US11342813B2
The present disclosure relates to an axial flux motor for a reaction wheel, and method of using and making the same. The motor includes a stator and a rotor. The stator comprises a printed circuit board (PCB) including a first motor coil. The rotor is coupled to a first ring-shaped magnet having an alternating pole arrangement. In a further embodiment, the rotor includes permanent magnets, and the stator PCB includes a first motor coil, and a first high thermal conductivity element.
US11342810B2
An axial flux machine is provided with an integrated clutch assembly, which is housed within the bore of an annulus-shaped stator of the machine. First and second rotors, located either side of the stator are attached to the clutch basket of the clutch assembly, and rotate in unison relative to the stator. A machine housing is provided between the stator and an engagement face of the clutch basket, seated on bearings between the clutch basket and machine housing, to provide a rigid structure.
US11342809B2
To obtain a rotating electric machine capable of suppressing vibrations generated at the time of driving and achieving downsizing. The rotating electric machine includes: a rotor; a stator including a stator core provided on an outer side with respect to the rotor in a radial direction of the rotor; a motor frame, which includes a tubular portion provided on an outer side with respect to the stator core in the radial direction, and has the stator fixed thereto; and an intermediate member, which is provided on an outer peripheral surface of the stator core in the radial direction, and is held in a state of being press-fitted to an inner peripheral surface of the tubular portion in the radial direction, wherein a stiffness of the intermediate member per unit length is higher than a stiffness of the tubular portion per unit length.
US11342807B2
A motor may include a rotor provided with a rotating shaft that protrudes to a first side in an axial direction; a stator disposed on an outer peripheral side of the rotor; a resin sealing member that covers the stator; and a cover member that is disposed on the first side of the resin sealing member and supports the rotating shaft. The cover member may include a plurality of gate marks disposed at different angular positions and a plurality of ribs that protrude to a second side in the axial direction. The ribs may be disposed at positions where each midpoint between the gate marks adjacent to each other in the circumferential direction overlap with an axis of the rotor.
US11342800B2
A magnetic alignment system can include a primary annular magnetic alignment component and a secondary annular magnetic alignment component. The primary alignment component can include an inner annular region having a first magnetic orientation, an outer annular region having a second magnetic orientation opposite to the first magnetic orientation, and a non-magnetized central annular region disposed between the primary inner annular region and the primary outer annular region. The secondary alignment component can have a magnetic orientation with a radial component. Additional features, such as a rotational magnetic alignment component and/or an NFC coil and circuitry can be included.
US11342799B2
Described herein is a wireless charging system including a wireless power transmitter and a wireless power receiver, where the wireless power receiver is part of a wireless electronic device such as a mobile telephone. The wireless power receiver is used to charge a battery of the wireless electronic device and can include both a closed-loop DC-DC converter, such as a buck charger, and an open-loop DC-DC converter, such as a switched capacitor charger. In addition to an in-band communication channel between the power transmitter and the power receiver, the system also includes an out-of-band communication channel through which the power transmitter and the power receiver can exchange control signals, helping to avoid interference that can occur in the in-band communication channel when using the open-loop DC-DC converter.
US11342794B2
The invention relates to an inductive charging device for a vehicle and to a method for monitoring an inductive charging device for a vehicle, wherein a metal object is detected in each case. The method has the steps of: carrying out a passive metal object detection, MOD, while a battery of a vehicle (1) is inductively charged by generating an electromagnetic field in order to induce a charge current (I2) in a receiving coil structure (2) of the vehicle (1); and carrying out an active MOD at points in time at which no inductive charging process is being carried out.
US11342793B2
Systems, methods and apparatus for wireless charging are disclosed. A charging device has a plurality of charging cells provided on a charging surface, a charging circuit and a controller. The controller may be configured to cause the charging circuit to provide a charging current to a resonant circuit when a receiving device is placed on the charging device, detect a change or rate of change in voltage or current level associated with the resonant circuit or a change or rate of change in power transferred to the receiving device and determine that the receiving device has been removed from the charging device when the change or rate of the change in voltage or current level or change or rate of change in power transferred to the receiving device exceeds a threshold value.
US11342791B2
Electrochromic windows powered by wireless power transmission and powering other devices by wireless power transmission are described along with wireless power transmission networks that incorporate these electrochromic windows.
US11342784B2
In general, one or more loads on a vehicle can be connected to both a first voltage source on the vehicle and a backup vehicle power system on the vehicle. If the voltage provided by the first voltage source to the one or more loads satisfies a voltage threshold, the backup vehicle power system does not provide power to the one or more loads. However, if the voltage provided by the first voltage source to the one or more loads falls below the voltage threshold, the backup vehicle power system provides power to the one or more loads.
US11342779B2
A control method for a wireless charging apparatus includes: receiving a power adjustment value transmitted by a terminal; and adjusting at least one of an output voltage or an output frequency of a wireless Alternating Current (AC) power signal according to the power adjustment value to adjust an output power of the wireless AC power signal.
US11342777B2
Provided is a base for wirelessly charging and/or wirelessly powering in which multiple inductive charging protocols are used, with one of the protocols using uni-directional messaging and another of the protocols using bi-directional messaging. Different inductive charging protocols using different frequency ranges are also described.
US11342775B2
Techniques and mechanisms for supplementing power delivery with a battery. In an embodiment, a voltage is provided at a first node with the battery to power a load circuit. A charger is coupled between the first node and a second node, wherein a capacitor is coupled to provide charge to the charger via the second node. In response to detecting a transition of the voltage below a threshold voltage level, controller logic operates switch circuitry of the charger to provide charge from the capacitor. Such operation maintains the voltage in a range of voltage levels which are each above a minimum voltage level required by the load. At least a portion of the range is below the threshold voltage level. In some embodiments, another voltage at the second node provides a basis for generating a control signal to throttle an operation of the load circuit.
US11342774B2
The invention provides a charging circuit, comprising a power conversion circuit, and an information collection and signal control circuit. The power conversion circuit is coupled to a voltage source and configured to provide a charging current to a battery. The power conversion circuit comprises a plurality of switch elements, and at least two storage elements, the at least two storage elements are selectively coupled to the voltage source and the output port through the plurality of switch elements. The information collection and signal control circuit is configured to collect information from the voltage source and battery, and control the plurality of switch elements to have the power conversion circuit work under different charging modes.
US11342769B2
A control device comprises an acquisition unit that acquires a current to or from the battery and a voltage of a battery, a calculation unit that calculates an internal resistance of the battery based on the current and the voltage when the regenerative power generation is performed by a rotary electric machine, and a permission determination unit that determines whether to permit an automatic stop of an engine depending on whether restarting of the engine is enabled based on power running drive of the rotary electric machine. The calculation unit calculates a value of the internal resistance each time the regenerative power generation or the power running drive is performed before the engine enters an automatic stop state. The permission determination unit determines whether to permit the automatic stop based on a latest value of the internal resistance among values of the internal resistance calculated by the calculation unit.
US11342766B2
A shopping cart charging device, a charging system, an escalator and a shopping cart is disclosed. The shopping cart charging device includes a charging electrode configured to be disposed on a wheel of a shopping cart. The charging electrode is configured to allow electrical connection with a power supply electrode disposed on an escalator, so as to charge the shopping cart.
US11342764B2
A low voltage charging control and protection circuit for an electronic cigarette is provided. The circuit includes an extended charging circuit configured to charge a battery of the electronic cigarette at a first voltage. The circuit also includes a charging integrated circuit configured to charge the battery of the electronic cigarette at a second voltage. The first voltage is lower than the second voltage. The circuit further includes a microcontroller configured to control the extended charging circuit and the charging integrated circuit to alternately charge the battery of the electronic cigarette based on a high or low level of a voltage of the battery.
US11342762B2
In one embodiment, a battery backup unit (BBU) cut-off and recharge circuit includes: a first transistor, a power entry connection connected to a main power supply, where power from the power entry connection flows to application circuits for an electronic device, and the first transistor is positioned between a BBU and the power entry connection, and a microcontroller, where the microcontroller is operative to: detect a loss of power from the main power supply, turn on the first transistor to enable the BBU to discharge through the power entry connection to application circuits, detect a status of charge (SOC) for the BBU, and upon detecting that the SOC is under a predefined threshold, set the BBU cut-off and recharge circuit to a lockdown state by turning off the first transistor.
US11342756B2
An alternating current (AC) module system includes branch circuits and a main service panel to receive power from the branch circuits. A photovoltaic (PV) supervisor is located between the branch circuits and the panel. The PV supervisor aggregates the power from the branch circuits. The PV supervisor also performs a nonredundant operational function for one or more of the branch circuits. The PV supervisor includes a gateway device to permit control of the operational functions.
US11342744B2
A multi-voltage level direct current grid system and a control protection method, the direct current grid system comprising: at least two direct current buses; at least one direct current transformer, one end of which is connected to a first direct current bus while another end is connected to a second direct current bus or a lead-out wire, which may achieve direct current voltage conversion; and at least one lead-out wire current limiter, one end of the lead-out wire current limiter being connected to the second direct current bus while another end is connected to the lead-out wire; the lead-out wire current limiter comprises a first current-limiting unit, and the first current limiting unit comprises a group of direct current switches, as well as a first bypass switch and a first current-limiting resistor unit that are connected in parallel.
US11342743B2
A power distribution system and method has a controller and at least one semiconductor switch. The power distribution system additionally has an on status detector which detects the status of the semiconductor switches, and an overcurrent status circuit which checks for overcurrent conditions.
US11342742B2
A set of electrical protection devices with two levels that are connected in series, the first level including a circuit breaker that is referred to as the first or upstream circuit breaker and the second level including one or more circuit breakers referred to as second or downstream circuit breakers, which are connected in parallel with respect to one another. The trip for the upstream circuit breaker, instead of including what are referred to as instantaneous protection means, includes, firstly, a first trip chain making it possible to adjust the long-delay trip curve for inverse time and the short-delay trip curve with a no-trip time and, secondly, a second trip chain including an optical sensor that is capable of discerning light between 300 and 450 nm by eliminating visible and infrared light so as to eliminate the light that is characteristic of gas jets emitted by the one or more circuit breakers referred to as downstream circuit breakers during a switching operation, and means for simultaneously measuring the current level and the maximum threshold of light emitted at the busbars, this second trip chain being capable of causing the upstream circuit breaker to trip when the current exceeds a predetermined value and the light emitted exceeds a predetermined threshold for emitted light.
US11342735B2
The invention relates to a novel approach for the protection of electrical circuits from ground faults and parallel and series arc faults in a fully solid-state circuit configuration. Solid-state circuits and methods of use are described that provide the key functions of low-voltage DC power supply, mains voltage and current sensing, fault detection processing and high voltage electronic switching.
US11342733B2
A bracket system for securing an electrical box and other components to a ceiling structure can include a support structure and a mounting bracket. The mounting bracket can include a first support member and a second support member that define a support channel for slidably receiving the ceiling member. The mounting bracket can further include a first contact member and a second contact member that extend from the second support member and define a contact channel to slidably receive the attachment end of the support structure.
US11342723B2
A fiber optic assembly includes: a gain fiber configured to output signal light; a first taper configured to expand the signal light output by the gain fiber; and a reversing prism configured to receive counter-pumping light and output the counter-pumping light into the first taper. The first taper is further configured to direct the counter-pumping light towards the gain fiber.
US11342709B2
A cable connector, especially an IDC (Insulation Displacement Connector) connector, has an insulating body and an abutment bridge. The insulating body includes a housing and locking elements integrally manufactured with the housing. The locking elements include a lever and a bearing axle. The lever is doubly connected to the housing. A bearing axle of the locking element is designed to be inserted into a bearing recess of the abutment bridge.
US11342702B2
An electrical connection structure according to the present disclosure includes a glass plate, a power supply part formed on the glass plate, a connection terminal including a base part facing the glass plate, and a spring member disposed between the power supply part and the base part and configured to electrically connect the power supply part to the base part. The spring member includes a fixing part, a curved part, and contact parts. The curved part includes branch parts branched by a slit. The contact part is disposed at each of end parts of the branch parts. The contact parts are in contact with the base part independently of each other. The curved part is in contact with the power supply part at a part protruding toward the glass plate.
US11342690B2
A fixing structure of a splice part includes a plurality of electrical wires each having a splice part and mutually connected and a sheet material to which the splice part is fixed. The fixing structure of the splice part is considered to have a portion of the plurality of electrical wires fixed to the sheet material in addition to the splice part.
US11342686B2
A film antenna according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a dielectric layer, and a plurality of radiation patterns commonly arranged on an upper surface of the dielectric layer and forming a phased array. Directivity and gain property of a signal may be improved. The film antenna may be applied to a display device including a mobile communication device capable of transmitting and receiving in 3G or higher, for example, 5G of high-frequency band, to improve radiation properties and optical properties such as transmittance.
US11342684B2
Examples disclosed herein relate to a dual edge-fed Slotted Waveguide Antenna (SWA). The SWA has a plurality of antenna sections having a plurality of radiating slots and configured to radiate one or more transmission signals through the plurality of radiating slots, in which the plurality of antenna sections are symmetric about a termination region between the plurality of antenna sections. The SWA also has a plurality of distributed feed networks coupled to the plurality of antenna sections and configured to serve as a feed to the plurality of antenna sections, in which each of the plurality of distributed feed networks is a corporate feed structure comprising a plurality of transmission lines and further configured to propagate the one or more transmission signals through the plurality of transmission lines. Other examples disclosed herein relate to a radar system for use in an autonomous driving vehicle.
US11342683B2
Circuit board connector that provides electrical connection between conductive traces in a printed circuit board and microwave/millimeter-wave components.
US11342681B2
A secondary reflector is provided which has structural strength based on the hexagonal design and which show frequency selective features and low insertion loss. The antenna system includes a main reflector at which an incoming RF signal from a signal source reaches, a secondary reflector at which the incoming RF signal reaches by being reflected from the main reflector, a second antenna feed to which a transmitted RF signal through the secondary reflector is directed and a first antenna feed to which a reflected RF signal from the secondary reflector is directed. The surface of the secondary reflector has a dielectric support layer with hexagonal holes and a frequency selective surface located on the support layer and having circular rings.
US11342677B2
The present invention provides a balanced dipole unit and a broadband omnidirectional collinear array antenna formed by the balanced dipole unit. Balanced dipole unit circuits in the balanced dipole unit are symmetrically distributed on two sides of a circuit carrier, and a feeder and a ground wire in the balanced dipole unit are also symmetrically distributed, so that the balanced dipole unit has a completely symmetrical structure. A principle of the symmetrical structure is the same as a differential design principle and a self-balancing principle in the circuit design, thereby reducing current coupling between the balanced dipole units and eliminating the need of using an additional choke circuit when a broadband omnidirectional collinear array antenna is formed by the balanced dipole unit.
US11342672B2
An antenna device that includes a first antenna configured to perform communication using a predetermined frequency band, and a second antenna configured to perform communication using the predetermined frequency band, and the first antenna and the second antenna are arranged such that amplitude directions of radio waves which are output from the first antenna and the second antenna coincide with each other.
US11342668B2
Antenna arrays include a first plurality of radiating elements in a first column thereof, which are responsive to a first plurality of RF feed signals derived from a first radio, and a second plurality of radiating elements in a second column thereof, which are responsive to a second plurality of RF feed signals derived from a second radio. A power divider circuit is provided, which is configured to drive a first one of the radiating elements at a first end of the second column of radiating elements with a majority of the energy associated with a first one of the first plurality of RF feed signals, and drive a first one of the radiating elements at a first end of the first column of radiating elements with a non-zero minority of the energy associated with the first one of the first plurality of RF feed signals.
US11342667B2
The present disclosure relates to an antenna structure and a mobile terminal. The antenna structure includes: a first antenna and a second antenna; wherein the first antenna is configured to radiate signals of a first frequency band; the second antenna is configured to radiate signals of a second frequency band, and the second frequency band is higher than the first frequency band; and the second antenna is stacked and disposed above the first antenna.
US11342663B2
An antenna apparatus includes: a first dipole antenna pattern; a feed line electrically connected to the first dipole antenna pattern; and a first ground plane disposed rearward of the first dipole antenna pattern and spaced apart from the first dipole antenna pattern; wherein the first ground plane forms a step-type cavity, and width of a rear portion of the step-type cavity is different from a width of a front portion of the step-type cavity.
US11342662B2
There is described a device for switching communications comprising a circuit board as well as first, second, and third antennas. The first antenna is coupled to the circuit board, and the first antenna is focused on a first direction and based on a first wireless technology. The second antenna is coupled to the circuit board, and the second antenna is focused on a second direction and based on the first wireless technology, in which the second direction is different from the first direction. The third antenna is coupled to the circuit board, and the third antenna is focused on a third direction and based on a second wireless technology, in which the second wireless technology is different from the first wireless technology. The second antenna may operate as a shield for the third antenna.
US11342658B2
A repeater includes a first surface-side antenna, a second surface-side antenna, and a transceiver. Each of the first surface-side antenna and the second surface-side antenna includes a first conductor and a second conductor opposed to each other in a first axis, one or more third conductors positioned between the first conductor and the second conductor and extending in the first axis, a fourth conductor connected to the first conductor and the second conductor and extending in the first axis, and a feeding line electromagnetically connected to any one of the third conductors. The first conductor and the second conductor are capacitively connected through the third conductor. The feeding line of the first surface-side antenna is connected to the feeding line of the second surface-side antenna through the transceiver.
US11342653B2
An antenna structure with wide radiation bandwidth in a reduced physical space includes a housing, a first feed portion, and a second feed portion. The housing includes a metallic side frame, a metallic middle frame, and a metallic back board. The metallic side frame defines a first gap and a second gap. The metallic back board defines a slot. The slot, the first and second gaps divide a first radiation portion and a second radiation from the metallic side frame. The first feed portion is electrically connected to the first radiation portion. The second feed portion is electrically connected to the second radiation portion. The metallic middle frame and the metallic back board are connected to each other to form a system ground plane to provide a ground for the antenna structure.
US11342646B2
In some aspects, a flexible cable may comprise: a flexible strip with first and second parallel surfaces and first and second ends, said flexible strip being electrically insulating; a metal stripline within said flexible strip; first and second metallic grounding planes on said first and second surfaces, respectively; and a first circuit board mechanically attached to at least one of said first end of said flexible strip and said first and second metallic grounding planes at said first end, said first circuit board being mechanically stiff, said metal stripline being electrically connected to electrical circuitry on said first circuit board.
US11342636B2
A secondary battery includes: an electrode assembly including a main tab; a current collecting member adjacent the main tab; and a sub-tab electrically connecting the main tab to the current collecting member. The main tab is in and welded to the sub-tab, and the sub-tab and the main tab are bent in the same direction on the current collecting member.
US11342635B2
An electrode assembly includes a cathode electrode plate, an anode electrode plate, and a separator disposed between the cathode electrode plate and the anode electrode plate. At least one of the cathode electrode plate and the anode electrode plate is an electrode plate which includes a current collector and a first conductive connector. The current collector includes an insulating layer having opposite side surfaces, a first conductive layer, a second conductive layer, and two electrode active substance layers. The first conductive layer and the second conductive layer are arranged on opposite side surfaces, and the two electrode active substance layers are coated onto the first conductive layer and the second conductive layer. The first conductive connector electrically connects the first conductive layer and the second conductive layer. The electrode assembly is formed by coiling the cathode electrode plate, the separator, and the anode electrode plate.
US11342634B2
Embodiments are directed to contact plates configured to establish electrical bonds between battery cells in a battery module. In a first embodiment, the contact plate includes at least one primary conductive layer including a hole that is aligned with two or more terminals of two or more battery cells in a group of battery cells that are configured to be connected in parallel with each other, and a bonding connector configured to provide direct electrical bonds between the contact plate and the two or more terminals of the two or more battery cells. In a second embodiment, a contact plate includes at least one primary conductive layer and a set of bonding connectors made from at least one material that is selected to match at least one material used for the terminals of the at least one group of battery cells.
US11342632B2
A battery module includes a plurality of pouch-type secondary batteries arranged to be stacked in at least one direction, each secondary battery having an electrode lead, and a bus bar made of an electrically conductive material and bonded to at least two electrode leads of corresponding secondary batteries to electrically connect the corresponding secondary batteries to each other. Each bonded electrode lead may be configured to protrude from the corresponding secondary battery in a front and rear direction, and at least one of left and right side surfaces of each bonded electrode lead may be bonded to the bus bar.
US11342630B2
Provided herein are electrochemical cells having a solid separator, a lithium metal anode, and a positive electrode catholyte wherein the electrochemical cell includes a nitrile, dinitrile, or organic sulfur-including solvent and a lithium salt dissolved therein. Also set forth are methods of making and using these electrochemical cells.
US11342626B2
A battery pack includes stacked battery cells housed between a first case and a second case. The battery cells each include an electrode tab protruding from a first outer surface. The first case and the second case are divided so as to sandwich the battery cells from a side surface of the electrode tab. The first case includes a housing portion configured to house at least a portion of the electrode tab and an abutting portion capable of abutting the side surface of the electrode tab of each battery cell when the electrode tab is inserted in the housing portion.
US11342622B2
Disclosed is a battery pack comprising: a plurality of battery cells, each including an upper surface through which a pair of electrode terminals are protruded, a lower surface facing the upper surface, and a pair of long side surfaces and a pair of short side surfaces among surfaces connecting the upper surface and the lower surface, the long side surfaces having a relatively large area, and the short side surfaces having a relatively small area; and a cell frame that receives the battery cells, exposes the upper surfaces of the battery cells, and includes side plates for supporting the short side surfaces of the plurality of battery cells and end plates positioned at opposite ends to support the long side surfaces of the battery cells, wherein the end plates include protrusions protruding in a direction opposite to a direction in which the end plates faces long side surfaces of the battery cells at the opposite ends; and a recess located between the protrusions, depressed in a direction of long side surfaces of the battery cells, and providing an extra space for swelling.
US11342616B2
The present disclosure provides a cell and a battery. The cell includes a cell body and a packaging pouch for accommodating the cell body therein. The packaging pouch includes a seal portion, and the seal portion includes a sealed area. The sealed area includes a recess portion. The recess portion is provided in an end surface of the sealed area adjacent to the cell body and is recessed in a direction away from the cell body.
US11342612B2
A battery module improves heat dissipation by causing electronic cooling to occur at a specific voltage or higher, a battery pack including the battery module and a vehicle including the battery pack. The battery module including a plurality of battery cells and lead junction parts in which respective leads of the battery cells are joined to each other includes a thermoelectric device mounted onto the lead junction part; and a constant voltage device configured to divert a current of the battery module to the thermoelectric device when an overcharge of the battery module occurs, and wherein the thermoelectric device is driven to electronically cool the lead junction part of the battery module when the overcharge of the battery module occurs.
US11342598B2
An inductive charging apparatus includes a primary conductor with at least one node for creating a magnetic field and at least one intermediate resonant circuit including a first coil for receiving inductive power from the node, a second coil operable in use to be driven by current from the first coil to generate a magnetic field for power transfer, and a tuning capacitor coupled to the first and second coils for resonance therewith.
US11342596B2
A battery management system for a rechargeable battery is disclosed which includes a control system configured to control, a numerical battery model, including a parametrized electric model; a parametrized thermal model; an aging model configured to provide stress parameters indicative of an instantaneous consumption of an expected lifetime of the battery in dependence on an internal temperature of the battery, and one or more of momentary state of charge, current, voltage and power delivered; updated electric parameters and/or updated thermal parameters based on a chronological sequence of internal temperature as obtained from the parametrized thermal model; a control system settings update unit configured to adapt controller settings based on stress parameters.
US11342591B2
A method for manufacturing an electrode assembly is provided. The method includes a preparation step of preparing a plurality of separators and a plurality of electrodes; an electrode unit manufacturing step of manufacturing an electrode unit having a structure in which the separators and the electrodes are alternately disposed; a pre-sealing step of forming a pre-sealing part in which at least a partial region of each separator of the plurality of separators within the electrode unit are attached to each other; and a separator cutting step of cutting a region of the pre-sealing part. An apparatus for performing the method is also provided.
US11342577B2
Provided is provided a lithium metal battery which includes a composite solid electrolyte membrane interposed between a lithium metal negative electrode and a positive electrode, wherein the composite solid electrolyte membrane includes: a phase transformation layer containing a plasticizer and a lithium salt; a porous polymer sheet layer; and a solid polymer electrolyte layer, the phase transformation layer, the porous polymer sheet layer and the solid polymer electrolyte layer stacked successively, and the phase transformation layer is disposed in such a manner that it faces the lithium metal negative electrode. The lithium metal battery shows reduced resistance at the interface with an electrode and increased ion conductivity, has improved safety, and provides improved energy density of an electrode.
US11342574B2
An opening is formed in an accommodating case of a fuel cell stack. Flat cables are led out of the accommodating case through the opening. The flat cables pass through a grommet covering the opening. The grommet is positioned by a seal plate (positioning member) attached to the accommodating case.
US11342573B2
The present invention relates to a class of polymer ion imbibed membranes for electrolyte flow batteries. The membranes are a conducting aromatic polyether type copolymer bearing nitrogen heterocycles groups, especially pyridine type. While the membranes can be used in acid, basic, and neutral electrolytes, the nitrogen heterocycles in the membrane interact with acid in the electrolyte to form a proton transport network, so as to keep the proton transport performance of the membrane. The membrane has excellent mechanical stability and thermostability as well as tunable porosity.
US11342565B2
The present disclosure relates to a fuel cell catalyst and a manufacturing method thereof. The fuel cell catalyst can be used to manufacture a membrane electrode assembly having a catalyst layer of high density and high dispersion by solving the problem of aggregation of catalyst particles occurring during the formation of the catalyst layer, by using a catalyst including a polydopamine-coated support. In addition, the method for manufacturing the fuel cell catalyst does not require a solvent because the catalyst including the polydopamine-coated support, wherein from 0.1 to 1% of the hydroxy groups contained in catechol groups of the polydopamine are replaced by halide atoms, in solid phase are simply heat-treated by solid-to-solid dry synthesis which allows manufacturing of a fuel cell catalyst in a short time by eliminating the need for a washing process using a solvent and an extraction process for sampling after the synthesis.
US11342563B2
An electrode includes a soft substrate, a metal layer in direct contact with the soft substrate, and a lithium layer formed directly on the metal layer, wherein the metal layer comprises wrinkles. The wrinkles are of a substantially uniform height, and the height is in a range of 100 nm to 20 μm. The wrinkles are typically separated by a substantially uniform distance, and the distance is in a range of 100 nm to 1000 μm. The wrinkles may be one dimensional or two dimensional. Fabricating an electrode includes forming a metal layer on a soft substrate, and forming a lithium layer on the metal layer. Forming the lithium layer on the metal layer yields uniform wrinkles in the metal layer. A battery may include the electrode as described.
US11342551B2
There is provided a secondary zinc battery including: a unit cell including; a positive-electrode plate including a positive-electrode active material layer and a positive-electrode collector; a negative-electrode plate including a negative-electrode active material layer containing zinc and a negative-electrode collector; a layered double hydroxide (LDH) separator covering or wrapping around the entire negative-electrode active material layer; and an electrolytic solution. The positive-electrode collector has a positive-electrode collector tab extending from one edge of the positive-electrode active material layer, and the negative-electrode collector has a negative-electrode collector tab extending from the opposite edge of the negative-electrode active material layer and beyond a vertical edge of the LDH separator. The unit cell can thereby collects electricity from the positive-electrode collector tab and the negative-electrode collector tab. The LDH separator has at least two continuous closed edges, provided that an edge, adjacent to the negative-electrode collector tab, of the LDH separator is open.
US11342548B2
A zinc electrode comprises an anode material, the anode material comprising: an electroactive material comprising at least one of zinc or a compound comprising zinc, a stabilizer additive comprising at least one of: bismuth, copper, indium, a compound comprising bismuth, a compound comprising copper, a compound comprising indium, or any combination thereof, a conductive additive, and a binder.
US11342524B2
A light-emitting element is provided to improve light emission efficiency of a light-emitting element. The light-emitting element includes: a first electrode; a second electrode; a quantum dot layer provided between the first electrode and the second electrode, in which quantum dots are layered; and a hole-transport layer provided between the quantum dot layer and the first electrode, wherein the hole-transport layer includes a plurality of layers each containing a different material, the plurality of layers of the hole-transport layer each have an ionization potential increasing from the first electrode toward the quantum dot layer, and, among the plurality of layers of the hole-transport layer, a layer in contact with the quantum dot layer is higher in ionization potential than the quantum dot layer.
US11342520B2
A stretchable display devices includes a flexible substrate. A plurality of first substrates and a plurality of second substrates are disposed on the substrate. The plurality of first substrates are spaced from each other and the plurality of second substrates, and the plurality of second substrates are spaced from each other. A plurality of connection supports are coupled to the plurality of first and second substrates. Connection lines extend on the plurality of connection supports to form an electrical connection between the plurality of first substrates and the plurality of second substrates. A distance between one of the plurality of second substrates and a corresponding outer one of the plurality of first substrates is greater than a distance between the plurality of first substrates to reduce stress on the plurality of second substrates during bending or stretching of the display device.
US11342519B2
A display panel is provided with a deep hole area in a lower frame area of an array substrate, so that the lower frame area is bent back along the deep hole area, thereby achieving a narrow frame of the display panel. Simultaneously a stress relief hole is provided in the display area, which is used to release the stress generated when the display area is bent, so that the entire array substrate is less likely to be cracked or broken when bent, and the bending performance of the display panel is greatly improved.
US11342513B2
A compound having the formula Ir(LA)(LB), where LA has a structure of Formula I and LB is a bidentate ligand is disclosed. In the structure of Formula I, rings A, B, C, and D are each independently 5- or 6-membered carbocyclic or heterocyclic rings; each of Z1 to Z8 is C or N; LA has at least one Ir—C bond; L is CR or N; each R1 R2, R3, and R4 is independently hydrogen or one of the preferred general substituents; and any two substituents may be joined or fused together to form a ring. Organic light emitting devices, consumer products, and formulations containing the compounds are also disclosed.
US11342510B2
A premixed co-evaporation source that is a mixture of a first compound and a second compound is disclosed. The co-evaporation source is for vacuum deposition process. The first compound has a different chemical structure than the second compound. The first compound and the second compound are both organic compounds. At least one of the first compound and the second compound contains at least one less abundant stable isotope atom. At least one of the first compound and the second compound is a fluorescent or delayed fluorescent emitter. The first compound has an evaporation temperature T1 of 100 to 400° C.; the second compound has an evaporation temperature T2 of 100 to 400° C.; the absolute value of T1−T2 is less than 20° C. The first compound has a concentration C1 in said mixture and a concentration C2 in a film formed by evaporating the mixture in a high vacuum deposition tool with a chamber base pressure between 1×10−6 Torr to 1×10−9 Torr, at a 2 Å/sec deposition rate on a surface positioned at a predefined distance away from the mixture being evaporated. The absolute value of (C1−C2)/C1 is less than 5%.
US11342504B2
The present invention relates to oxocarbon-, pseudooxocarbon- and radialene compounds as well as to their use as doping agent for doping an organic semiconductive matrix material, as blocker material, as charge injection layer, as electrode material as well as organic semiconductor, as well as electronic components and organic semiconductive materials using them.
US11342502B2
A method of preparing a thin film and a method of manufacturing a display device are disclosed. The method of preparing a thin film includes the following steps: providing a substrate having a film formation region and a non-film formation region surrounding the film formation region; forming a gas precursor repellent layer in the non-film formation region; and depositing a gas precursor on the film formation region by atomic deposition to form the film. The method of preparing a film and the method of manufacturing a display device of the present invention can effectively achieve the effect of limiting the boundary of the film by forming the gas precursor repellent layer in the non-film formation region, and finally eliminate the problem of boundary epitaxial caused by atomic deposition.
US11342500B2
Switchable antiferromagnetic (AFM) memory devices are provided based on magnetically intercalated transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) of the form AxMC2, where A is a magnetic element of stoichiometry x between 0 and 1, M is a transition metal of stoichiometry 1, and C is a chalcogen of stoichiometry 2. Memory storage is achieved by fabricating these materials into crosses of two or more bars and driving DC current pulses along the bars to rotate the AFM order to a fixed angle with respect to the current pulse. Application of current pulses along different bars can switch the AFM order between multiple directions. Standard resistance measurements can detect the orientation of the AFM order as high or low resistance states. The state of the device can be set by the input current pulses, and read-out by the resistance measurement, forming a non-volatile, AFM memory storage bit.
US11342498B2
In accordance with one embodiment, a method includes forming a cleavable donor substrate, the substrate including monocrystalline Si, forming a dielectric layer above the substrate in a film thickness direction, and cleaving the substrate into an upper portion having the dielectric layer and a lower portion. In one embodiment, the cleavable substrate is formed using a sacrificial buffer layer above the substrate in the film thickness direction, and forming a strained Si layer above the sacrificial buffer layer in the film thickness direction, followed by etching away the sacrificial buffer layer to cleave the substrate. In another embodiment, the cleavable substrate is formed by implanting ions into the substrate to a peak implant position located below an upper surface of the substrate, annealing the substrate and dielectric layer in an inert environment to form blisters at the peak implant position, and cleaving the substrate using the blisters.
US11342493B2
A superconducting qubit is manufactured by stacking up atomically-thin, crystalline monolayers to form a heterostructure held together by van der Waals forces. Two sheets of superconducting material are separated by a third, thin sheet of dielectric to provide both a parallel plate shunting capacitor and a Josephson tunneling barrier. The superconducting material may be a transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD), such as niobium disilicate, and the dielectric may be hexagonal boron nitride. The qubit is etched, or material otherwise removed, to form a magnetic flux loop for tuning. The heterostructure may be protected by adhering additional layers of the dielectric or other insulator on its top and bottom. For readout, the qubit may be coupled to an external resonator, or the resonator may be integral with one of the sheets of superconducting material.
US11342487B2
A light emitting device package according to an embodiment may comprise: a first package body including a first and a second opening; a light emitting device disposed on the first package body and including a first and a second bonding part; and a first resin disposed between the first package body and the light emitting device. The light emitting device may comprise one surface on which the first and second bonding parts are disposed, the first bonding part may comprise a first side surface and a lower surface facing the first package body, and the second bonding part may comprise a second side surface opposite to the first side surface, and a lower surface facing the first package body. The first resin may comprise an upper surface disposed on the one surface of the light emitting device, a third side surface extending from the upper surface to the lower surface of the first bonding part along the first side surface of the first bonding part, and a fourth side surface extending from the upper surface to the lower surface of the second bonding part along the second side surface of the second bonding part.
US11342485B2
An optoelectronic semiconductor component and a method for producing an optoelectronic semiconductor component are disclosed. In an embodiment an optoelectronic semiconductor component includes a semiconductor layer sequence having a first region of a first conductivity type, a reflection layer, a passivation layer arranged between the semiconductor layer sequence and the reflection layer, a first barrier layer arranged between the first region of the semiconductor layer sequence and the passivation layer and a second barrier layer arranged between the passivation layer and the reflection layer, wherein the first barrier layer is configured to reduce or prevent diffusion of contaminants from the passivation layer into the semiconductor layer sequence, and wherein the second barrier layer is configured to reduce or prevent diffusion of contaminants from the passivation layer into the reflection layer.
US11342481B2
Method for cleaning and encapsulating microLED features are disclosed. Some embodiments provide for a wet clean process and a dry clean process to remove contaminants from the microLED feature. Some embodiments provide for the encapsulation of a clean microLED feature. Some embodiments provide improved crystallinity of the microLED feature and the capping layer. Some embodiments provide improved EQE of microLED devices formed from the disclosed microLED features.
US11342474B2
A method for preparing an avalanche photodiode includes preparing a mesa on a wafer, growing a sacrificial layer on an upper surface of the wafer and a side surface of the mesa, removing the sacrificial layer in an ohmic contact electrode region of the wafer, preparing an ohmic contact electrode in the ohmic contact electrode region of the wafer, removing the sacrificial layer in a non-mesa region of the wafer, growing a passivation layer on the upper surface of the wafer and the side surface of the mesa, removing the passivation layer on the upper surface of the mesa of the wafer and the passivation layer in the non-mesa region of the wafer corresponding to the ohmic contact electrode region, and removing the sacrificial layer on the upper surface of the mesa of the wafer.
US11342470B2
Disclosed herein is an inclined thin film solar cell. The inclined thin film solar cell includes a substrate including at least one first surface having a surface inclined at a first angle with respect to the bottom surface of the substrate and at least one second surface located adjacent to the first surface and having a surface which is connected to a next inclined surface and inclined at a second angle, a first electrode famed on a surface of the substrate, a light absorbing layer famed on the first electrode, and a second electrode formed on the light absorbing layer.
US11342468B2
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor layer, a charge storage layer disposed on the surface of the semiconductor layer via a first insulating film, and an electrode layer disposed on the surface of the charge storage layer via a second insulating film. The charge storage layer includes a first layer containing elemental aluminum and elemental nitrogen, a second layer containing elemental silicon and elemental nitrogen, and a third layer containing elemental oxygen.
US11342467B2
An electronic circuit is disclosed. The electronic circuit includes: a first transistor device integrated in an inner region of a first semiconductor body; a level shifter integrated in a level shifter region of the first semiconductor body, the level shifter region located in an edge region surrounding the inner region of the semiconductor body; and a drive circuit integrated in a drive circuit region in the edge region of the first semiconductor body, the drive circuit configured to receive a first input signal from a first input and drive the first transistor device based on the first input signal, the drive circuit region arranged closer to the inner region than the level shifter region.
US11342459B2
The disclosure relates to a thin film transistor structure, an array substrate, and a method for manufacturing a thin film transistor structure. The thin-film transistor structure includes a base substrate, a thin film transistor on the base substrate. Wherein the thin film transistor includes an active layer and a source/drain electrode on a side, facing towards the base substrate, of the active layer. Wherein the source/drain electrode has a protrusion protruding from an edge portion of the active layer in a direction parallel to a surface of the base substrate.
US11342441B2
A method for making a heteroepitaxial layer. The method comprises providing a semiconductor substrate. A seed area delineated with a selective growth mask is formed on the semiconductor substrate. The seed area comprises a first material and has a linear surface dimension of less than 100 nm. A heteroepitaxial layer is grown on the seed area, the heteroepitaxial layer comprising a second material that is different from the first material. Devices made by the method are also disclosed.
US11342436B2
A semiconductor device includes a substrate including a recess, a first gate insulation layer on a lower sidewall and a bottom of the recess, the first gate insulation layer including an insulation material having hysteresis characteristics, a first gate electrode on the first gate insulation layer inside the recess, a second gate electrode contacting the first gate electrode in the recess, the second gate electrode including a material different from a material of the first gate electrode, and impurity regions on the substrate and adjacent to sidewalls of the recess, bottoms of the impurity regions being higher than a bottom of the second gate electrode relative to a bottom of the substrate.
US11342434B2
A semiconductor device includes a gate structure disposed over a channel region and a source/drain region. The gate structure includes a gate dielectric layer over the channel region, one or more work function adjustment material layers over the gate dielectric layer, and a metal gate electrode layer over the one or more work function adjustment material layers. The one or more work function adjustment layers includes an aluminum containing layer, and a diffusion barrier layer is disposed at at least one of a bottom portion and a top portion of the aluminum containing layer. The diffusion barrier layer is one or more of a Ti-rich layer, a Ti-doped layer, a Ta-rich layer, a Ta-doped layer and a Si-doped layer.
US11342432B2
Gate-all-around integrated circuit structures having an insulator fin on an insulator substrate, and methods of fabricating gate-all-around integrated circuit structures having an insulator fin on an insulator substrate, are described. For example, an integrated circuit structure includes an insulator fin on an insulator substrate. A vertical arrangement of horizontal semiconductor nanowires is over the insulator fin. A gate stack surrounds a channel region of the vertical arrangement of horizontal semiconductor nanowires, and the gate stack is overlying the insulator fin. A pair of epitaxial source or drain structures is at first and second ends of the vertical arrangement of horizontal semiconductor nanowires and at first and second ends of the insulator fin.
US11342431B2
A thin film transistor and a manufacturing method thereof, an array substrate and a display device are provided. The thin film transistor is formed on a substrate and includes: an active layer on the substrate, the active layer including a source region, a drain region, and a channel region between the source region and the drain region; a first gate electrode on a side of the active layer away from the substrate; and a second gate electrode on a side of the first gate electrode away from the substrate, wherein a thickness of the first gate electrode is smaller than a thickness of the second gate electrode.
US11342430B2
A semiconductor device has a split-gate type MONOS structure using a FinFET, and it includes a source and a drain each formed of an n-type impurity diffusion layer, a first channel forming layer which is formed under a control gate and is formed of a semiconductor layer doped with a p-type impurity, and a second channel forming layer which is formed under a memory gate and is formed of a semiconductor layer doped with an n-type impurity. Further, the semiconductor device includes a p-type semiconductor layer which is formed under the second channel forming layer and has an impurity concentration higher than an impurity concentration of a semiconductor substrate.
US11342423B2
A grid is manufactured with a combination of ion implant and epitaxy growth. The grid structure is made in a SiC semiconductor material with the steps of a) providing a substrate comprising a doped semiconductor SiC material, said substrate comprising a first layer (n1), b) by epitaxial growth adding at least one doped semiconductor SiC material to form separated second regions (p2) on the first layer (n1), if necessary with aid of removing parts of the added semiconductor material to form separated second regions (p2) on the first layer (n1), and c) by ion implantation at least once at a stage selected from the group consisting of directly after step a), and directly after step b); implanting ions in the first layer (n1) to form first regions (p1). It is possible to manufacture a grid with rounded corners as well as an upper part with a high doping level. It is possible to manufacture a component with efficient voltage blocking, high current conduction, low total resistance, high surge current capability, and fast switching.
US11342420B2
Current conducting devices and methods for their formation are disclosed. Described are vertical current devices that include a substrate, an n-type material layer, a plurality of p-type gates, and a source. The n-type material layer disposed on the substrate and includes a current channel. A plurality of p-type gates are disposed on opposite sides of the current channel. A source is disposed on a distal side of the current channel with respect to the substrate. The n-type material layer comprises beta-gallium oxide.
US11342394B2
A display panel and an organic light emitting display device with enhanced light extraction efficiency is described. The display panel and the display device include an insulating film including at least one concave portion, a first electrode disposed to cover the concave portion, a bank including a first part on the first electrode and overlapping a part of the flat portion of the concave portion, a second part extending from the first part and overlapping an inclined portion of the concave portion, and a third part extending from the second part and disposed on the side portion, an organic layer overlapping the concave portion, and a second electrode on the organic layer and the bank. A width of the first part of the bank is wider than a width of the second part of the bank. Thus, it is possible to provide a display device with enhanced light extraction efficiency.
US11342387B2
Provided is an organic light-emitting display apparatus. The organic light-emitting display apparatus includes a first substrate; an organic light-emitting device disposed on the first substrate; and a thin film comprising at least one perovskite compound represented by Formula 1 disposed on the organic light-emitting device. T the thin film is positioned in a traveling direction of light emitted from the organic light-emitting device: [A][B1nB2(1-n)][X]3
US11342381B2
Provided is a resistive random-access memory device, including: multiple pillars, extending in a vertical direction with respect to a main surface of a substrate; multiple bit lines, extending in a horizontal direction with respect to the main surface of the substrate; and a memory cell, formed at an intersection of the pillars and the bit lines. The memory cell includes a gate insulating film formed on an outer periphery of the pillars, a semiconductor film formed on an outer periphery of the gate insulating film and providing a channel region, and a variable resistance element formed on a part of an outer periphery of the semiconductor film. An electrode region of an outer periphery of the variable resistance element is connected to one of a pair of adjacent bit lines, and the semiconductor film is connected to the other of the pair of adjacent bit lines.
US11342380B2
A memory device includes a memory cell, a selector layer and a first work function metal layer. The selector layer is disposed between a first electrode and a second electrode over the memory cell. The first work function metal layer is disposed between the selector layer and the first electrode.
US11342378B2
The present disclosure provides a semiconductor structure, including a magnetic tunneling junction (MTJ), a top electrode over a top surface of the MTJ, a first dielectric layer surrounding the top electrode, wherein a bottom surface of the first dielectric contacts with a top surface of the MTJ, and a second dielectric layer surrounding the first dielectric layer and the MTJ.
US11342373B2
A method for manufacturing an image sensing device includes forming an interconnection layer over a front surface of a semiconductor substrate. A trench is formed to extend from a back surface of the semiconductor substrate. An etch stop layer is formed along the trench. A buffer layer is formed over the etch stop layer. An etch process is performed for etching the buffer layer. The buffer layer and the etch stop layer include different materials.
US11342356B2
A memory cell comprises an elevationally extending programmable field effect transistor comprising a gate insulator that is reversibly programmable into two programmable states characterized by two different Vt's of the programmable transistor. The programmable transistor comprises a top source/drain region and a bottom source/drain region. A bottom select device is electrically coupled in series with and elevationally inward of the bottom source/drain region of the programmable transistor. A top select device is electrically coupled in series with and is elevationally outward of the top source/drain region of the programmable transistor. A bottom select line is electrically coupled in series with and is elevationally inward of the bottom select device. A top select line is electrically coupled in series with and is elevationally outward of the top select device. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US11342352B2
A method for forming a gate structure of a 3D memory device is provided. The method comprises forming an array wafer including a periphery region and a staircase and array region. A process of forming the array wafer comprises forming an array well structure in a first substrate in the periphery region, forming an array device on the first substrate in the staircase and array region, and forming at least one vertical through contact in the periphery region and in contact with the array well structure. The method further comprises forming a CMOS wafer, and bonding the array wafer and the CMOS wafer. The method further comprises forming at least one through substrate contact penetrating the first substrate and the array well structure, and in contact with the at least one vertical through contact.
US11342345B2
An electronic device including a semiconductor memory is provided. The semiconductor memory includes a plurality of first lines extending in a first direction; a plurality of second lines disposed over the first lines, the second lines extending in a second direction crossing the first direction; a plurality of memory cells disposed between the first lines and the second lines at intersection regions of the first lines and the second lines; first liner layer patterns positioned on both sidewalls of each memory cell in the second direction; a first insulating layer pattern positioned between adjacent first liner layer patterns in the second direction; second liner layer patterns positioned on both sidewalls of each memory cell in the first direction; a second insulating layer pattern positioned between adjacent second liner layer patterns in the first direction; and a third insulating layer positioned between adjacent second liner layer patterns in the second direction.
US11342332B2
A memory structure including a substrate, a bit line structure, a contact structure, and a capacitor structure is provided. The bit line structure is located on the substrate. The contact structure is located on the substrate on one side of the bit line structure. The capacitor structure is located on the contact structure. The capacitor structure includes a first electrode, a second electrode, and an insulating layer. The first electrode includes a first bottom surface and a second bottom surface. The first bottom surface is lower than the second bottom surface. The first bottom surface is only located on a part of the contact structure. The second electrode is located on the first electrode. The insulating layer is located between the first electrode and the second electrode.
US11342328B2
Disclosed is a semiconductor device comprising a substrate, a plurality of active patterns that protrude from the substrate, a device isolation layer between the active patterns, and a passivation layer that covers a top surface of the device isolation layer and exposes upper portions of the active patterns. The device isolation layer includes a plurality of first isolation parts adjacent to facing sidewalls of the active patterns, and a second isolation part between the first isolation parts. A top surface of the second isolation part is located at a lower level than that of top surfaces of the first isolation parts.
US11342326B2
Methods of performing backside etching processes on source/drain regions and gate structures of semiconductor devices and semiconductor devices formed by the same are disclosed. In an embodiment, a semiconductor device includes a first transistor structure; a first interconnect structure on a front-side of the first transistor structure; and a second interconnect structure on a backside of the first transistor structure, the second interconnect structure including a first dielectric layer on the backside of the first transistor structure; a contact extending through the first dielectric layer to a source/drain region of the first transistor structure; and first spacers along sidewalls of the contact between the contact and the first dielectric layer, sidewalls of the first spacers facing the first dielectric layer being aligned with sidewalls of the source/drain region of the first transistor structure.
US11342317B2
A semiconductor apparatus comprises first and second semiconductor component having first and second metal pads, respectively. The first and second semiconductor components are stacked on each other to be bonded to each other at a bonding face. In a plane including the bonding face, first and second ranges each having a circular contour with a diameter of 10 μm or more are definable. None of bonded portions is provided inside of each of the first and second ranges. At least a part of the bonded portions is located between the first and second ranges. The bonded portions are disposed between the first and second ranges such that any straight line passing through the first and second ranges and parallel to a direction connecting centers of the first and second ranges intersects at least one bonded portion of the bonded portions.
US11342312B2
A light emitting device includes a first light emitting element, a second light emitting element, a first phosphor sheet containing a first phosphor and a third phosphor, and covering a top face of the first light emitting element, and a second phosphor sheet containing a second phosphor and a fourth phosphor, and covering a top face of the second light emitting element, wherein a peak wavelength of light which is wavelength-converted by the first phosphor or the third phosphor is equal to or less than a peak wavelength of light which is wavelength-converted by the second phosphor or the fourth phosphor.
US11342304B2
A method for manufacturing a semiconductor package includes: (a) providing a substrate structure, wherein the substrate structure includes a chip attach area, a bottom area opposite to the chip attach area, a lower side rail surrounding the bottom area, a first lower structure and a second lower structure, wherein the first lower structure is disposed in a first lower region of the lower side rail, and a second lower occupancy ratio is greater than a first lower occupancy ratio; (b) attaching at least one semiconductor chip to the chip attach area; and (c) forming an encapsulant to cover the at least one semiconductor chip.
US11342303B2
This member connection method includes: a cutting step of forming cutting lines C in an adhesive layer at predetermined intervals at least in a width direction of an adhesive tape and making segments of the adhesive layer divided by the cutting lines C continuous at least in a lengthwise direction of the adhesive tape; a transfer step of disposing the segments to face a connection surface of one member to be connected, pressing a heating and pressing tool having an arbitrary pattern shape against the adhesive tape from a separator side and selectively transferring the segments to the one member to be connected; and a connection step for connecting another member to be connected to the one member to be connected via the segments transferred to the one member to be connected.
US11342301B2
A bonding tool for bonding a semiconductor element to a substrate on a bonding machine is provided. The bonding tool includes a body portion including a contact region for contacting the semiconductor element during a bonding process on the bonding machine. The bonding tool also includes a standoff extending from the body portion, and configured to contact the substrate during at least a portion of the bonding process.
US11342300B2
The purpose of the invention is to counter measure a disconnection between the driver IC and the terminal when the terminal area of the electronic device is curved. One of the structures is as follows. An electronic device comprising: a driver IC installed in a terminal area, the terminal area being curved, wherein the driver IC has a circuit and plural bumps, the driver IC has a tapered portion formed on an opposite surface from a surface that the plural bumps are formed, the tapered portion overlaps with an outer most bump of the plural bumps.
US11342296B2
A semiconductor structure includes an insulating encapsulant, a semiconductor element, a redistribution layer and an insulating layer. The semiconductor element is embedded in the insulating encapsulant. The redistribution layer is disposed over the insulating encapsulant and electrically connected to the semiconductor element. The insulating layer is disposed in between the insulating encapsulant and the redistribution layer, wherein an uneven interface exists between the insulating layer and the insulating encapsulant, and a planar interface exists between the insulating layer and the redistribution layer.
US11342287B2
A semiconductor device includes a substrate, a semiconductor chip, and a sealing member. The semiconductor chip is disposed on the substrate. The semiconductor chip includes a first principal surface on a side of the substrate and a second principal surface on a side opposite to the first principal surface. The sealing member seals the semiconductor chip. The sealing member includes a first sealing member and a second sealing member. The second sealing member faces at least a part of the second principal surface. A permittivity of the second sealing member is lower than a permittivity of the first sealing member.
US11342283B2
Provided a package substrate including an insulation substrate, a conductive layer provided in the insulation substrate, upper pads provided on an upper surface of the insulation substrate and electrically connected to the conductive layer, lower pads provided on a lower surface of the insulation substrate and electrically connected to the conductive layer, and at least one trench provided at a portion of the insulation substrate adjacent to at least one of the upper pads and configured to block stress, which is generated by an expansion of the insulation substrate, from spreading to the at least one of the upper pads.
US11342273B2
Disclosed are a package structure of an integrated passive device and a manufacturing method thereof and a substrate. The method includes: providing an organic frame having a chip embedding cavity and a metal pillar, laminating at least one layer of first dielectric on an upper surface of the organic frame, and processing the first dielectric by photolithography to form an opening correspondingly above the chip embedding cavity; mounting an electronic component in the chip embedding cavity through the opening, the electronic component including an upper and lower electrodes; laminating and curing a second dielectric into the chip embedding cavity and on an upper surface of the first dielectric, thinning the first and second dielectrics to expose the upper and lower electrodes, upper and lower surfaces of the metal pillar; performing metal electroplating to form a circuit layer communicated with the upper and lower electrodes and the metal pillar.
US11342261B2
Integrated circuit comprising an interconnection system comprising at least one multilevel layer comprising first parallel electrically conductive lines, the multilevel layer comprising at least three levels forming a centerline level, an upper extension line level, and a lower extension line level the levels providing multilevel routing tracks in which the lines extend.
US11342256B2
A method for producing an electrical component is disclosed using a molybdenum adhesion layer, connecting a polyimide substrate to a copper seed layer and copper plated attachment.
US11342255B2
A semiconductor package device includes an interposer die having a semiconductor substrate and a plurality of through-silicon-vias (TSVs) extending through the semiconductor substrate. The semiconductor package device also includes a first semiconductor die spaced apart from the interposer die, a first redistribution layer disposed on a first side of the interposer die and electrically coupling the interposer die with the first semiconductor die, and a second redistribution layer on a second side of the interposer die opposite the first side. Each of the plurality of TSVs includes a sidewall tapering from a first end near the second redistribution layer to a second end near the first redistribution layer.
US11342251B2
A microelectronic device includes a first conductor and a second conductor, separated by a lateral spacing. The first conductor has a low field contour facing the second conductor. The low field contour has offsets from a tangent line to the first conductor on the low field contour. Each of the offsets increases a separation of the high voltage conductor from the low voltage conductor. A first offset, located from an end of the high voltage conductor, at a first lateral distance of 25 percent of the minimum separation, is 19 percent to 28 percent of the minimum separation. A second offset, located at a second lateral distance of 50 percent of the minimum separation, is 9 percent to 14 percent of the minimum separation. A third offset, located at a third lateral distance of 75 percent of the minimum separation, is 4 percent to 6 percent of the minimum separation.
US11342241B2
A power module, including: a first conductor, disposed at a first reference plane; a second conductor, disposed at a second reference plane, wherein projections of the first and second conductors on the first reference plane have a first overlap area; a third conductor, disposed at a third reference plane; a plurality of first switches, first ends of which are coupled to the first conductor; and a plurality of second switches, first ends of which are coupled to second ends of the first switches through the third conductor, and second ends of the second switches are coupled to the second conductor, wherein projections of minimum envelope areas of the first and second switches on the first reference plane have a second overlap area, and the first and second overlap areas have an overlap region. Heat sources of the power module are evenly distributed and its parasitic inductance is low.
US11342239B2
The invention provides a semiconductor package, which may include a connection structure including one or more redistribution layers. A semiconductor chip is disposed on the connection structure and has an active surface on which a connection pad electrically connected to the redistribution layer is disposed and an inactive surface opposite to the active surface. An encapsulant is disposed on the connection structure and covers at least a portion of the inactive surface of the semiconductor chip. A conductor pattern layer is embedded in the encapsulant such that one exposed surface of the conductor pattern layer is exposed from the encapsulant. A metal layer is disposed on the encapsulant and covers the one exposed surface of the conductor pattern layer.
US11342238B2
A multi-chip packaged device may include a first integrated circuit die with a first integrated circuit, such that the first integrated circuit may include a first plurality of ports disposed on a first side and a second plurality of ports disposed on a second side of the first integrated circuit die. The multi-chip packaged device may also include a second integrated circuit die, such that the second integrated circuit may include a third plurality of ports disposed on a third side of the second integrated circuit die. The first integrated circuit may communicate with the first side of the second integrated circuit when placed adjacent to the first side and communicate with the second side of the first integrated circuit die when placed adjacent to the second side.
US11342237B2
Implementations of a semiconductor package may include: a substrate, a case coupled to the substrate and a plurality of press-fit pins. The press-fit pins are molded into and fixedly coupled with the case. The pins are also electrically and mechanically coupled to the substrate.
US11342234B2
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor die, a semiconductor integrated circuit, an outer crack detection structure, a plurality of inner crack detection structures and a plurality of path selection circuits. The semiconductor die includes a central region and an edge region surrounding the central region. The semiconductor integrated circuit is in a plurality of sub regions of the central region. The outer crack detection structure is in the edge region. The plurality of inner crack detection structures are respectively in the plurality of sub regions, respectively. The path selection circuits are configured to control an electrical connection between the outer crack detection structure and the plurality of inner crack detection structures. A crack in the central region in addition to a crack in the edge region may be detected efficiently through selective electrical connection of the outer crack detection structure and the inner crack detection structures.
US11342230B2
In accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, a method of forming a densified fill layer is provided. The method includes forming a pair of adjacent vertical fins on a substrate, forming an inner liner on the sidewalls of the adjacent vertical fins, and forming a sacrificial layer on the inner liner. The method further includes forming a fill layer between the pair of adjacent vertical fins, wherein the fill layer is in contact with at least a portion of the sacrificial layer, removing at least a portion of the sacrificial layer in contact with the fill layer to form sidewall channels adjacent to the fill layer, and subjecting the fill layer to a densification process to form the densified fill layer.
US11342226B2
Methods of dicing semiconductor wafers, each wafer having a plurality of integrated circuits, are described. In an example, a method of dicing a semiconductor wafer having a plurality of integrated circuits involves forming a mask above the semiconductor wafer, the mask composed of a layer covering and protecting the integrated circuits. The mask is then patterned with an actively-focused laser beam laser scribing process to provide a patterned mask with gaps, exposing regions of the semiconductor wafer between the integrated circuits. The semiconductor wafer is then plasma etched through the gaps in the patterned mask to singulate the integrated circuits.
US11342221B2
Aspects of the present disclosure are related to a semiconductor device that includes a crystalline substrate having a first surface and a second surface vertically opposite each other and an insulating layer disposed on the first surface of the crystalline substrate. The device may also include an etch stop layer interposed between and contacting the crystalline substrate and the insulating layer and a conductive through via structure penetrating the crystalline substrate and the insulating layer. The device may also include an insulating separation layer disposed horizontally adjacent to the conductive through via structure, and having an inner wall and an outer wall. The insulating separation layer may include a first portion disposed between the conductive through via structure and the crystalline substrate, and a second portion disposed between the conductive through via structure and the etch stop layer.
US11342210B2
Embodiments disclose herein include a sensor wafer. In an embodiment, the sensor wafer comprises a substrate, wherein the substrate comprises a first surface, a second surface opposite the first surface, and an edge surface between the first surface and the second surface. In an embodiment, the sensor wafer further comprises a plurality of sensor regions formed along the first surface, wherein the sensor regions comprise self-referencing capacitive sensors. In an embodiment, the sensor wafer further comprises a vibration sensor embedded within the substrate.
US11342200B2
Provided is an exhaust system of a wafer treatment device, and the main purpose thereof is to prevent secondary contamination of a wafer by not allowing foreign substances such as process gases and fumes and the like floating in the wafer treatment device to make contact with the wafer in a side storage. The wafer treatment device comprises: a cleaning device for removing foreign substances remaining on a wafer; and an exhaust device comprising first and second main bodies at the lower side of a main body of the wafer treatment device. By not allowing foreign substances such as process gases and fumes and the like floating in the wafer treatment device to make contact with a wafer in a side storage, secondary contamination of the wafer is prevented.
US11342196B2
A semiconductor device and method for forming the semiconductor device is provided. The semiconductor device includes an integrated circuit having through vias adjacent to the integrated circuit die, wherein a molding compound is interposed between the integrated circuit die and the through vias. The through vias have a projection extending through a patterned layer, and the through vias may be offset from a surface of the patterned layer. The recess may be formed by selectively removing a seed layer used to form the through vias.
US11342193B2
In a method of forming a groove pattern extending in a first axis in an underlying layer over a semiconductor substrate, a first opening is formed in the underlying layer, and the first opening is extended in the first axis by directional etching to form the groove pattern.
US11342191B2
There is provided a structure manufacturing method, including: preparing an etching target with at least one surface comprising group III nitride; then in a state where the etching target is immersed in an etching solution containing peroxodisulfate ions; irradiating the surface of the etching target with light through the etching solution, and generating sulfate ion radicals from the peroxodisulfate ions and generating holes in the group III nitride, thereby etching the group III nitride, wherein in the etching of the group III nitride, the etching solution remains acidic during a period for etching the group III nitride by making the etching solution acidic at a start of etching the group III nitride, and the etching is performed, with a resist mask formed on the surface.
US11342182B2
According to an embodiment, the substrate treatment device includes a dilutor configured to dilute a first liquid containing a metal ion and exhibiting acidity. The device further includes a pH changer configured to change a pH of the first liquid before or after being diluted by the dilutor. The device further includes a substrate conditioner configured to treat the substrate using the first liquid, which is diluted by the dilutor and with the pH changed by the pH changer.
US11342180B2
A process for epitaxying GaSe on a [111]-oriented silicon substrate, includes a step of selecting a [111]-oriented silicon substrate resulting from cutting a silicon bar in a miscut direction which is one of the three [11-2] crystallographic directions, the miscut angle (α) being smaller than or equal to 0.1°, the obtained surface of the substrate forming a vicinal surface exhibiting a plurality of terraces and at least one step between two terraces; a passivation step consisting of depositing an atomic bilayer of gallium and of selenium on the vicinal surface of the silicon substrate so as to form a passivated vicinal surface made of silicon-gallium-selenium (Si—Ga—Se), said passivated vicinal surface exhibiting a plurality of passivated terraces and at least one passivated step between two passivated terraces; a step of forming a layer of two-dimensional GaSe by epitaxy on the passivated surface, said formation step comprising a step of nucleation from each passivated step and a step of lateral growth on the passivated terraces from the nuclei obtained in the nucleation step. A structure obtained by means of the epitaxying process is also provided.
US11342167B2
A time period for cleaning performed to remove a deposit formed within a chamber main body can be reduced. A plasma processing method including the cleaning of an inside of the chamber main body of a plasma processing apparatus is provided. The method includes etching including a main etching of etching an etching target film of a processing target object placed on a stage in a low temperature by generating plasma of a processing gas containing a fluorocarbon gas and/or a hydrofluorocarbon gas; carrying-out the processing target object from a chamber; and cleaning the inside of the chamber main body by generating plasma of a cleaning gas in a state that a temperature of an electrostatic chuck is set to be high.
US11342163B2
A method of operating a substrate support includes arranging a substrate on an inner portion of the substrate support and calculating a desired pocket depth of the substrate support using data indicative of a relationship between the desired pocket depth and at least one process parameter. The desired pocket depth corresponds to a desired distance between an upper surface of an edge ring surrounding the inner portion and an upper surface of the substrate. The method further includes selectively controlling, based on the desired pocket depth as calculated, an actuator to raise and lower at least one of the edge ring and the inner portion to adjust the distance between the upper surface of the edge ring and the upper surface of the substrate.
US11342162B2
A hot plate of a resist removing apparatus is disposed in a processing space and heated to a predetermined temperature. A substrate has on an upper surface thereof, a pattern of a resist having a surface on which an altered layer is formed. A moving mechanism moves a plurality of lift pins relative to a hot plate. An upper surface of the substrate is supplied with ozone gas. A control part disposes the substrate at a first processing position with a clearance from the hot plate and removes the altered layer by using the ozone gas, and subsequently controls the moving mechanism to dispose the substrate at a second processing position with a clearance smaller than that between the first processing position and the hot plate and removes the resist by using the ozone gas. It is thereby possible to efficiently remove the resist from the substrate while preventing popping.
US11342158B2
There is provided a charged particle beam system capable of determining the type of each cartridge precisely. An electron microscope that embodies the charged particle beam system includes a discriminator for determining the type of each cartridge based on the range or distance measured by a laser range finder. Plural cartridges are received in a magazine. The laser range finder measures the range to a selected one of the plural cartridges which is placed in a measurement position. A first cartridge of a first type included in the plural cartridges has a first measurement surface at a first distance to the laser range finder when placed in the measurement position. A second cartridge of a second type has a second measurement surface at a second range to the laser range finder when placed in the measurement position.
US11342157B2
A charged particle beam inspection apparatus includes a movable stage, configured to hold a substrate placed on the movable stage; a stage control circuit, configured to continuously move the movable stage in a direction opposite to a first direction; a deflection control circuit, configured to control a deflector to collectively deflect multiple beams to an N×N′ small region group including N small regions, the collective deflection includes performing tracking deflection of the multiple beams and collectively deflecting the multiple beams to a new group of N×N′ small regions and sequentially perform a first and a second step, a detector configured to detect secondary electrons emitted from the substrate due to irradiation of the substrate with the multiple beams, and combinations of a value of N and a value of M are set such that the greatest common divisor of the value of N and the value of M is 1.
US11342154B2
The present inventive concept relates to an X-ray source comprising: a liquid target source configured to provide a liquid target moving along a flow axis; an electron source configured to provide an electron beam; and a liquid target shaper configured to shape the liquid target to comprise a non-circular cross section with respect to the flow axis, wherein the non-circular cross section has a first width along a first axis and a second width along a second axis, wherein the first width is shorter than the second width, and wherein the liquid target comprises an impact portion being intersected by the first axis; wherein the x-ray source is configured to direct the electron beam towards the impact portion such that the electron beam interacts with the liquid target within the impact portion to generate X-ray radiation.
US11342150B2
A high-insulation small-sized hinged electromagnetic relay, includes a bobbin, coil terminals, an iron core and a fixed contact block. The bobbin has a cylindrical portion for winding a coil, and the iron core includes a mandrel and a magnetic pole portion arranged on the upper end of the mandrel; the mandrel of the iron core is fitted into the central hole of the cylindrical portion of the bobbin, the coil terminals is assembled on the lower flange of the bobbin and positioned on one side in the width direction of the bobbin, and the fixed contact block is interposed in the upper flange and the lower flange of the bobbin and positioned on the other side in the width direction of the bobbin; the cylindrical portion is offset.
US11342141B2
A system including ruggedized optic fiber cable assembly for use with an arc detection relay to protect electrical components from faults resulting in an arc flash. The cable assembly includes a pair of ruggedized ST connectors located at opposite ends of a ruggedized optical fiber cable. The cable includes an optical fiber core surrounded by a transparent gel layer and a transparent jacket surrounding the gel layer. Each ST connector includes a boot formed of a resilient material to provide shock absorption for the portion of the optical fiber cable extending through it. An accessory electronic cable is also provided, as are couplers, adapters for mounting the couplers onto walls, and sleeves with air pockets to enhance the ruggedness of the cable at points of stress, e.g., bends.
US11342140B2
A three-position disconnector switch includes: an earthing contact; a power out contact; a power in contact; a first piston; and a second piston. In a connected switch position the first piston makes an electrical connection with the power out contact and the second piston makes an electrical connection with the power out contact and the power in contact. In a disconnected switch position the first piston makes an electrical connection with the power out contact and the second piston makes an electrical connection with the power out contact. In an earthed switch position the first piston makes an electrical connection with the earthing contact and with the power out contact and the second piston makes an electrical connection with the power out contact.
US11342138B1
The invention provides a switch device including a shell, an operating member, a spring, a movable conductor, a first pin, a second pin, two resistors, and two connecting conductors. The operating member is partially exposed out of the shell, and the movable conductor is displaced when the operating member is operated. One side of the shell is provided with the first pin and the spring, another side is provided with the second pin. The resistors are connected with the second pin and have different resistance values. The connecting conductors are arranged between the two pins. The first pin contacts with the movable conductor. The connecting conductors without disposal of any crossover part therebetween and respectively connected with the resistors. The connecting conductors are arranged at intervals along a displacement path of the movable conductor which contacted one connecting conductor before and after displacement and forming two conductive paths.
US11342137B2
A system and method for connecting supply power to motor control components includes use of a motor control center subunit with moveable supply power contacts. After a motor control center subunit is secured into a motor control center compartment, the supply power contacts may be advanced to engage supply power buses. For disconnection, the supply power contacts may be retracted and isolated from the buses before physical removal of the subunit.
US11342131B2
Disclosed is a semiconductor-liquid junction based photoelectrochemical (PEC) cell for the unassisted solar splitting of water into hydrogen and oxygen gas, the solar-driven reduction of CO2 to higher-order hydrocarbons, and the solar-driven synthesis of NH3. The disclosed system can employ a photocathode based upon wurtzite hexagonal semiconductors that can be tailored with proper band alignment for the redox potentials for water, CO2 reduction, and NH3 production, and with bandgap energy for maximum solar absorption. The design maximizes the carrier collection efficiency by leveraging spontaneous and piezoelectric polarization in these materials systems to generate hot electrons within the photocathode. These electrons have sufficient excess energy, preserved at a designed energy capture region, to overcome the kinetic overpotential (surface chemistry limitation) required for the reactions to occur at a high rate.
US11342130B2
A continuous inline method for production of photovoltaic devices at high speed includes: providing a substrate; depositing a first carrier transport solution layer with a first carrier transport deposition device to form a first carrier transport layer on the substrate; depositing a Perovskite solution comprising solvent and perovskite precursor materials with a Perovskite solution deposition device on the first carrier transport layer; drying the deposited Perovskite solution to form a Perovskite absorber layer; and depositing a second carrier transport solution with a second carrier transport deposition device to form a second carrier transport layer on the Perovskite absorber layer, wherein the deposited Perovskite solution is dried at least partially with a fast drying device which causes a conversion reaction and the Perovskite solution to change in optical density by at least a factor of 2 in less than 0.5 seconds after the fast drying device first acts on the Perovskite solution.
US11342122B2
An electronic component assembly includes an electronic component and a mounting board. The electronic component includes a stacked body, a pair of external electrodes provided on both end surfaces of the stacked body, and an insulating layer entirely covering a first main surface of the stacked body. The mounting board includes a board main body having a mounting surface, and land electrodes on the mounting surface. The first main surface of the electronic component faces the mounting surface of the mounting board, and the pair of external electrodes are mounted on the land electrodes with solder. Both end portions of the insulating layer in the length direction of the electronic component are located on the outer side relative to both end surfaces of the stacked body at least in a cross section taken at the center in the width direction.
US11342118B2
A multilayer ceramic capacitor includes a laminated body including a plurality of dielectric layers and a plurality of internal electrodes that are alternately laminated, and a first external electrode and a second external electrode provided on the surface of the laminated body. The first external electrode is provided on a first end surface of the laminated body, and extends from the first end surface of the laminated body to form a portion of the first side surface and a portion of the second side surface. The plurality of internal electrodes includes a first internal electrode and a second internal electrode. The first internal electrode is exposed at the first side surface and the second side surface of the laminated body and electrically connected to the first external electrode, and is not exposed at the first end surface of the laminated body.
US11342115B2
A planar magnetic structure includes a closed loop structure having a plurality of core segments divided into at least two sets. A coil is formed about one or more core segments. A first antiferromagnetic layer is formed on a first set of core segments, and a second antiferromagnetic layer is formed on a second set of core segments. The first and second antiferromagnetic layers include different blocking temperatures and have an easy axis pinning a magnetic moment in two different directions, wherein when current flows through the coil, the magnetic moments rotate to form a closed magnetic loop in the closed loop structure.
US11342110B2
An inductor includes a body including an internal coil having first and second end portions and an encapsulant encapsulating the internal coil and containing magnetic particles. First and second external electrodes are on external surfaces of the body and electrically connected to the internal coil. A first metal expansion portion encloses the first end portion while coming into direct contact with the first end portion of the internal coil, and may be between the body and the first external electrode. A second metal expansion portion encloses the second end portion while coming into direct contact with the second end portion of the internal coil, and may be between the body and the second external electrode.
US11342105B2
A coil includes a tubular winding portion formed by winding a wire, wherein the winding portion includes two coil recessed portions that are provided such that recessed directions toward an inner space surrounded by an inner peripheral face of the winding portion are opposite to each other.
US11342099B2
Disclosed is a surface modification technique for permanent magnetic materials. First, a sintered Nd—Fe—B magnet is immersed in a chlorine-containing solution to corrode its surface after the sintered Nd—Fe—B magnet is ground, polished and cleaned, so that atomic vacancies or gaps are produced at the grain boundaries in the surface layer of the corroded sintered Nd—Fe—B magnet; then, compound nanopowders coated on the surface of the sintered Nd—Fe—B magnet are implanted into the grain boundaries by laser shock peening to obtain a gradient nanostructure layer along the depth direction; at the same time, the surface nanocrystallization of the sintered Nd—Fe—B magnet and a residual compressive stress layer are induced by laser shock peening which remarkably improves the corrosion resistance of the sintered Nd—Fe—B magnet.
US11342092B2
An electrolyte for electrochemical decontamination and a preparation method and application thereof. The electrolyte is an aqueous solution including the following solutes: phosphoric acid, oxalic acid, citric acid, tartaric acid, hydrogen peroxide and glacial acetic acid. The electrolyte has a good decontamination effect and allows for fast decontamination and is obtained by reasonably combining different types of solutes and controlling the levels of the solutes and resulting secondary waste solution and residues are easy to treat. The electrolyte is suitable for overall or local electrochemical decontamination of radioactively contaminated stainless steel scrap.
US11342081B2
A embodiment may involve receiving a contact tracing request for a first user identifier that corresponds to a first portable device identifier of a first portable device. The second example embodiment may also involve requesting and receiving, from a first computing device associated with the first user identifier, device adjacency data, wherein the device adjacency data contains a plurality of contact entries, wherein one of the contact entries identifies a second portable device identifier of a second portable device that was wirelessly detected by the first portable device and a timestamp of when the wireless detection of the second portable device occurred. The second example embodiment may involve determining, from the mappings, a second user identifier that corresponds to the second portable device identifier. The second example embodiment may further involve transmitting, to a second computing device associated with the second user identifier, a contact tracing notification.
US11342078B2
A blood vessel status evaluation method and a blood vessel status evaluation device are provided. The method includes: obtaining at least one angiography image corresponding to a target user; analyzing the angiography image by a first deep learning model to select a target image from the angiography image; analyzing the target image by at least one second deep learning model to determine a blood vessel type of the target user and divide a target blood vessel pattern in the target image into a plurality of scoring segments; and analyzing an output of the second deep learning model by a third deep learning model to obtain a blood vessel status of the target user.
US11342076B1
Disclosed is a system and a method for monitoring patient's health. Data associated with multiple questions nudged to a patient may be received. A plurality of symptoms may be extracted. The plurality of symptoms may be analyzed using to generate a health assessment score. The health assessment score may be compared with a predefined threshold to determine a health condition. A deviation in the health condition may be determined by comparing the health condition and previous health data. A risk level may be identified using an artificial intelligence technique. A course of action may be recommended to the patient in real-time based on the risk level and the health condition. A healthcare practitioner may be identified in real-time. The healthcare practitioner and the patient may be notified in real-time. A follow-up check for the patient may be scheduled based on the risk level and the health condition.
US11342067B1
Disclosed herein are methods, systems, and devices for solving the problem of caching large medical images during workflow. In one embodiment, a method is implemented on at least one computing device. The method includes receiving a source medical image file from a first remote device; caching the source medical image file in local memory; determining relevant medical image data, first non-relevant medical image data, and second non-relevant medical image data within the source medical image file; removing the second non-relevant medical image data to create a memory reduced medical image file; storing the memory reduced medical image file in the local memory; and transmitting the memory reduced medical image file to a second remote device.
US11342066B2
Systems and techniques may be used to estimate a relative motion of patient anatomy using a deep learning network during a radiotherapy treatment. For example, a method may include using a first deep neural network to relate input real-time partial patient measurements and a patient model including a reference volume to output patient states. The method may include using a second deep neural network to relate the patient states and the reference volume to relative motion information between the patient states and the reference volume. The deep neural networks may be used in real time to estimate a relative motion corresponding to an input image.
US11342049B2
A system, apparatus, and/or method is disclosed for producing a personal care product. An identity of a considered chemical composition may be input into a model (e.g., a machine learning model). The identity of the considered chemical composition may include ingredients. Each of the ingredients of the considered chemical composition may be associated with a value of a chemoinformatic property of chemoinformatic properties of the considered chemical composition. A value of the property of the considered chemical composition may be determined via the model. The value may be based on the identity of the considered chemical composition. The property of the considered chemical composition may be affected by an interaction of at least two of the ingredients of the considered chemical composition. A personal care product comprised of the considered chemical composition may be produced.
US11342047B2
Methods and systems are provided for determining a variant of interest by analyzing sizes and sequences of cfDNA fragments obtained from a test sample. The methods and systems provided herein implement processes that synergistically combine size and sequence information, thereby improving specificity and sensitivity of assays over conventional methods.
US11342046B2
Disclosed are methods for building a sequence activity model with reference to structural data, which model can be used to guide directed evolution of proteins having beneficial properties. Some embodiments use genetic algorithms and structural data to filter out uninformative data. Some embodiments use a support vector machine to train the sequence activity model. The filtering and training methods can generate a sequence activity model having higher predictive power than conventional modeling methods. Systems and computer program products implementing the methods are also provided.
US11342033B1
A storage device is disclosed. The storage device is configured to: determine data states for a first set of memory cells of a first neighboring word line of the and a second set of memory cells of a second neighboring word line, the first and the second neighboring word lines being adjacent to a selected word line; identify a zone of a plurality of zones for each data state combination of the data states, each data state combination comprising a data state of a memory cell of the first set of memory cells and a data state of a memory cell of the second set of memory cells, each zone of the plurality of zones corresponding to a data retention compensation scheme; and perform a read operation on the selected word line including applying each data retention compensation scheme corresponding to any zones identified.
US11342029B2
To improve the erase process, multiple methods of erasing are utilized. A first method of erasing is relied on at the beginning of life of the memory system. A second method is increasingly relied on as the memory system is used and undergoes many program/erase cycles. In one example, the first method of erase includes applying an erase enable voltage separately to different subsets of the word lines while word lines not receiving the erase enable voltage receive an erase inhibit voltage. In one example, the second method of erase includes applying an erase enable voltage concurrently to all subsets of the word lines.
US11342026B2
According to one embodiment, the semiconductor memory medium includes a first memory cell, a first word line coupled to the first memory cell, and a row decoder coupled to the first word line. A write operation is executed multiple times on the first memory cell within a first period from after an execution of an erase operation to an execution of a next erase operation. The write operation includes at least one of program loops each including a program operation and a verify operation. In the verify operation, the row decoder applies a verify voltage to the first word line. The verify voltage is set in accordance with a number of executed write operations on the first memory cell within the first period.
US11342021B2
A mixed mode memory comprises a memory array, a word line decoder, an intermediary circuit and a reading and writing circuit, wherein the word line decoder is electrically coupled to the memory array, and the intermediary circuit is electrically coupled to the memory array and the writing circuit. The memory array comprises mixed mode memory cells with each cell comprising a reading and writing component group, a storage circuit and a selection circuit. The reading and writing component group is electrically coupled to a word line which controls the reading and writing component group to be conducted or not conducted, and electrically coupled to two bit lines which respectively transmit two data signals. The storage circuit generates two reading response signals based on a reading drive signal. The selection circuit controls the storage circuit to operate in a volatile or non-volatile storage mode based on a selection voltage.
US11342019B2
Memory systems are provided. In an embodiment, a memory device includes a word line driver coupled to a plurality of word lines, a recycle multiplexer coupled to a plurality of bit lines and a plurality of bit line bars, a memory cell array, and a compensation word line driver. The memory cell array includes a first end adjacent the word line driver, a second end away from the word line driver, and a plurality of memory cells. The compensation word line driver is disposed adjacent the second end of the memory cell array and coupled to the plurality of word lines. The recycle multiplexer is configured to selectively couple one or more of the plurality of bit lines or one or more of the plurality of bit line bars to the compensation word line driver.
US11342018B2
Methods, devices, arrays and systems for reducing standby power for a floating body memory array. One method includes counting bits of data before data enters the array, wherein the counting includes counting at least one of: a total number of bits at state 1 and a total number of all bits; a total number of bits at state 0 and the total number of all bits; or the total number of bits at state 1 and the total number of bits at state 0. This method further includes detecting whether the total number of bits at state 1 is greater than the total number of bits at state 0; setting an inversion bit when the total number of bits at state 1 is greater than the total number of bits at state 0; and inverting contents of all the bits of data before writing the bits of data to the memory array when the inversion bit has been set.
US11342013B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a memory system and an operating method thereof. According to the embodiments of the present disclosure, the memory system may execute a read operation by setting a command delay time for determining whether to merge and process read commands, for each of a plurality of time periods, and may set a target command delay time, from among the command delay times set for each of the plurality of time periods, to be used for determining whether to merge and process a subsequent read command with one or more prior read commands based on the execution result of the read operation for each of the plurality of time periods.
US11342012B2
An electronic device includes a termination control circuit and a data input/output (I/O) circuit. The termination control circuit is configured to generate a termination enablement signal which is activated during a termination operation period for activating a termination resistor while a write operation is performed. In addition, the termination control circuit is configured to adjust a period that the termination enablement signal is activated according to whether a write command is inputted to the termination control circuit during a set detection period of the write operation. The data I/O circuit is configured to receive data by activating the termination resistor during a period that the termination enablement signal is activated when the write operation is performed.
US11342006B2
Methods for reducing manufacturing cost and improving the reliability of non-volatile memories using NAND strings with polysilicon channels and p-type doped source lines are described. A NAND string may include a polysilicon channel that is orthogonal to a substrate and connects to a boron doped source line at a source-side end of the NAND string. To reduce the likelihood of the polysilicon channel being cut-off or pinched near the source-side end of the NAND string, a thicker polysilicon channel may be formed near the source-side end of the NAND string while a thinner polysilicon channel may be formed for the remainder of the NAND string by diffusing boron into a first portion of the polysilicon channel corresponding with the thicker polysilicon channel and then etching the polysilicon channel with etchants that exhibit a reduction in their etch rate at a boron concentration above a threshold concentration.
US11342004B2
A mover replacement system for removing a media mover, movable between an operating position and a removable position, from within a media library includes a module housing and a service tray. The module housing forms at least a part of a library housing. The service tray is removably positionable within the module housing. The service tray is configured to releasably retain the media mover when the media mover is in the removable position so that the service tray and the media mover are movable as an integral unit out of and into the module housing. The service tray includes a tray body and at least one locking mechanism that is movable relative to the tray body between a retracted position when the at least one locking mechanism is positioned not to engage the media mover, and a fully extended position when the at least one locking mechanism is positioned to retain the media mover relative to the tray body.
US11341992B1
An optical isolator has a first optical property with respect to transmitted components of the light traveling towards a target and a second optical property with respect to reflected components of the light traveling towards the laser. The second optical property suppresses the reflected components of the light. The optical isolator can be used in applications such as heat-assisted magnetic recording and LIDAR.
US11341984B2
The present document relates to audio source coding systems which make use of a harmonic transposition method for high frequency reconstruction (HFR), as well as to digital effect processors, e.g. exciters, where generation of harmonic distortion add brightness to the processed signal, and to time stretchers where a signal duration is prolonged with maintained spectral content. A system and method configured to generate a time stretched and/or frequency transposed signal from an input signal is described. The system comprises an analysis filterbank configured to provide an analysis subband signal from the input signal; wherein the analysis subband signal comprises a plurality of complex valued analysis samples, each having a phase and a magnitude. Furthermore, the system comprises a subband processing unit configured to determine a synthesis subband signal from the analysis subband signal using a subband transposition factor Q and a subband stretch factor S. The subband processing unit performs a block based nonlinear processing wherein the magnitude of samples of the synthesis subband signal are determined from the magnitude of corresponding samples of the analysis subband signal and a predetermined sample of the analysis subband signal. In addition, the system comprises a synthesis filterbank configured to generate the time stretched and/or frequency transposed signal from the synthesis subband signal.
US11341982B2
Many portable playback devices cannot decode and playback encoded audio content having wide bandwidth and wide dynamic range with consistent loudness and intelligibility unless the encoded audio content has been prepared specially for these devices. This problem can be overcome by including with the encoded content some metadata that specifies a suitable dynamic range compression profile by either absolute values or differential values relative to another known compression profile. A playback device may also adaptively apply gain and limiting to the playback audio. Implementations in encoders, in transcoders and in decoders are disclosed.
US11341977B2
To provide a bandwidth extension method which allows reduction of computation amount in bandwidth extension and suppression of deterioration of quality in the bandwidth to be extended. In the bandwidth extension method: a low frequency bandwidth signal is transformed into a QMF domain to generate a first low frequency QMF spectrum; pitch-shifted signals are generated by applying different shifting factors on the low frequency bandwidth signal; a high frequency QMF spectrum is generated by time-stretching the pitch-shifted signals in the QMF domain; the high frequency QMF spectrum is modified; and the modified high frequency QMF spectrum is combined with the first low frequency QMF spectrum.
US11341956B1
The present invention provides a method and a system utilizing an AI entity for confirming an agreement has been entered between a first entity and a second entity during a verbal communication, capturing the portions of the communication that constitute the elements of an agreement and storing the portions for later verification of the agreement.
US11341953B2
A speech-processing system receives input data corresponding to one or more characteristics of speech. The system determines parameters representing the characteristics and, using the parameters, encoded values corresponding to the characteristics. A speech synthesis component of the speech-processing processes the encoded values to determine audio data including a representation of the speech and corresponding to the characteristics.
US11341944B2
Playback, recording, and analysis of music scales via software configuration. In an embodiment, a graphical user interface is generated with staff and keyboard canvases, visually representing a music staff and keyboard, respectively, a scale input, parameter input(s), and a play input. In response to selection of a scale, the staff canvas is updated to visually represent the notes in the scale. In response to the selection of a musical parameter, the staff canvas and/or keyboard canvas are updated to reflect the musical parameter. In response to selection of the play input, a soundtrack of the scale is output, while simultaneously highlighting the note, being played, on the staff canvas and the key, associated with the note being played, on the keyboard canvas.
US11341943B2
A musical instrument support system provides support to a musician's elbow when the musician's arm is in a raised position, thus alleviating fatigue and strain on the musician's shoulder, neck, back and arms. The support system includes a harness worn on the musician's torso, a rib plate supported by the harness that is worn along the musician's torso, an elbow support that receives the musician's elbow, and a swivel joint that joins the elbow support to the rib plate and permits the elbow plate to rotate and angulate about a vertical axis and move laterally from the rib plate in all directions within a horizontal plane.
US11341939B2
Embodiments relate to an apparatus for improving visibility of cluster design elements based on a driver's view, including an eye position detection unit to detect an eye position of the driver from a face image captured through a camera in a vehicle, a visible area determination unit to determine a visible area and an invisible area in a cluster based on the detected eye position, a position of the cluster in the vehicle and a position of a steering wheel, a display information detection unit to detect a position and shape of display information displayed on the cluster, and a display information design conversion unit to convert a position or shape of display information overlapping in the invisible area among the display information.
US11341935B2
An object is to enhance usability when browsing through a measurement result from a sensor on an external computer. A data relay device includes a first connection part to which one or more sensors are connected, a second connection part to which an industrial network for communication with a control device is connected, a relay memory that temporarily stores first data received from the one or more sensors connected to the first connection part to relay the first data to the control device via the second connection part, a third connection part to which a computer network for communication with an external computer is connected, a creation unit that creates display screen information for use in displaying the first data stored in the relay memory in a predetermined display form, and a provision unit that provides the display screen information to the external computer via the third connection part.
US11341933B2
Disclosed herein are a foldable display and a driving method thereof which activate an entirety of a screen of a flexible display panel and display an image on a maximum screen when the flexible display panel is unfolded in an unfolded state, and activate a part of the screen when the flexible display panel is folded in a folded state to display the image on a screen that is smaller than the maximum screen and to display a black color on a deactivated screen.
US11341929B2
The present application discloses a driving method, a display panel and a driving circuit. The driving method includes a step of outputting a gate driving signal to a corresponding gate line. A signal period of a common level signal of a common line includes a first time and a second time, the first time corresponds to a first common level, and the second time corresponds to a second common level; a voltage value of the first common level is less than that of the second common level; for a common line corresponding to the Nth gate line, a start moment of the first time is no later than an open moment of the corresponding Nth gate line, and a start moment of the second time is no earlier than a close moment of the (N+1)th gate line.
US11341911B2
A pixel circuit includes a storage capacitor unit, a driving transistor, a compensation unit, a switching unit, a light-emitting element and a current supply unit. The compensation unit is connected to a compensation control end, a gate electrode and a second electrode of the driving transistor, and the current supply unit, and configured to, under the control of the compensation control end, control the current supply unit to be electrically connected to, or electrically disconnected from, the gate electrode, and control the gate electrode to be electrically connected to, or electrically disconnected from, the second electrode. The switching unit is connected to a light-emitting control end, the second electrode, and a first end of the light-emitting element, and configured to control the second electrode to be electrically connected to, or electrically disconnected from, the first end of the light-emitting element under the control of the light-emitting control end.
US11341907B2
There is provided an organic light-emitting diode drive circuit comprising a switch transistor (T1), a drive transistor (T2), a storage capacitor (C), and an organic light-emitting diode (OLED), wherein the switch transistor (T1) uses an inorganic semiconductor transistor, and the drive transistor (T2) uses an organic semiconductor transistor. A display screen adopting the drive circuit as a unit pixel has the property of uniform brightness. In addition, there is provided a method of fabricating the drive circuit and a display device using the drive circuit.
US11341906B2
The present disclosure provides a pixel circuit and a drive method thereof, and a touch display apparatus. The pixel circuit includes a pixel driving circuit, an optical sensing circuit, and a light-emitting element. The pixel driving circuit is configured to drive the light-emitting element to emit light, based on a first control signal from a first control line, a second control signal from a second control line, a scanning signal from a scanning line, and a data signal from a data line. The optical sensing circuit is configured to sense an optical signal, convert the sensed optical signal into an electric signal, and output the electric signal via a reading line based on the first control signal, the second control signal, the scanning signal, and the data signal.
US11341902B2
A display device including a display panel including scan lines, emission control lines, and pixels connected to the scan lines and the emission control lines; a first emission driver sequentially providing first emission control signals to odd-numbered emission control lines among the emission control lines in a first frame section; a second emission driver sequentially providing second emission control signals to even-numbered emission control lines among the emission control lines in a second frame section that is continuous from the first frame section; and a scan driver sequentially providing scan signals to the scan lines in each of the first and second frame sections.
US11341896B2
An electroluminescent display device comprises a pixel including a plurality of subpixels; a plurality of power lines for providing a power voltage to the plurality of subpixels; a data line for providing data signals to the plurality of subpixels; a plurality of gate lines for providing gate signals to the plurality of subpixels; and a reference node line for connecting a plurality of reference nodes included in the plurality of subpixels, wherein each of the subpixels comprises a light emitting diode and a subpixel driving circuit for controlling light emission of the light emitting diode, and wherein the subpixel driving circuit provides a driving current without including a high potential voltage to the light emitting diode as a reference voltage that is applied from one of the plurality of power lines to the reference node included in the subpixel driving circuit, and some of the plurality of subpixels include a compensation transistor connected to the reference node receiving the reference voltage.
US11341895B2
A method for application in a QLED display device is provided for cancelling optical crosstalk occurring in a QLED display panel consisting of M number of anode wires, N number of cathode wires, and M×N number of QLED elements. In case of the method being implemented in the QLED display device, a control unit is configured for controlling a column driver unit to supply a positive bias voltage to at least one QLED element that is addressingly selected. In the meantime, the control unit also controls a low driver unit to supply a reverse bias voltage to each of the QLED elements that are not selected. In such case, when the addressingly-selected QLED element achieves a light emission normally, each of the QLED elements that are not selected is reversely biased for failing to produce optical crosstalk.
US11341880B1
Technology described herein includes a method that includes receiving, at one or more processing devices at one or more locations, one or more image frames; receiving, at the one or more processing devices, one or more signals representing outputs of one or more light sensors of a device; estimating, by the one or more processing devices based on the one or more image frames, one or more illuminance values; determining, by the one or more processing devices, that a degree of correlation between (i) a first illuminance represented by the one or more illuminance values and (ii) a second illuminance represented by the one or more signals fails to satisfy a threshold condition; and in response to determining that the degree of correlation fails to satisfy the threshold condition, determining, by the one or more processing devices, presence of an adverse condition associated with the device.
US11341873B2
A foldable display device includes a first panel having a first flat portion and a first bending portion at one side of the first flat portion. The first bending portion has a first bending axis around which the first bending portion rotates. The foldable display device also includes a second panel having a second flat portion and a second bending portion at one side of the second flat portion. The second bending portion has a second bending axis around which the second bending portion rotates. The first bending portion and the second bending portion are arranged adjacent to each other.
US11341870B2
An adhesive label is provided. The adhesive label includes an adhesive patch that covers at least 50% but less than 85% of a backside surface of the adhesive label and that is at least partially horizontally and vertically centered on the backside surface.
US11341861B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for environmental data sharing and context-based relevance determination. One method comprises receiving, by an environmental condition response system of a receiving vehicle, environmental data associated with a sending vehicle. Then, the environmental condition response system of the receiving vehicle analyzes the received environmental data for relevance based on contextual information of the receiving vehicle. Based on determining that the received environmental data is relevant to the receiving vehicle, the environmental condition response system determines a remedial action and sends instructions to perform the remedial action to a corresponding vehicle component system of the receiving vehicle.
US11341843B2
The warning device (12) includes a warning light mechanism (16), that is configured so as to emit a flashing strobe light (20) that flashes at a frequency that is higher than 10 Hz.
US11341840B2
Methods and systems for processing data associated with a premises management system are disclosed. The data may comprise alarm event data and non-alarm event data. The alarm event data and non-alarm event data may be processed to determine whether to send a notification.
US11341836B2
An apparatus, method, and a non-transitory programmed medium provide real time, in-situ, persistent monitoring of a pump for the presence of anomalies and controlling pump operation to avoid a failure. Real time operating data is compared to profiles to indicate out of limit operation and to generate dynamic control signals. A vibration sensor which measures amplitude of vibration generated by the pump and at least one thermocouple provide data to a first processor collocated with the pump to enable low latency reaction. Spectral analysis is performed by the first processor. Additional operating parameter values are obtained and provided to a second processor, a remote processor or a cloud server. At least one of the processors provides signals to modulate controls to vary engine speed or shut down the engine. A cellular modem and a satellite modem interface the system and external nodes. Data collected are correlated with operating data to generate profiles indicative of conditions.
US11341835B1
A battery powered do-it-yourself (DIY) security and safety monitor that is removably mounted by a self-centering magnet mount onto a ferromagnetic wall plate. The monitor has numerous sensors that report anomalies to the owner's smart device or a pay-for-use monitoring service through cellular communication. There is a smart hub incorporated directly to the various sensors or to the sensors through the main system microprocessor to allow communication and control of the various sensors and modules (if applicable) via the owner's smart device. The monitor may be hard wired into the premises if required by code, or it may be battery powered by long lasting Lithium batteries.
US11341831B2
A system for detecting impacts includes a housing configured to be worn by a user. An accelerometer is connected with the housing. The accelerometer is configured to detect an acceleration indicative of an impact experienced by the user. An inaudible tone chip is positioned about the housing. The inaudible tone chip is configured to transmit ultrasonic tones including data of the impact to a remote device. A remote device includes a receiver. The receiver is configured to receive the ultrasonic tones transmitted by the inaudible tone chip.
US11341824B1
Security flaps for use with cash trays and cash trays including such security flaps are disclosed. An apparatus includes a cash tray having a base and a plurality of walls that extend from the base and define a plurality of paper-currency compartments. A plurality of distal edges of the walls define openings of the paper-currency compartments. A spring-biased security flap is coupled to the cash tray and adapted to engage or be immediately adjacent the distal edges of the walls of at least one of the paper-currency compartments to cover the corresponding opening.
US11341815B2
A computer-implemented method may comprise providing a wager-based electronic gaming device (EGD) comprising at least one processor, memory, a display, an input interface and a money acceptor. The EGD may be configured to accept money from a player via the money acceptor and establish an account balance using the received money; display a game environment configured to enable the player to participate, via the input interface, in a gaming session of a wager-based game comprising a plurality of stages, and enable, for the gaming session, game play and wagers in a current stage of the plurality of stages of the wager-based game. It may then be determined that game play in the current stage has reached a current stage complete state in which all requirements necessary for transitioning game play from the current stage to a next or other stage of the plurality of stages have been met. Thereafter, it may be determined whether the game play transitions from the current stage to the next or other stage or remains at or returns to the current stage. When game play transitions from the current stage to the next or other stage of the plurality of stages, a Return-To-Player (RTP) of the wager-based game may be increased (or maintained the same) and when game play remains at or returns to the current stage after the current stage complete state is reached, the RTP of the wager-based game may at least temporarily be decreased or maintained unchanged.
US11341814B2
The present disclosure relates generally to a system that enables funds automatically transferred into the system from one or more funding sources in anticipation of such funds being used in association with various system components.
US11341812B2
Conventional systems have a problem that, after drawing cards onto a table in a baccarat game, if a dealer makes a mistake in dealing cards to the Player side and the Banker side or in passing cards to game participants after dealing, the mistake cannot be detected. An abnormality detection system according to the present invention can detect an abnormality or cheating and issue a warning or stop the abnormality or cheating based on an image analysis result from an image analyzing device 12 when, after drawing cards onto a table in a baccarat game, a dealer makes a mistake in dealing cards to the Player side and the Banker side or in passing cards to customers after dealing, for example.
US11341811B2
The present disclosure relates generally to gaming machines, systems, and methods. As an example, a method is disclosed that includes receiving first player information from a player, logging the player into a first game management system with the first player information, providing the player with a query for information, where the query includes a request for information to create a second player account for the player in a second game management system. The method may further include receiving enrollment information, where the enrollment information includes at least some of the first player information stored in connection with a first player account maintained by the first game management system and transmitting the enrollment information to the second game management system, where the enrollment information enables the second game management system to create the second player account for the player.
US11341806B2
A gaming cabinet is described that includes a base section and a replaceable topper. The base section including a controller module and a computer module. The controller module including a plurality of connectors. The base section having an upper section and a lower section. The upper section including an interactive display and one or more buttons configured to enable a player to interact with the two or more games at least partially displayed on the display. The replaceable topper being configured to connect to the base section. The replaceable topper including electronics configured to enable an aspect of a first game among the two or more games to be played and including a plurality of connectors configured to mate with the plurality of connectors of the base section, wherein replacement of the replaceable topper enables a second game among the two or more games to be played.
US11341797B2
The present disclosure provides methods, devices, and systems for controlling access to a controlled area. The method may comprise receiving a credential identifier in an access controller associated with an entrance to the enclosed area, and then authenticating the credential identifier. The method may then comprise sending an unlock signal through a solid state relay within the access controller to power a lock associated with but external to the access controller to unlock a door at the entrance to the enclosed area when the credential identifier has been successfully authenticated.
US11341794B2
An automated screening system includes an access control reader with one or more computer devices for screening a pre-registered individual seeking admittance into a controlled area. The system has a facial recognition database that stores a facial record for the individual. A camera system captures a facial image of the individual and the one or more computer devices determine whether it matches the facial record that is stored in the facial recognition database. A skin temperature sensor is used for obtaining a skin temperature reading for the individual. The one or more computer devices are configured to generate an electronic signal to admit the individual into the controlled area if the captured facial image matches the facial record that is stored in the facial recognition database and if the skin temperature reading for the individual is within an acceptable pre-established skin temperature range.
US11341791B2
The disclosure relates to a method for monitoring emissions from a vehicle fleet consisting of a plurality of vehicles of a certain classification group. The method comprises the steps indicated in claim 1 with a) to e), as well as the further features listed there. With the method according to the disclosure, the emission emitted from a vehicle fleet can be reduced. Furthermore, by means of such an emission monitoring method more environmentally friendly and lower-emission vehicles can be developed.
US11341787B2
A method of operating a device, the device being configured to communicate with a wireless telecommunications network and the device being in the form of an Autonomous Vehicle (AV), the method comprising the steps of: detecting a fault associated with the AV; and in response to detecting said fault, causing the AV to transmit a mayday wireless network communication for alerting the wireless telecommunications network of the fault; in response to the mayday wireless network communication, identifying a recovery AV that is capable of retrieving at least part of the AV and delivering said at least part to an intended destination; and instructing the recovery AV to perform the retrieving and delivering by communicating an instructing message, wherein the instructing message is in the form of a system information message.
US11341782B2
A navigation apparatus includes a log information acquisition portion acquiring log information including position information and time information at predetermined time intervals, a storage storing the log information, a transmitter transmitting the log information, and a transmitter controller transmitting to a server an excess piece of the log information exceeding a predetermined number in reverse chronological order of the time information.
US11341781B2
Methods and systems may provide for technology to identify, at a first vehicle, one or more driving factors associated with a potential future action of the first vehicle, determine that the one or more driving factors are to be stored as remotely accessible data and cause the remotely accessible data to be stored to an online storage in association with an identifier of the first vehicle. The technology may further, at a second vehicle, identify the identifier from sensor data, access the remotely accessible data based on the identifier, and one or more of cause at least part of the remotely accessible data to be presented to a user of the second vehicle or modify a driving parameter of the second vehicle based on the remotely accessible data.
US11341778B1
An adaptive spoofing method includes: causing a first display device to display a spoof representation of a human user; and obtaining multiple images of the spoof representation. The multiple images are captured automatically by an image capture device, each of the multiple images captures a different corresponding configuration of the spoof representation displayed on the first display device. The method also includes: executing a biometric authentication process separately on each of at least a subset of the multiple images; determining that the biometric authentication process authenticates the human user based on at least a first image from the subset; and identifying a configuration of the spoof representation corresponding to the first image as a failure condition associated with the biometric authentication process.
US11341772B2
A device verification system includes an operation panel, a computer coupled to the operation panel, and a server coupled to the computer. The operation panel includes an image acquisition unit. The computer receives an image of an operator acquired by the image acquisition unit and acquires a facial image of the operator from the image. The server receives the facial image from the computer. The server stores a facial image of an authorized operator and is configured to compare the received facial image to the stored facial image to determine whether the operator is verified.
US11341768B2
A face image processing method and apparatus, an electronic device, and a storage medium are provided. The method includes: obtaining face key points and a face deflection angle in a face image; determining a submalar triangle center in the face image according to the face key points and the face deflection angle; determining a submalar triangle region in the face image according to the face key points and the submalar triangle center; and performing color filling on the submalar triangle region. By means of the present disclosure, a submalar triangle region can be accurately positioned, and submalar triangle filling is performed based on the accurately positioned submalar triangle region, thereby obtaining a more natural filling effect.
US11341766B2
An optical structure, a display substrate and a display device are provided. The optical structure includes a first medium layer being transparent and an opaque layer which is arranged on the first medium layer and includes a plurality of vias. The optical structure is configured to allow light rays passing through each of the plurality of via to project to a corresponding light ray receiving area respectively.
US11341755B2
An information acquisition apparatus provided in a moving object (vehicle) that moves on a road includes: a storage unit that records therein information about the road that is acquired based on movement of the moving object on the road; a determination unit that determines the type of the road on which the moving object moves and determines whether the road is of a predetermined type defined in association with the type of the moving object; and an identifying unit that identifies the information about the road acquired based on the movement of the moving object on the road of the predetermined type and recorded in the storage unit.
US11341752B2
Images are obtained using cameras mounted on a vehicle, and at least a portion of the obtained images are displayed on a screen. Motion of the vehicle can be controlled such that it moves toward a physical destination selected from images obtained using cameras mounted on a vehicle.
US11341747B2
An apparatus and method are providing for generating a hash in video in which a sample series of temporal difference are sampled in an image order. A temporal averaging is performed and a rate of change is detected to identify as distinctive events regions of high rate of change. Images having a distinctive event are labelled as distinctive images. For each image, the temporal spacing in images is calculated between that image and other distinctive images to provide a set of temporal spacings for that image; and a hash is derived for that image from that set of temporal spacings.
US11341743B2
A computer implemented method and apparatus for a marine vessel data system, the method comprising: receiving data from at least one sensor configured to measure vibration and operationally arranged to the marine vessel to provide time-domain reference sensor data; maintaining the time-domain reference sensor data within a data storage system; generating a Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) on the time-domain reference sensor data to provide a plurality of reference spectra files in frequency-domain, wherein each reference spectra file comprises spectra data defined by amplitude information and frequency information, and each spectra file is associated with condition information determined based on collection of the time-domain reference sensor data; normalizing each reference spectra file by converting the frequency information to order information using the condition information to provide normalized reference spectra files; and training a convolutional autoencoder type of neural network using the normalized reference spectra files.
US11341742B2
A method of estimating a self-location of a vehicle includes obtaining an omnidirectional image by using an omnidirectional camera photographing a ground around a driving vehicle at a current location of the driving vehicle, estimating the current location of the driving vehicle on the basis of a global positioning system (GPS) satellite signal received from a satellite, searching a satellite image database storing a satellite image obtained by photographing the ground with the satellite to determine candidate satellite images corresponding to the estimated current location of the driving vehicle, comparing the omnidirectional image with each of the determined candidate satellite images to determine a candidate satellite image having a highest similarity to the omnidirectional image from among the determined candidate satellite images, and finally estimating the current location of the driving vehicle by using a location measurement value mapped to the determined candidate satellite image.
US11341737B2
An estimation apparatus according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a memory and a hardware processor coupled to the memory. The hardware processor is configured to: acquire first point cloud data; generate, from the first point cloud data, second point cloud data in which an attention point and at least one observation point are combined, the attention point gaining attention as a target of attribute estimation; and estimate an attribute of the attention point by calculating, for each attribute, a belonging probability of belonging to the attribute by using the second point cloud data.
US11341736B2
Methods and apparatus to match images using semantic features are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a semantic labeler to determine a semantic label for each of a first set of points of a first image and each of a second set of points of a second image; a binary robust independent element features (BRIEF) determiner to determine semantic BRIEF descriptors for a first subset of the first set of points and a second subset of the second set of points based on the semantic labels; and a point matcher to match first points of the first subset of points to second points of the second subset of points based on the semantic BRIEF descriptors.
US11341733B2
An image-processing system that can perform predetermined image processing on a manuscript character in a captured image is provided. A method for image processing includes training a neural network using composite image data including a background image and a manuscript image and correct image data corresponding to the composite image data, obtaining a captured image of an original that contains a manuscript character, and performing predetermined image processing on the captured image using the neural network.
US11341729B2
A method and electronic device for displaying content for implementing augmented reality or mixed reality are provided. The method includes obtaining a reality image by photographing external reality, obtaining content to be overlapped with the external realty and be displayed, identifying an area overlapping with the content in the reality image, correcting pixel values of the reality image in the identified area, correcting the content based on the reality image of which the pixel values have been corrected in the identified area, and displaying the corrected content.
US11341728B2
Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system and a method for performing operations comprising: capturing an image that depicts currency, receiving an identification of an augmented reality experience associated with the image, the server identifying the augmented reality experience by assigning visual words to features of the image and searching a visual search database to identify a plurality of marker images associated with one or more charities, and the server retrieving the augmented reality experience associated with a given one of the plurality of marker images; automatically, in response to capturing the image that depicts currency, displaying one or more graphical elements of the identified augmented reality experience that represent a charity of the one or more charities; and receiving a donation to the charity from a user of the client device in response to an interaction with the one or more graphical elements that represent the charity.
US11341726B2
An information processing apparatus including a processor configured to detect a connection to each of a first and second image display apparatus, generate a first image based on first medical apparatus information acquired from a first medical apparatus and a second image based on second medical apparatus information acquired from a second medical apparatus, detect an object from an outside scene that is captured by both the first and second image display apparatuses, and acquire a first distance from the first image display apparatus to the object and a second distance from the second image display apparatus to the object. When the first distance is smaller than the second distance, the processor causes the first image display apparatus to display the first image at a first size that is greater than a second size of the first image displayed at the second image display apparatus.
US11341717B2
The disclosure is directed to rendering visual representations of VOAs by manipulating vertices of a three-dimensional (3-D) mesh structure. In one example, a processing circuitry of a computing device may receive a 3-D mesh structure having adjustable vertices. The processing circuitry may adjust the vertices to generate an adjusted shape of the 3-D mesh structure according to an intersection between activated tissue and non-activated tissue defined by one or more stimulation parameter values.
US11341716B1
An augmented-reality system includes an image capture device that obtains a captured image, an image processing unit that receives and processes the captured image to determine space configuration of a scene; a user interface that receives a position of a fiducial point inputted by a user; and a rendering device that superimposes a fiducial mark at the position of the fiducial point on the captured image. The rendering device superimposes a first computer-generated image representing a sensor at an install height above the fiducial point and on a wall of the captured image.
US11341715B2
A method, a system, a device, and a computer readable storage medium for video reconstruction are disclosed. The method includes: obtaining an image combination of multi-angle free-perspective video frames, parameter data corresponding to the image combinations of the video frames, and position information of a virtual viewpoint based on a user interaction; selecting texture images and depth maps of corresponding groups in the image combinations of the video frames at a time moment of the user interaction according to a preset rule and based on the position information of the virtual viewpoint and the parameter data corresponding to the image combinations of the video frames; and combining and rendering the texture images and the depth maps of the corresponding groups based on the position information of the virtual viewpoint and parameter data corresponding to the depth maps and the texture images of the corresponding groups to obtain a reconstructed image.
US11341714B2
An information service system includes a unit which acquires first image information from a user terminal, a scene model database which stores past first image information, scene information containing a scene ID, and scene relevance, an evaluation unit which acquires a scene ID list, a unit which creates a scene name list corresponding to the scene ID list, a unit which acquires target information containing a set of second image information and a first scene ID, a content model database which stores past target information containing a set of past second image information and a scene ID, a reference ID, and a content relevance, a unit which acquires a reference ID list, a unit which creates a reference summary list, a unit which acquires a first reference ID selected from the reference summary list, and a unit which outputs the content corresponding to the acquired first reference ID.
US11341695B2
The appropriateness of a motion of a motion actor who makes a motion in response to a motion of at least one moving body other than him/herself is visualized. To display motion information of a motion actor who makes a motion in response to a motion of at least one moving body other than him/herself, an image showing one sequence which is visible or a plurality of sequences which are visible is output. In this case, a relative time which is a position on a relative time axis corresponds to a position on a specific axis of the image. The one sequence or each of the plurality of sequences graphically shows at least a position on the axis which corresponds to a moving body time that is a relative time at which at least one predetermined motion of the moving body was made, and a position on the axis which corresponds to a motion actor time that is a relative time at which at least one predetermined motion of the motion actor was made.
US11341694B1
Various examples are directed to computer-implemented systems and methods for graphical representation of financial account outflow. The method includes obtaining, by a processor of a computer, a transaction of an account holder including an amount and frequency of the transaction, and categorizing the transaction on a continuum of discretionary spending and fixed expense spending. The transaction is displayed by the processor on a user interface using a graph having an x-axis providing a frequency of the at least one transaction, and a y-axis indicating the categorization of the transaction. The transaction is displayed as a bubble on the graph, where the bubble has a diameter that is proportional to the amount of the transaction.
US11341693B1
Prior art digital painting applications create strokes by repeatedly applying a stamp at incremental positions along a path. Such applications led to uniform marks being made by the mark making tool along the stroke as the same process as applied by the software application at each point along the stroke. However, some areas of a painting involve repetitive strokes, which can take a lot of time for the user. Embodiments of the invention provide the user with automated methods and systems that maintain a level of control the user seeks or needs whilst removing the repetitive nature of the area filling thereby saving the user time whilst delivering high quality results. The invention fills the area to be filled to painted with actual, individual strokes, offering the advantages of overlapping strokes and mixing paint for an increased “natural” media look and feel. Additionally, the user is able to either specify parameters for the process in advance or to sculpt/tune the result as the software application paints.
US11341692B2
A system for facilitating identification and marking of a target in a fluoroscopic image of a body region of a patient, the system comprising one or more storage devices having stored thereon instructions for: receiving a CT scan and a fluoroscopic 3D reconstruction of the body region of the patient, wherein the CT scan includes a marking of the target; and generating at least one virtual fluoroscopy image based on the CT scan of the patient, wherein the virtual fluoroscopy image includes the target and the marking of the target, at least one hardware processor configured to execute these instructions, and a display configured to display to a user the virtual fluoroscopy image and the fluoroscopic 3D reconstruction.
US11341688B2
Optimization of a neural network, for example in a video codec at the decoder side, may be guided to limit overfitting. The encoder may encode video(s) with different qualities for different frames in the video. Low-quality frames may be used as both input and ground-truth during optimization. High-quality frames may be used to optimize the neural network so that higher-quality versions of lower-quality inputs may be predicted. The neural network may be trained to make such predictions by making a prediction based on a constructed low-quality input for which the corresponding high-quality version is known, comparing the prediction to the high-quality version, and fine-tuning the neural network to improve its ability to predict a high-quality version of a low-quality input. To limit overfitting, the neural network may be concurrently or in an alternating fashion trained with low-quality input for which a higher-quality version of the low-quality input is known.
US11341682B2
Devices, systems, and methods are provided for testing and validation of a camera. A device may determine a content object placed in a line of sight of a camera device, wherein the content object provides informational and visual content. The device may capture one or more images of the content object. The device may cause an electromagnetic event using an electromagnetic interference device, causing an electromagnetic event to affect an image quality of at least one of the one or more images captured by the camera device. The device may assign a structural similarity index (SSIM) score to the at least one image of the one or more images, wherein the SSIM score indicates a camera validation status of the camera device. The device may assign an SSIM score between on one image taken without the presence of interference and one image taken in the presences of the interference.
US11341680B2
A gaze point estimation processing apparatus in an embodiment includes a storage configured to store a neural network as a gaze point estimation model and one or more processors. The storage stores a gaze point estimation model generated through learning based on an image for learning and information relating to a first gaze point for the image for learning. The one or more processors estimate information relating to a second gaze point with respect to an image for estimation from the image for estimation using the gaze point estimation model.
US11341676B2
The present disclosure provides systems and methods for calibration-free instant motion tracking useful, for example, for rending virtual content in augmented reality settings. In particular, a computing system can iteratively augment image frames that depict a scene to insert virtual content at an anchor region within the scene, including situations in which the anchor region moves relative to the scene. To do so, the computing system can estimate, for each of a number of sequential image frames: a rotation of an image capture system that captures the image frames; and a translation of the anchor region relative to an image capture system, thereby providing sufficient information to determine where and at what orientation to render the virtual content within the image frame.
US11341669B2
A people flow analysis apparatus includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire positions of persons from each of a plurality of images captured by a plurality of image capturing devices, a counting unit configured to integrate the positions of the persons in each of the plurality of images and count the number of persons on a region-by-region basis, and a display unit configured to display on a map an image expression based on the number of persons counted on the region-by-region basis.
US11341668B2
A distance measuring camera contains a first imaging system for obtaining a first image containing a first subject image, a second imaging system for obtaining a second image containing a second subject image, a size obtaining part for detecting a plurality of feature points of the first subject image in the first image and measure a distance between the feature points of the first subject image to obtain a size of the first subject image and utilizes an epipolar line to detect a plurality of feature points of the second subject image respectively corresponding to the plurality of feature points of the first subject image and measures a distance between the feature points of the second subject image to obtain a size of the second subject image and a distance calculating part for calculating a distance to the subject based an image magnification ratio between a magnification of the first subject image and a magnification of the first subject image and a magnification of the second subject image.
US11341665B2
There is provided a system and method for optimizing depth imaging. The method including: illuminating one or more scenes with illumination patterns; capturing one or more images of each of the scenes; reconstructing the scenes; estimating the reconstruction error and a gradient of the reconstruction error; iteratively performing until the reconstruction error reaches a predetermined error condition: determining a current set of control vectors and current set of reconstruction parameters; illuminating the one or more scenes with the illumination patterns governed by the current set of control vectors; capturing one or more images of each of the scenes while the scene is being illuminated with at least one of the illumination patterns; reconstructing the scenes from the one or more captured images using the current reconstruction parameters; and estimating an updated reconstruction error and gradient; and outputting at least one of control vectors and reconstruction parameters.
US11341664B2
A visualization apparatus detects a change in the shape of a solid model of a human body part based on images obtained by capturing the solid model. Next, the visualization apparatus generates a three-dimensional model reproducing the shape of the human body part in virtual space based on three-dimensional model data representing the shape of the human body part in three dimensions. The visualization apparatus further transforms the shape of the three-dimensional model into a transformed three-dimensional model in accordance with the change in the shape of the solid model. Then, the visualization apparatus outputs images of the transformed three-dimensional model.
US11341662B2
The present disclosure provides a method of medical procedure using augmented reality for superimposing a patient's medical images (e.g., CT or MRI) over a real-time camera view of the patient. Prior to the medical procedure, the patient's medical images are processed to generate a 3D model that represents a skin contour of the patient's body. The 3D model is further processed to generate a skin marker that comprises only selected portions of the 3D model. At the time of the medical procedure, 3D images of the patient's body are captured using a camera, which are then registered with the skin marker. Then, the patient's medical images can be superimposed over the real-time camera view that is presented to the person performing the medical procedure.
US11341658B1
Present embodiments pertain to systems, apparatuses, and methods for analyzing and reporting the movements in mechanical structures, inanimate physical structures, machinery, and machine components, including automatically detecting aliased frequencies of a component on the structure which exhibits frequencies higher than the maximum frequency of the FFT spectrum calculated from the acquired data. To automatically detect the presence of aliased frequencies, a second virtually identical recording is acquired using a slightly different sampling rate and this provides the basis for detecting frequencies which are greater than the Nyquist sampling rate of the video recording and calculating the true frequency value of the aliased peaks in the frequency spectrum.
US11341656B1
Implementations are described herein are directed to reconciling disparate orientations of multiple vision sensors deployed on a mobile robot (or other mobile vehicle) by altering orientations of the vision sensors or digital images they generate. In various implementations, this reconciliation may be performed with little or no ground truth knowledge of movement of the robot. Techniques described herein also avoid the use of visual indicia of known dimensions and/or other conventional tools for determining vision sensor orientations. Instead, techniques described herein allow vision sensor orientations to be determined and/or reconciled using less resources, and are more scalable than conventional techniques.
US11341654B2
A method for ascertaining/mapping between a matrix element (ME) and a comparison ME (CME) of a comparison matrix (CM), including writing the ME position in a table element (TE) of a correspondence table (CT) for a number of MEs, and following a predefined offset, reading out a TE, ascertaining the ME position stored in the TE until the read for the same number of MEs has been performed, establishing a mapping from the TE's read-out position and a CME's current position. The writing includes reading out a ME feature, ascertaining an access feature (AF) from the ME feature, ascertaining a TE of the CT from the AF, and writing the ME position in the ascertained TE. The reading includes reading out a CME feature, ascertaining an AF from the CME, ascertaining a TE of the CT from the AF, and reading out the ME's stored position from the ascertained TE.
US11341649B2
Methods that implement image-guided tissue analysis, MRI-based computational modeling, and imaging informatics to analyze the diversity and dynamics of molecularly-distinct subpopulations and the evolving competitive landscapes in human glioblastoma multiforme (“GBM”) are provided. Machine learning models are constructed based on multiparametric MRI data and molecular data (e.g., CNV, exome, gene expression). Models can also be built based on specific biological factors, such as sex and age. Inputting MRI data into the trained predictive models generates maps that depict spatial patterns of molecular markers, which can be used to quantify and co-localize regions molecularly distinct subpopulations in tumors and other regions, such as the non-enhancing parenchyma, or brain around tumor (“BAT”) regions.
US11341648B2
An imaging system and method for microbial growth detection, counting or identification. One colony may be contrasted in an image that is not optimal for another type of colony. The system and method provides contrast from all available material through space (spatial differences), time (differences appearing over time for a given capture condition) and color space transformation using image input information over time to assess whether microbial growth has occurred for a given sample.
US11341644B2
The disclosure herein relates to systems, methods, and devices for medical image analysis, diagnosis, risk stratification, decision making and/or disease tracking. In some embodiments, the systems, devices, and methods described herein are configured to analyze non-invasive medical images of a subject to automatically and/or dynamically identify one or more features, such as plaque and vessels, and/or derive one or more quantified plaque parameters, such as radiodensity, radiodensity composition, volume, radiodensity heterogeneity, geometry, location, and/or the like. In some embodiments, the systems, devices, and methods described herein are further configured to generate one or more assessments of plaque-based diseases from raw medical images using one or more of the identified features and/or quantified parameters.
US11341636B2
Methods and systems are provided for adaptive scan control. In one embodiment, a method includes, upon a first injection of a contrast agent, processing acquired projection data of a monitoring area of a subject to measure a contrast signal of the contrast agent, determining when each of a plurality of zones of a contrast scan are estimated to occur based on the contrast signal, generating a scan prescription for the contrast scan based on when each of the plurality of zones are estimated to occur, and upon a second injection of contrast agent, performing the contrast scan according to the scan prescription.
US11341632B2
A method is for obtaining at least one feature of interest, especially a biomarker, from an input image acquired by a medical imaging device. The at least one feature of interest is the output of a respective node of a machine learning network, in particular a deep learning network. The machine learning network processes at least part of the input image as input data. The used machine learning network is trained by machine learning using at least one constraint for the output of at least one inner node of the machine learning network during the machine learning.
US11341630B2
A lighting for defect inspection of sheet-shaped objects includes: an elongated light application unit configured to apply illumination light to a sheet-shaped object, the light application unit extending in a second direction that is orthogonal to a first direction on a surface of the sheet-shaped object; a first light shielding unit that is located on a light path from the light application unit to the sheet-shaped object, the first light shielding unit having light shielding sections and opening sections alternately arranged; and a second light shielding unit that is located between the first light shielding unit and the sheet-shaped object, the second light shielding unit having light shielding sections and opening sections alternately arranged in a direction parallel to the second direction.
US11341627B2
A machine learning tool for structures to (1) design structures, (2) verify construction and (3) assess damage due to deterioration, change of properties or a destructive event. The tool comprises various pre-trained machine learning models and post-processing algorithms. The tool includes a user interface that allows users to upload their data, analyze it through one or more pre-trained machine learning models and post-process the machine learning results in various ways. The tool displays the results and allows users to export them in various formats.
US11341626B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method and apparatus for outputting information. The method can include: acquiring an image of a to-be-inspected object; segmenting the image into at least one subimage; for a subimage in the at least one subimage, inputting the subimage into a pre-trained defect classification model to obtain a defect category corresponding to the subimage; and outputting defect information of the object based on a defect category corresponding to each subimage.
US11341622B2
There is provided an image processing apparatus. An obtaining unit obtains image data having a first dynamic range, the image data having been applied with a predetermined tone curve, the predetermined tone curve being a tone curve representing visual characteristics based on a relationship between the first dynamic range and an absolute luminance that is output. A first compression unit compresses the image data from the first dynamic range to a second dynamic range narrower than the first dynamic range while maintaining the predetermined tone curve.
US11341621B2
An enhanced imaging system for a motor vehicle includes a vision processing module that generates a data signal, in response to the camera capturing at least one of the video and the image. A graphics processor is configured to tone map the video or image to generate an RGB histogram including an overall tonal range. The processor is further configured to compare the overall tonal range to a tonal threshold. The processor detects one or more objects having a boundary that separates an interior region having an object tonal value from an exterior region having an exterior tonal value. The processor generates an optimized signal for increasing a difference between the object tonal value and the exterior tonal value, in response to the overall tonal range being above the tonal threshold. The system can further include a display device for displaying an optimized video or image.
US11341593B2
A vehicle allocation system is provided, which operates to move a vehicle to a predetermined point in response to a request from a user. The vehicle allocation system includes a boarding point determination apparatus, a control apparatus, and a user terminal apparatus. The boarding point determination apparatus includes a processor that operates to specify a second user who is expected to board in a predetermined range including a point associated with a first user, and calculate as the predetermined point a common point at which users including at least the first user and the second user board.
US11341592B2
A vehicle authentication method, a recording medium storing a program, a terminal device, and a vehicle authentication system which may raise security level on vehicle authentication by a user are provided. In the vehicle authentication method, the terminal device acquires a vehicle authenticator for authentication of a reserved vehicle, sends a reference vehicle a request for a vehicle authenticator for authentication of the reference vehicle, and determines whether the vehicle authenticators of the reference vehicle and the reserved vehicle coincide. Then a message that the reference vehicle is the reserved vehicle is displayed on the display unit upon determination that the vehicle authenticators of the reference vehicle and the reserved vehicle coincide. And a message that the reference vehicle is not the reserved vehicle is displayed on the display unit upon determination that the vehicle authenticators of the reference vehicle and the reserved vehicle do not coincide.
US11341589B2
A property management method is provided. Firstly, a projectable space instance for modeling a home system is provided. When the projectable space instance is acquired by a user, a projector parses the projectable space instance. After the projectable space instance is parsed, a projected home system corresponding to the home system is created, so that at least one property is accessible by the user. The present invention also provides a property management system and a machine using the property management method.
US11341586B1
Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with a social media assessment tool. According to one embodiment, a social media assessment tool includes an identification logic that identifies interactivity criteria of a social media property. The interactivity criteria are associated with access to the social media property. The social media assessment tool also includes an assessment logic that determines that interactivity criteria satisfy a threshold value. In response to the social media property satisfying the threshold, the assessment logic calculates a score for at least one feature of the social media property.
US11341582B1
In an example, a computer implemented method includes obtaining respective transactional data from each financial data source of a plurality of financial data sources, where the respective transactional data is each associated with a posting time. The method also includes determining a net liquidity amount from the respective transactional data based on the posting time of each of the respective transactional data. The method also includes outputting net liquidity data that is representative of the determined net liquidity amount.
US11341578B2
Some embodiments of the invention provide systems and methods for displaying market data for a tradable object which are configured to generate order entry fields for display responsive to user input wherein the generated fields are automatically associated with a price for the tradable object to facilitate the timely placement of a trade.
US11341575B1
An order management system comprises a middle tier and a computer-based automatic rule code generation system. The middle tier comprises a state transition engine that manages rule-based state transitions of trade orders for financial products from one state to a next state in progressions of the trade orders. The computer-based automatic rule code generation system: (i) receives a human-readable state transition file that specifies one or more state transition rules and a corresponding condition for each of the one or more state transition rules; and (ii) generates, at compile time, a configuration file that comprises rule code for the one or more state transition rules from the state transition file. The state transition engine runs the rule code in the configuration file at runtime to manage the state transitions for the trade orders.
US11341571B1
Risk assessment can be performed in many contexts including in lending. A set of metrics can be received and derived from data associated with a party, such as a third-party retailer or dealer, with respect to performance of an activity. A subset of metrics can be identified that exceed a threshold of acceptable performance. Weights can be applied to at least the subset of metrics that captures significance of corresponding metrics. A single weighted score can be computed from aggregation of the weighted subset of metrics, and a third party can be classified based on comparison of the weighted score to a predetermined threshold.
US11341568B1
A method for enabling automated upsell text messaging within shipping notification text messages using a software application includes: accepting a purchase transaction from a consumer via an electronic device; retrieving a mobile telephone number for the consumer in connection with the purchase transaction; sending a first text message via the software application to the consumer at the mobile telephone number to confirm shipping information; sending a second text message via the software application to the consumer to present an offer to the consumer for an additional item; and if the consumer replies to the offer in the affirmative, adding the additional item to the purchase transaction.
US11341567B2
Systems, methods, and devices for integrated marketing are disclosed herein. An integrated marketing system may include an integrated marketing device receiving media content from a content provider device. The integrated marketing device attaches one or more product tags to the video content based on elements within the video content. The one or more attached product tags are provided to a consumer or to the content provider device for display on a consumer device.
US11341565B2
A search system that is configured to generate personalized ranked lists of search results for end users is disclosed. The search system provides backend search services to several websites of different organizations, where the websites are configured to offer goods for acquisition to the end users. The search system is configured to construct profiles for users that interact with webpages of the websites, and is further configured to construct personalized re-rankers based upon such profiles.
US11341555B2
Apparatus and associated methods relate to encoding a digital asset representing a service bundle, with parameters uniquely identifying the bundle, based on the bundle definition, and with a value and availability determined as a function of asset state. The bundle may include a health service. The encoded asset may be a digital asset token, configured in computing device memory, or transported via network, to transfer possession, transfer ownership, verify ownership, change state, or access a bundled service. The asset token may include individually manageable sub-tokens. The bundle definition may include a unique combination of facility, location, time, or professional resources allocated to provide a service. The bundle may be certified, based on verified funding or confirmed resource allocation. Asset class may be based on certification. The asset may be non-fungible based on the unique resource combination's inherently limited supply, permitting the bundle to have intrinsic value with a demand-based price.
US11341538B2
In various embodiments, promotions are featured on mobile gaming devices. Data based on which a first promotion associated with a first advertiser may be displayed on a mobile gaming device. The data may include a first set of criteria identifying when the first promotion should be displayed.
US11341530B2
Embodiments include apparatuses, methods, and systems for segmenting a target region for a target user based on payment transactions within a payment processing system. The embodiments include identifying a target user from users based on payment transaction data, and determining target regions for the target user based on the payment transaction data of the target user and users. The target user may have a propensity for initiating transaction activity in the target regions within a predetermined time period. The embodiments include generating propensity scores for the target regions based on the payment transaction data, identifying a target region for the target user based on the propensity scores, and transmitting merchant offers to the target user based on the identified target region. The propensity scores may be ranked into a list of target region rankings, where the target region is a maximum score in the list of target region rankings.
US11341526B2
Provided are various methods of data collection and providing feedback to business owners and other types of venues using a software application. The software application includes various levels including a venue software application level, a consumer software application level and a cloud-based server software application level. The consumer software application is downloaded onto a smart device and notifications are sent to the smart device when a consumer enters a venue's defined geo-fences. The notification informs the consumer of survey-voucher pairs, where vouchers may be redeemed in exchange for the consumer completing surveys. The information obtained from the surveys provides feedback to venues and business owners.
US11341519B2
Example metering apparatus and related methods are disclosed. An example apparatus disclosed herein includes a stencil and a housing having a display area. The display area has a recessed cavity defining a front surface of the display area. A front surface of the stencil is to be flush mounted relative to the front surface of the display area defined by the recessed cavity when the stencil is positioned in the display area of the housing. A cover is removably coupled to the housing to enable access to the display area.
US11341511B2
Implementations relate to systems and methods for generating a user profile based on periodic location fixes. A cellular telephone or other mobile device captures location information via GPS or other capability. A location history can be generated from accumulated location fixes. The location history is then analyzed to detect the user's travel and dwell patterns. That information can be combined with business classification (e.g., SIC, etc.) or Point of Interest (POI) databases to identify a user's likely home, work, or other locations based on dwell-times, time of day, and other parameters. The user's age and gender can potentially be inferred based on types of locations visited, such as school locations. The user profile can be correlated with market segmentation databases to generate a marketing rating, such as a Nielsen or Claritas rating. Advertising, media, or other content can then be tailored to the user's individual location and demographic profiles.
US11341506B2
An automated queue is provided including processing circuitry configured to receive one or more posts from a social media platform associated with a target entity, generate a case including the content of a post, enter the case in a virtual queue for agent review, in response to the case reaching the front of the virtual queue, causing the content to be displayed to an agent on a user interface, receive a response from the user interface, and cause the response to be posted to the social media platform.
US11341494B2
A method includes receiving a request to verify a dynamic security code included in a transaction authorization request message. The transaction authorization request message was generated in connection with a payment account transaction. The method further includes performing a verification process with respect to the dynamic security code to generate a verification result. In addition, the transaction authorization request message may be modified by adding the verification result to the transaction authorization request message. Also, the modified transaction authorization request message may be transmitted to an issuer of a payment account designated for use in the payment account transaction.
US11341473B2
This disclosure describes, in part, techniques for enabling merchant devices to interoperate with one another in a more robust manner, such that overall operation and efficiency within a merchant establishment is improved. For instance, the techniques described herein may enable the intelligent routing of requests between devices within the merchant establishment based on real-time locations of the devices, which devices are associated with which orders, and the like.
US11341470B1
Systems and methods of authenticating online purchases by detecting a presence of an authorized smart card at a personal computing device of a customer are disclosed. An issuer computing system maintains a customer database of personal information and financial information for a plurality of customers with issued smart cards. An authentication logic receives an authentication request sent from a local merchant circuit at the personal computing device over a network. The authentication request comprises an authentication code provided to the local merchant circuit by a contactless chip of a smart card. The authentication logic authenticates the authentication request by comparing the authentication code with stored information in the customer database and transmits an authentication approval to the personal computing device, wherein the authentication approval enables an online purchase transaction request corresponding to the authentication request.
US11341464B2
Online ordering systems allow a user to submit sensitive information such as payment card information to a merchant in encrypted form. A payment card processor server may be used to provide the user's web browser with code for an encryption function, a cryptographic key, and a key identifier. The web browser may encrypt the payment card information by executing the encryption function and using the key. The encrypted payment card information may be supplied to the merchant over the internet. A key identifier that identifies which cryptographic key was used in encrypting the payment card information may be provided to the merchant without providing the merchant with access to the key. The merchant can forward the encrypted payment card information to the credit card processor server with the key identifier. The processor server can use the key identifier to obtain the key and decrypt the payment card information for authorization.
US11341458B2
An order registration device includes: a processor configured to execute a process that includes: a number-of-people registration process for registering the number of customers related to one transaction; a product registration process for registering a product ordered by the customers; and a display control process for performing control such that a display unit displays a number-of-people button which is a button for inputting the number of orders with respect to the product registered in the product registration process, the same number as the number of customers registered in the number-of-people registration process being set as the number of orders by the number-of-people button.
US11341456B2
The disclosure relates to an inventory management system including one or more imagers mounted to shelving or other structures displaying items for sale, where the imagers are designed to capture images of the items and relay information to a database for purposes of tracking the items and managing inventory. The imagers are compact, low power devices incorporating wireless means for communicating with the database and may include solar cell arrays for charging purposes.
US11341454B2
One variation of a method for tracking placement of products in a store includes: accessing an image depicting a shelving structure in the store; reading a product identifier of a product from a shelf tag detected in the image; accessing a set of template features associated with the product identifier; based on the shelf tag detected in the image, locating a region in the first image depicting a slot on the shelving structure; confirming presence of a unit of the product in the slot in response to detecting features analogous to the set of template features in the region in the image; detecting absence of the product from the slot based on absence of features analogous to the set of template features in the region in the image; and in response to detecting absence of the product from the slot, generating a prompt to restock the slot.
US11341452B2
A method, computer-readable medium and apparatus for receiving a package are disclosed. For example, the method via a processor receives an indication that the package is to be placed into a delivery box, captures an image of the delivery of the package, and sends a confirmation that the package has been placed into the delivery box.
US11341447B2
Data processing systems and methods, according to various embodiments, are adapted for mapping various questions regarding a data breach from a master questionnaire to a plurality of territory-specific data breach disclosure questionnaires. The answers to the questions in the master questionnaire are used to populate the territory-specific data breach disclosure questionnaires and determine whether disclosure is required in territory. The system can automatically notify the appropriate regulatory bodies for each territory where it is determined that data breach disclosure is required.
US11341444B2
Systems and methods for generating prioritization models and predicting workflow prioritizations are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: manage environment state information maintaining a collaboration environment; effectuate presentation of a series of questions via a first client computing platform associated with the first user; receive user input from the first client computing platform; generate a first prioritization model based on the response information; and determine one or more priorities for the first user based on the first prioritization model such that a primary first unit of work within the first set of units of work is determined to be a higher priority than a secondary first unit of work within the first set of units of work.
US11341418B2
The present disclosure describes computer-implemented methods and systems for providing and maintaining a limited iterative ontological notation (FIG. 1), built upon a three-value logic of existence or equivalence of patterns. Methods may be embodied as a self-referencing table with a finite collection of columns or as a property graph with a small count of fixed properties and a finite collection of edge types, each carrying a particular ontological interpretation and use. Isolation of information content from context and application of three value logic to pattern recognition produces a finite set of indexed notations which allow for leveraging of a fixed schema to enhance computing performance, reduce memory utilization and improve accessibility though enabling a user interface that does not require prior knowledge of graph database programming languages. Implementation embodiments include but are not limited to, formulaic, cyclical, graphical, tabular, Cartesian, hierarchical, object-oriented and transactional information sources.
US11341409B2
Deep learning approaches and systems are described to control the process of casting physical objects. A neural network, operating on one or more processors of a server or distributed computing resources and maintained in one or more data storage devices, is trained to recognize relationships between the target digital representation and the resulting metal parts that are cast, and a number of specific approaches are described herein to overcome technical issues in relation to misalignments between reference points, among others. These deep learning approaches are then used for generation of command or control signals which modify how the casting process is conducted. Command or control signals can be used to modify how a cast mold is made, to modify environmental variables, to modify manufacturing parameters, and combinations thereof.
US11341406B1
Methods and apparatus related to training and/or utilizing a convolutional neural network to generate grasping parameters for an object. The grasping parameters can be used by a robot control system to enable the robot control system to position a robot grasping end effector to grasp the object. The trained convolutional neural network provides a direct regression from image data to grasping parameters. For example, the convolutional neural network may be trained to enable generation of grasping parameters in a single regression through the convolutional neural network. In some implementations, the grasping parameters may define at least: a “reference point” for positioning the grasping end effector for the grasp; and an orientation of the grasping end effector for the grasp.
US11341403B2
A synapse system of a neuromorphic device may include a pre-synaptic neuron; a pre-synaptic line extending from the pre-synaptic neuron in a first direction; a post-synaptic neuron; a post-synaptic line extending from the post-synaptic line in a second direction; a selecting controller; a selecting line extending from the selecting controller in a third direction; and a synapse electrically connected with the pre-synaptic line, the post-synaptic line, and the selecting line.
US11341401B2
Embodiments of the invention relate to a neural network system for simulating neurons of a neural model. One embodiment comprises a memory device that maintains neuronal states for multiple neurons, a lookup table that maintains state transition information for multiple neuronal states, and a controller unit that manages the memory device. The controller unit updates a neuronal state for each neuron based on incoming spike events targeting said neuron and state transition information corresponding to said neuronal state.
US11341398B2
Learning data of a usage environment can be efficiently collected. A recognition apparatus includes: a first neural network configured to receive input of data; a second neural network configured to receive input of the data, the second neural network having a different structure from a structure of the first neural network; a comparison unit configured to compare a first output result of the first neural network and a second output result of the second neural network; and a communication unit configured to wirelessly transmit the data to a host system configured to learn the data when a comparison result between the first output result and the second output result is different by a predetermined standard or more.
US11341393B2
A method of confirming the identity of a person who issued a token to signify eligibility for a privilege. Possession token is confirmed to be by the same person by using sensors in the token which track the movements of the person. A machine learning system is trained to evaluate the sensor data detecting transfer of possession of the token. The state of continuous possession since the token was issued or set to an enabled state is confirmed and the privilege is granted. The method of identity confirmation is used in various contexts such as for to control entry to a location, use of a facility or service. It is also useful to determine continuous possession of a weapon to prevent misuse after the weapon is stolen, dropped or lost. Servers, beacons and outside sources of data or inputs to be measured by the sensor can also be used.
US11341383B2
The disclosure is directed towards methods and apparatus to detect effective tiling area and fill tiles efficiently. The method improves efficiency by not filling tiles within an inner box in a shape having a large unfilled area. One example method includes detecting an inner box, determining whether the detected inner box is big enough for pre-clipping, and confirming that the outer clip path contains the inner box. When filling tiles into a bounding rectangle tiling area, it is determined if a particular tile (or tile(s)) falls into an inner box or not, and if the tile falls in the inner box, that particular tile is not filled. According to one embodiment, the inner box is an internal rectangle that contains a maximum area in which it is unnecessary to fill tiles.
US11341381B2
A recording device includes a recording unit configured to execute recording on a recording medium using a color material of cyan, magenta, yellow, and black, and a control unit configured to control recording executed by the recording unit, wherein the control unit causes the recording unit to record an edge region of black data included in image data using at least the color material of black, causes the recording unit to record an inner region on an inner side of the edge region of the black data using at least the color material of cyan, magenta, and yellow, and sets the amount of the color material of black per unit area of the edge region to be greater than the amount of the color material of black per unit area of the inner region.
US11341377B2
In some examples, image content moderation may include classifying, based on a learning model, an object displayed in an image into a category. Further, image content moderation may include detecting, based on another learning model, the object, refining the detected object based on a label, and determining, based on the another learning model, a category for the refined detected object. Further, image content moderation may include identifying, based on the label, a keyword associated with the object, and determining, based on the identified keyword, a category for the object. Further, image content moderation may include categorizing, based on a set of rules, the object into a category, and moderating image content by categorizing, based on aforementioned analysis the object into a category. Yet further, image content moderation may include tagging, based on fusion-based tagging, the object with a category and a color associated with the object.
US11341367B1
Techniques for synthetic training data generation for machine learning are described. A user provides a synthetic training data generator with first set of images and a corresponding set of class identifiers each indicating a type of object depicted in a corresponding image. Each image depicts an object with a substantially or completely monochromatic or transparent background. A user also provides or identifies a second set of images to be used as backgrounds. The synthetic training data generator generates a plurality of images by overlaying one or more of the objects depicted in the first set of images over ones of the second set of images, and further generates labels for each of the plurality of images. The plurality of images and labels are used to automatically train and deploy a machine learning (ML) model.
US11341362B2
A method of updating a fingerprint template in an electronic device is provided. In an example, the method includes: a blank image is acquired when a fingerprint sensor in the electronic device scans a fingerprint sensor region and no finger is detected; and it is determined whether the fingerprint template is to be updated according to the blank image.
US11341360B2
A unit-of-one pattern creation method for bespoke garment fabrication includes loading into memory a test image of a base garment fitted on a model, processing the test image in a first convolutional neural network to generate different classifications for different portions of the base garment and flattening the different classified portions of the base garment to produce corresponding flattened patterns of the base garment. Thereafter, an image of a unique individual wearing a customer specific garment is acquired and processed in a second recurrent neural network trained with the different classifications of the first convolutional neural network. In response to the receipt of the acquired image in the second recurrent neural network, the second recurrent neural network classifies different portions of the acquired image and flattens the classified different portions of the acquired image in order to produce corresponding flattened patterns for a customized version of the base garment.
US11341356B2
Systems and methods for determining object intentions through visual attributes are provided. A method can include determining, by a computing system, one or more regions of interest. The regions of interest can be associated with surrounding environment of a first vehicle. The method can include determining, by a computing system, spatial features and temporal features associated with the regions of interest. The spatial features can be indicative of a vehicle orientation associated with a vehicle of interest. The temporal features can be indicative of a semantic state associated with signal lights of the vehicle of interest. The method can include determining, by the computing system, a vehicle intention. The vehicle intention can be based on the spatial and temporal features. The method can include initiating, by the computing system, an action. The action can be based on the vehicle intention.
US11341355B2
Disclosed is a method of controlling a robot, the method including receiving user input of a request for fitting service, moving the robot to a position at which a distance from the user satisfies a predetermined reference distance or more, and a predetermined range or more of the body of the user is scannable, scanning the predetermined range or more of the body of the user through the camera at the moved position, and providing the fitting service by creating a virtual avatar character of the user based on a result of scanning.
US11341353B2
Preserving ink effects in ink-to-text are described. A method of preserving styles and ink effects in ink-to-text can include receiving ink strokes and displaying the ink strokes on a canvas interface, each ink stroke comprising ink parameters such as pressure, ink color, and ink effect. In response to receiving a command to convert one or more ink strokes to text, the method can further include identifying text comprising characters and words from the one or more ink strokes; generating an appropriate coloring or style for each character or word based on the ink parameters associated with corresponding ink strokes, the appropriate coloring or style being generated based on a mapping between ink parameters and text parameters; applying the appropriate coloring or style to the text; and displaying the text on the canvas interface.
US11341342B2
An encoder connected to an object is provided. The encoder includes a plate, a sensor, a memory and a processor. The plate has a pattern thereon. The sensor is configured to obtain an image of a portion of the pattern. The memory is configured to store a first set of reference images corresponding to a portion of the pattern and angle and/or position information corresponding to the first set of images. The processor is configured to shift the first set of reference images to obtain a second set of reference images and to compare the obtained image with the first set of reference images and/or the second set of reference images.
US11341328B2
Systems and methods are provided for dynamic grammar augmentation for editing multiple network switch configuration files as a single file. The method includes identifying a first base grammar of a first network switch; identifying a second base grammar of a second network switch; identifying first and second patch grammars for the first and second network switches; generating an augmented grammar based on the first and second patch grammars and the first and second base grammars; identifying a first configuration file for the first network switch; identifying a second configuration file for the second network switch; generating a base merged configuration file, the base merged configuration file representing the first and second configuration files modified according to the augmented grammar.
US11341323B1
The invention is a patent application preparation system that automatically creates a template application for a drafter based on a record of invention form filled out by the inventor, practitioner or a combination of the two and at least one piece of prior art identified in a search report. The preparation system parses the text within the prior art document and identifies the claim elements that define the scope of the prior art invention. These old inventive features are subsequently highlighted from the claims and written description sections of the prior art references while the general body, format and non-claim features of the prior art remain intact which are subsequently amended and supplemented with the new inventive features described in the record of invention form.
US11341322B2
The subject matter described herein relates to table detection in a spreadsheet. According to implementations of the subject matter described herein, there is proposed a solution for determining a table in a spreadsheet. In the solution, respective multiple attributes of multiple cells comprised in the spreadsheet may be extracted. Respective features of the multiple cells may be determined based on the extracted multiple attributes. The multiple cells may be divided into at least one candidate area based on the features. At least one candidate table in the spreadsheet may be determined based on the at least one candidate area. By means of the solution, respective features of the multiple cells comprised in the spreadsheet may be determined based on the respective attributes of the multiple cells, and further, a candidate region where a table might exist may be determined based on the respective features of the multiple cells.
US11341319B2
A method comprising receiving an image of an electronic document comprising data fields and corresponding textual regions; processing said image to obtain (i) a collection of said data fields comprising an indication of a location and a field type, and (ii) an array of said textual regions comprising an indication of a location and a content; creating a mapping comprising associations of data fields in said collection with textual regions in said array based, at least in part, on analyzing a geometric relationship between each of said data fields and each of said textual regions; deriving at least one context rule for evaluating said associations, based, at least in part, on identifying a structure of said electronic document; and determining a correctness of at least one of said associations in said mapping, based, at least in part, on said at least one context rule.
US11341318B2
In some aspects, a method includes receiving data corresponding to a source document. The source document has an input file format. The method includes generating an intermediate file representing an electronic form based on the data. The intermediate file includes metadata indicating one or more elements of the source document, the intermediate file having an intermediate file format. The method includes providing an interactive tool configured to enable display and modification of the electronic form based on user input. The modification includes adding an additional element, deleting at least one of the one or more elements, modifying at least one of the one or more elements, or a combination thereof. The method includes converting the modified intermediate file to an output file having a target output file format. The output file represents the electronic form configured to support user entry of input information. The method includes outputting the output file.
US11341315B2
The system can using a bot to periodically visit one or more dynamically-generated webpages of a website and to automatically retrieve HTML code for the one or more dynamically-generated webpages of the website. The system can further include automatically storing, in a content delivery computer, the HTML code for the one or more dynamically-generated webpages, wherein automatically storing the HTML code transforms the one or more dynamically-generated webpages from a dynamic content format into a static content format such that the one or more dynamically-generated webpages are transformed into one or more pre-rendered webpages. Further, the system can automatically transmit from the content delivery computer for display on a computing device of the user, the HTML code as a pre-rendered webpage in real-time. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US11341312B2
A computer-readable medium including computer-executable instructions providing a method of displaying arrays of computer-readable files, the method comprising causing a first array of computer-readable files to be displayed, said first array of computer-readable files being displayed along a timeline according to a first timescale; causing a second array of computer-readable files to be displayed, said second array of computer-readable files being displayed along a timeline according to a second timescale. An interface, a computerized system and a method for providing same is also disclosed therein.
US11341300B1
A boiler design method and system for a supercritical carbon dioxide unit, and a storage medium are provided. The boiler design method includes the following steps: step 1, determining a boiler type, known design parameters and unknown design parameters of boilers to be designed; step 2, acquiring operating parameters of each selected supercritical carbon dioxide unit respectively, and establishing a relational expression among a plurality of operating parameters in the operating parameters of each supercritical carbon dioxide unit respectively; and step 3, substituting the known design parameters in step 1 into the relational expression determined in step 2, and calculating the unknown design parameters. The operating parameters of the boilers, with the optimal performance, of the supercritical carbon dioxide unit are selected to establish the relational expression, and the determined operating parameters are substituted into the relational expression to calculate design parameters to be determined.
US11341298B2
A method of stimulating a subterranean formation includes acquiring stimulation treatment input data, simulating a transport of at least one material transport present in a stimulation treatment design with a transport simulator model, determining and preparing the treatment design and performing the stimulating treatment according to the selected treatment design. As recited, simulating includes assuming that for each time stage of the stimulation treatment a velocity field for the at least one material transport and a stimulated flow domain geometry are known and calculating at each time stage the distribution of at least one physical quantity of the at least one material transport using a Lagrangian approach.
US11341289B2
A method for modeling a refurbishing geometry of a component comprises removing a portion to be refurbished from the component, thereby obtaining a truncated component, with a cut surface and a boundary line of the cut surface. Image data of the truncated component are obtained and a representation of the image data is imported into a CAD system. A CAD model of the component, for instance in an unused and nominal new condition, is provided and aligning with the imported representation of the truncated component. Points are defined on the surface of the CAD model and arranged on rows. For each row, a point on the representation of the boundary line of the cut surface closest to the row is determined, and the points in each row are displaced in a translational displacement until the row intersects the representation of the boundary line, thereby obtaining a morphed CAD model representative of the refurbishing geometry of the component.
US11341288B2
Example embodiments provide methods, mediums, and systems for making and evaluating changes to a model. According to example embodiments, checkpoints may be created as a user changes components in the model. The checkpoints may store changed components in the model that have been changed since a previous checkpoint, and a reference (e.g., a pointer) to the previous checkpoint. A user may freely create new checkpoints, revert to previous checkpoints, and select a checkpointed version of the model to be used as an official working version of the model. Upon activating an existing checkpoint, parametric relationships in the model assembly may be automatically updated in order to make components in the model consistent with each other. Thus, the user can readily change the model and evaluate variations of a design, while at the same time saving storage space by avoiding the need to repeatedly save different versions of the model.
US11341287B2
A computer-based method for generating a physical payment card for a consumer is implemented using a computer device including a processor. The method includes identifying a consumer account and creating, by the processor, a model data file associated with the physical payment card for the consumer account. The model data file includes data representing the physical payment card. The method includes transmitting the model data file to a 3-dimensional printer device and the model data file is configured to enable the printer device to print the physical payment card.
US11341284B2
Embodiments of the present specification disclose trusted hardware-based data management methods, apparatuses, and devices. One method comprising: identifying, by trusted hardware, data description information to be published, wherein the data description information describes target data of a data owner provided by a trusted institution, and the trusted hardware is associated with a decentralized identifier of the data owner; requesting the trusted institution to verify whether the trusted institution stores user service data for generating the target data; receiving a verification result from the trusted institution; and publishing the data description information in response to determining that the verification result indicating that the trusted institution stores the user service data for generating the target data.
US11341282B2
A method for executing a binary code includes for each item of data to be recorded: executing an algorithm for constructing a data line containing a cryptogram of this item of data constructed using an initialization vector ivj associated with an address @j of the main memory using a relationship ivj=Fiv(@j), where the function Fiv, is a pre-programmed function that associates a different initialization vector ivj with each different address @j of a main memory, and then recording this constructed data line in the main memory at the address @j, where each instruction line of a basic block is constructed by executing the same construction algorithm as the one executed to construct the data line and using the same function Fiv, the item of data for this purpose being taken to be equal to the instruction masked using a mask associated with this basic block.
US11341279B2
A system is provided and includes a securable resource, a locking element configured to assume a locked condition in which the securable resource is locked and an unlocked condition in which the securable resource is unlocked, a first controller, which is receptive of an instruction to authorize users to unlock the securable resource, and a common interface to which the first controller and additional controllers, which are independent from the first controller and one another, are tied. The first controller is configured to authenticate the users and to perform operating system (OS) level control of the locking element in accordance with the instruction to authorize users and an authentication of the users by the common interface.
US11341274B2
Methods and systems for enabling organization and control of dashboards, visualizations, and other saved data objects into spaces. An exemplary method includes, based on at least one role of a user, controlling the user's access to a default space and to other spaces of a plurality of spaces, such that the only spaces that the user can access are the default space and the one or more other spaces. Each space can contain a number of saved objects such as dashboards, visualizations, or other objects. The method can provide a graphical user interface for enabling the user to select, as a current space, the default space or one of the other spaces; and in response to the selection, automatically saving new objects generated by the user into the current space; wherein each of the spaces is configured to provide access to certain data objects only or access to certain applications only.
US11341265B1
Nowadays much information pertaining to the user's life tends to be stored on their mobile device. Some of this information is considered strictly confidential by the user—not to be divulged to anybody else, not even to family members, co-workers or other intermittent borrowers of the user's device. Hence the significant user demand for an on-device Secure Vault for the placement of all such confidential content-files, with access to each such file individually-protected by a user-keyed access restriction method. This invention fulfils that demand.
US11341255B2
A document management system having context-based access control and related methods are provided. The document management system determines whether to perform user authentication based on derived context-information comprising one or a combination of derived user-context parameters and document-context parameters that provide additional context to document access requests.
US11341244B2
Method and device for detecting encryption, in particular for anti-ransomeware software. The invention relates to a device for detecting encryption, comprising a computer (1) with a central processing unit (4) and a memory, which comprises a random-access memory (9) and a mass memory unit (6) comprising files. The central processing unit (4) cooperates with the random-access memory (9) and with an operating system (10) which comprises a core (12) and which is capable of having processes (18) carried out by the central processing unit (4); said processes (18) are divided into wires (20) and may comprise functions for accessing the files. A statistical model for ordinary writing to the header of a file is stored in the memory (6, 9). The device comprises a monitoring program (32) which is active in the core (12) and which is provided to:—recover (30) the write requests (24) in a file (8), said write requests (24) being transmitted by each wire (20), such requests (24) comprising, as an argument, a string of characters to be written,—calculate a first deviation value as a function of the portion of the string of characters relating to the header of the file and the statistical model for writing to the header, then—deliver a first warning if the first deviation value exceeds a first threshold.
US11341240B2
A system for reducing the effects of unwanted software (“malware”) is described having a user computing device which runs on a user operating system (UOS) and a user web browser coupled by a limited communication link to a host computing device including VM executable code for emulating a virtual machine, a virtual OS which runs on the virtual machine and a web browser adapted to run on the virtual OS. The limited communication link connected between the user computing device and the host computing device is adapted to pass certain user input communications (signals from the input devices) from the user computing device to the host computing device; and pass certain output communications (signals to output devices) from the host computing device to the user computing device thereby restricting malware from being introduced to the user computing device.
US11341234B1
Described is a system that securely recovers critical backup and data protection infrastructure such as a backup application that manages data for a backup and recovery system. Such a capability may be provided by securely storing a copy of metadata associated with a production backup application into an isolated recovery environment. By storing the metadata on the isolated recovery environment, the metadata may be secure from potential security threats such as ransomware that may attack the production infrastructure itself. Accordingly, the secure copy of metadata may then be restored to a sandboxed environment with the isolated recovery environment and used to create a recovery instance of the backup application. The system may also perform various tests on the recovered instance of the backup application in response to particular security threats before being exposed to a production system for recovery purposes.
US11341224B2
A handheld biometric imaging device having an array of cameras configured to simultaneously capture face, iris and fingerprint biometrics of a subject. The device includes a plurality of visible-light cameras and a plurality of infrared-light cameras capable of being triggered simultaneously to obtain a plurality of images from which a 3D image of the light field can be constructed. The device includes a plurality of visible-light illuminators and a plurality of infrared-light illuminators that allow images of a subject to be captured under different lighting profiles. The device may include an onboard control system that is capable of reconstructing a face region, an iris region and a fingerprint region from the 3D light-field image, and then extract a corresponding face template, an iris template, and a fingerprint template from the respective reconstructed regions. The extracted face, iris, and fingerprint templates may be used for enrollment and/or comparison against a biometric-template database associated with one or more watchlists.
US11341223B1
Techniques are described for enabling a user to access a secure system based on vital signs of the user that are collected by a wearable device worn by the user. The vital signs of the user may be used as an extra level of security when accessing the secure system. For example, a computing device may automatically validate that a user requesting access to a secure system is a person and not a robot based on receipt of vital signs of the user. As another example, a computing device may operate as a secure access badge that first analyzes vital signs of a user to confirm that the user is not in distress before sending an access signal to gain access to a secure system. In either example, the computing device may be a wearable device, or be paired to a wearable device to receive the vital signs.
US11341220B2
Techniques for electronic signature process management are described. Some embodiments provide an electronic signature service (“ESS”) configured to manage electronic identity cards. In some embodiments, the ESS generates and manages an electronic identity card for a user, based on personal information of the user, activity information related to the user's actions with respect to the ESS, and/or social networking information related to the user. The electronic identity card of a signer may be associated with an electronic document signed via the ESS, so that users may obtain information about the signer of the document. The ESS may also generate a trust score for the user based on activity information related to the user's actions with respect to the ESS and/or other factors. The trust score may be used to recommend authentication mechanisms to use with respect to electronic signature transactions.
US11341219B2
Disclosed is an electronic device that receives a first input received through a stylus pen connected with the electronic device through wireless communication in a lock state of the electronic device, identifies unlock history information by at least one user authentication method in response to receiving the first input, and changes a state of the electronic device to an unlock state, based at least partially on an existence of the identified unlock history information.
US11341217B1
Technologies related to enhancing security of digital content are described. Linear error correction codes (LECCs) are employed for dual purposes: 1) to obfuscate digital content; and 2) to verify integrity of the digital content. A transmitter computing system obfuscates digital content based upon an obfuscation protocol, wherein the obfuscated digital content includes an LECC. A receiver computing system deobfuscates the digital content by performing the inverse of the obfuscation protocol.
US11341216B2
Provided is a method for computer-aided obfuscation of program code, wherein a plurality of calculation steps is implemented in the program code, wherein predetermined calculation steps of the plurality of calculation steps are retrieved in a predetermined order with the execution of the program code, and at least some of the predetermined calculation steps are predefined calculation steps in which a respective first table that is stored in the program code and includes of a plurality of digital first tabular values is accessed in order to read a first tabular value required for the respective predefined calculation step from the first table. As part of the obfuscation of the program code, a dynamic mask formed by a plurality of digital mask values is used, wherein, for any predefined calculation step, another mask value is used to replace the first tabular value from the first table with a second tabular value.
US11341213B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide systems and methods for sharing media files. One embodiment of the system, among others, can be implemented as follows. The system includes a file sharing application configured to initiate a communication session with a file server, where the file server that manages download requests for a collection of media files, where the collection of media files are subject to a trial period. The system further includes media file selection logic configured to prompt a user to select a subset of media files from the collection of media files that was downloaded from the file server after the trial period is detected to have expired. In accordance with this embodiment, the user selects a subset of media files that the user would like to keep for continued use and the remaining media files not selected by the user are then configured to be inaccessible by the user after the trial period has expired. Other systems and methods are also provided.
US11341187B2
A system, method and computer-readable medium for missing data identification, including identifying columns in tables of a database, generating categorical columns of categorical data by transforming data values in the columns into categorical data values, generating a co-occurrence matrix corresponding to a pair of categorical columns in the categorical columns, determining an expected frequency of co-occurrence corresponding to each unique pair of categorical data values based at least in part on a marginal totals corresponding to categorical data values in the co-occurrence matrix, and identifying one or more locations of missing data based at least in part on the count of co-occurrence of each unique pair of categorical data values and the expected frequency of co-occurrence corresponding to each unique pair of categorical data values.
US11341186B2
A method, computer program product, and a system where a processor(s) obtains a video from a user, via a client, and segments the video into temporal shots that comprise a timeline of the video. The processor(s) cognitively analyze the video, by applying an image recognition algorithm to identify image entities in each temporal shot of the video and by applying a data structure comprising a user profile of the user to the temporal shots, to identity personal entities in each temporal shot of the video. The program code generates a search index for the video, utilizing the user entities (image entities and personal entities), where each entry of the search index is a given user entity and a linkage to a given temporal shot and the linkage indicates a location of the given user entity in the timeline of the video.
US11341180B2
Embodiments retrieve a set of search results that have been previously identified as having at least one associated date or location. A timeline or map is displayed that visually represents the distribution of the dates or locations within the results. The timeline is displayed with a histogram graph corresponding to the number of dates in the search results at points along the timeline. The map is displayed with markers at the locations corresponding to the locations in the search results. The user can navigate the result set using the displayed timeline or map.
US11341177B1
An image captioning system and method is provided for generating a caption for an image. The image captioning system utilizes a policy network and a value network to generate the caption. The policy network serves as a local guidance and the value network serves as a global and lookahead guidance.
US11341165B2
A system is provided to provide near real-time updates to data tables for a data warehouse using a micro-batch manager. The system includes a processor and a computer readable medium operably coupled thereto, to perform table updating operations which include accessing a first staging data table comprising a plurality of records that was generated by the micro-batch manager for a first destination table of the data tables for the data warehouse, reading a merge instruction column of the first staging data table for the plurality of records, determining a merge operation for each of the plurality of records from reading the merge instruction column, merging the plurality of records from the first staging data table to the first destination table using the merge operation for each of the plurality of records, and deleting the plurality of records from the first staging data table after merging.
US11341155B2
Mapping data stored in a data storage system for use by a computer system includes processing specifications of dataflow graphs that include nodes representing computations interconnected by links representing flows of data. At least one of the dataflow graphs receives a flow of data from at least one input dataset and at least one of the dataflow graphs provides a flow of data to at least one output dataset. A mapper identifies one or more sets of datasets. Each dataset in a given set matches one or more criteria for identifying different versions of a single dataset. A user interface is provided to receive a mapping between at least two datasets in a given set. The mapping received over the user interface is stored in association with a dataflow graph that provides data to or receives data from the datasets of the mapping.
US11341146B2
Data may be queried and analyzed in order to draw insights. One type of data query that may be performed is a funnel query. A funnel query is a query characterized by a sequence of events, e.g.: “In the last N days, how many unique users performed event A, then event B, and then event C”. Systems and methods for performing funnel queries are provided herein. In some embodiments, the speed at which a computer can answer a funnel query may be increased. In some embodiments, a bitmap is used to eliminate one or more sequences of events that would otherwise need to be traversed during the funnel query. In some embodiments, a sequence of events is stored across multiple data partitions, each data partition covering a different period of time.
US11341144B2
A system for and a method of using user-entered information to return more meaningful information in response to Internet search queries are disclosed. A method in accordance with the disclosed subject matter comprises managing a database in response to multiple user inputs and displaying search results from the database in response to a search query. The search results include a results list and supplemental data related to the search query. Managing the database includes, among other things, re-ranking elements in the results list, storing information related to relevancies of elements in the results list, blocking a link in the results list, storing links to documents related to the search query, or any combination of these. The supplemental data include descriptions of or indices to one or more concepts related to the search query.
US11341139B2
Provided are a system, method and computer program product for redistribution of data in an online shared nothing database, said shared nothing database comprising a plurality of original partitions and at least one new partition. Said method comprising: a collocation-set identifier for identifying two or more collocated tables in the original partitions to be redistributed over the original partitions and at least one new partition, said tables having data rows, each data row residing on a partition governed by a distribution key; a table factory for creating corresponding new tables in the new partition; a view creator for creating a UNION ALL view of all the data from both the original and new tables using the check constraints, said check constraints in turn based on the distribution keys; a counter for defining a loop of intervals over the distribution key range; a data mover for performing data movement of each data row over the current distribution key interval from the original tables to the new tables; a data changer for altering the check constraints for each distribution key interval so that the UNION ALL view is preserved thereby ensuring collocation and data integrity is maintained; a loop finisher for looping back for the next distribution key interval until all the distribution key intervals have been processed such that all the data has been moved to the new table whereby collocation and data integrity is maintained, redistribution is transparent for queries performed on the database, and tables are fully available during redistribution for read and write.
US11341138B2
A computer-implemented method, computerized apparatus and computer program product for query performance prediction, the method comprising: obtaining a result list comprising a listing of documents retrieved from a collection in response to a query; obtaining for each of the listed documents in the result list a score indicating a measure of the document's relevance to the query; sampling the result list to obtain a plurality of sub-lists each of which comprising a listing of documents subsumed by the result list; for each of the plurality of sub-lists, analyzing scores of the documents listed therein to obtain a sample performance estimator; and estimating performance of the result list based on the sample performance estimator of each of the plurality of sub-lists.
US11341130B2
A query to retrieve database values for a first subset of table columns in a database table is determined. Runtime column selection variables are set up to identify the first subset of table columns for data retrieval, and are dynamically bound to a prepared query statement with single-column query statements joined by interstitial union operators. Each single-column query statement in the prepared query statement specifies a single-column query directed to a corresponding table column with a corresponding predicate to be bound at runtime dynamically with a corresponding portion of the one or more runtime column selection variables. The predicate is evaluated to be true or false in dependence on whether the corresponding table column is in the first subset of table columns. The prepared query statement is executed to retrieve database values for the first subset of table columns in the database table.
US11341127B2
This invention provides an information processing apparatus for learning parameters to convert a question in a natural language into a query expression in a formal language, including an acceptor accepting an input of a set of a question in the natural language and a correct answer to the question, a condition generator generating condition(s) to be satisfied by the formal language input on searching a database for the correct answer, a query expression generator generating a query expression in the formal language corresponding to the question using parameters of the converter to satisfy any of the at least one condition, an answer acquirer acquiring an answer to the question based on a search of the database using the generated query expression, and a updater updating the parameters such that the question is converted with priority into the generated query expression when the answer and the correct answer match.
US11341126B2
Some implementations generate logical queries from a canonical query, where the logical queries each reflect a modified scope of the canonical query. Implementations receive, via a personalized analytics system, a canonical query that is associated with a user. The canonical query can be analyzed to determine an intent of the canonical query. In turn, one or more implementations generate, based on the intent an anecdotal information associated with the user, a logical query that reflects a modified scope of the canonical query. The logical query can be used to extract data from a database associated with the personalized analytics system based on the modified scope.
US11341116B2
According to some aspects, a data processing system is provided, the data processing system comprising at least one computer readable medium comprising processor-executable instructions that, when executed, cause the at least one processor to receive, through at least one user interface, input indicating a data element and one or more data quality metrics, identify, based on relationship information associated with the data element and/or the one or more data quality metrics, one or more datasets, one or more fields of the one or more datasets, and one or more data quality rules, each of the data quality rules being associated with at least one of the one or more fields, and perform an analysis of data quality of the one or more fields based at least in part on the one or more data quality rules associated with the one or more fields.
US11341115B2
At a logging service, a representation of a transaction requested by a client is received. The transaction includes at least a first write operation directed to a data object at a first data store. Based at least in part on the contents of the representation and contents of a persistent log of the logging service, a determination is made that the requested transaction is to be committed. A log record corresponding to the first write operation is inserted into the persistent log. The first write is propagated to the first data store after the record has been inserted in the persistent log.
US11341112B2
Lock table management is provided for a lock manager of a database system, in which lock management is provided in a manner that is fast and efficient, and that conserves processing, memory, and other computational resources. For example, the lock table management can use a hashmap in which keys and values are stored in separate arrays, which can be loaded into separate CPU cache lines.
US11341104B1
Techniques for resizing a distributed database are described. A request to resize a distributed database is received. The distributed database stores data organized into one or more rows of one or more tables. Each node of the first plurality of nodes is assigned a portion of the data. A portion of the data assigned to a first node in the first plurality of nodes is selected to be assigned to a second node in a second plurality of nodes. The number of nodes in the first and second plurality of nodes is different, and the first and second plurality of nodes include at least one common node. Metadata of the selected portion of the data is transferred from the first node to the second node. The metadata that includes a location of the selected portion of the data within a provider network.
US11341096B2
Techniques for presenting recently generated content on a display include presenting, based on an execution of an application, content on the display, generating a content file including at least one of a video or a screenshot of the application, storing the content file, receiving, based on user input at the input device, a request to access one or more of content files from the folder, wherein the request is received while the execution of the application continues, and presenting, in response to the request, a window over at least a first portion of the content while the execution of the application continues, wherein the window previews the content file and indicates the recency of the content file, and includes a selectable option to edit for length, crop, or annotate in the window any of the content file or the other content files.
US11341095B2
An electronic device according to an embodiment disclosed herein may include a display, an input device, a connecting terminal, a storage, and a processor. The processor may be configured to: copy information about files and folders stored in an external device; generate a list of the files and the folders stored in the external device; receive a first user input for selecting one or more of the files or folders included in the list of the files and the folders; copy the selected file or folder from the external device and store the copied file or folder in the storage; and maintain the display of the list of the files and the folders even after the external device is disconnected. Various other embodiments are possible.
US11341091B2
Customers in regulated industries face demanding compliance regulations, including content immutability. While broadened to allow software-based solutions, the regulations for immutability require content preservation to prevent overwriting, erasure or alteration of the content, where the preservation must be implemented through irrevocable features. Embodiments are directed to provision of an administrative user experience to enable customers to create a preservation policy that defines item(s) to be preserved. After detecting enablement of the policy, the item(s) may be preserved, a preservation lock on the policy may be initiated by disabling controls associated with the policy, and an attribute may be set to the policy to identify the policy as locked. Preservation of the item(s) may prevent content of the item(s) from being overwritten, erased, and/or altered, and the preservation lock on the policy may prevent alteration and/or revocation of the policy for a duration of the lock to satisfy the regulations.
US11341087B2
A heterogeneous multi-core integrated circuit comprising two or more processors, at least one of the processors being a general purpose CPU and at least one of the processors being a specialized hardware processing engine, the processors being connected by a processor local bus on the integrated circuit, wherein the general purpose CPU is configured to generate a first instruction for an atomic operation to be performed by a second processor, different from the general purpose CPU, the first instruction comprising an address of the second processor and a first command indicating a first action to be executed by the second processor, and transmit the first instruction to the second processor over the processor local bus. The first command may include the first action, or may be a descriptor of the first action or a pointer to where the first action may be found in a memory.
US11341085B2
Methods and apparatus for a low energy accelerator processor architecture with short parallel instruction word. An integrated circuit includes a system bus having a data width N, where N is a positive integer; a central processor unit coupled to the system bus and configured to execute instructions retrieved from a memory coupled to the system bus; and a low energy accelerator processor coupled to the system bus and configured to execute instruction words retrieved from a low energy accelerator code memory, the low energy accelerator processor having a plurality of execution units including a load store unit, a load coefficient unit, a multiply unit, and a butterfly/adder ALU unit, each of the execution units configured to perform operations responsive to op-codes decoded from the retrieved instruction words, wherein the width of the instruction words is equal to the data width N. Additional methods and apparatus are disclosed.
US11341083B2
The present invention includes an integrated system-on-chip device configured on a substrate member. The device has a data input/output interface provided on the substrate member and configured for a predefined data rate and protocol. The device has an input/output block provided on the substrate member and coupled to the data input/output interface. The input/output block comprises a SerDes block, a CDR block, a compensation block, and an equalizer block. The SerDes block is configured to convert a first data stream of N having a first predefined data rate at a first clock rate into a second data stream of M having a second predefined data rate at a second clock rate. The device has a driver module provided on the substrate member and coupled to a signal processing block, and a driver interface provided on the substrate member and coupled to the driver module and a silicon photonics device.
US11341079B2
A device includes a transmitter coupled to a node, where the node is to couple to a wired link. The transmitter has a plurality of modes of operation including a calibration mode in which a range of communication data rates over the wired link is determined in accordance with a voltage margin corresponding to the wired link at a predetermined error rate. The range of communication data rates includes a maximum data rate, which can be a non-integer multiple of an initial data rate.
US11341076B2
A hot-plugged PCIe device configuration system includes a PCIe device with a PCIe configuration space having PCIe configuration space registers. A computing system includes a PCIe connector and a PCIe setting record database storing a first PCIe setting record having a first register write location value and first register value information. The computing system detects that the PCIe device has been hot-plugged into the PCIe connector, and uses the first register write location value in the first PCIe setting record to determine a location in the PCIe configuration space that provides a first PCIe configuration space register. The computing system then uses the first register value information in the first PCIe setting record to determine at least one register value change for the first PCIe configuration register, and writes the at least one register value change to the first PCIe configuration space register using the location.
US11341066B2
Disclosed is a cache including a dataflow controller for transmitting first data to a first processor and receiving second data from the first processor, an external direct memory access (DMA) controller for receiving the first data from an external memory to transmit the first data to the dataflow controller and receiving the second data from the dataflow controller to transmit the second data to the external memory, a scratchpad memory for storing the first data or the second data transmitted between the dataflow controller and the external DMA controller, a compression/decompression device for compressing data to be transmitted from the scratchpad memory to the external memory and decompressing data transmitted from the external memory to the scratchpad memory, and a transfer state buffer for storing transfer state information associated with data transfer between the dataflow controller and the external DMA controller.
US11341059B2
The described embodiments include an input-output memory management unit (IOMMU) with two or more memory elements and a controller. The controller is configured to select, based on one or more factors, one or more selected memory elements from among the two or more memory elements for performing virtual address to physical address translations in the IOMMU. The controller then performs the virtual address to physical address translations using the one or more selected memory elements.
US11341053B2
An information handling system may include a host system and a management controller configured to provide out-of-band management of the information handling system. The management controller may be configured to: receive, from a management console, a request to establish virtual media for the host system; cause the requested virtual media to be mounted as a drive accessible to the host system; receive read requests from the host system for data associated with the mounted drive; and cache data from the virtual media in a local cache such that at least some of the read requests from the host system are serviceable via the local cache instead of via a network request to the management console.
US11341049B2
Techniques involve managing a storage system. A target storage device is selected from multiple storage devices associated with the storage system in response to respective wear degrees of the multiple storage devices being higher than a first predetermined threshold. Regarding multiple extents in the multiple storage devices, respective access loads of the multiple extents are determined. A source extent is selected from multiple extents residing on storage devices other than the target storage device, on the basis of the respective access loads of the multiple extents. Data in the source extent are moved to the target storage device. Various storage devices in a resource pool may be prevented from reaching the end of life at close times, and further data loss may be avoided.
US11341044B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for reclaiming one or more portions of storage resources in a computer system serving one or more virtual computing instances, where the storage resources in the computer system are organized in clusters of storage blocks. In one aspect, a method includes maintaining a respective block tracking value for each storage block that indicates whether a call to reclaim the storage block is outstanding; determining, from the block tracking values, a respective cluster priority value for each of the clusters based on a count of storage blocks in the respective cluster for which a call to reclaim is outstanding; and reclaiming a first portion of storage resources in the computer system in accordance with the cluster priority values.
US11341039B2
A data arrangement method of a flash memory, a flash memory storage device, and a flash memory control circuit unit are provided. The method may be applied to a flash memory, an embedded memory device, or a solid-state disk having a three-dimensional (3D) structure. The method includes: executing a background garbage collection operation in a background mode; receiving at least one write command from a host when the background garbage collection operation is not completed to suspend the background garbage collection operation and exit the background mode; executing the at least one write command; and entering the background mode and continuing the execution of the background garbage collection operation after the at least one write command is completed. Therefore, execution efficiency of the write command in a foreground mode may be optimized.
US11341028B2
Functional verification of a new database feature is provided. A set of SQL query seeds are evolved using information contained in a knowledge map that was generated based on a real SQL query workload of an entity corresponding to a database. Real SQL queries are identified in the database that are similar to the evolved set of sample SQL query seeds. A new feature to be implemented in the database is injected into the real SQL queries that are similar to the evolved set of sample SQL query seeds. Multiple runtime access paths are generated for each of the real SQL queries injected with the new feature for output cross validation. Each of the real SQL queries injected with the new feature is run in a test environment using each of the multiple runtime access paths corresponding to a real SQL query injected with the new feature for functional verification.
US11341019B2
A system includes a metric data store configured to receive and store a time-series of values of a first metric, a seasonal trend identification module configured to determine a periodicity profile for the first metric, and a modeling module configured to generate an autoregressive moving average (ARMA) model. The modeling module includes a seasonal model module configured to generate a first model of the time-series of values, a non-seasonal model module configured to generate a second model of the time-series of values, and a combination module configured to generate a third model based on the first and second models. The modeling module is configured to, in response to determining that a first periodicity profile describes the time-series of values, output the third model as the ARMA model. The system includes an envelope determination module configured to determine a normal behavior of the first metric based on the ARMA model.
US11341009B1
A system receives a request to store a replica of a data object into any cloud storage node associated with an attribute, and then identifies a redundancy number associated with the data object. The system identifies a number of cloud storage nodes that are associated with the attribute. If the identified number of cloud storage nodes is greater than the redundancy number, the system identifies the redundancy number of cloud storage nodes as a subset of the number of cloud storage nodes, based on the data object and a unique identifier associated with each of the number of cloud storage nodes. The system stores the redundancy number of replicas into the corresponding redundancy number of cloud storage nodes.
US11341006B1
An embodiment includes monitoring a distributed computing application at runtime for occurrence of a condition, where the condition includes occurrence of a degradation condition on a processing element (PE). The embodiment also includes starting a provisional PE on a second node at runtime while maintaining runtime operation of the PE. The embodiment compares operation of the PE to operation of the provisional PE based on a performance metric associated with the computing resource. The embodiment connects the provisional PE to replace the stream of tuples from the PE to a downstream PE with a stream of tuples from the provisional PE to the downstream PE.
US11341002B1
An IC chip can include a buffer and correction module that receives a set of multiphase clock signals at a given frequency, the buffer and correction module can include a differential skew detector that detects a skew between signals of the set of multiphase clock signals. The skew detector can include a set of SR latches. Differential clock signals of the set of multiphase clock signals are input into each SR latch, and the differential clock signals of the set of multiphase clock signals are set to be 180 degrees out of phase. A voltage difference between a DC component of a first output signal and a DC component of a second output signal of a respective SR latch in the set of SR latches varies as a function of the skew between the differential clock signals of the set of multiphase clock signals.
US11340993B2
A method includes, when a first batch rebuild threshold is met, a computing device of a dispersed storage network (DSN) determining whether target storage units of a set of storage units of the DSN are available, where a data segment of data is dispersed storage error encoded into a set of encoded data slices, a number of encoded data slices that need rebuilding corresponds to the first batch rebuild threshold, and the number of encoded data slices is to be stored in the target storage units. When a target storage unit is unavailable, the method continues by delaying a batch rebuild process until the target storage unit is available or a second batch rebuild threshold is met. When the target storage unit becomes available before the second batch rebuild threshold is met, the method continues by executing the batch rebuild process for the number of encoded data slices.
US11340982B1
An apparatus includes a memory sub-system comprising a plurality of memory blocks and a memory block defect detection component. The memory block defect detection component is to set, for a memory block among the plurality of memory blocks, a first block defect detection rate and determine whether the first block defect detection rate is greater than a threshold block defect detection rate for the at least one memory block. In response to a determination that the first block defect detection rate is greater than the threshold block defect detection rate for the memory block, the memory block defect detection component is to assert a program command on the memory block determine whether a program operation associated with assertion of the program command on the at least one memory block is successful. In response to a determination the program operation is unsuccessful, the memory block defect detection component is to determine that a failure involving a plane associated with the memory block and another plane of the memory sub-system has occurred.
US11340981B2
A first error rating for a first memory access operation performed for data stored at a memory device operating at a first state is determined. In response to a determination that the first error rating satisfies a first error rating condition associated with the first state of the memory device, a first error correction operation is performed at the memory device. A change of the state of the memory device from the first state to a second state is detected. A second error rating condition associated with the memory device is determined based on the second state of the memory device. A second error rating is determined for a second memory access operation performed at the memory device. In response to a determination that the second error rating satisfies the second error rating condition, a second error correction operation is performed at the memory device.
US11340974B2
A storage control device includes: an auxiliary cache memory that is a nonvolatile memory; a volatile memory; and a processor configured to execute a saving control process after a predetermined failure occurs, the saving control process being configured to (a) cause a writing control process to stop writing of data stored in the auxiliary cache memory to the storage medium, (b) secure, in the auxiliary cache memory, a storage region for storing the management information of the volatile memory, (c) generate a copy of management information of the volatile memory in the storage region, and (d) cause the writing control process to execute control to write first data stored in the volatile memory to the auxiliary cache memory or the storage medium based on the management information of the auxiliary cache memory.
US11340967B2
Techniques are provided for high availability events in a layered architecture. In an example two computing nodes coordinate to provide a computing service, where each node has a base operating system configured to fence the other base operating system, and an application configured to fence the other application. In some examples, fencing requests by an application are routed through its base operating system, which coordinates application-level fencing requests and operating system-level fencing requests.
US11340959B2
Provided is a control method of an electronic apparatus, the method including displaying content corresponding to a first application in a first area of a display, displaying content corresponding to a second application in a second area of the display, identifying resource allocation information associated with the first application and the second application, and running the first application and the second application based on the identified resource allocation information.
US11340948B2
A method for controlling transactional processing system having transactions that include multiple tasks, a throughput limit a transaction processing time limit includes allocating a plurality of threads to be used by multiple tasks to achieve a throughput approximating the throughput limit. The method assigns the multiple tasks to the plurality of threads and assigns respectively different processing delays to the plurality of threads. The processing delays span an interval less than the transaction processing time limit. The method processes the multiple tasks within the transaction processing time limit by executing the plurality of threads at times determined by the respective processing delays.
US11340945B2
In a computer system having multiple memory proximity domains including a first memory proximity domain with a first processor and a first memory and a second memory proximity domain with a second processor and a second memory, latencies of memory access from each memory proximity domain to its local memory as well as to memory at other memory proximity domains are probed. When there is no contention, the local latency will be lower than remote latency. If the contention at the local memory proximity domain increases and the local latency becomes large enough, memory pages associated with a process running on the first processor are placed in the second memory proximity domain, so that after the placement, the process is accessing the memory pages from the memory of the second memory proximity domain during execution.
US11340944B2
A load shedding system provides improved fault tolerance and resilience in message communications. The requesting service application may be configured to send data request(s) to a responding service application. A load shedding manager is programmed or configured to receive the data request(s) and determine, based on one or more configurable criteria and status information whether to allow the data request(s) to proceed or not. The criteria for making the determination may include various configurable settings, including error rate time window, and threshold values. The status information may include various information that describes the performance or health of the responding service, including, but not limited to: error rate for the responding service application's processing of incoming requests, latency of communication between the requesting service application and the responding service application, number of concurrent operations or requests being processed by the responding service application, CPU usage of the responding service application, disk usage of the responding service application, and other similar status information.
US11340939B1
Providing application-aware analytics for storage systems, including: collecting, by a workload migration module, from a first host, first data describing performance characteristics of the first host and second data describing performance characteristics of one or more clients connected to the first host and associated with a workload supported by the first host; identifying, based on the data, a second host for servicing the workload; and deploying the workload in the second host.
US11340927B2
Computing resources are provided to a user by identifying applications used by the user, and provisioning virtual computing resources that are adapted to the resource requirements of the identified applications. The resource requirements of the identified applications can be combined into a single set of resource requirements and used to acquire a virtual machine that is able to host the identified applications. In other examples, virtual machines may be acquired for each identified application. Each virtual machine generates a display stream via a streaming agent. The display stream is received by an application streaming client on the user's client computer system, and is displayed to the user on a client display. Multiple virtual machines may generate multiple display streams which can be combined by the application streaming client and presented to the user on the single client display.
US11340922B2
A system and method for facilitating a user to initiate and accept an assistance request through a chat session is disclosed. Controls may be provided in a graphical chat interface to enable the user to specify inputs to request assistance from other users participating in the chat session. An assistance request may be generated and communicated to those users through the chat session. Graphical representation for the assistance request and controls that facilitate the users to accept the assistance request may be provided in the graphical chat interface. Upon an acceptance to the assistance request by a responding user through the graphical chat interface, an assistance command may be generated and executed in the virtual space.
US11340916B2
The disclosure provides an approach for providing an extendable system health management framework in a network. Embodiments include receiving, by a manager, a system health plugin. Embodiments include determining, by the manager, an association between the system health plugin and a host in the network based on the host satisfying one or more conditions. Embodiments include providing, by the manager, the system health plugin to the host for installation in a system health agent on the host. Embodiments include receiving, by the manager, from the host, status information for the system health plugin.
US11340913B2
Systems and methods for implementing model-based application control frameworks are disclosed. In one embodiment, in an information processing apparatus comprising at least one computer processor, a method for implementing model-based application control frameworks may include: (1) breaking an application into a plurality of modules, wherein each module comprises a component of the application that is capable of running independently; (2) determining a plurality of attributes for each of the modules; (3) identifying a deployment platform for each module; (4) building an attribute model for the application based on the modules, the attributes, and the deployment platform; (5) identifying control requirements for the attribute model; (6) identifying actions to implement the control requirements; and (7) deploying the actions to implement the control requirements to the application.
US11340907B2
In an embodiment, responsive to determining: (a) a first command is not of a particular command type associated with one or more hardware modules associated with a particular routing node, or (b) at least one argument used for executing the first command is not available: transmitting the first command to another routing node in the hardware routing mesh. Upon receiving a second command of the command bundle and determining: (a) the second command is of the particular command type associated with the hardware module(s), and (b) arguments used by the second command are available: transmitting the second command to the hardware module(s) associated with the particular routing node for execution by the hardware module(s). Thereafter, the command bundle is modified based on execution of the second command by at least refraining from transmitting the second command of the command bundle to any other routing nodes in the hardware routing mesh.
US11340903B2
The present application discloses a processing method, device, equipment and storage medium of a loop instruction, and relates to the fields of voice and chips. A specific embodiment is: acquiring a computer program including a first loop body, where the first loop body is generated according to a second loop body in a software code to be compiled, the first loop body includes a plurality of first loop instructions, the plurality of first loop instructions can be identified by a hardware structure of a computer device; in the case that the first loop body is detected, determining loop parameters of the first loop body according to the plurality of first loop instructions; acquiring the plurality of first loop instructions according to the loop parameters of the first loop body; executing the plurality of first loop instructions.
US11340901B2
An apparatus and method are provided for controlling allocation of instructions into an instruction cache storage. The apparatus comprises processing circuitry to execute instructions, fetch circuitry to fetch instructions from memory for execution by the processing circuitry, and an instruction cache storage to store instructions fetched from the memory by the fetch circuitry. Cache control circuitry is responsive to the fetch circuitry fetching a target instruction from a memory address determined as a target address of an instruction flow changing instruction, at least when the memory address is within a specific address range, to prevent allocation of the fetched target instruction into the instruction cache storage unless the fetched target instruction is at least one specific type of instruction. It has been found that such an approach can inhibit the performance of speculation-based caching timing side-channel attacks.
US11340898B1
The invention relates to system and method for automating software development life cycle. In some embodiments, the method includes receiving a plurality of code snippets being utilized for developing a software application from a plurality of sources in a software development life cycle, generating a plurality of embedding vectors corresponding to the plurality of code snippets, and generating a high-level feature vector corresponding to each of the plurality of code snippets based on the corresponding embedding vector using a deep learning model. The method further includes generating a final merged code comprising a final sequence of code lines by combining the sequence of code lines corresponding to the plurality of code snippets using the deep learning model. The deep learning model is trained to generate the high-level feature vector and arrange the sequence of code lines based on historical data from the software development life cycle.
US11340882B2
An information handling system may include a host system processor and a computer-readable storage medium communicatively coupled to the host system processor and having stored thereon a bootable update image file for performing a firmware update associated with the information handling system. The bootable update image file may be configured to, when read and executed by the processor, read policy settings stored within the information handling system setting forth update policies to be applied during application of updates defined within the bootable update image file and perform updates defined within the bootable update image file in accordance with the update policies.
US11340871B1
Software specifications can be improved using a software-development tool with feedback notifications. For example, a computing device can receive a textual input in a text box of a text editor from a user, the textual input defining a software specification that describes features of a software application for a software developer that is different from the user. The computing device can determine that a description of a software feature in the software specification excludes a particular descriptor characterizing the software feature. The computing device can, based on determining that the description excludes the particular descriptor, generate a graphical feedback notification indicating that the particular descriptor is absent from the description of the software feature. This feedback can assist the user in developing a more-complete software specification for use by the software developer in a software development process or a software testing process.
US11340866B2
An electronic apparatus and a method for controlling thereof are provided. The electronic apparatus includes a microphone configured to receive a user voice, a communication interface, and a processor configured, based on a first voice being received through the microphone, to provide first response information corresponding to the first voice, and based on a user sensing signal being received from an external apparatus through the communication interface, to control the communication interface to send the first response information to the external apparatus.
US11340865B2
A computer-implemented method can include obtaining activity data corresponding to an environment where a communication device is located. The activity data can include audio data. The communication device can be configured to transmit the audio data. The method can further include identifying, based at least in part on the activity data, a potential audio disruption. The method can further include determining, based at least in part on the audio data, an activity status of a user of the communication device. The method can further include determining that the activity status is an inactive status. The method can further include modifying, in response to both the identifying the potential audio disruption and the determining that the activity status is the inactive status, a transmission of the audio data from the communication device.
US11340853B2
An appliance having a cabinet, a door connected to the cabinet and movable in an opening direction from a closed position to an open position, and a handle connected to the door. The handle has a first side facing against the opening direction and forming a grasping surface, a second side facing along the opening direction, and an interface region having one or more input interfaces on the second side of the handle. The appliance has one or more shutoff sensors configured to disable at least one of the one or more input interfaces on the interface region when an object is detected adjacent the grasping surface.
US11340845B1
According to examples, an apparatus may include a processor and a memory on which are stored computer-readable instructions that, when executed by the processor, may cause the processor to determine a property of dust based on information associated with the dust in a printing device. The processor may classify the dust according to the determined property of the dust and may determine a predicted failure mode associated with the dust classification. The processor may output an instruction associated with the predicted failure mode.
US11340838B2
The method disclosed is for instantiating a second cluster based on a first cluster. For at least one node of a second plurality of nodes, generating per node data based on mappings between a plurality of partition groups and a first plurality of nodes, the first plurality of nodes corresponding to the first cluster. The method further discloses identifying data items included in the plurality of partition groups based on the mappings between the plurality of partition groups and the first plurality of nodes. The method further discloses each partition group corresponding to a node of the first plurality of nodes and comprising a subset of data items stored in the node. The method further discloses loading the data items included in the plurality of partition groups onto the second plurality of nodes, the second plurality of nodes corresponding to the second cluster.
US11340827B2
A group of state data of storage space in a storage system is collected according to a predetermined time interval, the group of state data being collected at a group of time points, respectively, and the group of time points being divided according to the predetermined time interval. The group of state data is compared with a threshold condition of the storage system, the threshold condition representing that storage space in the storage system is to be exhausted. An association relationship between a state of storage space in the storage system and a future time point is generated based on the group of state data in accordance with determining at least one state data in the group of state data satisfies the threshold condition. A state estimate of storage space in the storage system at a specified future time point is obtained based on the generated association relationship.
US11340824B1
Described is a system (and method) for efficient object storage management when backing up data to a cloud-based object storage. The system may be implemented as part of a server (or gateway) that provides a backup service to a client device by acting as an intermediary when backing up data from the client device to a third-party cloud-based object storage. The system may implement various specialized procedures to efficiently store backup data as objects within the object storage. The procedures may include packing client data into objects of a consistent size to improve storage performance. The system may also improve storage performance and conserve storage by analyzing the data stored within an object and reallocating the data as necessary. More particularly, the system may efficiently reallocate data to new objects when the amount of live data within an object falls below a predetermined threshold.
US11340811B2
Storage blocks are managed. For instance, a set of write parameters and a set of deletion parameters are obtained related to a target storage block. In response to the set of write parameters matching the set of deletion parameters, a first data length is obtained for the target storage block, the first data length being determined in response to receiving a write request for the target storage block. Further, reclaim information is determined related to the target storage block based on the first data length and the set of deletion parameters. It is thus possible to reduce times of scanning the entire object table to determine whether there is an object referring to the storage block, thereby reducing the time consumed by the verification process and improving the reclaiming speed of storage blocks.
US11340804B2
Techniques are provided for block allocation for persistent memory during aggregate transition. In a high availability pair including first and second nodes, the first node makes a determination that control of a first aggregate is to transition from the first node to the second node. A portion of available free storage space is allocated from a first persistent memory of the first node as allocated pages within the first persistent memory. Metadata information for the allocated pages is updated with an identifier of the first aggregate to create updated metadata information reserving the allocated pages for the first aggregate. The updated metadata information is mirrored to the second node, so that the second node also reserves those pages. Control of the first aggregate is transitioned to the second node. As a result, the nodes do not attempt allocating the same free pages to different aggregates during a transition.
US11340803B2
Techniques perform resource configuration. The techniques involve determining, for a resource quota checking task for a file system on a storage system, a current workload of the storage system; in response to the workload exceeding a predetermined upper threshold, performing the resource quota checking task with a first number of processes; and in response to the workload being below a predetermined lower threshold, performing the resource quota checking task with a second number of processes, the second number being greater than the first number.
US11340799B2
A method is provided for dynamically establishing a compatibility of file systems and file system independent access to data in real time. According to the method, it is possible for an end user to access a passive data memory with any terminal device without having to take into account the underlying file system of the passive memory. This avoids complex process steps which, for example, provide for a conversion of the file system directly on the storage medium. The proposed method is thus more efficient and error-resistant. Also provided is a correspondingly configured apparatus and system arrangement. In addition, a computer program product with control commands which implement the method steps is proposed.
US11340794B2
A system has a collection of central processing units. Each central processing unit is connected to at least one other central processing unit and has a path into flash memory resources. A central processing unit supports a mapping from a data address space, to a flash memory virtual address space, to a flash memory virtual page number to a flash memory physical address space.
US11340787B2
The present disclosure includes apparatuses and methods related to a memory protocol. An example apparatus can perform operations on a number of block buffers of the memory device based on commands received from a host using a block configuration register, wherein the operations can read data from the number of block buffers and write data to the number of block buffers on the memory device.
US11340778B2
An electronic device changes the current user interface of a respective type of user interface from a first user interface to a second user interface. An individual uses their personal device to set up and configure a device for another user.
US11340767B2
Systems and methods herein assist users by identifying actionable tasks in an email and providing reminders and other tracking mechanisms for those tasks. For example, a method can include extracting a portion of the email and assigning a number to each word of the extracted portion of the email according to a library. The method can further include determining, based on the assigned numbers, whether the extracted portion of the email includes at least one actionable portion. In response to determining that the extracted portion of the email includes at least one actionable portion, at least one actionable portion can be presented to the user on a GUI associated with the user's device.
US11340761B2
Embodiments for improved data structuring for computer devices that provides efficient organization and navigation in a user interface in order to increase the amount and type of content that can be presented to a user, particularly with regard to small displays. For example, by emphasizing how data relates to other data (e.g., emphasizing the organizational structure) during navigation as opposed to after navigation, the embodiments provide an intuitive user interface for devices that indicates the relationship between data without the need for additional on-screen objects.
US11340758B1
Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media can determine at least one graphical overlay created by a content creator. The at least one graphical overlay can be distributed to at least one user through a social networking system. A determination can be made of a user selection of the at least one graphical overlay. The graphical overlay can be applied to at least one content item.
US11340743B2
A touch panel includes an array of touch electrode cells, each touch electrode cell including portions of a plurality of touch electrodes, such as portions of intersecting row and column touch electrodes that include a patterned conductive material. In some examples, the area of patterned conductive material per unit area can be different for different touch electrode cells of the touch panel. For example, the touch panel can include touch electrode cells with increased pattern densities at locations where the overall area of the touch electrode cell may be less than the overall area of other touch electrode cells in the touch panel, such as at corners, notches, perforations, and/or edges of the touch panel.
US11340735B2
A floating touch display device and a floating touch method are provided. The floating touch display device includes a display layer, a protective cover, light emitting units, and light receiving units; the protective cover includes a first region and a second region surrounding the first region; the display layer is disposed under the first region; the light emitting units and the light receiving units are sequentially arranged under the second region. Each of the light emitting units corresponds to one light receiving unit. The floating touch is realized, by a light emitting unit transmitting an optical signal toward a direction above the protective cover and a corresponding light receiving unit of the light emitting unit that receives the optical signal reflected by a touch object above the protective cover. Such a design can extend a touch range of the floating touch and improve user experience.
US11340730B2
Disclosed are a driving method for a touch display panel, and a touch display apparatus. The driving method for a touch display panel includes: providing a sinusoidal signal y for each electrode block in a common electrode within a display period, wherein the display period includes N display stages, each display stage has M image frames, the refresh rate of the display period is greater than or equal to a refresh rate threshold value A, N≥2, M≤1, N is a positive integer, M is a positive number, and the refresh rate threshold value A is the maximum refresh rate that can be identified by human eyes; providing a data signal for multiple pixel electrodes; and an electric field, formed by the pixel electrodes and the common electrode, driving the inversion of liquid crystal molecules in a liquid crystal layer.
US11340727B2
A channel driver circuit includes a differential module and a driver module. In some examples, the channel driver circuit also includes a sigma-delta module. The differential module receives, via a single node of a load, a channel driving signal that is provided to the load at the single node (e.g., that is based on an electrical characteristic of the load) and generates an analog error signal that is based on the channel driving signal and a reference signal. The driver module is coupled to the differential module and generates the channel driving signal based on the analog error signal or a digital error signal corresponding to the analog error signal and transmits the channel driving signal via the single node to the load. The channel driver circuit simultaneously transmits the channel driving signal to the load at the single node and senses the channel driving signal at the single node.
US11340726B2
In a first state before a first event is detected, a determination unit of a press detection apparatus prevents a definitive value from increasing steeply when the pressing force has increased steeply, and decreases the definitive value steeply when the pressing force has decreased steeply. In a second state after the first event is detected and before a second event is detected, the determination unit prevents the definitive value from increasing steeply when the pressing force has increased steeply, and prevents the definitive value from decreasing steeply when the pressing force has decreased steeply. This reduces the possibility that the definitive value increases steeply in the first state and increases and decreases steeply in the second state even under vibration.
US11340715B2
One embodiment provides a method, including: detecting, at a wireless charger integrated into an electronic device, a connection of a wearable accessory device, wherein the wireless charger is positioned proximate to a probable user contact position; and transmitting, using the wireless charger and during a period when the connection is established, a charge to the wearable accessory device; wherein the wearable accessory device is worn by a user during the connection. Other aspects are described and claimed.
US11340714B2
There is provided an information processing device including a movement information acquisition part acquiring information which is based on movement of an operation device, and a control information generation part generating, based on the information, control information for changing a display status continuously in a non-linear manner according to the movement.
US11340713B2
A system including a first device with a surface and an identification feature that includes or encodes machine-readable data related to the surface, and a second device including a sensor and one or more processors coupled to the sensor that are configured to determine a relative displacement of the second device as it is moved along the surface of the first device. The second device receives the machine-readable data related to the surface from the identification features from the first device and configures the second device to determine the relative displacement along the surface differently (e.g., improves displacement tracking) based on the machine-readable data related to the surface.
US11340711B2
The invention relates to a system (1) for generating moving light effects, having a display (2) comprising a plurality of lighting units (10a), which is designed to emit one or more temporally changing color patterns (4, 4*, 4**), a peripheral device (6) comprising a lighting arrangement (9) having one or more lighting units (10b), and a control module (11) formed for actuating the lighting units (10a) of the display (2) and the one or more lighting units (10b) of the peripheral device (6). Said control module is designed to operate the one or more lighting units (10b) of the peripheral device (6) and the lighting units (10a) of the display (2) generating the color pattern (4, 4*) in one-sided or mutual dependence on one another. The invention further relates to a method for generating moving light effects and to a salesroom having such a system (1).
US11340688B2
An electronic apparatus, comprising a display control unit which performs control that in a first case where power supplies are connected to both a first power supply input unit and a second power supply input unit and a power supply capability from the first power supply input unit does not satisfy a prescribed criterion, a remaining capability of power supply from the second power supply input unit is displayed in a display appearance that differs from a remaining time or indicates that the remaining time is longer, and in a second case where a power supply is not connected to the first power supply input unit but a power supply is connected to the second power supply input unit, the remaining capability of power supply from the second power supply input unit is displayed in a second display appearance which indicates the remaining time.
US11340681B2
Includes receiving, from a link partner, a message specifying a link partner receive wake time and resolving to a transmit wake time.
US11340680B2
Examples described herein relate to a system controller for tracking a characteristic system energy of a computing system. The system controller may retrieve the characteristic system energy of the computing system from a voltage regulator (VR). The VR may include a VR controller, one or more phase converters, and an output capacitor coupled to a load to provide an operating voltage to the load. The characteristic system energy is related to a sum of capacitances comprising a capacitance of the output capacitor and a capacitance of the load and is determined by the VR controller based on a voltage at the output capacitor and a charging current or a discharging current of the output capacitor via the one or more phase converters. Further, the system controller may determine whether to initiate a corrective action for the VR based on a comparison between the characteristic system energy and a threshold value.
US11340670B2
A display system, such as a wearable display device, includes a system housing including a cavity having a linear axis extending generally in parallel with first and second side walls enclosing the cavity and a display stack enclosed within the cavity and movable along the linear axis. The display stack includes a display panel and a support chassis configured to support a first side of the display panel and thermally couple the display panel to the first side wall to facilitate heat transfer from the display panel, across the support chassis, and to the system housing The display stack includes a heat sink configured for support by a second side of the display panel and to thermally couple the display panel to the second side wall to facilitate heat transfer from the display panel, across the heat sink, and to the system housing.
US11340662B2
A portable electronic device including a first body, a second body, a hinge mechanism, a control unit, a sensor unit, a sterilization module, and a shielding module, is provided. The first body has a first inner surface. The second body has a second inner surface. The hinge mechanism is connected between the first body and the second body. The control unit is disposed in the first body or the second body. The sensor unit is disposed in the first body or the second body and coupled to the control unit. The sterilization module is disposed at the hinge mechanism and coupled to the control unit, the sterilization module is configured to generate light for sterilization and disinfection. The shielding module is disposed on the hinge mechanism and the shielding module can move relative to the hinge mechanism.
US11340658B2
An electronic device includes a casing, a stylus, a first magnet, and a pair of second magnets. The casing has a surface and an accommodation groove recessed from the surface. The accommodation groove has an accommodation portion parallel to the surface and a pair of connection portions obliquely connected between the surface and the accommodation portion. The stylus has a front end and a rear end, and the first magnet is disposed at the rear end. The second magnets are disposed in the casing and located below the accommodation portion.
US11340642B2
A low dropout regulator is disclosed. The low dropout regulator includes an amplifier, a transistor, and a selector. The transistor is coupled to the amplifier. The selector is coupled to the amplifier and the transistor. When a supply voltage value of the transistor is less than a supply voltage threshold value, a first path of the selector is selected and a first selector voltage value is transmitted by the selector to the transistor so as to fully conduct the transistor, and an output voltage value of the transistor is equal to the supply voltage value.
US11340639B2
It is described a leakage compensation circuit for a measurement device which comprises a measurement circuit with a leaking device that is connected to a measurement path and causes a leakage current. The leakage compensation circuit comprises: i) a replica device of the leaking device, wherein the replica device is connected to a replica path, and wherein the replica device is configured to cause a replica leakage current that is essentially equal to the leakage current of the leaking device, ii) a voltage regulator which is connected to the measurement path and to the replica path, wherein the voltage regulator is configured to regulate the voltage in the replica path based on the voltage of the measurement path, and iii) a current mirror which is connected to the measurement path and to the replica path, wherein the current mirror is configured to mirror the replica leakage current of the replica device into the measurement path.
US11340630B2
Systems and methods for robotic mapping are disclosed. In some example implementations, an automated device can travel in an environment. From travelling in the environment, the automated device can create a graph comprising a plurality of nodes, wherein each node corresponds to a scan taken by one or more sensors of the automated device at a location in the environment. In some example embodiments, the automated device can reevaluate its travel along a desired path if it encounters objects or obstructions along its path, whether those objects or obstructions are present in the front, rare or side of the automated device. In some example embodiments, the automated device uses a timestamp methodology to maneuver around its environment that provides faster processing and less usage of memory space.
US11340628B2
Provided are a marker-combined simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) navigation method, device and system. The method includes: providing an initialization area for a located object, where at least one of the initialization area for a located object, a travelling path of a located object, and a docking device of the located object is provided with an marker including at least one of pose information, identification information and non-identification graphic information; controlling the located object to perform at least one of following operations: starting from the initialization area for a located object, and based on the marker, determining an initial pose of the located object; when the marker is passed on the travelling path, updating a current pose of the located object based on the marker; and when docking with the docking device, adjusting a relative pose between the located object and the docking device based on the marker.
US11340614B2
A method of controlling movement of a transport robot including determining a following error of a left driving wheel and a following error of a right driving wheel according to actual moving distances of the left driving wheel and the right driving wheel and a predetermined moving trajectory; determining a deviation error between the actual moving trajectory and the predetermined moving trajectory of the transport robot based on the following error of the left driving wheel and the following error of the right driving wheel, generating a position adjustment instruction of the left driving wheel and a position adjustment instruction of the right driving wheel according to the deviation error; transmitting the position adjustment instruction of the left driving wheel and the position adjustment instruction of the right driving wheel to a first servo driving system and a second servo driving system respectively to reduce a moving deviation.
US11340613B2
Based on sensor data obtained from a variety of sensors, a driving environment surrounding an autonomous driving vehicle (ADV) is perceived, including perceiving and identifying one or more obstacles. A trajectory is planned based on the perception data according to a set of rules to drive the ADV navigating through the driving environment. Trajectory data representing the trajectory is generated, where the trajectory data includes information indicating target or expected vehicle states at different points in time along the trajectory. The trajectory data is then transmitted in a sequence or a stream of one or more controller area network (CAN) messages to an electronic control unit (ECU) of the ADV over a CAN bus. The ECU is configured to generate and issue one or more control commands (e.g., throttle, brake, steering commands) based on the trajectory data to drive the ADV according to the trajectory.
US11340612B2
A vehicle control apparatus that controls a vehicle based on a plurality of control states, includes a detection unit configured to detect information of the vehicle and peripheral information of the vehicle and a vehicle control unit configured to control the vehicle based on a detection result of the detection unit. In a case in which the vehicle control unit can execute, based on the detection result of the detection unit, a first control state and a second control state, the vehicle control unit controls the vehicle by selecting a control state prioritizing one of the first control state and the second control state in an overlapping operation condition range.
US11340611B2
An autonomous system including a plurality of autonomous bodies, each of the autonomous bodies includes a situation grasping unit that grasps situation, an operation determining unit that determines an operation based on the grasped situation, and an operation executing unit that executes the determined operation, the plurality of autonomous bodies included in the autonomous body system includes one or more first autonomous bodies and two or more second autonomous bodies, situation grasped by the situation grasping unit of the first autonomous body includes situation of the second autonomous body, the situation grasped by the situation grasping unit of the second autonomous body includes a result of an operation executed by the operation executing unit of the first autonomous body, and the operation determining unit of the second autonomous body determines an operation based on the result of the operation executed by the operation executing unit of the first autonomous body.
US11340609B2
A driving guidance system that provides a driving guidance to a driver when the driver makes operations to remotely control a vehicle in a driving route. The driving guidance system includes at least one driving guidance equipment, an analytic engine, a control platform. The driving guidance equipment is distributed along the driving route for recording data of the vehicle. The analytic engine receives and analyzes the data of the vehicle to generate a plurality of features of the vehicle. The control platform further includes a real virtuality objects generator and a display. The real virtuality objects generator generates a plurality of real virtuality objects based on the features of the vehicle and the display shows the real virtuality objects to the driver of the vehicle for providing the driving guidance.
US11340608B2
An unmanned aerial vehicle having a drive unit for enabling the flight of the aerial vehicle in air space and having a flight control unit, which is configured to receive control information from a radio remote control or to control positions of the aerial vehicle in air space that employ stored position information in order to control the flight course of the aerial vehicle. A modular flight formation control unit has a first interface with the flight control unit and a second radio interface to a flight formation ground control unit or with flight formation control units of other aerial vehicles, and the flight formation control unit configured to generate or send control information corresponding to the radio remote control and is configured to output, via the first interface, flight formation control information relevant for the formation flight of at least two aerial vehicles to the flight control unit.
US11340607B2
A vehicle external communication method and apparatus and a terminal, where the method includes sending, by a vehicle, an association registration request message to a management device, where the association registration request message indicating that the vehicle requests to establish a control association with the management device, and receiving, by the vehicle, a first association registration response message from the management device including a success identifier, or receiving, by the vehicle, a second association registration response message from the management device including a failure identifier.
US11340604B2
Techniques for detecting and correcting for discrepancy events in a fluid pipeline are presented. The techniques can include obtaining a plurality of empirical temperature and pressure measurements at a plurality of locations within the pipeline; simulating, using a pipeline model, a plurality of simulated temperature and pressure measurements for the plurality of locations within the pipeline; detecting, by a discrepancy event detector, at least one discrepancy event representing a discrepancy between the empirical temperature and pressure measurements and the simulated temperature and pressure measurements; outputting to a user an indication that the at least one discrepancy event has been detected; accounting for the at least one discrepancy; determining, after the accounting and using an estimator applied to the pipeline model, a corrected branch flow rate for the pipeline; and outputting the corrected branch flow rate for the pipeline to the user.
US11340601B2
A disturbance source positioning method for positioning disturbance sources in a system including a plurality of nodes is provided. The method includes the following steps: grouping the plurality of nodes into a plurality of node groups based on an oscillation feature; establishing an in-group causality of the plurality of node groups based on a successive order of a coherent oscillation component; selecting at least one candidate group from the plurality of node groups based on the in-group causality; and positioning at least one disturbance source node in each candidate group.
US11340600B2
A method for operating a packaging machine having at least one electric drive motor, the drive motor driving at least one functional unit of the packaging machine in a program-controlled manner when producing packaging using the following steps: (a) loading a parameter set into the control of the packaging machine, the parameter set containing at least one load parameter which limits the torque or the current consumption of the drive motor to a maximum when producing packaging; (b) operating the packaging machine for producing packaging, the maximally occurring actual value of the torque mustered at the drive motor or the current consumed by the drive motor being measured during operation; (c) determining a new load parameter as a function of the maximum actual value; (d) saving the new load parameter in a parameter set allocated to the packaging to be produced.
US11340593B2
A management device according to an aspect of the present invention transmits and receives information to and from a relay device that is able to communicate with a field device installed in a plant. The management device includes a storage unit including a first setting storage area configured to store first setting information that is setting information of the relay device and a second setting storage area configured to store second setting information that is setting information of the field device and a first setting management unit that writes the first setting information and the second setting information to the relay device.
US11340585B2
A method for creating metadevices includes receiving, at a computing device, one or more boundary conditions for a metadevice. The method also includes processing, with an inverse-design algorithm stored in a memory of the computing device, the one or more boundary conditions to generate a metadevice structure design that satisfies the one or more boundary conditions. The method also includes converting, by a processor of the computing device, the metadevice structure design into a file that is compatible with an additive manufacturing device. The method further includes providing the file of the metadevice structure design to the additive manufacturing device.
US11340584B2
Examples of synchronized parallel tile computation techniques for large area lithography simulation are disclosed herein for solving tile boundary issues. An exemplary method for integrated circuit (IC) fabrication comprises receiving an IC design layout, partitioning the IC design layout into a plurality of tiles, performing a simulated imaging process on the plurality of tiles, generating a modified IC design layout by combining final synchronized image values from the plurality of tiles, and providing the modified IC design layout for fabricating a mask. Performing the simulated imaging process comprises executing a plurality of imaging steps on each of the plurality of tiles. Executing each of the plurality of imaging steps comprises synchronizing image values from the plurality of tiles via data exchange between neighboring tiles.
US11340579B2
A system for tool monitoring includes one or more tools of an energy industry system, the one or more tools configured to be disposed in one or more boreholes in one or more resource bearing formations, and one or more sensors connected to each tool of the one or more tools, each sensor of the one or more sensors configured to measure at least one parameter related to performance of each tool of the one or more tools. The system also includes a processing device configured to collect measurements of the at least one parameter from each sensor, generate an individual performance history record for each tool, and store the individual performance history record for each tool in a database configured to store individual performance history records for a plurality of tools in one or more energy industry systems.
US11340572B1
An information handling system may include an air mover configured to drive a flow of air and a processing component communicatively coupled to the air mover for controlling operation of the air mover via a first wire configured to communicate analog air mover speed commands from the processing component to the air mover for controlling a speed of the air mover and a second wire configured to communicate analog tachometer information from the air mover to the processing component. At least one of the air mover and the processing component may be configured to initiate a mode for serial digital communication via the first wire and the second wire. The air mover and the processing component may be configured to communicate information to each other in accordance with a digital communication protocol via the first wire and the second wire during the mode for serial digital communication.
US11340570B2
A system and method are provided for operating and maintaining a wind turbine. Accordingly, a plurality of data inputs are received. The plurality of data inputs represent a plurality of monitored attributes of a component of the wind turbine. A consolidated risk index for the component is determined using the plurality of monitored attributes, and a range of potential risk indices is forecasted. A remaining-useful-life distribution is determined based on the damage potential and an end-of-life damage threshold. The wind turbine is shut down or idled if the remaining-useful-life distribution is below a shutdown threshold.
US11340563B2
A management device includes a data acquisition unit that collects data related to power consumption supplied to a plurality of industrial machines from at least a power supply facility, a preprocessing unit that creates power consumption data based on the collected data, a decision making unit that determines a behavior of allocating a predetermined total suspension time to the plurality of industrial machines with respect to a current state of power consumption by the plurality of industrial machines with reference to a learning model associating a value of a behavior of allocating the predetermined total suspension time to the plurality of industrial machines with a state of power consumption by the plurality of industrial machines based on power consumption data, and a suspension time allocation unit that allocates the suspension time to the plurality of industrial machines.
US11340556B2
A dial configured to be mounted in a watch case, includes a plate made of a fragile material, the plate defining a horizontal plane and including at least one housing defining a point of attachment for at least one foot formed of a body and a head arranged to rest inside the at least one housing, the foot includes a circular slot arranged to receive a ring-like element made of a shape memory alloy able to move from a retracted position to an open position in which the foot is mechanically held in the housing.
US11340547B2
An image forming apparatus includes an image bearing member, a developing member, a controller configured to carry out switching control between a first state in which the developing member is caused to act on the image bearing member and a second state in which the developing member is not caused to act on the image bearing member, a transfer member, and a detector configured to read density information of the recording material. The controller detects a fog density on the basis of a difference in density information between a fog non-occurrence region of a non-image region of the recording material in the second state and a fog occurable region of the non-image region of the recording material in the first state.
US11340539B2
An image forming apparatus includes a drum cartridge and a toner cartridge. The drum cartridge includes a photosensitive drum, a developing device, and a cushion member. The developing device includes a developing roller and a developing housing having a toner receiving port. The developing housing is movable with respect to the photosensitive drum. The toner cartridge includes a toner housing having a toner discharge port and a toner shutter. The toner shutter opens and closes the toner discharge port. The cushion member allows the developing housing to move with respect to the developing shutter in a state where the developing shutter is engaged with the toner cartridge.
US11340529B2
An improved photoimageable dry film formulation, a fluidic ejection head containing a thick film layer derived from the improved photoimageable dry film formulation, and a method for making a fluidic ejection head. The improved photoimageable dry film formulation includes a multifunctional epoxy compound, a photoinitiator capable of generating a cation, a non-photoreactive solvent, and from about 0.5 to about 5% by weight a silane oligomer adhesion enhancer based on a total weight of the photoimageable dry film formulation before drying.
US11340525B2
A pellicle comprises a stress-controlled metal layer. The stress in said metal layer may be between about 500-50 MPa. A method of manufacturing a pellicle comprising a metal layer includes deposing said metal layer by plasma physical vapor deposition. Process parameters are selected so as to produce a desired stress value in said metal layer, such as between about 500-50 MPa.
US11340524B2
The present disclosure provides a photomask, including a front side having a patterned layer, a back side opposite to the front side, a sidewall connecting the front side and the back side, a reflective layer between the front side and the back side, and a polymer layer on the backside of the photomask.
US11340522B2
A method for producing a holding apparatus for an x-ray film for teeth of a patient. The method includes performing an image registration of a first two-dimensional x-ray image of a tooth of an upper or lower jaw in a three-dimensional volume-tomographic data record of a jaw with a computer, determining a relative position of the first two-dimensional x-ray image within the three-dimensional volume-tomographic data record, preparing a virtual model for a holding apparatus that is attachable to the teeth of the upper or lower jaw in an interlocking fashion on the basis of the three-dimensional volume-tomographic data record, and producing the holding apparatus based on the virtual model. The holding apparatus includes a holding element which holds the x-ray film in a defined position. The defined position is established by the relative position of the first two-dimensional x-ray image in the three-dimensional volume-tomographic data record.
US11340517B2
A projection lens module and a projector are provided. The projector includes an optical engine and a projection lens module. The optical engine includes a casing, a light source, a light valve, and a prism, where the light source, the light valve, and the prism are disposed in the casing. The light source emits an illumination beam to the light valve. The light valve modulates the illumination beam to generate an image beam and projects the image beam to the projection lens module. The prism is disposed on an optical path of the image beam. The projection lens module is connected to the casing of the optical engine and is configured to project the image beam. The projection lens module includes a projection lens and a smooth picture actuator, where the smooth picture actuator is fixed to the projection lens and is located outside the optical engine.
US11340512B2
An electro-optical modulator assembly including a transistor including a gate, a drain, and a source disposed on a substrate, a photonic modulator including a first waveguide structure positioned between a first electrode and a second electrode, the photonic modulator being integrated with the transistor on the substrate, and a metal connection coupled between the drain of the transistor and one of the first and second electrodes of the photonic modulator.
US11340510B1
A method of manufacturing a thin film is provided. The method includes providing a plurality of crystalline cathodic electrochromic particles comprising an alkali metal oxide material, size-reducing the crystalline cathodic electrochromic particles by grinding to produce crystalline cathodic electrochromic nanostructures, providing a substrate, and coating the crystalline cathodic electrochromic nanostructures onto the substrate to produce a thin film, wherein the thin film is an electrochromic thin film.
US11340504B2
A display panel is provided and includes an array substrate and a display region disposed on a surface of the array substrate, wherein a portion of the array substrate not covered by the display region forms a bezel, and a driving chip and a flexible circuit board are bound in the bezel; wherein at least one a protrusion is formed at an end of the bezel away from the display region, the driving chip is located between an edge of the protrusion and an edge of the display region; and a portion of the flexible circuit board is bent to a back of the array substrate via an edge of an indent on at least one lateral side of the protrusion.
US11340501B2
According to one embodiment, a display device includes a first substrate, a second substrate, a first sealant surrounding a first chamber and a second chamber between the first substrate and the second substrate, a second sealant disposed between the first chamber and the second chamber, and a liquid crystal layer with which the first chamber and the second chamber are filled. The first chamber includes a first display portion including a first pixel. The second chamber includes a second display portion including a second pixel. The first sealant includes a first wall having a predetermined width and a second wall having a width less than the width of the first wall.
US11340498B2
Provided is an illumination device that makes it possible to enhance utilization efficiency of light, and a display device that includes the illumination device. The illumination device includes: a light source that is configured to generate light of a first wavelength; a luminescent body that is configured to wavelength-convert the light of the first wavelength to light of a second wavelength, the second wavelength being different from the first wavelength; and a wavelength selective filter that is provided on a light-incident side of the luminescent body, the wavelength selective filter being configured to transmit the light of the first wavelength and to reflect the light of the second wavelength.
US11340497B2
A backlight source, a display module and a display device are provided. Each set of locational fitting structures in the backlight source includes locational accommodation space formed on one of optical film and support, and locational protrusion formed on the other of optical film and support. A set of locational fitting structures meets at least one of: dimensions of locational accommodation space and corresponding locational protrusion in first direction render relative position between optical film and support completely fixed in first direction, dimension of locational accommodation space in first direction is greater than that of corresponding locational protrusion in first direction, dimensions of locational accommodation space and corresponding locational protrusion in second direction render relative position between optical film and support completely fixed in second direction, or, dimension of locational accommodation space in second direction is greater than that of corresponding locational protrusion in second direction.
US11340491B2
According to one embodiment, an electronic equipment includes a liquid crystal panel, and an illumination device illuminating the liquid crystal panel. The illumination device includes a first light guide including a first opening composed of a notch or a through hole and opposed to the liquid crystal panel, a first light source opposed to the first light guide, a second light guide provided in the first opening and opposed to the liquid crystal panel, and a second light source opposed to the second light guide.
US11340490B2
The present application discloses a backlight module and a display device thereof. The backlight module includes a light guide plate, a side part thereof including a light incident surface; a light bar, including a circuit board and a plurality of photoelectric elements disposed on the circuit board, wherein the circuit board includes spacing parts located between two adjacent photoelectric elements, and light emitting surfaces of the photoelectric elements correspond to the light incident surface; and a reflective sheet, disposed between the light guide plate and the light bar, wherein the reflective sheet includes hollowed parts, and the hollowed parts are correspondingly disposed between the light emitting surfaces and the light incident surface, so as to reduce a reflective brightness of the photoelectric elements.
US11340485B2
An LCD device defining a display area includes a backlight module for providing light, an LCD panel stacked on the backlight module, and a fingerprint sensor in the backlight module. The fingerprint sensor is positioned in the display area and defines a fingerprint sensing area in the display area.
US11340484B2
A display device includes: a first display panel; a first flexible substrate on which a first driver IC outputting a driving signal to the first display panel is mounted; a second flexible substrate being apart from the first flexible substrate, at least a part of the second flexible substrate overlapping the first flexible substrate; and an insulating material disposed between the first flexible substrate and the second flexible substrate. The first flexible substrate is connected to the first display panel so that the first driver IC is on a side of the second flexible substrate. The insulating material is disposed between the first driver IC and the second flexible substrate.
US11340483B2
A display device includes first and second substrates each including a short side and a long side, ground parts located on at least one of the short and long sides of each of the first and second substrates and including at least one first ground surfaces, which are perpendicular to opposing surfaces of the first and second substrates, and at least one second ground surfaces, which are provided at at least one edge of the second substrate to define an obtuse angle with reference to the first ground surfaces, and unevenness disposed on the first ground surfaces along a first direction, where the unevenness defines an acute angle with reference to a normal line to the opposing surfaces.
US11340480B2
An optical system can automatically lock an adjustable spectral filter to a first wavelength of an incoming light signal, and can automatically filter an additional incoming light signal at the first wavelength. A tunable filter can have a filtering spectrum with an adjustable peak wavelength and increasing attenuation at wavelengths away from the adjustable peak wavelength. The tunable filter can receive first input light, having a first wavelength, and can spectrally filter the first input light to form first output light. A detector can detect at least a fraction of the first output light. Circuitry coupled to the detector and the tunable filter can tune the tunable filter to maximize a signal from the detector and thereby adjust the peak wavelength to match the first wavelength. The tunable filter further can receive second input light and spectrally filter the second input light at the first wavelength.
US11340477B2
An ophthalmic lens has a changeable corrective effect, which automatically changes over a predetermined period of time. Further, the ophthalmic lens provides a gradually increasing undercorrection of the far point of the eye over the course of a day, which brings about a deceleration in the axial length growth of the eyeball. In addition, a method for automatically adapting a corrective effect, a pair of spectacles, and a use of an ophthalmic lens are disclosed.
US11340472B2
A first stereoscopic image display device includes a light guide plate having a plurality of reflectors and causes an observer to recognize an undistorted stereoscopic image even when the observer views a stereoscopic image from a high angle with respect to a direction normal to the front surface of the light guide plate. In a plan view from a direction vertical to an outgoing surface, when four quadrants are specified for each of the reflectors, the four quadrants taking a position of each of the reflectors as an origin, the four quadrants being divided by two straight lines orthogonal to each other and inclined 45° with respect to a direction in which the incident light is incident on each of the reflectors, light changed in the optical path by each of the reflectors is emitted to a quadrant adjacent to a quadrant on which incident light is incident.
US11340466B2
Head-mountable devices can include an arrangement of components that include a waveguide that is decoupled from the ability of system loads to be transferred into the waveguide. Such decoupling can be achieved by utilizing an elastic bond with low stiffness to bond certain components together. This allows the system to flex and deform without transferring stress to the waveguide. Such decoupling can also be achieved by selectively bonding in regions that have relatively lower displacements between a support structure and the waveguide. These measures can help preserve component alignment while allowing a head-mountable device to be lightweight and small in size.
US11340463B1
An artificial-reality device is provided. The artificial-reality device includes a frame having at least one temple section (e.g., a frame arm) and a front section, where the front section is configured to hold at least one lens. The artificial-reality device also includes a hinge pivotally coupling the at least one temple section and the front section. The hinge includes: (A) a front magnetic component that includes a static magnet, and (B) a rear magnetic component, coupled to the at least one temple section, that includes: (i) two or more primary magnets oriented so as to be attracted to the static magnet of the front magnetic component, and (ii) at least one secondary magnet, positioned between the two or more primary magnets, oriented so as to be repelled by the static magnet of the front magnetic component.
US11340460B2
A system for tracking a position and an orientation of an external device such as a smart watch or a handheld controller relative to a head mounted display (HMD) device is provided. A combination of active markers and passive markers on the external device may be detected by a point tracking camera of the HMD to collect position data for the external device relative to the HMD. Acceleration and/or orientation data of the external device relative to the HMD may be collected from an inertial measurement unit(s) (IMU(s)) of the external device and/or the HMD. The fusion of the position data with the data collected by the IMU(s) may allow for tracking of the external device relative to the HMD.
US11340458B2
An optical device includes input and output apertures (86, 89), a light-transmitting substrate (64), a coupling-in element (55) positioned outside of the substrate for coupling light waves having a field-of view into the substrate, a first flat reflecting surface (65) located between two major surfaces (70,72) of the light-transmitting substrate for total internal reflection of the coupled-in light waves from the major surfaces, and a second flat reflecting surface (67) located between the two major substrate surfaces for coupling light waves out of the substrate for redirecting into a viewer's eye by an optical element (80). The substrate and coupling-in element (55) are formed of substantially different optical materials and the ratio between the fields of view of the light waves coupled-out from the substrate into the viewers' eye and of the light waves coupled inside the substrate, is substantially bigger than the refractive index of the substrate.
US11340443B2
The present invention is an optical assembly featuring an architecture which allows adjustment of both objective lenses and the electronic sensing assemblies in the optical assembly. Electrical connections in the housings of the various subassemblies allow focusing adjustment by rotational and/or translational movement for increased adjustability.
US11340441B2
A medical/surgical microscope with two cameras configured to capture two dimensional images of specimens being observed. The medical/surgical microscope is secured to a control apparatus configured to adjust toe-in of the two cameras to insure the convergence of the images. The medical/surgical microscope includes a computer system with a non-transitory memory apparatus for storing computer program code configured for digitally rendering real-world medical/surgical images. The medical/surgical microscope has an illumination system with controls for focusing and regulating the lighting of a specimen. The medical/surgical microscope is configured for real-time video display with the function of recording and broadcasting simultaneously during surgery.
US11340435B2
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: 1.50≤f1/f≤3.00; and 8.50≤R9/d9≤12.00. The camera optical lens can achieve a high imaging performance while obtaining a low TTL.
US11340434B2
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: −3.01≤f1/f2≤−1.00; and 12.00≤(R1+R2)/(R1−R2)≤25.00. The camera optical lens can achieve a high imaging performance while obtaining a low TTL.
US11340429B2
An optical imaging system includes a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, a sixth lens, and a seventh lens sequentially arranged along an optical axis from an object side toward an image side. The fifth lens has positive refractive power, a focal length of the fifth lens is smaller than an overall focal length of the optical imaging system, and −0.38≤R10/f≤−0.32, where R10 is a radius of curvature of an image-side surface of the fifth lens and f is the overall focal length of the optical imaging system.
US11340428B2
The disclosure provides a telephoto lens and a mobile terminal, form an object side to an imaging surface, sequentially includes: a first lens having a positive refractive power, a second lens having a refractive power, a third lens having a negative refractive power, a flat glass and a filter. An object side surface of the first lens is a convex surface, an image side surface of the third lens is s concave surface. The mobile terminal includes the telephoto lens, an image sensor, a processor and a memory. The image sensor are coupled to the telephoto lens, the two are cooperated to capture images. The processor is configured to process the captured images, and the memory is configured to store the captured images. The telephoto lens and the mobile terminal provided in the disclosure can achieve a higher zoom ratio than the conventional telephoto lens, and better satisfy the requirements of miniaturization and high-definition imaging of electronic products.
US11340423B2
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 with a positive refractive power, a second lens with a negative refractive power, a third lens with a positive refractive power, a fourth lens with a negative refractive power, a fifth lens with a positive refractive power, and a sixth lens with a negative refractive power. The camera optical lens further satisfies the following specific conditions: 3.00d1/d34.00, 1.50R1/d15.00, −30.00R9/R10−8.00, and −10.00R12/R11−0.50. The camera optical lens can achieve a high performance while obtaining a low TTL.
US11340422B2
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 positive 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≤f1/f≤7.50; and 9.00≤R1/d1≤15.00. The camera optical lens can achieve a high imaging performance while obtaining a low TTL.
US11340417B2
A fiber optic telecommunications device includes a frame and a fiber optic module. The fiber optic module includes a main housing portion defining fiber optic connection locations for connecting cables to be routed through the frame and a cable management portion for guiding cables between the main housing portion and the frame. The main housing portion of the fiber optic module is slidably mounted to the frame, the main housing portion slidable between a retracted position and an extended position in a sliding direction. The cable management portion of the fiber optic module includes a radius limiter slidably coupled to both the main housing portion and the frame, wherein movement of the main housing portion with respect to the frame slidably moves the radius limiter with respect to the main housing portion along the sliding direction.
US11340416B2
A fiber optic telecommunications device (2302/2402/2502) includes a first fiber optic connection location (2308) defined on the telecommunications device (2302/2402/2502), wherein a plurality of optical fibers (2307) extends into the telecommunications device (2302/2402/2502) from the first fiber optic connection location (2308). A plurality of second fiber optic connection locations (2309) are movably disposed on the telecommunications device (2302/2402/2502). A flexible substrate (2306/2506) is positioned between the first fiber optic connection location (2308) and the plurality of second fiber optic connection locations (2309), the flexible substrate (2306/2506) rigidly supporting the plurality of optical fibers (2307) and relaying the plurality of fibers (2307) from the first fiber optic connection location (2308) to each of the second fiber optic connection locations (2309).
US11340411B2
An optoelectronic module may include a housing enclosing at least one optical transmitter or receiver, a release mechanism configured to engage with a cage sized and shaped to receive the housing, and a retainer including at least one occlusion member sized and shaped to be positioned inside a port of the optoelectronic module and a sleeve member configured to slide with respect to the occlusion member.
US11340408B2
An optical fiber connector is provided. The optical fiber connector comprises a plastic housing. The optical fiber connector comprises a metallic clip. The plastic housing is adapted to connect the optical fiber connector to an optical fiber adapter. The metallic clip is arranged at a side of the plastic housing. The metallic clip extends from the plastic housing. The metallic clip is adapted to press against a metallic part of the optical fiber adapter.
US11340405B2
A fiber optic connector has at least two optical fibers therein have end faces that are positioned such that they are directed in different directions. The end faces can be oriented relative to a key that is provided on a fiber optic connector housing that has a central opening in the main body of the fiber optic connector.
US11340403B2
One illustrative device disclosed herein includes a layer of semiconductor material and a first Bragg reflector structure positioned in the layer of semiconductor material, wherein the first Bragg reflector structure comprises a plurality of dielectric elements and a first internal area defined by an innermost of the first plurality of dielectric elements. In this example, the device also includes an optical component positioned above the layer of semiconductor material, wherein at least a portion of the optical component is positioned within a vertical projection of the first internal area.
US11340394B2
A display includes a light guide plate having an incident edge surface and an output surface; a plurality of light sources arranged opposed to the incident edge surface; and a plurality of prisms arranged in a main pattern on a surface, each prism having a reflective surface configured to reflect light from any of the plurality of light sources towards the output surface. A curvature of the reflective surface of a first prism arranged in a first sub-pattern of the main pattern, is different from a curvature of the reflective surface of a second prism arranged in a second sub-pattern of the main pattern.
US11340387B2
A diffusion element is configured by combining: a structure for diffusion constituted by combining periodic surface structures having multiple periods to achieve a light intensity distribution in which the light intensity is uniform at angles less than or equal to a predetermined diffusion angle θ and the light intensity is as close as possible to zero intensity at angles greater than the diffusion angle θ; and a diffractive structure having a period of 1 or more and 2 or less times of Λmax, where Λmax is the maximum period of the structure for diffusion.
US11340382B1
System and other embodiments described herein relate to a sensor system used on a control line that measures atmospheric conditions. In one embodiment, a sensor system may have a main body attached to a line. The sensor system may use a directional sensor that determines direction of airflow according to rotation of the main body about the line. The sensor system may also have a generator coupled to the main body. The sensor system may also use a flow sensor that measures speed of the airflow according to a vortex generated from rotation of the generator in open air.
US11340377B2
A method for evaluating drilling fluid includes making an NMR measurement of a sample of the drilling fluid and inverting the measurements to compute a corresponding T1T2 plot. The T1T2 plot is in turn evaluated to characterize the drilling fluid. In one embodiment, a stability index of the fluid may be computed from multiple NMR measurements made while aging the sample.
US11340375B2
An electromagnetic measurement tool for making multi-frequency, full tensor, complex, electromagnetic measurements includes a triaxial transmitter and a triaxial receiver deployed on a tubular member. An electronic module is configured to obtain electromagnetic measurements at four or more distinct frequencies. The measurement tool may be used for various applications including obtaining a resistivity of sand layers in an alternating shale-sand formation; computing a dielectric permittivity, a conductivity anisotropy, and/or a permittivity anisotropy of a formation sample; and/or identifying formation mineralization including discriminating between pyrite and graphite inclusions and/or computing weight percent graphite and/or pyrite in the formation sample.
US11340370B2
Seismic data from seismic exploration surveys are mapped into a hypercube of bins or voxels in a four-dimensional space (X, Y, Offset, and Azimuth) according to Common Mid-Point (or CMP) between source and receivers. The mapped data from individual voxels or bins is then analyzed by multimodal statistics. Robust estimates of first break picks are obtained from the analysis. The first break picks are then used to as seed inputs for autopicking iteration, which proceeds to convergence. Estimates of confidence levels in the data are provided for re-picking to reduce computer processing time in successive autopicking iterations. Analysis is provided of different seismic attributes such as azimuthal velocity variations indicative of anisotropy, positioning errors of sources/receivers, geometry errors, and three dimensional distribution of inversion residuals. Analysis is also performed of standard deviation of the travel time data useful for estimating data errors in the inversion covariance matrix.
US11340364B2
A method for providing an item of conversion information describing an allocation rule of at least one physical property value of a material in a voxel relating to an image value of the voxel in a three-dimensional image dataset recorded with an X-ray apparatus is provided. By scanning a phantom including at least one calibration material in the X-ray apparatus, a calibration database that is used for determining the allocation rule is determined. The image dataset is recorded with a receiving spectrum geared to an X-ray detector of the X-ray apparatus. The receiving spectrum is described by at least one spectral parameter. For determining the allocation rule dependent upon the spectral parameter, calibration data derived from the measured calibration dataset describing different receiving spectra is used.
US11340363B2
The invention relates to an image reconstruction apparatus comprising a detector value providing unit for providing detector values for each detector element of a plurality of detector elements forming a radiation detector and for each energy bin of a plurality of predefined energy bins, a correlation value providing unit for providing correlation values, wherein a correlation value is indicative of a correlation of a detector value detected by a detector element in an energy bin with at least one of a) a detector value detected by another detector element in the energy bin, b) a detector value detected by another detector element in another energy bin, and c) a detector value detected by the detector element in another energy bin, and a spectral image reconstruction unit for reconstructing a spectral image based on the detector values and the correlation values.
US11340355B2
A vehicle computing system validates location data received from a Global Navigation Satellite System receiver with other sensor data. In one embodiment, the system calculates velocities with the location data and the other sensor data. The system generates a probabilistic model for velocity with a velocity calculated with location data and variance associated with the location data. The system determines a confidence score by applying the probabilistic model to one or more of the velocities calculated with other sensor data. In another embodiment, the system implements a machine learning model that considers features extracted from the sensor data. The system generates a feature vector for the location data and determines a confidence score for the location data by applying the machine learning model to the feature vector. Based on the confidence score, the system can validate the location data. The validated location data is useful for navigation and map updates.
US11340351B2
A digital signal processing circuit measures a distance according to a plurality of modulation frequencies including a first modulation frequency and a second modulation frequency lower than the first modulation frequency. The digital signal processing circuit is configured such that, when measuring the distance at the first modulation frequency, a storage capacitance of a light receiving element 6 stores or discharges electric charges according to the timing when the polarity of a phase is controlled by a light emission control unit at each transmission of a sub sequence and the distance is measured according to the electric charges stored in the storage capacitance. The digital signal processing circuit corrects the distance measurement result based on the measurement result at the first modulation frequency and the measurement result at the second modulation frequency.
US11340350B2
A light emitting and receiving device includes: a light emitting element, a first light receiving element, and a second light receiving element. A reference signal generator generates a reference signal including a component of a predetermined reference frequency. A drive circuit supplies a drive signal to the light emitting element so that a feedback signal corresponding to an output of the first light receiving element matches a reference signal. A correlation detector detects an output of the second light receiving element by correlating with the component of the reference frequency.
US11340347B2
A radar sensor device in a motor vehicle, in particular in a car, is provided, the radar sensor device including a plurality of antenna elements which are situated at least partially at different heights, in which the antenna elements are situated at least partially at different distances from a plane which runs perpendicularly to the moving direction of the motor vehicle.
US11340345B2
Methods, apparatus and systems for wireless object tracking are described. In one example, a described wireless tracking system comprises: a transmitter, a receiver, and a processor. The transmitter is configured for transmitting a first wireless signal using a plurality of transmit antennas towards at least one object in a venue through a wireless multipath channel of the venue. The receiver is configured for: receiving a second wireless signal using a plurality of receive antennas through the wireless multipath channel between the transmitter and the receiver. The second wireless signal differs from the first wireless signal due to the wireless multipath channel and a modulation of the first wireless signal by the at least one object. The processor is configured for obtaining a set of channel information (CI) of the wireless multipath channel based on the second wireless signal received by the receiver, and tracking the at least one object simultaneously based on the set of CI. Each CI in the set is associated with a respective one of the plurality of transmit antennas and a respective one of the plurality of receive antennas.
US11340337B2
A laser transmitter assembly for use in a Coherent Doppler Wind Lidar (“CDWL”) system includes a telescope/scanner assembly, a receiver, and a master oscillator crystal and a power amplifier crystal each constructed of Ho:YAG. The crystals are end-pumped to transmit an output beam through the telescope/scanner assembly with a high repetition rate of 200-300 Hz and 35 mJ of energy. As part of the CDWL system, a pump laser end-pumps the master oscillator and power amplifier crystals using a pump beam having a nominal wavelength of 1.905 μm. A seed laser transmits a seeding beam into the master oscillator crystal at a nominal wavelength of 2.0965 μm. The telescope/scanner assembly transmits the generated laser beam through an atmosphere toward a scene of interest, collects a backscattered return signal, and communicates the backscattered return signal to the receiver during operation of the CDWL system.
US11340329B2
An electronic device may be provided with control circuitry and wireless circuitry. The wireless circuitry may include a phased antenna array and a radio-frequency integrated circuit having transmit and receive ports. The array may include a first set of stacked patch antennas coupled to the transmit ports and a second set of stacked patch antennas coupled to the receive ports. The integrated circuit may transmit ranging signals at millimeter wave frequencies using the transmit ports and the first set of antennas. The integrated circuit may receive a reflected version of the transmitted ranging signals that has been reflected off of an external object using the receive ports and the second set of antennas. The control circuitry may identify a distance between the electronic device and the external object based on the transmitted and received signals.
US11340327B2
A coil facility for a magnetic resonance installation and a magnetic resonance installation having such a coil facility are provided. The coil facility in this case includes a double-resonant transmit resonator for two frequencies and a first receiver and a second receiver, each for one of the two frequencies. The coil facility has an actuator system for effecting a relative spatial transposition of the transmit resonator, the first receiver, and the second receiver into various settings. In a first setting, only the first receiver, and in a second setting, only the second receiver, for receiving corresponding MR signals is arranged in an examination space that is at least sectionally surrounded by the transmit resonator.
US11340313B2
The invention relates to a method for examining a magnetic field source. In this case, the magnetic vector field emanating from the magnetic field source is detected in a first coordinate system and corresponding magnetic field data is generated. Furthermore, the geometrical body of the magnetic field source is geometrically detected in a second coordinate system and corresponding geometrical data is generated. Subsequently, the first and the second coordinate systems are transferred into a mutual coordinate system by means of a coordinate transformation and the magnetic field data and the geometrical data are combined within the mutual coordinate system in order to place the magnetic vector field of the magnetic field source and the geometrical body of the magnetic field source into a mutual positional relationship.
US11340311B2
A method includes receiving, at a magnetic sensor, a series of transmitter signals that are detected as a series of signals corresponding to different locations and/or orientations of a magnetic transmitter emitting a magnetic field, calculating, receiving, at the magnetic sensor, a measurement transmitter signal that is detected as a signal corresponding to a magnetic field provided by the magnetic transmitter, and calculating, based at least on the received measurement sensor signal and the calibration matrix, one or both of an orientation matrix indicative of an orientation of the magnetic sensor relative to the magnetic transmitter and a positional matrix indicative of a position of the magnetic sensor relative to the magnetic transmitter, wherein the series of transmitter signals are transmitted from the same physical location relative to the magnetic sensor.
US11340299B2
A battery and supercapacitor system of a vehicle includes a lithium ion battery (LIB) having first and second electrodes, and a supercapacitor having third and fourth electrodes. A first reference electrode is disposed between the first and second electrodes and is configured to measure a first potential at a location between the first and second electrodes. A second reference electrode is disposed between the third and fourth electrodes and is configured to measure a second potential at a location between the third and fourth electrodes. The first electrode may be connected to the third electrode, and the second electrode may be connected to the fourth electrode. The first and second reference electrodes may not be connected to any of the first, second, third, or fourth electrodes.
US11340294B2
Boundary test circuit, memory and boundary test method are provided. The boundary test circuit may include a plurality of serially-connected wrapper boundary registers (WBRs) and a plurality of toggle circuits (TCs). Each WBR may include a first I/O for receiving an initial test signal and a second I/O for transmitting the initial test signal to the WBR at a succeeding stage. Each TC may include an input for receiving the initial test signal stored in a corresponding WBR, a control I/O for receiving a toggle signal, and an output for transmitting a real-time test signal to the integrated circuit. The toggle signal may be configured to control phase switching of the real-time test signal, and, depending on the toggle signal, the real-time test signal may have a phase identical or inverse to a phase of the initial test signal. This method improves the efficiency and flexibility of the boundary test.
US11340288B1
A testing equipment includes a testing platform and a component carrying device including a carrying arm, a vacuum suction unit, a working bottom cover and a fluid transmission assembly. The carrying arm lifts and carries a device under test (DUT) onto the testing platform. The vacuum suction unit removably sucks to the DUT. The working bottom cover includes a cover body and an elastic airtight ring. The cover body is connected to the carrying arm, and the elastic airtight ring is fixedly disposed on the cover body for hermetically covering the DUT, so that a liquid filling space is collectively formed by the cover body and the DUT. The fluid transmission assembly extends into the liquid filling space for continuously passing a working liquid to the DUT and withdrawing the working liquid back away from the liquid filling space for thermally exchanging with the DUT.
US11340286B2
The present application is applicable to the technical field of terahertz on-wafer measurement, and provides a new on-wafer S-parameter calibration method and device. The method includes: performing two-port calibration on a waveguide end face when a probe is not connected to a test system; performing one-port calibration on each of two probe end faces when the probe is connected to the test system; and fabricating a crosstalk calibration standard equal to a device under test in length on a substrate of the device under test, and correct a crosstalk error of the test system according to the crosstalk calibration standard. The present application can realize accurate characterization and correction of crosstalk error in a high-frequency on-wafer S-parameter calibration process, and improve the accuracy of error correction in high-frequency on-wafer S-parameter measurement.
US11340278B2
The present disclosure relates to a measurement system for testing a device under test over-the-air, the measurement system comprising a signal generation and/or analysis equipment, several antennas, several reflectors and a test location for the device under test. The antennas are connected with the signal generation and/or analysis equipment in a signal-transmitting manner. Each of the antennas is configured to transmit and/or receive an electromagnetic signal so that a beam path is provided between the respective antenna and the test location. The electromagnetic signal is reflected by the respective reflector so that the electromagnetic signal corresponds to a planar wave. Each antenna aims at a focal point of the corresponding reflector. Each antenna and the corresponding reflector together are configured to provide a corresponding quiet zone at the test location. At least two of the several antennas are located within a main plane, whereas at least one of the several antennas is located in an auxiliary plane that is offset with respect to the main plane.
US11340266B2
A sensor assembly includes a connecting bar extending along a longitudinal axis and a tubular body extending along the longitudinal axis and at least partially surrounding the connecting bar such that the tubular body is radially spaced from the connecting bar. The tubular body includes a support member made of insulating material. The tubular body also includes a first section with an electric field sensor comprising a first layer of electrically conductive material on an inner surface of the support member to detect an electric field produced by the connecting bar. The first section also includes a first electric screen comprising a second layer of electrically conductive material on an outer surface of the support member to shield the electric field sensor from outside electrical interference. A second section disposed adjacent the first section includes a second electric screen. A dielectric material at least partially encloses the tubular body.
US11340264B2
Techniques for identifying electrical theft are described herein. In an example, a secondary voltage of a transformer may be inferred by repeated voltage and current measurement at each meter associated with the transformer. A difference in measured voltage values, divided by a difference in measured current values, estimates impedance at the meter. The calculated impedance, together with measured voltage and current values, determine a voltage at the transformer secondary. Such voltages calculated by each meter associated with a transformer may be averaged, to indicate the transformer secondary voltage. A transformer having lower-than-expected secondary voltage is identified, based in part on comparison to the secondary voltages of other transformers. Each meter associated with the identified transformer may be evaluated to determine if the unexpected voltage is due to a load on the transformer. If a load did not result in the unexpected secondary voltage, power diversion may be reported.
US11340259B2
A probe card management system includes inspection apparatuses that inspect an inspection object and a management apparatus that manages a state of a probe card. Each inspection apparatus includes a camera that captures an image of a tip of each needle provided on the probe card, an inspection part that measures a state of the tip from the image, and inspects the inspection object by bringing the tip into contact with each test pad based on the measurement result, and supplying an electrical signal to the inspection object through the tip; and a transmission part that transmits the measurement result and a number of executions of the inspection to the management apparatus. The management apparatus includes a threshold specification part that specifies a first threshold value, and a notification part that notifies an outside of the number of executions and the first threshold value.
US11340256B2
An atom probe directs two or more pulsed laser beams onto a specimen, with each laser beam being on a different side of the specimen, and with each laser beam supplying pulses at a time different from the other laser beams. The laser beams are preferably generated by splitting a single beam provided by a laser source. The laser beams are preferably successively aligned incident with the specimen by one or more beam steering mirrors, which may also scan each laser beam over the specimen to achieve a desired degree of specimen ionization.
US11340249B2
An increase in power consumption involved in calibration for calibrating an offset of a geomagnetism sensor is suppressed. An electronic device performs calibration of an output error of the geomagnetism sensor so that the geomagnetism sensor can output more accurate geomagnetism data based on angular speed data output by a gyro sensor. The electronic device controls turning ON/OFF of the gyro sensor. The electronic device determines whether or not calibration of the geomagnetism sensor is necessary. When it is determined that calibration of the geomagnetism sensor is unnecessary, the electronic device performs a control operation to turn OFF the gyro sensor.
US11340247B2
A method includes generating motion data by receiving a gyroscope data from a gyroscope sensor, performing integration using the gyroscope data and generating an integrated gyroscope data using a first processor. The method further includes receiving a data from one or more sensors, other than the gyroscope sensor, and performing sensor fusion using the integrated gyroscope data and the data to generate motion data using a second processor.
