair being not a conjunction (NC), a single requirement conjunction (CSR), or a multiple requirement conjunction (CMR). The method involves generating a set of requirement descriptions based on the classification output generated for each parent requirement.
US11314911B1
High-level synthesis implementation of data structures in hardware can include detecting, within a design and using computer hardware, a data structure and a compiler directive for the data structure. The design may be specified in a high-level programming language. Using the computer hardware and based on the compiler directive, a modified version of the design may be created by, at least in part, generating a modified version of the data structure based on the compiler directive. Using the computer hardware, a circuit design may be generated from the modified version of the design by creating, at least in part, a hardware memory architecture for the circuit design and mapping the modified version of the data structure onto the hardware memory architecture.
US11314909B2
The present disclosure provides for generating multiphase flow properties of porous media based on one or more input parameters. For instance, the multiphase flow properties may be a capillary pressure-saturation relationship for the porous media. The one or more input parameters include an interfacial tension along an interface between a wetting fluid and a non-wetting fluid, a contact angle between the interface and a pore wall of the porous media, and a pore throat size. The pore throat size is based on subparameters including a saturation of the wetting fluid, a saturation of the non-wetting fluid, a porosity of the porous media, and an orientation angle between a representative pore body size and a representative pore throat size.
US11314907B2
In some examples, one or more computing devices on a network may receive, from a client computing device, one or more inputs for configuring a simulation, the simulation including at least a first simulator and a second simulator. The one or more computing devices may allocate computing resources including at least a first virtual machine for executing at least one of the first simulator or the second simulator. The one or more computing devices may configure a first simulation controller executable on the first virtual machine for controlling execution of the at least one of the first simulator or the second simulator. The first simulation controller may initiate execution of at least one of the first simulator or the second simulator as part of execution of the co-simulation. In some examples, a result of the co-simulation may be sent to the client computing device.
US11314901B2
System, apparatus, device and methods relating to a telematic vehicle sharing platform ecosystem and a telematic vehicle share I/O expander to automate sharing and management of a vehicle that is shared by more than one operator.
US11314900B2
A method and system are provided for transferring digital assets in a digital asset network. Network users can be centrally enrolled and screened for compliance. Standardized transfer processes and unique identifiers can provide a transparent and direct transfer process. Digital assets can include sufficient information for ensuring that a value will be provided, including one or more digital signatures, such that value can be made immediately available to recipients.
US11314897B2
Implementations of the present specification disclose a data identification method, apparatus, device, and a computer-readable medium. A solution includes: obtaining a first data set, data samples in the first data set being at least a part of data of a to-be-identified field; obtaining a state transition matrix set generated based on statistics of data samples in a second data set, a data type of the data samples in the second data set being known; determining sample state transition probabilities corresponding to the data samples in the first data set based on the state transition matrix set; determining a ratio between a number of data samples in the first data set whose sample state transition probabilities are greater than a first threshold and a total number of the data samples in the first data set; and determining data corresponding to the to-be-identified field as being of a same data type as the data samples in the second data set in response to that the ratio is greater than a second threshold.
US11314894B2
The present disclosure provides a multi-Android system implementation method, a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, and a terminal provided. The method may include the following operations: starting a switching interface for a user to select any one of Android systems, when a terminal receives a user operation instruction; sending control information of an operating system to a driver layer, when the switching interface detects the any one of Android systems selected or created by the user; controlling a foreground program by the driver layer, to switch to the any one of the Android systems selected or created by the user; reading data from a virtual input device by the any one of the Android systems, and sending the data to an application in an own environment of the any one of Android systems.
US11314890B2
Techniques are described herein for assembling/evaluating automated assistant responses for privacy concerns. In various implementations, a free-form natural language input may be received from a first user and may include a request for information pertaining to a second user. Multiple data sources may be identified that are accessible by an automated assistant to retrieve data associated with the second user. The multiple data sources may collectively include sufficient data to formulate a natural language response to the request. Respective privacy scores associated with the multiple data sources may be used to determine an aggregate privacy score associated with responding to the request. The natural language response may then be output at a client device operated by the first user in response to a determination that the aggregate privacy score associated with the natural language response satisfies a privacy criterion established for the second user with respect to the first user.
US11314888B2
Techniques disclosed herein encrypt sensitive data being transmitted from one endpoint to another endpoint through intermediary cloud(s) so that the sensitive data is not visible to the intermediary cloud(s). Double data encryption, utilizing public and private key pairs generated at the endpoints, is used to anonymize the sensitive data, while other data transmitted along with the sensitive data remains unencrypted so that intermediary cloud(s) can process the unencrypted data. In a particular embodiment, one of the endpoints is an application running in a first cloud, the other endpoint is a web browser executing a web application, and the intermediary cloud(s) are additional cloud(s) with applications running therein that provide services to the first cloud or coordinate with the application running in the first cloud to provide a service.
US11314887B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus for automatically assembling documents. The system includes a client device which communicates a document file. The system includes a server which receives, from the client device, the document file, and automatically detects document data. The server stores a data resource, and transform the data resource to include the document data. The server provides access to the data of the data resource to the client device and a preparer client device when the preparer is authorized by the user. The server removes access to the data of the data resource to the preparer client device when authorization of the preparer is removed by the user. The server provides access to a client device associated with a new preparer when the new preparer is authorized by the user. The server provides the data resource to a secondary system configured to automatically generate a completed form for the user.
US11314884B2
A node includes processing circuitry configured to encrypt first network data including a first tenant identifier using a first cryptographic key to generate first encrypted data and anonymize the first encrypted data to generate anonymized data where the anonymizing of the first encrypted data includes segmenting the first encrypted data and the anonymizing of the first encrypted data preserving relationships among the first network data associated with the first tenant identifier, encrypt the anonymized data using a second cryptographic key to generate encrypted anonymized data, transmit the encrypted anonymized data, at least one analysis parameter, at least one security policy and instructions to analyze the encrypted anonymized data using the at least one analysis parameter, the at least one security policy and the second cryptographic key, receive analysis data resulting from the analysis of the encrypted anonymized data, and determine verification results from the received analysis data.
US11314877B2
A network printing system comprising a user device to encrypt a print job using a public key of a user and to transmit the encrypted print job to a print server. The system may further comprise the print server to re-encrypt the encrypted print job using the re-encryption key. The system may further comprise the printer to decrypt the re-encrypted print job using a private key of the printer and print the decrypted print job.
US11314864B2
Techniques for monitoring based on a memory layout of an application are disclosed. A memory layout may be received, obtained, and/or generated from an application executing on a computer. Based on one or more attributes of a plurality of memory regions of the memory layout a memory layout fingerprint is generated. Additionally, memory region fingerprints are generated based on the one or more attributes for respective memory regions. The memory layout fingerprint and the memory region fingerprints are compared to respective previous memory layout fingerprints and the memory region fingerprints in order to determine whether malicious code and/or application drifting has occurred.
US11314858B2
A computing device may detect events such as a break-in, fire, flood, movement of people between different areas or zones within a defined area, cyberattacks, movement of devices away from the defined area, etc. If an event is detected, the computing device may take action to protect devices, data on the devices, and/or accounts accessible by the devices. The devices may encrypt, backup data, and/or delete data. The computing device may communicate with other computing devices about events that have been detected.
US11314856B2
Instrumentation codes are inserted into predetermined portions of a bytecode. Every transaction referenced in the bytecode is virtually combined and arranged hierarchically to describe a virtual transaction stack describing the computer-based resources accessed during the transaction. Based at least on the origin of the transaction, the characteristics of the transaction and the computer-based resources accessed during the transaction, the sensitivity of the transaction, and the security context of each of the computer-based resources accessed during the transaction are determined. A policy store is searched for at least one access control policy referencing the transaction, or the computer-based resources requested accessed by the transaction. If such an access control policy is found, it is selectively modified to refer exclusively to the transaction and the corresponding sensitive computer-based resources. Otherwise, a new access control policy exclusively referencing the data-oriented transactions and the corresponding sensitive computer-based resources is created.
US11314852B2
A method can be used for the generation of personalized Profile Package data in integrate circuit cards. A table includes data records corresponding to subscriptions to be generated. Each record includes personalization fields to store different types of personalization values. For a given subscription, a file for the Profile Package is in an ASCII format and includes fields to be personalized corresponding to one or more of the fields to store different types of personalization values. The file for the Profile Package in the ASCII format is converted into a hexadecimal code. An offset table is calculated for the given subscription indicating for each field to be personalized a corresponding offset in the hexadecimal profile. The personalization values from the personalization fields are substituted in the corresponding personalization fields to be personalized.
US11314849B2
Method, device, and system of detecting a lie of a user who inputs data. A method includes monitoring input-unit gestures and interactions of a user that inputs data through an electronic device; and based on analysis of the input-unit gestures and interactions, determining that the user has inputted false data through the electronic device. A particular fillable field, or a particular question, are identified as having untrue input from the user. Optionally, spatial orientation data of the electronic device is taken into account in the determination process. Optionally, contextual analysis is utilized, to determine that the input-unit gestures and interactions reflect an attempt of the user to perform a beautifying modification of a data-item to his benefit.
US11314848B2
Embodiments of the invention are directed to a system, method, and computer program product for dynamically appending and transforming static activity data transmitted to a user device application. In particular, the invention provides a secure platform for dynamic restructuring and inter-connection of inline activity data. The system first determines that a first user, via a first networked device, has initiated a first electronic activity. The system then constructs and transmits a first static activity data set to a second resource application of the second networked device associated with the second user. The system then alters the transmitted first static activity data set of the first electronic activity, in response to the second user modifying an activity parameter item of the first electronic activity, in situ, prior to finalization authorization processing of the first electronic activity by a recipient system, without requiring initialization of an additional electronic activity.
US11314845B2
Interpolation logic described herein provides a good approximation to a bicubic interpolation, which is generally smoother than bilinear interpolation, without performing all the calculations normally needed for a bicubic interpolation. This allows an approximation of smooth bicubic interpolation to be performed on devices (e.g. mobile devices) which have limited processing resources. At each of a set of predetermined interpolation positions within an array of data points, a set of predetermined weights represent a bicubic interpolation which can be applied to the data points. For a plurality of the predetermined interpolation positions which surround the sampling position, the corresponding sets of predetermined weights and the data points are used to determine a plurality of surrounding interpolated values which represent results of performing the bicubic interpolation at the surrounding predetermined interpolation positions. A linear interpolation is then performed on the surrounding interpolated values to determine an interpolated value at the sampling position.
US11314835B2
A server receives from a client device that is executing a web browser application a request to initiate a remote application in the server. The server instantiates an instance of the remote application. The server intercepts draw commands associated with the remote application instance. The server provides the draw commands to the client to cause the web browser application to render portion(s) of output based on the draw commands. The server receives an input event from the web browser application. The server provides the client one or more draw commands based on the input event to cause the web browser application to render portion(s) of output based on those draw commands.
US11314813B2
An apparatus for guaranteeing the integrity of a state database includes a memory for storing one or more instructions, a communication interface for communicating with one or more blockchain nodes and a processor. The processor is configured, by executing the stored one or more instructions, to receive a request to query for a state value, obtain a first state value by querying a state database in response to the request, forward the request to the one or more blockchain nodes to receive a second state value from the one or more blockchain nodes and compare the first state value with the second state value to determine integrity of a state value.
US11314809B2
A method, computer program product, and computing system for identifying one or more first layer metadata blocks with a plurality of entries mapping to a plurality of entries of one or more second layer metadata blocks. The one or more second layer metadata blocks mapped to by the one or more first layer metadata blocks may be identified. A common back pointer for at least a subset of the plurality of entries of the one or more second layer metadata blocks may be generated, the common back pointer pointing from the at least a subset of the plurality of entries of the one or more second layer metadata blocks to the one or more first layer metadata blocks.
US11314804B2
An intuitive information search method and device based on a displayed image and a computer readable recording medium thereof. The information search method based on an image displayed on a device includes recognizing a first input indicating a selection related to a plurality of objects included in the image, recognizing a second input indicating a search relationship between the selected plurality of objects, and searching for information based on the first input and the second input; and outputting found information through the device.
US11314801B2
Partial-image search criteria are derived that include a combination of multiple partial-image user selections of portions of at least one image. Visual search results are returned responsive to a search for images that correspond to the derived partial-image search criteria. The visual search results include at least one identified image that includes features that correspond to the derived partial-image search criteria that include the combination of the multiple partial-image user selections.
US11314799B2
Described herein are technologies that facilitate effective use (e.g., indexing and searching) of non-text machine data (e.g., audio/visual data) with text-based indexes of an event-based machine-data intake and query system.
US11314798B2
Systems and apparatuses for generating customized user output are provided. The system may collect sensor data, associated with the user, from a variety of sources. The system may use the sensor data to generate a customized user output. The system may analyze the sensor data, and determine, based on the sensor data and the customized user output, one or more user recommendation outputs. The system may update the customized user output based on additional or subsequent sensor data, and/or based on whether or not the user recommendation output was completed, as determined from subsequent sensor data.
US11314786B1
A method generates data visualizations. A device receives a first user input to specify a natural language command directed to a data source. The natural language command includes a first keyword that is a gradable adjective that modifies a second keyword in the natural language command. The device identifies a numerical data field, from the data source, whose field name co-occurs with the first keyword in natural language utterances in a predefined stored corpus of natural language utterances, based on quantifying co-occurrence using a co-occurrence metric. The device computes a numerical range for values of the numerical data field based on correlation of sentiment polarity of the first keyword and the field name of the numerical data field. The device then generates a data visualization for the data source, based on filtering rows of data from the data source according to the numerical range for the numerical data field.
US11314784B2
Relating data in various distributed data sources for use in data analysis is described. The data sources are generally related by first generating a keyword model for a plurality of data sources, which includes a plurality of weighted keywords, and providing a visual representation of the keyword model, such as a word cloud, to a user. The user interacts with the visual representation to modify, update, and select various aspects of the visual representation. The user also identifies keywords and data sources of interest such that a plurality of relational models are generated based on the user interest. Relating the data sources also includes providing the plurality of relational models to the user, receiving a user selection of the plurality of relational models, and generating a combined dataset model which relates one or more of the data sources according to the selected relational models.
US11314783B2
Systems, computer program products, and methods are described herein for implementing cognitive self-healing in knowledge based deep learning models. The present invention is configured to receive, via the real-time resource transmission session, one or more query strings from the user; transform the one or more query strings into one or more multi-dimensional query vectors; electronically retrieve one or more multi-dimensional resource vectors from a resource repository; determine a similarity index between the one or more multi-dimensional query vectors and one or more multi-dimensional resource vectors; determine a first multi-dimensional resource vector associated with at least one of the one or more multi-dimensional resource vectors; rasterize the first multi-dimensional resource vector into one or more grid of pixels to generate a first resource; and display, via the real-time resource transmission session, the first resource.
US11314780B2
An automated audit logger for producing a hyperindex visual chronicle of a construction project may include a receiver for receiving a data package including a sensor reading of a portion of a construction site relevant to a construction trade and a set of corresponding sensor metadata. The automated audit logger may also include an audit event creator for storing the sensor reading in an audit event entry of a data warehouse and a linking tool for updating a multi-faceted index of the data warehouse to link one or more members of the set of sensor metadata and a set of audit metadata to the audit event entry. The automated audit logger may also include an interface generator for constructing a user interface for displaying controlled subsets of the audit event entries and for serving the user interface to a user.
US11314779B1
Systems and methods for managing timestamps for a sequential update stream in a distributed system. A system includes a plurality of storage nodes of a data stream service of a provider network. Each storage node includes one or more processors and memory storing instructions executable by the one or more processors. The instructions cause the one or more processors to create a shard, at the storage node, for storing records of a sequential update stream recording changes to a database partition. The instructions also cause the one or more processors to assign a timestamp for the shard based on a local clock of the storage node. The instructions further cause the one or more processors to adjust the timestamp for the shard to a time later than a timestamp for a previous shard of the sequential update stream stored at a different storage node of the plurality of storage nodes.
US11314763B2
Novel tools and techniques are provided for implementing off-chain functionality for data contained in blocks of blockchain. In various embodiments, a computing system might assemble data extracted from each block of a first block(s) of a first instance of a blockchain in a generated first file(s), the assembled data being organized to mirror how the data is organized and stored in the first block(s); might store, in a secure database, the first file(s), the first file(s) being configured to be content-searchable, content-sortable, and/or content-filterable; might generate a second instance of the blockchain, which contains one or more second blocks, the one or more second blocks each containing the hash value of each corresponding first block(s), without containing the data contained in each block of the first block(s); and might store, in a distributed peer data storage system of the blockchain system, the generated second instance of the blockchain.
US11314762B2
Creating a model data set using a spreadsheet interface including generating the model data set using the spreadsheet interface and a first data source from a data warehouse, wherein the model data set is a reusable modeling layer comprising at least a portion of the first data source, and wherein generating the model data set comprises: creating a first worksheet using the spreadsheet interface and the first data source; receiving an indication that the first worksheet is a model data set; and generating model data set metadata for the first worksheet; and providing, as a second data source for a second worksheet, the model data set generated from the model data set metadata.
US11314754B2
Methods, systems, and devices, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for data processing are provided. One of the methods includes: receiving a query parameter; obtaining query result data from each of one or more predetermined data sources according to the query parameter; converting the query result data into target reliable data conforming to a predetermined data reliability protocol; and sending the target reliable data to a blockchain node.
US11314752B2
A computer system includes a first computer and a second computer. The second computer includes, a minimum analysis dataset in which a data item serving as an analysis target and a repetition unit are defined in advance for each analysis target and an agent. The agent receives an analysis target data fetching designation including the minimum analysis dataset, a repetition range of repeating acquisition of data, and a repetition unit. The agent generates a first process that acquires data from the first computer and a first instance that executes processing within the first process on the basis of the repetition range and the repetition unit and activate the first instance to acquire the accumulated data from the first computer. When the processing of the first instance is completed, the agent generates a second process that executes analysis processing and a second instance that executes processing within the second process.
US11314751B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a method and apparatus for acquiring information. A specific implementation of the method includes: acquiring a plurality of pieces of positioning data in a preset time period and a plurality of pieces of captured data captured by a WLAN probe device of a target point of interest in the preset time period; and finding, from the plurality of pieces of positioning data, a plurality of pieces of positioning data meeting a preset condition, and generating, based on the plurality of pieces of positioning data meeting the preset condition, indication information indicating whether the WLAN probe device being abnormal. The method realizes the evaluation of whether the WLAN probe device is abnormal, whether the deployment location of the WLAN probe device is reasonable, and whether it is necessary to add WLAN probe devices.
US11314749B2
An example operation may include one or more of receiving a request for trust information of an off-chain data source from a client, determining a category type of the off-chain data source from among a plurality of category types based on the request, retrieving a reliability value of the off-chain data source linked to one or more of an identity of the off-chain data source and the determined category type from a reliability database implemented via a distributed ledger shared among a plurality of peer nodes, and transmitting the retrieved reliability value linked to the category type to the client.
US11314726B2
One or more non-transitory computer readable media contain program instructions that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations including generating a database of interconnected smart entities. The smart entities include sensor object entities representing each of the plurality of sensors and data entities representing measurements received from the sensors. The smart entities are interconnected by relational objects indicating relationships between the smart entities. The instructions cause the one or more processors to receive a new measurement from a first sensor, identify a first data entity from a relational object for the first sensor, the first data entity including a plurality of past measurements received from the first sensor, and modify the first data entity within the database of smart entities to include the new measurement received from the first sensor.
US11314717B1
Scalable architecture for propagating updates may be implemented for data replicated from a data set. A node may receive updates to items in a data set that have been committed to the data set. The node may determine whether the update should be applied to a replicated portion of the data set. For updates that should be applied, the node may identify another node that hosts the replicated portion of the data set and send a request to the other node to perform a conditional atomic operation to apply the update to the item in the replicated portion of the data set. The condition may compare a version identifier associated with an update and a current version identifier for the item at the other node. If the condition evaluates true, then the update to the item in the replicated portion may be performed.
US11314706B2
A metadata aggregation system includes a computing platform having a hardware processor and a memory storing a software code including a trained entity matching predictive model trained using training data obtained from a reference database. The hardware processor executes the software code to obtain metadata inputs from multiple sources, conform the metadata inputs to a common format, match, using the trained entity matching predictive model, at least some of the conformed metadata inputs to the same entity, and determine, using the trained entity matching predictive model, a confidence score for each match. The software code further sends a request to one or more human editor(s) for confirmation of each match having a confidence score greater than a first threshold and less than a second threshold, and updates the reference database, in response to receiving a confirmation that at least one match is a confirmed match, to include the confirmed match.
US11314705B2
A technique for managing deduplication performs partial-block matching opportunistically by leveraging information acquired during times when a storage system has available resources. The information identifies anchor blocks that are likely targets for partial-block matches, based on discovering that the anchor blocks belong to populations of blocks that have high similarity. When processing write requests, inline activities access anchor blocks that closely match newly arriving candidate blocks and perform partial-block deduplication against those anchor blocks.
US11314696B2
An electronic device may include logic to provide a trust credential for linking to a permissioned network over a local network, comprising a plurality of user devices; retrieve a document in an initial status for editing, corresponding to a first state of a distributed ledger, maintained by the permissioned network; generate a first change in the document, wherein the document is in a second status; send, to the permissioned network via the local network, the first change for storage in the distributed ledger, in a second state; retrieve the document in a third status, including a second change, performed subsequently to the first change, the second change being generated by a user device, external to the electronic device, and coupled to the local network; and link to the distributed ledger to retrieve a third state of the distributed ledger, the third state comprising the first change and the second change.
US11314694B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to an apparatus and method for facilitating access to data in a distributed storage system by using a processing unit configured to collect information related to running status of the distributed storage system; obtain metadata related to data stored in the distributed storage system; in response to a request from a client, provide to the client the information related to running status and metadata related to data to be accessed; and extend storage nodes in the distributed storage system so that the client can directly access the storage nodes by using the information related to running status and the metadata related to data to be accessed. Other embodiments are also disclosed.
US11314690B2
A regenerated container file is detected, and a file in the regenerated container file is determined that is different from any file in an existing container file related to the regenerated container file. To store the regenerated container file, the different file is sent to the data storage for storing.
US11314688B2
A service system provides users with access to online services. As part of providing the services to users, the service system stores data for users in a data storage system. When the service system receives a request from an administrator of the system for user data stored in the data storage system, the service system identifies the data requested by the administrator. The service system also determines policies that apply to the data. The determined policies indicate transformations that are to be performed on the data to protect the privacy of the users. The service system transforms the user data as indicated by the policies and provides the transformed user data to the administrator.
US11314687B2
A distributed data storage system comprises features for integration with application orchestrators such as Kubernetes, and includes a proprietary Container Storage Interface (CSI) driver. Features include setting snapshot scheduling and retention policies, and a “container data mover” that replicates data from a source to a distinct destination distributed data storage system. The migration may be configured one-to-one, one-to-many, unidirectional, and/or bi-directional. Metadata-based snapshots and metadata-based changed block tracking identify payload data to move from source to destination within application orchestrator frameworks at both ends. Payload data is migrated from source to destination using different techniques than those used for migrating metadata, e.g., kernel-to-kernel for copying payload data versus ordinary metadata writes. An illustrative barrier logic ensures that the migration follows a controlled progression of operations.
US11314664B2
A memory access device includes: a data processor configured to output an access request requesting access to a memory connected to a data bus, perform a data processing on data in the accessed memory, and provide notification of a progress status of the data processing; a priority switching control part configured to determine an urgency of the data processing by the data processor according to the progress status of the data processing notified from the data processor, and output a priority switching signal notifying switching of a priority of the data processor; and a bus arbiter connected to the data bus, configured to change the priority of the data processor according to the priority switching signal to arbitrate the access request output from the data processor, and control access to the memory according to the access request that has been arbitrated.
US11314658B2
A data processing apparatus comprises processing circuitry to execute a plurality of processes. An ownership table comprises one or more entries each indicating, for a corresponding block of physical addresses, which of the processes is an owner process that has exclusive control of access to the corresponding block of physical addresses. A new process may be prevented from becoming an owner process until after successful completion of destructive overwriting. Ownership protection circuitry may detect a mismatch between an expected attribute, which is dependent on information in a page table entry, and an attribute specified in the ownership table. Each entry in the ownership table, for example, may indicate a level of encryption to be applied. Access control circuitry such as a memory management unit (MMU) may also determine whether an access request satisfies access permissions. The ownership table may also specify whether a higher privilege level process is allowed to access a block of physical addresses. A descriptor table may be used to store process state identifiers, where the process states may include invalid, prepare and execute states. The processes may comprise a hypervisor and/or a virtual machine (VM).
US11314653B2
A controller that controls a memory device including a plurality of pages each corresponding to a physical address, the controller may include: a memory suitable for storing a plurality of logical-to-physical (L2P) chunks each indicating mapping between one or more logical addresses and one or more physical addresses and an original valid page bitmap (VPB) indicating whether each of the plurality of pages is a valid page that stores valid data; and a processor suitable for generating a reconstructed VPB based on normal L2P chunks when an corrupted L2P chunk is detected, detecting pages having different states in the original VPB and the reconstructed VPB, obtaining logical addresses mapped to physical addresses of the detected pages, respectively, and recovering the corrupted L2P chunk based on the physical addresses of the detected pages and the obtained logical addresses.
US11314651B2
Provided is a method for operating a measurement system including an evaluation module and several measuring elements. The evaluation module and the measuring elements are connected via a communication line. The method includes detecting measurement data via the several measuring elements. At least two of the measuring elements detect the measurement data at least partially at the same time. The method further includes: buffering the detected measurement data in the respective measuring element; and reading out the measurement data buffered in the measuring elements with the evaluation module via the communication line.
US11314648B2
Data processing apparatus comprises a data access requesting node; data access circuitry to receive a data access request from the data access requesting node and to route the data access request for fulfilment by one or more data storage nodes selected from a group of two or more data storage nodes; and indication circuitry to provide a source indication to the data access requesting node, to indicate an attribute of the one or more data storage nodes which fulfilled the data access request; the data access requesting node being configured to vary its operation in response to the source indication.
US11314643B2
A request to perform a write operation to write data at a memory sub-system is received. Responsive to the request to perform the write operation, the data is stored at a cache portion of cache memory of the memory sub-system. A duplicate copy of the data is stored at a write buffer portion of cache memory. An entry of the write buffer record is recorded that maps a location of the duplicate copy of the data stored at the write buffer portion to a location of the data stored at the cache portion of the cache memory. A memory operation is performed at the memory sub-system based at least in part on the write buffer record.
US11314639B2
Garbage collection is performed for a virtualized storage system whose virtual address space is addressed in extents. Valid data in source extents is copied via a cache into destination extents. Once all valid data in a source extent is copied into one or more destination extents, the source extent may be reused. A source extent is released for reuse only after the one or more destination extents that received the valid data copied from the source extent are determined to be full, and the valid data copied from the source extent to the destination extent via the cache is flushed out of the cache.
US11314637B2
To reduce latency and bandwidth consumption in systems, systems and methods are provided for grouping multiple cache line request messages in a related and speculative manner. That is, multiple cache lines are likely to have the same state and ownership characteristics, and therefore, requests for multiple cache lines can be grouped. Information received in response can be directed to the requesting processor socket, and those speculatively received (not actually requested, but likely to be requested) can be maintained in queue or other memory until a request is received for that information, or until discarded to free up tracking space for new requests.
US11314634B2
An ECU includes a RAM; a non-volatile memory; and a controller for controlling reading of data from, and writing of data into, the RAM and non-volatile memory. The controller is configured to: store data generated during operation into the RAM, write the data into a storage area of the non-volatile memory when the operation stops, and read the data from the non-volatile memory into the RAM when the operation starts, and control a control target using the data. When determining that an improper reset is expected, the controller writes at least part of the data generated during the operation and stored in the RAM into a save area, different from the data storage area, of the non-volatile memory. When the operation restarts from the improper reset, the controller reads, into the RAM, the data that has been written in the storage and save areas.
US11314630B1
A processor may identify an occurrence of a code change for a microservice hosted in a container. The processor may generate a representation of the code change. The processor may identify, utilizing an AI model, a set of microservice containers having microservices affected by the code change. The processor may determine recommended changes to system environments for one or more microservice containers of the set of microservice containers.
US11314619B2
Errors encountered by executing applications can be recorded in one or more logs. A search engine can be configured to retrieve error data from the one or more logs using pre-specified rules. A portion of the error data can be included in a small portable message (e.g., SMS text message) and sent to the developers or administrators of the applications. An administrative console can generate different visualizations based upon what errors the search engine retrieved.
US11314605B2
Embodiments for providing automated selection of optimal disk types for virtualized storage by defining a minimum number of backup samples, selecting, if the minimum number of backup samples is not met for a backup operation, a solid state drive (SSD) for a virtual machine (VM) storage for a disaster recovery operation, otherwise selecting a hard disk drive (HDD) for the VM storage. The method further defines a cold HDD threshold (CHT) value and a minimal percentage of backups (PPT) value, and obtains a cold backup count based on the CHT value. It compares a ratio of the cold backup count to an amount of backups (AB) for the disaster recovery operation to the defined PPT value, and if the ratio is greater than the PPT value, it selects the SSD rather than HDD for the VM storage.
US11314602B2
An information management security health monitoring system is provided herein that can monitor the security health of one or more information management systems, identify any security issues that are occurring within an information management system, and automatically, or in response to a user input, transmit an instruction to the information management system to execute a workflow to resolve the security issue(s). For example, the information management cell health monitoring system receives security data and security policies, and/or similar data from an information management cell(s) via a network. The information management security health monitoring system analyzes the received information to identify any issues. If an issue is detected, the information management security health monitoring system retrieves workflows and determines whether any of the workflows can be used to resolve the detected issue. The information management security health monitoring system transmits a workflow that resolves the detected issue to the information management system for execution.
US11314596B2
This invention introduces an electronic apparatus and an operative method thereof which are capable of triggering an initialization operation for the electronic apparatus correctly. The electronic apparatus includes a plurality of latches and a power power-on-reset generator. The plurality of latches are coupled to memory cells and are configured to monitor memory data of the memory cells. The power-on-reset generator is coupled to the plurality of latches and is configured to generate a power-on-reset pulse to reset the electronic apparatus in response to a data corruption on at least one of the memory cells. The data corruption is detected during an initialization operation of the electronic apparatus according to memory data of the memory cells and corresponding hardwired code data.
US11314595B2
A RAID controller periodically collects an indication of a current compression ratio achieved by each of a plurality of storage devices within the RAID. The RAID controller determines a placement of data and the parity information within at least one of the plurality of storage devices according to at least one of a plurality of factors associated with the current compression ratio. The RAID controller writes the data and the parity information to the at least one of the plurality of storage devices according to the determined placement.
US11314592B2
A semiconductor memory device includes a memory cell array, an error correction circuit and a control logic circuit. The error correction circuit includes an error correction code (ECC) decoder to perform an ECC decoding on a codeword including a main data and a parity data, read from a target page of the memory cell array to correct errors in the read codeword. The control logic circuit controls the error correction circuit based on a command and address from an external memory controller. The ECC decoder has t-bit error correction capability, generates a syndrome based on the codeword using a parity check matrix, performs t iterations during (t−2) cycles to generate an error locator polynomial based on the syndrome, searches error positions in the codeword based on the error locator polynomial and corrects the errors in the codeword based on the searched error positions.
US11314584B1
A system, computer program product, and method are presented for providing confidence values for replacement data for data that has issues indicative of errors, where the data issues, the replacement data, and confidence values are related to one or more KPIs. The method includes identifying one or more potentially erroneous data instances and determining one or more predicted replacement values for the potentially erroneous data instances. The method further includes determining a confidence value for each predicted replacement value and resolving the one or more potentially erroneous data instances with one predicted replacement value of the one or more predicted replacement values. The method also includes generating an explanatory basis for the resolution of the one or more potentially erroneous data instances.
US11314583B2
Methods, systems, and devices for memory data correction using multiple error control operations are described. A single command may be received to correct an error detected in data stored by a memory array. A first error control operation and a second error control operation may be implemented based on the single command. The first error control operation may be performed on the data stored by the memory array using one or more different reference voltages to read the data. The error may be determined to remain in the data after performing the first error control operation. The second error control operation may then be performed on the data stored by the memory array. The second error control operation may use one or more voltage distributions associated with the memory cells of the memory array.
US11314582B2
An information handling system may include a processor and a basic input/output system configured to, responsive to an occurrence of an exception error, triage among various hardware components of the information handling system to determine existence of any signatures of potential hardware failures, write a database structure to a non-volatile memory including the signatures of potential hardware failures, upon boot of the basic input/output system, enable one or more control methods for hardware failure mitigations associated with the signatures of potential hardware failures, and perform the mitigations during execution of an operating system of the information handling system.
US11314578B2
Embodiments of information handling systems (HSs) and computer-implemented methods are provided herein to detect and recover from spurious PCIe device resets. One embodiment of a disclosed method is performed by a host processor of an IHS that includes a plurality of Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIe) devices, each including a set of PCIe configuration registers containing configuration settings for the PCIe device. The disclosed method includes generating, in response to the IHS transitioning from a lower power state to a higher power state, a PCIe device table containing the configuration settings stored within the set of PCIe configuration registers for each of the PCIe devices; determining, in response to detecting a system management interrupt (SMI), whether or not a spurious reset has occurred for at least one of the PCIe devices; and recovering the at least one PCIe device if said determining indicates that a spurious reset has occurred for the at least one PCIe device.
US11314576B2
A system and method of automating fault prediction and remediation for a multi-tenant system is disclosed. The system and method offer an intelligent augmentation of a multi-tenant system by automating the harvesting and processing of raw data logs generated by the various aspects of the platform as well as the implementation of an appropriate response. In some embodiments, the proposed system includes a hybrid model that can be configured to offer both assisted and unassisted errors. The incorporation of a dynamic learning algorithm minimizes operation errors for any set of computing units. Potential system faults can be detected with little to no human intervention and allow for an unattended platform that collects performance data across the system from a wide range of sources to provide centralized and automated fault prediction, as well as expedited automated resolutions to such faults that depend on little to no human intervention.
US11314575B2
An approach to recommending corrective action to computing system event errors. The approach may include generating a textual description of an event error. The approach may include transforming the textual description into feature vectors with a domain-specific word embedding module. The approach may also include generating a recommendation to correct the event error based on an analysis of the feature vectors. Additionally, the recommendation may be presented for verification.
US11314572B1
A method for providing automatic suppression of an alert includes receiving a first error associated with a first dataset, the first dataset being among a plurality of datasets in a computer data environment, accessing dependency data that describes a set of dependencies between the first dataset and other datasets, examining the dependency data to automatically identify a second dataset from among the other datasets, the second dataset being a dataset on which the first dataset depends, accessing alert data for the computer data environment to determine whether an active alert for the second dataset provides an indication that the first error is redundant to a second error associated with the second dataset, and upon determining that the first error is redundant, suppressing transmission of the alert and storing data about suppressing transmission in a data structure. In determining whether the first error is redundant to the second error, timing of data generation of the first and second dataset and timing of detection of the first error are considered.
US11314563B1
In some embodiments, a computing system may receive at least first data indicative of a first event of a first system of record accessed using first access credentials associated with a user, determine, based at least in part on first stored contextual data associated with the user, to create at least a first notification of the first event based at least in part on the first data, and send the first notification to a client device operated by the user.
US11314558B2
Methods, non-transitory machine readable media, and computing devices that dynamically throttle non-priority workloads to satisfy minimum throughput service level objectives (SLOs) are disclosed. With this technology, a determination is made when a number of detection intervals with a violation within a detection window exceeds a threshold, when a current one of the detection intervals is outside an observation area. The detection intervals are identified a violated based on an average throughput for priority workloads within the detection intervals exceeding a minimum throughput SLO. A throttle is then set to rate-limit non-priority workloads, when the number of violated detection intervals within the detection window exceeds the threshold. Advantageously, throughput for priority workloads is more effectively managed and utilized with this technology such that throttling oscillations are reduced, throttling is not deployed in conditions in which it would not improve throughput, and throttling is minimally deployed to maximize throughput.
US11314553B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method, apparatus, and computer program product for determining a usage change rate of a storage system. The method comprises determining a first weighted moving average of a plurality of usage change rates of a storage system during a first time window, and determining a second weighted moving average of a plurality of usage change rates of the storage system during a second time window, wherein the first time window is a latter part of the second time window. The method further comprises obtaining a third weighted moving average based on the first weighted moving average and the second weighted moving average, and determining a usage change rate of the storage system based on the third weighted moving average. By performing several weighted moving average operations on a plurality of usage change rates of the storage system in the past time, embodiments of the present disclosure can decrease the lagging and increase the sensitivity of the usage change rate for a specified time window, thereby more accurately predicting the remaining service time of storage space of the storage system.
US11314546B2
A technique for executing a containerized stateful application that is deployed on a stateless computing platform is disclosed. The technique involves deploying a containerized stateful application on a stateless computing platform and executing the stateful application on the stateless computing platform. The technique also involves during execution of the stateful application, evaluating, in an application virtualization layer, events that are generated during execution of the stateful application to identify events that may trigger a change in state of the stateful application and during execution of the stateful application, updating a set of storage objects in response to the evaluations, and during execution of the stateful application, comparing events that are generated by the stateful application to the set of storage objects and redirecting a storage object that corresponds to an event to a persistent data store if the storage object matches a storage object in the set of storage objects.
US11314534B2
An intelligent question and answer (Q&A) system and method for interactively guiding users through a procedure is disclosed. The intelligent Q&A system can dynamically generate process trees (or procedural trees) from the content or procedures presented in a raw document, such as a reference manual. The intelligent Q&A system can include a virtual agent that uses the dynamically generated process trees for interactive conversation with a user. Using the system, the virtual agent can interactively guide users through completing tasks such as updating software or connecting an IoT device to an existing system.
US11314523B2
The present invention relates to a booting disk including a master boot record (MBR) stored in a first region and a globally unique identifier (GUID) partition table (GPT) stored in a second region, wherein the booting disk has a hybrid MBR partition structure in which an MBR partition used by the MBR and a GPT partition used by the GPT are mixed. The GPT partition may include an operating system (OS) partition configured to store an OS and a GPT storage partition configured to store data, the MBR partition may include a GPT protective partition configured to protect the GPT partition and an MBR storage partition configured to store data, the GPT storage partition and the MBR storage partition may be the same the same starting address and size, a starting address of the GPT protective partition may be a logical block addressing (LBA) #1 of the booting disk, and a partition size thereof is zero.
US11314519B2
Disclosed methods, systems, and apparatus, include computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for performing allocation of M resources among N users into K pools by solving a knapsack problem (KP) using a distributed computing system. The method includes: receiving data representing K global constraints and L local constraints of the KP; transforming the KP into a dual problem using K dual multipliers; decomposing the dual problem into N sub-problems; performing two or more iterations in solving the dual problem, wherein in one iteration, for each dual multiplier corresponding to a global constraint corresponding to a pool: determining an updated dual multiplier for the global constraint corresponding to the pool to be a non-negative threshold; and computing M decision variables of each of the N users corresponding to the updated dual multiplier in solving each of the N sub-problems corresponding to the each of the N users.
US11314512B2
An aspect includes generating a data result and a special case indicator based on an instruction and at least one input data operand. Outputting the data result to a processor core. Outputting the first condition code to the processor core prior to outputting the data result to the processor core. Generating a second condition code based on the data result and the special case indicator. Performing a check by comparing the first condition code and the second condition code and flagging an error to the processor core upon the first condition code being different from the second condition code.
US11314508B1
Technologies that are well-suited for use in size, weight, and power (SWAP)-constrained environments are described herein. A host controller dispatches data processing instructions to hardware acceleration engines (HAEs) of one or more field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) and further dispatches data transfer instructions to a memory controller, such that the HAEs perform processing operations on data stored in local memory devices of the HAEs in parallel with other data being transferred from external memory devices coupled to the FPGA(s) to the local memory devices.
US11314506B2
Provided is a secure computation device for computing a comparison operation to two integers without the use of AND/XOR. The secure computation device compares a first integer a and a second integer b when the first integer a and the second integer b, which are 0 or greater and less than 2{circumflex over ( )}k (k being an integer of 1 or greater), are subjected to ring sharing. The secure computation device includes: an addition/subtraction circuitry; a bit decomposition circuitry; and a bit extraction circuitry. The addition/subtraction circuitry uses the first integer a, the second integer b, and 2{circumflex over ( )}k to carry out a predetermined addition or subtraction with ring sharing, and output an added/subtracted result. The bit decomposition circuitry converts the added/subtracted result to bit sharing, and outputs a bit shared result. The bit extraction circuitry extracts a (k+1)-th bit of the bit shared result, and outputs an extracted result.
US11314502B2
Disclosed embodiments relate to automatically providing updates to at least one vehicle. Operations may include receiving, at a server remote from the at least one vehicle, Electronic Control Unit (ECU) activity data from the at least one vehicle, the ECU activity data corresponding to actual operation of the ECU in the at least one vehicle; determining, at the server and based on the ECU activity data, a software vulnerability affecting the at least one vehicle, the software vulnerability being determined based on a deviation between the received ECU activity data and expected ECU activity data; identifying, at the server, an ECU software update based on the determined software vulnerability; and sending, from the server, a delta file configured to update software on the ECU with a software update corresponding to the identified ECU software update.
US11314495B2
A system comprising one or more computers implements a synthetic sensor service configured to deploy synthetic sensors to an in-vehicle computing device implementing a synthetic sensor orchestration environment for a vehicle. The synthetic sensor orchestration environment determines a placement decision for a new synthetic sensor to be added to the vehicle based on one or more annotations included in a synthetic sensor package for the new synthetic sensor. The synthetic sensor service and respective synthetic sensor orchestration environments implemented in various types of vehicles provide a consistent way to remotely add additional synthetic sensors and/or other functionality to different types of vehicles after the vehicles have already been put in use by respective owners or operators of the vehicles.
US11314494B2
In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for creating, exporting, viewing and testing, and importing custom applications in a multitenant database environment. These mechanisms and methods can enable embodiments to provide a vehicle for sharing applications across organizational boundaries. The ability to share applications across organizational boundaries can enable tenants in a multi-tenant database system, for example, to easily and efficiently import and export, and thus share, applications with other tenants in the multi-tenant environment.
US11314477B2
An audio processing apparatus includes a first input port, a second input port, a first processor that processes an audio signal input to the first input port and that includes a first adjuster which adjusts acoustic characteristics of the audio signal, a second processor that processes an audio signal input to the second input port, and output ports having a first particular output port. In a first operation mode, the first adjuster is set in an effective state and each of an audio signal as processed by the first processor and an audio signal as processed by the second processor is output from one or more of the output ports. In a second operation mode, the first adjuster is set in an ineffective state and an audio signal as processed by the first processor is output from the first particular output port.
US11314476B2
A display apparatus includes a rear cover behind a display panel, a left cover on a left side of the display panel and a right cover on a right side of the display panel and connected to the rear cover, and a left speaker adjacent to the left cover and a right speaker and the right cover where each of the left speaker and the right speaker includes a diaphragm facing the rear cover and spaced apart from the rear cover to form a slot, an enclosure surrounding a speaker driver, a sound discharge port at one end of the slot adjacent to the left cover or the right cover and through which sound reproduced by the diaphragm is discharged, and a side wall between one surface of the enclosure and the rear cover and surrounding a circumference of the diaphragm excluding the sound discharge port.
US11314467B2
An example printing device and method of the printing device is disclosed. A print substance usage parameter is determined based on a signal provided from a sensor coupled to a refillable reservoir in the printing device. A fill level of the refillable reservoir is dynamically adjusted with the print substance usage parameter.
US11314465B1
Systems and methods are provided for reviewing printed jobs. One embodiment is a system that includes a print review device. The print review device includes a memory that stores data which indicates whether regions along a width of print media marked by a printer are flagged as bypassable, and a controller configured to determine printhead conditions within regions that have not been flagged, associate each printhead condition with a corresponding region, and to generate a report with notifications of printhead conditions within each region that has not been flagged, while foregoing determination of printhead conditions in regions that have been flagged.
US11314462B2
An interface circuit includes; a transmitter interface circuit including an output pad and configured to receive a first input data signal and generate a second input data signal from the first input data signal, and a receiver interface circuit including an input pad and configured to receive the second input data signal via the output pad and an internal channel The transmitter interface circuit also includes an equalization signal generation circuit configured to receive the first input data signal, generate a pulse signal by delaying the first input data signal by applying a target delay time or a target width adjustment to the first input data signal, generate an equalization signal based on the pulse signal, and provide the equalization signal to the output pad to suppress a reflected wave on the internal channel.
US11314453B2
A memory system includes: a memory device including: a first memory block storing first map data, which maps a first logical address to a first physical address; and a second memory block storing first user data corresponding to the first map data; and a controller configured to: receive a warning signal from a host; and back up the first map data as second map data in response to the first logical address being provided along with a write command received after the warning signal is received; update the first map data to map the first logical address to a second physical address; suspend an erase operation being performed on the first user data is invalidated due to the write command; and restore the first map data based on the second map data and validate the invalidated first user data when it is determined that the host is infected by malware.
US11314452B2
A method of controlling an operation of a nonvolatile memory device includes monitoring multiple data streams having different stream identifiers to determine a stream data characteristic of each of the multiple data streams, determining a plurality of operation conditions based on a plurality of operation environments, respectively, and determining one of the plurality of operation conditions as a stream operation condition of each of the multiple data streams based on the stream data characteristics of each of the multiple data streams.
US11314448B2
Methods, apparatus, and processor-readable storage media for registering storage hosts for use in automating software-defined storage deployments are provided herein. An example computer-implemented method includes obtaining information pertaining to parameters for accessing storage hosts over at least one network in connection with at least one software-defined storage deployment; processing one or more requests by one or more client devices to access at least a portion of the storage hosts; registering, based at least in part on the processing of the one or more requests, at least one of the storage hosts by persisting data pertaining to the at least one storage host in connection with at least a portion of the parameters; and performing one or more automated actions related to at least one software-defined storage deployment based at least in part on the registration of the at least one storage host.
US11314443B2
In a method for managing an image of a container in a host device, a first image of a first container is received, wherein the first image includes a first set of image layers for implementing a first set of services of the first container respectively. The first image is loaded to deploy the first container at the host device. Based on an attribute of an image layer in the first set of image layers, an expiration time is set for the image layer. In response to determining that the expiration time is reached, the image layer is deleted from the host device. Stored image layers can be reused to reduce the transmission bandwidth for remotely downloading the image layers. A corresponding device and a corresponding computer program product are provided.
US11314441B2
According to one general aspect, an apparatus may include a memory, an erasure-based, non-volatile memory, and a processor. The memory may be configured to store a mapping table, wherein the mapping table indicates a rewriteable state of a plurality of memory addresses. The erasure-based, non-volatile memory may be configured to store information, at respective memory addresses, in an encoded format. The encoded format may include more bits than the unencoded version of the information and the encoded format may allow the information be over-written, at least once, without an intervening erase operation. The processor may be configured to perform garbage collection based, at least in part upon, the rewriteable state associated with the respective memory addresses.
US11314440B1
Techniques for the increased efficiency of storing data objects storage in the object storage of a software designed data center (SDDC) are provided. The techniques include the efficient storage of data, while enabling snapshots of each updating of the data. The snapshots of the data may be efficiently recovered via the techniques. Difference-level mappings for each snapshot are encoded in compact self-balancing data trees included in the object's metadata. The metadata mappings include mappings between various address spaces employed by the SDDC, as well as the address spaces employed by data stores that store the data on physical medium. Because the metadata is efficiently structured, the metadata for an object may be cached for quick lookups during data access and/or snapshot recovery. The techniques also provide low-latency recovery and/or system rollback in the event of any failure in the SDDC.
US11314439B2
A computer-implemented method, according to one embodiment, includes: estimating, by the computer system, a waiting time for copy target data to be transferred from the source medium. The waiting time includes an estimated time for locating and reading the copy target data from the source medium. The method also includes selecting, by the computer system, migration target data on the source medium based on whether migration of data to the target medium is expected to be finished within the waiting time. The selecting is based at least in part on comparing a size of the data and an allowable size calculated based on the waiting time and an estimated write transfer rate to the target medium. The method further includes migrating, by the computer system, the migration target data from the source medium to the target medium.
US11314434B1
Disclosed is a distributed storage system and methods for providing real-time localized data access from different storage nodes of the distributed storage system. Providing the localized data access may include tracking access frequencies with which a file is directly accessed from the different storage nodes, storing a source copy of the file at the first storage node in response to the access frequency at the first storage node being greater than the access frequency at the other storage nodes, caching the file at a second storage node, transferring control over the source copy from the first storage node to a third storage node based on a change to the access frequencies, and validating the cached copy of the file at the second storage node against the source copy at the third storage node prior to responding to a request for the file from the second storage node.
US11314433B1
Use of a deduplication module remote from a storage system for storage of data subject to deduplication by the remote deduplication module. The storage system may generate a hash of target data and send the hash of the target data to the remote deduplication module. The remote deduplication module may access a hash database corresponding to the storage system and apply a deduplication algorithm on the hash. In turn, information regarding a deduplication result may be returned to the storage system which may either store the unique target data or update a mapping between the target data and duplicate existing data in a persistent storage of the storage device. The remote deduplication module may be executed by scalable cloud resources such that the computational resources dedicated to the deduplication module may be scaled.
US11314432B2
A method is used in managing data reduction in storage systems using machine learning. A value representing a data reduction assessment for a first data block in a storage system is calculated using a hash of the data block. The value is used to train a machine learning system to assess data reduction associated with a second data block in the storage system without performing the data reduction on the second data block, where assessing data reduction associated with the second data block indicates a probability as to whether the second data block can be reduced.
US11314430B2
Techniques read data. Such techniques involve: in response to receiving a read request from the user for data on a physical data block, determining whether there is data state information corresponding to the physical data block. The data state information may include a plurality of units for respectively indicating availability of data stored in a plurality of sub-blocks of the physical data block. Such techniques further involve: in response to determining that there is data state information, selecting a target sub-block from the plurality of sub-blocks of the physical storage block based on the data state information. Such techniques further involve: providing the user with data stored in the target sub-block. Such techniques are capable of determining the availability of data at a finer granularity.
US11314429B2
The present disclosure includes apparatuses and methods for operations using compressed and decompressed data. An example method includes receiving compressed data to a processing in memory (PIM) device and decompressing the compressed data on the PIM device.
US11314422B2
A memory system that has a multi-channel volatile memory subsystem is coupled to a non-volatile memory subsystem to provide independent, configurable backup of data. The volatile memory subsystem has one or more main memory modules that use a form of volatile memory such as DRAM memory, for which the NV subsystem provides selective persistent backup. The main memory modules are dual in-line memory modules or DIMMs using DDR SDRAM memory devices. The non-volatile memory subsystem (NV backup) includes an NV controller and non-volatile memory NVM. The NV backup can also include a memory cache to aid with handling and storage of data. In certain embodiments, the NV controller and the non-volatile memory are coupled to the one or more DIMM channels of the main memory via associated signal lines. Such signal lines can be, for example, traces on a motherboard, and may include one or more signal buses for conveying data, address, and/or control signals. The NV controller and the non-volatile memory can be mounted on the motherboard.
US11314419B2
Techniques for managing disks involve: determining a current usage parameter associated with each of a plurality of disk sets, the current usage parameter indicating usage associated with a capability of each of the plurality of disk sets, and the capability comprising at least one of the following: a number of permitted accesses per time unit and a number of permitted writes per time unit; imbalance degree associated with the plurality of disk sets, the first imbalance degree indicating a difference in the current usage parameters of the plurality of disk sets; and causing data in at least one disk slice of a first disk set to be moved to a second disk set of the plurality of disk sets, so as to lower down the first imbalance degree. In this way, a better balance can be achieved among performances of respective disks after adjustment.
US11314412B2
According to one embodiment, a memory system includes a memory system includes a first nonvolatile memory and a controller. The controller controls the first nonvolatile memory. The second memory system includes a second nonvolatile memory. The controller manages information indicative of correspondences between private logical addresses and public logical addresses. The private logical addresses include first private logical addresses and second private logical addresses. Each of the first private logical addresses specifies a location in a first logical address space corresponding to the first nonvolatile memory. Each of the second private logical addresses specifies a location in a second logical address space corresponding to the second nonvolatile memory.
US11314407B2
An electronic device displays a user interface that includes a plurality of controls for adjusting parameters of a user interface element, including a first control and a second control for adjusting a first parameter and a second parameter of the user interface element, respectively. In response to receiving a single input directed to the first control, the device updates an appearance of the first control to indicate that the first control is navigating through a plurality of values of the first parameter, generates a plurality of tactile outputs corresponding to updates in the appearance of the first control; and changes a value of the first parameter for the user interface element based on the single input. In response to receiving a single input directed to the first control, a similar set of operations are performed with respect to the second parameter of the user interface element.
US11314405B2
A method for traversing a streaming video file includes receiving a representative streaming video file that includes less information than a higher-resolution streaming video file and spans the entire streaming video file. Based on navigation information associated with the representative streaming video file, a playback engine navigates to a different portion of the streaming video file. The navigation information may be based on input information received from a viewer of the streaming video file. One advantage of the disclosed method is that it enables fast and accurate navigation of a streaming video.
US11314397B2
An electronic device includes a display, a timer and computing hardware configured to execute a software product. Execution of the software product results in generating and rendering a graphical user interface on the display with four or more user-selectable graphical objects. Selection of a first user-selectable graphical object at a first spatial position on the graphical user interface and a movement of the selected first user-selectable graphical object along a path towards a second user-selectable graphical object at a second spatial position is detected and a position of the first user-selectable graphical object is exchanged with the position of the second user-selectable graphical object. If, during a predetermined time period, a selection of a third user-selectable graphical object and a movement of the third user-selectable graphical object towards a fourth user-selectable graphical object is detected, the positions of the third and fourth objects is exchanged.
US11314395B2
The present disclosure generally relates to a computer system displaying user interfaces for accessing passes and transfer accounts. In some examples, passes are added to the computer system. In some examples, passes are accessed. In some examples, transfers relating to the passes and transfer accounts are displayed, such as in search user interfaces.
US11314392B2
An electronic device may display a first lap time representation, and may move the first lap time representation in accordance with a first amount of elapsed time. While moving the first lap time representation, the electronic device may detect a lap input. In response to the lap input, the electronic device may cease movement of the first lap time representation, display a second lap time representation, and move the second lap time representation in accordance with a second amount of elapsed time. A relative positioning of the first lap time representation and the second lap time representation may correspond to a difference between a first lap time and a second lap time. In some embodiments, the electronic device may update the timescales of lap time representation(s) in accordance with a rotational input. In some embodiments, the electronic device may update a timer duration setting in accordance with a rotational input.
US11314384B2
A user interface system enables user selection of related parameters identifying an order for providing an item or service. The system employs a repository including information identifying candidate items or services for order and associated corresponding related order parameters in which an individual item or service for order is associated with multiple related order parameters. A user interface processor for, in response to user entry of order associated data, uses the repository in providing data representing a display image. The display image includes, an initial single candidate order including multiple order related parameters, order related parameter identifiers, multiple concurrently displayed columnar image areas correspondingly associated with the multiple order related parameters and individually incorporating multiple user selectable values for a respective individual order related parameter. In response to the user selection of a first value for a first order related parameter in a first columnar image area for incorporation in the candidate order, corresponding compatible sets of order related parameter values are presented in remaining columnar image areas of the multiple concurrently displayed columnar image areas. The display image enables, in response to user command, user selection of a complete candidate order derived by selection of displayed order related parameter values in the concurrently displayed columnar image areas.
US11314378B2
Improved techniques to utilize and manage a group of media items (or media assets) on a computing device are disclosed. The group of media items can be utilized and managed at a host computer for the host computer as well as a media device (e.g., media player) that can couple to the host computer. One popular example of a group of media items is know as a playlist, which can pertain to a group of audio tracks. One aspect pertains to providing a persistent media device playlist at a host computer. Another aspect pertains to imposing capacity limits to a playlist, such as a media device playlist. Still another aspect pertains to a graphical user interface that enables a user to trade-off storage capacity of a media device between media asset storage and data storage. Yet still another aspect pertains to a graphical user interface that assists a user with selecting media items to fill a group of media items.
US11314374B2
An image measuring apparatus includes an imager that acquires an image of a measurement target object, a touch panel display that displays the image acquired by the imager and accepts touch input operation of specifying a position in the displayed image, and an edge detector that searches for and detects an edge present in a predetermined range around the in-image specified position specified by a user's touch input operation in the image displayed on the touch panel display. When edges are found in a vicinity of the specified position, the edge detector causes a control object for selecting each of the edges to be displayed on the touch panel display not only in an aspect that prevents a wrong edge from being selected through the touch operation but in an aspect that allows visual recognition of a correspondence between each of the edges and a corresponding control object.
US11314370B2
Systems and processes are disclosed for virtual assistant request recognition using live usage data and data relating to future events. User requests that are received but not recognized can be used to generate candidate request templates. A count can be associated with each candidate request template and can be incremented each time a matching candidate request template is received. When a count reaches a threshold level, the corresponding candidate request template can be used to train a virtual assistant to recognize and respond to similar user requests in the future. In addition, data relating to future events can be mined to extract relevant information that can be used to populate both recognized user request templates and candidate user request templates. Populated user request templates (e.g., whole expected utterances) can then be used to recognize user requests and disambiguate user intent as future events become relevant.
US11314369B2
A display device including a display member including a substrate having an active area and a non-active area, and light-emitting elements disposed on the substrate, the non-active area including a bending region, and a touch member disposed on the display member and having a main touch area, in which the touch member includes touch electrodes disposed in the main touch area and touch lines connected to the touch electrodes, the main touch area corresponding to the active area and a portion of the touch lines corresponding to the non-active area, the touch lines include a first touch line part disposed on an upper side of the bending region, and a second touch line part disposed on a lower side of the bending region, and a number of conductive layers forming the first touch line part is greater than a number of conductive layers forming the second touch line part.
US11314364B2
An input-sensing unit includes first sensing electrodes, second sensing electrodes, first sensing lines, second sensing lines, third sensing lines, and bridge patterns. The second sensing electrodes are electrically insulated from the first sensing electrodes. The first sensing lines are respectively connected to the first sensing electrodes. The second sensing lines are respectively connected to first ends of the second sensing electrodes. The third sensing lines are respectively connected to second ends of the second sensing electrodes. The second ends oppose the first ends. The bridge patterns are respectively connected to the third sensing lines. The bridge patterns are closer to the first ends than to the second ends. The bridge patterns extend in a direction parallel to the third sensing lines.
US11314361B2
A touch apparatus according to an exemplary embodiment includes: a touch panel that includes a plurality of first touch electrodes extending in a first direction and arranged in a second direction that crosses the first direction, and a plurality of second touch electrodes extending in the second direction and arranged in the first direction; and a touch driver that applies a first driving signal for generation of a resonance signal of a stylus pen to the touch panel in a first section, and receives a detection signal from the plurality of first touch electrodes and the plurality of second touch electrodes in a second section that is next to the first section.
US11314350B2
A display device including a position input function includes a pixel, a pixel line extending so as to pass transversely across a display area, a signal supply unit connected to the pixel line, a first position detecting electrode placed in a first area A1 beside the signal supply unit, a second position detecting electrode placed in a second area on a side opposite to the signal supply unit, a first position detecting line placed so as to overlap the pixel line in the first area and connected to the signal supply unit and the first touch electrode, and a second position detecting line placed so as to overlap the pixel line in such a manner as to lie astride the first area and the second area and connected to the signal supply unit and the second position detecting electrode.
US11314348B2
A touch panel includes a substrate, scan lines, data lines, sub-pixels, a first conductive line, a second conductive line, and a conductive layer. The sub-pixels are arranged in columns along a first direction and arranged in rows along a second direction. Each of the sub-pixels includes an active element and a pixel electrode electrically connected with the active element. The active element is electrically connected with a corresponding scan line and a corresponding data line. The conductive layer overlaps the sub-pixels. The conductive layer includes a first electrode and a second electrode. The first electrode is electrically connected with the first conductive line. The second electrode is electrically connected with the second conductive line. The second electrode is separated from the first electrode. One of the first electrode and the second electrode is a touch electrode, and another one is a common electrode.
US11314346B2
Disclosed herein is a control device. The control device includes an interface unit physically connected to a display unit, a control board receiving an input of an occupant, and a camera capturing an image of an area of a body of the occupant and the surroundings of the control board, and a processor exchanging information with the control board, the display unit, and the camera through the interface unit, wherein if it is determined that the occupant is present in the driver's seat through the camera and a first input is received from the occupant through the control board, the processor controls the display unit to display a display area corresponding to a position to which the first input is input on the control board, and when the display area is displayed in the display unit and a second input is received from the occupant through the control board, the processor selects or controls contents displayed in the display area.
US11314342B2
A mouse device includes a casing, a button, and an elastic guiding structure. The casing includes a shell plate. The shell plate has a through hole, and the through hole has a hole edge. The button is disposed on the shell plate. The button includes a switch-triggering member, and the switch-triggering member is penetrated through the through hole. The elastic guiding member includes a first elastic bar and a second elastic bar. The first elastic bar is disposed at the hole edge and extends toward the switch-triggering member to have a first free end. The second elastic bar is disposed at the hole edge and extends toward the switch-triggering member to have a second free end. The switch-triggering member is sandwiched between the first free end and the second free end.
US11314341B2
A mouse device includes a casing, a button, a connecting rod assembly, an elastic member, and an optical switch. A pressing block of the button extends into the casing. The connecting rod assembly is disposed in the casing and is rotatably disposed on a shaft base of the casing. The elastic member is disposed in the casing and elastically abuts against the connecting rod assembly, so that the connecting rod assembly abuts against the pressing block to allow the button at an initial position. The optical switch is disposed in the casing and adjacent to the connecting rod assembly. The button can be moved from the initial position to a pressed position relative to the casing so as to drive the connecting rod assembly to rotate, so that the connecting rod assembly is moved relative to the optical switch to trigger the optical switch.
US11314329B1
Embodiments relate to decoding architecture that rapidly decodes light-derived signals to extract predicted user actions or intents (e.g., commands) in relation to interactions with objects (e.g., virtual objects, physical objects), such that the user can manipulate the objects or otherwise receive assistance without manually interacting with an input device (e.g., touch input device, audio input device, etc.). The decoding architecture thus enables a neural decoding process with a neural signal stream as an input, and provides feedback to the user, where the feedback is used to train the neural decoding algorithm and user behavior. The neural signals can be blood oxygenation level dependent (BOLD) signals associated with activation of different articulators of the motor cortex, and signals can characterize both actual and imagined motor cortex-related behaviors. With training of the decoding algorithm, rapid calibration of the BCI for new users can be achieved.
US11314321B2
One disclosed example provides a head-mounted device configured to control a plurality of light sources of a handheld object and acquire image data comprising a sequence of environmental tracking exposures in which the plurality of light sources are controlled to have a lower integrated intensity and handheld object tracking exposures in which the plurality of light sources are controlled to have a higher integrated intensity. The instructions are further executable to detect, via an environmental tracking exposure, one or more features of the surrounding environment, determine a pose of the head-mounted device based upon the one or more features of the surrounding environment detected, detect via a handheld object tracking exposure the plurality of light sources of the handheld object, determine a pose of the handheld object relative to the head-mounted device based upon the plurality of light sources detected, and output the pose of the handheld object.
US11314319B2
An operation method of a communication node in an Ethernet-based vehicle network, the communication node including a regulator, a physical (PHY) layer unit, and a processor, includes outputting, by the processor, a first signal to initiate a supply of power to the communication node; outputting, by the processor, a second signal to initiate a transition of the communication node from a normal mode to a sleep mode; and transitioning, by the PHY layer unit, the communication node from the normal mode to the sleep mode when the second signal is received at the PHY layer unit from the processor.
US11314316B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a modem (5, 6) that is capable of suppressing electric power consumption by switching an operation according to a power supply circumstance in an installation environment. The modem (5, 6) includes a low-voltage power supply terminal (502, 602) and a high-voltage power supply terminal (503, 603). The low-voltage power supply terminal (502, 602) is not connected to a power supply unit (506, 606). When electric power is supplied from the high-voltage power supply terminal (503, 603), a first superposition unit (508, 608) superposes the electric power input from the high-voltage power supply terminal (503, 603) on a signal to be transferred to a communication path.
US11314314B2
A head-mounted display apparatus includes an image display unit configured to display an image, a sound output unit configured to output a sound, a mounting state determination unit configured to determine a mounting state of the head-mounted display apparatus, and an image sound output control unit configured to turn ON/OFF display, and turn ON/OFF an output of a sound, based on the mounting state. The image sound output control unit is configured to turn ON display of an image and an output of a sound when the mounting state is the first state, turn OFF display of an image and turn ON an output of a sound when the mounting state is not the first state and is the second state, and turn OFF display of an image and an output of a sound when the mounting state is not the first state and is not the second state.
US11314313B2
Screen casting on between two devices is described. In an example implementation, a communication link is established by a first device with a second device for casting a screen of the second device on the first device. Upon establishing the communication link, a command message is sent by the first device to the second device to set a backlight of the screen of the second device based on user backlight settings. When no user activity is detected on the second device for a specific time period, a request message is received by the first device from the second device, indicating switching the backlight of the screen of the second device to power-saving backlight settings. In response to the request message, a command message is sent by the first device to the second device to set the backlight of the screen of the second device based on the power-saving backlight settings.
US11314312B2
This document describes techniques and systems that enable a smartphone-based radar system for determining user intention in a lower-power mode. The techniques and systems use a radar field to enable the smartphone to accurately determine the presence or absence of a user and further determine the intention of the user to interact with the smartphone. Using these techniques, the smartphone can account for the user's nonverbal communication cues to determine and maintain an awareness of users in its environment, and only respond to direct interactions once a user has demonstrated an intention to interact, which preserves battery power. The smartphone may determine the user's intention by recognizing various cues from the user, such as a change in position relative to the smartphone, a change in posture, or by an explicit action, such as a gesture.
US11314311B2
Systems and methods for managing battery runtime and performance based upon presence detection are described. In some embodiments, a method may include: receiving a first amount of energy from a power source directed to supporting operation of an Information Handling System (IHS); receiving a second amount of energy from the power source directed to charging a battery of the IHS; determining a user's presence state with respect to the IHS; and modifying the first and second amounts in response to the presence state.
US11314308B2
A control method includes: detecting a distance between a mobile terminal and a controlled device; controlling the controlled device to make the controlled device in power-on status automatically when the distance between the mobile terminal and the controlled device is within a preset distance; establishing a connection between the mobile terminal and the controlled device, so that a user sends a control instruction to the controlled device through the mobile terminal, to make the controlled device execute a corresponding operation. According to the control method, the control apparatus and the control system of the present disclosure, the controlled device may be controlled automatically to be in power-on status when the distance between the mobile terminal and the controlled device is within the preset distance, so that a user may send a control instruction to the controlled device. Thusly, the control efficiency is improved, and the user experience is good.
US11314301B2
Methods, systems, and devices for power management of a memory device are described. An apparatus may include a substrate and an input/output (I/O) interface and memory device coupled with the substrate. The I/O interface may communicate with a host device and the memory device may store data associated with the host device. The apparatus may include a power management component for providing one or more supply voltages to the memory device. The power management component may receive input voltages associated with the substrate and provide the supply voltages to the memory device based on the input voltages. The power management component may include a first portion integrated with the memory device and a second portion coupled with the substrate. The first portion may include control circuitry for the power management component and the second portion may include passive components for the power management component.
US11314297B1
A portable electronic device is disclosed. The portable electronic device may include a laptop computing device that includes a base portion and a display housing rotationally coupled to the base portion. The base portion includes a fan designed to drive heated air out of the base portion, thus cooling the portable electronic device. A dynamic (movable) air diverter is integrated into the base portion near the fan's outlet. The air diverter is designed to direct airflow from the fan outlet. Moreover, the air diverter can be repositioned by, for example, rotating the display housing relative to the base portion. As a result of the repositioned air diverter, the airflow from the fan outlet is redirected out of the portable electronic device through a different location. The air diverter can be positioned in different discrete locations, or alternatively, can move continuously with the rotational movement of the display housing.
US11314294B2
Modular heat sinks are provided that support configurations using combinations of cooling and expansion card components, whereby the expansion card may support coupled devices. Heat sinks may include a fin set that is permanently fixed to the heat sink and a second fin set that can be decoupled from a location on the heat sink base. The second fin set can instead be replaced on the heat sink base by an expansion card connector, such as a M.2 expansion card connector. In some embodiments, an expansion card connector also includes a fin set, with the expansion card connector fastened on top of that fin set. The fin set to which the expansion card connector is fastened may include multiple tiers of fins of different heights that may conform to the space available to the heat sink, thus maximize cooling capabilities of the heat sink while also supporting an expansion card.
US11314282B2
A portable interface system comprising an interface device and a portable base part, wherein the interface device is fixable detachably without tools in an attachment area of the base part and wherein the interface system is designed in such a way that the interface device is activated if the interface device is detached from the base part.
US11314280B2
Systems and methods are involved with but are not limited to an apparatus including a first frame shaped and sized to receive a tablet-shaped computing device; and a second frame shaped and sized to receive the first frame. In addition, other aspects are described in the claims, drawings, and text forming a part of the present disclosure.
US11314274B2
An operation lever for a working vehicle, the operation lever being arranged to one side of an operator seat of the working vehicle, includes: a swing body configured to be swingable; and a grip arranged on an upper portion of the swing body. The grip includes: a gripping arranged to the one side; an operating portion arranged to another side opposed to the one side and provided with an operation switch; an extending portion extending backward from a lower portion of the gripping portion; and an anti-slip portion arranged between a surface of the gripping portion and a surface of the extending portion.
US11314273B2
Disclosed is a power supply switching circuit comprising: a first switch pair configured to selectively connect a first power supply node to an output node; a second switch pair configured to selectively connect a second power supply node to the output node; and a switch control circuit configured to: respectively control first and second switches of the first switch pair by a first control signal and a second control signal; respectively control first and second switches of the second switch pair by a third control signal and a fourth control signal; and selectively connect one of the first power supply node or the second power supply node to the output node by at least one of (a) the first and second control signals or (b) the third and fourth control signals. At least one of the second control signal or the fourth control signal is powered via the output node.
US11314271B2
A power supply control apparatus includes a voltage control transistor connected between a DC voltage input terminal and an output terminal; a control circuit which controls the voltage control transistor according to an output feedback voltage; and a first external terminal receiving an output control signal to control an output voltage. The control circuit includes a first error amplifier outputting a voltage according to an electric potential difference between a voltage divided by a first voltage dividing circuit which divides the output voltage of the output terminal and a predetermined reference voltage; and an output changing circuit including a second error amplifier receiving a voltage input in the first external terminal, a transistor having a control terminal receiving the output of the second error amplifier, and a current mirror circuit connected to the voltage input terminal which transfers an electric current flowing in the transistor. The current mirror circuit is connected to a node from which the divided voltage is taken out, and the output changing circuit displaces the divided voltage according to a voltage input in the first external terminal to change the output voltage according to the output control signal.
US11314269B2
An electronic circuit for voltage regulation is disclosed, the circuit generally includes a low-dropout (LDO) voltage regulator function block, including a primary feedback loop, and an output voltage stabilizer block connected to the LDO voltage regulator function block outside the primary feedback loop, wherein the output voltage stabilizer block includes a plurality of peak voltage suppression circuits and a plurality of dip voltage suppression circuits. In some embodiments, the output voltage stabilizer block is set at low bias current to minimize current consumption at normal condition. Other useful features and advantages of an electronic circuit for voltage regulation are disclosed.
US11314248B2
Many different types of systems are utilized or tasks are performed in a marine environment. The present invention provides various configurations of unmanned vehicles, or drones, that can be operated and/or controlled for such systems or tasks. One or more unmanned vehicles can be integrated with a dedicated marine electronic device of a marine vessel for autonomous control and operation. Additionally or alternatively, the unmanned vehicle can be manually remote operated during use in the marine environment. Such unmanned vehicles can be utilized in many different marine environment systems or tasks, including, for example, navigation, sonar, radar, search and rescue, video streaming, alert functionality, among many others. However, as contemplated by the present invention, the marine environment provides many unique challenges that may be accounted for with operation and control of an unmanned vehicle.
US11314239B2
The present disclosure discloses a method, system and device for replaying movement of a robot. In an embodiment, the method includes a controller receiving a log file in which information about a movement of the robot is recorded; the controller obtaining information of position points passed by the robot when performing the movement based on the log file; and the controller sending the information of position points passed by the robot when performing the movement to a replaying device, to enable the replaying device to replay the movement of the robot according to the information of position points. The technical solutions of the present disclosure may increase the accuracy of locating where the problem is when errors or something unexpected happened to the robot.
US11314238B2
The integrated control processing unit is configured to recognize a varying processable amount over time within a predetermined period of each of the simulators; transmit a simulation request for a simulation process within an optimal processing amount within the recognized processable amount of each of the simulators to each of the simulators together with an operation state information group and a simulation condition; receive a plurality of evaluation value groups as a simulation process result based on the operation state information group and the simulation condition from each of the simulators; and recognize a highest evaluation value group based on an operation objective function among a plurality of received evaluation value groups. The operational plan optimization device can perform various simulation operations at high speed at lower cost and recognize an optimal operation efficiently using hardware resources when performing operation simulation.
US11314235B2
A distributed networking system and protocol is provided to a networking system with a modular design. The distributed networking system may include a networking system, modules, control module, user interface module, input/output module, network module, data transmission network, hybrid modules and composite modules. A method to interface with accessories of a system with a modular design using the distributed networking system and protocol is also provided.
US11314234B2
There is provided a technique that includes a load port on which a plurality of storage containers, each storage container storing a plurality of substrates, are mounted, a plurality of process chambers configured to be capable of accommodating the substrates, a transfer part configured to transfer the substrates stored in each storage container to each of the process chambers; an operation part configured to, when performing the process in a state in which a substrate is not present in each process chamber, count first count data of data tables for corresponding process chambers; a memory configured to store the data tables; and a controller configured to assign first transfer flag data to a data table of a process chamber having largest first count data and configured to control the transfer part based on the first transfer flag data so as to transfer the substrates in the predetermined order.
US11314229B2
A spatial model of a printed circuit board assembly is generated based on an input file. The spatial model is used to determine a spatial feature not directly specified in the input file. A manufacturing parameter is determined based at least in part on the determined spatial feature. A proposal to manufacture the printed circuit board assembly is generated programmatically based at least in part on the determined manufacturing parameter.
US11314218B2
A crane control system for controlling a plurality of cranes is provided. The crane control system in some embodiments includes a master controller unit, at least one computer readable memory for storing a plurality of tokens, each token from the plurality of tokens associated with a respective crane from the plurality of cranes, and a processing unit responsive to commands inputtable by an operator of the master controller unit to send the commands to individual cranes from the plurality of cranes, wherein the processing unit associates the commands with respective tokens to control the cranes associated with those tokens. The crane control system in some embodiments also includes a processing unit that is responsive to a signal indicative of a synchronization loss to issue a command to bring the plurality of cranes into a safe condition, such as an emergency stop, or a corrective action.
US11314214B2
An apparatus for aggregation of water condition at household appliances comprises a communication interface and a controller. The communication interface is configured to send a reporting message indicative of data collected by at least one appliance to a central server. The controller is configured to receive an analysis message from the central server. The analysis message indicates a condition of water from the at least one appliance or a condition of water in a geographic area associated with the at least one appliance. The controller is configured to provide an alert in response to the analysis message.
US11314208B2
A watch includes a control member which makes it possible to manage one or more electronic functions. The control member includes an optical guide, which extends between a proximal face and a distal face with respect to the middle. A light source is arranged such that it can illuminate the distal face through the optical guide, and an imaging device, including a photodetector, is arranged to capture an image of a portion of the finger of a user of the watch, when they touch the distal face. A processor generates commands based on signals generated by the photodetector, in the way of an optical mouse, for example, to make it possible for the user to browse in a menu displayed on a digital screen.
US11314206B2
Disclosed is a clockwork with pointers or with a pointer module driven by a mechanical driving gear, wherein the clockwork is a hybrid clockwork that in addition to the mechanical driving gear, also at least includes an additional driving gear with a motor and an electric or electronic controller that is internal and which is equipped to be able to drive and/or adjust the pointers or the pointer module in parallel or in series with the mechanical driving gear.
US11314204B2
Provided are an improved holographic reconstruction apparatus and method. A holographic reconstruction method includes: obtaining an object hologram of a measurement target object; extracting reference light information from the obtained object hologram; calculating a wavenumber vector constant of the extracted reference light information, and generating digital reference light by calculating a compensation term of the reference light information by using the calculated wavenumber vector constant; extracting curvature aberration information from the object hologram, and then generating digital curvature in which a curvature aberration is compensated for; calculating a compensated object hologram by multiplying the compensation term of the reference light information by the obtained object hologram; extracting phase information of the compensated object hologram; and reconstructing 3-dimensional (3D) shape information and quantitative thickness information of the measurement target object by calculating the quantitative thickness information of the measurement target object by using the extracted phase information of the compensated object hologram.
US11314193B2
A foreign substance collection apparatus includes: a frame body; a photosensitive drum; a cleaning roller which collects foreign substances from a surface of the photosensitive drum; a collecting roller which further collects the foreign substances having been collected by the cleaning roller from the cleaning roller; and a scraping member which scrapes off the foreign substances from the collecting roller. A foreign substance collecting portion included in the frame body has, in a posture during use: a first inner bottom surface which is positioned below the scraping member in a gravity direction; an outer bottom surface which is positioned further below the first inner bottom surface; and a connecting surface which intersects the first inner bottom surface and the outer bottom surface and which connects the first inner bottom surface and the outer bottom surface with each other.
US11314184B2
A method of forming an image includes forming, on a recording medium (P), a special-light responsive image (201) that includes an image forming material including a special-light responsive image forming material that reacts to special light other than visible light and a special-light irresponsive image (202) that includes an image forming material including the special-light responsive image forming material. The special-light responsive image forming material of the special-light irresponsive image (202) is less than the special-light responsive image forming material of the special-light responsive image (201), and the special-light irresponsive image (202) is a prevention image that prevents visibility of the special-light responsive image (201). The forming includes forming an overlaid portion (203) in which at least a portion of one of the prevention image and the special-light responsive image (201) is overlaid on top of another one of the prevention image and the special-light responsive image (201).
US11314178B2
A toner containing a toner particle, wherein, when a dielectric loss tangent measured at a frequency of 10 kHz in an impedance measurement on the toner in an environment having a temperature of 50° C. and a relative humidity of 50% RH is designated by tan δ50° C.(1), and a dielectric loss tangent measured at a frequency of 10 kHz in an impedance measurement on the toner in an environment having a temperature of 30° C. and a relative humidity of 50% RH after the impedance measurement on the toner in an environment having a temperature of 50° C. and a relative humidity of 50% RH is designated by tan δ30° C.(2), tan δ50° C.(1) is from 0.015 to 0.050, the relationship tan δ50° C.(1)>tan δ30° C.(2) is satisfied, and tan δ30° C.(2)/tan δ50° C.(1) is from 0.25 to 0.66.
US11314173B2
Metrology tools and methods are provided, which estimate the effect of topographic phases corresponding to different diffraction orders, which result from light scattering on periodic targets, and adjust the measurement conditions to improve measurement accuracy. In imaging, overlay error magnification may be reduced by choosing appropriate measurement conditions based on analysis of contrast function behavior, changing illumination conditions (reducing spectrum width and illumination NA), using polarizing targets and/or optical systems, using multiple defocusing positions etc. On-the-fly calibration of measurement results may be carried out in imaging or scatterometry using additional measurements or additional target cells.
US11314171B2
Certain aspects relate to a method for improving a lithography configuration. In the lithography configuration, a source illuminates a mask to expose resist on a wafer. A processor determines a defect-based focus exposure window (FEW). The defect-based FEW is an area of depth of focus and exposure latitude for the lithography configuration with an acceptable level of defects on the wafer. The defect-based FEW is determined based on a predicted probability distribution for occurrence of defects on the wafer. A processor also determines a critical dimension (CD)-based FEW. The CD-based FEW is an area of depth of focus and exposure latitude for the lithography configuration with an acceptable level of CD variation on the wafer. It is determined based on predicted CDs on the wafer. The lithography configuration is modified based on increasing an area of overlap between the defect-based FEW and the CD-based FEW.
US11314161B2
Provided is a mask blank for a phase shift mask including an etching stopper film. The mask blank has a structure where a transparent substrate has stacked thereon an etching stopper film and a phase shift film in this order, in which the phase shift film contains silicon and oxygen, in which the phase shift film has a refractive index n1 of 1.5 or more for light of 193 nm wavelength and an extinction coefficient k1 of 0.1 or less for light of 193 nm wavelength, in which the etching stopper film has a refractive index n2 of 2.5 or more and 3.1 or less for light of 193 nm wavelength and an extinction coefficient k2 of 0.4 or less for light of 193 nm wavelength, and the refractive index n2 and the extinction coefficient k2 satisfy at least one of a set of specified conditions.
US11314155B1
An elevator assembly includes a first bracket, a second bracket, a first connecting rod and a second connecting rod. The second bracket is slidably disposed on the first bracket. The first connecting rod has a first pivot end and a first sliding end. The first pivot end is pivoted to the first bracket and provided with a first gear portion, and the first sliding end is slidably disposed on the first bracket and connected to the second bracket. The second connecting rod has a second pivot end and a second sliding end. The second pivot end is pivoted to the first bracket and provided with a second gear portion, the second sliding end is slidably disposed on the second bracket and connected to the second bracket, and the first gear portion and the second gear portion are engaged with each other.
US11314145B1
An apparatus and method are provided for generating harmonic light from a pump beam that is impinged on a metasurface comprising a plurality of all-dielectric resonator bodies. A multiple quantum well structure formed in each resonator body includes asymmetric coupled quantum wells having intersubband transition frequencies that couple to Mie resonances of the resonator bodies.
US11314138B2
The present invention provides a display device including a display panel having a display surface, a polarizer disposed on the display surface, a first phase retardation layer disposed on one side of the polarizer opposite to the display surface, a polymerized cholesteric material layer disposed on one side of the first phase retardation layer opposite to the display surface, a second phase retardation layer disposed on one side of the polymerized cholesteric material layer opposite to the display surface, and a switchable polarizer disposed on one side of the second phase retardation layer opposite to the display surface. A first optical axis of the first phase retardation layer is orthogonal to a second optical axis of the second phase retardation layer. A first absorption axis of the polarizer is in the same direction as a second absorption axis of the switchable polarizer. The polarity of the switchable polarizer can be turned on or off according to a display state or a non-display state of the display panel, respectively.
US11314132B2
An array substrate and a display panel are provided. The array substrate includes a substrate, a thin film transistor layer disposed on the substrate, and a pixel electrode layer disposed on the thin film transistor layer. The pixel electrode layer includes a plurality of pixel regions, and the pixel regions include a first pixel region and a second pixel region. A pixel electrode in the second pixel region is disposed along an outer boundary of the first pixel region, or a pixel electrode in the first pixel region is disposed along an outer boundary of the second pixel region.
US11314130B2
A display device includes: a first substrate; a second substrate overlapping the first substrate; a common electrode disposed on the second substrate; a column spacer disposed between the pixel electrode and the common electrode; and a plurality of pixels. Each of the plurality of pixels includes a transistor disposed on the first substrate and a pixel electrode electrically connected to the transistor through a hole. The display device further includes a plurality of column spacers disposed between the pixel electrode and the common electrode. The plurality of column spacers include a main spacer having a first height and a sub-spacer having a second height that is different from the first height. At least one of the main spacer and the sub-spacer includes a first spacer having a first planar area and a second planar spacer having a second planar area that is different from the first planar area.
US11314126B2
A backlight module and a liquid crystal display device are provided. By forming a diffusion layer on a light emitting surface of each of a plurality of light emitting diodes (LEDs), a light shadow and a LED light path generated by misalignment between the LEDs and a light guide plate and deformation of a reflective sheet can be effectively avoided. The backlight module emits light of uniform brightness to improve display performance of the liquid crystal display device.
US11314125B2
Provided is a LED backlight module, display screen and detection method of a LED backlight module. The LED backlight module includes a substrate and multiple LED chips arranged on the substrate, one first detection group is arranged on the substrate for each LED chip of more than one LED chip arranged at an interval of N LED chips connected in series, where N is greater than or equal to 0, the first detection group includes a first positive electrode detection point and a first negative electrode detection point, the first positive electrode detection point and the first negative electrode detection point of the first detection group are respectively connected to a positive electrode and a negative electrode of the each LED chip.
US11314124B2
The present invention provides a display device. Multiple functional layers on a display panel are provided with a functional region arranged corresponding to a camera module. The functional region includes a light transmissive region arranged corresponding to a first hole and a light shielding region arranged around the light transmissive region. The light shielding region is arranged corresponding to the light shielding member in a backlight module, and the light shielding region shields a light shielding member. Such configuration improves a problem that an aperture of an opening region of an under-screen camera deforms due to the light shielding member.
US11314123B2
A composite pane having electrically controllable optical properties, includes an outer pane, a first intermediate layer, a second intermediate layer, and an inner pane, a functional element having electrically controllable optical properties, which is arranged between the first intermediate layer and the second intermediate layer, and a thermoplastic frame layer, which surrounds the functional element in the manner of a frame, wherein the outer pane and the inner pane are joined to one another via the first intermediate layer, the second intermediate layer, and the thermoplastic frame layer, and an optical waveguide is arranged at least partially between the outer pane and the inner pane.
US11314118B2
A display device and an optical film are provided. The optical film is disposed on the display surface of the display device, and includes an anti-glare layer and an anti-reflection layer. The anti-glare layer has a first light-incident surface and a first light-exit surface. The anti-reflection layer is disposed on the first light-exit surface. The anti-reflection layer has a second light-incident surface and a second light-exit surface facing away from each other. The second light-incident surface faces the first light-exit surface of the anti-glare layer. The specular reflectance of the optical film is smaller than or equal to 0.14% for a light ray incident to the second light-exit surface at an incident angle ranging from 10 degrees to 30 degrees.
US11314115B2
An array substrate, a manufacturing method of the same, a display panel and a display device are provided. The array substrate includes a display region and a peripheral region around the display region, a photosensitive layer is in the display region and a peripheral circuit is in the peripheral region. The array substrate further includes an alignment film covering the photosensitive layer and the peripheral circuit. The array substrate further includes an insulating layer between the peripheral circuit and the alignment film. The alignment film is a photo alignment film, and the insulating layer is configured to absorb and/or reflect an alignment light adopted for performing photoalignment to obtain the alignment film.
US11314111B2
The invention discloses a display panel having a display region and a wire out region on one side of the display region, comprising: a first substrate including a main body part and a glue blocking part connected to the main body part, a thickness of the main body part being different from a thickness of the glue blocking part; a second substrate opposite to the first substrate; and a sealant arranged between the first substrate and the second substrate, and located between the display region and the wire out region, wherein the glue blocking part is located on one side of the sealant close to the wire out region. The thickness of the main body part of the first substrate in the display panel of the invention is different from the thickness of the glue blocking part, and before curing, the sealant does not spill into the wire out region due to obstruction action of the glue blocking part, thereby not affecting a peeling process of the panel after cutting.
US11314109B1
A spatial light modulator cell and arrays of spatial light modulator cells are disclosed. The spatial light modulator cells can comprise a phase change material (PCM) having a first side and a second side; an optical reflector configured to reflect an optical beam passing from the first side to the second side; and a PCM heater thermal conductively coupled to the PCM, wherein thermal modulation of the PCM modulates a phase of the PCM which varies light transmission through the PCM. Methods of making spatial light modulator cells and arrays are also disclosed.
US11314107B2
The present invention facilitates optical modulation skew adjustment. Components of an on chip optical device driver system can cooperatively operate to provide modulated driver signals to drive configuration of optical signals. A serializer is configured to receive parallel data signals and forward corresponding serial data signals. A multiplexing component is configured to selectively output an in-phase component and a quadrature component of the serial data signals, including implementing skew adjustments to aspects of a first output signal and a second output signal. An output stage is configured to output signals that modulate an optical signal, including the first output signal and the second output signal. An on chip skew detector is configured to detect a skew difference between the first output signal and the second output signal. A skew calibration component is configured to direct skew adjustment between the first output signal and the second output signal.
US11314100B2
A system for forming a homogenized illumination line which can be imaged as a low-speckle line is disclosed. The system includes a laser configured to emit a collimated laser beam; and an illumination-fan generator that includes one or more linear diffusers. The illumination-fan generator is arranged and configured to (i) receive the collimated laser beam, (ii) output a planar fan of diffused light, such that the planar fan emanates from a light line formed on the distal-most one of the one or more linear diffusers, and (iii) cause formation of an illumination line at an intersection of the planar fan and an object.
US11314098B2
A light-collimating film including elongated chambers of bistable electrophoretic fluids. The light-collimating films are suitable to control the amount and/or direction of light incident to a transmissive substrate. Such films may be integrated into devices, such as LCD displays, to provide a zone of privacy for a user viewing the LCD display. Because the light-collimating film is switchable, it allows a user to alter the collimation of the emitted light on demand. Because the films are bistable, they do not require additional power after they have been switched to a display state.
US11314093B2
A device includes one or more light guides. The device also includes a first in-coupling element configured to couple a first light having a first input field of view (“FOV”) into a first light guide, and a second in-coupling element configured to couple a second light having a second input FOV into a second light guide. The device also includes a first out-coupling element configured to couple the first light out of the first light guide as a first output light having a first output FOV, and a second out-coupling element configured to couple the second light out of the second light guide as a second output light having a second output FOV substantially non-overlapping with the first output FOV. A combination of the first output FOV and the second output FOV is larger than at least one of the first output FOV or the second output FOV.
US11314091B2
A stacked waveguide assembly can have multiple waveguide stacks. Each waveguide stack can include a plurality of waveguides, where a first waveguide stack may be associated with a first subcolor of each of three different colors, and a second waveguide stack may be associated with a second subcolor of each of the three different colors. For example, the first stack of waveguides can incouple blue, green, and red light at 440 nm, 520 nm, and 650 nm, respectively. The second stack of waveguides can incouple blue, green, and red light at 450 nm, 530 nm, and 660 nm, respectively.
US11314085B2
A viewing devices includes an optical assembly comprising a display, an optical system forming of this display an image at infinity and a light guide for expanding a pupil in two spatial directions. The guide comprises three planar mirrors and two semi-reflective plates, the optical axis of the optical assembly being inclined with respect to the surface of the first planar mirror by an angle different from zero and strictly smaller than 90 degrees, the light beams output from the optical assembly propagating inside the light guide via successive reflections from the planar mirrors and the semi-reflective plates, the transmission of the light beams output from the optical assembly to outside of the light guide occurring via successive transmissions by the second semi-reflective plate.
US11314083B2
A near-eye display system includes a display panel to present image frames to the eyes of a user for viewing. The system also includes a beam steering assembly facing the display panel that is configurable to displace a light beam incident on the beam steering assembly, thereby laterally shifting light relative to an optical path of the light beam incident on the beam steering assembly. The beam steering assembly includes a birefringent plate configurable to replicate a light ray incident on the beam steering assembly such that the replicated light ray is laterally shifted relative to an optical path of the light ray incident on the beam steering assembly.
US11314081B2
Described examples include a process that includes illuminating a spatial light modulator at a first illumination level during a first bit-plane and stopping illumination at a beginning of a second bit-plane subsequent to the first bit-plane. The process also includes resuming illumination after a settling period of the spatial light modulator at a second illumination level for a time period such that a total illumination energy during the second bit-plane is equivalent to an intended illumination energy for the second bit-plane at the first illumination level and stopping illumination at the second illumination level before a subsequent third bit-plane.
US11314073B2
A lighting device includes a light source generating a beam of illumination light, a ring-shaped aperture shielding a central portion of the illumination light and transforming the beam of illumination light into ring-shaped illumination light, and an object lens focusing the ring-shaped illumination light such that a specimen can be illuminated with the ring-shaped illumination light. An inspection apparatus including the light device also has a beam splitter and an image sensor picking up light reflected and/or diffracted from the specimen through the beam splitter. Because a central portion of the illumination light is shielded, lens flare of light transmitted by the beam splitter and the object lens is prevented thereby preventing speckles in the image produced by the image sensor.
US11314072B2
A microscope system includes a light sheet microscopy functional unit and at least one further light microscopy functional unit. The light sheet microscopy functional unit has an illumination objective which is formed by a first objective and a detection objective which is formed by a separate second objective. The at least one further light microscopy functional unit has a detection objective that is formed by the second objective.
US11314063B2
A zoom lens includes a first lens group with a negative refractive power, a second lens group with a positive refractive power, and an aperture stop disposed in and movable with the second lens group. Each of the first lens group and the second lens group moves individually. The zoom lens further includes a doublet lens disposed on a first side of the aperture stop and between the first lens group and the aperture stop, and at most two lenses including at least one aspheric lens are disposed on a second side of the aperture stop.
US11314058B2
The present disclosure relates to the field of optical lenses and provides a camera optical lens. The camera optical lens includes, from an object side to an image side: a first lens; a second lens having a negative refractive power; a third lens having a negative refractive power; a fourth lens; a fifth lens; and a sixth lens. The camera optical lens satisfies following conditions: 3.00≤f1/f≤10.00; and 5.00≤R11/d11≤15.00. The camera optical lens can achieve a high imaging performance while obtaining a low TTL.
US11314046B2
The present disclosure relates to the field of optical lenses and provides a camera optical lens. The camera optical lens includes, from an object side to an image side: a first lens; a second lens having a negative refractive power; a third lens having a positive refractive power; a fourth lens; a fifth lens; and a sixth lens. The camera optical lens satisfies following conditions: −5.00≤f2/f3≤−2.00; and 1.50≤d3/d5≤5.00. The camera optical lens can achieve a high optical imaging performance while satisfying a design requirement for ultra-thin, wide-angle camera lenses with large apertures.
US11314045B2
The present invention discloses a camera optical lens. The camera optical lens includes, in an order from an object side to an image side, a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, and a sixth lens. The second lens has a negative refractive power and the third lends has a positive refractive power. The camera optical lens further satisfies the following specific conditions: 2.00≤f1/f3≤5.00 and −16.00≤R5/R6≤−10.00. The optical lens can achieve an excellent imaging performance and satisfy the design demands of ultra-thin, wide-angle and large aperture.
US11314043B2
A lens assembly includes a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, and a sixth lens. The first lens is with negative refractive power. The second lens is with negative refractive power. The third and fourth lenses are with positive refractive power. The fifth lens is with negative refractive power. The sixth lens is with positive refractive power. The first lens, the second lens, the third lens, the fourth lens, the fifth lens, and the sixth lens are arranged in order from an object side to an image side along an optical axis. The lens assembly satisfies: 4.9≤TTL/f≤11.5; wherein TTL is an interval from an object side surface of the first lens to an image plane along the optical axis and f is an effective focal length of the lens assembly.
US11314035B2
The present invention is directed to an adjustable optical element supporting structure comprising a first structure group, a second structure group, a third structure group and a fourth structure group. The second structure group is disposed on the first structure group, the third structure group is disposed on the second structure group, and the fourth structure group is disposed on the third structure group. Each of the first structure group, the second structure group and the third structure group includes a supporting beam and a node assemble, and the position of the node assemble can be adjusted along a radial or a tangential direction. The fourth structure group is a supporting member having three branches, and a supporting pad made by an elastic material is disposed on the supporting member for supporting an optical element. Accordingly, the present invention can evenly support the optical element having different sizes and structures.
US11314031B2
An optical element driving mechanism has an optical axis and includes a fixed portion, a movable portion, and a driving assembly. The movable portion is movable relative to the fixed portion. The driving assembly drives the movable portion to move relative to the fixed portion, wherein the driving assembly moves along a first direction to move the movable portion along a second direction, the first direction is different from the second direction.
US11314025B2
An optical transceiver that is hot-pluggable to an external device includes: an IC-TROSA including first to third internal fibers extending from a first surface of a package on a side opposite to the device in the first direction; a first substrate on which the IC-TROSA is mounted; a second substrate electrically connected to a light source and the first substrate and to which the light source is attached to generate reference light; a first sleeve provided on the second internal fiber; a second sleeve provided on the third internal fiber; and a fiber tray in which the substrates are mounted in an upper portion and the fibers are housed in a lower portion by being bent greater than a predetermined radius of curvature. The second substrate is arranged between the first and second sleeves and the first substrate in the first direction.
US11314018B2
The present invention relates to a polymer optical waveguide including: a core; an under-cladding; and an over-cladding, in which the polymer optical waveguide includes a coupling section and an optical waveguide section that are provided along a light propagation direction, the polymer optical waveguide includes portions having different core widths along the light propagation direction, and when a core width at a portion a having a narrowest core width is denoted Wa (μm) and a core height at the portion a is denoted Ha (μm), Ha is 1.3 μm or more and 4.5 μm or less, and Ha/Wa is 1.15 or less.
US11314017B2
An optical fiber includes: a core portion made of glass; and a cladding portion made of glass, having a refractive index lower than the refractive index of the core portion, and positioned on an outer periphery of the core portion. Further, the cladding portion has an outer diameter smaller than 100 μm, and the core portion has a relative refractive-index difference of 0.32% to 0.40% with respect to the cladding portion.
US11314012B2
A light source useful for architectural lighting, general lighting, street lighting, or other lighting applications includes a plurality of light emitting diodes, with at least some light emitting diodes sized between 50 microns and 500 microns. A plurality of micro-optics sized less than 1 millimeter are positioned over at least some of the plurality of light emitting diodes. Each combination of light emitting diode and associated micro-optic is positioned within a Rayleigh distance to each other, sufficient to both present a substantially uniform visual appearance and provide a substantially uniform light beam. In some embodiments the height of the light emitting diodes, their supporting substrate and electrical traces, and associated optics is less than 5 millimeters.
US11314006B2
The present specification relates to a method for manufacturing a polarizer and a polarizer manufactured by using the same, and more particularly, to a method for manufacturing a polarizer, which includes a cross-linking and elongating step using an aqueous solution including a polyvalent carboxylic acid compound and a boric acid compound, and a polarizer manufactured by using the same.
US11314003B2
A special-shaped display screen and a display device are provided. The special-shaped display screen includes a first display area and a second display area. The first display area includes a first boundary and a first pixel area, and the first boundary is disposed on an outer periphery of the first pixel area. The second display area includes a second boundary and a second pixel area, and the second boundary and the first boundary define an effective display area of the special-shaped display screen. The first pixel area is formed by a plurality of triangular pixel units, and the second pixel area is spliced by a plurality of rectangular pixel units arranged alternately in a face-up configuration and a face-down configuration.
US11313997B2
A method for creating gradient optical properties within a substrate is disclosed herein. More specifically, the present invention teaches a method whereby a material disposed on a substrate is patterned in three dimensions such that the thickness and diffusivity properties of the material can be used to regulate the diffusion of ions into the substrate. An example is given in which ions, injected into a substrate through an ion exchange process, alter the refractive index within the substrate in a pre-selected fashion to form a gradient refractive index lens.
US11313971B1
A three-dimensional imaging system and method are provided. The three-dimensional imaging system includes: an ultrashort pulse laser light source configured to generate a detection beam; a supercontinuum spectrum generator configured to generate a supercontinuum spectrum based on the detection beam passing through the supercontinuum spectrum generator; a pulse separation delayer configured to generate a continuous pulse sequence of different wavelengths with a time interval based on the supercontinuum spectrum; a multi-frequency pulse interference fringe generator configured to generate multi-frequency interference fringe patterns of different wavelength ranges with a time interval based on the continuous pulse sequence; and an image acquisition device configured to acquire an optical signal reflected by a sample irradiated by the multi-frequency interference fringe patterns to obtain a three-dimensional topography of the sample.
US11313966B2
An unmanned aerial vehicle comprising a velocity sensing system is provided. The velocity sensing system comprises a transmitter configured to transmit a first acoustic signal having at least a first frequency and a receiver, configured to detect a second acoustic signal comprising the first acoustic signal after it has been reflected from a reflective surface. The velocity sensing system is configured to determine from the second acoustic signal a second frequency, said second frequency comprising the first frequency after having undergone a Doppler shift; and to use the first and second frequencies to determine a velocity at which the unmanned aerial vehicle is travelling relative to the reflective surface.
US11313963B2
This invention provides millimeter wave holographic 3D imaging detection system, which comprises: a transmitting antenna configured to transmit a millimeter wave transmitting signal to an object to be detected; a receiving antenna configured to receive an echo signal from the object to be detected; a millimeter wave transceiving module configured to generate the millimeter wave transmitting signal transmitted to the object to be detected and receive and process the echo signal from the receiving antenna; a scanning device configured to support the millimeter wave transceiving module, the transmitting antenna and the receiving antenna, and move the millimeter transceiving module, the transmitting antenna and the receiving antenna along a preset track, so as to scan the object to be detected with millimeter waves; a data gathering and processing module configured to gather and process the echo signal output from the millimeter wave transceiving module to generate a 3D image of the object to be detected; and an image display unit configured to display the 3D image generated by the data gathering and processing module. Besides, this invention also provides a method of millimeter wave holographic 3D imaging detection on an object to be detected using the above system thereof. The technical solution of this invention has the advantages of simple structure, high resolution, short imaging time, and larger field of view.
US11313960B2
An object detection apparatus 1000 includes a plurality of transmitting units 1101 configured to emit a transmission signal, a receiving unit 1102 configured to mix the reception signal with a transmission signal to generate an IF signal, a spectrum calculation unit 1103 configured to calculate a spectrum that indicates a distribution of positions of the object, a section determination unit 1104 configured to determine sections for which a reflectance of the object is to be calculated, a reflectance distribution calculation unit 1105 configured to calculate, for each pair of a transmitting unit and the receiving unit, a reflectance of the object for each section, and calculate a product of the reflectance distributions over the sections, the reflectance distributions being calculated for the respective pairs, and an image generation unit 1106 configured to generate an image using a product of the reflectance distributions calculated for the respective pairs.
US11313958B2
A system for testing automobile radar sensor configurations includes multiple probe arrays, multiple enclosures, a channel emulator and a test controller. The enclosures each enclose one of the probe arrays together with a corresponding different automobile radar sensor. Each probe array is configured to receive radar signals from the corresponding automobile radar sensor and emulate echo signals back to the corresponding automobile radar sensor. The channel emulator is configured to supply the echo signals to each of the probe arrays. The test controller includes a memory that stores instructions and a processor that executes the instructions. The test controller controls the channel emulator and is configured to perform performance testing on an automobile radar sensor configuration that includes the automobile radar sensors and an automobile driving controller that reacts to the echo signals received by each of the automobile radar sensors.
US11313937B2
A method for operating a wireless receiver includes receiving wireless signals from a transmitter at a first antenna and a second antenna. The wireless signals include a signal carrier and one or more data symbols modulated onto the signal carrier. The one or more data symbols in the wireless signal are decoded to determine a symbol phase contribution. The phase of the wireless signals at the first antenna and the second antenna during one or more symbol periods is estimated to provide a first set of phase measurements and a second set of phase measurements, respectively. The symbol phase contribution is removed from the first set of phase measurements and the second set of phase measurements to provide a first corrected set of phase measurements and a second corrected set of phase measurements, respectively, which are used to estimate an angle of arrival of the wireless signals.
US11313936B2
Probe systems and methods of characterizing optical coupling between an optical probe of a probe system and a calibration structure. The probe systems include a probe assembly that includes an optical probe, a support surface configured to support a substrate, and a signal generation and analysis assembly configured to generate an optical signal and to provide the optical signal to the optical device via the optical probe. The probe systems also include an electrically actuated positioning assembly, a calibration structure configured to receive the optical signal, and an optical detector configured to detect a signal intensity of the optical signal. The probe systems further include a controller programmed to control the probe system to generate a representation of signal intensity as a function of the relative orientation between the optical probe and the calibration structure. The methods include methods of operating the probe systems.
US11313931B2
A method for quantifying T1, T2 and resonance frequency simultaneously using magnetic resonance fingerprinting (MRF) includes accessing an MRF dictionary using a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system. The MRF dictionary is generated by simulating signal evolutions that include associated off-resonance effects for each signal evolution. The method further includes acquiring MRF data from a region of interest in a subject using the MRI system and a MRF pulse sequence having a plurality of radio frequency (RF) excitations and a readout associated with each RF excitation. Each readout includes a plurality of segments and each segment is used to generate a time frame. The method also include comparing the MRF data to the MRF dictionary to identify a plurality of parameters including T1, T2 and resonance frequency for the MRF data and generating a report indicating the at least one of the plurality of parameters of the MRF data.
US11313926B1
In a general aspect, a vapor cell includes a body defined by a stack of layers bonded to each other. The stack of layers includes a first end layer disposed at a first end of the body and a second end layer disposed at a second, opposite end of the body. Intermediate layers extend between the first and second end layers and define an internal cavity extending through the body between the first end layer and the second end layer. The stack of layers also includes first and second sets of tabs. The first set of tabs extends outward from the intermediate layers on a first exterior side of the body, and the second set of tabs extends outward from the intermediate layers on a second exterior side of the body. The vapor cell also includes a vapor or a source of the vapor disposed in the internal cavity.
US11313923B2
A method includes measuring a first property of a magnetic field using a bridge circuit with spatially separated bridge branches, and measuring a second property of the magnetic field using a magnetic field sensor located between the spatially separated bridge branches.
US11313920B2
This sensor unit includes a base having a substantially-rectangular planar shape including a first side and a second side that are substantially orthogonal to each other, and a plurality of first sensors provided on the base and arranged on a first axis. The first axis is substantially parallel to the first side and passes through a center position of the base.
US11313917B2
An electric current sensor for detecting a leakage current from an electric vehicle charger. The current sensor includes a magnetic core having a gap formed therein, a first conductor wound around the magnetic core to form a first coil, a second conductor wound around the magnetic core to form a second coil, and a tunnel-magnetoresistance (TMR) sensor element arranged in the gap of the magnetic core. A difference between electric current flow in the first and second conductors produces a magnetic field in the gap of the magnetic core proportional to a leakage current, and the magnetic field produces a voltage in the TMR sensor element indicative of a value of the leakage current.
US11313910B2
An anomaly detection system for a secondary battery which detects the remaining capacity of the secondary battery on an electric vehicle, cautions against the secondary battery with anomalous characteristics, stops using the secondary battery, changes the secondary battery, or changes charging conditions of the secondary battery is provided. The anomaly detection system is provided; the system compares a value obtained by estimating internal resistance or SOC of a secondary battery based on the measured value of a current or a voltage of the secondary battery with the use of a nonlinear Kalman filter and a value input to an anomaly detection system (network) of AI to predict a change in the internal resistance; the system regards a case where the difference is large as an anomaly; and the system detects an anomaly.
US11313907B2
A control panel includes power supply circuits for supplying power supply voltages to loads and a connection part for connecting wiring. The control panel comprises a system current detection unit that is for detecting a sudden increase in system current that is from a power system and flows through the control panel and includes a second current transformer, and individual current detection units that are for detecting a sudden increase in the individual current of one of the power supply circuits and include first current transformers. An arc discharge detection unit identifies an arc discharge occurring within the control panel separately from a surge flowing into the system based on a system current detection signal and individual current detection signals.
US11313904B2
A testing device includes a transmitter circuit, a receiver circuit, and a loopback circuit. The transmitter circuit is configured to receive a plurality of first test signals. The receiver circuit is configured to receive input data from a plurality of pads in a normal mode. The loopback circuit is coupled to the plurality of pads and input terminals of a sampler circuit, and the loopback circuit is configured to transmit the plurality of first test signals from the transmitter circuit to the input terminals of the sampler circuit, in order to generate test data for subsequent analysis.
US11313897B2
There is provided a testing wafer that simulates heat generation of an inspection target substrate. The testing wafer includes a heater pattern, a plurality of temperature sensors, and first and second electrode pads. The heater pattern is configured to heat the testing wafer having the same shape as a shape of the inspection target substrate. The temperature sensors are configured to respectively measure temperatures of multiple locations on the testing wafer. The first electrode pads are connected to the heater pattern and the second electrode pads are connected to the temperature sensors. The first and second electrode pads are installed to be in contact with probes of a probe card.
US11313891B2
A display device including a first substrate including a display area and a non-display area, a circuit film connected to the first substrate, a printed circuit board (PCB) connected to the circuit film, and a first inspection pad, a second inspection pad, and a third inspection pad located in the non-display area and a bridge configured to electrically connect the first inspection pad, the second inspection pad, and the third inspection pad. The circuit film includes a first line electrically connected to the first inspection pad, a second line electrically connected to the second inspection pad, a third line electrically connected to the third inspection pad, and a branch point configured to branch at least one line from the first line, the second line, and the third line into two sub-lines. The PCB includes a test pad unit connected to the first line, the second line, and the third line.
US11313882B2
A battery management system, a battery pack including same and a method for determining a failure in a current detecting circuit. The system includes the current detecting circuit configured to detect a reference current representing a current flowing through a high current path of the battery pack, a bidirectional switch including a charging FET and a discharging FET installed on the high current path, and a control unit. The control unit detects a first voltage across the charging FET and a second voltage across the discharging FET while a first high level voltage is applied to a gate of the charging FET and a second high level voltage is applied to a gate of the discharging FET. The control unit determines a failure in the current detecting circuit based on at least one of the first voltage and the second voltage and the reference current.
US11313876B2
Angular accelerometers are described, as are systems employing such accelerometers. The angular accelerometers may include a proof mass and rotational acceleration detection beams directed toward the center of the proof mass. The angular accelerometers may include sensing capabilities for angular acceleration about three orthogonal axes. The sensing regions for angular acceleration about one of the three axes may be positioned radially closer to the center of the proof mass than the sensing regions for angular acceleration about the other two axes. The proof mass may be connected to the substrate though one or more anchors.
US11313872B2
In dispenser-type reagent dispensing, because a reagent is transferred through a piping flow path to a prescribed position and dispensed, some of the reagents may remain in the piping flow path and reagent crystallization may consequently occur in the piping flow path. Thus, crystallization prevention for the entire piping flow path must be taken into consideration. Provided is a dispensing device that comprises a reagent suction pipe for sucking in a reagent from a reagent vessel, a liquid transfer mechanism for transferring the reagent, a nozzle for discharging the reagent, and a reagent discharge pipe that is connected to the reagent container and a port that can be connected to the nozzle. The dispensing device is characterized in that the reagent is dispensed from the nozzle into a reaction vessel and when the reagent is not being dispensed, the nozzle and the port are connected and the reagent is circulated.
US11313866B2
A method for in vitro diagnosing asphyxia and disorders related thereto, a method of in vitro estimating duration of hypoxia in a patient subjected to asphyxia, and a method for in vitro monitoring of normoxic, hypoxic and hyperoxic conditions and/or normobaric and hyperbaric oxygen therapy, includes quantitatively detecting in a biological sample of a patient a plurality of asphyxia specific endogenous compounds which are selected from the group consisting of biogenic amines; carnitine-derived compounds; amino acids; bile acids; carboxylic acids; eicosanoids; lipids; precursors of cholesterol, cholesterol metabolites; prostanoids; and sugars.
US11313862B2
The method for aiding ALS detection provided by the present invention includes determining a profile of signal peptides contained in a bodily fluid from a test subject, and comparing the signal peptide profile thus determined for the test subject with a previously-determined profile of signal peptides in a bodily fluid from a healthy subject. The presence of a difference between the signal peptide profile of the test subject and the signal peptide profile of the healthy subject at a specific molecular weight is then associated with the test subject's suffering from or developing ALS.
US11313852B2
The invention relates to compounds which activate the BASIGIN signalling pathway, preferably agonists of BASIGIN, for the treatment of neurodegenerative disorders.
US11313849B2
An expansion ratio detection system for rubber, including a controller, a rubber sampling module, a rubber calender, a temperature control module, and an expansion ratio detection module. The rubber sampling module obtains a rubber to be tested consistent with a weight value. After the temperature control module determines that the rubber to be tested has reached a first temperature value, the rubber calender outputs the rubber to be tested having a thickness value. The expansion ratio detection module obtains an expansion ratio according to twice the thickness value and a roller pitch.
US11313847B2
Provided, in one aspect, is a method for performing a rock core flow performance test. The method, in this aspect, includes containing un-cured cement within an in-situ cement curing test fixture. The method additionally includes placing the in-situ cement curing test fixture with the un-cured cement within a pressure vessel of a rock core flow test system, and subjecting the in-situ cement curing test fixture with the un-cured cement within the pressure vessel to non-ambient temperature or pressure to form in-situ cured cement.
US11313839B2
Disclosed herein is an apparatus for ultrasonic inspection that comprises a base and a contact shoe that is located within the base and movably coupled to the base. The apparatus additionally comprises a sensor carriage located within the contact shoe and movably coupled to the contact shoe such that the sensor carriage is translationally movable relative to the contact shoe. The apparatus further comprises a linkage pivotably coupled to the base at a base pivot point, pivotably coupled to the contact shoe at a shoe pivot point, and pivotably coupled to the sensor carriage at a carriage pivot point. Translational movement of the contact shoe relative to the base causes the linkage to pivot about the base pivot point, the shoe pivot point, and the carriage pivot point and move the sensor carriage relative to the base and the contact shoe.
US11313838B2
An apparatus includes an acoustic source for directing an acoustic wave towards a workspace, a variable acoustic diffractive device positioned in a path of the acoustic wave between the acoustic source and the workspace, the variable acoustic diffractive device including an array of elements each having independently variable acoustic properties, and an electronic controller in communication with the acoustic source and the variable acoustic diffractive device, the electronic controller programmed to supply signals to cause the acoustic source to produce the acoustic wave and the variable acoustic diffractive device to diffract the acoustic wave from the acoustic source to provide non-uniform acoustic forces in a medium located in the workspace.
US11313832B2
A streaming current measurement flow cell, free from potential piston-to-electrode contact, with a flexible, but close-fitting piston and sleeve set, wherein a housing-defined bushing, as it encircles the piston's active segment near its upper end, does so with a short, cylindrical sidewall, the inside diameter of which, in comparison to the active segment's diameter, creates a narrower—but by only 0.002 inch—capillary-sized flow channel between the bushing and the active segment than exists between it and the sleeve. Even so, physical contact between piston and sleeve—a major wear factor—is completely eliminated; and larger particles known to scratch/gouge dielectric surfaces are kept out of the piston/sleeve flow channel. Moreover, a limitation on the piston's downward travel wherein the active segment's upper end is brought just flush with the upper electrode's flat, annular face makes possible a novel system, critical in self-cleaning this electrode where its inner edge and setback are exposed atop the bushing.
US11313831B2
An interdigitated electrode biosensor includes an insulating layer configured to fully cover a sensor forming region of a substrate, a first interdigitated microelectrode configured such that a plurality of first protruding electrodes is arranged in a shape of a comb on the substrate, a second interdigitated microelectrode configured such that a plurality of second protruding electrodes is arranged in a shape of a comb and each interdigitates with the plurality of first protruding electrodes, and a plurality of receptors that is immobilized in a space between the first interdigitated microelectrode and the second interdigitated microelectrode and reacts specifically to target biomaterials. Different voltages are uniformly or nonuniformly applied to the first interdigitated microelectrode and the second interdigitated microelectrode to generate a dielectrophoretic force by a nonuniform electric field, improving the sensor by increasing the probability of specific reaction with the target biomaterials using the concentration effect through dielectrophoresis.
US11313828B2
The biosensor includes a substrate, an electrode pattern positioned on the substrate, a passivation layer which is formed with a plurality of holes spaced apart from each other, and a bead positioned at one or more holes among the plurality of holes, and to which an antibody is attached, the electrode pattern includes a first electrode pattern part and a second electrode pattern part spaced apart from the first electrode pattern part, which has a same height as a height of the first electrode pattern part, and forms an electric field with the first electrode pattern part.
US11313825B2
A gas sensor (1) including a sensor element (10) and a separator (90) having an element hole (90 h), as viewed from one of a forward-end or a rear-end side in the axial direction. The separator has end surfaces (90 e) located axially farthest toward the one of the forward-end or the rear-end side, recess regions (90 h), (90 r 1) and (90 r 2) recessed from the end surfaces, and regions R1 and R2. First regions R1 are determined by eliminating a region SB occupied by the sensor element from a region SA defined by imaginary short-side lines and the outer edge of the separator. Second regions R2 are determined by eliminating the region SB from a region SC defined by imaginary long-side lines and the outer edge of the separator. S2/S1≥0.5 is satisfied, where S1 is the total area of R1 and R2, and S2 is the total area of the recess regions.
US11313824B2
The detecting device includes a detecting unit including a first electrode and a second electrode, the first electrode and the second electrode being used as a first capacitor. The detecting device includes a drive unit configured to apply a first drive signal to the first drive terminal such that the first drive signal is alternately inverted between a first period and a second period. The detecting device includes a converting unit configured to convert a charge charged at the signal terminal into a voltage and includes a difference processing unit configured to obtain a difference between the first output voltage and the second output voltage.
US11313819B2
A method for determining a thermal impedance of a sample device is described. According to the method, a sample device is heated to an initial temperature. A pulsed power including a sequence of pulses is applied to the sample device. Temperature of the sample device is measured in a time-dependent manner. A thermal impedance of the sample device is determined based on the temperature of the sample device and the pulsed power.
US11313807B2
An image inspection device has a first suction conveyance unit which is arranged on the upstream side with a conveyance surface as an upper surface, a second suction conveyance unit which is arranged on the downstream side with a conveyance surface as a lower surface to make the conveyance surface continuous from the upstream side, a first inspection section which inspects an image on a front surface of an inspection object which is conveyed to the first suction conveyance unit and a second inspection section which inspects an image on a back surface of the inspection object which is conveyed to the second suction conveyance unit. The inspection object is conveyed in a state of being sucked and held on the first and second suction conveyance units and therefore is stable in position and posture in conveyance and an expected accuracy is maintained in inspection performed by the first and second inspection sections.
US11313801B2
The sample imaging apparatus includes: a housing that forms a closed space; a transparent tray on which a sample is placed in the housing; a plane light source that is formed by using a flat light guide plate, which propagates light emitted by a light emitting element in a plane direction, so as to illuminates the sample with illumination light through the tray in the housing; a lens that is disposed in the housing so as to face the plane light source with the tray interposed between the lens and the plane light source and is used for imaging the sample; and an imaging control unit that adjusts a focal length of the lens and performs imaging in a case of imaging the single sample.
US11313797B2
Sticking of core layer is suppressed, and deterioration of sensitivity of a sensor is prevented. An optical waveguide (10) includes a substrate (15), a core layer (11), a support, and a protrusion (18). The core layer (11) can transmit light. The support connects at least a portion of the substrate (15) and a portion of the core layer (11) together. The support supports the core layer (11). The protrusion (18) is arranged at a position different from a position of the support in a space between the substrate (15) and the core layer (11). The protrusion (18) has a maximum height at a position deviated from a central position cp of the core layer (11) in a width direction. The protrusion (18) protrudes toward the core layer (11) from the substrate (15).
US11313793B2
An opto-magnetic device includes an integrated optical circuit having an input for an input optical radiation and at least one output for an output optical radiation. The optical circuit defines an area sensible to the variations of a local refraction index probed by the optical radiation, destined to come in contact with the sample. A plurality of probe molecules are included to anchor to the sensible area, and a plurality of magnetic particles are included to anchor to molecules of the analyte, bound to the probe molecules upon a molecular recognition. A magnetic actuator is configured to generate a variable magnetic field and oscillate the magnetic particles to cause variation of the refraction index probed by the optical radiation in the sensible area, and a variation of at least one characteristic parameter of the output optical radiation correlated to a concentration of the molecules of the analyte.
US11313787B2
A sensor suitable for detecting specific analytes, a method for manufacturing the sensor, and a method for using the sensor in a diagnostic procedure provided. In an embodiment, the sensor device includes a substrate, a dielectric layer disposed on the substrate, and a probe layer disposed on the dielectric layer. The probe layer is configured to react with an analyte. The reaction may include: binding with the analyte, undergoing a change in a chemical property of the probe layer, or undergoing a change in a structural property of the probe layer. In examples, an attribute of the dielectric layer is configured to identify the device during a process that determines whether the probe layer has reacted with the analyte.
US11313777B2
System for conducting measurements of friction of a chosen material with reduced errors. The system includes a sample holder, a bushing accommodating such holder while permitting reversible repositioning of the holder along a bushing axis, a horizontal force sensor, a vertical force sensor, a sample holder pusher and a subsystem including a linear vertical bearing (disposed in the bushing and separating the holder from the bushing) and/or a horizontally-sliding element between the rod pusher and the vertical force sensor. The subsystem is structured to reduce a rocking motion of the holder in the bushing caused by a relative motion between the sample and an auxiliary body brought in contact with the sample. The method for performing measurements with such system.
US11313775B2
A device and method for evaluating fracture initiation and propagation, and a stress sensitivity of a propped fracture is provided. The device includes a core part, a confining pressure loading part, a fracturing fluid pumping part, a stress sensitivity testing part and a fracture monitoring part. The method evaluates fracture initiation and propagation, and a stress sensitivity of a propped fracture using the above device and is reliable and simple to operate and guides optimization of construction parameters of hydraulic fracturing, thus achieving improvement in productivity of an oil and gas well.
US11313761B2
The purpose of the present invention is to provide a device for controlling a dynamometer of a test system, wherein the device is capable of controlling shaft torque to a prescribed target torque while minimizing low-frequency-range resonance caused by viscous drag of a test piece. This test system is provided with a dynamometer joined to an engine via a coupling shaft, an inverter for supplying electric power to the dynamometer, a shaft torque meter for detecting the shaft torque produced in the coupling shaft, and a dynamometer-controlling device 6 for generating a torque-current command signal T2 that is sent to the inverter and is generated on the basis of a shaft torque detection signal T12 from the shaft torque meter. The dynamometer-controlling device 6 is provided with an integrator 62 for integrating the difference between the shaft torque detection signal 12 and a shaft torque command signal T12ref, and a phase lead compensator 63 for accepting an output signal from the integrator 62 as an input and performing a phase lead compensation process that uses constants (a1, b1) that are dependent on the viscous drag of the test piece. An output signal from the phase lead compensator 63 is used to generate the torque-current command signal T2.
US11313759B2
The local refractive power and/or the refractive power distribution of a left and/or a right spectacle lens in a spectacle frame is measured in the wearing position on the head of a spectacle wearer by capturing at least two images of an eye of the spectacle wearer from different recording positions. The disclosure also relates to a computer program product having a computer program with program code and to an apparatus for carrying out the method.
US11313758B2
An apparatus and method for measuring thermo-mechanically induced reticle distortion or other distortion in a lithography device enables detecting distortion at the nanometer level in situ. The techniques described use relatively simple optical detectors and data acquisition electronics that are capable of monitoring the distortion in real time, during operation of the lithography equipment. Time-varying anisotropic distortion of a reticle can be measured by directing slit patterns of light having different orientations to the reticle and detecting reflected, transmitted or diffracted light from the reticle. In one example, corresponding segments of successive time measurements of secondary light signals are compared as the reticle scans a substrate at a reticle stage speed of about 1 m/s to detect temporal offsets and other features that correspond to spatial distortion.
US11313754B2
A system (100) for monitoring a pipe system (10) includes a first sensor device (102). The first sensor device (102) includes at least one sensor, a wake-up circuit (170), and a processor (172). The at least one sensor is configured to sense an operating characteristic of a piping section (12) of the pipe system (10), and includes a transducer configured such that an audio signal emanating in the piping section induces the transducer to produce a voltage signal indicative of the audio signal. The wake-up circuit (170) is operatively connected with the transducer, and generates a wake-up signal in response to the voltage signal being above a predetermined threshold. The processor (172) is operatively connected to the wake-up circuit (170) and to the at least one sensor, and is configured to identify an operating condition of the pipe system (10) with reference to the operating characteristic sensed by the at least one sensor in response to receiving the wake-up signal.
US11313747B2
A remote seal assembly for a process transmitter includes a seal body containing a cavity sealed by a diaphragm. The seal body configured to be mounted to a process element containing a process fluid such that a first side of the diaphragm is exposed to the process fluid. A capillary contains a fill fluid that is in fluid communication with the cavity and a second side of the diaphragm. A coupling has a capillary recess and two cavities separated by a second diaphragm. The capillary extends through the capillary recess and connects to the coupling such that the fill fluid in the capillary is in fluid communication with one of the two cavities and the second diaphragm. A thermally conductive element preferably extends continuously along the capillary from the seal body toward the coupling and into the capillary recess without contacting the coupling.
US11313746B2
A pressure sensor includes a movable electrode formed in a movable region of a diaphragm, and a fixed electrode formed opposite to the movable electrode. A pressure receiving surface of the diaphragm is held in an inactive state. The inactive pressure receiving surface of the diaphragm is in a state in which molecules of gas to be measured are hard to absorb onto the pressure receiving surface. The pressure receiving surface of the diaphragm can be made inactive by predetermined surface treatment. A layer for making the pressure receiving surface of the diaphragm inactive is formed by the surface treatment, and the pressure receiving surface of the diaphragm is held inactive with the presence of the layer.
US11313744B2
A system and method for detecting dynamic strain of a housing. The system includes an optical fiber linearly affixed along a surface of a length of the housing and an interrogator comprising a laser source and a photodetector. The optical fiber comprises at least one pair of fiber Bragg gratings (FBGs) tuned to reflect substantially identical wavelengths with a segment of the optical fiber extending between the FBGs. The segment of the optical fiber is linearly affixed along the surface of the housing. The interrogator is configured to perform interferometry by shining laser light along the optical fiber and detecting light reflected by the FBGs. The interrogator outputs dynamic strain measurements based on interferometry performed on the reflected light.
US11313742B2
A system for analysis of the performance in use of a sliding board includes a database storing baseline performance; a sensor sensitive to the deformations of said sliding board; and a monitoring body. The monitoring body determines the performance in use based on measurements from the sensor; and compares the performance in use with the baseline performance. The sensor is secured to the sliding board and has at least one piezoelectric element secured to the sliding board and configured to generate electric energy during the deformations of the sliding board; and an electronic processing circuit, powered exclusively by the electric energy generated by the at least one piezoelectric element.
US11313735B2
A thermistor sintered body and a temperature sensor element that can adjust a resistance value in a wider range while suppressing an influence on a B constant. A thermistor sintered body of the present invention includes: a Y2O3 phase as a main phase; and a Y(Cr/Mn)O3 phase as a subphase, wherein a chemical composition of Cr, Mn, Ca, Pr and Y excluding oxygen includes one or two of Cr: 20 mol % or less and Mn: 20 mol % or less, Ca: 1 to 15 mol %, and Pr: 0.5 to 30 mol %, with the balance being unavoidable impurities and Y. In the present invention, preferably, the subphase is a Y(Cr,Mn)O3 phase or a YCrO3 phase, and Pr is dissolved in the Y(Cr,Mn)O3 phase or the YCrO3 phase.
US11313728B2
A temperature sensing device comprising a housing including a display, an extension at least 1.5 inches long extending from the housing, a temperature sensor, and a connector from the sensor to the housing for transmitting the output to the housing. The extension has a proximal section at the housing and an opposed distal section, the distal section being movable relative to the housing. The temperature sensor is at the distal section of the extension for sensing the temperature of a target material and providing an output related to the temperature of the target material. Optionally, the device includes a thermal insulator at the distal section of the extension protecting the temperature sensor from heat from the target material. Optionally, the device includes a light source at the distal section of the extension for aiming the sensor at the target material.
US11313710B2
A device for fastening a bar-shaped sensor, in particular a flow sensor, to a component, which has a fastening section that can be inserted into a fastening opening of the component, a hole extending through the fastening section and a retaining section for inserting the sensor, wherein the hole is open to an end face of the fastening section and to an end face of the retaining section. In order to be able to change out a sensor with a reproducible rotational position, it is proposed that the wall of the hole in the fastening section have an opening, into which a section of the edge of the fastening opening protrudes in the free cross-section of the hole for rotationally fixating the sensor in the hole.
US11313708B2
The present disclosure relates to a method for operating a magnetoinductive flowmeter in which, during a constant phase having a constant magnetic field, a plurality of raw measured values of the raw measurement voltage are determined, the raw measurement voltage including a flow-dependent component, an interference component and a noise component, wherein each raw measured value assigned a flow measured value and an interference voltage value, wherein a raw measured value from a preceding first constant phase and a raw measured value from a second constant phase following the first constant phase are used to calculate a second flow measured value and a second interference voltage value of the interference component, wherein first flow measured values from the first constant phase and/or second constant phase are corrected using the knowledge of the second flow measured value and the calculated second interference voltage value.
US11313707B2
A magnetic-inductive flowmeter for determining the flow of at least one medium, having first and second parallel measuring tubes for guiding the at least one medium, a magnetic field generating device for generating a magnetic field permeating the measuring tubes perpendicular to the flow direction of the at least one medium, first and second electrode pairs for respectively tapping a first and second measuring voltage induced in the medium, and an evaluation unit for evaluating the measuring voltages. Increased reliability in functioning of the flowmeter and the determined flow and flow difference values is achieved by the first and second electrode pairs being formed together by a first, second and third electrodes, the second electrode being both part of the first electrode pair and part of the second electrode pair and being arranged between the two measuring tubes. The electrodes are arranged perpendicular to the flow and magnetic field directions.
US11313693B2
A system for closest in path vehicle following using surrounding vehicles motion flow is provided and includes a sensor device of a host vehicle generating data related to vehicles upon a drivable surface. The system further includes a navigation controller including a computerized processor operable to monitor the data from the sensor device, define a portion of the plurality of vehicles as a swarm of vehicles, identify one of the plurality of vehicles as a closest in path vehicle to be followed, evaluate the data to determine whether the closest in path vehicle to be followed is exhibiting good behavior in relation to the swarm of vehicles, and, when the closest in path vehicle to be followed is exhibiting the good behavior, generate a breadcrumbing navigation path based upon the data. The system further includes a vehicle controller controlling the host vehicle based upon the breadcrumbing navigation path.
US11313692B2
Provided is a navigation server or the like capable of promoting enhancement of convenience in traffic of moving bodies with a comprehensive consideration of various factors of each link. There is found a server route R configured by link groups that connect a starting point p1 and a destination point p2 of a navigation client 2 of interest, the server route R having a minimum total value ΣC2 of second moving costs C2 in the link groups. The second costs C2 result from first moving costs C1 corrected based on various factors, such as combinations of “static factors” and “dynamic factors”.
US11313686B2
A moving body, which a person boards, includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire current position information of the moving body, and a recommended path calculation unit configured to calculate a path that is a recommended path toward a predetermined destination and passes through an interior of at least one building, based on the current position information and the predetermined destination.
US11313684B2
During GPS-denied/restricted navigation, images proximate a platform device are captured using a camera, and corresponding motion measurements of the platform device are captured using an IMU device. Features of a current frame of the images captured are extracted. Extracted features are matched and feature information between consecutive frames is tracked. The extracted features are compared to previously stored, geo-referenced visual features from a plurality of platform devices. If one of the extracted features does not match a geo-referenced visual feature, a pose is determined for the platform device using IMU measurements propagated from a previous pose and relative motion information between consecutive frames, which is determined using the tracked feature information. If at least one of the extracted features matches a geo-referenced visual feature, a pose is determined for the platform device using location information associated with the matched, geo-referenced visual feature and relative motion information between consecutive frames.
US11313675B2
A thread shape measuring apparatus includes: a first illuminating unit that has an optical axis orthogonal to a cross section including a thread axis, and illuminates the thread portion; a second illuminating unit that has an optical axis that forms an angle θ larger than a lead angle γ of the thread portion with respect to the direction orthogonal to the cross section and illuminates the thread portion; an image-capturing unit that has a visual axis parallel to the optical axis of the first illuminating unit, includes a telecentric lens, has a focusing position matching the cross section, and detects, out of the light emitted from the first illuminating unit or the second illuminating unit, light that has not been blocked by the thread portion to capture an image of the detected light; and an operation unit that calculates a shape of the thread portion based on the captured image.
US11313672B2
An optical position-measuring device for sensing a relative position of two objects, each object being connected to a grating. The optical position-measuring device is configured such that, at one of the gratings, an illumination beam emitted from a light source is split into two sub-beams which, in respective scanning beam paths following the splitting, experience different polarization-optical effects and recombine at one of the gratings. After the differently polarized sub-beams are recombined, a plurality of phase-shifted, displacement-dependent scanning signals are generatable from a resulting signal beam in a detection unit. No separate polarization-optical components are disposed in the scanning beam paths of the sub-beams between splitting and recombination. At least one of the gratings is configured as a polarization grating configured to produce the different polarization-optical effects and such that diffraction orders with different polarization states are produced at each point of incidence on the polarization grating.
US11313671B2
A confocal range sensing (CRS) system is provided including a wavelength detector, source light configuration, and one or more measurement channels. Each measurement channel is configured to sense a respective distance to a workpiece surface and includes a confocal detection aperture and confocal light source aperture. The source light configuration includes first and second phosphor compositions, a wavelength combining configuration, and a shared source light path. The first and second phosphor compositions are located in separate respective first and second phosphor regions. As part of workpiece height measurement operations, the first and second phosphor compositions emit first and second emitted light, respectively, to the wavelength combining configuration which outputs first and second emitted light along the shared source light path as source light (i.e., having an extended wavelength range due to the combination of the first and second emitted light) that is received by each respective confocal light source aperture.
US11313661B2
An electromagnetic induction type coordinate positioning apparatus includes a first induction coil, a second induction coil, a first amplification circuit, a second amplification circuit, and a control circuit. The first induction coil and the second induction coil respectively generate a first induction signal and a second induction signal when a pointer device comes close. The first amplification circuit and the second amplification circuit may be electrically connected to the first induction coil and the second induction coil, to receive the first induction signal and the second induction signal. The control circuit controls the first amplification circuit and the second amplification circuit to amplify the first induction signal and the second induction signal, so that a power level of the amplified first induction signal and a power level of the amplified second induction signal reach a first predefined level and a second predefined level.
US11313660B2
In an embodiment, an apparatus includes one or more probes, a tip, a pin, and a measurement device. The one or more probes may be configured for insertion through an aperture in a component. The tip may be slidably engaged with the one or more probes and include a first end configured to contact a first surface of the component. The first end of the tip may be conically shaped. The pin may be slidably engaged with the one or more probes and include a first end configured for insertion into the aperture in the component such that the one or more probes are configured to contact a second surface of the component. The pin may be configured to move between a first position and a second position. An axis of the pin may be substantially aligned with an axis of the tip. The measurement device may be coupled to the tip and configured to measure a value indicating a grip length.
US11313659B2
A measuring tape device may include a housing having an aperture, a reel assembly, a blade having a first end configured to extend from the housing through the aperture and a second end configured to be wound on the reel assembly, and an end hook disposed at the first end of the blade. The end hook may have a front face that faces away from the aperture and a rear face that faces toward the aperture. A high friction surface including grains may be disposed over at least a portion of a surface of the rear face.
US11313655B1
A rear slip base plate for a round carrying a guidance and control unit payload, which round is launched from a rifled launch tube. To prevent the guidance and control unit payload from also being rapidly spun with the round, the slip base plate unit mechanically isolates the guidance and control unit payload from the round spin rate.
US11313642B2
A valve system utilizes a main valve body with a restricted diameter conduit communicating between a propulsion chamber and rear cavity and a smaller venting valve mechanically actuated to open the rear cavity to atmosphere, thereby causing the main valve body to open to pass pressurized air in the propulsion chamber to an orifice to power a projectile. The orifice has a diameter at least as large as the dimeter of the projectile.
US11313635B2
The present disclosure generally relates to a bolt catch device that prevents the bolt of a bolt carrier assembly of a firearm from moving to its forward position so as to prevent the firearm from being discharged until the user manually moves the bolt catch. The bolt catch is mechanically coupled to the selector of the firearm via a linkage, so that the bolt catch can be moved by way of the selector. This feature can prevent a self-loading firearm that otherwise could function on a semi-automatic basis from operating in such a manner.
US11313622B2
This air distributor (1) comprises two half-shells (2) made of plastic material and a stack of plates (4) made of plastic material, the two half-shells (2) defining a volume inside of which the stack of plates (4) is positioned, the stack of plates (4) comprising two end plates (40) and the stack of plates (4) defining between its adjacent plates (4) a set of intermediate spaces (10) suitable for a fluid circulation. The plates (4) of the stack of plates (4) are attached to one another, each end plate (40) is attached to one of the two half-shells (2), and the two half-shells (2) are attached to one another.
US11313621B2
A kiln moisture measurement method and system is provided for measuring the moisture level of a charge of timber in a timber drying kiln. The method includes steps of: transmitting electromagnetic radiation from a transmitter; receiving the electromagnetic radiation at a receiver; wherein the transmitter and receiver are configured such that the electromagnetic radiation passes through at least part of the charge of timber. An electronic data processor determines the gain of the electromagnetic radiation by comparing the intensities of the transmitted and received electromagnetic radiation; and subsequently determines a moisture level of the charge based on the gain of the electromagnetic radiation.
US11313620B2
An intelligent drying method and an ultraviolet sterilization container are applied to an ultraviolet sterilization container for drying a sterilized article, the method comprising: that the sterilization container sequentially executes the following steps after receiving a drying instruction: releasing hot air to an article storage cavity; when an initial drying time is reached, collecting the intracavity temperature of the article storage cavity; automatically obtaining an extended drying time corresponding to the intracavity temperature of the article storage cavity; and continuously releasing hot air to the article storage cavity until the extended drying time is reached. The ultraviolet sterilization container includes: an article storage cavity, a heating air duct, a microprocessor, and a memory storing a computer readable program executable by the microprocessor. When the computer readable program is executed by the microprocessor, the sterilization container performs the above steps.
US11313607B2
A refrigerator includes a duct module, wherein the duct modules include a front panel and a rear panel coupled to each other in the front-rear direction and forming a flow path, a plurality of flow path forming protrusions extending from a front surface of the front panel to form a flow path therebetween, and a sealing surface extending parallel to the rear surface of the front panel from front ends of the plurality of flow path forming protrusions and in surface contact with the rear surface of the front panel.
US11313606B2
A refrigerator that includes: a storage space configured to be cooled by a refrigeration cycle cooling system; a wall defines a boundary of the storage space; a low temperature case that is arranged adjacent to a portion of a first surface of the wall; a thermoelectric element module (TEM) assembly that is configured to supply cool air to the low temperature case; and a TEM accommodating part that protrudes from the first surface of the wall and that accommodates the TEM assembly, wherein the low temperature case includes an opening through which the TEM accommodating part is inserted, and wherein a sealant is provided between the low temperature case and the wall to couple the low temperature case to the first surface of the wall is disclosed.
US11313605B2
The present application generally relates to devices and methods for transporting, delivering, and storing items, and it more specifically relates to insulated carriers for use in transporting, delivering, and storing temperature controlled items such as perishable food and beverage items. Embodiments provide for insulated containers having an interior cavity surrounded by one or more panels having insulation wherein the containers are collapsible to allow for the efficient storage and transport of the containers while empty.
US11313602B2
A refrigerator with an ice-making apparatus, the ice-making apparatus including: an ice tray in which ice is made; a water supply device which supplies water to the ice tray from an upper side of the ice tray; a drive unit which is coupled with the ice tray and rotates the ice tray so as to separate ice made in the ice tray; and an ice-fullness detecting lever which is coupled with the drive unit below the ice tray and is rotated in the same direction as that of the ice tray to detect ice-fullness of the ice bank, in which a tray rotation shaft for rotation of the ice tray and a lever rotation shaft for rotation of the ice-fullness detecting lever are provided in the same surface of the drive unit, and in which the lever rotation shaft is positioned below the tray rotation shaft.
US11313598B2
A refrigeration system includes a compressor; a condenser; an expansion valve having a body with an expansion valve inlet and an expansion valve outlet; an evaporator all arranged in a refrigeration circuit; and a controller. The expansion valve body has a pathway comprising an inlet body capillary tube flow-connected to the expansion valve inlet, and an outlet body capillary tube flow-connected to the expansion valve outlet. The expansion valve comprises a solenoid operated valve element that is selectively positionable between the inlet body capillary tube outlet and the outlet body capillary tube inlet. The controller digitally controls the valve element to position the valve element either to allow flow through the pathway in an open position or to block flow through the pathway in a closed position.
US11313585B2
A heat exchanger includes front and rear walls forming a flue gas space such that a fluid flowing through a channel formed in the front and rear walls can exchange heat with flue gas in the flue gas space, in use. An entirety of the back wall extends along a first plane, and the back wall is provided with a back fin. The front wall includes a lower portion extending upwardly along the back wall, and an upper portion extending upwardly from an upper end of the lower portion and outwardly away from the back wall to form a combustion space of a flammable gas between the upper portion and the back wall. The upper portion is provided with a front fin. The front and back fins are arranged symmetrically with respect to a virtual line along which the flammable gas is to be injected into the combustion space.
US11313583B2
A fall prevention structure of an electric component cover in a refrigeration cycle apparatus includes an electric component box housing an electric component of a refrigeration cycle apparatus. The electric component box includes a casing, a side of which is open, and an electric component cover configured to cover, in an upright position, an opening of the casing and to be screwed to the casing. The electric component cover includes a catch including a backward-extending portion and an upward-extending portion. The backward-extending portion extends backward from an upper end portion of the electric component cover. The upward-extending portion extends upward from an end portion of the backward-extending portion. In a state in which the electric component cover is screwed to the casing, the catch is inserted into an insertion slot disposed in a portion extending in an up-down direction of the casing. When the electric component cover is unscrewed from the casing, the electric component cover does not fall from the casing by the catch being caught by a portion above the insertion slot.
US11313582B2
An indoor unit of an air-conditioning apparatus includes a housing defining an outer shape of the indoor unit, and a pipe hole-opening groove section that is in a form of grid-like grooves on an inner surface of the housing. The housing has a box-like shape and includes a lower one surface panel forming a lower end of one side surface of the housing, a one end bottom panel forming one end of a bottom surface of the housing, a lower other surface panel forming a lower end of the other side surface of the housing, and the other end bottom panel forming the other end of the bottom surface of the housing. The pipe hole-opening groove section is formed in at least one of the lower one surface panel, the one end bottom panel, the lower other surface panel, and the other end bottom panel.
US11313576B2
An air-conditioner communication system includes: a ceiling-embedded air conditioner; a wireless local area network (LAN) adapter attached to the air conditioner and that functions as a network communication unit of the air conditioner; a router that configures a LAN; a server that communicates with the router via a telecommunication line; and a terminal device that communicates with the wireless LAN adapter and that includes a display. The wireless LAN adapter is connected to the LAN, acquires connection information that indicates whether the wireless LAN adapter is in communication with the router, and provides the terminal device with the connection information. The terminal device displays indicates, on the display based on the connection information, whether the air conditioner, the wireless LAN adaptor, the router, and the server are in communication with one other.
US11313574B2
A display assembly includes a display box including a base plate having a display portion and a key via hole, an electric control board provided in the display box, and a flexible isolation pad provided in the display box. The flexible isolation pad is located between the base plate and the electric control board, and is configured to isolate the base plate from the electric control board. The display assembly further includes a control key movably provided in the key via hole. The control key is configured to abut against the flexible isolation pad, and to interact with the electric control board through the flexible isolation pad.
US11313569B2
The present application provides an intelligent air purification robot with a mosquito-repelling function. In the present application, a robot body has an obstacle detection function and can make a turn automatically. That is, the robot body can automatically find a path after being placed in a room, and can purify air everywhere in the room. Dust-laden air enters a housing from an air inlet and is then treated by a plurality of modular units. Moreover, a UV lamp is further provided, so that air can be disinfected at a designated position.
US11313551B2
A shelf lamp includes a lamp holder, a circuit board, a light source and a first optical element; the first optical element is arranged in the light emitting direction of the first illumination light to deflect upward at least part of the first illumination light; the connection line between the light source and the lower edge of the outer panel is the C direction, and the included angle between the C direction and the vertical downward direction is greater than 45°. The shelf lamp and the identification plate lamp can simultaneously illuminate the upper and lower side areas of the laminate, and achieve different lighting effects. When they are installed on each laminate, the goods on the laminate obtain the illumination of different angles and different effects in two directions.
US11313544B2
A method for providing assistance in aiming of one or more illumination devices in an area may include, by a processor, receiving photometric data for an area, and using the photometric data to determine an aiming vector for the illumination device. The area may include the illumination device. the method may further include receiving, from an orientation sensor module of the illumination device, orientation data for the illumination device, and using the orientation data and the aiming vector to determine if there is an error in the aiming of the illumination device. The response to determining that there is an error in the aiming of the illumination device, the method further includes causing a controller associated with a driving means of the illumination device for correcting the error in the aiming of the illumination device.
US11313543B2
An example joiner system for joining a first section and a second section of a fixture includes a joiner bracket that has formed therein a depressed ramp region. A joiner fastener, such as a screw, may engage against the angled walls of the joiner bracket ramp, to translate the vertical movement of the screw into a horizontal, longitudinal movement of the joiner bracket. The joiner bracket may be rigidly coupled to one section of a light fixture assembly, such that engaging the screw ramp with a fastener that extends through another section of the light fixture causes the two fixture sections to move toward each other. As vertical movement of a fastener produces horizontal movement of the joiner bracket, the joiner fastener or set screw may extend outside of the light fixture assembly, so as to be readily accessible by a technician.
US11313535B2
A photoelectric device including at least five plates and at least one light source is provided. The at least five plates are assembled together to form a chamber. The at least five plates include at least two of a solar panel, a reflective plate, and a light-transmitting plate. The at least one light source is embedded in the at least one of the at least five plates.
US11313532B2
In one aspect, optic assemblies are provided comprising a collimating optic directing light along a collimation axis and light redirection elements comprising facets for redirecting a portion of the light in one or more directions away from the collimation axis.
US11313530B2
The present invention relates to a vehicle lighting device including a lens intended to deflect the light rays emitted by a light source and including a wheel sector with a driven surface. The wheel sector is made in one piece with the lens as a whole. Also included is a driving means with a driving surface such that the driving surface is in contact with the driven surface, and movement of the driving surface drives movement of the lens.
US11313526B2
A lighting unit includes a first light source to emit first light; and a diffusive body including a first incidence surface that allows the first light to enter, a diffusive part that includes nanoparticles, guides the entered first light and makes the first light be scattered by the nanoparticles into first scattered light, and an emission surface that emits the first scattered light, wherein the first incidence surface is formed on a first edge part of the diffusive body, the first scattered light is emitted from a first region of the emission surface, and a correlated color temperature of the first scattered light is higher than a correlated color temperature of the first light.
US11313524B2
A lighting device, preferably a LED, includes a profiled element adapted to be applied to an external structure and coupled to a transparent or translucent longitudinal portion that allows the passage of a luminous flux generated by an illuminating element, preferably a LED strip, housed within a longitudinal chamber defined inside the profiled element. The profiled element also houses, in facing relationship to the illuminating element, a reflecting element oriented to reflect the luminous flux generated by the illuminating element toward the transparent or translucent longitudinal portion of the profiled element. The longitudinal chamber housing the illuminating element is separate from a second longitudinal chamber defined inside the profiled element and housing the reflecting element.
US11313511B2
Described is an anti-ligature enclosure for a wall-mounted apparatus. The enclosure includes a mounting box configured to be installed at least partially on a surface of a wall and at least partially within a space behind the wall. The mounting box includes a planar frame configured to be fastened to the surface of the wall and a recessed portion extending through the surface of the wall. The enclosure includes a mounting plate configured to contact and support the wall-mounted apparatus in an outward-facing position in the mounting box. The enclosure includes a cover plate configured to be securely fastened to at least part of an outer surface of the planar frame of the mounting box with one or more cover plate fasteners. The cover plate extends over and covers the wall-mounted apparatus and the mounting plate. An outer surface of the enclosure is flush-mounted to the surface of the wall.
US11313510B2
The disclosure relates to locking assemblies. In one embodiment, the disclosure relates to locking assemblies for a center column of a stationary platform. In another embodiment, the disclosure relates to locking assemblies for legs of a stationary platform.
US11313509B2
The present disclosure may include a leg comprising first and second tubes, the first tube inside of the second tube, a lock mechanism within the second tube, the lock mechanism including a plug, a ramp, and bearings configured to roll along the ramp and contact the ramp and at least an interior wall of the first tube such that as the one or more bearings contact the ramp and the interior wall of the first tube, motion of the second tube relative to the first tube is inhibited, and a third tube inside of the second tube, and in response to the third tube being substantially disposed within the second tube, a proximate end of the third tube configured to push the one or more bearings towards the plug, reducing the interference of the one or more bearings with the interior wall of the first tube.
US11313504B2
A mechanical joint includes a piping element, the piping element comprising an element flange, the piping element defining a socket extending inwards from the element flange; a pipe length, the pipe length extending through the element flange into the socket, the pipe length defining an outer pipe surface; and a gland, the pipe length extending through the gland, the gland comprising a joint restraint assembly, the joint restraint assembly comprising: a restraint base, the restraint base defining a restraint pocket; and a gripper disposed within the restraint pocket, the gripper configured to rotate in the restraint pocket, the gripper further configured to engage the outer pipe surface to prevent removal of the pipe length from the socket, wherein the joint restraint assembly is selectably configurable from a prepared position to an activated position.
US11313501B2
A hose connector has a first connecting joint, a second connecting joint, and a connecting duct. The first connecting joint comprises an inner neck rim having an inner threaded aperture and a containment space connecting to the inner threaded aperture. The first connecting joint further comprises a threaded outer wall, and a bottom surface of the neck rim has a plurality of engaging grooves. The second connecting joint comprises a hollow base having a neck section connected to a lip, and the neck section is configured for insertion in the containment space of the first connecting joint. A top surface of the lip has a plurality of engaging protrusions pushing against the neck rim or engaging with the engaging groove. The connecting duct comprises an outer threaded section and an enlarged flange, and the connecting duct is mounted through the neck section and the lip.
US11313499B2
A pipe fitting includes a socket that receives an end of a pipe section therein such that a gap exists between an outer surface of the pipe section and an inner surface of the socket. A pair of ports extend through the socket and are in fluid communication with the gap. A clamp secures the pipe section within the socket as a bonding agent is extruded into the gap via a port. The clamp includes a pair of arcuate segments, each having an inner circumferential wall, first and second end portions, and an elongated sealing member. Each arcuate segment includes a plurality of spring-loaded devices, each having a distal end portion extending through the inner circumferential wall that is urged into contact with the pipe section outer surface.
US11313494B2
A reinforced multi-layer hydraulic hose, including a plurality of anti-pressure layers with coiled wires or yarns at a winding angle of about 54.7° with respect to a longitudinal central axis of the hose, and at least one anti-tensile stress reinforcing layer that improves the resistance to the axial force of the hose and has at least one plait or coil of steel wires at a winding angle of less than 35°, in which the hose, owing to the high resistance to the axial force, can be used in a rectilinear configuration to supply a hydraulic fluid also in the presence of significant axial forces.
US11313493B2
On example provides a containment sleeve for a pressurized piping system including a main body comprising a pliable fabric extending in longitudinal and transverse directions. The main body includes an exterior major surface and an opposing interior major surface, first and second opposed transverse edges, first and second opposed longitudinal edges, and a number of pleats extending from the interior major surface, each pleat having opposing sides of the longitudinal pleat being sewn together with breakaway stitching at a base of the pleat at the interior major surface. A number of transversely extending straps disposed on the exterior major surface between the first and second longitudinal edges, the straps to secure the main body about a portion of the piping system with the interior major surface facing the piping system.
US11313488B2
Disclosed is a solenoid valve for controlling a flow rate of a flow path connecting a first port to a second port, the solenoid valve including: a valve housing installed in a modulator block; an armature disposed inside the valve housing and reciprocating in an axial direction thereof to adjust a flow rate of a working fluid; and a first elastic member having a damper part, which is inserted between the magnet core and the armature, and providing the armature with an elastic force in a direction opposed to a driving force of the magnet core.
US11313470B2
A contamination guard for a machine is disclosed herein. The contamination guard includes an inner ring, a first annulus, a second annulus, and an impeller. The impeller is configured to promote intake of nearby air with contamination. The first annulus and second annulus form a passage that is configured to sling away air with contamination during operation of the machine.
US11313468B2
The sealing method is for sealing between: a rear surface of a first component which is a composite material containing a reinforcing fiber and a resin; and a front surface of a second component facing the rear surface of the first component. The sealing method includes: a step (ST03) in which a molded body is placed at a corner between the front surface and an end surface of the first component, with a first sealing material interposed therebetween; and a step (ST06) in which a second sealing material is applied from the molded body up to the front surface of the second component.
US11313463B2
A transmission includes a first shaft with two gears adapted for connecting to a motor and a second shaft with two corresponding gears adapted for connecting to a driveshaft; a shift drum selectively controlling torque transfer between the shafts and defining therein two grooves; a shift rod translatable along a rod axis with a driving member fixedly connected thereto and engaging one groove, at least a portion of the groove causing the driving member and the shift rod to translate along the rod axis upon rotation of the shift drum; an engagement dog disposed on the second shaft for selectively engaging the gears of the second shaft; two biasing members disposed around the shift rod; a fork rod supporting a shift fork slidably connected to the fork rod and the shift rod, the shift fork being engaged in another groove of the shift drum.
US11313462B2
A utility vehicle comprises a traveling driving power source which generates rotational driving power for driving a drive wheel; a continuously variable transmission including an input shaft to which the rotational driving power transmitted from the traveling driving power source is input, an output shaft which outputs the rotational driving power toward the drive wheel, a drive pulley provided at the input shaft, a driven pulley provided at the output shaft, and a belt wrapped around the drive pulley and the driven pulley; a clutch which is disposed in a driving power transmission path at a location that is between the belt and the drive wheel and is capable of disconnecting the driving power transmission path; and a clutch actuator which operates the clutch.
US11313457B2
An apparatus and a method for controlling driving of a vehicle may include a first sensor that detects whether an accelerator pedal is pressed, a second sensor that detects a number of RPM of an engine, and a controller that determines whether the vehicle coasts based on whether the accelerator pedal is pressed, and determines whether to change a gear ratio of a transmission based on the number of RPM of the engine so that the coasting distance is increased in the coasting deceleration section, improving the fuel efficiency.
US11313453B2
Methods and systems are provided for rear axle having a wet bath. In one example, a system comprises a pump configured to spin in a first direction to flow lubricant to a cooler and a second direction to entrain the lubricant with gas.
US11313452B2
A Powersports vehicle is disclosed which includes a frame, ground engaging members supporting the frame, comprising at least two front wheel, and a power source for driving the front wheels. A front drive is coupled to the power source and to the front wheels, the front drive being coupled to the frame through isolation mounts to reduce vibration of the front drive through the frame.
US11313451B2
An electric linear drive for a gear rack including a stepping motor, a holding plate, a motor output gear, and a gearing. The holding plate, the stepping motor, the motor output gear, and the gearing form a drive unit that, together with a basic housing, form an overall housing. The overall housing has an opening for the insertion of the gear rack. Drive electronics are fixed to the holding plate such that electrical connections are present on the outside of the overall housing. The stepping motor has a rotor axis arranged parallel to the holding plate. During assembly, a rack belonging to a device to be driven can be pushed into a lateral opening of the overall housing, and the device to be driven can be connected to the overall housing. The electric linear drive is compact, allowing devices to be driven to be located close to one another.
US11313435B2
A large V-belt includes an endless rubber belt body including an adhesive rubber layer and a cord embedded in the adhesive rubber layer of the belt body. The large V-belt has a belt thickness of 15 mm or more and the belt width of 10 mm or more at the center, in a belt thickness direction, of a cord embedded position. The belt body further includes reinforced rubber layers made of a rubber composition having a type A durometer hardness of 92 or more, the reinforced rubber layers being stacked on a belt inner side and/or a belt outer side of the adhesive rubber layer in the belt thickness direction.
US11313407B2
The tensioning tool provides a monolithic tool particularly well suited to use with securing tarp systems used in outdoor recreation, and also useful in other applications and in other fields to anchor or secure weights or loads.
US11313390B2
A hydraulic drive system includes: a first hydraulic pump of the variable capacitance type; a first regulator including a first proportional valve; a second hydraulic pump that dispenses operating oil; a switch valve; a control device; and a malfunction detection device. The switch valve can switch to a third valve position in which the switch valve allows the operating oil dispensed from both the first hydraulic pump and the second hydraulic pump to be supplied to first and second traveling hydraulic motors and first and second hydraulic actuators. The control device controls the operation of the first proportional valve by outputting a first flow rate command signal to the first proportional valve, and when the malfunction detection device detects a malfunction of an electrical system related to the first proportional valve, the control device switches the switch valve to the third valve position.
US11313389B2
A directly-controlled hydraulic directional valve includes a housing, control piston, first and second springs, double-stroke solenoid, spring plate, adjustment device, and electronics. The piston is longitudinally displaceable in a bore in the housing, either directly or via a control sleeve. The springs are positioned in a region of an end of the piston remote from the solenoid. One end of each spring is supported on the spring plate, which is clamped between the springs and the piston. The other end of the first spring is fixed to the housing, and the other end of the second spring is fixed to the adjustment device. The first spring exerts a force on the piston in a first direction, and the second spring exerts a force on the piston in a second opposite direction, so as to bias the piston into a preferred position. The solenoid is mounted on a side of the housing, and is operable to move the piston out from the preferred position in opposite directions proportional to an electric current from the electronics, such that the piston moves to the preferred position in response to each of non-actuation of the solenoid and a fault in the electronics. The adjustment device is operable to alter a position of the other end of the second spring to adjust the preferred position of the piston.
US11313387B2
A system for charging and discharging at least one hydraulic accumulator (10) can be connected to a valve control device (12). The valve control device (12) has at least one logic valve (14). A shuttle valve (16) and a hydraulically operated switching valve (18) are also provided. The valves (14, 16, 18) are interconnected such that the hydraulically actuatable switching valve (18) compares the accumulator pressure (pA) to a minimum accumulator pressure (pA0) that can be adjusted via the control pressure setting of this switching valve (18).
US11313386B2
A spatially controllable, for example CD controllable, eductor, and more particularly an eductor that is capable of providing a variable motive fluid and processes using such an eductor are provided.
US11313383B2
A fan module frame is configured to fix a fan module in a chassis. The fan module frame includes a first frame component, a second frame component and two latches. The first frame component connects a server fan unit to the second frame component by an elastic fastener. The second frame component has a plurality of chambers, and each of the chambers is configured for the server fan unit to be placed therein. The latches are disposed on two opposite sides of the second frame component and connected to the second frame component. The second frame component fixes the fan module in the chassis through the latches. As such, the fan module is detachably fixed in the chassis and can be removed from the chassis without additional tools, and the fan module frame is compatible with various servers and models, thereby saving design costs and saving space.
US11313382B2
On the blade surface part, a first opening passing through the blade surface part from a negative pressure side toward a positive pressure side is provided between the first blade element and the second blade element. A chord length of the first blade element along a direction connecting the apex A with the point B, is equal to or larger than a chord length of the second blade element along a direction connecting an apex C with a point D.
US11313376B2
A thrust magnetic bearing includes a stator having a coil that produces a magnetic flux, and a rotor. The magnetic flux supports the rotor in a non-contact manner. The stator has main and auxiliary stator magnetic pole surfaces. The rotor has main and auxiliary rotor magnetic pole surfaces. The main and auxiliary rotor magnetic pole surfaces face the main and auxiliary stator magnetic pole surfaces. The auxiliary stator magnetic pole surface includes at least one first stator surface and at least one second stator surface, alternately arranged. The auxiliary rotor magnetic pole surface includes at least one first rotor surface, and at least one second rotor surface, alternately arranged. Nr≥1 and Nt≥2, with Nr representing a number of pairs of the first stator and rotor surfaces facing each other, and Nt representing a number of pairs of the second stator and rotor surfaces facing each other.
US11313373B2
A two-stage, high speed fluid compressor including a case having a fluid inlet and a compressed fluid outlet and containing a shaft rotatably mounted about a longitudinal axis, a first compression wheel and a second compression wheel mounted back-to-back on the shaft, the first compression wheel forming a first compression stage and the second compression wheel forming a second compression stage, and a motor positioned between the first compression wheel and the second compression wheel and arranged to rotate the shaft. The case includes an inner through housing inside which is arranged at least the motor, the inner housing having an inner wall arranged to form, with the motor, channels between at least the inner wall and the motor, the channels extending to cool the motor in contact with the fluid flowing in the channels.
US11313364B2
A pumping finger subassembly for a peristaltic infusion pump has a housing, a pinch member, a block member, and at least one biasing spring. The housing includes a transverse slot, a first side wall, and an open second side through which the pinch member and biasing spring(s) are inserted into the transverse slot. The block member includes a foot portion and a side wall portion. The foot portion is insertable into the housing through the open second side such that the block member is constrained against movement relative to the housing and the side wall portion of the block member opposes the first side wall of the housing, whereby the pinch member is supported on both lateral sides to prevent tilting of the pinch member.
US11313363B2
A pump assembly has a motor, a gearbox, a rotational to reciprocal action transmission and a diaphragm pump, in which a shaft of the motor, an output shaft of the gearbox, a reciprocal movement axis of the transmission, and a pump shaft of the diaphragm pump are all aligned on a main axis.
US11313361B2
A rolling diaphragm pump that can inhibit an increase in cost with a simple configuration is provided. A rolling diaphragm pump 1 includes: a housing 2; a piston 3 disposed so as to be slidable relative to an inner peripheral surface of the housing 2 and reciprocatable in an axial direction; a rolling diaphragm 4 having a movable portion 41 disposed at one end portion in the axial direction of the piston 3 and reciprocatable together with the piston 3, a fixed portion 42 fixed to the housing 2, and a flexible connecting portion 43 connecting the movable portion 41 and the fixed portion 42 to each other; a pump chamber 5 defined by the rolling diaphragm 4 at one side in the axial direction within the housing 2 and into and from which a transport fluid is sucked and discharged by changing a volume of an interior of the pump chamber 5 by deformation of the connecting portion 43 due to reciprocation of the piston 3; and a working fluid chamber 6 defined by another end portion in the axial direction of the piston 3 at another side in the axial direction within the housing 2 and into and from which a working fluid is supplied and discharged, thereby causing the piston 3 to reciprocate.
US11313358B2
The present invention concerns an electric actuator (A, A′), comprising a rotor member (6) and an actuating assembly (4) configured to interfere with said rotor member (6), causing it to rotate, characterized in that said rotor member (6) comprises a pair of eccentric reliefs (63) arranged so as to interfere with said actuating assembly (4), and in that said actuating assembly (4) comprises a shape memory wire (2), wherein said actuating assembly (4) is configured to cause the rotation of said rotor member (6) when electric current flows through at least a portion of said shape memory wire (2).
US11313343B2
A hydroelectric power generation system includes: a generator driven by the hydraulic turbine; a head adjuster adjusting an effective head of the hydraulic turbine; and a controller cooperatively executing: flow rate control for controlling the generator such that a flow rate in the hydraulic turbine is brought close to a target flow rate; and head adjusting control for adjusting the effective head of the hydraulic turbine using the head adjuster such that the effective head of the hydraulic turbine falls within a first range.
US11313341B1
The portable river turbine system is a small-scale electricity generator whereby boaters, fishers, or other individual entities can use the current of a river or other body of water to power or charge small electronic devices such as phones, lights, or radios. The detachable propeller or wheel is attached at one end of the waterproof turbine housing. The turbine can be secured by the side bolting, by the vertical hook, or optionally by both. Said vertical hook has a telescopic expandable shaft, allowing for the shaft to be the optimal length to best submerge the turbine wheel or propeller and still attach to a boat, dock, or other surface above the water's level. Stationed on the top of the waterproof turbine housing are quick connections that can be used for wires and handles.
US11313340B2
An ignition timing control device includes a storage device that stores a normal signal generation model configured to output, upon receiving an output value of a knocking sensor, a noise-removed output value therefrom which an unlearned noise component value has been removed, and a first learned neural network pre-learned to output, upon receiving one of the output value of the knocking sensor and the noise-removed output value, an estimated value of a knocking intensity representative value, and a processor that acquires the estimated value by inputting the output value of the knocking sensor to the normal signal generation model and inputting the noise-removed output value to the first learned neural network, and executes retarding control of an ignition timing based on the acquired estimated value.
US11313337B2
A pulsation damper is small in size and can achieve an appropriate supporting force for a diaphragm damper. A pulsation damper accommodated in a case includes a diaphragm damper having a gas sealed therein, and a first support member and a second support member that are disposed between the case and the diaphragm damper and that hold the diaphragm damper.
US11313335B2
A fixing sleeve firmly fixes a plug to a socket. The fixing sleeve has two half-shells, which delimit a receiving space for receiving at least one part of the plug. A fastener is arranged adjacently to a plug-side end face of the fixing sleeve. An injector assembly includes an injector with a socket, a cable fastened to the plug, and the fixing sleeve.
US11313325B2
A turbofan having a dilution rate of at least 10 and including a fan having a disc provided with blades at the periphery thereof, a distance between the head of the blades and the housing of the fan being less than or equal to ten millimeters; a primary flow space and secondary flow space that are concentric; a turbine, housed in the primary flow space and in fluid communication with the fan; and a reduction mechanism coupling the turbine and the fan.
US11313321B2
Aspects of the disclosure regard an exhaust nozzle for a gas turbine engine that includes an outer nozzle wall, a flow channel which is limited radially outwards by the nozzle wall, a centerbody arranged in the flow channel, and at least two struts connecting the centerbody to the nozzle wall. One of the struts is connected to the nozzle wall by a first connection, the first connection constraining movement of the strut relative to the nozzle wall in the radial direction and in the circumferential direction. The at least one other strut is connected to the nozzle wall by a second connection, the second connection constraining movement of the strut relative to the nozzle wall in the circumferential direction but allowing movement of the strut relative to the nozzle wall in the radial direction.
US11313319B2
An engine (E) includes a crankcase body (19) including a bottom plate (19a) and a tubular portion (19c), a crankcase cover (20) covering a case opening portion (19b) of the crankcase body (19), a crankshaft (2), a cylinder base portion (21a) located inside the crankcase body (19), a cylinder block (21b) located outside the crankcase body (19), and a camshaft (25) located inside the crankcase body (19) and between the bottom plate (19a) and cylinder base portion (21a). The crankcase body (19) has the bottom plate (19a) detachably attached to the tubular portion (19c).
US11313314B2
A control apparatus of an internal combustion engine is provided. The internal combustion engine includes a port injection valve that injects fuel into an intake-air port, and a cylinder injection valve that injects fuel into a cylinder. The control apparatus includes an electronic control unit that controls the port injection valve and the cylinder injection valve such that when returning from a fuel cut, a value of a port increase amount correction, which is a fuel increase amount correction in which a fuel amount is decreased with a lapse of time during a port injection, differs from a value of a cylinder increase amount correction, which is a fuel increase amount correction in which a fuel amount is decreased with a lapse of time during a cylinder injection.
US11313308B2
An injection control device includes: a drive control unit that controls energization by correcting an energization instruction time when injecting the fuel by executing the current-drive, and includes an energization time correction amount calculation unit that calculates an energization time correction amount by performing area correction on a current flowing through the fuel injection valve; an abnormality determination unit that determines an abnormality in a control system of the drive control unit; and a correction amount subtraction setting unit that stops a calculation of the energization time correction amount when the abnormality determination unit determines an abnormality, and controls the drive control unit to directly or stepwise reduce the energization time correction amount at an abnormality determination.
US11313307B2
A method for evaluating the compression of the cylinders of an internal combustion engine of a vehicle having an electric starter motor and a respective starting battery, comprising: start capturing the battery voltage signal when the starter motor stars to rotate the internal-combustion engine so as to initiate operation of the engine under its own power; cease capturing the battery voltage signal when the engine enters operation under its own power; process the captured voltage signal for the location of local minimums; calculate the time difference between consecutive local minimums; detect if there is a variation of time between the calculated differences higher than a predetermined threshold between any said calculated time differences; and, if there is such variation, signal a potential engine malfunction. Also provided is a device for accomplishing the foregoing.
US11313306B2
A torque monitoring device monitors the occurrence of an abnormal torque state causing an estimated torque as an estimated value for an actual torque of an internal combustion engine to differ from an engine-requested torque required of the internal combustion engine and includes: a discrete value setup unit configured to increase a discrete value correspondingly to increase in a difference quantity between the estimated torque and the engine-requested torque; an accumulation unit configured calculate an accumulation value of the discrete value; and a determination unit configured to determine that the abnormal torque state occurs when the accumulation value becomes larger than or equal to a predetermined abnormality determination threshold value.
US11313304B2
A gas sensor is provided in an exhaust passage of an engine mounted on a vehicle. The gas sensor includes a sensor element and a heater. The sensor element detects a concentration of a specific component in exhaust gas. The heater is energized with electricity from a power source to heat the sensor element. The heater energization control device controls an amount of electricity supplied to the heater. An ambient temperature acquisition unit acquires an ambient temperature, which is a temperature of an environment surrounding the engine. An energization control unit controls the amount of electricity supplied to the heater based on the ambient temperature in temperature raising energization in which a temperature of the sensor element is raised to an active temperature when the engine is started.
US11313301B2
Methods of improving SCR performance in heavy duty vehicles may use multiple interdependent control techniques to increase engine exhaust temperatures in a fuel efficient manner. One method combines cylinder deactivation and mechanical loading of an engine by an electrical generator used to input energy into an exhaust stream to manipulate the exhaust temperature through the combined effect of modified air-to-fuel ratio and supplemental energy input. In particular, cylinder deactivation may be used to modify the engine air flowrate and the electric generator may be used to apply mechanical load on the engine to manipulate the engine fuel flow rate to control the engine air-to-fuel ratio and thereby increase exhaust temperatures. The exhaust temperatures may be further increased by using the electrical generator to add the energy generated as input energy to the exhaust stream.
US11313298B2
Disclosed is a method for synchronizing an internal combustion engine including at least one camshaft, on which a target is mounted, a position sensor for sensing the position of the camshaft and a processing unit, the method transmitting a synchronization or synchronization fault signal as a function of the determined direction of rotation of the target.
US11313292B1
Methods and systems for real-time dosing of additives into a fuel supply unit. A method disclosed herein includes capturing at least one real-time operating condition of the equipment. The method further includes determining dosage of the at least one additive to be dosed into the fuel supply unit of the equipment, based on the captured at least one operating condition of the equipment. The method further includes enabling an additive dispensing device to dose the determined dosage of the at least one additive into the fuel supply unit of the equipment.
US11313282B2
A turbojet engine (2), such as an aircraft turbojet engine, comprising: an epicyclic gear train (36); a turbine rotating a transmission shaft (34) constrained to rotate with the inner planetary gear (60) of the epicyclic gear train (36); a fan (18) rigidly connected to the ring gear (66) of the epicyclic gear train (36); and an electric machine (70) comprising a rotor (72) and a stator (74), the rotor (72) being rigidly connected to the planet carrier (68) of the epicyclic gear train (36). Alternatively, the fan (18) is rigidly connected to the planet carrier and the electric machine (70) is rigidly connected to the ring gear. The invention also relates to methods for using said turbojet engine, in particular for controlling the reduction ratio between the transmission shaft and the turbine, in order to recover kinetic energy or for taxiing.
US11313279B2
An entire scroll is effectively cooled. A scroll of an embodiment leads combustion gas to a turbine stage as a working medium for driving a turbine rotor in a gas turbine facility, and includes a scroll inner cylinder and a scroll outer cylinder. The working medium flows into the scroll inner cylinder. The scroll outer cylinder is provided to cover the scroll inner cylinder with a scroll cooling flow path therebetween where a cooling medium with a temperature lower than the working medium is supplied. The scroll cooling flow path includes an inner ring side flow path part located inside than the scroll inner cylinder in a radial direction of the turbine rotor and an outer ring side flow path part located outside than the scroll inner cylinder in the radial direction of the turbine rotor. Here, a dividing part dividing the outer ring side flow path part in an axial direction along a rotation axis of the turbine rotor is provided at the scroll inner cylinder.
US11313276B2
A supersonic gas turbine engine for an aircraft that comprises a nacelle, a fan, an engine core including a primary duct configured to guide a core airflow through the engine core, a bypass duct extending between the engine core and an engine casing and configured to guide a bypass airflow through the bypass duct, an intake located upstream of the fan, and a tertiary airflow duct extending between the engine casing and the nacelle and configured to guide a tertiary airflow. The intake is configured to extract air from the intake and guide it to the tertiary airflow duct in which the extracted air flows as tertiary airflow. It is provided that at least one heat exchanger is mounted in the tertiary airflow duct.
US11313273B2
A compound engine assembly for use as an auxiliary power unit for an aircraft and including an engine core with internal combustion engine(s), a compressor having an outlet in fluid communication with an engine core inlet, a bleed conduit in fluid communication with the compressor outlet through a bleed air valve, and a turbine section having an inlet in fluid communication with the engine core outlet and configured to compound power with the engine core. The turbine section may include a first stage turbine having an inlet in fluid communication with the engine core outlet and a second stage turbine having an inlet in fluid communication the first stage turbine outlet. A method of providing compressed air and electrical power to an aircraft is also discussed.
US11313272B2
A cylinder structure of a rotary piston internal combustion engine includes a rotating shaft, the two sides of the rotating shaft are installed on machine bases, front deflector rods and rear deflectors rod are fixed to the two outer ends of the rotating shaft respectively, the included angles between the front deflector rods and the rear deflector rods are 29 degrees, the front deflector rods at the two outer ends are arranged in the radial direction of the rotating shaft at 180 degrees, and the rear deflector rods at the two outer ends are arranged in the radial direction of the rotating shaft at 180 degrees, and a combustion device and a compression device are sequentially arranged between the two machine bases.
US11313268B2
A method of monitoring an SCR catalyst in which an area factor (a) of the SCR catalyst is ascertained by means of an observer. It is concluded that there is a fault in the SCR catalyst when a comparison shows that the area factor (a) has gone below a threshold value (S).
US11313266B2
A mixer assembly for a vehicle exhaust system includes an inner wall surface and a flow diverter with a flow directing surface that is spaced apart from the inner wall surface to provide an exhaust gas inlet area. The flow directing surface terminates at a distal end that is spaced apart from the inner wall surface to provide an orifice between the distal end and the inner wall surface through which exhaust gas flow accelerates and is directed to flow along the inner wall surface. A vehicle exhaust component assembly that includes the mixer and a method for mixing injected fluid spray into the mixer are also disclosed.
US11313265B2
An exhaust gas post-treatment device for an internal combustion engine mixes exhaust gas with a reducing agent. The exhaust gas post-treatment device comprises a mixing chamber through which the exhaust gas circulates and a reducing agent sprayer that sprays a reducing agent in the mixing chamber. The reducing agent sprayer comprises at least one first nozzle and at least one second nozzle, where said at least one first nozzle is designed to produce small droplets, and said at least one second nozzle is designed to produce large droplets.
US11313260B1
An engine includes a cylinder block having formed therein a plurality of cylinders, a main oil gallery, and a spray jet gallery. A cross-hole is fluidly connected to the main oil gallery and extends to the spray jet gallery. Oil spray jets are each fluidly connected to one of a plurality of oil feed holes fluidly connected to the spray jet gallery. An oil admission valve, which can be hydraulically actuated or electrically actuated, is supported in the cylinder block and movable between a closed position to block the spray jet gallery and each of the oil feed holes from the cross-hole, and an open position.
US11313253B2
A rocker arm can comprise a cam arm, a valve arm, a lost motion spring, and a pair of deactivatable latches configured to impede travel of the cam arm with respect to the lost motion spring and configured to enable the cam arm to collapse the lost motion spring. The cam arm can comprise a cam interface, a spring pressing area, a cam arm body, and a pivot axle connection. The valve arm can comprise a valve arm body, a rocker shaft bore, a latch socket, and lost motion spring mount. A pivot axle can connect the valve arm body to the cam arm body. Alternatively, a latch socket in a valve arm neck comprises a latch assembly whereby a deactivatable latch is configured to impede motion of the cam arm and to collapse so the cam arm can collapse the lost motion spring.
US11313248B2
A lattice bearing support includes a circular inner structure having a center axis and an inner radial surface, an inner rim projecting axially inward from the circular inner structure toward the center axis, a circular outer structure located outward of the circular inner structure with respect to the center axis and having an outer radial surface, an outer radial flange on the circular outer structure that projects radially outward from the outer radial surface, and a number of struts extending radially between the circular inner structure and the circular outer structure.
US11313245B2
A monitoring system for monitoring one or more properties associated with a rotating shaft is provided. The system includes a first phonic wheel which is mounted coaxially to the shaft for rotation therewith, the first phonic wheel comprising a circumferential row of teeth. The system further includes a first sensor configured to detect the passage of the row of teeth of the first phonic wheel by generating a first alternating measurement signal. The system further includes a processor unit configured to determine the durations of successive first speed samples. Each first speed sample is a block of n successive cycles of the first alternating measurement signal, where n is an integer, and in which the beginning of each cycle is a zero-crossing point from the previous cycle and the end of each cycle is the corresponding zero-crossing point to the next cycle. At least one axial location of the first phonic wheel every mth tooth of the row of teeth of the first phonic wheel has a circumferential thickness which is different from that of the other teeth of the first phonic wheel, where m is an integer, m≠n, and m is neither a factor nor a multiple of n. When the first sensor is positioned at said axial location of the first phonic wheel and at any given rotational speed of the first phonic wheel, the durations of the successive first speed samples display a characteristic repeating pattern of longer and shorter sample durations relative to the average duration of the successive first speed samples. The amount by which the longer and shorter sample durations differ from the average duration is in proportion to the amount by which the circumferential thickness of the mth teeth differs from that of the other teeth at said axial location of the first phonic wheel. The processor unit monitors the properties associated with the rotating shaft from the characteristic repeating pattern.
US11313239B2
A disc able to support platforms and blades of a fan, and including an external surface having a succession of grooves for receiving the fan blades and teeth interposed between the grooves to support the fan platforms, an upstream face of the disc, and a plurality of radial protrusions disposed radially around the axis of the disc on the upstream face of the disc, and able to be fastened to a fan platform retaining flange, the protrusions being offset radially toward the interior of the disc relative to the grooves of the disc, and being disposed circumferentially between two teeth of the disc.
US11313236B2
A component for a gas turbine engine, comprising: a first wall defining an exterior surface of the component; a second wall, arranged such that a coolant channel is defined by the space between the first and second walls; and a plurality of apertures provided through the first wall to connect the coolant channel to the exterior surface of the component; wherein adjacent at least one aperture the coolant channel comprises a flow modifier, configured to locally change the pressure of the coolant flowing in the coolant channel in the region of the aperture relative to a region of the coolant channel adjacent another aperture.
US11313228B2
A rotor for a pump has a housing and a rotor, and has at least one blade. The rotor is able to be actuated to rotate about an axis of rotation in order to convey a fluid in the axial or radial direction, and the rotor is able to be deformed in the radial direction between a first, radially compressed state and a second, radially expanded state. At a maximum speed of rotation of the rotor at which the power of the pump is at a maximum, the blade is essentially radially oriented, and/or the rotor has its maximum diameter.
US11313227B2
A device that allows for the sequential operations of hole drilling, resin and catalyst insertion and rod insertion in a single machine is provided. The drilling part uses a regular mining drilling machine that is fitted onto the device. Once the hole is drilled, a pipe is inserted into the hole. There are two possible versions of the pipe, a single pipe configured to work with an air cannon shooting resin tubes and a co-joined double pipe to inject resin and a catalyst in separate co-joined pipes so as to emerge unmixed at the end of the pipes. The next step consists in screwing in the rod into the hole, the twisting motion mixes resin and catalyst and in a matter of seconds, the rod is fully inserted and the chemical reaction has started. Because of the speed and accuracy of insertion and the thoroughness of mixing, more catalyst than usual can be used for a faster hardening of the resin, which secures the rod much better and faster.
US11313216B2
Real-time data of drilling operations may be utilized to automatically fingerprint and evaluate their values to create enhanced information of interest. Enhanced information of interest may be comparable to given procedure and may facilitate generation of actionable insight and validation of procedural compliance. Real-time data of drilling operations may be analyzed to generate analysis and graphical comparison of specific sub-step operations that make up activities of interest. These operations may correspond to specific actions a driller on a rig may take to manipulate equipment and may be documented as procedural steps.
US11313215B2
Provided are methods and systems for monitoring and modifying stimulation operations in a reservoir. In particular, the methods and systems utilize a downhole telemetry system, such as a network of sensors and downhole wireless communication nodes, to monitor various stimulation operations.
US11313209B2
A self-orienting gas evading intake for a submersible pump provides an efficient, reliable and inexpensive system for pumping a downhole fluid to a surface. An intake section of a submersible pumping system may comprise a blocker sleeve disposed between an external housing and an eccentric intake. The intake section may be self-orienting such that a gas component of the fluid ascends the borehole to separate from a liquid component of the fluid. Actuation of a blocker sleeve exposes one or more ports of the external housing while blocking one or more other ports. The liquid component is drawn into the intake section through an exposed port and through one or more openings of the eccentric intake. The liquid component may then be drawn into the pump. As the liquid component comprises non-detrimental amounts, if any, of a gas component, the pump operates efficiently and effectively.
US11313208B2
Provided is a detonation cord alignment apparatus. The detonation cord alignment apparatus, in accordance with one example, includes a detonation cord alignment housing having a detonation cord opening extending there through, and one or more protrusions extending inward from the detonation cord opening for linearly securing a detonation cord therein.
US11313207B2
A deep-sea submarine gas hydrate collecting method and a production house for the first time, the collecting method comprises the steps of: determining an active methane leakage zone near a landward limit of a submarine gas hydrate stability zone, acquiring submarine methane leakage in-situ observation data, determining a methane leakage rate and evaluating its economy; mounting a production house on the seabed, opening a monitoring system after the mounting, monitoring the submarine methane leakage condition and hydrate generation progress in real time, evaluating a hydrate generation amount, and performing hydrate acquisition work; and rapidly processing the gas hydrate in the house by a gas hydrate collecting system of an offshore platform, and continuously monitoring the methane leakage condition. A large amount of methane leaked can be collected, thereof, the method has dual meanings of resources and environment.
US11313204B2
An insulating fluid system includes an acidic nanosilica dispersion and an alkaline activator. The acidic nanosilica dispersion includes silica nanoparticles and a stabilizer, such as a carboxylic acid. The alkaline activator includes an alkanolamine, such as a monoalkanolamine. A mixture of the acidic nanosilica dispersion and the alkaline activator forms an insulating fluid having a pH greater than 7 and less than or equal to 12, and the insulating fluid forms an insulating gel when heated to a temperature in a range between 100° F. and 300° F. The insulating gel may be formed in an annulus between an inner conduit and an outer conduit. The inner and outer conduits may be positioned in a subterranean formation. Forming an insulating gel may include combining the acidic nanosilica dispersion with the alkaline activator to yield the insulating fluid, and heating the insulating fluid to form the insulating gel.
US11313199B2
Examples of the present disclosure relate to a temporary seal within a wellbore. More specifically, embodiments include a temporary seal within casing that limits the flow of fluid through the casing until the temporary seal is released.
US11313192B2
The present invention discloses a method for lowering an oil pipe in a gas well without well-killing, a soluble bridge plug and a material preparation method thereof, wherein, the method comprises the steps of: lowering a bridge plug in a wellbore such that the bridge plug blocks the wellbore at a predetermined location in the wellbore; injecting water in the wellbore after the pressure in the wellbore has been relieved so as to replace gases in the wellbore; and lowering an oil pipe in the wellbore to the location of the bridge plug. The method for lowering an oil pipe in a gas well without well-killing, the soluble bridge plug and the material preparation method thereof provided in the present invention successfully solve the problem of high cost for lowering an oil pipe under pressure after a fracturing fluid has been injected into the casing.
US11313191B2
System and method for core sample orientating uses an orientation data gathering device recording core sample orientation belowground at irregular time intervals, preferably while drilling is ceased and the irregular time intervals can be randomly generated by the orientation data gathering device. Target orientation data is closest to time Tx, Tx being greater than, less than or equal to T−t, where T is the time recorded by the data gathering device and t is the recorded elapsed time commenced by a communication device at the surface. The data gathering device is interrogated at the surface by the communication device. Timers in each are stopped or their individual times associated with each other (survey time T and elapsed time t). Target recorded orientation data Tx is identifiable as the largest Tx value
US11313187B2
A protective tubular is run downhole into a wellbore in a subterranean formation. A non-metallic tubular is disposed within the protective tubular. The non-metallic tubular includes an adapter. The adapter includes a spring-loaded latch, a ball seat, a shear pin, and a ball catcher. While intact, the shear pin holds a position of the non-metallic tubular relative to the protective tubular. A ball is used to shear the shear pin of the adapter, thereby allowing the non-metallic tubular to move relative to the protective tubular. Pressure is applied to the ball to move the non-metallic tubular relative to the protective tubular. The non-metallic tubular is coupled to the protective tubular using the spring-loaded latch of the adapter. Pressure is applied to the ball to shear the ball seat of the adapter. A fluid is flowed into the non-metallic tubular through an opening defined by the adapter.
US11313175B2
A rotor catch system includes a catch stem having a proximal end coupled to a rotor of a mud motor system and a distal end positioned within a sub housing of a drill string, a catch feature having a top portion and a spindle portion extending from the top portion and coupled to the distal end of the catch stem, a housing catch feature extending radially inward from an inner surface of the sub housing, and a catch bushing positioned between the top portion of the catch feature and the housing catch feature. The housing catch feature restrains axial movement of the catch bushing in the active catch state via contact between the catch bushing and the housing catch feature, and the catch bushing restrains axial movement of the catch feature in the active catch state via contact between the catch feature and the catch bushing.
US11313170B2
A shimming device for attaching a substrate to a stud wall includes a plate, which has a first edge that is linear. The plate can be mounted to a respective opposed side of one of a plurality of studs to which the substrate is to be mounted. The plate is one of a plurality of plates that can be positioned on and mounted to the plurality of studs so that each plate is positioned at a respective support point for the substrate. Each plate is positioned with the first edge of the plate proud of an edge face of the stud and so that the first edges of the plurality of plates define a plane. The substrate, upon mounting to the plurality of studs, is parallel to the plane.
US11313166B2
It is provided a drive device for an adjustment installation for adjusting a vehicle part, in particular a power window actuator, comprising a carrier element, a cable drum, a cable exit housing which is disposed on a first side of the carrier element and which has a first bearing element for mounting the cable drum so as to be rotatable about a first rotation axis, a drive wheel that is drivable by a motor unit, and a drive housing which is disposed on a second side, facing away from the first side, of the carrier element and which has a second bearing element for mounting the drive wheel so as to be rotatable about a second rotation axis. The cable exit housing and the drive housing are fastened to one another by way of a fastening element which acts between the first bearing element and the second bearing element.
US11313160B1
A latching mechanism includes a gauge defining a passage extending therethrough, and a latch operably connected to the gauge and structured to be rotatable from a latching position to an unlatched position by movement of a component at least partially through the passage. The latch is structured to engage a latch engagement feature positioned on a lid of a receptacle to maintain the lid in a closed condition when the latch is in the latching position. The receptacle lid is released for opening when the latch disengages from the latch engagement feature.
US11313157B2
A latch assembly for opening and closing a vehicle luggage room may include: a base installed on an end portion of an opening and closing member to open and close a vehicle luggage room; a power conversion member to convert the rotational force of a drive motor into a linear motion; a claw to grip and restrain the striker when the opening and closing member is closed; a pawl to inhibit the rotation of the claw so that the claw maintains a state of having the striker restrained; an error lever installed to rotate with the pawl and configured to rotate so that the pawl is separated from the claw; and a link member to rotate the claw so that the claw grips the striker, when the power conversion member makes the linear motion.
US11313156B2
The manual release mechanism described herein enables a passenger to attempt to manually open the transit door, but delays opening until the vehicle is no longer moving. A motion transfer device (14) moves to an unlocking position of the door lock (10) only when the manual release mechanism is activated to store energy in a mechanical energy storage device (40), and an electromechanical device (26) is de-energized to release the motion transfer device (14).
US11313154B2
A laptop lock used for locking a laptop is provided. The laptop lock includes a body and a fixing device. The fixing device makes the relative position of the body with respect to the laptop fixed and makes extending direction of the shaft connecting the display and the keyboard part of the laptop parallel with the long axial direction of the body.
US11313142B1
A swimming pool leveling system includes a bracket extending from a first end to a second end, the bracket having openings; a float valve having a body with a float positioned within an interior of the body, the float valve engaged with the bracket via an adjustment device; a pressure reducing valve engaged with the body and to receive a water source; and a base having a base body with an enclosed interior accessible via an opening, the enclosed interior configured to receive a weight, the base engaging with the bracket via one or more securement devices; the base is to rest on a surface such that the bracket extends the float valve into a pool; and the float valve to allow filling of the pool to a desired height.
US11313126B2
A concrete corner structure with diagonally oriented fiber resin polymer rebar and method that utilizes straight rebar to reinforce the corner structure. The straight rebar intersects with the horizontally disposed rebar in the first and second walls that form the corner structure. The straight rebar is placed at a 45-degree angle with respect to the two walls and tied to the horizontally disposed rebar. This allows for the use of straight rebar to reinforce the corner structure as opposed to a curved rebar.
US11313114B2
A drain cleaner includes a drum assembly configured to store a cable and an actuator assembly movable relative to the drum assembly between a neutral position, where the cable is free to spin and translate out of the drum assembly, an autofeed position, where the cable is allowed to spin and is automatically driven out of the drum assembly, and an autofeed locked on position, where the actuator assembly is maintained in the autofeed position without continuous input from a user. The actuator assembly includes a handle supported by the drum assembly and an autofeed locking mechanism. The autofeed locking mechanism includes a drive lock and a lock release. The drive lock engages the handle to maintain the actuator assembly in the autofeed locked on position.
US11313112B2
Described herein are embodiments of a drain adapter device configured as a low-profile drain that provides a dry seal between a drain base and an installed floor drain. The low-profile drain is configured to receive threaded drain gates or strainers. In some embodiments, the drain adapter device provides a low-profile drain system that includes universal receiving features configured to engage with strainers, drain gates, caps, and the like.
US11313108B2
A pumping device has a container, an inlet pipe, a float barrel, and a discharging pipe. The container has a box containing water and a first gas, and a pressure gauge and a check valve mounted to the box. The inlet pipe connects to a water supply and has a second section erectly disposed within the box and communicating with an inside of the box. The float barrel is disposed within the box, contains a second gas, and has an opening. The second section is mounted through the opening. The discharging pipe has two opposite ends respectively communicating with a water reservoir and the inside of the box. The first gas has a pressure larger than 1 atm. The second gas has a pressure less than 1 atm. Water enters the float barrel. A water level inside the float barrel is higher than a water level inside the box.
US11313103B2
A work vehicle provided with a loading hydraulic circuit (A), including at least a main hydraulic pump (31), a lift arm cylinder (8) and a control valve (32), an auxiliary hydraulic pump (31), a negative parking brake device (PB), and a parking brake releasing hydraulic circuit (B2), in which the vehicle includes: a loading operation hydraulic circuit (B1) located upstream of the parking brake releasing hydraulic circuit; an emergency flow path (80) for supplying the pressure oil discharged from the auxiliary hydraulic pump to the parking brake device through the loading operation hydraulic circuit in an emergency; and a valve unit (81) located in the emergency flow path. If the pressure of the parking brake releasing hydraulic circuit is lower than the brake release pressure to release the braking state of the parking brake device, the valve unit is switched to the communicating position.
US11313084B2
A device for setting up a level crossing for crossing a track section having two rails, comprising one or more mouldings forming at least one part of a traffic surface of the railway crossing across the rails, and at least one moulding holder fixable to one of the two rails, wherein the moulding(s) is/(are) detachably attachable to at least one of the two rails by means of the moulding holder, wherein the moulding holder comprises two holding clamps fixable to the rail in juxtaposition to each other on both sides of the rail, and wherein the two holding clamps can be braced to each other such as to clamp the rail foot between the two holding clamps.
US11313082B2
This invention relates to a sheet material comprising fiber and nano-microscale organic fibrillated filler, wherein the nano-microscale organic fibrillated filler comprises microfibrillated cellulose and starch granule in such a way that the microfibrillated cellulose is dispersed with starch granule, and the nano-microscale organic fibrillated filler has starch granule at least 15 wt %. Besides, this invention also relates to a method of producing said sheet material comprising fiber and nano-microscale organic filler, wherein the method comprises the steps of (i) preparing pulp suspension, (ii) preparing nano-microscale organic fibrillated filler, (iii) adding the nano-microscale organic fibrillated filler into the pulp suspension, (iv) forming sheet material by pressing, and (v) drying the sheet material, wherein the preparation step of nano-microscale organic fibrillated filler provides the nano-microscale organic fibrillated filler comprising microfibrillated cellulose and starch granule in such a way that the microfibrillated cellulose is dispersed with starch granule.
US11313076B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a transfer paper which allows smooth removal of a printed transfer paper from a design-printed fabric before steaming; and is unlikely to cause problems such as partial missing, color unevenness, color-development deterioration, etc. of the design on the fabric. Provided is a transfer paper having a substrate and one or more coating layers, the substrate having a base paper and one or more nonaqueous resin layers on one side of the base paper, the one or more coating layers being located on the one or more nonaqueous resin layers, the coating layer located outermost from the substrate, that is, the outermost coating layer, at least comprising a water-soluble polyester resin, a carboxylic acid-modified polyvinyl alcohol resin, an acrylic resin, a starch, and a white pigment, the acrylic resin having a glass transition point (Tg) of 0° C. to 45° C. and a minimum film forming temperature (MFT) of 0° C. to 50° C.
US11313074B2
Processes for making weather resistant, slow-decaying, durable natural fiber/coir geotextiles produce geotextiles having flexibility, permeability, light weight and cost-effective characteristics. In this process an in situ chemical grafting using a mixture of Cashew Nut Shell Liquid and aminoalkyl trialkoxysilanes with cellulose was done followed by curing in presence of sunlight, UV light or heat. The developed product showed durability and strength more than that of natural fiber/fabric and retaining natural fiber/fabric/geotextiles characteristics. The geotextiles have delayed bio-deterioration having wider long-term end use/applications. This process of making durable geotextiles is eco-friendly and retains the desired characteristic.
US11313061B2
A method for making a high topography nonwoven substrate includes generating a foam including water and synthetic binder fibers; depositing the foam on a planar surface; disposing a template form on the foam opposite the planar surface to create a foam/form assembly; heating the foam/form assembly to dry the foam and bind the synthetic binder fibers; and removing the template from the substrate after heating the foam/form assembly, wherein the substrate includes a planar base layer having an X-Y surface and a backside surface opposite the X-Y surface; and a plurality of projection elements integral with and protruding in a Z-direction from the X-Y surface, wherein the projection elements are distributed in both the X- and Y-directions, and wherein the density of a projection element is the same as the density of the base layer.
US11313057B2
In one aspect, an upper for an article of footwear may include a knit element, a collar area configured to form an ankle opening, and a cuff in the collar area. The cuff may be at least partially formed by the knit element and may include a ribbed knit structure of the knit element. In another aspect, an upper for an article of footwear may include a knit element with a first area, the first area including a first side and a second side opposite the first side. The first side may be formed of at least 30% more material than the second side such that the first area is configured to curve convexly away from the first side.
US11313043B2
Treating carbon steel tubing includes contacting the carbon steel tubing with a first treatment solution including a salt; corroding the carbon steel tubing with the salt to yield a corroded surface on the carbon steel tubing; contacting the corroded surface on the carbon steel tubing with a second treatment solution comprising sulfide ions; and forming an iron sulfide layer on the corroded surface of the carbon steel tubing by chemically bonding the sulfide ions in the second treatment solution with iron in the carbon steel tubing. In some cases, the first treatment solution also includes sulfide ions, and the iron sulfide layer is formed by contacting the carbon steel tubing with the first treatment solution.
US11313042B2
A method, system, and computer-readable medium for forming transmission electron microscopy sample lamellae using a focused ion beam including directing a high energy focused ion beam toward a bulk volume of material; milling away the unwanted volume of material to produce an unfinished sample lamella with one or more exposed faces having a damage layer; characterizing the removal rate of the focused ion beam; subsequent to characterizing the removal rate, directing a low energy focused ion beam toward the unfinished sample lamella for a predetermined milling time to deliver a specified dose of ions per area from the low energy focused ion beam; and milling the unfinished sample lamella with the low energy focused ion beam to remove at least a portion of the damage layer to produce the finished sample lamella including at least a portion of the feature of interest.
US11313039B2
Introduced here is a plasma polymerization apparatus and process. Example embodiments include a vacuum chamber in a substantially symmetrical shape to a central axis. A rotation rack may be operable to rotate about the central axis of the vacuum chamber. Additionally, reactive species discharge mechanisms positioned around a perimeter of the vacuum chamber in a substantially symmetrical manner from the outer perimeter of the vacuum chamber may be configured to disperse reactive species into the vacuum chamber. The reactive species may form a polymeric multi-layer coating on surfaces of the one or more devices. Each layer may have a different composition of atoms to enhance the water resistance, corrosion resistance, and fiction resistance of the polymeric multi-layer coating.
US11313030B2
A method for forming a low-resistivity tantalum thin film having the following steps: depositing a tantalum layer on a substrate, the tantalum of the layer having a β phase, treating the deposited tantalum layer by exposure to a radio frequency hydrogen plasma, such that the layer has tantalum in a mixed β-α phase, at least partially desorbing the hydrogen by carrying out at least one of the following steps: exposure to a radio frequency inert gas plasma, and thermal annealing. The treatment step being configured such that the tantalum layer is subjected to temperatures of less than or equal to 300° C.
US11313022B2
There is provided a method for manufacturing a soft magnetic member where a coating formed of an α-Fe2O3 single phase having a high electrical resistivity is formed on a soft magnetic alloy substrate. A soft magnetic alloy substrate is heated in an atmosphere containing water vapor and inert gas to form a coating on the soft magnetic alloy substrate. The atmosphere has an oxygen partial pressure in a range of 0 to 1.5 kPa. A soft magnetic member including the soft magnetic alloy substrate and the coating formed on its surface can be obtained.
US11313018B2
Present invention is about a transformation-induced plasticity high-entropy alloy which can provide improved mechanical properties compared to those obtained by conventional methods, due to the phase transformation occurring at the time of deformation at a cryogenic temperature. According to the present invention, the high-entropy alloy (HEA) includes 10-35 at % of Co, 3-15 at % of Cr, 3-15 at % of V, 35-48 at % of Fe, and 0-25 at % of Ni (exclusive of 25), and mainly consists of an FCC phase at room temperature, wherein transformation-induced plasticity, in which at least part of the FCC phase changes to a BCC phase, occurs at a cryogenic temperature (−196° C.)
US11313015B2
Aluminum alloys having improved properties are provided. The alloy includes about 13 to about 17 weight percent silicon, about 0.3 to about 0.6 weight percent magnesium, and at least 75 weight percent aluminum. The alloy may include copper up to about 2.0 weight percent; iron up to about 0.8 weight percent; manganese up to about 1.0 weight percent; nickel up to about 1.0 weight percent; zinc up to about 0.8 weight percent; titanium up to about 0.5 weight percent; zirconium up to about 0.5 weight percent; vanadium up to about 0.5 weight percent; and other trace elements up to about 0.1 weight percent. In addition, the alloy may contain about 50 to about 1000 ppm of strontium and about 10 about 100 ppm phosphorus. Also disclosed is a die cast article, such as transmission clutch housing.
US11313010B2
A method of forming a part from sheet metal and a part formed by said method. The method comprising the steps of: (a) heating a metal sheet to a temperature T; and (b) forming the sheet into the part between dies while applying cooling means to the sheet, where in step a) the metal sheet is heated at a rate of at least 50° C.·s−1, and temperature T is above a critical forming temperature and does not exceed a critical microstructure change temperature of said metal sheet.
US11313007B2
Provided herein is a high-strength seamless steel pipe containing a particular chemical composition. The volume fraction of tempered martensite is 90% or more in terms of a volume fraction. The number of nitride inclusions with a particle diameter of 4 μm or more is 50 or less per 100 mm2, the number of nitride inclusions with a particle diameter of less than 4 μm is 500 or less per 100 mm2, the number of oxide inclusions with a particle diameter of 4 μm or more is 40 or less per 100 mm2, and the number of oxide inclusions with a particle diameter of less than 4 μm is 400 or less per 100 mm2 in a cross section perpendicular to a rolling direction.
US11313005B2
The seamless steel pipe of the present embodiment consists of in mass %, C: 0.21 to 0.35%, Si: 0.10 to 0.50%, Mn: 0.05 to 1.00%, P: 0.025% or less, S: 0.010% or less, Al: 0.005 to 0.100%, N: 0.010% or less, Cr: 0.05 to 1.50%, Mo: 0.10 to 1.50%, Nb: 0.010 to 0.050%, B: 0.0003 to 0.0050%, and Ti: 0.002 to 0.050%, the balance being Fe and impurities. In a main body region of the seamless steel pipe, a grain size number of prior-austenite grain conforming to ASTM E112 is 7.0 or more, a difference between a maximum value and a minimum value of the grain size number is 1.0 or less, yield strength is 655 to less than 862 MPa, and a difference between a maximum value and a minimum value of tensile strength is 27.6 MPa or less.
US11313004B2
A method for manufacturing FeNi ordered alloy having a L10 type order structure is provided. After a nitrification process for nitriding a powder sample of a FeNi disordered alloy arranged in a tube furnace is performed using a NH3 gas, a de-nitrification process for removing a nitrogen from the FeNi disordered alloy which is processed by the nitrification process is performed using a H2 gas. Thus, the L10 type FeNi ordered alloy with a regularity defined by S equal to or higher than 0.5 is obtained.
US11312998B2
Disclosed are methods of selecting a therapy for a cancer patient and methods of treating cancer in the patient. The methods comprise detecting a mutation in one or more genes in a cancer cell from the patient, wherein the one or more genes is selected from the group consisting of PTCD2, TWF1, DEFB134, BBS1, SOX10, APLNR, CD58, COL17A1, CRKL, hsa-mir-101-2, hsa-mir-548s, MAD2L1, MLANA, PSMB5, RNPS1, RPL10A, RPL23, SRP54, TAF3, TAP1, TAP2, TAPBP, TBXAS1, GMIP, OTOA, LAIR1, CLEC1, GPSM3, TRAF1, JAK2, TAPBPL, ICAM1, LILRA1, LILRA3, STAT1, and HLA-F. Also disclosed are methods of screening for one or more genes, the mutation of which confers resistance to T cell-mediated cytolytic activity.
US11312997B2
Technology provided herein relates in part to methods, processes and apparatuses for non-invasive assessment of genetic variations.
US11312995B2
A method for detecting a SNP site on a SMA gene is disclosed, and includes steps of: (S10) performing a PCR for amplifying a nucleic a nucleic acid fragment containing a SNP site; (S20) performing a dephosphorylation reaction on the nucleic acid fragment; (S30) performing an extension reaction on the nucleic acid fragment, wherein the SNP site is identified by using an extension primer, a 3′-end of the extension primer is extended by a single nucleotide which is complementary to a base of the SNP site, and thus an extended extension primer is obtained; (S40) performing a purification reaction; and (S50) measuring a molecular weight of the extended extension primer, and determining a type of a base of the single nucleotide based upon the molecular weight, thereby determining whether deletion occurs to the SNP site.
US11312992B2
A method of sequencing nucleic acids is provided using sequencing by ligation and/or sequencing by hybridization.
US11312986B2
Disclosed are methods of preparing everninomicin analogs by genetic alteration of Micromonospora carbonacea. Everninomicin analogs prepared by these methods and methods of using these analogs to treat infections are also disclose.
US11312983B2
Green preparation methods of rice resistant starch are disclosed. In some embodiments, a green preparation method of the rice resistant starch is characterized in that, at a temperature lower than the gelatinization temperature, the rice starch is sequentially modified by enzymes using β-amylase, glucosidase, and pullulanase to obtain the modified starch. In other embodiments, a green preparation method of the rice resistant starch is characterized by using: rice starch as a substrate; and in turn using: (a) β-amylase (BA, EC 3.2.1.2) from barley (Hordeum vulgare); (b) glucoside transferase (TG, EC 2.4.1.24) from Aspergillus niger; and (c) pullulanase (PUL, EC 3.2.1.41) from Pullulanibacillus konaensis below a gelatinization temperature to modify a chain structure of the rice starch, resulting in a number of short linear chains which are effectively arranged, aggregated, and recrystallized at 4° C. to form modified rice starch with high resistant starch content.
US11312980B2
Provided is a method for manufacturing a 3-hydroxy-4-aminobenzoic acid by using a microorganism. The method for manufacturing a 3-hydroxy-4-aminobenzoic acid comprises a step of bringing a 4-aminobenzoic acid into contact with a microorganism that produces the following polypeptide (A) or (B): (A) a polypeptide consisting of an amino acid sequence shown in SEQ ID NO: 2 or a polypeptide consisting of an amino acid sequence that has at least 90% identity to the amino acid sequence shown in SEQ ID NO: 2 and has 4-hydroxybenzoate hydroxylase activity, (B) a polypeptide consisting of an amino acid sequence shown in SEQ ID NO: 6 or a polypeptide consisting of an amino acid sequence that has at least 90% identity to the amino acid sequence shown in SEQ ID NO: 6 and has 4-hydroxybenzoate hydroxylase activity.
US11312972B2
Materials and methods are provided for making plants with altered levels of amino acids, particularly by making controlled frameshift mutations in genes that are highly expressed in plant leaves or plant seeds.
US11312966B2
[Problem] To provide a nucleic acid expected to be useful for treating mite allergy. [Means to be solved] Provided is a nucleic acid comprising a nucleotide sequence encoding a chimeric protein, wherein the nucleic acid comprises a nucleotide sequence encoding a signal peptide, a nucleotide sequence encoding an intra-organelle stabilizing domain of LAMP, a nucleotide sequence encoding an allergen domain comprising Der p 1, Der p 2, Der p 23, and Der p 7, a nucleotide sequence encoding a transmembrane domain and a nucleotide sequence encoding an endosomal/lysosomal targeting domain of LAMP in this order.
US11312961B1
This invention relates to compounds, compositions, and methods useful for reducing α-1 antitrypsin target RNA and protein levels via use of dsRNAs, e.g., Dicer substrate siRNA (DsiRNA) agents.
US11312960B1
This invention relates to compounds, compositions, and methods useful for reducing α-1 antitrypsin target RNA and protein levels via use of dsRNAs, e.g., Dicer substrate siRNA (DsiRNA) agents.
US11312953B2
This disclosure provides for compositions and methods for the use of nucleic acid-targeting nucleic acids and complexes thereof.
US11312951B2
The present disclosure provides systems and methods for host cell improvement utilizing epistatic effects. The systems and methods described herein are host cell agnostic and therefore can be implemented across taxa. Furthermore, the disclosed systems and methods can be implemented to modulate or improve any host cell parameter of interest.
US11312939B2
The present disclosure pertains to immune cells comprising chimeric antigen receptors (CARs) and methods of using immune cells comprising CARs.
US11312936B2
The specification describes a composition comprising an improved eukaryotic cell culture medium, which can be used for the production of a protein of interest. Taurine can be added to serum-free media or chemically-defined media to increase the production of a protein of interest. Methods for recombinantly expressing high levels of protein using the media compositions are included.
US11312931B2
A belt for an algal growth system includes a flexible sheet material configured to facilitate growth of a biofilm. The flexible sheet material is mounted on a first frame in a first mounted geometry, the flexible sheet material having a substantially vertical orientation when mounted on the first frame such that a first height of the first mounted geometry is greater than a first width of the first mounted geometry, the flexible sheet material being in contact with a contacting liquid.
