US11370738B2
The present invention relates to an improved way to produce 2-methyl-4-(2,6,6-trimethyl-1-cyclohexen-1-yl)-2-butenal and derivatives thereof.
US11370737B2
A process of co-feeding gaseous ethylene with liquid allyl alcohol in the presence of a catalyst to produce 1,4-butanediol and n-propanol may include: introducing a gaseous mixture of ethylene, carbon monoxide and hydrogen into a reactor in the presence of a hydroformylation catalyst in a solvent; introducing liquid allyl alcohol (AA) into the reactor; and carrying out hydroformylation reaction at a temperature between 50 and 100° C. to obtain hydroformylation products.
US11370734B2
The present disclosure provides a process for producing trifluoroiodomethane (CF3I). The process includes providing vapor-phase reactants including trifluoroacetyl halide, hydrogen, and iodine, heating the vapor-phase reactants, and reacting the heated vapor-phase reactants in the presence of a catalyst to produce trifluoroiodomethane. The catalyst includes a transition metal.
US11370730B2
The present specification provides a method for preparing 1,3-butadiene, the method comprising: (A) obtaining a first product comprising a light component, 1,3-butadiene, and a heavy component from a reactant comprising butene; (B) separating the heavy component from a second product comprising the 1,3-butadiene and the light component by condensing the heavy component after heat exchanging the first product; and (C) separating concentrated heavy component by reboiling the condensed heavy component.
US11370729B2
Systems and methods of dehydrogenating a hydrocarbon in a fixed bed dehydrogenation unit. A method for dehydrogenating a hydrocarbon is applied to a fixed bed reactor. The hydrocarbon flows to a fixed bed reactor to be dehydrogenated in presence of a catalyst in the fixed bed reactor. The catalyst in the fixed bed reactor is then regenerated. The period for dehydrogenation, the period for catalyst regeneration and the period for total slack time are controlled such that total slack time is less than both half of the period for dehydrogenation and half of the period for regeneration. One of the advantages of the process comes from optimization of the slack time, thereby increasing the catalyst utilization rate and number of reactors concurrently online.
US11370725B2
Disclosed is an ethylene and/or propylene cracker unit that uses recycled carbon dioxide as a working fluid. A boiler may also use recycled carbon dioxide as a working fluid. In either instance, instead of releasing high-purity CO2 into the atmosphere, the bulk of the CO2 is utilized as the working fluid and the produced CO2 is captured and sent to the pipeline for utilization or storage. These systems will minimize heat loss and achieve essentially zero CO2 emission to the air.
US11370720B2
The present invention relates to a method of preparing a wood chip-type organic composite fertilizer wherein the method comprises the steps of: {circle around (a)} preparing wood chips by chipping; {circle around (b)} preparing a liquid organic fertilizer; {circle around (c)} forming an organic mixed solution; {circle around (d)} obtaining colored wood chips by simultaneously immersing the wood chips of the step {circle around (a)} in the organic mixed solution of the step {circle around (c)} and applying hot air to the organic mixed solution to coat the woods chips with colors; {circle around (e)} drying the wood chips to a high temperature to remove moisture formed on an outer surface of the wood chips of the step {circle around (d)} and to make the organic mixed solution penetrate evenly into the wood chips at the same time; and {circle around (f)} packing the dried wood chips of the step {circle around (e)} by weight unit with the measurement thereof on a scale.
US11370711B2
Disclosed herein are embodiments of materials having high thermal conductivity along with a high dielectric constants. In some embodiments, a two phase composite ceramic material can be formed having a contiguous aluminum oxide phase with a secondary phase embedded within the continuous phase. Example secondary phases include calcium titanate, strontium titanate, or titanium dioxide.
US11370709B2
A ceramic member includes: a ceramic sintered body; and a conductive member of aluminum or an aluminum alloy provided in the sintered body.
US11370708B2
A fiber cement material formulation comprising a cementitious binder, a siliceous material, fiber, alumina trihydrate and a bifunctional low density additive wherein the bifunctional low density additive comprises any one or more of diatomaceous earth, recycled autoclave fiber cement dust or cellulose dust. The fiber cement material formulation optionally further comprises a secondary low density additive which may be perlite. In some embodiments, a fiber cement article manufactured from the fiber cement material formulation comprises a density of approximately 1.1 g/cm3 or below.
US11370707B1
The present disclosure provides asphalt modified red mud for porous pavement material and an application thereof. The porous asphalt pavement material includes asphalt, red mud and aggregate; the mass ratio of asphalt to red mud is 1:(0.10-0.15), the mass ratio of the total mass of asphalt and red mud to aggregate is (0.08-0.12):1. With regard to the asphalt modified with red mud for porous pavement material provided in the present disclosure, asphalt is modified with red mud, and aggregate is added to synergize with red mud so as to improve the purification properties and mechanical properties of the porous asphalt pavement material efficiently. In the embodiments of the present disclosure, the purification rate of suspended matter by the asphalt modified with red mud for porous pavement material reaches 54.9-58.6%, and the purification rate of heavy metals (iron and lead) reaches 34.3-46.1%.
US11370706B2
Cured cements, cement slurries, and methods of making cured cement and methods of using cement slurries are provided. The method of making a cured cement comprising: synthesizing nanomaterials via chemical vapor deposition on at least one of cement particles or cement additive particles to form nanomaterial particles, adding the nanomaterial particles to a cement slurry to form a modified cement slurry, and curing the modified cement slurry to form a cured cement, in which the nanomaterials are interconnected and form a conductive web within the cured cement.
US11370704B2
A sizing composition including water, a film former, a silane coupling agent, and a weakly-coordinating anion salt is provided. The sizing composition may be applied to fibers used to reinforce polymer compositions. Fiber reinforced composite materials that include reinforcing fibers sized with the sizing composition exhibit improved physical properties, particularly after the fiber reinforced composite material has experience prolonged exposure to heat and water.
US11370702B2
The invention relates to a method to derive a medical form body of lithium silicate glass ceramic. To increase its strength it is proposed that in the form body comprising lithium silicate glass or containing lithium silicate glass the lithium ions are replaced by alkali ions of greater diameter to generate a surface compressive stress. To this end the form body is covered with a melt containing an alkali metal for which an aliquoted quantity of salt containing the alkali metal is used.
US11370696B2
Glass-based articles that include a compressive stress layer extending from a surface of the glass-based article to a depth of compression are formed by exposing glass-based substrates to water vapor containing environments. The glass-based substrates have compositions selected to avoid the formation of haze during the treatment process. The methods of forming the glass-based articles may include elevated pressures and/or multiple exposures to water vapor containing environments selected to avoid the formation of haze during the treatment process.
US11370685B2
A method of melting glass and glass-ceramics that includes the steps: conveying a batch of raw materials into a submerged combustion melting apparatus, the melting apparatus having liquid-cooled walls and a floor; directing a flame into the batch of raw materials and the melted batch with sufficient energy to form the raw materials into the melted batch; and heating a delivery orifice assembly in the floor of the submerged melting apparatus to convey the melted batch through the orifice assembly into a containment vessel. The melted batch has a glass or glass-ceramic composition that is substantially reactive to a refractory material comprising one or more of silica, zirconia, alumina, platinum and platinum alloys.
US11370683B2
A process for treating acid mine drainage removes iron ions from the acid mine drainage in the form of zero-valent iron nanoparticles which can be subsequently used for environmental remediation.
US11370680B2
A method for enhancing biochemical water treatment by a powder carrier includes: (i) screening the powder carrier by removing impurities to obtain a screened powder carrier; (ii) dissolving the screened powder carrier by stirring to prepare a slurry, enabling the screened powder carrier to completely absorb moisture to obtain a soaked powder carrier slurry; (iii) adjusting the pH value and adding the soaked powder carrier slurry into a bioreactor or a biological reaction structure; (iv) distributing the soaked powder carrier slurry uniformly through a hydraulic agitation; (v) loading a microorganism on the inner pore and wrapping on the surface of the soaked powder carrier slurry to obtain powder-loaded biological floccules; (vi) settling the powder-loaded biological floccules in a sedimentation zone and separating the powder carrier from the microorganism for reuse.
US11370679B2
A method for predicting a discharge level of an effluent from decentralized sewage treatment facilities, the method including: measuring the conductivity of an influent, the conductivity and suspended solids concentration of an effluent of a plurality of decentralized sewage treatment facilities; repeatedly measuring a pH, a concentration of COD, a concentration of ammonia nitrogen, the concentration of total phosphorus of the effluent of each of the plurality of decentralized sewage treatment facilities; calculating average values of the pH, the concentration of COD, the concentration of ammonia nitrogen, the concentration of total phosphorus; comparing the average values with a local sewage discharge standard, and determining a discharge level of the effluent; constructing a predictive model; and sampling an influent and an effluent of a sewage treatment facility, measuring the conductivity of an influent, the conductivity and suspended solids concentration of the effluent, inputting the obtained data to the predictive model.
US11370678B2
Methods of treating bodies of water or wastewater are disclosed herein. The method can include providing one or more water treatment compositions comprising a compound with a peroxide group or a carbonate salt, a binder, a fibrous material, and an inert material, where the compound, binder, the fibrous material, and the inert material are combined into the form of an integral product, and immersing the integral product into a body of water or wastewater. The method can include a dispensing apparatus for holding such integral products such that the step of immersing the tablets into a body of water or wastewater is accomplished by immersing the dispensing apparatus into the body of water or wastewater. The dispensing apparatus can be arranged such that when integral products are placed in the apparatus the integral products form a vertical column.
US11370672B2
In a gas collecting method for collecting gas yielding from source material on a sea bottom, [1] releasing a collecting membrane into water, a fixture being connected with a lower end of the collecting membrane and the collecting membrane being flared downward from its top; [2] keeping a three-dimensional position of the fixture at a target position with its autonomous navigation by a position maintainer provided in the fixture; [3] based on vertical water temperature distribution, setting the lower end at a position that is higher than the sea bottom and shallower than a water depth where the source material separates from its solid state into water and gas and setting the top at a deeper position than a water depth where bubbles of the gas disappear due to mixture of the gas with seawater; and [4] collecting the gas released from the sea bottom by the collecting membrane.
US11370669B2
Amorphous silicon doped yttrium oxide films and methods of making same are described. Deposition of the amorphous silicon doped yttrium oxide film by thermal chemical vapor deposition or atomic layer deposition process are described.
US11370663B1
The present disclosure relates to a method for production of nitrogen-doped single wall carbon nanohorns from anode graphite of wasted lithium-ion batteries. The method includes the following steps: a first step: forming recycled graphite powder into graphite blocks; and, a second contact step: when the first step is completed, using a DC arc plasma device to produce the graphite blocks into N-SWCNHs.
US11370654B2
A device is described for protecting components, housings and the like against liquids and for ventilating the same, including at least one first layer, the first layer being configured as a diaphragm and this has a first area in such a way that the first area is configured as gas-permeable and liquid-tight below a first liquid pressure, and at least one second layer, the second layer being connected pressure-tight at least in part to the first layer, and having a second area that is configured in such a way that the first area and the second area interact for sealing against a liquid at a liquid pressure greater than or equal to the first liquid pressure.
US11370653B2
An electrostatic zipping actuator includes a primary electrode, a secondary electrode overlying the primary electrode, a dielectric layer located between and abutting at least a portion of the primary electrode and the secondary electrode, and a dielectric fluid disposed at least at a junction between the dielectric layer and one of the electrodes, where an average total thickness of the dielectric layer is less than approximately 10 micrometers.
US11370651B2
To provide a hydrogen filling system and a hydrogen filling method capable of preventing hydrogen from being filled at high filling rate in the same manner as the communication filling despite a condition that pressure, temperature and so on in the in-vehicle tank are not precisely grasped. The hydrogen filling system (100) of the present invention includes a control unit (CU1, CU2, CU3) for controlling hydrogen filling, wherein the control unit has a function of judging whether or not there is an abnormality in pressure or temperature data in an in-vehicle tank (IT) at communication filling and a function of stopping the communication filling and converting to non-communication filling when there is an abnormality in the pressure or the temperature data.
US11370649B2
A water dispensing apparatus includes a hot water module configured to heat supplied water using an induction heating method, a water supply pipe configured to supply water to the hot water module, a flow rate control valve provided on the water supply pipe to control a flow rate of water supplied to the hot water module, a flow rate sensing device provided on the water supply pipe to sense the flow rate of water supplied to the hot water module, and a controller configured to increase an opening speed of the flow rate control valve when the flow rate of supplied water sensed through the flow rate sensing device is equal to or less than a set flow rate.
US11370646B2
A device for filling a fill product into a container to be filled in a beverage bottling plant. The device includes a fill product reservoir for storing the fill product, a fill product channel, and a filling member in fluid communication with the fill product reservoir via the fill product channel. The filling member is configured to introduce the fill product into the container to be filled and the filling member communicates via media channels to provide media flows for two or more functions: flushing the container with a flushing gas, pre-pressurizing the container before it is filled, returning gas displaced during the filling of the container, relieving a gas overpressure in the container, and circulating a hot fill product through the filling member for controlling a temperature. A single media channel of the media channels is configured to provide the media flows for at least two of the functions.
US11370644B1
An adjustable load handler configured to be mounted on lift trucks with different standard type carriages. The handler comprising a frame assembly, a top hook assembly with a securing mechanism for securing the top hook assembly to the frame assembly in a plurality of positions A center manifold is coupled to the underside of the side shift actuator, with hydraulic connections directly into the side shift actuator. Hydraulic lines coupled to the center manifold and to one or more hydraulic components of the loader have sufficient slack so the top hook assembly can be moved between positions without disconnecting any of these hydraulic lines.
US11370639B2
The disclosure includes elevator emergency control systems and methods for use in an elevator. The elevator emergency control system may include a control station disposed external to multiple buildings. The control station may be configured to: determine that an emergency condition exists for the multiple buildings; in response to determining that the emergency condition exists for the multiple buildings, transmit a first emergency alert signal that directs a first group of elevators located in at least two buildings of the multiple building to enter an emergency mode, and the emergency mode results in the first group of elevators: traveling vertically downward with respect to a first group of structures; and answering down hall calls until the first group of elevators reaches an elevator weight capacity, an egress floor, or a combination thereof.
US11370631B2
A sheet post-processor includes a processing tray, a sheet discharge port, a discharge roller pair, a pair of cursor members, a pair of support members, and an interlocking mechanism. The interlocking mechanism includes a pair of coupling members arranged in the processing tray so as to be reciprocatable in a sheet width direction. The pair of coupling members are coupled to or decoupled from the pair of cursor members in accordance with movement of the pair of cursor members. While being coupled to the pair of cursor members, the pair of coupling members contact the pair of support members so as to displace the pair of support members to a protruding position, and while being decoupled from the pair of cursor members, the pair of coupling members separate from the pair of support members so as to displace the pair of support members to a retracted position.
US11370627B1
A house wrap dispenser apparatus for use by a single user to use with a roll of house wrap in installation of house wrap on an exterior wall(s) of a stable structure. The house wrap dispenser apparatus includes a house wrap dispenser having a lower house wrap bracket operational with an upper house wrap bracket, a bag, removable fasteners, and a driver. In another embodiment, a water-resistive barrier wrap dispenser apparatus includes a water-resistive barrier wrap dispenser, a multiplicity of threaded dowels, removable fasteners, a bag, and a driver. In an embodiment, a house wrap dispenser apparatus kit, includes a house wrap dispenser apparatus carrying case to contain the house wrap dispenser apparatus. In an embodiment, a water-resistive barrier wrap dispenser apparatus kit includes a water-resistive barrier wrap dispenser apparatus carrying case to contain the water-resistive barrier wrap dispenser apparatus.
US11370624B2
An image forming apparatus has: a cassette which stores a sheet; a pickup roller which picks up the sheet inside the cassette; a feed roller which feeds the sheet picked up by the pickup roller toward an image forming portion; and a retard roller which is pressed against the feed roller and forms a separation nip. In addition, the image forming apparatus has a conveying guide which guides the sheet picked up by the pickup roller to the separation nip. A first guide member of the conveying guide is configured to be slidable in a drawing direction when the feed roller is replaced, and the conveying guide is formed of a material whose property of light transmittance of light having a wavelength of 360 nm to 420 nm is 80% or more. The feed roller is detachable from the one end of a shaft in a state in which the cassette is drawn out along the rail and the conveying guide is slid in the drawing direction.
US11370623B2
A device for supplying lids to a can seamer includes a destacking screw for conveying lids that are fed in via a lid feed, for transferring the correctly separated lids to a downstream transport and/or treatment device, and for interrupting the supply of the lids to the downstream transport and/or treatment device in the event of an interruption of production. Methods for supplying lids to a can seamer are also provided.
US11370621B2
A conveyance apparatus includes a stator in which a plurality of coils is arranged along a first direction and a movable element to move along the plurality of coils. The stator includes a first magnet group including a plurality of first magnets arranged along the first direction and magnetized in one direction. The movable element includes a second magnet group including a plurality of second magnets arranged to face the plurality of coils, and a third magnet group including a plurality of third magnets arranged to face the first magnet group and magnetized in a direction repelling the first magnet group.
US11370610B2
A shuttle for handling and transporting goods, including: a receiving base suitable for receiving a removable support for goods; a gripper suitable for cooperating with the removable support, the gripper being movable relative to the receiving base; and an extension system connected to the gripper, for moving the removable support on the receiving base. The extension system moves the gripper along a transverse axis while remaining parallel to itself, between retracted position, a first protruding position, and a second protruding position opposite the first protruding position with respect to the retracted position.
US11370600B1
An adjustable actuator for a spray can. The actuator includes a housing for attachment to an aerosol can covering a stem valve. A finger operating button structure is engaged with the housing for engaging the stem valve. A rotary two-way diverter valve is supported within the housing and rotatably engaged with the finger operating button structure. In a spray position/straw down, the two-way diverter valve directs spray through a first direct spray nozzle. In a second straw position/straw up, the diverter valve is rotated to engage a straw spray passage of the diverter valve in fluid communication with a spray tip and engaged straw. A sliding tab member engaged between and on the housing and button structure is used to adjust the desired amount of fluid flow.
US11370599B2
Dispenser devices suitable for use on unmanned aerial vehicles are described having utility for dispensing solid larvicides to difficult to reach insect habitats.
US11370597B2
A piston for a reservoir of a dispenser of a fluid product without air intake, and presenting a central axis X includes both sealing means and also guiding means. The sealing means extend in a plane orthogonal to the axis X and define a single external sealing line in a closed loop, distal from the axis X, capable of coming into contact with an inner wall of the reservoir 10. The guiding means include a base from which extends one or more tabs with free ends defining external guide points, distal from the axis X, capable of coming into contact with the inner wall of the reservoir.
US11370595B2
The claimed invention relates to bottles used by exercise enthusiasts for carrying liquids, solids and/or powdered nutritional supplements with liquids for mixing said supplements. Exercise aficionados consume a variety of hydrating liquids, nutritional supplements mixed with liquids or solid food items before, during and after their exercise periods. People who exercise use a variety of bottles including shakers, squeeze and water bottles to hold and consume their liquids, foods and supplements during their workouts. The present invention is an improved dual compartment shaker bottle for various nutritional supplements, liquids and combinations thereof. The dual compartments allow the user to carry two different liquids, nutritional supplements, combinations of liquids and supplements or solids for use before, during and after their workout. They no longer need two or more shaker bottles to accomplish this. Further, the claimed invention includes two compartment tops that securely attach to the bottle with a screw on and off mechanism and provide openings to consume the contents of each chamber. Each chamber is designed with curved closed end without corners/angles that cause clumping and reduced dissolving of supplements. The disclosed invention has attachment clips at each end to assist the user in carrying the bottle in a number of places. Further, the side of the bottle is ribbed for easy gripping. To assist the user in assessing the volume of material in each compartment, a measuring scale is included along the length of each compartment. A double wall exterior is disclosed to provide insulation to maintain the temperature of the materials in each compartment.
US11370591B2
The present application is directed to Seed Preservation and Storage Containers and a process for preserving and long term storing of a wide variety of crop seeds, plant seeds, heirloom seeds, flowering plant seeds, tree seeds, and grains including corn, beans, peas and rice. Each long term storage and preservation container will be labeled with the container seed contents information on QR codes or bar codes, in and on containers, and the seed packets stored within the containers. By using a method of preservation and storage for an extended period of time, seed containers will be processed resulting in an ultimate climate condition to prevent the seeds within the seed containers from molding, rotting or prematurely germinating for many years. Contents of the seed containers will be readily revealed by scanning the outside labels on the containers and on the individual seed packet labels within the containers.
US11370590B2
A packaging element (2, 3) has two shells (21, 22, 31, 32), each shell having a margin (210, 220) defining an access opening giving access to the inside of the shell, said packaging element (2, 3) having at least a “closed” configuration in which the shells form a chamber that is substantially closed and that is suitable for receiving an article, such as a medical implant. The packaging element (2, 3) further has a sealing strip (4) that extends, outside the shells (21, 22, 31, 32), over the entire length of the margins (210, 220) of the shells of the packaging element, and from one margin (210, 220) of the shell to the other margin (220, 210) of the shell in such a manner as to seal the chamber defined by the two shells. An assembly has two packaging elements received one inside the other, with a corresponding sealing method.
US11370580B2
The coffee mug or drink container has an internal multi-cup compartment. A thermally insulated container (liquid containment store) has a lid with drink spout(s) (if the drink container is not a bottle). The special container has an internal dry store for two or more cups placed in a storage compartment beneath the bottom of the container. Identically shaped cups nest together (stacked) in the dry store on a nested cup support with a complementary surface to limit vertical and horizontal jostling and cup damage. Sometimes the cups are frusto-conically shaped or are matching convex/concaved shaped. An added secondary storage container is included for coffee or drink additives.
US11370576B1
A container comprising a bottom panel defining a base of the container, and a plurality of side walls extending from the bottom panel and defining an interior area of the container, wherein the plurality of side walls include at least opposing first and second side walls. A first flange structure is connected to each of the first and second side walls along respective fold lines at an upper edge of the container. Each first flange structure straddles a respective side wall and comprises an inner flange portion extending over the interior area of the container, and an outer flange portion, coplanar with the inner flange portion, extending away from the interior of the container, wherein the outer flange portion is defined by one or more tabs.
US11370573B2
A method for testing a tubular bag machine, the tubular bag machine having multiple electronic drive units controlled independently by a drive control system for driving functional elements of the packing machine in a cycle time-synchronous manner during predefined motion sequences, one drive unit being a transverse sealing unit comprising a motor and two transverse sealing jaws for transversely sealing a film tube, the drive torque being measured using a drive controller, and the position of the drive motor measured using a position sensor, by removing the film tube from the sealing zone between the transverse sealing jaws, closing the jaws according to a predefined target torque stored in the drive control system; measuring the actual position of the drive motor at the target torque; and comparing the measured actual position to a target position stored in the drive control system and associated with the predefined target torque.
US11370572B2
A surface treatment method and a surface treatment device 2 for a resin vessel 1 forms a coating or performs surface modification on the surface of the resin vessel 1. In a sterilized environment as well as an environment with a pressure equal to or higher than the atmospheric pressure, a material for the coating or the surface modification is attached to at least one of an inner surface and an outer surface of the resin vessel 1, and the resin vessel 1, to which the material is attached, is irradiated with an electron beam to perform the coating or the surface modification. It is possible to form the coating or perform the surface modification on the resin vessel at a high speed.
US11370570B2
A continuous bag-making and packaging apparatus is disclosed. In the apparatus, sealing is performed on a film at a predetermined position to make a bag while the film is continuously conveyed. The apparatus includes a film-conveying unit configured to change a feeding speed of the film, a printing unit configured to print on the film conveyed, a bag information acquisition unit configured to acquire information of a bag to be made, and a print timing presentation unit configured to present information pertaining to a print timing suitable for printing based on the information of the bag.
US11370569B2
Machine for wrapping pallets (P) by means of a stretchable film cap, comprising: a main frame (1) which defines a working area (A) of the machine; a traction device (2), arranged to lower the film cap by fitting it onto the pallet (P); a feeder device (3) arranged to feed the film to the traction device (2); a cutting and welding device (4) of the film, arranged to cut and weld the film so as to obtain a cap closed at one end thereof. The feeder device (3) is movable along the frame (1) between an operating position, located above the main frame (1), and a service position, in which said feeder device is located at a given height from the ground, on one side of the main frame (1). The feeder device (3) comprises two diverters (31), each of which is structured to grip two adjacent corners (C) on opposite sides of the film, and to move the corners away from one another. The diverters (31) are movable on an area outside of the main frame (1) along guides (11,12), structured to maintain the feeder device (3) outside the main frame (1) and the working area (A), during the displacement between the working position and the service position.
US11370567B2
The present invention relates to a device for vacuum and vent tube stoppering a medical container. The device includes a main body defining an internal volume that has a first variable pressure chamber configured to be connected to a vacuum pump, the main body being configured to receive the proximal end of a medical container so that said medical container is in communication with the first variable pressure chamber. A vent device including a vent tube is moveable inside the internal volume of the main body along a longitudinal axis between a proximal rest position and a distal operative position. A piston rod is moveable inside the internal volume of the vent tube along the longitudinal axis between a proximal rest position and a distal operative position. A container holder system is provided in the main body, in communication with the first variable pressure chamber.
US11370546B2
A stair closure mechanism is disclosed. In embodiments, the stair closure mechanism is attached to and deploys in concert with a door separating an overhead crew rest compartment and access stairway from the main cabin. As the door is closed, a closure panel mechanically pivots with the closing of the door into a horizontal deployed position. When in the deployed position, the closure panel conforms to the floor of the overhead compartment, securely blocking the free space between the stairway and the floor from persons in the overhead compartment who might otherwise step or stumble thereinto.
US11370543B2
A pylon for mounting to a bottom surface of an aircraft and for carrying an external payload is provided. The pylon comprises a body spanning along a vertical axis between an upper face and a lower face, the upper face comprising one or more mounting arrangements configured to facilitate mounting the pylon to the bottom surface of the aircraft, the lower face comprising at least one suspension mechanism configured to facilitate selective attachment of the payload to the pylon. The pylon further comprises a covering arrangement configured for selective shifting between a closed position in which it covers the suspension mechanism and an open position in which the suspension mechanism is uncovered. The width of the body varies smoothly along the vertical axis between, inclusively, the upper and lower faces.
US11370539B2
Described herein are systems, methods, and devices for recovering unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), such as UAVs that are trapped in an obstacle such as a tree. In particular, a method is described, the method including determining location parameters associated with a trapped UAV; navigating to the proximity of the UAV; determining launching parameters and a target associated with the launch of a launching device; and causing the launch of a launching device towards the target. The launching device may include a tether, such that a user may pull on the tether to dislodge the trapped UAV from the tree.
US11370531B1
A configurable unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) may include swappable components that may be selectable to configure a customized UAV just prior to deployment of the UAV that is configured to deliver a package to a destination. The UAV may include a plurality of ports that may accept swappable components. The ports may be coupled to a logic board to enable control of the swappable components. The ports and swappable components may enable quick replacement of a malfunctioning components, such as an image sensor, which may avoid subjecting a UAV to significant downtime for service. The malfunctioning component may then be serviced after the UAV is readied for a subsequent flight or deployed on a subsequent flight.
US11370525B2
A wing assembly is disclosed. The wing assembly includes a main structure having a first contact face and a first recess arranged to receive a portion of a tension bolt; and a modular edge having a second contact face and a second recess arranged to receive a portion of the tension bolt. The modular edge is pivotally mounted on the main structure for rotation between an installation position and an operational position in which the modular edge is aligned with the main structure to form at least part of an edge of the wing assembly. The wing assembly is arranged such that, when the modular edge is in the operational position, tension in a tension bolt received in the first and second recesses acts to press the first and second contact faces together, thereby forming a tension joint that resists pivoting of the modular edge relative to the main structure.
US11370517B2
Systems, assemblies, and methods for operating a marine motor are provided herein. An example motor system includes a motor, a battery, and a processor. The processor is configured to receive a user input indicating a desired speed, determine a charge level of the battery, determine an optimized speed or propulsion of the marine motor based on the desired speed and the determined charge level of the battery, and transmit a signal to the motor to operate accordingly. The processor may generate a correction factor based on at least one of the determined charge level of the battery, a boat speed profile curve, and a boat travel distance curve; and determine the optimized speed or propulsion by applying the correction factor to the desired speed. Thus, an eco-mode can be provided to help maintain a high level of battery charge while still enabling desired use.
US11370516B2
A transducer mount assembly includes a housing and a motor coupled to and disposed within the housing. An elongated rod extends from the housing and is operably coupled to the motor. The motor is configured to rotate the elongated rod about a longitudinal axis of the elongated rod in a first direction and a second direction opposite the first direction. A controller is in communication with the motor and is configured to selectively direct the motor to rotate the elongated rod in the first direction and the second direction. A boat mount bracket is configured to couple the transducer mount assembly to portion of a boat. A transducer mount bracket is configured to couple a transducer to the elongated rod.
US11370515B2
The present invention disclosed a paddle, which includes a blade and a pole that connects to the blade. The pole consists of a first rod and a second rod capable of entering and moving within; with one end of the second rod connected to the first rod and able to move simultaneously. Wherein, the material of the first rod within the pole is different from that of the pole, and the paddle is less likely to break instantaneously.
US11370499B2
The present invention relate to a caterpillar track, in particular a rubber caterpillar track, with a track body ad with at least one outer profiling element, preferable with a plurality of outer profiling elements, which are directed outwardly away from the track body. The caterpillar track is characterized in that the outer profiling element has an outwardly directed grouser body and a grouser root, which connects the grouser body to the track body, wherein the outer profiling element has, at least in some sections, a marking which can make the boundary between the grouser body and the grouser root visually and haptically identifiable.
US11370495B2
A canopy assembly includes a truck bed and a pair of retractable canopies. The truck bed includes a floor and a pair of spaced apart sidewalls. Each of the pair of sidewalls includes an exterior wall, an opposite interior wall, and an elongated cavity positioned between the exterior wall and the interior wall of each of the pair of sidewalls. The pair of retractable canopies are movable between a stored and use positions. In the stored position, each of the retractable canopies are positioned within the elongated cavity defined in each of the pair of sidewalls. In the use position, each of the pair of retractable canopies are positioned to extended at least partially outside of the elongated cavity of each of the pair of sidewalls and extend beyond the exterior wall of the sidewalls in a vehicle lateral direction.
US11370494B2
A side bracket includes at least one body fastening portion to be fastened to a body of a vehicle, an inner fastening portion, an outer fastening portion, an inner joining part, and an outer joining part. The inner joining part is provided in a rim surrounding a through hole in the inner fastening portion, and in a position closer to a central side in a vehicle-width direction than at least one body fastening portion, the inner joining part is joined to an outer circumferential surface of the steering member penetrating the through hole. The outer joining part is provided in the outer fastening portion, and in a position closer to an end side in the vehicle-width direction than at least one body fastening portion, the outer joining part is joined to a front portion of the outer circumferential surface of the steering member.
US11370481B2
A steering system for an agricultural vehicle that includes a steering wheel, a steering wheel sensor operably connected to the steering wheel, a drive selector having a forward position, a neutral position, and a reverse position, an actuating device configured for being operably connected to the steerable wheels of the agricultural vehicle, and an electronic control unit operably connected to the steering wheel sensor, the drive selector, and the actuating device. The electronic control unit is configured for selectively preventing a rotation of the steering wheel from steering the steerable wheels in the neutral position of the drive selector.
US11370478B2
A drive part, in particular, a steering system for a transportation vehicle, having an electric motor and at least one control device, wherein the electric motor has at least one winding, wherein the winding has connection points for a power electronics system of the at least one control device, wherein the drive component has at least one sensor system for detecting fluid, wherein the sensor system has an evaluation and control unit connected to the connection points of the at least one winding, wherein the evaluation and control unit generates a test signal and detects a change in impedance.
US11370468B2
The present invention is a modular stroller platform for carrying multiple small children. The invention enables secure mounting of three seats or carriers in a compact arrangement, giving each child sufficient space without making the stroller unnecessarily difficult to move. Because of its modular design, other accessories, including a wagon body, may be mounted in place of the seats.
US11370466B2
The invention relates to a device (1) for the horizontal re-centering of a coupling shaft, particularly a central buffer coupling of a track-guided vehicle, wherein the device (1) comprises a first rotating body (3) and a second rotating body (4) which is rotatable relative to the first rotating body (3), wherein the device (1) is designed to produce the force necessary to generate a restoring torque acting on the coupling shaft by the rotating of the two rotating bodies (3, 4) relative to each other.
US11370464B2
A folding-canopy main body used for a train through-passage includes an outward folding-canopy body and an inward folding-canopy body. The folding-canopy main body is vertically provided and extends along a front-back direction. The inward folding-canopy body is formed by connecting at least two pieces of internal canopy cloth which arch inwards to form a U shape along the front-back direction, the outward folding-canopy body is formed by connecting at least two pieces of external canopy cloth which arch outwards to form a U shape along the front-back direction, and the end portions of two adjacent pieces of internal canopy cloth and the end, portions of two adjacent pieces of external canopy cloth are all clamped and riveted by U-shaped parts.
US11370462B2
A double skin structure of a railcar bodyshell includes: a harmonica type structural portion in which a closed space is quadrangular when viewed from a car longitudinal direction; and a truss type structural portion which is located adjacent to the harmonica type structural portion and in which a closed space is triangular when viewed from the car longitudinal direction. A thickness reduced portion is formed in at least one of a region between a car width direction middle portion of a roof bodyshell and a car body circumferential direction middle portion of a cantrail. The thickness reduced portion having a bodyshell thickness that is made small by arranging an inner wall of the thickness reduced portion at a car exterior side of the inner wall of a region adjacent to the region in which the thickness reduced portion is formed.
US11370458B2
An apparatus for deciding a steering intent of a driver is provided. The apparatus includes a processor configured to determine whether a driver intends to steer a vehicle based on sensing results of a stabilization state of a vehicle and whether a hand of the driver is positioned on a steering wheel of the vehicle, and a memory configured to store a preset reference value to determine the steering intent of the driver.
US11370452B2
A driving action determination device includes a memory and a processor. The processor is configured to acquire map information which includes information about intersections at which a temporary stop line is provided, specify, based on vehicle behavior information detected by sensors mounted at a vehicle, a direction of approach of the vehicle or a direction of movement of the vehicle towards the temporary stop line, specify, based on the specified direction of approach or direction of movement, a temporary stop line where the vehicle is required to make a temporary stop, and determine, based on the vehicle behavior information, whether or not a temporary stop has been made by the vehicle at the specified temporary stop line.
US11370447B2
A method for calibrating sensor signals in networks in a vehicle, wherein a number of sensors are arranged in the vehicle including one or more cameras, one or more LIDAR, and one or more radar units each communicating with a electronic control unit over a network, the electronic control unit communicating with vehicle elements including braking system and steerings system. The method includes receiving incoming signals from sensors at a calibration unit, wherein the incoming signals contain information of a detected object or signal, determining a delay for each received signal relative to a predetermined master clock time; and determining one calibration time for all the received signals based on the determined delays relative the predetermined master clock time.
US11370442B2
A host lane environment recognition unit acquires an operation of a target vehicle traveling in a host lane and a road environment. An adjacent lane environment recognition unit acquires operation of vehicles traveling in an adjacent lane and a road environment. A lane changeable space determination unit determines whether the host vehicle can change lanes using road environment information of the adjacent lane. A lane change control unit determines whether the target vehicle traveling in the host lane is allowed to change lanes, based on the operation of the target vehicle and the adjacent vehicle traveling in their lanes. The lane change control unit causes the host vehicle to change lanes based on determining whether the host vehicle can change lanes in the adjacent lane by the lane changeable space determination unit and whether or not the target vehicle is allowed to change lanes.
US11370428B2
The present disclosure is directed to apparatus, methods, and non-transitory storage medium for controlling the maximum speed of a vehicle as that vehicle travels along a route. Apparatus and methods consistent with the present disclosure may receive location information from an electronic device that is located at a vehicle and may provide information to the electronic device at that controls the maximum speed of the vehicle as speed limits change along the route.
US11370418B2
A parking assist system includes a server device and a parking assist device provided in a host vehicle to communicate with the server device. The server device comprises a server storage portion that is configured to store parking lot information acquired when a second vehicle different from the host vehicle is parked in a parking section of a parking lot. The parking assist device includes a parking lot information receiver configured to receive the parking lot information from the server device, and a parking assist controller configured to control the host vehicle based on the obtained parking lot information to park the host vehicle in the parking section of the parking lot.
US11370406B2
A control system for operating a work vehicle powertrain includes an engine configured to generate power for an output shaft. The control system includes a transmission positioned operatively between the engine and the output shaft and configured to selectively transfer the power along a power flow path between the engine and the output shaft. The transmission includes an input shaft; at least one intermediate shaft; at least one directional clutch; and intermediate clutches configured for selective engagement to transfer power between the at least one intermediate shaft and the output shaft. A controller is configured to receive a vehicle stop request to stop the work vehicle; implement, upon receiving the vehicle stop request, a clutch braking function; and generate, upon the implementation of the clutch braking function, clutch commands to engage at least two of the intermediate clutches selected such that the output shaft is slowed and stopped.
US11370401B2
A highly reliable vehicle brake system including an electric brake is provided. A vehicle brake system (1) includes electric brakes (16a to 16d) provided with motors (80 to 85), drivers (60 to 65) that drive the motors (80 to 85), and a control device that controls the drivers (60 to 65). The electric brake (16a) includes two motors (80 and 81), and the control device includes separate drivers (60 and 61) respectively corresponding to the two motors (80 and 81). The control device includes a first master controller (30) and a first sub-controller (40). The first master controller (30) controls the driver (61) corresponding to the motor (81), and the first sub-controller (40) controls the driver (60) corresponding to the motor 80.
US11370400B2
A vehicle braking system comprising a first braking electronic control unit (ECU) which is operable to control the operation of a first set of vehicle brakes, a second braking electronic control unit (ECU) which is operable to control the operation of a second set of vehicle brakes, and a first connection between the first and second braking ECUs by means of which an electrical braking control signal may be transmitted between the first and second braking ECUs, the first braking ECU being provided with a first wireless signal receiver by means of which data from a further vehicle concerning the braking of the further vehicle may be received, wherein the second braking ECU is provided with a second wireless signal receiver by means of which data from a further vehicle concerning the braking of the further vehicle may be received, and is programmed to, in the event of a failure of the first wireless signal receiver, transmit either the data received from the further vehicle or information or instructions based on the data received from the further vehicle, to the first braking ECU via the first connection.
US11370397B2
A wheel cleaning device (10) for cleaning vehicle wheels (12) having a rim and a tyre mounted on said rim is disclosed. The cleaning device (10) comprising a wheel cleaning zone (15) and a wheel conveying system (20) for conveying the wheels (12) to and from the wheel cleaning zone (15). The wheel conveying system comprises at least one vertically displaceable wheel engaging element (21, 22), and a wheel conveyor (20) extending at least partially in a horizontal direction, wherein the wheel conveying system is arranged for conveying wheels (12) individually, in consecutive order and in a lying position from a stack (14) of wheels (12) to the wheel cleaning zone (15) at least partially in the horizontal direction and then from the wheel cleaning zone (15) at least partially in the horizontal direction to output a stack (14) of cleaned wheels (12).
US11370396B2
The present disclosure relates to an automobile including a steam washer mounted thereon capable of removing water remaining in the steam washer within a short period of time through the use of an air compressing tank and a compressed air feeding pump for feeding compressed air stored in the air compressing tank to a water chamber of a steam generator and a water tank.
US11370387B2
A Seat Belt Release device for vehicles that is a backup and redundant release. It doubles the chance of release from a seatbelt system in an emergency situation. The release device includes an alert tab on a pull ring that is configured and holds the standard receiver with an extension strap. The receiver engages the tongue of a seat belt and subsequently the electrical switch that deactivates the no-seat-belt warning buzzer. The system provides a secondary backup to the traditional push only release and enables a person in an emergency to pull a pin and quickly release the safety seat belt to allow a driver or passengers to exit the vehicle and save lives.
US11370386B2
An advanced driving assistance system (ADAS)-linked active hood apparatus for always-on operation is provided. The apparatus includes a rotary arm that is fixed to a hood of a vehicle, a stationary bracket fixed to a vehicle body, and a rotary bracket that rotates upward and downward by applied rotation force. A first link interconnects the rotary bracket and the stationary bracket. A motor unit is integrally connected to the rotary arm and applies driving force to the rotary bracket. A controller receives driving information of the vehicle via an ADAS and sets a pop-up height of the hood. The motor unit then performs pop-up and restoration of the hood when a collision is expected based on the received driving information.
US11370385B2
There is provided a method to stop or slow down a vehicle in an emergency, the method involving a vehicle comprising an emergency stop system which is able to cause the vehicle to stop or slow down, said emergency stop system comprising at least one microphone for detecting sounds in the vicinity of the vehicle, and a sound analysis unit for analysing sound, the method involving the steps: a) the microphone of the emergency stop system receiving a sound and sending a signal representing the sound to the sound analysis unit, b) the sound analysis unit of the emergency stop system determining that the received sound is a predetermined sound or a predetermined sound pattern, and c) the emergency stop system causing the vehicle to stop or slow down.
US11370384B2
Cool burning gas generant compositions for an automotive inflatable restraint system are provided that include a bismuth-containing compound selected from the group consisting of: bismuth citrate, bismuth subsalicylate, bismuth hydroxide, copper bismuth hydroxy nitrate, bismuth subcarbonate, bismuth suboxalate, and combinations thereof. The gas generant comprises at least one copper-containing component. The gas generant includes at least one oxidizer, fuel, and optional coolant. The maximum flame temperature at combustion (Tc) of less than or equal to about 1700K (1,427° C.). The cool burning gas generant composition generates liquid phase combustion products making it suitable for use in a filterless inflatable restraint system. Copper and bismuth present in the cool burning gas generant composition react to form an alloy having a melting point at or near the maximum flame temperature at combustion (Tc).
US11370383B2
A vehicle curtain airbag apparatus includes an inflator and an airbag. The airbag includes an airbag body, an inner tube, and a pocket portion. The inner tube includes a tube body and an insertion portion. The pocket portion is provided in a front end portion of the tube body in an insertion direction of the inner tube. A front end portion of the pocket portion in the insertion direction is joined to the tube body at a first joint portion, which extends in an intersecting direction. The intersecting direction intersects the insertion direction. At least one of the opposite end portions of the pocket portion in the intersecting direction is joined to the tube body at a second joint portion that extends in the insertion direction.
US11370368B2
An RV sewage drain hose hanger that may be mounted to an RV or at a suitable location at an RV sewage dump station is disclosed. The apparatus includes an attachment point for the inboard end of the RV drain hose. When the drain hose is connected to the attachment point the hose is retained in a substantially vertical orientation with the open end of the drain hose facing upwardly. Located above the drain hose attachment is a hose support connection that supports a standard garden hose above the sewage drain hose so that the nozzle of the hose is directed downwardly into the open end of the drain hose. The hose support may be defined by a first and optional second platform, each having an opening for the hose. The flow of water from the hose nozzle is aimed directly into the open end of the sewage drain hose.
US11370366B2
A garnish includes a heating element, a base member, and a circuit board. The heating element is configured by stacking first and second sheet materials and interposing a heater wire in between. The circuit board includes a power source line and is fixed to a back surface of the base member. The heating element includes a main body portion and an extending portion. The extending portion includes a power source connection portion for connecting the heater wire to the power source line and extends to the back surface of the base member. The main body portion of the heating element is fixed to a laying surface of the base member by fixing the second sheet material to the base member. The heater wire is exposed in the power source connection portion without stacking the second sheet material on the first sheet material.
US11370363B2
A fishing rod carrier includes a plurality of horizontal elongate tubes each sized to receive a fishing rod, the elongate tubes being stacked on plural levels, each elongate tube is capped at the distal end. A reel box is attached to the proximal ends of the plurality of elongate tubes and defines an interior space that is continuous with an interior of each of the plurality of elongate tubes, and is configured to enclose a plurality of reels while they are attached to a corresponding plurality of fishing rods disposed within the plurality of elongate tubes. A clamping mechanism is configured to secure the fishing rod carrier to a rooftop rack of an auto.
US11370355B2
Various aspects and embodiments of under-hood luminaires are described. In one example, an under-hood luminaire includes a luminaire frame assembly. The luminaire frame assembly includes support braces and a number of cross members secured to the support braces in a spaced-apart configuration. The cross members include mounting surfaces, and light strips are secured to the mounting surfaces. The luminaire also includes a contraction hook assembly that can be used to secure the under-hood luminaire to the hood of an automobile. The luminaire can be relied upon to uniformly illuminate the engine compartment of the automobile, helping to eliminate lost productivity and frustration for mechanics.
US11370354B1
A school bus having a pedestrian lighting system includes bus entrance door lamps that illuminate an area adjacent to the entrance door of the bus. Switch logic circuitry is connected to and controls bus door entrance lamp circuitry that provides power to the bus entrance door lamps. A power cutoff noise suppression switch, which otherwise functions to turn off noise generating devices in the bus when stopping for a railroad crossing, is connected to the switch logic circuitry or to delayed deactivation timer circuitry. The power cutoff noise suppression switch and the switch logic circuitry or the delayed deactivation timer circuitry are configured so that input of the switch logic circuitry to the bus door entrance lamp circuitry is overridden, and the at least one bus entrance door lamp is turned off, when the power cutoff noise suppression switch is activated.
US11370348B2
A method for securing cargo that can form a unit load when the cargo is immobilized on a load carrier or on a vehicle by means of a securing device, and a measuring device for measuring a tensile stress acting on the securing device being disposed on the securing device, the measuring device being equipped with a data processing system having a device for signal transfer to a central data processing system.
US11370336B2
A transit bench seat has a seat with a seat frame. The seat frame is connected to a folding frame that folds between an upright stowed position and a horizontal deployed position. A seat frame cover covers the left or right end of the seat frame. A plurality of rib sections are formed as frame ribs and can be segmented between a vertical fixed portion and a horizontal folding portion. The frame ribs include a first frame rib, a second frame rib, and third frame rib. The frame ribs are formed with a seat nose. The seat nose is supported at a seat nose frame bracket for stability of the frame rib and seat nose. A rear cross bar is placed below a top crossbar. The rear crossbar and the top crossbar are connected to the frame ribs.
US11370334B2
The present invention provides a rotatable safety seat includes a seat body, a seat base and a rotation component. The rotation component is slidably connected between the seat body and the seat base. The seat body is slid relative to the seat base via simultaneous shifting and rotation. The rotation component is slidably connected between the seat body and the seat base. During slid of the seat body, the seat body is shifted due to the slide, the seat body is shifted because of the slide, so as to move the seat body close to or away from the seat base; in the meantime, the seat body is rotated when being shifted, so that the infant or the child on the seat body is moved close to or away from the caretaker according to the actual demand. The present invention further provides a carrier with the rotatable safety seat.
US11370326B2
A detection system may include a first sleeve shaped to receive and retain a buckle of a child safety seat. The first sleeve may include a first body portion shaped to receive and retain the buckle, a male connector portion integrally formed with the first body portion, and a transmitter electrically coupled to the male connector portion. The detection system may include a second sleeve shaped to receive and retain a buckle connector. The second sleeve may include a second body portion shaped to receive and retain the buckle connector, a female connector portion connected to the second body portion, and a battery electrically coupled to the female connector portion and configured to provide energy to the transmitter when the male connector portion communicates with the female connector portion. The transmitter may generate a signal, indicating a presence of a child, when the transmitter receives energy from the battery.
US11370315B2
A hands-free charging system includes an electrical power source and a ground unit electrically connected to the power source. The ground unit includes an energy-storage device and a robotic coupler having a connector and an actuator configured to move the connector into engagement with a vehicle charge port. The energy-storage device is configured to power the actuator. A switching arrangement is configured to selectively electrically connect the power source to the energy-storage device and to the connector. A controller is programmed to, in response to a request to charge a vehicle, connect the connector to a charge port when the connector is electrically disconnected from the power source using an internal power source.
US11370313B2
A method is provided, which includes receiving, at a server, a request from a device to find one or more charge units for charging an electric vehicle at a geographic location. The method includes accessing, by the server, a first database to identify charge units that are associated with the geographic location. The method includes accessing, by the server, a second database to identify discounts available at the charge units identified to be associated with the geographic location. One of the identified discounts on one of the charge units is provided by a first merchant having a business location proximate to the one of the charge units. The method includes sending, by the server, data to the device that identifies one or more of the charge units that are associated with the geographic location, the data further including information regarding one or more discounts identified to be available at one or more of the identified charge units.
US11370308B1
The present disclosure involves an electrical power management module configured to provide electrical power from a power unit to a parallel power bus, comprising: a switch circuit coupleable to the power unit and to the parallel power bus for delivering power from the power unit to the parallel power bus and for charging the power unit from the parallel power bus, the switch circuit changeable between connecting and disconnecting the power unit with the parallel power bus; and a bypass circuit around the switch circuit, coupleable to the power unit and to the parallel power bus for delivering power from the power unit to the parallel power bus and for charging the power unit from the parallel power bus, the bypass circuit comprising a bidirectional power converter.
US11370305B2
An apparatus comprises a first induction section comprising a first core and a first coil on the first core. A second induction section comprises a second core and a second coil on the second core. The first core comprises rail extensions, where at least two of the rail extensions extend from opposite ends of the first core. The second core comprises shoe portions located at respective ones of the rail extensions, where a gap is provided between each of the rail extensions and respective ones of the shoe portion. The second induction section is configured to move relative to the first induction section in a path along the extensions. The first induction section is configured to induce current in the second induction section, including when the second core moves relative to the first core along the extensions, to provide a contactless induction coupling between the first induction section and the second induction section.
US11370303B2
It is aimed to provide a projection system for projecting signal data on a windscreen or side screens of a motor vehicle cabin. The system comprises a light source arranged for emitting a beam and a housing, to be configured at an elevated position in the cabin. The housing comprising a digital mirror device, the digital mirror device arranged pattern the beam of the light source to project an image on at least a front and side window portion of the cabin. Part of the housing is shaped with a reflective surface that is optically inverse to the cabin window geometry, so that, when the digital mirror device projects a single image on the optical surface, it is imaged on the windscreen and at least one of side windows.
US11370299B2
A power transmission device include: a differential having three rotational elements; and a connection switching device that selectively switches a connection relationship among an input shaft, a first output shaft, a second output shaft, and the three rotational elements. Further, the connection switching device selectively fixes any one rotational element to a fixing member, the second power source is coupled to rotational elements other than the rotational element fixed to the fixing member, the differential can be switched between modes including a first mode where any one rotational element among the three rotational elements is coupled to the input shaft, one of the remaining rotational elements is fixed to the fixing member, and the other is coupled to the first output shaft, and a second mode where the three rotational elements are respectively coupled to the second power source, the first output shaft, and the second output shaft.
US11370297B2
The present invention relates to a plastic tank which provides storing of gasoline and urea liquid called adblue, used in automotive industry, particularly in vehicles which operate with gasoline and which reduces the damage of vehicles, which operate with gasoline, to the environment, in a single tank with two chambers, and relates to a special core heating system designed for production of this tank by using rotation technology.
US11370296B2
A reinforcing element for a liquid container for a motor vehicle, having at least one connecting section for connecting the reinforcing element to the liquid container, the connecting section having at least a first and a second web which are made from a first material and are enclosed at least in sections by a second material, the second material penetrating through openings of the webs, and the first web being at a smaller spacing from a longitudinal axis of the reinforcing element than the second web.
US11370289B2
Provided is a work vehicle in which components such as a headlamp are less likely to be affected by heat. The work vehicle includes a running vehicle body which includes running devices and to which a work machine can be replaceably connected; an engine mounted on the running vehicle body and serving as a drive source for the running devices and the work machine; a bonnet covering the engine; a headlamp attached to a front portion of the bonnet; a muffler arranged below the headlamp in an internal space of the bonnet; and a heat shield member arranged between the headlamp and the muffler.
US11370287B2
This vehicle body substructure includes side sill load transmitting members that are provided inside each of side sills, a floor cross-member that is provided on one of an upper surface and a lower surface of a floor panel laid between the side sills and has extending portions extending toward upper portions of the side sill load transmitting members, an underfloor mounting component that is provided below the floor panel and includes an underfloor cross-member, underfloor frames that are attached to lower portions of the underfloor mounting component and the side sills, and underfloor load transmitting members that are provided in the underfloor frames and face the underfloor cross-member. The underfloor load transmitting member has an upper half portion which faces a lower portion of the side sill load transmitting members, and a lower half portion which is fixed to a part of each of the underfloor frames attached to a lower portion of each of the side sills.
US11370273B2
Provided is an instrument panel structure including: a lower panel portion that is provided with an air-conditioning device at an interior thereof, the lower panel portion having, in a vehicle upper portion thereof, a placement surface portion that extends in a vehicle width direction and a vehicle front-rear direction, and having an open portion, for the air-conditioning device, that opens toward a side of the placement surface portion; an upper panel portion that covers the placement surface portion as seen from a vehicle upper side and that is placed on the placement surface portion; and a slit-shaped air outlet portion that is formed between the lower panel portion and the upper panel portion, that extends in the vehicle width direction while facing a seat side, and that communicates the open portion with a vehicle cabin.
US11370269B2
Automotive Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning system includes a recirculation mode to control movement of cabin air in vehicle. Air is recirculated within the vehicle cabin space when the vehicle recirculation mode is on. Air is drawn from outside when the recirculation mode is turned off. Because of the buildup of carbon dioxide (CO2) inside the vehicle, the vehicle needs regular ventilation to maintain low CO2 levels in the vehicle cabin space. A method is described for determining and communicating recirculation mode in a vehicle for improving cabin air quality. The method comprises of capturing an image or video of the traffic ahead of the vehicle using a dashboard or windshield mounted smartphone camera or a vehicle camera, followed by analyzing the image or video of traffic to determine traffic condition as the weighted sum of the sizes of vehicles detected in traffic. The method further comprises of acquiring the number of vehicle occupants and vehicle speed, determining outside air acceptability state based on the traffic condition and the vehicle speed, determining carbon dioxide (CO2) levels in the vehicle cabin space based on the number of vehicle occupants present, determining the final recirculation mode based on the outside air acceptability state and the CO2 levels in the vehicle cabin space, and communicating the final recirculation mode to the vehicle controller or vehicle occupant.
US11370267B2
A working vehicle includes a cabin and an outside air inlet portion. The working vehicle further includes: a filter device having: a first filter providing a first filtering level; and a second filter providing a second filtering level that is a filtering level higher than the first filtering level; an air conditioning unit to which the outside air having passed through the filter device is supplied; and a filter changing mechanism having: a first state to allow the outside air to pass through only the first filter; and a second state to allow the outside air to pass through at least the second filter among the first filter and the second filter, the filter changing mechanism being configured to be selectively switched to the first state or the second state.
US11370262B2
A tiltable motor vehicle having 3 or more wheels and at least one bridge having opposite first and second ends where first and second wheel hub assemblies are disposed. First and second wheels are mounted on the first and second wheel hub assemblies. First and second suspension guides are also associated with the first and second wheel hub assemblies, each being attached to a respective end of the at least one bridge such that the suspension guide is rotatable about at least a tilt axis relative to the at least one bridge. Each wheel hub assembly being movable along or across the respective suspension guide such that the wheels are movable relative to the at least one bridge during suspension action. Movement of the wheels and the wheel hub assemblies associated with suspension rebound and compression action and rotation of the bridges relative to the body associated with tilting action are both substantially independent of movement of the steering element.
US11370261B2
A method and apparatus for a shock absorber for a vehicle having a gas spring with first and second gas chambers, wherein the first chamber is utilized during a first travel portion of the shock absorber and the first and second chambers are both utilized during a second portion of travel. In one embodiment, a travel adjustment assembly is configured to selectively communicate a first gas chamber with a negative gas chamber.
US11370254B2
A tire noise reduction device includes a sound absorbing member made of a porous material; and a band member disposed between the sound absorbing member and the tire inner surface and provided for attaching the sound absorbing member to a tire inner surface, the band member including chamfered portions on both surface sides at both ends in a width direction of the band member.
US11370239B2
A printer includes a holder configured to house rolled recording paper, a cover that is attached to the holder to be openable and closable relative to the holder, and a contact part that is attached to the cover and configured to contact the recording paper. The contact part is configured such that the contact part substantially point-contacts the recording paper, and positions on the contact part contacting the recording paper change as the recording paper is unrolled.
US11370238B2
A recording apparatus includes: an apparatus main body that includes a recording unit; a medium-receiving tray that is configured to be switched between a first state and a second state; and a motor, in which the medium-receiving tray includes a first tray, a second tray that is configured to be displaced with respect to the first tray and that is positioned further than the first tray from the apparatus main body when the medium-receiving tray is in the second state, a pinion gear engaged with a first rack formed in the first tray in a displacement direction of the second tray and with a second rack formed in the second tray in the displacement direction, and a displacement section that supports the pinion gear and that is displaced in the displacement direction in response to receiving power from the motor.
US11370237B2
A roll medium holding device rotatably holds a roll medium. The roll medium holding device includes a medium positioning portion including an inclined surface that contacts an end of the roll medium and a medium holder that is swingable around an axis parallel to a rotation axis of the roll medium and movable in a radial direction of the roll medium. The medium holder presses an inner circumferential surface of the roll medium in a direction from the rotation axis of the roll medium toward the inner circumferential surface of the roll medium.
US11370236B2
A printing apparatus includes a transport roller applying a transport force to a label sheet having a backing sheet to which a label is attached, a printing head performing printing on the label sheet, a detaching roller configured to apply to the backing sheet a tension for detaching the label from the backing sheet at a detaching unit that detaches the label from the backing sheet and apply a transport force to the backing sheet from which the label was detached, and a control unit controlling the transport roller and the detaching roller, wherein the control unit controls driving of the transport roller and the detaching roller such that a front tension, which is a tension applied to the label sheet at the position of the transport roller, when the label sheet is back-fed to upstream in the transport path, is smaller than a front tension when the label sheet is front-fed to downstream.
US11370235B2
A printer includes: a printing head; a conveyor; a cutter for cutting the medium to provide a segmented medium; a discharge roller; a counter roller; a sensor for detecting whether the segmented medium remains between the discharge roller and the counter roller; and a controller configured to perform: setting an operation mode to one of a first mode and a second mode depending on a medium kind; controlling the printing head and the conveyor to perform a first print control on the medium; controlling the sensor to detect whether the segmented medium has been removed; and permitting a second print control to be performed. When the operation mode is the first mode, the second print control is permitted after the sensor detects whether the segmented medium has been removed. When the operation mode is the first mode, the second print control is permitted without controlling the sensor.
US11370234B2
A cutter device, comprising: a first blade including a first cutting edge extending in a first direction; a second blade including a second cutting edge extending in a second direction; and a guide portion provided at a position anterior to the second blade in the second direction, wherein the second blade moves in the second direction to cut a recording medium while leaving a part thereof uncut, and when the second blade is located posterior, in the second direction, to a position where the second blade cuts the recording medium, at least a part of the guide portion is located to protrude farther in the first direction than the first cutting edge, or located at a same position as the first cutting edge.
US11370223B2
The present subject matter relates to accessing memory units in a memory bank. In an example implementation, a bank select transistor is common to a plurality of memory units in a memory bank. The bank select transistor facilitates accessing a memory unit of the plurality of memory units based on a bank select signal.
US11370218B2
An inkjet print apparatus includes a print head discharging ink onto a substrate, the print head including a first heater; a reservoir storing the ink; a first pipe supplying the ink to the reservoir; a second pipe collecting surplus ink; a mixing unit located on the first pipe and mixing the ink; a pump located on the second pipe and pressurizing and supplying the surplus ink to the reservoir; a temperature sensor located between the mixing unit and the print head and sensing a temperature of the ink; and a controller controlling a temperature of at least one of the first heater and the second heater in response to information received from the temperature sensor. The print head includes a heat insulator blocking heat emitted from the first heater between the substrate and the first heater.
US11370209B2
A method of producing a veneered element, including providing a substrate, applying a sub-layer on a surface of the substrate, applying a veneer layer on the sub-layer, and applying pressure to the veneer layer and/or the substrate, such that at least a portion of the sub-layer permeates through the veneer layer. Also, such a veneered element.
US11370194B2
The present invention concerns a process for preparing a microfibrous multilayer composite material comprising: 1) realizing a non-woven microfibrous semi-finished product made up of microfibres of one or more polymers dispersed in a polyurethane matrix (semi-finished product IE); 2) cutting the semi-finished product lengthwise into two layers; 3) buffing at least one layer on one side (side N) so as to extract the microfibres and form the nap, thereby obtaining a semi-finished raw product; 4) cutting at least one semi-finished raw product lengthwise parallel to the surfaces, producing an non-woven intermediate product, containing the buffed side (side N) and a waste layer (containing the side that has not been buffed—side S); 5) coupling the non-woven intermediate product (on the side opposite side N) to a fabric made of polyethylene terephthalate fibres by means of the application of a thermoplastic polyurethane adhesive that can be cross-linked between the non-woven intermediate product and the fabric; 6) submitting the multilayer composite material to a jet dyeing process. The invention also concerns a multilayer composite material that can be obtained by the process of the invention and the use thereof for covering the internal side of roofs or headliners of vehicles and for covering furnishing elements.
US11370192B2
A carbon fiber-reinforced molded article includes an arranged composite material and a cured resin product. The composite material includes a carbon fiber bundle and carbon nanotubes. The carbon fiber bundle is in which a plurality of continuous carbon fibers are arranged. The carbon nanotubes adhere to respective surfaces of the carbon fibers. A modulus of elasticity obtained by conducting a three-point bending test with a cushioning material is smaller than a modulus of elasticity obtained by conducting the three-point bending test without the cushioning material.
US11370189B2
A motor vehicle with a compressor assembly for the supply of a pressure medium to a tire cavity of a tire of a motor vehicle. The compressor assembly has a compression chamber which is rotationally fixed in relation to the motor vehicle wheel, and the compression chamber and the tire cavity are connected via a fluidic connection for the conveying of a pressure medium from the compression chamber into the tire cavity. A tire sealing device has a sealant reservoir with a first connection fluidically connected to a tire cavity of a tire of the motor vehicle to be repaired, and a second connection fluidically connected to a pressure medium source secured to the motor vehicle. The sealant is conveyed out of the pressure medium source into the tire cavity of the tire to be repaired by means of the pressure medium.
US11370186B2
A method of forming a corrugated fluoropolymer tube is disclosed. The method comprises the step of providing a tube comprising extruded fluoropolymer without corrugations or convolutions disposed on a mandrel. The mandrel has a first cylindrical portion and a flaring portion that extends to a second cylindrical portion, the second portion having an outer diameter which is larger than an outer diameter of the first portion. The method also includes the step of moving the tube on a longitudinal axis along the mandrel thereby forcing an outer surface of the tube into flights disposed at a pitch angle on a plurality of thread rollers which are rotating, the plurality of thread rollers adjacent to and circumferentially distributed around the flaring portion and/or second cylindrical portion of the mandrel, wherein external force is exerted on the outer surface of the tube to form corrugations having adjacent peaks and roots.
US11370175B2
An optical element includes an optical lens produced by an additive manufacturing method and a holder formed at least in part with the optical lens by the additive manufacturing method. The holder is adapted for cooperation with a manufacturing machine to thereby position the optical lens at a predetermined position in the manufacturing machine. A corresponding assembly and a method of manufacturing an optical element are also described.
US11370169B2
An apparatus for preventing photocuring of biomaterial in a discharge nozzle and in a dispenser of a bio 3D printer includes a driving unit for providing a driving force, a shutter member that receives the driving force from the driving unit and to move between a first position not covering the discharge nozzle and a second position covering at least the discharge nozzle in a reciprocating manner, and a control unit for controlling the discharge nozzle. The driving unit, the shutter member, the discharge nozzle, and the plurality of light sources constitute a head unit in an integrated manner. The head unit includes an end plane. The shutter member and a distal end of the discharge nozzle are positioned near a center of the end plane. The plurality of light sources are positioned on the end plane with the shutter member and the discharge nozzle therebetween.
US11370157B2
The invention is directed to a method for manufacturing a foil having a variable strip geometry, which makes it possible to supply a foil that bears a complex security feature. The present invention is further directed to a corresponding data carrier having the foil supplied, and to the foil itself. The invention further relates to an extruder system for manufacturing a foil having a variable strip geometry and to a computer program product having control commands that implement the proposed method and/or operate the proposed extruder system.
US11370145B2
Systems and methods for treating wood products are provided. The methods comprise preconditioning the wood product by irradiating one or more surfaces of the wood product with infrared (IR) and/or ultraviolet (UV) radiation and subsequently treating the wood product. The systems comprise one or more fixtures positioned to irradiate one or more surfaces of the wood product with IR and/or UV radiation, wherein each fixture comprises a reflector and a radiation source.
US11370144B2
A method for sequencing veneer to lumbercore includes receiving a veneer grain width input and a veneer thickness input, determining a cut angle based on the veneer grain width input and the veneer thickness input, receiving a lumbercore width input and a lumbercore height input, determining a set of dimensions for a stack of lumber, and generating a template mapping the lumbercore to the stack of lumber, where the template is based on the lumbercore width input, the lumbercore height input, and the set of dimensions for the stack of lumber, where the lumbercore is rotated within the template at an angle relative to horizontal within the stack of lumber by an amount equal to the cut angle.
US11370143B2
The present invention provides a chain saw, which includes a housing, a driving assembly mounted on the housing, a guide plate extending outward from the housing, a chain arranged on the guide plate and driven by the driving assembly, and a tension assembly for tightening the chain. The tension assembly includes an operating member and a driving member driven by the operating member, the driving member cooperates with the guide plate, and when a driving force is applied to the operating member, the driving member is driven and the guide plate is moved to tension the chain, and after the chain is tensioned, if the driving force is continuously applied to the operating member, the operating member disengages with the driving member, and the operating member continues to move to compress the guide plate.
US11370141B2
Embodiments provide a pre-cut infeed system for a machine center, such as an edger. A pre-cut infeed system may include an infeed, one or more saws arranged along the infeed, and a scanner optimizer system. The scanner optimizer system may scan a workpiece and determine whether greater value can be obtained from the workpiece by cutting the workpiece transversely into two or more pieces upstream of the machine center. If so, the workpiece may be cut transversely by the saw(s) positioned along the infeed, and the cut pieces may be fed sequentially into the machine center.
US11370139B2
The invention relates to a device, a method and an assembly of parts produced by cutting in a block B of metal or composite material, following a determined trajectory. The device comprises a guide (3) forming said trajectory and a support (chain 9) mounted in the guide in a sliding manner, comprising a lateral blank (23) provided with at least one cutting plate (24) comprising a protruding cutting edge (25) arranged so as to carry out the cutting in a normal direction (26) in relation to the blank.
US11370131B2
An abnormality detecting device determines an abnormality in an apparatus by comparing data on vibration detected in the apparatus with a predetermined threshold. Moreover, the abnormality detecting device changes the threshold depending on a length of work time required for the apparatus to perform a certain work.
US11370123B2
A method may be provided for controlling a mobile robot. This may include receiving user input including a predetermined service request by the mobile robot, receiving an article to be served, by the mobile robot, searching for a user, analyzing a gesture of the user, and extracting a serving position, by the mobile robot, analyzing an image of the serving position and extracting a distance and height of the serving position, moving the mobile robot to the serving position and lifting the served article to be served, to a height of the serving position, and putting down the article to be served at the serving position by horizontally moving the article to be served to the serving position.
US11370119B2
The present disclosure provides a distributed congestion control method and a robot. The method includes: disposing a first area and a second area centered on a target point; detecting, when a first robot moves towards the target point, whether there are other robots in the second area or not, and in a case where there are other robots in the second area, coordinating the first robot and the other robots to determine a second robot allowed to simultaneously enter the first area; and controlling the second robot to move towards the target point in a case where the second robot has entered the first area.
US11370114B2
An autoteach enclosure system includes a plurality of surfaces that at least partially enclose an interior volume of the autoteach enclosure system. The autoteach enclosure system further includes an autoteach pin at least partially disposed within the interior volume. The autoteach pin is a scannable feature having a fixed position within the autoteach enclosure system. The autoteach enclosure system further includes a front interface coupled to one or more of the plurality of surfaces to interface the autoteach enclosure system with a substantially vertical portion of a load port of a wafer processing system. The autoteach pin enables an autoteach operation of a robot arm of the wafer processing system. The autoteach operation is an operation to automatically teach the fixed position within the autoteach enclosure system to the robot arm of the wafer processing system.
US11370113B2
An apparatus, system and process for guiding a surgeon during a medical procedure to prevent surgical mistakes are described. The system may include a machine learning medical procedure server that generates one or more machine learning medical procedure models using, at least, medical procedure data captured during medical procedures performed at a plurality of different medical procedure systems. The system may also include a medical procedure system communicably coupled with the machine learning medical procedure server that receives a selected machine learning medical procedure model from the machine learning medical procedure server, and utilizes the selected machine learning medical procedure model during a corresponding medical procedure to control one or more operations of the medical procedure system.
US11370108B2
Systems and techniques for a sensor carrier, and intelligent track infrastructure for the navigation and operation of the sensor carrier are described. The sensor carrier is an autonomous robot navigating a track. The carrier holds cameras and other sensors to receive horticultural images and telemetry for plants in a grow operation. The carrier reads embedded signals in the track including Radio Frequency Identifier (RFID) tags, embedded positioning magnets, and drilled hole patterns for a beam breaking system to determine navigation and operation. For tracks placed at sharp angles, a transfer station with wall guards to prevent the carrier from falling enable safe transfers from different track segments. Additional features include an emergency stop (e-stop) switch and power management for autonomous sensor carriers.
US11370106B2
The invention relates to a handling device (1), having a drive carriage (2) that is movable relative to a carrier (3), wherein a scissor lift (7) having a plurality of scissor-lift members (8) is arranged with its first end on the drive carriage (2), wherein a carrier plate (11) that is movable relative to the drive carriage (2) by means of the scissor lift (7) is arranged at the second end of the scissor lift (7), wherein: a gripping tool is arranged on the carrier plate (11), the scissor-lift members (8) are hollow throughout and are sealingly interconnected in order to actuate the gripping tool by means of a gaseous medium.
US11370102B2
A method for sensing at least one characteristic value of at least one tool, in particular a hand-held power tool, includes detachably connecting the tool to at least one additional module and detecting with the additional module at least one characteristic value of the tool. The method further includes carrying out at least one training operation. The training operation includes deriving at least one reference value from the at least one characteristic value via the additional module and storing the reference value.
US11370092B2
A torque connector structure includes a first body, a second body assembled with the first body, a first drive member assembled with the first body, a second drive member received in the first body and having a plurality of first receiving grooves each having a cylindrical shape, a third drive member received in the first body and the second body, a fourth drive member mounted on the third drive member and having a plurality of second receiving grooves, an elastic member biased between the first drive member and the second drive member, and a plurality of pins received between the first receiving grooves and the second receiving grooves. The second drive member and the first drive member are driven simultaneously.
US11370072B2
Exemplary embodiments are directed to equipment cabinets for customized improved cable management and airflow management. The equipment cabinets include a frame structure. The frame structure includes a top frame assembly and a bottom frame assembly. In some embodiments, the equipment cabinets include a chimney assembly. In some embodiments, the equipment cabinets include a slidable vertical rail. In some embodiments, the equipment cabinets include a rotatable top panel. In some embodiments, the equipment cabinets include a condition monitoring assembly. In some embodiments, the equipment cabinets include a reinforced corner construction. In some embodiments, the equipment cabinets include divider panels capable of being split. Embodiments are also directed to methods of equipment cabinet assembly.
US11370067B2
An aluminum alloy brazing sheet includes a four-layer material containing an intermediate layer formed of an aluminum alloy including Mn of from 0.2 to less than 0.35 mass %, Si of 0.6 mass % or less, Fe of 0.7 mass % or less, and Cu of 0.1 mass % or less, with the balance being Al and inevitable impurities, a core material formed of an aluminum alloy including Si of 1.2 mass % or less, Fe of 1.0 mass % or less, Cu of from 0.3 to 1.0 mass %, and Mn of from 0.5 to 2.0 mass %, with the balance being Al and inevitable impurities, and each of an air-side brazing material layer and an internal brazing material layer is formed of an aluminum alloy including Si of from 4 to 13 mass %, with the balance being Al and inevitable impurities.
US11370064B2
A light-absorbing layer and a bonding layer are layered on a first side of each of a belt-shaped male base portion integrated with a male portion and a female base portion integrated with a female portion on a side of the male and female base portions opposite the first side. The light-absorbing layer contains a light-absorbing material having a wavelength absorption range from 800 nm to 1200 nm to absorb a laser beam of the range. The bonding layer contains a low-melting-point resin in a form of a metallocene linear low-density polyethylene having a melting point ranging from 60 degrees C. to 120 degrees C. When the zipper tape is bonded to the base film, the laser beam is applied to heat the light-absorbing layer to melt the bonding layer. The melted bonding layer is pressure-bonded to the base film. The base film can be bonded without causing thermal degradation.
US11370061B2
An optical arrangement for direct laser interference structuring. A laser beam is directed to a reflecting mirror with inclined surface and strikes a first beam splitter, it is divided into two partial beams and one partial beam is deflected to a focusing element. The second partial laser beam is directed to a first pentamirror and after multiple reflection and/or refraction, the focusing element, or it is directed to a second beam splitter and is divided into a first partial beam and a third partial beam. The partial beams are directed to the focusing element by the first pentamirror and are directed by the focusing element to the surface to be structured interfering with each other. The reflecting mirror is moved in a translational manner, maintaining a 45° angle parallel to the optical axes of the emitted laser beam influencing the interference period Λ.
US11370058B2
A method for loading feedstock bars into an additive friction stir deposition machine (AFSD) is described. The method comprises containing a plurality of feedstock bars in a container disposed adjacent to a spindle of the additive friction stir deposition machine. The method further comprises moving one feedstock bar of the plurality of feedstock bars into axial alignment with the spindle of the additive friction stir deposition machine.
US11370056B2
An ultrasonic welding apparatus (50) includes a sonotrode (8) with a working surface (10), an anvil (4) with a working surface (11), which lies opposite the working surface (10) of the sonotrode (8), and two side delimiters (5, 6) with respective side delimiting surfaces (12, 13). The working surfaces (10, 11) and the side delimiting surfaces (12, 13) delimit a compression chamber (9) for placing an elongated welding material (60) in a welding material direction (B). The ultrasonic welding apparatus (50) has a clamping device (14), by which the anvil (4) is clamped at least in a welding position (S) by a clamping force, which acts on at least part of a side (15) of the engaging surface (26) of the anvil (4) that lies opposite the working surface (11) of the anvil (4), in the direction of the sonotrode (8). A method for ultrasonic welding is also disclosed.
US11370038B2
According to one implementation, a drill includes: a body without a back taper and a cutting edge part. The body has a flow path of a cutting oil. The flow path is branched to first and second flow paths inside the body. The cutting edge part has a first supply port that supplies the cutting oil toward a workpiece. The first supply port is an outlet of the first flow path. The body has a second supply port that supplies the cutting oil to a clearance between the body and a bush for positioning the body. The second supply port is an outlet of the second flow path. The second flow path has a pressure loss by which the cutting oil is not scattered from the second supply port in a radial direction of the body but exuded from the second supply port.
US11370020B2
The invention relates to a method for producing casting bodies in a levitation melting method in which a batch of an electrically conductive material is brought into the sphere of influence of at least one alternating electromagnetic field by means of a starting material having a plurality of pre-separated batches separated by regions of reduced cross-section so that the batch is kept in a state of levitation. The regions are designed in such a way that separation of the pre-separated batches takes place only during melting in an alternating electromagnetic field. The melt is then cast into casting moulds.
US11370006B2
A waste disposal system with a waste receiver for receiving pharmaceutical waste material. A locking assembly is secured to a fixed surface and actuated from a locked configuration to an unlocked configuration. A lock cylinder of the locking assembly may extend forward of a front wall of a receiver body of the waste receiver to engage a locking feature of the cover in the locked configuration. A cover retention feature may prevent axial decoupling of the cover from the receiver body. An engagement feature is moved to be disengaged from the receiver body, and the receiver body is moved away from the fixed surface to disengage the locking assembly from the cover. The cover is decoupled from the cover retention feature, and coupled with the receiver body to seal the pharmaceutical waste material. The locking assembly may be removed from a lock passageway for disposal of the waste receiver.
US11370003B2
A cleaning device includes a main body housing, a cleaning liquid tank, a pressure sensor and a flow controller. By arranging one or more pressure sensors on a gripping portion of the main body housing and movably fitting flow limiters of the flow controller with liquid outlets of the cleaning liquid tank, a control component of the flow controller drives the flow limiters according to a pressure signal transmitted by the one or more pressure sensors, such that a flow limiting area of the flow limiters fitted with the liquid outlets is changed. As such, when gripping the cleaning device, a user can control an outflow of cleaning liquid by a pressure applied to the one or more pressure sensors by hand during gripping, such that the liquid outflow meets use requirement for each single squeeze.
US11369995B2
A method for controlling a mobile device—placed on a holder, comprising an interface plate configured to be touched by an object so as to control the device, and comprising at least two movement sensors configured to detect a movement of the device—comprises a) applying an object to the holder at a point of impact located outside the interface plate, the application of the object leading to a propagation of a vibration wave that propagates along the holder, toward the mobile device; b) detecting, with each movement sensor, the vibration wave at a detection time; c) comparing detection times detected by each movement sensor, respectively; d) estimating a position of the point of impact on the holder, depending on the comparison carried out in c); and e) generating a control signal of the mobile device depending on the position estimated in d).
US11369989B2
The present invention is directed to a method for manufacturing a corrosion resistant wheel adapted for securement to a vehicle and/or trailer, including the steps of: providing a wheel body, mechanically abrading and/or chemically etching at least one surface of the wheel body, applying a primary anticorrosion composition, forming a primary anticorrosion layer, applying a secondary anticorrosion composition, and forming a secondary anticorrosion layer, applying a tertiary anticorrosion composition, and forming a tertiary anticorrosion layer.
US11369971B2
A method of manufacturing pulp using corn stalks may include cutting the corn stalks into pieces having a length of 10 to 60 mm, separating and discharging the cut corn stalks into rind and pith using a separation unit while crushing the cut corn stalks, pretreating the corn stalks by filtering the rind and pith of the corn stalks and flakes of the rind, removing a portion of hemicellulose of the rind, and cooking the rind from which the portion of hemicellulose has been removed, using caustic soda and sodium carbonate.
US11369970B2
A crusher having a substantially tubular casing, closed in an upper region by a cover and in a lower region by a base. The crusher also includes a rotating shaft, which is internal and coaxial to the casing, with multiple supporting elements, each element for supporting a number of crushing elements, being keyed to the shaft. The crushing elements have circular trajectories with a circumference that at least partially increases from the upper region toward the lower region of the crusher.
US11369968B2
The present invention provides devices, systems, and methods for rapid and easy-to-use in sample thermal cycling or temperature changes for the facilitation of reactions such as but not limited to PCR.
US11369967B2
A cartridge comprises a housing; a sample mixing compartment disposed within the housing, the sample mixing compartment comprising: an activation pouch, and a sample collection region; and a gas transporter tube having a first end and a second end, the tube being disposed within the housing adjacent to the sample mixing compartment, wherein the sample mixing compartment is partially defined by a moveable door of the housing, the moveable door providing access to the sample mixing compartment when the door is in an open position and preventing access to the sample mixing compartment when the door is in a closed position; and wherein the door is configured to release contents of the activation pouch upon movement from the open position to the closed position.
US11369959B2
The present invention aims at providing a fluidic device that can hold a large amount of solutions in a reservoir without depending on an attitude. The reservoir includes a meandering flow path including: a plurality of first flow paths that extend linearly along a first direction and that are arranged to be spaced in a second direction crossing the first direction; and a second flow path that extends linearly along the second direction such that a connection between first end sides of the adjacent first flow paths and a connection between second end sides of the adjacent first flow paths are alternately switched along the second direction for each first flow path, wherein the meandering flow path meanders along the second direction. When the length of each of the first flow path and the second flow path is L, a surface tension is γ, the density of the solution is ρ, the acceleration which includes a gravity and which is applied to the solution is G, the wetted perimeter length of the first flow path and the second flow path is Wp, a cross-sectional area of the first flow path and the second flow path is A, a receding contact angle is α, and an advancing contact angle is β, a relationship L≤(γ×Wp×(cos α−cos β))/(ρ×A×G) is satisfied.
US11369945B2
A method and microfluidic device with a porous polymer monolith in a channel of the device with capture affinity element (such as an oligonucleotide complementary to a DNA target from the KPC antibiotic resistance gene) on the monolith surface.
US11369941B2
A method for preparing a porous carbon material by using coal tar generated in a coke oven gas (COG) process is provided. The method includes: removing quinoline insoluble (QI) by mixing tetrahydrofuran (THF) with coal tar generated in a COG purification process; distilling coal tar by adding a phenolic resin to the QI-removed coal tar, and heating the same at a temperature of 100° C. to 330° C.; carbonizing the distilled coal tar by heating the same at 350° C. to 600° C.; mixing a carbide after the carbonization step and the coal tar, which has been distilled before the carbonization, and grinding/granulating the same; mixing the ground/granulated carbide and the coal tar, which has been distilled before the carbonization, with a pore forming agent, and heat treating the same at 300° C. to 500° C.; and forming pores by making the heat treated carbon material come into contact with water vapor at 700° C. to 1000° C.
US11369936B2
The present disclosure provides, inter alia, specially designed DNA adaptors and methods of preparing the same. Methods and kits for carrying out and detecting marker-free precision genome editing and genetic variation using such adaptors are also provided.
US11369931B2
A bi-modal radial flow reactor comprising a cylindrical outer housing surrounding at least five cylindrical, concentric zones, including at least three annulus vapor zones and at least two catalyst zones. The at least two catalyst zones comprise an outer catalyst zone and an inner catalyst zone. The at least three annulus vapor zones comprise an outer annulus vapor zone, a middle annulus vapor zone, and a central annulus vapor zone, wherein the central annulus vapor zone extends along a centerline of the bi-modal radial flow reactor. The outer catalyst zone is intercalated with the outer annulus vapor zone and the middle annulus vapor zone, and the inner catalyst zone is intercalated with the middle annulus vapor zone and the central annulus vapor zone. A removable head cover can be fixably coupled to a top of the cylindrical outer housing to seal a top of the bi-modal radial flow reactor.
US11369923B2
A portable water conditioning system is provided that includes a water conditioner, a first sensor, a second sensor, and a controller. The water conditioner has a plurality of conditioning stages that condition water. The plurality of conditioning stages include, in a direction of flow of the water through the water conditioner, a reverse osmosis stage and a deionizing stage. The first sensor detects a first condition of the water before the reverse osmosis stage. The second sensor detects a second condition of the water after the reverse osmosis stage. The controller is in communication with the first and second sensors and determines a health status of the reverse osmosis stage based the first and second conditions. The first and second conditions each include a level of total dissolved solids of the water.
US11369920B2
A compressed air drying system is provided for removing moisture from compressed air. The dryer operates in two modes in response to the demand for compressed air. In a first mode of operation, a refrigeration compressor runs continuously and the speed of a condenser fan is varied to maintain a constant cooling temperature. In a second mode of operation, the refrigeration compressor runs intermittently between on and off periods. As result, the cooling temperature fluctuates during the second mode of operation.
US11369915B2
A pressure swing adsorption type hydrogen manufacturing apparatus includes a process control unit that controls operation of adsorption towers that generate a product gas by adsorbing, using adsorbents, adsorption target components other than hydrogen components from a source gas, in a state where an adsorption process, a pressure-equalization discharge process, a desorption process, and a pressure-restoration process are successively repeated. The process control unit is configured to control operation of the adsorption towers in such a manner that a prior pressure-equalization process is performed in an initial stage of a unit processing period, a subsequent pressure-equalization process is performed in a final stage of the unit processing period, a pressurization process of introducing a product gas to perform pressurization is performed, as the pressure-restoration process, subsequently to the prior pressure-equalization process, and the pressurization process is performed while overlapping with the subsequent pressure-equalization process.
US11369911B2
A filter mounting assembly for use with a structure having front and interconnecting side faces surrounding an air intake opening. The assembly includes at least one “L” shaped member adapted to be secured to either of the front or side faces of the structure on either side of the intake opening. A track is secured to each of the members so that an interior accessible channel of each track is arrayed in opposing fashion on opposite sides of the opening forward of the front intake face. A plurality of rollers are contained within each of the rails, the rollers each further including a forward extending hook portion projection from the interior track channels. A covering is provided having a plurality of side edge proximate located eyelets, the hook portions engaging through the eyelets for supporting the covering over the opening.
US11369909B2
Systems and methods are provided for predicting failure of an air filter within an HVAC installation. Also provided are methods for calibrating the systems described. The system provided typically includes air filters and vents, and a processor at an application server configured to implement methods described. Each vent may include various sensors, such as a temperature sensor or a sensor for evaluating indoor air quality. The method may receive information about a total volume of air pumped by an HVAC system over time, determine the volumetric quantity of air passing through a particular filter, and compare that quantity of air to a threshold amount representing the lifetime, or some percentage of the lifetime of the filter. Where the system includes multiple vents and multiple filters, the system may implement a model for calculating the volumetric quantity of air associated with each individual filter.
US11369907B2
A filter cartridge has a filter medium that is provided at least on an end face with a flange that serves for the installation of the filter cartridge in a filter arrangement, whereby the flange has a radial flange and a support section, whereby the support section extends in the lengthwise direction of the filter cartridge.
US11369902B2
A filter cap includes a first end and a second end facing away from the first end. A first cylindrical projection projects from the first end of the filter cap and a second cylindrical projection projects from the second end. An annular recess is formed around the first cylindrical projection. The second cylindrical projection includes at least one peripheral groove for an O-ring and a plurality of radially inward extending ridges. A passageway extends through the first and second projections. The passageway has a first dimension in the first projection, a second dimension greater than the first dimension in the second projection near a distal end of the second projection, and a third dimension smaller than the second dimension within the second projection between the plurality of ridges.
US11369896B2
The present disclosure relates to, inter alia, a method of quantitating an amount of an antibody molecule from a mixture comprising two or more antibody molecules, comprising separating each of the two or more antibody molecules from the mixture by hydrophobic interaction chromatography high performance liquid chromatography (HIC-HPLC) and quantitating an amount of each antibody molecule, wherein the molecular weight of each antibody molecule is within 15 kDa of any other antibody molecule in the mixture and either each antibody molecule is different from another antibody molecule in the mixture by more than about 0.25 unit on the Kyte & Doolittle hydropathy scale or each of the antibody molecules when run alone on HIC-HPLC elutes at distinct run time with little overlap from the other antibody molecules in the mixture, or both.
US11369886B2
Exemplary communication system 1 includes game devices 10, communication terminals 20, and game support server 30. Game devices 10 enable users to perform a multi-play activity. Each of communication terminals 20 runs an application associated with corresponding game device 10. Game support server 30 divides communication terminals 20 into separate communication groups in accordance with a situation of the multi-play activity performed by game devices 10 so that communication terminals 20 belonging to a same communication group can communicate with each other.
US11369885B1
Various aspects of the subject technology relate to systems, methods, and machine-readable media for extracting information from videos. The method includes annotating portions of interest within screen captures. The method also includes receiving at least a first set of videos for a video game. The method also includes training a first machine-learning model to identify the portions of interest within the first set of videos. The method also includes generating validation data based on results of the first machine-learning model. The method also includes extracting information based on the portions of interest identified in the first set of videos.
US11369882B2
A server in conjunction with a terminal device detects a status of a non-time element differing from a time element among game elements; executes area setting processing for setting a game field to a first game area and a second game area that differs from the first game area in accordance with the detected status of the non-time element; executes, at least when the second game area has been set by the area setting processing, constraint setting processing of setting a given constraint in the game on a player character belonging to the second game area; and providing the terminal device with information for controlling a player character on which the given constraint in the game has been imposed as a player character belonging to the second game area and controlling a player character belonging to the first game area without imposing the given constraint in the game.
US11369881B2
A method of predicting a game objective completion time for a particular game objective for a particular user includes, for the particular user, determining a game objective completion time decile for a preceding predetermined number of other game objectives completed by the particular user, deriving a representative completion time decile from a plurality of game objective completion time deciles for the particular user, and identifying a time band classification of the particular user using the representative completion time decile for the particular user as input to a generated time band classification; and outputting predicted game objective completion time data for the particular game objective for the particular user based upon the identified time band classification.
US11369877B2
As a user interface (UI) when changing a wearing item, a UI showing a change in a parameter in a case where a wearing item set to a player object is changed to another wearing item, from a state before the change, is generated. Here, an additional item that adds a change to the parameter independently of the wearing item can be set to the wearing item. The UI is configured such that it is possible to switch between a first display showing a change in the parameter such that an effect of the additional item is reflected and a second display showing a change in the parameter such that the effect of the additional item is not reflected. Change of the wearing item is fixed on the basis of a wearing instruction input.
US11369871B2
Methods and systems are provided for generating an outcome of a previous gameplay. The method includes providing access of a recording of the previous gameplay, the recording is one that was shared by a player for the previous gameplay. The method includes providing an interface that identifies one or more what-if scenarios for the previous gameplay. The one or more what-if scenarios being selected for inclusion into the interface is based on processing the recording of the previous gameplay through a machine learning model to identify what-if scenarios for the user, and options for what-if scenarios are provided to the interface. The method includes enabling the selection of at least one of the what-if scenarios from the options. The selection causes an adjustment to metadata associated with the recording of the previous gameplay. The method includes replaying the recording that was selected using the adjusted metadata to generate the alternative outcome of the previous gameplay.
US11369869B2
A game controller includes a first handle body. The first handle body includes a first operation interface, a first connection portion, a first control circuit, a first battery, and a first communication module. The first operation interface is electrically connected to the first connection portion. The first communication module includes a first wireless communication circuit and a first wired communication circuit. The first control circuit is electrically connected to the first communication module, the first battery, the first operation interface and the first connection portion. The first mobile device is disposed at a side of the first handle body. When the first mobile device is electrically connected to the first connection portion of the first handle body, the first control circuit turns on the first wired communication circuit of the first communication module to communicate with the first mobile device by the first connection portion.
US11369863B2
A building and demolition game apparatus includes a base, a plurality of rectangular block elements, a monitoring unit, a game control unit and a force generating unit. The base has an assembly platform located on an upside of the base. The rectangular block elements layered to form a tower, which is stood on the assembly platform. The tower has upper and lower layers held by frictional coupling between the layers. The tower height increases during game play by removing block elements from one or more lower layers to build up successive upper layers upon the assembly platform. The monitoring unit is disposed in the base to obtain at least two boundary conditions by continuously monitoring. The game control unit is disposed in the base to generate a control signal according to a predetermined threshold and the at least two boundary conditions. The force generating unit is disposed in the base and under the assembly platform. The force generating unit is applying a force forward to the assembly platform according to the control signal generated by the game control unit.
US11369860B2
A truck having configured to couple with a deck. The truck including a base and a hanger. The hanger disposed within a hanger aperture of the base. The hanger rotatably coupled with the base by a pivot assembly. The rotation of the hanger with respect to the base controlled by a compression assembly.
US11369855B2
A fitness-equipment storage bench for use in aiding or supplementing a physical activity in a physical-activity environment whilst enabling storage of fitness equipment, the fitness-equipment storage bench comprising a cuboidal or substantially cuboidal body having first and second ends, two opposing sides between the first and second ends, a top and a bottom; at least one recess formed in one of the said sides; at least one cantilevered bar support in the recess for supporting a dumbbell such that a grip axis of the dumbbell is received entirely within the recess; at least one rotatable element at or adjacent to the first end or the second end to facilitate reorientation of the bench; a pivotable user back support on the top of the cuboidal body; and a stay associated with the back support to hold the back support in at least one raised condition.
US11369834B2
An exercise apparatus that a user can readily assemble and disassemble includes an elongated body and two inserts. The inserts can be stored within the elongated body or can be deployed in openings in the side of the body, and in that position, the inserts operate as legs for the body. The exercise apparatus can serve as a handle for pushups. The exercise apparatus can operate independently or with a slide pad to allow the user to use sliding push-ups. When the inserts are removed, the body can serve as a handle for straps for use with suspension exercises.
US11369825B2
A balancing exercise rod apparatus for working out while walking or jogging includes a grip bar having a left end and a right end. A pair of wheels is coupled to the grip bar. The pair of wheels includes a left wheel and a right wheel rotatably coupled to the left end and the right end of the grip bar, respectively. Each of the wheels has a hub rotatably coupled to the grip bar, a plurality of spokes extending from the hub, and a rim portion. The rim portion has an inner side, an outer side, an interior face, and an exterior face. The plurality of spokes extends from the hub to the interior face. A plurality of wheel weights is coupled to the pair of wheels. The plurality of wheel weights is coupled within the rim portion.
US11369815B2
A mask seal test method, device, and system of using the same are described herein. One method for testing a mask seal can include blocking a respirator cartridge to create pressure within a mask, wherein the mask includes a pressure sensor, measuring pressure values within the mask using the pressure sensor, and notifying a user in response to an increased pressure decay value among the pressure values received by the mask identification reader.
US11369805B2
A system and method for adapting treatment plan are provided. The method may include: obtaining a planning image of a region of interest relating to a first treatment fraction of a first treatment plan; obtaining a first image of the region of interest relating to a first scan of the region of interest with a first dose level; comparing the planning image with the first image to generate a first comparison result; determining whether the first comparison result satisfies a first replanning condition; causing, in response to a determination that the first comparison result satisfies the first replanning condition, one or more scanners to perform a second scan with a second dose level to provide a second image; and generating a second treatment plan according to the second image, wherein the second dose level is higher than the first dose level.
US11369802B2
A method for applying cannabidiol onto and into the skin is provided. The method includes applying cannabidiol onto skin and irradiating the skin and the cannabidiol with a laser light. The laser light has a wavelength ranging from 800 nm to 870 nm. The irradiating of the skin with the laser light results in at least some of the cannabidiol penetrating into the skin. The cannabidiol can be provided in a kit with a laser emitting tool.
US11369800B2
The present invention is directed to an EMI feedthrough filter terminal assembly. The EMI feedthrough filter terminal assembly comprises: a feedthrough filter capacitor having a plurality of first electrode layers and a plurality of second electrode layers, a first passageway therethrough having a first termination surface conductively coupling the plurality of first electrode layers, a second termination surface conductively coupling the plurality of second electrode layers; a feedthrough ferrule conductively coupled to the feedthrough filter capacitor via the second termination surface; at least one conductive terminal pin extending through the passageway in conductive relation with the plurality of first electrode layers; an insulator fixed to the feedthrough ferrule for conductively isolating the conductive terminal pin from the feedthrough ferrule; and a laminated insulative layer between the insulator and the feedthrough filter capacitor.
US11369797B2
A neural stimulation and recording electrode assembly includes a selectively deformable guide tube. The guide tube includes a plurality of sequentially coupled connecting structures, wherein each connecting structure of the plurality of connecting structures has a respective central axis, and wherein at least one of the plurality of connecting structures is selectively deformable relative to the central axis of a sequential connecting structure of the plurality of connecting structures such that the central axis of the selectively deformable connecting structure is angularly oriented relative to the central axis of the sequential connecting structure. The electrode assembly further includes an electrode subassembly having a central axis and a plurality of electrode contacts that are configured for selective radial movement about and between a retracted position and a deployed position, wherein in the deployed position, and relative to the central axis, each electrode contact is spaced radially outwardly from the retracted position.
US11369796B2
The present disclosure provides systems and methods relating to neuromodulation. In particular, the present disclosure provides systems and methods for identifying optimized waveforms for blocking neural conduction. The systems and methods of neuromodulation disclosed herein facilitate the treatment of various diseases associated with pathological neural activity. The optimized waveforms for blocking neural conduction are identified through use of a global optimization algorithm based on predetermined performance criteria. A plurality of waveforms are generated and evaluated for neuronal conduction block using a computational model of extracellular neuronal stimulation, and at least on candidate waveform having an optimized shape capable of blocking neural conduction is identified.
US11369791B2
An auricular nerve field stimulation device may include a first plurality of electrodes arranged to contact a ventral aspect of an auricle, a second plurality of electrodes arranged to contact a dorsal aspect of the auricle, and electrical circuitry coupled to the electrodes and configured to selectively apply electrical stimulation signals to the electrodes to cause a first set of trans-auricular currents to flow through the auricle between the first plurality of electrodes and respective ones of the second plurality of electrodes paired therewith according to a first pairing, and to cause a second set of trans-auricular currents to flow through the auricle between the first plurality of electrodes and respective ones of the second plurality of electrodes paired therewith according to a second pairing different from the first pairing, the first and second sets of trans-auricular currents to stimulate at least one auricular nerve field within the auricle.
US11369781B2
A fluid dispensing cartridge includes a housing body having a proximal end wall, a distal end wall, a fluid chamber, and a hollow throat portion. The fluid chamber is in fluid communication with the hollow throat portion. The proximal end wall provides a proximal termination of the fluid chamber and the distal end wall provides a distal termination of the hollow throat portion. A plurality of electrical contacts face proximally from the proximal end wall. The fluid dispensing cartridge includes a fluid jetting chip that has a plurality of fluid jetting nozzles.
US11369776B2
A balloon catheter that includes an elongated main body extending in an axial direction and a balloon connected to the distal portion of the elongated main body. The balloon includes an interior and is inflatable and deflatable. The balloon catheter also includes a plurality of elongate bodies extending radially away from the outer surface of the balloon. The elongate bodies are crystals of a water-insoluble drug. The elongate bodies each possess an independent longitudinal axis. Each of the elongate bodies includes a base portion at the proximal end of the elongate body. A plurality of elongate body proximal portions extend radially inwardly from the base portion of each of the elongate bodies toward the interior of the balloon. The elongate body proximal portions are continuous extensions of the crystal of the water-insoluble drug.
US11369772B2
An apparatus for performing a medical procedure is provided. A catheter includes a tubular body having a plurality of markings indicative of a distance to an end portion of the catheter. A movable indicator repositionable on the tubular body to indicate a position of at least one of the plurality of markings. The indicator may also be provided with a magnifier for facilitating reading any indicia on the catheter.
US11369768B2
Lightweight, portable oxygen concentrators that operate using an ultra rapid, sub one second, adsorption cycle based on advanced molecular sieve materials are disclosed. The amount of sieve material utilized is a fraction of that used in conventional portable devices. This dramatically reduces the volume, weight, and cost of the device. Innovations in valve configuration, moisture control, case and battery design, and replaceable sieve module are described. Patients with breathing disorders and others requiring medical oxygen are provided with a long lasting, low cost alternative to existing portable oxygen supply devices.
US11369762B2
Systems and/or methods for assessing the sleep quality of a patient in a sleep session are provided. Data is collected from the patient and/or physician including, for example, sleep session data in the form of one or more physiological parameters of the patient indicative of the patient's sleep quality during the sleep session, a subjective evaluation of sleep quality, etc.; patient profile data; etc. A sleep quality index algorithm, which optionally may be an adaptive algorithm, is applied, taking into account some or all of the collected data. Sleep quality data may be presented to at least the patient, and it may be displayed in any suitable format (e.g., a format useful for the patient to be appraised on the progress of the treatment, a format useful for a sleep clinician to monitor progress and/or assess the effectiveness of differing treatment regimens, etc).
US11369758B2
An electronic cigarette including an atomization assembly and a battery assembly. The atomization assembly includes a first housing; a heating wire; a limit cover; a first silicone seal sealing the limit cover; a monolayer nonwoven fabric; a multilayer nonwoven fabric; a fixed seat fixing the heating wire; an insulation ring; a joint; a silicone gasket sealing the fixed seat; a sealing seat; a first seal ring; an e-liquid injection seat; a spring; a funnel; a second seal ring sealing the funnel; a second silicone seal; a cover; and a first magnet. The battery assembly includes a third silicone seal sealing a pneumatic switch; a support plate supporting the pneumatic switch; a control plate; a position limiter limiting the control plate; a battery core; a second magnet; a third seal ring; a support supporting the control plate; a decorative plate; a second housing; and a press button.
US11369741B2
Provided is a micro-jet drug injection device comprising: a pressure chamber having a pressure driving liquid hermetically filled therein; a drug chamber having a micro nozzle defined in a wall; an elastic membrane elastically expandable and restorable and to separate the pressure chamber from the drug chamber; an energy-focusing unit concentrating energy on the pressure driving liquid in the pressure chamber; and the storage unit supplying the drug solution therein into the drug chamber through a drug supply channel. The drug chamber has a partial inner space defined therein. The partial inner space is in fluid communication with the drug supply channel and is partially defined by the membrane. A nozzle closure is disposed inside or outside the drug chamber. The nozzle closure blocks inflow of air outside the micro-nozzle into the partial inner space after the elastic membrane has expanded and before elastic recovery of the membrane is completed.
US11369732B2
A packaging assembly comprises a case configured to at least partially contain a plurality of injection devices for delivering a medicament; a light sensor configured to detect light incident on the packaging assembly; and a wireless communication module configured to establish a wireless connection with at least one external device conditional on an intensity of light detected by the light sensor exceeding a threshold light intensity.
US11369726B2
The present disclosure describes for at least two zones of selective thermal therapy of the body. Three-port extracorporeal circuits are described that can be used to establish at least two zones of selective thermal therapy of the body. The example three-port extracorporeal circuit includes a branching section that provides for setting the temperature of blood injected into two different portions of the body at differing temperature levels, to provide. at least two zones of selective thermal therapy.
US11369717B2
The present invention relates to a fibrous nerve conduit for promoting nerve regeneration, comprising a channel, the channel having diameter controllable ends, the channel is adjustable to suturing to a proximal and distal end of a severed nerve, the conduit further comprises a PCL (MW:70KDa) with concentration of 10-15% and PLGA (MW:50KDa,50:50) with concentration of 10-18%.
US11369709B2
An electrical wall socket mounted aroma diffuser with a carrier loaded aromatic bottle is disclosed. The carrier of the carrier loaded aromatic bottle uses capillary pores to absorb the aromatic fluid so that the aromatic fluid will not flow out of the aroma diffuser even if the aroma diffuser dumps. When the aromatic fluid is used up, a new aromatic fluid can be easily and quickly added to the carrier for application. Therefore, the electrical wall socket mounted aroma diffuser of the invention is safe to use. The carrier can be used repeatedly with a new supply of aromatic fluid. It does not need to clean the part of the aroma diffuser that accommodates the aromatic fluid. The user can detach the carrier loaded aromatic bottle from the bottle holder for the replacement of another carrier loaded aromatic bottle that is filled up with a different smell of aromatic fluid.
US11369705B2
The present invention relates to a light control system. The light control system comprising: a plurality of light sources each configured to emit light within a predetermined spectral range, each of the plurality of light sources being configured to illuminate a corresponding sub-portion of a space, a sensor configured to within the space, detect a location of a human or an animal; and a control engine configured to control the plurality of light sources based on the detected location of the human or the animal such that a sub-portion of the space in which the human or the animal is not present is exposed to the light within the predetermined spectral range at a predetermined threshold intensity. A method for exposing a sub-portion of a space with light within a predetermined spectral range at a predetermined threshold intensity is also provided.
US11369701B2
The RI-labeled anti-MUC5AC humanized antibody of the present invention is a conjugate of a chelating agent chelated with a radionuclide and an antibody (the radionuclide is a metal nuclide that emits α particle or positron, and the antibody is a humanized antibody specifically binding to MUC5AC), and is superior in specificity for MUC5AC and accumulation in tumor. Therefore, it is extremely useful for the treatment and/or diagnosis of diseases in which MUC5AC is overexpressed, particularly cancer.
US11369698B2
The invention provides a novel class of clearable, tumor-targeting and human protein-based MRI nanoprobes and contrast agents and their compositions, and methods of preparation and use thereof.
US11369691B2
The present invention relates to a pharmaceutical composition comprising a modified mRNA that is stabilised by sequence modifications and optimised for translation. The pharmaceutical composition according to the invention is particularly well suited for use as an inoculating agent, as well as a therapeutic agent for tissue regeneration. In addition, a process is described for determining sequence modifications that promote stabilisation and translational efficiency of modified mRNA of the invention.
US11369686B2
A cellulose membrane according to an embodiment of the present disclosure is a self-supporting cellulose membrane having a thickness of between 20 nm and 1300 nm, inclusive, composed of regenerated cellulose having a weight average molecular weight of 150,000 or more.
US11369679B2
The invention features multi-specific protein complexes with one domain comprising IL-15 or a functional variant and a binding domain specific to a disease antigen, immune checkpoint or signaling molecule.
US11369678B2
Disclosed herein are methods of modulation of the viability of a cell using fusion proteins comprising a transporter peptide sequence and a MYC polypeptide. Further disclosed herein are methods of modulating an immune response using the fusion proteins. Further disclosed herein are methods of identifying agents capable of modulation of the viability of a cell or an immune response. Further disclosed herein are agents and compositions capable of modulation of the viability of a cell or an immune response.
US11369674B2
The invention features compositions and methods for the prevention or treatment of one or more strains of Chikungunya virus, as well as other alphavirus-mediated diseases.
US11369670B2
The invention relates to Plasmodium antigenic polypeptides identified through the use of a specifically devised functional immunization screening assay. In particular, the invention relates to antigenic polypeptides of malaria parasites wherein said antigenic polypeptides that exhibit a protective effect, especially that of eliciting a protective immune response in a host against challenge by Plasmodium sporozoites. The invention relates to a combination of compounds, comprising at least 2 distinct active ingredients wherein each active ingredient consists of an antigenic polypeptide of a Plasmodium parasite, a polynucleotide encoding the antigenic polypeptide, or a vector, in particular a viral vector, especially a lentiviral vector, expressing such antigenic polypeptide of a Plasmodium parasite, wherein one antigenic polypeptide is the circumsporozoite protein (CSP) or a polypeptidic derivative thereof and another antigenic polypeptide is either protein Ag40 (11-09) or protein Ag45 (11-10).
US11369666B2
The present invention relates to compositions containing one or more of the compounds contained in bromelain, or salts, solvates or prodrugs thereof, and one or more mucolytic agents, or salts, solvates or prodrugs thereof, for treatment of diseases involving mucin, especially mucin secreting cancers, or diseases involving blood clots (thrombi).
US11369656B2
The present invention provides a pharmaceutical composition containing a cancer antigen peptide for treatment and prevention of angiogenic diseases.
US11369654B2
An application method of Dendrobium candidum in preparing a medicine for treating hypertension, includes: separately adding an adjuvant, according to a conventional medicine processing method, into Dendrobium candidum powder, or an extracting solution of Dendrobium candidum powder obtained by alcohol and water extraction, or a mixture of Dendrobium candidum powder and the extracting solution obtained by alcohol and water extraction, and preparing same as traditional Chinese medicine tablets, granules, suspended granules, pills, powder, or capsules, thereby obtaining a medicine for treating hypertension.
US11369653B2
A traditional Chinese medicine composition for treating cardiovascular and cerebrovascular disease, the active ingredients thereof being composed of: 1) an ethanol extract of 6-12 parts of Ligusticum wallichii and 5-10 parts of Curcumae Radix, and 2) an aqueous extract of extract residue of the described Ligusticum wallichii and Curcumae Radix and 5-10 parts of Radix Cyathulae; the traditional Chinese medicine composition may further comprise an aqueous extract of 5-10 parts of Allium macrostemon and 6-12 parts of Eucommia ulmoides. The traditional Chinese medicine composition relates to medicine made from plant compounds, and has significant medicinal effects on myocardial contraction disorder and myocardial dilation disorder, platelet aggregation thrombosis and myocardial ischemia, myocardial hypoxia, myocardial fatigue, and so on, being particularly suitable for treating coronary heart disease and chronic or acute heart failure.
US11369652B2
Nutrient compositions comprising botanical extracts and methods of their use for treating, inter alia, autism or apraxia and/or ameliorating one or more symptoms thereof are disclosed. The use of such compositions for enhancing cognitive function and/or one or more aspects thereof, or for treating stroke or seizures and/or ameliorating one or more symptoms thereof are also disclosed.
US11369649B1
The claimed subject matter relates to Lactobacillus paracasei-derived extracellular vesicles and a use thereof, and more particularly, to a composition for alleviating, preventing and treating an ocular disease, which includes Lactobacillus paracasei-derived extracellular vesicles as an active ingredient, capable of effectively inhibiting the occurrence of an ocular disease caused by oxidative stress-mediated cell senescence.
US11369643B2
Acellular amnion derived therapeutic compositions are described having a number of various compositional embodiments. An acellular amnion derived therapeutic composition has essentially no live or active amniotic cells. The amniotic cells may be destroyed and the cells and cell debris may be removed from the acellular amnion derived therapeutic composition. An acellular amnion derived therapeutic composition may comprise micronized placental tissue particles, and/or amniotic fluid. An acellular amnion derived therapeutic composition may be a dispersion of micronized amniotic membrane combined with a fluid, such as plasma, saline, amniotic fluid, combinations thereof and the like. An acellular amnion derived therapeutic composition may be combined with a matrix component to form a composite. An acellular amnion derived therapeutic composition may be used in conjunction with a composition comprising viable cells, such as stem cells.
US11369640B2
A composition for influencing biological growth including live cells, a fluid comprising dextrose, a protectant, and a first cytokine having a first concentration within the composition as described within the present disclosure.
US11369635B2
The disclosure provides immunogenic cells expressing LMP1, and use thereof in activating T cells and treating cancer. Also provided are methods of producing the immunogenic cells.
US11369625B2
An object of the present invention is to provide an anti-tumor agent and an anti-tumor kit which have superior anti-tumor effect as compared with a therapy with gemcitabine, paclitaxel or a combination thereof; as well as an anti-tumor effect enhancer. According to the present invention, provided is an anti-tumor agent including paclitaxel or a salt thereof and 1-(2-deoxy-2-fluoro-4-thio-β-D-arabinofuranosyl)cytosine or a salt or prodrug thereof.
US11369623B2
The present invention aims to provide a therapeutic drug for cancer having a superior treatment effect. A cancer treatment using a CBP/catenin inhibitor and an immune checkpoint inhibitor in combination not only increases a treatment effect on cancer, but also enables an effective treatment of cancer patients showing low sensitivity when an immune checkpoint inhibitor is used alone.
US11369613B2
Disclosed herein are processes for preparing 2-[(3R)-3-[4-amino-3-(2-fluoro-4-phenoxy-phenyl)pyrazolo[3,4-d]pyrimidin-1-yl]piperidine-1-carbonyl]-4-methyl-4-[4-(oxetan-3-yl)piperazin-1-yl]pent-2-enenitrile free base (compound (I)), salts of compound (I) and solid state form of said salts. Also disclosed herein are pharmaceutical compositions comprising such salts and solid state form thereof and methods of treating cancer, autoimmune, and inflammatory diseases using compound (I) or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof.
US11369610B2
Compositions and methods for the treatment of hair growth and the prevention of hair loss.
US11369599B2
A pro-apoptotic solid dispersion comprises, in essentially non-crystalline form, a Bcl-2 family protein inhibitory compound of Formula I as defined herein, dispersed in a solid matrix that comprises (a) a pharmaceutically acceptable water-soluble polymeric carrier and (b) a pharmaceutically acceptable surfactant. A process for preparing such a solid dispersion comprises subjecting to elevated temperature the compound of Formula I, the water-soluble polymeric carrier and the surfactant, to provide an extrudable semi-solid mixture; extruding the semi-solid mixture; and cooling the resulting extrudate to provide a solid matrix comprising the polymeric carrier and the surfactant and having the compound dispersed in essentially non-crystalline form therein. The solid dispersion is suitable for oral administration to a subject in need thereof for treatment of a disease characterized by overexpression of one or more anti-apoptotic Bcl-2 family proteins, for example cancer or an immune or autoimmune disease.
US11369598B2
The invention provides a method of treating T-cell mediated diseases and a method of inhibiting the activation of T-cells using certain diketopiperazines. The invention also provides methods of synthesizing diketopiperazines and pharmaceutical compositions comprising certain diketopiperazines. The invention further provides methods of making improved pharmaceutical compositions of proteins and peptides by either increasing or decreasing the content of diketopiperazines in the compositions and the resultant improved pharmaceutical compositions.
US11369595B2
The present invention concerns a tryptophan metabolite chosen from kynurenic acid, anthranilic acid, quinolinic acid, picolinic acid, quinaldic acid and the mixtures of same or an enantiomer, diastereoisomer, hydrate, solvate, tautomer, racemic mixture or pharmaceutically acceptable salt of same, for use as a drug intended for increasing and/or maintaining muscle mass and/or strength in a mammal, and in particular intended for treating and/or preventing muscle atrophy in mammals and/or for promoting muscle growth in mammals doing exercise and aiming to increase muscle mass and/or quality and/or strength, for preventing the appearance of symptoms of sarcopenia or for rehabilitation following muscle loss and/or for improving recovery time after an intense physical effort.
US11369589B2
The present invention relates to a modulator of 1,2,5-oxadiazole indoleamine-(2,3)-dioxygenase, a preparation method and use thereof, more particularly to compounds of Formula I and Formula II, an isomer thereof, a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or a pharmaceutically acceptable solvate thereof, and their use in preparing drugs for treating cancers, neurodegenerative diseases, eye diseases, mental disorders, depression, anxiety disorders, Alzheimer's diseases and/or autoimmune diseases. Specific meanings of R substituents in Formula I and Formula II are consistent with the description of the specification.
US11369584B2
A method of treatment or prevention of fibrosis of human tissue or organ. The method includes administering a patient in need thereof a compound of formula (I).
US11369575B2
Pharmaceutical particles having an inner portion comprising an agonist of peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor α (PPARα) and a biodegradable polymer; and an outer coating comprising an emulsifier which surrounds the inner portion, wherein the agonist may be a fibrate, and the particle contains at least about 5 wt % to about 25 wt % of the agonist, and wherein the particle has a sustained delayed release of the agonist in a range of at least about 1 to 12 months when in an aqueous solution or physiological environment. The pharmaceutical particles may be used, for example, to treat diseases and conditions such as ocular disorders which benefit from PPARα agonism.
US11369569B2
Isolated peptides targeting cardiovascular disease are described herein or one or more conservative amino acid substitutions, deletions or additions of such peptides and methods of use thereof for delivering payloads to specific cell types or tissues.
US11369556B2
An oral care composition including rottlerin in an amount sufficient to reduce a growth of gram-positive bacteria in a mouth treated with the oral care composition.
US11369553B2
Disclosed are therapeutic oral compositions useful in the treatment of a variety of oral disorders, in which the composition can provide blockage of dentinal tubes, while at the same time provide antibacterial and anti-caries efficacy. The compositions include arginine in free or salt form, a mucoadhesive polymer, and at least one component selected from pyrophosphates, zinc salts, potassium salts, strontium salts, and mixtures thereof.
US11369545B1
A swinging touch massage device includes a housing and a swing member received in the housing, the swing member including a rotary motor, a reversing member and a swing rod, two opposite ends of the reversing member respectively connected with the rotary motor and the swing rod, the reversing member configured to convert a rotary motion of the rotary motor into a reciprocating swing of the swing rod; a massage protrusion is arranged at one end of the swing rod away from the reversing member, and protrudes outwardly from a surface of the housing to swing back and forth with the swing rod. The massage device provides swing touch massage and improve massage experience without being jammed.
US11369534B2
A system includes a client application executed by a client computing device for setting up an inflation level and checking an inflation level of an inflatable cushion having at least one air cell or zone and at least one pressure sensor within the cushion that detects air pressure. The client computing device communicates with the inflatable cushion and determines an optimal inflation level for a user of the inflatable cushion.
US11369529B2
A sanitary article comprises a longitudinal main body defining opposite longitudinal ends and opposite lateral sides and comprising an upper part, a lower part and an absorbent core therebetween attached together at a common central portion of the longitudinal main body. The upper part and the lower part are separated from each other at the lateral sides of longitudinal main body to define separate lateral upper part and lower part portions at each of the lateral sides. The upper part comprises a liquid pervious body contacting surface. The lower part comprising a garment contacting surface.
US11369528B2
Provided is a stretchable laminate that achieves both a weight reduction and an extension strength, and that can be stably produced. Also provided is an article including such stretchable laminate. The stretchable laminate of the present invention includes: an elastomer layer; and an olefin-based resin layer arranged on at least one side of the elastomer layer, wherein when a longitudinal direction of the stretchable laminate is defined as an MD direction and a direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction is defined as a CD direction, a ratio [10% extension strength in MD direction (N/30 mm)]/[basis weight (gsm)] of the stretchable laminate is 0.14 (N/30 mm·gsm) or more.
US11369523B2
Implementations of an arm sleeve that provides external assistance to an arm and shoulder of a user during an arm motion are provided. In one implementation, the arm sleeve comprises a framework that includes a torso portion configured to be attached to the torso of the user and an arm portion configured to receive at least a portion of the arm of the user. The framework of the arm sleeve is a unitary construction of interconnected elastic members that define openings therebetween. The interconnected elastic members include a first elastic member configured to play an active part throughout an overhead throwing motion, a second elastic member configured to decrease the concentric contraction force necessary for shoulder abduction during the cocking phase of a throwing motion, and a third elastic member configured to assist eccentrically contracting muscles during the deceleration phase of a throwing motion. In another implementation, the framework of the arm sleeve is encased by an elastomeric cover.
US11369521B2
An earmuff hearing-protection device (1) including a non-porous, sound-attenuating body (50) disposed within an interior space (31) defined by a shell (30) of an earmuff of the device, the non-porous, sound-attenuating body including sound-attenuating members (100) arranged and spaced to define a set of high aspect ratio air gaps (e.g. 300) between major side surfaces of neighboring members.
US11369516B2
A laser delivery system is configured to delivery light energy to soften and realign the tissue of the eye in order to increase accommodation and treat glaucoma. The laser system can be configured to increase a circumlental space of the eye and increase movement of a posterior vitreous zonule in order to increase accommodation. The light energy may comprise wavelengths strongly absorbed by collagen of the sclera. In many embodiments a heat sink is provided to couple to the conjunctiva and the heat sink comprises a material transmissive to the light energy absorbed by collagen, for example Zinc Selenide. The heat sink can be chilled to inhibit damage to the conjunctiva of the eye. In many embodiments, one or more layers of the epithelium of the eye remain substantially intact above the zone where the eye has been treated when the heat sink has been removed.
US11369514B2
The present invention relates to a device for fracturing and removing ocular lenses. The device mainly comprises a rotational screw drill, a sleeve and a hydraulic suction system. The rotational screw drill has reversed conical propellers which help to grind the particles. The rotational screw drill is housed in a sleeve, which comprises a rigid cylinder and a suction cup. The suction cup has a bell or funnel shape with an elliptical cross-section. Finally, the hydraulic suction system is key for the present invention performance. Also, the invention relates to a method comprising the steps of breaking, splitting the cataract or lens tissue and simultaneously or subsequently grinding the particles inside the sleeve by means of the rotational screw drill and the sleeve, and finally removing them from the medium via the sleeve by means of a hydraulic suction system.
US11369509B2
Two cylindrical parts (2, 3) are provided which are able to be coupled to each other with an axial sliding movement, of which, a first outer part (2) includes securing means (21) for the menstrual cup (4) to be placed, and a second inner part (3), which includes pushing means (31) which deploy the menstrual cup (4) from the securing means (21). The outer part (2) has an inner through hollow (22) suitable for receiving the inner part (3) in a fitted manner. The securing means (21) are made up of corresponding elastic arms which emerge parallel from the distal end (2a) of said part (2). The proximal end (2b) of the external part (2) has a smooth section (23). The appendages (31) of the inner part (3) have a perimeter edge and a length. The inner part (3) has an inner perforation (34) for inserting a thread-like element of the menstrual cup (4) as extraction means (4a).
US11369507B2
A patient grasps a handle grip of a repositioning device. The patient may be on a bed or a couch, for example, and wishes to pull the injured limb up onto the bed or couch without having to bend over. The device has a shaft, a handle grip on a proximal end of the shaft and a hook on a distal end of the shaft. The patient secures the hook to something that is about the limb, such as a cast, brace, bandage, or the like. Once the hook is secured, the user pulls the device upwardly to raise the limb. Once the user has positioned the limb as desired, the hook is disengaged.
US11369500B2
A handheld tool includes a handle; an implement mount configured to detachably accept and to rigidly hold a user-assistive implement; an actuator assembly mounted to the handle to physically manipulate the implement mount relative to the handle; a first sensor disposed to sense an orientation of the handle; a second sensor disposed to sense an orientation of the user-assistive implement; a controller disposed in or on the handle and coupled to the actuator assembly and the first and second sensors; and memory coupled to the controller. The memory stores instructions for identifying a type of the user-assistive implement attached to the implement mount, selecting a behavior routine based upon the type of the user-assistive implement identified, and manipulating the user-assistive implement relative to the handle according to the behavior routine to aid performance of a task with the handheld tool.
US11369498B2
Stent delivery systems having improved deliverability comprising an elongate member having an inflation lumen and a guidewire lumen therein; a balloon having an interior that is in fluid communication with the inflation lumen; and a stent comprising a coating mounted on the balloon. Methods for making stent delivery systems having improved deliverability. Methods for delivering two stent delivery systems concurrently through a guiding catheter, each stent delivery system comprising elongate member having an inflation lumen and a guidewire lumen therein, a balloon having an interior that is in fluid communication with the inflation lumen, and a stent comprising a coating mounted on the balloon. Stent coatings may comprise a pharmaceutical agent at least a portion of which is in crystalline form.
US11369495B2
A prosthesis system with a liner and a prosthesis socket, wherein the liner includes a closed distal end, an open proximal end, a lateral surface, which extends from the distal end to the proximal end, and a first connection device. The prosthesis socket includes a second connection device, which is configured to interact with the first connection device. The first connection device is arranged on the lateral surface, and the first connection device and the second connection device are configured to establish a mechanical locking and an electrical contact between the liner and the prosthesis socket.
US11369494B2
A robotic joint includes a first link, a middle link, a torque generator, a second link, and a locking mechanism. Different ends of the middle link are rotatably coupled to the first link and the second link. The torque generator is coupled to the first link and the middle link and is configured to produce a torque between these links. The locking mechanism is switchable between a locking state and an unlocking state. In the unlocking state, the locking mechanism allows free rotation of the second link relative to the middle link in the first and second rotation directions. In the locking state, the locking mechanism is configured to impede rotation of the second link relative to the middle link in the first rotation direction and to allow rotation of the second link relative to the middle link in the second rotation direction opposite of the first rotation direction.
US11369489B2
Intervertebral spacer assemblies, systems, and methods thereof. A method of insertion includes inserting an intervertebral spacer and plate together using an insertion tool and, upon removal of the insertion tool, the intervertebral spacer and plate are no longer considered connected/coupled and act as separate components.
US11369487B2
The present application relates to an endoprosthesis including a first member which is connected to a patient's bone; a second member which is adjustably coupled to the first member by a coupling device; wherein the coupling device is configured to generate a movement of the second member relative to the first member. The present application also relates to an artificial joint including such an endoprosthesis and to an endoprosthesis placement system including such an endoprosthesis or artificial joint and a projection device which is configured to project visible light markings, acquired from pre-operational and/or intra-operational patient data, onto the patient and/or the endoprosthesis, thus enabling visible alignment markings of the endoprosthesis to be aligned with respect to projected visible light markings so as to allow a proper adjustment of the endoprosthesis.
US11369481B2
A total ankle replacement prosthesis may comprise a tibial implant, a talar implant, and an intermediate implant. The intermediate implant may fixedly attach to the tibial implant and may articulate with respect to the talar implant. The intermediate implant may have unequal front and back angular extent, so as to discourage a particular direction of subluxation, and a kit may be provided containing various such intermediate implants. Various features may be provided in regard to dovetails, fins, recesses, the placement of fins and pegs, and the shape of the perimeter of the tibial implant. Recesses may allow a surgical blade to slice a latch off of an already-installed intermediate implant, in order to allow its removal from the tibial implant.
US11369474B2
A kit for deploying a bone implant at a surgical site is provided. The kit comprises a first sleeve having an interior surface that defines a channel, and a second sleeve having an outer surface and an inner surface. The inner surface of the second sleeve defines an inner channel. The outer surface of the second sleeve is configured to slidably engage the interior surface of the channel of the first sleeve. A bone implant is also provided comprising a mesh material. The mesh material is disposed in a portion of the channel of the first sleeve or disposed in a portion of the inner channel of the second sleeve or disposed in both the portion of the channel of the first sleeve and the portion of the inner channel of the second sleeve.
US11369467B2
Systems, methods, and devices useful in medical procedures, such as, e.g., aesthetic and/or reconstructive surgeries, are described. The system may be an imaging system that includes a database and a computer system configured to create, modify, and/or display three-dimensional images created from digital image data of an anatomical region of a subject. The digital image data may be obtained with an imaging device such as a scanner.
US11369466B2
Vascular prosthesis includes a luminal graft component defining a graft fenestration, at least one support disk fenestration, and a moveable disk defining a moveable disk opening, wherein the graft fenestration, the support disk fenestration and the moveable disk opening are all aligned, and the moveable disk is sandwiched between the support disk and the luminal graft component or between two of the support disks. The moveable disk is moveable between the support disk and the luminal graft component. The support disk is fixed to the luminal graft component. The vascular prosthesis is implanted by a method that includes directing the vascular prosthesis to an aneurysm site of a patient, and then implanting a branch prosthesis through the graft fenestration and into an arterial branch, whereby the moveable disk opening moves within the support disk fenestration to properly align the branch prosthesis with the arterial branch.
US11369456B2
Apparatus, system, and methods for utilizing one or more computing devices to stage the movement of teeth during an alignment treatment are disclosed. The computing device receives an electronic representation of the patient's teeth in their initial position and an electronic representation of the teeth a final position for each tooth. A route each tooth will travel to reach its final position is determined, and the teeth are scheduled to move according to a movement pattern. Moreover, the schedule of movement takes into account a maximum rate of tooth movement for each tooth, the path of movement for each tooth, the distance each tooth needs to move, any needed tooth staggering, any needed round-tripping or tooth movement slowing. The invention also includes techniques for determining an optimum number of stages for the treatment based on the schedule of movement.
US11369443B2
A method of using a surgical modular robotic assembly including an interchangeable motor pack, a hand-held surgical instrument, and a robotic surgical instrument is disclosed. The method includes releasably attaching an interface portion of the interchangeable motor pack to the hand-held surgical instrument, causing the interchangeable motor pack to drive a first surgical tool of the hand-held surgical instrument, stopping the interchangeable motor pack from driving the first surgical tool, disconnecting the interface portion from the hand-held surgical instrument, and releasably attaching the interface portion of the interchangeable motor pack to the robotic surgical instrument.
US11369440B2
A system for modelling a portion of a patient includes a processing unit, a manipulator, a sensor, and a display device. The processing unit is configured to receive patient data and to process the patient data to generate a model of the portion of the patient. The sensor is configured to capture manipulator data. The processing unit is configured to receive the manipulator data from the sensor and to process the manipulator data to determine a position of the manipulator, an orientation of the manipulator, or both. The display device is configured to display the model on or in the manipulator.
US11369438B2
Navigation systems and methods used to track objects moving in space. One navigation system and method employs trackers each having a light emitting diode that emits a colored light when obstruction of line-of-sight between tracking elements on the trackers and sensors or other errors are absent. When obstruction of line-of-sight between tracking elements on the trackers and sensors or other errors are generated, the light emitting diode is deactivated. Another navigation system and method employs trackers each having a light emitting diode that emits a colored light when obstruction of line-of-sight between tracking elements on the trackers and sensors or other errors are generated. When obstruction of line-of-sight between tracking elements on the trackers and sensors or other errors are absent, the light emitting diode is deactivated.
US11369433B2
Apparatuses, systems and methods are provided for treating pulmonary tissues via delivery of energy, generally characterized by high voltage pulses, to target tissue using a pulmonary tissue modification system (e.g., an energy delivery catheter system). Example pulmonary tissues include, without cells), lamina propria, submucosa, submucosal glands, basement membrane, smooth muscle, cartilage, nerves, pathogens resident near or within the tissue, or a combination of any of these. The system may be used to treat a variety of pulmonary diseases or disorders such as or associated with COPD (e.g., chronic bronchitis, emphysema), asthma, interstitial pulmonary fibrosis, cystic fibrosis, bronchiectasis, primary ciliary dyskinesia (PCD), acute bronchitis and/or other pulmonary diseases or disorders.
US11369425B2
The present invention relates to a lactoferrin-conjugated nanoparticle complex and a novel use thereof. In the nanoparticle complex according to the present invention, lactoferrin or polyethylene glycol-lactoferrin is bound to metal nanoparticles, and according to this construction, it can be confirmed that the metal nanoparticles are not only efficiently targeted to the brain tumor tissues, but also the stability of the metal nanoparticles can be maintained even in the in vivo conditions, and thus it is expected in the treatment of brain tumors to be treatable to targets by approaching more fundamentally.
US11369419B2
The present invention generally relates to bone implants. More specifically, the present invention relates to bone implants used for the fixation and or fusion of the sacroiliac joint and/or the spine. For example, a system for fusing and or stabilizing a plurality of bones is provided. The system includes an implant structure having a shank portion, a body portion and a head portion. The body portion is coupled to the shank portion and is configured to be placed through a first bone segment, across a bone joint or fracture and into a second bone segment. The body portion is configured to allow for bony on-growth, ingrowth and through-growth. The head portion is coupled to the proximal end of the shank portion and is configured to couple the shank portion to a stabilizing rod. Methods of use are also disclosed.
US11369415B2
A retrievable puncture anchor includes a fixator with a cylindrical structure, a retrievable thread secured to one end of the fixator, and a push cable flexibly connected to a middle part of the fixator. Via the retrievable puncture anchor, tissues may be connected, fixed and matched with each other, or the tissues may be auxiliarily fixed, so that endoscopic surgery may be facilitated with simplified surgical process, and the puncture anchor may be retrieved after the surgery.
US11369413B2
An introducer assembly includes an elongate sheath sized for insertion into a blood vessel of a patient and a hub. The hub can be coupled to a proximal portion of the sheath and can include a first hub portion and a second hub portion. The hub can include various features to facilitate breaking apart or separating the introducer assembly from a patient. For example, the first hub portion can have a first notch which can facilitate breaking, splitting, or fracturing the hub. The second hub portion can partially surround the first hub portion and can include two wings and an opening disposed above the first notch. The first hub portion can be formed from a first material and second hub portion can be formed from a second material. In some embodiments, the second material can be stiffer than the first material to facilitate fracturing the hub.
US11369408B2
A catheter used for percutaneous endovascular procedures is described. The catheter is configured to be used for engagement and treatment of obstructive lesions in a patient's vasculature. The catheter includes a tube having a leading edge that is configured to score or cut a lesion in a vasculature. The tube may be an expandable outer tube, and placed around an inflatable inner tube, such that inflation of the inner tube expands the outer tube. Expansion of the inner tube may connect or laterally lock the inner tube to the outer tube, allowing both tubes to move in unison through the vasculature. The leading edge can score or cut lesions as it moves in the vasculature.
US11369403B2
A handheld instrument for endoscope surgery includes a shaft, a jaw, a handle, a phased array ultrasonic sensor, and a signal wiring. The jaw is placed at one end of the shaft and has a holding function. The handle is placed at the other end of the shaft and includes an operation mechanism for operating the jaw. The phased array ultrasonic sensor is mounted on the jaw and has an imaging function. The signal wiring is provided to the shaft and connects the ultrasonic sensor and the handle.
US11369398B2
A tool has a handle and an elongate shaft that extends distally from the handle. A distal portion of the shaft is inserted into a subject during a surgical procedure. An optical fiber delivers laser energy to a tip at the distal portion of the shaft. The tip includes a mechanical cutting mechanism including a moving part that absorbs the laser energy, thermally conducts the absorbed energy to tissue that is disposed between the moving part and another part, and moves with respect to the other part in order to cut tissue that is disposed between the parts using a mechanical force that is lower than a mechanical force that would be required to cut the tissue in the absence of the laser energy. Other embodiments are also described.
US11369397B2
A number of improvements to laparoscopic devices are described herein, primarily to improve the ergonomic functionality of the devices. For example, an articulating rod system is described, a gripping mechanism is described, and an end effector is described.
US11369389B2
A surgical instrument includes a first member defining an axis. A second member is axially translatable relative to the first member. A cutting element is connected with the second member and has a cutting surface. The cutting element is rotatable relative to the second member to transversely move cut tissue. Systems, implants and methods are disclosed.
US11369388B1
Provided is a surgical saw for cutting a sternum comprising: a) a body, b) a handle attached to the body; c) a blade positioned in such way to cut the sternum when a user holds the handle, and d) a base below the blade configured to be positioned below the sternum, wherein the user places the base under the sternum and cuts the sternum with the blade.
US11369387B2
A tourniquet assembly for providing additional comfort when giving blood includes a pad which is comprised of a flexible material. The pad has a first side, a second side and a perimeter edge extending between the first and second sides. The perimeter edge includes a front edge, a rear edge, a first lateral edge and a second lateral edge. The pad is elongated and has a longitudinal axis extending through the first and second lateral edges. A band is coupled to the second side of the pad. The band extends along the longitudinal axis. The band is comprised of a flexible material and is wrapped around a limb to secure the pad to a person's limb.
US11369385B2
An embodiment includes a system comprising: an outer conduit; a shape memory polymer (SMP) foam; a metal backbone including: (a)(i) a first portion that extends from the SMP foam proximal end to the SMP foam distal end and which is generally covered by the SMP foam, and (a)(ii) a distal portion that extends distally from the SMP foam distal end and which is not covered by the SMP foam; wherein: (b)(i) SMP foam and the metal backbone are both included within the outer conduit adjacent to the outer conduit distal end; (b)(ii) the metal backbone distal portion transitions from a secondary shape that is uncoiled to a primary shape that is coiled; and (b)(iii) the metal backbone distal portion is in the metal backbone distal portion secondary shape and is located between the SMP foam distal end and the distal end of the outer conduit.
US11369376B2
A method is disclosed. The method can comprise obtaining a first staple cartridge and obtaining a second staple cartridge, wherein the first staple cartridge and the second staple cartridge comprise the same length and the same width. The method can further comprise inserting the first staple cartridge into a channel comprising a keyed profile, wherein complete insertion of the first staple cartridge into the channel is prevented by the keyed profile. Additionally, the method can comprise inserting the second staple cartridge into the channel, wherein complete insertion of the second staple cartridge into the channel is permitted by the keyed profile.
US11369372B2
A surgical device includes a handle assembly including a controller and a first electrical connector. The surgical device also includes an adapter assembly having: a tubular housing having a proximal end portion configured to couple to the handle assembly, and a distal end portion; a second electrical connector disposed at the proximal end portion and configured to couple to the first electrical connector; an electrical contact assembly disposed at the distal end portion; and a wire harness disposed within the tubular housing and interconnecting the second electrical connector and the electrical contact assembly. The surgical device also includes a surgical end effector configured to couple to the distal end portion of the adapter assembly, the surgical end effector includes an electrical contact configured to couple to the electrical contact assembly.
US11369370B2
A surgical instrument including a housing, an endoscopic portion, a shaft portion and an end effector is disclosed. The endoscopic portion extends distally from the housing and defines a longitudinal axis. The shaft portion is selectively connectable to a distal end of the endoscopic portion. The end effector is selectively connectable to a distal end of the shaft portion.
US11369365B2
Devices, systems and methods for passing a suture. In general, described herein are suturing devices, such as suture passers, as well as methods of suturing tissue. These suture passing devices may include dual deployment suture passers in which a first distal jaw member is moveable at an angle with respect to the longitudinal axis of the elongate body of the device and the second distal jaw member is retractable proximally to the distal end region of the elongate body and/or the first jaw member. Also described herein are suture passers in which the tissue penetrator passing the suture travels in an approximately sigmoidal pathway, with the distal end of the tissue penetrator extending distally from one jaw of the device.
US11369364B2
An implant manipulator may have a distal end that retains an implant, a proximal end, and an intermediate portion between the ends. The implant manipulator may be a needle for a suture passer, with a suture capture feature at the distal end. The suture capture feature may have first and second members that flex apart to permit entry of the suture into a suture capture hole wherein the suture is retained until released. A suture passer may include one or more needles. The suture passer may also include a pusher; a distal end with a sharp, blade-like extension; or a side-loading distal end.
US11369363B2
Bone anchors having improved fixation are discussed. The bone anchors include an anchor body and radially protruding ribs that extend approximately parallel to a longitudinal axis of the bone anchor. A leading distal edge of each rib may be configured in a tapered “knife-edge” configuration. Such ribs may mitigate the plow-out effect, preserving contact between the ribs and the surrounding bone along the length of the anchor. Furthermore, such ribs provide increased surface area, improving fixation strength.
US11369356B2
An apparatus for inhibiting tissue migration during a procedure comprises a deployment catheter defining at least one lumen therethrough and a non-inflatable hood projecting distally from the deployment catheter and defining an open area. The open area is in fluid communication with the at least one lumen. The apparatus also comprises a visualization element disposed within or along the non-inflatable hood for visualizing tissue adjacent to the open area. The apparatus also comprises a tissue grasping end effector positioned within the open area and configured to temporarily engage the tissue adjacent to the open area such that distal migration of the tissue relative to the barrier or membrane is inhibited.
US11369350B2
A medical apparatus and method of preparing one or more cell blocks. The medical apparatus comprises at least one elongate tubular body having a proximal end and a distal end and filter assembly comprising a filter membrane and a border configured to engage the tubular body. The filter membrane and the border are each formed from material that is sectionable.
US11369346B2
The invention provides methods and devices for treating liver cirrhosis or portal hypertension by creating an intrahepatic shunt, or new passage, from a portal vein of a patient to a hepatic vein using a device with intravascular imaging capabilities and pressure sensing capabilities or positioning mechanisms. The integration of intravascular imaging aids in the precise placement of the shunt and pressure measurement may verify successful shunt creation. An apparatus may include a catheter with an extended body for insertion into a hepatic vein of a patient, an intravascular imaging device and a needle exit port on the distal portion of the extended body, and a needle disposed within a lumen in the catheter and configured to be pushed out of the exit port and extend away from a side of the extended body, in which the needle includes a pressure sensor.
US11369341B2
The invention relates to a method for characterising bone, the method comprising the steps of receiving (102) ultrasonic wave echo signals transmitted into a body, determining (104) a speed of sound in the body's non-bone biological tissue, locating (106) a first demarcation curve between non-bone biological tissue and bone in an image of the body constructed during said determining step, and determining (108) a speed of sound in bone. The steps of determining speed include constructing images from the signals, and a metric calculation indicative of a focus quality in the constructed images.
US11369332B2
Provided is a system capable of preventing inappropriate radiation stop control from being performed. A radiation imaging apparatus configured to perform imaging by radiation includes: an imaging unit including a dose signal output pixel arranged to output an electric signal based on a dose of the radiation that has entered the dose signal output pixel; and a processing unit configured to perform processing of comparing an integration value of the electric signal output from the dose signal output pixel included in the imaging unit to a threshold value during a period in which the radiation is not applied to the imaging unit.
US11369324B2
A method and system is disclosed for acquiring image data of a subject. The image data can be collected with an imaging system with at least two different energy characteristics. The image data can be reconstructed using reconstruction techniques.
US11369316B2
There is provided a system architecture including a PPG hardware module and a MEMS hardware module. The PPG hardware module processes PPG raw data, which is generally composed of analog signals or digital signals. The PPG hardware module filters the raw data for later digital calculation to, for example, find out frequency signals with higher peak values. The PPG hardware module then outputs the selected frequency signals to an MCU for heart rate calculation. The MEMS hardware module receives MEMS raw data from a motion detector made of MEMS elements. The MEMS raw data represents motion status of a user that could possibly affect the heart rate determination result. The MEMS hardware module filters the raw data for later digital calculation to find out frequency signals with higher peak values caused by motion.
US11369315B2
A multifunctional personal health monitor with an activity tracker embedded into a pet leash is provided. The energy of a pet pulling the leash cord is converted to an electrical power to run and to analyze operation of multiple biometric sensors embedded into the leash. The physical activities of the pet and its owner may be tracked. The obtain biometric information may be wirelessly transmitted for additional processing or an emergency call can be initiated. The generated by pet movement electrical power may be used to charge various external devices.
US11369311B1
An apparatus includes a schlieren imaging assembly and a processor. The schlieren imaging assembly includes one or more two-dimensional (2D) schlieren imaging systems and is configured to acquire two-dimensional (2D) schlieren images of turbulence occurring in fluid media from a plurality of viewing angles. The processor is configured to produce, from the 2D schlieren images, a time-series of three-dimensional (3D) schlieren images corresponding to respective time instances.
US11369306B2
A method of displaying a virtual electrogram for a virtual bipole includes receiving a plurality of electrophysiological signals from a respective plurality of electrodes carried by a multi-dimensional catheter; using the received electrophysiological signals to compute a plurality of virtual electrograms associated with a respective plurality of virtual bipoles, each having a corresponding virtual bipole orientation; selecting a virtual bipole orientation; and displaying the virtual electrogram associated with the virtual bipole having the selected virtual bipole orientation. Aspects of the disclosure can be executed through a graphical user interface of an electroanatomical mapping system that also incorporates a visualization processor.
US11369294B2
A measurement value calculation section calculates the actual measurement value of the hemoglobin concentration of an object to be observed and the actual measurement value of an oxygen saturation thereof on the basis of a plurality of first spectral images. A relative value calculation section calculates the relative value of the hemoglobin concentration and the relative value of the oxygen saturation on the basis of the actual measurement value and the reference value of the hemoglobin concentration and the actual measurement value and the reference value of the oxygen saturation. An image generation section generates a relative value image obtained from the imaging of the relative value of the hemoglobin concentration and/or the relative value of the oxygen saturation, and displays the relative value image on a display unit.
US11369292B2
Provided is a method for measuring blood glucose levels of a subject with a portable apparatus for noninvasively measuring blood glucose levels including at least one light receiving element for detecting light by using different light integration times, including: (a) switching on an LED for emitting light having wavelength absorbed in or scattered by glucose; (b) measuring a first signal value according to light which is reflected off the surface skin layer of the subject and enters in response to a first light integration time in the situation where the light is radiated; (c) adjusting a second light integration time for measuring light reflected off the inner skin layer of the subject based on the first signal value; (d) measuring a second signal value according to the light which is reflected off the inner skin layer of the subject and enters in response to the adjusted second light integration time; and (e) producing the blood glucose level of the subject by using a third signal value according to light which enters due to an ambient environment and the second signal value in the situation where the LED is switched off.
US11369275B2
A device for read-out of a photoplethysmography (PPG) signal comprises: a photodiode, which is configured to detect a PPG signal, the photodiode comprising a first and a second terminal; and a read-out circuitry for reading out the PPG signal, wherein an input stage is connected to receive a first and a second input signal from the terminals and a DC bias voltage, and wherein the input stage is configured for current sensing to provide a fully differential amplification of the input signals to a first and a second current signal, and wherein an output stage is configured to receive the current signals, wherein the current signals comprise an AC and a DC component of the PPG signal, and wherein the output stage is configured to generate a differential output voltage through a gain component.
US11369274B2
Methods, apparatus, and systems to non-invasively determine intra-luminal placement and patency of a vascular access device. In one form, our device itself remains non-invasive, connecting at the vascular access device's hub outside the patient's body. Patency and/or placement are estimated indirectly by measuring a physiological parameter which is indicative of proper patency and/or placement of the vascular access device in a patient. The measurement is compared to a reference value or calibration. If the comparison indicates indication of proper patency and/or placement, a signal is generated. The signal can be used in a number of ways. One example is to give a user-perceivable alarm or indication of proper patency and/or placement. Non-limiting examples include activating a light, an audible buzzer, a vibration, readable displayed text or graphics, or some combination of the same. The user can then have an indirect and at least semi-automatic way of estimating proper patency and/or placement of a vascular access device. In one aspect of the invention, the technique is able to achieve this end by monitoring and detecting changes in the physiological parameter of systemic vascular pressure via pressure measurement in, at, or near the hub or other portion of a vascular access device that has a lumen placed intra-luminally, and then using the results of that monitoring to indirectly transduce conditions or states indicative of either good placement/patency or bad placement/patency of the vascular access device.
US11369273B2
Provided is a guidewire connector that does not interfere with an introduction of another in-body insertion instrument and is capable of maintaining cleanliness of the guidewire when connecting a guidewire mounted with a photo-acoustic ultrasonic wave generator. The guidewire connector according to the present disclosure includes an adapter member detachably attached to an light emitting apparatus, and a wire fixing member attaching the guidewire to the adapter member, in which the wire fixing member has an outer diameter equal to or smaller than an outer diameter of the guidewire.
US11369261B2
An excitation force (internal or external) and phase-sensitive optical coherence elastography (OCE) system, used in conjunction with a data analyzing algorithm, is capable of measuring and quantifying biomechanical parameters of tissues in situ and in vivo. The method was approbated and demonstrated on an example of the system that combines a pulsed ultrasound system capable of producing an acoustic radiation force on the crystalline lens surface and a phase-sensitive optical coherence tomography (OCT) system for measuring the lens displacement caused by the acoustic radiation force. The method allows noninvasive and nondestructive quantification of tissue mechanical properties. The noninvasive measurement method also utilizes phase-stabilized swept source optical coherence elastography (PhS-SSOCE) to distinguish between tissue stiffness, such as that attributable to disease, and effects on measured stiffness that result from external factors, such as pressure applied to the tissue. Preferably, the method is used to detect tissue stiffness and to evaluate the presence of its stiffness even if it is affected by other factors such as intraocular pressure (TOP) in the case of cornea, sclera, or the lens. This noninvasive method can evaluate the biomechanical properties of the tissues in vivo for detecting the onset and progression of degenerative or other diseases (such as keratoconus).
US11369258B2
A light source system includes an illumination device configured to generate illumination light, and a light source module having a function of supplying light to the illumination device and configured to be detachably attached to the illumination device. The illumination device includes a first light source and a first storage configured to store characteristic information of the first light source. The light source module includes a second light source and a second storage configured to store characteristic information of the second light source. The illumination device includes a control circuit configured to determine a driving condition of at least one of the first and second light sources, based on the characteristic information of the first and second light sources.
US11369253B2
An endoscope includes a shaft assembly having proximal and distal ends and a longitudinal axis therebetween. A handle is coupled to the proximal end of the shaft assembly, and an elastomeric body housing an image sensor and at least one LED is comprises a distal end of the shaft. The elastomeric body is deformable between a repose straight insertion profile and a deflected offset profile by the insertion of a tool shaft through the shaft assembly and an expandable-collapsible working channel in the elastomeric body. The viewing angle of the image sensor is moved from a first selected angle to a second selected angle when the elastomeric body is actuated from the repose profile to the deflected offset profile.
US11369251B2
The present disclosure provides for a portable drying mechanism. The mechanism may comprise a grip, shaft, neck, drying panels, and a tip. The shaft may comprise a button to modify the configuration of the portable drying mechanism. The button may release interchangeable components of the portable drying mechanism. The button may allow the shaft to extend. The button may activate an electrical or manual drying response such as, but not limited to, a water vacuum or rotating drying material. The shaft may comprise a hollow cavity for material retention. The shaft may comprise a telescoping aspect that allows for extension and retraction. The neck may comprise a flexible portion to dry containers with complex shapes. The tip may comprise a sensor to verify dryness within a container. The drying panels may comprise a predetermined shape and material that allow the drying panels to dry containers and hard-to-reach areas.
US11369243B2
A dust bin and a vacuum cleaner combination provided with the dust bin are provided. The dust bin includes a dust chamber, a dust inlet detachably connected to a dust suction apparatus, and a sealing structure for implementing the sealing between the dust suction apparatus and the dust bin. The dust suction apparatus has a dust outlet joined to the dust inlet. The vacuum cleaner combination includes a dust suction apparatus and a dust bin detachably connected to the dust suction apparatus. The dust suction apparatus has a housing and a dust cup assembly connected to the housing. The dust cup assembly includes a cup body and a filter apparatus disposed in the cup body. Compared with the prior art, in the present invention, a detachable multi-purpose dust bin with a simple structure is disposed, so that the dust collection chamber of the vacuum cleaner is flexibly increased.
US11369239B2
A telescopic toilet for children includes a base and a seat. A first sleeve ring is fixed on the base, and a second sleeve ring is provided in the first sleeve ring. The second sleeve ring is liftable relative to the first sleeve ring, and a third sleeve ring is provided in the second sleeve ring. The third sleeve ring is liftable relative to the second sleeve ring, and a fourth sleeve ring is provided in the third sleeve ring. The bottom of the seat is fixedly connected to the fourth sleeve ring, and the fourth sleeve ring is liftable relative to the third sleeve ring. The seat is provided with a toilet bowl opening. The seat can be adjusted to different heights according to the height of children.
US11369230B2
A food processing system is provided including a vessel assembly, blade assembly, and a motor base. The elements of the system cooperate such that upon assembly of the system, and during use, the volume defining the food processing container is open to atmosphere. Potentially harmful heated air can thus be vented from the food processing container to decrease the likelihood of injury to an operator, both during operation and after operation.
US11369229B2
A grilling machine is described, which comprises a base body, a plate, arranged on the base body and defining a cooking surface whereon foods to be cooked are laid, and heating means operationally associated with the plate for heating the cooking surface. There is also a circuit, associated with the plate, for treating the fumes produced during the food cooking process. The fumes treatment circuit comprises: a hood arranged above the plate, which comprises at least one suction mouth, a filtering unit fluidically connected to the hood, and at least one recirculation outlet fluidically connected downstream of the filtering unit and located near the plate. In this manner, the cooking fumes sucked in through the suction mouth of the hood are treated by the filtering unit in order to obtain a purified flow with a given percentage of humidity. The purified flow is then recirculated towards the cooking surface through the recirculation outlet in order to exert a humidifying action on the foods.
US11369228B2
New and novel structure(s) for cleaning surfaces have been disclosed. The device may include; a wiping surface, which may be disposable; a brush roll/larger debris gathering mechanism; a local debris storage and/or staging area, and a larger remote debris storage structure. Additionally, there are mechanisms and structures disclosed for powering the brush roll, activating the brush roll from an out of use position to an in use position, waste from one area to another. The invention at hand uniquely and inventively improves upon the known devices in this field.
US11369213B2
A multipurpose support apparatus for an infant is disclosed that includes a rigid planar member having a head end, an intermediate portion and a foot end. The head end and foot end each have a rounded outer edge and the intermediate portion includes right and left sides that have curved concave edges. The edges define the outer periphery of the rigid planar member. A mat following the contour of the rigid planar member is adapted to receive the rigid planar member to be removable from the rigid planar member. A removable cover encloses a flexible container that in turn encloses bean-shaped pellets, or compressible foam filler material. The support apparatus may be used for “Tummy Time” exercises, as an infant lounger, or a breast-feeding support.
US11369209B2
A collapsible bassinet that is selectively reconfigurable between a use configuration and a storage configuration, the bassinet including an outer structure, a support structure secured within the outer structure, a platform operable to be inserted within the outer structure and to rest on the support structure, and a sleeping pad operable to be inserted within the outer structure and to rest on the platform.
US11369206B2
A collapsible bed frame includes a plurality of lateral bar units, a plurality of first longitudinal bar units, and a plurality of second longitudinal bar units. The plurality of lateral bar units includes first and second outer lateral bar units and at least one inner lateral bar unit. A collapsible bed frame also includes a plurality of first connectors, each having a body and a supporting piece. The body is fixedly connected with an end of the first or second outer lateral bar unit, and the supporting piece is rotatably connected with an adjacent first or second longitudinal bar unit. The collapsible bed frame can contract and expand while the lateral and longitudinal bar units are connected with each other.
US11369205B2
A portable collapsible chair may include a frame that may be collapsed to enable a user to carry or store the chair and that may be expanded to form a chair on which the user may sit. The chair may further include a backrest coupled to the frame, a seat coupled to the frame, and one or more heat exchangers. The chair may also include a control circuit coupled to the one or more heat exchangers. The control circuit may provide a first signal to at least some of the one or more heat exchangers to warm the chair in a warming mode or may provide a second signal to at least some of the one or more heat exchangers to cool the chair in a cooling mode.
US11369196B2
A furniture assembly (1; 101) comprising: —an upper module (3; 103); —a lower module (5; 105); and —a wall part (7; 107) which is arranged for being provided between the upper and the lower module when the furniture assembly (1; 101) is mounted in a room in a mounting position with the upper module (3; 103) provided above the lower module (5; 105), wherein said wall part (7; 107) is pre-mounted to either the upper module (3; 103) or the lower module (5; 105).
US11369192B2
A floating tabletop leg cap configured for movable receipt onto the connecting portion of supporting member for positioning adjacent to an end portion of a table leg receiving the connecting portion. The floating tabletop leg cap including a resilient member affixed in a coupling between the supporting member and floating tabletop leg cap. Preferably, the resilient member is a compression spring configured to bias in a direction along a length of the table leg.
US11369188B2
A wearable hitch configured to attach to a person's belt and/or pocket with a lower member capable of receiving a handle from a wheeled article such as a pull golf cart or wheeled luggage. The wearable hitch has a first arm adjacent to a base member defining a first slot. The wearable hitch further comprises a curved second arm attached to the base member that defines a second slot. The second arm comprises a first member that is biased against the base member and an arcuate member.
US11369183B2
Calibration devices for calibrating a camera, systems for computer-aided determination of hair colour information, and methods for calibrating a camera are provided herein. In an embodiment, a method for calibrating a camera includes recording a digital image of a piece of calibration information on a fibre from a plurality of fibres from natural hair or fibres that resemble natural hair by employing a camera. The fibre is identified in the digital image by employing a marker. A plurality of colour values are determined for a plurality of reference colours as the calibration information on the fibre in the digital image, wherein a reference colour value is assigned to each reference colour. The respective determined colour value for the plurality of the determined colour values is assigned to the respectively assigned reference colour value for the plurality of reference colour values.
US11369177B2
A system for washing the hair, including a first reservoir for receiving a first liquid (L1) constituted by or comprising water, a second reservoir for receiving a second liquid (L2) including a treatment product diluted in water in an amount of less than or equal to 2.5% by weight relative to the total weight of the second liquid (L2), a shower head with a supply rate of between 0.3 and 5 L/min, configured to deliver a jet of droplets onto the hair. The shower head is further supplied with liquid, taken exclusively from one or other of the reservoirs, with an overpressure.
US11369171B2
The innovative product is a joint finger ring, particularly refers to a finger ring capable of being spliced, assembled, bent and adjusted, and relates to the technical field of ornamental finger rings and watchbands. A joint finger ring is composed of a ring setting (1), inlays (2) and connection components (3), wherein the inlays (2) are arranged in the ring setting (1). The left end and the right end of the ring setting (1) are movably connected through the connection components (3). The utility model solves the problem that in the wearing process of the traditional finger ring, the size of the finger ring of a favorite style is appropriately increased to fit the finger, and consequently, it is impossible to achieve the best feeling when people wear the finger ring, and especially for the characteristics of the male finger bones, the finger ring cannot be taken off.
US11369169B2
Disclosed is a ratchet strap and buckle assembly comprising an adjustment ratchet strap comprising a ratchet strap end, and a plurality of ratchet teeth arranged thereon and a single-piece buckle having a locking tooth and a flexible top element, wherein the single-piece buckle comprises a passageway for the ratchet strap end to be inserted therein, and wherein the flexible top element is configured to engage with at least one of the plurality of ratchet teeth using the locking tooth upon insertion.
US11369161B2
A slip resistant overshoe allowing expansion between a toe section and a heel section to allow a variety of shoe sizes and types to be inserted. The overshoe is formed from a sole having a flexible shank connected to an upper member. The upper member includes a front section and a rear section with opposing side sections therebetween. Each of the opposing side sections and flexible shank includes a corrugated shape to allow expansion of a distance between the front and rear section; a flatter surface resulting in greater slip resistance. Channels formed along a toe section and heel section expand and contract to expel debris providing an anti-clog function to maintain material slip resistance of the overshoe.
US11369159B1
A decorative light string including a first group of light elements electrically connected in parallel to each other, a second plurality of light elements electrically connected in parallel to each other, and a third plurality of light elements electrically connected in parallel to each other. The first, second, and third groups of lights are electrically connected in series. A first wire stabilizer is located between the first group of lights and the second group of lights, and a second wire stabilizer is located between the second group of lights and the third group of lights. The first and second wire stabilizers secure wire ends forming first and second gaps in the wiring of the light string.
US11369155B2
A removable face mask, which includes a face mask body and a supporting body, and further includes a fastener, wherein the fastener is rotated so that a buckling portion is passed through a hole on the face mask body and embedded into a hole on the supporting body, and the face mask body and the supporting body are connected in a snap-in manner, which simplifies the structure and provides the advantages of convenience in disassembly and use.
US11369152B2
The present invention relates to an apparatus that provides therapeutic effects and a source of hydration. The apparatus includes a garment that has one or more compartments for storing a therapeutic element. The therapeutic element may include one or more herbs, essential oils, and combinations thereof. The apparatus also includes a portable drinking apparatus attached to the garment. The portable drinking apparatus includes a pouch having a liquid reservoir inserted therein and a drinking tube having a first end in fluid communication with the liquid reservoir and a second end having a mouth operated valve. Methods of use are also disclosed.
US11369142B2
An electronic cigarette (“e-Cig”) may include an adapter component for connecting a battery portion of the e-Cig with the cartridge. The adapter may be configured to utilize a bonding device, such as a ring, cylinder, or sleeve component, for connecting wires without requiring soldering. The bonding device may press a wire at a contact point against a conductive material for transmission of electrical power.
US11369137B1
An insert system for use with a smokable (e.g., such as a pre-rolled or empty cone) including an internal partition for securing one or more flavor releasing mechanisms (e.g., flavored “click balls”) within a flavor mechanism holder and for use with a smokable item (e.g., a pre-roll cone, an empty cone, a pre-rolled or hand-rolled cigarette, etc.) is provided. The insert system is formed by rolling a section of suitable material to form an elongate member with an internal volume with a longitudinal partition. The longitudinal partition forms a compartment to receive and secure a flavor releasing mechanism held within a tubular holder. The insert system may then be coupled with a smokable to serve as the smokable's mouthpiece.
US11369136B2
A system for portioning a beaded substrate in a rod. The system includes a suction conveyor belt. The suction conveyor belt includes a belt suction chamber, a first belt end, and a second belt end, the second belt end opposite and downstream of the first belt end. The system also includes a metering device configured to provide the beaded substrate to the suction conveyor belt, and more specifically to the first belt end. The metering device includes a reach and a hopper. The metering device may provide the beaded substrate to the first belt end prior to the suction conveyor belt biasing a filler material onto the first belt end. The system may further includes a cutting mechanism that cooperates with the metering device to position the beaded substrate a first distance away from a first cut end.
US11369134B2
Apparatuses and methods are provided for filling and packing herb receptacles with herb material. For example, a method of filling and packing herb receptacles is provided which includes supporting the herb receptacles in space on a vibrating platform with the aid of a support structure having a plurality of holding apertures; dosing herb material into the herb receptacles; repositioning the vibrating platform from a loading configuration to a packing configuration to lift the herb receptacles with the herb material relative to the support structure; and packing the herb receptacles with the herb material with the vibrating platform in the packing configuration.
US11369114B2
Aqueous antimicrobial coating compositions are disclosed comprising at least one organosilane homopolymer, present as a distribution of polymer chain lengths, and optionally at least one amine. A method of preparing an antimicrobial coating comprises coating a surface with the aqueous antimicrobial coating composition and allowing the composition to dry into a film that exhibits residual antimicrobial efficacy against microorganisms even after mechanical abrasion of the coating. The organosilane homopolymer may comprise only 3-aminopropylsilanetriol homopolymer, mixtures of 3-aminopropylsilanetriol homopolymer, 3-chloropropylsilanetriol homopolymer and 3-(trihydroxysilyl)propyl dimethyloctadecyl ammonium chloride homopolymer, or any one of various unique organosilane homopolymers having multiple amine functionality.
US11369112B2
Provided is a method for controlling harmful organisms in a cultivation area of crops, including the steps of: (1) treating crop seeds with one or more fungicidal and/or plant growth regulator compounds; (2) treating a cultivation area of crops with ethyl [3-[2-chloro -4-fluoro-5-(1-methyl-6-trifluoromethyl-2,4-dioxo-1,2,3,4 -tetrahydropyrimidin-3-yl)phenoxy]-2-pyridyloxy]acetate before, simultaneously with, and/or after sowing the crop seeds; and (3) performing a foliage treatment on crops with one or more compounds, which may include fungicidal and/or insecticidal compound(s), during a growing period of the crops, which has an excellent efficacy for controlling harmful organisms in a cultivation area of crops.
US11369110B2
The present disclosure provides methods for increasing the survivability of microorganisms in seed treatment compositions that comprise one or more antimicrobial compounds.
US11369104B2
A flying pest trap (8) includes an attraction section (16), an immobilisation section (12), a body section (10) adapted to retain the attraction section (16) and the immobilisation section (12), and a power section (20) adapted to provide power to the attraction section (16). The attraction section (16) includes at least one LED light source located behind the immobilisation section (12).
US11369095B2
The method for rearing an animal according to the present invention includes: grasping a tide-generating force; and feeding, to the animal, foods varying in fat ingredient content according to the variation level of the tide-generating force. In addition, the apparatus for rearing an animal according to the present invention is provided with a food feeding means for feeding, to the animal, foods varying in fat ingredient content according to the variation level of a tide-generating force.
US11369092B2
Disclosed is a feedback feeding system pond recirculation with fusion of machine vision and infrared detection. Feeding strategies are provided according to the feeding behavior of fish in cooperative with machine vision technology and infrared sensing technology. The pond recirculating aquaculture is an open environment. The change of natural environment may affect the feedback signal of the fish feeding behavior provided by the machine vision due to the low visibility; or it may affect the feedback signal of the fish feeding behavior provided by the infrared detection because low temperature may decrease feeding intensity. The fusion of these two strategies can solve the problem of intelligent feeding strategies in the pond recirculating aquaculture mode.
US11369090B2
A top-fill hummingbird feeder is provided having a nectar container with a liquid flow opening at a lower end and a removable cap at an upper end, a feeding basin positioned below the nectar container, and a sealing mechanism associated with the liquid flow opening and the feeding basin. The sealing mechanism includes a bottle seal assembly configured for removable coupling with a base of the feeding basin, and a float valve captured by said bottle seal assembly to prevent rotation thereof while allowing the float valve to move upwardly and downwardly with changing nectar levels in the feeding basin. The float valve includes a float having a frame with a buoyant member mounted thereon, the buoyant member being made of a closed-cell foam.
US11369085B2
An animal feces collection assembly for holding a plastic bag open for receiving animal feces includes a holder that has a stem portion and a ring portion. The stem portion can be gripped by a user and the ring portion can have a plastic bag positioned therearound. The ring portion has a groove integrated therein. A gasket is positionable around the ring portion such that the gasket is positioned in the groove. In this way the gasket compresses the plastic bag into the groove to retain the plastic bag on the ring portion.
US11369083B1
A canine trail boot has a molded sole having raised lugs that conform to the pad shape of a dog's foot. These lugs divide the sole into individual pad cups, each that receive a single pad from the dog foot. Features are provided that allow some independent movement between adjacent pad cups that better replicates a dog's pad movement. The molded sole may include a toe having unidirectional treads, and may also include a tail having a combination of treads that also receive and retain straps, and a raised protrusion that engages with an indentation on a dog's paw to retain a boot securely. The sole interior may be layered with one or more insoles that provide the selection of puncture resistance, heat isolation or reflection, and other custom interior features.
US11369078B2
A new and distinct tomato variety NUN 00311 TOP is disclosed as well as seeds and plants and fruits thereof. NUN 00311 TOP is processing tomato variety, comprising high resistance to Verticillium dahliae, and Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. lycopersici Race 0, Race 1, and Race 2, and Tomato Spotted Wilt Virus, and resistance to Meloidogyne incognita.
US11369069B2
New lettuce variety designated ‘Payday’ is described. ‘Payday’ is a lettuce variety exhibiting stability and uniformity.
US11369067B2
A method and system for irrigating a field adjacent a watercourse is disclosed comprising a plurality of pumps along the watercourse and measuring from time to time at a plurality of measuring locations the salinity, the pH, the temperature and the turbidity of the water. The measuring locations are different from the pumping locations. A real time salinity, pH, temperature and turbidity at the pumping locations is predicted from the measured values and the pumps selectively disabled or enabled on the predicted salinity, pH, temperature and/or the turbidity.
US11369059B2
An agricultural vehicle header having a base structure, a header wing section, an articulated joint connecting the header wing section to the base structure, an actuator, a load sensor, and a controller. The actuator is configured to move the header wing section relative to the base structure between a wing lowered position and a wing raised position the load sensor is operatively connected to the header wing section. The controller is configured to acquire load sensor data from the load sensor to evaluate a magnitude of a gravitational load on the header wing section, and prevent the actuator from moving the header wing section towards the wing raised position if the magnitude of the gravitational load exceeds a predetermined threshold load value. An agricultural combine having the header and methods of operating the same are also provided.
US11369053B2
One or more techniques and/or systems are disclosed for adjusting the downward vertical force applied to the vehicle frame. In this way, an operator can adjust or distribute a vertical downward force that an attached implement applies to the frame of a vehicle towing the implement. A front end of a vertical load member can be pivotably coupled to the vehicle frame at a point in front of the rear axle of the vehicle, and a rear end of the vertical load member can be coupled to a hitch attachment assembly, coupled with a towed implement, at a rear end of the vertical load member. An actuator can be pivotably coupled with the vertical load member rearward of the vehicle axle, and to the vehicle frame. The vertical load member can be raised and lowered using the actuator, which raises and lowers the hitch assembly at the rear, and pivots the vertical load member at the front.
US11375634B1
A standing clip for supporting an object in an upright position includes a flexible grip having an upper lever arm, a lower lever arm, and first and second support legs. The first support leg extends from the upper lever arm at a second end of the flexible grip, and the second support leg extends from the lower lever arm at the second end of the flexible grip. The first and second support legs include complimentary clamping surfaces configured for clamping the object therebetween, and are spaced apart from each other by a gap. The flexible grip is depressible from a first state in which the gap is a first size to a second state in which the gap is a second size. The first and second support legs are oriented substantially vertically in the second state to clamp and suspend the object above a desired surface.
US11375631B2
A mobile terminal is provided, which includes: a housing, having a tray installation hole; a circuit board, disposed inside the housing; a tray retention portion, disposed inside the housing, where the tray retention portion faces toward the circuit board; a card holder, disposed on the circuit board; a tray, movably disposed in the tray installation hole and movably mating with the tray retention portion, at least the tray or the housing is provided with an ejection hole; and a toggle piece, rotatably disposed at the tray retention portion and located between the card holder and the ejection hole, one end of the toggle piece is an ejector pin action receiving end, the other end of the toggle piece is a tray ejection end, and the tray ejection end is used to apply an ejection force to the tray after a force is applied to the ejector pin action receiving end.
US11375612B2
A thermal management system that include an electronic circuit boards having at least two circuit boards with a space in between and further includes one or more air tubes or conduits. The electronic circuit board and air tubes are configured for drawing air into the space to facilitate cooling of the electronic circuit board concurrent with cooling of a heat sink of a heat pump connected with the electronic circuit board. The system can further include a partition to isolate airflow from the heat sink from airflow through the electronics circuit board, and can further include one or more interface components for maintaining isolation and control of air flow, improving air intake and/or supporting auxiliary components.
US11375606B2
Disclosed is an electronic apparatus including a printed board, a plurality of connectors mounted on the printed board, a plurality of communication control circuits that is mounted on the printed board and that controls communication through corresponding ones of the plurality of connectors, and a shield member disposed to face the printed board, in which an annular ground pattern surrounding, without interruption, a shield area including the plurality of communication control circuits is formed on a front surface of the printed board, the plurality of connectors is all disposed outside the ground pattern surrounding the shield area, and the shield member covers the shield area and is fixed to the printed board such that a portion facing the ground pattern is electrically connected to the ground pattern.
US11375605B2
An electronic device includes a printed board, a frame for fixing the printed board, a connector fixed at a position along one side of a front surface of the printed board, and an electrically conductive member. An indented portion is formed at a position of the one side facing the connector. The electrically conductive member has a portion arranged in the indented portion, and is expanded and contracted in a direction along the one side and a thickness direction of the printed board by an external force. The electrically conductive member has an upper surface, a lower surface, and a side surface in contact, respectively, with a shell of the connector, one surface of the frame, at least one side-surface portion which is part of a portion forming the indented portion and extends along a direction crossing the one side. The electrically conductive member is electrically connected with a ground of the printed board via the side-surface portion.
US11375602B2
The object of the invention relates to a neutron source, which contains a proton accelerator for producing a proton beam, and a target arranged in the trajectory of the proton beam exiting the proton accelerator for producing a neutron beam, to which the proton beam arrives in long, typically 0.5 ms-3 ms impulses, and contains a moderator-reflector system arranged in the vicinity of the target and serving for producing a moderated neutron beam, which has at least one moderator, and a reflector surrounding the moderator and the target, characterized by that at least one statistical neutron chopper is arranged to protrude into the at least one moderated neutron beam exiting channel that modulates at least one neutron beam intensity according to a random or pseudo-random sample as a function of time with its neutron transmittance ability varying according to such pattern.
US11375600B2
A control device controls a plurality of light emitting devices, and includes: a controller that: collects device information from the light emitting devices that are repeatedly turned on and off in a lighting pattern, wherein a turn-on period and a turn-off period are defined within a cycle in the lighting pattern; determines an arrangement order of the light emitting devices based on the device information; calculates a start time at which each of the light emitting devices starts repetition of the lighting pattern using the arrangement order; and transmits lighting information including the start time to each of the light emitting devices and causes each of the light emitting devices to start the repetition of the lighting pattern.
US11375598B2
The present disclosure provides light switch modules and methods of implementing a light switch module for a lighting control system. The light switch modules include a light switch actuator including an actuation surface. The light switch actuator is movable to connect an electrical flow path and to activate a tactile display housed in the light switch actuator. One or more tactile motions are applied on the actuation surface of the light switch actuator for selecting a lighting setting from among a plurality of lighting settings using the tactile display.
US11375594B2
A LED lighting circuit has a plurality of LED segments connected in series. A switching arrangement is used to selectively bypass at least one LED segment to implement a tapped linear driver approach. Degrading of a component in the LED lighting circuit is detected, so that a first TLD current modulation scheme is implemented when no such degrading is detected whereas a second current modulation scheme, different from the first current modulation scheme, is implemented to compensate for said degrading. Said degrading is leading to an increase in a turning on voltage of one LED segment, and compared to said first current modulation scheme, said second current modulation scheme has a higher voltage threshold at which said LED segment is switched. In this way, protection may be provided for circuit components and the light output may be maintained at the desired level in the event of component degrading, such as LED chip failure or contact resistance changes.
US11375593B2
A lighting system is provided with a dimmer apparatus and lighting equipment that are connected to each other via a two-wire power supply line. The dimmer apparatus generates a DC voltage including a dimming PWM signal having a PWM amplitude corresponding to a dimming control signal, and outputs the DC voltage to the lighting equipment. The lighting equipment includes at least one light emitting element that emits light by a DC current based on the DC voltage, and a current control circuit. The second control circuit modulates the dimming PWM signal included in the DC voltage, and controls brightness of the light emitting element, so that a DC current corresponding to a duty ratio of a modulated dimming PWM signal flows through the light emitting element based on the duty ratio of the dimming PWM signal.
US11375585B2
A cooking appliance apparatus, in particular an oven apparatus, includes a first heating element, a second heating element, a control unit configured to jointly operate the first and second heating elements to heat a cooking chamber in an operating state, and a power distributor unit which is configured to divide a total power into a first output power and a second output power in the operating state and to supply the first output power to the first heating element and the second output power to the second heating element.
US11375575B2
An apparatus and a method of performing a group communication are provided. The method performing the group communication of a user equipment (UE) includes transmitting, to at least one group member in a group communication system, at least one data, and transmitting, to a first apparatus in the group communication system, first information in the group communication system. The first information is used to initiate a connection establishment request in the group communication system.
US11375571B2
Provided is a terminal apparatus for communicating with a base station, the terminal apparatus including: a receiver configured to receive, from the base station apparatus, a Radio Resource Control layer (RRC) reconfiguration message including a list of a Data Radio Bearer (DRB) identity corresponding to a DRB to be released; and a processing unit configured to, in a case that a first DRB identity corresponding to the DRB configured for the terminal apparatus is included in the list, release a Packet Data Convergence Protocol Layer (PDCP) entity associated with the first DRB identity and indicate to a Service Data Adaptation Protocol (SDAP) layer information of the DRB corresponding to the first DRB identity.
US11375568B2
Provided is a User Equipment (UE, terminal apparatus) including a transmission and/or reception unit, wherein in a case that a timer for a combination of Single Network Slice Selection Assistance information (S-NSSAI) and no Data Network Name (DNN) is running, the transmission and/or reception unit is capable of initiating an EPS Session Management (ESM) procedure without using an Access Point Name (APN) in an EPS, and the transmission and/or reception unit receives a value of the timer included in a PDU session establishment reject message.
US11375566B1
When a first access node is considering setup of dual-connectivity service for a UE, the first access node could determine that the UE supports dual-band dual-connectivity service in which the UE would be served concurrently by a first access node, under a first radio access technology (RAT) over a first connection on a first frequency band and by a second access node, under a second RAT over a second connection on a second frequency band. To help optimize service when faced with the ability to set up either single-band dual-connectivity for the UE or dual-band dual-connectivity for the UE, the first access node will set up single-band dual connectivity for the UE.
US11375560B2
A wireless communication device establishes voice communication between a supported user and a selected remote device supporting another user via a point-to-point wireless ad hoc network link. The device selects a particular remote device, establishes an ad hoc network link with the selected remote device, and communicates voice communication signals with the selected remote device. Selection can be based upon a user interaction with the device which specifies the particular remote device. The user interaction can include interaction with a graphical representation of the particular remote device presented in a graphical user interface. The user interaction can include an audio command received via an audio interface of the device. The device can include one or more headset devices, including a pair of headset devices which can be switched between providing audio signals to a single user to supporting communication between separate users via an ad hoc network link.
US11375557B2
Embodiments include methods and/or procedures performed by an integrated access backhaul, IAB, node of a radio access network, RAN, that is associated with a core network, CN. Such embodiments include performing a registration with a CN node, and establishing a secure connection with a RAN node. Such embodiments also include receiving, from the RAN node via the secure connection, configuration information for one or more radio bearers between the IAB node and the RAN node. The radio bearers are adapted for backhaul of control plane information and/or user plane information. Such embodiments also include establishing, with the RAN node via at least one of the radio bearers, one or more Internet Protocol addresses usable by the IAB node. Other embodiments include complementary methods and/or procedures performed by CN nodes and RAN nodes, as well as network nodes configured to perform the various methods and/or procedures.
US11375554B2
In accordance with teachings of the invention, a system is provided to allocate meeting time to vendors. Various embodiments of the system allow for vendors to pay for the time of a busy person, such as an executive or professional. In embodiments of the invention, upon securing the time of a busy person with a successful meeting proposal, the proceeds from the meeting value are subsequently allocated to a charity selected by the executive or professional.
US11375553B2
Wireless communication devices, systems, and methods for establishing latency-critical services. When a mobile station attempts to transmit a packet on a contention-based multiple-access radio channel without a prior reservation of channel resources, the mobile station notifies the base station of its attempt to randomly access the channel. The notification is performed on dedicated channel resources. Upon receipt of the notification of a mobile station's access attempt, the base station can know that a mobile station is the origin of the colliding packets, and can therefore correctly manage the retransmission of packets not received.
US11375552B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive an indication of scheduling information for dedicated on-demand system information (SI) corresponding to a specified UE category, wherein the indication is carried in at least one of: a minimum system information (MSI) communication, a radio resource control (RRC) message, a response message of a two-step random access channel (RACH) procedure, a random access response (RAR) message of a four-step RACH procedure, a contention resolution message of a four-step RACH procedure, a message type flag indicating the transmission of the dedicated on-demand SI, or a combination thereof; transmit, to the base station, an on-demand SI request based at least in part on the scheduling information and the UE category; and receive one or more on-demand system information blocks. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US11375547B2
Aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for tunneling control information associated with random access procedure (RACH) from a fifth generation (5G) new radio (NR) base station (e.g., secondary base station (SgNB)) to the user equipment (UE) via long term evolution (LTE) master base station (e.g., “MeNB”) in order to extend the coverage of the SgNB. The tunneled PDCCH control information may include one or more of frequency domain resource assignment, time domain resource assignment (e.g., physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) scheduled slot index, start symbol index and duration in the slow), and/or modulation coding scheme (MCS).
US11375545B2
The present disclosure provides a method and an apparatus for information transmission. The method includes: transmitting information or a channel over one or more of available narrow bands. The available narrow bands include available uplink narrow bands and/or available downlink narrow bands and the available narrow bands are determined based on information including at least one of: a system bandwidth, a cell identity, a position of an anchor carrier, information indicated by a PSS, information indicated by an SSS, information indicated by a MIB and information indicated by a SIB. The information or channel transmitted over the one or more narrow bands includes at least one of: a downlink control channel, a PDSCH, an RAR, a paging message, a SIB, a MIB, a PRACH, a PUSCH, and a PUCCH. The above solution solves the problem regarding how to obtain multiple narrow bands/carriers in NB-IoT and provides a scheme for determining available narrow bands.
US11375543B2
Various aspects of the disclosure relate to co-existence of millimeter wave (mmW) communication and radar. In some aspects, a device that supports mmW communication and radar operations may determine whether or when to conduct radar operations based on information obtained about a nearby mmW network. For example, prior to sending radar signals, the device may monitor for mmW communication signals. As another example, the device may send at least one mmW communication signal to reserve a communication medium for subsequent radar operations. As yet another example, the device may conduct radar operations during idle or allocated time periods defined by the mmW network.
US11375538B2
Provided is a wireless communication terminal. The wireless communication terminal includes a transceiver; and a processor. The processor is configured to receive a signaling field of a first PLCP Protocol Data Unit (PPDU) through the transceiver, and access a channel based on information identifying a Basic Service Set (BSS) indicated by the signaling field.
US11375535B2
A method and apparatus for selecting a sidelink resource for a sidelink CSI reporting in a wireless communication system is provided. A first wireless device triggers the SL CSI reporting for the PC5-RRC connection. A first wireless device determines to create a sidelink grant corresponding to transmission of a single MAC PDU based on the triggered SL CSI reporting or a SL data available for transmission. A first wireless device triggers a resource selection procedure based on the determination. A first wireless device selects a sidelink resource in the resource selection procedure.
US11375534B2
Systems and methods for reducing audio delay for mixed mode delivery of audio transmissions. One example system includes a communication interface communicatively coupled to a communication network, and an electronic processor. The electronic processor is coupled to the communication interface, and configured to receive, via the communication interface, a group call request for a talkgroup. The electronic processor is configured to transmit, in response to receiving the group call request, a call grant message to a plurality of subscriber units affiliated with the talkgroup. The electronic processor is configured to determine, using a machine learning algorithm, a subset of the plurality of subscriber units based on a call grant response time, and, while a transmission hold-off timer has not expired, when a call grant response has been received from each of the subscriber units of the subset, forward an audio transmission to the subset based on the group call request.
US11375531B2
A signal monitoring method and apparatus are provided. The method includes: determining, by a terminal device based on received configuration information, an index of a first time unit in which a start position of a control channel resource of a control channel is located, where a system frame number in which the first time unit is located is determined based on a first parameter; and monitoring, by the terminal device, the control channel starting from a time domain position corresponding to the index of the first time unit. In this way, the terminal device can monitor the control channel starting from a time unit corresponding to the index of the first time unit, to avoid monitoring the control channel extremely early and reduce overheads.
US11375527B1
Among other things, aspects, features, and implementations of wireless mesh networks and wireless mesh network devices are described.
US11375520B2
A communication apparatus obtains, from each of a plurality of other communication apparatuses, an amount of buffered data of the each of the plurality of other communication apparatuses, divides the plurality of other communication apparatuses into a plurality of groups based on the amount of buffered data of each of the plurality of other communication apparatuses, and assigns to each of the groups wireless frequency resources for which a shared data communication time is set.
US11375514B2
The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for generating a signal for low latency in a wireless communication system. The method, according to one embodiment of the present invention, for a communication device generating a situation-reporting signal for low latency and transmitting the signal to a base station in a wireless communication system comprises the steps of: generating the situation-reporting signal on the basis of a pre-set, specific situation recognized by the communication device; and transmitting the generated situation-reporting signal to the base station, wherein the situation-reporting signal may be generated so as to have a subcarrier spacing which is a pre-set number of times larger than a subcarrier spacing of a legacy communication system, the pre-set number being an integer.
US11375513B2
A user terminal according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes a control section that determines a type of particular search space, based on certain information included in a search space configuration, and a receiving section that monitors a control resource set (CORESET) by using the particular search space. The control section is configured to necessarily determine at least two types including a type of search space for detecting a downlink control information format with CRC (Cyclic Redundancy Check) scrambled by a random access RNTI (Radio Network Temporary Identifier) and a type of user terminal-specific search space, based on one or a plurality of search space configurations. According to an aspect of the present disclosure, it is possible to appropriately associate a search space with a CORESET.
US11375510B2
There is provided a method in a wireless device for transmitting data on sidelink carriers. The method comprises: obtaining a threshold related to a data rate; determining one or more sidelink carriers based on the threshold; selecting one or more sidelink carriers from the determined one or more sidelinks carriers for data transmission; transmitting data using the one or more selected sidelink carriers. The data rate may correspond to a buffer status of the wireless device, a bit rate or a congestion measurement of the sidelink carriers. A wireless device for performing this method is also provided.
US11375509B2
A user device may receive from a base station, information indicating that support for a receive limited user device is enabled based on a presence of a threshold number of receive limited user devices within a range of a cell of the base station. A receive limited user device is a user device that is unable to receive a transmission that was transmitted based on one or more communication capabilities of a full set of communication capabilities. The user device may select, in response to receiving the information, one or more communication capabilities to support a receive limited user device. The user device may transmit information using the selected one or more communication capabilities.
US11375483B2
A method for multiplexing UCI performed by a UE is provided. The method includes: receiving, from a BS, an RRC configuration to configure a sequence that is selected from either a first sequence or a second sequence; receiving, from the BS, a DCI message including an indicator; determining a value corresponding to the indicator based on the configured sequence; and multiplexing a UCI message based on the determined value.
US11375471B2
In an aspect of the present invention, a method for performing a service request message of an Access and Mobility Management Function (AMF) in a wireless communication system may include a packet data unit (PDU) session identifier (ID) for a PDU session whose activation is desired by a user equipment from the user equipment; transmitting a first message comprising the PDU session ID to a session management function (SMF); when an establishment of the PDU session is rejected by the SMF: receiving a second message comprising a reject cause of the PDU session establishment as a response to the first message; and transmitting a service response message comprising the reject cause and a PDU session ID rejected by the reject cause to the user equipment.
US11375464B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may receive a first kind of synchronization signals from a first synchronization source and may receive a second kind of synchronization signals from a second synchronization source. Additionally, the UE may determine a first priority for the first synchronization source and a second priority for the second synchronization source based on whether each synchronization source is connected to a global navigation satellite system from information in the synchronization signals. Accordingly, the UE may then select the synchronization source with the higher priority and communicate with one or more additional UEs based on synchronizing with the selected synchronization source. In some cases, the first kind of synchronization signals may include sidelink synchronization signals, and the second kind of synchronization signals may include data-based synchronization signals (e.g., demodulation reference signals).
US11375458B2
A device and method for altitude-based interference mitigation in an aerial vehicle. The device includes a transceiver, an altimeter, and an electronic processor coupled to the transceiver and the altimeter. The electronic processor is configured to determine, via the altimeter, an altitude level of the aerial vehicle, compare the altitude level to an altitude threshold, and, in response to the altitude level exceeding the altitude threshold, control a radio frequency characteristic of the transceiver to mitigate signal interference based the altitude level.
US11375447B2
A method for controlling a display device includes storing a quality order for each of a plurality of communication methods different from each other, based on a plurality of applications being executed, identifying a priority order for each of the plurality of applications, identifying a communication method corresponding to each of the plurality of applications among the plurality of communication methods based on the priority order and the quality order, and communicating with a server corresponding to each of the plurality of applications by the identified communication method.
US11375432B2
In a 5G network, an integrated access and backhaul (IAB) network can experience radio link failures or radio blockage conditions in mmWave frequency bands. Local IAB nodes that experience such conditions can make route changes in response to such situations to prevent packet loss or significant packet delay. Thus, in an IAB network, local IAB nodes can also utilize a routing function that monitors local conditions of IAB links to determine whether a change in route is required or not. Additionally, the local IAB nodes can receive external routing updates that can preempt a local IAB node routing function. Consequently, the IAB node can consider local routing preferences and external routing preferences prior to updating a routing table of the IAB node.
US11375431B2
A transmitting device may determine a zone identifier (ID) for the transmitting device and transmit a message including the zone ID directly to at least one receiving device. In certain aspects, a relay device may be configured to receive the message comprising a first zone ID for a transmitting device, to determine whether to relay the message based at least on the first zone ID, and if the relay device determines to relay the message, to transmit a relayed message including information reflecting the first zone ID. In certain aspects, a receiving device may be configured to identify a message comprising information indicating a first zone ID for a transmitting device, to determine whether to decode data of the message based at least on the first zone ID for the transmitting device, and to decode or refrain from decoding the data of the message based on the determination.
US11375429B2
Embodiments of the invention provide a system and method for chip to chip communications in electronic circuits. In one embodiment, a networking device includes an input port circuit having a transmitter circuit coupled one or more transmitter antennas, wherein the input port circuit transmits a data packet to a first output port circuit using millimeter wave signals. The networking device includes output port circuits including at least the first output port circuit, each of the output port circuits having a receiver circuit coupled to one or more receiver antennas. The networking device includes a beamforming circuit coupled to the one or more transmitter antennas of the input port circuit, wherein the beamforming circuit causes the one or more transmitter antennas to transmit an antenna beam directed at the one or more receiver antennas of the first output port circuit.
US11375417B1
A wireless User Equipment (UE) executes a user application and wirelessly exchanges signaling with a wireless communication network over a source frequency band. The UE selects a wireless network slice responsive to the signaling. The UE selects a target frequency band and a handover type based on a characteristic of the wireless network slice. The UE requests the target frequency band and the handover type by wirelessly exchanging signaling with the wireless communication network over the source frequency band. The UE wirelessly exchanges data for the user application with the wireless communication network over the target frequency band. The wireless network slice handles the data to deliver the wireless data service to the wireless UE for the user application. The UE and the wireless communication network use the handover type to handover the wireless UE during the delivery of the wireless data service.
US11375415B2
A method of operating a session management function SMF entity of a wireless communication network may be provided. An Ethernet context for a wireless terminal may be received from a first user plane function UPF entity, wherein the Ethernet context is provided for an Ethernet Protocol Data Unit PDU Session for the wireless terminal using the first UPF entity, and wherein the Ethernet context includes a Medium Access Control MAC address for the wireless terminal. The Ethernet context including the MAC address for the wireless terminal may be transmitted to a second UPF entity. Related methods of operating user plane function UPF entities of a wireless communication network may also be provided.
US11375413B2
The present disclosure discloses a method and apparatus for processing information. The method for processing information comprises: retrieving, by a first base station, user context information of a User Equipment (UE) from a second base station by initiating a procedure to the second base station for retrieving the user context information, wherein the user context information doesn't include user history information; updating, by the first base station, bearer path information and resuming the user context information by initiating a path switch request message to a device in a core network; and performing, by the first base station, one or more of the following operations after the UE resumes to a connected state: re-starting to collect user history information, and re-retrieving user history information from the UE through an air interface.
US11375410B2
Embodiments of this application disclose a method and apparatus for obtaining configuration information performed at a terminal. The terminal obtains configuration information of a 5G local area network (LAN), the configuration information including an information item for assisting the terminal in making an access decision and at least one of the following information items: a first information item, for indicating whether the 5G LAN supports maintenance of session continuity with a public land mobile network (PLMN); a second information item, for indicating an identifier of the 5G LAN; and a third information item, for indicating a service-level agreement (SLA) of the 5G LAN. Next the terminal determines whether to access the 5G LAN according to the configuration information.
US11375407B2
A method and an apparatus for negotiation of user equipment (UE) policy delivery are provided. A method for negotiation of UE policy delivery of a user equipment includes generating a first indicator being associated with a capability of the UE and reporting, to a network node, the first indicator being associated with the capability of the UE, wherein the capability of the UE describes support for the UE triggering a UE policy configuration, and/or a UE assistant information for a UE policy distribution.
US11375403B2
The present disclosure relates to a method and an apparatus for detecting a maximum transmission unit (MTU) value. The data sender forms a first detection packet according to a first preset rule based on its MTU value. The data sender sends the first detection packet to a data receiver. The data sender receives a second detection packet from the data receiver. The data sender determines an MTU value included in the second detection packet as an MTU value of data transmission between the data sender and the data receiver.
US11375399B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a first transmit receive point (TRP) may transmit a first physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) communication to a user equipment (UE), wherein the first PDSCH communication includes a first set of layers for a codeword, and wherein a second set of layers for the codeword are transmitted to the UE in a second PDSCH communication from a second TRP. The first TRP may receive from the UE, acknowledgement or negative acknowledgement (ACK/NACK) information corresponding to the codeword. The first TRP may adjust a contention window size based at least in part on a determination that a condition, associated with the ACK/NACK information, is satisfied. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US11375391B2
The present specification provides a method for reporting aperiodic channel state information (CSI) in a wireless communication system. Specifically, a method performed by the terminal comprises a step of receiving configuration information with respect to at least one reporting setting from a base station; a step of receiving control information indicating a measurement resource (MR) associated with the aperiodic CSI report from the base station; a step of computing aperiodic CSI on the basis of a particular reporting setting associated with the control information; and a step of transmitting the aperiodic CSI to the base station through a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH).
US11375388B2
In an example embodiment disclosed herein there is described a multi-radio device which comprises a first radio that first radio comprises a transmitter, and a second radio that second radio comprises a receiver that monitors a channel to obtain data representative of a predefined channel parameter. The second radio is operable to receive a signal from the first radio that indicates when the transmitter of the first radio is transmitting. The receiver of the second radio selectively excludes data representative of a predefined channel parameter based on whether the transmitter of the first radio is transmitting.
US11375385B2
A base station within a network for providing ATG wireless communication in various cells may include a first antenna array, a base station unit and a remote radio head disposed between the base station unit and the first antenna array. The first antenna array defines a plurality of first sectors having respective widths defined in azimuth. Each of the first sectors includes a first sector floor and a first sector ceiling at respective elevation angles such that combining first sector floors and first sector ceilings creates at least a portion of a respective first base station conical cell centered at the first base station. The first base station is configured to define additional first base station conical cells at respective elevation angles between the first sector floor and the first sector ceiling. The remote radio head receives location information indicative of a location of an aircraft to enable the remote radio head to form a steerable beam in both azimuth and elevation angle at the first antenna array toward the aircraft.
US11375379B1
A method and an apparatus for identifying terminals. The method includes: sending by an NFC card reader of the identifying terminal, a preset instruction to an NFC chip of a terminal to be identified packaged in a packaging box, to switch on the terminal to be identified in a compartment; obtaining identification information corresponding to the terminal to be identified; obtaining location information of the identifying terminal; transmitting the location information and the identification information of the terminal to be identified to a verification server; and obtaining and outputting the identification result sent by the verification server.
US11375378B2
A request from a user device to register as a secure endpoint device of a secure local area network (LAN) is received by a wireless carrier network. A device type of the user device is identified by the network based on device identification information provided by the user device. A data protection policy that corresponds to the device type of the user device is sent to a secure endpoint application on the user device following a registration of the user device as a secure endpoint device by the network, in which the data protection policy includes an Access Point Name (APN). The user device allocated a network slice of the wireless carrier network that corresponds to the APN to the user device. Subsequently, a data file is transported from the user device to an additional secure endpoint device via the network slice that is allocated to the user device.
US11375374B1
Systems and method are provided for a temporary network slice usage barring service within a core network. A network device in the core network receives a slice barring information message for an application function (AF). The slice barring information message includes a unique subscriber identifier associated with a user equipment (UE) device to be barred from a network slice and indicates a barring expiration time. The network device stores barring parameters based on the slice barring information message. The barring parameters include a slice identifier associated with the AF, the unique subscriber identifier, and the barring expiration time. The network device sends a barring instruction message to another network device associated with the network slice. The barring instruction message includes the unique subscriber identifier and the barring expiration time. The other network device enforces temporary barring of the UE device from the network slice based on the barring instruction message.
US11375373B2
Disclosed are an authorization management method and system for a signal transmission bandwidth of a DAS communication system. The system consists of an access unit, an extension unit, and a distal unit. The radio frequency access unit is connected to the extension unit. The extension unit is connected to the distal unit. The extension unit mainly implements the extension of a proximal unit port, the extension of a transmission distance, and a transmission bandwidth control function. The distal unit mainly implements the coverage of a radio frequency signal to a specific area. The signal transmission bandwidth of the extension unit is controlled by setting an authorization file formed by authorizing the transmission bandwidth on an extension unit device. When the signal transmission bandwidth configured by a user on the extension unit is not greater than the authorized bandwidth, the configuration becomes effective, and the system performs normal transmission. When the transmission bandwidth configured by the user on the extension unit is greater than the authorized bandwidth, the configuration is limited, the overflow bandwidth is not transmitted, and an abnormal indication is made. The present invention provides a flexible capacity allocation mode for a DAS, which indirectly expands the sales market.
US11375372B2
The embodiments herein relate to a method in a policy node for handling a UEs access to a mobile communications network. The policy node comprises policy information for the UEs access rights to the mobile communications network. The policy node obtains, from a subscriber database, subscription information for a subscriber associated with the UE. Based on the subscription information and the policy information, the policy node determines which geographical areas comprised in the mobile communications network the UE is allowed or denied access to. The policy node transmits, to a mobility node, access information indicating which geographical areas comprised in the mobile communications network the UE is allowed or denied access to.
US11375368B2
Methods for detecting and preventing an adversarial network entity (e.g., fake base stations, etc.) from tracking a wireless device's location. A wireless device may be equipped with a random value (RAND) database or cache memory RAND values previously received by the wireless device. In response to receiving an authentication request message from a network component, performing AKA procedures and determining that the authentication failed, the wireless device may compare the RAND value included in the received authentication request message to RAND values stored in secure storage memory. The wireless device may generate an authentication response message that includes an error code that is different than standard error code used so that the target wireless device can't be differentiated from other wireless devices thereby preventing tracking in response to determining that the RAND value included in the received authentication request message is included in the RAND secure storage memory.
US11375367B2
A device may obtain, from a remote SIM provisioning (RSP) platform associated with a wireless network, a subscription identifier for a target device to be onboarded onto the wireless network. The device may generate a derived set of credentials for the target device based on an existing set of credentials in a SIM profile associated with the device. The device may generate a derived SIM profile that includes the subscription identifier obtained from the RSP platform and the derived set of credentials, and the device may cause the derived SIM profile to be provisioned onto an embedded Universal Integrated Circuit Card (eUICC) of the target device. Accordingly, the derived SIM profile may enable the target device to use the derived set of credentials to obtain authenticated access to the wireless network.
US11375364B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may receive, from a broadcast transmitter, a broadcast signal including one or more multi-resolution messages. The UE may decode at least one of the one or more multi-resolution messages based on receiving the broadcast signal from the broadcast transmitter, and may determine that a data rate associated with the broadcast signal is less than a threshold based on the decoding. The UE may transmit a signal querying the broadcast reception capability of a base station based on determining the data rate. In response to the query signal, the UE may receive a signal indicating a broadcast reception capability of the base station, and may communicate, with the base station, based on the broadcast reception capability of the base station.
US11375361B2
Dynamic tuning of mobile network device configuration based on location is described. An example of a storage medium includes instructions for switching a mobile network device in a vehicle to a maintenance mode based at least in part on detection of a first location, the first location being a maintenance hub location; enabling administrative communications and disabling user communications for the mobile network device in the maintenance mode; receiving configuration data for the mobile network device from an external server in the maintenance mode, the configuration data being based at least in part on a route for the vehicle; switching the mobile network device to a service mode based at least in part on detection of a second location that is different than the first location; and enabling service communications and disabling administrative communications for the mobile network device in the service mode.
US11375353B2
A radio communication device includes an application execution unit which generates first transmission data including first application identification information, a communication unit which receives a message including first reception data including the first application identification information, and an occupancy rate determination unit including a transmission ID number counter which counts the number of first application identification information included in the first transmission data and which outputs a count result as a first transmission ID count value, a reception ID number counter which counts the number of first application identification information included in the first reception data and which outputs a count result as a first reception ID count value, and a comparison unit which compares the first transmission ID count value with the first reception ID count value to determine the number of transmission data and the number of reception data have a predetermined ratio.
US11375337B2
The present disclosure relates to transmitter and/or receiver units (transceivers), such as in particular motor vehicle transceivers. The teachings thereof may be embodied in methods and devices for detecting changes in the positions of transceivers relative to each other. For example, a system may include: a distance determining device to measure a current distance value corresponding to a respective distance of two of the transceivers relative to each other; and a comparator to compare the at least one current distance value and with a stored reference distance value.
US11375332B2
Described is a method of processing position information indicative of an object position of an audio object, wherein the object position is usable for rendering of the audio object, that comprises: obtaining listener orientation information indicative of an orientation of a listener's head; obtaining listener displacement information indicative of a displacement of the listener's head; determining the object position from the position information; modifying the object position based on the listener displacement information by applying a translation to the object position; and further modifying the modified object position based on the listener orientation information. Further described is a corresponding apparatus for processing position information indicative of an object position of an audio object, wherein the object position is usable for rendering of the audio object.
US11375324B2
A speaker comprises a housing, a transducer residing inside the housing, and at least one sound guiding hole located on the housing. The transducer generates vibrations. The vibrations produce a sound wave inside the housing and cause a leaked sound wave spreading outside the housing from a portion of the housing. The at least one sound guiding hole guides the sound wave inside the housing through the at least one sound guiding hole to an outside of the housing. The guided sound wave interferes with the leaked sound wave in a target region. The interference at a specific frequency relates to a distance between the at least one sound guiding hole and the portion of the housing.
US11375305B2
An integrated audio-visual system is disclosed for delivering an event to one or more spectators. The integrated audio-visual system includes one or more loudspeakers that are positioned behind one or more visual displays to be effectively behind the one or more visual displays to be shielded from the field of view of the one or more spectators. The one or more visual displays are specially designed and manufactured to allow sound associated with the event to propagate from the one or more loudspeakers with minimal acoustical distortion and/or minimum acoustical vibration while presenting a visual representation of the event to the one or more spectators. Moreover, the one or more loudspeakers and the one or more visual displays are situated to be a predetermined displacement from each other to further minimize acoustical distortion.
US11375303B2
A loudspeaker arrangement for a seat within a motor vehicle utilizes one or more localized sound output ports for low frequency sound reproduction. A housing, such as an enclosure, substantially surrounds a loudspeaker. One or more audio transmission line channels acoustically interconnect the interior of the enclosure to one or more sound output ports. The enclosure is situated below, behind, or in some fixed location around or within a vehicle seat. The sound outputs ports are situated at or near a headrest such that the output ports are located substantially less than a wavelength of sound at the highest operating frequency from either ear of the seat's occupant. The acoustic response and resonances of a 1) rear enclosure, 2) a front vented enclosure, 3) a loudspeaker, and 4) an audio transmission path from the enclosure to one or more output ports are used to provide localized low frequency sound reproduction.
US11375298B2
The present invention relates to an antenna, in particular a mobile phone antenna, in particular for a mobile radio base station, having at least one emitter, a data acquisition unit, a memory and having at least one sensor for detecting a mechanical and/or electrical and/or thermal stress of the antenna, wherein the data acquisition unit aquires measurement data of the at least one sensor and temporarily stores them in the memory. It is provided here that the data acquisition unit generates data packets based on a plurity of measurement data stored in the memory and transmits them to an external data base.
US11375286B1
A data storage device comprises a non-volatile memory, a buffer, and a controller. The controller is configured to decode a media file to extract timestamp information related to a set of frames of the media file and receive, from a host, a seek command associated with playback of the media file. The seek command includes a seek interval. The controller is further configured to remove at least a portion of the set of frames based at least in part on the seek interval and the extracted timestamp information and transmit a subset of the set of frames, not including the removed at least a portion of the set of frames, to the host.
US11375280B2
A device may receive content data, a first model, and a second model. The first model may be trained on different types of metadata than the second model. The content data may include a first identifier of a first content item and a first set of metadata associated with the first content item. The device may process the first set of metadata to generate first recommendations from the first model and second recommendations from the second model. The device may provide the first identifier and a combination of the first recommendations and the second recommendations to client devices. The device may receive, from the client devices, user-generated target recommendations based on the combination. The device may process the user-generated target recommendations, the first recommendations, and the second recommendations, to provide feedback to update the first model and the second model.
US11375279B2
A system and method for determining a similarity measure between a first network broadcast time segment and a second network broadcast time segment. The method includes generating first training data comprising groupings of similar broadcast networks and groupings of dissimilar broadcast networks, extracting second training data comprising audience data and genre data for time segments of network broadcasts, and training an encoder neural network based on the first and second training data. The method includes executing the trained neural network with input data comprising the first network broadcast time segment and determining a similarity measure relative to the second network broadcast time segment.
US11375276B2
Methods and systems are provided herein for recommending a media asset based on a geographic location at which that media asset was frequently consumed. For example, the system may monitor a location, such as New York City or Times Square, to determine popular media assets watched there, such as “The Avengers,” and when another user visits New York City, the system may then notify the user that the movie, such as “The Avengers,” is associated with New York City. The system stores the geographic locations associated with the media asset in the database based on the consumption of the media asset so that other users may be notified which media assets are associated with each geographic location.
US11375273B2
Correlating information associated with playback of video segments is disclosed. Information associated with playback of a first video segment is obtained. Information associated with playback of a second video segment is obtained. The information associated with playback of the first video segment is correlated with the information associated with playback of the second video segment based at least in part on at least one of a client application identifier, a video session identifier, and a set of timestamps. Output is provided based at least in part on the correlating.
US11375264B2
A vehicle communication system is provided. The system includes a housing having a first portion slidably affixed to a second portion. A first display is affixed between a first upper arm and a first lower arm of the first portion. A second display is affixed between a second upper arm and a second lower arm of the second portion. The first display and the second display are disposed along distinct parallel planes, such that the first portion and the second portion can selectively move between an extended position and a collapsed position. A fastener is disposed on each of the first end of the housing and a second end of the housing. A control circuit includes a power supply, a processor, and a memory disposed within the housing, and wherein the first and second displays can display a message stored on the memory across the first and second displays.
US11375263B2
An image capturing apparatus is provided that is configured to generate an operation screen relating to an image stored in a storage unit, output the generated operation screen to a display apparatus, acquire attitude information relating to an attitude of the image capturing apparatus, converting the acquired attitude information into position information relating to a position of a position display component on the operation screen and display the position display component on the operation screen based on the converted position information, accept an initialization operation of initializing the position of the position display component, and display the position display component at an initial position of the operation screen in response to accepting the initialization operation.
US11375256B1
A machine learning system builds and uses computer models for identifying or predicting intensity of emotional reactions elicited by a particular video. Such computer models may also determine which particular emotional reaction corresponds to certain times during the video, and whether these reactions are positive or negative for a particular user. The computer models can also predict emotional reactions likely to be elicited by new videos based on learned correlations between video features and elicited emotional reactions.
US11375248B2
Disparate live output stream manifests are generated based on user selection. When current media programming content in an existing first disparate live media output stream is streamed on a media player, one or more processors determine a set of alternate live input streams and/or a pre-encoded media assets, and associated alternate live media output manifests and/or pre-encoded media asset manifests, respectively, based on one or more parameters and metadata associated with the existing first disparate live media output stream. Based on an indicator in an existing first disparate live media output stream manifest, alternate content options are transmitted to the media player. A response is received corresponding to a selection of an alternate live input stream and/or a pre-encoded media asset, and an alternate live input stream manifest and/or pre-encoded media asset manifest is inserted into the existing first disparate live media output stream manifest as next programming media content.
US11375246B2
Methods and apparatus for supporting content delivery service are described. In accordance with the invention content can be supplied to temporary storage of a regional or local server used to supply the content to a customer's premises when the requested content is not already available in the regional or local server. A content server hierarchy may be implemented with servers higher up in the hierarchy including more content, e.g., titles, than the number of titles stored in the lower level servers. By storing less frequently accessed content in servers higher in the hierarchy and frequently requested titles lower in the hierarchy, a vast number of titles can be supported without overburdening the storage available at local and regional servers. In addition, a national or other server high in the hierarchy can be used to store, move, and distribute local or other content as part of an on demand service.
US11375243B2
Aspects of the disclosure provide an apparatus that includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry decodes coding information of a current coding tree block (CTB) from a coded video bitstream. The coding information indicates whether a current block split structure of the current CTB is based on reference partitioning information. In response to the current block split structure of the current CTB being based on the reference partitioning information, the processing circuitry determines the current block split structure for the current CTB based on an initial block split structure indicated in the reference partitioning information. The initial block split structure is (i) of a previously decoded CTB decoded prior to the current CTB in a decoding order or (ii) indicated by a high level header at a level higher than a CTB level. The processing circuitry partitions the current CTB according to the current block split structure.
US11375238B2
A method, computer program, and computer system is provided for video coding. Coded syntax elements corresponding to wrap-around padding process are decoded. At least one coded current picture is reconstructed using wrap-around padding process. The syntax elements indicate an offset value for wrap-around processing; or left and right padding width information. A flag indicates whether syntax elements corresponding to wrap-around padding process is present in parameter set. A pixel position for motion compensated prediction in a reference picture is determined by interpreting the syntax elements corresponding to wrap-around padding process with a clipping process.
US11375233B2
Disclosed are a method for partitioning a block and a decoding device. A method for decoding an image comprises the steps of: partitioning one prediction unit, in which an intra prediction is performed in a predetermined intra prediction mode, into a plurality of transform units; and performing the intra prediction for each of the plurality of the transform units on the basis of the predetermined intra prediction mode. Thus, the invention increases the image encoding efficiency.
US11375232B2
Methods, apparatus and systems for video bitstream generation and parsing are described. One example method of video bitstream processing includes parsing a header at a video unit level in a video bitstream for a first field indicative of whether the video unit includes multiple network abstraction layer bit units having multiple types, parsing, due to determining that the video unit includes multiple network abstraction layer bit units having multiple types, a second field in the header indicative of whether the video unit comprises an intra random access point, and decoding, based on the first field and the second field, the video bitstream to generate a video.
US11375228B1
Techniques for implementing video processing techniques are described. In one example implementation, a method of video processing includes determining, for a conversion between a current block of a video and a bitstream representation of the video, a modified motion vector set; and performing the conversion based on the modified motion vector set. Due to the current block satisfying a condition, the modified motion vector set is a modified version of a motion vector set associated with the current block.
US11375223B2
A method, computer program, and computer system is provided for signaling output layer sets in a coded video stream. Video data having multiple layers is received. One or more syntax elements are identified. The syntax elements specify one or more output layer sets corresponding to output layers from among the multiple layers of the received video data. The one or more output layers corresponding to the specified output layer sets are decoded and displayed.
US11375218B2
According to an embodiment, an image coding method is for coding an image including a luminance component and color difference components. The method includes acquiring a reference image; and generating a predicted image by interpolating the luminance component and the color difference components in the reference image according to a motion vector. If a size of a block, which is designated as a unit of the interpolation, is equal to or smaller than a predetermined first threshold value, the generating includes inhibiting a bi-directional prediction, and performing only a uni-directional prediction to generate the predicted image according to the motion vector.
US11375217B2
A method of visual media processing includes determining a size of a buffer to store reference samples for prediction in an intra block copy mode; and performing a conversion between a current video block of visual media data and a bitstream representation of the current video block, using the reference samples stored in the buffer, wherein the conversion is performed in the intra block copy mode which is based on motion information related to a reconstructed block located in same video region with the current video block without referring to a reference picture.
US11375214B2
An encoder includes circuitry and memory. The circuitry, using the memory: derives a one-dimensional array of a plurality of reference samples for intra prediction; performs smoothing on the one-dimensional array of the plurality of reference samples which has been derived; and generates a prediction image using the plurality of reference samples. In deriving the one-dimensional array, the circuitry projects a value of at least one decoded pixel located on a first line onto a second line perpendicular to the first line, to derive at least one of the plurality of reference samples, and the smoothing is performed on the at least one decoded pixel projected onto the second line.
US11375211B2
Devices, systems and methods for applying intra-block copy (IBC) in video coding are described. In general, methods for integrating IBC with existing motion compensation algorithms for video encoding and decoding are described. In a representative aspect, a method for video encoding using IBC includes determining whether a current block of the current picture is to be encoded using a motion compensation algorithm, and encoding, based on the determining, the current block by selectively applying an intra-block copy to the current block. In a representative aspect, another method for video encoding using IBC includes determining whether a current block of the current picture is to be encoded using an intra-block copy, and encoding, based on the determining, the current block by selectively applying a motion compensation algorithm to the current block.
US11375202B2
At least a method and an apparatus are presented for efficiently encoding or decoding video. For example, one or more prediction models are determined respectively for one or more prediction candidates used for the video encoding based on one or more control point motion vectors of a current block of the video being encoded or decoded. It is determined from the one or more control point motion vectors that a first prediction model of the one or more prediction models may be a translational prediction model. It is also determined from the one or more control point motion vectors that a second prediction model of the one or more prediction models is to be an affine prediction model. The video is encoded or decoded based on a candidate list comprising the one or more prediction candidates determined respectively from the one or more prediction models.
US11375197B2
Techniques for context-adaptive binary arithmetic coding (CABAC) coding with a reduced number of context coded and/or bypass coded bins are provided. Rather than using only truncated unary binarization for the syntax element representing the delta quantization parameter and context coding all of the resulting bins as in the prior art, a different binarization is used and only part of the resulting bins are context coded, thus reducing the worst case number of context coded bins for this syntax element. Further, binarization techniques for the syntax element representing the remaining actual value of a transform coefficient are provided that restrict the maximum codeword length of this syntax element to 32 bits or less, thus reducing the number of bypass coded bins for this syntax element over the prior art.
US11375188B2
Devices, systems and methods for digital video coding, which includes in-loop reshaping for video coding, are described. An exemplary method for video processing includes performing a conversion between a video comprising one or more video data units and a bitstream representation of the video, the bitstream representation conforming to a format rule that specifies an inclusion of side information indicative of default parameters for a coding mode that is applicable to a video block of the one or more video data units for which the coding mode is enabled, and the side information providing parameters for constructing the video block based on a representation of the video block in an original domain and a reshaped domain and/or a luma-dependent scaling of a chroma residue of a chroma video block.
US11375187B2
A filter is configured for processing a reconstructed frame for generation of a filtered reconstructed frame, and wherein the reconstructed frame comprises a plurality of pixels. The filter includes one or more processor configured to scan a current pixel of the reconstructed block and its neighboring pixels of the current pixel according to a predefined scan template, obtain spectrum components by performing transform for the current pixel and its neighboring pixels, obtain filtered spectrum components based on a filtering parameter and the spectrum components, obtain filtered pixels by performing inverse transform for the filtered spectrum components, and generate a filtered reconstructed block based on the filtered pixels.
US11375185B2
An image encoding/decoding method and apparatus for performing representative sample-based intra prediction are provided. An image decoding method may comprise deriving an intra prediction mode of a current block, configuring a reference sample of the current block, and performing intra prediction for the current block based on the intra prediction mode and the reference sample, wherein the intra prediction is representative sample-based prediction.
US11375183B2
A decoder includes circuitry configured to receive a bitstream identify, in the bitstream, a current frame, wherein the current frame includes a first region and a third region, detect, in the bitstream, an indication that the first region is encoded according to a lossless encoding protocol, and decode the current frame, wherein decoding the current frame further comprises decoding the first region using a lossless decoding protocol corresponding to the lossless encoding protocol.
US11375174B2
A system and method for reducing background light in an image are disclosed. The system includes a sensor and a processor. An illuminator may illuminate a scene with emitted light. The sensor outputs one or more images in response to received light. The processor processes images from the sensor to reduce or eliminate ambient light in a captured image. The processor may do this by causing the sensor to capture a first image of the scene, where the first image includes background light and portions of the emitted light reflected or scattered from the scene. The processor also causes the sensor to capture a second image of the scene, where the second image includes background light with no contribution from the emitted light. The processor subtracts the second image from the first image to produce a third image of the scene predominately illuminated by the emitted light.
US11375154B2
A method and an apparatus for processing a high dynamic range (HDR) video including a subtitle, where the method includes: encapsulating HDR video data into a video data frame that matches a transmission interface; encapsulating subtitle information into a subtitle information frame that matches the transmission interface; and separately transmitting the video data frame and the subtitle information frame to a display device through the transmission interface, where the video data frame and the subtitle information frame are packets in two types of formats. According to the method provided in this application, content and subtitle information of a dynamic metadata HDR video are separately transmitted to the display device. In this way, the display device can obtain the separated video content and subtitle information, and then separately perform corresponding processing on the HDR video and a subtitle.
US11375145B2
In a solid-state imaging device 10, a signal retaining part 212 is provided with a first sampling part 2122 and a second sampling part 2123, each of which is formed by one sampling transistor (1T) and one sampling capacitor (1C). The coupling node between the two sampling parts is a retaining node ND23, which is used as a bidirectional port. With such a configuration, the solid-state imaging device 10 is configured as a solid-state imaging element having a global shutter function that achieves substantially the same signal amplitude as in the differential reading scheme with four transistors. Thus, the solid-state imaging device 10 can achieve the reduced increase in number of transistors, prevent the occurrence of signal amplitude loss in the sampling parts, maintain high pixel sensitivity and reduce input conversion noise.
US11375131B2
Disclosed examples include integrated circuits, merge circuits and methods of processing multiple-exposure image data, in which a single pre-processing circuit is used for pre-processing first input exposure data associated with a first exposure of the image, and then for pre-processing second input exposure data associated with a second exposure of the image, and the first and second pre-processed exposure data are merged to generate merged image data for tone mapping and other post-processing. An example merge circuit includes a configurable gain circuit to apply a gain to the first and/or second exposure data, as well as a configurable weighting circuit with a weight calculation circuit and a motion adaptive filter circuit to compute a first and second weight values for merging the pre-processed first and second exposure data.
US11375129B2
The present invention discloses a light compensation method and a device for a camera under a display, and the display is an organic light emitting diode (OLED) screen. The method comprises: acquiring an external light intensity sensed by the camera under the display only under an external light, wherein the external light intensity is a light intensity of the external light passing through the screen to reach the camera; and detecting whether the external light intensity can make the camera to form an image, and compensating the external light intensity according to a detection result using an internal light of the screen or a sensor of the camera.
US11375128B2
A method and device for obtaining exposure compensation values of a high-dynamic-range image, wherein the method includes: a relationship between brightness values and pixel ratios in different color channels corresponding to a current scene is determined; an underexposure degree and an overexposure degree of the current scene are determining, according to a preset normal exposure brightness threshold, a preset pixel ratio threshold, and the relationship between brightness values and pixel ratios; and an underexposure compensation value and an overexposure compensation value of the current scene are determined, according to the underexposure degree and the overexposure degree of the current scene.
US11375127B2
An image-capturing device includes an image-capturing optical system; an image sensor; and processing circuitry configured to: control the image-capturing optical system to capture one or more preliminary images of an object to be tracked; analyze the one or more preliminary images; calculate tracking-control information using results of the analysis; and adjust at least one of the image-capturing optical system and the image sensor with movement of the object, in accordance with the tracking-control information to capture an image of the object that is being tracked.
US11375126B2
There is provided with an imaging apparatus that contains a plurality of imaging sections. An obtaining unit obtains, from an information processing apparatus, identification information designating two or more imaging sections among the plurality of imaging sections. A determination unit determines, based on pieces of profile information each containing setting information regarding a captured image from each of the imaging sections corresponding to the two or more imaging sections, setting information regarding the captured images upon collectively distributing the captured images from the two or more imaging sections. A generation unit generates a virtual profile containing the setting information determined. A sending unit sends information regarding the virtual profile to the information processing apparatus.
US11375124B2
An optical measurement equipment includes an adjustment apparatus and at least two image capturing devices. The image capturing devices have a depth-of-field and attached to the adjustment apparatus. The image capturing devices are adjusted by the adjustment apparatus such that a portion to be measured of a workpiece is located within the depth-of-field of the image capturing devices.
US11375123B2
A control unit provided in a digital camera acquires an image and a focus map serving as distribution information of an evaluation value corresponding to the image, and outputs the acquired image or the acquired focus map. When an operation that providing instructions for the magnification of magnification display of the image or the focus map is performed, the control unit executes output control to coordinate the display of the image and the display of the focus map with each other, in response to the above operation.
US11375120B2
A method is disclosed for capturing an image using an electronic device having a camera. The method comprises starting the camera in response to a first user input, displaying a first preview interface including a first preview image captured by a default lens of the camera, displaying a second preview interface in response to a second user input for increasing a zooming ratio in the first preview frame and when the zooming ratio in the first preview interface is greater than or equal to a threshold value, the second preview interface including a first frame and a second frame, and adjusting a zoom ratio of the second preview image in the second frame in response to a third user input for changing the zoom ratio.
US11375114B2
A control device includes a processor configured to: perform movie display control of causing a display to sequentially display images acquired in time series, and still image display control of causing the display to display any of the images as a still image; detect a first operation on a switch; determine whether a predetermined operation condition for the switch is satisfied, after the first operation has been detected; switch, when the first operation is detected while the movie display control is being executed, from the movie display control to the still image display control and causing the display to display, as a still image, an image displayed at a timing at which the first operation is detected; and cause, when the processor determines that the predetermined operation condition is satisfied, a memory to store the image displayed as a still image under the still image display control.
US11375111B2
A method for capturing images of large target area using a single low FOV high resolution camera mounted on an Aerial Vehicle for 3D reconstruction is disclosed. The camera captures sets of images consisting of a nadir image a plurality of oblique images at predefined waypoints or as the Aerial Vehicle travels along a flight path. Oblique images are captured in two perpendicular directions by tilting camera about a single tilt axis at one time thereby preventing bidirectional distortion of objects in images. Further, first direction and second direction define a quadrant of area below the Aerial Vehicle. Oblique images along two perpendicular directions are captured either by using roll and pitch axes, or by using a single tilt axis and a pan axis of camera control mechanism wherein using pan axis the single tilt axis is reoriented in a perpendicular orientation to capture oblique images in perpendicular direction.
US11375106B2
An image capture apparatus comprises a first signal processing circuit that generates image data for display by applying signal processing for display to image data obtained from an image sensor and a second signal processing circuit that generates image data for recording by applying signal processing for recording to the image data obtained from the image sensor. The image capture apparatus further comprises a recording circuit that records, in association with the image data for recording, information from which settings of the signal processing for display can be identified.
US11375100B2
The inventive concepts provide an auto-focus image sensor and a digital image processing device including the same. The auto-focus image sensor includes a substrate including at least one first pixel used for detecting a phase difference and at least one second pixel used for detecting an image, a deep device isolation portion disposed in the substrate to isolate the first pixel from the second pixel, and a light shielding pattern disposed on the substrate of at least the first pixel. The amount of light incident on the first pixel is smaller than the amount of light incident on the second pixel by the light shielding pattern.
US11375088B1
An image capture module configured for improved heat dissipation includes an image sensor, a first heat spreading element positioned to direct heat from the image sensor along a first heat dissipation path toward a first portion of the image capture module, a processing board in data communication with the image sensor, and a second heat spreading element positioned to dissipate heat from the processing board along a second heat dissipation path toward a second portion of the image capture module. Thermal isolation is used to isolate the different heat paths. The first heat dissipation path does not overlap the second heat dissipation path, the first portion of the image capture module is separate from the second portion of the image capture module.
US11375083B2
Embodiments of systems and methods for the sending, delivery and receiving of faxes are disclosed herein. In particular, certain embodiments include a fax connector that may be deployed at a user's site, and a faxing system that may be deployed remotely from the user's site. The fax connector can be accessed at the user's site over a computer based network in order to perform functions associated with faxing, including sending, receiving and obtaining status on faxes. The fax connector deployed at the user's site communicates with the remotely deployed faxing system to send, receive, obtain status on, or perform other functions associated with, faxing.
US11375069B2
An image forming apparatus which can easily identify a user's erroneous operation, a controlling method of the image forming apparatus, and a program for achieving the controlling method are provided. When an operation by a user to an operation unit is accepted, the image forming apparatus obtains operation information including a key code and a screen identifier, and stores, for each job, the obtained operation information in a storing unit.
US11375065B2
Signaling system for public switched telephone network (PSTN) using a blockchain system. In one embodiment, a method is provided. The method includes determining that a phone call related operation between a first telecommunications operator and a second telecommunications operator was requested. A public switched telephone network (PSTN) comprises the first telecommunications operator and the second telecommunications operator. The method also includes updating, by a node of a blockchain system, a distributed ledger to indicate that the phone call related operation between the first telecommunications operator and the second telecommunications operator was requested. The method further includes analyzing the distributed ledger to determine if the phone call related operation was approved. The method further includes executing the phone call related operation in response to determining that the phone call related operation was approved.
US11375061B2
Real time, remote access to and adjustment of the hearing aid of a patient while the patient is located in a normal life environment that is remote from a hearing professional. A session request initiates a programming session. Adjustable settings from the patient's hearing aid are wirelessly streamed to the patient's mobile device and from the mobile device to a streaming cloud server. The settings are stored on the cloud, streamed from the cloud to a hearing professional's computer or mobile device and displayed. The hearing professional then changes at least one of the adjustable hearing aid settings and the changed settings are streamed to the cloud, stored on the cloud, streamed from the cloud to the patient's mobile device, wirelessly transmitted to the hearing aid and stored there. A telephonic voice connection between the hearing professional and the patient's mobile device is used to transmit the patient's evaluation of changed settings to the hearing professional.
US11375055B2
The disclosure relates to a universal holder assembly for mobile terminal equipment, for both physically holding and supporting same and for electrically recharging said mobile terminal equipment. This is achieved by a holder assembly comprising either a housing designed with a base surface, said housing having an interior designed to hold mobile terminal equipment, or an adapter element designed with a base surface that can be mechanically and physically connected to a mobile device, the inner and outer faces of the base surface being provided with electrical contact means which are designed and arranged such that an electrical connection can be established between mobile terminal equipment that can be positioned against or on the base surface and the contact means designed on the outer face. The outer face of the base surface is also provided with at least two recesses or depressions, each designed to physically receive an engagement means.
US11375052B2
An electronic device includes a display module including: a housing; a display including a first panel including a first surface, a second surface opposite the first surface, and a plurality of pixels interposed between the first surface and the second surface; a cover layer disposed on the first surface of the first panel; a second panel disposed on the second surface of the first panel; and a sensor coupled to the second surface of the first panel to provide a sensing area on the one surface of the housing.
US11375047B2
A method of data transmission includes: receiving a first packet, where the first packet includes first compressed data and a first check value, the first compressed data is obtained by compressing first data based on a first compression mode, the first check value is obtained by processing a second check value based on a first check algorithm, the second check value is obtained by processing the first compressed data based on a second check algorithm; obtaining a first check code by processing the first packet based on a third check algorithm; determining, according to a correspondence between the first check code and the first compression mode, that the first compression mode is a compression mode used when the first data is compressed; and obtaining the first data by decompressing, based on a first decompression mode corresponding to the first compression mode, the first compressed data included in the first packet.
US11375043B2
A program management system includes: a terminal device having a terminal processing unit capable of executing processing to create a computer program, and a terminal communication unit capable of transmitting the computer program created by the terminal processing unit to an outside; and an external device having an external device storage unit storing therein the computer program transmitted from the terminal device, and an external device processing unit capable of executing processing to give approval to the computer program stored in the external device storage unit. The external device storage unit stores therein appropriateness of approval of the computer program as first status information together with the computer program. The external device processing unit is capable of executing processing to manage the computer program based on the first status information.
US11375042B2
In an approach to defining and symphonizing serverless functions of hybrid multi-cloud services, a mapping table that contains quality of service (QoS) attributes for applications and service providers is created. Responsive to receiving a request from a runtime application to access specific serverless functions, specific QoS attributes for the runtime application are determined. Supporting service providers that provide the specific serverless functions and the specific QoS attributes for the runtime application are determined. A supporting service provider is selected from the supporting service providers. The specific serverless functions for the runtime application are bound to the supporting service provider.
US11375041B2
In one aspect, In one aspect, a method for data transfer and processing communications is provided. The method includes the step of providing a machine-to-everything (M2X) application layer on each machine of the plurality of machines. The method includes the step of providing a plurality of communication nodes on each machine for communication between the plurality of machines with every other machine, the plurality of machines and any infrastructure at a work site, and a plurality of communication nodes communicating using the at least one application layer. The method includes the step of providing a communication processing system for receiving a data transfer and processing communications. The communication processing system includes a plurality of processing stations, one or more multiple data management protocols, a plurality of network protocols, a plurality of databases and plurality of data processing network architectures.
US11375036B2
A system comprising: a plurality of mobile edge cache devices 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 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 multi-factor analytics engine to evaluate data related to content usage across the plurality of mobile edge caches to determine a prioritized order in which to transmit content titles to each mobile edge cache when the mobile environment is within range.
US11375034B2
Transmitting remotely valued data in an autonomous vehicle, including: acquiring sensor data from a plurality of sensors of the autonomous vehicle, the sensor data comprising a plurality of portions; generating an index for the sensor data; transmitting the index to a server; receiving, based on the index, a value for each portion of the sensor data; and transmitting, based on the value for each portion of the sensor data, the one or more portions of the sensor data.
US11375028B1
Systems and methods are described for utilizing non-serializable object parameters with a function as a service (“FaaS”) platform. A user can select, in a user interface of a web application, a server and a command for executing in a shell client. The web application can generate instructions for constructing an object in a shell client that corresponds to the server. The web application can retrieve a shell script associated with the selected command. The web application can send the instructions and shell script to a FaaS. The FaaS can execute, in a shell client, a script that constructs the object as a parameter in a shell session. In the same shell session, the FaaS can execute the shell script, causing the shell client to use the object as a parameter for the shell script.
US11375024B1
Programmable network devices configured to perform various UPF functions including QoS enforcement, session management, and timer synchronization. Field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) are configured to perform user plane functions on data streams within a compact and modular hardware unit to minimize excessive communication while maintaining control and user plane separation (CUPS). QoS enforcement can include guaranteed bit rate (GBR) and maximum bit rate (MBR) and token buckets associated therewith, pipeline processing, synchronizing transmission of data packets and control signals with timers at various operational levels, and so on.
US11375021B2
Any sensing system is faced with triangle of dilemma between accuracy, latency and energy. High energy and high latency sensing systems are often very accurate but less useful. Embodiments herein provide a method and system for edge based sensor controlling in the IoT network for event monitoring. The system disclosed herein applies a hierarchical sensor selection process and adaptively chooses sensors among multiple sensors deployed in the IoT network. Further, on-the-fly changes operation modes of the sensors to automatically produce the best possible inference from the selected sensor data, in time, power and latency at the edge. Further, sensors of the system include a waveform and diversity control mechanism that enables controlling of an excitation signal of the sensor.
US11375018B2
A system and method in a building or vehicle for an actuator operation in response to a sensor according to a control logic, the system comprising a router or a gateway communicating with a device associated with the sensor and a device associated with the actuator over in-building or in-vehicle networks, and an external Internet-connected control server associated with the control logic implementing a PID closed linear control loop and communicating with the router over external network for controlling the in-building or in-vehicle phenomenon. The sensor may be a microphone or a camera, and the system may include voice or image processing as part of the control logic. A redundancy is used by using multiple sensors or actuators, or by using multiple data paths over the building or vehicle internal or external communication. The networks may be wired or wireless, and may be BAN, PAN, LAN, WAN, or home networks.
US11375015B2
Methods, systems, and apparatuses are described for dynamic management of file system objects (e.g., a file or a directory). Such management includes syncing, routing, and storing capabilities. A file system object may be tagged with one or more tags based on at least one of file system object content or file system object location. Dynamic rules that control routing of file system objects to one or more locations based on the one or more tags are accessed and searched for an applicable rule. The file system object may be routed and/or stored based on the applicable rule. The rules may specify allowable locations as well as locations that are not allowed for a given file system object. The location may be a cloud-based location, a location that is on the premises of the enterprise, a location provided by and/or serviced by a competing entity, etc.
US11375004B2
A high-level functionality generates a Data Model which is used to automatically generate Applications comprising Application Clients, Application Servers, Client-Server Protocols, Dashboards and other components. These Applications are derived for different mobile and non-mobile's Operating Systems. This functionality uses Services, Service Representation, Application Flow, Rules, and Presentation Attributes. The input for the automation is a very high-level, “service” level “language,” from which all parts are automatically generated. The output of the automation also includes a way to validate the correctness of the generated Applications. The generated Dashboard provide a Business Entity with functionality to continuously update the generated Data Model based on the Services and Business Entity data, and from the updated Data Model automatically generate updated versions of the Application. The functionality may be a graphical representation, a set of forms, a set of policies, or a set of values associated to a set of pre-defined parameters.
US11375003B2
Distributing content markings includes receiving, from a first entity, marking content corresponding to Internet content and author presentation instructions associated with the marking content. When a request to view the Internet or marking content is received from a second entity, the received author presentation instructions are used to determine whether the second entity is approved to view marking content associated with the requested Internet content. Dependent on whether the second entity is approved to view the marking content, presentation of the information associated with the marking content concurrently with the requested Internet content is enabled.
US11374997B2
Method and apparatus for carrying out the method receiving packets, each of the packets comprising a header and a payload. For a particular packet among the packets, the method includes processing at least the header of the particular packet to determine a flow associated with the particular packet; attempting to determine a payload structure based on the flow, the payload structure associated with transport of coded video data in the payload of the particular packet; and if the attempting is successful, repackaging coded video data contained in the payload of the particular packet into a new packet and forwarding the new packet to an external system or storing the new packet in memory.
US11374989B1
Apparatus and methods of instruction presentations to a ‘virtual’ audience or students including real-time information formed from observable audience reactions as they receive the presentation material, and further includes apparatus and methods to correlate the detected or missing audience reactions in relation to specific presented material, rapidly prompting the presenter and/or the audience with specific, timely, low-latency feedback. The presenter is alerted (possibly before an audience question can be formulated), and the audience member is prompted that there may be questions or contributions regarding a specific matter as it is presented, whereupon the audience member is given the freedom to join or question (or not). Accordingly, specific information is rapidly conveyed to the presenter who with minimal distraction, becomes better aware of the state of the individual audience member understanding despite the separation from the audience, and the intimidation of the audience or students to engage is significantly reduced.
US11374975B2
A method and a system for integrating post quantum cryptographic algorithms into TLS. The method includes transmitting a client hello message to a server including a request for post quantum cryptographic (PQC) mode of operation and a PQC public client key, receiving a server hello message from the server in response to the client hello message including a PQC server key exchange generated from the PQC public client key. The method includes determining the server hello message includes an authorization to operate the PQC mode of operation. The method also includes transmitting a second client hello message to the server including a PQC encrypted client key share. The PQC encrypted client key share is encrypted using a client encryption key. The method includes receiving a second server hello message that includes a PQC encrypted server key share and decrypting the PQC encrypted server key share using a server encryption key.
US11374973B2
The technology disclosed is a method of testing handling of secure communication sessions of clients with servers by device or system under test (DUT). The method includes (i) establishing a secure communication session between the client and the server while the client and the server transitions past a standards-required verification step or validation step without performing the required verification or validation, (ii) establishing a secure communication session between the client and the server while the client and the server reuse standards-required security mechanisms without generating or obtaining new standards-required security mechanisms, or (iii) establishing a secure communication session between the client and the server while the client and the server generate and transmit content contrary to an established standard-based procedure that poses certain requirements of the content.
US11374968B1
Devices and techniques are generally described for fraud detection. In various examples, a first plurality of requests are received over a first time period. In at least some examples, the first plurality of requests may be requests to access a first service. A hierarchical data representation comprising an ordered set of values may be determined for each request of the first plurality of requests. A first subset of the first plurality of requests may be determined. The hierarchical data representation associated with each request of the first subset may include fewer than a threshold number of value substitutions relative to each other hierarchical data representation of the first subset of the first plurality of requests. Access to the first service may be prevented by subsequent requests associated with the first subset of the first plurality of requests.
US11374967B2
A system and method for detecting replay attacks on secure data are disclosed. A system on a chip (SOC) includes a security processor. Blocks of data corresponding to sensitive information are stored in off-chip memory. The security processor uses an integrity data structure, such as an integrity tree, for the blocks. The intermediate nodes of the integrity tree use nonces which have been generated independent of any value within a corresponding block. By using only the nonces to generate tags in the root at the top layer stored in on-chip memory and the nodes of the intermediate layers stored in off-chip memory, an amount of storage used is reduced for supporting the integrity tree. When the security processor detects events which create access requests for one or more blocks, the security processor uses the integrity tree to verify a replay attack has not occurred and corrupted data.
US11374959B2
A system and method for identifying and circumventing a security scanner includes monitoring incoming traffic to a web application, identifying a portion of the incoming traffic as security scanner traffic by comparing the incoming traffic to a security scanner traffic profile, and circumventing the security scanner by providing dummy content or signaling the web application to provide dummy content. The security scanner traffic profile is created by receiving web application traffic generated by a plurality of security scanners; identifying web application traffic features common to at least a portion of the plurality of security scanners by modelling using artificial intelligence, machine learning, and the like; and generating the security scanner traffic profile based on the identified web application traffic features.
US11374955B2
A system comprises an enterprise network system and engine. The engine has a discovery module coupled to a switch device, an AI and machine learning based monitoring and detection module coupled to the switch device, and a remediation module coupled to the switch device. The remediation module is configured to initiate a remediation process based upon the detection of at least one of the anomalies from the flow of data.
US11374943B2
A bundle of public counters and a corresponding bundle of private counters are created and transmitted to a user device. The user device receives a request and processes the request without accessing a secure element processor on the user device. The user device calculates a security code using the private counter and a number. The user device transmits the calculated security code and one of the bundle of public counters in response to the request. A receiver of the response to the request determines the validity of the public counter and looks up the corresponding private counter using the public counter. The receiver determines the validity of the security code by recomputing it using the private counter and the number.
US11374938B2
Systems and methods for connecting to and managing access to multiple targeted data stores are provided. The system includes at least a client system for requesting access to multiple datastores and to perform an operation on data from the data stores per a user request. The system further includes an entitlement system for identifying the user and target data stores, and for authenticating the user to access the data stores to perform an operation on the requested data. The entitlement system may be configured to identify one or more connection strings corresponding to each database management system (DMS), and to generate a database agnostic connection string for providing access to the data stores simultaneously. The entitlement system may also be configured to implement additional security provisions for connecting to the data stores, including closing any open connections at the expiry of the operation on the data.
US11374930B2
Various embodiments are generally directed to techniques to form secure communications between two computing devices in which the chain of trust of those communications is extended to a particular application routine executed by one of the two computing devices. An apparatus includes a processor component; a verifying component to verify a link attestation credential received from a server to verify an ability of the server to form a secure pipeline, and to signal an application routine with an indication of a result of the verification by the verifying component; and a hash component to generate a return hash of a return signature associated with the application routine to indicate to the server that the application routine has also verified the link attestation credential to form the secure pipeline between the server and the application routine. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US11374918B2
A method and apparatus are described including logging on to an account on the shared server based on credentials, transmitting a request to the shared server for a list of smart devices registered to the account, receiving the list of smart devices from the shared server, linking to a selected one of the smart devices from the list of smart devices received from the shared server; and transmitting a smart device command to the selected smart device. Also described are a method and apparatus including receiving credentials from a client device to log-on to an account, receiving a request from the client device for a list of smart devices registered to the account and transmitting the list of smart devices to the client device.
US11374906B2
A host computer system may be configured to connect to a network. The host computer system may be configured to implement a workspace and an isolated computing environment. The host computer system may be configured to isolate the isolated computing environment from the workspace using an internal isolation firewall. The internal isolation firewall may be configured to prevent data from being communicated between the isolated computing environment and the workspace, for example, without an explicit user input. When malware is received by the isolated computing environment, the internal isolation firewall may be configured to prevent the malware from accessing data on the workspace of the host computer system. The host computer system may be configured to implement one or more mechanisms that prevent malware received by the host computer system from exfiltrating, to a network destination, data from the host computer system and data from other devices on the network.
US11374904B2
In one aspect, a computerized system useful for implementing a cloud-based multipath routing protocol to an Internet endpoint includes an edge device that provides an entry point into an entity's core network. The entity's core network includes a set of resources to be reliably accessed. The computerized system includes a cloud-edge device instantiated in a public-cloud computing platform. The cloud-edge device joins a same virtual routing and forwarding table as the edge device. The cloud-edge device receives a set of sources and destinations of network traffic that are permitted to access the edge device and the set of resources.
US11374897B2
The invention provides a command-and-control (C&C) domain name analysis-based botnet detection method, device, apparatus and medium. The method includes an information acquisition step where DNS logs are acquired; a domain name analysis step where C&C domain names in the DNS logs are detected and the category of each C&C domain name is determined according to a pre-built domain name analyzer; a botnet determination step where whether a botnet exists is determined according to the C&C domain name and the category of C&C domain name. In the C&C domain name analysis-based botnet detection method, device, apparatus and medium provided by the present invention, by analyzing the domain name system (DNS) logs, the C&C domain name used in the attack activity is extracted for further analysis of the types of parasitic Trojans to thereby lock down the bot that the C&C server has controlled. In addition, the botnet activity trend can be analyzed by analyzing the Poisson parameter of each type of the C&C domain name, so as to form effective suppression measures in time.
US11374892B2
A system for interfacing with mobile carrier networks, mobile application-equipped devices, social media networks, and individual and Enterprise user's databases, contacts, pictures, videos, and text is disclosed. A data link is connected to a mobile carrier network to receive user application and other data. Additional data links are connected to a user's stored smartphone content, including contacts, pictures, videos and other stored information as well as databases and an application-equipped device to obtain and exchange information in determining data selection, routing, presentation, and updating instructions. A user interface is connected to the system to accept configurable conditions for determining selection, routing and sharing instructions. There is a data conversion function for each data source. Synchronization between stored user preferences to automated or semi-automated updates and routes is provided by application driven consumer defined preferences.
US11374891B2
A control apparatus includes a receiving unit, a first controller, and a second controller. The receiving unit receives an instruction to execute a predetermined process corresponding to a post posted on a space provided by a service. The predetermined process is executed on one or more target posts posted on the space. The space presents posts in a predetermined direction in a chronological order. The first controller performs control to execute the predetermined process in response to the instruction. In a case where the one or more target posts of the predetermined process are posted on the space and a predetermined condition is satisfied, the second controller removes at least one post from the space and posts an alternative post corresponding to the removed at least one post on the space.
US11374887B2
Implementations set forth herein relate to an automated assistant that allows third party applications to inject dependencies to leverage automated assistant functions. Furthermore, enabling such dependency injections can allow third party applications to preserve privacy of any application content that is used during execution of automated assistant functions. In some implementations, a third party application can initialize a function with an assistant dependency using parameters that are tagged as private. Initializing a function in such as a way can allow private content communicated between the third party application and the automated assistant to be abstracted for security purposes. The abstracted content can thereafter be communicated to a remote server-such as a server hosting an extensively trained machine learning model. Intelligent output provided by the server can then be incorporated into one or more processes of the third party application without comprising security.
US11374885B2
A system for dynamic message routing on a topic between publishing nodes and subscribing nodes includes a plurality of message queues, at least one topic/node table, a subscribing module, a publishing module, and other modules to send messages between one or more publisher and one or more subscribers. These modules are coupled together by a bus in a plurality of nodes and provide for the dynamic message routing on a topic between publishing nodes and subscribing nodes. The message queues store messages at each node for delivery to subscribers local to that node. The topic/node table lists which clients subscribe to which topics, and is used by the other modules to ensure proper distribution of messages. The subscribing module is use to establish a subscription to a topic for that node. The publishing module is used to identify subscribers to a topic and transmit messages to subscribers dynamically. The other modules include various devices to optimize message communication in a publish/subscribe architecture operating on a distributed computing system. The present invention also includes a number of novel methods including: a method for publishing a message on a topic, a method for forwarding a message on a topic, a method for subscribing to messages on a topic, a method for automatically removing subscribers, a method for direct publishing of messages, and methods for optimizing message transmission between nodes.
US11374881B2
An electronic device including a wireless communication circuitry, a processor including a plurality of cores, and a memory. The processor receives a packet of a first session associated with a first core among the plurality of cores, identifies whether a core associated with the first session is changed to a second core different from the first core, sets pending information based on an amount of packets which are pending in a first packet of the first core when it is identified that the core is changed to the second core, stores data corresponding to the received packet of the first session in a pending buffer of the memory, and inserts the data corresponding to the received packet of the first session, stored in the pending buffer, into a packet queue of the second core.
US11374872B1
A multitude of data transfer queues can have data transfer operations that are scheduled for a processing circuit to perform. Some of the data transfer queues may submit so many or such large data transfer operations that others receive little or no attention. The situation can be resolved in the data plane via a processing circuit that performs the data transfer operations in conjunction with priority evaluation operations that can assign the data transfer queues to different scheduler priority classes. A scheduler can schedule data transfer operations based on the scheduler priority classes of the data transfer queues.
US11374866B2
A software-defined network controller (SDN controller) defines a first network flow to be selectively implemented by a networking device according to a first network operation profile. The SDN controller defines a second network flow to be selectively implemented by the networking device according to a second network operation profile. A memory device of the networking device may store at least first and second network operation profiles for selective implementation during defined event windows. The event window(s) may be defined by start event inputs and stop event inputs. The event inputs may include, without limitation, a combination of parameter-based inputs and/or temporal inputs. In one specific embodiment, the networking device detects a network event and modifies a network operation profile for a preset time period and/or until an interrupt or stop event is detected.
US11374864B2
A method of accelerating dynamic content between Points of Presence (POPs) and front-loading latency bottlenecks in a Content Delivery Network (CDN) may include receiving, at a first POP, a content request from a user device, where content responsive to the content request includes a first content portion that is not stored in the first POP. The method may also include determining that the first content portion is available through a second POP. The method may additionally include transmitting the first content portion through a persistent connection mesh from the second POP to the first POP, wherein the persistent connection mesh is maintained between the first POP and the second POP prior to the request for content being received by the first POP. The method may further include delivering the content responsive to the content request to the user device.
US11374862B2
Provided are a packet sending methods and apparatus, a packet processing method and apparatus, a PE node and a node. The packet sending method includes: receiving a first packet from an AC, processing the first packet to obtain a second packet, the second packet including a first IP, where the first IP includes a second IP or an IP obtained by encrypting part bits of the second IP with an intrinsic entropy value of the first packet and the second IP is one of an ESI IP of an ESI corresponding to the AC, an IP obtained by modifying a designated bit of the ESI IP of the ESI corresponding to the AC according to a Root/Leaf attribute of the AC, an IP obtained by replacing part bits of the ESI IP of the ESI corresponding to the AC with a VLAN ID value corresponding to the AC, a third IP, or an IP obtained by modifying a designated bit of the third IP according to the Root/Leaf attribute of the AC; and sending the second packet.
US11374855B2
A method for providing multi-path network access to a client in a network includes, by a first circuitry; i) providing routing of packets between the network and a first access network; ii) providing forwarding of packets within the first communication network; iii) intercepting packets from the client node destined for a destination node outside the first communication network; iv) forwarding the intercepted packets to a multi-path agent within the first network; and by the multi-path agent: i) receiving the intercepted packets from the first routing circuitry; ii) transforming the intercepted packets to multi-path packets supporting a multi-path networking protocol; and iv) forwarding, the multi-path packets to the first and/or second routing circuitry for further routing.
US11374854B2
Systems, methods, and computer program products for transmitting data between devices are disclosed. A device may utilize a standardized communication system (“SCS”) to transmit data directly between devices including an SCS. The SCS may discover available devices. The SCS may determine available transmission paths between a first device and a second device. The SCS may select a transmission path between the first device and the second device, and the SCS may transmit data from the first device to the second device using a standardized communication protocol (“SCP”).
US11374850B2
Some embodiments provide a method for an MFE, in a first datacenter, to implement an LN spanning the first datacenter and a set of additional datacenters. The method stores records that each map one or more LN addresses for DCNs belonging to the LN and operating in the first datacenter to a different TEP address. The method stores an additional record that maps addresses for DCNs connected to a particular LFE of the LN and operating in the additional datacenters to a group of TEP addresses corresponding to LN gateways that handle data traffic for the particular LFE between the first datacenter and the additional datacenters. Upon receiving a data message with a destination address corresponding to a DCN connected to the particular LFE and operating in one of the additional datacenters, the method uses the additional record to identify a TEP address for encapsulating the data message.
US11374847B1
Systems, methods, and machine-readable storage media to facilitate adaptive switch stack interaction are disclosed. Discovery may be performed via a network with respect to switches, each switch corresponding to a switch stack and including ports communicatively coupled to endpoint devices or access points. Switch data transmitted from the plurality of switches may be processed and used to develop models of the switches. Each model may include switch specifications, and a particular model may be used to emulate a particular switch. Emulation data may be created to facilitate a graphical representation formatted to represent the particular switch. The emulation data may be transmitted to an endpoint device to facilitate an emulation interface that may correspond to a graphical layout of the particular switch that allows access, via user-selectable interface elements, to a subset of the switch data that is mapped to the particular switch.
US11374835B2
Some embodiments include a network attack detection process, including, for each of a plurality of IoT devices of a communications network: receiving corresponding network traffic data representing network traffic characteristics of a plurality of network traffic flows of the device; processing the network traffic data to generate a plurality of corresponding features for each of the network traffic flows; and applying a corresponding set of one-class flow classifiers to the generated features to classify network traffic flows of the device and assess whether the network traffic characteristics of the network traffic flows are indicative of the device being under attack or having been compromised; wherein the flow classifiers are trained with training data representing normal network traffic behaviour of the device in an uncompromised state.
US11374830B2
In a slice-based network, slice multiplexers can be used to anchor inter-cloud tunnels across different clouds in a slice path. The slice multiplexers can dynamically change a total allocated bandwidth of an outer tunnel and reconfigure relative slice bandwidths of inner tunnels. This can result in an optimized bandwidth allocation that enforces slice priorities, maintains required SLA performance levels, and minimizes total allocated bandwidth on the network connection. The dynamic changes can be based on slice priority levels, total number of slices, and historical slice throughput.
US11374827B2
A network configuration development environment is disclosed. In particular, an editor configured to interface with multiple network devices simultaneously, to view and adjust their device configuration settings, is provided. The network configuration development environment allows a system administrator to manage configuration definitions (e.g., run-time or start-up device configuration parameters) relative to a plurality of network devices simultaneously to achieve correctness and appropriate consistency for each of those devices in a network infrastructure. The network development environment may include an ability to apply changes directly to one or more network devices or to apply changes to stored “configuration files” that are associated with individual devices. Changes to stored configurations may be applied automatically, for example, within a maintenance window for the network, in a controlled manner with a “roll-back” capability in the event of failure or unexpected result as a consequence of the automatically applied changes.
US11374823B2
A telemetry-based method and system is provided for predictive resource scaling by mining useful data based on communication behaviour such as human calling patterns, call quality, and integration. In an embodiment, the telemetry-based system comprises at least one predictor for generating a first scaling prediction value based on a first target process goal and a second scaling prediction value based on a second target process goal; an auto-scaler for auto-scaling resources based on the first scaling prediction value and second scaling prediction value; and a regulator for monitoring the first scaling prediction value and second scaling prediction value and auto-scaling of resources by the auto-scaler and applying an objective function indicating total normalized system performance to a reinforcement learning algorithm for improving prediction accuracy of the at least one predictor.
US11374821B2
A new cell specific procedure and/or a mobility procedure may be defined to more efficiently support a network slice function in new radio access technology (NR), which is a part of a 5G communication system. In terms of a radio access network (RAN)—RAN interface, the cell specific procedure comprises that a first RAN node transmits a first indicator related with the slice support of the first RAN node to a second RAN node, and receives from the second RAN node a second indicator related with the slice support of the first RAN node. The mobility procedure comprises that a target RAN node transmits a path change request message including slice-related information to a core network (CN) node, and receives from the CN node a path change response message including at least one of a common control plane function (C-CPF) identifier (ID), a finally selected slice-related ID or U-Plane information.
US11374818B2
A server of a distributed computing system that is at least partially hosted on a particular access network receives a plurality of messages from a plurality of devices over a network, each of the messages associated with a corresponding source address. For each of the plurality of devices, a current access network is determined for the device. For each of the devices with a current access network being the particular access network, a first network policy is applied to the device. For each of the devices with a current access network being other than the particular access network, a second network policy is applied to the device, the second network policy defining a second encryption requirement.
US11374810B2
Systems, methods, and devices, including computer-readable media, for managing operation of devices in complex systems and changing environments. In some implementations, a server system stores data indicating management plans for each of a plurality of different devices, each management plan indicating a device-specific set of program states for programs in a predetermined set of programs. The server system alters the management plans and enforces interdependence of the programs, and the server system generates a customized instruction that alters operation of the device according to the device-specific set of program states assigned in the altered management plan for the device. The server system causes each device to perform one or more operations of the device determined according to the device-specific set of program states assigned in the altered management plan for the device.
US11374806B2
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for providing cross-domain assurance for networks in different network domains. In some embodiments, a method can include collecting first fabric data for a first network in a first network domain and second fabric data for a second network in a second network domain. The second fabric data for the second network can be normalized based on the first network domain to create normalized second fabric data. The first fabric data can then be correlated with the normalized second fabric data to create correlated fabric data. Subsequently, assurance can be provided across the first network in the first network domain and the second network in the second network domain using the correlated fabric data.
US11374805B2
Systems and methods for mapping and managing interrelationships between data resources, application programs, and infrastructure components of a managed network are disclosed. A configuration management data database may contain configuration item (CI) records associated with CIs of the network. Each CI may correspond to configurable entities of the network, such as infrastructure components, application programs, and the data resources. A request relating to data resources of a data domain hierarchy of information object (IO) CIs may be received, where each IO CI is associated with a data resource of the network. A first look-up may identify one or more application programs that use the respective data resource associated with the given IO CI, and a second look-up may identify a resource database that stores the data resource associated with the given IO CI. A mapping list including the identities from the look-ups may be returned in response to the request.
US11374796B2
According to one general aspect, a method may include estimating a combined channel. The method may include estimating a channel correlation based, at least in part upon a measurement of a combined channel for a current beam sweeping interval and a previous beam sweeping interval. The method may include recovering a current channel by employing a compressive sensing-based channel recovery employing estimated channel correlation, a previous measurement, and a current measurement.
US11374794B2
Some embodiments provide a centralized overlay-network cloud gateway and a set of centralized services in a transit virtual cloud network (VCN) connected to multiple other compute VCNs hosting compute nodes (VMs, containers, etc.) that are part of (belong to) the overlay network. The centralized overlay-network cloud gateway provides connectivity between compute nodes of the overlay network (e.g., a logical network spanning multiple VCNs) and compute nodes in external networks. Some embodiments use the centralized overlay-network cloud gateway to provide transitive routing (e.g., routing through a transit VCN) in the absence of direct peering between source and destination VCNs. The overlay network, of some embodiments, uses the same subnetting and default gateway address for each compute node as the cloud provider network provided by the virtual private cloud provider.
US11374790B2
A disclosed method may include (1) identifying a packet that enters a start point of an encapsulation tunnel that spans at least a portion of a network, (2) discovering a maximum transmission unit of the encapsulation tunnel, (3) determining whether a size of the packet satisfies a size threshold that is based at least in part on the maximum transmission unit of the encapsulation tunnel, (4) detecting an encapsulation-triggering event in connection with the packet, and then in response to detecting the encapsulation-triggering event, (5) forwarding the packet via the start point of the encapsulation tunnel toward an end point of the encapsulation tunnel. Various other systems, methods, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
US11374769B2
An apparatus in one embodiment includes at least one processing device comprising a processor coupled to a memory. The processing device is configured to implement a first ledger maintenance node. The first ledger maintenance node is configured to communicate over one or more networks with a plurality of additional ledger maintenance nodes, to identify a block for proposed addition to a distributed ledger collectively maintained by the first and additional ledger maintenance nodes, to apply a digital signature of the first ledger maintenance node to the block, and to receive digital signatures on the block from at least a subset of the additional ledger maintenance nodes. Responsive to receipt of sufficient digital signatures from respective ones of the additional ledger maintenance nodes to meet a specified quorum of digital signatures required for addition of the block to the distributed ledger, the first ledger maintenance node adds the block to the distributed ledger.
US11374762B2
An example operation may include one or more of receiving, at a data provider, a data file from a data modifier which comprises a modification to an initial content state of a data file, generating a hash value of the initial content state of the data file prior to modification and generating a hash value of a modified content state of the data file after the modification, and transmitting the generated hash values to a blockchain peer node for inclusion within one or more data blocks among a hash-linked chain of data blocks.
US11374760B2
A system manages access to an asset using a separate physical cryptographically-secure key device. A memory stores a public key as an unalterable record. An access configuration controller reads the public key from the memory to control the access to the asset. The public key is cryptographically paired with a private key securely recorded in the separate physical cryptographically-secure key device. The access configuration controller receives an access control change instruction signed by the private key and verifies a valid signing of the access control change instruction by the private key using the public key read from the memory. A storage system secured by the access configuration controller stores access authorization records managing access to the asset. The access configuration controller alters access authorization records according to the access control change instruction, responsive to verification of the valid signing of the access control change instruction.
US11374755B1
A node in a blockchain network may receive a request for information regarding a token, retrieve token information regarding the token from the blockchain network, generate based on the token information, a token connection object (TCO) for the token, wherein the TCO includes a subset of the token information, and send the TCO to a requestor.
US11374750B2
A computing system comprising: processor(s) and memory; at least one network interface communicatively coupled to the at least one processor and configured to communicate with at least one remotely located computing device; wherein the at least one network interface is configured to receive a plurality of public encryption keys from the at least one remotely located computing device; wherein the at least one processor is configured to: split at least one secret into a plurality of shares, wherein at least a subset of the plurality of shares is sufficient to reconstruct the at least one secret; encrypt each of the plurality of shares based on a different public encryption key of the plurality of public encryption keys to create a plurality of encrypted shares; wherein the at least one network interface is configured to communicate the encrypted shares to the at least one remotely located computing device.
