US11387825B2
An overheat protection circuit includes a first constant current source which supplies a first constant current to a temperature sensitive element, a first transistor provided between the temperature sensitive element and the first constant current source, an output current detection circuit which controls a gate voltage of the first transistor by a voltage based on a sense current corresponding to an output current of a semiconductor device, and an output circuit which supplies an overheat detection signal based on a result of comparison between a temperature sensitive current and the first constant current.
US11387821B2
A pulse signal sending circuit that outputs pulse signals from an output terminal includes: an output transistor; an inverter circuit; and a delay circuit. The output transistor includes a drain terminal connected to the output terminal. The inverter circuit is connected to a gate terminal of the output transistor and outputs a signal to be input to the gate terminal of the output transistor. The delay circuit receives a pulse signal as an input and delays rising or falling of the input pulse signal. The pulse signal delayed by the delay circuit is input to the inverter circuit.
US11387817B2
A master latch circuit, including a first p-type transistor, a first n-type transistor, and a second n-type transistor connected in series; a first node connected to the first p-type transistor and the first n-type transistor, and a NAND circuit configured to receive a signal of the first node and a clock signal and output a result of a NAND operation to a second node, wherein a gate of the first p-type transistor is connected to the second node.
US11387813B2
A frequency multiplier and a delay-reused duty cycle calibration method thereof are provided. The frequency multiplier includes a first calibration circuit, a second calibration circuit and a controller. In a calibration mode of the frequency multiplier, an output terminal of a delay cell is coupled to an input terminal of the delay cell. The first calibration circuit repeatedly uses the delay cell M times for generating a first delayed signal. The controller controls the delay cell according to the first delayed signal, to find a delay of the delay cell which makes M times the delay be equal to one cycle period of an input clock signal. After the delay is found, the delay cell is repeatedly used M/2 times for generating a second delayed signal. The controller controls the second calibration circuit according to the second delayed signal to make an input calibration signal have a target duty cycle.
US11387812B2
This invention relates to a driving circuit with electronic switches in serial connection structure, and this driving circuit includes: electronic switch module and active drive module, electronic switch module includes: n pcs electronic switches in serial connection, and n pcs electronic switches D and S terminal connected in series in turn; active drive modules includes: n pcs active drive circuits; and in this invention, the power supply and the driving pulse signal of the electronic switch K2 to Kn are obtained successively from electronic switch K1, and the electronic switch K1 to Kn is on and off in turn; The n pcs electronic switches have nanosecond level of the switching performance of the active circuit, which are suitable for the high frequency high power gate drive circuit when n pcs electronic switches series structure is used.
US11387808B2
A bulk acoustic wave resonator is disclosed. The bulk acoustic wave resonator can include a ceramic substrate, and a piezoelectric layer on the ceramic substrate. The bulk acoustic wave resonator can also include first and second electrodes positioned on opposing sides of the piezoelectric layer. The bulk acoustic wave resonator can also include passivation layers that includes a first passivation layer and a second passivation layer. The first passivation layer can be positioned between the ceramic substrate and the first electrode. The second electrode can be positioned between the piezoelectric layer and the second passivation layer. The bulk acoustic wave resonator can further include a frame structure along an edge of an active region of the bulk acoustic wave resonator.
US11387804B2
Micro-machined acoustic and ultrasonic transducer (MAUT), particularly piezoelectric MAUT (PMAUT), performance tradeoffs have meant reasonable pixel depth resolution necessitated low quality factor (Q) transducers with power distributed over a large bandwidth yielding modest imaging ranges whilst high-Q transducers providing higher acoustic power output for longer imaging ranges exhibit extended ringing limiting pixel depth information. Accordingly, the inventors have established MAUTs supporting high-Q transducers for long-range high-resolution imaging by integrating electromechanical actuators (dampers) which can be selectively engaged to mechanically damped the MAUT. In several applications PMAUT arrays are required where all transducer elements should have almost identical resonant frequencies. However, prior art fabrication processes have tended to produce PMAUTs with large inter-chip and inter-wafer variances. Prior art methodologies to reduce inter-wafer process variations do not address intra-wafer or inter-chip process variations and accordingly the inventors have established manufacturing methodologies and design solutions to address these for the PMAUT resonant frequency.
US11387798B2
Unpowered switching module. A switching module can include a first input terminal, a second input terminal, and an output terminal. The output terminal can be configured to output a radio-frequency (RF) component of an input signal received on the first input terminal or the second input terminal in response to the input signal including a positive direct-current (DC) voltage.
US11387796B2
A power amplifier circuit includes a lower-stage transistor having a first power supply voltage supplied to a first terminal, a second terminal connected to ground, and a first signal supplied to a third terminal; an upper-stage transistor having a second power supply voltage supplied to a first terminal, a second signal obtained by amplifying the first signal being output from the first terminal, a second terminal connected to the first terminal of the lower-stage transistor via a first capacitor, and a third terminal connected to ground via a ground path; an inductor that connects the second terminal of the upper-stage transistor to ground; and an adjustment circuit that adjusts impedance seen from the third terminal of the upper-stage transistor. The adjustment circuit includes a second capacitor and at least one resistance element connected in series with the ground path between the third terminal of the upper-stage transistor and ground.
US11387793B2
This application relates to amplifier circuitry, in particular class-D amplifiers, operable in open-loop and closed-loop modes. An amplifier (300) has a forward signal path for receiving an input signal (SIN) and outputting an output signal (SOUT) and a feedback path operable to provide a feedback signal (SFB) from the output. A feedforward path provide a feedforward signal (SFF) from the input and a combiner (105) is operable to determine an error signal (ε) based on a difference between the feedback signal and the feedforward signal. The feedforward comprises a compensation module (201) configured to apply a controlled transfer function to the feedforward signal in the closed-loop mode of operation, such that an overall transfer function for the amplifier is substantially the same in the closed-loop mode of operation and the open-loop mode of operation.
US11387789B2
Charge pump tracker circuitry is disclosed having a first switch network configured to couple a first flying capacitor between a voltage input terminal and a ground terminal during a first charging phase and couple the first flying capacitor between the voltage input terminal and a pump output terminal during a first discharging phase. A second switch network is configured to couple a second flying capacitor between the voltage input terminal and the ground terminal during a second charging phase and couple the second flying capacitor between the voltage input terminal and the pump output terminal during a second discharging phase. A switch controller is configured to monitor first and second voltages across the first and second flying capacitors, respectively, during the first and second discharging phases and in response to control the first and second switch networks so that the first the second discharging phases alternate in an interleaved mode.
US11387786B2
An amplifier includes amplifier circuits connected in series between a ground and a power supply, each amplifier circuit includes: a transistor; and a first capacitance, one end of which is connected to a drain of the transistor, a first amplifier circuit connected closest to the power supply includes a load connected between the drain of the transistor and the power supply, each of the amplifier circuits except for the first amplifier circuit includes a load connected between the drain of the transistor of an own amplifier circuit and a source of the transistor of an amplifier circuit adjacent to the own amplifier circuit, each of the amplifier circuits except for an amplifier circuit connected farthest from the power supply includes a second capacitance connected between the source of the transistor and the ground, and the second capacitance has a capacitance value larger than a capacitance value of the first capacitance.
US11387784B2
A power amplification module includes: a first bipolar transistor in which a radio frequency signal is input to a base and an amplified signal is output from a collector; a second bipolar transistor that is thermally coupled with the first bipolar transistor and that imitates operation of the first bipolar transistor; a third bipolar transistor in which a first control voltage is supplied to a base and a first bias current is output from an emitter; a first resistor that generates a third control voltage corresponding to a collector current of the second bipolar transistor at a second terminal; and a fourth bipolar transistor in which a power supply voltage is supplied to a collector, the third control voltage is supplied to a base, and a second bias current is output from an emitter.
US11387782B2
A stacked-die oscillator package includes an oscillator circuit die having inner bond pads, and outer bond pads, and a bulk acoustic wave (BAW) resonator die having a piezoelectric transducer with a first and second BAW bond pad on a same side coupled to a top and bottom electrode layer across a piezoelectric layer. A first metal bump is on the first BAW bond pad and a second metal bump is on the second BAW bond pad flip chip bonded to the inner bond pads of the oscillator circuit die. A polymer material is in a portion of a gap between the BAW and oscillator circuit die.
US11387774B2
A method for controlling the orientation of a single-axis solar tracker (1) orientable about an axis of rotation (A), said method implementing the following steps: a) observing the evolution over time of the cloud coverage above the solar tracker (1); b) determining the evolution over time of an optimum inclination angle of the solar tracker (1) substantially corresponding to a maximum of solar radiation on the solar tracker (1), depending on the observed cloud coverage; (c) predicting the future evolution of the cloud coverage based on the observed prior evolution of the cloud coverage; d) calculating the future evolution of the optimum inclination angle according to the prediction of the future evolution of the cloud coverage; e) servo-controlling the orientation of the solar tracker (1) according to the prior evolution of the optimum inclination angle and depending on the future evolution of the optimum inclination angle. The present invention finds application in the field of solar trackers.
US11387773B2
A heliostat apparatus including: a frame supporting a solar battery panel; a north-south rotation mechanism having an elevation angle rotation axis for rotating the frame in a north-south direction; an east-west rotation mechanism having an azimuth angle rotation axis for rotating the frame in an east-west direction; and a support, where an angle in the north-south direction of a panel surface of the solar battery panel is adjusted by the north-south rotation mechanism; an angle in the east-west direction of the panel surface is adjusted by the east-west rotation mechanism; the elevation angle rotation axis and the azimuth angle rotation axis are in a skew positional relationship; and the frame is held by a truss structure of each of the north-south rotation mechanism and the east-west rotation mechanism. A type of heliostat apparatus that follows the movement of the sun and can hold a solar battery panel stably.
US11387768B2
A direct-current power supply device includes a reactor, a bridge circuit that converts alternating-current voltage output from an alternating-current power supply, which is connected to the reactor, into direct-current voltage, a capacitor that smoothes the output voltage of the bridge circuit, a current detector that detects a first current flowing as an alternating current between the alternating-current power supply and the bridge circuit, a current detector that detects a second current flowing as a direct current between the bridge circuit and the capacitor, an overcurrent determination unit that determines on the basis of a detected first current value whether or not the first current is an overcurrent, and an overcurrent determination unit that determines on the basis of a detected second current value whether or not the second current is an overcurrent. The bridge circuit stops operating when a determination result of either the overcurrent determination unit or the overcurrent determination unit indicates an overcurrent.
US11387767B2
A torque-limiting safety circuit servo drive for AC permanent magnet motors including a three-phase inverter bridge, a first current sensor in series with a first motor phase, a second current sensor in series with a second motor phase, a third current sensor in series with the DC bus, and a drive control circuit that controls the six pulse-width modulated gate drive signals for the three-phase inverter bridge. The drive circuit has first and second safety channel STO inputs whereby either channel can shut down the three-phase inverter bridge, emits a signal set to represent the switching state of the three-phase inverter bridge, and modifies the switching pattern of the PWM to ensure the dwell times of PWM is sufficiently long to allow a valid measurement of phase current using the bus current sensor. First and second safety processors controls the first and second safety channel STO inputs, respectively.
US11387764B2
An electric motor may comprise a rotor and a stator. One or more first cables connected to a first power converter circuit of are wrapped adjacent to at least some stator teeth of a stator core to form at least a first portion of one or more coil windings. One or more second cables connected to a second power converter circuit of the plurality of power converter circuit also may be wrapped adjacent to at least some of the stator teeth to form at least a second portion of the one or more coil windings.
US11387761B2
A motor drive that outputs a sinusoidal waveform utilizes power switching devices operable at high switching frequencies. The switching devices may be operated, for example, between twenty kilohertz and one megahertz. A first filter is included at the output of the motor drive which has a bandwidth selected to attenuate voltage components at the output which are at the switching frequency or multiples thereof such that the output voltage waveform is generally sinusoidal. Additional filtering is included within the motor drive to establish a circulation path for common mode currents within the motor drive. Further, a shield is provided adjacent to those components within the motor drive that may experience voltage or current waveforms at the switching frequency or multiples thereof to cause radiated emissions to establish eddy currents within the EMI shield rather than passing through the shield into the environment.
US11387757B2
A method for estimating a magnet temperature of a rotor magnet within a rotary electric machine includes, while a rotor of the electric machine is stationary, injecting a high-frequency voltage component onto a control voltage of the electric machine, via a controller, to generate an adjusted voltage command, and extracting a high-frequency component of a resulting current as an extracted high-frequency component. The method also includes calculating an inductance value of the electric machine using the extracted high-frequency component of the resulting current. The magnet temperature is estimated using the calculated inductance value and an angular position of the rotor. The method includes controlling an operation of the electric machine using the estimated magnet temperature. An electric powertrain uses the electric machine and controller noted above.
US11387754B2
According to one embodiment, there is provided a control device including a determination unit, a correction unit and a drive controller. The determination unit determines whether a phase of a rotor of a stepping motor is ahead of or behind a target phase. The correction unit selects a correction value for a control value of a drive current of the stepping motor from among a plurality of correction values based on a determination result. The drive controller corrects the control value of the drive current with the selected correction value to drive the stepping motor.
US11387753B2
A semiconductor integrated circuit includes a control circuit that supplies, in accordance with a drive mode, drive signals to first to fourth switching elements connected to first and second output ends that supply excitation current and a power source and a ground therebetween, and the drive mode includes a discharge mode that turns ON the first and third switching elements on the power source side and a discharge mode that turns ON the second and fourth switching elements on the ground side.
US11387746B2
A switching circuit includes a diode, a semiconductor switch, and a first bidirectional switch. The semiconductor switch is configured to conduct a first current from a second terminal to a third terminal of the semiconductor switch when a first on-state signal is sent to a first terminal of the semiconductor switch. An anode of the diode is connected to the second terminal of the semiconductor switch, and a cathode of the diode is connected to the third terminal of the semiconductor switch. The first bidirectional switch includes a first terminal, a second terminal connected to the anode of the diode, and a third terminal and is configured to conduct a second current from the second terminal to the third terminal or from the third terminal to the second terminal when a second on-state signal is sent to the first terminal of the first bidirectional switch.
US11387744B2
A system comprising a controllable alternating current power source; an active rectifier coupled to the controllable alternating current power source and configured to rectify an output of the controllable alternating current power source to supply a direct current to a load; and a controller configured to adjust at least one of a parameter of the controllable alternating current power source and a parameter of the active rectifier in response to a target output.
US11387741B2
Apparatus and associated methods relate to a Meissner Engine Regulator (MER) that includes a superconducting inductive element (SCIE) supplying a secondary winding coupled to recirculate excess energy from the SCIE core to a feedback winding controlled to regulate the SCIE magnetic field strength to be substantially at or below a critical magnetic field strength (HC). In an illustrative example, Hc may be the maximum field strength to obtain the Meissner effect in the SCIE. In some examples, the SCIE may be wound with n-filar windings. The SCIE may further include a first primary electrically coupled to and powered by a DC-to-AC power inverter, for example. The secondary winding may operate to remove excess energy from the magnetic field in the SCIE, for example, and store it in a capacitor. The SCIE may be supercooled, with liquid nitrogen, for example, such that the MER reaches electrical efficiencies approaching 100%.
US11387732B2
A system may include a power converter having a maximum allowable input power drawn from a power source, an energy storage element coupled to an output of the power converter at a top plate of the energy storage element, wherein the energy storage element is configured to store excess energy, and control circuity configured to, when an input power of the power converter exceeds the maximum allowable input power, cause excess energy stored in the energy storage element to be consumed by circuitry coupled to the output of the power converter, and in order to maintain positive voltage headroom for the circuitry coupled to the output of the power converter, selectively couple a bottom plate of the energy storage element to the power source such that excess energy stored by the circuitry coupled to the output of the power converter is consumed from the energy storage device when the input power of the power converter exceeds the maximum allowable input power.
US11387731B2
A converter system includes a first switch, a sample-and-hold unit configured to provide a comparison signal based on a feedback signal when the first switch is switched off, and hold the comparison signal independent from the feedback signal when the first switch is switched on, and a pulse-width-modulation (PWM) generator, coupled between the sample-and-hold unit and first switch, configured to generate a PWM signal based on the comparison signal, wherein the first switch is configured to be switched on and off based on the PWM signal.
US11387719B2
An object of the present invention is to suppress reduction of insulation reliability between stator coils. A method of manufacturing a rotary electric machine according to the present invention is a method of manufacturing a stator including an insulating member intervening between a plurality of coil end portions each protruding from a stator core, the method including: a first step of disposing an interposed member to cover part of the insulating member between the plurality of coil end portions; and a second step of welding part of each of the plurality of coil end portions.
US11387716B2
A redundant circuit device including a first system circuit and a second system circuit having identical function, the redundant circuit device comprises: a substrate that is partitioned into a first region in which a part of the first system circuit is provided and a second region in which a part of the second system circuit is provided, each of the first region and the second region having a printed wiring; a first mount component that is included in the first system circuit, has three or more pins, and is surface-mounted on one surface of the substrate; and a second mount component that is included in the second system circuit, has an identical number of pins as that of the first mount component and having an identical function as that of the first mount component, and is surface-mounted on the one surface.
US11387713B2
A slip ring includes an essentially cylindrical contact region defined by a radius and having a contact region which faces in a radially outwards direction. The contact region has a recess in a region of the contact surface, with the recess configured to have a projection extending on an inner side of the recess and/or being interrupted in a tangential direction. The contact region has an annular surface formed with an opening which communicates with the recess and extends towards an axial direction at an incline at an interval of 5 degrees to 45 degrees with respect to a normal of the annular surface. At least two insulating regions are arranged axially adjacent to the contact region and each being defined by a radius, with the radius of the contact region being larger than the radius of the insulating region.
US11387711B2
An air intake port has an opening part and an air intake port cover forming an air flow channel from the opening part to the air intake port. The air intake port cover has a guide plate to block the opening part and the air intake port from each other and leave an air flow path between the guide plate and an outer perimeter surface facing a vehicle body, a discharge port formed in the outer perimeter surface, a discharge port cover separating the discharge port and the air intake port from each other, and leaving an air flow path from the opening part to the discharge port, and a pair of cylindrical members, one end of each being connected to two holes formed in the discharge port cover, and the other ends facing each other in a travel direction, and tapering in cross-sectional area.
US11387710B2
A yokeless stator for an axial flux machine, comprising a housing, the housing comprising a circumferential portion and a plurality of elongated portions extending radially inwards therefrom, and a plurality of discrete stator teeth arranged within the circumferential portion, each discrete stator tooth comprising a ferromagnetic material and an electrical winding; the housing further comprising an electrically isolating filling material filling empty space inside the housing. The circumferential portion of the housing is made of a first non-ferromagnetic material and the elongated portions are made of a second non-ferromagnetic material. The housing comprises a laminated structure, which comprises at least part of the plurality of inwardly directed elongated portions.
US11387704B2
Disclosed are a portable private power generation apparatus, and a module equipped with same, the portable private power generation apparatus being small in size, and capable of efficiently generating private power to charge a battery, and able to be linked and used with a variety of smart modules when customary power cannot be supplied in times of emergencies such as during military operations, in refugee camps, during disasters due to earthquakes and the like, emergency situations on ships, and outdoor activities. The present invention comprises: a rotatable fly-wheel member; first and second rotating members for rotating the fly-wheel member; first and second wires for rotating the first and second rotating members, respectively, by means of a pulling action; first and second spring members for carrying out winding actions of the respective first and second wires; and a power generation member for generating power from the rotation of the fly-wheel member. As such, a user can generate power continuously for an extended amount of time by repeating the action of pulling the wires with one or both hands.
US11387688B2
An inductive power outlet for wirelessly powering a power receiver is presented that comprises a voltage peak detector that is configured to detect voltage changes that are indicative of increase in a system resonant frequency. The inductive power outlet is configured to respond to detected voltage changes by shutting down or issuing a warning, and the voltage peak detector is further used to detect communication signals initiated by the power receiver to the power outlet.
US11387675B2
A wireless charging assembly includes a substrate and a charging emission trace on the substrate. The wireless charging assembly further includes a touch structure on a side, which is away from the charging emission trace, of the substrate. A preparation method of the wireless charging assembly, a terminal device and a wireless charging method for the terminal device are also provided.
US11387662B2
The present disclosure provides a headset charging and data transmission system, which includes a headset and a charging device. The charging device includes a first controller, a first connector, a first switching device, and a second switching device. The first switching device is electrically connected to the first controller and the first connector, and the second switching device is electrically connected to the first controller and the first switching device. The first controller controls the second switching device to switch between the first and second voltages to provide a first data signal for the first switching device, so that the first data signal is output to the headphones via the first connector.
US11387658B2
A power distribution system including a first power module and a second power module. The first power module including a first power input receiving an input power, a first transformer receiving the input power and outputting a transformed power, a first power output configured to output the input power, a second power output configured to output the transformed power, and a pass-through output configured to output input power. The second power module including a third power input receiving the input power, from the pass-through output of the first power module, a fourth transformer receiving the input power and outputting the transformed power, a first power output configured to output the input power, and a second power output configured to output the transformed power.
US11387657B2
The present invention relates to a method for controlling power ramps with prediction in intermittent power generation plants, such as, for example, a photovoltaic solar plant, which minimizes the storage capacity required for compliance with the maximum ramp requirements for power fluctuation as well as the cycling of said storage systems, thus extending its lifespan and also reducing associated energy losses, thus reducing investment costs in the plant, such that, in order to achieve the same maximum fluctuation ramp, a minor use is made of the energy storage system.
US11387654B2
A distributed control system uses a central controller in Internet communication with a local controller to manage grid tie attachment with a battery to form an integrated battery energy storage system (BESS). The BESS is capable of charging or discharging the battery, as well as correcting grid phase with volt amp reactive (VAR) leading or lagging operation modes. Examples shown include simple BESS charging and discharging, BESS integrated with renewable energy sources (here photovoltaic), and direct current fast charge (DCFC) connections with an electric vehicle.
US11387650B2
Management of an electrical power transmission network is obtained by providing at each subscriber premises a power correction system for applying a switched reactor for voltage correction across the input voltage and a sensing system defined by a pair of meters one at the supply and the second downstream of the voltage correction for detecting variations in power factor. The system includes an arrangement for balancing loads between a first phase on a first BUS and a second phase on a second BUS by calculating a required correction current by adding load currents from the first and second phases. In addition an arrangement is provided when a load is switched on and off power is supplied by or supplied to a battery for a short time and this power is reduced over a time period substantially matching or greater than said natural time constant of the power supply system.
US11387641B2
A fitting for receiving an insulated lead and a method for assembly thereof are provided. The fitting comprises an elongate member, a sleeve, a collar, and an insulator. The elongate member comprises a first end, a second end, and an interior surface defining an elongate cavity. The first end is open. The sleeve is configured to receive the insulated lead. The first end is configured to receive the sleeve. The collar is configured to compress the sleeve onto the insulated lead to form a seal between the insulated lead and the elongate member. The insulator is configured to inhibit electrical contact between an inner conductor of the insulated lead and the interior surface of the elongate member.
US11387632B2
A power distribution box configured to house a plurality of electronic components is provided. The electronic components are mounted to a lower case. An upper case is mounted to the lower case and spaced apart from the lower case so as to define a storage compartment. The upper case includes a vent configured to allow heat generated by electric components to escape. In particular, the vents are registered so as to be above selective heat generating electric components.
US11387629B1
An intermediate ultraviolet laser diode device includes a gallium and nitrogen containing substrate member comprising a surface region, a release material overlying the surface region, an n-type gallium and nitrogen containing material; an active region overlying the n-type gallium and nitrogen containing material; a p-type gallium and nitrogen containing material; a first transparent conductive oxide material overlying the p-type gallium and nitrogen containing material; and an interface region overlying the first transparent conductive oxide material.
US11387627B2
A system for intraoral scanning includes a display, a processing unit, and a scanner to generate scan data and viewfinder images of an intraoral cavity. The processing unit is to: receive the scan data and the viewfinder images; generate a 3D model of the intraoral cavity using the intraoral scan data; output the 3D model to the display; output the viewfinder images to the display; determine which portions of the intraoral cavity have been scanned; determine a current field of view of the scanner; determine, based on the current field of view and the determined portions of the intraoral cavity that have been scanned, a visual indicator that provides guidance for positioning and orienting the field of view of the scanner; and output the visual indicator to the display.
US11387626B1
A tunable laser that includes an array of parallel optical amplifiers is described. The laser may also include an intracavity N×M coupler that couples power between a cavity mirror and the array of parallel optical amplifiers. Phase adjusters in optical paths between the N×M coupler and the optical amplifiers can be used to adjust an amount of power output from M−1 ports of the N×M coupler. A tunable wavelength filter is incorporated in the laser cavity to select a lasing wavelength.
US11387613B2
A modular replaceable socket device includes one or more adapters, and an adapting interface. The adapter includes a jack and multiple contacts. The jacks are disposed on a top of the adapter for transmitting power or a network signal to an external device. The contacts are disposed on a bottom of the adapter. The adapter couples to external power via the contacts. The base includes a cable interface and one or more sockets. The cable interface connects to external power via a power cable and the one or more sockets is utilized to fix the one or more adapters. The adapting interface is utilized to connect the socket and the one or more adapters. The structure of the adapting interface corresponds to the contacts, for allowing the one or more adapters to couple to the one or more sockets via the adapting interface.
US11387612B2
Various cellular tower plate connection systems are detailed herein. Such systems can include an antenna plate assembly. This assembly can include an antenna plate and antenna port connectors attached to a first side of the antenna plate. Cable connectors may be present that are attached to a second side of the antenna plate opposite the first side of the antenna plate. The assembly can include a first attachment mechanism that secures antenna port connectors to antenna ports of an antenna system. The antenna port connectors may be arranged on the first side of the antenna plate such that the antenna port connectors mate with the antenna ports of the antenna system in a single possible orientation.
US11387607B2
An electrical connector assembly includes a plurality of signal terminals, a plurality of grounding terminals, and an elastic conductor. Each of the signal terminals corresponds to a first signal bump. Each of the grounding terminals is adjacent to the signal terminal and corresponds to a first grounding bump. The elastic conductor has a plurality of elastic conducting portions and is disposed on a carrier. An interconnect device is also provided. The interconnect device includes the electrical connector assembly, the carrier, and a chip. The signal terminals and the grounding terminals of the electrical connector are electrically connected to the first signal bumps and the first grounding bumps of the carrier through compressing the elastic conducting portions of the elastic conductor.
US11387606B2
Disclosed herein are various communications systems allowing for multiple contacts points between plug contacts in a communications plug and plug interface contacts (PICs) in a communications jack. In some disclosed implementations, a communications plug including a first and a second plug contact mated with a communications jack having a first and a second plug PIC may form a plurality of plug/jack interfaces. The plug/jack interfaces may form multiple current paths between the communications plug and the communications jack. When a signal propagates between the communications plug and the communications jack, it may be split in the communications plug between a first current path and a second current path, and recombined in the communications jack after traveling through the plurality of plug/jack interfaces.
US11387601B2
A first mounting portion 31 of a housing 10 includes first lock portions 33. A second lock portion 32 of the housing 10 includes a second lock portion 37 and an interfering portion 38 arranged side by side with the second lock portion 37. A first mount receiving portion 66 of a cover 60 includes first lock receiving portions 68 to be locked by the first lock portions 33. A second mount receiving portion 67 of the cover 60 includes a second lock receiving portion 69 to be locked by the second lock portion 37 and an escaping space 71, the interfering portion 38 being arranged in the escaping space 71. The first lock portion 33 and the interfering portion 38 are arranged at positions inverted 180° with a center of a rear surface portion 28 in a back view of the housing 10 as a center.
US11387597B2
A connector component for a connector includes a plate and a pair of fastening devices freely protruding from the plate and securing the plate to a connector housing. The plate and the fastening devices are made of a metal or plastic material having a higher inflammability resistance than the connector housing and are adapted to extend on more than one of a plurality of external surfaces of the connector housing.
US11387596B1
An outlet enclosure for enclosing an electrical outlet including a door to cover the electrical outlet. The outlet enclosure includes a base plate and an outlet cover which wraps partially around the electrical outlet to allow access to the door. The outlet cover includes tracks extending in a vertical direction along an outer surface of the outlet cover. An outer cylindrical cover wraps completely around the outlet cover. The outer cylindrical cover slides vertically via the tracks over the outlet cover from a lowered position fully enclosing the outlet cover to a raised position exposing the outlet cover and the door to allow access to the electrical outlet so that a plug can be inserted into a socket of the electrical outlet. When the outer cylindrical cover is lowered, it protects the electrical outlet from exposure to the elements.
US11387594B2
An electrical component has an electrical cable and an electrical functional unit undetachably connected at an end side. The electrical cable has a metallic conductor and a plastic insulating sleeve surrounding the conductor. The electrical functional unit has an insulator housing injection-molded onto the plastic insulating sleeve, and an electrical functional element accommodated in the insulator housing and with which contact is made by the conductor. The plastic insulating sleeve is in a ring zone covered by the insulator housing, structured on its outer surface in an encircling manner by laser processing with a groove pattern and raised portions between the grooves. The insulator housing has a pattern formed during injection-molding by the groove pattern of the insulating sleeve, having webs which enter grooves and are anchored such that the insulator housing and insulating sleeve are permanently sealed from one another in respect of liquid media in the ring zone.
US11387592B2
The invention relates to a charging connection element (1) of a vehicle (10), for connection to a charging apparatus, comprising a charging socket (2) for receiving electrical connectors (14), and comprising a sealing element (3) for sealing off the charging socket (2) from other components of the vehicle (10), wherein the charging socket (2) has a first latching element (4) and the sealing element (3) has a second latching element (5), wherein the first latching element (4) and the second latching element (5) can be latched relative to one another in a large number of different latching positions in order to prevent the charging socket (2) and the sealing element (3) from becoming detached, and wherein different distances between the charging socket (2) and the sealing element (3) are defined by the different latching positions.
US11387580B2
A spring force terminal such as a direct plug-in terminal for connecting a flexible stranded conductor includes a housing having a chamber and a plug-in channel for the conductor into the chamber. A busbar or a clamping cage are provided and a clamping spring arranged in the chamber acts as a compression spring for fixing the electrical conductor on the busbar or the clamping cage in the region of a clamping point. The clamping spring has a clamping leg pivotable around a pivot axis, which is adjustable from a latching state in which it is latched in a latching position into a clamping state in which it is unlatched from the latching position and presses the electrical conductor against the busbar or the clamping cage. The latching state is produced by pressing on the clamping leg in the conductor insertion direction using a pusher wherein the clamping leg is releasable from the latching state using two different actuatable adjustment devices. The second release element is designed to release the pusher from the latching position to release the clamping leg from the latching state. The release element is arranged and formed laterally in relation to the pusher in the chamber in such a way that it acts on the pusher essentially perpendicularly to the conductor insertion direction to release the pusher from the latching position.
US11387579B1
The invention relates to a method of connecting electrical wires, conductors, or connections together by rotating the connector ends in an enclosure to tightly twist the wire ends together and also includes a clamping mechanism to prevent the wires from untwisting, becoming loose, or falling out of the enclosure. The present invention increases the holding ability of current rotating tools for electrical wires and connections.
US11387578B2
A connector (A) includes a dielectric and a multi-functional portion, an outer conductor is configured by uniting a first divided shell and a second divided shell, a first crimping portion to be crimped to an outer periphery of a shield member of a shielded cable is formed in a rear end part of the first divided shell, the multi-functional portion is exposed on an outer surface of the outer conductor and in the form of a projection forward of the first crimping portion on an outer surface of the dielectric, the first divided shell is formed with a first locking portion disposed to be able to lock the multi-functional portion, and a locking direction of the first locking portion to the multi-functional portion is a direction opposite to the first crimping portion to the shield member.
US11387576B1
An antenna system includes a first antenna element, a second antenna element, and a circuit region. The first antenna element includes a first nonconductive support element and a first main radiation element. The first main radiation element is disposed on the first nonconductive support element. The second antenna element includes a second nonconductive support element and a second main radiation element. The second main radiation element is disposed on the second nonconductive support element. The second main radiation element is at least partially perpendicular to the first main radiation element. The circuit region is positioned between the first antenna element and the second antenna element.
US11387575B2
An electronic device according to one implementation includes a flexible display having a first region coupled to a front surface of a first frame, a second region coupled to a third frame, and a third region located between the first region and the second region, and an antenna implemented as one of a plurality of metal rims formed on one of the first frame and the third frame, and connected to a feeding unit at one point and a ground at another point through a switching unit to radiate signals through different bands.
US11387572B2
Provided are an improved antenna element, array antenna, communication unit, mobile object, and base station. The antenna element includes a first conductor, a second conductor, a third conductor, a fourth conductor, a feeding line electrically connected to the third conductor, and a filter connected to the feeding line. The first conductor and the second conductor extend along a second plane and are positioned away from each other along a first axis that intersects the second plane. The third conductor extends along a first plane including the first axis and is positioned between the first conductor and the second conductor. The fourth conductor extends along the first plane, is electrically connected to the first conductor and the second conductor, and is positioned away from the third conductor. The filter is positioned in such a manner as to overlap the fourth conductor.
US11387570B2
Dipole antenna arrays are disclosed. An example dipole antenna array includes a ground plane having a first serrated edge, and a first dipole antenna, at least a portion of the first dipole antenna disposed parallel to the first serrated edge.
US11387568B2
A millimeter-wave antenna array element includes a ground layer, a first dielectric layer, a first radiation patch, a second dielectric layer, and a second radiation patch. At least a part of the first feeding part is disposed inside the first dielectric layer, or inside the second dielectric layer, or between the first dielectric layer and the second dielectric layer, and the first feeding part is insulated from the first radiation patch, the second radiation patch, and the ground layer. At least a part of the second feeding part is disposed inside the first dielectric layer, or inside the second dielectric layer, or between the first dielectric layer and the second dielectric layer, and the second feeding part is insulated from the first feeding part, the first radiation patch, the second radiation patch, and the ground layer.
US11387566B2
An electromagnetic wave absorber (1a) includes a first layer (10) and an electrically conductive layer (20). The first layer (10) is a dielectric layer or a magnetic layer. The electrically conductive layer (20) is provided on at least one surface of the first layer. A product of a Young's modulus of the first layer (10) and a thickness of the first layer (10) is 0.1 to 1000 MPa·mm. The first layer (10) has a relative permittivity of 1 to 10.
US11387561B2
A dielectric loss when a signal wave is transmitted between a feed line and an antenna element via a slot is reduced. An antenna 21 includes: a dielectric substrate 28 including a recess 28b; a conductive ground layer 27 that is bonded to the dielectric substrate 28 to cover the recess 28b, and includes slots 27a-27d arranged on an inner side relative to the recess 28b; a dielectric layer 26 bonded to the conductive ground layer 27 on a side opposite to the dielectric substrate 28 relative to the conductive ground layer 27; antenna elements 29a-29d formed on a bottom 28d of the recess 28b at positions facing the slots 27a-27d; and a feed line 24a that is formed on a side opposite to the conductive ground layer 27 relative to the dielectric layer 26, and is to be electromagnetically coupled to the antenna elements 29a-29d via the slots 27a-27d.
US11387556B2
A frontend module includes an antenna terminal, and a duplexer including a first filter connected to the antenna terminal and a first terminal, configured to perform cellular communications within a 3.3 GHz to 4.2 GHz band, and a second filter connected to the antenna terminal and a second terminal, configured to perform Wi-Fi communications within a 5.15 GHz to 5.950 GHz band, wherein each of the first filter and the second filter includes an LC filter, and a portion of an operating time period of the first filter overlaps a portion of an operating time period of the second filter.
US11387551B2
The present invention discloses a triple-resonant null frequency scanning antenna, which belongs to the technical fields of the Internet of Things and microwave. The triple-resonant null frequency scanning antenna comprises a circular sector magnetic dipole arranged on a medium substrate, and rectangular notches are symmetrically arranged on a sector patch of the circular sector magnetic dipole. The circular sector magnetic dipole is fixed on the medium substrate by a second shorting pin and third shorting pins, an flared angle of the circular sector magnetic dipole is a first central angle, and two third shorting pins are present and are symmetrically arranged on both sides of the angular bisector of the first central angle.
US11387549B2
A glazing panel comprising (i) a pane of glass, (ii) an antenna, (iii) an electrically conductive connector joined to the antenna by a solder material, and (iv) a coaxial cable joined to the electrically conductive connector. The electrically conductive connector is a flat connector comprising first and a second electrically conductive portions laminated between two films of a resilient material.
US11387546B2
Disclosed is a cross loop antenna system for an aerial vehicle. In one embodiment, the cross loop antenna system includes a cross bar antenna and a ground plane. The cross bar antenna includes two thin coplanar perpendicular bars that intersect in the middle and are parallel to the ground plane. Each bar couples to the ground plane at each end, comprising an antenna loop. Thus, the cross loop antenna system comprises two intersecting single-fed loops. The antenna can operate at a wavelength that is approximately twice the length of the bars. In such an embodiment, the antenna system may be resonant. The distance between the bars and the ground plane may be relatively small, thus minimalizing the vertical profile of the antenna. The antenna may be operated as a dual-band antenna and may produce an omnidirectional radiation pattern. An aerial vehicle may include two such antennas.
US11387545B2
The present invention relates to a radiator support for a base station antenna. The radiator support includes a first support part and a second support part that are separate from each other. The first support part is configured to be mounted to extend upwardly from a reflector plate, to extend in part of a height of the feeding stalk, and to bear radially the feeding stalk so as to prevent roll-over of the feeding stalk. The second support part is configured to be mounted adjacent a distal end of the feeding stalk facing away from the reflector plate, and to receive a radiating element. The present invention also relates to a radiator having such radiator support, and a base station antenna having such a radiator. The radiator support according to the present invention has a simple structure, occupies a small structural space and has a favorable versatility.
US11387540B2
A cellular antenna steering and locking apparatus (100) has a first bracket (158) for attachment to a fixed structure, a second bracket (198) for attachment to a cellular antenna, a joint arrangement between the first and second brackets to facilitate rotation there between about a pivot axis and a locking mechanism (104) having a first condition in which rotation between the first and second brackets is prohibited, and a second condition in which rotation between the first and second brackets is permitted, the locking mechanism having a control (114) rotatable between the first and second conditions.
US11387538B2
The present invention relates to an antenna mounting device configured to collectively mount a plurality of base station antennas on the same pole. The antenna mounting device comprises: a bracket (1) defining a central recess (4) in a mounted state, the central recess being configured such that the central recess (4) loosely receives the pole (3); a fastening device (2) configured to fasten the bracket (1) to the pole (3); and a plurality of connecting members (5), each of the connecting members being configured for connection with at least one of the plurality of base station antennas (6), and the connecting members having a predetermined relative position on the bracket. With such an antenna mounting device, the plurality of base station antennas can be mounted on the same pole at precise positions relative to each other.
US11387529B2
The embodiments herein relate to a first waveguide comprising a first flange (103a) surrounding an end opening (105a) of the first waveguide (101a). The first flange (103a) comprises at least two holes (110) which are periodically distributed around the end opening (105a). The first waveguide (101a) is arranged to be connected to a second waveguide (101b) by connecting the first flange (103a) to a second flange (103b) of the second waveguide (101b) such that the end opening (105a) of the first waveguide (101a) faces an end opening (105b) of the second waveguide (101b) and such that the holes (110) in the first flange (103a) are at least partly glide symmetrically positioned with respect to holes (110) which are periodically distributed around the end opening (105b) of the second flange (103b).
US11387526B2
An ultrasonic welding system for a rechargeable battery for mutually welding and bonding includes: a welding apparatus including an anvil and a horn to perform welding and bonding an electrode tab and an electrode lead extending from an electrode assembly of the rechargeable battery through ultrasonic welding by mutually pressing the electrode tab and the electrode lead supplied between the anvil and the horn; and a supply device moves in a vertical or horizontal direction and supplies the electrode lead between the anvil and the horn.
US11387525B2
Presented are metalworking systems for forming metallic workpieces, methods for making/operating such systems, and battery packs with cell terminals bent by a two-stage plunger press. A metalworking system includes a first plunger with a plunger cavity extending through the first plunger's body, and one or more die cavities recessed into the first plunger's contact face. The die cavity includes one surface that contacts and bends a first workpiece a first angle, and another surface that contacts and bends a second workpiece a second angle. A second plunger includes one or more die cavities recessed into the second plunger's contact face. This die cavity includes one surface that contacts and bends the first workpiece a third angle, and another surface that contacts and bends the second workpiece a fourth angle. The second plunger passes through the plunger cavity such that the first and second plungers bend the metallic workpieces in tandem.
US11387520B2
The invention provides a novel ceramic-metal oxide-polymer composite material. A functionalized metal oxide nanolayer coating can be bonded between LICGCs and polymers/oligomers, which protects the LICGC from corrosion, has a low interfacial resistance to Li+ migration, and can be a SIC. Hybrid ceramic-polymer electrolytes were formed by engineering the interface between a LICGC and a polymer, polyethylene oxide (PEO), by sputter coating a 200 nm thick SiO2 layer onto a lithium ion conducting glass ceramic (LICGC) and silanating the SiO2 with a functionalized PEG in the presence of LiTFSI. A low interfacial resistance (Rinterfacial) was measured, the same as that obtained for a SiO2 interface soaked with liquid tetraglyme/LiTFSI. The pegylated SiO2 interface (unlike the tetraglyme/LiTFSI interface) protected the LICGC from corrosion by Li0 metal. The (PEG-LiTFSI)—SiO2-LICGC could be bonded with polyethylene oxide/LiTFSI. This procedure provides a general method to bond other LICGCs to PEO-based polymers, and to incorporate other functionalities such as single ion conductivity into the interface via the incorporation of coupling agents with pendant anions.
US11387517B2
The disclosure relates to microbattery devices and assemblies. In an embodiment, a device includes a plurality of microbatteries, a first flexible encapsulation film, and a second flexible encapsulation film. Each of the microbatteries includes a first contact terminal and a second contact terminal spaced apart from one another. The first flexible encapsulation film includes a first conductive layer electrically coupled to the first contact terminal of each of the microbatteries, and a first insulating layer on the first conductive layer. The second flexible encapsulation film includes a second conductive layer electrically coupled to the second contact terminal of each of the microbatteries, and a second insulating layer on the second conductive layer.
US11387516B2
A battery module includes a secondary battery including an electrode assembly formed by alternately stacking an electrode and a separator and a pouch type battery case which accommodates the electrode assembly therein and in which an upper case and a lower case are integrated with each other, a housing which includes at least one opening and into which the secondary battery is inserted through an opening of the at least one opening, and a cooling unit formed in the housing and disposed at one side of the secondary battery. The battery case includes a folding edge part formed at an area on a side of the secondary battery at which the upper case and the lower case are folded at an edge where the upper case and the lower case are connected, and the folding edge part of the secondary battery directly contacts the cooling unit.
US11387515B2
A battery assembly is configured to be installed on a drone. The battery assembly includes a battery, a chassis and some of swing arms. The chassis has a space within and is configured to accommodate the battery. The swing arms are pivotally connected with the chassis respectively and are located in the space. Each of the swing arms has a hook and a bump. The hooks at least partially face to each other. The bumps at least partially face to each other. When the battery is located in the space, the bumps are compressed by the battery to make the swing arms respectively rotate relative to the chassis, such that the hooks move close to each other and the battery is buckled and fixed in the space. At least one electrical connector located on the hooks contacts a conductor located on a side of the battery.
US11387509B2
A secondary battery is disclosed. In one aspect, the secondary battery includes an electrode assembly, a case accommodating the electrode assembly and a lead member extending from the electrode assembly to outside of the case. The secondary battery also includes an insulation member at least partially covering the lead member, the insulation member having an exterior portion that is located outside the case and an interior portion that is located inside the case, wherein the interior portion has a first thickness, and wherein at least part of the exterior portion has a second thickness less than the first thickness. The secondary battery may have a compact structure, and insulation characteristics of the secondary battery may be improved.
US11387506B2
A thermal management system for removing waste heat from a battery cell. The thermal management system includes a unit cell that includes a vapor chamber including an evaporator surface and a condenser surface. The evaporator surface and the condenser surface are fluidly connected by a wick. The unit cell also includes a phase change material (PCM) shell encapsulating a PCM. The evaporator surface is thermally coupled to the battery cell and absorbs waste heat generated by the battery cell. The condenser surface is thermally coupled to the PCM and rejects waste heat to the PCM.
US11387495B2
A non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery includes a wound electrode body in which a first and a second separator, and a negative and a positive electrode body are stacked and wound. The wound electrode body has two R portions and is positioned in a flat portion. In a cross section orthogonal to a winding axis, when a distance from a bending end straight line to the winding starting end of the negative electrode body in a reference direction is denoted by A, a distance from the bending end straight line to the winding starting end of the positive electrode body in the reference direction is denoted by B, and X represents a distance from the bending end straight line to the winding end of the negative electrode body in the reference direction in the cross section is denoted by X, A, B, and X satisfy Condition: A
US11387493B2
A secondary battery having an electrode assembly and an electrolyte in an exterior body. The electrode assembly includes a step structure including a first region and a second region lower than and adjacent to the first region. The electrode assembly includes at least one of a positive electrode side connecting portion that connects each of positive electrode side connecting tabs of all positive electrodes in the first region and a negative electrode side connecting portion that connects each of the negative electrode side connecting tabs of all negative electrodes in the first region. At least one of a positive electrode side extended tab of at least one of the positive electrodes and a negative electrode side extended tab of at least one of the negative electrodes in the second region are configured to be electrically connected to an external terminal.
US11387491B2
The present application provides an electrolyte and a secondary battery comprising the same. The electrolyte is prepared by adding a siloxane compound, a nitrile compound and an electrolyte salt with different contents into an organic solvent.
US11387486B2
A sulfide solid electrolyte comprising lithium, phosphorus and sulfur, wherein the sulfide solid electrolyte has a diffraction peak A at 2θ=25.2±0.5 deg and a diffraction peak B at 29.7±0.5 deg in powder X-ray diffraction using CuKα rays, an area ratio of a peak derived from PS43− glass to the total area of peaks derived from glass observed in solid 31P-NMR measurement is 90% or more and 100% or less, and an area ratio of peaks derived from glass to the total area of all peaks at 60 to 120 ppm observed in solid 31P-NMR measurement is 1% or more and 45% or less.
US11387485B2
Disclosed is an all-solid-state lithium ion secondary battery being excellent in cycle characteristics. The all-solid-state lithium ion secondary battery may be an all-solid-state lithium ion secondary battery, wherein an anode comprises an anode active material, an electroconductive material and a solid electrolyte; wherein the anode active material comprises at least one active material selected from the group consisting of a metal that is able to form an alloy with Li, an oxide of the metal, and an alloy of the metal and Li; and wherein a bulk density of the solid electrolyte is 0.3 g/cm3 or more and 0.6 g/cm3 or less.
US11387479B2
Herein is disclosed, a rechargeable flow battery, wherein the flow battery comprises: first and second electrodes, separated such that ions are allowed to flow between them, wherein a first reservoir comprising or for holding a first fluid electrolyte is fluidly connected to the first electrode, to allow circulation of the first fluid electrolyte from the first reservoir to the first electrode and from the first electrode to the first reservoir; and a first current collector comprising a layer of electrically conductive material having opposing first and second sides, wherein the first electrode is disposed on the first side of the first current collector, such that electrons can flow from the electrode to the first current collector, and a first layer of dielectric material is disposed on the second side of the first current collector.
US11387478B2
An elastomeric cell frame for a fuel cell according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes, as a cell frame constituting a unit cell of a fuel cell, an insert including a membrane electrode assembly having an anode formed on one surface of a polymer electrolyte membrane, and having a cathode formed on the other surface thereof, and a pair of gas diffusion layers disposed on both surfaces thereof; and an elastomeric frame disposed to surround the rim of the insert in the outer region of the insert, and formed with a discharge flow field provided in the form of a sheet bonded at the rim of the insert and the interface thereof while being thermally bonded and for discharging generated water generated in the insert along the longitudinal direction at the widthwise edge.
US11387468B2
A separator plate for at least one fuel cell of a fuel cell system is provided. The separator plate includes at least one seal, wherein the seal is designed to seal at least one media-conducting inner region from a non-media-conducting outer region. The separator plate additionally includes at least one spacer element, which is preferably arranged in the outer region. The separator plate can be contacted by an evaluating device in a contacting region, this region being located such that it lies, in part, between the seal and spacer element. According, a deformation of the separator plate in the contacting region within a fuel cell stack is thus prevented.
US11387460B2
Provided herein are products and methods for making structures having a body defined by a carbon nanotube (CNT) pulp network having a long-range connectivity exceeding a percolation threshold of the structure to permit electron transport throughout the structure, an active material dispersed within the body, and a binder material binding the active material to the CNT pulp network within the body.
US11387459B2
A positive electrode includes at least a positive electrode current collector and a positive electrode active material layer. The positive electrode active material layer is formed on a surface of the positive electrode current collector. The positive electrode current collector includes an aluminum foil and a porous film. The porous film covers a surface of the aluminum foil. The porous film contains at least aluminum oxide. The porous film has a thickness not smaller than 10 nm and not greater than 800 nm. The porous film has a dynamic hardness not lower than 5 and not higher than 200.
US11387451B2
The present invention generally relates to a method for preparing metal oxide nanosheets. In a preferred embodiment, graphene oxide (GO) or graphite oxide is employed as a template or structure directing agent for the formation of the metal oxide nanosheets, wherein the template is mixed with metal oxide precursor to form a metal oxide precursor-bonded template. Subsequently, the metal oxide precursor-bonded template is calcined to form the metal oxide nanosheets. The present invention also relates to a lithium-ion battery anode comprising the metal oxide nanosheets. In a further preferred embodiment, the battery anode may comprising reduced template, which is reduced graphene oxide (rGO) or reduced graphite oxide.
US11387449B2
The negative electrode active material according to the present embodiment includes alloy particle containing an alloy component and oxygen of 0.50 to 3.00 mass %. The alloy component contains Sn: 13.0 to 40.0 at % and Si: 6.0 to 40.0 at %. The alloy particle contains: one or two phases selected from a D03 phase in which the Si content is from 0 to 5.0 at % and a δ phase in which the Si content is from 0 to 5.0 at %; one or two phases selected from an ε phase in which the Si content is from 0 to 5.0 at % and an η′ phase in which the Si content is from 0 to 5.0 at %; and an SiOx phase. The alloy particle has, in an X-ray diffraction profile, a peak having a largest integrated diffraction intensity in a range of 42.0 to 44.0 degrees of a diffraction angle 2θ.
US11387445B2
There is provided a positive electrode for a lithium-ion rechargeable battery in which it is possible to achieve both exceptional electrical conductivity and adhesion of an electrode active material to a current collector and it is possible to dramatically improve battery characteristics compared to those in the related art. A positive electrode for a lithium-ion rechargeable battery includes a current collector; and an electrode active material-containing layer provided on the current collector, wherein the electrode active material-containing layer contains active material particles and a conductive material that connects the active material particles to each other; wherein the mass ratio of the active material particles:the conductive material:other components in the electrode active material-containing layer is 95 to 99.7:0.3 to 5:0 to 1, wherein the conductive material includes a first elongated carbon material having a first length and a second elongated carbon material having a second length larger than the first length, and wherein the ratio of the second length to the first length is 2 or more and 50 or less.
US11387444B2
An electrode is provided which includes an electrode substrate, an electrode mixture layer overlying the electrode substrate, and an insulating layer overlying the electrode mixture layer. The electrode mixture layer contains an active material and a void. The insulating layer contains a resin and an insulating inorganic particulate accounting for 80% by mass of the insulating layer. In a boundary region of the electrode mixture layer with the insulating layer, the resin and the insulating inorganic particulate are present in a part of the void.
US11387431B2
The disclosure provides a method of manufacturing an encapsulation layer and a display substrate. The method of manufacturing the encapsulation layer includes: forming a strippable layer on a first region of a substrate; forming an organic material layer on a second region of the substrate, the organic material layer comprising a portion covering the second region and an overflow portion exceeding the second region and at least partially covering the first region, wherein the first region and the second region are adjoined to each other; and stripping the strippable layer from the substrate to remove the overflow portion of the organic material layer and form an organic encapsulation layer.
US11387429B2
A display substrate, a manufacturing method thereof, and a display apparatus are provided. The display substrate includes a display region and a non-display region surrounding the display region, and the non-display region includes a bending region and a buffer structure. The bending region is coated with a rheological material, and the buffer structure is arranged in the bending region and configured to block the rheological material from flowing out of the bending region.
US11387419B2
The present disclosure provides a flexible substrate and a display device. The flexible substrate includes a flexible base substrate, and a wiring bonding structure disposed on the flexible base substrate and including a plurality of bonding leads. A filler is arranged between the bonding leads.
US11387407B2
A spin-orbit-torque magnetization rotational element and a spin-orbit-torque magnetoresistance effect element capable of easily rotating or reversing magnetization of a ferromagnetic layer. The spin-orbit-torque magnetization rotational element includes spin-orbit-torque wiring and a first ferromagnetic layer laminated on the spin-orbit-torque wiring in a first direction, wherein the spin-orbit-torque wiring includes a first region extending in a second direction, a second region extending in a third direction different from the second direction, and an intersection region where the first region and the second region intersect, and wherein the first ferromagnetic layer and the intersection region at least partially overlap in a plan view from the first direction.
US11387404B2
An apparatus is provided which comprises one or more magnetoelectric spin orbit (MESO) minority gates with different peripheral complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) circuit techniques in the device layer including: (1) current mirroring, (2) complementary supply voltages, (3) asymmetrical transistor sizing, and (4) using transmission gates. These MESO minority gates use the multi-phase clock to prevent back propagation of current so that MESO gate can correctly process the input data.
US11387390B2
A method for producing a wavelength converting member that emits light under irradiation of excitation light, and a wavelength converting member. The method for producing a wavelength converting member, including: providing a green body prepared by a process comprising molding a mixed powder containing a Ca-α-SiAlON fluorescent material and alumina, and depending on necessity an YAG fluorescent material; and primarily sintering the green body at a temperature in a range of 1,000° C. or more and 1,600° C. or less to obtain a first sintered body.
US11387387B2
A micro light emitting device display apparatus including a circuit substrate, a plurality of micro light emitting devices, a first common electrode layer, and a second common electrode layer is provided. The micro light emitting devices are disposed on the circuit substrate and individually include an epitaxial structure and a first-type electrode and a second-type electrode respectively disposed on two side surfaces of the epitaxial structure opposite to each other. The first common electrode layer is disposed on the circuit substrate and directly covers the plurality of first-type electrodes of the micro light emitting devices. The second common electrode layer is disposed between the micro light emitting devices. The first common electrode layer is electrically connected to the second common electrode layer.
US11387385B2
A semiconductor light-emitting element includes: an n-type semiconductor layer made of an n-type AlGaN-based semiconductor material; an active layer made of an AlGaN-based semiconductor material provided on the n-type semiconductor layer; a p-type semiconductor layer provided on the active layer; a p-side contact electrode made of Rh and in contact with the p-type semiconductor layer; a p-side electrode covering layer made of TiN that covers the p-side contact electrode; a dielectric protective layer that covers the n-type semiconductor layer, the active layer, the p-type semiconductor layer, and the p-side electrode covering layer; and a p-side pad electrode in contact with the p-side electrode covering layer in a p-side opening that extends through the dielectric protective layer on the p-side contact electrode.
US11387384B2
A light-emitting diode (LED) transferring method is provided. The LED transferring method includes disposing a transfer substrate, on which a plurality of LEDs of different colors are sequentially arranged in at least one row or at least one column, between a target substrate and a laser oscillator, and simultaneously transferring the plurality of LEDs from the transfer substrate to predetermined points of the target substrate by radiating a laser beam toward the target substrate from the laser oscillator.
US11387383B2
A method of transferring a light emitting device including the steps of preparing a wafer including a substrate, semiconductor layers disposed on the substrate, and bump pads disposed on the semiconductor layers and arranged in a plurality of light emitting device regions, dividing the wafer into a plurality of light emitting devices, attaching the light emitting devices to a transfer tape disposed on a supporting substrate, such that the substrate contacts the transfer tape, preparing a circuit board including pads arranged thereon, adjoining the supporting substrate with the circuit board, so that the bump pads of at least one light emitting device contact the pads of the circuit board, bonding the at least one light emitting device to the pads by applying heat to the bump pads and the pads, and separating the at least one light emitting device bonded to the pads from the transfer tape.
US11387382B2
The invention provides a bifacial photovoltaic cell comprising: a semiconductor substrate, the substrate comprising an n+ layer on a first surface, and a p+ layer on a second surface. The n+ layer comprises an n-dopant and the p+ layer comprises a p-dopant. The cell further comprises a passivating and/or antireflective coating on the doped first and second surfaces. The cell is characterized in that the second surface of the semiconductor substrate has an area substantially devoid of the p-dopant on an edge of the second surface having a width in the range of 0.1-0.5 mm; wherein the area is formed by etching the semiconductor substrate.
US11387374B2
A method for assembling an optoelectronic package assembly includes engaging a connector holder with a substrate, the connector holder defining an engagement feature and the substrate including optical waveguides, engaging a connector of a fiber array unit with the engagement feature the connector holder where the engagement feature retains the connector and where the fiber array unit includes the connector and optical fibers coupled to the connector, optically coupling the optical fibers to the optical waveguides of the substrate, heating the connector holder, the fiber array unit, the substrate, and a solder positioned between the substrate and a base substrate, where the heating is sufficient to melt the solder, and cooling the solder to couple the substrate to the base substrate.
US11387372B2
A semiconductor device includes; a schottky diode; a semiconductor substrate that includes a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface; a schottky electrode that is placed on the first surface and schottky-contacts to the semiconductor substrate; a first electrode placed on the schottky electrode; and a second electrode that is placed on the second surface and is connected to the semiconductor substrate. The schottky electrode is made of a metal material that is a columnar crystal; and a content of carbon on the schottky electrode is less than 6×1019 cm−3 in at least a part of an area of the schottky electrode.
US11387368B2
To provide a method for driving a semiconductor device, by which influence of variation in threshold voltage and mobility of transistors can be reduced. The semiconductor device includes an n-channel transistor, a switch for controlling electrical connection between a gate and a first terminal of the transistor, a capacitor electrically connected between the gate and a second terminal of the transistor, and a display element. The method has a first period for holding the sum of a voltage corresponding to the threshold voltage of the transistor and an image signal voltage in the capacitor; a second period for turning on the switch so that electric charge held in the capacitor in accordance with the sum of the image signal voltage and the threshold voltage is discharged through the transistor; and a third period for supplying a current to the display element through the transistor after the second period.
US11387365B2
In a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device including a Fin FET, a fin structure extending in a first direction is formed over a substrate. An isolation insulating layer is formed over the substrate so that an upper portion of the fin structure is exposed from the isolation insulating layer. A gate structure extending in a second direction crossing the first direction is formed over a part of the fin structure. A fin mask layer is formed on sidewalls of a source/drain region of the fin structure. The source/drain region of the fin structure is recessed. An epitaxial source/drain structure is formed over the recessed fin structure. In the recessing the source/drain region of the fin structure, a plasma process combining etching and deposition processes is used to form a recess having a rounded corner shape in a cross section along the second direction.
US11387358B2
A semiconductor structure includes a substrate; at least one mask layer spaced apart from the substrate in a first direction; a first semiconductor region of a first conductivity type between the substrate and the at least one mask layer; a second semiconductor region of a second conductivity type on the at least one mask layer; and a third semiconductor region of the first conductivity type on the first semiconductor region. The third semiconductor region may contact the second semiconductor region to form a PN-junction structure in a second direction different from the first direction. The semiconductor structure may be applied to vertical power devices and may be capable of increasing withstand voltage performance and lowering an on-resistance.
US11387354B2
A BiMOS-type transistor includes a gate region, a channel under the gate region, a first channel contact region and a second channel contact region. The first channel contact region is electrically coupled to the gate region to receive a first potential. The second channel contact region is electrically coupled to receive a second potential.
US11387351B2
A manufacturing process and device are provided in which a first opening in formed within a substrate. The first opening is reshaped into a second opening using a second etching process. The second etching process is performed with a radical etch in which neutral ions are utilized. As such, substrate push is reduced.
US11387340B2
A transistor device includes a gate finger and a drain finger extending on a semiconductor structure, a gate bond pad coupled to the gate finger, and a drain bond pad coupled to the drain finger. The gate bond pad extends on the gate finger and/or the drain bond pad extends on the drain finger.
US11387336B2
Pursuant to some embodiments of the present invention, transistor devices are provided that include a semiconductor structure, a gate finger extending on the semiconductor structure in a first direction, and a gate interconnect extending in the first direction and configured to be coupled to a gate signal at an interior position of the gate interconnect, where the gate interconnect is connected to the gate finger at a position offset from the interior position of the gate interconnect.
US11387335B2
Disclosed are optimized contract structures and fabrication techniques thereof. At least one aspect includes a semiconductor die. The semiconductor die includes a substrate and a contact disposed within the substrate. The contact includes a first portion with a first vertical cross-section having a first cross-sectional area. The first vertical cross-section has a first width and a first height. The contact also includes a second portion with a second vertical cross-section having a second cross-sectional area less than the first cross-sectional area. The second vertical cross-section includes a lower portion having the first width and a second height less than the first height, and an upper portion disposed above the lower portion and having a second width less than the first width and having a third height less than the first height.
US11387334B2
The semiconductor device includes a first electrode, a second electrode electrically coupled to the first electrode, and a third electrodes electrically coupled to at least one of the first and the second electrode, a first plating deposition portion on the first electrode, a second and a third plating deposition portions formed on the second and the third electrode, respectively. The areas of the second and the third plating deposition portion are smaller than the area of the first plating deposition portion. The periphery length of the third plating deposition portion is longer than the periphery length of the second plating deposition portion.
US11387330B2
A novel metal oxide is provided. One embodiment of the present invention is a crystalline metal oxide. The metal oxide includes a first layer and a second layer; the first layer has a wider bandgap than the second layer; the first layer and the second layer form a crystal lattice; and in the case where a carrier is excited in the metal oxide, the carrier is transferred through the second layer. Furthermore, the first layer contains an element M (M is one or more selected from Al, Ga, Y, and Sn) and Zn, and the second layer contains In.
US11387318B2
A semiconductor device having an active region and a voltage withstand region comprises a first semiconductor layer of a first conductive type, a second semiconductor region of a second conductive type, disposed selectively on the front side of the first semiconductor layer, a plurality of first trench contact (TC) sections disposed at a peripheral section of the active region in the second semiconductor region, being apart from one another and extending in a first direction, a second trench contact (TC) disposed at the peripheral section of the active region in the second semiconductor region, extending in the first direction and being further from the voltage withstand region than the plurality of first trench contact sections, an electric conductor layer electrically connecting together the plurality of first TC sections, and a conductive connection region disposed between the first TC sections and second TC section, having a lower resistivity than the second semiconductor region, and electrically connecting the first TC sections and second TC section.
US11387309B2
Provided are a display substrate and a preparation method thereof, and a display apparatus. The display substrate includes a base substrate, a plurality of pixel island regions distributed in an array and spaced apart from each other, a plurality of aperture regions, and connection bridge regions located between pixel island regions and aperture regions, which are disposed on the base substrate, wherein the connection bridge region is provided with an isolation structure layer for cutting off an organic emitting layer and a cathode in the connection bridge region.
US11387305B2
The present application provides a display substrate having a plurality of subpixel areas. The display substrate includes a base substrate; a plurality of thin film transistors on the base substrate; and a plurality of semiconductor junctions configured to shield light from irradiating on active layers of the plurality of thin film transistors.
US11387298B2
A display panel, a fabrication method thereof, and a display device are disclosed. The display panel includes: a substrate; a pixel defining layer located on the substrate, the pixel defining layer including: a plurality of openings and a bank enclosing each opening, the bank including a notch; and a first electrode, located at a bottom of each opening and extending into the notch, wherein with respect to a plane where the substrate is located, a height of the first electrode is less than or equal to a maximum height of the notch.
US11387293B2
A display device includes a display panel and an input sensing circuit. The input sensing circuit includes a plurality of sensors and signal lines electrically connected to each of the plurality of sensors. Each of the plurality of signal lines includes a lower line and an upper line overlapping the lower line, and the lower line and the upper line are electrically connected in a plurality of contact areas. A long signal line among the plurality of signal lines has more contact areas than a short signal line.
US11387280B2
Provided is a light-emitting device that can display an image with a wide color gamut or a novel light-emitting element. The light-emitting device includes a plurality of light-emitting elements each of which includes an EL layer between a pair of electrodes. Light obtained from a first light-emitting element through a first color filter has, on chromaticity coordinates (x, y), a chromaticity x of greater than 0.680 and less than or equal to 0.720 and a chromaticity y of greater than or equal to 0.260 and less than or equal to 0.320. Light obtained from a second light-emitting element through a second color filter has, on chromaticity coordinates (x, y), a chromaticity x of greater than or equal to 0.130 and less than or equal to 0.250 and a chromaticity y of greater than 0.710 and less than or equal to 0.810. Light obtained from a third light-emitting element through a third color filter has, on chromaticity coordinates (x, y), a chromaticity x of greater than or equal to 0.120 and less than or equal to 0.170 and a chromaticity y of greater than or equal to 0.020 and less than 0.060.
US11387275B2
A high-power light-emitting diode is made by monolithically integrating multiple miniature light-emitting chips for improved operation voltage, light extraction efficiency and device yield. The light emitting diode includes a plurality of monolithically integrated mini chips, each of the mini chips has a mini n-contact formed on an n-type structure, a mini p-ohmic contact formed on a p-type structure, and a mini light emitting area defined by the mini p-ohmic contact. An n-bridge metal electrically connecting the mini n-contact of the mini chips to an n-bonding pad, the n-bridge metal is formed on the p-type structure and on sidewall of an opening in the p-type structure and on the active-region.
US11387271B2
In described examples an integrated circuit (IC) has multiple layers of dielectric material overlying at least a portion of a surface of a substrate. A trench is etched through the layers of dielectric material to expose a portion the substrate to form a trench floor, the trench being surrounded by a trench wall formed by the layers of dielectric material. A metal perimeter band surrounds the trench adjacent the trench wall, the perimeter band being embedded in one of the layers of the dielectric material.
US11387269B2
Disclosed in one example is an apparatus including a substrate, a sensor over the substrate including an active surface and a sensor bond pad, a molding layer over the substrate and covering sides of the sensor, the molding layer having a molding height relative to a top surface of the substrate that is greater than a height of the active surface of the sensor relative to the top surface of the substrate, and a lidding layer over the molding layer and over the active surface. The lidding layer and the molding layer form a space over the active surface of the sensor that defines a flow channel.
US11387267B2
An image sensor includes a plurality of pixels each including: a first and a second photoelectric conversion unit that perform photoelectric conversion upon light that has passed through a micro lens and generates a charge; a first accumulation unit that accumulates the charge generated by the first conversion unit; a second accumulation unit that accumulates the charge generated by the second conversion unit; a third accumulation unit that accumulates the charges generated by the first and second conversion units; a first transfer unit that transfers the charge generated by the first conversion unit to the first accumulation unit; a second transfer unit that transfers the charge generated by the second conversion unit to the second accumulation unit; and a third transfer unit that transfers the charges generated by the first and second conversion units to the third accumulation unit.
US11387259B2
The present disclosure provides an array substrate, a manufacturing method thereof, and a display device. The array substrate includes a base substrate, and a first functional layer and a second functional layer laminated one on another on the base substrate. The first functional layer forms a level-different region on the base substrate, and the second functional layer covers the level-different region. A portion of the first functional layer at the level-different region is provided with a target gradient angle, the target gradient angle is a maximum gradient angle when the second functional layer has a predetermined thickness, and the predetermined thickness is a thickness when a functional requirement of the second functional layer has been met and the second functional layer is not broken at the level-different region.
US11387255B2
Disclosed is a semiconductor device comprising a logic cell that is on a substrate and includes first and second active regions spaced apart from each other in a first direction, first and second active patterns that are respectively on the first and second active regions and extend in a second direction intersecting the first direction, gate electrodes extending in the first direction and running across the first and second active patterns, first connection lines that are in a first interlayer dielectric layer on the gate electrodes and extend parallel to each other in the second direction, and second connection lines that are in a second interlayer dielectric layer on the first interlayer dielectric layer and extend parallel to each other in the first direction.
US11387248B2
The disclosed technology generally relates to semiconductor devices, and more particularly to three-dimensional semiconductor devices. In one aspect, a method of manufacturing a three-dimensional (3D) semiconductor device includes providing a horizontal layer structure above a substrate and forming an opening that extends vertically through the horizontal layer structure to the substrate. The method additionally includes lining an inside vertical surface of the opening with a gate stack and lining the inside vertical surface of the opening having the gate stack formed thereon with a sacrificial material layer. The method additionally includes filling the opening with a filling material and removing the sacrificial material layer to form a recess. The method further includes forming the channel by epitaxially growing, in the recess, a channel material upwards from the substrate.
US11387234B2
A semiconductor device includes a substrate with a first active region; first and second active patterns extending in a first direction and spaced apart in a second direction, and each having a source pattern, a channel pattern, and a drain pattern that are sequentially stacked; first and second gate electrodes that surround the channel patterns of the first and second active patterns and extend in the first direction; an interlayer dielectric layer that covers the first and second active patterns and the first and second gate electrodes; a first active contact that penetrates the interlayer dielectric layer and is coupled to the first active region between the first and second active patterns; and a first power rail on the interlayer dielectric layer and electrically connected to the first active contact, each of the first and second active patterns including an overlapping region that vertically overlaps the first power rail.
US11387228B2
A display assembly includes a display component and a flexible stratum. The flexible stratum includes a first side coupled to the display component and a second side opposite to the first side. The second side includes protruding portions separate apart from each other, and one of the protruding portions includes a side section, a top section, and a tapering section extending from the side section to the top section and having a curved surface.
US11387224B2
A semiconductor device package structure is provided. The semiconductor device package structure includes a substrate having a cavity, and phase change material within the cavity. In an example, the phase change material has a phase change temperature lower than 120 degree centigrade. A die may be coupled to the substrate. In an example, the semiconductor device package structure includes one or more interconnect structures that are to couple the die to the phase change material within the cavity.
US11387220B2
A display according to one embodiment of the present invention comprises: a light-transmitting first layer and including a plurality of cavities; a plurality of light-emitting diode (LED) chips disposed in the cavities; and a second layer including a circuit electrically connected to the plurality of LED chips. Various other embodiments are also possible.
US11387210B2
A semiconductor module is provided, including: a semiconductor chip having an upper surface electrode and a lower surface electrode opposite to the upper surface electrode; a metal wiring plate electrically connected to the upper surface electrode of the semiconductor chip; and a sheet-like low elastic sheet provided on the metal wiring plate, the low elastic sheet having elastic modulus lower than that of the metal wiring plate. A manufacturing method for a semiconductor module is provided, including: providing a semiconductor chip; solder-bonding a metal wiring plate above said semiconductor chip; and applying a sheet-like low elastic sheet having the elastic modulus lower than that of said metal wiring plate to said metal wiring plate.
US11387195B2
An electronic chip includes a substrate made of semiconductor material. Conductive pads are located on a front side of the substrate and cavities extend into the substrate from a backside of the substrate. Each cavity reaches an associated conductive pad. Protrusions are disposed on the backside of the substrate. A conductive layer covers the walls and bottoms of the cavities. The conductive layer includes portions on the backside, each portion partially located on an associated protrusion and electrically connecting two of the conductive pads.
US11387191B2
In an embodiment, a device includes: an integrated circuit die; an encapsulant at least partially surrounding the integrated circuit die; and a redistribution structure including: a plurality of dielectric layers over the encapsulant and the integrated circuit die; a plurality of metallization patterns in the dielectric layers, the metallization patterns being electrically coupled to the integrated circuit die; and a sealing ring in the dielectric layers, the sealing ring extending around the metallization patterns, the sealing ring being electrically isolated from the metallization patterns and the integrated circuit die, the sealing ring including a plurality of sealing ring layers, each of the sealing ring layers including a via portion extending through a respective one of the dielectric layers, the via portion of each of the sealing ring layers being aligned along a same common axis.
US11387186B2
A system integrating a fan-out package, including a first semiconductor die, with a second semiconductor die. In some embodiments the fan-out package includes the first semiconductor die, a mold compound, covering the first semiconductor die on at least two sides, and an electrical contact, on a lower surface of the first semiconductor die. The fan-out package may have a rabbet along a portion of a lower edge of the fan-out package.
US11387183B2
A semiconductor device including an integrated circuit, a dielectric layer, a plurality of connecting terminals and at least one dummy conductor is provided. The integrated circuit has a plurality of connecting pads, and the dielectric layer is disposed thereon and partially exposes the plurality of the connecting pads by a plurality of openings defined therein. The plurality of the connecting terminals is disposed on the plurality of the connecting pads exposed by the plurality of the openings. The at least one dummy conductor is disposed on the dielectric layer and electrically isolated from the integrated circuit. A substantial topology variation is between the plurality of the connecting terminals and the at least one dummy conductor. A semiconductor package having the semiconductor device is also provided.
US11387176B2
A semiconductor package structure is provided. The semiconductor package structure includes a substrate, a first semiconductor die, and a second semiconductor die. The substrate includes a first substrate partition and a second substrate partition. The first substrate partition has a first wiring structure. The second substrate partition is adjacent to the first substrate partition and has a second wiring structure. The first substrate partition and the second substrate partition are surrounded by a first molding material. The first semiconductor die is disposed over the substrate and electrically coupled to the first wiring structure. The second semiconductor die is disposed over the substrate and electrically coupled to the second wiring structure.
US11387165B2
A multi-layer cooling structure comprising a first substrate layer comprising an array of cooling channels, a second substrate layer comprising a nozzle structure that includes one or more nozzles, an outlet, and an outlet manifold, a third substrate layer comprising an inlet manifold and an inlet, and one or more TSVs disposed through the first substrate layer, second substrate layer, and third substrate layer. At least one of the one or more TSVs is metallized. The first substrate layer and the second substrate layer are directly bonded, and the second substrate layer and the third substrate layer are directly bonded.
US11387153B2
A method of making a repaired electrical connection structure comprises providing a substrate having first and second contact pads electrically connected in parallel, providing first and second functionally identical components, disposing a first adhesive layer on the substrate, transferring the first component onto the first adhesive layer, electrically connecting the first component to the first contact pad, testing the first component to determine if the first component is a faulty component and, if the first component is a faulty component, disposing a second adhesive layer on the substrate and transferring the second component onto the second adhesive layer, and electrically connecting the second component to the second contact pad. The first and second adhesive layers can be unpatterned or patterned and the first and second components can be electrically connected to the first and second contact pads, respectively, with connection posts or photolithographically defined electrodes.
US11387151B2
Provided is a method of measuring the concentration of Fe in a p-type silicon wafer by an SPV method enabling improvement in the measurement accuracy for Fe concentrations of 1×109/cm3 or less. The method of measuring the concentration of Fe in a p-type silicon wafer includes measuring an Fe concentration in the p-type silicon wafer based on measurement using an SPV method. The measurement is performed in an atmosphere in which the total concentration of Na+, NH4+, and K+ is 1.750 μg/m3 or less, and the total concentration of F−, Cl−, NO2−, PO43−, Br−, NO3−, and SO42− is 0.552 μg/m3 or less.
US11387150B2
A method of decreasing height differences of STIs includes providing a substrate comprising a peripheral circuit region. The peripheral circuit region includes a P-type transistor region and an N-type transistor region. A first STI and a third STI are respectively disposed within the N-type transistor region and the P-type transistor region. Later, a first mask is formed to cover the N-type transistor region. Then, an N-type well is formed in the P-type transistor region and part of the third STI is removed by taking the first mask as a mask. Next, the first mask is removed. After that, a second mask is formed to cover the P-type transistor region. Subsequently, a P-type well is formed in the N-type transistor region and part of the first STI is removed by taking the second mask as a mask. Finally, the second mask is removed.
US11387140B2
In some embodiments, the present disclosure relates to an integrated chip that includes a substrate and a gate electrode overlying the substrate. Further, the integrated chip includes a contact layer overlies the substrate and is laterally spaced apart from the gate electrode by a spacer structure. The spacer structure may surround outermost sidewalls of the gate electrode. A hard mask structure may be arranged over the gate electrode and between portions of the spacer structure. A contact via extends through the hard mask structure and contacts the gate electrode. The integrated chip may further include a liner layer that is arranged directly between the hard mask structure and the spacer structure, wherein the liner layer is spaced apart from the gate electrode.
US11387139B2
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device, the method including: a first film deposition process of stacking a polymer film on a substrate on which a recess is formed, wherein the polymer film is a film of a polymer having a urea bond and is formed by polymerizing a plurality of kinds of monomers; a second film deposition process of stacking a sealing film on the substrate in a state in which at least a bottom and a sidewall of the recess are covered with the polymer film; and a desorbing process of desorbing and diffusing the polymer film under the sealing film through the sealing film by depolymerizing the polymer film by heating the substrate to a first temperature.
US11387135B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure generally relate to a lift pin assembly used for de-chucking substrates. The lift pin assembly includes a base and one or more lift pin holders. Each lift pin holder includes a first portion and a second portion. The first portion is coupled to the base by a metal connector and the second portion is coupled to the first portion by a metal connector. A resistor is disposed in the first portion of the lift pin holder. The second portion includes a lift pin support for supporting a lift pin. The lift pin, the lift pin support, and the metal connectors are electrically conductive. The base is connected to a reference voltage, such as the ground, forming a path for the residual electrostatic charge in the substrate from the substrate to the reference voltage.
US11387133B2
A wafer processing method includes a modified layer forming step, a protective member disposing step, a reinforcing portion forming step, and an undersurface processing step. The modified layer forming step forms, in a ring shape, a modified layer not reaching a finished thickness of a wafer by irradiating the wafer with a laser beam such that a condensing point of the laser beam is positioned in an inner part of the wafer, the inner part corresponding to a peripheral surplus region. The reinforcing portion forming step makes a cleavage plane reach the top surface from the modified layer formed in a ring shape, removes the modified layer, thins a region corresponding to a device region of the wafer to the finished thickness, and forms a ring-shaped reinforcing portion in a region corresponding to the peripheral surplus region of the wafer by grinding the undersurface of the wafer.
US11387123B2
A method for fault detection in a fabrication facility is provided. The method includes moving a wafer carrier along a predetermined path multiple times using a transportation apparatus. The method also includes collecting data associated with an environmental condition within the wafer carrier or around the wafer carrier using a metrology tool on the predetermined path in a previous movement of the transportation apparatus. The method further includes measuring the environmental condition within the wafer carrier or around the wafer carrier using the metrology tool during the movement of the wafer carrier. In addition, the method includes issuing a warning when the measured environmental condition is outside a range of acceptable values. The range of acceptable values is derived from the data collected in the previous movement of the transportation apparatus.
US11387113B2
A method includes forming a material layer over a substrate, forming a first hard mask (HM) layer over the material layer, forming a first trench, along a first direction, in the first HM layer. The method also includes forming first spacers along sidewalls of the first trench, forming a second trench in the first HM layer parallel to the first trench, by using the first spacers to guard the first trench. The method also includes etching the material layer through the first trench and the second trench, removing the first HM layer and the first spacers, forming a second HM layer over the material layer, forming a third trench in the second HM layer. The third trench extends along a second direction that is perpendicular to the first direction and overlaps with the first trench. The method also includes etching the material layer through the third trench.
US11387112B2
There is provided a method of performing a surface processing on a substrate having a metal layer formed on a bottom portion of a recess formed in an insulating film, the method including: supplying a halogen-containing gas into a processing chamber in which the substrate is loaded; and removing a metal oxide from the bottom portion of the recess using the halogen-containing gas.
US11387108B2
A composition for metal plating comprising a source of metal ions and at least one leveling agent comprising at least one polyaminoamide comprising a polymer fragment of formula (I) or derivatives thereof obtainable by complete or partial protonation or N-quarternisation.
US11387104B2
A method for lithography patterning includes forming an opening in a first layer over a substrate and coating a grafting solution over the first layer and filling in the opening. The grafting solution comprises a grafting compound and a solvent. The grafting compound comprises a grafting unit chemically bonded to a linking unit chemically bonded to a polymer backbone. The grafting unit is attachable to the first layer. The method further includes curing the grafting solution so that a first portion of the grafting compound is attached to a surface of the first layer, thereby forming a second layer over the surface of the first layer. The method further includes transferring a pattern including the first layer and the second layer to the substrate.
US11387093B2
The present invention provides an electrode arrangement 10, 10′ for an ion trap, ion filter, an ion guide, a reaction cell or an ion analyser. The electrode arrangement 10, 10′ comprises an RF electrode 12a, 12b, 12a′, 12b′ mechanically coupled to a dielectric material 11. The RF electrode 12a, 12b, 12a′, 12b′ is mechanically coupled to the dielectric material 11 by a plurality of separators 13 that are spaced apart and configured to define a gap between the RF electrode 12a, 12b, 12a′, 12b′ and the dielectric material 11. Each of the plurality of separators 13 comprises a projecting portion 13b and the dielectric material 11 comprises corresponding receiving portions 11a such that on coupling of the RF electrode 12a, 12b, 12a′, 12b′ to the dielectric material 11, the projecting portion 13b of each separator 13 is received within the corresponding receiving portion 11a of the dielectric material 11. The present invention also relates to an ion trap comprises the electrode arrangement 10, 10′ and a method of manufacturing the electrode arrangement 10, 10′.
US11387091B2
A method of ionisation is disclosed in which a sample is heated such that analyte is released from the sample. Analyte released from the sample is accumulated, and then the accumulated analyte is passed to an ionisation region where the analyte is ionised.
US11387078B2
An impedance matching device is to be provided between a load and a high frequency power supply in which output power is modulated to a high output and a low output alternately. The impedance matching device calculates an impedance or a reflection coefficient of a case where the load side is viewed from an output end of the high frequency power supply. The impedance matching device performs, based on results of the calculations performed in a first period in which the output power is the high output and in a second period in which the output power is the low output, operations for the impedance matching in the subsequent second period and first period respectively. The impedance matching device achieves, based on results of these operations, the impedance matchings in the subsequent first period and second period respectively.
US11387068B2
An active/passive fuse module including a base, a busbar disposed on a top surface of the base and including a fuse element and first and second terminal portions extending from opposite ends of the fuse element, the fuse element extending over a cavity in the top surface of the base, a pyrotechnic interrupter (PI) disposed atop the base, the PI including a piston disposed within a shaft above the fuse element, a first pyrotechnic ignitor coupled to a controller, the first pyrotechnic ignitor configured to detonate and force the piston through the fuse element upon receiving an initiation signal from the controller, and a second pyrotechnic ignitor coupled to the busbar by a pair of leads, the second pyrotechnic ignitor configured to detonate and force the piston through the fuse element upon an increase in voltage across the leads.
US11387052B2
A nonaqueous lithium-type power storage element comprising a positive electrode, a negative electrode, a separator, and a nonaqueous electrolytic solution containing lithium ions. The negative electrode has: a negative electrode collector; and a negative electrode active material layer containing a negative electrode active material, said negative electrode active material layer being provided on one surface or both surfaces of the negative electrode collector. The negative electrode active material contains a carbonaceous material capable of storing or releasing lithium ions. Furthermore, the positive electrode has: a positive electrode collector; and a positive electrode active material layer containing a cathode active material, said positive electrode active material layer being provided on one surface or both surfaces of the positive electrode collector. The positive electrode active material contains activated carbon. Also, the positive electrode active material layer contains one or more compounds selected from formulas (1) to (3) in an amount of 1.60×10−4 to 300×10−4 mol/g per unit mass of the positive electrode active material layer. LiX1—OR1O—X2Li (1) LiX1—OR1O—X2R2 (2) R2X1—OR1O—X2R3 (3) (In the formulas, R1R2, R3X1, and X2 represent groups defined in the specification of the application.)
US11387048B2
A solid electrolytic capacitor includes at least one capacitor element, an outer packaging resin, and a coating layer. The at least one capacitor element includes an anode body that includes a dielectric layer, and a solid electrolyte layer that at least partially covers the dielectric layer. The outer packaging resin covers the at least one capacitor element. The coating layer is disposed between the at least one capacitor element and the outer packaging resin. The coating layer contains a fluorine compound.
US11387040B2
A method for producing a module includes a first step of preparing a conductive layer disposed at one side in a thickness direction of a first peeling layer, a second step of forming a conductive pattern from the conductive layer, a third step of pushing the conductive pattern into a first adhesive layer containing a first magnetic particle and a first resin component, and a fourth step of peeling the first peeling layer.
US11387034B2
An asymmetric spiral inductor fabricated in a semiconductor structure includes a spiral coil, a metal segment, and a connection structure. The spiral coil is substantially disposed in a first metal layer and includes a first terminal and a second terminal. The first terminal is disposed at an outermost turn of the spiral coil, and the second terminal is disposed at an innermost turn of the spiral coil. The metal segment is disposed in a second metal layer different from the first metal layer and has a third terminal and a fourth terminal. The connection structure connects the second terminal and the third terminal. The first terminal and the fourth terminal form the two terminals of the asymmetric spiral inductor. The spiral coil is a polygon with N sides (N>4). A portion of the metal segment has a shape substantially identical to a portion of the contour of the polygon.
US11387012B2
An elastic conductor comprising: an elastomeric substrate, and an array of nanowires, wherein the nanowires are upstanding relative to the surface of the substrate.
US11387010B2
Disclosed herein are protective garments and methods for using the same. In one aspect, the garment includes a garment body configured to be worn on a portion of a wearer's body, the garment body comprising at least one protective segment configured to block a predetermined level of radiation. Also disclosed herein are method of making the disclosed garments and methods for using the disclosed garments.
US11386995B2
A method of centralized monitoring management at a centralized monitoring unit (CMU) includes receiving patient monitoring data from multiple patient monitoring devices, each providing patient monitoring data for one of multiple patients, and assigning each of the multiple patients to one of at least two monitoring technician stations. Each monitoring technician station is configured to receive and display patient monitoring data the patients assigned thereto and to present alarms for each patient to a CMU technician. A load index is calculated for each monitoring technician station based on the alarms for each patient in the group of patients assigned to that monitoring technician station. At least one patient is removed from the group of patients assigned to a first monitoring technician station of the at least two monitoring technician stations based on the load index for the first monitoring technician station. The patient removed from the first monitoring technician station is then reassigned to a different one of the at least two monitoring technician stations so as to distribute an overall alarm load for the CMU across all of the at least two monitoring technician stations.
US11386994B2
Therapy device systems, modules, and methods, include memory, one or more processors, in communication with the memory, a plurality of medical therapy devices, a plurality of patient monitoring devices, and a protocol execution module, configured to execute on the one or more processors. The protocol execution module displays a plurality of protocols. The protocol execution module receives a selected protocol, associated with an individual medical therapy device being one of a plurality of medical therapy devices and associated with an individual patient monitoring device being one of a plurality of patient monitoring devices. The protocol execution module executes the selected protocol with the individual medical therapy device.
US11386979B2
Method and system for storing and accessing genomic data. Genomic sequencing data are partitioned into access units of different types based on the predictability of the contained data. Access units are classified in different types and the structuring enables selective access and selective processing of genomic data.
US11386974B2
A non-volatile memory device includes a memory cell array including a plurality of memory blocks that includes a plurality of memory cells connected to a plurality of word lines and a plurality of bit lines, a row decoder configured to select one among the plurality of memory blocks, based on an address, a voltage generator configured to apply word line voltages corresponding to selected word lines and unselected word lines, among the plurality of word lines, page buffers connected to the plurality of bit lines and configured to read data from a memory cell connected to one among the selected word lines of the selected one among the plurality of memory blocks, and a control logic configured to control the row decoder, the voltage generator, and the page buffers.
US11386967B2
A memory device including a memory cell area having a plurality of memory cells, and a peripheral circuit area including peripheral circuits configured to control the memory cells, the peripheral circuits connected to the memory cells by at least a portion of bit lines, word lines, and select lines may be provided. The peripheral circuits may include a reference voltage generator configured to output at least one reference voltage in response to control data of a control logic. The reference voltage generator may include a first resistor chain including first resistors connected in series between a first power node and a second power node, a second resistor chain including second resistors connected in series between the first power node and the second power node, and a plurality of decoders connected to the first resistor chain and the second resistor chain.
US11386960B2
A semiconductor memory device includes first, second, third, and fourth planes, a first address bus connected to the first and third planes, a second address bus connected to the second and fourth planes, and a control circuit configured to execute a synchronous process on at least two planes in response to a first command set including a first address and a second address. The control circuit is configured to transfer the first address to the first and third planes through the first address bus, and the second address to the second and fourth planes through the second address bus, and during the synchronous process, select a first block in one of the first and third planes, based on the transferred first address and select a second block in one of the second and fourth planes, based on the transferred second address.
US11386959B2
A semiconductor storage device includes a memory string and a row decoder configured to apply voltages to first to fourth select gate lines and first and second word lines connected to the memory string. A sequencer has first mode for erasing the entire memory string and a second mode for erasing just a portion of the memory string. In the first mode, a first voltage is applied to the bit line and the source line, a second voltage lower than the first voltage is applied to the first select gate line, a third voltage is applied to the second select gate line, a fourth voltage is applied to the third select gate line, a fifth voltage lower than the first voltage is applied to the fourth select gate line, and a sixth voltage lower than the first to fifth voltages is applied to the first and second word lines.
US11386957B2
A semiconductor memory apparatus may include a cell string and a page buffer. The cell string may include a drain select transistor coupled with a bit line, and memory cells coupled with the drain select transistor. The page buffer may be coupled to the cell string through the bit line. The page buffer may include a latch and a first current path. The latch may store data of a value indicative of a result of a threshold voltage verification on the drain select transistor. The first current path may set a voltage of the bit line to a program inhibit voltage, based on the value of the data stored in the latch.
US11386954B2
A memory device can include a plurality of memory cells including a first group of memory cells and a second group of memory cells programmed to a predefined logic state. The plurality of memory cells includes a memory controller configured to apply a reading voltage to at least one selected memory cell of the first group during a reading operation, apply the reading voltage to the memory cells of the second group, and responsive to the logic state of at least one memory cell of the second group being assessed to be different from the predefined logic state perform a refresh operation of the memory cells of the first group by applying a recovery voltage higher than the reading voltage to assess the logic state thereof and reprogramming the memory cells of the first group to the logic state assessed with the recovery voltage.
US11386949B2
Apparatuses, systems, and methods for latch reset logic. Banks may have local latches which are coupled between a global data bus and the bank. Some of the local latches may be shared local latches which are coupled to a first bank and a second bank. The shared latches may latch data responsive to a first clock signal and a second clock signal, and may reset responsive to a combined reset signal. A reset logic circuit may receive the clock signals and a first and second reset signal. The reset logic circuit may provide the combined reset signal based on the first and second clock signals and reset signals. The clocks signals may be column active commands and the reset signals may be waveforms (e.g., falling edges) of row active commands used as part of access operations on the first or the second memory bank.
US11386929B2
An incident recorder records original and supplemental incident information using a simplified user interface. A lead incident recorder may request any of several support tasks be accepted by other subsystems configured to Follow. Tactical support tasks may be requested. Communication support tasks may be requested. Collection support tasks may be requested. Collection support tasks may include directives for operation of an incident recorder.
US11386925B2
A data storage device is disclosed comprising at least one head configured to access a magnetic tape. A plurality of access commands are stored in a command queue, and a wear value is generated for each access command in the command queue, wherein the wear value represents a level of wear on the head or magnetic tape associated with executing the access command. An execution order for the access commands is generated based on the wear values, and at least one of the access commands is executed based on the execution order.
US11386923B2
According to one embodiment, a disk device includes two magnetic disks opposing each other at intervals of 1.2 to 1.5 mm, and at least two suspension assemblies movable respectively between the two magnetic disks. Each of the suspension assemblies includes a base plate, a load beam extending from the base plate, a tab extending from a distal end of the load beam, a wiring member on the load beam and the base plate, including a gimbal portion, and a magnetic head on the gimbal portion, abutting on a dimple of the load beam via the gimbal portion. The ratio of a distance from a bendable location of the load beam to a center of the dimple with respect to a distance from the center of the dimple to a tip of the tab is 2.8 to 3.8.
US11386895B2
Disclosed are a speech processing method and speech processing apparatus which execute an installed artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm and/or machine learning algorithm to perform speech processing to enable the speech processing apparatus, a user terminal, and a server to communicate with each other in a 5G communication environment. The speech processing method according to an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure includes converting a user's spoken utterance into a user utterance text, discovering a domain, an intent, and at least one named entity of the user utterance text, determining whether the user's spoken utterance is a complete spoken utterance or an incomplete spoken utterance, generating a spoken query utterance and feeding the generated spoken query utterance back to the user when the user's spoken utterance is an incomplete spoken utterance, and constructing a complete spoken utterance by receiving a user's spoken response utterance which responds to the spoken query utterance.
US11386892B2
Systems and processes for providing personalized suggestions indicating that a task may be performed using a digital assistant of an electronic device are provided. An example method includes, at an electronic device with a display, receiving context data associated with the electronic device; determining, based on the context data, a task that may be performed by a digital assistant of the electronic device in response to a natural-language expression; determining, based on the context data, whether suggestion criteria associated with the determined task are satisfied; and in accordance with a determination that the suggestion criteria are satisfied, providing a suggestion indicating that the determined task may be performed using the digital assistant of the electronic device.
US11386891B2
A driving assistance apparatus includes a memory and a processor including hardware. The processor is configured to acquire voice information uttered by a driver, recognize content of the voice information, output information on content of a process based on a recognition result of the voice information before executing the process, and execute the process when an approval signal that approves the execution of the process is input from an operation member disposed on a steering wheel that the driver holds to steer a vehicle.
US11386890B1
A system is provided for reducing friction during user interactions with a natural language processing system, such as voice assistant systems. The system determines a pre-trained model using dialog session data corresponding to multiple user profiles. The system determines a fine-tuned model using the pre-trained model and a fine-tuning dataset that corresponds to a particular task, such as query rewriting. The system uses the fine-tuned model to process a user input and determine an alternative representation of the input that can result in a desired response from the natural language processing system.
US11386889B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for implementing contextual grammar selection are disclosed. In one aspect, a method includes the actions of receiving audio data of an utterance. The actions include generating a word lattice that includes multiple candidate transcriptions of the utterance and that includes transcription confidence scores. The actions include determining a context of the computing device. The actions include based on the context of the computing device, identifying grammars that correspond to the multiple candidate transcriptions. The actions include determining, for each of the multiple candidate transcriptions, grammar confidence scores that reflect a likelihood that a respective grammar is a match for a respective candidate transcription. The actions include selecting, from among the candidate transcriptions, a candidate transcription. The actions further include providing, for output, the selected candidate transcription as a transcription of the utterance.
US11386886B2
An embodiment provides a method, including: obtaining, using a processor, contextual information relating to an information handling device; adjusting, using a processor, an automated speech recognition engine using the contextual information; receiving, at an audio receiver of the information handling device, user speech input; and providing, using a processor, recognized speech based on the user speech input received and the contextual information adjustment to the automated speech recognition engine. Other aspects are described and claimed.
US11386875B2
A device comprises memory, a display characterized by a characteristic, and processors coupled to the memory. The processors receive data indicative of a preferred adaptation technique and intended display parameter. The processors adapt the content item to a display color space and the intended display parameter based on the preferred adaptation technique. The processors modify the intended display parameter based at least in part on the display characteristic to obtain a modified display parameter and cause the adapted content item to be displayed on the display according to the modified display parameter. In some embodiments, the processors obtain data indicative of ambient light conditions and adjust the modified display parameter based on the data indicative of ambient light conditions. In some embodiments, the processors cause the adapted content item to be displayed according to the adjusted and modified display parameter.
US11386870B2
Provided is an information processing apparatus including an output control unit that controls output of an image performed by a display unit, the output control unit selecting an output image to be output by the display unit from among a plurality of candidate images based on calculated visibility of the candidate image. In addition, provided is an information processing method including causing a processor to control output of an image performed by a display unit, the control further including selecting an output image to be output by the display unit from among a plurality of candidate images based on the calculated visibility of the candidate image.
US11386866B2
An electronic device may include a display, and a processor operatively connected to the display. The processor is configured to identify a frame rate of a first application that is currently being executed. The processor is also configured to, based on the frame rate, determine a scanning rate of the display and a frame refresh rate for refreshing a frame related to the first application. The processor is further configured to control a first screen refresh of the first application, based on the scanning rate and the frame refresh rate.
US11386861B2
A liquid crystal on silicon panel including a plurality of driving circuits is provided. Each of the driving circuits includes a first driving route and a second driving route. The first driving route and the second driving route are configured to drive corresponding subpixel electrodes and respectively determine display content of a first wobulation image and a second wobulation image. In addition, a projection apparatus including the liquid crystal on silicon panel is also provided.
US11386850B2
A display panel includes a 1-1st sub-pixel and a 1-2nd sub-pixel disposed in a first row, a 2-1st sub-pixel disposed in a second row and a 3-1st sub-pixel and a 3-2nd sub-pixel disposed in a third row. A first data line extends from the first row to the third row and electrically connects a pixel circuit of the 1-1st sub-pixel, a pixel circuit of the 2-1st sub-pixel, and a pixel circuit of the 3-1st sub-pixel. A 2-1st data line is electrically connected to a pixel circuit of the 1-2nd sub-pixel. A 2-2nd data line is electrically connected to a pixel circuit of the 3-2nd sub-pixel. A first bridge line is disposed on a different layer than the data lines and contacts the 2-1st data line and the 2-2nd data line and includes an overlapping portion extending along at least a portion of the first data line.
US11386847B2
An organic light emitting diode (OLED) display includes: a display area comprising a plurality of pixel rows configured to emit light in response to a light emission signal; a light emission signal generator at the periphery of the display area, and including a plurality of light emission signal stages connected to the plurality of pixel rows; and a first high voltage transmission line and a second high voltage transmission line connected to the light emission signal generator, wherein the first high voltage transmission line is connected to a plurality of odd-numbered light emission signal stages among the plurality of light emission signal stages, and the second high voltage transmission line is connected to a plurality of even-numbered light emission signal stages among the plurality of light emission signal stages.
US11386829B2
A display panel and its drive method, and a display device are provided in the present disclosure. The method for driving the display panel includes refreshing a first-color picture N times in one frame. A time interval between every two adjacent refreshings of the N times of the refreshing is T1 for the first-color picture, T1=T2/N, T2 is a duration of the one frame, N>1, and N is a positive integer. The first-color picture may be refreshed multiple times in the one frame, and the multiple refreshing processes of the first-color picture may be evenly distributed, which may reduce each picture retention duration after the first-color picture is refreshed. Furthermore, before the human eyes are not able to recognize the brightness decrease of a previous first-color picture, a next first-color picture is refreshed, thereby effectively improving the picture flickering phenomenon of the display panel.
US11386821B2
A display device includes a pixel array including touch blocks; a plurality of test pads in a bezel area outside the pixel array for performing a pixel test and a touch block test; a plurality of pixel test lines and a plurality of touch block test lines connected to the test pads within the pixel array; a switching unit between the test pads and the pixel test lines and the touch block test lines and applying a test signal to any one of the pixel test lines and the touch block test lines; a pixel test switching pad in the bezel area and providing a control signal for testing pixel operation in the pixel array to the switching unit; and a touch block test switching pad in the bezel area and providing a control signal for testing the touch blocks within the pixel array to the switching unit.
US11386820B2
A method of detecting threshold voltage shift and a threshold voltage shift detection device are provided. The method is applied to a pixel driving circuit which I is electrically coupled to a control line, a voltage line and a detection node, respectively. The method includes: in a detection cycle including a setting phase and a detection phase, in the setting phase, controlling a transistor included in the pixel driving circuit to be in a biased state; in the detection phase, providing a preset control voltage signal to the control line, providing a preset voltage signal to the voltage line, and determining a threshold voltage shift state of the transistor according to an electric potential of the detection node.
US11386812B2
A film structure with protection against manipulation includes a top film, a laser-inscribable layer which is arranged on the bottom side of the top film, and also a bottom film and a connecting layer for connecting the bottom film to the top film and the laser-inscribable layer. The connecting layer is arranged between the laser-inscribable layer and the bottom film. The film structure has an inscribed region and an uninscribed region. The top film is fused with the bottom film in the inscribed region of the film structure. As a result, it is virtually impossible to separate the top film with the inscribed layer from the bottom film without destruction in the event of a manipulation attempt.
US11386793B2
A device may receive a request to establish a session for a wireless communication device over a wireless network; identify the wireless communication device as an unmanned aerial vehicle; modify operating parameters of a radio access network (RAN), with which the wireless communication device has a radio resource control (RRC) link, to optimize communication between the access network and the unmanned aerial vehicle. The wireless network includes the RAN.
US11386792B2
A set of electric vehicles required to be serviced is determined based at least in part on the data associated with the availability of the at least the subset of electric vehicles. A display indicating for each electric vehicle included in the set of electrical vehicles required to be serviced a corresponding location of the electric vehicle and a price offered to retrieve, service, and redeploy the electric vehicle is provided via a communication interface to each of a plurality of users. A selection to retrieve at least one of the electrical vehicles included in the set of electric vehicles required to be serviced is received from a device associated with one of the plurality of users. The display indicating for each electric vehicle included in the set of electrical vehicles required to be serviced is updated based on the selection. The updated display includes the electric vehicles included in the set of electric vehicles required to be serviced other than the selected at least one of the electric vehicles.
US11386789B1
The present application discloses an improved transportation matching system, and corresponding methods and computer-readable media. According to disclosed embodiments, a transportation matching system trains a predictive request model to generate a metric predicted to trigger an increase in transportation provider activity within the geographic area for a given time period. Furthermore, the system determines a predicted gap between expected request activity and expected transportation provider activity for the geographic area during a future time period, utilizes the predictive request model and the predicted gap to generate a metric for the geographic area, and generates an interactive map associated with a customized schedule for the geographic area and the future time period based on the generated metric.
US11386762B2
An obscuration cloud generation device (100) comprises a housing (101) having a door (102) and a frame (103) sized and shaped to accommodate an obscuration cloud generating canister (110) when the door (102) is in a closed state. Activation of the canister (110) emits a composition for forming the cloud. The door (102) has an operably open state in which the door (102) is open at least a predefined minimum extent for exiting of the emitted composition. A door checking system (104) applies a force for opening the door (102) and generates an indication of whether the door (102) is open at least to the minimum extent. A controller (105) is adapted to instruct the checking system (104) to apply the force and to receive the indication to determine, before activating the canister (110), that the door (102) is not blocked from reaching the operably open state.
US11386750B2
A gaming system includes logic circuitry and a gaming machine for conducting a casino wagering game. The logic circuitry receives, via an acoustic input component of the gaming machine, an acoustic capture signal representative of a player account identifier corresponding to a player account from a mobile device, determines the player account identifier represented by the capture signal, and associates a gaming session on the gaming machine with the corresponding player account. In addition, the logic circuitry, in response to receiving in a prescribed manner, via the acoustic input component, an acoustic maintain-session signal from the mobile device, maintains the association between the gaming session on the gaming machine and the corresponding player account for a period of time, in response to failing to receive the maintain-session signal in the prescribed manner, the logic circuitry terminates the association between the gaming session and the corresponding player account.
US11386747B2
A gaming monetary instrument tracking system is configured to track sources for the monetary value of a monetary instrument across multiple previous gaming transactions. The system can include a plurality of system nodes in communication with a system server. The system nodes can be electronic gaming devices, which can generate data with respect to gaming monetary instruments that each have a monetary value, and some of the system nodes can also issue new gaming monetary instruments. The system server can receive data generated by the system nodes and create data structures that link multiple gaming monetary instruments with each other according to multiple different transactions regarding the instruments at different times and across multiple different nodes. A historical record for each instrument can provide data regarding related previous transactions and instruments.
US11386745B2
A system includes a plurality of stationary gaming tables positioned at a plurality of respective locations, a moveable table game device, one or more processors, and a server. Each gaming table includes a table transceiver. The table game device includes a device transceiver that receives data signals including identification data from the table transceivers via a first communication network. The processors determine an identity of the gaming tables based on the identification data, calculate a relative distance between the table game device and each gaming table based on at least one characteristic of a respective data signal, and generate location data indicating a relative location of the gaming device as a function of the calculated relative distances. The server collects the location data via a second communication network and stores the location data for analysis and location tracking.
US11386730B2
A door lock system can comprise a door lock movable between a locked state and an unlocked state. The door lock system can detect a first indication suggestive of a presence of a visitor. The door lock system can also detect a second indication suggestive of an identity of the visitor. As well, the door lock can validate that the first indication and the second indication are associated with a first identity.
US11386709B2
System and method for improving signal to noise ratio in object tracking under poor light conditions
Described herein is a system and method for performing eye tracking. One embodiment provides a system (100) including a camera (106) for capturing images of a vehicle driver's (102) eye and light emitting diodes (LEDs—108 and 110) configured to selectively illuminate the driver's eye during image capture by the camera (106). A processor (118) is configured to process at least a subset of the captured images to determine one or more eye tracking parameters of the subjects eye and to determine one or more illumination characteristics of the images. A controller (120) is configured to send an LED control signal to the LEDs (108 and 110) to control the drive current amplitude and pulse time of the LEDs (108 and 110). The controller (120) selectively adjusts the drive current amplitude and/or pulse time based on the determined illumination characteristics of a previous captured image or images.
US11386708B2
A system for providing cognition assistance including a contextual memory trainer, which receives preprocessed data including facial data, scene data, and activity data related to a video in association with temporal data and geographical location data of the camera that captured the video, where the scene data, the activity data, the geographical location data, and the temporal data collectively define spatiotemporal data. The trainer identifies an unknown aspect in the preprocessed data based on historical data and determines a predefined priority factor therefor. The priority factor includes one of a frequency of occurrence within a set period and relative proximity of the unknown aspect to the camera, a known face, place, or scene. The unknown aspect is prioritized for annotation based on a value of the priority factor exceeding a predefined threshold value, based on which facial data is associated with the spatiotemporal data to provide contextual annotated data.
US11386696B2
In one aspect, a method includes receiving query fingerprint data representing content received by a content-presentation device. The method also includes comparing at least a first portion of the query fingerprint data with at least one first reference fingerprint data set, where each first reference fingerprint data set corresponds with a respective channel. The method also includes determining that the query fingerprint data does not match any of the at least one first reference fingerprint data sets. The method also includes responsive to the determining, comparing at least a second portion of the query fingerprint data with second reference fingerprint data representing a modifiable content-segment. The method also includes detecting a match between at least the second portion of the query fingerprint data and the second reference fingerprint data. The method also includes responsive to detecting the match, performing an action that facilitates the content-presentation device performing a content-modification operation.
US11386695B2
An authentication device includes an illumination device, a camera, and a processor configured to obtain, by capturing by the camera, an image including a subject illuminated with light of the illumination device, extract a target region from the obtained image, and perform determination that processing related to authentication is not allowed when the target region includes a first part of a first luminance value having a difference not less than a threshold value from a second luminance value of a second part of the target region.
US11386692B2
A display panel has a light-exit side and a non-light-exit side opposite to the light-exit side. A direction pointing to the non-light-exit side from the light-exit side is a first direction. In the first direction, the display panel includes a coded aperture mask layer and an optical sensing layer. The coded aperture mask layer includes a plurality of first light-transmission portions and a plurality of first light-shielding portions. The coded aperture mask layer is configured to form at least one part of a coded aperture array. The optical sensing layer includes a plurality of optical sensors. The optical sensing layer is configured to receive texture recognition light passed through the coded aperture array and convert optical signals of the texture recognition light into electrical signals. The texture recognition light is light carrying information about a texture to be recognized.
US11386673B2
Systems, methods, and devices for detecting brake lights are disclosed herein. A system includes a mode component, a vehicle region component, and a classification component. The mode component is configured to select a night mode or day mode based on a pixel brightness in an image frame. The vehicle region component is configured to detect a region corresponding to a vehicle based on data from a range sensor when in a night mode or based on camera image data when in the day mode. The classification component is configured to classify a brake light of the vehicle as on or off based on image data in the region corresponding to the vehicle.
US11386672B2
The disclosure provides for a method of controlling one or more sensors on a moving vehicle that is executable by one or more computing devices. The one or more computing devices may detect a first surface at a first location and a second surface at a second location using the one or more sensors. The second surface may be classified as a target of interest. Then the one or more computing devices may determine one or more timing characteristics of the one or more sensors based on a pose or motion of the one or more sensors relative to the first location of the first surface and the second location of the second surface. Then, the one or more computing devices may control the one or more sensors to capture data according to the determined one or more timing characteristics.
US11386656B2
A computing device for handling video content analysis, comprises a preprocessing module, for receiving a first plurality of frames and for determining whether to delete at least one of the first plurality of frames according to an event detection, to generate a second plurality of frames according to the determination for the first plurality of frames; a first deep learning module, for receiving the second plurality of frames and for determining whether to delete at least one of the second plurality of frames according to a plurality of features of the second plurality of frames, to generate a third plurality of frames according to the determination for the second plurality of frames; and a second deep learning module, for receiving the third plurality of frames, to generate a plurality of prediction outputs of the third plurality of frames.
US11386655B2
An image processing neural network system includes a base net of at least one convolutional layer and at least one pooling layer; and a scenario block layer. The scenario block layer performs scene classification and generates a dictionary of scenarios and a vector of scenario encoding coefficients to output a probabilistic scene class assignment and the vector of scenario encoding coefficients. The vector of scenario encoding coefficients corresponds to reasoning for the scene classification.
US11386653B2
In one implementation, a method includes: identifying a first plot-within a scene associated with a portion of video content; synthesizing a scene description for the scene that corresponds to a trajectory of the first plot-effectuator within a setting associated with the scene and actions performed by the first plot-effectuator; and generating a corresponding synthesized reality (SR) reconstruction of the scene by driving a first digital asset associated with the first plot-effectuator according to the scene description for the scene.
US11386650B2
An approach is provided for detecting and map-coding a tunnel based on probes and image data. The approach involves, for example, identifying a gap in probe data collected from one or more location sensors of a plurality vehicles. The gap represents a probe gap segment along which at least one probe point of the probe data does not occur or occurs below a threshold number. The approach also involves retrieving image data depicting a geographic area based on location coordinate data associated with the gap. The approach further involves processing the image data to identify one or more end points of a road network depicted in the image data. The approach further involves locating a tunnel start point and/or a tunnel end point based on the one or more endpoints. The approach further involves providing the tunnel start point and/or the tunnel end point as a map data output.
US11386647B2
An apparatus includes a display and a processor. The processor receives a refund request, which includes a request for a refund of a price of an item charged to an account belonging to a person, and information identifying a shopping session of the person in a physical store. In response to receiving the refund request, the processor locates a video segment captured during the shopping session and stored in a database. The processor displays the video segment, which depicts a scenario indicating that the person did not select the item for purchase during the shopping session. The processor further receives information indicating that the person did not select the item for purchase during the shopping session. The information is based at least in part on the video segment. In response to receiving the information, the processor credits the account belonging to the person with the price of the item.
US11386635B2
A smart chip assembly capable of communicating with each other and variable array in packaging contains at least two intelligent single-chip, which can be easily formed into a smart chip assembly by cutting after packaging. Each intelligent single-chip has a camera lens module, and each lens module is arranged in a different position and angle to separately obtain images of different angles or depths of field of the object to be recognized, and provide each intelligent single-chip to independently process the image and judge by itself. The result of each judgment based on the obtained images of different angles or depths of field can also be used as one of the options for reference judgment. Then through the mutual communication between the intelligent single-chips, they calculate and analyze different image and image dynamics, and make comprehensive judgments to obtain the best interpretation. Finally, the command is sent to the connected power mechanism to perform corresponding actions to achieve more flexible application and improve the accuracy of identification.
US11386632B2
An electronic apparatus, a wireless communication system, a wireless communication method, and a computer-readable storage medium are provided. The electronic apparatus includes a processing circuit configured to: determine a current audiovisual angle of a user; compare the current audiovisual angle of the user with an expected audiovisual angle, and generate indication information for directing the user to the expected audiovisual angle, and provide the indication information to the user. The indication information directs the user to the expected audiovisual angle by using a direct direction indication and an indirect direction indication. With the electronic apparatus, the wireless communication system, the wireless communication method, and the computer-readable storage medium, the user can obtain a better visual feeling, and thus the user experience can be improved.
US11386623B2
Disclosed are methods, systems, and articles of manufacture for managing and displaying web pages and web resources in a virtual three-dimensional (3D) space with an extended reality system. These techniques receive an input for 3D transform for a web page or a web page panel therefor. In response to the input, a browser engine coupled to a processor of an extended reality system determines 3D transform data for the web page or the web page panel based at least in part upon the 3D transform of the web page or the web page panel, wherein the 3D transform comprises a change in 3D position, rotation, or scale of the web page or the web page panel therefor in a virtual 3D space. A universe browser engine may present contents of the web page in a virtual 3D space based at least in part upon the 3D transform data.
US11386608B2
An apparatus, method and computer program is disclosed, comprising rendering a virtual scene of a virtual space that corresponds to a virtual position of a user in the virtual space as determined at least in part by the position of the user in a physical space. Embodiments also involve identifying one or more objects in the virtual scene which are in conflict with attributes of the physical space. Embodiments also involve detecting one or more blinking periods of the user when consuming the virtual scene. Embodiments also involve modifying the position of the one or more conflicting objects in the virtual scene based on a detected context. The modifying may be performed within the one or more detected blinking periods.
US11386597B2
An information processing apparatus (10) is for supporting work by a user who uses drawings for a plant. The information processing apparatus (10) includes a controller (15). The controller (15) is configured to generate an intermediate model, for at least one of a first drawing and a second drawing that include elements configuring the plant and are judged to have different formats, such that the format of the first drawing and the format of the second drawing are matched. The controller (15) is configured to judge whether a difference exists between the first drawing and the second drawing based on the generated intermediate model.
US11386584B2
An information processing system includes a processing unit that detects a pointing action for a first user in a real space to specify a first object and an evaluation action on the first object by the first user based on a signal output from a sensor that senses actions in the real space and updates evaluation information of the first object specified by a detection result of the pointing action based on a detection result of the evaluation action.
US11386576B2
An image processing apparatus that tracks a target object by estimating a position of the target object on each of a plurality of images. A first estimating unit estimates the position of the target object in at least one of images. A second estimating unit estimates the position of the target object in at least one of images, wherein estimating accuracy of the position of the target object in the second estimating process is lower than the estimating accuracy in the first estimation process. A correcting unit corrects the position of the target object estimated by the second estimation process on a second image, based on the position of the target object estimated by the first estimation process on a first image. The second image is an image captured at a different time from the first image.
US11386575B2
A method for locating a target relative to a vehicle is disclosed. The target includes at least one three-dimensional external component presenting a quadratic surface. The method includes the steps of capturing an image of the target having an area of interest in which the external component of the target is visible in the form of an elliptical contour, for each of the pixels of the area of interest in the image, calculating an intensity gradient of the image around the pixel, and determining, based on the intensity gradient, the parameters of a line presenting a direction normal to the gradient at the pixel, selecting, among the set of determined lines, a set of lines that are tangents to the elliptical contour, and estimating the parameters of the elliptical contour on the image based on the parameters of the tangents to the elliptical contour.
US11386561B2
An X-ray imaging apparatus is configured to acquire a plurality of pieces of slice image data from volume data, acquire a plurality of pieces of first processed image data by performing first processing, acquire a plurality of pieces of second processed image data by performing second processing, detect edges of the subject based on the acquired plurality of pieces of the second processed image data, and acquire edge image data including detected edges of the subject.
US11386557B2
Embodiments disclose a method and system for segmenting medical images. In certain embodiments, the system comprises a database configured to store a plurality of medical images acquired by an image acquisition device. The plurality of images include at least one first medical image of an object, and a second medical image of the object, each first medical image associated with a first structure label map. The system further comprises a processor that is configured to register the at least one first medical image to the second medical image, determine a classifier model using the registered first medical image and the corresponding first structure label map, and determine a second structure label map associated with the second medical image using the classifier model.
US11386555B2
Embodiments discussed herein facilitate employing a pretrained model to determine risk(s) of adverse event(s) based on Computed Tomography (CT) image volume(s) of an artery and/or training a model to determine such risk(s). Example embodiments can determine risk based on territory-specific calcium score(s) and/or intensity/morphological/location features discussed herein. Various embodiments can determine risk(s) based on a single CT image volume and/or change(s) in CT image volumes taken over a series of time points.
US11386554B1
An automatic parts counter with an x-ray imaging system to image parts disposed in at least one of a component reel, component trays, cut tape; an image processing algorithm to count the image parts; and a docking interface for docking to a storage unit.
US11386552B2
A specimen analysis system includes at least one processor to receive image information that represents a respective plurality of pixels of an image of each of a plurality of testing areas to indicate the presence or absence of a test subject compound; to determine for each testing area a number of pixels that indicates either the presence or the absence of the test subject compound, if the number of pixels indicating positive for each of a plurality of testing areas equals or exceeds a first minimum threshold value indicating that the testing area is positive for either the presence or absence of the test subject compound, totaling all testing areas indicating positive for either the presence or absence of the test subject compound, and if the total number of the testing areas indicating positive for either the presence or absence of the test subject compound equals or exceeds a second minimum threshold value indicating an overall positive test result for either the presence or absence of the test subject compound.
US11386549B2
Included are: an image acquiring unit acquiring a determination target image in which a target object to be inspected is captured; a learning result acquiring unit acquiring a result of machine learning of forward domain conversion of an image or inverse domain conversion of an image performed using a normal image in which the target object in a normal state is captured as training data; a determination target image analysis unit obtaining a domain-converted image by sequentially performing forward domain conversion and inverse domain conversion on the determination target image using the result of the machine learning; and a determination unit determining whether or not an abnormality is occurring in the target object captured in the determination target image by comparing the determination target image and the domain-converted image.
US11386541B2
A technological solution for analyzing a sequence of electromagnetic spectrum image frames of a nonmetallic asset and detecting or predicting an aberration in the asset, including a detected or predicted location of the aberration. The technological solution includes receiving the electromagnetic spectrum image frames by a pair of machine learning systems of different types, applying a machine learning algorithm to the electromagnetic spectrum image frames to stratify the electromagnetic spectrum images into abstraction levels according to an image topology and output first aberration determination information, applying a second machine learning algorithm to the electromagnetic spectrum image frames to detect patterns in electromagnetic spectrum images over time and output second aberration determination information, generating an aberration assessment based on the first and second aberration determination information, and transmitting the aberration assessment to a communicating device, including a prediction and location of an aberration in or on the nonmetallic asset.
US11386537B2
Abnormality detection within a defined area includes obtaining a plurality of images of the defined area from image-capture devices. An extent of deviation of one or more types of products from an inference of each of the plurality of images is determined using a trained neural network. A localized dimensional representation is generated in a portion of an input image associated with a first location of the plurality of locations, based on gradients computed from the determined extent of deviation. The generated localized dimensional representation provides a visual indication of an abnormality located in the first location within the defined area. An action associated with the first location is executed based on the generated dimensional representation for proactive control or prevention of occurrence of undesired event in the defined area.
US11386523B2
Disclosed are an LSTM based personalization viewpoint estimation apparatus and method. According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, a viewpoint of a user is estimated using LSTM with respect to a 360-degree raw image and a viewpoint image that is a region of interest of the user and a tile including the estimated viewpoint is transmitted over a network, so that the amount of data to transmit compared to the network bandwidth may be reduced and a viewpoint of each individual may be estimated.
US11386518B2
The address of the draw or dispatch packet responsible for creating an exception is tied to a shader/wavefront back to the draw command from which it originated. In various embodiments, a method of operating a graphics pipeline and exception handling includes receiving, at a command processor of a graphics processing unit (GPU), an exception signal indicating an occurrence of a pipeline exception at a shader stage of a graphics pipeline. The shader stage generates an exception signal in response to a pipeline exception and transmits the exception signal to the command processor. The command processor determines, based on the exception signal, an address of a command packet responsible for the occurrence of the pipeline exception.
US11386514B2
A device, system and method for electronically requesting and storing missing digital evidentiary items is provided. A dashboard computing device: receives, from distinct jurisdictional agency computing devices, indications of jurisdictional digital evidentiary items associated with an incident; determines, based on an incident type of the incident, one or more offenses associated with the incident type; determines required digital evidentiary items to prosecute the offenses via a digital offenses-to-evidentiary-items mapping; identifies a missing digital evidentiary item for prosecuting the offenses by: comparing the indications of the jurisdictional digital evidentiary items with the required digital evidentiary items; identifies a jurisdictional agency, associated with one or more of the distinct jurisdictional agency computing devices, that is most likely to have access to the missing digital evidentiary item; and renders, at a display screen, an actuatable option for electronically requesting the missing digital evidentiary item from the jurisdictional agency.
US11386511B2
A method of distributing a smart will of a user, the method comprising: receiving a smart will creation request comprising: one or more beneficiary wallet identifiers, and asset distribution rules; creating, based on the smart will creation request, an estate smart contract, the estate smart contract being configured to authorize transfer of one or more assets registered to the estate smart contract to a storage location specified by an executor smart contract; receiving, by the executor smart contract, a death notification indicative of death of an owner of the estate smart contract; instructing the estate smart contract to transfer the assets from the estate smart contract to a trust smart contract; verifying, by the trust smart contract, that the beneficiary wallets are valid; and transferring, by the trust smart contract, one or more assets to the beneficiary wallets in accordance with the asset distribution rules.
US11386507B2
A computer-implemented method for analyzing a time-varying graph is provided. The time-varying graph includes nodes representing elements in a network, edges representing transactions between elements, and data associated with the nodes and the edges. The computer-implemented method includes constructing, using a processor, adjacency and feature matrices describing each node and edge of each time-varying graph for stacking into an adjacency tensor and describing the data of each time-varying graph for stacking into a feature tensor, respectively. The adjacency and feature tensors are partitioned into adjacency and feature training tensors and into adjacency and feature validation tensors, respectively. An embedding model and a prediction model are created using the adjacency and feature training tensors. The embedding and prediction models are validated using the adjacency and feature validation tensors to identify an optimized embedding-prediction model pair.
US11386502B2
A mobile device initiates automatic action-based product provisioning for rides. The mobile device detects a ride protection trigger and alerts a management server of the detected ride protection trigger. The mobile device also retrieves ride information from a ride application and sends the ride information to the management server. The management server determines a ride action based on the ride protection trigger and the ride information. The management server identifies a product based on the determined ride action and sends the ride information and a request for a dynamic product to a product provisioning server. The product provisioning server generates the dynamic product based on the request and the ride information and sends the generated dynamic product to the management server. The management server may send the dynamic product to the mobile device for display.
US11386501B1
Methods and systems for determining fault for an accident involving a vehicle having one or more autonomous and/or semi-autonomous operation features are provided. According to certain aspects, performance data indicative of the performance of the features may be used to determine fault for a vehicle accident, such as a collision, by allocating fault for the accident between a vehicle operator, the autonomous operation features, or a third party. The allocation of fault may be used to determine an adjustment to an insurance policy and/or adjust coverage levels for an insurance policy. The allocation of fault may further be used to adjust risk levels or profiles associated with the autonomous or semi-autonomous operation features, which may be applied to other vehicles having the same or similar features.
US11386497B2
The disclosure provides an intra-day balancing of a fund index. The disclosure includes retrieving the value of an underlying index at a first balancing point from a trading tape at a point in time that is close, in time, to the balancing point and determining the value of the underlying index at a second balancing point. If the value of the underlying index increased between the first balancing point and the second balancing point, then the method increases an exposure to the underlying index. If the value of the underlying index decreased between the first balancing point and the second balancing point, then the method decreases the exposure of the intra-day index to the underlying index. The method may then compare the current trading volatility of the underlying index to a historic trading volatility. If the current trading volatility is greater than the historic trading volatility, then the method may decrease the leverage of the intra-day index with respect to the underlying index. If the current trading volatility is less than the historic trading volatility, then the method may increase the leverage of the intra-day index.
US11386496B2
A deep-learning neural network can be trained to model a probability distribution of the asset-price trends for a future time period using a training data set, which can include asset-price trends of a plurality of assets over a past time period and a latent vector sampled from a prior distribution associated with the asset-price trends of a plurality of assets. The training data set can represent a time series data. A portfolio optimization can be executed on the modeled probability distribution to estimate expected risks and returns for different portfolio diversification options.
US11386490B1
The disclosure describes embodiments of systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable storage media that utilize a machine learning model and a credit value model to generate user interface elements that present credit values and credit value conditions in real time for user accounts. For instance, the disclosed systems can generate an activity score using an activity machine learning model with internal user activity data of a user account. Then, utilizing a credit value model with the activity score and a user activity condition, the disclosed systems can determine a dynamic credit value range for the user account. Indeed, the disclosed systems can display user interface elements with selectable credit values from the dynamic credit value range. Additionally, the disclosed systems can utilize the credit value model to determine and display one or more dynamic credit value conditions for a selected credit value received from the selectable credit values.
US11386476B2
Methods and systems for managing an online application database and application search. Search queries for applications are received from users. Unfulfilled queries are stored in memory. The platform identifies one or more application features based on the search queries within the stored unfulfilled queries, and generates an application build recommendation specifying the one or more application features. The application build recommendation is output to one or more developer accounts. If a new application is received, the platform may determine whether the new application contains features that sufficiently correspond to the features in one of the application build recommendations. User accounts that submitted the unfulfilled queries that served as the basis for the matching application build recommendation may be notified of the availability of the new application.
US11386472B2
A unique, user generated product (UGP) configurator, ordering and manufacturing system that utilizes a mobile device or other digital device, to capture a specific color or multiple colors, by way of an image capture converted from a RGB profile and converted into a manufacturable, mixable formula for future mixing and filling in the system specific processing line for enamel product is described. The user defined final product chosen by an individual user, through the system's user interface that runs on all web enabled digital devices which includes mobile, tablet, computer or other color capture user interface connected to the Internet by way of a browser, where the individual identifies a color, type of material to be manufactured, size of container and then orders a finished goods product on their phone or other digital device, then manufactured or processed on a system specific equipment platform, using a computer controlled system that identifies an individual order by way of a variable and unique bar code identifier, where containers move down a proprietary conveyor line to be filled by a series of individually powered, micro-droplet dispensers whose canisters have been filled with specific colored paints from a system defined palette of colors and additives, where those individual paints are mixed to match the color that the individual specified on the system specific user interface.
US11386467B2
In accordance with some embodiments, a system facilitates the generation of a customized fundraising campaign on behalf of a third party organization by providing mechanisms via which an organizer of the third party organization can set terms of the fundraising campaign and allow participants of the campaign to create customized avatars for use in promoting the campaign.
US11386457B2
The described implementations facilitate the discovery and presentation of video advertisements in a non-intrusive manner by users of client devices. In one implementation, an informed opt-in preview representative of a video advertisement is generated. The informed opt-in preview is a short video presentation that is formed from frames extracted from the video advertisement that can be presented on a client device to provide a user with an overview of the video advertisement corresponding to that informed opt-in preview. For example, the video advertisement may be a two-minute video advertisement. In comparison, the informed opt-in preview may be as little as three—five seconds in length and simply provide an overview of the video advertisement.
US11386455B2
This application relates to apparatus and methods for providing a unified serving platform that allows for the reusability of machine learning models across a plurality of websites to determine personalized content. For example, a computing device trains a machine learning model with session data identifying browsing events and transaction data identifying purchasing events for a plurality of users. The computing device receives and stores session data and transaction data associated with a first website for the customer. The computing device may then receive a request for content to display to the customer on a second website. The computing device generates label data based on the session data and transaction data associated with the first website, and executes the trained machine learning model with the label data. Based on execution of the trained machine learning model, the computing device generates content to display on the second website, and transmits the content.
US11386451B1
An advertising system has limited computing resources to spend evaluating advertisements of advertisers to determine a “best” advertisement to serve to users of a social networking system. The computing resources are allocated (e.g., by varying the number of advertisements that are considered for presentation to a user) based on the neediness of the user and/or the advertiser on a per impression basis. The neediness of a user may be determined by grouping users into groups and determining a yield curve of expected revenue per computing resource used. Then, the revenue may be maximized across impression opportunities for multiple users. The neediness of an advertiser may be determined by biasing the selection of one advertiser's advertisements over another advertiser's advertisements based on an expected revenue, an expected number of interactions of the advertisement, or otherwise maximizing a satisfaction coefficient for the advertiser.
US11386445B1
A method includes receiving a request from a customer to open a subscription account, creating the subscription account for the customer, and deducting a fee from the subscription account. The fee is structured to subsidize benefit fees associated with benefits for the customer. The method includes determining a benefit for the customer. The benefit is offered by a third-party vendor in exchange for an associated fee. The method includes reimbursing the subscription account for the customer in an amount of the fee associated with the benefit. The method includes gathering financial information associated with the customer, analyzing the financial information to identify positive financial behavior of the customer, invoking a graphical depiction executable via a user interface on a device associated with the customer, determining that the positive financial behavior meets a threshold, and offering the customer a reward based on the positive financial behavior meeting the threshold.
US11386443B1
Aspects of the invention provide methods, systems, apparatuses and computer program products for implementing a dynamic experimentation service. An example of a method for implementing a dynamic experimentation service includes receiving a set of experiment configuration parameters, determining, by a processor and based on the experiment configuration parameters, an experiment model, the experiment model comprising electronic data indicating an audience selected from a plurality of consumers and a plurality of levels for controlling a communication service in operation to generate an electronic marketing communication for transmission to at least one of the plurality of consumers, receiving a request, from the communication service, the request comprising a communication identifier, determining, based on the communication identifier, at least one of the plurality of levels, and causing the electronic marketing communication to be generated as a treatment comprising the at least one of the plurality of levels.
US11386431B1
A method for logging and reporting driver activity and operation data of a vehicle. The method utilizes an onboard recorder operatively connected to a data bus of the vehicle and configured to continuously electronically monitor and obtain vehicle operation data including vehicle mileage data. A transmitter is adapted for transmitting the vehicle operation data from the onboard recorder to a remote terminal outside of the vehicle. Data processing software is operable for generating an hours of service log and a vehicle fuel tax log.
US11386430B2
Methods and systems as described herein may secure the electronic transfer of assets using two-way handshakes. A second device may initialize a transaction by transmitting a transaction request and a second biometric identifier to a first device. The first device may receive the transaction request and review the second biometric identifier. When the first device recognizes the second biometric identifier, the second biometric identifier may be approved. The first device then transmits a response, that includes a first biometric identifier, to the second device, via a server that may record the first device's approval. The second device may confirm the identity of the first device using the first biometric identifier. When the second device approves the first biometric identifier, the second device may transmit an approval to the server. After the server has received approval of both biometric identifiers, the server may execute the requested transaction.
US11386428B2
Disclosed are a dual transaction method and system based on centralization and decentralization. In the embodiments of the present description, when a designated member node receives a transaction request, in one aspect, transaction feasibility verification is carried out for the transaction request, a designated resource amount is deducted from a virtual resource account corresponding to a spending user identifier after the request passes the verification, and the designated resource amount is added to a virtual resource account corresponding to a payment-receiving user identification; in another aspect, target transaction information is broadcasted to a block chain network according to the transaction request, so that each member node distributes the target transaction information to a block chain on the basis of a consensus mechanism after the block chain network performs transaction feasibility verification on the target transaction information.
US11386424B2
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for conducting a transaction using an electronic device with a non-native credential are provided. In one embodiment, a client electronic device in a system including a credential subsystem, a processing subsystem, and a host electronic device may include an online communications component and a processor that accesses, from the processing subsystem, potential transaction data indicative of a transaction, communicates, to the host electronic device using the online communications component, credential request data based on the potential transaction data, receives, from the host electronic device using the online communications component, host credential data based on the credential request data, and communicates, to the processing subsystem, the host credential data, wherein the host credential data is operative to access funds or other suitable enabling elements from the credential subsystem for funding at least a portion of the transaction. Additional embodiments are also provided.
US11386423B2
Systems and methods for authorizing a blockchain transaction. A verification network receives a transaction request for the blockchain transaction from a payer device including a first signature generated by a first private key associated with a payer. The verification network broadcasts a verification request to verification system(s) which assess pre-agreed threshold parameters. If the parameter(s) are satisfied, at least one verification system perfects the transaction by generating a second signature using a second private key, and broadcasts the transaction to the blockchain network. If the parameter(s) are not satisfied, verification offer(s) from among the verification system(s) including the second signature(s) are used to prompt the payer device to confirm the blockchain transaction by selecting at least one of the offer(s). The verification network receives selected offer(s) from the payer device and broadcasts the transaction to the blockchain network, in accordance with the selected offer(s) and the transaction request.
US11386417B2
Embodiments provide methods and systems for reading a Quick Response (QR) code displayed in a user device of a user for facilitating a payment transaction. The method includes facilitating display of the QR code on a display screen of the user device. The QR code includes at least a payment related information for a payment transaction. The method also includes initializing a QR capture mode in the user device for capturing the QR code using a capture overlay frame. The method includes reading the QR code within the capture overlay frame to extract the payment related information. The method further includes facilitating the payment transaction based at least on the payment related information extracted by reading the QR code.
US11386408B2
Systems and methods that may be configured to implement a nearest neighbor-based bank account validation process that may be used with electronic payments, transactions and or services.
US11386406B2
Extracting the beneficial elements from Bitcoin, discarding the negative aspects of this ground breaking currency, BitMint*LeVeL replaces the single public/private key formula with coin-owner selected surprise formulas to shift security responsibility to the trader, and create a quantum safe currency with robust anonymity while maintaining a smooth extension of legacy currency, and relying on a community of mints (an InterMint) to keep the community in control.
US11386404B2
In a method, computer readable medium, or system for making a payment transaction between a payor having an associated payor computer with a ledger storage for the payor and a payee having an associated payee computer with a ledger storage for the payee in a consensus payment network having a plurality of nodes each comprising a respective computer with ledger storage and relying on consensus determinations, an initiator is provided for making the payment transaction between the payor and the payee, the initiator being either the payor, the payee, or an intermediary having an associated intermediary computer. The respective initiator computer creates a temporary payment transaction consensus subnetwork comprising a set of validation nodes acceptable to both the payor and the payee, the set of validation nodes comprising fewer than all of said plurality of nodes in the payment network. The initiator with the respective client computer processes the payment transaction via the consensus payment network from the payor to the payee based on a determination of consensus by the consensus network.
US11386394B2
This invention discloses a novel system and method for displaying electronic documents that are subject to approval by multiple parties. The invention presents approval by person as a separate indication on the original document. The system automatically reviews the document to determine its type and then using the type, looks up the recipient list that is associated with that type of document. The document is then transmitted to those recipients for approval.
US11386393B2
Project asset and preference sharing techniques are described. In one or more embodiments, a request is received to assign a project asset or preference to a member of a team. The received request includes an identifier of a project for which the project asset or preference will be assigned. To assign the asset or preference specified in the request, a list of teams to which the member belongs is ascertained. The assets and preferences associated with each of the teams are then checked for the identifier to identify the project assets and preferences associated with the project. Once the project assets and preferences associated with the project are identified, a response is generated for communication to the member. The response is configured to include indications of the identified project assets and preferences that enable the member to access the identified project assets and preferences via the application, such that the member is also given access to the assigned project asset or preference.
US11386386B2
A method, electronic device, and computer-readable storage medium are. In one embodiment, a method is provided for receiving tracking data regarding a delivery item, determining, based on the tracking data, whether supplemental content is associated with the delivery item, and automatically scheduling delivery of the supplemental content when supplemental content is associated with the delivery item.
US11386381B2
A computer implanted method of updating a user joining a group after a user-relevant topic has been discussed, the method includes, with a processor operatively-coupled to a memory: identifying the user joining group after a first topic has been discussed in the current session of the group; and determining interest of the user in the first topic, wherein if the first topic is determined to be of interest to the user, providing an automated summary of the first topic to the user.
US11386377B1
Systems and methods are provided for recommending price of benefit items offered through a membership platform. Exemplary implementations may: obtain benefit information for content creators of a membership platform; obtain consumption information, the consumption information describing acceptance of offers for the benefit items at the requested amounts by the subscribers of the content creators; train a machine learning model on input/output pairs to generate a trained machine learning model, the individual input/output pairs including training input information and training output information; store the trained machine learning model; determine, using the trained machine learning model, recommended amounts of consideration for the benefit items that correspond to greater acceptance; generate recommendations for individual content creators conveying the recommended amounts for the benefit items offered by the individual content creators; and/or perform other operations.
US11386376B2
A risk parsing device provides risk splitting and loss event diversification for a multi-risk forecast systems capturing multiple loss aggregation under complex environmental conditions based on the occurrence of defined loss events. The loss events are triggered by one or more involved causing units and affected units, wherein the loss events evolve from one or multiple risk accumulating sources. Risk events related loss measures can be scattered over multiple causing units or multiple related clash events. The multi-risk forecast system provides loss-generating processes and events, wherein the inventive risk splitter is a technical core element to generate an event-related loss distribution mirroring cause-effect chains induced by the risk events which extend over space and time. The risk splitter module allows automated splitting of the risk based on risk exposed, causing unit characteristics and risk exposed affected units' characteristics. The causing unit characteristics comprises for each causing unit assigned activity characteristic parameters and participation characteristic parameters of said causing unit defining for a specific causing unit a specific set of executable activity link members and market share driving participation probabilities. The causing unit characteristics comprises quota parameters defining affected populations of affected units with incidence and defining refined effect types.
US11386370B2
A fleet management system includes a request component that receives one or more service requests and analyzes a first service request to identify a plurality of request parameters, a fuel component that identifies one or more fuel parameters associated with the fuel types, an evaluation component that analyzes a plurality of service parameters in light of the request parameters and the fuel parameters to determine a plurality of operating costs for managing the first service request, and a service component that analyzes the operating costs to select a first vehicle type corresponding to one of the operating costs for managing the first service request. The fleet management system enables a fleet of vehicles using a plurality of fuel types to be effectively and efficiently managed.
US11386366B2
A system and method are presented for cold start candidate recommendation. In some examples, a search query request that includes a candidate search parameter can be received for a candidate list. During a first search query, a subset of candidates from a plurality of candidates can be identified based on a comparison of each candidate vector for each candidate and a candidate search parameter vector for the candidate search parameter, and ranked to provide an initial ranked candidate list based on assigned scores for the subset of candidates. During a second search query, the search parameter a candidate index can be evaluated to identify a set of candidates from the plurality of candidates, re-ranked to provide an updated ranked candidate list corresponding to the candidate list based on updated assigned scores for the set candidates and a re-ranking parameter.
US11386365B2
The disclosed embodiments provide a system for processing a query for a ranking of candidates for an opportunity. During operation, the system obtains parameters associated with a query for a ranking of candidates for an opportunity, wherein the parameters include a candidate and the opportunity. Next, the system matches one or more of the parameters to a fixed number of quantile thresholds calculated from a distribution of scores for the candidates. The system then estimates, based on the fixed number of quantile thresholds, a quantile for a score of the candidate. Finally, the system outputs a position of the candidate within the ranking based on the estimated quantile.
US11386364B1
A computer-implemented construction management system for enabling the performance of work tasks conducted at a remote project site like a construction site is provided by the invention. The system comprises a data interface for providing a communication link between a remote computer device used by the field worker at the project site and a central computer located at a central hub. Scanning a scannable indicia posted at the project site by means, e.g., of a smart phone or tablet, a field worker may quickly and readily gain access via a plurality of graphical user interface screens in the associated software to an organized set of documents, information, and electronic images associated with project tasks to be conducted at the project site. The field worker may also report information back to the central hub concerning the state of the construction project or the project task undertaken at the project site by means of the graphical user interfaces in the software that enable him to enter written text information or upload photographs, videos, and documents from the project site.
US11386361B2
At least some embodiments are directed to a system that captures a set of images via cameras positioned in a lot having a crop. The system determines based on image processing and the set of images a phenological and biological stage of the crop, and a type of pest affecting the crop. The system generates a recommendation including a type of pesticide, a concentration of the type of pesticide, and an amount of pesticide and generates a pest control implementation plan. The system generates instructions for an autonomous carrier to execute the pest control implementation plan. The instructions include instructions for the autonomous carrier to execute the pest control implementation plan and instructions to control pesticide spraying nozzles mounted in the autonomous carrier. The system monitors a traveled distance of the autonomous carrier and determines that the pest control implementation plan has been executed.
US11386360B2
Parking space selection systems and methods are disclosed. One or more computing devices are configured to determine a first listing value based on one or more listing parameters associated with a first listing, which is secured by a first wireless device. A second listing value is determined based on one or more listing parameters associated with a second listing. The first and second listing value are compared and a difference between them is determined. It is determined whether the difference between the first listing value and the second listing value exceeds a predetermined threshold. In response to the determination that the difference exceeds the predetermined threshold, a user-selectable message is provided on the first wireless device. The user-selectable message includes a prompt configured to secure the second listing. In response to the prompt, the second listing is secured for the first wireless device.
US11386348B2
Techniques for managing and compressing quantum output data (QOD) associated with quantum computing are presented. In response to receiving QOD from a quantum computer, a compressor component can compress QOD at first compression level to generate first compressed QOD, and can compress QOD at second compression level to generate second compressed QOD, the second compressed QOD can be less compressed than the first compressed QOD. Compressor management component (CMC) can determine whether first QOD includes sufficient data to enable it to be suitably processed by quantum logic. If so, CMC can allow first compressed QOD to continue to be sent to quantum logic and can discard second compressed QOD. If not sufficient, CMC can determine that second compressed QOD is to be processed by quantum logic. If CMC determines second compressed QOD does not include sufficient data, CMC can determine that the QOD is to be processed by quantum logic.
US11386346B2
Techniques are provided for computing problems represented as directed graphical models via quantum processors with topologies and coupling physics which correspond to undirected graphs. These include techniques for generating approximations of Bayesian networks via a quantum processor capable of computing problems based on a Markov network-based representation of such problems. Approximations may be generated by moralization of Bayesian networks to Markov networks, learning of Bayesian networks' probability distributions by Markov networks' probability distributions, or otherwise, and are trained by executing the resulting Markov network on the quantum processor.
US11386340B2
Method and apparatus for performing block retrieval on block to be processed of urine sediment image
The inventive concepts herein relate to performing block retrieval on a block to be processed of a urine sediment image. The method comprises: using a plurality of decision trees to perform block retrieval on the block to be processed, wherein each of the plurality of decision trees comprises a judgment node and a leaf node, and the judgment node judges the block to be processed to make it reach the leaf node by using a block retrieval feature in a block retrieval feature set to form a block retrieval result at the leaf node, and at least two decision trees in the plurality of decision trees are different in structures thereof and/or judgments performed by the judgment nodes thereof by using the block retrieval feature; and integrating the block retrieval results of the plurality of decision trees so as to form a final block retrieval result.
US11386337B2
A method, system, and non-transitory compute readable medium for hidden evidence correlation and causation linking including a forecasting device configured to forecast hidden evidence found in relation to a user input in hidden cycle measurements into future forecasted cycle measurements, where the forecasted hidden cycles are transformed into an amplitude versus frequency histogram with each histogram being compared to each other histogram and determined if causation is a candidate, and if causation is a candidate, a probability density function is applied to produce a degree of causation of a causation link for the hidden evidence in relation to the user input.
US11386327B2
Embodiments for training a neural network are provided. A neural network is divided into a first block and a second block, and the parameters in the first block and second block are trained in parallel. To train the parameters, a gradient from a gradient mini-batch included in training data is generated. A curvature-vector product from a curvature mini-batch included in the training data is also generated. The gradient and the curvature-vector product generate a conjugate gradient. The conjugate gradient is used to determine a change in parameters in the first block in parallel with a change in parameters in the second block. The curvature matrix in the curvature-vector product includes zero values when the terms correspond to parameters from different blocks.
US11386326B2
A method may include a transforming a trained machine learning model including by replacing at least one layer of the trained machine learning model with a dictionary matrix and a coefficient matrix. The dictionary matrix and the coefficient matrix may be formed by decomposing a weight matrix associated with the at least one layer of the trained machine learning model. A product of the dictionary matrix and the coefficient matrix may form a reduced-dimension representation of the weight matrix associated with the at least one layer of the trained machine learning model. The transformed machine learning model may be deployed to a client. Related systems and computer program products are also provided.
US11386325B1
A vehicle device may execute one or more neural networks (and/or other artificial intelligence), based on input from one or more of the cameras and/or other sensors, to intelligently detect safety events in real-time. The one or more neural networks may be an ensemble neural network that includes neural networks for detecting a head and hand of a user, neural networks for detecting hand actions of the user, neural networks for detecting the head pose of the user, neural networks for predicting an occurrence of an event, and neural networks for predicting a start time and end time of the event. Further, the neural networks can be segmented into a modular neural network based on metadata. The segmentation of the neural network can define a thin layer of the modular neural network to enable independent tuning of the thin layer of the modular neural network.
US11386320B2
A magnetic double tunnel junction (MDTJ) (which, preferably, has a large aspect ratio, wherein length L of the MDTJ>>width w of the MDTJ) has magnetic domain wall(s) or DW(s) in the free layer of the MDTJ, wherein controlled movement of the DW(s) across the free layer is effected in response to the polarity, magnitude, and duration of a voltage pulse across the MDTJ. The motion and relative position of DW(s) causes the conductance of the MDTJ (that is measured across the MDTJ) to change in a symmetric and linear fashion. By reversing the polarity of the bias voltage, the creation and/or direction of the DW(s) motion can be reversed, thereby allowing for a bi-directional response to the input pulse.
US11386318B2
Roughly described, the technology disclosed provides a so-called machine learned conversion optimization (MLCO) system that uses evolutionary computations to efficiently identify most successful webpage designs in a search space without testing all possible webpage designs in the search space. The search space is defined based on webpage designs provided by marketers. Website funnels with a single webpage or multiple webpages are represented as genomes. Genomes identify different dimensions and dimension values of the funnels. The genomes are subjected to evolutionary operations like initialization, testing, competition, and procreation to identify parent genomes that perform well and offspring genomes that are likely to perform well. Each webpage is tested only to the extent that it is possible to decide whether it is promising, i.e., whether it should serve as a parent for the next generation, or should be discarded.
US11386310B2
In implementations of systems for font replacement in print workflows, a computing device implements a print system to receive print request data describing a document having a corpus of text rendered using a font that is not available to the print system. The print system extracts the corpus of text from the document and generates an indication of a context category of the corpus of text using a machine learning model training to classify context categories of text inputs using training data describing a different corpus of text. A replacement font is identified based on the indication of the context category from replacement font data describing a plurality of candidate replacement fonts. The printing system generates a raster image depicting the corpus of text rendered using the replacement font.
US11386307B2
A machine vision system comprising receiving means configured to receive image data indicative of an object to be classified where there is provided processing means with an initial neural network, the processing means configured to determine a differential equation describing the initial neural network algorithm based on the neural network parameters, and to determine a solution to the differential equation in the form of a series expansion; and to convert the series expansion to a finite series expansion by limiting the number of terms in the series expansion to a finite number; and to determine the output classification in dependence on the finite series expansion.
US11386303B2
A method of operating a procedural language and content generation system that involves correlating environment objects and object movement to input controls through operation of a correlator, operating an interpreter to evaluate the correlation of the input controls and object/object movement against known libraries to generate programmatic instructions, storing the programmatic instructions as an instruction set, transforming the instruction set into executable commands through a compiler, and configuring control logic to perform the executable commands in response to receiving detected environment objects and detected object movement from an image processor.
US11386299B2
A method of completing a task, the task being of a given type of task. The method includes receiving, by a server, an indication of a first result of the task having been completed by a human assessor, executing by the server a machine learning algorithm (MLA) to complete the task by the MLA to generate a second result of the task, determining, by the server, a confidence level parameter indicative of a probability of the first result being correct, and determining, by the server, whether the probability indicated by the determined confidence level parameter exceeds a pre-defined threshold probability. In response to determining that the probability indicated by the determined confidence level parameter exceeds the pre-defined threshold probability, the server processes the task as having been completed with the first result.
US11386297B2
This learning data generation device (10) is provided with: an identification unit (11) which identifies a subject included in a first captured image, and generates an identification result in which information indicating the type and existence of the identified subject or the motion of the identified subject is associated with the first captured image; and a generation unit (12) which generates learning data on the basis of the identification result and a second captured image, which is associated with the first captured image but is different in type from the first captured image.
US11386293B2
In an example method for training image signal processors, a reconstructed image is generated via an image signal processor based on a sensor image. An intermediate loss function is generated based on a comparison of an output of one or more corresponding layers of a computer vision network and a copy of the computer vision network. The output of the computer vision network is based on the reconstructed image. An image signal processor is trained based on the intermediate loss function.
US11386290B2
A method for training an eye tracking model is disclosed, as well as a corresponding system and storage medium. The eye tracking model is adapted to predict eye tracking data based on sensor data from a first eye tracking sensor. The method comprises receiving sensor data obtained by the first eye tracking sensor at a time instance and receiving reference eye tracking data for the time instance generated by an eye tracking system comprising a second eye tracking sensor. The reference eye tracking data is generated by the eye tracking system based on sensor data obtained by the second eye tracking sensor at the time instance. The method comprises training the eye tracking model based on the sensor data obtained by the first eye tracking sensor at the time instance and the generated reference eye tracking data.
US11386280B2
An electronic device displays a media capture user interface that includes a media capture preview of objects in a field of view of the camera. While displaying the media capture user interface, the electronic device scans the field of view of the camera for data encoded in an optical machine-readable format. In accordance with a determination that the field of view of the camera includes data encoded in the optical machine-readable format that meets respective notification criteria, the electronic device displays a notification that indicates that the camera application has detected data encoded in the optical machine-readable format. In accordance with a determination that the field of view of the camera does not include data encoded in the optical machine-readable format that meets the respective notification criteria, the electronic device maintains display of the media capture user interface of the camera application without displaying the notification.
US11386279B2
A computer-implemented method is provided for picking a 16-bit random sequence (RN16) and generating an acknowledgement packet in a tag reading session. The method includes decoding RN16s from signals received by a plurality of antennas by treating signal interference as noise. The method further includes selecting the RN16 from the decoded RN16s based on properties of the decoded RN16s and the signals from which they are decoded in the tag reading session. The method also includes generating the acknowledgement packet based on the selected RN16.
US11386274B2
Techniques are disclosed for detecting distributed incompetence in text of a conversation using communicative discourse trees and then inserting an automatic response from an autonomous agent (chatbot) or other entity. For example, a computing system generates a communicative discourse tree from utterances from multiple agents to a user. The computing system obtains a prediction of whether the text includes distributed incompetence by applying a trained predictive model to the communicative discourse tree. Based on the detection, the computing system generates an updated response to a user device.
US11386273B2
A method, system and computer-usable medium are disclosed for sentiment detection based on applying an antonym dictionary to a natural language processing (NLP) system. A binary classifier is trained to predict negation cues, where a constituency parse tree is used to create rules for scope detection. The trained binary classifier, a list of conversational negation terms, and a list of antonyms are used to annotate content that considers negation cues and scope for the created rules.
US11386264B2
Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for displaying object pages containing data displayed in tables in a client application. The client application may provide a user experience framework via which an administrator may pre-configure the behavior of object pages that display data related to the application in table form. A table may be configured to display using lazy loading, tab navigation, or a preview version to list report based on the nature and expected size of the table. When preview version to list report is chosen, a preview version of a table may be provided to a user to allow the user to interact with the data without displaying the entirety of the dataset.
US11386259B2
When processing a request containing personal information, personal information may be needed to respond to the request, but it may be desired to limit storage of personal information for privacy reasons. To accomplish both objectives, text of a message may be processed using multiple levels of redaction. A first level of redaction may replace digits of the text with a token so that sensitive numbers, such as credit card numbers or social security numbers are no longer present. A second level of redaction may replace one or more words of the text with a label indicating the text that was present, such as by replacing an address with a label indicating that an address was present or by replacing a credit card number with a label indicating that a credit card number was present.
US11386256B2
Systems and methods for determining a configuration for a microarchitecture are described herein. An example system includes a proposal generator to generate a first candidate configuration of parameters for the microarchitecture, a machine learning model to process the first candidate configuration of parameters to output estimated performance indicators for the microarchitecture, an uncertainty checker to determine whether the estimated performance indicators are reliable, and a performance checker. In response to a determination that the estimated performance indicators are reliable, the performance checker is to determine whether the estimated performance indicators have improved toward a target. Further, if the estimated performance indicators have improved, the performance checker is to store the first candidate configuration of parameters in a memory as a potential solution for a microarchitecture without performing a full simulation on the first candidate configuration of parameters.
US11386254B2
A semiconductor circuit and a layout system of the semiconductor circuit, the semiconductor circuit including a latch; a feedback inverter that receives an output signal of the latch via a first node and provides a feedback signal to the latch responsive to the output signal of the latch; and an output driver which receives the output signal of the latch via the first node and provides an output signal externally of the semiconductor circuit. The output driver includes an even number of inverters, and the latch, the feedback inverter, and the output driver share a single active region formed without isolation.
US11386252B1
Techniques improve integrated circuit design by employing multi-operating condition frequency prediction for statically timed designs through spice-based timing path labeling and statistical analysis. Design management component (DMC) can randomly determine and generate sample timing paths based on parameters of characteristics associated with the sample timing paths, the parameters determined based on random seed values; simulate responses of the sample timing paths; and generate vectorized data based on the simulated responses. DMC determines a trained model representing timing path properties and operating conditions of sample timing paths based on statistical analysis of vectorized data. Static timing analysis (STA) component can perform STA on design information of integrated circuitry design and determine an operating condition of a timing path of the design based on the STA. DMC can determine or predict another operating condition(s) associated with the design based on the operating condition and the trained model.
US11386249B1
Systems and methods are provided for simulating propagation of cracks in an object in a physical system. Data indicative of the object in the physical system is received, where the object includes a plurality of cracks. Characteristics of each of the plurality of cracks are determined based on the data, and a weight value is calculated for each of the plurality of cracks based on the determined characteristics. A group of one or more processors is assigned to simulate behavior of each crack, where a number of processors assigned to each group is based on the calculated weight value associated with that crack. Simulation data is received from each of the groups of processors, and the simulation data is stored in a non-transitory computer-readable medium.
US11386247B2
A method may include: providing a model of cement induction time; designing a cement composition, based at least partially, on the model of cement induction time; and preparing the cement composition.
US11386240B2
A data transmission system and method in a physical network separation environment is provided, which includes: a drive device controlling connection switching for one storage medium drive writing or reading a data file on or from a predetermined storage medium; a source-side server executing writing the data file on the storage medium loaded in the storage medium drive, after switching to a connection to the storage medium drive; a clean PC conducting hash value verification and a test for infection of malicious code with respect to the data file that has been written on the storage medium, after switching to a connection to the storage medium drive; and a destination-side server executing reading the tested data file from the storage medium, after switching to a connection to the storage medium drive.
US11386238B2
A physical unclonable function (PUF) chip is provided. The physical unclonable function (PUF) chip includes a chip with a top metal connection layer, an array of spaced electrode plates on the top metal connection layer of the chip, a deposition layer, on the top metal connection layer between each two adjacent electrode plates. An opening is formed between the each two adjacent electrode plates in a row, and each two adjacent electrode plates are tangential to the opening formed between the two adjacent electrode plates. The physical unclonable function (PUF) chip further includes a conductive coating layer on the chip and the conductive coating layer includes conductive particles with randomly distributed size, and a package substrate, packaged with the chip including the conductive coating layer.
US11386236B2
A method of and system for gate-level masking of secret data during a cryptographic process is described. A mask share is determined, wherein a first portion of the mask share includes a first number of zero-values and a second number of one-values, and a second portion of the mask share includes the first number of one-values and the second number of zero-values. Masked data values and the first portion of the mask share are input into a first portion of masked gate logic, and the masked data values and the second portion of the mask share are input into a second portion of the masked gate logic. A first output from the first portion of the masked gate logic and a second output from the second portion of the masked gate logic are identified, wherein either the first output or the second output is a zero-value.
US11386233B2
The present disclosure provides a method, system, and device for distributing a software release. To illustrate, based on one or more files for distribution as a software release, a release bundle is generated that includes release bundle information, such as, for each file of the one or more files, a checksum, meta data, or both. One or more other aspects of the present disclosure further provide sending the release bundle to a node device. After receiving the release bundle at the node device, the node device receives and stores at least one file at a transaction directory. After verification that each of the one or more files is present/available at the node device, the one or more files may be provided to a memory of a node device and meta data included in the release bundle information may be applied to the one or more files transferred to the memory.
US11386232B2
In response to a request by a data furnisher system to add data to that organized by a system, a data coordinating system resolves the identity of counterparties to whom the data is relevant. For each identified counterparty, the coordinating system identifies a corresponding counterparty system, and via communications between smart contracts comprised in the coordinating system, communicates the data provided by the data furnisher system. The counterparty reviews the data and either verifies that it is accurate or disputes the data. The counterparty's response is communicated through the data coordinating system via the relevant smart contracts to the data furnisher system. If the counterparty verified the data, the data coordinating system updates its database to reflect the data has been verified. If the counterparty disputed the data, the data furnisher and counterparty communicate to resolve the dispute. The data is marked as being disputed.
US11386227B1
A permutation algorithm using modular arithmetic is applied to the cells of one or more specific fields of a database or other file type. This permutation reorders the cells of the specific field(s) without altering content of any individual cell, thereby hiding relationships between cells of the permuted field(s) and the other information in the associated records. The permutation algorithm may use modular addition and modular subtraction, in either order. Different permutation algorithms may use varying numbers of parameters. To locate a specific cell in a permuted field, the parameter(s) from the permutation, an identification of the specific record associated with the cell, and an identification of the specific permuted field are applied in a modular arithmetic operation. A specific record with which a specific cell in a permuted field is associated may be obtained by an inverse modular arithmetic operation.
US11386211B2
An example described herein may involve receiving a temperature measurement associated with an input component, wherein the temperature measurement is received from a temperature sensor, and wherein the temperature measurement indicates a temperature of an input element of the input component; determining that the temperature of the input element satisfies a threshold temperature; and causing an infrared element to emit infrared light in association with a position of the input component. While the infrared element is emitting the infrared light, capture information associated with a user interacting with the input component may be obfuscated.
US11386209B2
A computer implemented method for scanning source code files included in an application. A source code scanner identifies an assembly generated from a set of source code files. The assembly comprises assembly code and assembly metadata. The source code scanner identifies a file path for each source code file identified from the assembly. The file path is identified within the assembly metadata. Responsive to identifying the file paths from the assembly metadata, the source code scanner identifies the set of source code files within a code repository. The source code scanner scans the set of source code files to identify potential code vulnerabilities in the set of source code files. The scan omits files in the code repository that were not identified within the assembly metadata.
US11386205B2
Particular embodiments described herein provide for an electronic device that can be configured to identify a file, determine a polyglotness score for the file, where the polyglotness score is an indicator of whether or not the file is a polyglot file, and analyze the file for the presence of malware if the polyglotness score satisfies threshold.
US11386201B2
A bus control device is enabled for placement between an input port to which a suspect device would be connected and the bus. In this manner, all message received from the suspect device, such an infotainment system, must pass through the bus control device. A separate intrusion detection device is coupled to the bus. The bus control device is arranged to output a notification message to the intrusion detection device, the notification message comprising information about the received message. The intrusion detection device is arranged to determine the validity of the received message responsive to the received notification message.
US11386195B1
In certain embodiments, resource allocation related to records may be facilitated by generating and using modified instances of such records. In some embodiments, a set of records associated with a user may be stored in a memory area, where each such record includes a record identifier. In response to obtaining one or more commands related to a resource transfer from a user device associated with the user, a new set of records associated with the user may be generated such that each record of the new set is (i) a modified instance of a corresponding record of the record set and (ii) includes a record identifier different from the record identifier of the corresponding record. In one use case, the new records and its data may then be utilized to perform operations related to the user commands. In another use case, the new records may replace its older corresponding records.
US11386185B2
A report repository may store report results, and a web intelligence report server may include an SDK component to manage sessions, states, security, and resource access and to receive web intelligence data model authoring information, associated with a document, via an authoring API. The web intelligence report server may further include data sources associated with a plurality of data source types and data access associated with a plurality of data layers. A compound database platform of an in-memory database may create a report result via a data flow merge operation that combines multiple data sources into a single data source, based on the web intelligence data model authoring information, the data sources, and the data access. The report result may be stored in the report repository, and the web intelligence data model may be associated with a Web intelligence document as a data Source (“WaaS”) reusable in other documents.
US11386180B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus for resource locator remarketing are presented. In one aspect, a method includes receiving visitation data from a publisher, the visitation data specifying a device identifier and a resource locator specifying a resource that was provided to a user device; identifying a content feed that includes regular expressions, each regular expression specifying matching character strings and a set of content items that are eligible to be provided to user devices corresponding to visitation data including a resource locator matching one of the regular expressions; identifying, a first matching regular expression that matches the resource locator specified by the visitation data; selecting a content item from the content items that correspond to the first matching regular expression; and providing data that causes presentation of the selected content item to the user device.
US11386179B2
Systems and methods for provisioning applications include storing an application identifier in association with location information in a database that is accessible by a user device. The user device then detects that it is located at a location included in the location information. In response to detecting that it is located at the location, the user device determines an application that is included on the user device and that is identified by the application identifier that is associated with the first location. The user device then automatically provides the application for display to a user. In some embodiments, the application may be automatically provided by automatically launching the application on the user device, and that application may be automatically closed if the user device leaves the location or the application is not used for a predetermined amount of time.
US11386175B2
A content recommendation apparatus selects an application for executing a content, by referring to a view history corresponding to a prime time, selects, as recommendation contents in the prime time, more contents that are executed by the selected application than contents that are executed by an application other than the selected application, and outputs recommendation-content information about the selected recommendation contents. The content recommendation apparatus recommends a suitable content timely.
US11386168B2
The vehicle control system/method for adapting a control function based on a user profile may comprise: a gesture recognition module; a user profile module; a function control module; a processor; a non-transitory storage element coupled to the processor; encoded instructions stored in the non-transitory storage element, wherein the encoded instructions when implemented by the processor, configure the system to: identify a user; retrieve a user profile for the identified user; receive at a gesture recognition module, an input indicating a gesture from the user; identify a control function request corresponding to the gesture input; send a verification of the control function request; and receive at a function control module characteristics parsed from the user profile that effect the control function request by the user profile module to adapt a control function command for an adapted control function output by the function control module.
US11386158B1
Systems and methods are disclosed for recommending query parameters to a user based on tenant information. The system can identify a token query parameter from a portion of a query entered in a user interface. The token query parameter can correspond to a system query parameter, such as a query command, a function, etc., or to a user query parameter. The system can identify a tenant of a distributed data intake and query system that is associated with the query. Based on the token query parameter, the system can identify at least one query parameter associated with the tenant. The at least one query parameter can include one or more query parameters previously entered by the user or other users of the tenant, etc. The system can cause the user interface to display one or more recommended query parameters for inclusion in the query.
US11386151B2
A spatial indexing system receives a set of walkthrough videos of an environment taken over a period of time and receives an image search query that includes an image of an object. The spatial indexing system searches the set of walkthrough videos for instances of the object. The spatial indexing system presents search results in a user interface, displaying in a first portion a 2D map associated with one walkthrough video with marked locations of instances of the object and a second portion with a histogram of instances of the object over time in the set of walkthrough videos.
US11386149B2
Provided is a search system which is configured to search for a registered vector being similar to an input vector among a plurality of registered vectors, on the basis of a degree of similarity between an input vector and a registered vector. The search system includes a partial similarity calculation unit that calculates a degree of partial similarity which is the degree of similarity concerning some of one or more dimensions of the input vector and the registered vector, a limit calculation unit that calculates, on the basis of the degree of partial similarity, an upper limit of the degree of similarity that is expected when the degree of similarity is calculated, and a rejection decision unit that decides, on the basis of the upper limit of the degree of similarity, whether or not to reject the registered vector from a candidate for a search result.
US11386142B1
In an example, the present invention provides a meta data processing apparatus for processing sensor inputs and providing feedback to a user for an on-line course.
US11386141B1
A multimedia management system (MMS) manages media acquisition, storage and retrieval, quickly retrieving relevant media records with minimal effort and may also provide controlled and/or restricted on-line access to media records. The reduction in effort to control, manage and access information rich media allows the use of media to become a more efficient and prolific means of general media documentation for intra- and inter-communication between entities such as businesses, government organizations, and institutions, as well as for individuals. Moreover, the system also provides media acquisition aids, acquisition device management aids and display aids that further improve the efficiency of accessing relevant media in a timely manner further reducing barriers to using digital media as a practical media documentation tool.
US11386134B2
Systems and methods for correcting a voice query based on a subsequent voice query with a lower pronunciation rate. In some aspects, the systems and methods calculate first and second pronunciation rates of first and second voice queries. The systems and methods determine that the second pronunciation rate is lower than the first pronunciation rate and determine a first candidate pronunciation time for a first candidate word from the first voice query. The systems and methods determine a second candidate pronunciation time, adjusted to the first pronunciation rate, for the second candidate word from the second voice query. The systems and methods determine that the first candidate pronunciation time matches the second candidate pronunciation time and generate a third voice query based on the first voice query by replacing the first candidate word with the second candidate word.
US11386130B2
A method performed by a computing device includes generating a first aptitude level entigen group for a first aptitude level phrase in accordance with identigen rules. The first aptitude level entigen group represents a most likely interpretation of the first aptitude level phrase. The method further includes obtaining a multiple aptitude level entigen group from a knowledge database based on the first aptitude level entigen group. The multiple aptitude level entigen group includes the first aptitude level entigen group. The method further includes generating a second aptitude level entigen group utilizing the multiple aptitude level entigen group. The method further includes generating a second aptitude level phrase based on the second aptitude level entigen group. The second aptitude level entigen group represents a most likely interpretation of the second aptitude level phrase.
US11386127B1
Systems and methods are disclosed for implementing a low-latency data stream monitoring system. The data stream monitoring system may obtain raw data from a data source as soon after the data is generated, and may classify the data according to different topics. The topics may be published in a publish-subscribe messaging model, and data enrichment systems may subscribe to the topics to receive data for enrichment. The data enrichment systems may supplement or replace the raw data with additional information, and may further classify or reclassify the enriched data into different topics. The enriched data may then be published to an alert generation system, which may apply various criteria to the enriched data to determine that alerts should be generated, generate the alerts, and publish or transmit the alerts to client devices. Individual data streams, topics, enrichments, criteria, and alarms may be added, removed, or modified as required.
US11386126B1
Systems and methods for linking HCPs from an MDM system and publication authors from a second source data system. Distances between the HCPs and the publication authors may be determined, and an HCP and a publication author may be connected if their distance is below a threshold. The connected data points may be used to train a machine learning model to determine a probability that an HCP matches a publication author. An upper bound and a lower bound may be set. Data points with the probability over the upper bound may be sent out as matches, data points below the lower bound may be disregarded as not a match, and data points between the upper bound and lower bound may be labeled for manual verification.
US11386108B2
Mining data transformation flows in spreadsheets includes identifying operations defined in a spreadsheet, identifying source data, in the spreadsheet, on which the operations operate, automatically creating an extract, transform, load (ETL) data transformation flow, and executing the created ETL data transformation flow. Creating the ETL data transformation flow includes selecting, in the ETL system, source data endpoint(s) for data extraction, selecting target data endpoint(s) for data loading, mapping at least one of the identified operations to ETL operation(s) for data transformation, and building the ETL data transformation flow, which defines extraction from the selected source data endpoint(s), transformation based on the ETL operation(s), and loading to the selected target data endpoint(s).
US11386107B1
The Variable Data Source Dynamic and Automatic Ingestion and Auditing Platform Apparatuses, Methods and Systems (“DIAP”) transforms file upload request, external data request, and analytics request inputs via DIAP components into clean data, metadata data sets, visualization module output, and audit notification outputs. A data ingest request is obtained via a user interface. A data file to ingest is obtained and processed to generate a clean file. A database table with a unique name is created and data in the clean file loaded into the database table. A metadata data set identifier is generated. Table columns from the database table to include into the metadata data set are determined, and the metadata data set is generated. The metadata data set links columns from the database table to analytics engine UI elements, and columns are associated with audit trail data via the metadata data set identifier.
US11386104B2
Disclosed is a system and method for improving database memory consumption and performance using compression of time stamp columns. A number of time stamps of a time series is received. The time stamps have a start time, and are separated by an equal increment of time that defines an interval. The start time and interval are stored in a dictionary of a column store of a database. An index is generated in the column store of the database, the index having a number of index vectors. Using the index vectors, each time stamp of the number of time stamps can be calculated from the start time stored in the dictionary and the position in the time series based on the interval stored in the dictionary.
US11386100B2
A system, method, and computer-readable medium are disclosed for cognitive information processing. The cognitive information processing includes receiving data from a plurality of data sources; processing the data from the plurality of data sources via an augmented intelligence system, the augmented intelligence system executing on a hardware processor of an information processing system, the augmented intelligence system and the information processing system providing a cognitive computing function, the cognitive computing function comprising a cognitive skill, the cognitive skill being composed via a cognitive skill composition platform, the cognitive skill comprising an atomic unit of work, the atomic unit of work being triggered by and input to produce and output; and, using the cognitive skill to generate a cognitive agent, the cognitive skill comprising a distinct unit of functionality of the cognitive agent, the cognitive skill facilitating construction of the cognitive agent.
US11386089B2
SCAN operations for databases where scan time is dependent on a payload size consume too much memory space and computing time as payload sizes increase. A database table is configured to include an additional index mapping column that stores bitmaps related to the corresponding row of the table. Each bit in the bitmap corresponds to a column and indicates whether that column stores a value. Inclusion of an index column in a table decouples the time it takes to perform the SCAN operation on a column from the payload size of data stored in the column. The bitmaps stored in the index column are relatively small and uniform in size, so the SCAN operation on such a database requires only for the bitmap values of the applicable rows to be obtained from the index column and inspected.
US11386076B2
A data processing method is provided for an electronic device. The method includes obtaining from a target node a transaction request for off-chain data, parsing the transaction request to obtain a transaction parameter and a chain height parameter of the target node, querying, according to the chain height parameter of the target node, for the off-chain data, in response to determining the off-chain data is present in the data manager, sending the off-chain data to the target node, and in response to determining the off-chain data is absent in the data manager, obtaining the off-chain data from a data source according to a type of the target node.
US11386074B2
The present invention relates to a method and a system for maintaining consistency of data between data-sets stored in a master database of a master computing node and corresponding data-sets stored in a replication database of at least one replication computing node. Each time an updated version of a stored data set is received, the master computing node is configured for updating a corresponding data-set stored in the master database and transmitting replication data relating to the updated data-set version to the at least one replication computing node for replication. The replication data comprising a bit-vector storing data values extracted from data fields of the data-set classified as volatile data fields. The data values stored in the bit-vector representing the changes in the data-set to be replicated in the at least one replication node.
US11386065B2
Techniques are disclosed relating to efficiently processing of concurrent database transactions. In one embodiment, a database system receives a first key-value pair for a database transaction and stores the key-value pair in a data structure for active database transactions. The storing may include indexing into a hash table of the data structure with a key of the key-value pair to identify a hash bucket of the hash table corresponding to the key, acquiring a latch associated with the identified hash bucket, and, based on a state of the acquired latch, appending, to the hash bucket, a record specifying the key-value pair. The database system may cause the key-value pair from the data structure to be committed to persistent storage in response to the database transaction being committed.
US11386059B2
A baseline run of a workload and a target run of the workload are compared to identify whether there is a performance regression in the target run, wherein the target run implements a feature that is not implemented in the baseline run. In response to identifying the performance regression, the target run is executed to identify whether the performance regression still exists. The performance regression is flagged as a false positive in response to identifying that the performance regression no longer exists when the target run is executed.
US11386056B2
Embodiments relate to a computer platform and corresponding process and program code to assess multimedia files with respect to similarity and duplicate media content. Data streams are converted into sequences of events, and object representation within the streams is identified and subject to processing with respect to the event sequences. A similarity assessment is conducted between two or more of the data streams, and a corresponding distance measurement to quantify similarity is produced. Duplicate data is selectively identified in response to the similarity assessment and the produced distance measurement.
US11386036B2
At least some aspects of the present disclosure provide for a method. In some examples, the method includes receiving, at a circuit, data via a differential input signal, detecting a rising edge in the data received via the differential input signal, and precharging a common mode voltage (Vcm) node of the differential input signal responsive to detecting the rising edge in the data received via the differential input signal, wherein the Vcm node is a floating node.
US11386030B2
A connection interface conversion chip, a connection interface conversion device and an operation method are provided. The connection interface conversion chip includes a USB interface circuit, a DP interface circuit, a USB core circuit and a switching circuit. The USB interface circuit is suitable for coupling to a USB connector. The DP interface circuit is suitable for coupling to a DP connector. In a first operation mode, at least one USB signal pair received by the USB connector is transmitted to the USB core circuit through the USB interface circuit. The USB core circuit decodes the USB signal pair and generates DP data. The DP data is transmitted to the DP connector by the DP interface circuit. In a second operation mode, the DP data received by the USB connector is transmitted to the DP connector through the USB interface circuit, the switching circuit and the DP interface circuit.
US11386029B2
An electronic apparatus has a processor; a peripheral having a data interface and a data-attribute interface; a direct memory access (DMA) controller for the peripheral; a memory; a bus system connecting the processor, the DMA controller, and the memory; a data link between the DMA controller and the peripheral; and a data-attribute link between the DMA controller and the peripheral, separate from the data link. The DMA controller has data-transfer circuitry for transferring data between the memory and the data interface of the peripheral over the data link, and for transferring data-attribute information, associated with the data, between the memory and the data-attribute interface of the peripheral over the data-attribute link.
US11386023B1
An apparatus comprises a processing device configured to control delivery of input-output operations from a host device to a storage system over selected ones of a plurality of paths through a network. The processing device is further configured to send one or more requests to the storage system for data corresponding to states of a plurality of storage devices in the storage system. The one or more requests comprise a directive that the data corresponding to the states returned by the storage system relate to changes in the states of the storage devices. The processing device is also configured to receive the data corresponding to the states from the storage system, to identify one or more state changes of one or more of the storage devices based on the received data, and to manage one or more of the input-output operations responsive to the identified one or more state changes.
US11386017B2
Technologies for secure authentication and programming of an accelerator device include a computing device having a processor and an accelerator. The processor establishes a trusted execution environment, which receives a unique device identifier from the accelerator, validates a device certificate for the device identifier, authenticates the accelerator in response to validating the accelerator, validates attestation information of the accelerator, and establishes a secure channel with the accelerator. The trusted execution environment may securely program a data key and a bitstream key to the accelerator, and may encrypt a bitstream image and securely program the bitstream image to the accelerator. The accelerator and a tenant may securely exchange data protected by the data key. The trusted execution environment may be a secure enclave, and the accelerator may be a field programmable gate array (FPGA). Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US11386013B2
An apparatus to facilitate dynamic cache control is disclosed. The apparatus includes one or more processors to profile execution characteristics of a graphics workload at a processing resource to generate profile data indicating a quantity of cache hits that occur at a cache memory and apply one or more cache settings to the cache memory based on the profile data.
US11386010B2
A memory device for storing data comprises a memory bank comprising a plurality of addressable memory cells and a pipeline configured to process write operations of a first plurality of data words addressed to the memory bank. The memory also comprises a cache memory operable for storing a second plurality of data words and associated memory addresses, wherein the second plurality of data words are a subset of the first plurality of data words, wherein the cache memory is associated with the memory bank and wherein further each data word of the second plurality of data words is either awaiting write verification associated with the memory bank or is to be re-written into the memory bank, and wherein a write verification operation associated with a data word of the second plurality of data words is performed a predetermined period of time after the data word is written into the memory.
US11386002B2
Methods for enhancing the speed performance of solid-state storage devices using stream-aware garbage collection. A garbage collection method in according to an embodiment includes: searching, in each of a plurality of super-block groups G, for a super-block set C that satisfies: all of the super-blocks m within the super-block set C in the super-block group G contain a lesser amount of valid data than the other super-blocks within the super-block group G; and a total amount of valid data within the super-block set C are just enough to complete an entire super-block; selecting the super-block group G that includes the super-block set C with the maximum number of super-blocks m; and performing garbage collection on the super-block set C in the selected super-block group G.
US11385987B2
Systems and methods for assessing an impact of software on components of an industrial automation and control systems (IACS) are disclosed. In one aspect, an exemplary method comprises, selecting samples of software to be analyzed for capability to cause harm to the IACS. In one aspect, the method further comprises, for each particular configuration of the IACS being tested, performing analysis to identify effects of the selected samples on the particular configuration, wherein the identified effects include at least causes and events resulting in disruption of operations of the particular configuration of the IACS, and where the particular configuration including at least components of the industrial system being simulated on a testing device. In one aspect, the method further comprises, analyzing identified causes and events, and based on the analysis, assessing the impact of the selected sample by determining a degree of influence of the software on the particular configuration.
US11385986B2
A report of results of validating a circuit can simplify a large number of error events, that can be generated when designing electrical circuits using computer aided design tools, by first filtering the large number of error events according to a user defined filter criteria. The filter results are processed by one or more report rules. Each of the report rules may generate one or more report results based on, at least, the filtered error events.
US11385981B1
Disclosed herein are systems and method for deploying servers in a distributed storage to improve fault tolerance. In one aspect, an exemplary method comprises, on a hardware server, installing an OS on a virtual disk, putting the virtual disk on the distributed storage, configuring the hardware server so that at least two physical block devices of the hardware server are bootable by putting, on each physical block device of the at least two physical block devices, a boot component, and configuring the boot component on any one physical block device of the at least two physical block devices, the configuration of the boot component including enabling the boot component to perform at least one of: mounting the virtual disk as a root file system of the OS, and booting the OS from the mounted virtual disk during a booting of the hardware server.
US11385979B2
A method of operating a remote procedure call cache in a storage cluster is provided. The method includes receiving a remote procedure call at a first storage node having solid-state memory and writing information, relating to the remote procedure call, to a remote procedure call cache of the first storage node. The method includes mirroring the remote procedure call cache of the first storage node in a mirrored remote procedure call cache of a second storage node. A plurality of storage nodes and a storage cluster are also provided.
US11385976B1
Various approaches for multi-node network cluster systems and methods. In some cases systems and methods for incident detection and/or recovery in multi-node processors are discussed.
US11385971B2
The invention provides a system capable of remotely maintaining the operation of electronic apparatus. The system comprises a cloud management platform and at least one electronic apparatus. The electronic apparatus comprises a data storage device and an operating system maintenance device. The data storage device comprises a plurality of flash memories and a controller. The operating system maintenance device comprises a microprocessor and a network communication component. An operating system is installed in the flash memories of the data storage device. When the operating system of the electronic device is abnormal, the operating system maintenance device receives an operating system repairing instruction from the cloud management platform via the network communication component. The microprocessor of the cloud management platform repairs the operating system of the electronic apparatus according to the operating system repairing instruction, so that the operating system of the electronic apparatus can resume normal operation.
US11385968B2
A method for performing backup operations includes obtaining, by a stream allocator operating in a backup storage system, a plurality of media management entries, wherein a media management entry of the plurality of media management entries specifies a data object, a relative priority, and a maximum number of streams, selecting the media management entry based on the relative priority, allocating a number of backup streams to the data object based on the maximum number of streams, and initiating a transfer of a backup of the data object from the production host to the backup storage system.
US11385967B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method for managing backup data, an electronic device, and a computer program product. This method comprises: determining a number of times of space recycling operations that have been executed on a backup data block; determining, based on the number of times, a current popularity of the backup data block, the current popularity at least indicating a probability that the backup data block will be recycled in a to-be-executed space recycling operation; and moving, based on a determination that a former storage area where the backup data block is located does not correspond to the current popularity, the backup data block to a target storage area corresponding to the popularity. In this way, data with similar popularity can be managed in a more centralized manner, thereby reducing data rewriting caused by subsequent space recycling.
US11385951B2
There is disclosed in one example a network device, including: a hardware platform including at least a processor and a memory; a communication interface; and stored instructions on the memory to instruct the processor to provide a health monitoring engine (HME) configured to: communicatively couple to a network via the network interface; construct a reference template during a training period; observe watchdog behavior on the network during an observation period; identify an abnormality in the watchdog behavior including a substantial variance from the reference template; and trigger a resilience response to the substantial variance.
US11385947B2
The present disclosure is directed to migrating logical volumes from a thick provisioned layout to a thin provisioned layout, and includes one or more processors and one or more computer-readable non-transitory storage media comprising instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause one or more components of the system to perform operations comprising creating an abstraction layer on top of a logical volume in a storage device, the abstraction layer for accessing the logical volume, the logical volume one of a plurality of logical volumes in a volume group of the storage device; allocating a thin pool from remaining storage space in the volume group of the storage device; creating a snapshot of the logical volume; adding a thin virtual volume corresponding to the logical volume to the thin pool; and copying data from the snapshot to the thin virtual volume.
US11385942B2
Systems and methods for censoring text-based data are provided. In some embodiments a censoring system may include at least one processor and at least one non-transitory memory storing application programming interface instructions. The censoring system may be configured to perform operations comprising storing a target pattern type and a computer-based model for identifying a target data pattern corresponding to a target pattern type within text based data. The censoring system may also be configured to receive text-based data by a server, and to retrieve the stored target pattern type to be censored in the text-based data. The censoring system may be configured to identify within the received text-based data, a target data pattern corresponding to the retrieved target pattern type. The censoring system may be configured to censor target characters within the identified target data pattern, and transmit the censored text-based data to a receiving party.
US11385939B2
An application manager receives or defines a service specification for a first application that defines a set of required computing resources that are necessary to run each application component of the first application. A resource supply manager in communication with the application manager manages a plurality of computing resources in a shared computing environment. The application manager is operable to request the set of required computing resources from the computing resource supply manager, and wherein the resource supply manager determines the availability of the required computing resources within the shared computing environment according to resource allocation policies and allocates computing resources to the application manager, and wherein the application manager is operable to manage allocation of the computing resources to the first application, the application manager operable to create and manage deployment of instances of each application component of the first application on the allocated computing resources.
US11385933B2
Determining priority of conflicting resource requests using dynamic logic includes analyzing current computer resource availability using cognitive capabilities and determining priority for the computer resources. The method may further include continuously assessing impact of the priority determinations, dynamically configuring the defined logic based on the assessment and modifying the defined logic using machine learning of effectiveness of the priority determinations. The method may also include predicting an urgency of the received computer resources requests and determining a pattern computer resource requests by users.
US11385928B2
A method, computer program product, and computer system for receiving an indication about an amount of background IOs a background scheduler is capable of performing on a plurality of applications, wherein the indication may be based upon, at least in part, one of host IO latency and a rate of the host IO latency being at one of a plurality of levels. One or more applications of the plurality of applications on which to perform the background IOs may be determined. The background IO applications to be performed on the one or more applications of the plurality of applications may be scheduled based upon, at least in part, one of the host IO latency and the rate of the host IO latency being at one of the plurality of levels.
US11385927B2
A method for handling an interrupt includes receiving, in hardware or in firmware, a request from a task executing in userspace, where the request is to assign a function in the task and state information for the task to an interrupt. The hardware or firmware records the state information for the task, and assigns defined state information for the function to an event caused by the interrupt. When the interrupt occurs, the interrupt is serviced by saving context including the state information for the task in the memory, loading the defined state information for the function into registers, running the function, and then returning to the task preempted by the interrupt.
US11385925B1
An apparatus includes a memory and a processor. The memory stores a machine learning algorithm configured to generate, based on a given role of a plurality of roles within an enterprise, a policy for a new user assigned to the given role. The policy includes recommendations of virtual desktop resources of an enterprise system to provide to the new user. The machine learning algorithm was trained using information identifying virtual desktop resources used by a set of existing users of the system, each of whom is assigned to a role of the plurality of roles within the enterprise. The processor receives a request to provide a new user with access to the enterprise system. In response, the processor implements the machine learning algorithm to generate the policy for the new user, and subsequently provisions the new user with the one or more virtual desktop resources recommended by the policy.
US11385922B2
One example method includes collecting telemetry data for each of a group of virtual machines (VM), and each of the VMs is associated with a user, collecting usage data for each of the VMs, creating a user profile definition for each user, and the user profile definition is created based on the telemetry data and usage data of the VMs associated with that user, creating, for each user, a user profile that is based on the user profile definition for that user, clustering the users based on similarity of their respective user profiles, and generating a recommended VM hardware configuration for a VM of one of the users.
US11385921B2
A system can allow collaboration between two or more tenants in a multi-tenant system. Each tenant can share a common access to a processing space and a data storage device. Each tenant can be assigned to a virtual environment having a dedicated portion of the data storage device. The system can create a database record in a first dedicated portion assigned to the first tenant. The database record can be displayed on a user interface of the first tenant and include a collaboration tool component embedded within the database record. The database record can be transmitted to a database and transmitted from the database to a second dedicated portion of the data storage device. The second dedicated portion can be assigned to a second tenant of the multi-tenant system.
US11385918B2
A method is provided for a hypervisor to dynamically discover internal address information of a guest kernel on a virtual machine. The method includes locating a kernel exported system call or function in an image of the guest kernel in guest memory of the virtual machine, disassembling machine code of the kernel exported system call or function in the image into assembly code, detecting a pattern from memory references in the assembly code, and, after detecting the pattern, determining the internal address information of the guest kernel from the assembly code.
US11385913B2
An interface generator 6 generates a user interface for a mobile communication device 2 by providing, at step S2, a menu of functional components to a website owner 5 and receiving an indication of which of the functional components are selected for inclusion in the user interface from the website owner, at step S3. When the interface generator 6 receives a request for the user interface from the mobile communication device 2, at step S7, it delivers the user interface to the mobile communication device, at step S8, for display by the mobile communication device 2. The generated user interface includes the selected functional components and selection of a functional component included in the displayed user interface by a user of the mobile communication device 2 causes the mobile communication device 2 to carry out a task.
US11385905B2
Systems and methods for managing boot device orders for computing devices are disclosed. A device management module may use boot metadata to provide a common syntax/format for a user to indicate a boot order for the computing device. The device management module may determine the appropriate commands for a particular type of computing device and use the appropriate commands to set the boot order of the computing devices to the desired boot order.
US11385903B2
A computing system is provided, including a processor and memory storing instructions that, when executed, cause the processor to store a firmware update patch in a runtime buffer included in the memory. The runtime buffer may be accessible by firmware and an operating system of the computing system. The processor may perform a first verification check on the firmware update patch. When the firmware update patch passes the first verification check, the processor may copy the firmware update patch to a system management random access memory (SMRAM) buffer included in the memory. The SMRAM buffer may be accessible by the firmware and inaccessible by the operating system. The processor may perform a second verification check on the copy of the firmware update patch. When the copy of the firmware update patch passes the second verification check, the processor may execute the copy of the firmware update patch.
US11385901B2
A system including: at least one processor; and at least one memory having stored thereon computer program code that, when executed by the at least one processor, controls the system to: receive a data model identification and a dataset; in response to determining that the data model does not contain a hierarchical structure, perform expectation propagation on the dataset to approximate the data model with a hierarchical structure; divide the dataset into a plurality of channels; for each of the plurality of channels: divide the data into a plurality of microbatches; process each microbatch of the plurality of microbatches through parallel iterators; and process the output of the parallel iterators through single-instruction multiple-data (SIMD) layers; and asynchronously merge results of the SIMD layers.
US11385896B2
An apparatus and method are provided. The apparatus comprises storage circuitry to store a plurality of data elements. Processing circuitry executes a stream of instructions comprising access instructions that access some of the data elements at given locations. Training circuitry determines a pattern of the given locations based on the access instructions. Prefetch circuitry performs prefetches based on the pattern and filter circuitry filters the access instructions used by the training circuitry to determine the pattern by including discontinuous access instructions whose given location raises a discontinuity with the given location of a previous access instruction. In this way, it is possible to perform prefetching by calculating, rather than guessing, at a cumulative stride between the access instructions.
US11385893B2
The present invention relates to a method secured against side channel attacks performing an arithmetic operation of a cryptographic algorithm mixing Boolean and arithmetic operations, wherein said method is performed by a cryptographic device comprising a processing system having at least one hardware processor, and said operation has a first value (x) and a second value (y) as operands, comprising: —obtaining (S1) a first masked value (x′), a second masked value (y′), a first Boolean mask (rx), a second Boolean mask (ry), said first masked value (x′) resulting from masking said first value (x) by said first Boolean mask (rx) by performing a Boolean exclusive OR (XOR) operation between said first value (x) and said first Boolean mask (rx), and said second masked value (y′) resulting from masking said second value (y) by said second Boolean mask (ry) by performing a Boolean exclusive OR (XOR) operation between said second value (y) and said second Boolean mask (ry), —performing (S2) in any order a plurality of computing steps combining values among said first masked value (x′), said second masked value (y′), said first Boolean mask (rx) and said second Boolean mask (ry) to obtain a boolean masked result equal to the result of the arithmetic operation having said first value (x) and said second value (y) as operands, masked by a third boolean mask (rx xor ry) resulting from performing said Boolean exclusive OR (XOR) operation between said first Boolean mask (rx) and said second Boolean mask (ry) ((x+y) xor (rx xor ry)), wherein said computing steps perform Boolean exclusive OR (XOR) operations or arithmetic operations between said values without disclosing any information relative to the first and second values and, wherein said computing steps are executed by the hardware processor by performing a constant number of elementary operations whatever the bit-size of said first and second values, —outputting (S3) said boolean masked result of the arithmetic operation between said first value (x) and said second value (y).
US11385891B1
One or more computer processors associate a source code repository with a video session, wherein the source code repository contains one or more source code issues. The one or more computer processors identify one or more source code issues within the video session. The one or more computer processors create a plurality of video session segments based on the one or more identified source code issues within the video session and the associated source code repository. The one or more computer processors tag the created plurality of video session segments with corresponding source code issue information.
US11385889B2
Herein are machine learning (ML) feature processing and analytic techniques to detect anomalies in parse trees of logic statements, database queries, logic scripts, compilation units of general-purpose programing language, extensible markup language (XML), JAVASCRIPT object notation (JSON), and document object models (DOM). In an embodiment, a computer identifies an operational trace that contains multiple parse trees. Values of explicit features are generated from a single respective parse tree of the multiple parse trees of the operational trace. Values of implicit features are generated from more than one respective parse tree of the multiple parse trees of the operational trace. The explicit and implicit features are stored into a same feature vector. With the feature vector as input, an ML model detects whether or not the operational trace is anomalous, based on the explicit features of each parse tree of the operational trace and the implicit features of multiple parse trees of the operational trace.
US11385884B2
Techniques for determining a cognitive reaction to a software application update include determining that a software application executing on a computing device has been modified into an updated software application; acquiring, via at least one sensor, sensor data associated with a user of the updated software and determining, based on the sensor data, at least one of a cognitive workload and an emotional state associated with a user interaction with a feature of the updated software application.
US11385882B2
A method of application environment migration assesses a source application code of a source application environment, ascertains a quantum change for migrating the source application code to a target application code and forecasts an assessment statistic (302) that provides at least one functional readiness (304) and a timeline (306) to complete the migration of the source application code. Further, scans the source application code for identifying a business logic and generates a re-factored code for the source application code by breaking the source application code into macro-services (426a, . . . , 426n) and repackaging the macro-services (426a, . . . , 426n) in accordance with the target application code while retaining the business logic. Thereby, updating components of the source application environment as per the forecasted assessment statistic (302) and the re-factored code, and migrating to the target application environment while re-platforming the updated components and the re-factored code of the source application environment.
US11385880B2
An apparatus and a method for updating firmware by using a security integrated circuit in an electronic device. An electronic device may include a security integrated circuit (IC) providing a rich execution environment and a secure execution environment. The security integrated circuit includes a main processor operating in the rich execution environment and a secure processor operating in the secure execution environment. The secure processor is configured to perform user authentication based on firmware update information received from a server through the main processor. If the user authentication is successful, authentication information is generated corresponding to the firmware update information and stored in at least a part of a secure memory. If the firmware is installed, authentication of the firmware is performed based on the authentication information stored in the secure memory, and if the authentication of the firmware is successful, the firmware is installed.
US11385879B2
Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed for dynamic extension of restricted software applications after an operating system mode switch. An example non-transitory computer readable storage medium comprising instructions that, when executed, cause a computing device to detect a switch from a restricted operating system to an unrestricted operating system, and in response to detecting the switch, invoke a dormant executable to install an unrestricted application in the unrestricted operating system.
US11385866B2
Systems, methods, and computer program products are provided for automatically finding, testing, and attaching code directly to software requirements. The requirements can be used to define, find, test and attach files and input/output interface displays to create new software applications.
US11385865B2
An apparatus generates truly random numbers. The apparatus includes a container that is at least partially filled with a fluid (e.g., water or air). The apparatus also includes objects (e.g., dice) suspended freely in the fluid. The apparatus includes agitators configured to agitate the fluid, and cameras configured to capture images of the objects. When the agitators agitate the fluid, the objects move freely (e.g., move with the created currents) in the fluid in the container. The apparatus also includes a random number generation circuit coupled to the cameras. The random number generation circuit is configured to generate random numbers based on the images captured by the cameras. In some embodiments, the agitators are one or more motor-driven propellers that stir the fluid. Some embodiments use a hydraulic pump to agitate the fluid (e.g., circulating the fluid using both a push action and a pull action).
US11385853B2
A method for content displaying of a component includes displaying, on a terminal screen, a first display interface of a component, acquiring a first display instruction, acquiring a second display interface of the component according to the first display instruction, and displaying, on the terminal screen, the second display interface of the component, where the second display interface includes the first display interface.
US11385848B2
A control method using print control software operable in an information processing apparatus capable of communicating with a printer and capable of storing registration information on the printer in a predetermined storage area includes causing a computer of the information processing apparatus to execute obtaining, after an operating system (OS) on the information processing apparatus is updated to a second version capable of using the print control software, with the registration information on the printer stored in the predetermined storage area and being stored during an operation of a first version of the OS on which the print control software is not used, displaying printer information based on the obtained registration information, and registering a print queue with the print control software using the obtained registration information on a basis that the displayed printer information is selected.
US11385845B2
Proper print processing is performed in a print system in which a first information processing apparatus capable of communicating with a printer and a second information processing apparatus capable of communicating with the printer via the first information processing apparatus are connected via a network. To this end, an information processing method executed by the first information processing apparatus includes: obtaining setting information on communications of the printer, obtaining information on a status of the printer from the printer, and executing predetermined processing. The predetermined processing is executed while waiting to communicate with the printer, in a case where the setting information indicates that the printer is ready to communicate with the second information processing apparatus and that the second information processing apparatus generates a PDL.
US11385843B2
An image forming apparatus includes an image forming assembly, a first interface, a second interface, a display, a discrimination processor, and a controller. When the discrimination processor discriminates that a set value of a printing condition, received from a portable terminal through the second interface is capable of being set by the image forming apparatus, the controller causes the image forming assembly to form an image under the printing condition depending on the set value. When the discrimination processor discriminates that the set value is not capable of being set by the image forming apparatus, the controller causes the display to display a message that the set value is not capable of being set by the image forming apparatus and a message of a printing condition based on another set value capable of being set instead of the set value by the image forming apparatus.
US11385838B2
Devices and techniques for host accelerated operations in managed NAND devices are described herein. A read request is received at a controller of a NAND device. Here, the read request includes a logical address and a physical address. A a verification component that corresponds to the physical address is retrieved a NAND array of the NAND device. A verification of the read request is computed using the logical address, the physical address, and the verification component. A read operation is then modified based on the verification.
US11385836B2
A read request from a host system can be received. It can be detected that the read request is associated with a pattern of read requests. A requested transfer size associated with the read request can be identified. A size of data to retrieve can be determined. The size of the data can be based on the requested transfer size and a die-level transfer size associated with a die of a memory system.
US11385833B2
A system is provided to receive, by a controller, a first request to read a first page of data stored in a storage device which comprises a plurality of non-volatile memory units. The system accumulates, by a calculation module, a syndrome associated with the first page of data to obtain a syndrome weight. In response to determining that the syndrome weight is less than a predetermined threshold, the system writes, by the controller, the first page of data to a destination page of the storage device. In response to determining that the syndrome weight is greater than the predetermined threshold and that a current number of retries is less than a predetermined number: the system executes a retry process between the calculation module and a data flip engine of the controller to update the syndrome weight; and the system increments the current number of retries.
US11385819B2
A system includes a processing device and trigger circuitry to signal the processing device responsive, at least in part, based on a determination that a trigger event has occurred. The system can further include a memory device communicatively coupled to the processing device. The memory device can include a cyclic buffer partition portion having a first endurance characteristic and a first reliability characteristic associated therewith. The memory device can further include a snapshot partition portion coupled to the cyclic buffer partition portion via hold-up capacitors. The snapshot partition portion can have a second endurance characteristic and a second reliability characteristic associated therewith. The processing device can perform operations including writing received data sequentially to the cyclic buffer partition portion and writing, based at least in part on the determination that the trigger event has occurred, data from the cyclic buffer partition portion to the snapshot partition portion.
US11385809B2
Techniques of implementing software filtered non-volatile memory in a computing device are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a method includes detecting an entry being written to a guest admin submission queue (gASQ) by a memory driver of a virtual machine hosted on the computing device. Upon detecting the entry written to the gASQ by the memory driver, the command in the entry is analyzed to determine whether the command is allowed based on a list of allowed or disallowed commands. In response to determining that the command in the entry is not allowed, without sending the command to the non-volatile memory, generating an execution result of the command in response to the entry being written to the gASQ by the memory driver. As such, potentially harmful commands from the memory driver are prevented from being executed by the non-volatile memory.
US11385790B2
A user interface verification device and a method of use is presented for recognizing a three-hand gesture on a touchscreen of the device. The gesture is recognized by detecting a plurality of contact points in at least two, disparate touching zones, and simultaneously detecting additional contact points in a third, disparate touching zone. In one embodiment, the device displays content in a review mode that can be reviewed in a normal manner. In the execution mode, the device requires a signature, a touch, or another sign of acceptance involving a touch within the third touching zone. The device can ensure that a customer directly provides consent by requiring that the two, multi-point touching zones are tactilely engaged by both hands of a presenter while in the execution mode.
US11385788B2
A content management system rendering a file sharing GUI on a first device which is communicatively coupled to a content management system and associated with a first user having an account with the content management system. A file to be shared with a second user is identified in response to the file being selected and dragged. In response to the file being identified, a contact section displaying contact icons is rendered. The selected file is released on a displayed contact icon and a user identifier, e.g., an email address or account, associated with the displayed contact icon is identified. In response to the user identifier being identified, the selected file is shared with a second user associated with the user identified.
US11385785B2
Systems and methods are provided for displaying and interacting with multiple open views in a mobile environment. An example method can include displaying content for a first active web page in a first pane on a display, the first active web page having a first hyperlink for a first target web page, and the first pane being displayed in a maximized state on the display. The method may also include receiving a long touch input on the first hyperlink, and, responsive to receiving the long touch input, opening the first target web page in a second pane, the second pane being displayed in a minimized state in a dock area of the display, wherein a minimized state is a scaled down version of a maximized state.
US11385784B2
Systems and methods for adjusting a user interface presented in a mobile device display. A method for adjusting a user interface presented on a mobile device display includes receiving sensor data from one or more sensors of a mobile device, determining a hand of a user that is holding the mobile device based on the received sensor data, and adjusting the user interface presented on the mobile device display based on the determination.
US11385783B2
A computer-implemented method manipulates a 3D object in a 3D scene of a computer-aided design system, by: (i) displaying a 3D object having a center of rotation in the 3D scene on a screen; (ii) displaying in the 3D scene a rotation manipulator (RM) having three areas (RA1, RA2, RA3) perpendicular to each other, and each area (RA1, RA2, RA3) corresponding to a rotation plane, and (iii) activating the rotation manipulator. The rotation manipulator (RM) follows the cursor (C) on the screen. The rotation manipulator is activated by locking its location on the screen on an initial press point (PP). One rotation plane is selected by displacing the cursor (C) to the area (RA1, RA2, RA3) corresponding to said plane. A rotation manipulation is performed according to the displacement of the cursor (C) on the screen.
US11385774B2
A method performed by a computer processing system includes associating a first workspace with a first graphical object of a workspace widget, the workspace widget being provided to a user through a graphical user interface (GUI). The method further includes receiving an input from a user to switch to a second workspace, providing the second workspace to the user through the GUI, moving the first graphical object from a first position in the workspace widget to a second position in the workspace widget, adding a second graphical object to the workspace widget at the first position, the second graphical object being associated with the second workspace.
US11385771B2
A system and a method are disclosed for simulating asset transfers (e.g., sweeps) using a user interface generated by various collections of display routines. A sweep management system may generate a graphical user interface (GUI) on a webpage to simulate sweeps. The GUI may include a list of entities rendered using a first collection of display routines and a graphical representation of some of the entities rendered using a second collection of display routines. The graphical representation may be rendered using a shared webpage object. Furthermore, callback functions are executed to perform operations based on user interactions. For example, callback functions are used to update the graphical representation after a user has dragged and dropped an entry from the list into the graphical representation.
US11385768B2
The disclosed embodiments include computer-implemented devices and processes that generate, present, and manipulate data-aggregating graphical user interfaces. For example, a network-connected device may generate a first interface element representative of an obligation and may display, through a display unit, an graphical user interface that includes the first interface element and a plurality of second interface elements representative of time periods available for resolving the obligation. The network-connected device may receive, from an input unit, first input data indicative of a selection of the first interface element and second input data indicative of a movement of the selected first interface element from the first position to a second position within the interface. The network-connected device may associate the second position with a corresponding one of the second interface elements, and in response to the association, schedule the obligation for resolution during the time period represented by the corresponding second interface element.
US11385765B2
Users can switch between applications using contextual interface elements. These elements can include icons for applications determined to likely be accessed by the user for a current context. Information is gathered to determine the current context, then information such as patterns of historical usage are utilized to determine and rank the applications by likelihood of use. Different contexts can include different icons, and a given context can include different icons for different points in time or locations. A user can access a contextual interface element by performing a swipe motion, for example. The user can continue the motion to an area associated with an icon of interest, and perform an action such as a tap or release to cause the associated application to be launched. Such an approach enables a user to quickly and easily launch another application independent of the application currently active on the device.
US11385754B2
An objective of the present invention is to provide a touch sensor using both a projected capacitive (PCAP) and an electro-magnetic resonance (EMR) method in a display device. To this end, provided is a touch sensor using a PCAP method and an EMR method using a copper mesh, the touch sensor including a panel unit capable of performing touch recognition by using both the PCAP method and the EMR method and a sensor unit for determining a touch method when the panel unit is touched and performing the touch recognition according to the touch method, wherein the panel unit includes: a first panel of the PCAP method; and a second panel of the EMR method, and the sensor unit includes: a first panel driving unit operating the first panel; a second panel driving unit operating the second panel; and a control unit for detecting a capacitance change of the first panel via the first panel driving unit, detecting a magnetic field change of the second panel via the second panel driving unit, and determining the capacitance change and the magnetic field change to thereby determine whether to operate the first panel driving unit or the second panel driving unit simultaneously or selectively, and wherein an electrode pattern of the first panel or an antenna loop pattern of the second panel is formed of the copper mesh.
US11385751B2
A sensing unit includes a plurality of first sensing electrodes of a first group disposed in a sensing area in a first direction, and a first sensing line electrically connected to one of the first sensing electrodes of the first group. The first sensing line is disposed in the sensing area and extends in a second direction intersecting the first direction.
US11385745B2
A conductive member is provided including a substrate, an interlayer disposed on at least one surface of the substrate, a patterned plating target layer disposed in the form of a mesh on the interlayer having a functional group interacting with a plating catalyst or a precursor thereof, a mesh-shaped metal layer that is disposed on the patterned plating target layer and includes a plurality of crossing thin metal wires, and a protective layer disposed on the metal layer. In a case where “a” represents a modulus of elasticity of the substrate at 25° C. and “b” represents a modulus of elasticity of the interlayer at 25° C., the conductive member satisfies the following Formula A, Formula A: 0.010≤b/a≤0.500, an area ratio of the metal layer is 0.2% to 60%, and a modulus of elasticity of the protective layer at 25° C. is 0.10 to 5.00 GPa.
US11385744B2
A touch key structure includes a touch panel including a key area at a front side of the touch panel, a circuit board provided behind the touch panel and including a sensing electrode corresponding to the key area, and a conductive medium provided between the key area and the sensing electrode.
US11385721B2
Various embodiments utilize application-based processing parameters to dynamically configure a radar-based detection system based upon an operating context of an associated device. A first application with execution priority on a device dynamically configures the radar-based detection system to emit a radar field suitable for a first operating context associated with the first application. The first application can also dynamically configure processing parameters of the radar-based detection system, such as digital signal processing parameters and machine-learning parameters. In some cases, a second application assumes execution priority over the first application, and dynamically reconfigures the radar-based detection system to emit a radar field suitable to a second operating context associated with the second application. Alternately or additionally, the second application can dynamically reconfigure the processing parameters of the radar-based detection system based upon the second operating context of the second application.
US11385711B2
An image capturing control apparatus includes: a line-of-sight detection unit detecting a line-of-sight position of a user; a setting unit setting a region, in which specific processing related to image capturing is performed, in accordance with the detected line-of-sight position; and a control unit implementing control such that in a case of a first state, where a change of at least a predetermined amount does not occur in a captured image and an imaging unit, during recording a moving image, a region in which the specific processing is performed based on the line-of-sight position of the user is not set, and that in a case of a second state, which is different from the first state and satisfies a predetermined condition, a region in which the specific processing is performed based on the line-of-sight position of the user, detected by the line-of-sight detection unit, is set.
US11385708B2
A memory device includes a power supply device, a power-on-reset device, a memory array, and a memory controller. The power supply device converts the external supply voltage into an internal supply voltage. When the external supply voltage exceeds a first threshold, the power-on-reset device generates a reset signal. The power-on-reset device further raises the first threshold to a second threshold according to a deep-sleep signal. The memory array is supplied with the internal supply voltage. The memory controller is supplied with the internal supply voltage, accesses the memory array, and is reset according to the reset signal. When the memory controller operates in a deep-sleep mode, the memory controller generates the deep-sleep mode.
US11385704B2
In an embodiment, a processor includes processing cores to execute instructions; and throttling logic. The throttling logic is to: determine an average capacitance score for execution events in a sliding window; perform frequency throttling when the average capacitance score exceeds a throttling threshold; determine a count of frequency throttling instances; and in response to a determination that the count of frequency throttling instances exceeds a maximum throttling value, increase the throttling threshold and concurrently reduce a baseline frequency. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US11385698B1
Apparatus and methods are provided for managing voltage drops on a semiconductor chip. One exemplary embodiment according to the present disclosure may provide a method for managing voltage drops in a semiconductor chip. The method may comprise monitoring power supply voltages for different voltage domains in the semiconductor chip by a voltage drop detection circuit, determining that a voltage drop event has occurred based on voltage information and duration information associated with the voltage drop event reported from the voltage drop detection circuit, generating diagnostic information that includes whether the voltage drop event is an external event or an internal event determined based on the voltage information and timing information reported from the voltage drop detection circuit, and taking an action based on the diagnosis information.
US11385695B2
An access point, which is a Power over Ethernet (PoE) Powered Device (PD) measures input voltage and input current. The access point determines a power requirement of the access point based on the measured current, measured voltage, and information about power requirements of access point components or devices coupled to the access point a power requirement of the access point. The access point communicates the determined power request to a power sourcing equipment (PSE), e.g., a network switch. In some embodiments, the access point further communicates one of: measured input current and measured input voltage to the PSE. The PSE uses the information received from the access point, e.g., power request and power measurements to determine an amount of power to be granted to the access point. If the access point does not receive the requested power level the access point selects internal components and/or external devices to de-power.
US11385694B1
A system for determining remaining useful energy in an electric aircraft, the system including a computing device where the computing device is configured to measure a internal state datum of a battery as a function of at least a sensor, receive the internal state datum from the at least a sensor, generate a useful energy remaining datum as a function of the internal state datum and a battery model, and display the useful energy remaining datum to a user.
US11385691B2
Systems for communicating over a network and between two or more network connected devices. In particular, the disclosure reveals systems which include a first node having a first node message sequence counter, a second node having a second node message sequence counter, and wherein the second node is configured to synchronize the first node message sequence counter based on the second node message sequence counter.
US11385682B2
Electronic devices including a display layer and a cover layer including a foldable region are disclosed herein. The display layer and the cover layer are configured to be moved between a folded configuration and an unfolded configuration by bending the cover layer along the foldable region. Methods of making a cover layer for an electronic device are also disclosed.
US11385674B2
A clock distribution circuit may include a data clock generation circuit configured to be input a power source voltage and configured to generate an internal clock signal according to an external clock signal; and a global distribution circuit includes a first circuit and a second circuit coupled to a global line, configured to be input a power source voltage and configured to receive the internal clock signal through the first circuit and distribute the internal clock signal to an exterior of the clock distribution circuit through the second circuit, wherein a first bias voltage provided to the first circuit and a second bias voltage provided to the second circuit are controlled independently of each other.
US11385668B2
An offset compensation device includes a first bias module and a second bias module. The first bias module includes a plurality of first current control circuits and a plurality of second current control circuits coupled in parallel. Each of the first current control circuits generates a first reference current, and each of the second current control circuits generates a second reference current. The second bias module includes a plurality of third current control circuits and a plurality of fourth current control circuits coupled in parallel. Each of the third current control circuits generates a third reference current, and each of the fourth current control circuits generates a fourth reference current. The second reference current is greater than the first reference current, and the fourth reference current is greater than the third reference current.
US11385662B2
A sprayer for spraying fluid includes a pump, a motor that drives the pump, a drive cycle indicator, a wireless module configured to send and receive information, and control circuitry. The drive cycle indicator outputs an indication of cycle status of the pump. The control circuitry is configured to receive the plurality of cycle status indications of the pump, determine a plurality of output values representing paint spray fluid output volume over a plurality of time windows based on the plurality of cycle status indications of the pump, store the plurality of output values in memory, and cause the wireless module to transmit one or more of the stored plurality of output values externally from the sprayer.
US11385660B2
A hot water supply system includes a hot water supply device which can be connected to an external communication network via a communication repeater, and a server. The server obtains, in pairing processing of associating a mobile terminal device which can remotely control the hot water supply device with the hot water supply device, identification information of a communication repeater to which the mobile terminal device is connected, and stores the identification information along with pairing information. Besides, the server performs control to determine conditions of the remote control based on whether the identification information of the communication repeater stored in association with the hot water supply device being a remote operation destination matches identification information of the communication repeater received from the mobile terminal device in the communication, when the communication of the remote control is received from the mobile terminal device.
US11385658B2
A video processing method includes receiving a video to be edited including a target object and shot by a photographing device mounted at an aircraft, determining a first video frame from the video to be edited, determining a display area of the target object in the first video frame, and obtaining a target video including performing an adjustment processing on an image position of the target object in a second video frame of the video to be edited according to the display area. The image position of the target object in the second video frame after being adjusted is the same as an image position of the display area in the first video frame.
US11385657B2
Systems and methods for controlling autonomous vehicles are provided. In one example embodiment, a computer implemented method includes obtaining data indicative of a location associated with a user to which an autonomous vehicle is to travel. The autonomous vehicle is to travel along a first vehicle route that leads to the location. The method includes obtaining traffic data associated with a geographic area that includes the location. The method includes determining an estimated traffic impact of the autonomous vehicle on the geographic area based at least in part on the traffic data. The method includes determining vehicle action(s) based at least in part on the estimated traffic impact and causing the autonomous vehicle to perform the vehicle action(s) that include at least one of stopping the autonomous vehicle at least partially in a travel way within a vicinity of the location or travelling along a second vehicle route.
US11385656B2
A system, method and processor readable medium for identifying an operational design domain (ODD) for operation of an autonomous driving system (ADS). In one aspect, a proposed map is used to generate a geographic dataset. Performance of the ADS is evaluated against the geographic dataset under a range of environment& conditions, thereby identifying a bounded-risk portion of a proposed condition space defined by the proposed map and the range of environmental conditions. The operational design domain is identified based on the bounded-risk portion of the proposed condition space. The ODD can be updated as additional data is received. When a vehicle using the ADS is likely to leave the ODD, an operator can be alerted.
US11385649B2
A system includes an inspection robot for performing an inspection on an inspection surface with an inspection robot, the apparatus comprising a position definition circuit structured to determine an inspection robot position on the inspection surface; a data positioning circuit structured to interpret inspection data, and to correlate the inspection data to the inspection robot position on the inspection surface; and wherein the data positioning circuit is further structured to determine position informed inspection data in response to the correlating of the inspection data with the inspection robot position, wherein the position informed inspection data comprises absolute position data.
US11385625B2
This flow control system is obtained by connecting a plurality of work units WUα and a plurality of work units WUβ to one another, wherein: each WUα has an α-control purpose which is a WU-based independent control purpose, and has an α-control rule for the α-control purpose; each WUβ has a β-control purpose to cause as many WUα as possible to achieve the own α-control purposes, and has a β-control rule for the β-control purpose; the β-control rule is dynamically changed on the basis of partial information about the flow control system; and the WUβ is disposed in a part of the flow control system.
US11385621B2
A system is provided that predicts motor wear and failures before they occur. Telemetry data from motors in a motor application is collected and predictive algorithms are used to determine when a motor is aging and when it may fail. Identifying a potential failure in these types of applications can help mitigate risk of other equipment failures and realize cost savings. In one example, a motor aging detection system is provided that includes one or more DC motors, and a motor controller coupled to each motor. The motor controller reads three phase currents from each motor and converts the phase currents to digital values, calculates telemetry data including applied voltages, back electric-motive force, inductance, and resistance of each motor at periodic intervals, stores this telemetry data for each motor in a memory. An age detection circuit retrieves this information from the memory and determines age factors of the motor.
US11385600B2
A timer measurement device includes a signal output unit, an operation input unit and a processor. The processor stores ordered time settings including at least respective timer values. When an elapsed time that is measured by using a clock signal output by the signal output unit reaches a timer value of a time setting selected from the time settings, the processor resets the elapsed time, and switches the selected time setting to a next time setting among the ordered time settings. If the operation input unit receives a predetermined change command during, the measurement of the elapsed time for the timer value of the selected time setting, the processor performs, in response to the change command, a change processing which changes a remaining time with respect to the elapsed time for the timer value of the selected time setting.
US11385596B2
The invention relates to a method which comprises the steps of providing a plate (2) made of a micromachinable material, forming the timepiece component (1) with at least one attachment (3) for keeping the component attached to the rest of the plate (2), by etching the plate (2); and creating, along a desired breakage line of the attachment, a pre-detachment area (4) comprising at least one gap (5) obtained by etching into the body of the plate (2).
US11385580B2
According to one embodiment, a heating device includes a fixing belt configured to be rotated and a pressure roller configured to abut against the fixing belt and be driven to cause the fixing belt to rotate. A heater is configured to heat the fixing belt. A motor is configured to drive the pressure roller to rotate. A current sensor is configured to measure a driving current of the motor. A controller is configured to stop the heater based on the measured driving current.
US11385571B2
In a cartridge, a developing roller is configured to rotate around a first rotational axis extending in a predetermined direction and to carry developer thereon, the developing roller having a first end and a second end apart from each other in the predetermined direction, a from-first-to-second direction being defined along the predetermined direction as being directed from the first end to the second end. A developing electrode is formed of a conductive material and is configured to be electrically connected to the developing roller, the developing electrode including a main part and a protruding portion protruding from the main part in the from-first-to-second direction. A detection body is formed of an insulating material and is rotatably supported by the protruding portion, the detection body including a first opening that exposes part of the protruding portion and a covering portion covering part of the protruding portion.
US11385569B2
An image forming apparatus includes a first process unit, a second process unit, a first toner cartridge, and a second toner cartridge. The first toner cartridge includes a cartridge housing and a first shutter movable between a first closed position and a first open position. The cartridge housing includes one end portion and the other end portion. The cartridge housing is rotatable between a first position at which the first shutter is positioned at the first closed position and a second position at which the first shutter is positioned at the first open position. When the cartridge housing moves from the second position to the first position, the one end portion of the cartridge housing comes close to the second toner cartridge and the other end portion of the cartridge housing goes away from the second toner cartridge.
US11385566B2
A replaceable unit is removably installable in an image forming device. The replaceable unit includes a rotatable input gear that is positioned to mate with an output gear of the image forming device. The replaceable unit includes an encoded member that is encoded with identifying information of the replaceable unit and that is operatively connected to the input gear such that rotation of the input gear causes movement of the encoded member. The replaceable unit includes an alignment guide on the exterior of the replaceable unit. The image forming device includes a sensor supported by a sensor housing. The alignment guide is positioned to contact and move the sensor housing during insertion of the replaceable unit into the image forming device to align the sensor with an exposed portion of the encoded member for reading the identifying information from the encoded member by the sensor.
US11385562B1
According to one embodiment, an image reading apparatus includes an exposure unit, a light sensor, and a controller. The exposure unit selectively emits light to positions along a first scan direction to write pixels in accordance with a main scan line of image data. The light sensor is at a position to receive light from the exposure unit and is configured to output a synchronization signal according to the detection of the light emitted for each main scan line of image data. The controller adjusts a starting pixel position along the first scan direction for a main scan line of image data based on a change in an output interval of the synchronization signal resulting from a change in an intensity of light emitted by the exposure unit.
US11385561B2
A driving apparatus is provided. The driving apparatus comprises a plurality of driving circuits configured to generate a current according to an inputted voltage. The plurality of driving circuits are formed on a single semiconductor chip, and each of the plurality of driving circuits comprises a plurality of output circuits configured to supply the current to a plurality of load elements arranged in at least one load element array.
US11385558B2
A toner has a toner particle containing a resin having an acid group, an aluminum pigment, and a fatty acid metal salt, wherein an acid value of the resin having an acid group is in a range of from 5 mg KOH/g to 25 mg KOH/g, and an amount of the resin having the acid group is 50% by mass or more; an amount of the aluminum pigment is in a range of from 10% by mass to 40% by mass; the fatty acid metal salt is represented by formula (R—COO)pM(OH)q; and an amount thereof is in a range of from 1 part by mass to 10 parts by mass based on 100 parts by mass of the aluminum pigment.
US11385557B2
A measurement device is equipped with a surface plate, a slider which holds a substrate and which is movable relative to the surface plate, a drive system that moves the slider, a first position measurement system which measures the slider's first position information relative to the surface plate, a measurement unit having a mark detection system that detects a mark on a substrate, a second position measurement system which measures a relative second position information between the mark detection system and substrate, and a controller which obtains the first position information from the first position measurement system and second position information from the second position measurement system while controlling the slider's movement by the drive system, and obtains position information of a plurality of marks based on detection signals of the mark detection system having detected marks on the substrate, the first position information, and the second position information.
US11385551B2
A method of evaluating a patterning process, the method including: obtaining the result of a first measurement of a first metrology target; obtaining the result of a second measurement of a second metrology target, the second metrology target having a structural difference from the first metrology target that generates a sensitivity difference and/or an offset, of a process parameter of the patterning process between the first and second metrology targets; and determining a value pertaining to the patterning process based on the results of the first and second measurements.
US11385542B2
A salt is represented by formula (I). In formula (I), R1, R2 and R3 each independently represent a halogen atom, a perfluoroalkyl group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms or a hydrocarbon group having 1 to 12 carbon atoms, and —CH2— included in the hydrocarbon group may be replaced by —O— or —CO—, m1 represents an integer of 0 to 4, and when m1 is 2 or more, a plurality of R1 may be the same or different from each other, m2 represents an integer of 0 to 4, and when m2 is 2 or more, a plurality of R2 may be the same or different from each other, and m3 represents an integer of 0 to 4, and when m3 is 2 or more, a plurality of R3 may be the same or different from each other.
US11385541B2
A radiation-curable resin composition, suitable for use in 3D printing, and to the production method thereof, i.e. the method for producing three-dimensional objects using radiation by means of 3D printing of the laser, DLP or LCD type, with successive photopolymerisable layers. The radiation-curable resin composition comprises one or more epoxy-acrylic resins and polymethyl methacrylate, graphene, halloysite nanotubes and one or more photoinitiators.
US11385538B2
In a method of cleaning a photo mask, the photo mask is placed on a support such that a patterned surface faces down, and an adhesive sheet is applied to edges of a backside surface of the photo mask.
US11385535B2
The light source device includes a first solid-state light source array emitting a first color light, a second solid-state light source array emitting a second color light, a third solid-state light source array emitting a third color light, and a light combiner for combining the first to third color lights respectively from the first to third solid-state light source arrays into a combined color light, and emitting a light flux of the combined color light in the same direction. The third solid-state light source array requiring the lowest target cooling temperature among the first to third solid-state light source arrays is disposed on a first side, and the first and second solid-state light source arrays are disposed on a second side, with an optical axis of the light flux emitted from the light combiner, as a boundary.
US11385529B2
A camera bracket includes a T-direction supporting base (1) and a rotatory adjustment mechanism (2); a fixed tooth slot (10) is provided in the T-direction supporting base; the rotatory adjustment mechanism includes a rotatory supporting base (20), an adapter (21) and a fine adjustment bolt assembly (22). The rotatory supporting base includes a fine adjustment plate (200) and a rotatory tooth slot (201) fixedly connected, and a limiting hole (200a) is provided in the fine adjustment plate; the adapter includes a rotatory connection portion (210) and a connection base (211) fixedly connected. The connection base is provided with a fine adjustment threaded hole (211a) corresponding to the limiting hole which can be aligned with the limiting hole in a vertical plane perpendicular to an axis of the rotatory tooth slot. The fine adjustment bolt assembly includes a fine adjustment bolt (220), and the fine adjustment bolt is provided with a threaded portion (220a) and a limiting portion (220b), and the fine adjustment bolt passes through the limiting hole, and the threaded portion is threadedly connected to the fine adjustment threaded hole, and the limiting portion is lifted by an edge of the limiting hole and cannot pass through the limiting hole. The camera bracket can finely adjust the T-direction angle, so as to meet the required angle accuracy requirements.
US11385528B2
A lens apparatus includes a tripod mount, a cylindrical member supported rotatably around an optical axis on the tripod mount, a roller housed in the tripod mount and including a rolling bearing and a shaft member engaged with the rolling bearing, a roller holding member configured to rotatably hold the roller, and a biasing member configured to bias the roller against the cylindrical member via the roller holding member.
US11385525B1
A shielding structure includes a camera base, a shielding member, and an operating member. The camera base is provided with a lens module and a guiding rail. One end of the shielding member is provided with a shielding part, the other end of the shielding member is provided with a connecting part, and a pivot point arranged between the connecting part and the shielding part. The operating member is connected to the connecting part and configured to slide along the guiding rail. Sliding of the operating member along the guiding rail drives the connecting part of the shielding member to move so as to bring the shielding member to rotate around the pivot point.
US11385511B2
A display panel includes a first substrate, a second substrate and a black matrix disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate. The first substrate includes a plurality of pixel areas arranged in a matrix. The first substrate further includes a plurality of scan lines extending along a first direction. The second substrate is disposed opposite to the first substrate. The black matrix includes a plurality of first parts and a second part. One of the plurality of first parts extends along the first direction and corresponds to one of the plurality of the scan lines. The second part is connected to the one of the plurality of first parts and extends along a second direction. A width of the second part is varied along the second direction.
US11385510B1
A two-piece LCD (Liquid Crystal Display) projector optical system includes a LCD light valve with red and green sub-pixels, a black and white LCD light valve, an illumination device with a red-green combined beam, an illumination device with a blue beam, a beam combiner, a projection lens and a light valve electric driver. The emitted red-green combined beam passes through the LCD light valve and then is transmitted to the beam combiner; the emitted blue beam passes through the black and white LCD light valve and then is transmitted to the beam combiner; the beam combiner combines the beams from the LCD light valve and the black and white LCD light valve, and then the combined beam is transmitted to the projection lens. The optical system lengthens a service life of the projector, improves an output brightness of the projector, and increases satisfaction of users.
US11385509B2
This application discloses a display panel and a display apparatus. A non-display area in the display panel includes a plurality of fan-out areas, a drive circuit in the display panel includes a plurality of sub-drive circuits, each fan-out area is an area formed by all first metal lines connected with each sub-drive circuit, and the fan-out areas are connected with a display area and the drive circuit; each fan-out area includes a plurality of second metal lines, and each of the second metal lines is located between two adjacent first metal lines; and the surface of each fan-out area is flat.
US11385502B1
Disclosed are a near-eye display apparatus. The near-eye display apparatus comprises: a display screen; a polarization converter; an imaging lens group; a semi-transparent and semi-reflective layer arranged between the polarization converter and the first lens; a reflective polarized layer arranged on the side, facing away from the polarization converter, of the semi-transparent and semi-reflective layer, the polarization direction of the first linearly polarized light is vertical to the polarization direction of the second linearly polarized light; and a liquid crystal lens arranged between the semi-transparent and semi-reflective layer and the reflective polarized layer. When the liquid crystal lens is switched between the first phase retardation amount and the second phase retardation amount, the light path of light in the near-eye display apparatus changes, so that the near-eye display apparatus can image at two focal lengths.
US11385494B2
A color filter substrate, a manufacturing method thereof and a display device are provided. The color filter substrate includes: a base substrate; a black matrix on the base substrate, the black matrix including a plurality of openings and a bank surrounding each opening; a color filter layer in each opening; a first planarization layer covering the color filter layer, and the bank protruding relative to the first planarization layer in a direction away from the base substrate; a second planarization layer covering both the first planarization layer and the bank, the second planarization layer including a first surface distal to the base substrate; and a grating layer on the second planarization layer. The first surface of the second planarization layer includes a first portion and a second portion, an orthographic projection of the first portion on the base substrate at least partially overlaps with an orthographic projection of the plurality of openings on the base substrate, an orthographic projection of the second portion on the base substrate at least partially overlaps with an orthographic projection of the bank on the base substrate, and a vertical distance between the first portion and a surface of the base substrate close to the second planarization layer is greater than a vertical distance between the second portion and the surface of the base substrate close to the second planarization layer.
US11385491B2
The present disclosure relates to a display device, an electronic device and a device mounting member. The display device includes: a first display module having a first backplane; a second display module having a second backplane located on an opposite side of the first backplane; a first heat sink located between the first backplane and the second backplane; and a second heat sink connected to the first heat sink in thermal conduction.
US11385485B2
Disclosed herein are a test wiring structure, a test apparatus and a test system. The test wiring structure includes sequentially cascaded signal wirings. Each signal wiring includes a first interface and a second interface respectively located at the two ends of the signal wiring, and a cascade interface disposed on the signal wiring. In the sequentially cascaded signal wirings, the first interface and the second interface of a previous-stage signal wiring are respectively connected to the cascade interfaces of corresponding signal wirings in next-stage signal wirings. Moreover, the cascade interface of a first-stage signal wiring is used to connect to a test pad, and the first interfaces and the second interfaces of last-stage signal wirings are respectively used to connect to corresponding display panels.
US11385482B2
Disclosed herein is a solid touchchromic device. The solid touchchromic device may include a conducting polymer or a conducting polymer composite film, a conducting plate, and a solid layer of a polymer-based electrolyte, the conducting plate being at least partially coated by the conducting polymer or the conducting polymer composite film. The solid touchchromic device may further include an oxidant, a salt, an acid, or a metal. Also included are methods of producing a solid touchchromic device and articles including a solid touchchromic device.
US11385471B1
A system for providing two spaced-apart parallel light beams wherein the space between the two spaced-apart parallel light beams is adjustable, the system including: a first beam splitter configured for reflecting a light beam from a light source to create a first light beam; a second beam splitter configured for reflecting a transmitted light beam from the light beam from the light source to create a second light beam; a third beam splitter configured for transmitting the first light beam and reflecting the first light beam to create a third light beam, the first beam splitter and the third beam splitter are disposed along a first central axis; a fourth beam splitter configured for transmitting the second light beam and reflecting the second light beam to create a fourth light beam.
US11385456B2
A device and method for pivotally positioning a moveable member, wherein a magnetically conductive base member is arranged opposite the magnetically conductive moveable member with a gap provided therebetween. A first magnet is arranged for providing a first magnetic flux through the base member and the moveable member such as to provide at least two first magnetic closed flux paths. A second electromagnet is arranged for providing a second magnetic flux through the base member and the moveable member such as to provide at least one second magnetic closed flux path. The second electromagnet is configured for changing, in one or more of the at least two first magnetic closed flux paths, a resulting magnetic flux provided by the first magnetic flux and the second magnetic flux such as to pivot the moveable member by means of the pivot member. The moveable member is pivotally suspended using a flexural pivot member.
US11385446B2
A first lens group (G1) having positive refractive power, a second lens group (G2) having negative refractive power, a third lens group (G3) having positive refractive power, a fourth lens group (G4) having positive refractive power, a fifth lens group (G5) are arranged in order from an object, and a distance between the first lens group (G1) and the second lens group (G2), a distance between the second lens group (G2) and the third lens group (G3), a distance between the third lens group (G3) and the fourth lens group (G4), and a distance between the fourth lens group (G4) and the fifth lens group (G5) change upon zooming, and a lens group arranged closest to an image is approximately fixed against an image surface (I) upon zooming, and the third lens group (G3) moves along the optical axis upon focusing, and the following expression (1) is satisfied. 0.480
US11385439B2
The present disclosure discloses an imaging lens assembly including, sequentially from an object side to an image side along an optical axis, a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens and a fifth lens. Here, the first lens has a positive refractive power, and an object-side surface thereof is a convex surface, and an image-side surface thereof is also a convex surface; the second lens has a negative refractive power; the third lens has a positive refractive power, and an object-side surface thereof is a concave surface; the fourth lens has a positive refractive power; the fifth lens has a negative refractive power and an object-side surface thereof is a concave surface and an image-side surface thereof is a concave surface; and the imaging lens assembly satisfies 3≤T34/T23 ≤7.
US11385432B2
A camera lens module includes an image sensor and a lens assembly. The image sensor includes a photosensitive chip defining a photosensitive path, wherein the lens assembly is coupled to the image sensor along the photosensitive path of the photosensitive chip. The lens assembly includes at least one optical lens module and an aperture member coupled at the optical lens module, wherein the optical lens module includes a lens barrel and at least an optical lens supported within the lens barrel. A relative position of the lens assembly with respect to the image sensor is adjustable for calibration and the relative position of the optical lens module is permanently fixed after calibration.
US11385430B2
An optical fiber management system (10) includes a telecommunications fixture (14) and a telecommunications tray (16) pivotally mounted to the telecommunications fixture (14) via a hinge structure (18) positioned at an edge (22) of the tray (16). At least one end (24) of the tray edge (22) that is spaced from the hinge structure (18) defines a fiber guide (26) having a generally cylindrical configuration with open ends (28) for guiding fibers in and/or out of the tray (16). The fiber guide (26) is nested within a reinforcement channel (46) defined by a generally U-shaped wall (48) of the telecommunications fixture (14), the U-shaped wall (48) defining opposing vertical wall portions (50) for abutting the cable guide (26) of the tray (16) for retaining the cable guide (26) within the reinforcement channel (46) during pivotal movement of the tray (16).
US11385423B2
An assembly of electronic components enabling reception of data using an optical fiber includes: a photodiode; an amplifier coupled to the photodiode; a flexible printed circuit board, the photodiode and amplifier physically mounted on the flexible printed circuit board; a cover, the cover configured to cover the photodiode and the amplifier, wherein the cover is physically attached to the printed circuit board so as to provide mechanical rigidity around the photodiode, and the cover having an optically transparent aperture containing a lens configured to focus modulated light signals from a fiber onto the photodiode; and conductive bond wires configured to directly electrically couple the amplifier and the photodiode to conducting traces of the flexible printed circuit board.
US11385418B2
Systems and assemblies are provided for reconfigurable waveguide (RWG) blocks having fixed waveguides therein. The RWG blocks can receive multiple self-aligned simplex ferrules to achieve customized fiber shuffles that are reconfigurable. A RWG block assembly includes the RWG block with fixed waveguides, a parallel-fiber ferrule interface to install a parallel-fiber ferrule, a plurality of simplex ferrule interfaces to install one or more simplex ferrules which allows the simplex ferrules to be positioned modularly within the RWG block assembly. The fixed waveguides allow optically coupling between the parallel-fiber ferrule and the one or more simplex ferrules via the RWG block. An assembly can also include a RWG block housing with the RWG block installed therein, and a carrier bracket coupled to the RWG block housing that receives a plurality of simplex ferrules such that each of the plurality of simplex ferrules can be positioned modularly and self-aligned within the carrier bracket.
US11385416B2
An optical connector assembly having an adapter with a first and second end. Either end can accept a connector with a removable, detachable and replaceable coupling nut that when removed, connector outer diameter is substantially reduced, thereby allowing said connector to be inserted through a conduit having an inner diameter substantially less than outer diameter of separable coupling nut.
US11385412B2
A module housing case is described. The modular housing case includes a fiber optic component housing defined as a cavity that is sized to receive a fiber optic connector. Within the cavity is a ferrule guide. The module housing case also has an internal cavity that is at least partially enclosed. Components to assist in magnification may be disposed at least partially within the internal cavity. Finally, the module housing case employs a camera lens alignment feature.
US11385405B2
The present application provides a fiber array for vertical coupling, including an optical fiber, an L-shaped plate, a U-shaped cover plate and a V-shaped slot; wherein the optical fiber includes a straight section, a curved transition section and a curved fixed section that are sequentially connected; the curved transition section of the optical fiber is arranged on an outer side surface of the L-shaped plate, the straight section of the optical fiber is fixedly arranged at a horizontal end of the L-shaped plate through the U-shaped cover plate, and the curved fixed section of the optical fiber is fixedly arranged on a curved end of the L-shaped plate through the V-shaped slot. The fiber array for vertical coupling provided by the present application can greatly reduce the optical loss in the light path.
US11385394B2
A front light source module includes a light guide assembly and a light source assembly. The light guide assembly includes a light guide body and surface optical microstructures. The light guide body includes a first optical surface, a second optical surface opposite to the first optical surface, and a light incident surface. The light incident surface is connected between the first and second optical surfaces. The first optical surface is close to a viewer. The surface optical microstructures are embedded in the light guide body. Each surface optical microstructure includes an inclined surface and a transflective layer. The inclined surface is relatively inclined to the first optical surface or the second optical surface. The transflective layer is disposed on the inclined surface. The light source assembly is disposed beside the light incident surface. A reflective display device adopting the front light source module is also provided.
US11385372B2
An initial gather of blended seismic signals induced in a common seismic receiver by a plurality of actual sources grouped in actual source groups is provided. Each actual source group has a linear source geometry that is the same for each actual source group. The plurality of sources in each actual source group is fired according to a pre-selected firing sequence that is the same for each actual source group. Actual shot records are created from the blended signals, and fictive shot records are created of seismic signals for fictive source groups that each have the same source geometry as the actual source groups, by interpolation of the actual shot records. Single source shot records of single source signals are separated by discrete deconvolution of the actual shot records and the fictive shot records. The output includes a seismic gather comprising a plurality of the single source shot records.
US11385370B2
The present invention discloses a microseismic intelligent acquisition and data wireless transmission system of rock. The microseismic intelligent acquisition and data wireless transmission system of rock comprises a data acquisition and intelligent process module, used for acquiring an original microseismic signal and intelligently processing the original microseismic signal to obtain a timed second microseismic signal data packet; a wireless transmission module, connected with the data acquisition and intelligent process module. The data acquisition and intelligent process module transmits the timed second microseismic signal data packet to a satellite in a wireless manner through the wireless transmission module such that the satellite receives and stores the timed second microseismic signal data packet. The microseismic intelligent acquisition and data wireless transmission system of rock of the present invention is free from the wire transmission, largely reduces the workload of manual field monitoring, and improves the quality of monitoring data.
US11385367B2
A section of a streamer for acoustic marine data collection, the section having a carrier for accommodating seismic sensors, wherein the carrier includes, a single body, a first particle motion sensor located on the single body, and a second particle motion sensor being located on the single body, with a 90° angular offset, about a longitudinal axis of the carrier, relative to the first particle motion sensor; and a tilt sensor coupled to the carrier and having a known direction relative to the first and second particle motion sensors so that the tilt sensor determines an angle of tilt of the carrier about a vertical. The first and second particle motion sensors measure a motion related parameter and not a pressure.
US11385354B2
Apparatus, systems, and methods for tracking the location of an individual during a fitness activity are disclosed. A method of tracking a participant engaged in a fitness activity includes determining a location of the participant during the fitness activity based on data received at a portable fitness device used by the participant; determining a location of a spectator during the fitness activity based on data received at a mobile spectator device used by the spectator; from a server, sending an alert to a spectator at a spectator device during the fitness activity indicating that the participant is within a predetermined distance of the spectator; and sending an alert to the portable fitness device during the fitness activity indicating that the spectator is within a predetermined distance of the participant.
US11385350B2
Embodiments herein provide for improved range response in lidar systems. In one embodiment, a lidar system includes a laser, and a detector. First optics direct light from the laser on a beam path along a first optical axis of the first optics. Second optics image the light from the beam path onto a second plane that is substantially normal to the first plane. The second optics have a second optical axis that differs from the first optical axis. The first and the second optical axes lie in a same first plane. A first line in the first plane intersects a second line in the second plane at an acute angle. The first line is perpendicular to the first optical axis. A spatial filter configured in or near the second plane filters the light from the second optics onto the detector.
US11385349B2
Systems and methods for ultrasound imaging using a delay-encoded harmonic imaging (“DE-HI”) technique is provided. An ultrasound pulse sequence is coded using temporal delays between ultrasound emissions within a single transmission event. This coded scheme allows for harmonic imaging to be implemented. The temporal time delay-codes are applied temporally to multiple different ultrasound emissions within a single transmission event, rather than spatially across different transmitting elements. The received radio frequency (“RF”) signals undergo a decoding process in the frequency domain to recover the signals, as they would be obtained from standard single emissions, for subsequent compounding. As one specific example, a one-quarter period time delay can be used to encode second harmonic signals from each angle emission during a single multiplane wave (“MW”) transmission event, rather than inverting the polarity of the pulses as in conventional MW imaging.
US11385347B2
The system and method represents a high-resolution, three-dimensional, multi-static precipitation RADAR approach that employs agile microsatellites, in formation and remotely coupled, via a new high-precision, ultra-low power, remote timing synchronization technology. This system and method uses multi-static RADAR interferometric methods implemented via a microsatellite formation to synthesize an effectively large (e.g., 15 m) aperture to provide about 1 km horizontal resolution and about 125 m vertical resolution in the Ku-band.
US11385340B2
Ultrasound imaging systems including transducer probes having wireless tags, and associated systems and methods, are described herein. For example, the wireless tags can store supplemental data about the transducer probes, and the ultrasound system can include a base unit configured to wirelessly communicate with nearby ones of the wireless tags to receive the supplemental data. The base unit can be further configured to display the transducer probes that are nearby. In some embodiments, the operator can filter or sort the displayed nearby transducer probes based on the supplemental data to identify a particular one of the nearby transducer devices that has one or more desired attributes.
US11385335B2
A method for operating a LiDAR system in an automobile that can include receiving noise data corresponding to an ambient noise level, receiving false positive data corresponding to a rate of false positive object detection occurrences; determining an object detection range spanning a distance defined by a minimum range of object detection and a maximum range of object detection for the LiDAR system; generating an object detection threshold value for detecting objects based on the noise data and the rate of false positive data; applying the object detection threshold value to each of a plurality of range values within the object detection range; and applying a gain sensitivity profile to the object detection threshold value at each of a plurality of range values.
US11385327B2
Implementation of radio frequency applications in satellite environments can be constrained by size, mass, cost, and power limitations. These applications can include radar, communications, radio astronomy, or other scientific or industrial applications. A variety of systems are provided to facilitate recording of baseband radio frequency signals at high bandwidth and low power using low-cost components. These systems include field-programmable gate arrays or other programmable logic devices integrating between high-frequency ADCs and two or more multiplexed non-volatile storage mediums. Also provided are systems for providing calibration and self-test functionality in a low-cost, flexible, low-power radio frequency frontend. These systems include high-frequency switches configured to allow a calibration and/or self-test pulse to be acquired for each radar pulse generated by the system.
US11385325B2
Example embodiments relate to corrugated radomes for protecting and concealing components of radar units. An example radar system may include a radar unit that includes at least one antenna having a radiation pattern. The radar unit is configured to transmit a radar signal based on the radiation pattern and receive radar signals. In addition, the radar system further includes a radome located in a direction of transmission of the radiation pattern. Particularly, the radome includes a stepped surface having at least one step that includes a height equal to one-quarter of a wavelength at a frequency of operation of the radar unit. The least one step is positioned on the radome such that the at least one step causes deconstructive interference of reflections of the transmitted radar signal caused by the radome.
US11385321B2
A radar unit (400) for detecting an existence of interference is described that includes: a millimetre wave (mmW) transceiver (Tx/Rx) circuit configured to radiate a transmit radar signal and receive an echo signal thereof; a mixed analog and baseband circuit operably coupled to the mmW Tx/Rx circuit; and a signal processor circuit (452) operably coupled to the mixed analog and baseband circuit. An interference detection unit (448) is operably coupled to the mmW Tx/Rx circuit and configured to: monitor a whole or a portion of a radar frequency band supported by the radar unit and identify, from a received interference signal, an arrival direction of the identified interference and a level of interference and output an interference detected signal; and wherein the signal processor circuit (452) is configured to analyse the interference detected signal and quantify a response to the detection of an arrival direction and a level of received interference.
US11385317B2
Disclosed is a method for generating position information of a terminal device served by a mobile communication network. The method including: receiving at least one signal carrying data applicable in a determination of a position of the terminal device; determining the position of the terminal device, applying a masking function to determined position data, determining a slice within a time-dependent network representation in accordance with at least one network characteristic determined by the terminal device, and generating a data record including: a masked position data; information on the determined slice; and at least one network parameter applied by the masking function. Also disclosed is a terminal device and a computer program product.
US11385313B2
A system comprising: a transmitting device configured to transmit, in at least one plane, a plurality of directional signals each covering an angular sector, wherein every adjacent pair of said angular sectors overlaps partially to create a logical sector, and wherein each of said plurality of directional signals encodes at least an indication regarding each said logical sector associated therewith; and a client device comprising program instructions executable by at least one hardware processor to: cause the client device to receive at least some of said plurality of directional signals, calculate a signal strength level (RSL) value for each of said received directional signals, and determine that said client device is located within a said logical sector, when two highest said RSL values (i) are related to two said directional signals associated with said logical sector, and (ii) are within a specified value range of each other.
US11385307B2
A resonant coil system with improved sensitivity and signal-to-noise performance is described. A primary coil is tuned to a first resonance frequency and inductively coupled to a secondary coil that is separately tuned to a second resonance frequency. The primary and secondary coils form a resonant system with a resonance frequency that is a function of the primary and secondary coil resonance frequencies. The resonance frequency of the coil system is less than both the primary resonance frequency and the secondary resonance frequency. The mutual inductance between the two coils is high and the resonance frequency of the coil system's parallel mode is well separated from that of the anti-parallel mode.
US11385294B2
A computer-implemented method and a battery state estimating system for estimating a battery state of an electrochemical battery, including: calculating electrical impedance gradients from a provided series of electrical impedance measurements to generate a series of electrical impedance gradients; and determining a battery state of the electrochemical battery using computational means configured to receive as inputs at least the series of electrical impedance gradients, the computational means receiving and processing at least the provided series of calculated electrical impedance gradients to generate therefrom at least one output signal representing a battery state associated with the electrochemical battery.
US11385288B2
A method tests at least three devices, each device including a test chain having a plurality of positions storing test data. The testing includes comparing test data in a last position of the test chain of each of the devices, and shifting test data in the test chains of each of the devices and storing a result of the comparison in a first position of the test chains of each of the devices. The comparing and the shifting and storing are repeated until all the stored test data has been compared. The at least three devices may have a same functionality and a same structure.
US11385279B2
A chip test device and a chip test method are provided. The chip test device may include a chip socket and an interface card comprising a signal synthesizer, a plurality of first interfaces and a second interface. The signal synthesizer may be configured to synthesize a plurality of low-frequency first signals output from a plurality of testers into a high-frequency second signal and transmit the second signal to the chip socket. The plurality of first interfaces may be arranged in a plurality of inputs of the signal synthesizer for connecting the testers, and the second interface may be arranged in an output of the signal synthesizer for connecting the chip socket. By synthesizing the low-frequency first signals into the high-frequency second signal, a high-frequency test may be conducted using a plurality of low-frequency testers.
US11385272B2
A test and measurement device measures an insertion loss of a material under test. The test and measurement device includes a reference device in contact with a first surface of a material under test, the reference device including a reflective component and an absorbing component. A testing device is in contact with a second surface of the material under test, opposite the first surface. The testing device includes a first transmitter to output a first signal at a predetermined frequency to the reflective component of the reference device through the material under test, a first receiver to receive a first reflected signal from the reflective component, a second transmitter output a second signal at the predetermined frequency to the absorbing component of the reference device through the material under test, and a second receiver to receive a second reflected signal from the material under test.
US11385268B2
Bypass detection modules associated with a device are provided. The bypass detection module is configured to determine if one of more switches have been opened to remove service from a customer; monitor electrical characteristic associated with both a line side of the device and a load side of the device responsive to determining that one of more of the one or more switches have been opened to remove service from the customer; and determine a state of the device based on the monitored electrical characteristics.
US11385263B2
A capacitive network for use in a voltage sensor includes a first conductor shaped to form a boundary that separates a first interior space and a first exterior space; a second conductor shaped to form a boundary that encircles a second interior space and separates the second interior space from a second exterior space; a third conductor disposed in the second interior space and having a line of sight to the first conductor through an opening in the second conductor; and an external insulator formed around the first conductor and the second conductor in the first exterior space and the second exterior space. A first capacitance is formed between the first conductor and the third conductor, a second capacitance is formed between the second conductor and the third conductor, and conductive material that may collect on the external insulator has negligible effect on the first capacitance and the second capacitance.
US11385261B2
A power supply in a test and measurement device includes a stimulus having an output coupled to an amplifier in which an output signal from the stimulus controls an output level of the amplifier. The stimulus may include a Digital to Analog Converter. A measurement circuit detects the output level of the amplifier. The power supply includes an overpulse generator that can be structured to accept a desired amplifier output level, overdrive the stimulus at a first level for a first time period, and drive the stimulus at a second level for a second time period. The measurement circuit determines when the overpulse generator switches from driving the stimulus at the first level to driving the stimulus at the second level. The time period for driving the stimulus at the second level starts as the actual amplifier output level approaches the desired amplifier output level.
US11385258B2
A method for acquiring a signal from an encapsulated test point on a device under test, includes forming a hole in an encapsulant adjacent to the test point, the hole extending through the encapsulant to the test point, delivering a UV-curable conductive adhesive into the hole such that the delivered adhesive contacts the test point, applying UV light from a UV light source to cure the delivered adhesive, and connecting a conductive element between the cured adhesive and a test and measurement instrument.
US11385255B2
An inertial sensor includes a substrate and a structure disposed on the substrate. The structure includes a detection movable body which overlaps the substrate in a direction along a Z-axis and includes a movable detection electrode, a detection spring that supports the detection movable body, a drive portion that drives the detection movable body in a direction along an X-axis with respect to the substrate, a fixed detection electrode fixed to the substrate and facing the movable detection electrode, a first compensation electrode for applying an electrostatic attraction force having a first direction component different from the direction along the X-axis to the detection movable body, and a second compensation electrode for applying an electrostatic attraction force having a second direction component opposite to the first direction component to the detection movable body. One of the first compensation electrode and the second compensation electrode includes an adjustment portion that adjusts magnitude of the electrostatic attraction force.
US11385253B2
Systems, methods, and devices are provided for aligning a reference axis of an accelerometer with a measurement axis of a machinery component. An adaptor including a mounting plate, a plate stud integrated within the mounting plate, and a screw can be coupled to an accelerometer to ensure proper alignment of the reference axis of the accelerometer with the measurement axis of the machinery component. Aligning the reference axis and the measurement axis using the adaptor ensures that the axial orientation of the vibration data collected by the accelerometer properly corresponds to the intended axis of measurement of the machinery component and thus allows for consistent, repeatable installations of the accelerometer onto the machinery component without introducing alignment errors which can generate erroneous vibration data with respect to one or more axes of measurement.
US11385249B2
An improved system and method for the selection and dispensing of reagents onto a target testing medium in an automated laboratory environment. The system utilizes multiple carousels rotatably-mounted upon a central turntable. The position of the central turntable, as well as the rotation of each carousel is controlled by a microprocessor-based control system. Multiple dispensers, each capable of storing and dispensing a particular reagent, are mounted about the circumference of each carousel. This configuration provides much higher reagent density than previously available. The testing medium is positioned at one or more loading stations. The control system directs the central turntable to a position from which a selected one of the carousels can be rotated so as to position a selected dispenser above the testing medium. The selected dispenser is then actuated to release a predetermined reagent onto the testing medium. The system can be configured so that multiple reagents can be dispensed, each from an associated dispenser, onto a single or multiple testing mediums. Each of these actuated dispensers being positioned over the targeted testing medium(s) positioned at one or more loading stations.
US11385244B2
A method of measuring stable A1c in a blood sample based on a time distribution of an optical measured value of hemoglobin at a flow path which separates hemoglobin in the blood sample on a basis of amounts of the charges of hemoglobin is provided. The method may include a step of obtaining a correction factor, based on a peak area (A) of a fraction including HbA0 and either a peak area (G) of a first fraction including chemically-modified HbA0, or a peak area (D) of a second fraction including a component having a smaller amount of positive charge than HbA0 adjacent to a fraction identified as HbA0, in the time distribution; and a step of correcting, based on the correction factor a peak area of a fraction including stable A1c in the time distribution.
US11385243B2
A stool resuspension solution comprising a hemoglobin stabilization reagent is provided. In some embodiments, the hemoglobin stabilization reagent may be an osmolyte, a polyvalent cation, a sugar or polysaccharide and, optionally, a polyvalent cation, a protoporphyrin, or an HRP stabilization component and, optionally, a polyvalent cation. A method of stabilizing hemoglobin in a stool sample in the solution is also provided, as well as a sample collection device containing the solution.
US11385242B2
Provided is a composition including a combination of at least one short peptide and at least one peptide dimer, in defined ratio, to which autoantibodies found in elevated levels in schizophrenic patients bind.
US11385234B2
The present invention relates to methods and systems for detecting one or more analytes in a sample and/or for classifying a sample. In particular, the present invention relates to methods and systems which can be used to detect the analytes in real time and which rely on flowing through a microfluidic device one or more types of sensor molecule each comprising a domain that binds one or more analytes, a chemiluminescent donor domain and an acceptor domain, wherein the separation and relative orientation of the chemiluminescent donor domain and the acceptor domain, in the presence and/or the absence of analyte, is within ±50% of the Forster distance.
US11385232B2
Methods and kits for detecting hepatocellular carcinoma recurrence or metastasis, and of measuring markers of hepatocellular carcinoma, including markers of hepatocellular carcinoma recurrence or metastasis, in a blood sample obtained from a subject by (a) isolating circulating tumor cells (CTCs) by contacting a blood sample obtained from the subject with a set of capture antibodies, wherein the capture antibodies specifically bind asialoglycoprotein receptor (ASGPR), Glypican-3, and epithelial cell adhesion molecule (EpCAM); (b) contacting the isolated CTCs with an antibody that specifically binds vimentin; and (c) measuring the number of vimentin-positive CTC.
US11385231B2
The present invention relates to methods for predicting the survival time of patients suffering from a lung cancer. In particular, the present invention relates to a method for predicting the survival time of a subject suffering from a lung cancer comprising the steps of i) quantifying the density of regulatory T (Treg) cells in a tumor tissue sample obtained from the subject, ii) quantifying the density of one further population of immune cells selected from the group consisting of TLS-mature DC or TLS-B cells or Tconv cells, CD8+ T cells or CD8+ Granzyme-B+ T cells in said tumor tissue sample, iii) comparing the densities quantified at steps i) and ii) with their corresponding predetermined reference values and iv) concluding that the subject will have a short survival time when the density of Treg cells is higher than its corresponding predetermined reference value and the density of the further population of immune cells is lower than its corresponding predetermined reference value or concluding that the subject will have a long survival time when the density of Treg cells is lower than its corresponding predetermined reference value and the density of the further population of immune cells is higher than its corresponding predetermined reference value.
US11385224B2
Systems and methods for use in an in vitro diagnostics setting incorporating magnetic shielding to reduce exposure of any of samples, reactants, devices or people from exposure or prolonged exposure to magnetic or electromagnetic fields generated with the system. Some embodiments provide an automation system for use in an in vitro diagnostics setting comprising an automation track having a sidewall provided with magnetic shielding. In some embodiments, the magnetic shielding comprises an 80% nickel alloy.
US11385222B2
In one embodiment, a fluorescence histo-tomography (FHT) system is disclosed. The FHT system includes an imaging housing, a fluorescence camera located within the housing, a white light camera located within the imaging housing, and a fluorescence light source located within the imaging housing. The FHT system further includes a support mount configured to support the imaging housing within a chamber of a slicing apparatus such that the cameras and fluorescence light source are aimed towards a block face of a tissue specimen retained within the chamber.
US11385214B2
An elemental analysis of rock samples from outcrop sections or wells is performed. Data quality checks, data analysis, and filtering are performed on the rock samples, including de-spiking of elemental profiles and elemental ratios. First and second derivatives for the elemental profiles and the elemental ratios are calculated. Samples and depths that exceed thresholds are determined. The process is repeated for the elemental profiles and the elemental ratios that are related with boundary determination and carbonate or siliciclastic sediments. Additional filters are applied to at least a subset of the elemental profiles and elemental ratios that are related with boundary determination and carbonate or siliciclastic sediments to enhance the boundary identification. Possible boundaries in depths of the outcrop sections or wells are determined by summarizing the additionally filtered elemental profiles and the additionally filtered elemental ratios.
US11385211B2
To provide a detector capable of reliably inducing a gas containing a detection target to a detection space. A detector which is attached to an installation surface of an installation target and has an attachment surface facing the installation surface includes a detection space into which a detection target flows; a light-emitting portion and a light-receiving portion which detect the detection target flowing into the detection space; a casing which accommodates the light-emitting portion, the light-receiving portion and the detection space; and a rib, an inclined surface, a light shielding portion, a casing side inflow opening, a substrate side outflow opening, a casing side outflow opening, a back plate, and the like which induce gas outside the casing, which is gas containing the detection target, to flow into the detection space inside the casing from an opposite side of the attachment surface of the casing and to flow out from the side of the attachment surface of the casing in a direction substantially orthogonal to the attachment surface.
US11385205B2
An inspection system comprises a sensor array and a fluid chamber. The fluid chamber is configured to provide a fluid coupling environment between the sensor array and a structure. The fluid chamber comprises a bellows having a first side and a second side opposite the first side, wherein the first side is a flexible lip.
US11385203B2
According to one embodiment, a detection system includes a plurality of sensors, a locator, a first counter, and a determiner. The plurality of sensors that detect an elastic wave, the sensors being disposed separately from each other in a direction in which the welded portion extends and each being installed on the first member or the second member. The locator that locates a generation source position of the elastic wave on the basis of outputs of the plurality of sensors. The first counter that accumulates information of generation source positions of a plurality of elastic waves located by the locator to calculate a distribution of generation source positions of the plurality of elastic waves over a predetermined time. The determiner that determines the position of the crack on the basis of the distribution calculated by the first counter.
US11385202B2
A mass spectrometer is disclosed comprising an ion mobility spectrometer or separator and an ion guide arranged downstream of the ion mobility spectrometer or separator. A plurality of axial potential wells are created in the ion guide so that ions received from the ion mobility spectrometer or separator become confined in separate axial potential wells. The potential wells maintain the fidelity and/or composition of ions received from the ion mobility spectrometer or separator. The potential wells are translated along the length of the ion guide.
US11385199B2
A sensor element includes: an element base including: a ceramic body made of an oxygen-ion conductive solid electrolyte, and having a gas inlet at one end portion thereof; at least one internal chamber located inside the ceramic body, and communicating with the gas inlet under predetermined diffusion resistance; an electrochemical pump cell including an electrode located on an outer surface of the ceramic body, an electrode facing the internal chamber, and a solid electrolyte located therebetween; and a heater buried in the ceramic body, and a leading-end protective layer being porous, and covering a leading end surface and four side surfaces in a predetermined range of the element base on the one end portion. The leading-end protective layer has an extension extending into a widened portion included in the gas inlet, and fixed to an inner wall surface of the widened portion.
US11385194B2
A fluid property detecting device includes a detection portion configured to detect electric characteristics of a detection target fluid, a calculation portion configured to calculate a property value of the detection target fluid, and a storage portion configured to store the property value calculated by the calculation portion. The storage portion stores, in advance, as the reference detection value, the detection value of the electric characteristic of a reference fluid detected by the detection portion, and the calculation portion calculates the property value of the detection target fluid on the basis of a value obtained by subtracting the reference detection value from a detection value of the detection target fluid.
US11385183B2
Cu(II) detection in the presence of main group heavy metal ions and d-, f- and g-element interferents relies on a colorimetric chelating complex between 3-hydroxy-5-nitrobenzaldehyde-4-hydroxybenzoylhydrazone (3-HNHBH) and Cu(II). Derivatives and entrapped forms of the probe were aligned with the methods of analysis, featuring spectrophotometric, reflectometric, lateral flow, microfluidic, lab-on-paper, positional array, dynamic array, flow cytometry and tandem stage devices. A remotely operating software capable of DFT calculations predicted the observed detection limit of 0.34 μg L−1 (<5 nM) as well as high selectivity towards copper ions in the presence of competing Zn+2 and Ni+2. The probe was readily regenerated against metal complexation by using a 0.5 M HCl solution, indicating its feasibility to be a re-usable sensor for the convenient detection of copper ions in water-organic media. The influence of metal interference, pH and solvents on the selectivity and regeneration of the ligand was incorporated in an algorithm providing decision support to the analyst via smartphone, laptop and other multimedia.
US11385171B2
The present application discloses methods for detecting and quantifying tetrakis(hydroxymethyl) phosphonium sulfate (THPS) in a water sample. In the methods, a water sample is mixed with a KMnO4 solution to form a mixture. An intensity of KMnO4 absorption in the mixture is then measured at a wavelength of 525 nm. The measured intensity is normalized by subtracting a background intensity at a wavelength of 650 nm. The presence and concentration of THPS in the water sample can then be determined by comparing the normalized intensity with intensity values of KMnO4 absorption of calibration samples comprising KMnO4 and known THPS concentrations.
US11385167B2
An ellipsometer includes a focusing system that uses an image of the measurement spot to determine a best focal position for the ellipsometer. The focus signal is produced by splitting off the ellipsometer measurement spot before the signal is analyzed by a polarizer thereby avoiding imagining the spot with a modulated intensity. The focus signal is imaged on a sensor array and based on the position of the spot on the sensor array, the focal position of the ellipsometer may be determined. A single image may be used to determine the focal position of the ellipsometer permitting a real time focus position measurement.
US11385158B2
The invention is a method for estimating a representative volume of particles of interest (10 i) immersed in a sample, the sample extending in at least one plane, referred to as the sample plane (P 10), the sample comprising a sphering agent, capable of modifying the shape of the particles, the method comprising the following steps: a) illuminating the sample by means of a light source (11), the light source emitting an incident light wave (12) propagating towards the sample (10) along a propagation axis (Z); b) acquiring, by means of an image sensor (16), an image (I 0) of the sample (10), formed in a detection plane (P 0), the sample being arranged between the light source (11) and the image sensor (16), each image being representative of a light wave (14) referred to as an exposure light wave, to which the image sensor (16) is exposed under the effect of illumination; c) using the image of the sample (I 0), acquired during step b), and a holographic propagation operator, to calculate a complex expression (A (x, y, z)) of the exposure light wave (14) in different positions relative to the detection plane; the method comprising a step of estimating the representative volume (AA) of the particles of interest (10 i) depending on the complex expressions calculated during step c).
US11385157B2
Systems and methods for holographic characterization of protein aggregates. Size and refractive index of individual aggregates in a solution can be determined. Information regarding morphology and porosity can be extracted from holographic data.
US11385150B2
A double-layer concentric loading frame structure suitable for a true triaxial testing machine includes an inner-layer frame, an outer-layer frame and a base. A square slot hole is formed in a middle part of the inner-layer frame. The inner-layer frame is mounted on the base through a support platform. Actuators are mounted at a top end and a bottom end of the inner-layer frame. The outer-layer frame sleeves the inner-layer frame concentrically. Four actuators are distributed on an outer periphery of the outer-layer frame. A support plate is mounted at the top end of the inner-layer frame, and two lifting driving cylinders are mounted on the support plate. Piston rods of the lifting driving cylinders extend below the support plate and are connected to an upper surface of the outer-layer frame. A guide post is mounted on the upper surface of the outer-layer frame and extends above the support plate.
US11385148B2
An infectious disease screening system (1) for screening for infectious diseases, such as COVID-19 disease. The system comprises an ultrasonic transducer (49) for generating ultrasonic waves to lyse cells in a biological sample. The system (1) comprises a controller which controls the ultrasonic transducer (49) to oscillate at an optimum frequency for cell lysis, a PCR apparatus (16) which receives and amplifies the DNA from the sample; and a detection apparatus (70) which detects the presence of an infectious disease in the amplified DNA and provides an output which is indicative of whether or not the detection arrangement (70) detects the presence of an infectious disease in the amplified DNA.
US11385147B2
A method and filtering system are described. The filtering system comprises a vacuuming plate having a base with a plurality of outlet openings extending therethrough, a plurality of walls extending from the base to define a cavity, and a vacuum port in fluid communication with the cavity; and a filtering unit mounted to the vacuuming plate and enclosing the cavity. The filtering unit comprises a filter plate with a plurality of filter openings extending therethrough and aligned with the outlet openings; a filtering membrane extending across the filter plate and covering the plurality of filter openings; and a piercing plate on the filter plate maintaining the filtering membrane therebetween, the piercing plate having a plurality of vessel piercing members extending away from the filtering membrane, the vessel piercing members having conduits extending through the piercing plate, the conduits aligned with the filter openings to allow fluid flow therebetween.
US11385144B2
The present disclosure relates to an immunoassay method for performing immunoassay by using a patch that contains antibodies. An immunoassay method according to an aspect of the present disclosure performs diagnosis by detecting a target protein from a sample to be diagnosed by using a patch which includes a mesh structural body forming micro-cavities and is configured to contain a liquid substance in the micro-cavities, and includes placing the sample to be diagnosed in a reaction region, and providing an antibodies that react specifically with a target protein to the reaction region by using a patch that contains the antibodies.
