US11351056B2
A lens indexing assembly is provided that includes a holding portion configured to support a rotating portion, wherein the holding portion has an outer surface configured for holding having a plurality of segments with recesses between segments and a bearing surface, a rotating portion configured for coupling with the holding portion, wherein the rotating portion is configured to rotate relative to the holding portion, and wherein the rotating portion has a bearing surface for rotating relative to the bearing surface of the holding portion, and wherein the rotating portion includes a plurality of tactile features on an outer surface, and an ophthalmic contact lens configured for coupling with the rotating portion, wherein the plurality of tactile features on the outer surface of the rotating portion are configured to provide tactile feedback corresponding to a plurality of angular positions of the ophthalmic contact lens relative to the holding portion.
US11351043B1
A prosthetic ankle joint for a prosthetic foot attached to a base assembly. A linkage assembly provided between the base assembly and a torque bracket including an adapter unit disposed at top of the torque bracket to provide a connection to a lower tube-shaped clamp fitted over a pilon. The pilon extends upward to a second tube-shaped clamp connected to a lower portion of a socket receiving a residual limb of an amputee.
US11351038B2
Devices for fixing interbody fusion devices to bone by helically or corkscrew-shaped elements are provided. Methods for surgically implanting an interbody fusion device using helically-shaped fixation wire are provided.
US11351030B2
A method of designing a set of contoured implants for fixation to a bone of a patient, includes obtaining a set of virtual bone models of the bone, selecting a plurality of points on an outer surface of each virtual bone model in the set of virtual bone models, manufacturing a set of implants, each implant corresponding to a respective virtual bone model and having fixation holes corresponding to the selected plurality of points on the outer surface of the respective virtual bone model, contouring each implant in the set of implants and selecting a contoured implant from the set of implants for fixation to the bone of the patient such that the selected contoured implant corresponds to a size of the bone of the patient.
US11351017B1
Described herein are electronic dual-head tooth cleaning appliances that facilitates simultaneous front and rear surface cleaning of individual teeth. The tooth cleaning appliances or devices can be rechargeable, portable, lightweight and electronic.
US11351013B2
A container 10 for mixing and dispensing of material having a liquid receptacle 14 and a plunger 18. The receptacle 14 has a front portion 36 and the plunger 18 has a forwardly projecting sharp protrusion 42 having a shaft 72 which terminates in a sharp outer end 78, 82. Upon the plunger 18 being depressed the sharp protrusion 42 pierces a front portion 36 of the liquid receptacle 14 and the liquid in the receptacle 14 is pushed hydraulically through the front portion 36 into the main chamber 17. Thus the liquid contacts material in the main chamber 17 to form a mixture. The plunger 18 can continue to be depressed so as to break the front portion 36 of the liquid receptacle 14 away and then push the material in the main chamber 17 towards a dispensing nozzle 26. The main chamber 17 has a frangible membrane 22 at a distal end 13 thereof which is hydraulically broken by pressure applied from the material in the main chamber 17 so that the material can be dispensed from the container 10. The container 10 is particularly envisaged for use with mixing and dispensing of dental materials.
US11351010B2
A wedge system for use in a dental restoration procedure for a posterior tooth. The wedge system includes a first wedge including a body portion adapted to be disposed in an approximal space, a first arm extending from the body, a second arm extending from the body portion, a gap formed between the first arm and the second arm, a first rib arranged on an inner surface of the first arm, and a second rib arranged on an inner surface of the second arm, wherein each of the first and second ribs is adapted to engage tissue defining the approximal space. In some cases, the wedge system may also include a second wedge including a body portion, at least a portion of which can be disposed in the gap of the first wedge to removably secure the second wedge to the first wedge.
US11351006B2
Stereoscopic system including a portal component, first sensor and first cable, second sensor and second cable, first display and second display. The portal component includes an axis, a first channel and second channel extending along the axis. The first sensor is secured within the first channel at a first angle with respect to the axis and directed inwardly toward a location. The first cable extends from the first sensor. The second sensor is secured within the second channel at a second angle with respect to the axis and directed inwardly toward the location. The first angle and second angle converge at the location to define a depth of perception. The second cable extends from the second sensor. The first display structure is disposed in proximity to a left aperture of an eyeframe, and the second display structure is disposed in proximity to a right aperture of the eyeframe.
US11351004B2
A surgical illumination apparatus comprises a fiber optic input, and illuminated surgical instrument, and an optical coupling bracket for coupling the fiber optic input to the illuminated surgical instrument. The coupling bracket comprises an elongate frame having a proximal end, a distal end, and a central channel extending therebetween, wherein the central channel is sized to receive and support optical fibers of the fiber optic input. The proximal end of the bracket is coupled to the fiber optic input, and the distal end of the bracket is coupled to an illumination element of the illuminated surgical instrument. The apparatus may further comprise a shroud disposed around the illumination element that is coupled to the bracket.
US11351003B2
A head frame apparatus is secured to a human head during maxillofacial surgery and includes devices to easily position and secure an endotracheal (breathing) tube and an anesthesia delivery circuit for the patient that reduces the likelihood that the flow of oxygen through the tube is restricted thereby reducing the risk of severe injury or death. The head frame apparatus also includes a removable reference indicator, which may be easily attached and removed while identifying a reference point of the patient's face. Also the reference indicator includes a universal joint and pointer with an attached ruler. A transport apparatus positions multiple preset reference indicators and allows for preoperative transportation and removal, while protecting the preset reference indicators from inadvertent adjustment. A bendable reference indicator used in an articulator for preoperative modeling allows for easily identifying reference points in a cast model. An orbiting segment apparatus positions a portion of a cast of a jaw in relation to a condyle ball of the articulator.
US11350998B2
Medical instruments having a translatable spool are disclosed. In one aspect, a medical instrument configured for use with a robotic system includes an instrument base configured to couple to a robotic drive mechanism of the robotic system and an elongate shaft coupled to the instrument base. The elongate shaft has a distal end. The medical instrument also includes a pull wire fixedly coupled to the distal end of the elongate shaft, the pull wire being configured to actuate the elongate shaft, and a rotatable spool in the instrument base. The rotatable spool is configured to direct the pull wire to the elongate shaft at an angle. The rotatable spool is configured to translate in coordination with actuation of the elongate shaft to control the angle of the pull wire relative to the elongate shaft.
US11350992B2
Methods for treating a human patient diagnosed with cancer with therapeutic neuromodulation and associated systems are disclosed herein. Sympathetic nerve activity can contribute to several cellular and physiological processes associated with the progression of cancer. One aspect of the present technology is directed to methods that attenuate neural traffic along target sympathetic nerves innervating tissue proximate a primary malignant tumor. Other aspects are directed to methods that at least partially inhibit sympathetic neural activity in a renal nerve of a patient diagnosed with cancer or who has a high risk of developing cancer. Targeted sympathetic nerve activity can be attenuated to improve a measurable physiological parameter corresponding to the progression of cancer in the patient. The attenuation can be achieved, for example, using an intravascularly positioned catheter carrying a therapeutic assembly, e.g., a therapeutic assembly configured to use electrically-induced, thermally-induced, and/or chemically-induced approaches to modulate the target sympathetic nerve.
US11350989B2
A manipulable portion of a catheter system advances out of a lumen of a catheter sheath at a distal end of a shaft, which is also within the lumen of the catheter sheath. The catheter system causes different advancement and retraction trajectories of a manipulable portion out of and into the lumen based at least upon different relative movements between the catheter sheath and the shaft. A projection and a corresponding receiver may be used to control relative positioning of the catheter sheath and the shaft, as well as to control positioning of the manipulable portion. The catheter system may control metering rates of a control element coupled to the manipulable portion during advancement and retraction of the manipulable portion. A control element of the catheter system has varying amounts of length outside a distal end of the catheter sheath during advancement and retraction of the manipulable portion.
US11350986B2
Method and devices for delivering pulsed RF ablation energy to enable the creation of lesions in tissue are disclosed. The delivery of RF energy is controlled such that the generator power setting remains sufficiently high to form adequate lesions while mitigating against overheating of tissue. An ablation catheter tip having high-thermal-sensitivity comprises a thermally-insulative ablation tip insert supporting at least one temperature sensor and encapsulated, or essentially encapsulated, by a conductive shell. A system for delivering pulsed RF energy to a catheter during catheter ablation comprises an RF generator and a pulse control box operatively connected to the generator and configured to control delivery of pulsatile RF energy to an ablation catheter comprising at least one temperature sensor mounted in its tip. Also disclose is a method of controlling the temperature of an ablation catheter tip while creating a desired lesion using pulsatile delivery of RF energy.
US11350976B2
A nut for treating a bone includes a head and a body extending longitudinally from the head to a free end and including a channel extending longitudinally thereinto from the free end, the channel configured to engage an end of a bone screw, and an exterior threading extending about the body from an exterior surface thereof along an entire length thereof, an outer contour of the exterior threading defined via radially outermost edges of the exterior threading, a first portion of the outer contour adjacent the head portion having a smaller diameter than a second portion of the outer contour extending from the first portion to the free end of the body.
US11350954B2
Embolism treatment devices, systems, and methods are provided. In one embodiment, an embolism treatment system includes a flexible elongate member configured to be positioned within a blood vessel of a patient, the flexible elongate member comprising a distal portion and a proximal portion; an ultrasound imaging component positioned at the distal portion and configured to emit ultrasound energy towards a blood clot within the blood vessel and collect an image signal representative of the blood clot; a treatment component positioned at the distal portion and configured to treat the blood clot; and a flow sensing component positioned at the distal portion and configured to determine a blood flow measurement within the blood vessel associated with the blood clot.
US11350950B2
One aspect relates to an engine including a working system, having a first piston-cylinder system, comprising a working piston and a working cylinder. The working piston divides the working cylinder into a first working cylinder portion and a second working cylinder portion, a valve system, having a first valve connection and a valve element. The valve system and the working system are connected in a gas conducting manner, the first valve connection can be connected to a negative pressure source, and the valve element is movably arranged in the valve system such that, in a first valve position, the valve element connects the first valve connection to the first working cylinder portion, and, in a second valve position, connects the first valve connection to the second working cylinder portion in a gas conducting manner.
US11350949B2
A drill device including a shaft having a proximal end and a distal end, one or more first reaming heads configured to be positioned along the shaft adjacent the distal end and one or more second reaming heads configured to be positioned along the shaft at a location axially proximally spaced from the first reaming head.
US11350941B2
A handle assembly and a surgical stapler including the handle assembly is provided, including a first handle and a second handle, both can rotate around a first pivot pin. Either the first or the second handle is provided with a slider and a sliding slot. When the slider moves from a first section of the sliding slot to a second section, the two handles become linked. The first handle can still be squeezed even if the stapler has not reached the firing position, but the second handle will not rotate and the stapler will not be fired; featured by the design of two torsion springs and two pivot pins, the first and the second handle are pivotally attached and can be rotated around the same rotation center that remains unchanged in both the insurance position and the firing position, rendering an enhanced stapler structure stability and improved operator experience.
US11350930B2
A surgical instrument including a handle portion, a body portion, a movable handle, a tool assembly, a drive beam and a closure apparatus is disclosed. At least one of the closure apparatus and a contact surface of the tool assembly include a plastic surface. The body portion extends distally from the handle portion. The movable handle is located on the handle portion and is in mechanical cooperation with a drive member. The tool assembly includes an anvil, a cartridge assembly and a contact surface. The drive beam includes a proximal engagement portion and is configured to engage a portion of the drive member. The closure apparatus is configured to engage the contact surface of the tool assembly. At least a partial actuation of the movable handle moves the closure apparatus distally into engagement with the contact surface to approximate the anvil and the cartridge assembly.
US11350928B2
A surgical instrument comprising a tissue thickness lockout and a firing speed control system is disclosed.
US11350926B1
A repair suture consists of a strand of suture material formed into a continuous loop. One end of the loop may be thicker than the other. The repair suture may be part of a suture assembly including the repair suture, a linking suture having a looped end and a straight end, and a suture anchor. The suture anchor may have a suture bridge that divides the cross-sectional area of the interior of the anchor into two unequal sections. The suture assembly may be used to create luggage tag configurations for repairing tissue or for attaching tissue to bone. In a double-row method with medial row compression, loose suture ends from the medial row are inserted into a lateral row anchor having a proximal anchor body, a distal tip, and internal locking elements for locking the distal tip to the proximal anchor body.
US11350921B2
Provided is an implant, including a chamber having an interior radius wherein the interior radius has a flange, a cover slip, a cup, a setting member, a securing member, a resistance member, and an opposing member, wherein the cover slip, cup, resisting member, and setting member are attached to one another, the setting member sets on a flange and the securing member secures the setting member to the flange, the resistance member includes a flexibility and a longitudinal axis with a length wherein the flexibility permits modification of the length, and the opposing member sets a minimum length of the longitudinal axis. Also provided is a method of using said implant including affixing the chamber to a skull of a mammal.
US11350910B2
In an ultrasound diagnosis apparatus according to an embodiment, processing circuitry obtains volume data corresponding to at least one cardiac cycle and being taken of a region including the right ventricle of a patient. The processing circuitry estimates motion information of a tissue in the region by using the volume data. The processing circuitry calculates information including at least one selected from between wall motion information and volume information related to the right ventricle, on the basis of the motion information of the tissue. The processing circuitry outputs the calculated information. The processing circuitry corrects first motion information of the right ventricular outflow tract, which is an outflow tract of the right ventricle, by using second motion information of a site that is positioned in the vicinity of the right ventricular outflow tract and exhibits motion similar to that of the right ventricular outflow tract.
US11350905B2
The present invention provides improved methods and systems for generating enhanced images of a volume of tissue. In an aspect, the method comprises receiving from a transducer, a plurality of acoustic signals derived from acoustic waveforms transmitted through the volume of tissue; generating from the acoustic signals, a first reflection rendering that characterizes sound reflection, the first reflection rendering comprising a first distribution of reflection values across a region of the volume of tissue; generating from the acoustic signals, a sound speed rendering that characterizes sound speed, the sound speed rendering comprising a distribution of sound speed values across the region; generating from the sound speed rendering, a second reflection rendering that characterizes sound reflection, the second reflection rendering comprising a second distribution of reflection values across the region; and rendering one or more combined images, based on the first reflection rendering and the second reflection rendering.
US11350890B2
The invention concerns an X-ray imaging apparatus for imaging a skull or a partial area of the skull, which apparatus comprises between the X-ray source and detector a patient support means (17). The patient support means (17) comprise a rear rest structure (170) containing a support part (171) arranged to get positioned at occipital area and whose connection to the X-ray apparatus is realized such that the support part (171) of the rear rest structure moves, when adjusting its position, on a line or on a plane whose angle with respect to the horizontal plane is between 15-25 degrees.
US11350886B2
Infusion devices and related medical devices, patient data management systems, and methods are provided for monitoring a physiological condition of a patient. An exemplary infusion device includes an actuation arrangement operable to deliver fluid to a user, a communications interface to receive measurement data indicative of a physiological condition of the user, a sensing arrangement to obtain contextual measurement data, and a control system coupled to the actuation arrangement, the communications interface and the sensing arrangement to determine a command for autonomously operating the actuation arrangement in a manner that is influenced by the measurement data and the contextual measurement data and autonomously operate the actuation arrangement in accordance with the command to deliver the fluid to the user.
US11350885B2
A method includes identifying, by an electronic device, one or more segments within a first audio recording that includes one or more non-speech segments and one or more speech segments. The method also includes generating, by the electronic device, one or more synthetic speech segments that include natural speech audio characteristics and that preserve one or more non-private features of the one or more speech segments. The method also includes generating, by the electronic device, an obfuscated audio recording by replacing the one or more speech segments with the one or more synthetic speech segments while maintaining the one or more non-speech segments, wherein the one or more synthetic speech segments prevent recognition of some content of the obfuscated audio recording.
US11350880B2
A monitor comprises circuitry to receive a signal and process the signal to monitor at least one characteristic of a subject, and a flexible polymer casing forming a waterproof enclosure for the circuitry. The flexible polymer casing is infused with a conductive material at location to form infused electrode that extends from an exterior of the flexible polymer casing to an interior of the flexible polymer casing, and the infused electrode is coupled to the circuitry so as to allow the signal to pass from outside the flexible polymer casing to the circuitry. A polymer in a portion of the flexible polymer casing that is infused with the conductive material at the location is cross-linked with a polymer in a portion of the flexible polymer casing that is not infused with the conductive material.
US11350877B2
A smart shoe, smart shoe system, and a method of a smart shoe are disclosed. A smart shoe system may be used for monitoring patient activity. The smart shoe system may include a shoe having a plurality of pneumatic pressure sensors. The pressure sensors may be configured to detect pressure at a plurality of points in the sole of the shoe. The smart shoe may also include a microprocessor coupled to the pressure sensors and a GPS integrated circuit. The GPS integrated circuit may be used for correlating position of the smart shoe system to activity data generated by the plurality of pressure sensors. Additionally, the smart shoe system may include a flash memory storage for storing data generated by the microprocessor and pressure sensors.
US11350876B2
A patient health management platform determines of a metabolic state for a first time period. The platform generates a patient-specific treatment recommendation for a second time period following the first time period that identifies objectives for the patient to complete to improve the metabolic state determined for the first time period. Periodically during the second time period, the platform receives recordings of patient data indicating foods consumed by the patient, medication taken by the patient, and/or symptoms experienced by the patient. The platform compares the received recordings of patient data from the second time period to the generated patient-specific treatment recommendation to determine a number of objectives completed by the patient and updates a score representing n adherence of the patient to the patient-specific treatment recommendation based the number of completed objectives. The platform provides the patient-specific treatment recommendation to the patient device for display to the patient.
US11350864B2
The present disclosure relates to a cardiac monitoring device and systems/methods relating to same. Preferred embodiments may include adhesive layers having channels for transpiring moisture to promote long term adhesion of the device to a subject. The adhesive layer may be surrounded by a non-adhesive lining to inhibit substrate layers from folding under the adhesive. In some embodiments, the adhesive layer may be replaceable. In some embodiments, the adhesive layer may extend beneath a substrate coupled to a housing but not be adhered to the overlying substrate layers. The angles of the edges of the adhesive layer may be configured to minimize peeling forces. Substrate layers above the adhesive layer may be perforated to promote transpiration of moisture and/or provide conformability to the substrate. The perforations may promote anisotropic resistance to compression and/or extension of the substrate.
US11350855B2
A sensor system detects a presence or concentration of an analyte in a medium. The sensor system contains a sensor having a sensor head with a chamber. The sensor head has a permeable area through which the analyte can pass into the chamber when the sensor head contacts the medium. A cross-linked hydrogel fills the chamber, the hydrogel is configured to undergo a change in volume when contacting the analyte passed into the chamber which leads to a change in pressure in the chamber. A pressure sensor is configured to measure the pressure in the chamber for detecting the presence or concentration of the analyte.
US11350851B2
The present disclosure provides wearable apparatus and method for calculating drift-free plantar pressure parameters for gait monitoring of an individual. Most conventional techniques use different kind of sensors placed in in-sole based wearable apparatus but are costly and not effective in calculating accurate plantar pressure parameters. The disclosed wearable apparatus uses off-the shelf piezoelectric sensors that are widely available in market with less cost. The drift-free plantar pressure parameters are calculated using drift-free static pressure data obtained by numerically integrating acquired dynamic sensor data from the piezoelectric sensors, using a LiTCEM correction mechanism. A 6-DOF Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU sensor) helps in isolating zero-pressure duration indicating when a foot of the individual is in air during a stride, while obtaining the drift-free static pressure data. The disclosed wearable apparatus calculate the drift-free plantar pressure parameters for long duration and facilitates monitoring walking patterns of the individual.
US11350850B2
The present invention relates to the field of medical monitoring, and in particular non-contact, video-based monitoring of pulse rate, respiration rate, motion, and oxygen saturation. Systems and methods are described for capturing images of a patient, producing intensity signals from the images, filtering those signals to focus on a physiologic component, and measuring a vital sign from the filtered signals. Examples include flood fill methods and skin tone filtering methods.
US11350849B2
Aspects of the of the disclosure relate to a non-contact physiological motion sensor and a monitor device that can incorporate use of the Doppler effect. A continuous wave of electromagnetic radiation can be transmitted toward one or more subjects and the Doppler-shifted received signals can be digitized and/or processed subsequently to extract information related to the cardiopulmonary motion in the one or more subjects. The extracted information can be used, for example, to determine apneic events and/or snoring events and/or to provide apnea or snoring therapy to subjects when used in conjunction with an apnea or snoring therapy device. In addition, methods of use are disclosed for sway cancellation, realization of cessation of breath, integration with multi-parameter patient monitoring systems, providing positive providing patient identification, or any combination thereof.
US11350838B2
This disclosure provides apparatus and methods for detecting pressure changes within a cavity of a patient. A pressure-sensing catheter comprises an elongate member and a monitor lumen. The pressure-sensing catheter may have a hollow pressure-compliant member in fluid communication with the monitor lumen and thereby define a fluid column. A connector apparatus can be in fluid communication with the monitor lumen, and can comprise a first complementary connector and a second complementary connector. One of the first complementary connector and the second complementary connector can have a pressurizing device that can displace a volume of fluid located within a bore of the other complementary connector into the fluid column, wherein the ratio of the volume of displaced fluid to the volume of the fluid column ranges from about 1:2 to about 1:4. The pressure catheter can comprise a radio-opaque band circumscribing the exterior of the elongate member.
US11350837B2
Methods and systems of optically measuring systolic and/or diastolic blood pressure of a mammal having biological tissue are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, the system comprises an optical blood motion sensor, a gas-sealable inflatable cushion having a flexible and transparent (FOT) barrier section, and an optical blood motion sensor comprising a laser. When pressure (e.g. at least systolic pressure) illuminates the tissue, laser light may pass en route to the tissue through the FOT sealing barrier section of the gas-sealable inflatable cushion as well as cushion interior. In some embodiments, a rigid restrictor comprising an optically transparent section is provided, and laser light also passes through the optically transparent section of the rigid restrictor en route to the biological tissue.
US11350834B2
A blood pressure cuff is defined by a first sheet, having an opening, and a second sheet. The second sheet is attached to a bottom of the first sheet to form an interior inflatable portion between the first sheet and the second sheet, with the opening of the first sheet fluidly interconnecting the interior inflatable portion with an exterior of the cuff. The blood pressure cuff is made from a single type of material and can be recycled, biodegradable, or composted.
US11350830B2
A combined physiological sensor and methods for detecting one or more physiological characteristics of a subject are provided. The combined sensor (e.g., a forehead sensor) may be used to detect and/or calculate at least one of a pulse blood oxygen saturation level, a regional blood oxygen saturation level, a respiration rate, blood pressure, an electrical physiological signal (EPS), a pulse transit time (PTT), body temperature associated with the subject, a depth of consciousness (DOC) measurement, any other suitable physiological parameter, and any suitable combination thereof. The combined sensor may include a variety of individual sensors, such as electrodes, optical detectors, optical emitters, temperature sensors, and/or other suitable sensors. The sensors may be advantageously positioned in accordance with a number of different geometries. The combined sensor may also be coupled to a monitoring device, which may receive and/or process one or more output signals from the individual sensors to display information about the medical condition of the subject. In addition, several techniques may be employed to prevent or limit interference between the individual sensors and their associated input and/or output signals.
US11350826B2
A device for acquisition of medical images of an ulcer includes a plurality of light sources arranged on the perimeter of a closed regular plane geometry, and adapted to illuminate an ulcer by respective light beams covering the surface of the wound in an overlapped fashion; an image acquisition device placed within the perimeter of the light sources and adapted to acquire medical images of said illuminated ulcer.
US11350821B2
An ambulatory medical device and a method of communication between medical devices are disclosed. In one embodiment, the medical device includes a module for communication with at least a second medical device wherein the module for communication is adapted to be activated by a value of a physiological parameter of an animal. In one embodiment, the method of the present invention involves a first medical device and at least a second medical device wherein the communication between said medical devices is activated by a value of a physiological parameter of an animal.
US11350818B2
An in-vivo camera device and an in-vivo monitoring camera system more excellent in usability are proposed. An in-vivo camera device includes a camera unit introduced into a body, a support member, and a camera-side cable. The support member has a trocar connection portion for connection with a trocar at a front end side, and is connected to the trocar in a state in which the trocar connection portion is fitted into the trocar by applying tensile force to the camera-side cable passing through the trocar. The support member is provided with a guide introduction portion that is formed to be relatively long at the front end side as a stabilization structure for stabilizing connection with the trocar.
US11350817B2
The present invention is a system and method for water cycling colonoscopy that includes a colonoscope with a water ejection system and a camera, and a rectal overtube that receives the colonoscope therein. The overtube is placed in the anus and has a vacuum port outside the anus that attaches to a vacuum source. The overtube vacuum port vacuums water emitted by the colonoscope while the colonoscope is moving through the colonic lumen to control the amount of fluid in the colonic lumen. The overtube may be fitted with structures to improve the fit and attachment to the anus, including an inflatable cuff and a flexible skirt.
US11350815B2
A medical manipulation assembly comprises a catheter including distal and proximal steerable portions with working channels. The assembly further comprises a steerable sheath through which the steerable portions extend. A distal steering mechanism, including a first lumen extending along a longitudinal axis of the catheter, bends the distal steerable portion. A proximal steering mechanism, including a second lumen extending along the axis and defined by a wall, bends the proximal steerable portion by rotational movement of the proximal steering mechanism independently of the distal steerable portion. The wall is rotatable about the axis. Distal pullwires extend between the distal steerable portion and the distal steering mechanism. Proximal pullwires extend between the proximal steerable portion and the proximal steering mechanism. The second lumen is axially aligned with an access lumen extending proximally from the proximal steering mechanism through which the distal and proximal working channels may receive a visualization instrument.
US11350807B2
A stick vacuum cleaner having a handheld vacuum cleaner adapted to be docked to a stick. When the handheld vacuum cleaner is docked to the stick an air path is formed connecting an air outlet of the handheld vacuum cleaner with an air outlet provided in the stick. A noise absorption unit is provided in the air path or outside the air outlet from the stick.
US11350804B2
The present invention relates to a duster cloth for a cleaning robot and a cleaning robot using the duster cloth. The duster cloth comprises a detachable connection part (21) close to a base of the robot, a wiping cloth (22) close to a surface to be cleaned, and an elastic sealing layer located between the detachable connection part (21) and the wiping cloth (22). The elastic sealing layer is attached to both the detachable connection part (21) and the wiping cloth (22). The elastic sealing layer is made from a foamed EPDM material (23), an integral skin sponge (33) or a common sponge (43), wherein a sealing film (24) is arranged on at least one side of the common sponge (43). The detachable connection part (21) may be a Velcro. With the structure of the elastic sealing layer between the detachable connection part and the wiping cloth, the duster cloth has good elasticity, and the air-tightness of the negative pressure chamber of the cleaning robot is greatly improved.
US11350803B2
A toilet comprising a frame; a bowl supported by the frame; a seat also supported by the frame; a shroud covering the frame; a lift mechanism supported by the frame for adjusting the position of the seat; a foot platform positioned to support the feet of a user sitting on the seat wherein the foot platform comprises a plurality of foot platform weight sensors; a plurality of seat weight sensors between the frame and the seat for measuring the weight of a user on the seat; and a controller receiving data from the plurality of foot platform weight sensors and from the plurality of seat weight sensors; wherein the controller uses the data from the foot platform weight sensors to calculate the weight distribution of the user between the seat and foot platform; and wherein the controller uses the data from the foot platform weight sensors to calculate the weight distribution of the user between the left and right side of the foot platform; and wherein the controller uses the calculated weight distributions to control the at least one lift mechanism is disclosed.
US11350800B2
An example sheet product dispenser includes a housing, a first roll holder, and a second roll holder. A first roll of sheet product is positioned on the first roll holder and assigned as a primary roll and a second roll of sheet product is positioned on the second roll holder and assigned as a secondary roll. A dispensing mechanism is configured to dispense sheet product from at least one of the first roll and the second roll. A sensor is configured to sense measurement data associated with the primary roll, including sensing when the primary roll rotates to dispense and measuring the diameter of the primary roll. A data communication device is in communication with the sensor and configured to transmit the measurement data. A controller is configured to determine situational information regarding the sheet product dispenser and provide corresponding alerts to users regarding the situational information and measured data.
US11350798B2
A water faucet system including a faucet having a neck comprising a water passageway and liquid soap delivery line, both integrated within the neck assembly. The water faucet system features a streamlined neck assembly that includes a water outlet or spout, located at the distal portion of the neck assembly, and additionally includes a separate soap outlet located at a predetermined location. The soap delivery (soap dispensing) is initiated by a user performing an activation event directed to a sensor system located in the neck assembly. In preferred embodiments, the sensor system utilizes touchless type sensors so to avoid any physical contact with the neck assembly.
US11350797B2
Exemplary soap, sanitizer and lotion dispensers are disclosed herein. An exemplary dispenser includes a housing; a receptacle for receiving a container; a container of fluid comprising soap, sanitizer or lotion; a pump in fluid communication with the container; a power source; a pump coupled to a motor and pulse width modulation circuitry in circuit communication with the power source and the motor. The pulse width modulation circuitry is initially set to cause a selected dose of fluid to be dispensed at a base speed. A sensor for detecting a parameter indicative of an actual speed of a dispense of the fluid is also included. When the actual speed of the dispense of fluid is less than the base speed or greater than the base speed, the pulse width modulation circuitry adjusts the pulse width to cause the speed of a following dispense of fluid to be closer to the base speed.
US11350788B2
A cooking grill having a fire box with a cooking region and a panel at the rear or side of the cooking region of the firebox. The panel is adapted to support a shelf above the cooking region, the shelf having at least one prong extending therefrom. The panel has at least one aperture for receiving a respective prong of the shelf, and an abutment, for each aperture, positioned on the side of the panel remote from the cooking region and positioned with respect to its aperture to bear a respective prong of a shelf inserted through its aperture. Each prong of a shelf is inserted through an aperture such that a bottom part of the prong is supported by the periphery of the aperture and a top part of the prong bears upwardly against the abutment to support the shelf in a cantilevered fashion above the cooking region.
US11350780B1
A plate delivery system provides storage for plates in a first-in, last-out configuration. As the kitchen staff completes a meal (plated), the plate holding the meal is presented to the plate delivery system and the plate moves into the plate delivery system to be ready for the next plate. After a number of plates are stored in the plate delivery system, the plate delivery system is transported from the kitchen to the eating area (e.g., restaurant table or banquet table) and each plate is sequentially presented to a delivery mechanism (e.g., a robot or a waitperson) for final delivery to the table. In some embodiments, the plate delivery system is enclosed and has a cover mechanism to prevent food contamination by foreign matter and in some embodiments, the plate delivery system has heating/cooling mechanisms to help keep warm food warm or cool food cool.
US11350778B2
A temperature control cup includes a cup body and a cup cover, and the cup cover is covered on the cup body. The cup body is provided with a cup outer shell, a cup middle shell, and a cup inner wall in order from the outside to the inside. A vacuum heat insulation layer is provided between the cup shell and the cup middle shell. A gas getter is provided in the vacuum heat insulation layer at the bottom of the cup body. A phase change material layer is provided between the middle shell and the inner wall of the cup body. The bottom center of the cup shell is recessed inward with a small through-hole, and the through-hole is sealed with glass after melting at high temperatures.
US11350774B2
A pillow including a pillow-liner having an upper liner, a lower liner, and at least one middle liner. The upper liner, lower liner, and at least one middle liner are sealed together adjacent peripheral edges thereof to define an open end and at least two internal compartments. The at least one middle liner is generally parallel with the upper and lower liners. The pillow also includes cushioning materials for filling the at least two internal compartments. Each of the at least two internal compartments are filled with different cushioning materials such that the internal compartments have different density and firmness when filled with the respective cushioning materials. At least one of the at least two internal compartments is filled with a plurality of loose pieces of a shredded foam material, and at least one of the at least two internal compartments is filled with a one-piece molded foam material.
US11350766B2
A carrying device includes an object to be carried and an object carrier coupled to the object to be used in carrying the object. The object carrier includes a handle connected with at least one end to the object and movable between a retracted position to a carrying position. The object may be an infant seat.
US11350755B2
A foldable chair, comprises a foldable chair frame (10) and a chair seat (1) made of a flexible material; the chair frame (10) comprising an X-shaped left support frame (101), an X-shaped right support frame (102) connected through a connecting crossbar (3), the chair seat (1) is connected to the chair frame (10) through a plurality of connecting pieces; a detachable pole (2) extends from top to bottom of the chair frame (10), and the connecting crossbar (3) has two first through holes (34) for the poles (2) to pass through; correspondingly, the connecting crossbar (3) has two second through holes (33) for a plurality of support tubes (100) to pass through; each pole (2) and the corresponding support tube (100) forms the X-shaped left or right support frame. This chair has the advantages of simple and reasonable structure, easy installation and disassembly, simple manufacture process and low cost, and is especially suitable for carrying around when traveling.
US11350748B2
A fan clamp is provided for supporting a fan on a support surface by clamping to the support surface. The fan clamp includes a clamp assembly having an upper clamp member for engaging a top side of the support surface, a lower clamp member for engaging a bottom side of the support surface and a screw adjustment assembly extending through the lower and upper clamp members for clamping the upper clamp assembly and lower clamp assembly to the support surface. The clamp assembly further includes a shield extending from the lower clamp assembly through the upper clamp assembly that partially surrounds the screw adjustment assembly to block the screw adjustment assembly from being visible when the lower and upper clamp assemblies move away from each other to engage a support surface. The fan clamp may further include an arm extending from the clamp assembly for supporting the fan. The arm may be a swing arm that is rotativity connected to the fan clamp.
US11350745B2
A storage shelf base for an item of furniture or household appliance has a support plate stationarily arranged on a body of the item of furniture or household appliance, and a storage shelf which is positively driven relative to the support plate and can simultaneously be moved rotationally and translationally. Facing bearing surfaces of the support plate and the storage shelf have respective at least substantially closed circulating running grooves, in which rolling elements are guided. The support plate can be detachably secured to the body of the item of furniture or household appliance. At least one securing region for detachably securing the support plate to the body of the item of furniture or household appliance is formed on the support plate and the storage shelf can be secured to the support plate without the use of tools.
US11350738B2
The present system is directed to a modular apparatus that may be assembled and disassembled repeatedly without the use of tools. The modular system includes connectors that may be fixed to the underside of a plank and then engaged with leg portions. The connectors further include channels to accommodate retention members of additional attachments, such as covers, guards, signage, or racks that may be added onto the modular apparatus to increase its utility. The retention members mate with the connectors to connect and securely hold the attachment and can be removed from the connectors all without the need for tools.
US11350737B2
The invention relates to a pick-up device with a height-adjustable pick-up unit and at least one gas pressure spring designed to compensate for forces acting on the holding unit.
US11350732B2
An oral care implement including a handle and a head. The oral care implement may be formed entirely out of a resilient or flexible material. The head may include a base structure and a monolithic cleaning unit. The monolithic cleaning unit may include a block portion extending from a front surface of the base structure and a plurality of protuberances extending from a distal end of the block portion. The block portion may have a greater height than the protuberances. The protuberances may include central protuberances that extend from a distal surface of the block portion and peripheral protuberances that surround the block portion and extend from the front surface of the base structure. The monolithic cleaning unit may include ribs extending between adjacently positioned protuberances. The oral care implement may be suitable for babies.
US11350723B2
A cartridge for a cosmetic product includes a first longitudinal end for allowing access to the cosmetic product and a second longitudinal end. The cartridge further includes: an outer tube; a control sleeve; a receptacle for cosmetic product; and a bottom element, integral in rotation with the control sleeve. The cartridge is configured so as to be detachably coupled to a base such that a relative rotation of the base in relation to the cartridge causes a movement of the receptacle for cosmetic product. The bottom element contributes to closing off access to the cartridge via the second longitudinal end of the cartridge.
US11350710B2
An ornament for being strung on an elongated member includes a shell having a cavity and a first friction element. The ornament may be arranged in an un-assembled configuration, in which the first friction element is un-attached to the shell, and an assembled configuration, in which the first friction element is attached to the shell. The first friction element has a first retaining part, arranged in the cavity when the ornament is in the assembled configuration, and a first friction part attached to the first retaining part and comprising a first gripping surface for frictionally gripping a surface of the elongated member. The ornament, in the assembled configuration, is strung on the elongated member, and is releasably secured in a first location on the elongated member. The first friction part and the first retaining part have different material and/or mechanical properties in the unassembled configuration.
US11350709B2
Systems that are used to support a plurality of frames arranged in a specific configuration are contemplated. The system comprises outer frame panels that removably couple to the plurality of frames. It is contemplated that the outer frame panels collectively couple to the plurality of frames to thereby provide additional stability to maintain the plurality of frames in the specific configuration, such that the risk of the plurality of frames losing their specific configuration during transport is reduced.
US11350701B2
Described is a shoe upper for a shoe, in particular an athletic shoe, wherein the shoe upper is laceless and comprises: (a.) a lateral portion; (b.) a medial portion; and (c.) at least an elastic intermediate portion between the lateral portion and the medial portion, wherein the stiffness of at least one of the lateral portion and the medial portion is at least 2 times higher than the stiffness of the elastic intermediate portion.
US11350690B2
Described is an upper garment worn by welders while welding overhead, which is made of a breathable fabric and leather. The garment has a hood comprising leather attached to the neckline of the garment body, at least one leather sleeve, and leather on one shoulder and an upper front portion and an upper back portion of the garment that is contiguous with the at least one leather sleeve. The hood may be partially or completely made of leather, and the other sleeve may be leather. The strategic placement of leather on the garment improves the garment's durability, minimizes burns on the wearer from sparks and spatter, and protects the garment from the environment.
US11350689B2
A visor system for a helmet includes a lens sized to extend across at least a portion of a user's face, a frame secured along a top portion of the lens and configured to receive and abut against a front surface of the helmet, a first fastener coupled to a first end of the frame by a first flexible attachment, and a second fastener coupled to a second end of the frame by a second flexible attachment. The visor system may further include a first anchor releasably securable to the first fastener, the first anchor being mountable onto a first portion of the helmet, and a second anchor releasably securable to the second fastener, the second anchor being mountable onto a second portion of the helmet.
US11350681B1
A pair of tights specially designed for the wearer to self-adjust the waist for fit, adjust compression, adjust for waist training, adjust lower abdominal support, and adjust lower lumbar back support. The localized compression effect is configured and adjusted by a textile piece attached at the left side area of the back waistband that can cross the front of the abdomen to the left and a textile piece attached at the right-side area of the back waistband that can cross the front of the abdomen to the right. The two textile pieces that cross the body are anchored from the opposite side areas of the waistband creating a compression and opposite horizontal pull across the back and can be adjusted to attach across the front of the body. The configuration of the waistband and adjustable textile pieces allows a wearer to self-adjust the fit.
US11350671B2
A method of detecting a hand-to-mouth (HMG) gesture with an e-vaping device includes detecting movements of the e-vaping device; generating quaternions based on the detected movements; generating movement features based on the generated quaternions; applying the generated movement features to a classifier; and determining whether the detected movements correspond to an HMG based on an output of the classifier.
US11350669B2
The temperature of a vaporizing device, e.g., the temperature of a heating element of the vaporizing device, may be controlled according to various aspects of the present disclosure. The vaporizing device may comprise a heating element, a power source, at least one sensor in electronic communication with the heating element and the power source, and a processor configured to control the temperature of the heating element. The method of controlling the temperature may comprise receiving a resistance measurement of the heating element from the at least one sensor, determining the temperature of the heating element based on the resistance measurement, and adjusting the amount of power supplied to the heating element based on the determined temperature of the heating element.
US11350666B2
An electronic vapor provision device comprising a power cell and a vaporizer, wherein the vaporizer comprises a heater and a heater support, wherein the heater is one the inside of the heater support.
US11350664B2
Various embodiments of a vaporization device are described that include one or more features, such as for generating a combined inhalable aerosol. In some embodiments, the vaporization device can include one or more heaters that are configured to heat one or more vaporizable materials. Various embodiments of heating elements and heating systems for use in vaporization devices are also described.
US11350659B2
A system and method to extract juices or other fluids from natural organic products such as fruits and leafy vegetables. A natural organic product pre-cooled between 42° F. to 49° F. is initially evacuated for about 60 seconds and then aerated for about 90 seconds using nitrogen. After repeating the evacuation and aeration one more time, the aerated product is fed to a triple auger unit where each auger rotates at a speed of approximately 80 RPM to 86 RPM. The outer covers of the augers are pre-cooled to a temperature gradient of 44° F. to 47° F., and fluid extraction is maximized by feeding the extruded material back through the second and third augers. The extruded liquid is pressurized during subsequent filtration and then stored in a temperature-controlled container. Stringent temperature and pressure controls maintain the purity and nutrient strength of the liquid extract, while improving the shelf life.
US11350649B2
A flash boiling apparatus for a liquid food product that includes particles, the apparatus including a vacuum vessel provided with a product inlet and a product outlet for liquid food product, a pressure relief valve arranged upstream the product inlet for providing a pressure drop that results in flash boiling of the liquid food product, and an inlet section arranged between the pressure relief valve and the product inlet, for conveying the liquid food product from the pressure relief valve to the product inlet. The inlet section includes a through-flow area that increases in a direction from the pressure relief valve to the product inlet, such that a flow velocity of the liquid food product decreases when it passes the inlet section.
US11350643B2
Disclosed herein is at least one low protein yogurt composition comprising at least one dairy ingredient, dairy alternative ingredient, or mixture thereof, and a texturizing agent comprising an inhibited starch and a non-granular, enzymatically-debranched waxy potato starch, wherein said low protein yogurt comprises less than 2.9% dairy protein content, and at least one method for making these low protein yogurt compositions. Also disclosed herein is a texturizing agent comprising an inhibited starch and a non-granular, enzymatically-debranched waxy potato starch.
US11350640B1
Methods and related apparatus for improving the efficacy of antimicrobial agents within processing tanks. Processing tanks can include side streams for introducing antimicrobial agents into the processing tanks. The antimicrobial agents will be added and mixed in the side stream to form a processing solution. Additional actions can be conducted on the processing solution within the side stream including any and or all of heating, pumping, sampling, measuring, testing and pH adjustment of the processing solution. The processing solution is divided into at least two processing solution steams, which can be introduced at two different and distinct locations within the processing tank such as a carcass introduction end and a carcass removal end. By simultaneously introducing at least two processing solution streams at different locations of the processing tank, large concentration gradients of the antimicrobial agent are avoided.
US11350638B1
A machine for manual action that releases, shreds or defrays the different fibers of meat for human consumption, be it chicken, beef, pork or any other suitable animals that have fibers. These are characterized by having a bar of different shapes located on the periphery of a shaft which has a handle for manual action so that when the operator turns the handle, bars that are located linearly and equidistant on an axis rotate so that the meat pieces located in the tray enter through an opening and collide between the bars inside the casing. The rotating and fixed bars swivel between said bars and rods, allowing the bars to rotate without colliding or crossing. Through this movement, the pieces of meat are shredded or defrayed in different sizes, depending on the distance and speed between the linear bars moving and those that are fixed. Note the system may also work with either reduction gears and or a reduction motor. This shredder may be attached to the table via a vise or similar mechanism.
US11350631B2
The present invention relates to herbicidal mixture comprising L-glufosinate or its salt and at least one VLCFA inhibitor. The invention furthermore relates to a method for controlling undesirable vegetation in burndown programs, in industrial vegetation management and forestry, in vegetable and perennial crops and in turf and lawn.
US11350625B2
One aspect of the invention provides a method for preparing a vein graft. The method includes: applying a tissue passivation agent to a resected anatomical vessel; placing the resected anatomical vessel in a chamber; and allowing the tissue passivation agent to cross-link while the resected anatomical vessel is in the chamber.
US11350614B2
The present disclosure relates to genetically modified non-human animals that express a human or chimeric (e.g., humanized) CD28, and methods of use thereof.
US11350607B2
A pet life jacket includes a jacket body and a wearing mechanism. The jacket body includes a floatable back body, two floatable side wings sidewardly extended from the floatable back body, and two floatable collar arms frontwardly extended from the floatable back body. The wearing mechanism includes a belly lock provided at the floatable side wings and a collar lock provided at the floatable collar arms to form a floatable collar loop. The jacket body is adapted to be worn by a pet via the wearing mechanism at a position that the floatable back body is retained at a back of the pet, the floatable side wings are retained at two sides of the pet, and the floatable collar loop is encircled around a collar of the pet via the collar lock.
US11350593B2
According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH011087. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH011087, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH011087 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to genetic complements of plants of variety CH011087.
US11350586B2
A novel hybrid cucumber plant, designated DIXON is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of hybrid cucumber designated DIXON, to the plants and plant parts of hybrid cucumber designated DIXON, and to methods for producing a cucumber plant by crossing the hybrid cucumber DIXON with itself or another cucumber plant.
US11350582B2
The present invention relates generally to compositions and methods for mutating a plant and plants and plant products produced by said methods. Also, compositions and methods for controlling a plant species are disclosed herein.
US11350577B2
A flexible layered fabric sheet comprising a porous front layer and a pre-seeded substrate layer, where the seeds are in-between the two layers (rather than at the back of the substrate layer), for supporting root growth, the two layers together having an upper and lower edge and being attached together with one or more non-continuous seams between the upper and lower edges, which seams have a component of direction parallel to the upper and/or lower edge, and wherein the non-continuous seams enable water to exit the layered fabric sheet at its lower edge, and the non-continuous seams further serve to slow water flow through the water sheet. The seams also serve to keep the two layers from separating which would hamper the penetration of the sapling through the front porous layer, and thus stunt growth.
US11350565B2
A sickle drive incorporated into a generally flat package or enclosure or floor. The drive includes an epicyclic mechanism, including a rotatable input element in an upper region of a cavity of the enclosure, and an eccentric element below the input element rotatable eccentrically thereby. A drive arm is connected to the eccentric element for rotation about, and eccentric rotation with, the eccentric element, and extends to a pivot element which can be the only component extending upwardly from the enclosure or floor, such that the shaft will be pivoted by the eccentric movement of the drive arm. A knife arm connects to the pivot element and a sickle knife assembly which will be reciprocated by the pivoting action. A second epicyclic arrangement can be employed such that opposite forces generated by operation of the drive will be largely canceled.
US11350554B2
An agricultural planter is operable in a travel direction and a travel velocity and configured to dispense seeds into a furrow formed within an agricultural surface. An adjustment assembly is for the agricultural planter and includes a bracket configured to be coupled to a frame of the agricultural planter and a debris cleaner coupled to the bracket. The debris cleaner is configured such that during operation of the agricultural planter the debris cleaner has, relative to the travel direction, a leading edge and a trailing edge. The debris cleaner is movable such that a distance between the leading and trailing edges in the travel direction is adjustable.
US11357141B2
An electromagnetic emission shield for protecting a facility having a volume of coal combustion residue. The shield includes a carbon-based material positioned inside an interior space of the coal combustion residue proximate to and interposed between a potential source of electromagnetic emission and the facility.
US11357135B2
A data center system includes a frame assembly that includes a plurality of bays defined along a lengthwise dimension of the frame assembly, the plurality of bays arranged in a plurality of stacked layers of bays, the plurality of stacked layers including at least a first layer of bays and a second layer of bays positioned vertically above the first layer of bays; a plurality of server racks positioned in the bays of the first layer of bays, each of the server racks configured to support a plurality of data center server devices that define a particular amount of computing power; and a plurality of network switches positioned in the bays of the second layer of bays, each of the network switches communicably coupled to at least one of the data center server devices in the first layer of bays.
US11357133B2
An electronic device includes: a casing including a bottom wall and a side wall rising from the bottom wall, the side wall being attached to a manifold of an actuator in an aircraft at an opposite side to the bottom wall; a boss projecting from the bottom wall toward the opposite side to the bottom wall with respect to the side wall; and a circuit portion fixed to the boss.
US11357126B2
A space-saving locking structure without sharp edges for a server cabinet can lock a first housing to a second housing and includes first and second locking members. The first locking member includes a locking portion with a tail portion, the second locking member includes a blocking portion. The blocking portion has a rounded surface such that when the first housing is pressed along a first direction, the first housing approaches and closes with the second housing, the tail portion being set against a top of the blocking portion. When the first housing is further pushed in a second direction, the tail portion slides along the rounded surface of the blocking portion until the tail portion abuts against the blocking portion to lock the first housing to the second housing.
US11357118B2
A display device includes: a display panel including first and second areas, and a bending portion between the first and second areas; and a cover window on the display panel. The first area is between the cover window and the second area when the display panel is in a bent state, the first bending portion is between the cover window and the third bending portion when the display panel is in the bent state, and the bending portion includes a first bending portion extending from the first area, a second bending portion extending from the first bending portion, and a third bending portion between the second bending portion and the second area. A radius of curvature of the second bending portion is less than that of the first bending portion, and the radius of curvature of the second bending portion is less than that of the third bending portion.
US11357113B2
An apparatus for preparing graphene by means of laser irradiation in liquid, comprising a laser generating system, and further comprising a computer control system, a cleaning and drying system, and a workpiece auxiliary system. The light spot diameter of the laser emitted from a pulse laser unit (26) is increased by means of a beam expander (24), and the laser is reflected and split by a beam splitter to form two laser beams; a first laser beam (19) shocks the right vertical plane of a graphite solid target (18) by means of a focusing lens, and a second laser beam (17) shocks the left vertical plane of the graphite solid target (18) by means of the focusing lens, so as to grow graphene on a copper foil (5) substrate.
US11357112B2
In some embodiments, a manufacturing process includes injection molding a palladium-catalyzed material into a substrate, forming a thin copper film over exterior and exposed surfaces of the substrate; ablating or removing copper film from the substrate to provide first, second and optional third portions of the copper film and ablated sections; electrolytically plating each portion to form metallic-plated portions; and ablating or removing the second portion in order to isolate the first portion. The metallic-plated first portion comprises a circuit portion of a molded interconnect device (MID), and where the metallic-plated third portion comprises a Faraday cage portion of a MID. A soft etching step may be included. A solder resist application step can be added, along with an associated solder resist removal step.
US11357096B2
Embodiments include a microelectronic device package structure having an inductor within a portion of a substrate, wherein a surface of the inductor is substantially coplanar with a surface of the substrate. One or more thermal interconnect structures are on the surface of the inductor. A conductive feature is embedded within a board, where a surface of the conductive feature is substantially coplanar with a surface of the board. One or more thermal interconnect structures are on the surface of the conductive feature of the board, where the thermal interconnect structures provide a thermal pathway for cooling for the inductor.
US11357094B2
A deflection electromagnet device generates a high magnetic field without increasing the size of a vacuum duct to facilitate control over a beam orbit. Magnetic flux lines from a return pole pass through the vacuum duct of a high-temperature superconductor in a vacuum heat insulation container and the charged particle beam is thus deflected, thereby generating radiation. A three-pole magnetic field is formed on the beam orbit and the charged particle beam is thus deflected by individual magnetic fields, so that radiation can be generated while the charged particle beam returns to a coaxial orbit. Therefore, an increase in size of the vacuum duct can be prevented. A shielding current is dominant and the non-uniformity of the magnetic field in a z-axis direction is prevented by disposing the high-temperature superconductor having a crystal direction c-axis orthogonal to a horizontal plane in which the charged particle beam flows.
US11357090B2
An electronic device is configured to change a light state, e.g. the brightness, of at least one light source (11) while a user is watching content being displayed on a display (19) and detect the user's attention shifting away from the display (19). The electronic device is further configured to determine whether the attention shift coincides with the change of the light state and store a preference for the light state in dependence on the attention shift coinciding with the change of the light state. The preference is preferably a preference for a light state with a less pronounced light effect than the changed light state.
US11357083B2
A light-emitting substrate and a method of driving the same, a light-emitting module, and a display apparatus are provided. The light-emitting substrate has a plurality of light-emitting areas. The light-emitting substrate includes: a base, a plurality of light-emitting components, a plurality of first power supply voltage signal lines, and a plurality of first control circuits. The plurality of light-emitting components are disposed on the base. The plurality of first power supply voltage signal lines are disposed on the base and arranged at intervals. The plurality of first control circuits are disposed on the base. One light-emitting component is located in one light-emitting area. Each of the first control circuits is coupled to a first electrode of one light-emitting component, and each of first power supply voltage signal lines is coupled to at least two first control circuits.
US11357055B2
Random Access (RA) formats are defined for NB-IoT operation in TDD mode. The formats are defined to allow use of the legacy LTE subframe configurations for TDD. The formats specify a predetermined, even number P of symbol groups composing a RA preamble, wherein each symbol group comprises a Cyclic Prefix (CP) and a number X of symbols. The P symbol groups are divided into symbol group sets fitting into 1, or 2, or 3 contiguous uplink subframes, each comprising at least two symbol groups transmitted back-to-back (i.e., contiguously in time), and at least two symbol group sets are transmitted non-contiguously in time across a number of uplink subframes over which the RA preamble is transmitted. The number of symbol groups in a set can be two or three, and the number of symbol groups is four or six, respectively. Symbol groups within a set are transmitted on adjacent uplink subframes. Five format options are defined, which map to various of the LTE TDD configurations.
US11357047B2
This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatuses for wireless communications. In some implementations, a first wireless communication device associated with a basic service set (BSS) receives a plurality of packets transmitted during a measurement window by a second wireless communication device associated with the BSS. The first wireless communication device determines a received signal strength indicator (RSSI) value of the plurality of received packets, determines a level of overlapping basic service set (OBSS) interference on the wireless medium during the measurement window, and adjusts one or more of a packet detect (PD) threshold, an OBSS PD threshold, or an energy detect (ED) threshold based on the determined RSSI value and the level of OBSS interference.
US11357043B2
Example uplink channel listening methods and apparatus are described. In one example method, a contention window size (CWS) is determined with reference to a time threshold, for example, a timer. After sending an uplink burst, if a terminal device does not receive indication information carrying a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) status, the terminal device increases the CWS and then performs channel listening.
US11357033B2
Aspects of the present disclosure provide for opportunistic uplink transmissions within a slot. In some examples, after scheduling all regular uplink transmissions within a current slot, a base station (e.g., gNB) may identify a set of unused uplink resources within the current slot and generate and transmit unused resource information identifying the set of unused resources to the user equipment (UE) within the cell served by the base station. If a particular UE is configured to operate in an opportunistic mode, the UE may utilize the unused resource information to generate and transmit an opportunistic uplink transmission within the set of unused uplink resources.
US11357030B2
A configuration of a plurality of transmission configuration indicator go) states for a serving cell is received for physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) transmissions, wherein each of the plurality of TCI states contains parameters for configuring a quasi-co-location relationship between downlink reference signals and demodulation reference signal ports of the PDSCH transmissions. A physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) is received, which includes downlink control information for scheduling a PDSCH. A determination is made as to whether an offset between the reception of the PDCCH and a reception of the PDSCH is less than a predetermined threshold, where in response to the determination that the offset is less than the predetermined threshold, a configured pair of TCI states is selected from the received configuration of the plurality of TCI states. The PDSCH is decoded based on the selected configured pair of TCI states.
US11357029B2
The present invention relates to a wireless communication system, and more particularly, to a method for transceiving data in an unlicensed band and an apparatus for same. In particular, disclosed in the present invention are a method and an apparatus for same, the method comprising: a terminal receiving, from a base station, listen before talk (LBT)-type information and information relating to an uplink data transmission interval during which the data is transmitted from within one subframe; and transmitting the data to the base station only during the uplink data transmission interval from within the one subframe, based on an LBT operation indicated by the LBT-type information, thereby efficiently transceiving data between the terminal and the base station in the unlicensed band.
US11357028B2
Aspects described herein relate to beam sweep based semi-persistent signaling (SPS) or configured grant (CG) activation. In one aspect, a network entity may determine a beam sweep pattern for at least one of a SPS based downlink periodic transmission, an uplink control transmission for the SPS based downlink periodic transmission, or a CG based uplink periodic transmission. The network entity may further transmit an indication including the beam sweep pattern to a user equipment (UE). In another aspect, a UE may receive a beam sweep pattern for at least one of a SPS based downlink periodic transmission, an uplink control transmission for the SPS based downlink periodic transmission, or a CG based uplink periodic transmission from a network entity.
US11357017B2
A first indication that indicates a time frequency region can be received. A second indication indicating the priority of an uplink transmission in a set of time frequency resources as a high priority uplink transmission can be received. Whether at least a portion of the set of time frequency resources of the high priority uplink transmission overlaps with the indicated time frequency region can be determined. Whether to transmit the high priority uplink transmission if at least the portion of the set of time frequency resources of the high priority uplink transmission overlaps with the indicated time frequency region can be determined. The high priority uplink transmission can be transmitted based on determining whether to transmit the high priority uplink transmission.
US11357013B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may receive control signaling configuring the UE with a set of frequency resources and a semi-persistent resource allocation indicating a semi-persistent resource occasion on each frequency resource of the set. The UE may monitor semi-persistent resource occasions on each of the set of frequency resources for a copy of a data transmission. If the UE receives and decodes the data transmission from at least one of the semi-persistent resource occasions, the UE may transmit an acknowledgement message on a frequency resource of the set. Additionally, the UE may refrain from transmitting a feedback message on the other frequency resources of the set. If the UE does not receive and successfully decode the data transmission from any of the semi-persistent resource occasions, the UE may transmit a negative acknowledgement message on one of the set of frequency resources.
US11357008B2
Methods for activating a semi-persistently configured resource and a terminal device are provided. The method includes receiving, by a terminal device, a first instruction, where the first instruction is used for activating a semi-persistently configured resource of a first BWP in a non-activated state.
US11357007B2
In one novel aspect, a plurality of synchronization signal (SS) anchors within a block of a contiguous spectrum is configured in a wireless network. Each SS anchor is a primary SS anchor or a secondary SS anchor. The UE performs an initial access by detecting a first primary SS anchor and receives one or more virtual carrier configurations with corresponding SS anchors within the block of the contiguous spectrum. In another novel aspect, the UE performs an initial access through a first RF band with a first bandwidth and a first center frequency, receives a switching signal to switch from the first RF band to a second RF band with a second bandwidth and a second center frequency, the second bandwidth is different from the first bandwidth, and performs a RF bandwidth adaptation from the first RF band to the second RF band based on the adaptation signal.
US11357006B2
This disclosure relates to methods for conducting multilink communications between a user equipment (UE) device and a remote device over a wireless local area network (WLAN). The UE device periodically transmits communications to the remote device over a first frequency band on the WLAN using a first radio. The UE device may determine to switch from transmitting communications to the remote device over the first frequency band to transmitting said communications over a second frequency band. The UE device then transmits communications to the remote device over the second frequency band on the WLAN.
US11357003B2
Apparatuses, systems, and methods to dynamically indicate preference for self-contained slots and slot duration by a user equipment device (UE) in communication with a base station (e.g., a gNB) using a 5G NR radio access technology. A UE may determine to send an indication to a gNB indicating a preference for self-contained slots and slot duration for downlink and/or uplink communications utilizing one or more of the physical downlink control channel (PDCCH), the physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH), and/or acknowledgement messaging (ACK/NACK) for downlink communications, and utilizing one or more of the physical uplink control channel (PUCCH), the PDCCH, and/or the physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) for uplink communications. The configuration of self-contained slots and slot duration for uplink and/or downlink may be based on one or more of average packet size, average packet rate, traffic type and UE processing capabilities.
US11357001B2
A method of transmitting a frame by a station (STA) in a wireless LAN system supporting an HE PPDU (high efficiency physical layer protocol data unit) according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: setting a first duration field included in an HE-SIG A field; and transmitting a frame including the HE-SIG A field and a MAC header, wherein the first duration field is set to indicate a TXOP (transmission opportunity) value using a smaller number of bits than a second duration field included in the MAC header, and a granularity of a time unit used for indicating the TXOP value in the first duration field is set to be different from a granularity of a time unit used in the second duration field.
US11356997B2
In a base station (100), a division number calculating unit (103) calculates the division number of a PRB pair on the basis of a first number of REs capable of mapping an allocation control signal, a second number of REs capable of mapping signals other than the allocation control signal, and a reference value, which is the number of REs satisfying the reception quality request in a terminal (200) for the allocation control signal, in each PRB pair. Then, a control signal mapping control unit (104) determines a search space by determining a control channel element group constituting a plurality of mapping unit resource region candidates within a CCE group obtained by separating each PRB pair contained in a first group into the same number as the division number.
US11356994B2
An adaptive two-stage downlink control channel structure is utilized for control channel transmission with code block group (CBG) retransmission for 5G and other next generation wireless systems. In an aspect, the first stage of the two-stage downlink control channel structure utilizes a defined format (e.g., having a fixed length) and provides information that is employable to determine the length and/or coding scheme of the second stage. In another aspect, the second stage of the two-stage downlink control channel structure utilizes a variable length/size to indicate the CBGs that are scheduled to be retransmitted (e.g., by employing a variable length bitmap). As an example, the length/size is varied based on a length/size of a transport block, from which the CBGs have been generated.
US11356991B2
A wireless communication device including an acquisition unit that acquires an information set related to a transmission parameter when transmitting a resource arbitrarily selected from a predetermined resource pool to a transmission target (for example, performing grant-free transmission), and a setting unit that sets the transmission parameter using the information set.
US11356987B2
A method for transmitting uplink control information (UCI) is provided. The method includes determining, by a user equipment (UES), the physical uplink control channel (PUSCH) resource for transmitting hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) information and scheduling request (SR) information, and determining, by the UE, an occupied PUCCH resource and transmitting the HARQ-ACK and SR according to the SR resource and whether it is necessary to transmit the SR currently.
US11356982B2
A symbol mapping method for repetition coding is disclosed. The symbol mapping method comprises performing repetition coding on codeword to output repeated codeword symbols, and mapping the repeated codeword symbols with subcarriers located in different localized resource blocks. According to the embodiments of the present invention, it is possible to obtain maximum reliability in a receiving side by mapping codeword bits with subcarriers to reduce the number of bits having low reliability when a transmitting side uses repetition coding. Also, it is possible to improve decoding throughput and obtain channel diversity.
US11356974B2
Disclosed are a method and a device for improving the reliability of paging. The method comprises operations as follows. A first base station receives a first RRC message sent by a terminal. The first RRC message is an RRC connection resume request message or an RRC connection establishment request message, the first RRC message carries a first indication message, and the first indication message indicates that RRC connection resume or RRC connection establishment is used for a location update. The first base station sends, on the basis of the first indication message, a second RRC message to the terminal, the second RRC message indicates that the terminal is allowed to access to the first base station.
US11356963B2
A radio communication method and device are provided. The method includes: a network device sending first information to a terminal device, the first information including a first bitmap corresponding to a plurality of first synchronization signal blocks, and the first bitmap being used for identifying at least one second synchronization signal block in the plurality of first synchronization signal blocks; the network device obtaining a second bitmap corresponding to at least one second synchronization signal block based on the first bitmap, the second bitmap being used for identifying at least one third synchronization signal block in at least one second synchronization signal block; and the network device sending second information including the second bitmap to the terminal device.
US11356961B2
In one embodiment, a method comprises: determining, by a constrained network device in a low power and lossy network (LLN), a self-estimated density value of neighboring LLN devices based on wirelessly receiving an identified number of beacon message transmissions within an identified time interval from neighboring transmitting LLN devices in the LLN; setting, by the constrained network device, a first wireless transmit power value based on the self-estimated density value; and transmitting a beacon message at the first wireless transmit power value, the beacon message specifying the self-estimated density value, a corresponding trust metric for the self-estimated density value, and the first wireless transmit power value used by the constrained network device for transmitting the beacon message.
US11356960B2
Provided are a wireless communication terminal device and a power allocation method, wherein transmission channel quality information, regarding a Pcell having a high probability that UCI is multiplied therein, can be accurately estimated by an SRS having high priority in power allocation, and an eNB can instruct appropriate transmission power to an UL channel which transmits the subsequent UCI. A power scaling detection unit detects whether or not a total transmission power value of the UL channels transmitted by the plurality of CC exceeds the maximum transmission power specific to the UE. When a plurality of SRS are simultaneously transmitted using a Pcell and a Scell, and power scaling occurs, a power scaling control unit performs power allocation so that transmission power of the SRS of the Pcell has the higher priority than that of the SRS of the Scell.
US11356957B2
Embodiments of this application provide an uplink power control method and a terminal. The method includes: obtaining, by a terminal, a power control impact factor, where the power control impact factor includes at least one of the following: beamforming information, a subcarrier spacing, a time length, or a service type; determining, by the terminal, a transmit power of an uplink channel based on the power control impact factor; and sending, by the terminal, the uplink channel at the transmit power of the uplink channel. The embodiments can improve uplink power control precision.
US11356952B2
The disclosed subject matter provides techniques for managing negotiation of power saving mode (PSM) parameters between a user equipment (UE) and core network device of a wireless communication network. In this regard, a method is provided that includes facilitating establishing, by a device comprising a processor, a wireless communication link with a network device of a wireless network. The method can further include, based on a determination that a power saving mode retry protocol for the device is enabled, determining, by the device, a number of times the network device previously instructed the device to use network values for power saving mode timers instead of device values for the power saving mode timers in association with the device operating in a power saving mode.
US11356944B2
A data collection device capable of communicating with an endpoint device over a network comprises a first communication means for low data rate messaging, a second communication means for high data rate messaging, and a controller configured to send a wake-up command including a request for data to the endpoint device at a low data rate via the first communication means, the wake-up command requiring the requested data to be transmitted at a high data rate, and receive the requested data from the endpoint device at the high data rate via the second communication means. When transmission via a high data rate is not required, data may be transmitted to the data collection device at the low data rate via the first communication means. The wake-up command may involve a regularly scheduled request for data, an unscheduled request for data, and/or an alarm event. Various methodologies are also disclosed.
US11356942B2
The present disclosure relates to user equipment in a mobile communication system. The UE comprises processing circuitry, which in operation, determines at least one radio link via which a first base station is to forward data packets to the user equipment. The user equipment is connectable to both the first base station via a first radio link and to a second base station via a second radio link. The UE further comprises a transmitter, which in operation, transmits a radio link selection message to the first base station. The radio link selection message comprises information on the determined at least one radio link for instructing the first base station via which at least one radio link to forward the data packets to the user equipment.
US11356936B1
An edge device that includes one or more first antenna arrays at a donor side of the edge device, and one or more second antenna arrays at a service side of the edge device. The edge device obtains wireless connectivity enhanced information from a central cloud server. The edge device receives a first donor beam associated with a first wireless carrier network (WCN) from a first base station via the one or more first antenna arrays and further receives a second donor beam associated with a second WCN from a second base station. The edge device concurrently or alternatingly directs, from the one or more second antenna arrays, a first beam of RF signal in the first WCN to a first UE and a second beam of RF signal in the second WCN to the second UE, based on the obtained wireless connectivity enhanced information.
US11356933B2
A communication method in a wireless communication system supporting device-to-device (D2D) communication is provided. The communication method includes transmitting a first message including information for identifying a relay to discover a relay user equipment (UE) that performs a relay function in the D2D communication, and receiving a second message including information about the relay UE that performs the relay function, from the relay UE that has received the first message, the second message being transmitted in response to the first message.
US11356931B2
The systems, devices, and methods discussed herein are directed to a portable communication device, or a user equipment (UE), for obtaining cellular network services with an unassociated cellular network with assistance from a wireless local area network (WLAN). The UE registers with the WLAN, discovers the unassociated cellular network, sends request to a WLAN service provider of the WLAN to obtain cellular network services with the unassociated cellular network, and obtains cellular network services with the unassociated cellular network.
US11356923B2
Techniques for selective association and denial of association are provided. Association requests from a first device and a second device are received at an access point. A first media access control (MAC) address of the first device is determined, and a second MAC address of the second device is determined. A first role of the first device and a second role of the second device are each identified, based on a predefined mapping between MAC addresses and roles. Upon determining that the first device is associated with the first role, a unicast response is returned to the first device, where the unicast response includes an association disallowed frame. Additionally, upon determining that the second device is associated with the second role, a unicast response is returned to the second device, where the unicast response allows the second device to associate with the access point.
US11356921B2
A radio communication route enables communication from an originating ground station to a destination ground station via one of multiple randomly orbiting satellites with no active attitude control. The ground stations and satellites include multi-feed parabolic antennas for receiving radio signals from and transmitting radio signals in multiple directions. The satellites store an address of a destination ground station from which an initial information signal is transmitted and antenna information identifying the satellite antenna feed on which the initial information signal was received. Plural satellite antennas transmit linking information identifying the satellite to the originating ground station. Data transmissions received at the originating ground station that designate a particular destination are transmitted by the originating ground station using the antenna on which the linking information was received and the satellite retransmits the data transmission using the satellite antenna feed identified by the stored antenna information.
US11356903B2
This document describes methods and devices for a handover of a user equipment (110) from source base station (a Fifth Generation (5G) New Radio (NR) base station (121)) to a target base station (another 5G NR base station (123) or an Evolved Packet Core (EPC) network base station (122)). The source base station (121), which is in communication with the user equipment (110), determines to handover the user equipment (110) to the target base station (123,122). The source base station (121), then determines whether to use a delta configuration or a full configuration for handing over the user equipment (110). For the full configuration, the source base station (121) either excludes the delta configuration from, or indicates use of the full configuration in, handover preparation information. By so doing, the source base station (121) enables handover of the user equipment (110) to the target base station (123,122).
US11356890B2
A method for transmitting an RRC message includes: a target buffer report corresponding to a target SRB reported by a terminal is received, where the target SRB is an SRB for transmitting a target RRC message to be transmitted by the terminal; resource configuration is performed for the target SRB according to the target buffer report to acquire a resource configuration result; and the resource configuration result is transmitted to the terminal, so that the terminal determines a target RAN slice corresponding to the target SRB from among a plurality of RAN slices pre-configured for the terminal according to the resource configuration result, and transmits the target RRC message through the target RAN slice. As such, an RRC message may be transmitted through a plurality of RAN slices.
US11356887B2
Systems described herein provide techniques for establishing and modifying user plane communications sessions between Long-Term Evolution (“LTE”) User Equipment (“UE”) devices, connected to LTE base stations, and a Fifth Generation (“5G”) core network. An LTE-5G Interworking function (“LTE-5G IWF”) may logically generate a virtual 5G UE and/or 5G base station, map a LTE UE to the virtual 5G UE, and cause the establishment of a Protocol Data Unit (“PDU”) Session, at the 5G core network, with the virtual 5G UE. The LTE-5G IWF may provide PDU Session information to the LTE UE and base station to facilitate the establishment of user plane communications (e.g., via a tunnel) between the LTE UE and the 5G core network. The LTE-5G IWF may also receive modification parameters, such as Quality of Service (“QoS”) parameters, and provide instructions to the 5G core and/or to the LTE UE to handle traffic according to such parameters.
US11356884B2
A method and apparatus for reporting relaxed measurement in a wireless communication system is provided. A wireless device receives, from a network, a first measurement configuration including at least one of relaxed measurement conditions. A wireless device performs measurements on a serving cell based on the first measurement configuration. A wireless device evaluates the at least one of the relaxed measurement conditions based on results of the measurements on the serving cell. A wireless device performs a first relaxed measurement on the serving cell and/or at least one of neighbor cells based on the evaluation. A wireless device transmits, to the network, a message including an information informing that the first relaxed measurement has been performed on the serving cell and/or the at least one of the neighbor cells.
US11356872B2
Disclosed is a method for radio link monitoring in a wireless communication system and an apparatus for the method. More specifically, a method for a user equipment (UE) to perform Radio Link Monitoring (RLM) in a wireless communication system comprises performing second RLM on a cell based on a Reference Signal (RS) other than a Cell-specific Reference Signal (CRS) and determining an Radio Link Failure (RLF) with respect to the cell based on the second RLM, wherein a condition for determining an RLF applied to the second RLM is different from the condition for determining an RLF applied to CRS-based first RLM.
US11356869B2
Techniques that provide for the preservation of policy and charging for a subscriber following a user-plane element failover are described herein. In one embodiment, a method includes receiving, by a user-plane element, at least one data packet of a packet flow associated with a subscriber, wherein the at least one data packet is are received after the user-plane element has recovered from a failure; determining, by the user-plane element, whether restoration information associated with the packet flow is stored at the user-plane element; and applying one or more policies to the packet flow based on a determination that the restoration information associated with the packet flow is stored at the user-plane element, wherein the restoration information comprises a rule associated with the packet flow.
US11356861B2
Embodiments of a User Equipment (UE), an Evolved Node-B (eNB), small-cell access point (AP), and methods for dynamic millimeter wave pencil cell communication are generally described herein. The UE may receive access point reference signals (APRS) from one or more small-cell access points (AP), and may transmit APRS signal quality measurements to a macro-cell Evolved Node-B (eNB). The UE may receive, from the macro-cell eNB, a message that indicates candidate pencil cells for which the UE is to determine signal quality measurements, the candidate pencil cells supported by the small-cell APs. The UE may receive beam reference signals (BRS) for the candidate pencil cells and may refrain from reception of BRS for pencil cells not included in the message. In some cases, beam-widths of the APRSs may be larger than beam-widths of the BRSs.
US11356860B2
[Problem] To enable measurement of interference between a downlink signal and an uplink signal transmitted in different cells in a more suitable manner. [Solution] A communication device includes a communication unit that performs wireless communication with a first terminal device located within a communication range, an acquisition unit that acquires, from another base station, first information related to a second terminal device located within a communication range of the other base station, and a notification unit that notifies the first terminal device of second information for measuring interference of an uplink signal transmitted from the second terminal device to the other base station with a downlink signal transmitted to the first terminal device, based on the acquired first information.
US11356855B2
Improved techniques are provided for managing and optimizing network resources and spectrum access in a Self-Organizing Network (SON). A Spectrum Access System (SAS) collects network-related information from a plurality of network sources, such as base stations and user equipments (UEs), to perform optimization and organization across different networks, network operators, and network technologies. In some embodiments, the SAS may use the network information and a Radio Environment Map to optimize TDD synchronization in the SON. In other embodiments, the SAS may use the network information to populate a global Neighbor Relation Table. The SAS also may use the network information to optimize one or more network parameters, such as Physical Cell Identities or Root Sequence Indexes, antenna parameters, transmit power levels, handover thresholds, channel assignments, and so on, for use in the SON. Advantageously, the SAS's optimized network parameters may be used to improve network performance, reduce signal interference, and adjust to network failures in the SON.
US11356850B2
A method at a wireless terminal (UE) may include providing a first NAS connection with a network node (AMF) through a first access node (AN_1), wherein a first NAS CID is associated with the first NAS connection. While providing the first NAS connection, a second NAS CID may be allocated for a second NAS connection with the network node (AMF) through a second access node (AN_2). A registration request message may be transmitted to the network node (AMF) to request the second NAS connection, wherein transmitting the registration request message includes performing integrity protection for the registration request message using the second NAS CID. A security mode command message may be received from the network node (AMF), wherein the security mode command message corresponds to the registration request message. Responsive to receiving the security mode command message, a security mode complete message may be transmitted to the network node (AMF) through the second access node (AN_2).
US11356845B1
A method of attaching to a wireless communication network to receive wireless communication service. The method comprises calculating a checksum by a monitor application over at least a portion of an operating system stored in a wireless communication device, wherein the monitor application is stored in a trusted portion of memory of the device and executes in a trusted execution environment (TEE) of the device and wherein the operating system is authorized by a wireless communication network, comparing the calculated checksum value by the monitor application to a checksum value stored in the TEE, based on determining that the calculated checksum value matches the stored checksum value, rebooting the device to execute the operating system, and transmitting radio access credentials to the wireless communication network by the device, whereby the device authenticates into the wireless coverage of the wireless communication network based on the radio access credentials.
US11356835B2
Disclosed is a wireless communication system, including one or more monitoring devices and one or more asset tag devices. The one or more monitoring devices are configured to: transmit a beacon frame on at least one first communication channel and listen to the second communication channel. The one or more asset tag devices are configured to: scan at least one first communication channel to receive at least one beacon frame; select a monitoring device; switch to the second communication channel indicated in the beacon frame; and initiate communication with the selected monitoring device on the second communication channel. The selected monitoring device is further configured to communicate with the one or more asset tag devices on the second communication channel. Also disclosed are discovery methods, an asset tag device and a monitoring device for the wireless communication system.
US11356831B2
An information transmission system is formed by a plurality of input devices for the transmission of an information data, wherein each input device is signally connected to an electronic device. An information transmission method includes the following steps: one of the plurality of input devices receives a connection request from another input device; the input device receiving the connection request creates a wireless communication with the input device that issues the connection request according to the connection request; the input device receiving the connection request receives an information data transmitted by the input device that issues the connection request and transmits the information data to the electronic device connected to the input device that receives the connection request.
US11356829B2
The described embodiments transfer an activity from a source electronic device to a companion electronic device. The source electronic device receives activity information describing an activity performed in a first application at the source electronic device, determines an activity identifier for the activity information, and broadcasts an activity advertisement comprising the activity identifier. Upon receiving the activity advertisement, the companion electronic device determines whether a second application that is associated with the first application is available at the companion electronic device. If the second application is available, the companion electronic device requests extended activity data from the source electronic device. The source electronic device responds by sending extended activity data from the first application to the companion electronic device. Then, the companion electronic device uses the extended activity data to configure the second application and commences performing the activity with the second application at the companion electronic device.
US11356822B2
Provided is a driving assistance system capable of providing more pieces of information to a vehicle side by using magnetic markers. A driving assistance system (1A) is a system including magnetic markers (1) laid on a travelling road so as to be magnetically detectable and also be able to provide code information to a vehicle side, a vehicle (5) configured to be able to magnetically detect the magnetic markers (1) and also read the code information, and a base station (6) configured to make a reply with corresponding information when receiving the code information from the vehicle (5) reading the code information.
US11356819B2
Apparatus and methods for monitoring a wireless network such as a WLAN to characterize a venue or other area. In one embodiment, the network comprises a WLAN which includes one or more access points (APs) in data communication with a controller, which in turn communicates with managed network entities via a backhaul connection. The controller s is configured to monitor the operation of the network components including the APs, as well as one or more fixed or mobile sensors. In one variant, the sensors provide data relating to wireless signal performance at their current location, which can be provided to a cloud-based evaluation process for enhanced characterization of the venue in conjunction with the AP-derived data. In the exemplary embodiment, logic operative to run on the system includes automated seating allocation suggestions, thereby providing end users with a better quality experience.
US11356810B1
Reducing the spread of contagions. At least one example embodiment is a computer-implemented method including: creating, by a server system, an indication of suspended micro-droplets of spittle in an area of a building; receiving, by the server system, an indication that a mobile device is moving toward the area of the building; and sending, by the server system, an alert to the mobile device, the alert indicating that entry into the area of the building is not safe based on the indication of suspended micro-droplets of spittle.
US11356805B2
A method for determining location of a target within an indoor environment, including the steps of: classifying a set of anchors having known locations within the indoor environment and a set of targets having unknown locations within the indoor environment, wherein each of the anchors and targets comprise hardware having sensors and wireless communication capabilities; creating a set of ordinal pair data sets comprising relative distances between each target and all anchors; ranking and aggregating the ordinal pair data sets to produce a set of dissimilarities that approximate distances; transforming the dissimilarities into estimated distances between each anchor and target using the known distances between the anchors as calibration; and inferring location of targets by formulating and solving a multidimensional unfolding optimization.
US11356792B2
A computer converts each content sources from textual content to speech comprising a separate audio selection. The computer applies, to each audio selection, one or more speech attributes to specify the audio attributes that select a respective position of the respective audio selection from among multiple positions within a multidimensional sound space and audibly distinguish one or more characteristics of the respective audio selection from other audio selections, wherein the respective position of the respective audio selection reflects a rank of the respective audio selection as ordered by interest to a user. The computer outputs a simultaneous stream of the multiple audio selections to an audio output device for stereo play of the audio selections within the multiple positions within the multidimensional sound space to the user, with the multiple positions reflecting the content sources ordered by interest.
US11356787B2
An audio object including audio content and object metadata is received. The object metadata indicates an object spatial position of the audio object to be rendered by audio speakers in a playback environment. Based on the object spatial position and source spatial positions of the audio speakers, initial gain values for the audio speakers are determined. The initial gain values can be used to select a set of audio speakers from among the audio speakers. Based on the object spatial position and a set of source spatial positions at which the set of audio speakers are respectively located in the playback environment, a set of non-negative optimized gain values for the set of audio speakers is determined. The audio object at the object spatial position is rendered with the set of optimized gain values for the set of audio speakers.
US11356786B2
An image capture device includes a sensor, a microphone array, and a processor. The microphone array may include a first microphone, a second microphone, a third microphone, or any combination thereof. The first microphone may be configured to face a first direction. The second microphone may be configured to face a second direction. The second direction may be diametrically opposed to the first direction. The third microphone may be configured to face a third direction. The third direction may be substantially perpendicular to the first direction, the second direction, or both. The processor may be configured to determine a microphone capture pattern and detect wind noise. The microphone capture pattern may be determined based on data obtained from the sensor. The sensor data may include image data, audio data, image capture device orientation data, location data, accelerometer data, or any combination thereof.
US11356777B2
Examples described herein relate to transitioning a playback session between portable playback devices such as “smart” headphones, earbuds, and handheld speakers with playback devices of a zone-based media playback system. Exemplary techniques facilitate continuity of playback when transitioning between locations (e.g., from at home to on-the-go or vice versa) or between listening paradigms (e.g., personal or out-loud playback of audio content). An example implementation includes detecting a swap trigger, determining the source playback device(s) and target playback device(s), and performing a playback session swap between the source playback device(s) and target playback device(s).
US11356776B2
A method of associating audio devices into a network association, including alerting a network of the presence of a first audio device by engaging a first button associated with the first audio device; assigning a first role to the first audio device; alerting the network of the presence of each subsequent audio device by engaging a subsequent button associated with each subsequent audio device; assigning a subsequent role to each subsequent audio device; and alerting the network that all subsequent audio devices have been identified by engaging the first button associated with the first audio device.
US11356775B2
A system and method for processing and enhancing utility of a sound mask noise signal, including generating, by a signal processor, the sound mask noise signal by modulating a noise signal with embedded additional information, outputting, by a plurality of audio speakers, sound signals comprising the sound mask noise signal with the embedded additional information, and receiving, by one or more microphones, the outputted sound signals comprising the sound mask noise signal, wherein an impulse response between each audio speaker and each microphone is measured in real time based on the embedded additional information.
US11356763B2
The present disclosure relates to a waterproof open earphone. The waterproof open earphone may include a housing, at least one button, at least one elastic pad, and at least one pair of speaker units. The housing may be placed on a head or at least one ear of a user while not blocking an ear canal of the user. The at least one button may be set on the housing, wherein each of the at least one button corresponds to a button hole. The at least one elastic pad may correspond to the at least one button, respectively, wherein each elastic pad prevents the corresponding button from moving relative to the button hole. Each pair of the at least one pair of speaker units may generate sound within a frequency range from two sound guiding holes through two sound guiding tubes.
US11356755B2
An OLT comprises a processor configured to generate a first message comprising a first field instructing an ONU to report its data rate capability as at least one of 10 Gb/s, 25 Gb/s, or 50 Gb/s; a transmitter coupled to the processor and configured to transmit the first message to the ONU; and a receiver coupled to the processor and configured to receive a second message from the ONU in response to the first message, the second message comprises a second field indicating the data rate capability. A method comprises generating a first message comprising a first field instructing reporting of a data rate capability as at least one of 10 Gb/s, 25 Gb/s, or 50 Gb/s; transmitting the first message; and receiving a second message in response to the first message, the second message comprises a second field indicating the data rate capability.
US11356753B1
A utility meter includes a metrology core, a short-range radio configured to communicate wirelessly over a local area mesh network, a long-range radio configured to communicate wirelessly over a wide area network and a controller that checks a performance of the local area mesh network against one or more predetermined performance criteria. When the performance of the local area mesh network meets a set of one or more predetermined performance criteria, the utility meter communicates a first set of the information to the head-end system using the short-range radio. When the performance of the local area mesh network does not meet the set of one or more predetermined performance criteria, the utility meter communicates a second set of information to the head-end system using the long-range radio.
US11356747B2
Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed for associating different watermarks detected in media. An example method disclosed herein includes determining whether a first watermark detected in a media signal is represented in a watermark data structure and associating the first watermark with a first media presentation record associated with a second watermark in response to the first watermark being associated in the watermark data structure with the second watermark. The example method further includes transmitting monitoring data including the first media presentation record to an audience measurement entity.
US11356745B2
A computer-implemented method for optimizing the placement of previously selected breaks in a media item is provided herein. Embodiments of the method include steps of identifying a break in a media item, the break being associated with a first break point at a first time during playback of the media item. The method may also include steps of dynamically adjusting the placement of the breaks within the media item based on the performance of the media item.
US11356732B2
Systems and methods for determining a comparative level of user engagement are disclosed. According to at least one embodiment, a method of determining a comparative level of user engagement with content of a first type includes receiving sensor data (e.g., rotational vector, attitude, or ambient light sensor data) from a mobile device. The sensor data includes first sensor data sensed by the mobile device during display of the content of the first type at the device, and second sensor data sensed by the mobile device during display of content of a second type at the device. The method may include determining the comparative level of user engagement with the content of the first type based on the first and second sensor data, selecting additional content based on the determined comparative level of user engagement, and transmitting the selected additional content to the mobile device for output by the mobile device.
US11356730B2
Devices and methods for routing content are provided herein. In some embodiments, a method for routing content include receiving audio data representing a command from a first electronic device, determining content that is associated with the command, sending responsive audio data to the first electronic device, and sending instructions to the second electronic device to output the content associated with the command. In some embodiments, a method for routing contents includes determining a state of the second electronic device and sending instructions to output the content to a selected one of the first and second electronic devices based on the state of the second electronic device.
US11356726B2
A method for managing user interface includes displaying related information of an in-vehicle device using a first user interface. An authority of accessing related information of a handheld device is acquired when the handheld device is in communication with the in-vehicle device. Once the related information of the handheld device is obtained, the related information of the in-vehicle device and the related information of the handheld device are displayed using a second user interface.
US11356721B2
Content is automatically removed from closed-caption data embedded in a video signal. A closed-caption compliance system decodes a first portion of a first video frame that includes a closed-caption data packet. The system extracts a first character string that includes at least a portion of the closed-caption data packet. The system determines whether the first character string is suitable for distribution to viewers. If the first character string is suitable for distribution to viewers, then the system encodes at least a first portion of the first character string as a second closed-caption data packet to include in a second video frame. Otherwise, the system modifies the first character string to generate a second character string that is suitable for distribution to viewers; and encodes at least a first portion of the second character string as a third closed-caption data packet to include in the second video frame.
US11356717B2
A method for the reception of a flow representing a multimedia content is described, along with a device for receiving such a flow. The method includes determining that the restoration of first and second successive portions of the content modified by the restoration of respective first and second multimedia content, and activating a reading module for reading the first multimedia content, and another reading module for reading the second multimedia content, at a point in time prior to the end of the first portion. The method also includes alternately controlling the restoration of the first multimedia content and the second multimedia content during the reading of the first and second portions, respectively.
US11356716B2
An example includes receiving a request for supplemental content; determining a type of supplemental content insertion to be performed to insert the supplemental content within the media stream; identifying a break of the media stream based on a characteristic of the media stream and the type of supplemental content insertion; determining location information identifying a location associated with a media client accessing the media stream; identifying the supplemental content for the break based on the location associated with the media client; generating an instruction file associated with the type of supplemental content insertion and the supplemental content, where the instruction file is to include supplemental content information for inserting the supplemental content in the break of the media stream; and sending the instruction file to the media client to enable the media client to access the supplemental content that is to be inserted within the media stream.
US11356713B2
A computing device is configured to execute an interactive streaming application, and the interactive streaming application configured to join a live broadcast of an event that is shared by an interactive video broadcasting service executing on a server computer, receive a first video stream having video captured from a camera device configured as a first video source and display the video on a display screen, receive a second video stream having panoramic video captured from a panoramic video capturing device configured as a second video source and display a portion of the panoramic video according to a first viewing angle on the display screen, receive a change to the first viewing angle of the panoramic video, and display another portion of the panoramic video according to a second viewing angle.
US11356700B2
The invention relates to the encoding of spherical 360-degree videos using 2D block-based encoders. The encoding requires a spherical 360-degree image to be projected onto a projection subpart of a 2D image, using for instance CMP, OHP, ISP, TSP, SSP or RSP techniques. The boundary of the projected image may then be extended, within the 2D image, into an extended block-based boundary portion based on the block structure used by the 2D encoder to then encode the 2D image. The boundary extension may be set along block edges in the vicinity of the projected image. The extended pixels added to the projected image may be padding pixels with values set based on continuing 360-degree image projection or based on neighboring pixels. More homogenous blocks can be obtained for better compression by the encoder, while the seam artefacts resulting from discontinuity between projected subparts of the 360-degree image are reduced.
US11356697B2
A video processing method is provided to include determining, for a current video block of a video, a final prediction block for the current video block by refining one or more initial predictions for the current video block using an optical flow calculation based on a gradient of initial prediction samples according to a precision rule; and performing a conversion between the current video block and a coded representation using the final prediction block, wherein the optical flow calculation includes a prediction refinement with optical flow (PROF) procedure or a bi-directional optical flow (BDOF) procedure, wherein the precision rule specifies to use a same precision for representing the gradient for both the PROF procedure and the BDOF procedure.
US11356691B2
An image coding method includes: writing, into a sequence parameter set, buffer description defining information for defining a plurality of buffer descriptions; selecting one of the buffer descriptions for each processing unit that is a picture or a slice, and writing buffer description selecting information for specifying the selected buffer description, into a first header of the processing unit which is included in the coded bitstream; and coding the processing unit using the selected buffer description, and the buffer description defining information includes long-term information for identifying, among a plurality of reference pictures indicated in the buffer descriptions, a reference picture to be assigned as a long-term reference picture.
US11356679B2
The present disclosure provides methods and apparatuses for processing chroma sampled pictures. An exemplary video processing method includes: determining whether a chroma component is included in a sequence of frames; and in response to a determination that the chroma component is included in the sequence, activating a sub-process for processing the sequence, wherein the sub-process comprises one or more of joint coding for chroma residues (JCCR), block differential pulse coded modulation (BDPCM), palette mode, or adaptive color transform (ACT).
US11356665B2
Method for determining color difference component quantization parameter and device using the method
Disclosed are a method for determining a color difference component quantization parameter and a device using the method. Method for decoding an image can comprise the steps of: decoding a color difference component quantization parameter offset on the basis of size information of a transform unit; and calculating a color difference component quantization parameter index on the basis of the decoded color difference component quantization parameter offset. Therefore, the present invention enables effective quantization by applying different color difference component quantization parameters according to the size of the transform unit when executing the quantization.
US11356663B2
An encoder which encodes a picture includes processing circuitry and memory. Using the memory, the processing circuitry: splits the picture into a plurality of slice segments; encodes a plurality of blocks included in each of the plurality of slice segments; reconstructs the plurality of blocks encoded; adds, for each of the plurality of slice segments, control information to a header area of the slice segment, the control information being for controlling application of a filter to the slice segment; and applies, for each of the plurality of slice segments, the filter to a block which has been reconstructed in the slice segment, according to the control information of the slice segment.
US11356662B2
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are provided for simplification of clipping value calculations for adaptive loop filtering. An example method can include obtaining video data including one or more pictures; obtaining a block of a picture from the one or more pictures; determining clipping values for a filter, the clipping values corresponding to a luma component in the picture and/or a chroma component in the picture, wherein each clipping value is determined by left shifting a first integer by a second integer, the second integer including a result of a bit depth value for a sample from the picture minus an offset value associated with a clipping index value; and applying the filter to the block.
US11356661B2
There is includes a method and apparatus comprising computer code configured to cause a hardware processor or processors to perform intra prediction among a plurality of reference lines, to set a plurality of intra prediction modes for a zero reference line nearest to a current block of the intra prediction among non-zero reference lines, and to set one or more most probable modes for one of the non-zero reference lines.
US11356652B2
A stereoscopic image generating apparatus includes a FOV processor configured to receive head and body movements of a user mounted with a Head Mount Display (HMD) device and a Virtual Reality (VR) Vest device, a first eye image generating unit including an intra image independently generated for a first eye and an inter image derived from the intra image and configured to generate a redundant image up to a redundant angle of view greater by a specific criterion or more than a real angle of view which is currently displayed in a direction of the first eye from a center of the head direction of a user as a plurality of first eye images, and a second eye image generating unit configured to generate a plurality of second eye images based on the intra image among the plurality of first eye images for the second eye.
US11356649B2
An integrated three-dimensional display includes a recording surface which includes a calculated element region in which phase components of light from light converging points of a holographic reconstructed image are calculated, and a phase angle recorded area for recording a phase angle calculated based on the phase components. The phase angle recorded area includes a plurality of monochromatic regions having a uneven structure surface. The phase angle is recorded in an overlap area in which the calculated element region and the phase angle recorded area overlap each other. Light converges on the light converging points at specific distances from the recording surface, the specific distances being determined for the respective light converging points even when light reflected from the plurality of monochromatic regions converges.
US11356645B2
The invention provides a full color projection system (1000) comprising a lighting system (100) configured to provide first light (111) including blue light, second light (121) including one or more of green and yellow light, third light (131) including red light, wherein the first light (111), the second light (121), and the third light (131) include light having a wavelength of 430 nm or larger; a further light source (140) configured to provide further light source light (141) including one or more of UV light and short wavelength blue light having a wavelength of 420 nm or smaller, wherein the first light (111), second light (121), third light (131) and the further light source light (141) have mutually differing spectral power distributions; a spatial light modulator system (200) configured to receive the first light (111), the second light (121), the third light (131), and the further light source light (141), wherein the spatial light modulator system (200) is configured to provide a plurality of pixels (210) for providing projection system light (1001) with one or more of the first light (111), the second light (121), and the third light (131), and in one or more control modes the further light source light (141); and a control system (300) configured to control the lighting system (100), the further light source (140), and the spatial light modulator system (200), wherein during operation one or more pixels (210) are temporarily configured to provide white projection system light (1001), and wherein the projection system (1000) is configured to provide also the further light source light (141) via one or more of those one or more pixels (210).
US11356641B2
At least one image of an interior of a vehicle is captured by at least one camera present in the vehicle. Image data of the at least one image that are denoted in reference to the vehicle are transmitted to an external server. A user is authorized by the external server to access the image data denoted in reference to the vehicle, for display to the user via VR goggles. An object detected by numerical methods is highlighted in color in the image depicted in the VR goggles.
US11356632B2
A display-information generating apparatus includes a shooting-area acquisition unit, an arrangement deriving unit, and a generating unit. For each of multiple imaging apparatuses, the shooting-area acquisition unit acquires information about a shooting area of the imaging apparatus. The arrangement deriving unit obtains a three-dimensional arrangement of the shooting area on the basis of the information about the shooting area. The three-dimensional arrangement is obtained when the shooting area is viewed in a three-dimensional space. The generating unit generates display information for a display apparatus displaying the three-dimensional arrangement.
US11356629B2
To divide an image capture region into multiple regions for which different image capture conditions are set and to generate multiple moving images corresponding to the multiple regions. An electronic apparatus includes an image sensor that captures first and second moving images in first and second regions of an image capture region on different image capture conditions, the second region differing from the first region, and a moving image generation unit that generates the first and second moving images captured in the first and second regions.
US11356627B2
An imaging apparatus includes a light receiving pixel, a first light shielded pixel, and a second light shielded pixel. The first light shielded pixel includes a first transfer transistor and the second light shielded pixel includes a second transfer transistor. Impurity concentration of a source of the first transfer transistor is lower than impurity concentration of a source of the second transfer transistor. The first light shielded pixel includes a first element isolation structure and the second light shielded pixel includes a second element isolation structure different from the first element isolation structure. An area of an interface between a semiconductor region and an insulator in the first light shielded pixel is different from an area of an interface between a semiconductor region and an interface in the second light shielded pixel.
US11356626B2
An imaging device includes a photodiode array. The photodiodes include a first set of photodiodes configured as image sensing photodiodes and a second set of photodiodes configured as phase detection auto focus (PDAF) photodiodes. The PDAF photodiodes are arranged in at least pairs in neighboring columns and are interspersed among the image sensing photodiodes. Transfer transistors are coupled to corresponding photodiodes. The transfer transistors coupled to the image sensing photodiodes included in an active row of are controlled in response to a first transfer control signal or a second transfer control signal that control all of the image sensing photodiodes of the active row. A transfer transistor is coupled to one of a pair of the PDAF photodiodes of the active row. The first transfer transistor is controlled in response to a first PDAF control signal that is independent of the first or second transfer control signals.
US11356620B2
Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing a program and method for including a video feed in a message thread. The program and method provide for determining that a message thread is being concurrently displayed on a first device associated with a first user and on a second device associated with a second user, the first user and the second user corresponding to contacts within a messaging application; and transmitting, in response to the determining, image data captured on the first device to the second device, for display within the message thread on the second device.
US11356619B2
Embodiments of this application disclose methods, systems, and devices for video synthesis. In one aspect, a method comprises obtaining a plurality of frames corresponding to source image information of a first to-be-synthesized video, each frame of the source image information. The method also comprises obtaining a plurality of frames corresponding to target image information of a second to-be-synthesized video. For each frame of the plurality of frames corresponding to the target image information of the second to-be-synthesized video, the method comprises fusing a respective source image from the first to-be-synthesized video, a corresponding source motion key point, and a respective target motion key point corresponding to the frame using a pre-trained video synthesis model, and generating a respective output image in accordance with the fusing. The method further comprises repeating the fusing and the generating steps for the second to-be-synthesized video to produce a synthesized video.
US11356618B2
According to one embodiment, an image synthesis device for an electronic mirror includes a rear camera which obtains a first image from a first position, and a side camera which obtains a second image of the same direction with a view of the rear camera from a second position. The second image includes a view obstruction. When a part of the first image is connected as a complementary image to the view obstruction of the second image, an image processing device converts an image of the view obstruction into a translucent image, superimposes the complementary image on the translucent image, and obtains a third image which remains an outline of the complementary image.
US11356596B2
Proposed are a new and improved imaging device, imaging device control unit, and imaging method capable of stably adjusting various parameters of the imaging device without significantly changing the design of the imaging device. Provided is an imaging device including a rotating shaft insertion portion allowed to be attached to and detached from a housing, a rotating shaft having an operation member being inserted into the rotating shaft insertion portion, a rotation amount detector that detects a rotation amount of the rotating shaft, and a controller that controls a control target based on the rotation amount.
US11356595B2
An image sensor outputs captured image data by discriminating whether to add a result of an imaging plane phase difference AF calculation to a top of the captured image data or whether to add the result to an end of the captured image data, thus reducing a time lag between exposure and focus position movement.
US11356588B2
System and method for improving the shaving experience by providing improved visibility of the skin shaving area. A digital camera is integrated with the electric shaver for close image capturing of shaving area, and displaying it on a display unit. The display unit can be integral part of the electric shaver casing, or housed in a separated device which receives the image via a communication channel. The communication channel can be wireless (using radio, audio or light) or wired, such as dedicated cabling or using powerline communication. A light source is used to better illuminate the shaving area. Video compression and digital image processing techniques are used for providing for improved shaving results. The wired communication medium can simultaneously be used also for carrying power from the electric shaver assembly to the display unit, or from the display unit to the electric shaver.
US11356586B2
A camera system including a first imaging sensor having a first imaging surface with a first diagonal length, a first lens arranged to guide a first image formation light flux toward the first imaging surface with the first image formation light flux having at the first imaging surface a width equal to or greater than the first diagonal length, a second imaging sensor having a second imaging surface with a second diagonal length, a second lens arranged to guide a second image formation light flux toward the second imaging surface with the second image formation light flux having at the second imaging surface a width equal to or greater than the second diagonal length. The first lens and the second lens are oriented in opposing directions, and the first imaging sensor, the first lens, the second imaging sensor, and the second lens are each mounted partially within an enclosure.
US11356585B1
A system for optical alignment and calibration of an infrared camera lens, including: a lens support mechanism configured to adjust a position of an infrared camera lens relative to a camera body; at least one collimator configured to output infrared rays, wherein the at least one collimator is positioned such that the output infrared rays converge on an infrared sensor within the camera body through the infrared camera lens; and at least one curing catalyst configured to cure an adhesive placed on the infrared camera lens when an ideal lens position is determined.
US11356581B2
On a recording sheet of a first size, an image combined with gradation patches of a plurality of colors is printed, on a recording sheet of a second size smaller than the first size, images combined with the gradation patches of the plurality of colors are divided and printed into a plurality of recording sheets, color measurement is performed on each of the gradation patches, and gradation correction data is generated.
US11356567B1
Provided is an image forming apparatus that speeds up the auto color mode. The image forming apparatus includes a document reading unit that reads a document including a plurality of pages and outputs image data and can determine whether the document is a color document or a monochrome document. In the document read by the document reading unit, when monochrome pages of the first specific number of pages or more continues in the same job, a document determining unit predicts that the subsequent page is also determined to be a monochrome document. When the document is predicted by the document determination unit to be a monochrome document, an image processing unit performs monochrome image processing for the monochrome document on the image data immediately after reading.
US11356566B2
Methods and apparatus for managing quality of service for video streaming, in which a Policy and Charging Rules Function (PCRF) in a Policy Charging Control (PCC) architecture of a telecommunications system receives from a Policy Control Enforcement Function (PCEF) a notification indicating that a video service has started for streaming video content to a user equipment (UE). A first Quality of Service (QoS) setting for streaming the video service to the UE is determined. First QoS setting data identifying the first QoS setting is transmitted to the PCEF. The PCEF transmits a further notification to the PCRF indicating that a particular stage has been reached. The PCRF receives the notification from the PCEF. In response to the further notification, a second QoS setting specifying a lower QoS than the first QoS setting for streaming the video service after the particular stage is determined. The PCRF identifies the second QoS setting to the PCEF.
US11356561B2
Systems and methods for providing headset/ear bud voice control to crew members in a quick-service restaurant are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: transmit transmission signals from a headset to the base station, receive reception signals by the headset from the base station; capture audio information from a first crew member, generate sound based on the received reception signals, generate the transmission signals to form a headset-specific uplink packet based on the captured audio information; generate semantic information based on the headset-specific uplink packet, wherein the semantic information includes one or more individual words; determine one or more commands that modify operation of the communication system, based on the semantic information, and facilitate execution of the one or more commands to control and/or modify the operation of the communication system.
US11356558B2
A conversation system may dynamically control a conversation or workflow by performing multi-modal conversation monitoring, generating actions that control the conversation based on the multi-modal monitoring producing conversation elements that deviate from patterns of a selected plan for that conversation, and/or by dynamically generating and/or updating the plan for future conversations based on the pattern recognition. For instance, the conversation system may detect a pattern within completed conversations that resulted in a common outcome, may monitor an active conversation between at least an agent and a participant, may extract different sets of conversation elements from different points in the active conversation, may determine that a particular set of conversation elements deviates from the pattern, and may modify the active conversation by performing one or more actions based on the particular set of conversation elements that deviate from the pattern.
US11356556B2
Techniques for benchmarking performance in a contact center system are disclosed. In one particular embodiment, the techniques may be realized as a method for benchmarking contact center system performance comprising cycling, by at least one computer processor configured to perform contact center operations, between a first contact-agent pairing strategy and a second contact-agent pairing strategy for pairing contacts with agents in the contact center system; determining an agent-utilization bias in the first contact-agent pairing strategy comprising a difference between a first agent utilization of the first contact-agent pairing strategy and a balanced agent utilization; and determining a relative performance of the second contact-agent pairing strategy compared to the first contact-agent pairing strategy based on the agent-utilization bias in the first contact-agent pairing strategy.
US11356553B2
An availability-based telephonic transmission/reception calling service method is provided for communicating with a person who has a different lifestyle or who may not be available at a specific call time. When a receiver inputs the receiver's characteristic information and reception/communication availability information into a server, the server acquires and sets the reception/communication availability information. An originator fetches contact information in a memory medium within a device or contact information to be displayed in a separate service on the Internet and selects a receiver. When the contact information of the selected receiver is stored on the server, the server acquires the receiver's reception/communication availability information and displays whether the receiver can receive a call on a screen of an originator's communication device. Thus, the originator can be notified of whether a receiver can receive a call before the originator makes a telephone call via a cellular phone network or the Internet.
US11356550B1
A system and method for disabling distracting apps on a driver's personal devices while allowing passengers travelling in the same vehicle to have full use of their personal devices. The system works by first identifying all the personal devices that are in the vehicle and then establishing a loose mesh network between those devices. Once the mesh network is established, the system identifies which of the personal devices is associated with the driver, and ensures that any distracting apps on the driver's personal device are disabled, while allowing full functionality for any passenger's personal devices.
US11356548B2
Systems and methods for use with a mobile electronic device comprising a sensor operatively associated with the mobile electronic device for detecting contact with the display and a feature that helps prevent unauthorized access to the mobile electronic device responsive to the determination that the detected contact is accidental, and in some embodiments, the systems and methods of the invention include a case for mating with the body, a sensor mounted to the case, and a software application stored in the memory of the mobile electronic device, the application being in communication with the sensor for detecting contact with the cover to receive data relating to the contact and determine whether the contact is accidental contact, wherein the mobile electronic device is made inaccessible responsive to the determination that the detected contact is accidental.
US11356547B2
A background display method during a call includes: obtaining information on the call; and dynamically displaying a background image on a call interface based on the information.
US11356530B2
A system comprising: a plurality of mobile edge caches integrated within a corresponding plurality of mobile environments; a local network manager coupled to each edge cache device in each mobile environment to provide network connectivity to client devices within each mobile environment; a mobile high speed network interface coupled to each mobile edge cache within each mobile environment to establish a high bandwidth link to one or more fixed high speed network interfaces when the mobile environment is within range; a fixed core cache to store content titles owned by a content provider, the content titles to be distributed to the plurality of mobile edge caches, each content title comprising a plurality of title segments; a plurality of fixed edge caches coupled between the fixed core cache and the mobile edge caches; a content distribution manager to cause the title segments to be strategically spread across the fixed edge caches, wherein different fixed edge caches are initially to be provided with different sets of the title segments; a first content aggregator coupled to a first fixed edge cache, the first content aggregator to request title segments not stored in the first fixed edge cache from the plurality of mobile edge caches as the high bandwidth link becomes available to each of the mobile edge caches.
US11356516B1
Methods and apparatus are described for facilitating the client-side caching of media content based on one or more properties of the media content. Information relating to the cacheability of different types of content is communicated to the media player on a client device in the manifest or playlist employed by the media player to request fragments of the media content. The media player uses this information to make decisions about how to cache the corresponding content.
US11356510B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a control system and a control method of an unmanned engineering machinery. The system includes at least a slave computer, a master computer and an execution device. The slave computer is configured to receive a current sensing value fed back by a sensing device in the unmanned engineering machinery, and to send the current sensing value to the master computer. The master computer is configured to generate a control instruction according to the current sensing value and a predetermined target sensing value of the sensing device, and to send the control instruction to the execution device through the slave computer.
US11356509B2
Methods, apparatus, and computer-accessible storage media for providing a volume-based block storage service and application programming interfaces (APIs) to the service. A block storage service and block storage service APIs may allow processes (applications or appliances) on the service client network to leverage remote, volume-based block storage provided by the service provider. The APIs may provide a standard interface to volume-based block storage operations on a remote data store. The service provider, the service clients, and/or third parties may develop various applications and/or appliances that may, for example, be instantiated in service clients' local networks and that leverage the block storage service via the APIs to create and manage volumes and snapshots on the remote data store and to upload and download data from the volumes and snapshots on the remote data store.
US11356505B2
Example implementations relate hybrid cloud compliance and remediation service. A hybrid cloud management system may comprise a first service to evaluate a compliance check for a hybrid cloud environment utilizing a framework that corresponds to different cloud services of the hybrid cloud environment, a second service to publish a compliance event based on the compliance check of the first service, and a third service to route the compliance event based on a remediation action determined by the third service, where the first, second, and third services are deployed as services in a cluster.
US11356502B1
An example system for routing session requests between existing application code and new application code can: receive a request for an application; access a synthetic session identifier associated with the request; when the synthetic session identifier is associated with the existing application code, route the request to the existing application code; and when the synthetic session identifier is associated with the new application code, route the request to the new application code.
US11356500B1
A determination is made, at a first server of an extension resource group of a provider network, that a network function of a radio-based application is to be executed. A request for the network function is transmitted from a first server to a second server of the extension resource group. The network function is executed at a network function accelerator card of the second server. A result of the execution is sent to a radio unit of the radio-based application from the second server.
US11356494B2
A technique implements an administrative user interface of a backend service used to manage and administer on-premises resources, such as storage nodes of a cluster, within a private customer network. The backend service includes a browser configured to issue cross-origin resource sharing (CORS) requests among target storage nodes and a publicly-hosted web application on remote computing systems accessed via a public computer network (i.e., internet) that can be loaded on the browser within the customer network to manage and administer the on-prem resources on the private network. The technique involves the use of CORS over HyperText Transfer Protocol to access an origin that is not reachable via the public internet from a predetermined location of the browser, e.g., within the same customer network as the target storage nodes, particularly to facilitate management of the nodes.
US11356488B2
During an online meeting, captured video content generated at an endpoint is analyzed. A participant at the endpoint is identified from the captured video content utilizing face recognition analysis of an isolated facial image of the participant within the captured video content. Identified participant information is generated, modified and/or maintained in response to one or more changes associated with the captured video content, where the one or more changes includes an identification of each participant at the endpoint and/or a change in location of one or more identified participants at the endpoint. In response to a determination of one or more criteria being satisfied, the identified participant information is provided in video content for transmission to a remote endpoint (to facilitate display of identifiers for one or more identified participants in the display at the remote endpoint).
US11356483B2
A policy management server manages a segmentation policy for segmenting a network and a deception policy for implementing deception services. The policy management server distributes segmentation rules and deception rules to distributed enforcement modules that configure respective traffic filters to enforce the policies. The deception rule may be enforced directly by the traffic filter acting as a deception service, or the traffic filter may act as a proxy to an external deception service. The deception service can behave similarly to a real service to obtain information about the malicious actor that is reported to the policy management server to enable the policy management server to take a remedial action. Furthermore, the policy management server may automatically generate the deception policy based on the segmentation policy such that connection requests that are not allowed by the segmentation policy are automatically sent to a deception service.
US11356481B1
A computer system is provided. The computer system includes a memory and at least one processor coupled to the memory and configured to identify a first domain name associated with a website that served a login form to a web browser. The at least one processor is further configured to identify a one-time password (OTP) entry request served from the website in response to transmitting user credentials to the website. The at least one processor is further configured to identify a second domain name associated with an OTP server that provided an OTP. The at least one processor is further configured to perform a security action in response to determining that the first domain name differs from the second domain name. The security action may include blocking a response to the OTP request from the website, providing a warning, and/or obtaining confirmation for the response to the OTP entry request.
US11356459B2
A method and console are provided to create and manage dispatch unit identities on multiple independent communications systems. A console server receives a first dispatch unit list from a first radio system. The first dispatch unit list includes a first plurality of dispatch unit IDs from the first radio system. The console server receives a second dispatch unit list from a second radio system. The second dispatch unit list includes a second plurality of dispatch unit IDs from the second radio system. The console server creates a first role that includes at most one dispatch unit ID from each radio system. Multiple roles can be created by the console server. Upon authenticating a dispatcher at the console server, the console server presents a menu of roles available to the dispatcher. The menu of roles can include all roles on the console server or only the roles that the dispatcher is allowed to choose and that are currently available. Upon receiving a valid selection from the dispatcher, the console server associates the selected role with the dispatcher and makes the selected role unavailable to other dispatchers until released by the dispatcher that selected it. While associated with a dispatcher, the dispatch console uses the relationship of dispatch unit ID and associated communication system defined in the role to enable the single dispatcher to be identified correctly on the associated communications systems being used.
US11356456B2
Embodiments are directed to techniques for constructing, configuring, triggering, and executing various types of multi-party pipelines that access and/or use a shielded asset required to exist or execute within a data trustee environment. Generally, authorized participants can build upon template data privacy pipelines and other shielded assets to create other pipelines. Building blocks such as entitlements, cross-environment pipelines, and/or shielded assets governed by various collaborative intelligence contracts can be used to construct more complicated pipelines that may include any number of data privacy pipelines, cross-environment pipelines, input datasets, computational steps, output datasets, permissible queries, participants, and/or governing collaborative intelligence contracts. As such, various types of multi-participant pipelines can be constructed, configured, triggered, and executed to generate collaborative intelligence, without exposing shielded assets, underlying raw data or algorithms provided by owners, or collaborative data shielded by the data trustee environment.
US11356451B2
A security system and method for use on a global computer network, such as the Internet, allows for the creation, development, maintenance and sharing of information to enable verified and authenticated (accredited) members to interact in a highly secure environment. Accredited members are represented by a three dimensional graphical cube and are classified under one of four categories/groups, namely: People; Products; Places; or Services. Each cube is assigned a unique global serial number, barcode or QR code. The six sides of each cube correspond to the six generic questions, who, what, where, when, why and how, and the data information applicable to each generic question is stored on the respective one of the six sides of the cube. The cubes are all linked to one another, thereby enabling accredited members to communicate and interact efficiently on all socio and economic levels with a high degree of trust.
US11356444B2
Systems and methods for protected verification of user information are provided. Multiple computing systems may transmit or receive communications from one or more other computing systems as part of the protected user information verification. For example, a user may utilize a verification service to independently verify the user's information to third-party systems without the verification service actually storing, receiving, accessing, or otherwise coming into contact with the user-specific information that it is verifying. In this way, the system can protect a user's personal information while streamlining the user's verification with one or more third parties.
US11356442B2
A wearable device-based identity authentication method and system, comprising: a user terminal initiates an authentication request to a target server and provides device information of the user terminal, the target server generates a temporary session, and sends a temporary session ID and the device information to a quantum key distribution network; the quantum key distribution network generates identification information, searches a wearable device bound to the user terminal, and sends the identification information to the wearable device; the wearable device receives and provides the identification information to the user terminal, the user terminal acquires the identification information, and sends verification information to the wearable device and then to the quantum key distribution network; the quantum key distribution network generates an authentication result and sends to the target server; and the target server generates an identification authentication result and sends to the user terminal.
US11356436B2
A hybrid authentication system, a method, and a non-transitory computer-readable medium for single-sign-on authentication is provided. The hybrid authentication system is communicatively coupled to a web application server and a public ledger. The hybrid authentication system receives a request from the web application server to access secure content on a resource server and controls display of a set of user-selectable options on a user interface of a user device based on the received request. The hybrid authentication system selects at least one authentication option from the displayed set of user-selectable options and authenticates the received request based on the selected at least one authentication option. The selection of the at least one authentication option is based on a user input over the displayed set of user-selectable options.
US11356435B1
Systems and methods are provided for sharing authentication information. The systems and methods include retrieving, with a messaging application, a list of applications that are installed on a user device; searching the list of applications to identify a given application within the list of applications that is configured to share authentication information with the messaging application; and in response to identifying the given application within the list of applications, generating for display within a graphical user interface of the messaging application an option to authorize the messaging application to share authentication information with the given application.
US11356410B2
Provided are a packet transmission method and device and a computer readable storage medium. The packet transmission method includes: receiving, by the routing device, a packet, determining whether the packet is a packet that needs to be accelerated, in response to determining that the packet is the packet that needs to be accelerated, querying a customized connection tracking table to acquire connection tracking information corresponding to the packet, transmitting the packet to a driver layer for processing, where the customized connection tracking table includes connection tracking information of a packet corresponding to a packet type which is predetermined to be accelerated.
US11356408B2
Some embodiments provide a novel method for assigning a unique internet protocol version 6 (IPv6) link-local address to each interface of a software router implementing a plurality of logical interfaces for a corresponding plurality of logical networks. In some embodiments, the method, for each logical interface, determines a logical network identifier for a logical network corresponding to the logical interface and generates the link-local address based on that logical network identifier (e.g., a virtual network identifier (VNI)).
US11356406B2
A computer-implemented method includes receiving an internet protocol address and an identifier for a display and storing the display's internet protocol address and the display's identifier in a viewing record. A device's internet protocol address and a user identifier are received for a request sent by the device to a server. The display's internet protocol address is determined to match the device's internet protocol address and in response the display's identifier is associated with the user identifier. A display identifier in a viewing record and the association between the display's identifier and the user identifier are then used to determine that content listed in the viewing record was viewed by a user represented by the user identifier.
US11356402B2
A method for transmitting an IP data packet to an IP address associated with a host name is described. A first service message of a Short Message Service is transmitted to a Short Message Service gateway server. The first service message includes a host name resolution request for a host name. A second service message of the Short Message Service is received from the Short Message Service gateway server. The second service message includes an IP address associated with the host name. An IP data packet is transmitted to the IP address associated with the host name.
US11356397B2
Systems and methods are provided for retrieving assets associated with branding for an entity, generating an interactive message comprising at least a first mechanical object, updating the first mechanical object with one or more of the assets associated with branding for the entity, and sending the generated interactive message to a plurality of computing devices. The systems and methods further provided for receiving from at least a subset of the plurality of computing devices, usage data associated with interaction by each computing device of the subset of computing devices with the interactive message, generating metrics for the interactive message from the usage data for the interactive message, and generating at least one report based on the metrics for the interactive message.
US11356393B2
Assessing, using a computer, a state of a participant and sharing personalized data for the participant in an electronic group meeting or collaboration using a communications network. Personalized data is received at a computer for a user participating in electronic group communications including group collaboration. The personalized data received at the computer includes biometric data and personality profile results. The biometric data includes biometric changes in real-time. A biometric change in the user is detected from a baseline for the user. In response to the biometric change, the biometric data is analyzed and the personality profile results to determine a suggested action regarding the user. The suggested action is communicated to the user or another participant user of the group meeting based on the analysis.
US11356389B2
Methods and systems are described for generating dynamic conversational responses using two-tier machine learning models. The dynamic conversational responses may be generated in real time and reflect the likely goals and/or intents of a user. The two-tier machine learning model may include a first tier that determines an intent cluster based on a feature input, and a second tier that determines a specific intent from the cluster.
US11356381B2
A method for managing several queues of a network interface card (NIC) of a computer. The method initially configures the NIC to direct data messages received for a data compute node (DCN) executing on the computer to a default first NIC queue. When the DCN requests data messages addressed to the particular DCN to be processed with a first feature for load balancing data messages across multiple queues and a second feature for aggregating multiple related data messages into a single data message, the method configures the NIC to direct subsequent data messages received for the DCN to a second queue in a first subset of queues associated with the first feature if a load on the default first queue exceeds a first threshold. Otherwise, if a load on the first subset of queues exceeds a second threshold, the method configures the NIC to direct subsequent data messages received for the particular DCN to a third queue in a second subset of queues associated with both the first and second features.
US11356380B1
A scheduling device for managing a packet queue of a communication gateway includes a receiving portion configured to receive data packets according to at least one communication protocol, a processor, and classification module configured to separate the received data packets into a first traffic queue and a second traffic queue separate from the first traffic queue. The first traffic queue includes a low latency service flow classified to have strict priority. The second traffic queue includes a primary service flow classified as having a classic priority. The classification module separates the received data packets so that those with a first indicator are sent to the first traffic queue and those without the first indicator are sent to the second traffic queue.
US11356378B2
A credit return field is used in a credit-based flow control system to indicate that one or more credits are being returned to a sending device from a receiving device. Based on the number of credits available, the sending device determines whether to send device or wait until more credits are returned. A write enable mask allows a wide data field to be used even when a smaller amount of data is to be written. A novel data packet uses a combined write enable mask and credit return field. In one mode, the field contains a write enable mask. In another mode, the field contains credit return data. If the field contains credit return data, a default value (e.g., all ones) is used for the write enable mask. The mode may be selected based on another value in the data packet.
US11356372B2
This application provides a data traffic processing method, a device, and a system. The method includes: receiving, by a first network device on a first link, a first VXLAN packet sent by a second network device, where the first VXLAN packet includes a first sequence number and a first service packet; decapsulating, by the first network device, the first VXLAN packet; receiving, by the first network device on a second link, a second VXLAN packet sent by the second network device, where the second VXLAN packet includes a second sequence number and a second service packet; and when the first network device determines that the second sequence number is a next sequence number of the first sequence number, decapsulating, by the first network device, the second VXLAN packet.
US11356370B2
A system and method for supporting network isolation in a multi-tenant cluster environment. An exemplary method can support one or more tenants, and can associate each of the one or more tenants with a partition of a plurality of partitions, and can also associate each of the plurality of partitions with one or more nodes of a plurality of nodes, each of the plurality of nodes being associated with a leaf switch of a plurality of switches. The method can mark each of the plurality of partitions with a policy parameter. The method can assign each node of the plurality of nodes a partitioning order based on the marked on the partition associated with each node. Finally, the method can, based at least upon the marking of the partition of the plurality of partitions, generate one or more linear forwarding tables for use in the multi-tenant cluster environment.
US11356365B2
Techniques are directed to determining a rank value associated with a first network node. An example method includes determining a second network node indicated as being a preferred parent network node for the first network node. A first rank value is processed to determine a second rank value, the first rank value corresponding to a path from the second network node to a destination network node, including rounding up the first rank value in a predetermined manner to at least a second next higher integral rank value than the first rank value, to determine the second rank value. The second rank value is processed with at least a third rank value to determine the rank value associated with the first network node, the third rank value associated with a path from one of a plurality of candidate parent network nodes, for the first network node, to the destination network node.
US11356357B2
The present disclosure provides a proactive method of prefix disaggregation in a network fabric when one or more communication failures are detected. In one aspect, a method includes determining, by a first node of a network fabric, a corresponding prefix disaggregation policy for at least one second node of the network fabric, the corresponding prefix disaggregation policy identifying one or more network prefixes that are inaccessible via the first node when at least one communication failure is detected in association with the first node; sending the corresponding prefix disaggregation policy to the second node; and causing the second node to implement the prefix disaggregation policy upon detecting the at least one communication failure.
US11356348B2
Methods and systems for monitoring a service provided over a packet-switched network, such as an Internet Protocol television (IPTV) service, an Internet access service, or a voice-over-Internet-Protocol (VoIP) telephony service. Various parameters related to the service (e.g., parameters indicative of packet loss, packet corruption, or other packet error) are determined and used to assess various aspects of the service and/or network over which the service is delivered, including a quality of experience (QoE) of subscribers.
US11356344B2
A distributed cloud computing system is disclosed that includes a controller configured to deploy a first gateway in a first cloud computing network and a second gateway in a second cloud computing network, and logic. The logic, upon execution by one or more processors, causes performance of operations including receiving, from the controller, metadata pertaining to a plurality of constructs corresponding to a plurality of time instances, receiving, from each of the first and second gateways, network data corresponding to the plurality of time instances, wherein the metadata and the network data identify each of the plurality of constructs, communication paths between each construct, and in which cloud computing network each construct is deployed, generating a visualization illustrating differences between the plurality of constructs and communication paths at the first time instance and at the second time instance, and causing rendering of the visualization on a display screen.
US11356338B2
Examples can include an optimizer that dynamically determines where to place virtual network functions for a slice in a distributed Telco cloud network. The optimizer can determine a slice path that complies with a service level agreement and balances network load. The virtual network functions of the slice can be provisioned at clouds identified by the optimal slice path. In one example, performance metrics are normalized, and tenant-selected weights can be applied. This can allow the optimizer to prioritize particular SLA attributes in choosing an optimal slice path.
US11356329B2
A processing system may obtain an intent comprising a desired network state for a telecommunication network, determine an existing network state, where the desired network state and the existing network state are defined in accordance with a graph representing the telecommunication network, where the graph includes objects and relationships between the plurality of objects, and where each of the objects includes one or more properties. The processing system may compose a strategy that includes a plurality of policies to obtain the desired network state from the existing network state, where each of the policies comprises an action that is to be implemented in the telecommunication network, where the composing comprises performing a state exploration process over the graph, and where each state transition of the process corresponds to one of the policies. The processing system may then implement the strategy to place the telecommunication network in the desired network state.
US11356325B1
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for accelerating a transaction from a trusted source are provided. A method, according to one implementation, includes the step of obtaining a transaction to be processed in a network. The transaction may include one or more changes to data records stored in a database. The method also includes determining whether the transaction is obtained from a trusted source, where the trusted source may be predefined as a device that knows the state of components in the network. When the transaction is obtained from a trusted source, the method includes the step of committing the one or more changes prior to checking the validity of the one or more changes. When the transaction is not obtained from a trusted source, the method includes the step of checking the validity of the one or more changes prior to committing the one or more changes.
US11356323B2
A method is provided for configuring communication of data points from producers of data points of an industrial automation control system, power distribution system, power generation system, and/or power transmission system to a consumer of data points. The method includes receiving, by a configuration device, information on required data points. The required data points are a subset of all available data points and are the set of data points required by the consumer of data points. The configuration device automatically determines a communication configuration of data points for transmission of the required data points from the producers to the consumer.
US11356322B2
Disclosed are a radio resource configuration method and apparatus, a user equipment and a network element. The radio resource configuration method includes that: a user equipment (UE) receives a message of a radio resource configuration from a first signaling radio bearer (SRB) of a first radio access technology (RAT), where the message carries information of a first configuration, and the first configuration is a configuration of a radio resource of the first RAT; and when the UE fails to configure the radio resource of the first RAT according to the information of the first configuration, the UE sends a response message of the radio resource configuration to indicate that the radio resource configuration of the first RAT fails.
US11356320B2
Systems and methods for detecting patterns in data from a time-series are provided. According to some implementations, the systems and methods may use network topology information combined with object recognition techniques to detect patterns. One embodiment of a method includes the steps of obtaining information defining a topology of a multi-layer network having a plurality of Network Elements (NEs) and a plurality of links interconnecting the NEs and receiving Performance Monitoring (PM) metrics and one or more alarms from the multi-layer network. Based on the information defining the topology, the PM metrics, and the one or more alarms, the method also includes the step of utilizing a Machine Learning (ML) process to identify a problematic component from the plurality of NEs and links and to identify a root cause associated with the problematic component.
US11356316B2
A system may include one or more processors disposed within a management network, where the management network has computing resources dedicated to an end-user network. The end-user network may include agent instances and one or more servers associated with the end-user network. The one or more servers are operable to: (i) receive communications to the end-user network, and (ii) assign agent instances to service the communications. The one or more processors may be configured to perform one or more tasks. These tasks may include receiving data associated with the processes of the one or more servers, where the processes relate to the end-user network. The tasks may also include determining, based on a specification, an operation to be performed by the one or more servers, where the specification is defined by the end-user network and comprises a logical directive including at least one condition that, if satisfied by the received data, define the operation. The tasks may also include providing, to the one or more servers, the operation.
US11356313B2
Provided are methods of estimating a time delay and/or a frequency shift of a reference signal. Such methods include receiving a first reference signal that is generated using a first Zadoff-Chu (ZC) sequence, receiving a second reference signal that is generated using a second ZC sequence that is different than the first ZC sequence, and processing the first reference signal and the second reference signal to estimate at least one of the time delay and the frequency shift of the first reference signal and/or the second reference signal. The first ZC sequence is generated by a first root and the second ZC sequence is generated by a second root that is different than the first root.
US11356306B2
Technologies for cooperative link equalization include a network device with a network interface controller (NIC). The NIC is to monitor variation in a property of a link channel that connects the network device with a target network device. The NIC detects, based on the channel variation, an event that triggers a condition to change an equalization setting of the link channel. In response to the detection, the NIC communicates, via an in-band equalization control channel, changes to the equalization setting of the link channel to the target network device.
US11356289B2
Techniques for prioritization of data streams include transmitting a plurality of data streams to a first device over a network where each data stream is configured to cause the first device to perform a specific function, dynamically detecting a bandwidth limitation limiting an amount of available bandwidth for transmitting the plurality of data streams, dynamically determining bandwidth reduction criteria by identifying a first subset of the plurality of data streams to stop transmitting based on the specific function that each respective data stream causes the first device to perform, temporarily stopping transmitting of the first subset of data streams configured to cause the first device to perform a first set of functions, and continuing to transmit a second subset of data streams not included in the first subset of the data streams to the first device to cause the first device to continue to perform a second set of functions.
US11356288B2
An interactive broadcast management system including an automatic dynamic creation of groups of online participants to form or reform chat rooms based on any one or more of: the number of people joining a sub chat room; the amount of interaction of those people; and the range of opinions of those people; and as a result of one or more of those reviews an automatic change in: the size of the chat room; ranking of people in that chat room; and the number of people to be selected from each chat room to form a pool of engaging participants.
US11356273B1
A workflow orchestration system obtains a plurality of documents for execution of a workflow on a plurality of different sub-systems. A document from the plurality of documents indicates an action to be executed by a corresponding sub-system and comprises an authorization for execution of the action by the corresponding sub-system. The authorization specified in the document can be verified by the corresponding sub-system. Based on the obtained plurality of documents, the workflow orchestration system determines whether these documents provide sufficient authorizations for execution of the workflow. If so, the workflow orchestration system executes the workflow by transmitting the documents to the corresponding sub-systems for execution of the actions specified therein.
US11356269B1
An electronic device. The electronic device comprises a processor, a memory, a radio transceiver, and an application stored in the memory. When executed by the processor, the application establishes a communication link via the radio transceiver with an Internet of things (IoT) device, wherein the IoT device is associated with a block chain comprising event blocks that capture information about a state of the IoT device, receives a heartbeat message via the communication link from the IoT device, determines a period of time that passes after receiving the heartbeat message, determines that the period of time exceeds a predefined threshold, and transmits an end-of-life message via the radio transceiver to a server computer, wherein the end-of-life message identifies the IoT device, whereby the server computer is enabled to add an end-of-life block to the block chain associated with the IoT device to finalize the block chain.
US11356268B2
Examples associated with digital composition hashing are described. One example method includes receiving a digital composition file from a user. The digital composition file may include a top-level design and a hierarchy of sub-level designs. A hashed structure may be generated from the digital composition file, where a node in the hashed structure for the first sub-level design is generated based on hashes of sub-level designs below the first sub-level design in the hierarchy. The hashed structure and a hash of the digital composition file are stored in association with the user.
US11356266B2
A system receives a login sample. The login sample is decomposed into first and second layers. A verification media sample is decomposed into first and second layers. The system determines that the first layer of the login sample does not match the first layer of the verification sample, that the second layer of the login sample does not match the second layer of the verification sample, or both. First and second critical portions are extracted from the login sample. A first and second login hash are generated from the first and second critical portions. A first and second ledger hash are retrieved from a blockchain ledger. It's determined that the first login hash does not match the first ledger hash, the second login hash does not match the second ledger hash, or both. The user is flagged.
US11356265B2
The present disclosure includes secure communication between a vehicle and a remote device. An embodiment includes a processing resource, memory, and a vehicular communication component configured to, in response to receiving a request from a remote communication component to switch a state of a lock, calculate a challenge count for the request, generate a vehicular private key and a vehicular public key, perform a number of verification iterations, each respective verification iteration including providing the public key to the remote communication component, receiving, from the remote communication component, code for switching the lock state, verifying the remote communication component's identity, and incrementing a counter in response to verifying the remote communication component's identity, and decrypt the code using the private key and switch the lock state in response to the counter being incremented to a value equal to or greater than the challenge count.
US11356264B2
An authentication system includes an authentication unit that performs an authentication process between a first communication device and a second communication device when the first communication device and the second communication device communicate. The authentication unit performs the authentication process by transmitting authentication information from one of the first communication device and the second communication device to the other one, calculating the authentication information with an encryption code in each of the first communication device and the second communication device, and evaluating a calculation result. During a processing series in the authentication process, the authentication unit performs a first authentication based on part of the calculation result transmitted between the first and second communication device, and a second authentication based on another part of the calculation result transmitted between the first and second communication device.
US11356261B2
System comprising an authorisation server; a client device communicably coupled to the authorisation server and configured to execute an application program; and a remote server communicably coupled to the client device for providing an application feature to the application program. The application program is configured to, in response to receiving a user request to use an application feature: access a first private key; and transmit an access request signed with the first private key to the authorisation server. The authorisation server is configured to issue a signed security token signed with a second private key to the application program in response to receiving the signed access request. The signed security token has a finite lifetime within which the application program can access the requested application feature using the signed security token. The application program is configured to access the application feature from the remote server using the signed security token.
US11356246B2
The application discloses a data analysis system and a data analysis method. The data analysis system includes a data provider host and a data analysis host. The data provider host is configured to perform a stream cipher algorithm based on raw data to obtain first data. The data analysis host is configured to perform a data analysis based on the first data to obtain an analysis result. The data provider host or the data analysis host is further configured to perform a block cipher algorithm based on the analysis result to obtain second data, and send the second data to an external device. The data provider host is further configured to calculate an attribute-value correspondence between the raw data and the second data, and send the attribute-value correspondence to the external device.
US11356242B2
Provided is a system and method for verifying a blockchain using an external audit chain. The system may include an engine which facilitates communication between two or more independent blockchains. In one example, the method may include reading block data of a source data block that is stored among a hash-linked chain of data blocks on a blockchain, verifying a hash of the source block based on the block data that is read, generating a token based on the hash verification of the source block and storing the generated token in a verification block among the hash-linked chain of blocks on the blockchain to create a verification point on the blockchain, and storing a copy of the generated token in a block among a hash-linked chain of blocks on an audit blockchain that is independent from the blockchain.
US11356239B2
An information processing apparatus that includes processing circuitry that: acquires information regarding a processing content to be performed by a terminal; acquires information regarding a designated time at which the terminal is designated to perform the processing content; acquires a selection of a base time zone from a plurality of time zones including at least a first time zone to which the information processing apparatus belongs and a second time zone to which the terminal belongs, the designated time being corrected according to the selected base time zone to set an execution time at which the terminal performs the processing content; and transmits an instruction to the terminal to perform the processing content at the execution time.
US11356238B1
A system includes a first controller configured to transmit a synchronization signal to a second controller. The second controller is configured to produce a PWM signal. The system also includes a counter configured to provide a count for the second controller, where the second controller is configured to initiate rising edges and falling edges of the PWM signal based on the count from the counter. The second controller is also configured to measure an error between a time when the synchronization signal is received at the second controller and an expected time of receipt for the synchronization signal. The second controller is also configured to adjust a period of the counter based at least in part on the error.
US11356235B2
An analog self-interference cancellation technique for In-Band Full-Duplex (IBFD) systems generates an inherent secondary self-interference (SI) signal of a circulator and uses that signal to cancel a primary SI signal leaked from a transmitter port within a communication device. The communication device manipulates the phase and angle of this secondary SI, using an adjustable Impedance Mismatch Terminal (IMT) circuit. The result is an efficient SI cancellation technique in the analog domain, which uses the circulator inherent SI signals.
US11356216B2
Dual-connectivity for the User Equipment (UE) in a cellular network is performed by monitoring a plurality of cells. During dual-connectivity, the UE may be simultaneously connected to one serving cell for the Control Plane (C-plane) and to another serving cell, controlled by a different eNodeB, for the User Plane (U-plane). In another embodiment, the dual-connected UE monitors a Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH) from the first eNB and monitors an EPDCCH from the second eNB.
US11356213B2
Transmitters consider the size of a gap segment adjacent to at least one negatively acknowledged (NACKed) Radio Link Control (RLC) Service Data Unit (SDU) when considering when and/or how to concatenate one or more NACKed SDU segments for retransmission. Depending on which RLC SDU segment(s) is/are NACKed, e.g., considering the size of NACKed segments in relation to Protocol Data Unit (PDU) header size(s) needed, the transmitter implements a single RLC SDU retransmission or multiple RLC SDU segment retransmissions. In so doing, the solution presented herein not only defines how such transmissions occur, but also provides improved efficiency when retransmitting such NACKed SDU segments.
US11356210B2
A data acknowledgement information generation and feedback method is provided. The method includes steps described below. UE determines an actual valid CBG level HARQ-ACK bit of a transmission block according to a number of CBGs actually scheduled in last transmission of the transmission block or according to a number of CBGs actually scheduled in initial transmission of the transmission block, generates and transmits an HARQ-ACK containing the actual valid CBG level HARQ-ACK bit. A data acknowledgement information receiving method, a data acknowledgement information generation and feedback device, a data acknowledgement information receiving device, a UE, a base station and a storage medium are further provided.
US11356208B2
In accordance with one or more embodiments, a transmission device operates by: generating a transmit signal conveying transmit data in accordance with an HARQ protocol; converting the transmit signal to transmitted guided electromagnetic waves that propagate along a surface of a transmission medium; converting to a receive signal received guided electromagnetic waves that propagate along the surface of the transmission medium; generating, based on the receive signal, corona discharge data that indicates a corona discharge in proximity to the transmission medium during a first time period; identifying, responsive to the corona discharge data, a first packet of the transmit signal that was converted to transmitted guided electromagnetic waves during the first time period; and regenerating the transmit signal to include the first packet for retransmission via the transmitted guided electromagnetic waves, without waiting for a repeat request to be received from the remote device indicating the first packet.
US11356205B2
Method for receiving retransmitted data is disclosed. A terminal device receives identification information of a code block group. The code block group is one of a plurality of code block groups of a transport block that the terminal device received from a radio access network device, and the code block group includes at least one code block that is not transmitted correctly. The terminal device also receives a retransmission of the code block group from the radio access network device. The terminal device restores information carried in the received transport block. The identification information of the code block group is carried in downlink control information. The identification information of the code block group indicates which code block group of the transport block is retransmitted. The downlink control information further includes indication information that indicates whether the code block group is punctured or interfered.
US11356202B2
A method for transmitting system information on a PBCH is described herein. A transmission/reception point (TRP) may generate a concatenated master information block (MIB) transport block that includes information bits associated with system bandwidth information, timing information, system frame number (SFN), a beam sweeping configuration, and a control resource set (CORESET). The TRP may then attach at least 16 cyclic redundancy check (CRC) bits to the concatenated MIB and then prioritize the concatenated MIB and the at least 16 CRC bits based on content. The TRP may then perform channel coding of the prioritized concatenated MIB and the at least 16 CRC bits to produce coded bits using at least one polar encoder with a coding rate that is less than ⅓, perform rate matching via repetition on the coded bits, and then transmit the rate matched, coded bits on the PBCH of a radio frame.
US11356201B2
A sensor system is configured to communicate at least partially protected sensor data over a communication interface. The sensor system includes a sensor element and a communication interface communicatively coupled to the sensor element. The sensor element is configured to provide sensor data in the digital domain. The communication interface is configured to generate a data package for transmission over the communication interface from the sensor data. The data package includes a data grouping comprising one or more nibbles related to the sensor data. The data package further includes a nibble indicia based on at least a portion of selected nibbles within the data grouping.
US11356194B2
A communication system that uses a wired transmission line and multi-carrier modulation includes a transmitting device and a receiving device that are connected through the wired transmission line, wherein the receiving device includes an estimator configured to estimate a first SINR (Signal-to-Interference-Plus-Noise Ratio) of a first sub-carrier and a second SINR of a second sub-carrier, the transmitting device includes a power adjustor configured to boost a transmission power for the first sub-carrier such that an SINR of the first sub-carrier reaches a first SINR threshold corresponding to a first MCS (Modulation and Coding Scheme) that is larger than the first SINR, and back off a transmission power for the second sub-carrier such that an SINR of the second sub-carrier is lowered to a second SINR threshold corresponding to a second MCS that is smaller than the second SINR, and the transmitting device allocates the first MCS to the first sub-carrier.
US11356188B2
This application provides a method for sending and receiving a clock synchronization packet in FlexE. The method includes: generating, by a sending apparatus, indication information and a plurality of data blocks, where the plurality of data blocks are obtained by encoding a first clock synchronization packet, the indication information is used to indicate a first data block, and the first data block is a data block used for timestamp sampling in the plurality of data blocks; determining, by the sending apparatus, according to the indication information, a moment at which the first data block arrives at a medium dependent interface MDI of the sending apparatus, and generating a sending timestamp, where the sending timestamp is used to record a sending moment of the first clock synchronization packet; generating a second clock synchronization packet carrying the sending timestamp; and sending, by the sending apparatus, the second clock synchronization packet.
US11356172B2
Systems and methods implementing a multi-unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) wireless communication network are provided. The system includes application UAVs that wirelessly provide applications. The system includes relay UAVs that connect the application UAVs to a ground station. The ground station connects to a wireless backhaul network. Processor devices determine mobility for the application UAVs based on application-specific objectives. The processor devices also determine mobility for the relay UAVs based on forming and maintaining the wireless backhaul network.
US11356165B2
Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for determining a TPMI for a codebook set. One method includes receiving information indicating a transmission capability of a remote unit. The method includes determining a transmit precoding matrix indication based on a rank and a codebook corresponding to the transmission capability and the rank, wherein the transmit precoding matrix indication corresponding to a rank of one includes a maximum of five bits, and the transmit precoding matrix indication corresponding to a rank of two includes a maximum of four bits. The method includes transmitting the transmit precoding matrix indication to the remote unit.
US11356160B2
Proposed are a method and an apparatus for transmitting a signal by performing MIMO beamforming in a wireless LAN system. Specifically, a first STA performs MIMO beamforming during a second STA and TDD-based SP. The first STA transmits a signal to the second STA on the basis of a result of the MIMO beamforming. The SP includes a plurality of TDD slots. The MIMO beamforming includes a first sub-step and a second sub-step. In the first sub-step, after receiving a first MIMO beamforming setup frame from the second STA, the first STA transmits a second MIMO beamforming setup frame in the first allocated TDD slot among the TDD slots allocated to the first STA. In the second sub-step, after receiving a first MIMO beamforming feedback frame from the second STA, the first STA transmits a second MIMO beamforming feedback frame in a first allocated TDD slot among the TDD slots allocated to the first STA.
US11356154B2
According to one embodiment, a wireless communication device includes: a receiver configured to receive a plurality of first frames each including first information required for uplink multi-user transmission; and a transmitter configured to transmit a second frame generated on the basis of the first information included in the plurality of first frames. The transmitter does not transmit a transmission request for the first information before the first frames are received. The second frame is a frame instructing transmission of a third frame including data after a predetermined time from reception of the second frame.
US11356149B2
The present disclosure relates to a pre-5th-Generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates Beyond 4th-Generation (4G) communication system such as Long Term Evolution (LTE). Disclosed is a method of operating a telecommunications network comprising a plurality of Base Stations, BS, and a User Equipment, UE, wherein the plurality of BSs and the UE are operable in a particular transmission mode wherein signals are transmitted between the BSs and the UE, and the transmission mode is indicated to the UE.
US11356147B1
Techniques are described for accurate tracking of a radiofrequency (RF) carrier for amplitude-modulated signals in unstable reference clock environments. For example, some embodiments operate in context of clock circuits in devices configured for near-field communication (NFC) card emulation (CE) mode. The clock circuits seek to generate an internal clocking signal by tracking a clock reference, such as an RF carrier. In some cases, the clock reference can unpredictably become unreliable for periods of time, during which continued tracking of the unreliable clock reference and/or improper reacquisition can yield appreciable frequency and phase errors in the generated internal clocking signal. Some embodiments implement phase delta detection with time limiting to limit the magnitude of such errors in the internal clocking signal introduced while tracking an unreliable clock reference. Other embodiments provide feedback-pause-control (FPC) to force proper clock reference reacquisition. Such FPC can be implemented additionally with time-limited phase detection.
US11356139B2
The present disclosure relates to an interference coordination method and apparatus, a base station, user equipment, and a computer readable storage medium. The interference coordination method includes: determining whether intra-device interference exists between uplink transmission and downlink transmission of user equipment (UE) in two frequency bands; and if it is determined that intra-device interference exists between the uplink transmission and downlink transmission of the UE in two frequency bands, stopping sending downlink transmission scheduling information of one frequency band to the UE in a time interval during which the UE is scheduled to send uplink transmission in at least one frequency band of the two frequency bands; or, sending a blank subframe or an almost blank subframe to the UE in a time interval in which the UE is scheduled to send uplink transmission in at least one frequency band of the two frequency bands; or stopping sending the uplink transmission scheduling information of at least one frequency band in the two frequency bands to the UE in a time interval of sending downlink transmission scheduling information of one frequency band to the UE. By means of the embodiments of the present invention, the objective for avoiding data channel interference in a device can be achieved.
US11356138B1
Embodiments disclosed herein relate to transition of a radio frequency module between a first operating state and a second operating state. The first and second states may be passive/slow (e.g., non-active) states or active/fast states. A passive state may include a sleep state, an idle state, an off state, or a low power state. An active state may include a receiving state or a transmitting state, for receiving and transmitting signals, respectively. If the first operating state is an active state and the second operating state is a passive state, the transition from the first operating state may be delayed such that the radio frequency module transitions directly from the first operating state to a third operating state. This enables the radio frequency module to avoid entering a passive second state with a slow settling time which can interfere with communications and operation of the radio frequency module.
US11356136B2
A receiver circuit includes a mixer receiving an RF signal encoding an information signal. The mixer receives a number of multiphase oscillator signals and generates multiphase baseband signals. The receiver circuit also includes a variable gain circuit receives the multiphase baseband signals, generates a first output signal having a first distortion, and a second output signal having a second distortion. The variable gain circuit is configured to generate a reduced distortion output signal based on the first and second output signals.
US11356135B2
A method includes generating a first current through a first node based on a differential pair of signals received by a differential pair of input nodes of a differential circuit of a first integrated circuit die of an isolator product. The method includes generating a second current through a second node. The second current matches the first current through the first node and is based on an attenuated version of an output measurement signal. The method includes generating the output measurement signal having a level corresponding to an average amplitude of the differential pair of signals based on the first current and the second current.
US11356118B2
The present technology relates to a data processing device and a data processing method, which are capable of securing excellent communication quality in data transmission using an LDPC code. In group-wise interleave, an LDPC code in which a code length N is 16200 bits and an encoding rate r is 6/15, 8/15, or 10/15 is interleaved in units of bit groups of 360 bits. In group-wise deinterleave, a sequence of the LDPC code that has undergone the group-wise interleave is restored to an original sequence. For example, the present technology can be applied to a technique of performing data transmission using an LDPC code.
US11356117B2
A transmitting apparatus and a receiving apparatus are provided. The transmitting apparatus includes an encoder configured to generate a low density parity check (LDPC) codeword by performing LDPC encoding, an interleaver configured to interleave the LDPC codeword, and a modulator configured to modulate the interleaved LDPC codeword according to a modulation method to generate a modulation symbol. The interleaver performs interleaving by dividing the LDPC codeword into a plurality of groups, rearranging an order of the plurality of groups in group units, and dividing the plurality of rearranged groups based on a modulation order according to the modulation method.
US11356114B2
In some examples, a system includes an integrated circuit comprising a transistor, a first amplifier coupled to the transistor, a second amplifier having an output and coupled to the transistor and the first amplifier, and an R-2R resistor ladder having multiple rungs. Each rung is switchably coupled to a terminal of the transistor and to the output of the second amplifier. The R-2R resistor ladder includes a resistor coupled to either the transistor or the output of the second amplifier.
US11356111B1
A self-calibrating digital-to-analog converter (DAC) is disclosed. The self-calibrating DAC includes an input port, a non-binary DAC, an ADC to receive an output of the non-binary DAC, a lookup table to store a plurality of calibration code and a calibration logic coupled with the non-binary DAC. The self-calibrating DAC has two modes of operations, a calibration mode and a normal operational mode. In the calibration mode, the self-calibrating DAC is configured to calculate weightages of the non-binary DAC and to calculate an offset coefficient and a gain coefficients using high precision on chip analog-to-digital converter (ADC).
US11356101B1
A digital signal processing block has a first input port, a second input port, a third input port, a cascade input port and an output port. The DSP block may have a cascade output port. The DSP block may have a multiplexer that has selectable output, to the cascade output port, of concatenated inputs from the first input port, the second input port and the third input port. The DSP block may be connectable to another DSP block via a cascade path. The DSP block may have a variable shifter. The DSP block may have a full-width adder and reduced-width input ports.
US11356091B2
A drive circuit capable of inhibiting a drop of a voltage of a drive signal is provided. A drive circuit includes: a drive signal output circuit configured to output a pulse signal input to a gate terminal of a first field effect transistor driving a device; a switching circuit having a switching element that is connected between the gate terminal and the signal output terminal and configured to switch a conduction state between the gate terminal and output terminal; a delay circuit configured to delay an input of the drive signal to the gate terminal by switching a state of the switching element between an on state and an off state; and a reverse flow suppressing unit configured to suppress a reverse flow of a current from the static capacitance to the drive signal output circuit.
US11356087B2
In described examples, a first transistor has: a drain coupled to a source of a depletion-mode transistor; a source coupled to a first voltage node; and a gate coupled to a control node. A second transistor has: a drain coupled to a gate of the depletion-mode transistor; a source coupled to the first voltage node; and a gate coupled through at least one first logic device to an input node. A third transistor has: a drain coupled to the gate of the depletion-mode transistor; a source coupled to a second voltage node; and a gate coupled through at least one second logic device to the input node.
US11356081B2
Disclosed herein is an apparatus that includes a first circuit configured to generate a first signal a first number of times in response to an input signal, a second circuit configured to generate a second signal having a second numerical value each time the first signal is activated, and a third circuit configured to receive the second signal to update a count value obtained by accumulating the second numerical value, configured to generate a third signal each time the count value reaches a third numerical value, and configured to update the count value obtained by accumulating the second numerical value and subtracting the third numerical value when the count value reached the third numerical value.
US11356073B2
In a multilayer filter, a first LC parallel resonance unit, a second LC parallel resonance unit, and an LC circuit unit are configured in an element body, in which the LC circuit unit is connected between the first LC parallel resonance unit and the second LC parallel resonance unit in a path between a first terminal electrode and a second terminal electrode, a conductor pattern constituting an inductor of the LC circuit unit is not disposed between a conductor pattern constituting a first inductor of the first LC parallel resonance unit and a conductor pattern constituting a second inductor of the second LC parallel resonance unit in the element body, and the first inductor of the first LC parallel resonance unit and the second inductor of the second LC parallel resonance unit are magnetically coupled.
US11356071B2
A method and structure for a transfer process for an acoustic resonator device. In an example, a bulk acoustic wave resonator (BAWR) with an air reflection cavity is formed. A piezoelectric thin film is grown on a crystalline substrate. Patterned electrodes are deposited on the surface of the piezoelectric film. An etched sacrificial layer is deposited over the electrodes and a planarized support layer is deposited over the sacrificial layer. The device can include temperature compensation layers (TCL) that improve the device TCF. These layers can be thin layers of oxide type materials and can be configured between the top electrode and the piezoelectric layer, between the bottom electrode and the piezoelectric layer, between two or more piezoelectric layers, and any combination thereof. In an example, the TCLs can be configured from thick passivation layers overlying the top electrode and/or underlying the bottom electrode.
US11356059B2
An oscillator system includes a first oscillator structure configured to oscillate about a first rotation axis at a first oscillation frequency; a second oscillator structure configured to oscillate about a second rotation axis at a second oscillation frequency; a driver circuit configured to generate a first driving signal to drive an oscillation of the first oscillator structure with a first oscillation phase and the first oscillation frequency and generate a second driving signal to drive an oscillation of the second oscillator structure with a second oscillation phase and the second oscillation frequency. The first oscillation frequency and the second oscillation frequency have a variable frequency ratio with respect to each other that varies over time. The driver circuit is configured to modulate at least one of the first oscillation phase or the second oscillation phase to modulate the variable frequency ratio.
US11356054B2
In the optical power supply converters (1A to 1C) having a semiconductor light receiving element (2) including a light receiving section (15) on a main surface (10a) side of a semiconductor substrate (10), the semiconductor substrate (10) has at least one inclined end surface (10c) that intersects the main surface (10a) at an acute angle, and the light incident on the inclined end surface (10c) is refracted so as to be incident on the receiving section (15).
US11356047B2
A motor control apparatus includes: a high-pole-number controller that generates a voltage command for high-pole-number drive of an electric motor and controls operation of the electric motor under the high-pole-number drive; a low-pole-number controller that generates a voltage command for low-pole-number drive of the electric motor and controls operation of the electric motor under the low-pole-number drive; and a priority pole-number determiner that determines which one of the high-pole-number drive and the low-pole-number drive is to be given priority during switching between the high-pole-number and low-pole-number drives. Moreover, during the switching, of the high-pole-number and low-pole-number controllers, the controller corresponding to the drive given priority by the priority pole-number determiner calculates the voltage command for the drive given priority; and the controller corresponding to the drive not given priority calculates, based on the voltage command for the drive given priority, the voltage command for the drive not given priority.
US11356044B2
The present invention provides a method for detecting motor initial phase and phase sequence and a system for controlling a permanent-magnet synchronous motor. The method is applied to the system and comprises sequentially acquiring, through an encoder, first displacement data which register the encoder's reading when a rotor spins to a Q-axis, second displacement data which register the encoder's reading when the rotor spins from the Q-axis to a D-axis, third displacement data which register the encoder's reading when the rotor spins from the D-axis to a negative Q-axis and fourth displacement data which register the encoder's reading when the rotor spins from the negative Q-axis to the D-axis; obtaining an initial phase of the motor to be detected according to the second displacement data, the fourth displacement data and the encoder's CPR; and determining the phase sequence of the motor based on the first displacement data, the second displacement data and the encoder's CPR. That is to say, the method can not only automatically detect the initial phase of the rotor, but also the motor wiring phase sequence, and overcome the influence of friction force to improve the initial phase detection precision.
US11356040B2
A piezo actuator comprises a piezo material having a first, top surface, a second, bottom surface, and a third, circumference surface. The piezo material has a polarity and the piezo material includes one or more mounting holes in the piezo material, the one or more mounting holes being positioned substantially central in at least the top surface or the bottom surface of the piezo material. The actuator also comprises at least one contact point for contacting a load to be actuated, the at least one contact point being positioned on the third, circumference, surface of the piezo material, and a set of electrodes being positioned on the top surface of the piezo material and at least one electrode being positioned at the bottom surface of the piezo material.
US11356029B2
Disclosed are a rectifying circuit and a switched-mode power supply. The rectifying circuit includes a first rectifying section for rectifying a positive induced voltage generated across a secondary winding of a transformer, a second rectifying section for rectifying a negative induced voltage generated across the secondary winding, and an inductance section connected between the first rectifying section and the second rectifying section. The switched-mode power supply includes a transformer having a primary winding and a secondary winding, a drive circuit for switchingly driving the primary winding of the transformer, and the rectifying circuit connected to the secondary winding of the transformer.
US11356022B2
An inductor current detecting circuit is provided. A current supplying circuit supplies a first current signal to an energy storage circuit having a zero voltage during a high-side conduction time, and a second current signal to the energy storage circuit having the zero voltage during a low-side conduction time. A voltage comparator circuit subtracts a valley voltage of a low-side switch from a peak voltage of a high-side switch to obtain a reference voltage, and outputs a comparison signal according to a voltage of the energy storage circuit and a reference voltage. A current modulation controller circuit modulates currents of the first and second current signals according to the comparison signal. A synthesizing circuit synthesizes the first and the second current signals, each of which charges the voltage of the energy storage circuit to be equal to the reference voltage from zero, to obtain an inductor current signal.
US11356016B1
This disclosure describes a charge pump circuit comprising a plurality of switches configured to control phases of the charge pump circuit for charging a first capacitor, a second capacitor and a third capacitor. The phases may include: a first phase that charges the first capacitor to a first voltage based on an input voltage; a second phase that charges the second capacitor to a second voltage based on the first voltage and the input voltage; a third phase that charges the first capacitor to a third voltage based on the input voltage; and a fourth phase that charges the third capacitor to a fourth voltage based the second voltage, the third voltage, and the input voltage. In some examples, one or more of the capacitors are charged with duty cycles that are less than 50 percent.
US11356014B2
Circuits and methods for providing at least a startup voltage for reversed-operation unidirectional power converters or bi-modal power converters sufficient to power at least an auxiliary circuit of such power converters while the normal supply voltage to at least the auxiliary circuit is insufficient to enable operation of the auxiliary circuit. Embodiments of the invention utilize an initial startup charge pump circuit to create a suitable startup voltage while the normal supply voltage to the auxiliary circuit is less than a specified voltage VMIN. Embodiments of the present invention also provide additional benefits, including small size since the initial startup charge pump circuit omits the use of an inductor, and high efficiency since the initial startup charge pump circuit may be disabled when the normal supply voltage to the auxiliary circuit is equal to or greater than VMIN.
US11356009B2
A magnetic coupling assembly for coupling of a first rotary shaft and a second rotary shaft. The magnetic coupling assembly includes a first and second rotary hub, a sleeve, coaxial with the first rotary hub and arranged to be rotatable with respect to the first rotary hub, a first and second displacement element threadingly connected to the sleeve, and a first and a second rotatable inductor rotor arranged to co-rotate with the rotation of the first rotary hub. The first and second rotatable inductor rotors are connected to the first and second displacement element, respectively, and rotatable central magnet rotor. The sleeve includes threaded outer surfaces of opposite threading engaged by the first and second displacement elements so as to displace the first and second displacement elements in opposite directions.
US11356005B2
The present invention discloses a stator, a rotor and a multi-working-harmonic permanent magnet motor using the above rotor and the stator, wherein the N poles and the S poles are alternately distributed in a circumference direction of the rotor core or the stator core; any N pole comprises at least one N-pole permanent magnet; any S pole comprises at least one S-pole permanent magnet; and at least two adjacent N pole and S pole has different widths. According to the invention, through the arrangement of magnetic poles with different widths on a rotor or a stator, it is possible to generate magnetic fields containing a plurality of harmonic magnetic fields with high amplitudes so that the harmonic magnetic fields can interact with the magnetic fields generated by the armature windings of the permanent motor to realize the superposition of multi-part torques, thereby further enhancing the outputted torque of the motor. In addition, with the invention, the harmonic permanent fields can be completely decoupled on the frequency, thereby significantly improving the fault tolerance performance of the motor, and as a dual-mechanical-port motor, the motor of the invention can be applied to electric vehicles and other relevant variable transmission field.
US11356004B2
An apparatus for molding a hairpin inserted into a stator core includes a clamping unit including a connection bracket mounted on a front end of a robot arm and at least one clamper mounted on the connection bracket and configured to be reciprocally driven in opposite directions in a straight line, and a mold unit detachably coupled with the at least one clamper and configured to press mold a head portion of the hairpin by a molding jig configured to be driven by the at least one clamper.
US11355998B2
According to the method, either CO2-free air or pure nitrogen N2 is pumped into the cooling circuit selectively depending on system parameters. To this end, the method ensures that the air injection rate is high enough that, under normal conditions, the hydrogen concentration in the tank and in the riser remains below 2% H2. On air injection, the oxygen O2 (>2 ppm) in the cooling water reacts with the copper in the cooling ducts and a layer of copper oxide forms on the inner walls of said ducts. No reaction is triggered by the injection of nitrogen N2. The CO2 content in the injection air and, at the same time, also the H2 content in the exhaust air are continuously measured and monitored, and an alarm is triggered if adjustable limit values are exceeded. The equipment for performing the method comprises an electronic control unit (65) with an input field and display as a control box, and a pump and a pipe circuit for drawing air in from the riser. The control unit (65) can evaluate all the measured data from the sensors and analysers connected to the pipe and can at least check the CO2 content in the supply air and the H2 content in the riser (13) and display the hydrogen leakage.
US11355985B2
An electric machine includes a rotor configured to rotate about an axis of rotation, a stator having a plurality of teeth annularly arranged on a stator core about the axis of rotation, a plurality of electromagnetic coils, and a base plate. Each coil of the plurality of electromagnetic coils may be mounted on a separate tooth of the plurality of teeth, and the base plate may be located adjacent to the plurality of electromagnetic coils and the stator core. The base plate may be in thermal contact with the plurality of electromagnetic coils and the stator core such that as the plurality of electromagnetic coils and the stator core heat during operation, the base plate is configured to serve as a common heat sink for the plurality of electromagnetic coils and the stator core.
US11355981B2
A stator includes a stator core in which an annular back yoke is integrated with a plurality of teeth circumferentially arranged on the back yoke at intervals, and an insulator that sandwiches the stator core from axial sides of the stator core. The insulator is molded integrally with the stator core using resin molding such that the insulator covers an inner surface of a slot portion of the stator core. A motor includes a rotor and the stator radially facing the rotor. A compressor includes a hermetic container, a compression mechanism disposed in the hermetic container, the motor disposed in the hermetic container to drive the compression mechanism.
US11355965B2
A device for inductively transferring electrical energy and/or data from a primary-sided carrier to at least one secondary-sided recipient which can be positioned on the carrier has a meander-shaped winding on the primary side and at least one meander-shaped winding on the secondary side.
US11355961B2
The disclosure provides a method for fast reconfiguration of power supply grid in tens of milliseconds after power grid failure. The master station of fast reconfiguration of power grid concentrates the network status information from the client stations at transformer substations or power plants, and compares it with the built-in control strategy table which deals with possible faults. When an expected power gird disconnection fault is detected, the pre-start switch-on instruction is sent to the client stations with multiple breakers which can reconnect the grid. When the fault is cleared, the client stations shall identify the fault clearing time according to the local information, and send the instruction of synchronous switch-on to the corresponding local breakers which can reconnect the separated grids. At the same time, the master station independently monitors the removal of the fault, and sends the backup switch-on signal with synchronism check to the corresponding breakers which can reconnect the separated grids. Based on the above mechanism, the disconnected grid can be reconnected within 150 ms after disconnecting. After the interconnection of the grid is restored, the breakers that form the electromagnetic ring network switch off.
US11355957B2
An uninterruptible power supply (UPS) system is provided. The UPS system includes a plurality of UPSs, a ring bus coupled to the UPSs, a plurality of chokes, and at least one static switch coupled between an associated UPS of the UPSs and the ring bus. Each choke electrically couples an associated UPS to the ring bus. The static switch is switchable to selectively bypass at least one choke.
US11355954B1
Systems and methods of self-replenishing power supply, having two modes of operation, are provided. The first mode of operation being a power delivery mode, where at least one charge bank comprised of rechargeable batteries couples to a power output port for supplying power to users. When a governance module detects a charge bank level is below a defined threshold it may switch another charge bank into user support and simultaneously initiates the second mode of operation, a power charging mode. Wherein, a power generator is enabled to generate power to recharge any depleted charge bank and may enable a charging module that expeditiously replenishes respective charge bank depletion. When all charge banks are recharged, the power charging mode is temporarily suspended until a low level is again detected, then the cycle recurs. Thereby, a self-replenishing, continuous, supply of power is available to the user.
US11355949B2
Disclosed herein is an electronic gaming system with a wireless charger for providing wireless charging of a user's wirelessly chargeable device(s). The electronic gaming system may include a wireless charging status determination system that may measure an aspect of power supplied to the wireless charger by the electronic gaming system and may determine a charging status of the wireless charger from such measurements, thereby allowing determination of charging status of the wireless charger (and, correspondingly, a determination of charge status for a wirelessly chargeable device being charged by wireless charger) by the wireless charging status determination system without requiring any data communication between itself and the wireless charger and/or the wirelessly chargeable device. This may allow the wireless charging status determination system to communicate charging status information with, for example, the electronic gaming system without exposing the electronic gaming system to potential malicious interference from the wirelessly chargeable device.
US11355926B2
A test device is disclosed. The test device includes an input/output (I/O) circuit configured to allow static electricity flowing between an input/output (I/O) pad and an internal circuit to be discharged to a power-supply line, a ground line, or a substrate line, a capacitor circuit configured to perform modeling of parasitic capacitance extracted from a package design, and a discharge circuit configured to allow capacitance stored in the capacitor circuit to be discharged to the substrate line.
US11355924B2
A circuit for electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection for wide frequency range multi-band interfaces. The interface may be split into a plurality of signal paths. Each signal path may include an ESD protection circuit configured to shunt an ESD current on each signal path to either ground or supply voltage and a filter configured to block signals from other signal paths. The signal paths are connected to a common signal line such that the signals for the plurality of signal paths can be transported simultaneously. The plurality of signal paths may be a high frequency path and a low frequency path. The low frequency path may include an inductor connected in series and the high frequency path may include a capacitor or transformer connected in series. The ESD protection circuit on each signal path is placed behind the inductor, the capacitor or the transformer.
US11355921B2
A detecting system for a load control circuit includes: a main fuse connected on a main current path between a power supply and a load that receives power supplied from the power supply; a switching element connected on the main current path between the main fuse and the load; a thermal fuse attached to a surface of the switching element and configured to open when a temperature of the switching element exceeds a preset temperature; a controller configured to control the switching element to be turned on/off, detect an open state of the thermal fuse, and generate a fault signal; and a system controller configured to interrupt the power supplied from the power supply when the fault signal is received from the controller.
US11355918B2
A USB Type-C/Power Delivery controller chip includes a first pin for receiving a first voltage, a second pin for receiving a second voltage, and a third pin for coupling to the CC pin of a USB connector. The USB controller chip includes a VCONN power supply circuit having a blocking field effect transistor (BFET) coupled in series with a hot-swap field FET (HSFET) between the first and third pins, and first and second Zener diodes coupled anode-to-anode between the HSFET's source and gate. A cable detection circuit includes a BFET coupled between the second and third pins, and a Zener diode coupled between the BFET's gate and a lower rail. A power delivery physical layer circuit includes a receiver and a transmitter, each coupled to the third pin through a respective BFET, the respective BFETs each having a Zener diode coupled between respective gates and the lower rail.
US11355909B2
An electrical fitting including a body having an inner cavity for receiving a plurality of conductors, the inner cavity including a first portion extending to a first exterior opening and a second portion extending to a second exterior opening, and a brush barrier positioned within the inner cavity between the first portion and the second portion, the brush barrier including an outer edge and a plurality of bristles extending inwardly from the outer edge, the bristles being displaceable by the conductors, wherein the electrical fitting is configured to receive a sealing compound within the first portion of the inner cavity between the first exterior opening of the first portion and the brush barrier, the sealing compound being at least partially prevented from propagating into the second portion of the inner cavity by the brush barrier.
US11355907B2
An integrated latching mechanism includes a slider button extending along a first direction, curved elastic arms that extend from the slider button in a second direction and then curve back in an direction opposite thereto, a locking part contiguous with the slider button and extending away from the slider button and the elastic arms in a third direction perpendicular to the first direction. In response to ends of the elastic arms being held at fixed positions and an external force urging the slider button in a direction opposite to the third direction, the locking part moves in the same direction, and the urging of the slider button distorts the elastic arms such that upon removal of the external force, the elastic arms move the slider button and the locking part in the third direction. The elastic arms, slider button, and locking part form a single piece of elastic material.
US11355906B2
An attachment can secure an electrical box to a support structure without the use of fasteners. An attachment body can be configured to be secured to the support structure. One or more engagement arrangements can include first and second arms that are configured to engage first and second mounting openings of an electrical box without use of a separate fastener.
US11355905B2
A mounting bracket assembly for securement of elongate items, such as wires, cables, or other bundles items to a support structure. The mounting bracket assembly may include a clamp member defining a first clamp member and a second clamp member joined to the first clamp member by a hinge mechanism. The mounting bracket assembly may also include a locking mechanism, a wedge-shaped pawl having a plurality of teeth disposed within the slotted opening, and a mounting member defining a mounting aperture configured to receive an attachment feature therethrough.
US11355904B1
A pole attachable enclosure is installable, replaceable, and accessible from ground level on poles installed in various deployments for camera, lights, and antennas. The pole attachable enclosure provides a secure, tamper resistant enclosure for electronic and support equipment in both new and retrofit installations to improve serviceability and protect investment.
US11355900B2
A packaged transmitter device includes a base member comprising a planar part mounted with a thermoelectric cooler, a transmitter, and a coupling lens assembly, and an assembling part connected to one side of the planar part. The device further includes a circuit board bended to have a first end region and a second end region being raised to a higher level. The first end region disposed on a top surface of the planar part includes multiple electrical connection patches respectively connected to the thermoelectric and the transmitter. The second end region includes an electrical port for external connection. Additionally, the device includes a cover member disposed over the planar part. Furthermore, the device includes a cylindrical member installed to the assembling part for enclosing an isolator aligned to the coupling lens assembly along its axis and connected to a fiber to couple optical signal from the transmitter to the fiber.
US11355893B2
A terminal crimping process includes using a plurality of terminal holders to respectively hold various types of the terminal fittings and arranging the terminal holders in a terminal magazine. The terminal magazine is detachably installed on the terminal feeding mechanism. The terminal feeding process further includes moving the terminal magazine to convey the terminal fittings held on the terminal holders to the crimping position, and subsequently crimping the terminal fitting with a wire disposed therein.
US11355884B2
A connector assembly includes a receptacle connector, a shielding cage and a partitioning element. The shielding cage has a receiving cavity. The partitioning element is provided to the receiving cavity and partitions the receiving cavity into a first module passageway and a second module passageway, the partitioning element includes a compartment frame and a grounding gasket assembled to a front end of the compartment frame, the compartment frame has a first partitioning wall and a second partitioning wall which respectively correspond to the first module passageway and the second module passageway, the grounding gasket integrally has a front plate, a first panel and a second panel, the first panel and the second panel together clamp the first partitioning wall and the second partitioning wall, the first panel and the second panel and the front plate are integrally connected by bulging portions at certain corners.
US11355881B2
An electrical connector includes an electrical connector housing having a body with a receiving portion, a movable pin, a part of the movable pin is movably disposed in the receiving portion, a first elastic piece disposed in the receiving portion, and a second elastic piece located between a side wall of the receiving portion and the movable pin and elastically abutted against an outer circumferential surface of the movable pin. A first end of the movable pin movably protrudes out of the receiving portion against an elasticity of the first elastic piece. The movable pin is electrically connected to the electrical connector housing by the first elastic piece and the second elastic piece.
US11355879B2
The present application discloses an interconnection connector including an insulative housing and a number of conductive terminals. The insulative housing includes a base portion and a mating portion adapted to mate with a mating connector. Each conductive terminal includes a contact portion positioned in the mating portion and an abutment portion located on the base portion. The contact portions are adapted for being electrically connected to the mating connector, and the abutment portions are adapted for contacting a conductive pad of a flexible flat cable. Besides, a connector assembly including the interconnection connector is also disclosed. The present application simplifies the mating structure by providing the abutment portions on the base portion to contact the conductive pads of the flexible flat cable, thereby easily to achieve electrical connection between the conductive terminals and the flexible flat cable.
US11355876B2
An electrical connector provides electrical connection between first, second, and third printed circuit boards (PCBs). The connector defines spaced apart substantially parallel, first, second and third mating slots and includes a plurality of pairs of first terminals and a plurality of pairs of second terminals. For each pair of first terminals: the first terminals are electrically connected to each other; one of the first terminals is disposed in the first mating slot; and the other of the first terminals is disposed in the third mating slot. For each pair of second terminals: the second terminals are electrically isolated from each other; one of the second terminals is disposed in the second mating slot; and the other of the second terminals is disposed in the third mating slot. When first, second and third PCBs are received in the respective first, second and third mating slots, each pair of first terminals electrically connects corresponding traces of the first and third PCBs and each pair of second terminals electrically connects corresponding traces of the second and third PCBs.
US11355873B2
An electrical connector pin comprising a link segment for linking to the connector and an end segment that is free, the end segment having a cross-section that presents at least one curved portion curved about an axis parallel to a longitudinal direction of the end segment and the end segment having side edges forming electrical contact portions that can be moved towards each other causing the curved portion to deform elastically.
US11355869B2
A cable connector for electrically connecting at least one first electrical conductor to at least one second electrical conductor. The cable connector includes an insulating-material housing, which has at least one first conductor insertion opening and at least one second conductor insertion opening. The second conductor insertion opening is opposite the first conductor insertion opening. The cable connector has at least one electrical contact in the insulating-material housing. The least one electrical contact is electrically contacted by a first electrical conductor via the first conductor insertion opening and by a second electrical conductor via the second conductor insertion opening. The first electrical conductor is loaded against the electrical contact via a first clamping spring and the second electrical conductor is loaded against the electrical contact via a second clamping spring such that the first electrical conductor is electrically connected to the second electrical conductor by means of the electrical contact.
US11355865B2
A planar antenna can include one or more high permeability objects that are added near the planar coil's tips. Further, the planar antenna includes a coil having two or more layers, with each layer having two or more turns. The planar antenna also has a restricted conductor arrangement, where there are a maximum number of turns arranged in any horizontal layer. A turn's conductor could be a single conductor or could be two (2) or more conductors arranged in parallel.
US11355863B2
A display device includes: a substrate having a display area and a non-display area at a periphery of the display area; at least one unit antenna disposed in the non-display area on the substrate and having a coplanar wave guide structure; and a communication circuit unit transmitting and receiving a communication signal with the at least one unit antenna.
US11355861B2
A patch antenna array system is provided. The patch antenna array system can include a plurality of patch antennas oriented with respect to each other to provide a nearly symmetric radiation pattern over a range of frequencies, such as from 1500 Megahertz (MHz) to 1700 MHz. The patch antenna array system can include a sequential phase feed network that is in communication with the plurality of patch antennas. The sequential phase feed network can be configured to provide a radio frequency (RF) signal to each patch antenna of the plurality of patch antennas such that the patch antenna array system has an axial ratio of less than 1 decibel (dB) over the range of frequencies.
US11355860B2
According to one embodiment, an antenna device includes a first transmission array antenna including transmission antennas of a first number, arranged with a first distance in a first direction, a first reception array antenna including reception antennas of a second number, arranged with a second distance in a first direction or a second direction which is parallel to the first direction, a second transmission array antenna including transmission antennas of a third number, arranged with the first distance in the first direction, and a second reception array antenna including reception antennas of a fourth number, arranged with the second distance in the first direction or the second direction.
US11355857B2
A directable antenna system includes at least one directable antenna which has an omnidirectional antenna at a center, an inner frequency selective surface centered around the omnidirectional antenna, and an outer frequency selective surface spaced from the inner frequency selective surface. An antenna control unit can vary antenna beamwidth by changing states of active elements of the inner and the outer frequency selective surfaces. The system may include a searchable database, for example, to direct the antenna in the optimum direction for transmission and reception at a particular location. Transmission and/or reception data from a second directable antenna can be used to aim the first directable antenna.
US11355846B2
An antenna structure with wide radiation bandwidth includes a first radiation portion, a ground portion, a connection portion, a second radiation portion, and a feed portion. The ground portion is positioned at a plane perpendicular to plane of the first radiation portion. The ground portion is grounded. The connection portion connects to one side of the first radiation portion. The second radiation portion connects to one side of the connection portion away from the first radiation portion. The feed portion is electrically connected to the connection portion and the second radiation portion for feeding current and signals to the antenna structure.
US11355841B2
An embodiment of an antenna configured to form a high-power beam, such as a battery-charging beam, includes a transmission structure, signal couplers, amplifiers, and antenna elements. The transmission structure (e.g., a waveguide) is configured to carry a reference signal (e.g., a traveling reference wave), and each of the signal couplers is configured to generate a respective intermediate signal in response to the reference signal at a respective location along the transmission structure. Each of the amplifiers is configured to amplify, selectively, an intermediate signal from a respective one of the couplers, and each of the antenna elements (e.g., conductive patches) is configured to radiate a respective elemental signal in response to an amplified intermediate signal from a respective one of the amplifiers. In operation, the elemental signals interfere with one another to form a transmission beam, such as a battery-charging, or other high-power, transmission beam.
US11355840B2
Examples disclosed herein relate to a wireless device having a plurality of metastructure switched antennas, each metastructure switched antenna having an array of metastructures. A controller in the wireless device selects a metastructure switched antenna from the plurality of metastructure switched antennas and determines a direction for transmission of a beam from the selected metastructure switched antenna.
US11355839B1
An antenna transmission device includes a shell, an output unit, and an input unit. The output unit is slidingly arranged at the shell and includes a rack. The input unit is at least partially arranged in the shell, meshes with the rack of the output unit, and is configured to drive the output unit to move linearly.
US11355838B2
A packaged radar includes laminate layers, a ground plane associated with at least one of the laminate layers, a transmit antenna and a receive antenna associated with at least one of the laminate layers, and an electromagnetic band gap structure between the transmit antenna and the receive antenna for isolating the transmit antenna and the receive antenna, the electromagnetic band gap structure including elementary cells forming adjacent columns each coupled to the ground plane, and each elementary cell including a conductive planar element and a columnar element coupled to the conductive planar element.
US11355832B2
A communications device is provided, including a metal carrier having a mounting plane with at least one mounting area, and further includes an antenna element disposed in each mounting area. The mounting area is where the mounting plane intersects a circle centered at a feedpoint of the antenna element in the area and whose radius does not exceed a specified radius. When a boundary line of the mounting area includes a boundary line, a distance from the feedpoint to the boundary line is less than or equal to a specified distance; and/or when a boundary line of the mounting area includes a vertex of the mounting plane, a distance from the feedpoint to the vertex is less than or equal to a specified distance. A feed position on the antenna element is designed to obtain relatively good antenna roundness performance and enhance an antenna signal coverage effect.
US11355829B2
A microwave or radio frequency (RF) device includes stacked printed circuit boards (PCBs) mounted on a flexible PCB having at least one ground plane and a signal terminal. Each of the stacked PCBs includes through-holes the sidewalls of which are coated with a conductive material. Microwave components are mounted on the flexible PCB within the through-holes, such that signal terminals of the components bond to signal terminals of respective through-holes. A conductive cover is mounted on the PCBs such that the cover is in electrical contact with the ground plane of the flexible PCB through the conductive material, forming shielding cavities around the components. The flexible PCB is folded such that the cover of one PCB faces the cover of the second PCB. The flexible PCB includes striplines or microstrips that carry RF or microwave signals to the signal terminals.
US11355825B2
A battery pack and a method for manufacturing the same, and more particularly, a battery pack in which a heat dissipation member is attached to a protection element assembly to reduce heat generated from the battery pack when being discharged and a method for manufacturing the same.
US11355820B2
A new weld configuration is used to obtain a robust and consistent resistance weld between the tabs of an anode current collector and the casing of an electrochemical cell. This is done by adding a resistive transferable electrode tip between at least one of the welding electrodes, preferably the movable welding electrode, and the stacked parts that are being joined together. The purpose of the transferable electrode tip is to generate a sufficient amount of heat during the welding process so that the stacked parts are joined together without adding any product functionality. In one embodiment of the present invention, the transferrable electrode tip is a stainless-steel ball, the stacked anode current collector tabs are of nickel, and the cell casing is of stainless-steel.
US11355812B2
A device includes a battery case (42) that stores a battery (62A or 62B), a lock mechanism (133) that is capable of fixing and holding the stored battery (62A or 62B) in the battery case (42), and an operation member (44) that is capable of performing switching operation of the lock mechanism (133) between a battery-fixed state and a non-battery-fixed state. The lock mechanism (133) includes a movable block (160) which is supported by the battery case (42) in a displaceable manner. The movable block (160) has a battery restriction portion (160b or 160c) which restricts displacement of the battery (62A or 62B) in a separation direction in a state of being displaced to a battery fixing position, and a holding force receiving portion (160d) which receives a holding force for maintaining the movable block (160) at the battery fixing position from the operation member (44) in a state where the operation member (44) is operated within a predetermined positional range.
US11355810B2
A cell holder structure for holding a plurality of battery cells includes a holder base part and a holder cover part forming an array of cell-receiving spaces and cell intermediate spaces lying inbetween. The holder base part has one or more base side cell supporting pillars extending axially from a base plane of the holder base part into cell intermediate spaces and has a circumferential side securing wall region abutting in an axially and radially position securing manner against a circumferential surface of battery cells to be accommodated in the cell receiving spaces, and/or the holder cover part has one or more cover side cell-supporting pillars which extend axially from a cover plane of the holder cover part into the cell intermediate spaces and have a circumferential side securing wall region abutting in an axially and radially position securing manner against a circumferential surface of the rechargeable battery cells.
US11355809B2
A vehicle substructure is capable of changing arrangement in a battery case depending on the type and/or size of batteries. The vehicle substructure includes: a battery case having a battery housed therein and including a bottomed case pan having an opening at a top thereof, and a case cover to close the opening of the case pan; a floor panel positioned above the battery case; a pair of right and left seat frames fixed to a top surface of the floor panel; and a battery cross member extending in a vehicle width direction in the battery case, fastened to the pair of right and left seat frames and fixed to the floor panel, wherein the pair of right and left seat frames extend in a vehicle front-rear direction and are provided with mounting holes in the vehicle front-rear direction for fastening the battery cross member.
US11355806B2
A vehicle includes a battery unit which has a first battery pack and a second battery pack that is disposed above the first battery pack. The first battery pack includes a battery module; and a first battery case body and a first battery case cover that house the battery module. The second battery pack includes a battery module; and a second battery case body and a second battery case cover that house the battery module. The second battery case body houses a power shutdown portion configured to shut down an electric circuit of the battery unit; a cover removal restricting portion configured to restrict removal of the second battery case cover; and an interlock mechanism configured to disable release of the cover removal restricting portion unless the electric circuit is shut down by the power shutdown portion. The second battery case cover includes an opening accessible to the interlock mechanism.
US11355805B2
Provided is a battery pack having an improved temperature control performance. The battery pack includes a plurality of battery modules including at least one secondary battery therein and spaced apart from each other by a predetermined distance, and a bridge member including a heat conductive material and configured to receive heat generated from at least one battery module by being disposed in contact with at least two battery modules among the plurality of battery modules.
US11355802B2
According to the present disclosure, technology of preventing reduction of battery performances in manufacturing steps is provided for a secondary battery provided with a protective member for preventing cleavage of a welded part. A secondary battery disclosed herein includes an electrode body including a terminal connecting part, an exterior body including a welded part at an outer circumferential edge part, and an electrode terminal connected with the terminal connecting part. The secondary battery includes a protective member that is placed between the exterior body and the electrode body, and regulates shrinkage deformation of the exterior body toward a center in a width direction. The second battery further includes a movement regulating means for regulating movement of the protective member. This can prevent reduction of battery performances in manufacturing steps.
US11355801B2
Disclosed are an electrolyte membrane for a lithium air battery having good durability, a method of manufacturing the same, and a lithium air battery including the same. The electrolyte membrane for a lithium air battery may include a reinforced membrane and an electrolyte solution and is thus nonvolatile and capable of ensuring sufficient physical strength.
US11355796B2
The present invention discloses a thermal management system for a battery module of an electric vehicle. The battery module is incorporated with phase change material (PCM)-metal foam and cooling water arrangement of two opposing fluid currents. At least one PCM-metal foam is disposed at either side of each battery cell of the module to cool and maintain an optimal temperature of the battery cells The system comprises a controller in communication with the cooling water arrangement and a sensor at the battery module, and a first cooler module and a second cooler module in communication with the controller and cooling water arrangement. The controller is configured to activate the first cooler module on failure to maintain the optimal temperature by the PCM-metal foam, and the controller is configured to activate the second cooler module on failure to maintain the optimal temperature by the first cooler module and the PCM-metal foam.
US11355793B2
In this power supplying device used in this power storage system, a power supplying unit charges a battery. A control unit controls the power supplying unit so as to charge the battery in a pulsed manner, in at least a part of a charging period of the battery. The control unit extends a unit on time and a unit off time when charging in the pulsed manner, as the temperature of the battery becomes lower.
US11355792B2
A vehicle battery charger and a vehicle battery charging system are described and illustrated, and can include a controller enabling a user to enter a time of day at which the vehicle battery charger or system begins and/or ends charging of the vehicle battery. The vehicle battery charger can be separate from the vehicle, can be at least partially integrated into the vehicle, can include a transmitter and/or a receiver capable of communication with a controller that is remote from the vehicle and vehicle charger, and can be controlled by a user or another party (e.g., a power utility) to control battery charging based upon a time of day, cost of power, or other factors.
US11355788B2
A pouch-type secondary battery pack having a simplified manufacturing process with a reduced number of components, including a battery cell in which an electrode assembly is sealed in a pouch exterior together with an electrolyte, the battery cell having an electrode lead formed at one side thereof; and a protection circuit module having a printed circuit board with a protection circuit formed thereon and a lead connection plate formed at one surface of the printed circuit board so that the printed circuit board is electrically connected to the electrode lead of the battery cell, the protection circuit module having an exposing portion formed at the other surface of the printed circuit board to expose at least a portion of the lead connection plate.
US11355784B2
In initial charge and discharge, decomposition products or a gas is generated, degrading a battery. At least one of solvents (e.g., ethylene carbonate) used for an electrolytic solution is brought into contact with a positive electrode and a negative electrode and then charge is performed to some degree, and after that, a different solvent or electrolytic solution (e.g., ethyl methyl carbonate or vinylene carbonate) was added to adjust the electrolytic solution and then charge is performed. Through this process, stable coating films are formed in initial charge and discharge, which stably inhibits a side reaction between the electrolytic solution and an active material.
US11355780B2
A sulfide solid electrolyte particles comprising lithium, phosphorus and sulfur, having a volume-based average particle size measured by laser diffraction particle size distribution measurement of 0.1 μm to 10 μm, having a diffraction peak having 2θ of 29.0 to 31.0 deg in powder X-ray diffraction measurement using CuKα ray, and an intensity ratio (Ib/Ip) of a peak intensity Ib at a high angle-side low part of the diffraction peak to a peak intensity Ip of the diffraction peak is less than 0.09.
US11355779B2
Set forth herein are garnet material compositions, e.g., lithium-stuffed garnets and lithium-stuffed garnets doped with alumina, which are suitable for use as electrolytes and catholytes in solid state battery applications. Also set forth herein are lithium-stuffed garnet thin films having fine grains therein. Disclosed herein are novel and inventive methods of making and using lithium-stuffed garnets as catholytes, electrolytes and/or anolytes for all solid state lithium rechargeable batteries. Also disclosed herein are novel electrochemical devices which incorporate these garnet catholytes, electrolytes and/or anolytes. Also set forth herein are methods for preparing novel structures, including dense thin (<50 um) free standing membranes of an ionically conducting material for use as a catholyte, electrolyte, and, or, anolyte, in an electrochemical device, a battery component (positive or negative electrode materials), or a complete solid state electrochemical energy storage device. Also, the methods set forth herein disclose novel sintering techniques, e.g., for heating and/or field assisted (FAST) sintering, for solid state energy storage devices and the components thereof.
US11355774B2
Provided herein is a fiber having a fiber body including fiber body material with a longitudinal-axis fiber body length. A plurality of gel domains is disposed within the fiber body along at least a portion of the longitudinal-axis fiber body length. Each gel domain includes a porous host matrix material and a liquid gel component that is entrapped in the molecular structure of the host matrix material and that is disposed in interstices of the host material matrix. At least two of the gel domains within the fiber body are disposed directly adjacent to each other in direct physical contact with each other. This fiber can include polymeric fiber body material and gel domains including a porous polymer host matrix material and an ionically conducting liquid solvent that is entrapped in the molecular structure of the polymer host matrix material and disposed in interstices of the polymer host material matrix.
US11355770B2
Disclosed is a method of the apparatus for manufacturing a membrane-electrode assembly for a fuel cell. The method includes: (a) unwinding an electrolyte membrane sheet from an electrolyte membrane sheet roll, recovering a protect film attached on an electrolyte membrane, and supplying the electrolyte membrane along a set feed path; (b) unwinding a first electrode film sheet including a first electrode film continuously coated with an anode electrode layer and a second electrode film sheet including a second electrode film coated with a cathode electrode layer with a predetermined gap, and supplying the first electrode film sheet and the second electrode film sheet along the set feed path; (c) passing the electrolyte membrane and the first and second electrode film sheets through between a driving bonding roll and a driven bonding roll.
US11355758B2
A current collector for a lithium ion battery includes a first conductive resin layer and a second conductive resin layer. The first conductive resin layer includes a first conductive filler. The second conductive resin layer is formed on the first conductive resin layer and includes a second conductive filler. The first conductive filler is a conductive carbon. The second conductive filler contains at least one kind of metal element selected from the group consisting of platinum, gold, silver, copper, nickel, and titanium. A volume % of the second conductive filler in the second conductive resin layer on a first surface side, which is a first conductive resin layer side, is higher than that on the second surface side that is opposite to the first conductive resin layer.
US11355748B2
In some embodiments, an electrode can include a current collector, a composite material in electrical communication with the current collector, and at least one phase configured to adhere the composite material to the current collector. The current collector can include one or more layers of metal, and the composite material can include electrochemically active material. The at least one phase can include a compound of the metal and the electrochemically active material. In some embodiments, a composite material can include electrochemically active material. The composite material can also include at least one phase configured to bind electrochemically active particles of the electrochemically active material together. The at least one phase can include a compound of metal and the electrochemically active material.
US11355745B2
Provided are a nickel-based active material precursor for a lithium secondary battery including: a first porous core; a second core located on the first porous core and having a higher density than that of the first porous core, a shell located on the second core; and having a radial arrangement structure, wherein an amount of nickel included in the first porous core is greater than or equal to an amount of nickel included in the second core, and the amount of nickel included in the second core is greater than an amount of nickel included in the shell, a method of producing the nickel-based active precursor, a nickel-based active material for a lithium secondary battery, obtained from the nickel-based active precursor, and a lithium secondary battery including a cathode containing the nickel-based active material.
US11355742B2
This application discloses a negative electrode plate and a lithium-ion secondary battery, wherein the negative electrode plate includes a negative electrode current collector and a negative active material layer disposed on at least one surface of the negative electrode current collector, and wherein the negative active material layer includes a graphite material; wherein a ratio r between diffraction peak intensity of (004) crystal surface and diffraction peak intensity of (110) crystal surface of the negative electrode plate, a porosity s of the negative electrode plate, and a resistivity t of the negative electrode plate satisfy: 0.05 ≤ 100 × s r × t ≤ 10. The negative electrode plate and the lithium-ion secondary battery provided by this application can simultaneously achieve high safety performance, cycle performance and rate performance.
US11355731B2
A display panel disclosed in the application includes a display region and a peripheral region. The display panel includes a substrate and at least one dam disposed on the substrate. The dam is in the peripheral region. An anode is disposed on the substrate and is in the peripheral region. A plurality of holes is provided on the anode to expose the dam. In a direction which the display region faces the peripheral region, a size of the holes is greater than a size of the dam.
US11355726B2
A flexible display panel, a method of manufacturing the flexible display panel and a display device are provided. The method of manufacturing the flexible display panel includes: providing a flexible film, wherein the flexible film includes a first region and a second region other than the first region; forming an adhesive on the second region of the flexible film; attaching a flexible display substrate to the flexible film by using the adhesive; cutting the flexible film to remove at least a portion of the first region of the flexible film, wherein the flexible film is configured to support the flexible display substrate.
US11355714B2
The present invention relates to compounds comprising a heterocyclic group substituted with a fluoranthene group and a particular aromatic or heteroaromatic group. The compounds are suitable for use in electronic devices, in particular organic electroluminescent devices, comprising these compounds. In some embodiments, the compounds are used as matrix materials for phosphorescent or fluorescent emitters as well as a hole-blocking or an electron-transport layer.
US11355711B2
An organic light-emitting device includes: a first electrode; a second electrode facing the first electrode; and an organic layer between the first electrode and the second electrode and including an emission layer. The emission layer includes at least one doping layer and at least one non-doping layer. The doping layer comprises a first host, a second host, and a dopant.
US11355703B2
According to some embodiments of the present invention a phase change device (PCD) has a first and second semiconductor layer. The first semiconductor layer made of a first semiconductor material and has a first semiconductor thickness, a first interface surface, and a first electrode surface. The first interface surface and first electrode surface are on opposite sides of the first semiconductor layer. The first semiconductor material can transition between a first amorphous state and a first crystalline state at one or more first conditions. The second semiconductor layer is made of a second semiconductor material and has a second semiconductor thickness, a second interface surface, and a second electrode surface. The second interface surface and second electrode surface are on opposite sides of the second semiconductor layer. The first interface surface and the second interface surface are in electrical, physical, and chemical contact with one another at an interface. The second semiconductor material can transition between a second amorphous state and a second crystalline state at one or more second conditions. A first electrode in physical and electrical contact with the first electrode surface of the first semiconductor layer and a second electrode in physical and electrical contact with the second electrode surface of the second semiconductor layer. The first conditions and second conditions are different. Therefore, in some embodiments, the first and second semiconductor materials can be in different amorphous and/or crystalline states. The layers can have split amorphous/crystalline states. By controlling how the layers are split, the PCD can be in different resistive states.
US11355700B2
A method for fabricating semiconductor device includes the steps of: forming a magnetic tunneling junction (MTJ) stack on a substrate; forming a top electrode on the MTJ stack; performing a first patterning process to remove the MTJ stack for forming a first MTJ; forming a first inter-metal dielectric (IMD) layer around the first MTJ; and performing a second patterning process to remove the first MTJ for forming a second MTJ and a third MTJ.
US11355699B2
A magnetoresistive random-access memory (MRAM) is disclosed. MRAM device has a magnetic tunnel junction stack having a significantly improved performance of the free layer in the magnetic tunnel junction structure. The MRAM device utilizes a precessional spin current (PSC) magnetic layer in conjunction with a perpendicular MTJ where the in-plane magnetization direction of the PSC magnetic layer is free to rotate. The precessional spin current magnetic layer is constructed with a material having a face centered cubic crystal structure, such as permalloy.
US11355697B2
Example implementations include an electronic memory device with a metallic layer having a first planar crystalline structure, a first encapsulating layer including an encapsulating material having a second planar crystalline structure, and disposed adjacent to a first planar surface of the metallic layer, and a second encapsulating layer including the encapsulating material, and disposed adjacent to a second planar surface of the metallic layer. Example implementations also include a method of depositing graphite crystals onto a substrate to form a gate bottom layer, depositing BN crystals onto the graphite bottom layer to form a BN bottom layer, depositing tungsten ditelluride (WTe2) crystals onto the BN bottom layer to form a metallic layer, depositing the BN crystals onto the BN bottom layer and the metallic layer to form a BN top layer, and depositing the graphite crystals onto the BN top layer to form a gate top layer.
US11355692B2
A nanomechanical magnetoelectric antenna includes a thin film heterostructure that has a magnetic element and a piezoelectric element. The heterostructure is suspended on a substrate and is capable of resonating at acoustic resonance frequencies. In the transmission mode of the antenna, oscillating mechanical strain produced by voltage-induced acoustic waves is transferred to the thin film heterostructure through strain mediated magnetoelectric coupling. This gives rise to magnetization oscillation or magnetic current that radiates electromagnetic waves at the acoustic resonance frequencies. In the receiving mode, the heterostructure senses magnetic components of electromagnetic waves arriving at the antenna, converting these into a piezoelectric voltage output.
US11355686B2
A unit pixel including a transparent substrate, a plurality of light emitting devices arranged on the transparent substrate, an adhesive layer bonding the light emitting devices to the transparent substrate, a step adjusting layer covering the light emitting device and bonded to the adhesive layer, a plurality of connection layers disposed on the step adjustment layer and electrically connected to the light emitting devices, in which the step adjustment layer has a concave-convex pattern along an edge thereof.
US11355685B2
A light emitting diode including a lead frame unit and a light source unit disposed on the lead frame unit, in which the lead frame unit includes a body portion having a first surface contacting the light source unit and a second surface opposite to the first surface, at least one solder hole recessed from the second surface of the body portion, a first conductive layer disposed on the first surface of the body portion and including a circular portion having a substantially circular shape and an elongated portion provided integrally with the circular portion and elongating in one direction from the circular portion, a second conductive layer disposed on the second surface of the body portion, and a connection portion disposed between the first conductive layer and the second conductive layer and penetrating through the body portion.
US11355677B2
A light-emitting element having a light-emitting unit, a transparent layer and a wavelength conversion layer formed on the transparent layer. The transparent layer covers the light-emitting unit. The wavelength conversion layer includes a phosphor layer having a phosphor and a stress release layer without the phosphor.
US11355674B2
An embodiment discloses a semiconductor device package, comprising: a body including a cavity; a plurality of electrodes disposed inside the body; a semiconductor device disposed in the cavity of the body; and a transparent member disposed on the cavity, wherein the body comprises: a first side surface and a second side surface facing each other, and a third side surface and a fourth side surface facing each other; a first corner area formed by the first side surface and the third side surface; a second corner area formed by the first side surface and the fourth side surface; a third corner area formed by the second side surface and the fourth side surface; and a fourth corner area formed by the second side surface and the third side surface, and wherein the plurality of electrodes comprises a first electrode on which the semiconductor device is disposed, wherein the first electrode comprises: a fifth side surface and a sixth side surface facing each other; a seventh side surface connecting the fifth side surface and the sixth side surface; a fifth corner area formed by the fifth side surface and the seventh side surface; and a sixth corner area formed by the sixth side surface and the seventh side surface, wherein the fifth corner area is disposed between the second corner area and the third corner area, and the sixth corner area is disposed between the third corner area and the fourth corner area.
US11355670B2
A deep ultraviolet light emitting device includes: a light extraction surface; an n-type semiconductor layer provided on the light extraction surface; an active layer having a band gap of 3.4 eV or larger; and a p-type semiconductor layer provided on the active layer. Deep ultraviolet light emitted by the active layer is output outside from the light extraction surface. A side surface of the active layer is inclined with respect to an interface between the n-type semiconductor layer and the active layer, and an angle of inclination of the side surface is not less than 15° and not more than 50°.
US11355666B2
Disclosed herein are techniques for bonding components of LEDs. According to certain embodiments, a device includes a first component having a semiconductor layer stack including an n-side semiconductor layer, an active light emitting layer, and a p-side semiconductor layer. A plurality of mesa shapes are formed within the n-side semiconductor layer, the active light emitting layer, and the p-side semiconductor layer. The semiconductor layer stack comprises a III-V semiconductor material. The device also includes a second component having a passive or an active matrix integrated circuit within a Si layer. A first dielectric material of the first component is bonded to a second dielectric material of the second component, first contacts of the first component are aligned with and bonded to second contacts of the second component, and a run-out between the first contacts and the second contacts is less than 200 nm.
US11355665B2
Disclosed herein are techniques for forming a thin-film circuit layer on an array of light-emitting diodes (LEDs). LEDs in the array of LEDs can be singulated by various processes, such as etching and ion implantation. Singulating LEDs can be performed before or after forming the thin-film circuit layer on the array of LEDs. The array of LEDs can be bonded to a transparent or non-transparent substrate.
US11355664B2
In various embodiments, extraction efficiency of light-emitting devices fabricated on aluminum nitride substrates is enhanced via removal of at least a portion of the substrate.
US11355663B2
A method of manufacturing an electronic device according to the present invention, comprises: preparing a substrate; forming an n-type semiconductor including a III-V compound semiconductor or a II-VI compound semiconductor material on the substrate; forming a metal thin film including at least one of copper (Cu), silver (Ag), gold (Au), titanium (Ti), and nickel (Ni) on the n-type semiconductor; and forming a p-type semiconductor on the n-type semiconductor by iodinizing the metal thin film using any one of liquid iodine (I), solid iodine (I), and gas iodine (I). Therefore, it is possible to overcome the limitation of the light emission efficiency of the p-type semiconductor by providing a hybrid type electronic device and a manufacturing method.
US11355649B2
Embodiments of the invention are directed to a nanosheet field effect transistor (FET) having a nanosheet stack formed over a substrate. The nanosheet stack includes a plurality of channel nanosheets, wherein the plurality of channel nanosheets includes a first channel nanosheet having a first end region, a second end region, and a central region positioned between the first end region and the second end region. The first end region and the second end region include a first type of semiconductor material, wherein, when the first type of semiconductor material is at a first temperature, the first type of semiconductor material has a first diffusion coefficient for a dopant. The central region includes a second type of semiconductor material, wherein, when the second type of semiconductor material is at the first temperature, the second type of semiconductor material has a second diffusion coefficient for the dopant.
US11355648B2
In a semiconductor device including a transistor including a gate electrode formed over a substrate, a gate insulating film covering the gate electrode, a multilayer film overlapping with the gate electrode with the gate insulating film provided therebetween, and a pair of electrodes in contact with the multilayer film, a first oxide insulating film covering the transistor, and a second oxide insulating film formed over the first oxide insulating film, the multilayer film includes an oxide semiconductor film and an oxide film containing In or Ga, the oxide semiconductor film has an amorphous structure or a microcrystalline structure, the first oxide insulating film is an oxide insulating film through which oxygen is permeated, and the second oxide insulating film is an oxide insulating film containing more oxygen than that in the stoichiometric composition.
US11355642B2
Methods for manufacturing semiconductor structures are provided. The method includes forming a first masking layer over a substrate and forming a second masking layer over the first masking layer. The method includes forming a photoresist pattern over the second masking layer and patterning the second masking layer through the photoresist pattern. The method further includes diminishing the photoresist pattern and patterning the second masking layer and the first masking layer through the diminished photoresist pattern. The method further includes removing the diminished photoresist pattern and patterning the semiconductor substrate through the second masking layer and the first masking layer to form a fin structure. The method further includes forming a gate structure over the fin structure.
US11355639B1
A method for fabricating semiconductor device includes the steps of: providing a substrate having a first region and a second region; forming a first fin-shaped structure on the first region; removing part of the first fin-shaped structure to form a first trench; forming a dielectric layer in the first trench to form a double diffusion break (DDB) structure; and forming a first gate structure and a second gate structure on the DDB structure. Preferably, a bottom surface of the first gate structure is lower than a top surface of the first fin-shaped structure.
US11355634B2
Semiconductor devices and fabrication methods are provided. An exemplary fabrication method includes providing a semiconductor substrate; forming a first well region and a second well region in the semiconductor substrate; and forming a first gate structure on a surface of the second well region and a portion of a surface of the first well region and a second gate structure on a portion of the first well region. A first opening is formed between the first gate structure and the second gate structure. The method also include forming a sidewall spacer layer covering sidewall and bottom surfaces of the first opening in the first opening; forming a dielectric layer on the semiconductor substrate to cover the first gate structure, the second gate structure and the sidewall spacer layer; and forming a floating plug in the dielectric layer and on the sidewall spacer layer.
US11355631B2
An LDMOS transistor and a method for manufacturing the same are provided. The method includes: forming an epitaxial layer on a substrate, forming a gate structure on an upper surface of the epitaxial layer, forming a body region and a drift region in the epitaxial layer, forming a source region in the body region, forming a first insulating layer on the gate structure and an upper surface of the epitaxial layer and, forming a shield conductor layer on the first insulating layer, forming a second insulating layer covering the shield conductor layer, forming a first conductive path, to connect the source region with the substrate, and forming a drain region in the drift region. By forming the first conductive path which connects the source region with the substrate, the size of the LDMOS transistor and the resistance can be reduced.
US11355620B2
A method includes forming a fin over a substrate, forming an isolation region adjacent the fin, forming a dummy gate structure over the fin, and recessing the fin adjacent the dummy gate structure to form a first recess using a first etching process. The method also includes performing a plasma clean process on the first recess, the plasma clean process including placing the substrate on a holder disposed in a process chamber, heating the holder to a process temperature between 300° C. and 1000° C., introducing hydrogen gas into a plasma generation chamber connected to the process chamber, igniting a plasma within the plasma generation chamber to form hydrogen radicals, and exposing surfaces of the recess to the hydrogen radicals. The method also includes epitaxially growing a source/drain region in the first recess.
US11355604B2
A semiconductor device includes a first and second active pattern extending in a first direction on a substrate, a first and second gate electrode extending in a second direction to intersect the first and second active pattern, a first source/drain contact extending in the second direction and connected to a first and source/drain region of the first and second active patterns, respectively, a first source/drain via connected to the first source/drain contact, a first cell separation film extending in the second direction and crosses the first active pattern and the second active pattern, between the first source/drain contact and the second gate electrode, a first gate via connected to the second gate electrode and arranged with the first source/drain via along the first direction, and a first connection wiring which extending in the first direction and connects the first source/drain via and the first gate via.
US11355600B2
A high electron mobility transistor includes a channel layer, a barrier layer on the channel layer, source and drain contacts on the barrier layer, a gate contact between the source and drain contacts, and a multi-layer passivation structure on the upper surface of the barrier layer between the source contact and the drain contact. The multi-layer passivation structure includes a first passivation layer that comprises a charge dissipation material directly contacts the upper surface of the barrier layer and a second passivation layer comprising a different material than the first passivation layer that also directly contacts the upper surface of the barrier layer. In some embodiments, at least one recess may be formed in the upper surface of the barrier layer and the second passivation layer may be formed within the recesses.
US11355596B2
In some embodiments, the present disclosure relates to an integrated chip that includes a gate dielectric, a gate electrode, a field plate dielectric layer, and a field plate. The gate dielectric layer is arranged over a substrate and between a source region and a drain region. The gate electrode is arranged over the gate dielectric layer. The field plate dielectric layer is arranged over the substrate and between the gate dielectric layer and the drain region. The field plate is arranged over the field plate dielectric layer and is spaced apart from the gate dielectric layer.
US11355588B2
Embodiments of the invention are directed to a configuration of semiconductor devices having a substrate and a first feature formed on the substrate, wherein the first feature includes a first preserve region having compressive strain that extends throughout the first preserve region, and wherein the first feature further includes a cut region that includes a converted dielectric. The converted dielectric is a dielectric material that has been converted to the dielectric from another material.
US11355585B2
A charge control structure is provided for a bipolar junction transistor to control the charge distribution in the depletion region extending into the bulk collector region when the collector-base junction is reverse-biased. The charge control structure comprises a lateral field plate above the upper surface of the collector and dielectrically isolated from the upper surface of the collector and a vertical field plate which is at a side of the collector and is dielectrically isolated from the side of the collector. The charge in the depletion region extending into the collector is coupled to the base as well as the field-plates in the charge-control structure, instead of only being coupled to the base of the bipolar junction transistor. In this way, a bipolar junction transistor is provided where the dependence of collector current on the collector-base voltage, also known as Early effect, can be reduced.
US11355572B2
The present disclosure provides a display substrate and a manufacturing method thereof, a display panel and a manufacturing method and a driving method thereof, and a display apparatus. The display substrate includes: a base substrate; and a first electrode, a signal line, and an organic layer between the first electrode and the signal line, all of which are on the base substrate, wherein the display substrate further comprises a conductive pillar configured to penetrate the organic layer and electrically connect the first electrode to the signal line.
US11355568B2
An organic light emitting diode (“OLED”) display device includes a substrate having a display region including a light emitting region and a peripheral region, and a pad region located in one side of the display region, a plurality of light emitting structures on the substrate in the light emitting region, and a plurality of fan-out wirings including a low fan-out wiring in the peripheral region on the substrate, a middle fan-out wiring on the low fan-out wiring, the middle fan-out wiring overlapping at least a portion of the low fan-out wiring, and an upper fan-out wiring on the middle fan-out wiring, the upper fan-out wiring overlapping at least a portion of the low fan-out wiring.
US11355565B2
The present disclosure relates to a display panel. More specifically, the display panel is configured to surround an opening area, includes a reflective electrode including an inclined surface, and therefore provides increased luminous efficiency.
US11355560B2
The present application provides a touch display panel, because a plurality of touch units is disposed between a first pixel defining layer and a second pixel defining layer, and/or, the plurality of touch units is disposed between the second pixel defining layer and an encapsulation layer, thereby making a thickness of the touch display panel be thinner.
US11355551B2
A magnetic tunnel junction memory device includes a vertical stack of magnetic tunnel junction NOR strings located over a substrate. Each magnetic tunnel junction NOR string includes a respective semiconductor material layer that contains a semiconductor source region, a plurality of semiconductor channels, and a plurality of semiconductor drain regions, a plurality of magnetic tunnel junction memory cells having a respective first electrode that is located on a respective one of the plurality of semiconductor drain regions, and a metallic bit line contacting each second electrode of the plurality of magnetic tunnel junction memory cells. The vertical stack of magnetic tunnel junction NOR strings may be repeated along a channel direction to provide a three-dimensional magnetic tunnel junction memory device.
US11355540B2
An optical device includes a first conductive layer, a first junction layer, a light absorption layer, a second junction layer, and a second conductive layer. The first junction layer is disposed on the first conductive layer. The light absorption layer is disposed on the first junction layer, wherein the light absorption layer includes a plurality of unit cells, each of the unit cells includes a plurality of pillar structures, and the pillar structures of each of the unit cells are different sizes. The second junction layer is disposed on the light absorption layer. The second conductive layer is disposed on the second junction layer.
US11355534B2
A detection element, a manufacturing method thereof and a flat panel detector are disclosed. The detection element includes: a base substrate; a photodiode on the base substrate, the photodiode includes: a first electrode on the base substrate; a photoelectric conversion layer on a side of the first electrode away from the base substrate; a transparent electrode and a second electrode electrically connected with the transparent electrode on a side of the photoelectric conversion layer away from the first electrode. Besides, an orthographic projection of the photoelectric conversion layer on the base substrate completely falls within an orthographic projection of the first electrode on the base substrate; the photoelectric conversion layer includes a sidewall, an orthographic projection of the sidewall of the photoelectric conversion layer on the base substrate is at least partially overlapped with an orthographic projection of the second electrode on the base substrate.
US11355527B2
A display panel and a preparation method thereof, and a display device are disclosed. The display panel includes a display region and a bending region located outside the display region. The display panel includes a source-and-drain electrode metal layer. The display panel includes an organic photoresist layer in the bending region. A bending-region interlayer dielectric layer is disposed at one side of the organic photoresist layer near the source-and-drain electrode metal layer. Source-and-drain electrode traces can be prevented from breaking.
US11355520B2
The purpose of the present invention is to improve reliability of the TFT of the oxide semiconductor. The feature of the invention is: A display device comprising: a substrate including a display area where plural pixels are formed, the pixel includes a first TFT of a first oxide semiconductor, a first gate insulating film is formed under the first oxide semiconductor, a first gate electrode is formed under the first gate insulating film, an interlayer insulating film is formed on the first oxide semiconductor; a drain wiring, which connects with the first oxide semiconductor, and a source wiring, which connects with the first oxide semiconductor, are formed on the interlayer insulating film; the drain wiring or the source wiring is a laminated structure of a second oxide semiconductor and a first metal, the second oxide semiconductor is under the first metal.
US11355495B2
A semiconductor device includes first to sixth transistors of enhancement type. The first and fourth transistors are of p-channel type. The second, third, fifth and sixth transistors are of n-channel type. A breakdown voltage of the third transistor is lower than a breakdown voltage of the second transistor. A breakdown voltage of the sixth transistor is lower than a breakdown voltage of the fifth transistor. The first to third transistors are connected in series between a first power supply potential and a second power supply potential lower than the first power supply potential. The fourth to sixth transistors are connected in series between the first power supply potential and the second power supply potential.
US11355491B2
Systems and methods for protecting a device from an electrostatic discharge (ESD) event are provided. A resistor-capacitor (RC) trigger circuit and a driver circuit are provided. The RC trigger circuit is configured to provide an ESD protection signal to the driver circuit. A discharge circuit includes a first metal oxide semiconductor (MOS) transistor and a second MOS transistor connected in series between a first voltage potential and a second voltage potential. The driver circuit provides one or more signals for turning the first and second MOS transistors on and off.
US11355490B2
A semiconductor structure corresponds to a first diode and a second diode connected in series. A first well region is on a first deep well region. Two second well regions are at two sides of the first well region respectively. A first doping region and a second doping region are on the first well region. A first isolation region is between the first doping region and the second doping region. A third well region is on a second deep well region. Two fourth well regions are at two sides of the third well region respectively. A third doping region and a fourth doping region are on the third well region. A second isolation region is between the third doping region and the fourth doping region. The second doping region and third doping region are connected. The second deep well region is separated from the first deep well region.
US11355487B2
An integrated circuit includes a semiconductor substrate, transistors on the semiconductor, horizontal routing tracks extending in a first direction in a first metal layer, and one or more backside routing tracks extending in the first direction in a backside metal layer. Each transistor has a gate terminal, a source terminal, and a drain terminal. A first transistor has a first terminal, a second terminal, and a third terminal. A first horizontal routing track of the horizontal routing tracks is conductively connected to the first terminal of the first transistor through a via connector. A first backside routing track is conductively connected to the second terminal of the first transistor through a backside via connector. The backside metal layer and the first metal layer are formed at opposite sides of the semiconductor substrate.
US11355476B2
A multi-chip package structure includes outer leads, a first chip and a second chip. The outer leads are disposed on a side of a chip bonding area of a package carrier thereof. The first chip is fixed on the chip bonding area and includes a core and a seal ring. Input/output units, and first bonding pads are disposed, in an outward order, on at a side of the core. Each first bonding pad is electrically connected to a corresponding outer lead through a first wire. Dummy pads are disposed between the input/output units and adjacent first bonding pads on the side of the core. The second chip is stacked on the core and includes second bonding pads connected to the corresponding outer leads through second wires and dummy pads, so as to prevent from short circuit caused by soldering overlap and contact between the wires.
US11355471B2
Tools and systems for processing semiconductor devices, and methods of processing semiconductor devices are disclosed. In some embodiments, a method of using a tool for processing semiconductor devices includes a tool with a second material disposed over a first material, and a plurality of apertures disposed within the first material and the second material. The second material comprises a higher reflectivity than the first material. Each of the apertures is adapted to retain a package component over a support during an exposure to energy.
US11355470B2
In one example, a semiconductor device comprises an electronic component comprising a component face side, a component base side, a component lateral side connecting the component face side to the component base side, and a component port adjacent to the component face side, wherein the component port comprises a component port face. A clip structure comprises a first clip pad, a second clip pad, a first clip leg connecting the first clip pad to the second clip pad, and a first clip face. An encapsulant covers portions of the electronic component and the clip structure. The encapsulant comprises an encapsulant face, the first clip pad is coupled to the electronic component, and the component port face and the first clip face are exposed from the encapsulant face. Other examples and related methods are also disclosed herein.
US11355462B2
A semiconductor device includes a wiring board, a semiconductor chip, and a connecting member provided between a surface of the wiring board and a functional surface of the semiconductor chip. The connecting member extends a distance between the wiring board surface and the functional surface. A sealing material seals a gap space between the wiring board and the semiconductor chip. An electrode is formed at the wiring board surface and arranged outside of an outer periphery of the sealing material. A lateral distance between an outer periphery of the semiconductor chip and the outer periphery of the sealing material is between 0.1 mm and a lateral distance from the outer periphery of the semiconductor chip to the electrode.
US11355461B2
An integrated fan-out package includes a die, an encapsulant, a seed layer, a conductive pillar, a redistribution structure, and a buffer layer. The encapsulant encapsulates the die. The seed layer and the conductive pillar are sequentially stacked over the die and the encapsulant. The redistribution structure is over the die and the encapsulant. The redistribution structure includes a conductive pattern and a dielectric layer. The conductive pattern is directly in contact with the seed layer and the dielectric layer covers the conductive pattern and surrounds the seed layer and the conductive pillar. The buffer layer is disposed over the redistribution structure. The seed layer is separate from the dielectric layer by the buffer layer, and a Young's modulus of the buffer layer is higher than a Young's modulus of the dielectric layer of the redistribution structure.
US11355460B1
A molded semiconductor package includes: a semiconductor die attached to a substrate, the semiconductor die having a bond pad at a first side of the semiconductor die which faces away from the substrate and an insulating layer covering the first side; an electrical conductor attached to a part of the bond pad exposed by an opening in the insulating layer; a mold compound encasing the semiconductor die; and an electrically insulative material filling the opening in the insulating layer and sealing the part of the bond pad exposed by the opening in the insulating layer. The electrically insulative material separates the mold compound from the part of the bond pad exposed by the opening in the insulating layer. A breakdown voltage of the electrically insulative material is greater than a breakdown voltage of the mold compound.
US11355456B2
Electronic chip comprising: an electronic circuit; a resistive element arranged on a rear face of a substrate; two conductive vias passing through the substrate, each connected to the electronic circuit and to one of the ends of the resistive element, and masked by the resistive element; and comprising a weakening structure formed of blind holes such that each of the blind holes comprises a section, at the rear face, of shape and of external dimensions similar to those of the conductive vias, and comprises a portion of the substrate masked by the resistive element, or in which the resistive element comprises first and second parts spaced apart from each other, arranged one above the other, electrically connected to each other and together forming a coil pattern and/or several alternating, intermingled, wound up or intertwined patterns.
US11355450B2
A semiconductor package includes a carrier substrate having a top surface; a semiconductor die mounted on the top surface; a plurality of first bonding wires connecting the semiconductor die to the carrier substrate; an insulating material encapsulating the plurality of first bonding wires; a component having a metal layer mounted on the insulating material; a plurality of second bonding wires connecting the metal layer of the component to the carrier substrate; and a molding compound covering the top surface of the carrier substrate and encapsulating the semiconductor die, the component, the plurality of first bonding wires, the plurality of second bonding wires, and the insulating material. The metal layer and the plurality of second bonding wires constitute an electromagnetic interference (EMI) shielding structure.
US11355449B2
An electronic device structure having a shielding structure includes a substrate with an electronic component electrically connected to the substrate. The shielding structure includes conductive spaced-apart pillar structures that have proximate ends connected to the substrate and distal ends spaced apart from the substrate, and that are laterally spaced apart from the first electronic component. In one embodiment, the conductive pillar structures are conductive wires attached at one end to the substrate with an opposing end extending away from the substrate so that the conductive wires are provided generally perpendicular to the substrate. A package body encapsulates the electronic component and the conductive spaced-apart pillar structures. In one embodiment, the shielding structure further includes a shielding layer disposed adjacent the package body, which is electrically connected to the conductive spaced-apart pillar structures. In one embodiment, the electrical connection is made through the package. In another embodiment, the electrical connection is made through the substrate.
US11355443B2
Dielets on flexible and stretchable packaging for microelectronics are provided. Configurations of flexible, stretchable, and twistable microelectronic packages are achieved by rendering chip layouts, including processors and memories, in distributed collections of dielets implemented on flexible and/or stretchable media. High-density communication between the dielets is achieved with various direct-bonding or hybrid bonding techniques that achieve high conductor count and very fine pitch on flexible substrates. An example process uses high-density interconnects direct-bonded or hybrid bonded between standard interfaces of dielets to create a flexible microelectronics package. In another example, a process uses high-density interconnections direct-bonded between native interconnects of the dielets to create the flexible microelectronics packages, without the standard interfaces.
US11355436B2
In a method for manufacturing a semiconductor device, a first dielectric layer is formed over a substrate, first recesses are formed in the first dielectric layer. Metal wirings extending is a first direction are formed in the first recesses. A mask layer is formed over the metal wirings and the first dielectric layer, which includes a first opening extending in the first direction and is located above a space between adjacent two metal wirings. A first groove corresponding to the first opening is formed between the adjacent two metal wirings by etching the first dielectric layer using the mask layer as an etching mask. A second dielectric layer is formed so that a first air gap is formed in the first groove. A width of the first opening in a perpendicular direction to the first direction is smaller than a space between the adjacent two metal wirings.
US11355430B2
Some embodiments relate to a semiconductor structure including an inter-level dielectric (ILD) layer overlying a substrate. A conductive via is disposed within the ILD layer. A plurality of conductive wires overlie the ILD layer. The plurality of conductive wires includes a first conductive wire laterally offset a second conductive wire. A dielectric structure is disposed laterally between the first and second conductive wires. The dielectric structure includes a first dielectric liner, a dielectric layer, and an air-gap. The air-gap is disposed between an upper surface of the first dielectric liner and a lower surface of the dielectric layer. A dielectric capping layer is disposed along an upper surface of the dielectric structure. The dielectric capping layer continuously extends between opposing sidewalls of the dielectric structure and is laterally offset from the plurality of conductive wires.
US11355428B2
A semiconductor package includes an interconnect structure including a redistribution structure, an insulating layer over the redistribution structure, and conductive pillars on the insulating layer, wherein the conductive pillars are connected to the redistribution structure, wherein the interconnect structure is free of active devices, a routing substrate including a routing layer over a core substrate, wherein the interconnect structure is bonded to the routing substrate by solder joints, wherein each of the solder joints bonds a conductive pillar of the conductive pillars to the routing layer, an underfill surrounding the conductive pillars and the solder joints, and a semiconductor device including a semiconductor die connected to a routing structure, wherein the routing structure is bonded to an opposite side of the interconnect structure as the routing substrate.
US11355427B2
Techniques and mechanisms to facilitate connectivity between circuit components via a substrate. In an embodiment, a microelectronic device includes a substrate, wherein a recess region extends from the first side of the substrate and only partially toward a second side of the substrate. First input/output (IO) contacts of a first hardware interface are disposed in the recess region. The first IO contacts are variously coupled to each to a respective metallization layer of the substrate, wherein the recess region extends though one or more other metallization layers of the substrate. In another embodiment, the microelectronic device further comprises second IO contacts of a second hardware interface, the second IO contacts to couple the microelectronic device to a printed circuit board.
US11355425B2
The present disclosure relates to a chip on film and a display device. The chip on film includes a body and an insulating protective film arranged on the body, in which the body includes a first area, a first binding area for binding and connecting to the back surface of the display panel, and a first bendable area located between the first area and the first binding area and capable of being bent in a first direction; and the insulating protection film includes a first connection area connected to the first area, a second connection area for connecting to the back surface of the display panel, and a second bendable area located between the first connection area and the second connection area and capable of being bent in a second direction opposite to the first direction.
US11355422B2
The present disclosure relates to a radio frequency device that includes a transfer device die and a multilayer redistribution structure underneath the transfer device die. The transfer device die includes a device region with a back-end-of-line (BEOL) portion and a front-end-of-line (FEOL) portion over the BEOL portion and a transfer substrate. The FEOL portion includes isolation sections and an active layer surrounded by the isolation sections. A top surface of the device region is planarized. The transfer substrate resides over the top surface of the device region. Herein, silicon crystal does not exist within the transfer substrate or between the transfer substrate and the active layer. The multilayer redistribution structure includes a number of bump structures, which are at a bottom of the multilayer redistribution structure and electrically coupled to the FEOL portion of the transfer device die.
US11355420B2
Provided is a cooling apparatus for a semiconductor module including a semiconductor chip, the apparatus including a ceiling plate having a bottom surface; and a case portion having two sets of opposing edges in an overhead view, and including a flow portion arranged on the plate's bottom surface side and allowing coolant to flow therethrough, an outer edge portion surrounding the flow portion, and a side wall provided on the outer edge portion's inner side, the side wall including a first constricted portion changing the flow portion's width in a first direction parallel to one of the edge sets, along a second direction orthogonal to the first direction, a fastening portion for fastening the plate and the case portion to an external apparatus provided where the plate and the outer edge portion are overlapped and arranged, and the fastening portion arranged opposite the first constricted portion in the first direction.
US11355400B2
A fin structure of a FinFET device is formed over a substrate. A first layer is formed over the fin structure. A gate layer is formed over the fin structure and over the first layer. The gate layer is patterned into a gate stack that wraps around the fin structure. A second layer is formed over the first layer and over the gate stack. A first etching process is performed to remove portions of the second layer formed over the fin structure, the first layer serves as an etching-stop layer during the first etching process. A second etching process is performed to remove portions of the first layer to expose a portion of the fin structure. A removal of the portions of the first layer does not substantially affect the second layer. A source/drain region is epitaxially grown on the exposed portion of the fin structure.
US11355394B2
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 including a layer covering and protecting the integrated circuits. The mask is patterned with a laser scribing process to provide a patterned mask with gaps, exposing regions of the semiconductor wafer between the integrated circuits. Subsequent to patterning the mask, a breakthrough treatment is performed, the breakthrough treatment comprising a first physical bombardment operation, a second iterative isotropic and directional plasma etch operation, and a third directional breakthrough operation. Subsequent to performing the breakthrough treatment, the semiconductor wafer is plasma etched through the gaps in the patterned mask to singulate the integrated circuits.
US11355387B2
A method includes forming a dummy gate stack over a substrate; forming a gate spacer on a sidewall of the dummy gate stack; after forming the gate spacer, forming a source/drain region in the substrate and adjacent to the gate spacer; forming a first interlayer dielectric layer over the source/drain region and adjacent to the gate spacer; replacing the dummy gate stack with a metal gate stack; forming a protective layer over the metal gate stack and the gate spacer; after forming the protective layer, removing the first interlayer dielectric layer to expose a sidewall of the gate spacer and a sidewall of the protective layer; and forming a bottom conductive feature over the source/drain region.
US11355381B2
A 3D semiconductor device, the device including: a first level including a first single crystal layer, the first level including first transistors, where the first transistors each include a single crystal channel; first metal layers interconnecting at least the first transistors; and a second level including a second single crystal layer, the second level including second transistors, where the second level overlays the first level, where the second level is bonded to the first level, where the bonded includes oxide to oxide bonds, where the second level includes an array of memory cells, and where each of the memory cells includes at least one recessed-channel-array-transistor (RCAT).
US11355376B2
Disclosed herein are systems and methods for treating the surface of a microelectronic substrate, and in particular, relate to an apparatus and method for scanning the microelectronic substrate through a cryogenic fluid mixture used to treat an exposed surface of the microelectronic substrate. The fluid mixture may be expanded through a nozzle to form an aerosol spray or gas cluster jet (GCJ) spray and may impinge the microelectronic substrate and remove particles from the microelectronic substrate's surface. In one embodiment, a two-stage gas nozzle may be used to expand a fluid mixture with a liquid phase concentration of greater than 10% by weight.
US11355373B2
Provided is an assembly jig set of semiconductor module having a plurality of semiconductor chips, the assembly jig set comprising: a first outer frame jig; and a plurality of inner piece jigs positioned by the first outer frame jig and each having a sectioned shape corresponding to the first outer frame jig, wherein one of the inner piece jigs has a plurality of opening portions for positioning the semiconductor chips. A manufacturing method of a semiconductor module using an assembly jig set is provided.
US11355372B2
Described herein is a technique capable of optimizing a timing of a maintenance process. According to one aspect of the technique of the present disclosure, there is provided a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device including: (a) transferring a substrate from a storage container storing one or more substrates including the substrate to a process chamber, and performing a substrate processing; (b) receiving maintenance reservation information of the process chamber; and (c) continuously performing the substrate processing after the maintenance reservation information is received in (b) until the substrate processing in the process chamber related to the maintenance reservation information is completed, and setting the process chamber to a maintenance enable state after the substrate processing is completed by stopping the one or more substrates from being transferred into the process chamber.
US11355370B2
A method of monitoring a fluid includes: applying the fluid from within a nozzle to a surface of a wafer outside of the nozzle; emitting light, by a light source, from the nozzle to the surface; receiving light reflected from the surface by a light sensor and causing the reflected light to propagate into the nozzle; and determining whether a variation of the fluid occurs according to the reflected light.
US11355361B1
The present disclosure provides a method for measuring an underfill profile of an underfill material in an underfill cavity having a plurality of solder bumps. The method includes the operations of: determining a mesh having a plurality of elements according to the underfill cavity; calculating a reference force according to the underfill cavity; obtaining a driving force and a flow speed of the underfill material according to a plurality of weighting factors and the reference force, wherein the plurality of weighting factors respectively correspond to the plurality of elements; obtaining a plurality of volume fractions respectively corresponding to the plurality of elements according to the flow speed; and obtaining the underfill profile according to the plurality of volume fractions.
US11355358B2
Embodiments of methods for processing a semiconductor substrate are described herein. In some embodiments, a method of processing a semiconductor substrate includes removing material from a backside of a reconstituted substrate having a plurality of dies to expose at least one die of the plurality of dies; etching the backside of the reconstituted substrate to remove material from the exposed at least one die; and depositing a first layer of material on the backside of the reconstituted substrate and the exposed at least one die.
US11355357B2
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor element, an electronic component electrically connected to the semiconductor element, a connection member electrically connecting the electronic component to the semiconductor element, and a sealing resin portion having a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface and integrally holding the semiconductor element, the electronic component, and the connection member in a state where a semiconductor top surface as a surface of the semiconductor element and a component surface as a surface of the electronic component are exposed from the sealing resin portion on a side adjacent to the first surface.
US11355345B2
Provided herein are methods and apparatuses for reducing line bending when depositing a metal such as tungsten, molybdenum, ruthenium, or cobalt into features on substrates by periodically exposing the feature to nitrogen, oxygen, or ammonia during atomic layer deposition, chemical vapor deposition, or sequential chemical vapor deposition to reduce interactions between metal deposited onto sidewalls of a feature. Methods are suitable for deposition into V-shaped features.
US11355343B2
A laser irradiation apparatus (1) according to one embodiment includes a laser generating device (14) that generates a laser beam, a flotation unit (10) that causes a workpiece (16) that is to be irradiated with the laser beam to float, and a conveying unit (11) that conveys the floating workpiece (16). The conveying unit (11) conveys the workpiece (16) with the conveying unit (11) holding the workpiece (16) at a position where the conveying unit (11) does not overlap an irradiation position (15) of the laser beam. The laser irradiation apparatus (1) according to one embodiment makes it possible to suppress uneven irradiation with a laser beam.
US11355342B2
A semiconductor structure includes a base layer with a top surface and a plurality of processed areas. A primary pattern is disposed on the top surface of the base layer, wherein the primary pattern has a pattern top surface, a processed area on the pattern top surface, and a sidewall, and the primary pattern has a first critical dimension, and the processed areas are on the part of the top surface of the base layer exposed by the primary pattern. A secondary pattern is disposed on the sidewall of the primary pattern, wherein the secondary pattern has a second critical dimension, and the second critical dimension is smaller than the first critical dimension.
US11355328B2
The invention generally relates to systems and methods for isolating a target ion in an ion trap. In certain aspects, the invention provides a system that includes a mass spectrometer having an ion trap, and a central processing unit (CPU). The CPU includes storage coupled to the CPU for storing instructions that when executed by the CPU cause the system to apply a dual frequency waveform to the ion trap that ejects non-target ions from the ion trap while retaining a target ion in the ion trap.
US11355314B2
Provided is an ion beam processing apparatus including an ion generation chamber, a processing chamber, and electrodes to form an ion beam by extracting ions generated in the ion generation chamber to the processing chamber. The electrodes includes a first electrode disposed close to the ion generation chamber and provided with an ion passage hole to allow passage of the ions, and a second electrode disposed adjacent to the first electrode and closer to the processing chamber than the first electrode is, and provided with an ion passage hole to allow passage of the ions. The apparatus also includes a power unit which applies different electric potentials to the first electrode and the second electrode, respectively, so as to accelerate the ions generated by an ion generator in the ion generation chamber. A material of the first electrode is different from a material of the second electrode.
US11355310B2
A method is carried out with the aid of a particle beam microscope which includes a particle beam column for producing a beam of charged particles, the particle beam column having an optical axis. Furthermore, the particle beam microscope includes a holding device for holding the extracted micro-sample. The method includes holding the extracted micro-sample and an adjacent hinge element via the holding device. The micro-sample adopts a first spatial orientation relative to the optical axis. The method also includes producing a bending edge in the hinge element by way of irradiation with a beam of charged particles such that the adjacent micro-sample is moved in space and the spatial orientation of the micro-sample is altered. The method further includes holding the micro-sample in a second spatial orientation relative to the optical axis, wherein the second spatial orientation differs from the first spatial orientation.
US11355304B2
In the present invention, an electro-optical condition generation unit includes: a condition setting unit that sets, as a plurality of electro-optical conditions, a plurality of electro-optical conditions in which the combinations of the aperture angle and the focal-point height for an electron beam are different; an index calculating unit that determines a measurement-performance index in the electro-optical conditions set by the condition setting unit; and a condition deriving unit that derives an electro-optical condition, including an aperture angle and a focal-point height, so that the measurement-performance index determined by the index calculating unit becomes a prescribed value.
US11355303B2
Embodiments of systems, devices, and methods relate to an electrode standoff isolator. An example electrode standoff isolator includes a plurality of adjacent insulative segments positioned between a proximal end and a distal end of the electrode standoff isolator. A geometry of the adjacent insulative is configured to guard a surface area of the electrode standoff isolator against deposition of a conductive layer of gaseous phase materials from a filament of an ion source.
US11355298B2
A method of assembly of an open-cavity, wire-in-air fuse which provides improved manufacturing yield and fuse reliability, involving coiling, braiding or twisting a fusible element around a sacrificial member during the manufacturing process to provide support for the fusible element to prevent mechanical breakages and necking problems commonly encountered during manufacture.
US11355296B2
A retrofit switch apparatus is designed for attaching to a mechanical switch. The mechanical switch has a manual switch for performing an operation of a connected target device. The retrofit switch apparatus includes an assembly box, a wireless module, a switch unit, and a control unit. The assembly box covers the mechanical switch. The wireless module is used for receiving an external command. The switch unit has a driving structure. The driving structure is disposed in the assembly box for engaging with the mechanical switch for moving the mechanical switch to perform the operation according to the external command. The control unit has an operating unit and a trigger unit connected to the operating unit. A portion of the operating unit is exposed outside a surface of the assembly box for a user to operate to directly trigger the mechanical switch.
US11355276B2
An electronic device including a core, at least a wire and a magnetic material is provided. The core includes a pillar, a top board and a bottom board. The pillar is disposed between the top board and the bottom board. A winding space is formed among the top board, the bottom board and the pillar. The wire is wound around the pillar and located in the winding space. The magnetic material fills the winding space to encapsulate the wire. The magnetic material includes a resin and a magnetic powder, wherein an average particle diameter of the magnetic powder is smaller than 20 μm.
US11355267B2
A wire harness producing device configured to produce a wire harness by displaying a wire laying-out drawing in a full size in a length direction on a plurality of display devices, and laying-out electric wires along the wire laying-out drawing. The device includes a displaying control section configured to look up operation recipe information configured as a database capable of identifying wire laying-out order numbers of the electric wires, and in turn display wire laying-out position indicators configured to indicate positions of the electric wires to be laid out, on the plurality of display devices, according to a wire laying-out order of the electric wires. The operation recipe information includes coordinate information for indicating displaying positions for the wire laying-out position indicators. The displaying control section is configured to display the wire laying-out position indicators, in the displaying positions indicated by the coordinate information on the plurality of display devices.
US11355262B2
The present invention relates to an improved insulated conductor with a low dielectric constant and reduced materials costs. The conductor (12) extends along a longitudinal axis and an insulation (14, 14<1>) surrounds the conductor (12). At least on channel (16, 16<1>) in the insulation (14, 14<1>) extends generally along the longitudinal axis to form an insulated conductor. Apparatuses and methods of manufacturing the improved insulated conductors are also disclosed.
US11355259B2
The present disclosure provides advantageous graphene/graphite stabilized composites (e.g., graphene/graphite stabilized emulsion-templated foam composites), and improved methods for fabricating such graphene/graphite stabilized composites. More particularly, the present disclosure provides improved methods for fabricating pristine, graphene/graphite/polymer composite foams derived from emulsions stabilized by graphene/graphite kinetic trapping. In exemplary embodiments, the present disclosure provides that, instead of viewing the insolubility of pristine graphene/graphite as an obstacle to be overcome, it is utilized as a means to create or fabricate water/oil emulsions, with graphene/graphite stabilizing the spheres formed. These emulsions are then the frameworks used to make foam composites that have shown bulk conductivities up to about 2 S/m, as well as compressive moduli up to about 100 MPa and breaking strengths of over 1200 psi, with densities as low as about 0.25 g/cm3.
US11355254B2
A leakage testing device for testing leakage of a nuclear fuel assembly (18) by sipping. The device includes a collection assembly (32) that is configured to close an upper end (24A) of a cell (24) of a storage rack (22) for storing nuclear fuel assemblies discharged from a nuclear reactor (4). The closing prevents water contained in the cell from escaping via the upper end of the cell. The collection assembly is configured to collect products containing possible fission products released by a nuclear fuel assembly contained in the cell.
US11355243B2
Method and System for providing a medical drug recommendation. Time and location data is read from received client data. Weather data is retrieved based on the time and location data and the weather data is stored in a user data set. A medical drug recommendation is computed from a user data set that comprises migraine event data by using a statistical model. Furthermore, a server is prepared to provide medical drug recommendations, wherein a statistical model for delivering a medical drug recommendation is adjusted by providing user data as input data to a statistical model, the user data sets comprising migraine events.
US11355236B2
A patient support apparatus includes a frame, patient support surface, memory having a first key stored therein, a transceiver, and a controller. The transceiver wirelessly communicates with a medical device over a first mesh network using the first key. The controller transmits a request message over the first mesh network to the medical device via the transceiver. The request message includes an identifier identifying the patient support apparatus and a request to join a second mesh network different from the first mesh network. The controller receives a second key input over the first mesh network, uses the second key input to generate a second key, and to use the second key to communicate over the second mesh network. In some instances, the second key input originates from a cloud-based server storing a list of authorized devices for a particular healthcare facility.
US11355234B2
A method of pairing a therapeutic product delivery device to a handset is described. The handset is restricted to controlling only delivery devices which it is paired with. The method comprises the steps of: at the delivery device, setting, in response to the delivery device being connected to a charging device, a pairing indicator indicating that the delivery device is available for pairing, and broadcasting the pairing indicator using a radio transceiver; at the handset, discovering the delivery device based on the broadcast pairing indicator; and pairing the discovered delivery device and the handset together. By limiting the handset to pairing with devices which are broadcasting a pairing indicator, and by limiting the setting and/or broadcast of the pairing indicator to when the delivery device is connected to a charging device, the risk of accidentally pairing the wrong delivery device (for example someone else's) to the handset is greatly reduced.
US11355229B1
A system and method for generating an ocular dysfunction nourishment program comprises a computing device configured to receive at least an ocular attribute datum as a function of a user visual system, generate at least an ocular profile as a function of the at least an ocular attribute datum, wherein generating comprises receiving an ocular utopia as a function of an ocular guideline, and generating the at least an ocular profile as a function of the at least an ocular attribute datum and the ocular utopia using an ocular machine-learning model, identify at least an edible as a function of the at least an ocular profile, and develop a nourishment program of a plurality of nourishment programs as a function of the edible and a profile outcome using a nourishment machine-learning model.
US11355223B1
A baggage system includes a plurality of RFID tags affixed to baggage items, a data collection engine, client devices and backend devices. The backend devices include trained machine learning models, business logic, and attributes of a plurality of events. A plurality of data collection engines and baggage terminal systems send attributes of new events to the backend devices. The backend devices can track the baggage items and predict particular outcomes of new events based upon the attributes of the new events utilizing the trained machine learning models.
US11355214B2
Methods, systems, and devices for debugging memory devices are described. A memory system may be an example of a multichip package (MCP) that includes at least one volatile memory device and at least one non-volatile memory device. In some examples, errors may occur at the volatile memory device, and data associated with the errors may be stored to the non-volatile memory device. To store the data, access operations being performed on the non-volatile memory may be interrupted (e.g., paused) and the data may be stored to the non-volatile memory before the access operations are resumed. The stored data may be accessed (e.g., by a host device) for use during an error correction operation.
US11355210B2
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 store target data to be programmed in a memory device in a first memory, selectively store the target data in a second memory, program the target data stored in the first memory into the memory device, and reprogram the target data stored in the first memory or the second memory into the memory device when the programming of the target data stored in the first memory into the memory device fails. The buffer circuit may input the target data input from the memory controller into the second memory or discard the target data.
US11355209B2
Methods, systems, and devices for accessing a multi-level memory cell are described. The memory device may perform a read operation that includes pre-read portion and a read portion to access the multi-level memory cell. During the pre-read portion, the memory device may apply a plurality of voltages to a plurality of memory cells to identify a likely distribution of memory cells storing a first logic state. During the read portion, the memory device may apply a first read voltage to a memory cell based on performing the pre-read portion. The memory device may apply a second read voltage to the memory cell during the read portion that is based on the first read voltage. The memory device may determine the logic state stored by the memory cell based on applying the first read voltage and the second read voltage.
US11355202B2
According to one embodiment, a semiconductor memory includes a first memory cell array including a plurality of first memory cells; and a second memory cell array including a plurality of second memory cells. Each of threshold voltages of the first memory cells and the second memory cells is set to any of a first threshold voltage, a second threshold voltage higher than the first threshold voltage, and a third threshold voltage higher than the second threshold voltage. Data of three or more bits including a first bit, a second bit, and a third bit is stored using a combination of a threshold voltage of the first memory cell and a threshold voltage of the second memory cell.
US11355201B2
A method for performing a read operation of a memory block of a read-only memory array, wherein the method comprises first enabling bit line precharge circuitry of the memory block, (thereby precharging one or more bit lines of the memory block to a first voltage level), enabling a word line of one or more addressed memory cells of the memory block, enabling a leakage current reduction circuit of the memory block, thereby generating across the addressed memory cells a first voltage differential equal to the first voltage level; subsequently discharging the addressed memory cells; disabling the word line of the one or more addressed memory cells; disabling the bit line precharge circuitry; and disabling the leakage current reduction circuit, thereby generating across the one or more addressed memory cells a second voltage differential that is equal to less than the first voltage differential.
US11355197B2
A memory system includes a non-volatile memory having a plurality of memory cells, and a controller configured to carry out write operations in a first mode in which n-bit data is written per target memory cell of the non-volatile memory until an allowable data amount of data items has been written, and then, in a second mode in which m-bit data is written per target memory cell of the non-volatile memory, where n is an integer of one or more and m is an integer greater than n. The controller is further configured to detect that an idle state, in which a command has not been received from the host, has continued for a threshold period of time or more, increase the allowable data amount in response thereto, and after the increase, carry out a write operation to write data items in the non-volatile memory in the first mode.
US11355195B2
A program method of a nonvolatile memory device that performs a plurality of program loops is provided. At least one of the plurality of program loops includes dividing a channel of a selected cell string into a first side channel and a second side channel during a first interval and a second interval, turning off a string selection transistor of the selected cell string by applying a string select line voltage of a first level during the first interval, and boosting a first voltage of the first side channel and a second voltage of the second side channel, and turning on the string selection transistor by applying the string select line voltage of a second level different from the first level during the second interval, and performing a hot carrier injection (HCI) program operation on a selected memory cell corresponding to the first side channel or the second side channel.
US11355168B2
A stacked semiconductor device includes a base die including an input buffer and a parallel circuit; and a plurality of core dies stacked over the base die, the core dies coupled to the base die through a plurality of through-electrodes, wherein the input buffer receives write data in a first order and a write inversion signal, the parallel circuit sorts consecutive bits of the write data to be positioned adjacent to each other so that the write data becomes first parallel data and to transfer the first parallel data to respective first to n-th internal input/output lines, and each of the core dies includes an input control circuit to re-sort the first parallel data transferred via the respective first to n-th internal I/O lines into the write data and a write inversion circuit to selectively invert the re-sorted write data according to the write inversion signal.
US11355167B2
In some embodiments, an in-memory-computing SRAM macro based on capacitive-coupling computing (C3) (which is referred to herein as “C3SRAM”) is provided. In some embodiments, a C3SRAM macro can support array-level fully parallel computation, multi-bit outputs, and configurable multi-bit inputs. The macro can include circuits embedded in bitcells and peripherals to perform hardware acceleration for neural networks with binarized weights and activations in some embodiments. In some embodiments, the macro utilizes analog-mixed-signal capacitive-coupling computing to evaluate the main computations of binary neural networks, binary-multiply-and-accumulate operations. Without needing to access the stored weights by individual row, the macro can assert all of its rows simultaneously and form an analog voltage at the read bitline node through capacitive voltage division, in some embodiments. With one analog-to-digital converter (ADC) per column, the macro cab realize fully parallel vector-matrix multiplication in a single cycle in accordance with some embodiments.
US11355154B2
An intelligent video editing method including: receiving and decoding an image data stream from a source storage device to generate an image sequence; performing image extraction operations on the image sequence at intervals of a predetermined time to obtain a plurality of image shots; selecting a frame out of each aforementioned image shot as a candidate frame, and performing a comparison operation on any two consecutive aforementioned candidate frames to derive a group of aforementioned candidate frames belonging to a same scene, and selecting one aforementioned candidate frame from the group as a target frame; and performing an AI evaluation operation on each aforementioned target frame to classify and/or rate each aforementioned target frame.
US11355150B2
A radiation image reading device includes: a light scanning unit; a light detection unit. Each of a transmittance when the excitation light reflected from the surface of the recording medium is transmitted through the optical filter and a transmittance when the signal light emitted from the surface of the recording medium at an angle larger than a predetermined angle with respect to a direction perpendicular to the scan line within the detection surface is transmitted through the optical filter is smaller than a transmittance when the signal light emitted from the surface of the recording medium at an angle smaller than the predetermined angle with respect to a direction perpendicular to the scan line within the detection surface is transmitted through the optical filter.
US11355149B2
An information recording/playback device includes a recording pulse generation unit generates a recording pulse based on a multi-value modulation data, and a data recording unit records the mark on the recording medium based on the recording pulse. The data recording unit executes recording processing of setting sizes of all of marks to be recorded on the recording medium to a size equal to or smaller than a spot size at a half level of a maximum value of a two-dimensional light intensity distribution of a beam spot, and executes data recording processing of forming recording regions in modes having different densities of recording marks according to the levels of the multi-value modulation data.
US11355144B1
A slider includes a slider body with an air-bearing surface and a top surface opposing the air-bearing surface. A plurality of slider bond pads are disposed on or parallel to the top surface and proximate to or at a trailing edge of the slider. The plurality of slider bond pads have an exposed surface facing away from the top surface of the slider body. One or more mounting supports extend from the top surface to a distance of at least 12 μm above the exposed surface of the plurality of slider bond pads.
US11355137B2
An electronic device receives a first audio content item that includes a plurality of sound sources. The electronic device generates a representation of the first audio content item. The electronic device determines, from the representation of the first audio content item, a representation of an isolated sound source and frequency data associated with the isolated sound source. The determining includes using a neural network to jointly determine the representation of the isolated sound source and the frequency data associated with the isolated sound source.
US11355128B2
Acoustic signatures can be used in connection with a voice-enabled computer system. An acoustic signature can be a specific noise pattern (or other sound) that is played while the user is speaking and that is mixed in the acoustic channel with the user's speech. The microphone of the voice-enabled computer system can capture, as recorded audio, a mix of the acoustic signature and the user's voice. The voice-enabled computer system can analyze the recorded audio (locally or at a backend server) to verify that the expected acoustic signature is present and/or that no previous acoustic signature is present.
US11355127B2
An electronic apparatus and a controlling method thereof are provided. The electronic apparatus includes a communication interface comprising communication circuitry, a memory, and a processor. The processor is configured to control the electronic apparatus to: receive a user voice for controlling an external device connected to the electronic apparatus from a user terminal through the communication interface, perform user authentication by comparing feature information obtained from the user voice with feature information pre-stored in the memory, obtain a control command for controlling the external device by analyzing the user voice based on the user being authenticated, and control the communication interface to transmit the control command to the external device.
US11355110B2
According to various embodiments of the disclosure, An electronic device according to various embodiments of the disclosure may include: a communication module; a display; a memory; and a processor electrically connected to the communication module, the display, and the memory, wherein the memory stores instructions that cause, when executed, the processor to: receive a voice recognition trigger command during a call while a call connection with an external electronic device is maintained; execute a voice recognition function, based on a voice received from the external electronic device; determine a function execution command corresponding to a recognized voice; and execute a function of the electronic device according to the determined function execution command.
US11355105B2
A home appliance including a first microphone that is disposed on a surface of a housing, a second microphone that is disposed on an inside of the housing, and a processor configured to perform signal processing for first voice data that is acquired from the first microphone, and perform voice recognition using the signal-processed first voice data. The processor is further configured to generate noise data using second voice data that is acquired from the second microphone and perform signal processing for the first voice data using the generated noise data.
US11355104B2
Systems and methods for determining that artificial commands, in excess of a threshold value, are detected by multiple voice activated electronic devices is described herein. In some embodiments, numerous voice activated electronic devices may send audio data representing a phrase to a backend system at a substantially same time. Text data representing the phrase, and counts for instances of that text data, may be generated. If the number of counts exceeds a predefined threshold, the backend system may cause any remaining response generation functionality that particular command that is in excess of the predefined threshold to be stopped, and those devices returned to a sleep state. In some embodiments, a sound profile unique to the phrase that caused the excess of the predefined threshold may be generated such that future instances of the same phrase may be recognized prior to text data being generated, conserving the backend system's resources.
US11355103B2
Embodiments described herein provide for a computer that detects one or more keywords of interest using acoustic features, to detect or query commonalities across multiple fraud calls. Embodiments described herein may implement unsupervised keyword spotting (UKWS) or unsupervised word discovery (UWD) in order to identify commonalities across a set of calls, where both UKWS and UWD employ Gaussian Mixture Models (GMM) and one or more dynamic time-warping algorithms. A user may indicate a training exemplar or occurrence of call-specific information, referred to herein as “a named entity,” such as a person's name, an account number, account balance, or order number. The computer may perform a redaction process that computationally nullifies the import of the named entity in the modeling processes described herein.
US11355100B2
A method for processing information includes that: a current audio is acquired, and a current text corresponding to the current audio is acquired; feature extraction is performed on the current audio through a speech feature extraction portion in a semantic analysis model, to obtain a speech feature of the current audio; feature extraction is performed on the current text through a text feature extraction portion in the semantic analysis model, to obtain a text feature of the current text; semantic classification is performed on the speech feature and the text feature through a classification portion in the semantic analysis model, to obtain a classification result; and recognition of the current audio is rejected in response to the classification result indicating that the current audio is to be rejected for recognition.
US11355099B2
A word extraction method according to at least one embodiment of the present disclosure includes: converting, with at least one processor operating with a memory device in a device, received speech information into text data; converting the text data into a string of words including a plurality of words; extracting, with the at least one processor operating with the memory device in the device, a keyword included in a keyword database from the plurality of words; and calculating, with the at least one processor operating with the memory device in the device, importance levels of the plurality of words based on timing of utterance of the keyword and timing of utterance of each of the plurality of words.
US11355093B2
Techniques are described herein for tracking and analyzing musical activity (e.g., musical performances) captured by a music controller device. Data indicative of a musical performance by an individual is received. Metadata characterizing the musical data is generated. One or more analytics of the musical data is generated based, at least in part, on the metadata.
US11355092B1
A strike pad includes a strike layer, a magnet layer, a metal soft sheet, and a base. The magnet layer is provided on a bottom of the strike layer, the metal soft sheet is provided on a top of the base, and then a magnet layer the bottom is magnetically attached to the top of a metal soft sheet. In the above technical solution, a magnet layer is set on the bottom of a strike layer, and a metal soft sheet is set on the top of a base. The user first puts a base on a fixed surface, and then holds a strike layer, facing the magnet layer to a metal. The soft sheet makes the magnet layer adsorb on a metal soft sheet to realize the assembly between the strike layer and a fixing seat; when disassembling, the magnet layer and the metal soft sheet can be separated.
US11355086B2
Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods that enable a first device to obtain two-dimensional (2D) content referenced by a webpage and a second device in communication with the first device to display 3D content referenced by the webpage. In an example, it is detected that the webpage references 3D content associated with 2D content and detected that a second device, capable of displaying the 3D content referenced by the webpage, is linked to or in communication with the first device. In one example, the second device receives input corresponding to a user selection to view the 3D content, and in response, displays an 3D environment including the 3D content.
US11355085B2
Provided are a repeater device for a DisplayPort side channel and an operating method thereof. The repeater device of a DisplayPort includes: a source device processor transmits or receives an electrical signal of a side channel data of the display port to or from a source device and processes repeater data; and a sink device processor transmits or receives an electrical signal of a side channel data of the display port to or from a sink device and processes repeater data, wherein the source device processor or the sink device processor comprising a controller processes repeating of the side channel data of the display port using the repeater data which is obtained by transforming the electrical signal to an optical signal.
US11355082B2
A display device capable of improving image quality is provided. The display device includes a first circuit, a pixel, and a wiring. The first circuit has a function of supplying data to the wiring and a function of making the wiring floating to hold the data. The pixel has a function of taking in the data twice from the wiring and performing addition. The pixel can perform the first writing of the data in a period during which the data is supplied to the wiring, and can perform the second writing of the data in a period during which the data is held in the wiring. Therefore, by one time of data charging to a source line, a data potential larger than or equal to an output voltage of a source driver can be supplied to a display element.
US11355080B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provides a display panel, a display device, and a display method. A density of a first pixel unit in a first display area is smaller than a density of a second pixel unit in a second display area. In the first pixel unit, a first sub-pixel row includes sub-pixels of different colors arranged along a first direction, and a second sub-pixel row includes first high-transmittance sub-pixels. A plurality of first pixel units are arranged along a second direction to form a first pixel unit column. In one of first pixel unit columns, the first sub-pixel rows and the second sub-pixel rows are alternately arranged. Two closest first sub-pixel rows are located in two adjacent first pixel unit columns and staggered from each other in the first direction.
US11355074B2
A method for checking an operating mode of a display screen switchable between a free-viewing operating mode B1 and a restricted-viewing operating mode B2, comprising: in operating mode B2, determining a brightness value H of a surface and/or edge of a transparent light guide; then, depending on the brightness value H: i) unchanged use of operating mode B2 if the brightness value lies within a range of specified Hg values; ii) switching off operating mode B2 if the brightness value lies within a range of specified Hs values; or iii) changed use of operating mode B2 if the brightness value lies within a range of specified Hm values, with the control unit exerting an influence on the image content perceptible on the display screen by reducing the latter's brightness and/or contrast, with the range Hm lying between the ranges Hs and Hg, and with the ranges bordering on each other.
US11355070B2
Provided are a shift register unit and a control method thereof, a gate driving circuit and a control method thereof, and a display apparatus. The shift register unit may include: a first shift register coupled to an input signal terminal, a first clock signal terminal and a second clock signal terminal. The first shift register is configured to generate a first output signal based on the signal at the first clock signal terminal and generate a second output signal based on the signal at the second clock signal terminal; and a second shift register coupled to the input signal terminal and a third clock signal terminal, the second shift register is configured to generate a third output signal based on the signal at the third clock signal terminal; and a pull-up node of the first shift register is coupled to a pull-up node of the second shift register.
US11355067B2
An array substrate is provided, which includes a gate driver on array (GOA) circuit and a plurality of logic OR gate units integrated in a rear end of the GOA circuit. The GOA circuit includes a plurality of cascaded GOA units, each of the GOA units includes a scan terminal, and at least three continuously-cascaded GOA units are connected to one of the logic OR gate units through the scan terminals.
US11355060B2
A pixel circuit, a method of driving a pixel circuit, a display panel and a display device. The pixel circuit includes a light emitting drive circuit, a storage circuit, a data writing circuit, a light emitting control circuit, and a compensation circuit. The data writing circuit is configured to write a data signal into the storage circuit under a control of a scanning signal; the storage circuit is configured to store the data signal; the compensation circuit is configured to write compensation voltage information which is based on a compensation current signal into the light emitting drive circuit under a control of the scanning signal; and the light emitting control circuit is configured to control the light emitting drive circuit to drive a light emitting element to emit light under a control of a light emitting control signal.
US11355058B2
A driving device includes a control unit, a switch unit and a driver unit. The control unit is configured to generate a gray scale output and a synchronization signal. The switch unit is coupled to an LED array, and switches among different conduction states based on a switching output. The driver unit is coupled to the control unit, the switch unit and the LED array. The driver unit generates the switching output based on a clock signal and the synchronization signal, and generates drive outputs for receipt by the LED array based on the clock signal, the gray scale output and the synchronization signal, so as to drive the LED array to emit light.
US11355055B2
A display apparatus is provided. The display apparatus includes: display modules arranged to form a screen; and an image processing device configured to output a signal to the display device to control display of an image on the screen. One of the display modules includes: a driver configured to output a driving signal to control LEDs to emit light, a storage configured to store an image-quality set value, and a processor configured to update the image-quality set value based on image-quality characteristic information of a different display module among the plurality of display modules, and control the driver to adjust the driving signal based on the image-quality set value.
US11355054B2
The LED display system includes an array of LEDs and a driver circuit. The driver circuit has a PWM engine, an adder, an accumulator, a multiplier, and a frame butter. The multiplier multiplies an image data of a first bit depth (PWM) with a multiple (M) to produce an input data (PWM_M) having a second bit depth. The multiple has an integer section (MI) of one or more bit in length and a fraction section (MF) of one or more bit in length. The input data has an integer section (PWM_MI) and a fraction section (PWM_MF). The adder adds a value of PWM_MF of a current input data with a value of a remainder in an accumulator. The PWM engine receives PWM data from the frame buffer and generates PWM pulses to drive the LED array.
US11355044B2
A gate driver on array (GOA) circuit and a display panel are provided. A pull-down maintaining module of the GOA circuit includes an eleventh transistor and a twelfth transistor to remove a residual charge of a second node and a third node to enhance a stability of the GOA circuit.
US11355041B2
A display device includes a display area configured to include a plurality of pixels and a plurality of data lines connected to the pixels. A hole area is disposed within the display area. A hole crack detection line is disposed adjacent to the hole area and surrounds the hole area. The device includes first and second detection lines which include first and second detection transfer lines and first and second detection receiving lines, respectively. A test controller electrically connects the first detection receiving line to a first data line and the second detection receiving line to a second data line. Pixels connected to the first data line that is connected to a first bright-line transistor and pixels connected to the second data line that is connected to a second bright-line transistor are configured to emit light when a crack occurs in the hole crack detection line.
US11355036B2
A assembled support mechanism for an LED display screen, comprises: a bottom support, being in an assembled frame structure, provided with devices configured for longitudinal and transverse splicing at a periphery thereof, and the devices configured for longitudinal and transverse splicing comprising a longitudinal engagement device and a transverse engagement device; and middle portions of a front side and a rear side of the bottom support being respectively provided with screen connecting portions configured for connecting to an LED display screen in a vertical direction. A plurality of rotational stands, in detachable connection with the bottom support, and a respective rotational stand after being spliced and assembled being rotatable around the bottom support with a rotational angle range of 0° to 180°.
US11355034B2
Disclosed herein are example embodiments of systems and methods of braille transceiving. A braille input output transceiving device (BIOTD) comprises a transceiving module configured to receive braille codes, encode the braille codes into DTMF tones, and transmit the DTMF tones. The BIOTD enables transmission over various types of media, including audio DTMF tones and any networked communication device that can accept audio tones in the appropriate format.
US11355024B2
Methods for administering and taking a test using a headpiece supported on a person's head. A test is directed to the headpiece and includes real displays. A sequence of the real displays and fake displays are displayed on a display in front of the person's face. An encrypted code is provided, which when decrypted, provides places of the real displays in the display sequence. The encrypted code is decrypted to obtain the places of the real displays in the display sequence. A light valve assembly in the viewing portion is controlled to assume, when a real display is being displayed, a first state in which the person is able to view the display through the light valve assembly and thus the real display and assume, when a fake display is being displayed, a second state in which the person is prevented from viewing the display through the light valve assembly.
US11355023B2
A system for treatment and/or psychology intervention of attention deficit disorders in a user in need thereof. The system uses a head mounted display equipped with an eye tracking device. The system is configured to display a scene that includes a principal object and at least one secondary object, then use the eye tracking device to determine whether the user's gaze is directed to one of the objects. If the user's gaze is directed to one of the secondary objects beyond a threshold criterion, that secondary object is removed from the scene. If the user's gaze is directed to the principal object beyond a threshold criterion, a previously removed secondary object is reintroduced into the scene. The principal object is a desired object of the user's attention, while the secondary object(s) may be potentially or known distracting objects. Corresponding software and methods are also disclosed.
US11355018B2
Method and apparatus for flight path information reporting are disclosed. One method of UE such as aerial vehicles for flight path information reporting includes determining whether current flight path information is changed comparing with planned flight path information; and transmitting a report including the current flight path information to a network equipment such as eNB. The method contributes to improve mobility performance of the aerial vehicles by timely communicating the current flight path information.
US11355012B2
A server system 150 for providing data to at least one mobile device 200, the server system comprising a processing resource 174. In a first embodiment, the processing resource 174 is configured to generate contour data representing a boundary of a respective area for which a weather-related parameter has substantially the same value, the contour data being sent to a mobile device 200. In a second embodiment, the processing resource 174 is configured to determine a plurality of parameter values of a model representative of weather-related data, and to filter the parameter values such that only some of the values of sent to a mobile device 200.
US11355001B2
An electronic processor is operatively connected with at least one video camera, or additionally or alternatively a non-camera-based sensor, and at least one annunciator to process real time video acquired by the at least one video camera in real time to perform a hand hygiene compliance enforcement method for encouraging use of a hand sanitation station. The real time video is analyzed to determine an occupancy time interval over which a sanitation zone imaged by the real time video is occupied. Whether a hand sanitation event occurs is determined based on images of a wash station zone extracted from the real time video acquired during the occupancy time interval. The at least one annunciator is controlled to annunciate a hand hygiene compliance status based on the determination of whether a hand sanitation event occurs.
US11354999B2
A system and method for managing and tracking fishing/hunting rules and regulations is provided. The system generally comprises a global positioning system (GPS), a processor operably connected to the GPS, a power supply, a display operably connected to the processor, and a non-transitory computer-readable medium coupled to the processor and having instructions stored thereon. The system and method are designed to easily and conveniently compile and store information or data related to wildlife sports. The system may use this information to help a user comply with state and federal rules and regulations via the creation of registration strategies and via indicia.
US11354998B2
A seismic warning system comprises: a plurality of sensors, each sensor sensitive to a physical phenomenon associated with seismic events and operative to output an electronic signal representative of the sensed physical phenomenon; a data acquisition unit communicatively coupled to receive the electronic signal from each of the plurality of sensors, the data acquisition unit comprising a processor configured to estimate characteristics of a seismic event based on the electronic signal associated with a P-wave from each of the plurality of sensors; and a local device communicatively coupled to the data acquisition unit. The plurality of sensors, the data acquisition unit and the local device are local to one another.
US11354995B2
A life safety device includes a housing, a detector for detecting one or more conditions, and an actuatable mechanism coupled to the housing. The actuatable mechanism includes a light assembly operable in response to detection of at least one of the one or more conditions.
US11354989B1
A device that is configured to track an asset is disclosed. In one aspect, the device includes a radio module that generates proximity data that indicates a distance between the computing device and the device. The device includes a processor that compares the distance between the computing device and the device to a distance threshold. The processor determines that the distance between the computing device and the device satisfies the distance threshold. The processor arms the device. The device includes a motion sensor that generates motion data. The processor compares the motion data to a motion threshold. The processor determines that the motion data satisfies the motion threshold. The processor activates an alarm state.
US11354988B1
In example implementations, a door monitoring sensor is provided. The door monitoring sensor includes a communication interface to transmit an alarm when a door operates outside of operational parameters of the door, an angular sensor to measure rotational movement of the a door, a movement sensor to detect movement along an x-y-z coordinate plane, a radar sensor to detect an object, a rechargeable power supply to provide power to the angular sensor, the movement sensor, and the radar sensor, and a processor. The processor is communicatively coupled to the communication interface, the angular sensor, the movement sensor, and the radar sensor. The processor is to determine that the door is moving outside of the operational parameters of the door and generate the alarm that is transmitted by the communication interface in response to determination that the door is moving outside of the operational parameters of the door.
US11354968B2
A pill-dispensing system includes a base including a first processor and a storage, a container for pills carried by the base, and a dispenser mechanism. A data store includes an authorization code and instructions. A second processor is coupled to the data store, is in communication with the first processor, and is programmed to receive from the first processor a code associated with the container, compare the code to the authorization code, and retrieve and serve the instructions to the first processor upon the code matching the authorization code. The first processor is programmed, upon receiving the instructions from the second processor, to download to the storage the instructions that when executed by the first processor cause the first processor to effectuate a dispensing of pills from the container by the dispenser mechanism.
US11354967B2
There is described a precision dispenser for liquids, in particular medications, which allows the remote control of all operations associated with dispensing the medication to the patient so as to avoid abuses.
