US11369582B2
In various embodiments, the present disclosure provides methods reducing the risk of cardiovascular events in a subject on statin therapy by administering to the subject a pharmaceutical composition comprising about 1 g to about 4 g of eicosapentaenoic acid ethyl ester or a derivative thereof.
US11369579B2
The present disclosure provides polymorphic forms of sodium benzoate with a X-ray diffraction pattern comprising characteristic peaks at a reflection angle 2θ of approximately 5.9, 30.2, and 31.2 degrees; or a X-ray diffraction pattern comprising characteristic peaks at a reflection angle 2θ of approximately 3.7, 5.9, and 26.6 degrees. The present disclosure provides polymorphic forms of sodium benzoate with a X-ray diffraction pattern comprising characteristic peaks at a reflection angle 2θ of approximately 3.6, 7.5, 26.6, and 29.4 degrees. Also provided herein are methods of preparing the polymorphic forms of sodium benzoate and uses thereof in treating and/or reducing the risk for a neuropsychiatric disorder (e.g., schizophrenia, psychotic disorders, depressive disorders, or Alzheimer's disease).
US11369576B2
A method for creating a consolidated compound for delivering an immunomodulatory and imiquimod to a patient, comprising diluting immunomodulator extract to a desired dilution by transferring a desired quantity of the concentrated immunomodulator to an associated sterile container, the associated sterile container having a defined volume of diluted immunomodulator after dilution thereof, providing a viscous encapsulation material, selecting a prescribed amount of concentrated immunomodulator, the prescribed amount defined as that amount of the diluted immunomodulator extract required to provide a number of doses equal to the number of dispensable increments from the container containing the viscous encapsulation material, introducing the selected amount of each of the diluted immunomodulator extract into the viscous encapsulation material, introducing an amount of imiquimod into the viscous encapsulation material, and mixing the introduced amount of each of the diluted immunomodulator extracts and the introduced amount of imiquimod with the viscous encapsulating material.
US11369574B2
Self-righting articles, such as self-righting capsules for administration to a subject, are generally provided. In some embodiments, the self-righting article may be configured such that the article may orient itself relative to a surface (e.g., a surface of a tissue of a subject). The self-righting articles described herein may comprise one or more tissue engaging surfaces configured to engage (e.g., interface with, inject into, anchor) with a surface (e.g., a surface of a tissue of a subject). In some embodiments, the self-righting article may have a particular shape and/or distribution of density (or mass) which, for example, enables the self-righting behavior of the article. In some embodiments, the self-righting article may comprise a tissue interfacing component and/or a pharmaceutical agent (e.g., for delivery of the active pharmaceutical agent to a location internal of the subject). In some cases, upon contact of the tissue with the tissue engaging surface of the article, the self-righting article may be configured to release one or more tissue interfacing components. In some cases, the tissue interfacing component is associated with a self-actuating component. For example, the self-righting article may comprise a self-actuating component configured, upon exposure to a fluid, to release the tissue interfacing component from the self-righting article. In some cases, the tissue interfacing component may comprise and/or be associated with the pharmaceutical agent (e.g., for delivery to a location internal to a subject).
US11369572B2
A delivery vehicle, for delivering a pharmaceutically active agent or a marker to a cell, comprising a ligand binding portion specific for a Fas Ligand, and a carrier for the pharmaceutically active agent or marker.
US11369567B2
The present invention provides liquid oral dosage form of lipid lowering agent suitable for oral administration to human or animals.
US11369563B2
The present invention provides a low irritation skincare cosmetic composition, which includes 0.00004% to 0.0005% of an Aloe barbadensis extract, 0.000005% to 0.00005% of a Hypericum perforatum flower leaf stem extract, 0.007% to 0.1% of a Butyrospermum parkii (Shea Butter), 0.009% to 5% of a Helianthus annuus seed oil, 0.008% to 0.08% of a Cocos nucifera oil, 1% to 15% of a moisturizing agent, and water.
US11369559B2
The present invention relates to a general process for treating keratin substances, preferably keratin fibres, comprising the following steps: c) applying to the keratin substances a composition comprising at least one photo-crosslinkable polymer including at least one photo-dimerizable pendant group and at least one hydrophobic pendant group, and d) irradiating said composition on the keratin substances to crosslink the polymer.
US11369558B1
Multi-component pharmaceutical compositions perform various functions and confer various benefits, but often with reduced benefits resulting from interference and cancellation effects between components. To avoid this problem multi-component pharmaceutical compositions can include three separate compositions, each differing by at least one component, or in which all components differ. Doses from each composition are taken over a given period of time, such as a day. One dose from a first composition is taken in the morning, a dose from a second composition is taken at mid-day, and a dose from a third composition is taken at night, for example. Methods of preventing, treating, and mitigating various diseases and disorders, including Alzheimer's disease and related disorders, autism spectrum disorders, cancer, and thrombosis also appear.
US11369557B2
The invention relates to a concentrate comprising at least one mannosylerythritol lipid and at least one polyglycerol and fatty acid ester, to a method for the production thereof, and to the uses of same, particularly as a thickening, foaming and/or cleaning agent.
US11369554B2
The invention relates to a dye system comprising at least one dye precursor, an oxidizing agent, and a catalyst. The dye system operates, ideally, at a pH of at least about 9. The dye system may enable faster and less damaging hair color treatment techniques. The invention further relates to methods for making and using said dye system.
US11369550B2
A tinted mineral sunscreen composition is provided in the form of a water-in-oil emulsion comprising a cationic surfactant; one or more oil thickening agent; one or more mineral pigments; one or more mineral UV filtering agents; and water wherein the ratio between the cationic surfactant and the total amount of oil thickening agents is from about 0.05 to about 3.
US11369546B2
A capsule socket of a filling machine for two-piece capsules and a socket system having such a capsule socket and a capsule half of a two-piece capsule are disclosed herein. The two-piece capsules have two capsule halves, each with a capsule base and a capsule wall. The capsule socket includes a main body having a receiving space for the capsule half formed therein. The receiving space has a base portion, assigned to the respective capsule base, and a circumferential wall portion for centering the capsule wall. The receiving space has a clamping portion between the base portion and the circumferential wall portion. The clamping portion has a smaller free cross section than the circumferential wall portion. In the transition region from its base to its wall, the capsule half has a capsule part diameter. The clamping portion has a free clamping diameter, which is smaller than the capsule part diameter.
US11369542B2
A motion assistance apparatus including a first support configured to support a waist of a user, a side frame connected to the first support and configured to cover at least a portion of a side of the waist, and a joint assembly connected to the side frame such that a location of the joint assembly is adjustable in a longitudinal direction of the side frame, and configured to be located at a part of a hip joint of the user is disclosed.
US11369526B2
A disposable diaper having a front-rear direction and a width direction that is orthogonal to the front-rear direction, includes: a front waistline region; a rear waistline region; a crotch region disposed between the front waistline region and the rear waistline region; an absorbent core; a skin surface side sheet disposed on a skin facing surface side from the absorbent core; a waistband disposed on the skin facing surface side of the skin surface side sheet in the rear waistline region; and a fastening tape disposed in the rear waistline region and that includes a locking portion.
US11369525B1
A flexible sensing panel includes a flexible substrate having first and second major surfaces, first and second separated side edges, and first and second ends, the flexible substrate being at least partly disposed between a flexible protective layer and a flexible fastening layer, and at least one sensing element being disposed on the flexible substrate. The protective layer is secured to the first major surface of the flexible substrate and is folded over the first and second side edges onto the second major surface of the flexible substrate and secured thereto to position at least part of the first and second side edges within the so formed folds, and wherein the fastening layer is at least partly disposed on the second major surface of the flexible substrate and secured thereto.
US11369522B2
A pressure-sensing compression bandage having a plurality of pressure sensors provided to indicate the pressures applied by and/or the pressure gradient created by, the applied bandage at various locations along its length when the bandage is applied to a limb or other extremity.
US11369513B2
A disposable ultrasonic handpiece that contains a transducer and a connecting body that is attached to a tube with a cobra work tip at its distal end. The housing that surrounds the ultrasonic transducer does not require waterproofing for repeated autoclaving. Also, the electrical cord that provides power to the transducer is made of very inexpensive wire, along with a low-cost electrical connector. A power cord can be plugged into and unplugged from a socket at the proximal end of the housing and can be reused. Thus, only the housing and its contents need to be disposed of after a procedure, making the disposable part of the handpiece low cost. In addition, the cobra work tip can be provided with a cutting gap that increases its ability to cut.
US11369508B2
A urine collection device includes a collection member extending from a proximal end to a distal end. The proximal end includes an opening that provides access to an internal cavity of the collection member. The internal cavity includes a first chamber in fluid communication with a second chamber. The urine collection device includes a spacer in the second chamber, a first attachment member extending from a bottom wall of the collection member at the proximal end, a second attachment member extending from a top wall of the collection member at the proximal end, and an outlet for egressing urine from the internal cavity of the collection member. The first attachment member defines an aperture. The collection member is suitable to (i) direct urine from the first chamber to the second chamber and (ii) direct the urine in the second chamber distally toward the outlet.
US11369505B2
A lumbar traction device for treating a lower back of a user includes a shell that is coupled to and extends from a rear edge of a panel. The shell and the panel are configured to position on a seat and in abutment a backrest of a chair, respectively. A coupling means that extends through a front of the shell is coupled to a plate positioned in the shell. The coupling means is configured to couple to a torso of the user to couple the user to the plate. An actuator, which is positioned in the shell and operationally coupled to the plate, is positioned to selectively raise the plate relative to the seat of the chair. The coupling means is configured to transmit an upward force from the actuator to the torso of the user to place a lumbar region of a spine of the user in traction.
US11369504B2
A brace for a person's hand has a cradle shaped to extend over the side of the hand in the area between a person's wrist crease and pinky-finger. The cradle may include two opposing curved sides, each side being joined to the other along a longitudinal edge. Opposite the longitudinal edge, each side has a distal edge. The distal edges may be spaced apart from each other by a distance that is approximately the thickness of a person's hand in the area extending from the person's wrist crease to the interstice between the pinky-finger and ring-finger. The cradle is shaped to extend over a side of the wearer's hand between a person's wrist crease and pinky-finger.
US11369501B2
A wearable, percutaneous device for suppressing appetite or hunger in a patient includes a microprocessor, electrical stimulator and at least one percutaneous electrode implanted and configured to deliver electrical stimulation through the patient's skin. The percutaneous device includes a pad and at least one needle, in which the electrode is disposed, for secure placement of the device within the skin of a patient. The percutaneous device is adapted to provide electrical stimulation as per stimulation protocols and to communicate wirelessly with a companion control device configured to monitor and record appetite patterns of the patient. The control device is also configured to monitor, record, and modify stimulation parameters of the stimulation protocols.
US11369482B2
Various embodiments provide systems and methods for repairing or replacing intervertebral discs as a treatment for derangements. Systems and methods may comprise an inter vertebral disc implant for deployment into an intervertebral disc space wherein the nucleus has been at least partially evacuated from the deranged intervertebral disc. The intervertebral disc implant may be intraoperatively and postoperatively filled and/or re-filled with a growth matrix. The intervertebral disc implant may be differentially permeable to the growth matrix to provide directional growth and/or diffusion of the growth matrix to restore height to the intervertebral disc space. Systems and methods may further comprise an implant delivery device for deploying the intervertebral disc implant into the intervertebral disc space.
US11369473B2
An extended release immunomodulatory implant operatively arranged to facilitate bone morphogenesis, including an inner portion including one or more interleukins, and an outer portion including an immunomodulatory stimulant such as an antigen.
US11369462B2
An electric toothbrush, including a refill connectable to a handle via a coupling device. The handle has a drive mechanism, and the refill has a brush head and a motion transmitter functionally connected to the brush head for driving it. The handle has a coupling stem terminating with a free end and including a coupling pin extending from the stem. The refill includes a generally tubular portion formed by refill walls defining an interior space for accepting the coupling stem of the handle. The coupling device comprises a pair of mutually opposite and resiliently deformable cantilevered arms disposed adjacent to the refill walls in the interior space of the refill. Each of the cantilevered arms terminates with a coupling surface for engaging the stem's coupling pin for secure and disengageable connection between the handle and the refill.
US11369457B2
Tool for handling palatal expanders, including two opposed jaws adapted to clamp at least one body of a palatal expander, a handle, and actuation means adapted to move said jaws between a clamping position on said at least one body and respectively a release position, said jaws being bound elastically to one another and are normally spaced from each other, and said actuation means comprising a slider slidably mounted on the outer surfaces of the jaws, the slider being provided with a part adapted to interact with said outer surfaces so as to compress the jaws by pushing them toward each other when it is made to slide along a first direction and free them when it is made to slide along a second direction, said actuation means being adapted to firmly but reversibly lock the jaws in said clamping position.
US11369452B2
Certain embodiments describe an endoilluminator comprising a probe housing an optical fiber. The probe comprises a distal end with an opening through which a first light from a distal end of the optical fiber is configured to be propagated. The probe comprises one or more side openings through which a second light from one or more sides of the optical fiber is configured to be propagated. The endoilluminator also comprises a handpiece coupled to a light source and the proximal end of the probe, wherein the light source is configured to drive light into the optical fiber.
US11369448B2
Systems, methods, and workflows for concomitant procedures are disclosed. In one aspect, the method includes manipulating a flexible instrument using a first robotic arm of a robotic system, manipulating a rigid instrument using a second robotic arm of the robotic system, displaying feedback from the flexible instrument, and displaying feedback from the rigid instrument.
US11369439B2
A system and method for providing image guidance for placement of one or more medical devices at a target location. The system can determine one or more intersections between a medical device and an image region based at least in part on first emplacement data and second emplacement data. Using the determined intersections, the system can cause one or more displays to display perspective views of image guidance cues, including an intersection ghost in a virtual 3D space.
US11369435B2
A system for working biological tissue, the system comprising: a tool comprising a laser operable to perform at least one action of work; positioning means for positioning the tool relative to the biological tissue to perform the at least one action of work; a controller; storage storing electronic program instructions for controlling the controller; and an input means; wherein the controller is operable, under control of the electronic program instructions, to: receive input via the input means; process the input and, on the basis of the processing, control the positioning means and the tool to work the biological tissue.
US11369430B2
Vessel sealer having uniform pressure mechanism, detachable blade/cutter and detachable jaw assembly
A vessel sealer having a uniform pressure mechanism, detachable blade/cutter and detachable jaw assembly is disclosed. A bipolar surgical instrument, includes a jaw assembly having jaws connected to an outer tube, wherein the blade is connected to the blade pushing tube through a blade connector; a spring cap operatively engages said blade tube assembly wherein on disengagement of the said jaw assembly from an outer tube and said spring cap from said blade pushing tube are adapted to be detached from each other; a handle assembly, operatively coupled to said jaw assembly comprising a uniform pressure mechanism which contains primary spring, a secondary spring, wherein said uniform pressure mechanism enables closure of the jaws to ensure and exert a uniform pressure on the tissue and/or vessel.
US11369427B2
An energy generator includes a connector port configured to couple to an electrosurgical instrument including an electrode having a polymeric dielectric coating; a power converter configured to generate energy; and a sensor coupled to the power converter and configured to sense a parameter of the energy. The energy generator also includes a controller coupled to the sensor and the power converter. The controller is configured to: control the power converter to output energy to modify an electrical property of the polymeric dielectric coating; and determine whether the electrical property of the polymeric dielectric coating has been sufficiently modified by the energy.
US11369412B2
A sensor insertion device comprises a main body, needle slider, disposal slider, spring, puncture knob, and opening mechanism (window member and handle). The needle slider grips a needle and a sensor on a first end side, and is slidable inside the main body. The disposal slider is slidable inside the main body. The puncture knob has an insertion hole into which the rear end portion of the needle slider can be inserted. The opening mechanism puts the insertion hole into a closed state when the needle slider is being slid in the sensor insertion direction, and, puts the insertion hole in an open state in which the second end side of the needle slider has been inserted into the insertion hole by opening up the contact portion between the puncture knob and the second end side of the needle slider when the puncture operation is complete.
US11369410B2
A magnetizing system for use in selectively magnetizing a needle of a medical device is disclosed. Once magnetized, the needle can be tracked by a needle guidance system, which assists the clinician placing the needle by visualizing on a display the position and orientation of the needle after its insertion into a body of a patient. An orientation key system is included with the magnetizing system to ensure the needle is positioned correctly in the magnetizing system. This in turn ensures that the needle is properly magnetized so as to be accurately tracked by the needle guidance system. In one embodiment a first key is included with the magnetizing system and configured to cooperatively mate with a second key included with the needle of the medical device. Various types of keys are disclosed herein.
US11369409B2
A skin grafting system having a handheld device, a cartridge, and a device shield. The handheld device includes a device housing forming an interior that secures a drive system. The cartridge includes a plurality of hollow microneedles surrounded by a peripheral housing and is configured to be operated by the drive system to extend and retract past the peripheral housing into a subject to harvest tissue during a skin grafting process. The device shield is formed of a polymer extending from an interior opening to an exterior edge, the interior opening sized to extend about the peripheral housing to positon the exterior edge over the device housing to control ingress of fluids into the interior of the device housing from fluid about the peripheral housing of the cartridge during the skin grafting process performed using the skin grafting system.
US11369396B2
A medical-technical instrument includes a first instrument branch, a second instrument branch, and a bearing element coupling the instrument branches in a superimposed closure. The branches contact each other in a closure portion in an operation pivot region via mutually facing contact surfaces so that the branches in the operation pivot region contact each other with their respective contact surfaces, and the branches are positionable in a cleaning position outside the operation pivot region. The bearing element is fixed at an end portion on the first instrument branch and has a head widening conically in a continuous or stepped manner. The head penetrates a continuously or stepped conical passage opening in the second instrument branch. The passage opening is an elongated hole, and the bearing element is rotatably positionable in the elongated hole and translationally fixedly received.
US11369395B2
A medical instrument includes at least a first instrument shank and a second instrument shank that can be moved in relation to each other. The first instrument shank is a male instrument shank with a male bearing section. The second instrument shank is a female instrument shank with a female bearing section that includes a through-opening. The first instrument shank is arranged on the second instrument shank by the male bearing section engaging through the through-opening of the female bearing section. The instrument is produced by an additive manufacturing method.
US11369386B2
Certain aspects relate to systems and techniques for articulating medical instruments. In one aspect, the instrument includes a wrist having at least one degree of freedom of movement, and an end effector coupled to the wrist. The end effector can include a cartridge for delivering a plurality of clips to tissue. The wrist may include one or more cables capable of moving an actuator with one degree of freedom of movement within the end effector to advance one or more clips through the end effector.
US11369384B2
Methods, devices and systems are described for treating venous insufficiency in which the vein is compressed at least partially along a treatment zone. A system can be provided including an injection device, such as a glue gun, that is operably connected to a delivery catheter that can be advanced across a treatment zone in the vein. The delivery catheter can be used to deliver one, two, or more boluses of media (e.g., cyanoacrylate) to occlude the vein along different spaced-apart sections of the treatment zone. External compression can also be applied to the vein by a compression element, such as a hand or multifunctional ultrasound transducer, to occlude portions of the vein along the treatment zone prior to or during the introduction of the boluses of media.
US11369375B2
Interlock assemblies for attaching a loading unit to a surgical stapling instrument are provided. The interlock assemblies are formed on a proximal end of a shell member and on a distal end of an adapter assembly. The interlock assemblies may include a collar member for selectively securing the shell member to the adapter assembly. The collar member may be mounted on the shell member or on the adapter assembly.
US11369366B2
A surgical visualization system is disclosed. The surgical visualization system is configured to identify one or more structure(s) and/or determine one or more distances with respect to obscuring tissue and/or the identified structure(s). The surgical visualization system can facilitate avoidance of the identified structure(s) by a surgical device. The surgical visualization system can comprise a first emitter configured to emit a plurality of tissue-penetrating light waves and a second emitter configured to emit structured light onto the surface of tissue. The surgical visualization system can also include an image sensor configured to detect reflected visible light, tissue-penetrating light, and/or structured light. The surgical visualization system can convey information to one or more clinicians regarding the position of one or more hidden identified structures and/or provide one or more proximity indicators. In various instances, a robotic camera of the surgical visualization system can monitor and track one or more tagged structures.
US11369354B2
A surgical delivery instrument for delivering a vascular hole closure device having a hole covering member. The delivery instrument comprises a housing, a plunger and an advancer movable within the housing, the advancer having a first portion and a distal portion hingedly connected to the first portion and forming a casing for supporting the hole covering member. Distal movement of the advancer pivots the casing from an angled position to a more linear position to change the orientation of the covering member from a transverse position to a more aligned position. The plunger is advanceable to advance the covering member into the vessel.
US11369352B2
A tissue specimen retrieval bag assembly includes a tissue specimen bag having an open proximal end including a cuff defined therein and extending around a periphery thereof, a closed distal end and a bag brim disposed within the cuff. The bag brim includes a cross section configured to facilitate furling the tissue specimen bag onto itself around the bag brim to approximate a tissue specimen contained within the bag for morcellation. The tissue specimen bag also includes a suture channel defined therein near the proximal end thereof. The suture channel is defined around the periphery of the tissue specimen bag and is configured to house a suture therein. Pulling the suture away from the tissue specimen bag cinches the tissue specimen bag to secure the tissue specimen therein.
US11369348B2
An ultrasound diagnostic apparatus includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry generates a first image based on an echo signal obtained by transmission and reception of ultrasound waves. The processing circuitry acquires a second image that is an image generated by a medical image diagnostic apparatus. The processing circuitry performs a registration of the first image and the second image, by discretely setting a plurality of relative positions of the first image and the second image within a specified range, calculating the similarity between the first image and the second image corresponding to the plurality of relative positions respectively, updating the plurality of the relative positions based on the calculation result of the similarity, and recalculating the similarity corresponding to the plurality of the updated relative positions respectively. The processing circuitry causes a display to display the images obtained after the registration.
US11369345B2
Substrate is produced by using a MEMS technique to form multiple diaphragms in a substrate by forming piezoelectric material layer on one surface of the substrate and thereafter by forming openings in the substrate from the other surface of the substrate; substrate and substrate on which signal detection circuit is formed are aligned to each other using at least one of multiple diaphragms as alignment diaphragm; and substrate and substrate are bonded together.
US11369344B2
An ultrasound transducer includes: a tube; a transducer cable which is fixed to an end portion side of the tube and close to an outer periphery of the tube; a plurality of piezoelectric elements which are arranged along a circumferential direction surrounding a central axis of the tube to face an outer peripheral surface of the tube, each piezoelectric element being configured to output an ultrasound wave according to an electric signal input from the transducer cable, and convert an ultrasound wave input from an external portion into an electric signal; and a plurality of relays which are electrically connected respectively to a plurality of signal lines included in the transducer cable and the plurality of piezoelectric elements, the relays being configured to relay the plurality of signal lines and the plurality of piezoelectric elements.
US11369340B2
The present invention relates to a system for indicating a position of an interventional device feature (11a) of an interventional device (11) respective an image plane (12) defined by an ultrasound imaging probe (18) of a beamforming ultrasound imaging system (15) in which the position of the interventional device feature (11a) is determined based on ultrasound signals transmitted between the ultrasound imaging probe (18) and an ultrasound transducer (16) attached to the interventional device at a predetermined distance (Lp) from the interventional device feature (11a). An icon providing unit (IPU) provides a first icon (Cde) indicative of a circular zone with a radius corresponding to the predetermined distance (Lp). The first icon (Cde) is displayed in a fused image that includes a reconstructed ultrasound image (RUI) from the beamforming ultrasound imaging system.
US11369338B2
In an ultrasonic CT device for breast examination, unevenness of an ultrasonic image due to a distribution of inclination angles of a breast is reduced. The distribution of the inclination angles of a surface of a subject in a contour of the subject is obtained from a tomographic image, and a signal level of a reception signal or a pixel value of the tomographic image is corrected using the distribution of the inclination angles.
US11369334B2
A radiographic imaging apparatus configured to perform radiographic imaging using a plurality of sensors includes a region determination unit configured to analyze a reference image and determine a standard region in a region-of-interest of a subject in the reference image and a reference region in a region-of-non-interest of the subject in the reference image, and a determination unit configured to determine whether an amount of radiation with which the sensor of a region that corresponds to the standard region is irradiated reaches a standard value based on image data of the standard region, image data of the reference region, and a signal read from the sensor of a region that corresponds to the reference region.
US11369333B2
The present disclosure provides a method and apparatus for detecting a dose distribution of an article. The method includes performing a fluoroscopy scanning on the article to be detected, to obtain mass data per unit area or unit volume for each point of the article to be detected; obtaining corresponding dose distribution data based on the mass data per unit area or unit volume and a preset mapping model, wherein the preset mapping model includes a mapping relationship between mass per unit area or unit volume and the dose distribution of the article under irradiation of a preset amount of energy; and matching the dose distribution data with a fluoroscopy image of the article to be detected, to generate and display a radiation image.
US11369330B2
According to one embodiment, the X-ray diagnosis apparatus includes an X-ray detector, X-ray diaphragm apparatus, and processing circuitry controlling the X-ray diaphragm apparatus to shield the X-rays from passing through a X-ray filter outside an aperture region or a partial region during a transition from first fluoroscopy employing an X-ray filter to second fluoroscopy employing diaphragm blades, generating a first and second fluoroscopic image during the first and second fluoroscopy respectively, generating a composite image during the second fluoroscopy by combining a non-ROI image of the first fluoroscopic image and a ROI image of the second fluoroscopic image, and displaying the first fluoroscopic image and the composite image on the display during the first and second fluoroscopy respectively.
US11369327B2
An x-ray imaging apparatus and a method of controlling the x-ray imaging apparatus are provided. The x-ray imaging apparatus includes x-ray detectors, and a user interface configured to display sizes of the x-ray detectors, and display a modality in which an x-ray detector, among the x-ray detectors, is usable, while a size of the x-ray detector is displayed.
US11369323B2
A radiological imaging device includes a gantry defining an analysis zone in which at least a part of a patient is placed, a source that emits radiation that passes through the part of the patient, a detector that receives the radiation when performing at least one of tomography, fluoroscopy, radiography, and multimodality and generates data signals based on the radiation received, and a fluid-fed cooling system adapted to provide cooling for components that generate heat within the gantry.
US11369319B2
The disclosure refers to a method of operating a receiver for receiving analyte data from a biosensor monitoring an analyte by detecting analyte values, the method comprising: in a receiver (1), receiving analyte values detected by a biosensor (8) monitoring an analyte in intervals of time for which a first interval time is applied; receiving a present analyte value in the receiver (1); providing a rate of change for the analyte values; determining a future analyte value based on the present analyte value, the first interval time, and the rate of change; providing an analyte value range for the analyte values; setting a second interval time, the second interval time being shorter than the first interval time, if the future analyte value is outside the analyte value range, and longer than or equal to the first interval time, if the future analyte value is within the analyte value range; and in the receiver (1), receiving one or more following analyte values in intervals of time for which the second interval time is applied. Also, a receiver (1) is provided, comprising a receiver unit (2), and a processor (3) connected to the receiver unit (2). Further, a computer program product is provided.
US11369309B2
A system for monitoring medical conditions including pressure ulcers, pressure-induced ischemia and related medical conditions comprises at least one sensor adapted to detect one or more patient characteristic including at least position, orientation, temperature, acceleration, moisture, resistance, stress, heart rate, respiration rate, and blood oxygenation, a host for processing the data received from the sensors together with historical patient data to develop an assessment of patient condition and suggested course of treatment, including either suspending or adjusting turn schedule based on various types of patient movement. Compliance with Head-of-Bed protocols can also be performed based on actual patient position instead of being inferred from bed elevation angle. The sensor can include bi-axial or tri-axial accelerometers, as well as resistive, inductive, capacitive, magnetic and other sensing devices, depending on whether the sensor is located on the patient or the support surface, and for what purpose.
US11369308B2
A swallowing action measurement device includes a holder, a sound detector and a posture detector. The holder is fitted to a neck region of a person being measured from behind. The sound detector is held in the holder in contact with the outer side surface of the neck region close to the epiglottis, and detects sound associated with at least a swallowing action of the person being measured and outputs a measured sound signal. The posture detector detects a posture of the person being measured.
US11369301B2
A device and system for providing mapping and treatment capabilities without increasing stiffness of the device. An embodiment of a device may include a flexible elongate body and at least one mapping element on the distal portion of the elongate body. Each mapping element may be an area of thermally conductive material, such as metallic nanoparticles, that is embedded within, integrated with, or deposited on the elongate body. The flexibility of the areas of thermally conductive material is at least substantially the same as that of the elongate body so the device may include many electrodes without compromising flexibility and maneuverability of the device. Alternatively, the device may include a treatment element coupled to the elongate body, such as a balloon. The mapping elements may be embedded within, integrated with, or deposited on the balloon and may have at least substantially the same flexibility as that of the balloon.
US11369300B2
A method of mapping includes receiving inputs measured by a probe at respective locations inside a body cavity of a subject. At each of the respective locations, a respective contact quality between the probe and a tissue in the body cavity is measured. The inputs for which the respective contact quality is outside a defined range are rejected, and a map of the body cavity is created using the inputs that are not rejected.
US11369297B2
The present disclosure provides method and apparatus for providing emotional care in a session between a user and an electronic conversational agent. A first group of images may be received in the session, the first group of images comprising one or more images associated with the user. A user profile of the user may be obtained. A first group of textual descriptions may be generated from the first group of images based at least on emotion information in the user profile. A first memory record may be created based at least on the first group of images and the first group of textual descriptions.
US11369296B2
A medical needle holder (10) having a generally hollow body (18) which extends in the direction of an axis (62) from a first end (20) to a second end (22). The first end is shaped for reception of a needle (50) therein and the second end is open to allow for insertion of a fluid receptacle (16). The first axis is substantially aligned in use with a needle positioned in the first end of the body. The needle holder comprises a grip portion (28) which extends outwardly from the body in a direction which is angularly offset from the first axis. The grip portion may be actuable between an in-use condition and a disposal condition in which the grip portion covers a needle in the needle holder. The body (18) may comprise control formations on its inner surface to allow for control over the insertion of a fluid receptacle (16) into the body.
US11369288B2
Described is device for monitoring an activity. The device comprises a transducer that generates electric power from the activity and an energy store that stores the electric power over consecutive time intervals. The device further comprises a transmitter that periodically transmits the stored energy as an activity pulse indicative of an activity classification.
US11369287B2
A stress estimation system which estimates stress of a user includes a walking speed acquisition unit configured to acquire walking speed information indicating walking speeds of a user in each of the morning and the afternoon at a preset place, an estimation unit configured to calculate a comparison value between the walking speeds in each of the morning and the afternoon indicated by the acquired walking speed information, and to estimate stress of the user based on the calculated comparison value, and an output unit configured to output information in accordance with the estimated stress of the user.
US11369286B2
A lighting device, comprises a light source configured to provide a low Cyanosis Observation Index (COI) white light having a total flux, the light source comprising a first group of LEDs configured to provide a wide blue light, a second group of LEDs configured to provide a wide green light, and a third group of LEDs configured to provide a wide red light, wherein the low COI white light is a combination of at least the wide blue light, the wide green light, and the wide red light, wherein a current provided to the light source is distributed among the first group of LEDs, the second group of LEDs, and the third group of LEDs such that the wide blue light contributes 7 percent to 9 percent of the total flux, the wide green light contributes 62 percent to 76 percent of the total flux, and the wide red light contributes 20 percent to 26 percent of the total flux, and wherein a COI of the low COI white light is less than 1.
US11369280B2
Among the various aspects of the present disclosure is the provision of systems and methods of velocity-matched ultrasonic tagging in photoacoustic flowgraphy.
US11369279B2
Systems and methods are provided to incorporate an off-resonance correction into the pulse labeling train of PCASL/VEPCASL. In one or more aspects, the systems and methods are based on a method for generating an encoding scheme for any number and arrangement of blood vessels. The off-resonance correction can be incorporated into the generation of optimized encodings to acquire arterial spin labeling (ASL) data, such as PCASL and VEPCASL data.
US11369272B1
An RF applicator has an open-ended waveguide having an aperture and a dielectric cone extending through the aperture and is electrically connected to an RF source that is configured to generate RF energy pulses. A top fin is mounted to an inner top surface of the waveguide and comprises a conductive material, is electrically connected to the RF source, and has dimensions configured to optimize a bandwidth that the RF applicator applies to tissue. A bottom fin is mounted to an inner bottom surface of the waveguide and comprises a conductive material electrically isolated from the RF source, with dimensions configured to optimize a bandwidth that the RF applicator applies to tissue. A dielectric cone is inserted into the waveguide. A filler material between inner surfaces of the waveguide and the solid dielectric cone can fill gaps and has a dielectric constant similar to the dielectric cone.
US11369271B2
An apparatus for dental imaging comprises a light source for generating light, an optics system for focusing the light, and a light-guiding part having an entrance face and an exit face. The light source, the optics system and the light-guiding part are arranged such that the light passes through the optics system, enters the light-guiding part via the entrance face, and exits the light-guiding part via the exit face. The optics system is configured such that, upon entering the light-guiding part, an outermost chief ray of the light with respect to an optical axis of the optics system is divergent to the optical axis and an outermost marginal ray of the light with respect to the optical axis is parallel or divergent to the optical axis.
US11369268B2
A brain-function image data augmentation method includes: a step of providing a target database including a plurality of image-data information; a step of, based on a plurality of image-data expected information in an expectation-value database, calculating a ratio of the plurality of image-data expected information with respect to different ages; a step of, based on the plurality of image-data information and the ratio, obtaining image-data ratio information with respect to an estimated age; a step of establishing a relationship for each pair of the image-data information and the image-data expected information; a step of, based on the relationship, the ratio and the image-data information, calculating an estimated image-data information with respect to the estimated age; and, a step of combining linearly the estimated image-data information and the image-data ratio information so as to generate an augmented image-data information with respect to the estimated age.
US11369263B2
A handheld smart phone includes programming for performing various vision-related tests. The smart phone includes a touch sensitive screen, microphone, speaker, other sensors, processor and persistent storage for execution of software, multiple communications network interfaces and other device interfaces. The display delivers vision tests and, together with the speaker, related audio instructions to a user. The user interacts with the vision tests by using tactile and audio commands to the device screen and microphone. The test results are assembled into a report that can be transmitted to persons of the user's choice, such as a care provider. The capability is included for transmitting results to the remainder of the system for storage, analysis, events, alerts for medical personnel's user treatment and multiple user population analysis.
US11369255B2
The invention relates to an endoscope having an endoscope head with a working channel for guiding microtools, and an Albarran lever that is insertable on and detachable from the endoscope head, and having a tool guide surface with which a tool that is guidable through the working channel may come into contact in order to be deflected in the lateral direction of the endoscope head. An Albarran lever arrangement space is delimited by two flank sections of the endoscope head that extend in the distal direction. An Albarran lever pivot shaft, from which a shaft section protrudes with respect to the Albarran lever arrangement space with a length, is supported in one of the flank sections. The Albarran lever has a shaft insertion hole for inserting the shaft section, and has a width in a direction that is parallel to the shaft insertion hole.
US11369246B2
A riding floor cleaning machine having an intelligent system including a main frame sub-assembly, a steering and drive wheel sub-assembly, a solution tank sub-assembly, a recovery tank sub-assembly, a recovery tank cover sub-assembly, a control panel sub-assembly, a main controller sub-assembly, a seat and detergent system sub-assembly, a battery sub-assembly, a scrub head sub-assembly, a scrub head lift sub-assembly, a squeegee sub-assembly, a solution and detergent sub-assembly, and an intelligent system associated with at least one of the above-identified sub-assemblies, wherein the intelligent system selectively gathers, obtains, monitors, stores, records, and/or analyzes data associated with components of the riding floor cleaning machine, and controllably communicates and/or disseminates such data with another system and/or user.
US11369245B2
Provided is a vacuum cleaner. The vacuum cleaner includes a cleaner body including a moving device for moving, a suction device connected to the cleaner body to suction dusts and air and guide the suctioned dusts and air to the cleaner body, the suction device including a handle, a detection device for detecting a distance between the handle and the cleaner body, and a controller determining whether movement of cleaner body is necessary on the basis of the distance between the cleaner body and the handle, the controller controlling the moving device when the movement of the cleaner body is necessary. The controller controls the moving device to allow the cleaner body to avoid an obstacle when it is determined that an operation for avoiding the obstacle is necessary while the moving device operates.
US11369242B2
A roller assembly for a mobile cleaning system for cleaning a work surface can include a drive shaft, a sheath, a bushing, and a bushing shroud. The drive shaft can be rotatable about a drive axis, and the drive shaft can include a driven end and an opposite bushing end. The sheath can be supported by the drive shaft and the sheath can be rotatable with the drive shaft. The sheath can include a shell engageable with the work surface. The bushing can be located about the bushing end of the drive shaft. The bushing shroud can be connected to the bushing. The sheath and the drive shaft can be together rotatable with respect to the bushing and the bushing shroud, the bushing shroud can include an outer portion defining a first radius of curvature and a recessed portion connected to the outer portion.
US11369227B2
The present disclosure provides a beverage dispenser and a beverage brewing method. The beverage dispenser is formed with a liquid chamber, a brewing chamber, a heating chamber that can heat up liquid, and a pressure chamber that can pressurize the liquid. The liquid chamber, the heating chamber, the pressure chamber, and the brewing chamber form a circulating liquid circuit, in which the liquid formed in the liquid chamber enters into the heating chamber. The liquid is heated in the heating chamber and then enters into the pressure chamber. The liquid is pressurized in the pressure chamber and then enters into the brewing chamber, and then flows out of the brewing chamber and enters into the liquid chamber. The beverage dispenser and the beverage brewing method provided in the present disclosure overcomes the drawbacks of manually adding hot water and manually pressurizing for producing beverage.
US11369225B2
A filter paper insert for producing a brewed beverage includes a first side wall and a second side wall which are respectively connected along opposite sides by one of a seam and a folding edge, and are connected via a bottom seam. The insert has an opening for filling the filter paper insert opposite the bottom seam. The bottom seam has a shape that deviates from a straight line.
US11369222B2
Disclosed herein is a secure package delivery container for receiving an article that does not require credentials to be input by the delivery person. The storage container comprises a container having a door secured by a user engageable locking device operable to be locked without credentials and upon input from the user. A lock activation device is operatively coupled to the user engageable locking device for receiving input from the user. A communications device is provided to communicate with an external device to report the state of the container, activation of the lock, and to receive instructions to lock or unlock the container. A sensing device is provided for identifying the presence of an object in the container. Additionally, sensors are provided to determine the location of container and the presence of delivery personnel. A user engageable opening device is provided to open or close the door when the user engageable locking device is in an unlocked state.
US11369215B2
A shelving system is provided. The shelving system includes an upper rail, and optionally a lower rail, from which one or more upright supports extend. The upright supports are slidable within the upper and lower rails so that a user may vary their location. A shelf mounts to the upright supports. The shelf includes interlocking deck panels and selectively removable support bars so that it may be assembled onto the upright supports.
US11369203B2
This disclosure is directed to improved chair assemblies that can be integrated with various technologies, including heating, massaging technologies, cooling, and other technologies. Various portions of the chair assemblies include attachment structures that permit electronic assemblies to be attached and removed from the chair assemblies. The electronic assemblies can include electronics that facilitate heat therapy, massage therapy, and/or cooling therapy functions.
US11369202B2
Various systems and methods relate to an adaptive chair system having (i) a stowed mode in which members of the chair frame are compactly contained within a multi-function bag (MFB), and (ii) a deployed mode in which the multi-purpose chair is configured to transition between at least two seating modes. In an illustrative example, the chair may be provided with an adaptive frame which may be reconfigured to transition between the seating modes. For example, the chair may transition between any of a vertical/upright (chair) mode (e.g., FIG. 8B), a vertical/upright (chair) mode using trek pole handle segment(s) (e.g., FIG. 1C), a low-profile/recon (seat) mode (e.g., FIG. 2B), and a longitudinal/lounge mode (e.g., FIG. 2B). Various embodiments may advantageously provide an adaptive chair system in an ultralight form factor which may fulfill multiple functions including, by way of example and not limitation, seating, sun/rain canopy, footrest, or some combination thereof.
US11369197B2
A support system for a storage container includes an extendable slide assembly having a first end and a second end, and a support bracket removably receiving the first end of the extendable slide assembly to support the extendable slide assembly in a cantilevered manner. The second end of the extendable slide assembly is configured to support the storage container.
US11369195B2
A table assembly comprising a table including a top member and at least a first leg support member, the top member forming a substantially flat top surface and circumscribed by an outer edge, the at least one leg support member supporting the top member in a substantially horizontal position, a table dock secured to the top member and forming an elongated channel having a dock length dimension and at least a first display panel circumscribed by a panel edge and having at least one straight edge having a panel length dimension, the dock length dimension less than panel length dimension, wherein at least a portion of the straight edge of the panel is receivable within the dock channel with the panel extending out the open first and second ends of the channel to support the panel in a substantially upright orientation with at least a portion of the display panel extending to a height above the flat top surface.
US11369187B2
An apparatus for securing items to a pack for ready and convenient access is provided. The apparatus includes a load rail for use in connection with a pack, such as a backpack. The load rail comprises an elongated body formed of a dimensionally stable material having first and second end portions. The end portions may take the form of depending feet for attaching to the pack via fasteners. A plurality of load rails may be provided along one side of the pack, such as opposite the side including one or more straps for being worn by a user, and may associate with a connector for connecting gear to the pack via the load rails. When mounted, an intermediate portion of the or each load rail may be raised above and spaced from a surface of the pack to facilitate receipt of a portion of the connector.
US11369186B1
A card holder includes a first compartment sized to retain a credit card. The first compartment includes a frame and a rear support wall attached to the frame. A cover is pivotally attached to a lower portion of the support wall and pivotable between an open position. The support wall is uncovered and a closed position wherein the support wall is covered. A release mechanism is mounted on the frame and operable between a retaining position wherein the release mechanism retains the cover in the closed position and a release position wherein the release mechanism releases the cover such that the cover is pivotable to the open position.
US11369182B2
The present invention relates to an applicator (10) of cosmetic product (P) for keratinous substances, particularly keratinous fibres, notably the eyelashes, the eyebrows, and/or the capillary fibres, comprising: —a core (40) that extends along a longitudinal axis (X), —at least one block (46) of porous material (47), —projecting elements (48) extending from the core (40) and at least partially passing through the porous material (47).
US11369179B2
Clamping heads are disclosed with epilators and clamping hairs, and can include a first clamping unit and at least two spring plates arranged adjacent to each other on a plane traversing an axis of rotation of a stopper plate, each of said spring plate having a first spring plate clamping surface, and said stopper plate is adjacent to said first clamping unit and having a stopper plate clamping surface opposing said first spring plate clamping surface of each said spring plate, such that during rotation of said stopper plate relative to said first clamping unit, said first clamping unit reciprocally moves away from and towards said stopper plate such that a first space between said first spring plate clamping surface and said stopper plate clamping surface opens and closes for clamping hair.
US11369173B2
A suitcase with an integrated garment bag is able to be used to neatly store items to prevent them from being wrinkled or otherwise disarranged.
US11369167B1
A boot storage attachment system includes a boot; a storage attachment, having a body forming an inner cavity; and a strap attached to the body and having a closure; the strap and closure are to secure the storage attachment to a side of the boot with the body being secured within an interior of the boot or on an exterior of the boot.
US11369149B2
A power supply unit for an aerosol inhaler, which causes an aerosol generated from an aerosol source to pass through a flavor source, includes: a power supply dischargeable to a first load configured to heat the aerosol source and dischargeable to a second load configured to heat the flavor source; a notification unit; a processing device; a circuit board; and a conductive portion configured to electrically connect the second load and the circuit board. The processing device is configured to detect adhesion of a liquid to the second load or entry of the liquid into the conductive portion. When the adhesion or the entry is detected, the processing device executes at least one of a notification action that causes the notification unit to execute a notification and a first fail-safe action including prevention of discharging from the power supply to the second load.
US11369141B2
An electronic cigarette including a mouthpiece assembly, an atomization assembly, and a base assembly. The mouthpiece assembly and the base assembly are disposed on two ends of the atomization assembly, respectively. The mouthpiece assembly includes a mouthpiece; a mouthpiece base; a movable cover; and a slidable block. The atomization assembly includes a seal gasket; a first permanent seat; a first seal ring; a glass tube; a second seal ring; an elastic sealing device including a connection bolt, a seal sleeve, a spring, and a second permanent seat; and an atomizer. The base assembly includes an airflow regulation ring; a fixed ring; a joint; an insulation ring; and a base. The mouthpiece base is connected to the slidable block. The mouthpiece base and the slidable block are disposed on two sides of the movable cover, respectively. The mouthpiece is in threaded connection to the mouthpiece base.
US11369140B2
An ultrasonic electronic cigarette atomizer is disclosed, including an atomization core, an atomizer housing, and a liquid bin. When liquid is filled into the liquid bin, the liquid passing hole is closed and the air outlet channel is closed, to avoid leakage or immersion of liquid, the atomizer is clean and sanitary, waste is avoided, and cost is saved. The whole operation is very simple, the atomization core is convenient to replace, hands are not stained with liquid, and the liquid is convenient to fill. The cigarette liquid is unlikely to flow out through the liquid filling hole, and large granular cigarette liquid generated in atomization can be recycled.
US11369138B2
An aerosol-generating device for generating an inhalable vapor is provided, the aerosol-generating device including: a heating chamber configured to receive an aerosol-generating article, an inner wall of the heating chamber including a coating, the coating including a binder material and metal particles embedded in the binder material or the coating includes a metal alloy, and the coating being configured to be heat-reflective and dirt-repellent. A method for manufacturing an aerosol-generating device to generate an inhalable vapor is also provided.
US11369127B2
Sweetener and flavor compositions with improved taste profiles are disclosed. Also disclosed are methods of making and methods of using such sweetener and flavor compositions.
US11369122B2
The present invention provides the use of a composition obtainable from the pulp of a plant in the theobroma genus or an extract of said pulp, as an ingredient in a chocolate product.
US11369108B2
The present invention relates to new, solvent-based emulsifiable concentrates of agrochemical active compounds, a process for the preparation of these formulations and their use for the application of the active compounds contained.
US11369106B2
This disclosure provides a method of detecting and deterring a target animal from a target area. A target area is positioned within the field of vision of a video camera connected to a computer processing system. An animal identification computer program using convolution neural networks and deep learning computer programs and camera images rapidly detects a target animal. The animal identification computer program is trained to identify target animals accurately using a learning algorithm and related machine learning technology. The time to deploy a deterrent against a target animal from the instant of detection is 2 seconds or less so that little or no time is available to the target animal to damage the target area.
US11369101B1
The delivery of water to a live well on a marine craft includes a sea chest disposed in fluid communication with ambient water and the live well. An access opening is formed on the sea chest in communication with an interior thereof. A cover is removably connected in fluid sealing relation to the access opening. Each of one or more pumps is connected to an exterior of the sea chest and includes a housing having an open segment disposed in accessible relation to the housing interior and internal workings therein. A mounting structure adjustably connects an inlet of the housing in fluid communication with a submerged, lower interior of the sea chest and an outlet is connected in fluid delivering relation to the live well.
US11369099B1
The present disclosure disclosed a magnetic braking mechanism which includes a spool, a magnet assembly arranged on a side of the spool for generating magnetic induction lines, and a magnetic braking assembly connected to the spool and including at least two metal plates and a centrifugal adjusting assembly. The metal plates are disposed between the magnet assembly and the spool, and the centrifugal adjusting assembly is used for automatically adjusting spacing between the metal plates and an axis of the spool according to a rotation speed of the spool, so as to adjust range of the magnetic induction lines cut by the metal plates, thereby automatically adjusting magnitude of a braking force. Further disclosed are a baitcast reel and a fishing tool.
US11369089B2
An elastomeric feed port and a bird feeder having a seed reservoir with a seed opening fitted with such an elastomeric feed port is provided. The feed port has an elastomeric seed control membrane with a cutout that forms at least one aperture through which birds can access seed in the reservoir. The cutout is shaped to create flexible flaps or fingers adjacent the aperture in the membrane that partially cover the seed opening to reduce seed spillage but that can be pushed aside or temporarily deformed by a bird when the bird inserts its beak into the cutout aperture to access seed therethrough.
US11369086B1
A multi-length leash is disclosed that comprises a handle, a line member, and an elastic member. The first end of a first region of the line member is secured to a closed bracket of a leash connector, and the second end is secured to the first stop of a second region. The first end of the elastic member is directly connected with both the handle and first connecting member, and at least the second end is directly secured to the second connecting member that slidably engages with the second region at the second stop. The elastic member is configurable in one of at least a first state or a second state to alter an effective length of the multi-length leash.
US11369084B1
Disclosed is a pet device. The pet device can include a housing, a movable member, and a first porous element. The housing can include a back and a front connected to the back to define a cavity. The front can define a first opening. The moveable member can be located in between the back and front. The moveable member can include a tab and can define an element receptacle. The first porous element can be impregnated with a first fluid and sized to fit within the element receptacle. The movable member can be moveable between a first position where the element receptacle is located proximate the first opening and a second position where a majority of the moveable member, including the element receptacle, is located outside of the cavity.
US11369082B2
A feeding device for working animals comprises a conveyor with a plurality of receiving regions for a feed, where the receiving regions are arranged along the conveyor chain and are accessible from above for the working animals, a feed supply device for supplying feed to the receiving regions, and a guide device for guiding the conveyor along a predetermined path. The guide device guides the conveyor in a first path section of the predetermined path parallel and in a horizontal direction adjacent to a second path section of the predetermined path. The conveyor is guided in the first path section in a first conveying direction which is opposed to a second conveying direction in which the conveyor is guided in the second path section.
US11369073B2
Transgenic INIR12 maize plants comprising a vip3Aa19 or vip3Aa20 expression cassette linked to a secondary nopaline synthase terminator element which lack a selectable marker gene and/or which comprise modifications that provide for facile excision of the INIR12 transgenic locus from the maize plant genome are provided. Genomic DNA of INIR12 transgenic plants, detection of INIR12 plants and products thereof, methods of making INIR12 plants, and use of INIR12 plants to facilitate breeding are disclosed.
US11369064B2
The invention discloses a regulating system and method for multilayer shading film of plastic greenhouse with adjustable shading rate. The upper film of the sunshade is a fully transparent film, while the middle film and the lower film are printed with dots, which are interlaced. Through the measurement and comparison of the warm light in the greenhouse, the combined control of the sunshade film is realized. Not only can it adjust its light blocking rate, but it also has a heat insulating effect when there is a certain amount of air in the film.
US11369061B2
Agricultural harvesting machines and methods of operation thereof are disclosed herein. A harvesting machine includes a main frame, a drive mechanism, a plunger, and a linkage system. The drive mechanism is coupled to the main frame and has at least one crank arm that is rotatable about a crank arm axis. The plunger is movable along a longitudinal axis in a compression chamber between a de-stroked position and a stroked position that is located rearward of the de-stroked position along the longitudinal axis. The linkage system couples the plunger to the main frame.
US11369060B2
An agricultural vehicle including at least one threshing rotor and an auger bed located underneath the at least one threshing rotor. The auger bed has a working position and a cleaning position. The auger bed includes a frame, a plurality of augers rotatably coupled to and supported by the frame, and a trough portion moveably connected to the frame. In the working position the bottom surface of the trough portion is positioned underneath the plurality of augers and in the cleaning position the entire trough portion is moved relative to the frame so that the bottom surface of the trough portion is not positioned underneath at least a portion of the plurality of augers, creating an open space underneath the portion of the plurality of augers for allowing an unwanted material to pass therethrough.
US11369056B2
An agitation control system of an agricultural system. The agitation control system includes an agitator that induces movement of particulate material through the agricultural system. An agitator motor couples to the agricultural system to move the agitator. A first motor couples to the agitation control system. The first motor includes a first sensor that detects a first temperature of the first motor and emits a first signal indicative of the first temperature. A controller couples to the agitator motor and to the first motor. The controller receives the first signal indicative of the first temperature from the first sensor and determines an ambient temperature from the first temperature. The controller controls the agitator motor in response to the ambient temperature.
US11375648B2
A manufacturing apparatus of a display device that prevents generation of bubbles between a display panel and a cover window is presented. The apparatus includes a first jig that includes a first portion including a center and a second portion that includes a bend on at least one side of the first portion, and where a cover window is received; a second jig that faces the first portion of the first jig, wherein the cover window and a display panel are disposed between the first jig and the second jig; and a stopper detachably provided adjacent to an end of the second portion of the first jig.
US11375647B2
An electronic device includes a fan assembly that draws air (including heated air) away from components and forces the air out of the electronic device. The fan assembly includes a guide vane located in the fan housing. Subsequent to air entering the fan assembly via the fan inlets, the guide vane is designed to direct the air to a fan outlet. Further, the guide vane is designed and positioned in the fan assembly to limit or prevent flow separation that may cause the heated air to recirculate and may also cause increased turbulence leading to elevated acoustic noise. Furthermore, the guide vane may include a tapered region to allow the heated air to readily flow over the guide vane to limit or prevent a vortex from occurring within the fan assembly. Using the guide vane, the fan assembly drives more air at the same fan speed and lowers noise generation.
US11375628B2
A foldable display device includes a first casing having a first receiving cavity inside, a rewinding component disposed in the first receiving cavity, a second casing disposed on a side of the first casing, a stretching component slidably having an end slidingly connected to the first casing and another end rotationally connected to the second casing, and a flexible display component having a part disposed on a same side of the first casing and the second casing and another part protruding into the first receiving cavity and connected to the rewinding component.
US11375624B2
A surface treated copper foil 1 includes a copper foil 2, and a first surface treatment layer 3 formed on one surface of the copper foil 2. The first surface treatment layer 3 of the surface treated copper foil 1 has a Ni deposited amount of 20 to 200 μg/dm2 and a Zn deposited amount of 20 to 1,000 μg/dm2. A copper clad laminate 10 includes the surface treated copper foil 1 and an insulating substrate 11 adhered to the first surface treatment layer 3 of the surface treated copper foil 1.
US11375623B2
A method of fabricating a battery protection circuit package according to one aspect of the present invention includes forming a first mounting structure by mounting battery protection circuit elements on a printed circuit board (PCB), forming a second mounting structure by mounting the first mounting structure on a lead frame which comprises an input/output terminal portion for external connection and at least one metal tab for battery cell connection, forming an encapsulation structure by encapsulating the second mounting structure with a molding material to encapsulate at least a part of the battery protection circuit elements while exposing the input/output terminal portion and the at least one metal tab of the lead frame, and bonding at least one flexible printed circuit board (FPCB) to the input/output terminal portion of the encapsulation structure.
US11375619B2
A packaging structure, includes: a dielectric layer; at least one inner wiring layer embedded in the dielectric layer; at least two outer wiring layers arranged two sides of the at least one inner wiring layer and combined with the dielectric layer; and at least one electronic component embedded in the dielectric layer; each inner wiring layer including at least two spaced supporting pads, and each supporting pad including a main body and a protruding portion extending outward from a periphery of the main body, the packaging structure further including at least two spaced positioning pillars, and each positioning pillar correspondingly connected to one main body, each electronic component arranged between at least two positioning pillars, and an end of each electronic component being in contact with protruding portions of at least two supporting pads, thereby packaging the electronic component accurately. The present invention also needs to provide a method for manufacturing the packaging structure.
US11375616B2
A radio frequency signal repeater includes, a first communication printed circuit board, a second communication printed circuit board, at least one embedded radio frequency module printed circuit board disposed between and communicably coupled to both the first communication printed circuit board and the second communication printed circuit board. The at least one embedded radio frequency module printed circuit board, the first communication printed circuit board, and the second communication printed circuit board are stacked one board on top of the others, and adjacent boards of the at least one embedded radio frequency module printed circuit board, the first communication printed circuit board, and the second communication printed circuit board are electrically coupled by a respective interconnection join layer so as to form an integrated printed circuit board module, where the adjacent boards are electrically coupled to each other through vias that extend through the interconnection join layer.
US11375609B2
A radio frequency connector includes a substrate, a first ground plane disposed upon the substrate, a signal conductor having a first contact point, with the first contact point being configured to electrically mate with a second contact point, and a first ground boundary configured to electrically mate with a second ground boundary, with the first ground boundary being formed as an electrically continuous conductor within the substrate.
US11375608B2
An electromagnetic band gap structure apparatus includes a first conducting layer having at least one first slot. Each of the at least one slot is arranged with a planar conductor unit, and the each planar conductor unit is coupled to a first via. The electromagnetic band gap structure apparatus further includes a second conducting layer in parallel with the first conducting layer. The second conducting layer has a second slot. The second slot is arranged with at least one planar transmission line unit. The each of the at least one planar transmission line unit is coupled to the first conducting layer through a second via, and the each first via is coupled to the second conducting layer.
US11375589B2
To reduce the time until the start of the lighting while suppressing the overshoot of the current. A method to carry out lighting control of a semiconductor light emitting element using a lighting control device where the lighting control device includes a switching element serially connected to the semiconductor light emitting element and having a control terminal to control a conductive state, and a control circuit to control the control terminal. The method including: increasing a control voltage of the control terminal of the switching element from an initial value to a first value in a relatively short time by the control circuit; and increasing the control voltage of the control terminal of the switching element from the first value to a second value in a relatively long time by the control circuit.
US11375581B2
Techniques are described for providing assistance data corresponding to a plurality of access points (APs). The techniques include, in part, providing assistance data to a mobile device. The assistance data comprises group data that is common among the plurality of APs. The group data is associated with a group identifier (ID). The techniques further include providing the group ID and a set of AP-specific information for at least one of the plurality of APs. The group data may include information corresponding to a common grid, common location area and/or common characteristics of the APs.
US11375577B2
Aspects of the disclosure provide an apparatus for wireless communication. The apparatus includes a transceiver and a processing circuit. The transceiver is configured to transmit and receive wireless signals. The processing circuit is configured to detect an error of a previous scheduled transmission of data units from the apparatus to another apparatus. The other apparatus provides scheduled resources for transmission between the two apparatuses. Further, the processing circuit is configured to determine resources that are scheduled by the other apparatus for the apparatus to perform retransmission, and provide one or more of the data units in the previous scheduled transmission to the transceiver for retransmission using the scheduled resources.
US11375573B2
Embodiments of the present application provides signal transmission method and apparatus for discontinuous reception, the signal transmission method includes: measuring, by a terminal device, a signal received by each of at least one downlink receiving beam and transmitted by a network device, where the number of the at least one downlink receiving beam is less than the number of downlink receiving beams formed by the terminal device and the network device by means of beamforming; determining, by the terminal device, a target downlink receiving beam from the at least one downlink receiving beam according to a result of the measurement; reporting, by the terminal device, the target downlink receiving beam to the network device, and receiving, by the terminal device, through the target downlink receiving beam, a physical downlink control channel PDCCH transmitted by the network device.
US11375565B2
A measurement configuration method, a terminal and a base station are provided. The measurement configuration method includes: receiving a first measurement configuration and a second measurement configuration, wherein the first measurement configuration includes information of a frequency of a first communication system and the second measurement configuration includes information of a frequency of a second communication system; receiving a configured measurement gap configuration.
US11375555B2
Methods and computer software are disclosed for establishing mesh connectivity. In one embodiment the method includes advertising, by a first Converged Wireless System (CWS) the presence of a mesh; detecting, by a second CWS, the presence of the mesh being advertised by a first CWS; performing, by the second CWS, secure certificate based authentication with the first CWS; and allocating, by the second CWS, an Internet Protocol (IP) address over the mesh and using the IP address as a logical address in an IP domain.
US11375546B2
A terminal apparatus performs a random access procedure; and receives a physical channel, in which the random access procedure includes a 2 step contention based random access procedure, a 4 step contention based random access procedure, and a non-contention based random access procedure, and the physical channel indicates an initiation of any of the 4 step contention based random access procedure and the non-contention based random access procedure.
US11375544B2
A wireless communication terminal comprises a transceiver configured to transmit and receive a wireless signal; and a processor configured to control an operation of the terminal, wherein the processor is configured to: perform a backoff procedure of a channel for data transmission, suspend the backoff procedure when a wireless signal having a signal strength higher than a predetermined first clear channel assessment (CCA) threshold is received through the channel, identify whether the received wireless signal is a wireless signal of the same basic service set (BSS) as the terminal, and determine whether to resume the backoff procedure based on a CCA threshold determined according to the identification result and a wireless communication method for performing an efficient clear channel assessment for spatial reuse of a communication system use the same.
US11375537B2
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.
US11375533B2
Provided are a communication method, a terminal device and a network device. The method comprises: a terminal device receiving downlink control information (DCI), wherein the DCI comprises a first information field, and the DCI is used for scheduling at least one physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH); according to whether the first information field is used for triggering a feedback sequence, the terminal device determining transmission parameters for sending, on the physical channel, the feedback sequence; and by using the transmission parameters, the terminal device sending, on the physical channel, the feedback sequence.
US11375530B2
Provided are methods and apparatuses for receiving information regarding modulation and demodulation in sidelink communication. The methods and apparatuses may receive configuration information on a resource pool used for sidelink transmission, receive information on an MCS (Modulation and Coding Scheme) table used for modulation of a sidelink signal among at least one MCS tables for the resource pool based on the configuration information, and perform demodulation on the received sidelink signal based on the information on the received MCS table.
US11375528B2
In a wireless communication system, a physical broadcast channel (PBCH) is encoded based on a Polar code and then is transmitted. Half-frame information within the PBCH is mapped to a bit position 247 among bit positions of the Polar code and synchronization signal and PBCH block (SSB) index information within the PBCH is mapped to bit positions 253, 254, and 255 of the Polar code.
US11375522B2
A base station and user equipment with prioritized transmission considerations are provided. The base station generates an RRC configuration message for a user equipment. The RRC configuration message includes a first information element regarding a PHY layer, wherein the first information element is related to a DCI format for a specific indication, and the specific indication is related to a prioritized transmission mode. The RRC configuration message further includes a second information element regarding a MAC layer, wherein the second information element defines a transmission restriction of each of a plurality of logical channels, and at least one of the transmission restrictions corresponds to the prioritized transmission mode. The base station further transmits the RRC configuration message to the user equipment. The user equipment receives the RRC configuration message from the base station and reads the first information element and the second information element from the RRC configuration message.
US11375515B2
Aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques and apparatus for wireless communication. In one aspect, a method is provided which may be performed by a wireless device such as a user equipment (UE). The method generally includes: receiving signaling on a plurality of carriers, and dynamically assigning non-linear interference cancellation (NLIC) to a subset of the plurality of carriers based on at least one criteria, wherein the NLIC is available to a number of carriers that is less than a total number of carriers in the plurality of carriers.
US11375507B2
Methods, apparatuses, and computer-readable mediums for wireless communication are disclosed by the present disclosure. In an example, a user equipment (UE) communicates with a base station on different uplink (UL) and downlink (DL) beam paths. In the example, the UE may indicate to the base station a preferred beam path to use. The UE may indicate the preferred beam path in response to an explicit request from the base station or without an explicit request. The use of different UL/DL beam paths allow beam paths which avoid interference from a user of the UE to be used.
US11375504B2
A method for indicating time-domain information of a control resource set (CORESET) of remaining minimum system information (RMSI) includes: adding indication information to a physical broadcast channel (PBCH) of a synchronization signal block (SSB), the indication information comprising at least one of the following: both first indication information and second indication information, third indication information, or fourth indication information; and sending, by means of beam scanning, to user equipment (UE) the SSB carrying the indication information.
US11375486B1
Described is a method of processing a signal received at an uplink control information (UCI) receiver in a wireless communication system. The method comprises processing a signal received on an uplink (UL) at said UCI receiver to transform said received signal into a likelihood calculation of possible transmitted codewords (θ1 . . . θi . . . θN) and determining a maximum magnitude θmax value from said likelihood calculation. The method includes comparing said maximum magnitude θmax value to a selected, calculated or predetermined scaled threshold S·τ where τ is a threshold and S is a scaling factor for the threshold τ. The comparison step is such that, where |θmax|2>S·τ, the method comprises determining that the signal received comprises a linear block encoded signal. In the method, prior to said comparison step, the scaling factor S is selected from a plurality of scaling factor options. One scaling factor option (i) is a scaling factor SRE derived from a combination of estimated noise and/or signal power at an output of a resource element (RE) demapper module and an estimated channel response from/before an equalizer module of said UCI receiver. The options also include using a combination of SRE and a suitable scaling factor derived excluding option (i).
US11375482B2
Methods and systems for signaling Supplementary Activity Configuration (SAC) for lean carrier operation are provided. According to one aspect, a method performed by a wireless device for lean carrier operation during which Cell-specific Reference Signals (CRSs) are transmitted by a base station using a reduced bandwidth during an inactive time of a Discontinuous Reception (DRX) mode of operation excluding a Warm Up (WU) period that occurs immediately before a DRX active time and a Cool Down (CD) period that occurs immediately after a DRX active time, comprises: determining a number M of subframes to comprise a WU period; determining a number N of subframes to comprise a CD period; and transmitting an indication of the determined numbers M and N to a base station currently serving the wireless device.
US11375481B2
A terminal is disclosed that includes a transmitter that transmits uplink control information on an uplink control channel and a processor that uses, in the transmission of the uplink control information, one of a first uplink control channel format or a second uplink control channel format based on a number of bits of the uplink control information. The first uplink control channel format uses a cyclic shift that depends on the uplink control information, and the second uplink control channel format is used for transmission of the uplink control information and a demodulation reference signal.
US11375477B2
A library of reference signal ports, a library of reuse factor identifications (ID) for Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access (NOMA), and a library of time-frequency resources broadcast by a base station (BS) can be received by user equipment (UE). A time-frequency resource in the library of time-frequency resources, a reuse factor ID in the library of reuse factor IDs, and a reference signal port in the library of reference signal ports can be selected. An initial sequence acquired by scrambling uplink data to be transmitted to the BS on the time-frequency resource is determined according to at least one of the reuse factor ID selected or the reference signal port selected, as well as a first numbering corresponding to a cell where the UE camps.
US11375467B2
An infrastructure equipment for use in a wireless communications system comprising the infrastructure equipment and one or more communications devices is provided. The infrastructure equipment comprises controller circuitry and transceiver circuitry which are configured in combination to broadcast one or more synchronisation signals for use by the one or more communications devices to achieve synchronisation with a cell provided by the infrastructure equipment, and to broadcast an additional synchronisation signal, the additional synchronisation signal including an indication of a status of a first communications parameter selected from a plurality of communications parameters in accordance with conditions determined by the controller circuitry.
US11375463B2
In an embodiment, an apparatus includes a transceiver with a receiver signal processing path and a transmitter signal processing path. The receiver signal processing path is to receive and process a message. The apparatus further includes a controller coupled to the transceiver to obtain information regarding the message and to determine, based at least in part on the information, a transmit power level for a next message to be sent from the transceiver according to a machine learning model.
US11375461B1
Aspects of the disclosure relate to a method of wireless communication at a user equipment (UE), including determining that future or past simultaneous first and second signal transmissions by first and second transceivers pursuant to a dual subscription dual active (DSDA) mode of operation may exceed or has exceeded a maximum allowed transmit power, respectively; and performing at least one operation to reduce an occurrence, likelihood or frequency of the future simultaneous first and second signal transmissions exceeding the maximum allowed transmit power in the DSDA mode of operation, respectively.
US11375456B2
A portable device and a method of operating a portable device for performing adaptive data communication control are provided. The method includes determining the on or off state of a display unit, extracting data communication setting information including a fast dormancy policy according to the on or off state of the display unit, and controlling a data communication setting with a specific service provider network based on the extracted data communication setting information, and a portable device supporting the method.
US11375452B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. Some wireless communications systems (e.g., millimeter wave (mmW) systems) may support user equipment (UEs) operating in a discontinuous reception (DRX) mode. A UE, in these wireless communications systems, may receive signaling configuring the UE with a set of wakeup grouping sets. Each of the set of wakeup grouping sets may identify a set of groups of one or more UEs. The UE may subsequently receive a wakeup signal during a monitoring occasion for wakeup signals, and determine that the received wakeup signal indicates a group in a wakeup grouping set of the set of wakeup grouping sets that includes the UE. In response, the UE may initiate a wakeup procedure.
US11375442B2
A terminal for cell reselection in a wireless communication system includes: a transceiver; and at least one processor configured to select a Public Land Mobile Network (PLMN) in an idle mode or an inactive mode, receive, from a base station, a PLMN identity list including one or more pieces of PLMN identity information via a first type system information block, wherein each of the one or more pieces of PLMN identity information includes a PLMN identity for a corresponding PLMN, and the one or more pieces of PLMN identity information are listed in a first order for PLMN(s), receive, from the base station, a PLMN information list including one or more pieces of PLMN information via a third type system information block, wherein each of the one or more pieces of PLMN information includes a New Radio (NR) frequency band list for a corresponding PLMN in a same order as the first order for PLMN(s) in which the one or more pieces of PLMN identity information are listed in the PLMN identity list received via the first type system information block, determine whether at least one NR frequency for the selected PLMN is included in the NR frequency band list and whether the terminal supports to operate in E-UTRA-NR Dual Connectivity (EN-DC) by using the at least one NR frequency for the selected PLMN, when the at least one NR frequency for the selected PLMN is included in the NR frequency band list and the terminal supports to operate in the EN-DC by using the at least one NR frequency for the selected PLMN, transmit, to a upper layer, a upper layer indication, and when the at least one NR frequency for the selected PLMN is not included in the NR frequency band list or the terminal does not support to operate in the EN-DC by using the at least one NR frequency for the selected PLMN, transmit, to the upper layer, information indicating absence of the upper layer indication.
US11375441B2
A WI-FI access point can be configured to communicate with a service set using a service set identifier (SSID) and to respond to, or not respond to, probe requests based on whether the WI-FI access point is a preferred access point for the SSID. The WI-FI access point can have a probe suppression indicator that indicates suppressive when the access point is not preferred and that indicates responsive when the access point is preferred. Transmitting a WI-FI beacon having a SSID value equaling the SSID can inform WI-FI clients of the service set. The WI-FI clients can transmit probe requests having SSID values equaling the SSID. The WI-FI access point can suppress sending probe responses responsive to the probe requests when the probe suppression indicator indicates suppressive. The WI-FI access point can send probe responses responsive to the probe requests when the probe suppression indicator indicates responsive.
US11375440B2
In some examples, a wireless device includes a communication interface to communicate with a wireless network, and at least one processor configured to, while the wireless device is in a pre-associated state, receive, from an access point (AP), information including a network address policy of the wireless network. The at least one processor is configured to further, in response to the information including the network address policy, use an address of the wireless device according to the network address policy.
US11375428B2
The described technology is generally directed towards adaptively changing which transmission scheme a user equipment is to use based on a Doppler metric (e.g. Doppler frequency) as evaluated against a threshold Doppler value. A network instructs a user equipment to use a Rank-1 precoder cycling transmission scheme if the Doppler metric of user equipment is above a threshold value, or to use a closed loop MIMO transmission scheme if the user equipment has a Doppler metric below the threshold value. The network can instruct the user equipment via a suitable message, or by switching off TPMI and notifying the user equipment thereof.
US11375426B2
Methods and apparatus for a mobility mechanism in the scenario including both enhanced packet core (“EPC”) and 5GC are disclosed. One method of a UE comprising receiving system information including a cell list from an eNB/ng-eNB, wherein, the cell list includes an identifier of a cell connected to EPC or an identifier of a cell connected to 5GC. Further, the identifier is a Physical Cell Identifier (“PCI”) of the cell, and the cell indicated in the cell list includes a serving cell for the UE and/or one or more neighbour cells of the serving cell. Further, the eNB/ng-eNB from which the system information is received can be the eNB/mg-eNB managing the serving cell for the UE or the eNB/mg-eNB managing the neighbour cells of the serving cell.
US11375425B2
A wireless transmit receive unit (WTRU) and a method performed by the WTRU for receiving radio resource control (RRC) signaling including information indicating a primary cell and at least one non-primary cell, receiving a single message with scheduling information indicating an allocation of uplink resources and a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) process ID, wherein the WTRU has one or more HARQ processes and uplink transmissions by the WTRU utilize asynchronous HARQ, and transmitting to at least the non-primary cell an uplink transmission using a HARQ process indicated by the HARQ process ID and the allocation of uplink resources.
US11375424B2
Systems and methods for data transmission are disclosed. A network access entity NAE provides access to communication services of a data network to at least one user equipment, UE. The NAE includes a packet data network gateway, PGW, with a PGW identifier, PGWID, which uniquely identifies the PGW. A UE mobility table contains an assignment of a UE identifier, UEID, of each UE to a PGW. The assignment indicates a PGWID of a PGW via which a specific UE is accessible from the data network. The NAE may transmit and receive data to and from a remote station via the data network, assign a data flow from the remote station to at least one UE, update the UE mobility table when a UE leaves the range of the NAE, and reassign a PGWID of a neighboring PGW to the leaving UE, via which neighboring PGW the UE can be reached.
US11375423B2
The disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. The disclosure relates to a method and an apparatus for performing fallback when handover fails in a case where efficient handover without interruption of transmission or reception of data during handover is performed.
US11375402B2
The present disclosure relates to a communication scheme and system for the convergence of a 5G communication system for supporting a higher data transfer rate than a post-4G system and the IoT technology. The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services (e.g., smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car or connected car, health care, digital education, retail business, security and safety services) based on the 5G communication technology and IoT-related technology. One embodiment of the present disclosure relates to a method and apparatus for processing data in a wireless communication system.
US11375401B2
A network service device includes a storage module, a communication module and a processing module. The storage module stores a ultra-reliable low-latency communication (URLLC)-compliant message. The processing module is coupled to the storage module and the communication module. The processing module receives a connection establish request message from a session management device through the communication module, and establishes a session according to the connection establish request message. The processing module provides the URLLC-compliant message to the session management device through the communication module.
US11375384B2
A method for wireless communication includes transmitting, with a base station (BS), multiple first signals using respectively different radio resources. The multiple first signals include a common signal component. The radio resource is identified by a radio resource ID. The method further includes receiving, with a user equipment (UE), out of the radio resources the multiple first signals from the BS, selecting, with the UE, a radio resource based on a reception quality of the multiple first signals, transmitting, from the UE to the BS, feedback information including the radio resource ID corresponding to the selected radio resource, and transmitting, from the BS to the UE, a second signal using the radio resource corresponding to the received radio resource ID.
US11375381B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a node may receive a configuration associated with measuring an energy level of a first frequency channel of an unlicensed radio frequency band, wherein the configuration indicates a set of measurement occasions during which the energy level is to be measured on the first frequency channel; measure the energy level on the first frequency channel in a first measurement occasion, of the set of measurement occasions, according to the configuration; and operate in association with a second frequency channel of the unlicensed radio frequency band based at least in part on measuring the energy level on the first frequency channel, wherein the second frequency channel is paired with the first frequency channel for the unlicensed radio frequency band. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US11375365B1
One example device facilitates activation of a radio device includes an electronic processor configured to select the radio device from a plurality of types of unactivated radio devices. Each radio device of the plurality of types of unactivated radio devices may be factory loaded with a global firmware and a global codeplug. The electronic computing device may be configured to determine at least one of a region-specific codeplug version and a region-specific regulatory restriction based on a desired region of operation, and associate the at least one of the region-specific codeplug version and the region-specific regulatory restriction with a unique identifier of the radio device that are configured to be transmitted to the radio device to activate the radio device for communication within the region of operation in response to receiving an indication that the radio device has been powered-up for a first time for operation by a customer.
US11375362B2
In an aspect, a UE may determine a capability of the UE to support two or more frequency range and duplex mode combinations associated with a communication feature, wherein the communication feature is associated with a plurality of frequency ranges and is further associated with a plurality of duplex modes on at least one of the plurality of frequency ranges. The UE may transmit, to a core network component, a UE capability indication that indicates the determined capability. The core network component may receive the UE capability indication. The core network component may perform at least one action in response to the UE capability indication.
US11375359B2
A service provision system includes a first terminal apparatus and a second terminal apparatus that perform member registration processing, acquires a current position of a user when a member registration request is received from the user, and transmits the received member registration request to the first terminal apparatus or the second terminal apparatus, depending on whether or not the current position is within a range of a predetermined distance from a predetermined area related to provision of a service.
US11375355B2
There is provided a method and device for provisioning emergency number information on a user equipment. When a dialed number matches an emergency number from the provisioned emergency number information, the user equipment selects either the circuit switched domain or the packet switched domain and executes a call setup procedure for that domain.
US11375351B2
An aftermarket vehicle communication device engageable to a vehicle for providing location information associated with the vehicle to a V2X data stream. The device includes a housing configured to be detachably engageable to the vehicle. A GPS circuit is coupled to the housing and is disposable in communication with a GPS system to receive a GPS signal therefrom, with the received GPS signal being representative of a location of the vehicle when the housing is engaged to the vehicle. An antenna circuit is also coupled to the housing and is in communication with the GPS circuit. The antenna circuit is configured to receive the GPS signal from the GPS circuit and communicate the GPS signal to the V2X data stream.
US11375350B2
Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for multiple zone configuration. One method includes configuring a first device with first information indicating a first zone configuration comprising a first plurality of zones. The method includes configuring the first device with second information indicating a second zone configuration comprising a second plurality of zones, wherein: a first area corresponding to zones of the first plurality of zones is smaller than a second area corresponding to zones of the second plurality of zones; and the first plurality of zones corresponds to a same geographical area as the second plurality of zones.
US11375349B2
An electronic device may receive information associated with another electronic device that is proximate to the electronic device. Then, the electronic device may identify the other electronic device based on an identifier (such as a Media Access Control address) that is included in the information that is associated with the other electronic device. Moreover, the electronic device may access a pattern of activity for a region that includes the electronic device, where the pattern of activity includes events and identifiers of one or more electronic devices in the region during the events. For example, the events may include reported criminal activity. Next, the electronic device may determine an association between the other electronic device and at least one of the events based on the pattern of activity. Furthermore, the electronic device may provide a notification based on the determined association.
US11375345B2
A service for providing messaging extension apps can be an online store that can be browsed and searched for the apps. The store uses extension app identifiers which are related to app identifiers that are sent between devices in a conversation of messages so that a receiving device can, when it does not have the extension app installed to interact with received content, use the extension app identifier to download and install the required extension app. In one embodiment, the download and install can occur while the messaging app remains the foreground app, and the messaging app adds an icon of the newly installed extension app into a browsable tray in the UI of the messaging app.
US11375344B2
A device may include a memory storing instructions and processor configured to execute the instructions to register client devices to receive Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) messages, including at least one Road Side Unit (RSU) configured to broadcast messages to vehicles using Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) signals or using cellular wireless signals over a PC5 interface. The processor may be further configured to receive a V2X message; determine a geographic area associated with the received V2X message; determine a message type for the received V2X message; identify a set of client devices located in the identified geographic area and subscribed to receive V2X messages of the identified message type; select a subset of client devices, of the identified set of client devices, based on geographic or situational relevance; and send the received V2X message to the selected subset of client devices, including the at least one RSU.
US11375335B2
A system and method for publishing digital media to an end user at a specified location includes a computing device. The computing device displays a map portion of a geographic region on a digital display. The computing device receives at least one selection by a primary user for a portion of the geographic region represented by the map, creating at least one geofence, and the computing device may attach digital media to the at least one first geofence by the primary user. The digital media is retrievable from a mobile computing device of an end user when the mobile computing device is within a geographic location corresponding to the at least one geofence.
US11375334B2
The present application discloses an improved transportation matching system, and corresponding methods and computer-readable media. According to disclosed embodiments, a transportation matching system receives a session indicator and device-based location. The system utilizes the received request and device-based location to identify and analyze historical transportation matching system information. The system then generates a confidence score based on this information that indicates a level of confidence that the device-based location is a pickup location associated with the request. If the generated confidence score exceeds a predetermined threshold, the system provides display components to a requestor computing device that enable confirmation of the transportation request with a single user interaction.
US11375327B2
Various implementations include sleep aiding in-ear audio devices. Certain implementations include sleep aiding in-ear audio devices with a noise-reduction finish, along with methods of applying a noise reduction finish to an in-ear audio device. In some cases, a sleep aiding in-ear audio device includes: a set of earbuds, each earbud having: an eartip for mating with an ear of a user; and a housing coupled with the eartip, the housing containing an electro-acoustic transducer for providing an audio output to the user via the eartip, where when inserted in the ear of the user, substantially all of an exposed surface of the earbud is finished with a matte coating.
US11375320B2
A thermoacoustic device includes a stage coupled to a bar, wherein the stage includes a first heating component on a first terminus of the stage. The stage further includes a first cooling component on a second terminus of the stage. A thermal conductivity of the stage is higher than a thermal conductivity of the bar. A heat capacity of the stage is higher than a heat capacity of the bar.
US11375315B2
A sound generator includes a frame, a magnetic circuit system and a vibration system accommodated in the frame. The vibration system includes a suspension. The suspension includes a first part and a second part attached to the first part. The first part includes a first middle portion, a first edge portion, and a first positioning portion. The second part includes a second middle portion, a second edge portion, and a second positioning portion. The second positioning portion is stacked on the first positioning portion, and is assembled with the first positioning portion by adhesive. The first edge portion is convex toward the frame, and the second edge portion is convex away from the frame, by which a sealed cavity is formed between the first and second edge portions. By virtue of such a configuration, the strength of the vibration system is improved.
US11375309B2
The present disclosure provides a sound collection device that collects a sound while suppressing noise. The sound collection device includes: a storage that stores first data indicating a feature amount of an image of an object indicating a noise source or a target sound source; and a control circuit that specifies a direction of the noise source by performing a first collation of collating image data generated by a camera with the first data, and performs signal processing on an acoustic signal outputted from a microphone array so as to suppress a sound arriving from the specified direction of the noise source.
US11375307B2
An earphone device includes a housing having a driver unit, and a sound guide tube mounted on a front surface of the housing to protrude from the front surface, in which the sound guide tube is disposed at a position deviated from a center position of the housing.
US11375304B2
A sound output device includes: a speaker unit that has a sound emitting portion; an attaching member by which the speaker unit is attached to an object; a separating member that is provided between the speaker unit and the attaching member to separate the speaker unit from the attaching member; and a sealing member that is provided between the speaker unit and the attaching member to reduce a sound that is emitted from a side of the speaker unit opposite to the sound emitting portion and is transmitted to a sound emitting portion side. The attaching member has a first portion on a side of the sound emitting portion of the speaker unit, and the first portion of the attaching member has an opening that corresponds to the sound emitting portion.
US11375301B2
The present application provides a speaker box device having a speaker box, a heating element and a heat conductor. The speaker box includes a housing body and a speaker unit provided with a diaphragm. The heat conductor includes a first end part connected to the heating element, a second end part and a connection part connecting the first end part to the second end part. Heat of the heating element is discharged by means of an air cooling effect, so that the heat dissipation efficiency of the speaker device is ensured.
US11375296B2
A method of providing customized interaction of a media player based on metadata obtained from an origin server. In one step, the origin server obtains metadata related to an active substream content. The media player is provided a playlist for playing a primary video stream. The playlist includes a request for the metadata, the request being associated with the insertion of the active substream content in the playback of the primary video stream. The origin server receives the request for the metadata from the media player. The origin server inserts the active substream content and metadata segments into the primary video stream. A secondary video stream is obtained after insertion of the active substream content. The origin server provides the metadata to the media player using a metadata storage and a metadata service. The media player customizes the interaction using the metadata during playback of the secondary video stream.
US11375285B2
Systems and methods for determining a skip time for navigating a media content in a media content system are disclosed herein. An input to perform a media content skip operation on the media content is detected. A current play position time in the media content is further detected, and a skip time amount based on the current play position time and a total media content play time is determined. The media content is skipped to a new play position time based on the skip time amount in response to the detected input.
US11375284B2
An improved streaming of a Virtual Reality [VR] video to a VR rendering device is provided. The VR video may be represented by a plurality of streams each associated with a different view of a scene. A view of the scene may be determined which is to be rendered by the VR rendering device. A subset of streams may be identified which is needed to render the view of the scene. The streaming of the subset of streams to the VR rendering device may be effected by streaming the plurality of streams from a stream source to a forwarding node downstream of the stream sources and upstream of the VR rendering device, and selectively forwarding the subset of streams from the forwarding node to the VR rendering device in response to the view having to be rendered by the VR rendering device. As such, the switching latency between streams may be reduced. Namely, streams which are not needed for rendering a current view, but which may be needed for rendering a next view, may be continuously made available at network nodes nearby the VR rendering device.
US11375275B2
A smart control system may determine whether a user is engaged with an electronic device, capture a lip sequence of the user for a period of time in response to determining that user is engaged with the electronic device, generate reduce sequence based on the captured lip sequence, determining an application with which the user is engaged, determine a current operating state of the application with which the user is engaged, determine commands that are applicable to the current operating state of the application, and determine whether the generated reduction sequence matches a comparison sequence associated with one of the determined commands. The smart control system may send a command associated with a matching comparison sequence to the application/electronic device in response to determining that the generated reduction sequence matches a comparison sequence associated with one of the determined commands.
US11375269B2
A media guidance application is provided by which users can define rules for assigning user equipment devices as destinations for media content. For example, a user may define a rule by which selected media content having attributes that satisfy a user-defined condition are downloaded, recorded, or streamed to a particular, user-specified user equipment device. The user may define and manage rules using media guidance menus, and may restrict other users from accessing the rules (e.g., parents restricting children).
US11375262B2
Disclosed are a main image processing apparatus, a sub image processing apparatus and a control method thereof. The control method of the sub image processing apparatus includes receiving a user's touch input through the sub image processing apparatus; determining which contents correspond to a touched area where the touch input occurs; sensing change in location of the touch input; and transmitting a control command for the contents to the main image processing apparatus in response to the sensed change in the location of the touch input. With this, it is more convenient for a user to control the main image processing apparatus through the sub image processing apparatus supporting the touch input.
US11375257B2
In general, certain embodiments of the present disclosure provide methods and/or systems for implementing a program guide, which comprises sending a first request and receiving a first response associated with a current or future program guide information. The current or future program guide information includes a first plurality of channel identifiers and a plurality of time slots that correspond to current or future time slots, and is displayed at a client device. A second request is sent, which indicates a requested time period that has already occurred and not displayed on the client device, and corresponds to navigation to a previous time slot. A second response is received, which is associated with past program guide information. The past program guide information includes a second plurality of channel identifiers and on-demand program information, and is displayed at the client device.
US11375253B2
One embodiment provides a video transport system. The video transport system includes graphics processing circuitry to generate a video transport unit (TU) corresponding to a scan line of a first video frame that is unchanged from a second video frame, wherein the video TU includes a control sequence and an unchanged data payload corresponding to a defined number of pixels of the scan line of the first video frame. The video transport system of this embodiment also includes source tunneling bridge circuitry to generate a bus TU based on the video TU; the source tunneling bridge circuitry to parse the control sequence or the unchanged data payload of the video TU, and to generate the bus TU having a header that includes a field to identify the defined number of pixels of the unchanged data payload, and to eliminate, in whole or in part, the unchanged data payload in the bus TU.
US11375247B2
Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed for identification of streaming activity and source for cached media on streaming devices. An example apparatus disclosed herein includes at least one memory, instructions on the apparatus, and at least one processor to execute the instructions to: store, in a content identification information library, first content identification information of a first media presentation, wherein the first media presentation is a streamed media presentation; inspect a network connection of a media streaming device for network activity associated with a second media presentation; determine, in response to an absence of the network activity, the second media presentation is a cached media presentation; infer a streaming source of the second media presentation by matching second content identification information of the second media presentation with the first content identification information of the first media presentation; and generate a second media credit for the second media presentation that includes an inferred streaming source identifier.
US11375245B2
In certain embodiments, streaming of a live video to trigger-associated recipients in response to triggers in an environment may be facilitated. In some embodiments, one or more triggers may be detected in an environment, and one or more actions associated with the detected triggers may be performed. As an example, where such associated actions include streaming a live video of the environment to one or more recipients, the recipients may be selected as candidates to receive the live video stream based on the recipients being part of a recipient list associated with a detected trigger. In some embodiments, although a first recipient of the recipient list may initially be selected to receive the live video stream, the live video may be streamed to a second recipient of the recipient list based on the first recipient being unavailable to receive the live video stream.
US11375236B2
Aspects of the disclosure provide methods and apparatuses for video encoding/decoding. In some examples, an apparatus for video decoding includes receiving circuitry and processing circuitry. The processing circuitry decodes a first syntax element at coding locations within a transform block for a current block in a first coding pass that scans the coding locations within the transform block, and decodes a second syntax element at the coding locations within the transform block in a second coding pass that is after the first coding pass and scans the coding locations within the transform block. Then, the processing circuitry determines residuals in the transform block based on at least the decoded first syntax element and the decoded second syntax element at the coding locations in the transform block, and reconstructs samples of the current block based on the residuals in the transform block.
US11375235B2
Methods and devices are provided to encode and decode a data stream carrying data representative of a three-dimensional scene, the data stream comprising color pictures packed in a color image; depth pictures packed in a depth image; and a set of patch data items comprising de-projection data; data for retrieving a color picture in the color image and geometry data. Two types of geometry data are possible. The first type of data describes how to retrieve a depth picture in the depth image. The second type of data comprises an identifier of a 3D mesh. Vertex coordinates and faces of this mesh are used to retrieve the location of points in the de-projected scene.
US11375222B2
A method for video decoding includes: receiving an encoded block of video data for a current block; receiving signaling information associated with the current block, the signaling information indicating that a merge-with-motion-vector-difference (MMVD) mode is used in encoding the current block; performing a conformation reconfiguration to cause an alternative half-sample interpolation filter flag to be consistent with one or more distance values of an MMVD candidate, the conformation reconfiguration including reconfiguration of one or more of: the alternative half-sample interpolation filter flag, or the one or more distance values of the MMVD candidate; and reconstructing the current block according to the encoded block and the alternative half-sample interpolation filter flag.
US11375213B2
A method of coding implemented by a decoding device or encoding device, the method comprising obtaining a bitstream, the bitstream comprises a transform unit syntax; the syntax comprises at least two cbf flags for chroma blocks (in an example, transform unit syntax correspond to either transform unit or sub-transform units which include two chroma cbf flags: tu_cbf_cb and tu_cbf_cb—one flag for each chroma plane), a chroma cbf flag specifies whether certain block has residue in correspondent color plane; deriving a value of a luma cbf flag tu_cbf_luma based on one or any combination of a value of a cu_cbf flag, values of two chroma cbf flags corresponding to a current transform unit or sub-transform unit, location of the sub-transform unit within transform unit, values of luma and chroma cbf flags correspondent to previous sub-transform units in the current transform unit.
US11375212B2
Systems and techniques are described herein for processing video data. In some examples, a process is described that can include obtaining at least one block of video data and predicting one or more video samples for the at least one block. The process can include obtaining a dynamic range adjustment (DRA) syntax element from the video data. In some cases, the DRA syntax element includes an indication associated with a plurality of DRA modes for the video data. The process can include processing the one or more video samples for the at least one block using a DRA mode based on the indication of the DRA syntax element.
US11375210B2
An image encoding method including: a constraint information generating step of generating tile constraint information indicating whether or not there is a constraint in filtering on boundaries between adjacent tiles among a plurality of tiles obtained by dividing a picture, and storing the tile constraint information into a sequence parameter set; and a filter information generating step of generating, for each of the boundaries, one of a plurality of filter information items respectively indicating whether or not filtering is executed on the boundaries, and storing the plurality of filter information items into a plurality of picture parameter sets, wherein, in the filter information generating step, the plurality of filter information items which indicate identical content are generated when the tile constraint information indicates that there is the constraint in the filtering.
US11375209B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method and apparatus for processing a video frame. The method may include: acquiring a sequence of video frames of a video; ascertaining, in the sequence of the video frames, a previous frame, and ascertaining, in the sequence of the video frames, a subsequent frame corresponding to the ascertained previous frame based on acquired number of frames from the previous frame to the subsequent frame. An update step is performed as follows: acquiring object regions detected respectively in the ascertained previous frame and the ascertained subsequent frame, and confidence levels of the object regions; fusing a confidence level of a first object region and a confidence level of a second object region, and updating the confidence level of the second object region based on the fusion result; and updating the ascertained previous frame and the ascertained subsequent frame.
US11375201B2
A method of processing a video bitstream includes determining a motion precision set based on coding information of a current block. A conversion between a video block and a coded representation of the video block is performed based on the motion precision set. The conversion corresponds to a reconstruction of the current block. In some example aspects, a motion vector difference (MVD) precision of a current block from a motion precision set is determined based on a selected motion precision set and a MVD precision index. A conversion between a video block and a coded representation of the video block using an MVD is performed based on the MVD precision. The MVD represents a difference between a predicted motion vector and an actual motion vector used during motion compensation processing.
US11375200B2
A method for controlling color component processing for a decoder includes: obtaining a coded video bitstream, the video bitstream being coded from a source having a RGB color format; decoding, signaling information of a current coding unit (CU) in a segment of a current picture from the coded video bitstream, the signaling information includes prediction information of the current CU and a control signal for processing chroma components of the current CU in a prediction residual domain; determining, according to the control signal, residual information of the current CU, comprising: determining, according to the control signal, adaptive color transform (ACT) enablement information; and when the ACT enablement information indicates that ACT is used for the current CU, obtaining the residual information by converting residuals at YCgCo domain obtained from inverse transform to residuals at RGB domain; and reconstructing the current CU based on the residual information and the prediction information.
US11375196B2
A versatile video coning method is provided for an electronic device. The method includes obtaining a video signal; partitioning the video signal into a plurality of coding blocks; generating a residual coding block from each coding block with or without transformation and quantization; splitting the residual coding block into a plurality of sub-blocks and each sub-block into a plurality of pixels; entropy coding a residual symbol level at each pixel in the residual coding block; and outputting a bitstream including entropy coded residual symbol levels. Entropy coding the residual symbol level at each pixel in the residual coding block includes context modeling of the residual symbol level of the pixel in a transform skip mode based on context information of at least three neighboring pixels of the pixel including a first pixel on the left, a second pixel on the above, and a third pixel on the left-above diagonal.
US11375192B2
Embodiments of a coding unit division decision method and device, an encoder and a storage medium are disclosed. The method includes: determining the current level of a target CU and obtaining a predicted level of the target CU according to a preset level prediction rule; determining whether the current level is smaller than the predicted level; in case of the current level smaller than the predicted level, performing division decisions on sub-CUs of the target CU to obtain first division decision results; in case of the first division decision results meeting a preset first skip condition, determining that a division decision result for the target CU is a result comprised of a division result for dividing the target CU into the four sub-CUs and the first division decision results respectively corresponding to the four sub-CUs of the target CU.
US11375190B2
A method for encoding a picture of a video sequence in a bit stream that constrains tile processing overhead is provided. The method includes computing a maximum tile rate for the video sequence, computing a maximum number of tiles for the picture based on the maximum tile rate, and encoding the picture wherein a number of tiles used to encode the picture is enforced to be no more than the maximum number of tiles.
US11375189B2
A block of video data is split using at least one splitting rule and coded using existing transform sizes through one of several embodiments. In one embodiment, the block is split using a triple tree splitting operation if said at least two rectangular sub-blocks can be achieved with two successions of split operations with at least one triple tree split. In another embodiment, the video block is split using an asymmetric binary tree splitting if said at least two rectangular sub-blocks can be achieved with two successions of split operations with at least one asymmetric binary split. In another embodiment, a video block is split using successive splits, using both of the rules of the other embodiments.
US11375186B2
An encoder includes processing circuitry and a memory coupled to the processing circuitry. Using the memory, the processing circuitry is configured to: change values of pixels in a first block and a second block to filter a boundary between the first block and the second block, using clipping such that change amounts of the respective values do not exceed respective thresholds, the pixels in the first block and the second block being arranged along a line across the boundary. The pixels include type one pixels and type two pixels different from the type one pixels. The respective thresholds for the type one pixels in the first block and the second block are selected to be symmetrical or asymmetrical with respect to the boundary based on block sizes of the first block and the second block.
US11375180B2
Video engine for generating an enhanced impression of depth based upon two-dimensioned video content
A method and an apparatus for generating a pair of images consisting of a dominant image to be displayed to a dominant eye and a nondominant image to be displayed to a nondominant eye causes a user to perceive a three-dimensioned image. The apparatus is configured to perform the method initiated by receiving the dominant image in a dominant image buffer. A skewing engine performs a skewing transformation; a rotating engine performs a rotating transformation; and a translating engine performs a translating and scaling transformation thereby to produce the nondominant image for storage in the nondominant image buffer.
US11375179B1
A system, method or compute program product for displaying a first image based on first image data in a display area of a first display device, receiving at least one camera-captured second image of an environment with the second image capturing at least a portion of the first image displayed in the display area, determining a location and orientation of the first display device relative to the camera, determining a portion of the second image that corresponds to the portion of the first image displayed in the display area, generating a third image that corresponds to the portion of the first image displayed on the first display device as viewed from a point of view of the camera from the first image data, and generating a composite image of the environment by replacing at least a portion of the second image with the third image, and displaying the composite image.
US11375176B2
When an image is projected from 3D, the viewpoint of objects in the image, relative to the camera, must be determined. Since the image itself will not have sufficient information to determine the viewpoint of the various objects in the image, techniques to estimate the viewpoint must be employed. To date, neural networks have been used to infer such viewpoint estimates on an object category basis, but must first be trained with numerous examples that have been manually created. The present disclosure provides a neural network that is trained to learn, from just a few example images, a unique viewpoint estimation network capable of inferring viewpoint estimations for a new object category.
US11375175B2
Using the techniques discussed herein, a set of images is captured by one or more array imagers (106). Each array imager includes multiple imagers configured in various manners. Each array imager captures multiple images of substantially a same scene at substantially a same time. The images captured by each array image are encoded by multiple processors (112, 114). Each processor can encode sets of images captured by a different array imager, or each processor can encode different sets of images captured by the same array imager. The encoding of the images is performed using various image-compression techniques so that the information that results from the encoding is smaller, in terms of storage size, than the uncompressed images.
US11375173B2
An image capture device having multiple image sensors having overlapping fields of view that aligns the image sensors based on images captured by image sensors. A pixel shift is identified between the images. Based on the identified pixel shift, a calibration is applied to one or more of the image sensors. To determine the pixel shift, a processor applies correlation methods including edge matching. Calibrating the image sensors may include adjusting a read window on an image sensor. The pixel shift can also be used to determine a time lag, which can be used to synchronize subsequent image captures.
US11375171B2
The present invention relates to a system and a method of preloading a multi-view video. According to an embodiment of the present invention, load of a system is reduced and client's Quality of Experience (QoE) is maximized. In addition, the sense of direction, distance, and space for virtual reality are felt in the same manner as those for the real environment, so that a virtual reality service is provided realistically, thereby further improving immersion and interest in the virtual reality service.
US11375170B2
Methods, systems, and media for rendering immersive video content with foveated meshes are provided. In some embodiments, the method comprises: receiving a video content item; determining, using a hardware processor, whether the video content item meets at least one criterion; in response to determining that the video content item meets the at least one criterion, generating, using the hardware processor, a foveated mesh in accordance with a foveation ratio parameter on which frames of the video content item are to be projected, wherein the foveated mesh has a non-uniform position map that increases pixel density in a central portion of each frame of the video content item in comparison with peripheral portions of each frame of the video content item; and storing the video content item in a file format that includes the generated foveated mesh, wherein the immersive video content is rendered by applying the video content item as a texture to the generated foveated mesh.
US11375169B2
A video conference panoramic image spreading method is provided, in which an image capturing (acquiring) step is applied by using at least one panoramic camera to capture at least one video conference panoramic picture or image and a bodily human features recognition step is applied to achieve bodily human features recognition for recognizing each of conferee photographed subjects in the video conference panoramic picture or image, and then, based on the result of bodily human features recognition, steps of searching out a dividing point for a two-dimensional (2D) spread picture, image cutting and two-dimensional picture spreading, and stitching are carried out so as to avoid, in a real-time manner, conflicts of cutting of a human body in the conference panoramic picture or image based on the dividing point for two-dimensional spreading and correct the dividing point, for acquiring a two-dimensional panoramic picture that instantaneously reflects and completely and correctly corresponds to a primitive video conference panoramic picture.
US11375164B2
One variation of a method for monitoring occupancy in a work area includes, at a sensor block: transitioning from an inactive state into an active state when an output of a motion sensor indicates motion in a work area; during a scan cycle in the active state, recording an image through an optical sensor at a time, detecting a set of humans in the image, detecting a second set of human effects in the image, predicting a second set of humans occupying but absent the work area based on the second set of human effects, and estimating a total occupancy in the work area at the time based on the set of humans and the second set of humans; and transmitting the total occupancy to a remote computer system for update of a scheduler for the work area.
US11375163B2
A vehicle inspection device includes a camera mounted to a power folding side-view mirror provided to a vehicle, the camera being configured to switch between an exterior image capture state in which an exterior of the vehicle is within an image capture range and an interior image capture state in which an interior of the vehicle is within the image capture range, while the side-view mirror performs an opening/closing operation between a completely open state and a closed state, and a vehicle processor that executes a vehicle image capture process of capturing an image of the exterior of the vehicle by the camera when the camera has entered the exterior image capture state due to an operation of the side-view mirror, and capturing an image of the interior of the vehicle by the camera when the camera has entered the interior image capture state due to an operation of the side-view mirror.
US11375152B2
Embodiments of this disclosure provide a video frame interpolation apparatus and method. The method includes calculating a bidirectional optical flow between a first frame and a second frame; an performing kernel and weight estimation according to the first frame and the second frame. An adaptive local convolutional kernel is generated by using a convolutional layer and a weight coefficient is generated by using another convolutional layer. A conversion on the first frame and the second frame is performed by using an adaptive conversion layer according to the bidirectional optical flow, the weight coefficient and the adaptive local convolutional kernel, so as to generate a conversion frame. A frame synthesis on the first frame, the second frame and the conversion frame is performed to generate an interpolation frame between the first frame and the second frame.
US11375143B1
Optical systems that provide non-uniformity correction devices that are capable of providing low radiance level sources.
US11375139B2
Systems and methods are disclosed that capture and compress frames of pixel data. In an implementation, an image sensor chip is configured to convert light into pixel data and generate compressed pixel data at a variable compression rate including applying a transform to pixel data associated with a pixel category from a plurality of pixel categories. The variable compression rate is within an available bandwidth of an output bus configured to output the compressed pixel data.
US11375134B2
A vehicle monitoring system includes a lamp unit that includes a first light source configured to emit light that forms a first light distribution area on a virtual vertical screen disposed at a predetermined distance from a vehicle, and a second light source configured to emit light that forms a second light distribution area having a luminance higher than that of the first light distribution area on the virtual vertical screen, and forms a predetermined light distribution pattern on the virtual vertical screen by the first light distribution area and the second light distribution area; a visible light camera that captures a periphery of the vehicle; and a controller configured to control at least one of an emission timing of the second light source or an image capturing timing of the visible light camera.
US11375116B2
Stabilizing an image capture device includes stabilizing the image capture device as the image capture device captures images; responsive to detecting an exceptional activity, stopping the stabilizing of the image capture device; and after the exceptional activity is completed, stabilizing the image capture device again. An image stabilization device for stabilizing an imaging device includes a processor that is configured to set at least one of a pitch angle or a roll angle of the image stabilization device to respective constant values and allow a yaw angle of the image stabilization device to vary; while the yaw angle is less than a threshold angle, maintain the yaw angle at a constant relative to a reference platform; when the yaw angle reaches the threshold angle, stop keeping the yaw angle relative to a reference platform constant; and set the yaw angle to follow a direction of motion of the reference platform.
US11375109B2
A method for maintaining peak intensity frames is provided. The method includes receiving a plurality of frames, each of which has an associated frame intensity, from a camera sensor; selecting a preview frame and a previous preview frame from among the plurality of frames; performing a coarse phase detection based on a frame intensity of the previous preview frame and the preview frame to identify a trend of frame intensity; monitoring a plurality of transitional preview frames after the preview frame; detecting at least one transitional frame having a frame intensity less than a previous transitional frame; and selecting a next transitional frame as a succeeding preview frame after the preview frame based on a frame intensity of the at least one transitional frame.
US11375105B2
Provided are a camera capable of preventing an erroneous operation with a compact configuration and has high operability, a setting method of the camera, and a setting program of the camera. A change in a setting value by the operation dial is switched between valid and invalid, and an operation by the operation dial becomes possible only in a case where the change in the setting value is valid. A setting value of an item to be set by the operation dial is displayed on a dial display provided on the operation dial.
US11375102B2
A camera for detecting an object moved through a detection zone is provided that has an image sensor for recording image data, a reception optics having a focus adjustment unit for setting a focal position, a distance sensor for measuring a distance value from the object, and a control and evaluation unit connected to the distance sensor and the focus adjustment unit to set a focal position in dependence on the distance value, and to trigger a recording of image data at a focal position at which there is a focus deviation from a focal position that is ideal in accordance with the measured distance value, with the focus deviation remaining small enough for a required image definition of the image data.
US11375099B2
A lens barrel of the invention includes: an imaging optical system including a focus adjustment lens; a driver that drives the focus adjustment lens in a direction of an optical axis; a transceiver that transmits and receives a signal to and from a camera body; and a controller that controls the transceiver to repeatedly transmit a first image plane transfer coefficient which is determined in correspondence with a position of the focus adjustment lens included in the imaging optical system and a second image plane transfer coefficient which does not depend on the position of the focus adjustment lens to the camera body at a predetermined interval, and, when the controller repeatedly transmits the second image plane transfer coefficient to the camera body, the controller varies the second image plane transfer coefficient over time.
US11375097B2
A lens control method is applied to a camera module with an OIS motor. The module includes a lens, an OIS motor, an OIS motor driver module, and an imaging sensor. The method includes: obtaining a first speed and a first direction of a to-be-photographed object in a moving process, an object distance between the to-be-photographed object and the lens, and an image distance between the lens and the imaging sensor; calculating a second speed and a second direction based on the first speed, the first direction, the object distance, and the image distance; and sending a control signal to the OIS motor driver module, so that the OIS motor driver module drives the OIS motor to control the lens to move at the second speed and in the second direction.
US11375094B2
A camera including a lens barrel, lens elements, and an image sensor. The lens barrel includes a first subsection, a second subsection, and a spacer located between the first subsection and the second subsection. The lens elements are located in the first subsection and other lens elements located in the second subsection. The image sensor is aligned along an optical axis that extends through the first subsection and the second subsection of the lens barrel. The first subsection and the second subsection are separate pieces that are in communication by the spacer being sandwiched between the first subsection and the second subsection.
US11375082B2
There are provided a printing system, a method of generating a halftone processing rule, a method of acquiring a characteristic parameter, image processing device and method, a halftone processing rule, a halftone image, a method of manufacturing a printed material, an ink jet printing system, and a program which are capable of reducing an operation load of a user and acquiring a halftone processing rule appropriate for the printing system. A characteristic parameter acquisition chart including a pattern for acquiring characteristic parameters related to characteristics of the printing system is output, and the output characteristic parameter acquisition chart is read by image reading means. The characteristic parameters are acquired by analyzing the read image of the characteristic parameter acquisition chart, and halftone processing rules that define the processing contents of halftone processes used in the printing system are generated based on the acquired characteristic parameters.
US11375074B2
An image forming apparatus includes a mounting table on which an object whose image is to be scanned is mounted; an image forming section that forms an image, which includes a first image for measuring a relative position with respect to an end portion of a paper, on a first side of the paper; an image scanning section that scans the image mounted on the mounting table; and a position correction section that corrects a relative position of an image, which is formed on the paper, with respect to the paper based on a result of scanning performed by the image scanning section, in which in a case where the image scanning section scans the end portion of the paper and the image formed on the first side of the paper in a state in which the first side of the paper on which the first image is formed faces the mounting table, the end portion of the paper is mounted on the mounting table at a position separated from an end portion of the mounting table, and, further, the paper is covered with a cover paper, and the image forming section forms, on the first side of the paper, a third image that uses, as an alignment object, a second image for alignment formed on a side of the cover paper opposite to a side on which the cover paper is in contact with the paper while a part of the paper is mounted in a state of protruding from the mounting table and a first edge of the cover paper.
US11375059B2
A display method, a display device, a terminal device, and a storage medium are provided. The display method includes: extracting a file attribute of a file to be displayed; automatically setting, according to the file attribute of the file to be displayed, a pixel density of a display screen for displaying the file by searching the pixel density corresponding to the file attribute of the file from a pre-stored pixel density model; and displaying the file according to the pixel density.
US11375056B2
A magnetically configurable strap accessory for a mobile communications device and method of using the same is disclosed. The magnetically configurable strap accessory includes a strap and a base. The strap includes at least one strap magnet. The base includes at least one base magnet and a sleeve disposed at a first end of the base into which a portion of the strap can be retracted when the accessory is in a closed position and from which a portion of the strap can be extended when the accessory is in an open position. In the closed position, the strap is held in a substantially flat position against the base by way of magnetic attraction between at least one of the strap magnets and at least one of the first base magnets. In an open position, the strap is held in a substantially arched position with respect to the base hereby forming a loop between the base and the strap.
US11375051B2
According to a method for encapsulating or decapsulating a general data stream, one or more data sections are obtained by encapsulating data of a transport object based on a format of the general data stream. The data section includes a data section head and a data section payload. The data section head includes a basic section head and an extension section head or includes the basic section head only. The basic section head includes a transport object identity, a data section length, a data section payload encapsulation mode and an extension section head flag. The encapsulation mode uses a variable-length packet encapsulation mode, a fixed-length packet encapsulation mode or a stream encapsulation mode. The flag indicates whether there is the extension section head and the extension section head includes at least one extended parameter. The one or more data sections are concatenated to obtain and transmit the general data stream.
US11375049B2
To allow the multiple communication endpoints that support different protocols to communicate, a protocol specific message (e.g., a SIP INVITE message) is converted to a protocol neutral message and sent to a protocol neutral bus. The bus delivers this message to a session processing engine, which then applies one or more rules to the protocol neutral request for the first communication session message. The rules are used to apply communication application logic to the first communication session message, then generate a first offer for a communication session message. This message is published to the protocol neutral bus. One or more edge servers supporting one or more protocols may receive that first offer message. The protocol neutral message is converted, by each edge server recipient of that message, to a protocol specific message (e.g., in a different protocol) and is then sent to one or more communication endpoints.
US11375039B2
A needs-matching navigator system and social network facilitator appurtenances including, for a large user plurality, software driven modules residing on electronic communications enabled platforms and devices. Beyond altruistically enhancing flourishing life horizons and life quality metrics, the modules facilitate (A) knowing respective user bias, profile, perspective, wellbeing orientation, and privacy preference; (B) understanding user needs description and wellbeing criteria; (C) finding answer and solutions to the needs by user biased projecting the description onto electronically stored knowledge-bases; (D) matching the user to the answers and solutions; and preferably (E) creating an instant electronic communications interactive community for the respective user, by inverse projecting large subsets of the answers and solutions back onto the large plurality of users; according to said users' profiles and needs descriptions. This navigable community may be classified into spontaneous castes; having various degrees of relevant understanding, expertise, experience, and/or curiosity about these answer and/or solution projections.
US11375033B1
An intermediary device configured for request and response traffic of an application detects an unadvertised network parameter setting of an implementation node of the application. Based on the detected setting, the intermediary device computes a new value for a networking parameter of the intermediary device, and sets the parameter to the new value.
US11375029B2
A method for distributed service management includes; running, by client nodes and service provider nodes, respective instances of a distributed service management unit, wherein the distributed service management unit comprises a distributed hash set table (DHST); providing, by the distributed service management unit, an application programming interface (API), wherein all connections between a client node and a service provider node are tunneled through the API; registering, by a service provider, a service on a network node; storing, by the registering network node, an endpoint of the service in a dataset of the DHST with a key corresponding to the service; requesting, by the client node, the service; and returning, by the distributed service management unit, all endpoints stored in the DHST with the key corresponding to the service.
US11375012B2
A method of determining feature usage on a set of storage systems deployed across multiple customer sites includes defining metrics related to the features of interest, and pushing the defined metrics to an AIM (Autonomous Infrastructure Module) of an operating system of each storage system. The AIM on each storage system collects data associated with the metrics from the operating system on the storage system. The collected data is aggregated and formatted by the AIM and then used to create an autonomous field telemetry report. Autonomous field telemetry reports are periodically forwarded on a communication network to an analytics engine. The analytics engine parses each autonomous field telemetry report to extract usage information related to the features of interest, loads the parsed data to PostgreSQL staging and historical databases, and uses the parsed data alone or in combination with the historical data to create analytics and visualizations of the analytics.
US11375008B2
An aspect of the present disclosure facilitates consumption of data services provisioned in cloud infrastructures. In one embodiment, a name server maintains a node-map data reflecting the corresponding set of nodes (in cloud infrastructures) currently hosting each of multiple data services. A consumer system (e.g. an end user system or another node in the cloud infrastructure) seeking to access a desired data service, sends to the name server a resolution request containing an identifier of the desired data service. The consumer system receives from the name server, identifiers of a set of nodes currently hosting the desired data service and then accesses the desired data service through at least one of the set of nodes.
US11375007B2
A control apparatus configured to allocate a virtual network for providing a network service on a physical network includes: acquisition means for acquiring information indicating an outside temperature of each node included in the physical network, physical resource information of the physical network, information indicating a predicted traffic amount of the physical network, and an allocation request for the virtual network; and calculation means for calculating an optimal allocation of the virtual network using a target function defined using a unit cost defined for each region and for each time slot and a power consumption model taking into consideration the outside temperature and a load rate calculated based on the predicted traffic amount, and a restrictive condition obtained based on the physical resource information and the allocation request.
US11375006B1
Cloud services are often implemented as instances of applications having one or more components running on the nodes (e.g., host computers or servers) of a data center. Network services are thereby provided to a workload that uses the network resources of network interface devices (e.g., a NIC, switch, or router). The workload is a first instance of an application. The network interface devices can produce resource usage measurements of usage metrics that quantify usage of the network resources by the workload. The resource measurements can be used to produce an application network profile of the application. The application network profile can be used to select at least one of a plurality of nodes on which a second instance of the application is launched.
US11375005B1
A software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) environment that leverages network virtualization management deployment is provided. Edge security services managed by the network virtualization management deployment are made available in the SD-WAN environment. Cloud gateways forward SD-WAN traffic to managed service nodes to apply security services. Network traffic is encapsulated with corresponding metadata to ensure that services can be performed according to the desired policy. Point-to-point tunnels are established between cloud gateways and the managed service nodes to transport the metadata to the managed service nodes using an overlay logical network. Virtual network identifiers (VNIs) in the metadata are used by the managed service nodes to identify tenants/policies. A managed service node receiving a packet uses provider service routers (T0-SR) and tenant service routers (T1-SRs) based on the VNI to apply the prescribed services for the tenant, and the resulting traffic is returned to the cloud gateway that originated the traffic.
US11375002B2
The present disclosure relates to an application version switching method comprising: creating storage paths for at least two versions of an application; creating a first link file for a currently used version of the application, wherein the first link file points to a storage path for the currently used version of the application; acquiring an application version switching instruction; and if a storage path for a target switching version of the application exists, deleting the first link file, and creating a second link file for the target switching version of the application, wherein the second link file points to the storage path for the target switching version of the application. The present disclosure also relates to an application version switching apparatus, an electronic device and a storage medium.
US11374998B1
A processing system may determine, during a downloading of a first video chunk associated with a first time block of a video, a risk of stall condition, the first video chunk encoded at a first bitrate of a plurality of available bitrates, determine that a number of a received first plurality of frames of the first video chunk exceeds a threshold, transmit a request for a next video chunk associated with a next time block of the video and an indication to a source device to stop transmitting additional frames of the first video chunk, receive a second plurality of frames of the first video chunk from the source device that were transmitted prior to the source device receiving the indication, receive frames of the next video chunk, and play the first and second plurality of frames of the first video chunk, and the frames of the next video chunk.
US11374995B2
Techniques for processing a multimedia file in real-time are described herein. The disclosed techniques include receiving a plurality of fragments of a multimedia file by a data stream conversion service, wherein the data stream conversion service receives a first fragment containing metadata of the multimedia file and then receives other fragments of the multimedia file in a predetermined order; sending a notification message to a message queue by the data stream conversion service in response to receiving the first fragment, wherein the notification message includes the metadata of the multimedia file and a corresponding Hyper Text Transfer Protocol (HTTP) interface address; obtaining the notification message from the message queue by an encoding and decoding service; and processing the other fragments of the multimedia file based at least in part on the notification message by the encoding and decoding service.
US11374988B1
Systems that execute controlled user interface transitions for private breakout communication sessions are described herein. A system provides a user interface that gives participants of a communication session a feeling that they are in the same room. When a select group of the participants break out into a private communication session, the system can transition from a first user interface arrangement showing all meeting participants to a second user interface arrangement that only shows the select group of the participants. The system configures the second user interface arrangement to maintain the position of the select group of the participants while removing the participants who are not selected to participate in the private communication session. By maintaining the position of the participants of the private communication session, the system can help participants to maintain a cognitive stream of nonverbal social cues that were provided in the original user interface arrangement.
US11374984B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, providing a request associated with a call session to a server, wherein the request includes capability information associated with user equipment. A codec is identified according to the capability information to obtain an identified codec, which facilitates media service to the user equipment. The media service is accessed from a media resource function, which in turn, is accessed by the server responsive to the identified codec. An operable resource identifier is identified responsive to a search of a codec table, wherein the server accesses the operable resource identifier associated with the media resource function from a domain name server responsive to the resource identifier not being available at the codec table. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US11374982B1
A method and system for determining reachability properties of security objects are provided. The method includes accessing a security graph, wherein the security graph lists all security objects and their connections in a cloud environment of an organization; identifying a plurality of network paths in the cloud environment, wherein each network path includes at least two security objects accessible in the cloud environment; for each of the plurality of identified network paths, iteratively analyzing each security object in a respective network path to determine its reachability properties, wherein the reachability properties of a security object as a minimal set of reachable properties of all other security objects in the respective network path; and populating the security graph with the determined reachability properties of each security object.
US11374980B1
A plurality of policies to be enforced in a network environment via a plurality of devices are determined. A topology of the plurality of devices within the network environment is also determined. For each policy of the plurality of policies, a device of the plurality of devices is selected as the location at which to enforce the policy of the plurality of policies. Selecting the device for each policy of the plurality of policies includes correlating the policy of the plurality of policies with another of the plurality of policies and correlating the policy of the plurality of policies with the topology.
US11374976B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide systems and methods for authentication of users and authorization of user actions, and distribution or transfer of resources based on multi-channel input via a user device or one or more auxiliary user devices, such as smart home devices. The system is further configured to perform one or more user activities, in an integrated manner, within a single interface of the user device, without requiring the user to operate disparate applications. Furthermore, the system is configured to receive user input through multiple communication channels such as a textual communication channel and an audio communication channel and store unique user patterns to form an authentication baseline for subsequent user communications.
US11374971B2
A system accesses information regarding a topology of an arrangement of resources, where one of the resources is a multi-tiered resource having a plurality of layers. Based on the information regarding the topology of the arrangement of resources, the system selects one or more layers of the multi-tiered resource for deployment of a deception server that has a reduced security mechanism to act as a decoy to attract attackers of the system. The system deploys the deception server at the selected one or more layers of the multi-tiered resource.
US11374958B2
A method provides an intermediate mitigation of a vulnerability in a particular computer system. One or more processors receive a description of a vulnerability of a computer system to a malicious attack. The processor(s) perform an NLP analysis of the description of the vulnerability in order to extract risk information related to the vulnerability, where the risk information includes an identity of a type of vulnerable computer system resource in the computer system. The processor(s) match the vulnerable computer system resource to a computer system resource in a particular computer system, and perform an intermediate mitigation action that reduces a functionality of the computer system resource in the particular computer system until a solution is implemented that both restores the functionality of the computer system resource in the particular computer system and mitigates the vulnerability of the particular computer system to the malicious attack.
US11374956B2
A computer-implemented method including scanning, by one or more processors, data that is maintained on one or more social networks, identifying, one or more social entities associated with the scanned data, determining a risk score for each of the one or more social entities, analyzing the scanned data using one or more machine learning techniques, assigning a rating to each of the one or more social entities based on the determined risk score and the analyzed data, and determining, based on the rating assigned to at least one of the one or more social entities that the at least one social entity is a security risk.
US11374947B2
The present invention comprises a novel system and method to detect and estimate the time-frequency span of wireless signals present in a wideband RF spectrum. In preferred embodiments, the Faster RCNN deep learning architecture is used to detect the presence of wireless transmitters from the spectrogram images plotted by searching for rectangular shapes of any size, then localize the time and frequency information from the output of the FRCNN deep learning architecture.
US11374946B2
Detection of malicious files is disclosed. A set comprising one or more sample classification models is stored on a networked device. N-gram analysis is performed on a sequence of received packets associated with a received file. Performing the n-gram analysis includes using at least one stored sample classification model. A determination is made that the received file is malicious based at least in part on the n-gram analysis of the sequence of received packets. In response to determining that the file is malicious, propagation of the received file is prevented.
US11374942B2
In a verification terminal for verifying properness of an information item composed of a data string, a storage unit stores an own-terminal information item comprised of a data string, and a verification value generation unit generates a hash value of the own-terminal information item stored in the storage unit as an own-terminal hash value. A verification value acquisition unit communicates with at least one other verification terminal that should store an other-terminal information item t to thereby acquire a hash value of the other-terminal information item from the at least one other verification terminal as an other-terminal hash value. The other-terminal information item is conditioned to be identical to the own-terminal information item. A verification execution unit verifies properness of the own-terminal information item in accordance with whether the own-terminal hash value is consistent with the other-terminal hash value.
US11374941B2
Integrity protection is activated for user plane data transferred between a network node and a terminal device of the cellular communications network. The activation can be initiated by the terminal device sending a request message to a second network node. Thus, a UE, such as a Cellular IoT UE, and a network node such as a SGSN are able to use LLC layer integrity protection for both control plane and user plane data.
US11374937B2
Techniques are disclosed relating to user authentication. In some embodiments, a first computing device receives, from a second computing device, a request for a user credential to be input into an authentication prompt associated with the second device. The first computing device determines a proximity associated with the second computing device based on a received wireless location beacon and, based on the request and the determined proximity, presents a selection prompt asking a user of the first computing device to select a user credential stored in the first computing device. The first computing device then provides the selected user credential to the second computing device to input into the authentication prompt. In some embodiments, the first computing device receives the wireless location beacon from a remote controller of the second computing device and determines a proximity based on a signal strength associated with the received location beacon.
US11374936B2
A process for transferring security access permissions between in-camera users includes capturing, at an electronic computing device via an image capture device, an image of two or more in-camera users. A first in-camera user and a second in-camera user are identified n the image. An input gesture identifying the first in-camera user as a source of security access permissions and the second in-camera user as a destination of security access permissions is detected. Responsively, the electronic computing device causes a first particular security access permission associated with the first in-camera user to be applied to and modify a current set of security access permissions associated with the second in-camera user.
US11374934B2
A method for accessing cloud resources via a local application development environment on a computing device. The method includes invoking an access management client at the computing device; obtaining an account identifier associated with a user account and communicating the account identifier to an identity platform; receiving an authentication message from the identity platform in response to the identity platform validating the account identifier, the authentication message comprising a role identifier; communicating the authentication message to the cloud platform; receiving security credentials associated with the role identifier from the cloud platform in response to the cloud platform validating the authentication message and the associated role identifier; setting a variable in the local development environment based on the received security credentials for use by the local development environment to request access to one or more resources maintained by the cloud platform.
US11374927B1
A login system allows users to access computer systems without using a password. The passwordless system and method can use other information to securely and reliably identify true authorized system users. The identity of a user can be associated with their mobile device. The login can be based upon a minimal amount of information such as a name and a phone number which can be stored as an identification record for each of the users in a database.
US11374913B2
If authentication information used for communication has not been determined in a case where authentication is required in communication with a network device, a communication unit of a management system attempts the authentication processing with the network device by using information for one piece each in order from among shared authentication information that has been managed. If the authentication has succeeded, a storage unit stores the authentication information used in the authentication in association with the network device. If the authentication information to be used for the communication has been stored in a case where the authentication is required in communication with the network device, the communication unit performs communication using the stored authentication information without performing an attempt.
US11374905B2
Enterprise users' mobile devices typically access the Internet without being protected by the enterprise's network security policy, which exposes the enterprise network to Internet-mediated attack by malicious actors. This is because the conventional approach to protecting the mobile devices and associated enterprise network is to tunnel all of the devices' Internet communications to the enterprise network, which is very inefficient since typically only a very small percentage of Internet communications originating from an enterprise's mobile devices are communicating with Internet hosts that are associated with threats. In the present disclosure, the mobile device efficiently identifies which communications are associated with Internet threats, and tunnels only such identified traffic to the enterprise network, where actions may be taken to protect the enterprise network.
US11374903B1
The disclosed computer-implemented method for managing devices may include (i) intercepting outbound network traffic that is directed to an original target network destination, and (ii) redirecting the outbound network traffic to a virtual computing node within a publicly available on-demand cloud computing platform for the virtual computing node to apply a management policy to the outbound network traffic prior to the outbound network traffic arriving at the original target network destination, where a management service directs the performance of both configuring the computing device to redirect the outbound network traffic to the virtual computing node within the publicly available on-demand cloud computing platform and configuring the virtual computing node within the publicly available on-demand cloud computing platform to apply the management policy. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
US11374898B1
In one aspect, a first device may include at least one processor and storage accessible to the at least one processor. The storage may include instructions executable by the at least one processor to receive, from a second device, a partial hash of a domain name. The instructions may also be executable to use the partial hash and a probabilistic data structure to identify an Internet protocol (IP) address associated with the domain name. Responsive to identifying the IP address, the instructions may be executable to transmit the IP address to the second device.
US11374894B2
Confusion reduction in an online social network. A method identifies elements in social media message content, determines, based on the identified elements, a plurality of candidate audiences to which the social media message content is potentially targeted, indicates, to a user, the plurality of candidate audiences and suggested additional elements to apply to the social media message content to tailor the social media message content to a target audience of the plurality of candidate audiences, and modifies the social media message content with one or more additional elements of the suggested additional elements, the modifying adding the one or more additional elements to the social media message content and targeting the social media message content to the target audience.
US11374886B2
A method, to manage an event invitation in a computer network environment, comprises presenting, using one or more processors, an event invitation creation indicium to a first user on a user interface of a computing device. Responsive to user selection of the event invitation creation indicium, an event creation interface is presented to receive event details. Responsive to receipt of the event details, an event invitation message is generated for communication, via a messaging system, by the first user to a second user of the messaging system, the event invitation message including a join indicium that is user-selectable to join a group chat related to the event. Responsive to a message send input from the first user, the event invitation message is sent, via the messaging system, from the first user to the second user. A request is received, from the second user, a request to join the group chat related to the event. A group chat message thread, associated with an event group including at least the first user and the second user, is then stored within the messaging system.
US11374878B2
The present disclosure provides a method and a device for data processing. The method includes acquiring at least two pathways of communication messages, where the at least two pathways of communication messages are messages intercepted in a bypass manner from messages transmitted by a service processing system to an external system; and the service processing system does not execute logic of record storage; processing the at least two pathways of communication messages, and determining communication messages to-be-stored from the at least two pathways of communication messages processed; and according to the at least two pathways of communication messages, storing the communication messages to-be-stored in a database.
US11374874B2
An access control unit includes packet buffers provided for each of users, a packet identification unit that stores received packets in a corresponding packet buffer, a scheduling unit that decides a packet buffer to be the object of transfer, a transfer control unit that, in a case that updating of reference data can be performed at an application processing circuit, and also the packet buffer decided by the scheduling unit is different from the current packet buffer that is the object of transfer, updates to reference data corresponding to the packet buffer decided by the scheduling unit, and a buffer selection unit that connects the packet buffers decided to be the object of transfer to the packet transfer unit when updating of reference data is completed.
US11374871B2
System and method for dynamic bandwidth adjustments for cellular interfaces in a network environment
Techniques for interface bandwidth management. A wired interface bandwidth is configured for a wired interface of a router. A cellular interface bandwidth is configured for a cellular interface of cellular interfaces of the router. The cellular interface bandwidth includes an uplink bandwidth. One or more instantaneous uplink throughput values for the cellular interface are determined based on one or more uplink throughput per resource block values for the cellular interface. A predicted average uplink throughput for the cellular interface is determined based on the one or more instantaneous uplink throughput values. The uplink bandwidth is dynamically adjusted based on the predicted average uplink throughput determined for the cellular interface of the router.
US11374865B2
A general load balancing value for a packet received by a network device is generated based at least in part on information in a header of the packet. The packet is directed to a network interface group comprising a set of network interfaces via which the packet can be transmitted towards a destination of the packet. A group-specific load balancing value for the packet is then determined based on group-specific load balancing configuration corresponding to the network interface group and is used to select a network interface, from among the set of network interfaces, and the packet is transmitted towards the destination of the packet via the selected network interface. The group-specific load balancing configuration corresponding to the network interface group is subsequently reconfigured to redistribute selection of network interfaces, among the set of network interfaces, for transmission of packets subsequently directed to the network interface group.
US11374863B2
A system and method are disclosed for using segment routing (SR) in native IP networks. The method involves receiving a packet. The packet is an IP packet and includes an IP header. The method also involves updating the packet. Updating the packet involves writing information, including a segment routing segment identifier, to the destination address of the packet.
US11374858B2
Methods and system for directing traffic flows to a fast data path or a slow data path are disclosed. Parsers can produce packet header vectors (PHVs) for use in match-action units. The PHVs are also used to generate feature vectors for the traffic flows. A flow training engine produces a classification model. Feature vectors input to the classification model result in output predictions predicting if a traffic flow will be long lived or short lived. The classification models are used by network appliances to install traffic flows into fast data paths or the slow data paths based on the predictions.
US11374856B1
System and method for performing synchronization of maximum transmission unit with router redundancy
One embodiment can provide a method and system for synchronizing MTU in a WAN edge with router redundancy. During operation, the system may determine a set of interfaces associated with a network device among a plurality of network devices coupled via inter-switch links. The system can determine a set of layer-3 MTU values corresponding to the set of network interfaces and can determine a highest layer-3 MTU value based on the set of determined layer-3 MTU values. The system can synchronize, via the inter-switch links, the highest layer-3 MTU value, resulting in a set of highest layer-3 MTU values at the network device. The system can determine, based on the set of highest layer-3 MTU values, a global highest layer-3 MTU value. The system can derive a layer-2 MTU value based on the global highest layer-3 MTU value and can configure a respective inter-switch link with the layer-2 MTU value.
US11374845B2
Disclosed is a system and method for optimization of data transfer to a software service. In exemplary embodiments, a computer-implemented method for determining a transit appliance for data traffic to a software service through one or more interconnected networks comprising a plurality of network appliances, comprises determining performance metrics for each of the plurality of network appliances to at least one IP address associated with the software service, and selecting a transit appliance for data transfer to the IP address, the selected transit appliance based at least in part on the performance metrics.
US11374844B2
A network appliance having a control plane and a data plane can process substantially every input packet at wire speed in a programmable packet processing pipeline of the data plane. Sensors, which can be processes implemented within the pipeline, can measure parameters of the network traffic flows and of the network appliance in accordance with monitoring policies. Reporting policies can be triggered when any one of many criteria are met by the parameters. The reporting policy can result in a report being sent to an outside recipient. Alternatively, the reporting policy can result in the network appliance implementing additional monitoring or reporting policies.
US11374843B2
A method of measuring a network speed, a computing device, and a computer-program product are provided. The method includes: obtaining a downloading duration and a downloading byte count of each of N consecutive video segments upon receiving a network speed measurement command during downloading video content, wherein the video content comprises multiple video segments; calculating out a total downloading duration and a total downloading byte count of the N video segments according to the downloading duration and the downloading byte count of each of the N video segments; and calculating out a current network speed according to the total downloading duration and the total downloading byte count.
US11374832B2
Various examples are described for the integration and customization of third-party applications and services with computing infrastructure of a data center. One or more computing devices can maintain a remote computing environment for an enterprise that provides at least one remote computing service on behalf of the enterprise. A portal can be provided that is configured to, from an entity not associated with the remote computing environment, receive a specification of information associated with one of a plurality of third-party services and compatibility criteria of the one of the third-party services. Existing infrastructure used by the remote computing environment in providing the at least one remote computing service is identified. Third-party services that are compatible with the existing infrastructure is identified and presented in a console in association with operation of the remote computing environment.
US11374831B2
A method for operating a multi-access edge computing (MEC) system in which tenant applications are provided by MEC tenants for deployment on MEC hosts of the MEC system. The method includes receiving, from each of a plurality of MEC tenants, an application package, the application package including application software be installed at one or more of the MEC hosts of the MEC system, the application software corresponding to a tenant application of the tenant applications. The method further includes assigning, to each of the plurality of MEC tenants, a set of at least one application management privilege, and receiving application operation requests issued by MEC tenants. The application operation requests specify operations to be performed for the tenant applications. The method additionally includes pre-validating, using the sets of at least one application management privilege assigned to the plurality of MEC tenants, the application operation requests.
US11374822B2
Examples disclosed herein relate to a method comprising transmitting a first BLUETOOTH communication to a mobile device. The method may include transmitting a second BLUETOOTH communication including a first custom advertisement, a first custom service including a local port for establishing a VSF connection in the network topology including the master network switch, a neighbor port of another switch in the network topology and a MAC address of the another switch and a second custom service including a VSF link interface and a VSF member ID. The method may include receiving a first configuration of the master network switch and creating a second configuration for the network topology using the BLUETOOTH communication from the network switch and the first configuration of the master network switch. The method may also include transmitting the second configuration and establishing a VSF link between the master network switch and the member network switch.
US11374815B2
A network configuration diagram generate method executed by a computer, the method includes identifying, in a predetermined system in which a plurality of virtual machines are used, a location where each of the plurality of virtual machines is located and a communication destination with which each of the plurality of virtual machines communicates; determining, for each change in a configuration of the predetermined system, a relationship of a communication distance between the plurality of virtual machines by using the location and the communication destination, the configuration indicating a relationship of the plurality of virtual machines; extracting a difference between the relationship of the communication distance before the configuration change and the relationship of the communication distance after the configuration change; and generating a network configuration diagram in which the extracted difference is indicated.
US11374812B2
A system and method for observing and controlling a programmable network via higher layer attributes is disclosed. According to one embodiment, the system includes one or more collectors and a remote network manager. The one or more collectors are configured to receive network traffic data from a plurality of network elements in the network. The remote network manager is configured to connect to the one or more collectors over the Internet via a network interface. The one or more collectors extract metadata from the network traffic data and send the metadata to the network manager.
US11374811B2
Methods, apparatus, and processor-readable storage media for automatically determining supported capabilities in server hardware devices are provided herein. An example computer-implemented method includes identifying multiple hardware devices associated with at least one server; determining one or more capabilities supported by at least a portion of the multiple identified hardware devices by processing data related to the at least one server and one or more of the multiple identified hardware devices; comparing the one or more determined capabilities supported by at least a portion of the multiple identified hardware devices to one or more parameters of a user-designated server configuration; and performing at least one automated action based at least in part on comparing the one or more determined capabilities supported by at least a portion of the multiple identified hardware devices to the one or more parameters of the user-designated server configuration.
US11374808B2
A machine vision device is provided including a camera, a processor, and a device memory including computer program code stored thereon. The computer program code is configured, when executed by the processor, to receive an image, from the camera, including at least one readable digital label associated with communication equipment, determine if an anchor label is present in the image, receive equipment information based on the anchor label and generate a search matrix based on the equipment information and the anchor label The search matrix includes one or more search matrix locations of assets associated with the communication equipment.
US11374804B2
A method of determining reserved tones to be used for reduction of a peak to average power ratio (PAPR) of a signal includes: randomly selecting carrier indices for the reserved tones and generating a kernel signal based on the randomly selected carrier indices for the reserved tones; calculating a comparison reference average value of the kernel signal, comparing the calculated comparison reference average value with a prestored comparison reference average value, and preliminarily determining carrier indices of the reserved tones based on the comparison; re-arranging an order of the preliminarily determined carrier indices of the reserved tones; calculating comparison reference average values of kernel signals generated by changing each of the re-arranged carrier indices of the reserved tones, and finally determining carrier indices of the reserved tones which generate a kernel signal having the smallest comparison reference average value among the comparison reference average values as indices of the reserved tones.
US11374802B2
Introduced are a data transmission method, apparatus and device based on a modulation signal and a storage medium. The method includes steps as follows: calculating a first amplitude-modulated sine wave signal and a second amplitude-modulated sine wave signal with each preset frequency individually; based on the first amplitude-modulated sine wave signal and the second amplitude-modulated sine wave signal with the each preset frequency and according to a preset mapping rule, mapping a sequence of data bits to be sent into a signal sequence; and processing the signal sequence to generate a transmittable radio-frequency signal, and sending the transmittable radio-frequency signal to a receiving end.
US11374801B2
A pair of ground planes arranged in parallel, a dielectric medium disposed in between the pair of ground planes, and a set of at least four signal conductors disposed in the dielectric medium, the set of at least four signal conductors having (i) a first pair of signal conductors arranged proximate to a first ground plane of the pair of ground planes and (ii) a second pair of signal conductors arranged proximate to a second ground plane of the pair of ground planes, each signal conductor of the set of at least four signal conductors configured to carry a respective signal corresponding to a symbol of a codeword of a vector signaling code.
US11374800B1
Methods and systems are described for asynchronously measuring an equalized information signal to obtain amplitude information, modifying frequency dependent parameters of a continuous-time linear equalization (CTLE) component of the signal path, determining a correlation between CTLE parameters and signal amplitude, and adjusting, responsive to the correlation, a continuous-time linear equalization (CTLE) code of a CTLE to adjust equalization of the equalized information signal.
US11374792B2
Techniques for utilising multiple network interfaces for a cloud shell are provided. The techniques include receiving, by a computer system, a command to execute an operation by the computer system, the command being received from a router via a primary virtual network interface card (vNIC). The computer system may execute the operation, generating an output of the operation. The techniques also include transmitting, by the computer system, a message comprising the output of the operation to a shell subnet via a secondary vNIC, the secondary vNIC being configured for unidirectional transmission from the computer system to the shell subnet. The shell subnet may be configured to transmit the output of the operation to an external network via a network gateway.
US11374783B2
Systems and Methods for Differential Pressure Determination and Control are disclosed. In one aspect, embodiments of the present disclosure include a system, which able to obtain pressure measurements. The system can include, a sensor and a processor coupled to the sensor. A further embodiment includes memory coupled to the processor where the memory has stored thereon instructions, which when executed by the processor, cause the processor to: determine, a local set of pressure measurements from the sensor and/or compare the local set of pressure measurements with an external set of pressure measurements.
US11374780B1
Systems and methods for usage-based device naming and grouping are disclosed. For example, trigger events that indicate when a device should be renamed, added to a device group, and/or added to a routine may be determined. Usage data representing usage of the device may be received and utilized to determine if a trigger event occurs. When a trigger event occurs, a recommendation for renaming, grouping, etc. may be determined and sent to a user device. Upon acceptance of the recommendation, the device may be renamed, grouped, and/or added to a routine.
US11374775B2
A temperature sensing security token may include a first resistor having a first side connected to a voltage source, a second resistor having a first side connected to the voltage source, an analog comparator having a first input connected to a second side of the first resistor and a second input connected to a second side of the second resistor and an output that represents at least one bit of a key, and an analog to digital converter having an input connected to the second side of the first resistor wherein an output of said analog to digital converter is related to temperature by a temperature coefficient of resistivity of the first resistor. The first resistor and the second resistor may have the same nominal resistance. The first resistor, the second resistor and the analog to digital comparator may be encased in the same package. The package may be configured to inhibit inspection and discovery of components contained in said package. A processor may be connected to a key register and to a temperature table wherein said processor may be configured to store the key bits in the key register and is configured to store data corresponding to temperature. The processor may be configured to store a time stamp associated with an entry in the temperature table. A communications interface may be connected to the processor.
US11374774B2
An apparatus includes a first feed-forward PUF, a second feed-forward PUF and an exclusive-or circuit configured to perform an exclusive-or operation of an output of the first feed-forward PUF and an output of the second feed-forward PUF.
US11374759B2
A method for a user to access resources within a secure network without inputting a username or password is presented and claimed where the method comprises inputting, by the user, login credentials into an authentication service and obtaining from the authentication service at least one secret code; inputting the at least one secret code into an OTCP to initialize the OTCP; generating within the OTCP a one-time code (OTC) utilizing the at least one secret code but not including the user's login credentials or username; supplying, by the user, the OTC to a secure web portal wherein the secure web portal confirms authenticity of the OTC with the authentication service; and the secure web portal supplying access to the user of the secure web portal resources upon receipt of authentication of the user.
US11374758B2
A transceiver is disclosed including a transmitter designed to output a first signal according to a physical communication protocol, and to output a second signal comprising at least one cryptographic datum. The first and the second signal may be overlaid onto one another as an overlay signal at the output of the transceiver, and may comply with the physical communication protocol. The overlay signal may be received and processed by a receiver.
US11374753B2
Described is a system for selective transparency in a public ledger. In operation, a first submission by a first entity is logged to the public ledger. The submission is a data entry with a message M and an identification number (ID). Separately, a linkage by a second entity is recorded. The linkage is an encryption and commitment linking the submission by the first entity to a second submission by the second entity. The linkage can be verified through a series of processes, such as by determining a value of linkage verification information. The value of the linkage verification information and corresponding block number is then transmitted to a third entity. The third entity reads the commitments from block Ni and verifies that the commitments are commitments to the same ID using the linkage verification information.
US11374742B2
A key acquisition unit (411) acquires a decryption key ski in a pair of a conversion source and a public key pkj in a pair of a conversion target, out of a plurality of pairs of a decryption key and a public key. A conversion key generation unit (412) encrypts the decryption key ski acquired by the key acquisition unit (411) with the public key pkj, so as to generate a conversion key rki→j for converting a ciphertext encrypted with a public key pki in the pair of the conversion source into a converted ciphertext that can be decrypted with a decryption key skj in the pair of the conversion target. An output unit (413) outputs the conversion key rki→j generated by the conversion key generation unit (412).
US11374734B2
A system is disclosed that receives, at a host system from a data processing (DP) accelerator, an accelerator identifier (ID) that uniquely identifies the DP accelerator, wherein the host system is coupled to the DP accelerator over a bus. The system transmits the accelerator ID to a predetermined trusted server over a network. The system receives a certificate from the predetermined trusted server over the network, the certificate certifying the DP accelerator. The system extracts a public root key (PK_RK) from the certificate for verification, the PK_RK corresponding to a private root key (SK_RK) associated with the DP accelerator. The system establishes a secure channel with the DP accelerator using the PK_RK based on the verification to exchange data securely between the host system and the DP accelerator.
US11374728B2
Embodiments disclosed herein relate to a method in a wireless communication device that operates in an enhanced coverage mode, the enhanced coverage mode comprising sequential repetition of messages sent from the wireless communication device to a network node. An example method includes: receiving a Timing Advance Command TAC from the network node; and adapting a time at which the TAC is applied, wherein a time difference between the time at which the TAC is applied and a time at which the TAC is received shall be greater than or equal to a specified time depending on a type of the used Radio Access Technology, such that application of the TAC does not occur during a period after a first subframe of a repeated uplink transmission till the end of the repeated uplink transmission.
US11374726B2
A method for emulating a communication system with fast changing link condition, applied to a testbed system including an interference emulator, a transmitter, and a receiver, includes: by the transmitter, generating code-word symbols, in an initial symbol sequence, according to information bits; evaluating an interference condition and a time duration for each code-word symbol; reordering the code-word symbols to a reordered symbol sequence based on interference conditions; evaluating a total time duration of code-word symbols under each interference condition; and transmitting the code-word symbols in the reordered symbol sequence. The method also includes: by the interference emulator, obtaining the total time duration of code-word symbols under each interference condition from the transmitter; and providing an emulated interference environment by ordering the time durations of different interference conditions. The start time for transmitting code-word symbols with an interference condition is synchronized with the start time for emulating the interference condition.
US11374713B2
A method performed by a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system, includes receiving a sounding reference signal (SRS) configuration via a radio resource control (RRC) signaling, the SRS configuration indicating a subframe configured for SRS transmission, wherein the SRS configuration includes an indicator indicating whether an aperiodic SRS transmission or a periodic SRS transmission is performed in the subframe configured for SRS transmission; based on the indicator indicating that the aperiodic SRS transmission is performed, receiving request information for requesting a transmission of an SRS and aperiodically transmitting the SRS in the configured subframe; and based on the indicator indicating that the periodic SRS transmission is performed, periodically transmitting the SRS in the configured subframe.
US11374712B2
A method by which a terminal receives a reference signal in a wireless communication system, according to one embodiment of the present disclosure, comprises the steps of: receiving a channel state information-reference signal (CSI-RS); and deriving a CSI by measuring the CSI-RS, wherein the CSI-RS is allocated to a wireless resource according to a preset time resource-related pattern, and the CSI-RS or a demodulation reference signal (DMRS) can be dropped according to predetermined priorities when the CSI-RS and the DMRS are overlapped on a symbol.
US11374711B2
Systems and techniques are disclosed to enhance the efficiency of available bandwidth between UEs and base stations. A UE transmits a sounding reference signal (SRS) to the base station. The base station characterizes the uplink channel based on the SRS received and, using reciprocity, applies the channel characterization for the downlink channel. As part of applying the channel information, the base station forms the beam to the UE based on the uplink channel information obtained from the SRS. The UE may include an array of antennas, each UE transmitting a different SRS that the base station receives and uses to characterize the downlink. Multiple UEs (or a single UE with multiple antennas) transmit SRS at the same time and frequency allocation (non-orthogonal), but with each sending its own unique SRS. Further, multiple UEs (or a single UE with multiple antennas) may send their SRS at unique time/frequency allocations (orthogonal).
US11374707B2
According to certain embodiments, a transmitting node for transmitting data to a receiving node is provided. The transmitting node is operable at least in a dynamic bundling size mode and includes a communication interface and processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured, when operating in the dynamic bundling size mode, to provide the receiving node with an indication of bundling control information representing at least a number L of slots. The processing circuitry transmits data in L consecutive slots using a constant first precoding setting and transmit data in subsequent L consecutive slots using a constant second precoding setting. The first and second precoding settings are independently assignable.
US11374706B2
Method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving a synchronization signal and transmission system
Disclosed is a method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving a synchronization signal and a transmission system. In the method, a transmitting node determines a frequency band range in which a carrier is located, and configures or assumes synchronization channel information on the carrier according to the frequency band range, where the synchronization channel information includes at least one of: a subcarrier spacing or orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbol information of a synchronization channel; and the transmitting node transmits the synchronization signal using the synchronization channel information.
US11374699B2
This disclosure provides systems, methods, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer-readable media, for implementing a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) protocol in a wireless local area network (WLAN). A first WLAN device may transmit a first HARQ frame to a second WLAN device. The first HARQ frame may include initial transmissions of a first plurality of forward error correction (FEC) codewords. The HARQ protocol may support new techniques for feedback, such as a feedback capability in which a bitmap may be used to indicate decoding failures of codewords. The first feedback message may include indicators to change a HARQ configuration parameter based on channel conditions. In some implementations, the second HARQ frame may combine retransmissions regarding the failed codewords with initial transmissions of a second plurality of codewords.
US11374696B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive an indication of a mapping between a plurality of sets of hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) processes and a corresponding plurality of HARQ process types. The UE may configure one or more HARQ processes of the UE based at least in part on the indication. In some aspects, a base station may transmit, to a UE, an indication of a mapping between a plurality of sets of HARQ processes and a corresponding plurality of HARQ process types. The base station may select a HARQ process, of the plurality of HARQ processes, to be used for a communication with the UE based at least in part on the mapping. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US11374695B2
A terminal is disclosed including a transmitter that transmits a Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest-Acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) on an uplink control channel; and a processor that determines a cyclic shift used in transmission of the HARQ-ACK, wherein: if the HARQ-ACK is a 1-bit NACK, the cyclic shift is calculated based on an index and if the HARQ-ACK is a 1-bit ACK, the cyclic shift is calculated based on a sum of the index and a number value, the number value being equal to 6. In other aspects, a radio communication method and a base station are also disclosed.
US11374694B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described that provide for transport block size (TBS) determination for one or more wireless retransmissions of an initial transmission, in which the initial transmission may not be successfully received at a receiver. The receiver may determine, based on control information received in a retransmission, that the associated initial transmission was lost, and that the retransmission is not able to be decoded at the receiver. The receiver, in such cases, may provide a negative acknowledgment of the retransmission and an indication to the transmitter that the initial transmission was lost. The transmitter, responsive to the indication that the initial transmission was lost, may discontinue retransmitting the transmission, or may transmit additional control information for use in decoding the one or more retransmissions.
US11374691B2
Examples of block acknowledgement negotiations are described. In an example, a request to establish a BA session is sent by a first computing device (first device) to a second computing device (second device). A timer for receipt of a response to the request is initialized. A BA successful response is received by the first device after the timer has timed out. A request to terminate the BA session is sent by the first device to the second device. After sending the request to terminate the BA session, BA negotiation is reinitiated by the first device based on an updated inactivity timer, so that there are greater chances of successfully establishing a BA session. In an example, if the second device ignores the request to terminate the BA session then it sends a BA reject response to the first device. After receiving the BA reject response, the first device waits for the inactivity timer before reinitiating BA negotiations, so that the second device clears its states thereby increasing chances of successful BA renegotiations.
US11374686B2
A method of wireless communication at a transmitting device includes adding parity check bits to a set of information bits. The method also includes generating a non-coherent transmission signal by mapping the parity check bits and the set of information bits into a sequence of complex symbols. Further, the method may include transmitting the non-coherent transmission signal to a receiving device. A method of wireless communication at a receiving device includes receiving, from a transmitting device, a non-coherent signal having at least one segment. Each segment comprises a sequence of complex symbols corresponding to information bits and parity check bits. The method also includes jointly detecting the sequences from each segment of the received non-coherent signal by using the parity check bits.
US11374685B2
A radio frequency (RF) front end receives one or more symbols of a first frame transmitted by a transmitter. The RF front end determines that the one or more received symbols are correlated to one or more address symbols, where the one or more address symbols are each a time-domain signal of subcarriers that the transmitter transmits. The RF front end provides the received one or more symbols to a baseband system based on the correlation. The baseband system recovers bits of a second frame within the first frame based on the received one or more symbols.
US11374682B2
Embodiment techniques map parity bits to sub-channels based on their row weights. In one example, an embodiment technique includes allocating, from a set of sub-channels, one or more sub-channels for one or more parity bits based on row weights for sub-channels in a subset of sub-channels within the set of sub-channels, mapping information bits to remaining sub-channels in the set of sub-channels based on a reliability of the remaining sub-channels without mapping any of the information bits to the one or more sub-channels allocated for the one or more parity bits, polar encoding the information bits and the one or more parity bits based on at least the mapping of the information bits to the remaining sub-channels to obtain encoded bits, and transmitting the encoded bits to another device.
US11374676B2
An optical device (100) for an optical network, comprising an optical input (110), a passive optical component (112), a memory device (114) for storing information relating to the passive optical component. The optical device further comprises an optical splitter (116) configured to power split off a portion of received optical signals to form split optical signals and to output the remaining optical power of received optical signals to the passive optical component and a photodetector (118) configured to receive the split optical signals and to generate a corresponding photodetector output signal. Further the optical device comprises an accumulator (120) configured to be charged by the photodetector output signal, a laser (122) configured to be powered by the accumulator and a controller (124) configured to, in response to a trigger from the photodetector, read said information from the memory device and to cause the laser to transmit an optical signal from an optical output (110), the optical signal carrying a message based on said information read from the memory device.
US11374673B2
Coherent optical multiplexing 1+1 protection disclosed herein uses multiplexers, each having multiplexing and demultiplexing sub-units. Relay ports of a node are connected with the multiplexers, and each relay port is configured to input and output optical signals with the corresponding multiplexer. Two transmission ports of the node are connected with disjoint paths and are configured to input and output optical signals therewith. The node includes: a first optical splitter having input ports connected with the relay ports and two output ports connected with the two transmission ports; an optical switch connected with the transmission ports respectively via two input interfaces; a second optical splitter, which is a 1×N optical splitter, having one input port connected with an output interface of the optical switch and having output ports connected with the relay ports. The solution is reliable in implementation, has low insertion loss, and has good transmission performance.
US11374672B2
Various embodiments to enable Spectrum Access System (SAS) controlled interference management are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, an apparatus is provided. The apparatus includes a memory to store network configuration data and a processing device coupled to the memory. The processing device to generate a protection band based on interference measurements. The protection band is allocated to at least one of the infrastructure node of a Long-Term Evolution (LTE) network infrastructure. In this regard, the interference measurements are related to transmissions of data between infrastructure nodes of the LTE network infrastructure. Thereupon, a time slot is determined for the at least one of the infrastructure node based on the protection band. The time slot indicates an allocated time frame to access data in the LTE network infrastructure using a radio frequency in accordance with the protection band.
US11374668B2
Systems and methods for detecting and reducing signal interference affecting wireless communication with a mobile vehicle includes generating an interference signature based on a correlation multiple signal-quality characteristics of a desired target-signal that is received at an antenna assembly attached to the mobile vehicle, and adjusting the orientation of the antenna assembly based on a change or degradation in the interference signature to thereby improve wireless communication with the vehicle.
US11374648B2
Radio link coverage mapping systems and related techniques are provided to improve the operation of unmanned mobile sensor or survey platforms. A radio or communication link coverage mapping system includes a logic device configured to communicate with a communication module and a position sensor coupled to a mobile platform, where the communication module is configured to establish a wireless communication link with a base station associated with the mobile platform and the position sensor is configured to provide a position of the mobile platform as it maneuvers within a survey area. The logic device determines communication link quality data associated with the wireless communication link as the mobile platform maneuvers within the survey area, receives corresponding position data, and generates corresponding communication coverage information, which may be used to generate a radio link coverage map.
US11374646B2
Systems and devices are provided in which an RF wireless bridge is employed to facilitate indirect transmission of communication signals between external devices located outside of an electromagnetically shielding enclosure within internal devices located within the enclosure, via the intermediate transmission of RF waves through an RF attenuating window forming a portion of the enclosure. The wireless bridge is formed from a first RF communication device located within the electromagnetically shielding enclosure, and a second RF communication device located outside of the enclosure, where the two RF communication devices are positioned with sufficient proximity such that the wireless bridge facilitates indirect communication through the RF attenuating window despite attenuation of RF energy by the RF attenuating window. In another example embodiment, the electromagnetically shielding enclosure may enclose at least a portion of the first RF communication device to reduce noise that could impact the performance of the magnetic resonance scanner.
US11374633B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may determine to operate in an antenna switch diversity mode to transmit an uplink signal according to an antenna switching pattern, the antenna switching pattern comprising switching between a first transmit chain coupled to a first antenna and a second transmit chain coupled to a second antenna. The UE may transmit at least a first portion of the uplink signal using the first transmit chain coupled to the first antenna, the first transmit chain coupled to the first antenna. The UE may transmit at least a second portion of the uplink signal using the second transmit chain coupled to the second antenna, the second transmit chain coupled to the second antenna.
US11374629B2
This disclosure relates to a method for providing channel state information (CSI) from a remote radio unit (RRU) to a baseband unit (BBU), the method comprising: determining CSI for each user equipment (UE) of a plurality of UEs based on a reference signal received from the respective UE; generating a plurality of correlation coefficients based on the CSI; and providing the plurality of correlation coefficients to the BBU.
US11374626B2
A method for transmitting signals by a user equipment (UE) in a multi input multi output (MIMO) communication system is disclosed. The method comprises steps of receiving two or more MIMO layer configurations per bandwidth part (BWP); receiving a medium access control (MAC) control element (CE) indicating a first MIMO layer configuration for a downlink reception via a first BWP and a second MIMO layer configuration for an uplink transmission via a second BWP among the two or more MIMO layer configurations; and transmitting and receiving signals based on the first and second MIMO layer configurations.
US11374623B2
Devices and methods for connected isochronous stream (CIS) swapping are disclosed. In an example Bluetooth™ setting, a smartphone can be connected to multiple earbuds. It is possible that both earbuds include microphones, but only one microphone is enabled at a given time. That is, only one of the CISes established between the smartphone and the earbuds is bidirectional, and the other is unidirectional. The disclosed techniques enable the CISes to be swapped between the earbuds so that the earbud with better microphone quality will have ownership of the bidirectional CIS.
US11374609B2
A transceiver in a wireless communication system is provided. The transceiver includes a first circuit configured to convert a digital signal having a third bandwidth, a second circuit configured to separate the analog signal into a first analog signal corresponding to the first band and a second analog signal corresponding to the second band, up-convert the first analog signal and the second analog signal to generate a first radio frequency (RF) signal in the first band and a second RF signal in the second band, and output an RF signal having the third bandwidth, and a third circuit configured to separate the RF signal into the first RF signal and the second RF signal, adjust a phase of the first RF signal for beamforming in the first band, and adjust a phase of the second RF signal for beamforming in the second band.
US11374602B2
A communication interference rejection system comprising a receiver operatively connected to a device connected to a body of a user. The receiver is configured to receive a signal transmitted through the body of the user, the signal comprising a data component and an interference component, the interference component due to human body antenna effect. The receiver is configured to integrate the signal using a relatively low-gain analog integrator and then digitally differentiate the output of said integration.
US11374601B2
A receiver circuit includes an interleaved ADC, a first delay circuit, a second delay circuit, a first processing channel, a second processing channel, and an interleaving ADC timing error detector circuit. The interleaved ADC includes a first ADC and a second ADC in parallel. The first delay circuit delays a first clock signal provided to the first ADC. The second delay circuit delays a second clock signal provided to the second ADC. The first processing channel processes data samples provided by the first ADC, and includes a first slicer. The second processing channel processes data samples provided by the second ADC, and includes a second slicer. The interleaving ADC timing error detector circuit controls delay of the first delay circuit and the second delay circuit based on an output signal of the first slicer, and an output signal or an input signal of the second slicer.
US11374592B2
A processing device in a memory system reads a sense word from a memory device and executes a plurality of parity check equations on corresponding subsets of the sense word to determine a plurality of parity check equation results. The processing device determines a syndrome for the sense word using the plurality of parity check equation results, determines whether the syndrome for the sense word satisfies a codeword criterion, and responsive to the syndrome for the sense word not satisfying the codeword criterion, performs an iterative low density parity check (LDPC) correction process, wherein at least one criterion of the iterative LDPC correction process is adjusted after a threshold number of iterations is performed.
US11374577B2
Quadrature oscillator circuitry, comprising: a first differential oscillator circuit having differential output nodes and configured to generate a first pair of differential oscillator signals at those output nodes, respectively; a second differential oscillator circuit having differential output nodes and configured to generate a second pair of differential oscillator signals at those output nodes, respectively; and a cross-coupling circuit connected to cross-couple the first and second differential oscillator circuits. The cross-coupling circuit may comprise a pair of cross-coupled transistors.
US11374559B2
A low power comparator circuit is provided. The circuit includes a comparator core including a first stage. The first stage has an output configured to provide a digital value. A capacitor includes a first terminal coupled at an input of the first stage and a second terminal selectively coupled to a first input and a second input of the comparator core. A voltage generator is coupled to the first stage. The voltage generator is configured and arranged to generate a first voltage based on a predetermined input current and to limit a maximum current of the first stage based on the predetermined input current.
US11374556B2
A sequence circuit (1) includes a detector (2) that detects an occurrence of an event based on an input signal, an acceptor (4) that accepts the event whose occurrence has been detected by the detector, an inhibitor (4) that inhibits the acceptor from accepting another event for a first period using the acceptance of one event by the acceptor as a trigger, a clock pulse generator (3) that generates one or more clock pulses during a period after a second period shorter than the first period elapses from the start of the first period until the first period ends, a determiner (5) that determines a next state based on a current slate and the event accepted by the acceptor, and a latch (6) that latches the next state using the clock pulse. An output of the latch is the current state.
US11374551B2
The invention relates to an acoustically coupled thin-film BAW filter, comprising a piezoelectric layer, an input-port on the piezoelectric layer changing electrical signal into an acoustic wave (SAW, BAW), and an output-port on the piezoelectric layer changing acoustic signal into electrical signal. In accordance with the invention the ports include electrodes positioned close to each other, and the filter is designed to operate in first order thickness-extensional TE1 mode.
US11374548B2
A filter circuit for reducing feedback of a consumer on an energy supply is disclosed. This filter circuit includes a multipolar input, a line choke, and a multipolar output, wherein the input is configured to receive an AC voltage from the energy supply, wherein the output is configured to be connected to the consumer, wherein the line choke includes one coil for each pole of the input, and wherein the coils of the line choke are each connected between one pole of the input and one pole of the output and energy is transferred from the input to the output and/or vice versa. A resonant current suppression (RCS) group is connected in parallel to a coil of the line choke to transmit resonant currents arising at the line choke such that voltage increases generated by the resonant currents are reduced or suppressed by the at least one RCS circuit.
US11374547B2
Disclosed herein are example techniques to facilitate calibrating a portable playback device. An example implementation involves determining that a playback device is to perform an equalization calibration of the playback device and initiating the equalization calibration. Initiating the equalization calibration involves (i) outputting audio content, (ii) capturing audio data representing reflections of the audio content within an area in which the playback device is located, (iii) determining an acoustic response of the area in which the playback device is located, (iv) selecting a stored acoustic response from the acoustic response database that is most similar to the determined acoustic response of the area in which the playback device is located, and (v) applying to the audio content, via the playback device, a set of stored audio calibration settings associated with the selected stored acoustic area response.
US11374544B2
A capacitive-coupled chopper instrumentation amplifier includes a first chopper, a first gain stage, a capacitive isolation stage electrically coupled between inputs of the first gain stage and the first chopper, a second gain stage, a second chopper electrically coupled between outputs of the first gain stage and inputs of the second gain stage, clamping circuitry electrically coupled between the inputs of the first gain stage and a reference voltage rail, and a controller. The controller is configured to (a) detect a change in a first common-mode voltage exceeding a threshold value, the first common-mode voltage being a common-mode voltage at the inputs of the amplifier, and (b) in response to detecting the change in the first common-mode voltage exceeding the threshold value, cause the clamping circuitry to clamp the inputs of the first gain stage to the reference voltage rail.
US11374540B2
Bias circuits and methods for silicon-based amplifier architectures that are tolerant of supply and bias voltage variations, bias current variations, and transistor stack height, and compensate for poor output resistance characteristics. Embodiments include power amplifiers and low-noise amplifiers that utilize a cascode reference circuit to bias the final stages of a cascode amplifier under the control of a closed loop bias control circuit. The closed loop bias control circuit ensures that the current in the cascode reference circuit is approximately equal to a selected multiple of a known current value by adjusting the gate bias voltage to the final stage of the cascode amplifier. The final current through the cascode amplifier is a multiple of the current in the cascode reference circuit, based on a device scaling factor representing the relative sizes of the transistor devices in the cascode amplifier and in the cascode reference circuit.
US11374537B2
A technique relates to a pulse shaping of microwave signals. A nondegenerate mixing device receives signals and a time-varying magnetic flux via input ports. The nondegenerate mixing device uses the signals and the time-varying magnetic flux to generate an output signal on an output port, the output signal having a waveform profile set by the time-varying magnetic flux.
US11374536B2
A system includes a Zero IF transmitter having a mixer and a programmable gain stage. The Zero IF transmitter also includes an intermediate stage between the mixer and the programmable gain stage, wherein the intermediate stage is configured to decouple the mixer and the programmable gain stage.
US11374527B2
A soft starter includes a plurality of live phases, wherein a semiconductor switching element and an electromechanical switch parallel-connected thereto are arranged in each phase. In the soft starter, on a load-facing side of the semiconductor switching elements and of the electromechanical switches, the plurality of phases are connected in a circuit forming a star point. The star point circuit includes at least one passive component and is configured for detecting a reduced voltage drop in a defective state of a semiconductor switching element and/or of an electromechanical switch.
US11374515B1
An operation method and an operation device of a motor driver for driving a motor are provided. The operation method includes: establishing a hysteresis control method; and adjusting a switch frequency of a power module for operating the motor by using the hysteresis control method according to a change of rotation speed of the motor and a current switch frequency.
US11374501B1
A phase balancer includes a plurality of power conversion circuits, a direct current transformer, and a plurality of phase-nodes. Each of the power conversion circuits may include a throughput, a capacitor bank, and a direct current bus. The direct current transformer may be coupled to each of the direct current buses to move energy between the power conversion circuits. Each throughput may be operatively coupled to the capacitor bank of one power conversion circuit and the throughput of another power conversion circuit to move current between the plurality of power conversion circuits.
US11374493B2
A circuit to control the peak current of a single inductor multiple output (SIMO) power converter operating in continuous current mode (CCM) is disclosed. The circuit generates a peak-current threshold signal that can be raised or lowered based on an error signal generated by comparing output voltages to their respective regulated levels. Additionally, the circuit can lower the peak-current threshold signal when an energy storage element of the SIMO power converter is in a freewheeling state. The lowering can occur at a rate that continues as long at the freewheeling state persists. The disclosed circuits and methods allow the peak-current threshold to converge on a level that facilitates the sufficient charging of the energy storage element to provide enough energy to the outputs but not excessive charging so as to increase ohmic loss associated with the freewheeling state.
US11374490B2
A power conversion system includes a power conversion circuit and a start circuit. The power conversion circuit includes a first terminal, a second terminal, an output capacitor, at switching unit, a flying capacitor and a magnetic element. The second switching unit includes two switch groups. The flying capacitor is connected between the first terminal and the second terminal. The magnetic element includes two first windings that are electromagnetically coupled with each other. A first one of the two first windings is electrically connected between one switch group and the second terminal of the power conversion circuit. A second one of the two first windings is electrically connected between the other switch group and the second terminal of the power conversion circuit. The start circuit includes a third winding, an inductor and at least one switch element. The third winding is electromagnetically coupled with the first windings.
US11374489B2
A circuit for a multi-voltage input AC/DC charger, such as a Universal AC input AC/DC charger, is provided, comprising a plurality of capacitors having different voltage ratings that are connected in parallel, and a switching circuit comprising input voltage sensing and comparator drive circuitry, to allow for selective connection of one or more of the plurality of capacitors, responsive to a sensed input voltage. Since bulk capacitors occupy a significant proportion of the volume of an AC/DC charger, this solution provides for a reduction in system volume, with associated improvement in the power density of an isolated AC/DC charger.
US11374488B2
A multi-mode voltage pump may be configured to select an operational mode based on a temperature of a semiconductor device. The selected mode for a range of temperature values may be determined based on process variations and operational differences caused by temperature changes. The different selected modes of operation of the multi-mode voltage pump may provide pumped voltage having different voltage magnitudes. For example, the multi-mode voltage pump may operate in a first mode that uses two stages to provide a first VPP voltage, a second mode that uses a single stage to provide a second VPP voltage, or a third mode that uses a mixture of a single stage and two stages to provide a third VPP voltage. The third VPP voltage may be between the first and second VPP voltages, with the first VPP voltage having the greatest magnitude. Control signal timing of circuitry of the multi-mode voltage pump may be based on an oscillator signal.
US11374477B2
A pulse generator comprises a mounting to hold two bodies in proximity to each other. Two magnetic elements may be movably placed in the mounting, and the magnetic elements will align with each other in one of two stable states. A coil surrounds the magnetic elements in the mounting, and a force application device applies a force to the first magnetic element to cause the first magnetic element to break the current alignment and thereby make the first and second magnetic elements realign to the other stable state. The movement of the magnets generates a pulse in the coil which may be detected by suitable circuitry and used. The device may be used inter alia to count rotations or linear movements, or to provide switching or remote control without the need for a separate power source.
US11374475B2
A motor of the invention includes a stator having a slot wound with a coil and a circular shaped housing accommodating the stator, and a rotor disposed on an inner surface of the housing and spaced apart from the slot and having a plurality of permanent magnets having the same number as magnetic poles and having different magnetic polarities. Each of the plurality of permanent magnets has a length corresponding to a first angle according to the number of magnetic poles. The plurality of permanent magnets are spaced apart from each other at a third angle according to the first angle and a second angle corresponding to the number of magnetic poles. The first, second, third angles of the motor refer to a center point of the housing as an angle reference point. The motor of an embodiment may be a motor provided in a washing machine.
US11374473B2
An EC motor for an electric hand tool having a stator in which a rotor is rotatably mounted, which comprises a rotor lamination stack, which has a passage opening and is formed of individual laminations, and a rotor shaft which is cast in the passage opening of the rotor lamination stack by means of a casting compound, and having a plurality of permanent magnets, which are received in the pockets formed in the rotor lamination stack. An annular channel, which is connected to the pockets in a fluid-conducting manner via radial channels, each of which is formed of a plurality of channel sections formed in adjacent laminations of the rotor lamination stack, is formed between the rotor shaft and the wall of the passage opening for supplying the casting compound from the annular channel to the pockets. A method is also provided for producing a rotor for an EC motor.
US11374460B2
A vehicle includes a first rotating electric machine, a second rotating electric machine, a power transmission device and an accommodation case. The rotating electric machine accommodation portion and the power transmission device accommodation portion are partitioned by a partition wall. The partition wall includes a first rotating electric machine accommodation wall, a second rotating electric machine accommodation wall, and a step wall which extends in the axial direction from the second rotating electric machine accommodation wall to the first rotating electric machine accommodation wall. The step wall is at least partially overlapped with the second rotating electric machine in the axial direction, and a distance between an outermost diameter portion of the second rotating electric machine and the step wall is shorter than a distance between the outermost diameter portion of the second rotating electric machine and an outermost diameter portion of the first rotating electric machine.
US11374448B2
A motor for a laundry appliance includes a drive shaft coupled to a drum at a first end. The rotor frame is coupled proximate the second end of the drive shaft, where the rotor frame includes at least one polymeric material. A central hub includes a core and a perimetrical ring that extends circumferentially around the core. A plurality of recesses are defined within a planar surface of the perimetrical ring, wherein a portion of the polymeric material is received within the plurality of recesses to secure the rotor frame to the central hub.
US11374439B2
An electronic device includes a case body, a wireless transmission circuit, a voice processing circuit, a control circuit, and a wireless charging circuit. The case body is configured to hold an external electronic device. The wireless transmission circuit is configured to wirelessly connect the external electronic devices. The voice processing circuit is configured to generate a voice command according to a voice signal, and transmit the voice command to the external electronic devices. The wireless charging circuit is configured to couple the external electronic device to receive a first voltage, and convert the first voltage to a storage voltage to supply power to the control circuit, the wireless transmission circuit, and the voice processing circuit.
US11374424B2
Provided is a battery management system capable of deliberately discharging a battery to suppress deterioration of the battery due to gas generated in the battery that is left non-used at a high temperature for a long time. The battery management system, which aims to prevent generation of gas in the battery left non-used at a high temperature, is provided to prevent generation of gas in the battery in advance by deliberately discharging the battery to reduce a charged amount of the battery when a temperature, a charged amount, and a non-used period are in a preset level range.
US11374422B2
A single-interface charging-discharging switchable circuit comprising a power management unit U1, field effect transistors Q1˜Q2, capacitors C1˜C5, resistors R1˜R8, a diode D1 and an inductor L1. The product fills the gap in the market where there is no automatic charging-discharging switching circuit with the same interface, which enables the same interface (VCC/GND) to realize discharging and charging functions. The circuit of the disclosure is simple and has broad application prospects. The product of the disclosure uses a 5V-30V power supply to charge, and mobile phone adapters, portable power supply and other 5V power supply can be used as chargers. It is not limited by the 5V voltage of the traditional power supply, and the range of the input voltage of charging is wide.
US11374414B2
A method for controlling an uninterruptible power supply system and the uninterruptible power supply system for implementing the method includes a base unit and an accumulator module with a supervision unit, where the base unit includes a charging unit and a control unit for controlling the charging unit and can be accommodated spatially separated from the accumulator module, where a respective current charge-specific state of the accumulator module is established at regular intervals during charging and/or discharging by the supervision unit of the accumulator module and transmitted to the base unit in which the currently transmitted charge-specific state of the accumulator module is evaluated by the control unit and the charging unit of the base unit is controlled accordingly, such that the volume of data transmitted between the base unit and the accumulator module of the uninterruptible power supply unit is significantly reduced and the security of transmission is increased.
US11374400B2
A bi-directional direct current (DC) solid state power controller (SSPC) architecture and control method. The SSPC protects a DC distribution system by isolating both the positive and negative buses independently in case of short circuit or ground fault. The SSPC architecture includes two self-heal interleaved capacitors and includes a fast, soft-charging control technique that provides line-isolated charging of the DC bulk capacitor to avoid inrush current when powering up the DC distribution system. The soft-charging function alternately charges one of the two interleaved capacitors, while the other capacitor discharges to the DC bulk capacitor. Repetitive switching results in a charging and discharging process that increases the voltage of the DC bulk capacitor prior to powering up the DC distribution system, while keeping the DC power source isolated from the load.
US11374396B2
A circuit protection device is provided. The circuit protection device includes an active energy absorber that is coupled between two power lines in an electrical power distribution system and is configured to selectively conduct fault current responsive to overvoltage conditions. The active energy absorber includes an overvoltage protection module that includes two thyristors that are connected in anti-parallel with one another and a varistor that is connected with the overvoltage protection module as a series circuit. The series circuit including the varistor and the overvoltage protection module is connected between the power lines.
US11374395B2
A remote power unit for providing direct current power to a remote power receiver in a direct current power system is provided. A residual current protection circuit comprises a first switch, which opens a positive voltage rail, and a second switch, which open a negative voltage rail. A first current sensor measures a first residual current between the first switch and the remote power receiver, while the first switch is closed and the second switch is opened. A second current sensor measures a second residual current between the second switch and the remote power receiver, while the second switch is closed and the first switch is open. A controller detects a residual current event, if the first residual current and/or the second residual current are above a residual current threshold.
US11374379B2
A laser system includes: a pulse laser system configured to emit a first laser beam having a first wavelength component and having a first polarization component and a second laser beam having the first wavelength component and having a second polarization component; a guide laser apparatus configured to emit a third laser beam having a second wavelength component; a polarization conversion mechanism configured to be able to switch between a first state in which the third laser beam is emitted as a first guide laser beam having the first polarization component, and a second state in which the third laser beam is emitted as a second guide laser beam having the second polarization component; a dichroic mirror configured to reflect the first and second laser beams having the first wavelength component or the first and second guide laser beams having the second wavelength component, to transmit the first and second laser beams or the first and second guide laser beams that are not reflected by the dichroic mirror; and a polarization beam splitter configured to reflect the first laser beam and the first guide laser beam, and to transmit the second laser beam and the second guide laser beam.
US11374376B2
A cylindrical electrode module of a fiber optic laser system includes an inner cylinder having an inner repeating pattern of longitudinally-aligned positive and negative electrodes on an outer surface of the inner cylinder. The cylindrical electrode mode includes an outer cylinder that encloses the inner cylinder. The outer cylinder that has an outer repeating pattern of longitudinally-aligned negative and positive electrodes on an inner surface of the inner cylinder that are in corresponding and complementary, parallel alignment with the positive and negative electrodes of the inner repeating pattern on the outer surface of the inner cylinder. The cylindrical electrode module includes an optical fiber having an input end configured to align with and be optically coupled to a high power pump laser. The optical fiber is wrapped around the inner cylinder within the outer cylinder to form a cylindrical fiber assembly. The electrodes are activated to achieve quasi-phase matching.
US11374366B2
A system is described for providing an electrical ground connection for a circuit assembly. The system may include a housing for the circuit assembly, the housing having an electrically conductive fixation member configured for attachment to an electrically conductive element outside the housing. The system may also include an electrically conductive feature configured for attachment to the circuit assembly, the electrically conductive feature comprising a flexible contact terminal configured to contact the electrically conductive fixation member inside the housing. Attachment of the electrically conductive fixation member to the electrically conductive element outside the housing enables an electrical ground connection for the circuit assembly via the electrically conductive feature comprising the flexible contact terminal.
US11374365B2
A device connector (10) is to be mounted on a case (1) of a device and includes a housing (20) configured to fit into a mounting hole (2) in the case (1). A wire (40) is pulled out from the housing (20) in parallel to an outer surface (4) of the case (1). A shield (50) includes a wire-side mounting portion (53) that is configured to cover the wire (40), and a connecting member (60) configured to coaxially arrange and directly connect a case-side mounting portion (3) projecting in a direction intersecting a pull-out direction of the wire (40) from the outer surface (4) of the case (1) and the wire-side mounting portion (53).
US11374364B2
The invention provides a shield shell that allows easy insertion of a circuit board or other insulator into the shield shell. A shield shell 300 includes a shell body 310 and first and second position restrictors 320a and 320b. The first position restrictor 320a is provided at an edge portion 315 of an insertion port 310 of the shell body 310 and is located inside the insertion port 315. The second position restrictor 320b is provided in the shell body 310 so as to oppose the first position restrictor 320b with a spacing in a Z-Z′ direction. A distance in the Z-Z′ direction from the first position restrictor 320a to the second position restrictor 320b is substantially equal to, or slightly larger than, a distance in the Z-Z′ direction from a first face 101 to a second face 102 of a circuit board 100. When the circuit board 100 is inserted into the shell body 310 through the insertion port 315, the first position restrictor 320a and the second position restrictor 320b are abuttable on the first face 101 and the second face 102, respectively, of the circuit board 100.
US11374361B2
(Technical Problem) To provide a lightweight and highly reliable plug connector for high-speed digital multi-channel transmission. (Technical Solution) A rigid substrate of a plug connector includes a base material having a first surface, including a first side and a second side formed opposite the first side, and a second surface formed opposite the first surface, and a plurality of signal transmission patterns configured to transmit a differential signal, and includes a first signal transmission pattern on the first surface, a second signal transmission pattern on the second surface, a third signal transmission pattern on the first surface and adjacent to the first signal transmission pattern, and a fourth signal transmission pattern on the second surface and adjacent to the second signal transmission pattern. Each signal transmission pattern includes a first conductor pattern, a second conductor pattern forming a differential pair, and a third conductor pattern having a fixed potential. Each of the first conductor pattern, the second conductor pattern, and the third conductor pattern includes a terminal portion electrically connected to a terminal of another connector, a pad portion electrically connected to a cable, and a wiring portion electrically connecting the terminal portion and the pad portion. The terminal portion is formed along the first side, and the pad portion is formed along the second side.
US11374356B2
A connector position assurance (CPA) member for assuring the engagement of a female housing with a male housing. The CPA member includes arms designed to stably and securely fit with apertures formed by the female housing. Also, the female housing includes a connector latch which engages with the CPA member and which used to securely hold together the female housing and the male housing.
US11374349B2
A receptacle connector device for electrical vehicle use in accordance with the present invention is disposed at a battery terminal of an electric vehicle and is connected to a plug connector in a charging station. The receptacle connector comprises an insulating body and a plurality of conducting elements. The insulating body is made of waterproof plastic materials and the plurality of the conducting elements are made of metal materials. The insulating body has a plurality of concentric circular grooves and a transverse portion. The plurality of the conducting elements are respectively disposed in the plurality of the concentric circular grooves, characterized in that: each of the plurality of the conducting elements forms a rough surface, thereby to enlarge contact area between the plurality of the conducting elements and the insulating body in moulding process for firm combination of plastic and metal materials.
US11374346B2
A high-voltage self-aligning push to mate electrical interconnect device is provided. The electrical interconnect device includes a housing with a mating end and a receiving end. The interconnect also includes an insulator bushing configured to be affixed to the receiving end of the housing. The interconnect also includes a center pin disposed within the housing. The center pin extends from the mating end of the housing to the receiving end of the housing. The interconnect also includes a connector socket disposed within the insulator bushing and which is in electrical communication with the center pin. The interconnect also includes an alignment sleeve including a chamfered mating funnel defining a void configured to accept and surround the housing and at least a portion of insulator bushing.
US11374344B2
A protecting cover includes a latching component and a releasing component. The latching component includes an engaging portion. The engaging portion engages with a cooperating portion of a connecting port when the latching component is at least partially accommodated inside the connecting port. The releasing component is detachably installed on the latching component and includes a resilient arm. The resilient arm abuts against the engaging portion to drive the engaging portion to disengage from the cooperating portion by operation of the resilient arm when the releasing component is installed on the latching component. The latching component at least partially accommodated inside the connecting port covers a front opening of the connecting port, and removal of the latching component requires the releasing component. It not only prevents outside dust particles or substances from entering into the connecting port but also prevents an unauthorized connection of the connecting port.
US11374341B2
In a connection terminal including a box-shaped connection portion that has a bottom wall, one side wall and another side wall that are erected on both sides of the bottom wall, and a ceiling wall, the ceiling wall has a lower ceiling wall obtained by bending the one side wall toward the other side wall, and an upper ceiling wall obtained by bending the other side wall toward the one side wall at an upper bent portion and is superposed above the lower ceiling wall, a protrusion is provided on a side of the lower ceiling wall close to the lower bent portion, and a locking portion is provided on a side of the upper ceiling wall close to the lower bent portion.
US11374335B2
An antenna system includes a ground plane, a first nonconductive support element, a first antenna element, a second nonconductive support element, and a second antenna element. The first nonconductive support element is adjacent to the ground plane. The first antenna element is distributed over the first nonconductive support element. The first antenna element is excited by a first signal source. The second nonconductive support element is adjacent to the ground plane. The second antenna element is distributed over the second nonconductive support element. The second antenna element is excited by a second signal source. Both the first antenna element and the second antenna element can cover a wide operation frequency band of LTE/5G.
US11374328B2
Provided is an antenna device for a vehicle capable of firmly fixing a capacitance loading element. An antenna device 1 for a vehicle includes: an antenna case 5; a capacitance loading element 20 housed in an internal space of the antenna case 5; a capacitance loading element holder 10 including an upper holder 11 and a lower holder 12 and configured to sandwich and hold the capacitance loading element 20 between the upper holder 11 and the lower holder 12; and a metal base 50 configured to hold the lower holder 12. The capacitance loading element 20 includes two elements and a connecting portion that connects the two elements, the connecting portion is provided at a position lower than upper edges of the two elements, the upper holder 11 holds the two elements, and the upper holder 11 and the lower holder 12 sandwich and hold the connecting portion.
US11374321B2
A differential antenna includes a substrate formed of non-radio-frequency material and a pair of conductive microstrip lines formed on the substrate. A metallic sheet is supported and spaced apart from the pair of conductive microstrip lines by a plurality of support elements to form an air gap. The metallic sheet is patterned to include a plurality of differential radiating gaps disposed along the longitudinal axis of the antenna and above a gap between the pair of conductive microstrip lines. Multiple rows of metallic vias are formed in the substrate disposed and spaced apart laterally with respect to the gap between the pair of conductive microstrip lines to define two propagation air cavities in which radiation can propagate. The differential antenna is configured such that the radiation is differential-mode, second-order radiation, which is emitted from the differential antenna at the differential radiating gaps in the metallic sheet.
US11374317B2
An antenna array for a liquid crystal display able to function without a phase shifter includes at least two antenna units, each with an antenna module and a controlling circuit. The antenna module is at the side of a first substrate, a grounding layer, a feeding portion, a second substrate, and a liquid crystal layer also being included as a stack. The grounding layer and the feeding portion are on sides of the second substrate. The controlling circuit controls rotation of liquid crystal molecules of the liquid crystal layer therein to change a dielectric constant between the grounding layer and the antenna. The operating frequency of each antenna unit is thereby changed and radiation beam or pattern of the antenna array is thereby adjusted.
US11374302B2
A wireless signal device is provided. The wireless signal device includes a device body, a fastening belt, a wireless signal module and a switch unit. The device body includes a through hole. A fixed end of the fastening belt is affixed to the device body, and a free end of the fastening belt is adapted to be inserted into the through hole. The wireless signal module is disposed in the device body. The switch unit is disposed in the device body, wherein in a signal transmission mode, the fastening belt passes through the through hole, and the switch unit is pressed by the fastening belt to activate the wireless signal module.
US11374301B2
A cable type antenna is provided having a small-sized lightweight configuration and enabling specifying of a radiation region having a desired antenna length. The cable type antenna may be sectionalized into a first region on the power feeding circuit side and a second region on the leading end side. The cable type antenna of the present disclosure further comprises a balanced-to-unbalanced transformer element disposed between the first region and the second region, wherein the balanced-to-unbalanced transformer element includes an unbalanced-side terminal connected to the first region and a balanced-side terminal connected to the second region configured to allow the first region to serve as a non-radiation part and the second region to serve as a radiation part.
US11374291B2
A secondary cell includes an electrode body including a plurality of electrode groups each including a plurality of positive electrodes, a plurality of negative electrodes, and at least one separator, the positive electrodes and the negative electrodes each being alternately stacked on each other with the separator interposed in between; and at least one metal plate disposed between the electrode groups. Electrodes that are disposed at both ends of each of the electrode groups are the negative electrodes. The metal plate is in contact with a mixture layer of a negative electrode constituting at least one of the electrode groups, the metal plate being provided in a noncontact state with conductive members other than the mixture layer.
US11374290B2
A plurality of battery cells each having a positive electrode terminal and a negative electrode terminal; and a bus bar which connects the electrode terminals facing each other in the battery cells adjacently disposed among the plurality of battery cells.
US11374289B2
A battery wiring module has a novel structure with which workability of a wire routing process can be improved and is able to prevent or reduce the occurrence of misrouting. A battery wiring module includes a plurality of busbars that electrically connect adjacent battery cells of a plurality of battery cells arranged in a row, a plurality of coated wires connected at one end to an external connection terminal and a connecting part provided at the other end being connected to one of the busbars, a wire routing body in which a busbar housing frame that houses the busbars and a wire routing passage that routes the coated wires are provided, and a sub-assembly protector that is mounted to the wire routing body, the sub-assembly protector holding a plurality of coated wires.
US11374287B2
An energy storage device in which a micro-short circuit at the time of heat generation is suppressed is provided. The energy storage device includes: a positive electrode; a negative electrode containing a negative composite layer; and a separator disposed between the positive electrode and the negative electrode. The separator contains a base material layer containing a thermoplastic resin and an inorganic layer formed on the base material layer, the inorganic layer opposes to the positive electrode, the base material layer opposes to the negative electrode, and a ratio of a mass of the base material layer per unit area to a spatial volume of the negative composite layer is 0.26 or more.
US11374280B2
According to one embodiment, an electricity storage device includes a first box, a second box, a storage battery, and a flow path. The second box includes a side plate and is housed in the first box. The storage battery is disposed in the second box while being connected to the side plate. The flow path is configured to include the side plate of the second box inside the first box and outside the second box and vertically penetrates the first box.
US11374277B2
A secondary battery pack according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes: a cell assembly including a plurality of secondary batteries; a pack case having an internal space for accommodating the cell assembly; an electrode terminal connected to the cell assembly and protruding to the outside of the pack case; and a terminal cover configured to cover an upper portion and partial side surfaces of the electrode terminal, and to be detachable from the pack case by including a hooking protrusion that is hook-coupled to and released from a stopper that is provided in the pack case. In particular, the terminal cover further includes a jig hole configured to allow a cover separating jig to be inserted from outside to inside, and the hooking protrusion is provided at an internal area of the terminal cover to be released from the stopper when the cover separating jig inserted through the jig hole pushes the hooking protrusion.
US11374266B2
A system for permanently marking at least one battery component includes at least one marking element which is assigned to the battery component. The system includes a battery management system for operating the battery component in dependence on a state of the marking element. At least one marking device can be electrically connected to the marking element in such a way that a permanent change in the state of the marking element can be carried out by the marking device. The marking element is provided outside the battery management system such that operation of the battery component is permanently adaptable by the change of state.
US11374264B2
A detection system includes a power generation element; a first outer cover body enveloping the power generation element; a second outer cover body located between the power generation element and the first outer cover body, and enveloping the power generation element; a first space section enclosed by the first outer cover body and the second outer cover body; a second space section enclosed by the second outer cover body; and a detector that detects a gas in the first space section.
US11374260B2
Disclosed herein are electrolyte compositions comprising a fluorinated solvent, a fluorinated sulfone, at least one component selected from a borate salt, and/or an oxalate salt, and/or a fluorinated cyclic carbonate, and at least one electrolyte salt. The fluorinated solvent may be a fluorinated acyclic carboxylic acid ester, a fluorinated acyclic carbonate, a fluorinated acyclic ether, or combinations thereof. The electrolyte compositions are useful in electrochemical cells, such as lithium ion batteries.
US11374258B2
The present invention provides an electrolyte composition that provides better charging/discharging performance when used in a cell than a conventional electrolyte composition. The present invention relates to an electrolyte composition containing an alkali metal salt, at least one polymer selected from the group consisting of a polyether polymer, a (meth)acrylic polymer, a nitrile polymer, and a fluoropolymer, and an ion dissociation accelerator. The composition has an alkali metal salt concentration of 1.8 mol/kg or higher.
US11374257B2
In an embodiment, a softened solid-state electrolyte, comprises an oxide-based solid-state electrolyte, where at least a portion of the oxide anions in the oxide-based solid-state electrolyte is replaced with a replacement anion. In another embodiment, a softened solid-state electrolyte comprises a sulfide-based solid-state electrolyte, wherein at least a portion of the sulfide anions in the sulfide-based solid-state electrolyte is replaced with the replacement anion. When the replacement anion replaces the oxide anion, the replacement anion has a larger atomic radius than the oxide anion and when the replacement anion replaces the sulfide anion, the replacement anion has a larger atomic radius than the sulfide anion.
US11374244B2
An apparatus for measuring average power of a fuel cell may include: a voltage measurement unit configured to sequentially measure forward voltages of unit cells including a fuel cell stack from a bottom cell to a top cell, and sequentially measure reverse voltages of the unit cells from the top cell to the bottom cell; a current measurement unit configured to measure a current of an output terminal of the fuel cell stack; and a control unit configured to control the voltage measurement unit to measure the reverse voltages based on a current measurement time point, after the voltage measurement unit measures the forward voltages, and calculate average power using the forward voltages, the reverse voltages and the measured current.
US11374241B2
A vehicle includes at least one fuel cell stack, a water reservoir housed higher than the at least one fuel cell stack, a first water pump, a second water pump and a control module. The at least one fuel cell stack is operable to generate electrical energy and water. The water reservoir is operable to store water. The first water pump is operable to pump water from the at least one fuel cell stack into the water reservoir against gravity. The second water pump is operable to dispense water from the water reservoir under assistance from gravitational potential energy of water in the water reservoir. The control module is configured to operate the second water pump on an on-demand basis, and operate the first water pump on a time-selective basis.
US11374232B2
A fuel cell column includes first and second fuel cell stacks, a fuel manifold disposed between the first and second fuel cell stacks and configured to provide fuel to the first and second fuel cell stacks, and first and second dielectric separators located between the fuel manifold and the respective first and second fuel cell stacks, and configured to electrically isolate the respective first and second fuel cell stacks from the fuel manifold. The first and second dielectric separators each include a top layer of a ceramic material, a bottom layer of the ceramic material, a middle layer disposed between the top and bottom layers and including a material having a lower density and a higher dielectric strength than the ceramic material, and glass or glass ceramic seals which connect the middle layer to the top and bottom layers.
US11374231B2
The present specification relates to an interconnect for a solid oxide fuel cell, a method for preparing the same, and a solid oxide fuel cell.
US11374224B2
Provided is a binder composition for a non-aqueous secondary battery with which it is possible to form a functional layer that can provide a battery component such as an electrode or a separator with a balance of excellent handleability and process adhesiveness. The binder composition for a non-aqueous secondary battery contains: polymer particles containing a block polymer including a block region composed of an aromatic vinyl monomer unit; a water-soluble polymer including a hydrophilic group; and water. The block polymer has a diblock content of not less than 0 mass % and not more than 60 mass %. The water-soluble polymer has a weight-average molecular weight of not less than 15,000 and not more than 500,000.
US11374221B2
A lithium-ion secondary battery including a cathode, an anode, and an electrolyte, in which the lithium-ion secondary battery includes inorganic phosphate particles, and the cathode includes cathode active material particles which include central particles made of LixAyMzPO4 (0≤x≤1.1, 0.8≤y≤1.1, and 0≤z≤0.2; here, A represents at least one element selected from the group consisting of Fe, Mn, Co, and Ni, and M represents at least one element selected from the group consisting of Mg, Ca, Co, Sr, Ba, Ti, Zn, B, Al, Ga, In, Si, Ge, and rare earth elements) and a carbonaceous film that coats surfaces of the central particles.
US11374219B2
Provided are an easy-to-handle primary battery capable of spontaneous power generation and a moisture sensor including the same. The primary battery includes a separator that is disposed between a negative electrode and negative electrode current collector (a negative electrode) and a positive electrode and positive electrode current collector (a positive electrode), and sucks up electrolyte solution by the capillary phenomenon with an exposed portion of the separator 5 exposed from battery casings.
US11374214B2
The present disclosure relates to a method of making a composite product that may be used as a flexible electrode. An aerosolized mixture of nanotubes and an electrode active material is collected on a porous substrate, such as a filter, until it reaches a desired thickness. The resulting self-standing electrode may then be removed from the porous substrate and may operate as a battery electrode.
US11374213B2
Nanoporous carbon-based scaffolds or structures, and specifically carbon aerogels and their manufacture and use thereof. Embodiments include a sulfur-doped cathode material within a lithium-sulfur battery, where the cathode is collector-less and is formed of a binder-free, monolithic, polyimide-derived carbon aerogel. The carbon aerogel includes pores that surround elemental sulfur and accommodate expansion of the sulfur during conversion to lithium sulfide. The cathode and underlying carbon aerogel provide optimal properties for use within the lithium-sulfur battery.
US11374212B2
A positive electrode for a lithium secondary battery includes a positive electrode current collector; a lower positive electrode active material layer disposed on at least one surface of the positive electrode current collector; and an upper positive electrode active material layer disposed on the lower positive electrode active material layer, wherein the lower positive electrode active material layer includes 90% or more of a sphere-type carbonaceous conductive material as a conductive material, the upper positive electrode active material layer includes 90% or more of a needle-type carbonaceous conductive material as a conductive material, and the content of the conductive material contained in the lower positive electrode active material layer is larger than the content of the conductive material contained in the upper positive electrode active material layer.
US11374211B2
An energy storage composition can be used as a new Na-ion battery cathode material. The energy storage composition with an alluaudite phase of AxTy(PO4)z, NaxTy(PO4)z, Na1.702Fe3(PO4)3 and Na0.872Fe3(PO4)3, is described including the hydrothermal synthesis, crystal structure, and electrochemical properties. After ball milling and carbon coating, the compositions described herein demonstrate a reversible capacity, such as about 140.7 mAh/g. In addition these compositions exhibit good cycling performance (93% of the initial capacity is retained after 50 cycles) and excellent rate capability. These alluaudite compounds represent a new cathode material for large-scale battery applications that are earth-abundant and sustainable.
US11374209B1
Methods of manufacturing cathode active materials, including preparing a solution of a hygroscopic species and a reactive oxygen species, heating the solution at a temperature that is less than about 400° C. for a time sufficient for a precipitate of the cathode active material to form, and collecting the cathode active material. The cathode active materials can be used to prepare cathodes that evolve little or no oxygen during operation. The cathodes can be economically incorporated into batteries that can provide high energy density.
US11374201B2
A thin film package structure, a thin film package method, and a display panel are disclosed. The thin film package structure includes a substrate, an organic adhesive layer, and a package film layer. The package film layer covers the substrate and the organic adhesive layer. The organic adhesive layer in the non-display region is designed to have a groove structure and an embankment structure defined by the groove structure. The groove structure and the embankment structure surround the display region. At least one of the groove structures and the embankment structure is a structure extending in a zigzag form or a grid-shaped structure. The organic adhesive layer is disposed in the non-display region of the substrate, and is designed to have multiple zigzagging or grid-shaped groove structures.
US11374191B2
Provided are an OLED, display panel and display device. The OLED includes a first electrode, a second electrode, a light emitting layer and at least one blocking layer. The second electrode is arranged opposite to the first electrode. The light emitting layer is arranged between the first electrode and the second electrode. The blocking layer is arranged between the light emitting layer and the second electrode and/or between the light emitting layer and the first electrode. Each blocking layer of the at least one blocking layer comprises at least two blocking materials, electron mobility of at least one blocking material of the at least two blocking materials is lower than a first preset value, electron mobility of at least another blocking material of the at least two blocking materials is higher than a second preset value, and the first preset value is lower than the second preset value.
US11374184B2
The embodiments of the disclosure disclose a flexible substrate, a fabrication method thereof, and a flexible display apparatus. The flexible substrate includes a first organic layer, an inorganic buffer layer, and a second organic layer. The inorganic buffer layer is between the first organic layer and the second organic layer. The second organic layer includes inorganic nano-particles. The expansion coefficient of the flexible substrate provided by the embodiment of the present disclosure is more matched with that of the rigid auxiliary substrate, so as to reduce the risk of warping of the rigid auxiliary substrate and then improve the process accuracy when fabricating the display device.
US11374183B2
A manufacturing method of a display device includes: forming a first electrode on a base substrate; forming a pixel definition layer through which an opening is defined to expose an upper surface of the first electrode; providing an organic molecular thin film including a self-assembled monolayer on the first electrode and the pixel definition layer; desorbing a portion of the organic molecular thin film which corresponds to the first electrode; and providing at least one organic layer on the first electrode.
US11374179B2
A dithiazine-based hole transport material, preparing method thereof and an organic light-emitting device are provided; a molecular structural formula of the hole transport material is as following: wherein R1 and R2 are each an electron-donating group.
US11374169B2
A memory cell of a magnetic random access memory includes multiple layers disposed between a first metal layer and a second metal layer. At least one of the multiple layers include one selected from the group consisting of an iridium layer, a bilayer structure of an iridium layer and an iridium oxide layer, an iridium-titanium nitride layer, a bilayer structure of an iridium layer and a tantalum layer, and a binary alloy layer of iridium and tantalum.
US11374167B2
An embedded magnetoresistive random-access memory (MRAM) device including a portion of a metal wiring layer above a semiconductor device and a bottom electrode over the portion of the metal wiring layer. The embedded MRAM where the bottom electrode connects to a first portion of a bottom surface of a magnetoresistive random access memory pillar and a sidewall spacer is on the magnetoresistive random access memory pillar. The embedded MRAM device includes a ring of inner metal is on the portion of the metal wiring layer surrounding a portion of the bottom electrode.
US11374161B2
An actuator according to an aspect of the present invention includes: a driving body including a plurality of conductive grains, a chamber configured to confine the plurality of conductive grains, and two or more electrodes disposed on a surface of the chamber; and a controller configured to obtain, through the two or more electrodes, a change in an electric signal, in response to a load applied to the chamber, and to adjust the load applied to the chamber based on the change in the electric signal.
US11374160B1
A thermoelectric module may include a unit thermoelectric member having a contact portion configured to come into contact with a subject; and a hydrophobic pattern disposed on the contact portion and configured to guide condensate water produced on the contact portion, to the outside of the contact portion, inhibiting stagnation of the condensate water on the contact portion and improving comfort.
US11374159B2
A cooling/warming device according to one embodiment of the present invention provides a cooling/warming device including a case including a lower case and an upper case coupled to the lower case, a fan which is accommodated in the case and circulates air introduced into the case, a thermoelectric device which is accommodated in the case, is disposed on a side surface of the fan, cools some air generated by the fan, and heats the remaining air, and a controller which is connected to the thermoelectric device and the fan and controls operation of the thermoelectric device and the fan. The thermoelectric device includes a first heat transmission member disposed at a side of the lower case, a second heat transmission member disposed at a side of the upper case, and a thermoelectric element disposed between the first heat transmission member and the second heat transmission member. The case includes an inlet through which air is introduced into the case, an air blow pipe through which air passing through the first heat transmission member flows, an air blow port from which the air flowing through the air blow pipe is discharged, a discharge pipe through which air passing through the second heat transmission member flows, and a discharge outlet from which the air flowing through the discharge pipe is discharged, and a bottom surface of the discharge pipe includes inclined regions having different heights at a predetermined point.
US11374152B2
Provided is an optoelectronic semiconductor chip including a semiconductor layer sequence in which an active zone for generating radiation is located between a first semiconductor region and a second semiconductor region. A first electrical contact of the semiconductor layer sequence is applied to the first semiconductor region. A second electrical contact is applied to the second semiconductor region. The second electrical contact is located in a trench of the second semiconductor region. The trench is restricted to the second semiconductor region and ends at a distance from the active zone. A distance between a bottom of the trench and the active zone is at most 3 μm.
US11374150B2
A display device can include a plurality of semiconductor light emitting diodes; first and second wiring electrodes respectively extending from the plurality of semiconductor light emitting diodes to supply an electrical signal to the plurality of semiconductor light emitting diodes; a plurality of pair electrodes disposed on a substrate and having a first electrode and a second electrode that generate an electric field when a current is supplied thereto; a dielectric layer disposed to cover the plurality of pair electrodes; and a covalent bond layer disposed between the dielectric layer and the plurality of semiconductor light emitting diodes, and forming a covalent bond with the dielectric layer and each of the plurality of semiconductor light emitting diodes, wherein the first wiring electrode and the second wiring electrode are located at opposite sides of the plurality of pair electrodes based on the plurality of semiconductor light emitting diodes.
US11374148B2
The invention is directed towards enhanced systems and methods for employing a pulsed photon (or EM energy) source, such as but not limited to a laser, to electrically couple, bond, and/or affix the electrical contacts of a semiconductor device to the electrical contacts of another semiconductor devices. Full or partial rows of LEDs are electrically coupled, bonded, and/or affixed to a backplane of a display device. The LEDs may be μLEDs. The pulsed photon source is employed to irradiate the LEDs with scanning photon pulses. The EM radiation is absorbed by either the surfaces, bulk, substrate, the electrical contacts of the LED, and/or electrical contacts of the backplane to generate thermal energy that induces the bonding between the electrical contacts of the LEDs' electrical contacts and backplane's electrical contacts. The temporal and spatial profiles of the photon pulses, as well as a pulsing frequency and a scanning frequency of the photon source, are selected to control for adverse thermal effects.
US11374144B2
A method for recovering a resource from a CIGS thin-film solar cell to be recycled includes a) providing the CIGS thin-film solar cell, and b) subjecting the CIGS thin-film solar cell to a cooling treatment at a predetermined temperature, such that a light absorbing unit of the CIGS thin-film solar cell can be recovered due to thermal strain difference of materials of the CIGS thin-film solar cell.
US11374139B2
A photovoltaic module incorporates a lamination including a back-sheet, an array of solar cells supported on the back-sheet, and a transparent protective covering over the array of solar cells. The solar cells are arranged in offset or staggered patterns on the back-sheet to present a more random and less rigid industrial appearance to an observer. In some cases, cleaved solar cell segments are arranged into groups that are staggered on the back-sheet. This allows for finer control of the net voltage produced by a module. In other embodiments, full single wafer solar cells are arranged into larger groups, which themselves are staggered on the back-sheet. In either case, the result is a photovoltaic module with an appearance that is more organic and acceptable to homeowners and architects than traditional modules having cells arranged in rigid aligned rows and columns.
US11374137B2
Approaches for foil-based metallization of solar cells and the resulting solar cells are described. For example, a method of fabricating a solar cell involves locating a metal foil above a plurality of alternating N-type and P-type semiconductor regions disposed in or above a substrate. The method also involves laser welding the metal foil to the alternating N-type and P-type semiconductor regions. The method also involves patterning the metal foil by laser ablating through at least a portion of the metal foil at regions in alignment with locations between the alternating N-type and P-type semiconductor regions. The laser welding and the patterning are performed at the same time.
US11374136B2
A semiconductor package is provided. The semiconductor package includes a heat dissipation substrate including a first conductive through-via embedded therein; a sensor die disposed on the heat dissipation substrate; an insulating encapsulant laterally encapsulating the sensor die; a second conductive through-via penetrating through the insulating encapsulant; and a first redistribution structure and a second redistribution structure disposed on opposite sides of the heat dissipation substrate. The second conductive through-via is in contact with the first conductive through-via. The sensor die is located between the second redistribution structure and the heat dissipation substrate. The second redistribution structure has a window allowing a sensing region of the sensor die receiving light. The first redistribution structure is electrically connected to the sensor die through the first conductive through-via, the second conductive through-via and the second redistribution structure. A method of forming the semiconductor package is also provided.
US11374131B2
A thin film transistor, an array substrate, a display device and a method for manufacturing a thin film transistor are provided. The thin film transistor is formed on a base substrate and includes a source; a drain; and a semiconductor active layer having an amorphous silicon layer and one polysilicon portion or a plurality of polysilicon portions, the amorphous silicon layer being contacted with the one polysilicon portion or the plurality of polysilicon portions. The method includes a process of forming a source, a drain, and a semiconductor active layer: wherein forming a semiconductor active layer comprises: forming a first amorphous silicon thin film on a base substrate; and performing a crystallization treatment to the first amorphous silicon thin film to convert a part of the amorphous silicon in the first amorphous silicon thin film into polysilicon, such that a semiconductor active layer comprising one polysilicon portion or a plurality of polysilicon portions are formed.
US11374125B2
A transistor device includes transistor cells each having source and drift regions of a first doping type and a body region of a second doping type in a first region of a semiconductor body, and a gate electrode dielectrically insulated from the body region. A gate conductor arranged on top of a second region of the semiconductor body is electrically connected to each gate electrode. A source conductor arranged on top of the first region is connected to each source and body region. A discharging region of the second doping type is arranged in the second region and located at least partially below the gate conductor, and includes at least one lower dose section in which a doping dose is lower than a minimum doping dose in other sections of the discharging region. The at least one lower dose section is associated with a corner of the gate conductor.
US11374120B2
For example, an Electrostatically Formed Nanowire (EFN) may include a source region; at least one drain region; a wire region configured to drive a current between the source and drain regions via a conductive channel; a first lateral-gate area extending along a first surface of the wire region between the source and drain regions; a second lateral-gate area extending along a second surface of the wire region between the source and drain regions; and a sensing area in opening in a backside of a silicon substrate under the wire region and the first and second lateral-gate areas, the sensing area configured to, in reaction to a predefined substance, cause a change in a conductivity of the conductive channel.
US11374118B2
A method to form a 3D integrated circuit, the method including: providing a first wafer including a first crystalline substrate, a plurality of first transistors, and first copper interconnecting layers, where the first copper interconnecting layers at least interconnect the plurality of first transistors; providing a second wafer including a second crystalline substrate, a plurality of second transistors, and second copper interconnecting layers, where the second copper interconnecting layers at least interconnect the plurality of second transistors; and then performing a face-to-face bonding of the second wafer on top of the first wafer, where the face-to-face bonding includes copper to copper bonding; and thinning the second crystalline substrate to a thickness of less than 5 micro-meters.
US11374110B2
In a gate replacement process, forming a dummy gate and an adjacent structure; In a gate replacement process, a dummy gate and adjacent structure, such as a source/drain region, are formed. The dummy gate is removed, at least in part, using a directional etch to remove some but not all of the dummy gate to form a trench. A portion of the dummy gate remains and protects the adjacent structure. A gate electrode can then be formed in the trench. A two step process can be employed, using an initial isotropic etch followed by the directional etch.
US11374097B2
According to one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes first to third electrodes, first to third semiconductor regions, first and second insulating parts, and a gate electrode. The first semiconductor region is provided on the first electrode. The second semiconductor region is provided on the first semiconductor region. The third semiconductor regions are provided selectively on the second semiconductor region. The first insulating part is arranged with the third and second semiconductor regions, and a portion of the first semiconductor region. The second electrode is provided inside the first insulating part. The gate electrode is provided inside the first insulating part and electrically isolated from the second electrode. The third electrode is provided on the second and third semiconductor regions. The third electrode includes a contact part provided between the third semiconductor regions. The second insulating part is provided between the first semiconductor region and the contact part.
US11374096B1
The present disclosure provides a high voltage semiconductor device includes a substrate, a first well region, a second well region, a source, a drain, a first electrode structure and a second electrode structure. The first well region and the second well region are disposed in the substrate, and which includes a first conductive type and a second conductive type which are complementary with each other. The source and the drain are respectively disposed within the first well region and the second well region. The first electrode structure and the second electrode structure are both disposed on the substrate, and the distance between the top surface of an electrode of the first electrode structure and the top surface of the substrate includes a first height and a second height which are different from each other.
US11374090B2
A semiconductor device with different gate structure configurations and a method of fabricating the same are disclosed. The semiconductor device includes first and second pair of source/drain regions disposed on a substrate, first and second nanostructured channel regions, and first and second gate structures with effective work function values different from each other. The first and second gate structures include first and second high-K gate dielectric layers, first and second barrier metal layers with thicknesses different from each, first and second work function metal (WFM) oxide layers with thicknesses substantially equal to each other disposed on the first and second barrier metal layers, respectively, a first dipole layer disposed between the first WFM oxide layer and the first barrier metal layer, and a second dipole layer disposed between the second WFM oxide layer and the second barrier metal layer.
US11374088B2
A semiconductor device includes a substrate; a well of a first conductivity-type and including an anti-punch-through (APT) layer of the first conductivity-type; source and drain features of a second conductivity-type over the APT layer; a strap feature of the first conductivity-type over the well; multiple vertically-stacked channel layers over the APT layer and connecting the source and drain features; a gate wrapping around each channel layer; source and drain contacts electrically coupled to the source and drain features; source and drain vias landed on the source and drain contacts; a strap contact electrically coupled to the strap feature; and a strap via landed on the strap contact. The source via and the strap via are configured to be coupled to different voltages during a non-active mode of the semiconductor device and to be coupled to a substantially same voltage during an active mode of the semiconductor device.
US11374081B2
The present invention discloses an organic light emitting diode flexible array substrate including a displaying region, a folding region adjacent to the displaying region, a flexible substrate, barrier layer, a buffer layer, a polycrystalline layer stacked together, a first insulation layer disposed on the buffer layer and covering the polycrystalline layer, a first metal layer, a second metal layer, and a third metal layer. Folding signal lines are formed on a portion of the second metal layer in the folding region. Folding signal lines are formed on a portion of the third metal layer in the folding region. Double folding signal lines of the second metal layer and third metal layer drastically increase reliability and lifespan of the signal lines in the folding region.
US11374079B2
The present application discloses a display substrate. The display substrate includes a base substrate; a thin film transistor for driving image display including an active layer; and a first light shielding layer on the base substrate and in an inter-subpixel region between two adjacent subpixel regions. A projection of the first light shielding layer on the base substrate at least partially covers a projection of the inter-subpixel region between two adjacent subpixel regions on the base substrate. The projection of the first light shielding layer on the base substrate is outside a projection of the active layer on the base substrate.
US11374076B2
A display panel is provided, which includes a display area, an encapsulation area, and a frame area, wherein the encapsulation area includes a first encapsulation area and a second encapsulation area, multiple layers of crack prevention structures are disposed in sequence in the frame area and the second encapsulation area and on a side of the first encapsulation area adjacent to the frame area, and each of the multiple layers of the crack prevention structures are present as a dashed circle structure, and includes at least one groove, and the organic layer fills the groove, and wherein grooves of one layer of the multiple layers of the crack prevention structures and grooves of another layer of the multiple layers of the crack prevention structures adjacent to the one layer are mutually staggered.
US11374065B2
A flexible display panel has a display area, a peripheral area surrounding the display area, and a bending area having at least one overlapping area with the peripheral area. The flexible display panel includes a plurality of conductive layers disposed in the display area, and at least one interdigital capacitor disposed in the at least one overlapping area. One of the at least one interdigital capacitor is disposed in a same layer with a same material as one of the plurality of conductive layers.
US11374063B2
The present invention provides a display panel and a manufacturing method of the display panel. The display panel includes a base substrate, a light emitting device layer, an encapsulation layer, and a color filter layer. The color filter layer includes multiple first light shielding portions, multiple color resists, and multiple second light shielding portions. An opening is formed between each two adjacent second light shielding portions and arranged corresponding to the pixel unit. The present invention increases an area for inkjet printing in a high-resolution small-sized display panel and reduces the reflectivity of the display panel to ambient light, and edges of the color filter layer less affect a light emitting device.
US11374059B2
The present disclosure includes memory cells having resistors, and methods of forming the same. An example method includes forming a first conductive line, forming a second conductive line, and forming a memory element between the first conductive line and the second conductive line. Forming the memory element can include forming one or more memory materials, and forming a resistor in series with the one or more memory materials. The resistor can be configured to reduce a capacitive discharge through the memory element during a state transition of the memory element.
US11374047B2
An image sensor including a substrate having a first, a first device isolation region adjacent to the first surface and defining a unit pixel, a transfer gate on the first surface at an edge of the unit pixel, a photoelectric conversion part in the substrate and adjacent to a first side surface of the transfer gate, and a floating diffusion region in the substrate and adjacent to a second side surface of the transfer gate. The second side surface faces the first side surface. The first device isolation region is spaced apart from the second side surface. The substrate and the first device isolation region are doped with impurities having a first conductivity. A first impurity concentration of the first device isolation region is greater than a second impurity concentration of the substrate.
US11374040B1
Structures including multiple photodiodes and methods of fabricating a structure including multiple photodiodes. A substrate has a first trench extending to a first depth into the substrate and a second trench extending to a second depth into the substrate that is greater than the first depth. A first photodiode includes a first light-absorbing layer containing a first material positioned in the first trench. A second photodiode includes a second light-absorbing layer containing a second material positioned in the second trench. The first material and the second material each include germanium.
US11374032B2
There is provided an array substrate including a plurality of pixel regions arranged in rows and columns. The plurality of pixel regions include a corresponding pixel electrode array and a corresponding pixel circuit associated with the corresponding pixel electrode array. Each of the pixel electrode arrays is arranged in rows and columns, and each pixel electrode array includes a plurality of pixel electrodes arranged in an array. The array substrate further includes a plurality of sets of gate lines extending in a row direction and a plurality of sets of data lines extending in a column direction. The plurality of sets of gate lines and rows of the pixel electrode arrays are alternately arranged with each other in the column direction. The plurality of sets of data lines and columns of the pixel regions are alternately arranged with each other in the row direction.
US11374031B2
An electrostatic protection circuit and a manufacturing method thereof, an array substrate and a display apparatus in the field of display technology are provided. This electrostatic protection circuit includes: a discharge sub-circuit, a buffer sub-circuit and an electrostatic protection line, wherein the electrostatic protection line is a common electrode line; the buffer sub-circuit includes a third transistor and a fourth transistor; a gate and a second electrode of the third transistor are both connected to a first electrode of the fourth transistor, and the first electrode of the third transistor is connected to a signal line; a gate and a second electrode of the fourth transistor are both connected to the signal line.
US11374029B2
It is an object to manufacture and provide a highly reliable display device including a thin film transistor with a high aperture ratio which has stable electric characteristics. In a manufacturing method of a semiconductor device having a thin film transistor in which a semiconductor layer including a channel formation region is formed using an oxide semiconductor film, a heat treatment for reducing moisture and the like which are impurities and for improving the purity of the oxide semiconductor film (a heat treatment for dehydration or dehydrogenation) is performed. Further, an aperture ratio is improved by forming a gate electrode layer, a source electrode layer, and a drain electrode layer using conductive films having light transmitting properties.
US11374017B2
A three-dimensional memory device is provided. The three-dimensional memory device may include a substrate, a cell stack, a string selection line gate electrode, a lower vertical channel structure, an upper vertical channel structure, and a bit line. The string selection line gate electrode may include a lower string selection line gate electrode and an upper string selection line gate electrode formed on an upper surface of the lower string selection line gate electrode. The lower string selection line gate electrode may include N-doped poly-crystalline silicon. The upper string selection line gate electrode may include silicide.
US11374009B2
A DRAM including a silicon substrate, buried word lines, and active areas is provided. The silicon substrate has a carrier surface. The buried word lines are buried in the silicon substrate. The active areas are located on the carrier surface. The buried word lines intersect the active area. Each of the buried word lines has a first width in one of the active area, and has a second width outside the active areas, and the first width is larger than the second width. A manufacturing method of DRAM is also provided.
US11374007B2
A memory array comprises vertically-alternating tiers of insulative material and memory cells. The memory cells individually comprise a transistor and a capacitor. One of (a) a channel region of the transistor, or (b) a pair of electrodes of the capacitor, is directly above the other of (a) and (b). Additional embodiments and aspects are disclosed.
US11374002B2
Structures for a field-effect transistor and methods of forming a structure for a field-effect transistor. A semiconductor substrate includes a first region, a second region, and a first source/drain region in the first region. A semiconductor fin is located over the second region of the semiconductor substrate. The semiconductor fin extends laterally along a longitudinal axis to connect to the first region of the semiconductor substrate. The structure includes a second source/drain region including an epitaxial semiconductor layer coupled to the first semiconductor fin, and a gate structure that extends over the semiconductor fin. The gate structure includes a first sidewall and a second sidewall opposite the first sidewall, the first source/drain region is positioned adjacent to the first sidewall of the gate structure, and the second source/drain region is positioned adjacent to the second sidewall of the gate structure.
US11373998B2
Reliability of a gate resistor element during high-temperature operation is enhanced. A semiconductor device includes a drift layer, a base layer, an emitter layer, a gate insulation film, a gate electrode, a gate pad electrode, a first resistance layer, and a first nitride layer. A resistor of the first resistance layer has a negative temperature coefficient. The first resistance layer is made of hydrogen-doped amorphous silicon. The first nitride layer is made of a silicon nitride layer or an aluminum nitride layer.
US11373997B2
An HVIC is a gate driver IC that drives a three-phase inverter and includes high-potential-side regions for three phases on a single semiconductor substrate. The high-potential-side region includes an n-type region and has a potential that is fixed at a power source voltage potential through a VB contact region in the n-type region. The high-potential-side region has a high-side driving circuit that drives an upper arm element of the inverter. An interphase region between adjacent high-potential-side regions has no GND contact region and no GND contact electrode arranged therein, and has only a p-type region at a ground potential constituting a low-potential-side region. The high-potential-side region of one phase has a p−-type opening between the high-side driving circuit of thereof and the high-side driving circuit or the GND contact region of an adjacent high-potential-side region that is of another phase and sandwiches the interphase region therebetween.
US11373988B2
A semiconductor device with reduced variation in the resistance values of the current paths is provided. A semiconductor device including a first circuit block having a plurality of first circuit portions connected in parallel, a second circuit block having a plurality of second circuit portions connected in parallel, and an interblock connection portion electrically connecting the first circuit block and the second circuit block is provided. The interblock connection portion has a resistance adjusting portion that increases a resistance value in a current path from the first circuit block to a second circuit portion arranged closest to the first circuit block in the second circuit block.
US11373983B1
A novel 3D package configuration is provided by stacking a plurality of semiconductor package units or a folded flexible circuit board structure on a lead frame and electrically connected therewith based on the foldable characteristics of the flexible circuit board, and the high temperature resistance of the flexible circuit board which is suitable for insulating layer process, metal layer process, photolithography process, etching and development process, to make conventional semiconductor dies of various functions be bonded on one die and/or two side of a flexible circuit board and electrically connected therewith in advance.
US11373982B2
A semiconductor device according to the present embodiment includes a wiring substrate having a wiring layer. A first semiconductor chip is provided above the wiring substrate. A metallic wire connects the first semiconductor chip and the wiring substrate to each other. A silicon chip is provided above the first semiconductor chip and covers above the metallic wire. A resin layer seals the first semiconductor chip and the silicon chip, and the metallic wire. The silicon chip is insulated from the wiring substrate.
US11373979B2
Stacked microfeature devices and associated methods of manufacture are disclosed. A package in accordance with one embodiment includes first and second microfeature devices having corresponding first and second bond pad surfaces that face toward each other. First bond pads can be positioned at least proximate to the first bond pad surface and second bond pads can be positioned at least proximate to the second bond pad surface. A package connection site can provide electrical communication between the first microfeature device and components external to the package. A wirebond can be coupled between at least one of the first bond pads and the package connection site, and an electrically conductive link can be coupled between the first microfeature device and at least one of the second bond pads of the second microfeature device. Accordingly, the first microfeature device can form a portion of an electrical link to the second microfeature device.
US11373973B2
A light emitting device package according to an embodiment may include a first package body including first and second openings passing through the upper surface and lower surface thereof; a second package body disposed on the first package body and including a third opening passing through the upper surface and lower surface thereof; a light emitting device disposed in the third opening; a first resin disposed between the upper surface of the first package body and the light emitting device; and a second resin disposed in the third opening. According to the embodiment, the upper surface of the first package body may be coupled to the lower surface of the second package body, the first package body may include a recess recessed from the upper surface of the first package body to the lower surface of the first package body, the first resin may be disposed in the recess, the first resin and the second resin include materials different from each other, and the first resin may be in contact with the light emitting device and the second resin.
US11373968B2
A semiconductor die may be coupled to a printed circuit board using a solder ball. The semiconductor die comprises a redistribution layer formed above a semiconductor chip, a polymer layer formed on the redistribution layer, and an Under Bump Metallurgy (UBM) layer formed on the polymer layer. The polymer layer comprises a plurality of vias, which electrically couple the UBM layer to the redistribution layer. The entire UBM layer may be deposited with a continuously flat upper surface for coupling to the solder ball. The plurality of vias may be positioned such that they are centered on a point that is not central to the UBM layer.
US11373966B2
A package including a package substrate; an interposer electrically coupled to the package substrate and including a metal layer; a die including an integrated voltage regulator and electrically coupled to the interposer by solder features; and an inductor formed by a magnetic material disposed between two of the solder features electrically coupled to each other by a portion of the metal layer of the interposer, the inductor electrically coupled to the integrated voltage regulator.
US11373965B2
An exemplary semiconductor technology implemented channelized filter includes a dielectric substrate with semiconductor fabricated metal traces on one surface, and input and output ports. A signal trace connected between the input and output port carries the signal to be filtered. Filter traces connect at intervals along the length of the signal trace to provide a reactance that varies with frequency. Ground traces provide a reference ground. A silicon enclosure with semiconductor fabricated cavities has a metal layer deposited over it. The periphery of the enclosure is dimensioned to engage corresponding ground traces about the periphery of the substrate. Walls of separate cavities enclose each of the filter traces to individually surround each thereby providing electromagnetic field isolation. Metal-to-metal conductive bonds are formed between cavity walls that engage the ground traces to establish a common reference ground. The filter traces preferably meander to minimize the footprint area of the substrate.
US11373963B2
A bonded structure is disclosed. The bonded structure can include a semiconductor element comprising active circuitry. The bonded structure can include a protective element directly bonded to the semiconductor element without an adhesive along a bonding interface. The protective element can include an obstructive material disposed over at least a portion of the active circuitry. The obstructive material can be configured to obstruct external access to the active circuitry. The bonded structure can include a disruption structure configured to disrupt functionality of the at least a portion of the active circuitry upon debonding of the protective element from the semiconductor element.
US11373962B2
A semiconductor structure includes a substrate having a seal ring region and a circuit region; one or more dielectric layers disposed on the substrate; a connection structure disposed in the one or more dielectric layers in the seal ring region, wherein the connection structure includes a stack of metal layers and metal vias connecting the stack of metal layers; and a metal plug disposed between the substrate and the connection structure in the seal ring region, wherein the metal plug has a multi-step profile in a cross-sectional view.
US11373951B2
Embodiments include a package structure with one or more layers of dielectric material, where an interconnect bridge substrate is embedded within the dielectric material. One or more via structures are on a first surface of the embedded substrate, where individual ones of the via structures comprise a conductive material and have a tapered profile. The conductive material is also on a sidewall of the embedded substrate.
US11373927B2
A package substrate includes a multilayer circuit structure, a gas-permeable structure, a heat conducting component, a first circuit layer, a second circuit layer and a build-up circuit structure. The gas-permeable structure and the heat conducting component are respectively disposed in a first and a second through holes of the multilayer circuit structure. The first and the second circuit layers are respectively disposed on an upper and a lower surfaces of the multilayer circuit structure and expose a first and a second sides of the gas-permeable structure. The build-up circuit structure is disposed on the first circuit layer and includes at least one patterned photo-imageable dielectric layer and at least one patterned circuit layer alternately stacked. The patterned circuit layer is electrically connected to the first circuit layer by at least one opening. The build-up circuit structure and the first circuit layer exposed by a receiving opening form a recess.
US11373924B2
Disclosed is a power module capable of maximizing heat dissipation performance through application of a thick lead frame and a ceramic coating layer to upper and lower sides of a semiconductor device.
US11373915B2
A TMR element includes a magnetic tunnel junction, a side wall portion that covers a side surface of the magnetic tunnel junction, and a minute particle region that is disposed in the side wall portion. The side wall portion includes an insulation material. The minute particle region includes the insulation material and a plurality of minute magnetic metal particles that are dispersed in the insulation material. The minute particle region is electrically connected in parallel with the magnetic tunnel junction.
US11373908B2
A method of batch massively parallel die release of a die from a substrate enabling low cost mass production of with passive, system in package (SiP) or system-in-a-package, or systems-on-chip (SoC), filters and/or other devices from a glass substrate.
US11373900B2
Damascene plug and tab patterning with photobuckets for back end of line (BEOL) spacer-based interconnects is described. In an example, a back end of line (BEOL) metallization layer for a semiconductor structure includes an inter-layer dielectric (ILD) layer disposed above a substrate. A plurality of conductive lines is disposed in the ILD layer along a first direction. A conductive tab is disposed in the ILD layer. The conductive tab couples two of the plurality of conductive lines along a second direction orthogonal to the first direction.
US11373897B2
A method for manufacturing a film on a support having a non-flat surface comprises: providing a donor substrate having a non-flat surface, forming an embrittlement zone in the donor substrate so as to delimit the film to be transferred, forming the support by deposition on the non-flat surface of the film to be transferred, and detaching the donor substrate along the embrittlement zone, so as to transfer the film onto the support.
US11373894B2
A substrate processing apparatus which can remove foreign matters attached to the entire upper surface of a substrate such as a wafer is disclosed. The substrate processing apparatus includes: a substrate holding apparatus; and a processing head configured to scrub an upper surface of a substrate. The substrate holding apparatus includes: a substrate holder configured to hold the substrate; and a substrate rotating mechanism configured to rotate the substrate held by the substrate holder. The substrate holder is disposed below the upper surface of the substrate so as not to project above the upper surface of the substrate in a state where the substrate is held by the substrate holder.
US11373888B2
A protective member forming method for forming a protective member on the top surface of a substrate having projections and depressions on the top surface covers the top surface of the substrate with a resin film, adheres the resin film to the substrate so as to conform to the projections and depressions, supplies a curable liquid resin to a region superimposed on the substrate on the upper surface of the resin film, presses the liquid resin by a flat pressing surface via a cover film, thus spreads the liquid resin and cures the liquid resin, and thereby forms the protective member including the resin film, the cured liquid resin, and the cover film on the top surface of the substrate.
US11373887B2
A heat treatment method of a substrate includes setting a temperature profile over the course of stabilization to a target temperature after the substrate is loaded as a reference, and controlling a temperature of the hot plate supporting the substrate on the basis of the reference.
US11373884B2
A placing table on an embodiment includes a supporting member and a base. The supporting member includes a placing region provided with a heater, and an outer peripheral region surrounding the placing region. The base includes a first region supporting the placing region thereon, and a second region surrounding the first region. In the second region, through holes are formed. Wirings electrically connected to the heater passes through the through holes of the second region.
US11373873B2
A method of forming one or more contact regions in a high-voltage field effect transistor (HFET) includes providing a semiconductor material, including a first active layer and a second active layer, with a gate dielectric disposed on a surface of the semiconductor material. A first contact to the semiconductor material is formed that extends through the second active layer into the first active layer, and a passivation layer is deposited, where the gate dielectric is disposed between the passivation layer and the second active layer. An interconnect is formed extending through the first passivation layer and coupled to the first contact. An interlayer dielectric is deposited proximate to the interconnect, and a plug is formed extending into the interlayer dielectric and coupled to the first portion of the interconnect.
US11373864B2
A method of forming an oxide film is provided. The method may include: supplying mist of a solution including a material of the oxide film dissolved therein to a surface of a substrate together with a carrier gas having an oxygen concentration equal to or less than 21 vol % so as to epitaxially grow the oxide film on the surface of the substrate; and bringing the oxide film into contact with a fluid comprising oxygen atoms after the epitaxial growth of the oxide film.
US11373862B2
Method for gap fill includes performing in order the following: (a) performing, consecutively, a first plurality of cycles of an atomic layer deposition process on a substrate; (b) purging process gases from the atomic layer deposition process; (c) performing a first plasma treatment on the substrate by introducing a fluorine plasma in the process chamber; (d) purging process gases from the plasma treatment; (e) repeating, in order, operations (a) through (d) until a predefined plurality of cycles has been performed; (f) performing, consecutively, a second plurality of cycles of the atomic layer deposition process on the substrate; (g) purging process gases from the atomic layer deposition process; (h) performing a second plasma treatment on the substrate by introducing a fluorine plasma in the process chamber; (i) purging process gases from the plasma treatment; (j) repeating, in order, operations (f) through (i) until a predefined plurality of cycles has been performed.
US11373861B2
A system and method for cleaning mesa sidewalls of a template. Curable material may be deposited in a cleaning drop pattern onto a non-yielding imprint field of one of: a device yielding substrate; and a non-yielding substrate. The template may be brought into contact with the curable material. The template has: a recessed surface; a mesa extending from the recessed surface; and wherein the mesa sidewalls connect the recessed surface to the mesa. A relative position of the template to the cleaning drop pattern may be such that the curable material spreads up the mesa sidewalls and does not contact the recessed surface. Cured material may be formed by exposing the curable material to actinic radiation after the curable material has spread up the mesa sidewalls, and before the curable material contacts the recessed surface. The template may be separated from the cured material.
US11373860B2
The collapsed pattern recovering method is a method for recovering a collapsed pattern which is a pattern formed on a front surface of a substrate, and the method includes a reactive gas supplying step which supplies to the front surface of the substrate a reactive gas that can react with a product existing on the front surface. The reactive gas supplying step includes a hydrogen fluoride vapor supplying step which supplies vapor that contains hydrogen fluoride to the front surface of the substrate. The collapsed pattern recovering method further includes a substrate heating step which heats the substrate in parallel with the hydrogen fluoride vapor supplying step.
US11373856B2
A support for a semiconductor structure includes a base substrate, a first silicon dioxide insulating layer positioned on the base substrate and having a thickness greater than 20 nm, and a charge trapping layer having a resistivity higher than 1000 ohm·cm and a thickness greater than 5 microns positioned on the first insulating layer.
US11373853B2
Improved ultraviolet field-emission lamps can be safely deployed close to people because they eliminate the use of toxic materials, mitigate heating issues, and emit light in a wavelength range that is safe for human exposure.
US11373850B2
An ion guide may comprise a set of plate electrodes, each plate electrode having a plurality of apertures formed therethrough. The set of plate electrodes are spatially arranged such that a relative positioning of each plurality of apertures of a respective plate electrode of the set of plate electrodes and respective adjacent plate electrodes of the set of plate electrodes defines a continuous ion flight path through the respective plurality of apertures of each plate electrode of the set of plate electrodes. The continuous ion flight path has a helical-based and/or spiral-based shape.
US11373848B2
The invention relates to time-of-flight mass spectrometers in which individual time-of-flight spectra are measured by detection systems with limited dynamic measurement range and are summed to sum spectra. The invention proposes a method to increase the dynamic range of measurement of the spectrum. To achieve this, those ion signals whose measured values display saturation of the analog-to-digital converter (ADC) are replaced by correction values, particularly if several successive measured values are in saturation. The correction values are obtained from the width of the signals, preferably simply from the number of measured values in saturation.
US11373847B2
A plasma treatment method is provided. The method includes generating a planar plasma in a plasma treatment chamber, observing an effective influence region of the planar plasma by using an optical observation system in which an observation lens has a transparent substrate and a fluorescent coating thereon, adjusting a location of the observation lens to observe a brightness change of the fluorescent coating and the transparent substrate to obtain a location and a thickness range of the effective influence region of the planar plasma, and then adjusting a location of the observation lens to observe a brightness change of the fluorescent coating and the transparent substrate to obtain a location and a thickness range of the effective influence region of the planar plasma. A location of a sample is adjusted to within the effective influence region, and a plasma treatment is then performed on the sample.
US11373843B2
Disclosed is a capacitively coupled plasma etching apparatus, wherein a lower electrode is fixed to a lower end of an electrically conductive supporting rod, a telescope electrically conductive part is fixed to the lower end of the electrically conductive supporting rod, wherein the retractable electrically conductive part being telescoped along an axial direction of the electrically conductive supporting rod; besides, the lower end of the retractable electrically conductive part is electrically connected with the output end of the radio-frequency matcher via an electrically connection portion. In this way, the height of the lower electrode may be controlled through telescoping of the retractable electrically conductive part, such that the spacing between the upper and lower pads becomes adjustable. Besides, an inner electrically conductive ring is further provided at the outer side of the lower electrode; the inner electrically conductive ring is electrically connected with the chamber body via the retractable electrically conductive part; shielding is formed between the inner electrically conductive ring, the lower electrode, and a radio frequency return path in the cavity, avoiding instability of the radio frequency loop caused by the lower electrode radio frequency field during the movement process, thereby achieving stability of the radio-frequency loop while achieving adjustability of the inter-pad spacing.
US11373842B2
An ion beam etching system includes an etching cavity, an etching electrode, and an electrode displacement apparatus used for enabling the electrode to change a working position in the etching cavity. The electrode displacement apparatus includes a dynamic sealing mechanism, a dynamic electrode balance counterweight mechanism, an electrode displacement transmission mechanism, and an electrode displacement driving mechanism. The etching cavity includes a cavity and a cavity cover connected with the cavity. The cavity is of an irregular shape. The cavity includes a partial cylindrical body, a side plate, a tapered transition portion, and a bottom plate. The partial cylindrical body is laterally sealed by means of the side plate. The bottom plate is connected to an end of the partial cylindrical body by means of the tapered transition portion and seals the end of the partial cylindrical body.
US11373839B1
Responsive to irradiation of a charged particle beam, emission from sample is acquired in the form of spectral data. The spectral data is decomposed by a machine learning estimator to abundances and spectral components based on a character of the detector. Images showing compositional information of the sample are generated based on the abundances and the spectral components.
US11373821B2
A magnetic press key includes a housing and a central shaft body disposed in the housing, wherein the bottom of the central shaft body is extended into the housing, and the central shaft body can reciprocate in the vertical direction in a base after the key cap seat is pressed, a first magnetic element is provided on the upper section of the central shaft body, a second magnetic element which can move up and down is provided under the coaxiality of the first magnetic element, and a third magnetic element is provided in the housing. The first magnetic element and the second magnetic element generate repulsive or attractive magnetic force, and the magnitude of the repulsive or attractive magnetic force can be adjusted by changing the magnitude of the energizing current of the energized coil, so that the use hand feeling of the key cap seat is improved.
US11373818B2
The present invention provides a touch device, including a cover plate, a circuit board, a bracket, and a noise reduction layer group. The circuit board is fixed below the cover plate. The circuit board is provided with a trigger zone located on a bottom surface, and includes an elastic sheet located in the trigger zone. The bracket is disposed below the circuit board. The noise reduction layer group is disposed between the bracket and the elastic sheet.
US11373815B2
A circuit breaker includes: at least one external conductor section from an external conductor supply connection in the circuit breaker to an external conductor load connection in the circuit breaker; and a neutral conductor section from a neutral conductor connection in the circuit breaker to a neutral conductor connection in the circuit breaker. The at least one external conductor section includes a mechanical bypass switch and a first mechanical isolating switch which are serially arranged. A second mechanical isolating switch is arranged in the neutral conductor section. A semiconductor circuit arrangement in the circuit breaker is connected in parallel to the bypass switch. A current measuring device is arranged in the at least one external conductor section that is linked to an electronic control unit in the circuit breaker. The electronic control unit operates the bypass switch, the first and second mechanical isolating switches, and the semiconductor circuit arrangement.
US11373814B2
A mechanical interlock for a switch gear switch. The mechanical interlock includes a base and a slider. The slider is moveable relative to the base between a first position and a second position. The mechanical interlock is configured to lock the position of the switch when the slider is in the second position.
US11373810B2
In a multilayer ceramic capacitor, a first segregation defined by at least one metal element selected from a group consisting of Mg, Mn, and Si is present at each of an end in a length direction of a first internal electrode layer not connected to a second external electrode and an end in a length direction of a second internal electrode layer not connected to a first external electrode. A second segregation defined by at least one metal element selected from a group consisting of Mg, Mn, and Si is present at each of an end of the first internal electrode layer in a width direction and an end of the second internal electrode layer in the width direction.
US11373809B2
The present invention is directed to a multilayer ceramic capacitor. The capacitor comprises a top surface, a bottom surface, and at least one side surface connecting the top surface and the bottom surface. The capacitor comprises a main body containing a plurality of alternating dielectric layers and internal electrode layers comprising a first plurality of internal electrode layers and a second plurality of internal electrode layers. A first through-hole conductive via electrically connects the first plurality of internal electrode layers to a first external terminal on the top surface and a first external terminal on the bottom surface of the capacitor. A second through-hole conductive via electrically connects the second plurality of internal electrode layers to a second external terminal on the top surface and a second external terminal on the bottom surface of the capacitor. The at least one side surface does not include an external terminal.
US11373801B2
A device for contactless transmission of data and energy and for angle measurement, including a first disk-shaped unit and a second disk-shaped unit, which move in relation to one another around a shared rotational axis and are opposite to one another axially spaced apart with respect to the rotational axis. The first disk-shaped unit including a first annular disk-shaped recess, and the second disk-shaped unit including a first annular disk-shaped recess, which is opposite to the first annular disk-shaped recess of the first disk-shaped unit radially spaced apart with respect to the rotational axis. The first disk-shaped unit includes at least one second annular disk-shaped unit situated concentrically to the first annular disk-shaped recess of the first disk-shaped unit, and the second disk-shaped unit includes at least one second annular disk-shaped recess situated concentrically to the first annular disk-shaped recess of the second disk-shaped unit.
US11373796B2
An inductor component 1 includes a resin layer 2, a protective film 4, two metal pins 5 provided to stand in the resin layer 2, and a metal plate 6 joined to both of the metal pins 5, and both of the metal pins 5 and the metal plate 6 configure an inductor electrode 7. Both of the metal pins 5 are provided to stand in the resin layer 2, upper end surfaces 5a thereof are exposed to an upper surface 2a of the resin layer 2, and lower end surfaces 5b thereof are exposed to a lower surface 2b. Recesses 8 are formed around the peripheral edges of the upper end surfaces 5a of both of the metal pins 5 by laser beam irradiation.
US11373782B2
A method is disclosed to identify a port that is associated with a faulty cable. In one embodiment, such a method identifies a cable to replace. The cable provides a path between a first port, residing on a first component, and a second port, residing on a second component. The method further identifies whether an alternative path, bypassing the first cable, exists between the first component and the second component. In the event the alternative path exists, the method sends, over the alternative path, from the first component to the second component, a command to activate an indicator on the second port. This command is received and executed by the second component to activate the indicator. A corresponding apparatus and computer program product are also disclosed.
US11373769B2
A nuclear plant includes a nuclear reactor, a containment structure that at least partially defines a containment environment of the nuclear reactor, and a passive containment cooling system that causes coolant fluid to flow downwards from a coolant reservoir to a bottom of a coolant channel coupled to the containment structure and rise through the coolant channel toward the coolant reservoir due to absorbing heat from the nuclear reactor. A check valve assembly, in fluid communication with the coolant reservoir, selectively enables one-way flow of a containment fluid from the containment environment to the coolant reservoir, based on a pressure at an inlet being equal to or greater than a threshold magnitude. A fusible plug, in fluid communication with the coolant reservoir at a bottom vertical depth below the bottom of the coolant reservoir, enables coolant fluid to flow into the containment structure based on at least partially melting.
US11373763B2
A high performance field reversed configuration (FRC) system includes a central confinement vessel, two diametrically opposed reversed-field-theta-pinch formation sections coupled to the vessel, and two divertor chambers coupled to the formation sections. A magnetic system includes quasi-dc coils axially positioned along the FRC system components, quasi-dc mirror coils between the confinement chamber and the formation sections, and mirror plugs between the formation sections and the divertors. The formation sections include modular pulsed power formation systems enabling static and dynamic formation and acceleration of the FRCs. The FRC system further includes neutral atom beam injectors, pellet injectors, gettering systems, axial plasma guns and flux surface biasing electrodes. The beam injectors are preferably angled toward the midplane of the chamber. In operation, FRC plasma parameters including plasma thermal energy, total particle numbers, radius and trapped magnetic flux, are sustainable at or about a constant value without decay during neutral beam injection.
US11373751B2
There is a need for more effective and efficient predictive data analysis solutions and/or more effective and efficient solutions for generating image representations of categorical/scalar data. Various embodiments of the present invention address one or more of the noted technical challenges. In one example, a method comprises receiving the one or more categorical input features; generating an image representation of the one or more categorical input features, wherein the image representation comprises image region values each associated with a categorical input feature, and further wherein each image region value of the one or more image region values is determined based at least in part on the corresponding categorical input feature associated with the image region value; and processing the image representation using an image-based machine learning model to generate the image-based predictions.
US11373748B2
An integrated circuit includes circuitry to control a process. The process includes adjusting fuzzy-logic control parameters based on received and retrieved blood glucose-related data, predicting blood glucose levels based on the received blood-glucose-related data, and generating control signals to control dispensing of insulin based on the received blood glucose-related data and the fuzzy-logic control parameters. The process may include predicting blood glucose levels based on the retrieved blood glucose-related data. The process may include transitioning between a post-meal correction protocol and a fasting protocol. The process may include transitioning from a post-meal correction protocol to a fasting protocol when a fasting criteria is satisfied.
US11373738B1
A system and method for acquiring, compiling and displaying data indicative of healthcare data workflow within an integrated healthcare enterprise simplifies the monitoring and identification of inefficiencies such as bottlenecks in the enterprise. Information gathered from enterprise system components and data files are used to measure individual component performance. System alerts and messaging capabilities allow an enterprise administrator to remedy potential bottlenecks before problems arise. Remedial measures may be programmed into the system to automatically remedy inefficiencies as they are identified.
US11373736B2
A method performed by a processing system includes identifying a first node in a metadata tree of a patient that corresponds to an encrypted electronic health record in an encrypted data store and preventing a portion of the first node from being decrypted with a node key of a first healthcare participant in response to a second node of the metadata tree including key rotation information that indicates that the node key has been revoked by a second healthcare participant.
US11373729B2
A replacement block pool for a memory device is established. The replacement block pool comprises one or more valid blocks from a set of valid blocks in the memory device determined based on a constraint defining a minimum number of valid blocks for the memory device. A grown bad block is detected in the memory device. The grown bad block is replaced with a replacement block from the replacement block pool in response to detecting the grown bad block.
US11373727B1
Logic (apparatus and/or software) is provided that separates read and restore operations. When a read is completed, the read data is stored in a restore buffer allowing other latency critical operations such as reads to be serviced before the restore. Deferring restore operations minimizes latency and burst bandwidth for reads and minimizes the performance impact of the non-critical restore operations.
US11373726B2
A system includes a processor and a memory set coupled to the processor. The system also includes a repair circuit coupled to the memory set. The repair circuit includes a first repair circuit and a second repair circuit. The repair circuit also includes a test controller configured to select between the first repair circuit and the second repair circuit to perform an in-field self-repair of the memory set.
US11373715B1
A post over-erase correction (POEC) method with an auto-adjusting verification mechanism and a leakage degree detection function detects gm degradation or leakage degree of flash cells before or after entering the POEC process. When a preset condition is satisfied, the auto-adjusting verification mechanism of the POEC is switched on to further reduce leakage current. After cycling, the POEC repairs Vt of over-erased cells to a higher level to solve leakage issues. The erase shot count increases due to slower erase speeds after cycling. Therefore, the cycling degree of flash cells is detected by observing the shot number that the erase operation used. When the leakage phenomenon becomes serious, the bit line (BL) leakage current, amount of repaired BLs, and over-erase correction (OEC) shot number will increase during the OEC procedure. Therefore, the leakage degree of flash cells can be detected by inspecting the above data.
US11373714B2
A group of sectors of a memory is provisioned for a logical volume such that an unprovisioned capacity of the memory interleaves at least a subset of the group of sectors to provide proximity disturb isolation. A request to access the memory is received, the request including a logical address within the logical volume. A sector within the group of sectors is identified, the sector corresponding to the logical address, and the requested access is performed in the sector within the group of sectors.
US11373709B2
A memory system includes a memory device including a plane including a plurality of memory blocks, each memory block including a plurality of memory cells, each memory cell capable of storing multi-bit data, and a controller configured to determine that a second memory block is a candidate block when an issue-triggering operation is performed for a first memory block, adjust levels of read voltages when receiving a read command for data stored in the second memory block determined as the candidate block, and control the memory device to supply adjusted levels of the read voltages to the second memory block to perform a read operation corresponding to the read command. The second memory block and the first memory block are included in the same plane. The issue-triggering operation includes either a program operation or an erase operation.
US11373705B2
Systems, methods, and apparatus related to dynamically determining read voltages used in memory devices. In one approach, a memory device has a memory array including memory cells. One or more resistors are formed as part of the memory array. A memory controller increments a counter as write operations are performed on the memory cells. When the counter reaches a limit, a write operation is performed on the resistors. The write operation applies voltages to the resistors similarly as applied to the memory cells over time during normal operation. When performing a read operation, a current is applied to one or more of the resistors to determine a boost voltage. When reading the memory cells, a read voltage is adjusted based on the boost voltage. The memory cells are read using the adjusted read voltage.
US11373704B2
A resistive RAM (RRAM) device has a bit line, a word line, a source line carrying a bias voltage that is a substantially static and non-negative voltage, an RRAM cell, and a bit line control coupled to the bit line circuit. The RRAM cell includes a gate node coupled to the word line, a bias node coupled to the source line, and a bit line node coupled to the bit line. The bit line control circuit is configured to generate non-negative command voltages to perform respective memory operations on the RRAM cell.
US11373703B2
During a writing operation to change a resistance of a part of a variable resistance material film facing a first word line, the semiconductor storage device applies a first voltage to the first word line, applies a second voltage to a second word line, and applies a third voltage to a third word line. The first, second, and third word lines are stacked above a substrate. The second word line is adjacent to the first word line in the stacking direction. The third word line is not adjacent to the first word line in the stacking direction.
US11373700B2
To provide a semiconductor device which can be stably operated while achieving a reduction of the power consumption. A semiconductor device includes a CPU, a system controller which designates an operation speed of the CPU, P-type SOTB transistors, and N-type SOTB transistors. The semiconductor device is provided with an SRAM which is connected to the CPU, and a substrate bias circuit which is connected to the system controller and is capable of supplying substrate bias voltages to the P-type SOTB transistors and the N-type SOTB transistors. Here, when the system controller designates a low speed mode to operate the CPU at a low speed, the substrate bias circuit supplies the substrate bias voltages to the P-type SOTB transistors and the N-type SOTB transistors.
US11373697B2
A semiconductor memory device includes a cell array including a plurality of word lines; a plurality of address storing circuits suitable for sequentially storing a sampling address as one of a plurality of latch addresses, and sequentially outputting each of the latch addresses as a target address according to a refresh command; a duplication decision circuit suitable for preventing the sampling address from being stored in the address storing circuits when the sampling address is identical to any of the latch addresses stored in the address storing circuits; and a row control circuit suitable for refreshing one or more word lines based on the target address in response to the refresh command.
US11373687B1
Pose of a person depicted within a video may be determined. The pose of the person depicted within the video may be used to edit the video. Visual effects may be applied to the video based on the pose of the person depicted within the video. Timing of the video may be remapped to timing of music providing accompaniment for the video edit.
US11373682B2
A data storage device is disclosed comprising at least one head configured to access a magnetic tape. The head is used to write contiguously to the magnetic tape a first preamble, followed by a first sync mark, followed by symbols of a first data sector, followed by a second sync mark, followed by a second preamble, followed by a third sync mark, followed by symbols of a second data sector.
US11373678B2
A data storage device is disclosed comprising a voice coil motor (VCM) configured to actuate a head over a disk. The data storage device further comprises control circuitry comprising a digital current control loop including a windowed delta-sigma analog-to-digital converter (ADC) configured to control the VCM. A vibration of the data storage device is measured, and at least one of a gain or a window of the windowed delta-sigma ADC is configured based on the measured vibration.
US11373671B2
The present disclosure relates to a device for processing an audio signal. The device may include a first acoustic-electric transducer and a second acoustic-electric transducer. The first acoustic-electric transducer may have a first frequency response, and may be configured to detect the audio signal and generate a first sub-band signal according to the detected audio signal. The second acoustic-electric transducer may have a second frequency response, the second frequency response being different from the first frequency response. The second acoustic-electric transducer may be configured to detect the audio signal and generate a second sub-band signal according to the detected audio signal.
US11373668B2
An audio enhancement method includes receiving a first plurality of input signals representative of audio captured using an array of two or more sensors, the first plurality of input signals characterized by a first signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), with the audio being the signal-of-interest. The method also includes receiving a second input signal representative of the audio, the second input signal characterized by a second SNR. The second SNR is higher than the first SNR. The method further includes combining the first plurality of input signals and the second input signal to generate one or more driver signals, and driving one or more acoustic transducers using the one or more driver signals to generate an acoustic signal representative of the audio. The driver signals include spatial information derived from the first plurality of input signals, and are characterized by a third SNR that is higher than the first SNR.
US11373667B2
Systems and methods for processing an audio signal include an audio input operable to receive an input signal comprising a time-domain, single-channel audio signal, a subband analysis block operable to transform the input signal to a frequency domain input signal comprising a plurality of k-spaced under-sampled subband signals, a reverberation reduction block operable to reduce reverberation effect, including late reverberation, in the plurality of k-spaced under-sampled subband signals, a noise reduction block operable to reduce background noise from the plurality of k-spaced under-sampled subband signals, and a subband synthesis block operable to transform the subband signals to the time-domain, thereby producing an enhanced output signal.
US11373665B2
The disclosure includes a voice isolation system comprising an acoustic echo-cancelation subsystem configured to receive a plurality of input signals, subtract an interference component from the input signals, and provide a plurality of output signals. The system also includes an adaptive beamformer subsystem configured to receive the plurality of output signals from the acoustic echo-cancelation subsystem and compute a signal-to-noise ratio enhanced signal based on the received output signals. The system also includes a residual noise suppressor subsystem configured to attenuate at least one portion of the SNR enhanced signal received from the adaptive beamformer subsystem based on the at least one portion having an SNR below a predetermined SNR threshold. The system also includes an automatic gain control subsystem configured to process a signal outputted from the residual noise suppressor subsystem and transmit a resulting signal as an output signal.
US11373662B2
Audio system height channel up-mixing that is configured to develop two or more height channels from audio sources that do not include height-related encoding. The up-mixing involves determining correlations and normalized channel energies between input audio signals. At least two height channels (e.g., left and right height audio signals) are developed from the correlations and normalized energies.
US11373661B2
The present document relates to a method of layered encoding of a frame of a compressed higher-order Ambisonics, HOA, representation of a sound or sound field. The compressed HOA representation comprises a plurality of transport signals. The method comprises assigning the plurality of transport signals to a plurality of hierarchical layers, the plurality of layers including a base layer and one or more hierarchical enhancement layers, generating, for each layer, a respective HOA extension payload including side information for parametrically enhancing a reconstructed HOA representation obtainable from the transport signals assigned to the respective layer and any layers lower than the respective layer, assigning the generated HOA extension payloads to their respective layers, and signaling the generated HOA extension payloads in an output bitstream. The present document further relates to a method of decoding a frame of a compressed HOA representation of a sound or sound field, an encoder and a decoder for layered coding of a compressed HOA representation, and a data structure representing a frame of a compressed HOA representation of a sound or sound field.
US11373637B2
A processing system operates in a first power domain and includes a first memory, a memory access circuit, and a first processing circuit. The first memory stores sound data detected by a microphone. The memory access circuit transfers the sound data to a second memory according to a first command, in order to store the sound data as voice data. The first processing circuit outputs a second command according to a human voice detection signal. The second command is for enabling a second processing circuit, in order to determine whether the voice data in the second memory matches a predetermined voice command. One of the first and the second processing circuits outputs the first command. The second processing circuit operates in a second power domain. A power consumption to which the first power domain corresponds is lower than a power consumption to which the second power domain corresponds.
US11373636B2
The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for expanding semantic classes via user feedback. Aspects of the invention learn how a set of labels can be expanded from user-generated tags. Text labels applied by human reviewers to digital content can be inspected and compared to one another. When a threshold of human-generated text tags contain similar terminology, the set of labels can be expanded to define a representation of the similar terminology. Similar terminology can include terms that originate from the same base term, are synonyms, are more specific terms related to a general term category, etc. Similar terminology can be consolidated into a defining term that is used to generate a new (more granular) label or a new top level label. Accordingly, new semantic classes can be discovered from user-generated feedback. New semantic classes can provide a more granular representation of content item classification.
US11373626B2
A method for processing images in an information sharing and collaboration environment includes: receiving a plurality of graphical contents including a first graphical content from a first source and a second graphical content from a second source different from the first source within the information sharing and collaboration environment and overlapping the first and second graphical contents; determining a probability that the first graphical content was created before the second graphical content; rendering, using a transparency blending formula and based on the probability that the first graphical content was created before the second graphical content, an opacity of an overlapped portion of the first and second graphical contents; and displaying, on a display, the overlapped first and second graphical contents.
US11373616B2
The disclosure includes bus wiring constituted by wiring lines; a gradation voltage generation circuit that generates M gradation voltages representing brightness levels with M gradations, and applies the M gradation voltages to an intermediate portion on M wiring lines belonging to the bus wiring; a plurality of decoders, each of which receives M gradation voltages via the M wiring lines and selects one of the M gradation voltages according to the pixel data pieces to output the selected gradation voltage; a plurality of output amplifiers that individually amplifies the voltages output from the plurality of decoders and generates the amplified voltages as the plurality of pixel drive voltages; and first and second inter-gradation short circuits that short-circuit one ends of each of the M wiring lines and the other ends of each of the M wiring lines according to a load signal for capturing the pixel data pieces.
US11373615B2
It is an object to provide a semiconductor device which can supply a signal with sufficient amplitude to a scan line while power consumption is kept small. Further, it is an object to provide a semiconductor device which can suppress distortion of a signal supplied to the scan line and shorten a rising time and a falling time while power consumption is kept small. A semiconductor device which includes a plurality of pixels each including a display element and at least one first transistor and a scan line driver circuit supplying a signal for selecting the plurality of pixels to a scan line. A light-transmitting conductive layer is used for a pixel electrode layer of the display element, a gate electrode layer of the first transistor, source and drain electrode layers of the first transistor, and the scan line. The scan line driver circuit includes a second transistor and a capacitor for holding a voltage between a gate electrode layer of the second transistor and a source electrode layer of the second transistor. The source electrode of the second transistor is connected to the scan line.
