US11386734B2
An information processing device detects that an information terminal carried by a user has approached a shop, detects that a user has taken a purchase action in a shop, accumulates history information relating to a visit to a shop and the purchase action of a user, and transmits recommendation information relating to a second shop to an information terminal of a user who is detected to have approached a first shop when visit history information to the first shop is detected and purchase action history information in the first shop is not detected, and both visit history information and purchase action history information in the second shop is detected from history information of one user. The visit history information and the purchase action history information in the second shop have been accumulated after the history information relating to the first shop has been accumulated.
US11386733B2
Disclosed herein are an access control system and an access control method using the same. The access control method in which a door operating device determines whether to open a door on the basis of an authentication token acquired from a user terminal without intervention of an authentication server includes obtaining the authentication token from the user terminal; determining whether the user have authorization for accessing the door based on a authentication information included in the authentication token; controlling the door to be opened in case of determined that the user have authorization for accessing the door.
US11386726B2
A computer includes a processor and a memory, the memory storing instructions executable by the processor to predict damage to one or more components of a host vehicle and predict a hazard for a user of the host vehicle based on the predicted damage of at least one of the components disposed at the collision location. The computer predicts the damage based on an energy transfer between a target vehicle and the host vehicle. The energy transfer is based on a speed of a target vehicle, a mass of the target vehicle, a predicted contact area of a collision location of the host vehicle where the target vehicle is predicted to collide, and a deformation strength of material at the collision location.
US11386721B2
A system for analysis of operation of a hand-guided working apparatus, wherein the working apparatus includes a working tool and a drive system for driving the working tool, includes an optical recording device configured for recording a temporal succession of images of a working procedure on a workpiece using the working tool, an identification device configured for identifying a temporal succession of operational data values of the drive system during recording of the temporal succession of images, and at least one output device configured for outputting in each case at least one of the recorded images together with at least one identified operational data value correlated in time thereto.
US11386716B2
The invention relates to a method of biometric recognition by means of an artificial intelligence unit (5) that has access to a memory (3) containing at least one reference image of a body portion of a user and that is arranged to compare it with at least one image that has been captured of the same body portion of a candidate for recognition, the method comprising the step of submitting training images to the artificial intelligence unit, the training images presenting body portions similar to those of the reference image, the artificial intelligence unit being taught to reject them, and the method comprising the additional step of submitting at least one anti-drift image to the artificial intelligence unit, the artificial intelligence unit being taught to accept it. The invention also relates to an associated installation.
US11386707B2
Examples described herein generally relate to processing a first image captured by the first camera at a first time to determine a first set of multiple key points of a face, processing a second image captured by the second camera at a second time to determine a second set of the multiple key points on the face in the second image, determining a location of at least a portion of the multiple key points in a three-dimensional space based on a first location of each of the portion of the multiple key points in the first image and a second location of each of the portion of the multiple key points in the second image, and detecting whether the face is a valid three-dimensional face for facial recognition based at least in part on the location of at least the portion of the multiple key points in the three-dimensional space.
US11386706B1
A method for adding biometric authentication training data into databases performed by a biometric authentication data classification device includes: extracting first biometric characteristic information from at least one candidate biometric training data for biometric authentication using an artificial neural network model; calculating an overall similarity between the first biometric characteristic information and second biometric characteristic information extracted from a performance test database of which a biometric authentication performance is lower than a threshold level, the performance test database being selected among performance test databases for the biometric authentication; and adding the at least one candidate biometric training data into one of the biometric authentication training database and the performance test database based on the calculated overall similarity.
US11386702B2
A recognition apparatus for extracting first features of an object from a region of the object; obtaining second features of the object at least based on confidence information for first attribute of the object; determining sample information from pre-determined sample information based on the obtained second features; and recognizing the first attribute of the object based on the determined sample information.
US11386699B2
An image processing method, an apparatus, a storage medium, and an electronic device are provided. The image processing method comprises: identifying a human face area in a target image (101); determining a local area to be processed from the human face area on the basis of a trained convolutional neural network model (102); obtaining posture information of a human face in the target image (103); selecting a target sample human face image from a human face image data base according to the posture information (104); and correcting the local area according to the target sample human face image (105).
US11386698B2
A method for sending an alarm message, and belongs to the field of computer technology. The method includes: acquiring a detection image (201) captured by an image capturing apparatus; determining a target detection area (202); and detecting a person's call status information corresponding to an image in the target detection area according to a preset on-the-phone determination algorithm model, and sending a first alarm message (203) to a server if the person's call status information shows that the person is on the phone.
US11386694B2
The present disclosure discloses a color film substrate, a display panel and a display device. The color film substrate includes a substrate; a light shielding layer on the substrate, wherein the light shielding layer is provided with a plurality of pixel openings and is configured to block visible light and transmit infrared light so as to be multiplexed as a black matrix, and infrared light transmittance of the light shielding layer is greater than infrared light transmittance of the black matrix; and a color resist layer on a side, away from the substrate, of the light shielding layer, wherein the color resist layer includes a plurality of color resists, and each of the color resists respectively corresponds to one of the pixel openings and extends from the corresponding pixel opening to a surface, away from the substrate, of the light shielding layer.
US11386693B2
The display device comprises: a display panel displaying an image, a light blocking layer disposed under the display panel and comprising a plurality of holes, a fingerprint sensing layer disposed under the light blocking layer and comprising a plurality of fingerprint sensors receiving reflected light passing through the plurality of hole and generating a sensing signal, and a sensor driver controlling operations of the plurality of fingerprint sensors. The sensor driver compares fingerprint data generated based on a sensing signal generated from reflected light by a user's fingerprint with prestored reference data to generate a fingerprint image.
US11386682B2
An image processing system and an image processing method for localising recognised characters in an image. An estimation unit is configured to estimate a first location of a recognised character that has been obtained by performing character recognition of the image. A determination unit is configured to determine second locations of a plurality of connected components in the image. A comparison unit is configured to compare the first location and the second locations, to identify a connected component associated with the recognised character. An association unit is configured to associate the recognised character, the identified connected component, and the second location of the identified connected component.
US11386674B2
A class labeling system for autonomous driving includes a detection module, a segmentation module, and a lane road boundary detection module. The detection module is configured to detect objects for autonomous driving from an image captured by a camera to generate a bounding box for each of the objects and detect property information about the object. The segmentation module is configured to determine classes for each pixel of the bounding box detected by the detection module and process at least one of the classes as don't care. The lane road boundary detection module is configured to detect at least one of lane and road boundaries using the bounding box detected by the detection module.
US11386668B2
Disclosed herein is a method for facilitating licensing of a vehicle. Accordingly, the method may include receiving, using a communication device, vehicle information associated with the vehicle from a device. Further, the method may include analyzing, using a processing device, the vehicle information. Further, the method may include determining, using the processing device, identifiers associated with the vehicle based on the analyzing. Further, the method may include generating, using the processing device, symbols corresponding to the identifiers based on the determining. Further, the method may include generating, using the processing device, a license plate image for a license plate of the vehicle based on the generating of the symbols. Further, the method may include transmitting, using the communication device, the license plate image associated with the vehicle to the device. Further, the method may include storing, using a storage device, the license plate image and the vehicle information.
US11386662B2
The disclosure herein enables tracking of multiple objects in a real-time video stream. For each individual frame received from the video stream, a frame type of the frame is determined. Based on the individual frame being an object detection frame type, a set of object proposals is detected in the individual frame, associations between the set of object proposals and a set of object tracks are assigned, and statuses of the set of object tracks are updated based on the assigned associations. Based on the individual frame being an object tracking frame type, single-object tracking is performed on the frame based on each object track of the set of object tracks and the set of object tracks is updated based on the performed single-object tracking. For each frame received, a real-time object location data stream is provided based on the set of object tracks.
US11386654B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, obtaining a first request for a first virtual object, obtaining first data regarding the first virtual object responsive to the obtaining of the first request, analyzing the first data to identify a first plurality of characteristics for the first virtual object, wherein the first plurality of characteristics include a first visual aspect of the first virtual object, a first auditory aspect of the first virtual object, a first scent aspect of the first virtual object, and a first haptic aspect of the first virtual object, and responsive to the analyzing of the first data, enabling at least a first sensory unit of a plurality of sensory units to render the first virtual object in accordance with the first plurality of characteristics. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US11386633B2
Systems and techniques are provided for facial image augmentation. An example method can include obtaining a first image capturing a face. Using the first image, the method can determine, using a prediction model, a UV face position map including a two-dimensional (2D) representation of a three-dimensional (3D) structure of the face. The method can generate, based on the UV face position map, a 3D model of the face. The method can generate an extended 3D model of the face by extending the 3D model to include region(s) beyond a boundary of the 3D model. The region(s) can include a forehead region, a region surrounding at least a portion of the face, and/or other region. The method can generate, based on the extended 3D model, a second image depicting the face in a rotated position relative to a position of the face in the first image.
US11386631B2
An apparatus includes a display, interface, and processor. The interface receives a camera feed from a camera directed at a first physical rack located in a physical store. The processor displays virtual racks assigned to physical racks. The processor receives an indication of an event associated with the first physical rack and accordingly displays a first virtual rack, which includes first and second virtual shelves. The first and second virtual shelves include virtual items that emulate physical items located on physical shelves of the first physical rack. The processor additionally displays a recording of the camera feed, which depicts the event associated with the first physical rack.
US11386625B2
Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system and a method for performing operations comprising: capturing, by a client device implementing a messaging application, an image; receiving, from a server, an identification of an augmented reality experience associated with the image, the server identifying the augmented reality experience by assigning visual words to features of the image and searching a visual search database to identify a plurality of marker images, and the server retrieving the augmented reality experience associated with a given one of the plurality of marker images; automatically, in response to capturing the image, displaying one or more graphical elements of the identified augmented reality experience; and receiving input from the user interacting with the one or more graphical elements.
US11386619B2
A three-dimensional (3D) object transmission method and apparatus is disclosed, where the 3D object transmission method includes determining a transmission mesh level for each region of a mesh corresponding to a 3D object that is segmented into regions, identifying boundary regions and non-boundary regions from among the regions, transmitting a vertex based on a transmission mesh level of a corresponding non-boundary region for each of the non-boundary regions, and transmitting a number of vertices in a preset order based on a first transmission mesh level of at least one neighboring region forming a boundary with a corresponding boundary region for each of the boundary regions.
US11386616B2
A spatial indexing system receives a sequence of images depicting an environment, such as a floor of a construction site, and performs a spatial indexing process to automatically identify the spatial locations at which each of the images were captured. The spatial indexing system also generates an immersive model of the environment and provides a visualization interface that allows a user to view each of the images at its corresponding location within the model.
US11386610B1
Disclosed is a system and method for rendering point clouds via a hybrid data point and construct visualization. The system receives a point cloud of a three-dimensional (“3D”) environment, and differentiates a first set of the point cloud data points from a second set of the data points based on a position of each data point relative to a specified render position. The system generates a first visualization from values of each of the first set of data points, and a second visualization from values of a set of constructs that replace the second set of data points. Each construct has a polygonal shape and a singular set of values defined from the values of two or more of the second set of data points. The system presents a final render of the 3D environment from the render position by combining the first visualization with the second visualization.
US11386605B2
An animation system is provided for generating an animation control rig configured to manipulate a skeleton of an animated object. A partition separation process enables software changes to be inserted into uncompiled computer code associated with the animation control rig. Analysis of the uncompiled computer code is implemented relative to a performance metric. Based on the analysis in view of the performance matric, one or more partitions are determined in the uncompiled computer code to partition the code into separate code blocks. The uncompiled code is separated at the partition and updated with the software change. The updated code is compiled to generate the animation control rig.
US11386600B2
Provided are a system and method for displaying a virtual image through a head mounted display (HMD) device. A method by which a device displays a virtual image through an HMD device includes: receiving, from the HMD device, an object image of a real space captured through a camera included in the HMD device; determining a virtual image to be displayed at a particular position around the captured object; determining an operation of the virtual image corresponding to the object and the particular position; and providing the virtual image and operation information about the determined operation to the HMD device, wherein the provided virtual image is displayed through the HMD device.
US11386596B2
A text-on-path graphic is automatically created from entered text and a drawn shape having a complex path. Shape boundary curves are identified from the shape. A set of overlapping boundary curves is determined from the shape boundary curves. The set of overlapping boundary curves is combined into a combined curve. The combined curve and the shape boundary curves outside the set are assigned to segments of the complex path. A cost for each ordered path through the segments is determined, where the cost of each ordered path is based on a distance to a next segment and a length of the next segment. The text-on-path graphic is then created from the text and the ordered path having the lowest cost.
US11386595B2
The present invention discloses a method for reconstructing incomplete data of X-ray absorption contrast computed tomography (CT) based on deep learning (DL). The method includes the following steps: using a filtered back projection (FBP) algorithm to obtain an initial reconstructed image; forward projecting the initial reconstructed image to obtain artifact-contaminated complete projection sequences; using a DL technique to process the artifact-contaminated projection sequences to obtain artifact-free projection sequences; using the FBP algorithm to reconstruct the artifact-free projection sequences to obtain a final reconstructed image. Compared with the traditional incomplete data reconstruction methods, the examples of the present invention feature a simpler calculation process, fewer parameters to be manually set, a faster calculation speed and higher image quality.
US11386594B2
A method for observing a sample, the sample lying in a sample plane defining radial positions, parameters of the sample being defined at each radial position, the method comprising: a) illuminating the sample using a light source, emitting an incident light wave that propagates toward the sample; b) acquiring, using an image sensor, an image of the sample, said image being formed in a detection plane, the sample being placed between the light source and the image sensor; c) processing the image acquired by the image sensor, so as to obtain an image of the sample, the image of the sample corresponding to a distribution of at least one parameter of the sample describing the sample in the sample plane; wherein the processing of the acquired image comprises implementing an iterative method, followed by applying a supervised machine learning algorithm, so as to obtain an initialization image intended to initialize the iterative method.
US11386591B2
Reconstruction method for motion compensated high quality 4D-CBCT image based on bilateral filtering
The present disclosure provides a reconstruction method for motion compensated high quality four-dimensional (4D)-Cone Beam Computed Tomography (CBCT) image based on bilateral filtering, including the following steps: step 1, building a motion compensated three-dimensional (3D)-CBCT reconstruction model based on a simultaneous algebraic reconstruction technique (SART) to reconstruct a high quality CBCT image of a reference phase (phase 0%); step 2, creating an iterative optimization procedure and estimating a 4D Deformable Vector Field (DVF) model between phase 0% and other 4D phase images, thereby obtaining an exact 4D-DVF inclusive of an inverse sliding motion on a surface of a locomotive organ; and step 3, successively deforming the high quality phase 0% image in accordance with an optimized 4D-DVF to obtain a sequence of final high quality 4D-CBCT images. This method permits exact reconstruction of high quality 4D-CBCT images without changing the hardware structure of an existing linear accelerator for conventional radiotherapy.
US11386582B1
A process for reducing time of transmission for single-band, multiple-band or hyperspectral imagery using Machine Learning based compression is disclosed. The process uses Machine Learning to compress single-band, multiple-band and hyperspectral imagery, thereby decreasing the needed bandwidth and storage-capacity requirements for efficient transmission and data storage. The reduced file size for transmission accelerate the communications and reduces the transmission time. This enhances communications systems where there is a greater need for on or near real-time transmission, such as mission critical applications in national security, aerospace and natural resources.
US11386581B2
A system for registering one or more cameras and/or creating an accurate three-dimensional (3D) model of a world space environment including back projecting at least one image from at least one of a plurality of camera views to the 3D model based on a set of existing camera parameters. The back projected image is added as a texture for the 3D model. This texture is automatically compared to one or more images from other camera views using a color space comparison of images to determine a set of differences or errors. The camera parameters and the 3D model are automatically adjusted to minimized the differences or errors. Over time, the parameters and the 3D model converge on a state that can be used to track moving objects, insert virtual graphics and/or perform other functions.
US11386572B2
A calibration platform may obtain measurements for aligning a real-world coordinate system and a display coordinate system. For example, the calibration platform may display, via an optical see-through head-mounted display (OST-HMD), a three-dimensional virtual object and receive, from a positional tracking device, information that relates to a current pose of a three-dimensional real-world object to be aligned with the three-dimensional virtual object. The calibration platform may record a three-dimensional position of a plurality of points on the three-dimensional real-world object based on the current pose of the three-dimensional real-world object, based on an indication that the plurality of points on the three-dimensional real-world object respectively corresponds with a plurality of points on the three-dimensional virtual object. Accordingly, based on the obtained measurements, the calibration platform may generate a transformation function to provide a mapping between three-dimensional points in the real-world coordinate system and three-dimensional points in the display coordinate system.
US11386571B2
Methods and image processing systems are provided for determining a dominant gradient orientation for a target region within an image. A plurality of gradient samples are determined for the target region, wherein each of the gradient samples represents a variation in pixel values within the target region. The gradient samples are converted into double-angle gradient vectors, and the double-angle gradient vectors are combined so as to determine a dominant gradient orientation for the target region.
US11386570B2
According to one embodiment, a measurement method includes: acquiring a first picture including a background image and a substance, the substance allowing transmission of light from the background image; acquiring a second picture including the background image and the substance in a different positional relation with respect to the first picture; and calculating a first displacement amount representing a difference in position of the background image between the first picture and the second picture.
US11386568B2
A method for determining a quality of a surface in the surroundings of a transportation vehicle, wherein three-dimensional surface coordinates of the surface are generated using a sensor assembly. In the method, an approximation of the course of the curvature of the surface in at least one direction is obtained based on the surface coordinates and the surface coordinates are classified to characterize the quality of the surface using the course of the curvature and/or vertical distances of the approximation of the course of the curvature from the three-dimensional surface coordinates. A device for carrying out the method.
US11386563B2
Anatomical and functional assessment of coronary artery disease (CAD) using machine learning and computational modeling techniques deploying methodologies for non-invasive Fractional Flow Reserve (FFR) quantification based on angiographically derived anatomy and hemodynamics data, relying on machine learning algorithms for image segmentation and flow assessment, and relying on accurate physics-based computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulation for computation of the FFR.
US11386559B2
A system for determining the viability of an embryo comprises an imaging device, an excitation device configured to direct an excitation energy at an embryo, a controller communicatively connected to the imaging device and the excitation device, configured to drive the excitation device and collect images from the imaging device at an imaging frequency, a processor performing steps comprising acquiring a set of images from the imaging device, performing a Fourier Transformation to generate a set of phasor coordinates, computing a D-trajectory, computing a set of values of additional parameters, comparing the set of values to a set of stored values related to embryos of known viability, and calculating a viability index factor of the embryo from the set of values and the set of stored values. Methods of calculating embryo viability and determining one or more properties of a tissue are also described.
US11386546B2
A system for creating a learned model for component image recognition, the learned model being used when performing image recognition of a component that is picked up by a suction nozzle of a component mounter or a component that is mounted on a circuit board, serving as an imaging target, by imaging the imaging target with a camera, and the system includes a computer configured to acquire a reference-learned model to be used for image recognition of a reference component. The computer collects sample component images for each type of a component having a predetermined similarity with the reference component, and creates a component-by-component learned model to be used for image recognition of the component for each type of the component by adding the sample component image for each type of the component, as teacher data of the reference-learned model, and re-learning the added sample component image.
US11386544B2
An electronics system may include a substrate, an electronic device bonded to the substrate, a plurality of photoluminescent particles disposed on the electronic device, an illuminator, a sensor, and a control module. The illuminator can illuminate the electronic device. The sensor can capture a first set of positions of the photoluminescent particles on the electronic device when the electronic device is not operating under a load and a second set of positions of the photoluminescent particles when the electronic device is operating under a load. The control module can determine thermomechanical stress on the electronic device based at least in part on a difference between the first set of positions and the second set of positions.
US11386536B2
The present invention provides an image analysis device which is capable of automatically responding to various environmental variations caused by a camera installation condition or an environmental factor without consuming unnecessary calculation resources. The image analysis device is provided with: a plurality of process execution units which are capable of executing different processes on an input image; an analysis unit which analyzes, on the basis of the image, an image variation caused by external environment; and a process selection unit which selects, on the basis of the analyzed variation, at least one from among the plurality of process execution units.
US11386532B2
In one embodiment, a computing system may receive a video including a sequence of frames. The computing system may access a three-dimensional mask that specifies pixel-sampling locations, the three-dimensional mask having a first dimension and a second dimension corresponding to a spatial domain and a third dimension corresponding to a temporal domain. Blue noise property may be present in the pixel-sampling locations that are associated with each of a plurality of two-dimensional spatial slices of the three-dimensional mask in the spatial domain and the pixel-sampling locations that are associated with each of a plurality of one-dimensional temporal slices of the three-dimensional mask in the temporal domain. The computing system may generate a sample of the video by sampling the sequence of frames using the three-dimensional mask.
US11386506B2
The concepts, systems and methods described herein are directed towards a method for detection and quantification of influence. The system is provided to including: a network sampling processor, a narrative discovery processor, and an influence quantification processor. The network sampling processor is configured to sample information on one or more social media networks. The narrative discovery processor is configured to: receive sampled information from the network sampling processor, and in response thereto identify a narrative related to a subset of information sampled by the network sampling processor. The influence quantification processor is configured to: receive information related to the narrative and to process the information via a network causal inference process to quantify influence of the narrative on the one or more social media networks.
US11386493B2
A system and method that relies upon smart contracts to facilitate cryptocurrency trades through a plurality of different exchanges. The system and method preferably operate on the blockchain.
US11386488B2
Systems and methods are provided for automatically making a decision as to whether or not to over an installment payment (IP) option to a customer at checkout at an online retailer for goods or services. The IP decision is made, at least in part, based on the specific product or products being purchased. In some cases, it is also based on merchant-specific information and/or customer specific information.
US11386484B2
A system includes N location indicators and a mobile scanning device. The N location indicators are configured to be arranged throughout a store that includes a plurality of stocked items for picking according to one or more electronic customer orders. Each of the N location indicators is configured to transmit a different location signal. The mobile scanning device includes a display. The mobile scanning device is configured to wirelessly receive an electronic customer order comprising a plurality of ordered items indicating which of the stocked items are to be picked, detect at least one of the N location signals, and arrange at least some of the plurality of ordered items on the display based on which of the at least one of the N location signals is detected.
US11386477B2
A system for geographically tracking nourishment selection including a computing device configured to receive a location from a user device associated with a user; determine a plurality of nourishment possibilities within the location; locate a performance character associated with the user, wherein the performance character contains a nourishment score; generate a user profile wherein the user profile comprises the location, the plurality of nourishment possibilities, and the performance character; generate a selector machine-learning process, wherein the selector machine-learning process utilizes the user profile as an input, and outputs a plurality of corresponding nourishment possibility indexes; and grade the plurality of nourishment possibilities using the plurality of corresponding nourishment possibility indexes.
US11386473B2
For products that are sold online, the manner in which a product is displayed in an image can affect sales of the product. Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to computer-implemented systems and methods to provide a user with recommendations when generating an image of a product. A method includes obtaining a product image and determining parameters of the product image. A recommendation for modifying the product image is then generated using a model to relate these parameters to market success of the product image. The recommendation is displayed on the user device, and a user can potentially improve subsequent product images by following the recommendation.
US11386469B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for determining gratitude scores for a plurality of people who have interacted with an organization. In one aspect, a method comprises: obtaining, for each of a plurality of people who have interacted with an organization, history data characterizing previous interactions of the person with the organization and third party data characterizing aspects of the person outside of their previous interactions with the organization; and processing, for each of the plurality of people, the history data and the third party data for the person using a gratitude prediction machine learning model to generate a gratitude score for the person, wherein the gratitude score for the person characterizes a likelihood that the person will take a specified action on behalf of the organization in the future.
US11386458B2
A system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing at least one program and a computer-implemented method for a geo-fenced zone of commerce are described. Consistent with some embodiments, the method may include subdividing a geographic area, generating corresponding geo-fences, and presenting the corresponding geo-fences as listings in a navigable online marketplace.
US11386453B2
This disclosure provides aspects and embodiments of methods, services, and platforms for prompting users with a zero account balance to send a callback message to a contact informing the contact that the user cannot call them and asking the contact to call the user. This disclosure further provides location determining platforms and rewards platforms for users.
US11386450B2
According to one aspect of the present disclosure, a method is provided for advertising on a content-screened web page. The method includes receiving an impression request for a URL for which an advertising impression is desired; screening HTML content of a web page identified by the URL; generating a rating for the URL based on the HTML content of the web page; assigning the rating to the impression request; and serving an advertising impression on the web page based on the rating.
US11386447B2
An educational guide module including a reward system for a virtual storage system in data communication with a user computing device via a communication network, the virtual storage system includes at least one processor receiving from the user computing device, a selection of at least one of an education guide or the reward system corresponding to the virtual storage system, as input by a user, performing at least one instructional guide operation to instruct the user on operation of the virtual storage system, when the education guide is selected, and performing a reward operation to provide a reward to the user when the reward system is selected. The performance of the reward operation includes displaying at least one question to the user, receiving information input by the user as an answer to the at least one question, storing the information received, and calculating points based on the information received, and wherein the points are used to redeem a reward within the virtual storage system.
US11386444B2
Methods and systems for providing reward based verified recommendations. A method disclosed herein includes broadcasting a recommendation request to a plurality of registered users, on receiving the recommendation request from a customer. The method further includes receiving and verifying an input from at least user of the plurality of users in response to the broadcasted recommendation request using a blockchain. The received input relates to the recommendation request and the input includes at least one of at least one service provider and at least one service provided by the at least one service provider. The method also includes issuing reward points (RPs) to the at least one user who has provided the input and the service provider who is included in the input on verifying the input. The method further includes providing at least one recommendation to the requested customer using the verified input and maintained previous recommendations.
US11386442B2
In some embodiments, a set of user groups can be defined, with each group relating to a different webpage experience, user action, etc. Requests are assigned to one of the groups based on actual webpage presentation features and/or user actions. A group-specific model is generated for each group and translates user information to a preliminary result (e.g., a purchasing probability). A model combination includes a weighted combination of a set of available group-specific models. User information is processed using the model combination to generate a model result. The model result is evaluated to determine whether a requested webpage is to be customized in a particular manner and/or an opportunity is to be offered.
US11386441B2
A machine learning system may monitor usage of network or hosted resources by users or employees, and may dynamically generate short or “micro” surveys for immediate presentation. These surveys may be aggregated and analyzed by the machine learning system, reducing delays of responses. As a result, engagement may be measured in real-time or near real-time, actionable insights generated, and responsive actions taken. The machine learning system may monitor various interactions of users or employees with a virtual or hosted environment or workspace, including connections to virtual machines, remote desktop applications, SaaS applications, web applications, or other such entities, as well as environmental characteristics such as network location and/or quality.
US11386439B2
A determination is produced as to the number of leads that can be provided from a system to a target business entity, wherein the leads are generated from a plurality of platforms. The platforms may include platforms that comprise system sources for leads, i.e., sources that are internal or organic to the system, for which it is unnecessary to pay third parties for the leads. The platforms may also include platforms that comprise external sources for leads, such that the leads must be purchased from the external sources. In response to parameters related to the target business entity, an estimated number of leads per unit time is generated for a range of payments to the system by the target business entity. The number of leads to be originated from each of the respective platforms is determined by business rules preferences, which may be specified by the target business entity. Adjustments can be made in real time to the mix of platforms from which leads are generated, in response to received performance data and pricing information.
US11386433B2
According to one embodiment, a customer relationship management (CRM) system is queried to obtain a list of projects that are associated with a particular user. A subset of the projects is selected from the list. Each of the projects in the subset includes an attribute that has been set to a predetermined attribute value or attribute state by the user (e.g., flagged, starred, a checkbox). For each of the projects in the subset, a communication channel (e.g., an instant messaging or IM system, an email group, a group chat, a social network community) associated with the project is identified. It is determined whether the user is already a member of the communication channel. If the user is not a member of the communication channel, the user is automatically added to the communication channel without user intervention from the user.
US11386422B2
Systems and methods for providing a payment system includes processing, by a first payment service provider device, a payment request received from a user device and associated with a first funding instrument. A payment request failed message associated with the payment request is received. A second funding instrument associated with a second payment service provider device is retrieved. First sub-payment request of the payment request associated with the second funding instrument is processed and a first sub-payment successful message associated with the first sub-payment request is obtained. The payment request is determined to be successful based on the first sub-payment successful message. A payment request successful message is provided to the user device indicating that the payment request was successful.
US11386413B2
Pursuant to some embodiments, systems, methods and computer program code are provided for receiving a transaction request message, the transaction request message specifying transaction attributes for a proposed payment transaction involving a user of a mobile device and a merchant, comparing the transaction attributes with a permitted transaction rule, the permitted transaction rule having been stored in the mobile device prior to receiving the transaction request message, approving the proposed transaction upon determining that the transaction attributes satisfy the permitted transaction rule, the approving including generating a transaction cryptogram, and transmitting the transaction cryptogram to the merchant for use in completing the proposed payment transaction.
US11386411B2
A self-checkout (SCO) terminal in a retail store controls banks of lights to communicate context information to a customer in order to better inform them about various events. The context information may be related to a predetermined event, such as a self-checkout process or an emergency event, and is enhanced using the personal preferences of the customer using the SCO terminal.
US11386410B2
A method being implemented via execution of computing instructions configured to run at one or more processors and stored at one or more non-transitory computer-readable media. The method can include receiving, at a transaction system being situated along a proxy communication channel extending from a point-of-sale terminal of a first entity to a mobile wallet provider, an encrypted transaction code. The encrypted transaction code can be generated and sent to the point-of-sale terminal by a mobile device that runs a mobile application associated with the mobile wallet provider. The mobile device receives from a point-of-sale terminal an identifier of the first entity, a transaction amount of a transaction, and a transaction identifier for the transaction, receives an authorization from a user of the mobile device for the transaction while the user is at the point-of-sale terminal, and determines that the mobile device is unable to communicate with the mobile wallet provider. The encrypted transaction code includes a preauthorization from the user to pay the first entity for the transaction amount from a first account of the user maintained by a first financial institution. The method also can include sending the encrypted transaction code through the proxy communication channel to the mobile wallet provider, to cause the mobile wallet provider to decrypt the encrypted transaction code and verify the preauthorization from the user. The method additionally can include receiving, from the first financial institution, a request comprising the identifier of the first entity. The method further can include determining an account identifier of a second account of the first entity maintained by a second financial institution based on the identifier of the first entity. The method additionally can include sending the account identifier of the second account to the first financial institution. The method further can include receiving, from the first financial institution, payment information regarding a payment to be made to the second account from the first account for the transaction. The method additionally can include sending the payment information to the second financial institution, to cause the point-of-sale terminal to receive a notification in real-time while the user remains at the point-of-sale terminal. Other embodiments are described.
US11386405B2
An example operation may include one or more of receiving a request to execute a blockchain transaction from a user device that is associated with a user account, determining whether to perform the blockchain transaction based on a dynamic participation policy of the user account, the dynamic participation policy being dynamically determined based on previous blockchain transactions of one or more of the user account and of other user accounts, and, in response to determining to perform the blockchain transaction, executing the blockchain transaction on behalf of the user account via a smart contract and storing information about the executed blockchain transaction.
US11386401B2
A computing system could have access to mapping data that maps each of a plurality of procedures to respective component identifier(s) used in collision-repair estimates, each procedure including information for repair of vehicle component(s) represented by the respective component identifier(s). Given this, the computing system could instruct a display device to display a visual identifier of a particular collision-repair estimate, could receive input indicative of selection of the visual identifier, and could responsively instruct the display device to display visual indicators representative of vehicle component(s) associated with the particular collision-repair estimate. Moreover, the computing system could receive input indicative of selection of one or more of the visual indicators representative of selected vehicle component(s), and could responsively determine, according to the mapping data, particular procedure(s) based on component identifier(s) representative of the selected vehicle component(s). The computing system could then provide an output based on the particular procedure(s).
US11386400B2
Described herein are systems and techniques for segregating different types of auto-generated enterprise communications, identifying actionable items found within the enterprise communications and automatically generating a list of unified events/tasks for presentation to a user. The systems and techniques utilize templates to identify a communication. Once a communication is identified, rule sets are applied to parse the communication and generate an event which can be presented to a user as part of an event/task list. Described systems and techniques may process different type of communications such as email and real-time communications, parses each type of communication and generate a unified event/task list (i.e. a single task list which includes events from emails, real time messages and other communication channels) which can be presented to a user. By generating a unified event/task list, the system and techniques remove the need for users to manually scour their communications for actionable items and also removes the need for users to manually scour individual communications (e.g. individual emails and real time messages) for information, events or tasks which may require action.
US11386395B1
Systems and methods for generating an agenda for a one-on-one meeting are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: manage environment state information maintaining a collaboration environment, the collaboration environment being configured to facilitate interaction by users with the collaboration environment, the environment state information including work unit records of units of work linked to users within the collaboration environment; obtain user input information conveying user input from individual users to initiate individual meetings with one other individual user; identify the work unit records corresponding to the users of the individual meetings; generate agenda information defining individual agendas for the individual meetings, the individual agendas including individual sets of agenda items, an individual agenda item corresponding to an individual work unit record identified as corresponding to the users of the individual meetings; and/or perform other operations.
US11386390B2
A central fill facility, drug dispensing system and method are provided in order to efficiently and accurately dispense a plurality of different drugs. The drug dispensing system includes a storage system configured to store a plurality of different drugs including a co-located inventory of a respective drug having both a first portion of the inventory of the respective drug to be dispensed pursuant to a predefined program and a second portion of the inventory of the respective drug that is not to be dispensed pursuant to the predefined program. The drug dispensing system also includes the dispensing station and dispensing control circuitry. The dispensing control circuitry is configured to control the dispensing station such that the first portion of the respective predefined program eligible drug is dispensed prior to dispensing the second portion of the respective predefined program ineligible drug.
US11386383B2
The invention discloses a waitressing drone that brings drinks to people at the restaurant, and the orders are identified from the Facebook photo of the user, that the drone displays when making the delivery. The invention facilitates the interaction with humans and drones via the social network. With the invention, the order input time is greatly reduced for the consumer, and the consumer may move about while waiting for the order as the drone finds the consumer. Also importantly, the social nature of the drone allows for the sharing of drones among multiple human users. Further, the interfacing of the social human profile with non-human drone profiles allows for the continuous retraining and reprogramming of drones to meet more specific and individualistic user tasks, thereby liberating people from mundane manual labour.
US11386380B2
A quality assurance (QA) system for automatically performing a quality assurance check on digital communication is configured to: receive a digital communication from an executing application on an external computing device; retrieve a predetermined set of rules applicable to the digital communication; and perform a QA check on the digital communication by determining whether the digital communication complies with each rule in the predetermined set of rules. The set of predetermined rules includes non-visual (e.g., textual and user-selected form fields) rules and vision-based rules. The non-visual rules include a rule requiring the inclusion of specific text or a rule requiring the exclusion of specific text. The visual-based rules include a rule identifying a specific graphical item to be included in or excluded from the digital communication. The QA system is further configured to generate a GUI that provides a visual indication of each rule not met.
US11386373B2
Provided is a work management device for arranging a worker in consideration of a change of work efficiency. In a work management device 10, an index acquisition unit 11 acquires, for each work section, a work evaluation index calculated based on work history performed by a worker. A duration time acquisition unit 12 acquires a duration time for which a work status of the worker is the work evaluation index. A cost acquisition unit 13 acquires a cost incurred when the worker moves between the work sections. A determination unit 14 acquires an estimated work amount performed by the worker until the duration time is elapsed. The determination unit 14 determines, based on the estimated work amount and cost, arrangement of the workers in the plurality of work sections in such a way as to increase work efficiency in a whole of a work range.
US11386362B1
A system and method for optimizing waste or recycling routes for one or more service vehicles are disclosed. Service providers can determine optimal sets of routes for a fleet of vehicles to traverse in order to service customers more quickly and efficiently. Unique route shapes can be utilized to minimize route overlapping and route balancing can be utilized to produce routes with more manageable daily workloads.
US11386358B2
Various embodiments are provided for implementing intelligent decision support system in a computing environment by a processor. Data of historical decisions may be collected and examples of decisions by domain experts may be generated. One or more machine learning models may be generated using different splits of the historical data and the annotated data. The one or more machine learning models may be combined and used to generate ensemble machine learning models that generate recommendations for the decisions. Users interact with a user interface displaying the data, recommendations, reasons for recommendations and a conversational dialog system for querying about the data, recommendations and guidance for decision making.
US11386355B2
A device implementing a system for providing predicted RGB images includes at least one processor configured to obtain an infrared image of a subject, and to obtain a reference RGB image of the subject. The at least one processor is further configured to provide the infrared image and the reference RGB image to a machine learning model, the machine learning model having been trained to output predicted RGB images of subjects based on infrared images and reference RGB images of the subjects. The at least one processor is further configured to provide a predicted RGB image of the subject based on output by the machine learning model.
US11386350B2
The method and apparatus that are applied to a machine learning system which includes at least one parameter collection group and at least one parameter delivery group. Each parameter collection group is corresponding to at least one parameter delivery group. The method includes: when any parameter collection group meets an intra-group combination condition, combining model parameters of M nodes in the parameter collection group to obtain a first model parameter of the parameter collection group, where a smallest quantity s of combination nodes in the parameter collection group≤M≤a total quantity of nodes included in the parameter collection group; and sending the first model parameter of the parameter collection group to N nodes in a parameter delivery group corresponding to the parameter collection group, where 1≤N≤a total quantity of nodes included in the parameter delivery group corresponding to the parameter collection group.
US11386335B2
Complex computer system architectures are described for analyzing data elements of a knowledge graph, and predicting new facts from relational learning applied to the knowledge graph. This discovery process includes converting the knowledge graph into a set of candidate embeddings spaces to apply further analysis to rank the set of candidate embeddings spaces, where the top ranked candidate embeddings spaces are further processed to identify the new facts.
US11386332B2
An optimization calculation method includes: generating, by a computer, current generation individuals with a selected previous generation individual as a parent individual; evaluating each current generation individual by using a predetermined evaluation function; calculating a current generation constraint condition value based on a previous generation constraint condition value and a constraint condition provisional value which is achieved by more than half of the current generation individuals; determining whether a result of the evaluation for each current generation individual satisfies the current generation constraint condition value; determining a predetermined offset based on an attribute of each individual, which is generated by a mutation generating process, among individuals having the evaluation results satisfying the current generation constraint condition value; and adding the predetermined offset to a random number used to generate each next generation individual by the mutation generating process.
US11386322B1
System, method, and computer-program product for routing in an electronic design using deep learning
The present disclosure relates to a computer-implemented method for routing in an electronic design. Embodiments may include receiving, using at least one processor, global route data associated with an electronic design as an input and generating detail route data, based upon, at least in part, the global route data. Embodiments may further include transforming one or more of the detail route data and the global route data into at least one input feature and at least one output result of a deep neural network. Embodiments may also include training the deep neural network with the global route data and the detail route data and predicting an output associated with a detail route based upon, at least in part, a trained deep neural network model.
US11386321B2
A neural network circuit having a plurality of analog-to-digital multipliers generates an analog product-sum voltage corresponding to the sum of charge signals of each of the analog-to-digital multipliers.
US11386314B2
Methods and systems for rendering a transparent pantograph pattern. A background path and a foreground path for a pantograph pattern can be determined. An intersection internal to the background path and external to foreground path that is to be marked can be defined. Areas to be masked can be defined with respect to the pantograph pattern. The pantograph pattern can be then rendered as a transparent vector pattern pantograph by writing a background based on the background path and a foreground based on the foreground path and the areas defined as masked.
US11386301B2
Images are tagged with values in an image data hierarchy that is most subjective at its top level and least subjective at its bottom level, such as a hierarchy including style, type, and features for clothing. A user preference hierarchy is determined from user response to images that are tagged. Tagged images may be generated by processing them with machine learning models trained to determine values for images. Product records including images and other data are analyzed to generate attribute vectors that are encoded to generate product vectors. Products are clustered according to their product vectors. Images of products within a cluster are clustered according to composition and groups of images are selected from image clusters for soliciting feedback regarding user preference for products of a cluster. Feedback is used to train a user preference model to estimate user affinity for a product having a given product vector.
US11386300B2
An image with a known, first classification by the machine learning model is received. This image is then iteratively modified using at least one perturbation algorithm and such modified images are input into the machine learning model until such time as the machine learning model outputs a second classification different from the first classification. Data characterizing the modifications to the image that resulted in the second classification can be provided (e.g., displayed in a GUI, loaded into memory, stored in physical persistence, transmitted to a remote computing device). Related apparatus, systems, techniques and articles are also described.
US11386295B2
Provided is a process that includes sharing information among two or more parties or systems for modeling and decision-making purposes, while limiting the exposure of details either too sensitive to share, or whose sharing is controlled by laws, regulations, or business needs.
US11386294B2
Concepts and technologies disclosed herein are directed to data harvesting for machine learning model training. According to one aspect of the concepts and technologies disclosed herein, a network data collection system can identify a target data source location from which to harvest data for a machine learning system to utilize during a machine learning model training process. The data can be associated with a plurality of mobile communications devices operating in communication with at least one base station of a mobile communications network that serves the target data source location. The network data collection system can collect the data and provide the data to the machine learning system. The machine learning system, in turn, can create a training data set for use during the machine learning model training process based, at least in part, upon the data.
US11386270B2
A facility for identifying multi-word expressions in a natural language sentence is described. The facility provides the sentence to each of multiple natural language processing modules including a first module, a second module, and a third module. Each natural language processing module uses a different approach to identify a multi-word expression and a type of the multi-word expression. Upon determining that the multiple identifiers of the multi-word expression differ, the facility determines the multi-word expression using a resolution process, which can involve a logical rule set or a machine learning model.
US11386242B2
A security device for an electronic payment terminal having at least one printed circuit. The security device includes at least one deformable security element designed to be inserted in a housing of the printed circuit. The printed circuit has at least one security circuit including at least one conducting track internal to the printed circuit and interrupted at the housing. Furthermore, the at least one deformable element has at least one conducting surface configured to close the at least one internal conducting track when the deformable element is deformed in the housing.
US11386234B2
A system for verifying integrity of content of an integrated circuit's registers, the system being operative in conjunction with an integrated circuit including at least one memory, at least one processor, and a multiplicity of registers, the system comprising register content verification logic configured, when in a first mode aka “Study Mode”, to read at least some of the registers' content, to compute a first hash on the content, and to store the first hash thereby to provide an up-to-date reference hash, and, at least on occasion, when in a second mode aka “Verify Mode”, to compute at least one second hash on the content, to compare the second hash to the reference hash and, accordingly, to provide a content verification output (aka “fault detection” output) indicative of whether the reference and second hashes are equal.
US11386222B2
Systems, methods, and devices for generating a secure join of database data are disclosed. A method includes hashing datapoints of a consumer account and creating a secure view of the hashed datapoints of the consumer account. The method further includes processing, using a secure user defined function (UDF), the hashed datapoints of the consumer account and datapoints of a provider account to generate a secure join key, wherein the hashed data points of the consumer account are provided to the secure UDF using the secure view.
US11386221B2
Embodiments allow, within database security policies, the grant of data change operation-specific privileges to particular users to be applied within particular data realms in a given table. Furthermore, according to one or more embodiments, User Privilege column-level privileges are explicitly associated with one or more data access operations such that the grant of such a column-level privilege allows the user to perform only those data access operations that are explicitly associated with the column-level privilege. Enforcement of the data security policies includes prevention of data leakage via WHERE and RETURNING INTO clauses. According to one or more embodiments, a two-phase rewrite is used to optimize enforcement of column-level privileges. During the two-phase rewrite of a given query, the privileges checked during enforcement of the User Privilege data security policies are pruned to avoid unnecessary privilege checks given the columns that are accessed in the query.
US11386219B2
An aspect includes monitoring storage of a computer system. Upon detecting an unauthorized modification to an original storage component in response to the monitoring, an aspect includes retrieving a backup component corresponding to the original storage component and repairing the original storage component using the backup component. In embodiments, the repair occurs in real-time without interruption to computer operation.
US11386207B2
A method comprises detecting a plurality of floating code instances associated with one or more endpoint devices of a computer network, obtaining metadata of each of the floating code instances, and generating floating code signatures for respective ones of the floating code instances based at least in part on their respective metadata. The floating code signatures are utilized to categorize one or more of the floating code instances as at least potentially malicious floating code instances. A given one of the floating code instances illustratively comprises an executable code block dynamically allocated in a memory of a corresponding one of the endpoint devices and does not include any file structure counterpart. The metadata utilized to generate the floating code signature of a given one of the floating code instances illustratively comprises at least one of image hook metadata and thread metadata of the given floating code instance.
US11386206B2
A system and method model activities in the production environment as sequences of microservices, and identify unusual activities by analyzing these sequences. In particular, a directed graph of usual activity is formed as a basis for determining unusual activities. Next, activities that were actually performed are determined by statistically analyzing records of microservice invocation in application diagnostic files. These activity sequences are overlaid on the directed graph to determine relative fit by using a trace coverage percentage score. Application instances or activities with low relative fit are deemed suspicious. If the low fit persists for an extended duration, then the instances or activities are deemed unusual and an individual is alerted to begin a manual review.
US11386200B2
The present invention relates to a computer having an isolated user computing unit for responding to a system seizing attempt by a malicious code and minimizing damage to a system. A computer according to a feature proposed by the present invention comprises: a security management computing unit for managing connected I/O devices and auxiliary memory device unit; and a user computing unit which is isolated from the I/O devices, communicates with the I/O devices via an intercommunication unit responsible for communication between the security management computing unit and the user computing unit, has a separate CPU and memory, and is connected to the security management computing unit. The security management computing unit manages the I/O devices, monitors and restores a system, and monitors and controls the user computing unit, and the user computing unit is isolated from the security management computing unit and executes a user program and a user OS.
US11386197B1
A computer system configured to execute an application includes a memory and a processor. The memory stores lists of trusted, malicious, and peer applications. Each application of the trusted list is associated with a maliciousness probability that is less than a lower threshold. Each application of the malicious list is associated with a maliciousness probability that is greater than an upper threshold. The peer list includes a peer application installed on a second computer system, which stores a second list of malicious applications. The processor determines that a second application not listed in the trusted or malicious lists is attempting to transmit a communication to the application. In response, the processor transmits a message to the peer application inquiring about the second application. The processor receives a response indicating that the second application is included in the second list of malicious applications and refuses the communication.
US11386189B2
The present disclosure relates generally to implementing biometric authentication, including providing user interfaces for: a biometric enrollment process tutorial, aligning a biometric feature for enrollment, enrolling a biometric feature, providing hints during a biometric enrollment process, application-based biometric authentication, autofilling biometrically secured fields, unlocking a device using biometric authentication, retrying biometric authentication, managing transfers using biometric authentication, interstitial user interfaces during biometric authentication, preventing retrying biometric authentication, cached biometric authentication, autofilling fillable fields based on visibility criteria, automatic log-in using biometric authentication, retrying biometric authentication at a credential entry user interface, providing indications of error conditions during biometric authentication, providing indications about the biometric sensor during biometric authentication, and orienting the device to enroll a biometric feature.
US11386183B2
A method for predictive caching may include determining previous user activity related to data items and/or documents, receiving a request to view a document from a user, predicting data items to pre-cache based on the previous user activity and at least one other factor, prioritizing the predicted data items for pre-caching, dividing the prioritized data items for pre-caching into a plurality of groups, downloading prioritized data items for each group among the plurality of groups according to the prioritization of the predicted data items, and displaying a view of the document after data items, corresponding to the request, are received.
US11386182B2
A method of invoking in a terminal at least one application service by a browser. The method includes: detecting at least one invocation data item in a first loaded page loaded in the browser, the data item complying at least with one invocation data type registered for the at least one service; and invoking, in the first loaded page, the at least one service from the at least one detected invocation item.
US11386178B2
A control center includes a display screen for displaying different social media and social media analytics. The control center includes an enhanced notification device that operates independently and remotely from the display screen. A media controller receives a selection of a search term, selection of an analytic, and selection of a trigger event for the analytic. The control center obtains social media from different networks containing the search term and generates the selected analytic from the social media. The media controller activates the enhanced notification device when the trigger event is detected in the analytic. The activated notification device provides a different environmental attribute than the display screen that is more effective in gaining the attention of the control center operators.
US11386171B1
Among other things, embodiments of the present disclosure can help improve the functionality of virtual assistant (VA) systems by determining filtering criteria that applies to inputs received by the system, and storing information associated with the inputs (and controlling access to such information by different users of the VA system) in accordance with the filtering criteria.
US11386165B2
Methods for generating transaction profile tags from profile transaction activity may include receiving a transaction profile including recorded transactions, associating at least one transaction label with each of the transactions, the labels associated with transaction types, generating a set of profile features based on the recorded transactions from the transaction profile, encoding the set of profile features with a macro-encoder into a first-reduced set, clustering the first-reduced set into at least two subsets, each associated with a macro-profile tag, and tagging the transaction profile with one of the macro-profile tags. Methods may also include encoding the set of profile features with a micro-encoder selected based on the tagged macro-profile tag, clustering the second-reduced set into a plurality of subsets associated with account profile types, respectively, and tagging the transaction profile with a tag associated with the account profile type. Systems and computer program products are also provided.
US11386163B2
The present disclosure relates to a data search method and a data search system thereof. The data search method includes steps of: receiving a first learning content data, wherein the first learning content data includes multiple first learning sections; analysing the first learning content data by a way of Natural Language Processing to search multiple first keyword strings corresponding to each of the first learning content data; receiving a search message; analysing the search message by the way of Natural Language Processing to generate a search string; comparing the search string with the first keyword strings; and generating a search list according to the first learning section, which corresponding to the first keyword string that matches the search string.
US11386162B1
A system and method for pairing user stimuli-to-online digital profile data includes receiving user stimulus data; computing a classification inference, by a machine learning-based model, based on features extracted from the user stimulus data, wherein the classification inference includes a machine learning-based classification label identified from a plurality of digital profile subdomain classification labels; constructing a digital profile search query, wherein constructing the digital profile search query includes: deriving a digital profile search parameter based on the machine learning-based classification label, and defining the digital profile search query using the digital profile search parameter; executing the digital profile search query, wherein executing the digital profile search query includes: searching a corpus of digital profile data based on the digital profile search parameter; and selectively pairing the digital profile search query to digital profiles of the corpus of digital profile data based on the search parameter; and displaying the digital profiles.
US11386160B1
A processor may receive data and generate a quantified representation of the data by processing the data using at least one machine learning (ML) algorithm, the quantified representation of the data indicating a sentiment of content of the data. The processor may automatically revise the content of the communications data. The revising may include determining a reaction to the content of the communications data, generating a quantified representation of the reaction, determining a difference between the quantified representation of the reaction and the quantified representation of the communications data, identifying, based on the difference, a portion of the content having an unintended sentiment, and replacing the portion of the content with different content.
US11386159B2
Various embodiments are provided for using a dialog system for integrating multiple domain learning and problem solving for a user in a computing environment by a processor. One or more problem instances may be defined for one or more selected domains in a multi-domain database according to a problem instance template, identified user intent, links to one or more problem solvers associated with the one or more selected domains, or a combination thereof. A dialog plan may be determined for the one or more problem instances using a dialog system associated with the multi-domain database, wherein each record in the multi-domain database corresponds to a selected database for the one or more selected domains. A solution may be provided to the user for the one or more problem instances. One or more preferences of a user may be learned according to the solution.
US11386156B1
One or more processing devices access a service definition for a service provided by one or more entities that each produce machine data or about which machine data is generated. The service definition identifies the entities that provide the service and, for each entity, definitional information includes information for identifying machine data pertaining to that entity. The processing devices access a key performance indicator (KPI) for the service that is defined by a search query that produces a value derived from the machine data pertaining to the entities identified in the service definition. The value indicates how the service is performing at a point in time or during a period of time and indicates a state of the KPI. A graphical interface is displayed and an indication of at least one threshold, which defines an end of a range of values representing a state of the KPI, for the KPI is received.
US11386153B1
A flexible tagging and searching system can be configured to associate tags with the input data to enable a search of the input data. The flexible tagging and searching system can receive user data and determine an identifier associated with the user data. The system can compare the identifier with other identifiers to determine that the identifier is unique. After determining that the identifier is unique, the system can associate a critical tag with the user data and store the critical tag in a database. Then the system can associate a non-critical tag with the user data. In some instances, the system can return query results such as a set of tag data and/or a set of data items.
US11386148B2
A network device is configured to (i) play back a media item indicated by a remote playback queue provided by a cloud-based computing system, (ii) receive an indication that a playback device is available for playback, (iii) display a now playing screen including (a) information identifying the media item, and (b) an icon that indicates that the network device is not in a connected state with any other network device, (iv) receive a first input selecting the icon, (v) in response to the first input, display a list of one or more available network devices including the playback device, (vi) receive a second input selecting the playback device from the list (vii) after receiving the second input, update the list to indicate that the playback device is selected for playback of the remote playback queue, and (viii) transfer playback of the remote playback queue from the network device to the playback device.
US11386138B2
Methods, systems, and computer programs for generating a playlist of media content items that are popular with the friends of the first user. A first user taste profile is determined and a user taste profile is determined for each of a plurality of social connections. A similarity score is calculated between the first user taste profile and the user taste profile of each social connection. Media content items consumed by social connections with the highest similarity score are selected and placed in a playlist for the first user.
US11386135B2
An apparatus and techniques for constructing and utilizing a “dynamic dictionary” that is not a compiled dictionary, and therefore does not need to be recompiled in order to be updated. The dynamic dictionary includes respective data structures that represent (i) a management automaton that includes a plurality of management nodes, and (ii) a runtime automaton that is derived from the management automaton and includes a plurality of runtime nodes. The runtime automaton may be used to search input data, such as communication traffic over a network, for keywords of interest, while the management automaton manages the addition of keywords to the dynamic dictionary. Typically, at least two (e.g., exactly two) such dynamic dictionaries are used in combination with a static dictionary.
US11386128B2
Embodiments for automatic feature learning for predictive modeling in a computing environment by a processor. A first table and a second table are joined based on an edge between the first table and the second table defined by an entity graph thereby creating a resulting joined table that is connected by a column of data. The resulting joined table is used as an input into one or more neural network operations that transform the resulting joined table to one or more features to predict a target variable.
US11386118B2
Systems and methods for replicating data from storage. Snapshots are taken on a consistency group of volumes and are stored in snapshot volumes. Changes to the data stored in the volumes are identified from the snapshots and the changes are written to a journal. The journal allows the changes to be replicated to a virtual replication system and a physical replication system. The journal can be replicated to different systems, including physical and virtual systems, by exposing the same journal in different manners.
US11386105B2
System and methods for performing automatic identification and contextual reformulation of implicit device-related queries are described. In some examples, a query server may receive a query from an electronic device, receive data associated with the electronic device, determine that the query is related to the electronic device, generate a new query based at least in part on the query and the data associated with the electronic device, retrieve results related to the new query, and send the results related to the new query to the electronic device. In some examples, determining that the query is related to the electronic device includes determining that the query is a semi-implicit device query or a fully implicit device query. The data associated with the electronic device can include a model name of the electronic device, an operating platform for the electronic device, and/or additional data related to the electronic device.
US11386098B1
A system and method provides information to a user about other users who have shown an interest in the user or in whom the user shows an interest, or other users in whom the user has shown disinterest or other users who have shown disinterest in the user, as indicated by actions performed with respect to a website or other Internet-accessible repository of data.
US11386090B2
Matching records in an entity resolution system by defining entity attribute feature vectors, determining an entity attribute matching score according to a distance between two entity attribute feature vectors, assigning a statistical weight to an entity attribute matching score, adjusting the entity attribute matching score according to the statistical weight and an entity attribute frequency of occurrence, and determining an aggregate entity attribute matching score.
US11386088B2
A system for query optimization by a federation engine is provided. When a data source supports a target feature of an expression of a query in the common query language, the system executes a converter for the data source to convert the target feature to the corresponding feature of the data source query language. The system then submits to the data source a query with the expression with the converted target feature so that the expression is evaluated at the data source and receives query results. When a data source does not support the target feature of the expression, the system submits to the data source a query without the expression and evaluates the expression on the query results returned by the data source. The system then combines the query results based on the evaluation of the expression as the query results of the query.
US11386087B2
In some aspects, there is provided a method including receiving an execution plan file, the execution plan file utilizing at least one operator of interest and further utilizing other actions separate from the at least one operator of interest. The method further includes forming an execution plan object by modifying the execution plan file by isolating the at least one operator of interest from the other actions. The method further includes performing a series of tests executing an extended execution plan object. The series of tests can include receiving the input data identified by the one or more pointers in the extended execution plan object, executing the extended execution plan object using the received input data, measuring, based on the execution of the extended execution plan object, at least one cost metric representative of execution of the at least one operator of interest, and outputting the measured cost metric.
US11386081B2
Embodiments described herein provide a system for facilitating efficient indexing in a database. The system can maintain a data table in the database. The data table includes a first column for structured data and a second column for unstructured text. A row of the data table can include a first piece of data in the first column and a second piece of data in the second column. During operation, the system performs word segmentation on the second piece of data to generate a first set of semantically meaningful word segments. The system then generates a set of index entries that corresponds to the row. A respective index entry includes an index generated from the first piece of data and a corresponding word segment of the first set of semantically meaningful word segments.
US11386080B2
Transaction processing systems in accordance with aspects of the invention may process a variety of transactions. Transaction processing systems may include a transaction processing device and a distributed processing system. The transaction processing device obtains transaction requests from a variety of client devices and process the transaction requests. The distributed processing system may also obtain the transaction requests and maintain a transaction history of the transaction requests obtained and/or processed by the transaction processing device. Both the distributed processing system and the transaction processing device may send a transaction succeeded event based on the transaction being processed successfully. The transaction processing device and distributed ledger may also maintain an indication of if a particular transaction has been processed. When the transaction processing device becomes available after a period of unavailability, the transaction history for both the transaction processing device and distributed ledger may be reconciled.
US11386069B2
A method in an aircraft for the validation of variable data is provided. The method comprises: receiving a request from an application program to retrieve data attributes for at least one data item to be entered via a GUI provided by the application program; requesting, from the flight management engine using an API, the data attributes for the at least one data item, wherein the data attributes identify at least one limit for data entry for the at least one data item including a minimum and/or maximum value for the at least one data item; receiving the requested data attributes from the flight management engine; and transmitting the data attributes to the application program; wherein the application program restricts data entry for the at least one data item in conformance with each limit provided by the data attributes for the at least one data item.
US11386068B2
A method is provided for verifying and/or updating map geometry based on a probe data. A method may include: receiving probe data from a plurality of probes within a region, where the probe data includes at least one of heading information and location information for each probe data point; matching the probe data to a link segment to generate map-matched probe data; calculating a difference between the at least one of heading information and location information of the map-matched probe data points and of the link segment; determining a statistical mean of the data; determining an error of the statistical mean of the data; and flagging the link segment for manual review in response to the statistical mean being greater than the error of the statistical mean multiplied by a biasing factor.
US11386061B2
A method of operating a telemetry system includes automatically populating a first set of fields in a schema of an event definition using a logging library of the telemetry system, and receiving the set of fields via a request message in an application protocol.
US11386060B1
A system implements techniques for processing data across multiple layers. In some embodiments, a distributed data processing system tracks processing states via a monotonic process, whereby each state is irreversibly entered and cannot be entered without a predecessor state being verifiably completed. In some of such embodiments, a multi-layer data storage system tracks and processes data deletions across disparate layers such that a deletion state can be positively deduced from the deletion states of each of the disparate layers.
US11386058B2
Provided herein are data cloud administration techniques that achieve autonomy by using a rules engine that reacts to a database system event by autonomously submitting an asynchronous job to reconfigure a database. In an embodiment, a rules engine receives an event from a DBMS. Based on the event, the rules engine executes a rule to generate a request that indicates configuration details for a database. The rules engine sends the request to a request broker. The request broker dispatches an asynchronous job based on the request. The asynchronous job configures the database based on the configuration details. Thus, databases in a cloud, data grid, or data center may be administered autonomously (without human intervention) base on dynamic conditions that are foreseen and unforeseen.
US11386051B2
Methods, systems, and computer-readable storage media for determining, by an asset service executing on a server associated with the on-premise system, that a document has been added to the on-premise system, providing, within the cloud-based system, a temporary data object that stores data of the document, generating, within the cloud-based system, a persistent data object based on the temporary data object, the persistent data object storing data of the document, deleting the temporary data object, and associating a document identifier of the document to an asset identifier of the persistent data object within a repository of the on-premise system.
US11386038B2
A reconfigurable data processor comprises an array of processing units arranged to perform execution fragments of a data processing operation. A control barrier network is coupled to processing units in the array. The control barrier network comprises a control bus configurable to form signal routes in the control barrier network, and a plurality of control barrier logic units having inputs and outputs connected to the control bus and to the array of processing units. The logic units in the plurality of logic units are configurable to consume source tokens and status signals on the inputs and produce barrier tokens on the outputs based on the source tokens and status signals on the inputs. Also, the logic units can produce enable signals for the array of processing units based on the source tokens and status signals on the inputs.
US11386037B2
A system includes a plurality of items of master equipment, each having a programing interface, and a plurality of slave equipment. An interconnect circuit is coupled between the items of master equipment and the items of slave equipment. Each transaction is assigned an attribute capable of taking on at least two attribute values corresponding to at least two states for the master equipment. Each item of slave equipment is associated with an identifier capable of taking on at least two values corresponding respectively to at least two properties for the slave equipment. Each item of master equipment automatically inherits the property of its programing interface. A filtering circuit is configured to, in the presence of a transaction intended for an item of slave equipment, compare the corresponding attribute value with an identifier value of the intended slave equipment and reject or not reject the transaction based on the comparison.
US11386035B2
An electronic system is provided. The electronic system includes a platform controller and a plurality of peripheral devices. The platform controller has a first bus. The plurality of peripheral devices are respectively connected to the platform controller through the first bus. The plurality of peripheral devices include a master peripheral device and a slave peripheral device. The master peripheral device is connected to the slave peripheral device through a communication signal line. The master peripheral device communicates with the platform controller through the first bus. When the master peripheral device receives a communication request from the slave peripheral device through the communication signal line, the master peripheral device provides a communication signal corresponding to the communication request to the first bus, so the slave peripheral device communicates with the platform controller through the first bus.
US11386032B2
A network system is mounted on a vehicle, and includes a plurality of sensors, a first bus used when the sensors transmit sensing data, a plurality of actuators, a second bus used when the actuators receive control data, a central electronic control unit that performs an operation based on the sensing data and generates the control data, a third bus used when the central electronic control unit receives the sensing data and transmits the control data, and a repeater. The repeater is configured to pass data flowing on the first bus to the third bus, pass data flowing on the third bus to the second bus, and block the flow of data from the third bus to the first bus and the flow of data from the second bus to the third bus.
US11386031B2
Embodiments herein describe techniques for separating data transmitted between I/O functions in an integrated component and a host into separate data paths. In one embodiment, data packets are transmitted using a direct data path that bypasses a switch in the integrated component. In contrast, configuration packets (e.g., hot-swap, hot-add, hot-remove data, some types of descriptors, etc.) are transmitted to the switch which then forwards the configuration packets to their destination. The direct path for the data packets does not rely on switch connectivity (and its accompanying latency) to transport bandwidth sensitive traffic between the host and the I/O functions, and instead avoids (e.g., bypasses) the bandwidth, resource, store/forward, and latency properties of the switch. Meanwhile, the software compatibility attributes, such as hot plug attributes (which are not latency or bandwidth sensitive), continue to be supported by using the switch to provide a configuration data path.
US11386016B2
A memory management unit (MMU) including a unified translation lookaside buffer (TLB) supporting a plurality of page sizes is disclosed. In one aspect, the MMU is further configured to store and dynamically update page size residency metadata associated with each of the plurality of page sizes. The page size residency metadata may include most recently used (MRU) page size data and/or a counter for each page size indicating how many pages of that page size are resident in the unified TLB. The unified TLB is configured to determine an order in which to perform a TLB lookup for at least a subset of page sizes of the plurality of page sizes based on the page size residency metadata.
US11386006B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure generally relate to a target device handling overlap write commands. In one embodiment, a target device includes a non-volatile memory and a controller coupled to the non-volatile memory. The controller includes a random accumulated buffer, a sequential accumulated buffer, and an overlap accumulated buffer. The controller is configured to receive a new write command, classify the new write command, and write data associated with the new write command to one of the random accumulated buffer, the sequential accumulated buffer, or the overlap accumulated buffer. Once the overlap accumulated buffer becomes available, the controller first flushes to the non-volatile memory the data in the random accumulated buffer and the sequential accumulated buffer that was received prior in sequence to the data in the overlap accumulated buffer. The controller then flushes the available overlap accumulated buffer, ensuring that new write commands override prior write commands.
US11386005B2
Disclosed are a memory system, a memory controller, and a method of operating a memory system. The memory system may control the memory device to store data into zones of memory blocks in the memory device by assigning each data to be written with an address subsequent to a most recently written address in a zone, store journal information including mapping information between a logical address and a physical address for one of the one or more zones in a journal cache, search for journal information corresponding to a target zone targeted to write data when mapping information for the target zone among the one or more zones is updated, and replace the journal information corresponding to the target zone with journal information including the updated mapping information.
US11386000B2
A memory system, a memory controller, and an operating method therefor. The memory system includes a first processor configured to determine a processor, among multiple processor including the first processor, to process read operations on logical addresses indicated by read commands, and process a write operation on a logical address indicated by a write command; and a second processor, among the multiple processors, configured to process a read operation on a target logical address selected by the first processor among the logical addresses. The first processor searches for mapping information on a logical address corresponding to a read or write operation to be processed by the first processor, by using a first map search engine, and the second processor searches for mapping information on the target logical address by using a second map search engine. It is possible to improve the performance of searching for mapping information in a read operation.
US11385999B2
A system including embedded storage devices is described. A method of system operation includes determining, by a processing device of a storage system controller operatively coupled via a network to embedded storage devices, that data is to be stored in a first storage portion of a first storage device of the embedded storage devices. The method also includes buffering the data in a second storage portion of a second embedded storage device of the embedded storage devices.
US11385997B2
There are provided a controller, a memory system having the same, and an operating method thereof. The controller includes a read counter configured to store a block read count value of a super block and memory blocks within a non-super block as a status information in an internal memory by counting a number of times that a read operation is performed on the memory blocks; and a super block manager configured to: store a super block reclaim trigger reference and a non-super block reclaim trigger reference, which is set for the super block and the non-super block, as the status information in the internal memory, divide data stored in the memory blocks into hot data and cold data according to the block read count value, and copy the hot data in the non-super block to the super block according to the status information.
US11385992B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide methods, computer program products, and systems. Embodiments of the present invention can, in response to receiving constraints of a test case that test a device, create an artificial interaction that satisfies constraints of the test case. Embodiments of the present invention can then analyze movement information from the created artificial interaction. Embodiments of the present invention can then generate one or more solutions that improve functioning of the device based on the analyzed movement information.
US11385989B1
For each of a plurality of commit operations to be executed for respective given code portions of a set of software code under development, at least one processing device performs a relevance analysis to identify one or more other code portions of the set of software code that each exhibits at least a threshold level of relevance to the given code portion, determines one or more code reviewers for the given code portion based at least in part on the one or more other code portions identified by the relevance analysis, assigns code review responsibilities for the given code portion to the one or more determined code reviewers, notifies the one or more determined code reviewers of the assigned code review responsibilities, and responsive to successful completion of code review by the one or more determined code reviewers, executes the commit operation for the given code portion.
US11385984B2
A method and apparatus for dynamically determining when, or how often, to do a read scan operation on a solid-state storage drive. One solution adjusts a read scan interval as part of performing a read scan operation. First, a bit error rate is determined for one of a plurality of storage blocks of a non-volatile memory array. Then, a cross temperature metric for the storage block is determined. A read scan interval is changed in response to the cross temperature metric satisfying a cross temperature threshold. Then, data in the storage block is relocated to a free storage block in response to the bit error rate satisfying a relocation threshold.
US11385975B2
A computing system that receives and stores configuration information for the application in a data store. The configuration information comprises (1) identifiers for a plurality of cells of the application that include at least a primary cell and a secondary cell, (2) a defined state for each of the plurality of cells, (3) one or more dependencies for the application, and (4) a failover workflow defining actions to take in a failover event. The computing system receives an indication, from a customer, of a change in state of the primary cell or a request to initiate the failover event. The computing system updates, in the data store, the states for corresponding cells of the plurality of cells based on the failover workflow and updates, in the data store, the one or more dependencies for the application based on the failover workflow.
US11385972B2
Disclosed are various examples for virtual-machine-specific failover protection. In some examples, a power-on request is received for a protected virtual machine. Virtual-machine-specific failover protection is enabled for the protected virtual machine. The protected virtual machine is executed on a first host of a cluster, and a dynamic virtual machine slot for the protected virtual machine is created on a second host of the cluster. The dynamic virtual machine slot is created to match a hardware resource configuration of the protected virtual machine. An anti-affinity rule is maintained between the protected virtual machine and the dynamic virtual machine slot.
US11385970B2
Provided are a computer program product, system, and method for hypervisor agnostic interchangeable backup recovery and file level recovery from virtual disks. Data is stored for a first virtual disk that represents data in a first format and metadata for the first virtual disk in a common data format in a storage having a fixed block length. A virtual disk file represents data in a second format that allows variable size blocks. Multiple instances of the fixed block length of blocks of data for the second virtual disk indicated in the virtual disk file are read. Each instance of the read fixed block length of blocks is written to the storage in the common data format with metadata describing the format of the blocks in the second virtual disk, and can be restored to a third virtual disk in the first or second format.
US11385969B2
Aspects of a data environment, such as the cloning, hibernation, and recovery of databases, are managed using a separate control environment. A monitoring component of the control environment can periodically communicate with the data environment to determine any necessary actions to be performed, such as to recover from faults or events for a data instance in the data environment. A workflow can be instantiated that includes tasks necessary to perform actions such as recovery, hibernation, resumption from hibernation, or backup or cloning. Tasks of the workflow can cause certain jobs to be performed by host managers in the data environment to affect calls made to the control environment.
US11385966B2
A copy procedure detects qualified data objects in a body of source data, and copies the source data to a target storage unit except for unqualified data objects, which are replaced with a prescribed bit pattern. Following completion of the backup, a record is prepared indicating that all data objects exist in the specified target storage, regardless of whether each data object was replaced with a predetermined bit pattern rather than being physically written to the specified target storage. This process may, be repeated in order to perform data reclamation, effectively removing user files no longer qualifying for backup.
US11385965B2
One example method includes identifying a group of microservices that form respective portions of an application, capturing any relations among microservices in the group of microservices, generating one or more restore policies for the application, based on identified relations among the microservices in the group of microservices, and configuring one of the restore policies so that such restore policy specifies restoring, together, a microservice that was identified as a partial cause of a problem, and any other microservices that are dependent on that microservice.
US11385959B2
A memory module is disclosed that includes a substrate, a memory device that outputs read data, and a buffer. The buffer has a primary interface for transferring the read data to a memory controller and a secondary interface coupled to the memory device to receive the read data. The buffer includes error logic to identify an error in the received read data and to identify a storage cell location in the memory device associated with the error. Repair logic maps a replacement storage element as a substitute storage element for the storage cell location associated with the error.
US11385954B2
Technologies for enhancing work scheduling of a big data framework. The technologies can include generating, in a database, configurable namespaces to be used by a work scheduling enhancement application to group together tasks of one or more big data clusters. The namespaces can be hierarchical. The technologies can also include linking in the database, by the application, related tasks with respective namespaces to categorize and group together the related tasks. The technologies can also include configuring, by the application, a display scheme for displaying error handling and root cause analysis of tasks of the one or more big data clusters. The technologies can also include generating or rendering, by the application, a GUI having a navigable hierarchal view for displaying the namespaces. The generation or rendering of the GUI can be based partially on the display scheme.
US11385937B2
Method and system for deployment of a workload using resource devices in a composable infrastructure
A method for managing data includes obtaining, by a management module, a redeployment request, wherein the redeployment request specifies a first workload and workload specifications for a second workload, and in response to the redeployment request: identifying, using a resource allocation master list, a plurality of resource devices, wherein each resource device in the plurality of resource devices is in an available status, selecting, from the plurality of resource devices, a first resource device based on the workload specifications, initiating a configuration of the first resource device, and updating the resource allocation master list to specify an allocation of the first resource device to the second workload.
US11385936B1
Achieving search and ingest isolation via resource management in a search and indexing system includes receiving a search query associated with at least one data store, assigning, in response to the search query being associated with the at least one data store, the search query to a first workload pool in a set of query workload pools, and processing the search query using a first hardware resource in the first workload pool. Achieving search and ingest isolation further includes receiving an ingest request comprising data associated with the at least one data store. The ingest request is assigned to a second workload pool in a set of ingest workload pools. The set of query workload pools and the set of ingest workload pools are disjoint. Achieving search and ingest isolation further includes processing the ingest request using a second hardware resource in the second workload pool.
US11385926B2
An application and system fast launch may provide a virtual memory address area (VMA) container to manage the restore of a context of a process, i.e., process context, saved in response to a checkpoint to enhance performance and to provide a resource efficient fast launch. More particularly, the fast launch may provide a way to manage, limit and/or delay the restore of a process context saved in response to a checkpoint, by generating a VMA container comprising VMA container pages, to restore physical memory pages following the checkpoint based on the most frequently used or predicted to be used. The application and system fast launch with the VMA container may avoid unnecessary input/output (I/O) bandwidth consumption, page faults and/or memory copy operations that may otherwise result from restoring the entire context of a VMA container without regard to frequency of use.
US11385924B1
Collecting user information according to providing a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) service is disclosed. A user information collection system includes a service provisioning manager configured to manage provisioning of a VDI service provided from a VDI service provider, a charging manager configured to manage charging information according to a use of the VDI service, a policy manager configured to manage a policy for the VDI service, a user manager configured to manage information of the user, a VDI service lifecycle manager configured to manage a lifecycle of the VDI service, and a multi-tenant connection manager configured to manage connection infrastructure information between the VDI service provider and a cloud environment (or external software).
US11385911B2
Methods and systems are presented for providing a framework to integrate independent fragment modules into an integrated user interface. The fragment modules can be simultaneously rendered on a user interface page or sequentially rendered across multiple user interface pages. The fragment modules are configured to interact with a user via the user interface. The interactions with the user may trigger an event. When an event associated with a fragment module occurs, the fragment module is configured to broadcast the event. An orchestrator is configured to monitor events associated with different fragment modules. The orchestrator may include an event handler for performing one or more action in response to an event. The action may include configuring another fragment module to modify a presentation and/or perform a transaction based on the event.
US11385902B2
A computer system includes one or more memory devices, non-resettable memory elements and a processor. The first memory device is configured to store in the one or more memory devices (i) a first version of a multi-stage bootstrap program for bootstrapping the computer system, the bootstrap program including a self-test program that tests the bootstrap program, and (ii) a second version of the bootstrap program known to be trustworthy. The non-resettable memory elements are configured to store non-resettable indicators including at least a self-test-request indicator and a self-test-passed indicator. The processor is configured to retrieve the first version of the bootstrap program, and, if the first version is at least as recent as the trustworthy second version, to bootstrap the computer system securely using the first version and the non-resettable indicators.
US11385898B2
The present disclosure provides a method for task orchestrating, an orchestrator, a device and a readable storage medium. According to the method provided in the present disclosure, task scripts are edited as descriptive language scripts, and data dependency relationships between source tables and target tables in the tasks corresponding to the task scripts are automatically generated according to the descriptive language scripts of the tasks. The execution of the tasks is driven in a data-driven manner according to the data dependency relationships between the source tables and the target tables in the tasks. There is no need for a technical person to manually edit the workflow file. When some tasks change, the data dependency relationships between the source and target tables in the tasks can be automatically updated according to the task scripts, without affecting the orchestration process between tasks.
US11385897B2
A merge unit configured to perform merge and permutation micro-operations by multiplexing data bytes of the inputs to simultaneously produce multiple data bytes of a merge and permutation result. Particularly, the merge unit includes a bank of MUXs arranged in parallel, each corresponding to one or more different data bytes in the merge result. When the merge unit is provided with a set of inputs, each MUX multiplexes the data bytes of the set of inputs (e.g., all the data bytes of the set of inputs) to selectively output a data byte to a particular location of the destination register storing the merge result. The selection by each MUX is individually controlled by a set of merge control words which identify a data byte location in an input and identify an input from the set of inputs.
US11385890B2
Apparatus and methods related to stored software libraries are provided. A computing device can receive versioned-shared-library information for a first software library used by a software application, where the versioned-shared-library information can include an identifier. The computing device can determine whether the computing device stores a copy of the first software library identified in the versioned-shared-library information by the identifier. The computing device can send a request for one of a full executable and a stripped executable for the software application, where the full executable includes the first software library, and where the stripped executable excludes the first software library. In response to the request, the computing device can receive the full executable or the stripped executable for the software application.
US11385888B1
Described herein are systems, methods, and software to manage the updates for a container runtime. In one example, a host identifies a request to update a container runtime from a first version to a second version for a container executing in a virtual machine. The host further initiates execution of a second container in a second virtual machine with the second version of the container runtime, wherein the second container uses the same root filesystem as the first container. The host also updates any required networking configurations to direct communications to the second container over the first container and stops execution of the first container.
US11385885B2
A method of downloading a firmware to a server is disclosed as including providing a server with a mainboard with a baseboard management controller (BMC) and at least one universal serial bus (USB) port, connecting the USB port to a USB device controller of the BMC of the server, resetting the BMC, connecting a data processing device with the server via the USB port, and downloading a firmware to the BMC from or through the data processing device via the USB port.
US11385883B2
The current document is directed to methods and systems that carry out live migration of multi-node applications in distributed-computing systems, including cloud-computing applications in cloud-computing facilities. The disclosed methods and systems employ an installer/agent and a data-transformation component to install new versions of a multi-node application within a distributed computing system and to then warm start each application-provided service within the newly installed new-version application nodes. Following a data sync operation, each warm-started application service is brought online to service subsequently received service requests as older-version corresponding services of current application nodes complete request services and terminate, providing live migration from an older version multi-node application to a new-version multi-node application without service-provision interruption.
US11385871B2
Methods, systems, and devices supporting adjusting user interfaces based on user usage patterns are described. A page layout server may store an initial page layout for a page corresponding to a data object type, where the initial page layout may be defined by a first user and include a set of user interface components. The page layout server may transmit, to a set of user devices, a first indication of the page for display by the set of user devices according to the initial page layout. The page layout server may track user interactions with the set of user interface components, determine an updated page layout for the page based on an analysis of the tracked user interactions and the initial page layout, and transmit a second indication of the page for display by the set of user devices according to the updated page layout.
US11385861B2
The present specification relates to a smart controlling device capable of utilizing machine learning for voice recognition and a method of controlling therefor. The smart controlling device according to the present invention includes a receiver configured to receive an input including a command trigger, and a controller configured to detect one or more external display devices, select a display device of the detected one or more external display devices, cause a power status of the selected display device to be changed to a first state, and cause a response data corresponding to a first command data received after the command trigger to be output on a display of the selected display device.
US11385860B2
Systems and methods for displaying an icon representation of a webpage are provided. In one exemplary method, while displaying a web browser, an electronic device receives a request to display an icon representation of a webpage. In response to receiving the request, the device determines whether the webpage provides access to an image that meets predefined quality standards. In accordance with a determination that the webpage provides access to an image that meets predefined quality standards, the device displays the high-quality image as an icon associated with the webpage at a respective location in the web browser. In accordance with a determination that the webpage does not provide access to an image that meets the predefined quality standards, the device identifies other content associated with the webpage, generates a generated icon based on the content, and displays the generated icon at a respective location in the web browser.
US11385850B2
Original pictures photographed from a plurality of photograph viewpoints are prepared, display pictures for regions corresponding to visual-lines are generated while switching to an original picture photographed from another viewpoint is being performed according to movement of a subject 81 or the like. The original pictures are associated with tag data indicating the positions of images of particular subjects. When the viewpoint is switched, the visual line is controlled such that the position indicated by a tag for a same subject is included within the visual field before and after the switching. Accordingly, a post-switching region is displayed.
US11385849B2
An image forming apparatus includes a storage unit storing sheets each including a wireless tag, a printer, a communication device, and a controller for controlling the printer to convey a first sheet, acquiring first strengths of signals from a first tag on a first sheet during the conveyance of the first sheet and second strengths from tags not sheets being conveyed. Based on the acquired strengths, the controller determines a threshold value for distinguishing between sheets being conveyed and not being conveyed. The controller then controls the communication device to write information to a tag on a sheet being conveyed based on the threshold value.
US11385842B2
A printing system includes an image formation apparatus, an information processing apparatus, and a terminal apparatus. The terminal apparatus includes a reception unit configured to receive conditions of capabilities required for an image formation apparatus to be registered on a virtual printer, and a first transmission unit configured to transmit the conditions received by the reception unit to the information processing apparatus. The image formation apparatus includes a second transmission unit configured to transmit, to the information processing apparatus, capability information indicating a capability of the image formation apparatus. The information processing apparatus includes a registration unit configured to register the image formation apparatus on the virtual printer in a case where the capability indicated in the capability information transmitted by the second transmission unit satisfies the conditions transmitted by the first transmission unit.
US11385841B2
A printer may receive first user identification information among one or more user identification information from a first external device via a communication interface of the printer, and receive a first deletion request including first specific information from the first external device via the communication interface. In a case where the first user identification information and the first deletion request are received from the first external device and the first user identification information is stored in a memory of the printer in association with the first print setting information, the printer may delete the first print setting information identified by the first specific information from the memory.
US11385835B2
A method and apparatus for operating a solid state drive is disclosed comprising receiving at least two commands from a host requiring an action by the solid state drive in a preliminary order, ordering the at least two commands based upon a quality of service classification for the at least two commands to a final order and executing the at least two commands on the solid state drive in the final order, wherein an operational parameter of the solid state drive is modified by at least one of the at least two commands.
US11385834B2
A data storage device and a storage system including the same are disclosed. The data storage device includes a nonvolatile memory device configured to store user data and metadata including data type identification information matched with the user data, and a controller to control the nonvolatile memory device to be switched to a cold data storage device for storing cold data only when a number of program-erase (PE) cycles of the nonvolatile memory device is equal to or larger than a reference value.
US11385830B2
In one example, a method includes: receiving a ready-to-split instruction for the to-be-split fragment; sending the ready-to-split instruction to slave servers, so that each of the slave servers obtains data splitting points of the to-be-split fragment, and sends the data splitting points to the master server; when the number of received data splitting points exceeds a first threshold number, sending data splitting points to the control node, so that the control node sends a splitting-storage instruction to the master server; sending the splitting-storage instruction to each of the slave servers, so that each of the slave servers performs splitting-storage on the to-be-split fragment according to the data splitting points, and sends a first message to the master server to indicate completion of the splitting-storage; when the number of received first messages exceeds a second threshold number, performing splitting-storage on the to-be-split fragment according to the data splitting points.
US11385829B2
A device can include a plurality of processing sources; a multiplexer (MUX) configured to assign read requests from the processing sources to predetermined time division multiplexer (TDM) command slots. A memory controller can generate nonvolatile memory (NVM) command and address data from read requests received from the MUX during the TDM command slots assigned to the read requests on a unidirectional command-address bus. The address data can include at least a bank address. The device can also receive read data on a unidirectional parallel data bus in synchronism with rising and falling edges of a received data clock. The read data can be received in TDM read slots having a predetermined order. A demultiplexer can provide the read data of each TDM read slot to one of the processing sources based on the TDM read slot position in the predetermined order. Related methods and systems are also disclosed.
US11385826B2
Techniques for storage management involve: if it is determined that a source storage slice of a file system is to be recycled, identifying, from the source storage slice including a plurality of storage blocks, an orphan storage block that is inaccessible by a client of the file system; replicating data of the orphan storage block to a target storage block, the target storage block being located in a target storage slice within a predetermined isolation area of the file system; and generating second metadata of the target storage block based at least on first metadata of the orphan storage block, the second metadata including at least an identification of the orphan storage block. Therefore, the management performance can be improved, and the storage costs can be reduced.
US11385823B2
Techniques for rebuilding a disk array involve, in response to receiving a message for rebuilding disk arrays in a storage system, determining a target disk that causes rebuilding. Such techniques further involve determining from the disk arrays a set of disk arrays related to the target disk, and generating subsets of disk arrays from the set of disk arrays, each subset including disk arrays that can be rebuilt in parallel. Such techniques further involve determining, based on a number of disks included in each subset, a target subset from the plurality of subsets, and rebuilding disk arrays in the target subset in parallel. Accordingly, a disk array that is most suitable for parallel rebuilding may be determined, and the process of rebuilding the disk array is sped up. Such techniques reduce the delay caused by performing rebuilding, and improve rebuilding efficiency.
US11385822B2
Techniques for processing data involve: receiving a request for moving data from a first slice group in a first logical unit to a second logical unit; determining, based on the request, a second slice group from the second logical unit, the size of the second slice group being larger than or equal to the size of the first slice group; and moving data in the first slice group into the second slice group. Such techniques enable moving data into slices in a specified address range in a specified logical unit, moving data into appropriate slices in a target logical unit when data cannot be moved to slices in a specific address range because an address range is not specified or a specified address range is unavailable can be achieved, and moving disk extents (DEs) by a Redundant Array of Multi-Core Disks (MCR) and redistributing IOs between disk extents.
US11385818B2
Techniques for managing disks involve: in response to a number of a plurality of disks to be partitioned being greater than a predetermined number of disks in a disk set, determining a plurality of candidate combinations of disk sets from the plurality of disks. The techniques further involve selecting a target combination from the plurality of candidate combinations, a first disk set of the target combination comprising at least a first subset corresponding to a first disk array, a second disk set of the target combination comprising at least a second subset corresponding to a second disk array, a number of disks in the first subset and a number of disks in the second subset being both equal to a first number and the disks in the first subset being different from the disks in the second subset. Accordingly, such techniques improve the storage efficiency of the disk array.
US11385807B1
Disclosed herein are systems and method for recovering a computing device after an intrusion is detected. In one aspect, an exemplary method comprises, by a minimalistic operating system running on the computing device, deploying a master container, wherein the deploying of the master container comprises creating and starting the master container from a container image, providing, to the master container, access to a storage area network (SAN) volume, providing, to the master container, read-only access to a Distributed Configuration Management (DCM) module domain, the domain being where a configuration of the computing device is stored, and invoking an Intrusion Detection Module (IDM) to start detecting intrusions into the master container; and upon receiving a notification from the IDM, re-deploying, by the minimalistic OS, the master container from the container image, wherein the deployed master container acts as a default runtime environment on the computing device.
US11385806B1
Methods and the like according to the disclosure can include determining an information type of digital information, writing the digital information using a first process (in response to a determination that the information type of the digital information is a first information type), and, in response to a determination that the information type of the digital information is a second information type, determining erasure-coded parity information for the digital information and writing the digital information using a second process (where the digital information is to be written to erasure-coded storage). In the former case, the first process that includes writing the digital information to storage. The second process includes writing the digital information and the erasure-coded parity information to erasure-coded storage, without writing the digital information to a log.
US11385799B2
A storage cluster includes a plurality of storage nodes. Each of the plurality of storage nodes includes nonvolatile solid-state memory and each of the plurality of storage nodes is configured to cooperate with others of the plurality of storage nodes having differing storage capacities in applying erasure coding. The plurality of storage nodes are configured to distribute the user data and metadata throughout the plurality of storage nodes.
US11385798B1
A system and method of managing storage on non-volatile memory (NVM) storage media, by at least one processor, may include receiving, from at least one client computing device, one or more data write requests, associated with application metadata, to store one or more respective data objects on the NVM storage media; performing a first classification of the one or more data objects, based on the application metadata, so as to associate each data object to a group of data objects; storing the data objects of each group in a dedicated storage set of a logical address space; and transmitting, or copying the data objects of each storage set to be stored in a respective, dedicated range of the NVM storage media.
US11385797B2
Several embodiments of memory devices and systems having a variable logical memory capacity are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a memory device can include a plurality of memory regions that collectively define a physical memory capacity and a controller operably coupled to the plurality of memory regions. The controller is configured to advertise a first logical memory capacity to a host device, wherein the first logical memory capacity is less than the physical memory capacity, determine that at least one of the memory regions is at or near end of life, and in response to the determination, (1) retire the at least one of the memory regions and (2) reduce a logical memory capacity of the host device to a second logical memory capacity that is less than the first logical memory capacity.
US11385796B2
Techniques perform storage management. Such techniques involve: in response to receiving, at a first processor of a storage system, a write request from a host for writing user data, caching the user data in a first cache of the first processor, and generating cache metadata in the first cache, the cache metadata including information associated with writing the user data; sending the user data and the cache metadata to a second cache of a second processor, for the second processor to perform, in the second cache, data processing related to cache mirroring by the second processor; and sending, to the host, an indication of completion of the write request, without waiting for the second processor to complete the data processing. Such techniques can improve system performance such as reducing latency, and shortening length of the I/O handling path of write request.
US11385791B2
A method for setting a system interface of a mobile terminal includes: determining a pressure value; dividing sub-regions; determining a reduced or enlarged ratio of an icon; determining a layout of the icon; and determining a value of an operating parameter. Thus, the sub-regions may be divided targetedly according to characteristics of the sliding operation of each user, so that an icon position laid out for each system interface, according to the divided sub-regions, may be more adaptive to operation requirements of the user and may targetedly reduce operation difficulty of the user.
US11385781B2
In some implementations, a computing device can perform multi-display alignment through observed user interactions. The computing device can receive user input aligning a first alignment object on a first display device with a second alignment object on a second display device. The computing device can align the display buffers for each display device based on the positions of the alignment objects in each display buffer corresponding to each display device. The computing device can align display buffers based on observed movements of graphical objects between multiple display devices. When display buffers corresponding to the display devices are misaligned, the user may correct the path of a graphical object when moving the graphical object between display devices. The computing device can detect the correction and align the display buffers of the display devices so that graphical objects are presented at the appropriate locations when moved between the display devices.
US11385780B2
In some embodiments, a content placement system selects and allocates content objects for a display region in a user interface based on content priorities of the content objects and location priorities of virtual locations in the display region. The content placement system receives a request for content objects to be presented in the display region. The content placement system determines a layout for dividing the display region into multiple virtual locations. Each of the virtual locations contains spots each configured for displaying a content object. The content placement system determines content objects and allocation of the content objects for each of the virtual locations based on content priorities associated with the content objects and location priorities of the virtual locations. The content placement system transmits the content objects according to the allocation to an online platform for display in the user interface.
US11385776B2
The Commissioning phase is usually the most Time/Labor intensive phase in the Fire Safety System life cycle as the process involves referring to the Building floor plan document (as provided by the Installer) and creation of Areas/Zones and carefully assigning each fire device (viz. Smoke/Heat detectors, MCP etc.) to the corresponding zones in the Panel configuration software to configure the Fire Panel. The overall process easily spans for multiple days based on the Building network complexity. The present invention provides a system, apparatus and method for rapid commissioning by providing a graphical interface in which device addresses can be uniquely allocated using an interactive screen. This avoids double address faults which can be time consuming to identify and rectify. Geographic information of the devices can also be identified and incorporated using the interactive screen.
US11385772B2
A storage unit stores a rule for specifying additional information to be displayed for each operation scene identified with a combination of states of DOM elements of a predetermined web page being represented by presence/absence or attribute values. A rule interpretation execution unit monitors the states of the DOM elements of the predetermined web page, and causes the storage unit to store the states as a context board. The rule interpretation execution unit displays, if states of the operation scene matching states of the context board stored in the storage unit, the additional information specified with the rule.
US11385769B2
Extracorporeal blood treatment systems and methods to display graphical user interfaces displaying a plurality of fluids areas, each including a flow rate, and displaying adjustment notifications proximate one or more fluid areas. For example, when a user adjusts a flow rate to a limit, one or more notifications may be displayed proximate other flow rates that may be adjusted to modify the limit.
US11385760B2
Augmentable and manipulable modeling of equipment provides a three dimensional, manipulable base model image of an equipment specimen on a display system using optical base model data obtained using a computing system. Base model data collection can be user-controlled to permit changing spatial aspects of the base model image (size, perspective, orientation). User inputs concerning functions, conditions and the like can be transmitted from a model control unit to the computing system via a two-way communication link, generating augmenting data that is combined with the base model data to render augmented three dimensional models. User inputs also can be received directly by the computing system, for example using a display system touchscreen. Augmenting data received by the computing system and/or display system also can be transmitted via the communication link to the model control unit. Such implementations permit realistic simulation of the effects of a control system on a real world system, equipment, etc.
US11385759B2
A virtual object is arranged in a virtual space, and an image in the virtual space is generated to be presented to a user. In addition, information indicating an operation from the user is received, a virtual manipulator for operating the virtual object is displayed in the virtual space in accordance with the received information indicating the operation, the magnitude of a virtual force applied to the virtual object by the virtual manipulator is determined, and information indicating the determined magnitude of the force is presented to the user.
US11385757B2
Computer systems and methods, according to various embodiments, allow users with shared access to a shared file or folder to communicate with one another via online chat. In particular embodiments, the system is configured to facilitate a chat session among all users that have shared access to a particular file or folder in response to a particular user selecting a “chat” button (or other suitable chat initiation element) associated with the shared file or folder. After a chat session is complete, the system may archive the chat session for later viewing and use.
US11385755B2
A conductive member for a touch panel has a first electrode formed on a substrate and extending in parallel to a first direction, in which the first electrode is electrically connected to a plurality of first mesh cells constituted by a fine metal wire, the fine metal wire is not parallel or perpendicular with respect to a first direction, the first electrode has at least one auxiliary fine metal wire that extends in a first direction, intersects the fine metal wire, is electrically connected to the fine metal wire, and is not parallel to the fine metal wire, and an electrode width Wa of the first electrode in a second direction orthogonal to a first direction and a first mesh pitch P1 of the first mesh cell in a second direction satisfy Wa≤2.5P1.
US11385742B2
A position detection method of detecting a position in an operation surface pointed by a pointing element, the method including irradiating with infrared light toward the operation surface, obtaining a first and second taken image calibrated with respect to the operation surface by imaging the operation surface with a first and second camera configured to take an image with the infrared light, forming a difference image between the first taken image and the second taken image, extracting an area in which an amount of disparity between the first taken image and the second taken image is within a predetermined range out of the difference image as a candidate area in which an image of the pointing element is included, detecting an area corresponding to a tip position of the pointing element from the candidate area extracted based on a shape of the pointing element, and outputting, based on the area corresponding to a tip position, information representing a pointing position of the pointing element in the operation surface and whether or not the pointing element had contact with the operation surface.
US11385739B2
According to an aspect, a display apparatus includes: a substrate; a plurality of pixel electrodes; a plurality of detection electrodes arranged in a matrix in a display area of the substrate; a plurality of detection electrode lines coupled to the respective detection electrodes; a plurality of first electrodes provided in the same layer as the detection electrodes or the detection electrode lines and extending in a first direction; a plurality of switching elements coupled to the respective pixel electrodes; a plurality of signal lines coupled to the switching elements and extending in a second direction crossing the first direction; a coupling member provided in a peripheral area outside the display area and configured to couple ends of the first electrodes to each other; and a drive circuit configured to output a first drive signal in a first sensing period in which an electromagnetic induction method is used.
US11385737B1
An electronic device includes a cover plate, a display module, and a touch module. The touch module includes a substrate, a touch sensing layer, and a trace. The substrate includes a main body portion and an extending portion connected to each other. The main body portion is located between the cover plate and the display module. The extending portion extends to a side of the display module away from the cover plate. The touch sensing layer is disposed on the main body portion. The trace is coupled to the touch sensing layer and extends on the extending portion.
US11385736B2
A control element is used for a display unit, a system includes a control element and a display unit, a method of using the control element and a method for operating a display unit in conjunction with the control element are described.
US11385732B2
The present disclosure relates to the field of touch display technologies, and provides an array substrate, a manufacturing method thereof, a touch display panel and a touch display device. The array substrate includes a base substrate, and a plurality of thin film transistors, an insulating planarization layer, a plurality of pixel electrodes, a plurality of touch electrodes and a plurality of common electrodes formed sequentially on the base substrate. The insulating planarization layer has a plurality of vias exposing a drain of each thin film transistor respectively. Each pixel electrode is connected to a drain of a corresponding thin film transistor through a via in the insulating planarization layer, and each common electrode is connected to a corresponding touch electrode.
US11385731B2
A method of manufacturing a transparent conductive film for a touch sensitive panel, comprising: providing a layered structure comprising a plurality of homogeneous layers which include at least a first transparent conductive layer, a second transparent conductive layer, and a transparent support substrate between the first transparent conductive layer and the second transparent conductive layer, the transparent support substrate being the thickest layer of the layered structure; forming an electrode pattern in the first transparent conductive layer by laser ablation of the first transparent layer by a laser beam incident on the first transparent layer from a side of the transparent support substrate on which the first transparent layer is provided; wherein the laser beam and transparent support substrate are configured such that the laser beam energy density is reduced by 50% or more by the transparent support substrate.
US11385727B2
In one example in accordance with the present disclosure, an electronic input device is described. The electronic input device includes a scribing shaft disposed within a housing, the scribing shaft to translate along a longitudinal axis as a result of contact with a substrate. The electronic input device also includes an input sensor. The input sensor includes a plate secured within the housing. The plate elastically deforms responsive to the translation of the scribing shaft. A full-bridge strain gauge of the input sensor is disposed on a surface of the plate. The full-bridge strain gauge detects a deformation of the plate and outputs a corresponding signal, which corresponding signal varies dependent upon the amount of deformation of the plate. The input sensor also includes a failure protection device to limit the deformation of the plate to within a predetermined amount.
US11385718B2
A system that provides mechanical movement of a surface of a touch sensor when force is applied, may include a substrate; a touch sensor formed on a substrate; a flex arm coupled to the substrate forming a flexible joint between the substrate and the flex arm; a housing for the touch sensor, the housing supporting the touch sensor at a distal end of the flex arm; and a force sensor integrated into the flex arm.
US11385716B1
An apparatus for creating and tuning haptic feedback is provided. The apparatus includes (A) a brace with first and second portions, (B) a vibrotactile actuator, coupled to the first portion of the brace, configured to apply haptic stimulations to a user, and (C) a linear actuator, coupled to the second portion of the brace, configured to (i) obtain a signal generated based on information about the user's body at a target location of the user and (ii) adjust a tension of the brace according to the signal. In some embodiments, the apparatus also includes one or more sensors configured to generate the information about the user's body at the target location. Furthermore, a controller may be configured to: (i) generate the signal based on the information about the user's body at the target location generated by the one or more sensors and (ii) provide the signal to the linear actuator.
US11385715B2
A non-contact operating apparatus, for a vehicle, includes a generating unit, a projecting device, a detecting device, a stimulation output device, a determining unit, and a stimulation response output unit. The generating unit is configured to generate and update image containing an image object. The projecting device is configured to project the image in a predetermined display region. The detecting device is configured to detect an operation site of an occupant positioned in a vicinity of the predetermined display region. The stimulation output device is configured to output and update a tactile stimulation to the operation site. The determining unit is configured to determine whether the operation site performs a non-contact operation against the image object. The stimulation response output unit is configured to cause the stimulation output device to output the tactile stimulation to the operation site on the basis of a determination result.
US11385703B2
A semiconductor device selects one start sequence of the normal start and the low-power-consumption start based on the determination result of the determination circuit. According to the configuration, the operation in the start sequence from the power supply input to the processor operation start can be selected from the operation in which the instantaneous current is suppressed and the high-speed operation based on the supplied power supply.
US11385700B2
Estimation of power consumption for a job based on adjusted calculation of similarities between jobs
An apparatus calculates, based on attribute information of a new job and jobs that have been executed, a first similarity level of the attribute information between the new job and the jobs by using a calculation expression, identifies a job whose attribute information is most similar to that of the new job as a first candidate job, and estimates power consumption to be consumed by the new job at power consumption of the first candidate job. The apparatus calculates, for at least one of the jobs, a second similarity level of power consumption between the at least one of the jobs and the new job, identifies a job whose power consumption is most similar to that of the new job as a second candidate job, and adjusts the calculation expression to increase the first similarity level to be calculated between the new job and the second candidate job.
US11385696B2
The electronic apparatus of the present invention includes: a power source control unit allocated to each of a plurality of external interfaces and configured to control supply or shutoff of a current for an external device and to output whether or not an overcurrent is detected as an overcurrent detection signal; a control unit configured to control supply or shutoff of a current; a logical product circuit that outputs a logical product of the overcurrent detection signals as an external interrupt signal; and an interface control unit configured to, in a case where the overcurrent detection signals is asserted, output external interface information specifying an external interface at which the overcurrent has occurred, and the control unit, in a case where the external interrupt signal is asserted, controls to the power source control unit at which the overcurrent has been detected so as to shut off supply of power.
US11385690B2
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a wireless communication module including a first communication processor and a second communication processor, a sensor module, at least one processor, and at least one memory configured to store instructions, executable by the at least one processor, for identifying an execution status of the application and temperature of at least part of the electronic device, deactivating the second communication processor based on the identified execution status of the application and the identified temperature, and activating the second communication processor based on network traffic being processed by the first communication processor being greater than a predetermined threshold.
US11385686B2
An electronic device may have a flexible display that overlaps an axis. The display may be supported by a housing. The housing may have first and second portions that rotate relative to each other about the axis. The housing may be placed in an unfolded configuration to support the display in a planar state. The housing may also be placed in a folded configuration by rotating the first and second portions relative to each other. A hinge mechanism may be used to ensure adequate separation between the first and second portions when the housing is bent. Movable flaps may be retracted when the housing is bent to create room for a bent portion of the display.
US11385684B2
An electronic device includes a first housing and a second housing that overlaps the first housing. The electronic device includes a display with a first region and a second region. The electronic device includes a processor configured to control the display to display at least one content. The processor is configured to determine a first content and a second content. The processor is configured to identify that a region of the display is extended. In response to identifying that the region of the display is extended, the processor is configured to change a resolution of the first content to correspond to a size of the extended region of the display while the display is being extended. The processor is configured to change a resolution of the second content to correspond to the size of the extended region of the display after the extension of the display is completed.
US11385663B2
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.
US11385651B2
System and methods for detection and response to interference between trailer coupler and hitch ball
A vehicle system comprises a hitch mounted on a vehicle and at least one sensor in connection with the hitch. A controller is configured to identify a force applied to the hitch via the at least one sensor. In response to the force, the controller is further configured to approximate a direction of the force. Based on the direction, the controller generates instructions identifying a height adjustment of a coupler of a trailer.
US11385650B2
Systems and methods for an inspection robot having replaceable sensor sled portions are disclosed. An example system may include: an inspection robot including a plurality of payloads; a plurality of arms, each of the plurality of arms pivotally mounted to one of the plurality of payloads; and a plurality of sleds, each sled mounted to one of the plurality of arms. At least one of the plurality of sleds includes an upper portion coupled to a replaceable lower portion, where the replaceable lower portion includes a portion of a delay line for a sensor of the inspection robot.
US11385648B2
A vehicle relocator may include one or more processors, which are configured to receive first sensor data representing a current or predicted weather condition; receive second sensor data representing at least position or a vicinity of a vehicle; determine from at least the first sensor data and the second sensor data a risk of damage to the vehicle; and if the determined risk is outside of a target range, send an instruction for the vehicle to travel to an alternate location.
US11385646B2
This description provides an autonomous or semi-autonomous earth shaping vehicle that is capable of cooperatively executing an earth shaping routine in a dig site with other earth shaping vehicles. A first earth shaping vehicle configured with a tool for excavating earth navigates to a dig location containing earth to be excavated. The first earth shaping vehicle identifies a loading location where the first vehicle may transfer earth to a second earth shaping vehicle configured with a tool for hauling earth between locations. Upon navigating to the loading location and detecting the second earth shaping vehicle at the loading location, the first earth shaping vehicle transfers earth from its excavation tool to the hauling tool of the second earth shaping vehicle.
US11385645B2
A method of controlling a movable object includes receiving, from a user interface of a terminal, selection of a mode from a plurality of modes that include at least one of an angle-to-angle control mode, an angle-to-speed control mode, or an angle-to-acceleration control mode; detecting, by a sensor of the terminal, an attitude of the terminal; and generating, at the terminal, a control signal configured to control a rotational attribute of the movable object based on the selected mode and the detected attitude of the terminal.
US11385637B2
An apparatus (e.g., robotic vehicle, control device, headpiece, etc.) including processing circuitry (110) configured to receive robotic-vehicle-positioning-information indicative of robotic vehicle position data of a robotic vehicle (20) transiting a work area at one or more locations on the work area; receive operator-positioning-information indicative of operator position data of an operator controlling the robotic vehicle (20); generate a virtual line-of-sight vector (70) based on the operator-positioning-information; generate a virtual sight area (80) based on the virtual line-of-sight vector (70) and a predetermined sight area parameter; determine if the virtual sight area (80) intersects with the robotic-vehicle-positioning-information; and initiate one or more precautionary measures when the virtual sight area (80) does not intersect with the robotic-vehicle-positioning-information.
US11385634B2
A transportation system having a transportation space including destinations distributed in the transportation space, multiple independent automated vehicles configured for free roving through the transportation space to and between the destinations so that the vehicles are dynamically distributed through the transportation space, a control system communicably connected via a remote communication link to each of the vehicles and having a system controller that addresses each vehicle to different destinations, and the control system having a vehicle accountant controller separate and distinct from the system controller and configured to independently register a dynamic location of at least one of the vehicles, selected from the multiple vehicles in the transportation space, and command shutdown, via the remote communication link, to only the selected at least one vehicle at the registered location if the registered location corresponds to a predetermined location.
US11385632B2
Systems, methods, and apparatus for sensor fault detection and identification using residual failure pattern recognition are disclosed. In one or more embodiments, a method for sensor fault detection and identification for a vehicle comprises sensing, with sensors located on the vehicle, data. The method further comprises performing majority voting on the data for each of the types of data to generate a single voted value for each of the types of data. Also, the method comprises generating, for each of the types of data, estimated values by using some of the voted values. In addition, the method comprises generating residuals by comparing the estimated values to the voted values. Further, the method comprises analyzing a pattern of the residuals to determine which of the types of the data is erroneous to detect and identify a fault experienced by at least one of the sensors on the vehicle.
US11385631B2
A method for determining an anomalous operating state in a charging infrastructure system for batteries is proposed. For a charging process at a charging station, the method includes obtaining target characteristics of the charging process, determining process parameters for the charging process, performing the charging process, determining a performance metric for the performed charging process, generating and storing a data set for the performed charging process in a database. For multiple charging processes, the method includes calculating and storing at least one first set of statistic data for a first time interval and at least one second set of statistic data for a second time interval, comparing the first set of statistic data with the second set of statistic data to compute a set of difference values for each stored data set, and determining whether the charging infrastructure system operates in an anomalous operating state.
US11385629B2
A system for managing physical assets in a manufacturing system includes a plurality of product controllers corresponding to physical assets in the manufacturing system. Each product controller is configured to store a desired product state for a physical asset and collect sensor data received from other digital companions. Furthermore, each product controller determines an actual product state based on the collected sensor data, as well as one or more actions to be performed on one or more physical assets in the manufacture system to yield the desired product state. Once the actions are determined, the product controller transmits control instructions for performing the one or more actions to one or more operation controllers in the manufacturing system.
US11385622B2
Systems and method for data collection in an industrial environment can include interpreting a plurality of sensor data values, each sensor operatively coupled to at least one of a plurality of components in the industrial environmental. In response to at least a portion of the plurality of sensor data values, determining a recognized pattern value and providing a system characterization value for the industrial system in response to the recognized pattern value.
US11385603B2
An automated environment can include an accessory device that operates according to an automation rule, to take a prescribed action when a triggering condition occurs. A controller device for the automated environment can determine a user's regular routine and can detect when the user is deviating from the regular routine. The controller device can communicate with accessory devices in the automated environment to modify their behavior relative to the automation rules.
US11385599B2
An input mechanism, such as a crown, detects amounts of applied force. In various examples, an assembly including an input mechanism has an enclosure; a stem coupled to the enclosure such that the stem is rotatable, translatable, and transversely moveable with respect to the enclosure; a sensor, coupled between the stem and the housing, to which force is transferred when the stem moves with respect to the housing; and a processing unit coupled to the sensor. The processing unit is operable to determine a measurement of the force, based on a signal from the sensor.
US11385589B2
An image forming apparatus includes an apparatus main body, a drum unit, and a developing unit. The developing unit includes a developing unit projection projecting out from opposite sides of the developing unit along an extension line of a rotation shaft of a developing roller. The apparatus main body includes a first developing projection guide portion configured to guide the developing unit projection from a first start position to a relay position in the apparatus main body, the relay position located closer to the photoconductor drum than the first start position. The drum unit includes a second developing projection guide portion configured to, succeeding from the first developing projection guide portion, guide the developing unit projection from the relay position to a first end position, the first end position located closer to the photoconductor drum than the relay position.
US11385578B2
An image forming apparatus having a fixing unit, a belt, a conveyance unit, a heat sink, first and second rollers, a belt position detection unit, a steering unit, and a control unit further includes an image forming unit to form a toner image on a recording material, and perform a state transition to a power-off state and to a standby state where image forming by the image forming unit is possible. The belt position detection unit detects a position of the belt. The steering unit swings the first roller relative to the second roller based on a detection result by the belt position detection unit to widthwisely move the belt relative to the first roller. When the image forming apparatus enters the power-off state, the control unit controls the steering unit to make a rotational axis of the first roller approximately parallel to a rotational axis of the second roller.
US11385574B2
A rotation device includes: a rotary body having a recess in an outer peripheral surface thereof; and a brush configured to come into contact with the outer peripheral surface of the rotary body to remove a foreign matter adhering to the outer peripheral surface, in which the brush is separated from the outer peripheral surface of the rotary body in a state where rotation of the rotary body is stopped.
US11385573B1
Examples include an end cap system for a developer unit in a liquid photographic printer. The end cap system includes an end cap and a film that includes a first outermost superficial layer and a second outermost superficial layer opposed to the first outermost superficial layer. The first outermost superficial layer is a pressure sensitive adhesive layer applied to a portion of an inner surface of the end cap. The second outermost superficial layer is a low surface energy layer to be exposed to liquid photographic printing fluid during printing.
US11385567B2
An image forming apparatus includes: an image carrier configured to carry an image; a developing unit configured to develop the image carried by the image carrier with a developer; and a developer replenishing unit configured to supply the developer to the developing unit, the developer replenishing unit being configured to predict, in advance, an amount of developer consumed by the image carrier at a start or an end of image formation apart from developer consumed in the image formation, to replenish the predicted amount of the developer.
US11385565B2
The image forming apparatus includes a drum cartridge having a photosensitive drum and a drum drive input member; a developing cartridge configured to be movably mounted to the drum cartridge, the developing cartridge comprising a developing roller disposed so as to face the photosensitive drum and a developing drive input member; a drum drive transmission member configured to engage with the drum drive input member and configured to transmit drum driving force to the drum drive input member while permitting a positional gap of the drum drive input member within a predetermined range; and a developing drive transmission member configured to engage with the developing drive input member and configured to transmit developing driving force to the developing drive input member while permitting a positional gap of the developing drive input member within a predetermined range.
US11385564B2
A development roller for an electrophotographic device that can both reduce resistance and suppress bleeding-out of an ion-conducting agent is provided. A development roller for an electrophotographic device 10 is provided with a shaft body 12, an elastic body layer 14 formed on the outer periphery of the shaft body 12, and a surface layer formed on the outer periphery of the elastic body layer 14. The surface layer 16 includes the following constituents (a) to (c), and the content of constituent (b) is 3.0 to 60 parts by mass, relative to 100 parts by mass of constituent (a). Constituent (a) is a binder comprising acrylonitrile-butadiene rubber, where the content of acrylonitrile is 31 mass % or more and 36 mass % or less. Constituent (b) is an ion-conducting agent. Constituent (c) is an acrylic polymer comprising at least one selected from among a silicone group and a fluorine group.
US11385560B1
An image forming apparatus includes a photoconductor, a charger, a ventilation mechanism, an exposure device, a developing device, a transfer device, and a controller. The ventilation mechanism guides ozone generated in the charger to an ozone discharge port. The exposure device forms an electrostatic latent image on the photoconductor charged by the charger. The transfer device transfers a toner image on the photoconductor developed by the developer supplied from the developing device to a medium. The controller allows the ventilation mechanism to discharge the ozone generated in the charger from the ozone discharge port after stopping supply of the developer from the developing device to the photoconductor in an operation mode in which the ozone is discharged.
US11385555B2
A particle removal method includes loading a particle attracting member with a coating layer into a processing chamber of a processing apparatus. The method also includes fixing the particle attracting member on a holder in the processing chamber in a cleaning cycle. The method also includes attracting particles in the processing chamber by the coating layer of the particle attracting member due to a potential difference between the particles and the coating layer. The particles are attracted to the surface of the coating layer. The method further includes loading the particle attracting member with the coating layer and the attracted particles out of the processing chamber, after the cleaning cycle. In addition, the method includes loading a semiconductor wafer into the processing chamber, and performing a semiconductor process on the semiconductor wafer in the processing chamber. The semiconductor process is performed after the cleaning cycle.
US11385545B2
A resist underlayer composition and a method of forming patterns, the composition including a polymer including at least one of a first moiety represented by Chemical Formula 1-1 and a second moiety represented by Chemical Formula 1-2; a thermal acid generator including a salt composed of an anion of an acid and a cation of a base, the base having pKa of greater than or equal to about 7; and a solvent,
US11385539B2
Method for compensating at least one defect of a mask blank, wherein the method includes the following steps: (a) obtaining data in respect of a position of the at least one defect of the mask blank; (b) obtaining design data for pattern elements which should be produced on the mask blank; (c) determining whether the at least one defect is arranged relative to a pattern element to be produced in such a way that it has substantially no effect when exposing a wafer using the mask blank that is provided with the pattern element to be produced; and (d) otherwise, displacing the at least one defect on the mask blank in such a way that it has substantially no effect when exposing the wafer using the mask blank that is provided with the pattern element to be produced.
US11385526B2
In a method of processing an image, a first image including a plurality of objects and image information associated with the first image are obtained. Image processing information associated with an image operation to be performed on the first image is obtained based on an object among the plurality of objects included in the first image and a user command specified in at least one of voice information of a user and touch information from the user. A second image is generated by performing the image operation on the first image based on the image information and the image processing information.
US11385521B2
A wavelength conversion apparatus using a nonlinear optical medium having a periodically poled structure is operated at an optimal temperature in a stable manner. The wavelength conversion apparatus includes a wavelength converter using a nonlinear optical medium and a controller for controlling temperature of the wavelength converter. The wavelength conversion apparatus further includes a first optical branch coupler for branching part of output light from the wavelength converter, and first and second wavelength separation filters for separating and outputting, from part of the output light, each of two light components generated by parametric fluorescence in the wavelength converter. The controller controls the temperature of the wavelength converter on the basis of difference in light intensity of the two light components.
US11385518B2
An electro-optic modulator comprises a resonator comprising a first waveguide having a first end and second end; a first grating at the first end; and a second grating at the second end. An input channel is in communication with the resonator, and comprises a second waveguide having a first end and second end; an input port at the first end; a third grating at the second end; and a first coupler configured to couple light between the second waveguide and the first waveguide. An output channel is in communication with the resonator, and comprises a third waveguide having a first end and second end; an all-pass filter at the first end; a readout port at the second end; and a second coupler configured to couple light between the first and third waveguides. The all-pass filter is configured to adjust a coupling strength between the second coupler and the readout port.
US11385516B2
Methods and devices are provided for the beam steering, focusing, display, and generation of light and images by electronically induced refractive index gradients and scattering fields formed by forces on particles in a colloid due to phoretic processes. The methods and devices provide control over multi-octave bandwidth and polarization diverse light having a large dynamic range in power handling. Embodiments of the technique are provided for large-angle beam steering, beam combining, focusing, and redirecting light electronically. Diverse applications for the technology include, but are not limited to: solar concentrators, LiDAR, robotic vision, smartphone zoom lenses, 3D-manufacturing, high-power laser machining, augmented & virtual reality displays, electronic paper displays, computer and television displays.
US11385515B2
Embodiments of the disclosure are related to display devices, a planarization layer disposed on a thin film transistor in a display panel is removed to form an opening in the planarization layer, and a top gate electrode is disposed in the opening of the planarization layer, thus a driving performance of the thin film transistor is enhanced while reducing a size of the thin film transistor disposed in the display panel. Furthermore, the top gate electrode is implemented using an electrode layer located on an upper layer of the planarization layer, the thin film transistor including double gate electrodes is implemented easily without an additional process.
US11385514B2
The present application discloses an array substrate and a display panel. The array substrate includes a display region and a peripheral region; a plurality of pixels formed in the display region; a plurality of alignment circuit formed in the peripheral region for implementing alignment for the liquid crystals within the pixels; where the alignment circuits include first bonding pads and a plurality of short-circuited bars, each of the plurality of short-circuited bars is electrically connected to the first bonding pads through transfer lines, and any two of the transfer lines adjacently disposed are disposed on different metal layers.
US11385513B2
A liquid crystal display device comprising: a first liquid crystal display panel; and a second liquid crystal display panel opposed to the first liquid crystal display panel, wherein each of the first liquid crystal display panel and the second liquid crystal display panel includes a video signal line, a scanning line, a transistor provided in each pixel, and a pixel electrode provided in each pixel, and at least one of the video signal line, the scanning line, a semiconductor layer of the transistor, and the pixel electrode is patterned in an identical shape in the first liquid crystal display panel and the second liquid crystal display panel.
US11385505B2
A display substrate, a display panel and a manufacturing method thereof, and a display device are disclosed. The display panel includes a first display substrate, a second display substrate and a third display substrate; the second display substrate is assembled with the first display substrate to form a first liquid crystal cell; the third display substrate is assembled with the second display substrate to form a second liquid crystal cell. In the display panel, a first alignment layer is located at a side of a second display substrate facing the first display substrate, the second alignment layer is located at a side of the second display substrate facing the third display substrate; the second alignment layer includes a metal wire grid polarizer and a buffer layer located on a surface of the metal wire grid polarizer facing the third display substrate.
US11385503B2
There is provided a liquid crystal display apparatus having sufficiently small black brightness in an oblique direction. A liquid crystal display apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: a liquid crystal cell including a viewer-side substrate, a back surface-side substrate, and a homogeneously aligned liquid crystal layer sandwiched therebetween; a first polarizer arranged on a viewer side of the liquid crystal cell; a second polarizer arranged on a back surface side of the liquid crystal cell; a first optical compensation layer arranged between the liquid crystal cell and the first polarizer; and a second optical compensation layer arranged between the liquid crystal cell and the second polarizer. The viewer-side substrate and the back surface-side substrate each have a thickness direction retardation Rth(550) of from −10 nm to 100 nm, and a product A×E is 300 or less.
US11385501B2
Provided are a backlight module, a display device, a method for driving a display device, an electronic apparatus, and a computer-readable storage medium. The backlight module includes: a base substrate; multiple light emitting modules disposed on a side of the base substrate, where each of the multiple light emitting modules includes a first light emitting region, a second light emitting region and a third first light emitting region; and a light exiting layer disposed on a side of the light emitting modules facing away from the base substrate. Vertical projections of the first light emitting region, the second light emitting region and the third light emitting region on the base substrate overlap with vertical projections of a first light exiting region, a second light exiting region and a third light exiting region on the base substrate respectively. Each backlight driving module is connected to at least one light emitting module.
US11385497B2
Each of a mirror surface display device and a light reflecting member includes a support member having an optical thin film thereon, a broadband selective reflection film and a display in this order; the optical thin film being formed on a surface of the support member facing the broadband selective reflection film; and the broadband selective reflection film being a film selectively transmitting one of clockwise circularly polarized light and counterclockwise circularly polarized light, and selectively reflecting the other polarized light, and having cholesteric regularity.
US11385488B2
A curved display panel including a display surface curving at least around a curve axis and displaying an image, the curved display panel includes a first substrate; a second substrate spaced apart from, and facing, the first substrate; a plurality of pixels provided to the first substrate, and arranged in a matrix inside the display surface; a light shield provided to the second substrate, extending in a curve direction of the display surface, and dividing the pixels adjacent to each other in an orthogonal-to-curve direction extending along the display surface and orthogonal to the curve direction; and an indicator provided to the second substrate, and serving as a position indicator of each of the pixels in the curve direction.
US11385484B2
Photonic transmitter, comprising: a stack of a first layer, second layer and third layer stacked on top of one another, a laser source comprising a first waveguide and a second waveguide. The stack comprises: a fourth layer located on the third layer, the thickness of this fourth layer being comprised between 40 nm and 1 μm in order to obtain adiabatic coupling between the first and second waveguides, and a fifth layer located directly on the fourth layer, the second waveguide being entirely structured in a III-V gain medium of this fifth layer. The first waveguide comprises a first portion made of semiconductor located inside the third layer and that extends as far as to the interface between the third and fourth layers.
US11385476B2
A lens element worn in front of an eye of a person includes a refraction area having a first refractive power based on a prescription for correcting an abnormal refraction of the eye of the person and a second refractive power different from the first refractive power and a plurality of at least three optical elements, at least one optical element having an optical function of not focusing an image on the retina of the eye so as to slow down the progression of the abnormal refraction of the eye.
US11385475B2
A lens element worn in front of an eye of a person includes a refraction area having a first refractive power based on a prescription for correcting an abnormal refraction of the eye of the person and a second refractive power different from the first refractive power and a plurality of at least three optical elements, at least one optical element having an optical function of not focusing an image on the retina of the eye so as to slow down the progression of the abnormal refraction of the eye.
US11385474B2
A system creating an autostereoscopic augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), or other visual display experience involving 3D images, presented to a viewer without glasses or other head-gear. The system includes a projection screen, which includes a reflective surface formed using retroreflective material. The system includes a projection assembly and a beamsplitter, which is disposed between an outlet of the projection assembly and the projection screen. The system includes a physical scenic space facing a lower side of the beamsplitter and a viewing space facing an upper side of the beamsplitter. A controller operates the projector assembly to project left and right eye images toward the projection screen. The left and right eye images are then directed to left and right eye positions so a viewer with eyes positioned at the left and right eye positions perceives a virtual object concurrently with light from the physical scenic space.
US11385470B2
An image projection apparatus includes a projection light emission unit, a first optical element, a second optical element, and an optical system. The projection light emission unit has a display surface with a first region and a second region arranged in an x direction. The first optical element reflects first projection light from the first region. The second optical element reflects the first projection light reflected by the first optical element and transmits second projection light from the second region. The optical system projects the first and the second projection light. The first direction corresponds to a direction in which both eyes are aligned when the first projection light and the second projection light are projected into the user's field of view. The display surface includes subpixels constituting one pixel arranged in the first direction and subpixels constituting different pixels in a second direction that intersects the first direction.
US11385468B2
Provided herein are augmented reality visual aid systems, software, and methods which enhance vision, to simulate natural vision, by utilizing hybrid see through occlusion enabled hardware, and software through image manipulation, reprocessing, blending, for presentation and display to the eyes thus enabling a range of tasks previously lost or impacted.
US11385466B2
A head mounted display device includes a lens assembly which changes a path of light; a main display module which outputs a main image and is positioned in front of the lens assembly; a main optical block which shields at least a portion of a light representing the main image such that the light representing the main image faces the lens assembly; a sub-display module disposed on a side of the main optical block and which outputs a sub-image; a sub-optical block positioned on the side of the main optical block and which shields at least a portion of a light representing the sub-image; and a light path converter positioned in the sub-optical block and which changes a path of the light representing the sub-image such that the light representing the sub-image faces the lens assembly.
US11385442B2
A photographing lens system includes seven lens elements, the seven lens elements being, in order from an object side to an image side: a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element, a fourth lens element, a fifth lens element, a sixth lens element, and a seventh lens element. Each of the seven lens elements has an object-side surface facing toward the object side and an image-side surface facing toward the image side. The first lens element has negative refractive power. The second lens element has negative refractive power. The image-side surface of the fourth lens element is concave in a paraxial region thereof. The image-side surface of the seventh lens element is concave in a paraxial region thereof and has at least one inflection point in an off-axis region thereof.
US11385441B2
The present disclosure discloses a projection lens assembly. The projection lens assembly includes, sequentially along an optical axis from an image side to a source side, a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, and a fourth lens. The first lens has a positive refractive power, and an image-side surface of the first lens is a convex surface. The second lens has a positive refractive power or a negative refractive power, and a source-side surface of the second lens is a convex surface. The third lens has a positive refractive power. The fourth lens has a positive refractive power or a negative refractive power.
US11385437B2
A lens assembly includes a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, and a fifth lens, all of which are arranged in order from an object side to an image side along an optical axis. The first lens is with positive refractive power and includes a convex surface facing the object side. The second lens is with refractive power. The third lens is with negative refractive power. The fourth lens is with positive refractive power and includes a convex surface facing the image side. The fifth lens is with negative refractive power and includes a concave surface facing the image side. The lens assembly satisfies: 1.5
US11385428B2
A cassette with a first and second end. Each end may have a plural of receptacles capable of accepting one or more connector types. The cassette may have a pair of latches on opposing sides, or a latch and flange to secure cassette within a panel or support structure. The cassette is configured to accept a first connector type on the first side and a second connector type on the second side of the cassette, so the first and second connecter are opposing and in communication.
US11385427B2
Hybrid optical cables, hybrid optical connectors, and hybrid optical adapters are disclosed. In one embodiment, a hybrid optical connector includes a connector housing having an insertion portion, wherein the insertion portion is asymmetric with respect to a mid-plane of the connector housing that is positioned in an optical axis of the hybrid optical connector. The hybrid optical connector further includes a ferrule disposed within the connector housing, and a first hermaphroditic electrical contact and a second hermaphroditic electrical contact disposed within the connector housing adjacent opposing sides of the ferrule.
US11385422B2
An optical semiconductor device comprises: a first wiring pattern provided on a carrier mounting surface of a dielectric substrate; a first reference potential pattern surrounding the first wiring pattern; a carrier block provided on the carrier mounting surface and having a main surface, a side surface, and a second wiring pattern and a second reference potential pattern constituting coplanar lines; and an optical semiconductor element provided on the main surface. One end portion of the second wiring pattern extends to at least an end edge on the side surface side in the main surface and is conductively joined to the first wiring pattern with a conductive joining material therebetween. One end portion of the second reference potential pattern extends to at least the end edge on the side surface side in the main surface and is conductively joined to the first reference potential pattern with a conductive joining material therebetween.
US11385417B2
A connector plug, having: a plug body that houses an optical fiber inside; a latch that is supported on an outer surface of the plug body to be capable of being engaged with the adapter; a slider that is supported on the plug body to be slidable with respect to the plug body; and a stopper that is detachably attachable between the plug body and the slider, wherein the slider is capable of elastically deforming the latch toward the outer surface of the plug body, when the slider is slid in a detaching direction which is a direction of drawing the connector plug out of the adapter, the slider elastically deforms the latch toward the outer surface of the plug body, and when the stopper is attached between the plug body and the slider, the stopper restricts the slider from elastically deforming the latch toward the outer surface of the plug body.
US11385414B2
Fiber optic connectors are disclosed that may compensate for the tolerance stack-up of components. The fiber optic connector comprises a connector assembly, a body for securing a portion of the connector assembly, an internal compliant member, a connector sleeve assembly, a balancing resilient member, and a housing. The internal compliant member is disposed about a portion of the body and may compensate for tolerance stack-up of components when the fiber optic connector is assembled. The connector assembly comprises a ferrule and a resilient member for biasing the ferrule forward and the connector sleeve assembly comprises a housing and a ferrule sleeve. When assembled, the connector assembly is at least partially disposed in the passageway of the housing and the ferrule of the connector assembly is at least partially disposed in the ferrule sleeve. The balancing resilient member biases the housing of the connector sleeve assembly to a forward position.
US11385409B2
A connection structure for optical waveguide chips includes a silica-based PLC in which grooves are formed, spacer steel balls fitted in the grooves, and silica-based PLCs in which grooves into which the spacer steel balls to be fitted are formed, the silica-based PLCs being mounted on the silica-based PLC by being supported by the spacer steel balls. A conductor wire formed in the silica-based PLC and a conductor wire formed in the silica-based PLC are electrically connected to each other by a conductor film formed in the groove, the spacer steel balls and a conductor film formed in the groove.
US11385407B2
An optical splitter includes a silicon-on-insulator substrate having a cladding layer. The optical splitter also includes a first waveguide of a first width and a first length buried in the cladding layer and a second waveguide of a second width and a second length buried in the cladding layer disposed in close proximity of the first waveguide by a gap distance. A ratio of the second width over the first width is configured to be smaller than 1 while the first length, the second length, and the gap distance are configured to allow evanescent coupling of a first confined mode of an optical signal in the first waveguide into the second waveguide with a certain splitting ratio being achieved in a range of 1% to <50% substantially unchanged over a broadband of wavelengths.
US11385398B2
A backlight unit includes a light guide plate; a light source provided on a side surface of the light guide plate, and configured to inject light into the light guide plate; a circular polarizing reflective layer provided on a front surface of the light guide plate, and configured to reflect a first polarizing component and transmit a second polarizing component among components of light emitted from the light guide plate; and a cholesteric liquid crystal layer provided on the front surface of the circular polarizing reflective layer and including a plurality of regions, and configured to reflect or transmit the second polarizing component that has passed through the circular polarizing reflective layer according to a voltage applied to each of the plurality of regions.
US11385397B2
Disclosed is a liquid crystal display device including a reflective sheet with high rigidity and low shrinkage and expansion, the liquid crystal display device comprising: a liquid crystal panel; a light guide plate provided below the liquid crystal panel; a light source for supplying light to the light guide plate; a reflective sheet provided below the light guide plate; a glass fiber coating layer provided on the upper surface and/or the lower surface of the reflective sheet; and a lower chassis provided below the reflective sheet.
US11385396B2
A collimating device includes at least one microstructure portion. Each microstructure portion includes a bottom surface; a side surface connected to the bottom surface, an angle between the side surface and the bottom surface being an obtuse angle; and a top surface opposite to the bottom surface and connected to the side surface, the top surface being a convex free-form surface.
US11385393B2
An optical device includes a lightguide having a first pair of external surfaces parallel to each other, and at least two sets of facets. Each of the sets including a plurality of partially reflecting facets parallel to each other, and between the first pair of external surfaces. In each of the sets of facets, the respective facets are at an oblique angle relative to the first pair of external surfaces, and at a non-parallel angle relative to another of the sets of facets. The optical device is particularly suited for optical aperture expansion.
US11385389B2
Provided are a polarizing plate having excellent optical properties and durability, and a method for manufacturing the polarizing plate. The polarizing plate includes: a transparent substrate transparent to light in a used wavelength band; lattice-shaped protrusions arranged on the transparent substrate at a pitch shorter than the wavelength of light in the used wavelength band, extending in a predetermined direction, and having a reflective layer, a first dielectric layer, an absorbing layer, and a second dielectric layer in this order; a dielectric portion consisting of a dielectric discontinuously formed on a surface of the lattice-shaped protrusions and a surface of a bottom floor between the lattice-shaped protrusions; and a water-repellent portion formed on a surface of the dielectric portion and having water-repellent properties.
US11385388B2
In display, in a plan view facing an obverse surface of a reflection layer, first reflection surfaces are substantially square in shape, and a second reflection surface occupies gaps between adjacent ones of the first reflection surfaces. The distance between the first reflection surfaces and the second reflection surface in the thickness direction of a substrate has an extent that the obverse surface of the reflection layer emit colored light by interference between light reflected from the first reflection surfaces and light reflected from the second reflection surface. In a plan view facing the obverse surface of the reflection layer, more than one of the first reflection surfaces are located on each of a plurality of imaginary lines. On a straight line intersecting more than one of the imaginary lines, distances between adjacent ones of the imaginary lines have different extents.
US11385386B2
A nanostructured material system for efficient collection of photo-excited carriers is provided. They system comprises a plurality of plasmonic metal nitride core material elements coupled to a plurality of semiconductor material elements. The plasmonic nanostructured elements form ohmic junctions at the surface of the semiconductor material or at close proximity with the semiconductor material elements. A nanostructured material system for efficient collection of photo-excited carriers is also provided, comprising a plurality of plasmonic transparent conducting oxide core material elements coupled to a plurality of semiconductor material elements. The field enhancement, local temperature increase and energized hot carriers produced by nanostructures of these plasmonic material systems play enabling roles in various chemical processes. They induce, enhance, or mediate catalytic activities in the neighborhood when excited near the resonance frequencies.
US11385384B2
A dielectric lens is disclosed comprising a center portion that extends along a cylinder having a central axis and a plurality of spoke portions that are attached to the center portion and extend to a spherical perimeter region in a radial direction from the center portion. The plurality of spoke portions includes at least a first monolithic spoke portion extending from the center portion to the spherical perimeter region and the center portion and the plurality of spoke portions define a plurality of cavity regions among the plurality of spoke portions. The center portion, the cylinder, the plurality of spoke portions, and the plurality of cavity regions are included in a gradient index (GRIN) dielectric lens having a plurality of relative permittivities that are based on a radial distance from the center portion.
US11385381B2
A flood detection device and method that acquires meteorological data; acquires traffic volume data representing vehicle traffic volume; and determines that an area, in which a vehicle traffic volume during or after rain is less than or equal to a predetermined number of vehicles, is flooded based on the meteorological data and the traffic volume data, when a probability, that the vehicle traffic volume in a normal time is less than or equal to the predetermined number of vehicles, is less than a predetermined value, the normal time being a state in which a rainfall amount is less than a predetermined value.
US11385379B2
A method and apparatus detects an unknown deposit in soil of a known mineral or gemstone using characteristic scents of the mineral or gemstone. The method may disturb the soil, for example, by causing a chemical reaction in at least part of the soil such that a mineral or gemstone present in the soil emits a characteristic scent. The unknown deposit of the known mineral or gemstone can be detected in real-time or near real-time in the field.
US11385369B2
Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for processing seismic data. The method includes receiving a plurality of seismic traces representing a subterranean domain, and receiving an implicit stratigraphic model of at least a portion of the subterranean domain. The method also includes selecting an iso-value in the implicit stratigraphic model, and defining, using a processor, a geologically-consistent interval in the implicit stratigraphic model based at least partially on a position of the iso-value in the implicit stratigraphic model. The method further includes calculating one or more attributes of the plurality of seismic traces in the interval.
US11385366B2
A seismic sensor assembly includes a sensor body; cable connectors operatively coupled to the sensor body; and a grounding clamp operatively coupled to the cable connectors. A lightning strike kit for a seismic sensor assembly can include the grounding clamp as an electrically conductive component for electrical coupling to a base and/or a spike of a seismic sensor assembly.
US11385364B2
Various examples are provided for portable neutron imaging. In one example, a portable neutron-imaging system is described. A compact neutron source assembly can comprise an ion-beam bombardment source generating an isotropic source of monoenergetic neutrons. The neutron-imaging system does not include a moderator or collimator. Instead, the emission source and image-capture apparatus are placed in close proximity to an object to be imaged. Quality images were obtained with short exposure times of less than 20 seconds.
US11385343B1
A radar device capable of detecting a location of an object using a phased-array antenna capable of receiving a reflected wave from all directions includes one or more linear array antennae and a controller capable of transmitting of a wave T from one or more linear array antennae, and receiving a reflected wave R at the one or more linear array antennae. At least one linear array antennae is the same and/or is different from a linear array antenna that transmits the transmitting wave T, and the reflected wave R being generated by the transmitting wave T illuminating the object. A location of the object is estimated using time from transmission of transmitting wave T to reception of reflected wave R, and a direction of the transmitting wave and/or using a frequency of the transmitting wave and a frequency of the reflected wave, and the direction of the transmitting wave.
US11385342B2
An object sensing apparatus 1 includes: an emission unit 11 configured to emit an RF transmission signal in each period; a reception unit 21 configured to receive a reflected wave of the RF transmission signal as an RF reception signal; an IF signal generation unit 22 configured to generate an IF signal by mixing the RF transmission signal and the RF reception signal; a one-dimensional spectrum generation unit 23 configured to generate a one-dimensional spectrum with respect to distance obtained using the object sensing apparatus as a reference, based on the IF signal, and use the generated one-dimensional spectrum to generate a one-dimensional spectrum with fixed object reflection removed, from which a signal component caused by a reflected wave from a fixed object present in an emission range has been removed; a position detection unit 24 configured to detect a position of an object other than the fixed object based on the amplitude of the one-dimensional spectrum with fixed object reflection removed; and a displacement detection unit 25 configured to detect displacement of the object other than the fixed object, based on the phase of the one-dimensional spectrum with fixed object reflection removed, which corresponds to the position of the object other than the fixed object.
US11385329B2
A radar sensor includes: a transceiver unit for emitting a radar beam at at least two different wavelengths along a beam path in an outgoing direction and to receive radar radiation along the beam path in an incoming direction; and a reference object placed in the beam path for redirecting part of the outgoing radar beam in the incoming direction. The reference object includes two identical grids, each grid having regularly spaced elements arranged at a distance d from each other in a first direction perpendicular to the beam path, the grids being spaced from one another along the beam path by a distance L. The transceiver unit is operable at a wavelength λ which satisfies L = n 2 d λ 2 n being an integer.
US11385322B2
Automotive radar methods and systems for enhancing resistance to interference using a built-in self-test (BIST) module. In one illustrative embodiment, an automotive radar transceiver includes: a signal generator that generates a transmit signal; a modulator that derives a modulated signal from the transmit signal using at least one of phase and amplitude modulation; at least one receiver that mixes the transmit signal with a receive signal to produce a down-converted signal, the receive signal including the modulated signal during a built-in self-test (BIST) mode of operation; and at least one transmitter that drives a radar antenna with a selectable one of the transmit signal and the modulated signal.
US11385312B2
Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), which is given the acronym ULTRA (Unlimited Trains of Radio Acquisitions), allows simultaneous MR signal acquisition from the entire object volume in each of a multitude of very small receiver coils arranged in a 3D array around the imaging volume, except for gradient reversals and/or RF pulses for refocusing spins into echoes. This permits a rate of MR signal acquisition that is greatly increased (e.g., 256 times) compared with known existing techniques, with a full 3D image constructed in as little as 1 millisecond. Furthermore, noise—both audible and electrical—is substantially reduced. Clinical imaging can be completed in seconds or less, with good signal-to-noise ratio; signal-to-noise ratio further increases by reducing or eliminating RF noise due to gradient switching; real-time functional MRI can be on millisecond timescales; high quality imaging of thorax and abdomen can be in a single breath hold; ands; and audible noise and vibration are greatly reduced.
US11385300B2
The line power and neutral conductors for a circuit interrupter such as a miniature circuit breaker, using ground fault sensing via a current transformer, are arranged as a rigid conductor formed from a flat plate and surrounding and holding an insulated flexible conductor when passing through the Ground Fault Interrupter current transformer. The rigid conductor can provide a shaped current path to maximize the effectiveness of the current transformer.
US11385299B2
A system and method are provided to detect a fault on a circuit. A current sensor is provided for sensing current on at least one line conductor and/or a neutral conductor on a circuit, and a switch is operated between at least first and second positions to selectively control a signal pathway on the at least one line conductor or the neutral conductor in relations to the sensor. The sensor performs a first current measurement corresponding to current across one conductor from the at least one line conductor and the neutral conductor in the first position, and a second current measurement corresponding to a current balance or imbalance between the conductors in the second position. The current sensor outputs the first current measurement for detecting an arc fault in the first position, or the second current measurement for detecting a ground fault in the second position.
US11385292B2
A method, apparatus, system for batter material screening is disclosed. First, microstructure generation parameters for a plurality of microstructures are received, where the microstructure generation parameters include microstructure characteristics. Microstructure statistics are generated using a first artificial intelligence (“AI”) model, where the received microstructure generation parameters are inputs for the first AI model. Microstructure properties are predicted using a second AI model for the microstructures based on the generated microstructure statistics, the received microstructure generation parameters, and battery cell characteristics. It is determined whether at least one of the microstructures is within a predefined energy profile range based on the predicted microstructure properties.
US11385291B2
The disclosure relates to a method performed by a battery monitoring unit configured for estimating a battery discharging current of a battery comprising the steps obtaining a state-of-charge value indicative of a ratio between a current capacity and a maximum capacity of the battery, obtaining sensor data indicative of a first plurality of battery voltage values obtained at multiple subsequent points in time, determining a first voltage trend over time of the first plurality of battery voltage values, estimating a battery discharging current of the battery based on a relation, where the relation is dependent on the first voltage trend over time and the state-of-charge value.
US11385290B2
Discussed is a battery property measurement apparatus including a main body made of an insulative material, the main body being configured to be put on a hand of a user; and a measurement unit installed at a portion of the main body at which a finger of the user is located, the measurement unit being configured to contact at least a portion of respective opposite ends of a battery, the measurement unit being electrically connected to the battery when the user push on the battery using the finger in a state in which the battery is coupled to the measurement unit.
US11385287B1
Examples described herein provide a method for evaluating a programmable logic device (PLD) for compatibility with user designs. The method includes using a processor-based system: obtaining an indication of one or more failure bits of configuration memory of a programmable logic device (PLD); determining whether each of the one or more failure bits corresponds to a configuration memory bit to be used by a first PLD user design; if any of the one or more failure bits corresponds to a configuration memory bit to be used by the first PLD user design, classifying the PLD as unusable for the first PLD user design; and if none of the one or more failure bits corresponds to a configuration memory bit to be used by the first PLD user design, classifying the PLD as usable for the first PLD user design.
US11385285B2
An automated test equipment for testing a device under test comprises an on-chip-system-test controller. The on-chip system test controller comprises at least one debug interface or control interface configured to communicate with the device under test. The on-chip-system-test controller optionally comprises at least one high bandwidth interface configured to communicate with the device under test. The on-chip-system-test controller is configured to control a test of a device-under-test which is a system-on-a chip.
US11385284B2
A test system includes: a test board on which a plurality of test target devices are mounted while being sequentially connected to one another; a measuring apparatus configured to simultaneously execute direct current tests for the test target devices mounted on the test board; and a determining apparatus configured to determine whether or not the test target devices are acceptable. The measuring apparatus executes the direct current tests every time when the number of test target devices mounted on the test board changes. The measuring apparatus determines whether or not the test target devices are acceptable on the basis of a change between measured values of the direct current tests, which follows the change of the number of test target devices mounted on the test board.
US11385280B2
An apparatus for inspecting an electronic device, includes: a placement table on which a substrate having the electronic device provided thereon is placed and including a refrigerant flow path; a light irradiation mechanism having LEDs directed to the substrate; and a controller for controlling heat absorption by the refrigerant and heating by light from the LEDs. The controller includes: a temperature information acquisition part for acquiring information on a temperature of the electronic device; a heating controller for performing the heating control based on the temperature of the electronic device as a current inspection object; and a heat absorption controller for estimating a transition of power applied to the electronic device at a next inspection based on a transition of the temperature of the electronic device in a past inspection, and performing the heat absorption control at a time of the next inspection.
US11385277B2
A testing system for test sockets is presented having a removable device under test printed circuit board (DUT PCB) that electrically connects with the electrical testing components of the system. A top stiffener is attached to the lower surface of the DUT PCB and is locked in place by engagement members of a locking mechanism, that is operated by an actuating mechanism, that includes a rack and pinion arrangement that converts rotational movement of the pinions to lateral movement of the racks thereby locking the stiffener connected to the DUT PCB to the socket plate so as to facilitate testing. The upper surface of the DUT PCB has an infinite top plane that is uninterrupted and can be of any size and shape. The system is also modular and can be formed of any number of modules depending on the pin count density required.
US11385276B2
A test system includes: an input signal generation unit that generates an input signal that drives a semiconductor device as a test target; a reference signal generation unit that supplies a reference signal, which is for use in generating the input signal, to the input signal generation unit; and a detection unit that, while implementing a test of the semiconductor device, generates a standard signal in which the same signal output as an output of the reference signal output from the reference signal generation unit is expected, and outputs a detection unit output signal based on the reference signal and the standard signal.
US11385270B2
A capacitance-type sensing system for indirect contact includes a capacitance-type sensor and a grounding conductor. The capacitance-type sensor includes a sensing electrode and a driving circuit electrically connected to the sensing electrode. The driving circuit has a grounding terminal. The grounding conductor is electrically connected to the grounding terminal and configured to contact a grounding surface. A contact area of the grounding conductor is greater than or equal to 3000 mm2.
US11385265B2
A current sensing device according to the present invention may comprise: a substrate part which includes at least two base substrates stacked in one direction and through which a circuit passes in the one direction; a coil part which is formed on at least one of the base substrates and surrounds the circuit; and a core part which is disposed between the base substrates while being spaced apart from the coil part, and surrounds the circuit.
US11385262B2
A measuring shunt includes a resistance element and a magnetic core. The resistance element includes two main contacts and a middle section extending between the main contacts for conducting an electrical current between the two main contacts through the middle section. The magnetic core extends in an annular manner around the middle section of the resistance element.
US11385247B2
Disclosed herein is a system for depositing solid waste into a waste bin in an automated analyzer having a transport mechanism for transporting solid waste to a waste bin. The system includes a transport mechanism including a sliding mechanism, a parking position, and an opening that is proximal to the waste bin. The sliding mechanism includes a slider and an extendable ramp and the slider pushes the solid waste along the ramp into the waste bin. The transport mechanism is configured to place the solid waste into the parking position, contact the solid waste with the slider, and push said solid waste towards the waste bin along the ramp until the solid waste moves along the extendable ramp into the waste bin.
US11385238B2
The disclosed methods are directed to detecting polypeptide fragments (“clips”) of parental polypeptides. Parental polypeptides and clips are optionally denatured and then fractionated using a matrix. After a first elution (high molecular weight fraction), an additional elution step retrieves a low molecular weight fraction containing clips. If the clips are an appropriate size for the targeted detection method, such as mass spectrometry, then analysis of this fraction proceeds separately from the high molecular weight fraction, or the clips fraction is mixed with the proteolyzed high molecular weight fraction before analysis. However, if the clips are too large for the intended analytical method(s), then the clips are also proteolyzed. The digested high molecular weight and low molecular weight fractions can be analyzed separately or combined. Analysis of combined samples favors clip quantitation because the clips are analyzed together with the remaining counterpart of the parental polypeptide.
US11385237B2
Classification of individuals based on their glycemic pattern and applications thereof are described. Generally, systems utilize continuous glucose monitoring data to determine glycemic pattern variability, which can be used as a basis to classify and treat individuals.
US11385228B2
The present invention provides methods utilizing changes in CD4+CD57+ T cells levels for determining the susceptibility of a transplant patient or patient in need thereof to costimulation blockade resistant rejection. These methods are useful for identifying effective drug regimens for the treatment of immune disorders associated with graft transplantation and/or maintenance of a transplant.
US11385226B2
An assay system is provided of great sensitivity and portability where the presence of a specific target in a sample, as well as its concentration (qualification and quantification) is detected by reason of a potential or voltage in a closed circuit, built up a redox reaction. The reaction is produced by binding a capture moiety to an enzymatic redox reaction partner, allowing the capture moiety to bind to any target in the sample. In a homogenous assay, the method further comprises washing any such bound target. The bound target may be immobilized through use of a second capture moiety. Substrate for the enzyme is then added. The action on the substrate by the enzyme generates electrons, creating a potential across an anode and cathode which may be separated by a membrane.
US11385225B2
The present invention relates to tri-functional crosslinking reagents carrying (i) a ligand-reactive group for conjugation to a ligand of interest having at least one binding site on a target glycoprotein receptor, (ii) a hydrazone group for the capturing of oxidized receptor-glycoproteins and (iii) an affinity group selected from azides and alkynes for the detection, isolation and purification of captured glycoproteins; as well as their manufacturing. The invention further provides for improved methods of detecting, identifying and characterizing interactions between ligands and their corresponding target glycoproteins on living cells and in biological fluids. The invention further provides for new uses of catalysts in such methods.
US11385219B2
A handheld diagnostic test device includes a port to removably receive a test cartridge, an element connected with an electronic device, and sensors for detection of test data from a biological or environment sample after reaction with reagents onboard the cartridge. The test device also includes memory storing algorithms for upload to the electronic device to enable a processor thereof: to await elapse of a pre-determined time following reaction of the sample with the reagents; to thereafter instruct the sensors to detect the test data; to generate presentation data based on the test data; and to present the presentation data from a presentation element of the electronic device to a user. A related method includes a connecting step, an uploading step, a presentation step, a cartridge inserting step, a waiting step, a sensing step, and an electronic device processing step.
US11385217B2
Online measurement of dispersed oil phase in produced water can be implemented a method on-site of a flowline transporting a fluid that includes dispersed oil in water. A sample of the fluid flowed through the flowline is obtained. The sample includes the oil phase and the water phase. The sample is combined with a chemical element that can separate the oil phase in the sample from the water phase in the sample. The separated oil phase and the chemical element are transferred into a measurement cell. The chemical element is removed from the measurement cell. After the chemical element is removed from the measurement cell, a quantity of the oil phase in the sample in the measurement cell is determined by a capacitive measurement technique. The determined quantity of the oil phase in the sample is provided.
US11385213B2
Operation of an overhead storage bin sensor used to monitor the volume consumed within the bin including a VOC sensor to monitor for material that may become overheated within the bin such as lithium ion batteries in electronics products is provided. Currently, fire or smoke detectors are not integrated into the storage bins leaving this area vulnerable to developing fires and outgassing of electronic components often stored by passengers. Early detection of such events can prevent propagation of fire on board an aircraft by rapidly reporting the event and giving the location of the event. The system described leverages other patents applied for including a wireless sensor network and storage volume sensors. The sensor monitors for outgassing of materials or smoldering material by monitoring the air quality within the bin space.
US11385207B2
The present disclosure provides a method for analyzing an additive in a water-based polymer sample, comprising the steps of: (S1) putting the water-based polymer sample containing a polymer, the additive, and water as a solvent into a vial; (S2) putting a porous pouch containing a superabsorbent polymer (SAP) into the vial to absorb the water into the superabsorbent polymer; (S3) removing the porous pouch from the vial and collecting the concentrated polymer sample remaining in the vial; and (S4) performing a pyrolysis gas chromatography (Py-GC)/mass spectrometer (MS) analysis by introducing the concentrated polymer sample to the Py-GC/MS.
US11385204B2
An apparatus for automated maintenance of limited-access areas on large structures. The apparatus is a rolling or sliding tool-equipped mobile platform that is adhered to a surface by operation of one or more adherence fans and then propelled across the surface by operation of one or more propulsion fans. The adherence and propulsion fans are coupled to a base made of semi-rigid material. The adherence fans produce suction forces in one or more suction zones to adhere the mobile platform to the surface. The propulsion fans produce thrust to propel the surface-adhered mobile platform in a desired direction across the surface. The tool-equipped mobile platform is capable of adhering to and moving over a non-level surface on a large structure while keeping standoff contact elements in contact with the surface regardless of surface contour. The propulsion fans, adherence fans and maintenance tool (e.g., an NDI sensor unit) are controlled by a computer system.
US11385200B2
Various devices, systems and methods of detecting a susceptibility of one or more infectious agents to one or more anti-infectives are described herein. In one embodiment, a method of detecting the susceptibility of the infectious agents to the anti-infectives involves introducing a sample comprising the infectious agents to a filter comprising a filter surface. The filter surface can be configured to capture the infectious agents in the sample. The method can also involve introducing a solution to the filter surface such that the solution is in fluid communication with the infectious agents captured on the filter surface. The solution can comprise nutrients and one or more anti-infectives. The method can further involve monitoring an oxidation reduction potential (ORP) of the solution using one or more parameter analyzers coupled to a sensor currently in fluid communication with the solution to assess the susceptibility of the infectious agents to the anti-infectives.
US11385196B2
A process and electronic hardware and software system for rapidly heating and cooling an active sensing layer of a gas sensor is provided. A series of high-energy pulses is run through a CNT electrically-active layer, heating the layer to varying temperatures. The influence by various gases on the electrical conductivity of the layer can be used to identify gases (e.g., water vapor, alcohol, methane, O2, CO2, and CO). Advantageously, the same structure can also be used as a nanoheater, either within or outside the context of the gas sensor. The device can acquire a unique gas spectra in seconds, and thus accurately determine gas type and mixtures of gases based on a library of known spectra.
US11385193B2
An object of the invention is to easily acquire images of a position corresponding among a plurality of sample sections in an imaging device that acquires images of the plurality of sample sections. The imaging device according to the invention generates a cursor for specifying a first observation region and a contour portion of a first sample section, and superimposes the cursor on a contour portion of a second sample section so as to calculate coordinates of a second observation region of the second sample section.
US11385188B1
A system that may include a radiation source to generate a beam of coherent radiation; traveling lens optics to focus the beam to generate multiple spots on a surface of a sample and to scan the spots together over the surface; collection optics to collect the radiation scattered from the multiple spots and to focus the collected radiation to generate a pattern of interference fringes; and a detection unit to detect changes in the pattern of interference fringes.
US11385187B1
A reference substrate for calibrating high-energy inspection systems includes permanently affixed particle-emulating and/or integral void-type environmentally inert surface features that emulate particles/defects having sizes below about 18 nm. Particle-emulating surface features are fabricated directly onto the substrate's surface (or an intervening barrier film layer) using e-beam lithography or over-etch processing. Void-type defect features having sizes below 18 nm are etched into the substrate's surface using, for example, focused ion beam, reactive particle or pin-hole etching processes. Once formed, the actual size of each surface feature is measured (e.g., using SEM) and then recorded. During a subsequent inspection tool calibration session, the reference substrate is scanned and waveform data corresponding to light reflected/scattered from each surface feature is correlated with the scanned feature's actual size data. During subsequent inspection procedures, the sizes of detected particles/defects are determined by matching detected particle/defect waveform data with corresponding surface feature waveform data.
US11385181B2
Disclosed is a method of determining efficacy of a cosmetic composition to inhibit an atmospheric pollutant from contacting skin, comprising the steps of: (i) filling a sample holder of known dimensions with known amount of said composition to form a layer of defined thickness therein, where said sample holder is amenable to fluorescence-based assay; (ii) depositing, on said layer, a known amount of a model fine particulate matter which resembles an atmospheric pollutant at least in size and which comprises a material responsive to fluorescence microscopy which is excitable by a wavelength (λex) and which emits radiation (λem) where (λex)≠(λem); (iii) irradiating said composition and said model fine particulate matter by said λex and recording intensity of fluorescence at λem a plurality of times for a defined period during which said model fine particulate matter interacts with said layer; and, (iv) determining, corrected intensity of fluorescence at λem by the following equation; corrected Intensity=recorded intensity/average transmittance where said average transmittance is the average of the transmittance of the composition measured at λex and λem determined by Beer-Lambert law by measuring the absorbance at λex and λem, where the corrected intensity is inversely proportional to said efficacy of said composition.
US11385175B2
A calibration method includes: acquiring eight error models obtained after a preliminary calibration of a Terahertz frequency band system; based on the eight error models, determining a first mathematical model according to a first S parameter related to a first calibration piece, the first mathematical model comprising parallel crosstalk terms between probes, and determining a second mathematical model according to a second S parameter related to a second calibration piece, the second mathematical model comprising series crosstalk terms between the probes; determining a third mathematical model according to a third S parameter related to a measured piece; and solving and obtaining a Z parameter of the measured piece based on the first mathematical model, the second mathematical model and the third mathematical model, and acquiring an S parameter of the measured piece according to the Z parameter of the measured piece.
US11385173B2
[Object] An optimal structure for spectroscopically analyzing a solid-phase or liquid-phase sample in a wavelength range of 1100 to 1200 nm by using supercontinuum light is provided. [Solution] Supercontinuum light generated by producing nonlinear effects in light from a pulse laser source 1 by a nonlinear element 2 and having a wavelength range including 1100 nm or greater and 1200 nm or less is subjected to pulse stretching by a pulse stretching element 3, and a solid-phase or a liquid-phase sample S is irradiated with the supercontinuum light. In the supercontinuum light, elapsed time and wavelength within one pulse are in a one-to-one correspondence, and computation means 5 computes a spectrum based on a change over time in an output from a light receiver 4 that has received light that has passed through the sample S.
US11385166B2
[Problems] Objects include providing a cover film for testing which can be well fixed to a substrate having a groove and with which a material that constitutes an adhesive layer does not invade into the groove and a specimen can be easily stored in the groove, providing a testing member including the cover film for testing, and providing a method of manufacturing the cover film for testing. [Solution] The cover film for testing (1) comprises a base material (10), a hydrophilic coating layer (20) laminated on a surface of the base material (10), and an adhesive layer (30) partially laminated on a surface of the hydrophilic coating layer (20) opposite to the base material (10), whereby the cover film for testing (1) has a region in which the adhesive layer (30) is absent and the hydrophilic coating layer (20) is exposed.
US11385164B2
A method of calibration of a device for analyzing at least one element present in a sample, said device including: a detection assembly configured to acquire an image formed by the interference between a light source and said sample; and digital processing means configured to detect a digital position of at least one element in said sample based on said acquired image; said calibration method including the implementation of a plurality of predetermined displacements of said sample with respect to said detection assembly and, for all of said displacements, the detection of a digital position of a same element to determine the digital position and the real position matching model according to the predetermined displacements and to the digital positions of said element after each displacement.
US11385162B2
Flow cells and corresponding methods are provided. The flow cells may include a support frame with top and back sides, and at least one cavity extending from the top side. The flow cells may include at least one light detection device with an active area disposed within the at least one cavity. The flow cells may include a support material disposed within the at least one cavity between the support frame and the periphery of the at least one light detection device coupling them together. The flow cells may include a lid extending over the at least one light detection device and coupled to the support frame about the periphery of the at least one light detection device. The lid and at least a top surface of the at least one light detection device form a flow channel therebetween.
US11385161B2
Provided are particle analyzers and related methods for verifying calibration status of the particle analyzer, including independently of the presence or absence of particles. The method and analyzers include use of distinct and non-interfering time frequency domains: a middle frequency time domain and a low frequency time domain, and optionally a high frequency time domain. The high frequency time domain generates a laser facet drive current frequency modulation to prevent the laser facet from spatial-mode hopping. The middle frequency time domain is for particle detection. The low frequency time domain is for calibration status, including laser-pulse-light self-diagnostics, for the health or calibration status of the analyzer. By carefully selecting the frequency time domain ranges, there is non-interference, with the ability to self-diagnose the instrument that is particle-independent.
US11385149B2
An elasticity measurement apparatus includes a lower layer structure having first and second openings, first and second deformable membranes covering the first and second openings to define first and second chamber and deformable by pressure within the first and second chambers respectively, a support layer structure on the lower layer structure to protrude and configured to support the first and second deformable membranes to be spaced apart from the elastic body, a driving portion to apply pressure within the first and second chambers to deform the first and second deformable membranes, and first and second deformation detecting portions to detect deformations of first and second deformable membranes. When the pressure within the first and second chambers is increased from a first pressure to a second pressure, the first deformable membrane is deformed with contacting the elastic body, while the second deformable membrane is deformed without contacting the elastic body.
US11385143B2
The present invention is related to the field of bio/chemical sampling, sensing, assays and applications. Particularly, the present invention is related to how to make the sampling/sensing/assay become simple to use, fast to results, highly sensitive, easy to use, using tiny sample volume (e.g. 0.5 uL or less), operated by a person without any professionals, reading by mobile-phone, or low cost, or a combination of them.
US11385141B2
A sampling device and associated methods for assessing operation of a medical washing device includes a base, a cover, a fluid path, a sensor, and a controller. The cover is selectively removably mounted to the base and includes an opening. The fluid path is in fluid communication with the opening, and has an outlet through which the fluid is discharged. The sensor is a sensor of an analytical characteristic, and is disposed in the fluid path. The controller is in communication with the sensors.
US11385132B2
Aspects of the present disclosure are directed to a method for controlling the torque of a drive unit on a test stand. Accordingly, one embodiment of the present disclosure is a method for controlling an inner effective torque of the drive unit via a unit controlling unit, wherein an inner effective desired torque is determined from the given courses of the rotational speed and the torque of the drive unit and a known mass inertia of the drive unit, and an inner effective actual torque is determined during the operation of the drive unit on the test stand from measured values of the load machine and/or of the drive unit and/or of the connecting shaft and/or of a known mass inertia of the drive unit.
US11385123B2
The present disclosure relates to a method and a device for judging gas leakage, and an electronic device. The method includes: acquiring methane concentration data collected by monitoring devices, and generating a first function corresponding to the methane concentration data; acquiring a change rule of methane concentration in an inspection well during biogas accumulation, and generating a second function of the methane concentration changing with time; calculating a first correlation coefficient between the first function and the second function, and judging whether the first correlation coefficient is greater than a first preset threshold; acquiring a third function of gas consumption changing with time if no; and calculating a second correlation coefficient between the first function and the third function, judging whether the second correlation coefficient is less than a second preset threshold, and judging whether the gas leakage occurs based on the methane concentration data if no.
US11385119B2
A sensor apparatus having a crimped housing and a method of assembling a sensor apparatus having a crimped housing are disclosed. The sensor apparatus comprises a sensor port, a tubular thin-walled housing coupled to the sensor port and comprising a crimping portion, a base portion, and a step feature that is formed in the housing, the step feature partitioning the crimping portion from the base portion, sensor components disposed within the interior of the base portion of the housing, and an electrical connector coupled the housing and comprising leads electrically coupled to the sensor components and a connector flange, wherein a rim of the crimping portion of the housing is crimped onto the connector flange such that the electrical connector is retained in the housing. Dimples, created by protrusions on the crimp dye, on both housing rim and connector flange assure the housing rim hold the connector in rotation direction.
US11385107B2
A method is described for enabling Raman Based Distributed Temperature Sensing (DTS) systems to operate over larger environmental temperature ranges than any systems available today.
US11385105B2
Systems and methods according to one or more embodiments are provided for determining an emitted radiation intensity of an object in a thermal image. In one example, a system includes a memory component configured to store a plurality of captured thermal images of a scene and a processor. The processor is configured to select a pixel on a thermal image corresponding to a measured radiation intensity associated with an object in the scene. Real world coordinates of the object are determined. An emitted radiation intensity of the object is calculated using the determined real world coordinates and the measured radiation intensity. Additional systems and methods are also provided.
US11385103B2
Provided herein are color charts and water color pigment solutions useful, for example, in the calibration of reflectance-based diagnostic analyzers.
US11385102B2
Optical system includes front group, light-shielding member, and rear group that are arranged from object side toward image side. The light-shielding member is provided with opening elongated in first direction. The front group has aspherical surface, does not image the object at the opening in first section parallel to the first direction, and forms intermediate image of the object at the opening in second section perpendicular to the first direction. The rear group has diffractive surface that splits light beam that passes through the opening into light beams at different wavelengths in the second section and focuses the light beams on different locations in the second section. The curvature radius of the aspherical surface in the second section at on-axis position in the first direction differs from that at outermost off-axis position in the first direction.
US11385101B2
Spectrometer designs are provided. The spectrometer includes two planar diffraction gratings disposed in a cascade, without intervening optics therebetween. Advantageously, the described configurations may promote both a high throughput and a high resolution, enabling the design of a portable device having sufficient resolution for on-site use or in the laboratory. In some implementations, two different secondary diffraction channels may be provided.
US11385096B2
An airflow calibrator 10 may generally comprise an inlet 15 in fluid communication with an outlet 20 to define a flow path 30 of a fluid through the airflow calibrator 10; a face seal valve 40 in fluid communication with the inlet 15; a removable flow cell 50 in fluid communication with the face seal valve 40; a variable restrictor valve 60 in fluid communication with the removable flow cell 50; and an optical sensor array 70 to determine the airflow, i.e., flow rate, of an air sampling pump in fluid communication with the airflow calibrator. Methods of using the airflow calibrator are also described.
US11385086B2
A flow sensor including a fluid flow path, a first sensor configured to determine a first measurement of a thermal diffusivity and/or a viscosity of a fluid in the fluid flow path, a second sensor configured to determine a second measurement of a fluid flow velocity and/or a volumetric flow rate of the fluid in the fluid flow path, and at least one processor configured to adjust the second measurement based on the first measurement. A method including receiving fluid in a fluid flow path of a flow sensor, determining a first measurement of a thermal diffusivity and/or a viscosity of the fluid in the fluid flow path, determining a second measurement of a fluid flow velocity and/or a volumetric flow rate of the fluid in the fluid flow path, and adjusting the second measurement based on the first measurement.
US11385085B2
An ultrasonic flowmeter comprising a conduit in a support housing and at least two ultrasonic transducers in a measuring insert which can be inserted into the support housing and the conduit perpendicularly to the conduit. The conduit comprises a circular cylindrical receptacle with a diameter larger than the inside diameter of the conduit and a depth encompassing the inside of the conduit, for inserting the measuring insert into the conduit perpendicular to the flow direction. Four ultrasonic transducers are provided in a wall of the measuring insert, the transducers define at least two measuring paths which cross each other in top view. The transducers are arranged in the measuring insert wall such that ultrasonic signals emitted and received by the ultrasonic transducers on the measuring paths have a transit time difference th−tr dependent on the flow velocity v and/or the flow rate Q of a fluid flowing in the conduit.
US11385078B2
A rotation sensing apparatus includes a detected part including a first pattern portion with a plurality of first patterns and a second pattern portion with a plurality of second patterns; a first sensor disposed opposite to the first pattern portion; a second sensor disposed opposite to the second pattern portion; a third sensor disposed at an angle from the first sensor and disposed opposite to the first pattern portion; a fourth sensor disposed at an angle from the second sensor and disposed opposite to the second pattern portion; and a rotation information calculation circuit to calculate rotation information regarding rotation of a rotating body based on first, second, third, and fourth oscillation signals associated with outputs of the first, second, third, and fourth sensors and to compensate for nonlinearity of a differential signal generated based on the first, second, third, and fourth oscillation signals.
US11385069B2
An optical navigation system comprising a control circuit and an optical navigation device. The optical navigation device comprises: an image sensor, configured to generate a plurality of image frames; and a motion reporting device, configured to report a first motion of the optical navigation device to the control circuit at a first time after a reference time, and configured to report a second motion to the control circuit at a second time after the first time. The first motion and the second motion are calculated according to the image frames. The control circuit calculates a first scaled motion according to the first motion, the second motion, a first time difference between the first time and the reference time, and a second time difference between the first time and the second time.
US11385068B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide methods, computer program products, and systems to for dynamically modifying a generated route that enables peer to peer navigation. Embodiments of the present invention can be used to receive input that specifies one or more terms pertaining to a target that is a location of interest from a user. Embodiments of the present invention can pair the user with the target of interest; generating a route to the target and dynamically modify the generated route to the target according to positional information of the location and changes in positional information of the user.
US11385067B2
The present invention relates to the field of navigation. Disclosed is a route planning method for a mobile vehicle, comprising: partitioning an operation area of a mobile vehicle into blocks using a grid cell as a minimum unit to obtain operation blocks, and performing a reciprocating operation in each operation block in a traversing manner; after the mobile vehicle completes the operation in one operation block, moving to another operation block to perform the reciprocating operation therein in the same traversing manner. The present invention can cause a mobile vehicle to obtain a plurality of operation blocks on the basis of an electronic grid map of known information by means of a block partitioning algorithm, and plan an operation route in each operation block by means of a reciprocating and traversing route planning algorithm in each operation block.
US11385060B2
A docking control device includes a memory storing docking information including information on a docking position of a ship and information on an azimuth in which the ship is anchored at the docking position; and a processor, including hardware, performing control related to a docking operation of the ship on a basis of the docking information stored in the memory.
US11385050B2
A position-measuring device includes a graduation carrier which is non-rotatably connectable to a shaft and has a measuring graduation that is disposed radially about an axis of rotation of the shaft in a mounted state of the graduation carrier. A first scanner is configured to generate position signals by scanning the measuring graduation. A position-processor is configured to process the position signals into absolute, digital position values. An interface is configured to communicate with subsequent electronics. A second scanner is configured to generate measurement signals that are dependent on a position of a machine part by scanning a measurement target on the machine part. An analyzer is configured to process the measurement signals into a measurement value indicative of a position and/or a change in the position of the measurement target relative to the second scanner, and to output the measurement value to the interface.
US11385048B2
An example method that includes receiving a geometry of an uncoated component and a measured coating thickness of a coated test; determining a simulated coating thickness based on the geometry and a first spray law including a plurality of first spray law parameters; determining a difference between the simulated coating thicknesses and the measured coating thickness; iteratively adjusting at least one first spray law parameter to determine a respective subsequent spray law and determining a respective subsequent difference between the measured coating thickness and a subsequent simulated coating thickness based on the geometry and the respective subsequent spray law; selecting a subsequent spray law from the plurality of respective subsequent spray laws based on the respective subsequent differences; and controlling a coating process based on the selected subsequent spray law to compensate for the difference.
US11385046B2
An example method that includes receiving a first geometry of a component in an uncoated state and a second geometry of the component in a coated state; determining a first difference between the second geometry and a first simulated geometry based on the first geometry and a first spray law comprising a plurality of first spray law parameters; iteratively adjusting at least one first spray law parameter to determine a respective subsequent spray law; iteratively determining a respective subsequent difference between the second geometry and a subsequent simulated geometry based on the first geometry and the subsequent respective spray law; selecting a subsequent spray law from the respective subsequent spray laws based on the respective subsequent differences; and controlling a coating process based on the selected subsequent spray law.
US11385029B1
A safety guard for an ammunition cartridge (cartridge) of a conductive energy weapon (CEW) includes a body having a first electrical contact on a first side of the body and a second electrical contact on a second side of the body opposite the first side of the body. The first and second electrical contacts are in electrical communication with each other through the body. The first and second electrical contacts are configured to contact a first electrode of the cartridge and a second electrode of the cartridge, respectively, when the body is placed over the cartridge. The safety guard is configured to prevent the cartridge from firing when a firing input, such as a trigger pull, is received by the CEW from a user. In implementations the body includes at least one clip having a projection configured to be inserted in a corresponding depression of the cartridge of the CEW.
US11385027B2
A flashlight assembly includes an elongated flashlight body having a fixed clamp component. A movable clamp component opposes the fixed clamp. A threaded clamping fastener extends through the movable clamp component and into the body to draw the movable clamp component into engagement with the body. A removable, reversible crossbar extends transversely across the body between the fixed clamp component and the movable clamp component in a spline channel. The crossbar has both a universal rail side and a MIL-STD 1913 rail side.
US11385023B1
A rapid access firearm safe having a rigid body with a secure interior storage compartment and a door for accessing a firearm. The door is hingedly attached to the lower portion of the body such that the door swings open from an upper portion of the body, and a firearm retaining mechanism is located on the interior side of the door and releasably holds at least one firearm thereto. A locking mechanism is integrated into the upper portion of the safe body and accessible from the exterior, and the locking mechanism selectively holds the door firmly against the body thereby securely enclosing the interior storage compartment and releases the door from the body upon deactivation by receiving user input.
US11385020B2
The invention relates to a weapon front handle, the handle extending along a given axis (X) and comprising a plate (4) for securing to a weapon and a grip (8) for gripping the handle, which grip is connected to the plate and shaped to present grooves (9) for receiving a user's fingers, the handle being characterized in that the grip is connected to the plate in such a manner as to be mounted to pivot relative to the plate about the given axis (X), the handle including at least one latch for temporarily blocking pivoting of the grip relative to the date about the given axis (X). The invention also relates to a weapon including such a front handle.
US11385012B2
A slidable trigger assembly for a firearm is described. The slidable trigger comprises a main body housing a trigger and a sear and a slider, slidably coupled with the main body. The slidable trigger assembly may include a slide adjuster configured to set the sear at a target position with respect to the slider. Alternatively, the slider moves laterally in response to physical manipulation of the slidable trigger assembly to set the sear at a target position with respect to the slider.
US11385011B2
A modular trigger control unit Is configured to be removably installed on a grip frame of a firearm and includes a locking block and a locking block pin. The trigger control unit has a protruding tab protruding rearward. The locking block includes slide rails extending forward, with each slide rail of the pair of slide rails having a flat wall extending downward with respect to the grip frame when the trigger control unit is installed on the grip frame. The trigger control unit is secured to the grip frame by: (1) the protruding tab received in a recess on an interior wall of a beavertail portion of the grip frame; and (2) the locking block pin traversing through a through hole on each flat wall such that removal of the trigger control unit from the grip frame requires removal of the locking block pin.
US11385009B2
A translational yoked trigger for a firearm has an integral trigger safety.
US11384997B2
A heat exchanger, a heat exchanger unit, and a refrigeration cycle apparatus are provided where deterioration in drainage and ventilation properties is prevented, an air passage is not easily clogged when frost forms, and both defrosting properties and heat exchange performance are achieved. A flat tube and a plurality of fins that are each a plate having a plate surface extending in a longitudinal direction and in a width direction orthogonal to the longitudinal direction are provided. The plate surface intersects a pipe axis of the flat tube. The plurality of fins each have an insertion portion in which the flat tube is inserted, a first spacer formed at a rim of the insertion portion and maintaining the interval, and a second spacer formed at a portion of the plate other than the rim of the insertion portion and maintaining the interval.
US11384992B2
A heat exchanger includes a first flow channel and a second flow channel that are alternately stacked in a stacking direction, each of the first flow channel and the second flow channel including: upstream parts disposed parallel to one another in a direction perpendicular to the stacking direction and to a direction in which the flow channels extend; downstream parts disposed parallel to one another in a direction perpendicular to the stacking direction and to a direction in which the flow channels extend; and branching/merging parts configured to branch the flow channels immediately upstream of the branching/merging parts into two divergent channels and merge the divergent channels adjacent to one another to form next flow channels, between the upstream parts and the downstream parts, wherein the branching/merging parts are provided in a plurality of stages between the upstream parts and the downstream parts.
US11384988B2
Each of tanks of a heat exchanger includes a tube joint portion and a tank body portion which define an internal space of the tank. The tube joint portions of the tanks constitute a single core plate. The tank body portions each have a claw protruding toward a core portion. The core plate is provided with a hole that fits with the claw. In a state in which the claw is fitted into the hole, the tank body portions are fixed to the core plate.
US11384977B2
This invention relates to refrigerators, and more particularly to a refrigerator in which a vacuum space is formed between an outer case and an inner case of a body thereof for enhancing a heat insulating function. The refrigerator includes a body having a storage space for storing a predetermined storage object, wherein the body includes an inner case having the storage space, an outer case having an inside surface spaced a predetermined gap from an outside surface of the inner case to house the inner case, and a vacuum space provided between the inner case and the outer case sealed to maintain a vacuum state for heat insulating between the inner case and the outer case.
US11384976B2
A refrigerator includes a refrigerator body having an interior storage space. A door is coupled to the refrigerator body to open and close the interior storage space. A door handle is coupled to the door in a pivotally rotatable manner and an opening actuator is coupled to the door handle where the opening actuator applies a force to the refrigerator body to open the interior storage space. The opening actuator includes a front bezel, a handle pivot plate coupled to the door handle, a casing enclosing an actuator mechanism, and one or more pushers that extend and retract against a front wrapper edge of the refrigerator body. An intermediate attachment couples the handle pivot plate to the casing and a back bezel.
US11384975B2
The present invention provides a refrigerator comprising: a cabinet provided with a storage compartment; a chamber provided with an evaporator for supplying cold air, a discharge duct through which the cold air having gone through a heat exchange by means of the evaporator is supplied to the storage compartment, and an introduction duct guiding the air in the storage compartment to the evaporator; a first temperature sensor for measuring the temperature of the evaporator; a second temperature sensor for measuring the temperature of the storage compartment; a third temperature sensor for measuring the temperature of the air supplied from the chamber to the storage compartment; and a control unit for determining the time for defrosting the evaporator on the basis of the temperatures measured by the first temperature sensor, the second temperature sensor and the third temperature sensor.
US11384971B2
A method of initiating a defrost cycle using a controller of a heat pump system includes measuring a temperature of an evaporator coil and determining whether the temperature of the evaporator coil is less than a freezing temperature. Responsive to a determination that the temperature of the evaporator coil is less than the freezing temperature, determining whether a current dew point temperature of air is greater than the temperature of the evaporator coil. Responsive to a determination that the current dew point temperature of air is greater than the temperature of the evaporator coil, calculating a frost-collection rate. Determining whether the frost-collection rate is greater than a frost-collection-rate threshold, and, responsive to a determination that the frost-collection rate is greater than the frost-collection-rate threshold, initiating a defrost cycle.
US11384969B2
A cooling system drains oil from low side heat exchangers to vessels and then uses compressed refrigerant to push the oil in the vessels back towards a compressor. Generally, the cooling system operates in three different modes of operation: a normal mode, an oil drain mode, and an oil return mode. During the normal mode, a primary refrigerant is cycled to cool one or more secondary refrigerants. As the primary refrigerant is cycled, oil from a compressor may mix with the primary refrigerant and become stuck in a low side heat exchanger. During the oil drain mode, the oil in the low side heat exchanger is allowed to drain into a vessel. During the oil return mode, compressed refrigerant is directed to the vessel to push the oil in the vessel back towards a compressor.
US11384966B2
The systems and methods described herein relate to remote cooling. More particularly, the systems described herein include a side to be cooled coupled to an object to be cooled, and a side where heat is dissipated at a distant location. The side to be cooled includes a thermodynamic energy converter and a coil that is electrically coupled to the thermodynamic energy converter. The side where heat is dissipated includes a coil configured to inductively couple with the coil of the side to be cooled. The side where heat is dissipated also includes a heating element electrically coupled to the second coil. The heating element is configured to convert electrical energy into thermal energy. The thermodynamic energy converter absorbs thermal energy from the object to be cooled and converts, directly or indirectly, the thermal energy into electrical energy. The electrical energy is transmitted from the side to be cooled to the side where heat is dissipated by wirelessly coupling the cold and side where heat is dissipated coils. At the side where heat is dissipated, the electrical energy is converted back into thermal energy by the heating element, and the thermal energy is dissipated.
US11384964B2
Integral linear cryogenic Stirling refrigerator comprised of the free piston positive displacement pressure wave generator, the moving assembly of which is connected to the free piston displacer by the dynamic “spring-mass-spring” mechanical phase shifter the mechanical properties of which (spring rates and weight) are selected to provide a predetermined phase lag of motion of the displacer piston relative to the moving assembly of pressure wave generator.
US11384951B2
Variable air flow air conditioning (HVAC) systems including a method of cooling or heating a structure having at least two zones. In example embodiments, individual air flow rates of the at least two zones are measured, and a control system adjusts the individual air flow rates to maintain an instantaneous measured net volumetric air flow rate at a preset volumetric air flow rate as if there was a single fan operating the system.
US11384949B2
Disclosed herein are an air conditioner system and a controlling method thereof. In a situation that air-conditioning systems such as air conditioners and refrigerators are installed and operated in a site, real-time operation data are acquired and the air conditioning and efficiency are calculated at the site. By comparing performance data provided by a device manufacturer and the real-time operation data, device performance is corrected for the site's installation environment. By using corrected device performance, it is possible to save building facility energy by providing optimal operation number control suitable for the installation environment.
US11384947B2
A system for obtaining energy consumptions, savings and cost reduction in structures adapted for human habitation which includes the utilization of a plurality of mats including phase change material encapsulated within first and second layers of plastic material having heat transfer capability disposed within the plenum area above a ceiling of a room within a building with the amount of phase change material contained within each mat being between 0.5 lbs. and 0.67 lbs. per square foot.
US11384944B2
A water heater system includes a controller configured to integrate control of both recovery and recirculation operations of a recovery pump and a recirculation pump. As such, a separate device, installation location, and power source (e.g., available outlet) is not needed with the controller. Because a single controller is configured to control both recovery and recirculation operations, additional control functions are available. The controller may be in communication with an internal controller of the water heater and configured to receive an error notification upon abnormal operation of the water heater. The controller can stop recovery and recirculation operations in response to an error notification, unlike with traditional water heating systems which may otherwise continue to function. The recovery and recirculation operations are based on a setpoint temperature of the water heater such that changes made to the setpoint temperature will automatically adjust in the recovery and recirculation operations.
US11384943B2
The invention relates to a heat exchanger, in particular an water-air heat exchanger or oil-water heat exchanger, comprising at least one first fluid channel for guiding a first fluid, and at least one second fluid channel for guiding a second fluid, the at least one first fluid channel being joined to a fluid receiving volume, in particular on the outlet side, said fluid receiving volume being equipped with an electric heating coating (13).
US11384934B2
A process for discharging high-temperature flue gas safely from an ocean platform includes discharging the gas from combustion facilities into a main body of a cooling and cleaning device through an exhaust pipe, while sea water is injected into the main body. The injected water passes through a water distributor located at an upper part, and the scrubbing sea water is sprayed downwards. The high-temperature flue gas enters into a lower part, and the gas is scrubbed by the sprayed sea water to be low-temperature clean flue gas. The low-temperature clean flue gas passes through the water distributor and a mist eliminator, and is discharged into atmosphere through an outlet at a top of the main body. The sea water is collected to a liquid pool located at a lower part of the main body and discharged into the ocean. A cooling and cleaning device is also disclosed.
US11384933B2
A burner device includes a burner body which includes a protruding portion protruding from a furnace wall into an interior of a combustion furnace, a cooling pipe through which a refrigerant for cooling the burner body flows, the cooling pipe being disposed so as to surround an outer peripheral surface of the protruding portion, and a light detection unit for detecting internal light of the cooling pipe.
US11384923B1
A lighting fixture includes a mounting rail slidably attached to a first side of a main section. A lighting assembly includes a first LED board attached to the main section, and a second LED board attached to an extension movable longitudinally relative to the main section. The extension may be attached to the mounting rail and be slidable longitudinally relative to the main section, to extend the length of the lighting fixture. The second LED board may be supported on a slider extrusion rigidly attached to a spacer on the main section. The lighting fixture can be more quickly and easily installed with minimal field cutting of components.
US11384917B1
A headlight for vehicles, including an image light source, a lens module, a lens cover, and a driving device, is provided. The lens module includes a lens assembly and an aperture. The lens assembly is disposed at downstream of an optical path of the image light source. The aperture includes a base and a movable mechanical member. The aperture is disposed at the downstream of the optical path of the image light source. The lens cover is disposed at downstream of an optical path of the aperture. The driving device is connected to the aperture. The driving device includes a power source and a linkage member connected to the movable mechanical member. The lens module includes at least two aperture values, and the aperture values are both not greater than 2.0.
US11384916B2
A lens holder for holding a lens in a headlamp, and to a headlamp having such a lens holder, wherein the lens holder comprises a receptacle section for holding the lens and a mounting section, wherein the mounting section can be mounted in the headlamp by means of fasteners. The lens holder has an at least partially circumferential channel between the receptacle section and the mounting section.
US11384892B2
A heat insulation sheet includes a fiber sheet having spaces therein and a silica xerogel held in the spaces of the fiber sheet. The heat insulation sheet includes a thick region and a low compressible region thinner than the thick region. A compressibility of the low compressible region is equal to smaller than 5% upon having a pressure of 0.7 MPa applied to the low compressible region. This heat insulation sheet is superior in electrical insulation properties and thermal insulation properties, and secures a predetermined distance even in a case that the heat insulation sheet receives pressures from the both sides thereof, thus providing equipment with reliability.
US11384890B1
An articulating, rotating pipe bursting head device is provided. More particularly, the improved pipe bursting head device disclosed herein comprises a coupling means at the back or posterior end of the bursting pipe head device which connects the bursting pipe head device to the replacement or product pipe, typically through a universal duct puller attached to the front or anterior end of the product pipe. In one preferred embodiment, the coupling means allows for articulation of the replacement pipe relative to the bursting pipe head device. In another preferred embodiment, the articulating coupling means allows for articulation from 0° through 90°. In another embodiment, the coupling means allows for rotation of the replacement pipe relative to the pipe bursting head device. In another embodiment this rotating coupling means allows for 360° rotation. Thus, the present disclosure describes an articulating, rotating bursting pipe head device and method of use.
US11384872B1
A coupling may be configured to receive and secure an insertion end of a conduit. An outer surface of the insertion end of the conduit may be smooth and free of grooves, flanges and beads. A first member of the coupling may define a first passageway. A second member of the coupling may define a second passageway. The first member may be in engagement with the second member. A gripping ring having an inner edge defining a series of teeth may be disposed within the second member. A support ring and O-ring may also be disposed within the second member.
US11384870B2
Helically reinforced, flexible tubing or hose is formed from continuously extruded thermoplastic material helically circumferentially wound at a wrapping station around an array of bearing-supported rods that are concurrently but individually turned and are adjustably canted relative to an imaginary center axis. The tubing or hose being formed has a continuous reinforcing rib helically wound therearound and continuously integrally connected thereto. The resulting tubing or hose may be transversely severed at intervals along its length to provide discrete lengths of hose that are annealed while axially compressed to relieve stress.
US11384868B1
A pipe sleeve includes an elongated cylindrical body extending from a base to a top; an anchor rigidly attached to a first position of the elongated cylindrical body, the anchor having an attachment device to secure to a structure; and extendable legs secured to the elongated cylindrical body, the legs each having a foot; each of the extendable legs can be extended a distance to keep a top surface of the elongated cylindrical body level.
US11384866B2
The disclosure is directed to a pipe clamp configured to support a pipe from a mounting surface. The pipe clamp includes a mounting post, arm, and hinge. The mounting post has a first post end and a second post end that includes a first coupling element. The mounting post defines a first recess. The arm has a first arm end and a second arm end that includes a second coupling element configured to couple to the first coupling element. The arm defines a second recess. The hinge is positioned between the mounting post and the arm and is connected to the first post end of the mounting post and to the first arm end of the arm. The mounting post and arm are rotatable about the hinge from an open position to a closed position. In the closed position the first coupling element is coupled to the second coupling element.
US11384865B2
The tube management assembly employs a track, one or more mounting clips that are slidably mounted in the track and clamps that are snap-fitted into the mounting clips. In one embodiment, the mounting clip has a pair of resilient walls with inwardly directed lips for engaging in arcuate grooves in the sides of the clamp. In another embodiment, the mounting clip has a base slidably mounted in the track and a mounting block extending from the base and including a recess for receiving a tube transversely of the track.
US11384862B2
A seal structure that keeps a needle from sliding with respect to a seal and is easily detachable, and a device having the seal structure. A needle of a valve device is inserted through a seal. A valve device includes a fluid chamber having an outflow hole and au inflow hole, and the needle of which fore end reciprocates in the fluid chamber. The seal includes a main body made of an elastic body having a needle fitting insertion hole formed for the needle to be inserted and fit into. A flange portion is made of an elastic body annularly extending from the main body in a radial direction outward. One end opening diameter (D3) of the needle fitting insertion hole is smaller than the other end opening diameter (D2) of the needle fitting insertion hole.
US11384857B1
An example valve includes a seat element; an outer piston configured to be seated against the seat element at when the valve is in a closed position to block fluid flow from a first port of the valve to a second port of the valve; an inner piston disposed partially within the outer piston and configured to be seated against the outer piston when the valve is in the closed position to block fluid flow from the second port to the first port; and a setting spring applying a biasing force on the inner piston in a distal direction. The valve can operate in: (i) a first mode of operation wherein fluid is received at the first port and relieved to the second port, and (ii) a second mode of operation, wherein fluid is received at the second port and relieved to the first port.
US11384849B2
The invention relates to a pinch valve comprising a valve element (4) with precisely one flow channel (20) that is surrounded by a circumferential wall (21) and has an inlet opening (24), which is designed for connecting a connection member (2) or which adjoins a connection element (2a), at a first end and an outlet opening (25), which is designed for connecting a connection member (2) or adjoins a connection element (2a), at a second end. The valve element (4) additionally has a pair of force transmitting elements (19, 19′) or a force transmitting element (19) and a fixing element (26) which are connected to the circumferential wall (21) in a central closing region (18) that is arranged between the inlet opening and the outlet opening. The force transmitting elements (19, 19′) or the force transmitting element (19) and the fixing element (26) are arranged at least substantially perpendicularly to the flow direction of the flow channel (20). The circumferential wall (21) consists of an elastic material such that the force transmitting elements (19, 19′), or the force transmitting element (19) and the fixing element (26), can be moved towards each other under the effect of a pressure or tensile force perpendicularly to the flow direction of the flow channel (20). In the absence of a pressure or tensile force acting on a force transmitting element (19, 19′), the circumferential wall (21) has a cross-section which differs from a circle in the central closing region (18). In the cross-section, the circumferential wall (21) surrounds a flow channel (20) surface area which is constant at least substantially over the entire valve element (4). Thus, the average flow speed is at least substantially uniform at all positions along the valve element (4).
US11384847B2
A frictionless rotary valve comprising: a valve body to be connected within a gas meter, the valve body comprising: a seal, fixedly attached near an outlet of the valve body; and a valve disc, having a ball bearing attached to the valve body; and a gear mechanism comprising: a worm wheel engaged with a worm, wherein the worm wheel is attached to a second end of the valve disc; a drive gear connected to the worm, wherein a rotation of the drive gear in a clockwise direction rotates the worm wheel in an anti-clockwise and moves the valve disc in a closed position; a worm wheel stop, for restricting a movement of the worm wheel in the anti-clockwise direction and driving the worm wheel in a vertically upward direction; and a linear guide attached to the worm wheel.
US11384843B1
A gate valve includes a valve body including a flow passage from a first opening to a second opening, and a gate channel having a first end intersecting the flow passage and a second end delineated by a third opening. A valve cover fits over the third opening. A cap fits over a valve cover opening. In embodiments, a valve cover includes a body with a second sealing surface protruding from a first sealing surface, both around an opening of the body. A cap has a third sealing surface to mate with the first sealing surface, and a fourth sealing surface congruent to the second sealing surface. In embodiments, a valve cover cap includes a body with a first sealing surface on an end of a wall. Pin flanges each have a pin hole having a pin hole axis oriented perpendicular to a center axis of the wall.
US11384841B2
A seal joint assembly is provided that includes a stationary seal carrier, a stationary seal land and a brush seal. The stationary seal land includes a seal land surface. The brush seal is mounted to the stationary seal carrier. The brush seal includes a first set of bristles and a second set of bristles. The first set of bristles includes a first bristle that contacts the seal land surface. The second set of bristles includes a second bristle that contacts the seal land surface. The second bristle crosses the first bristle.
US11384840B2
A seal device for sealing a space between a housing and a rotating shaft includes seal members, and a holder having a cylindrical portion and configured to retain the seal members the cylindrical portion being press-fitted into a shaft hole provided in the housing. The holder is provided with, at one end of the cylindrical portion, a protruding portion protruded in a radially outward direction of the cylindrical portion. The shaft hole of the housing has a tapered portion having an annular shape and forming one end portion of the shaft hole to guide an insertion of the holder into the shaft hole. The protruding portion is provided on an inner diameter side of the tapered portion.
US11384827B2
An electric power steering drive pulley assembly includes a motor shaft. The pulley assembly also includes a drive pulley coupled to the motor shaft. The drive pulley includes a radial retention portion having an inner diameter defining a first portion of a central opening that the motor shaft is disposed within. The drive pulley also includes an axial retention portion extending in the axial direction from the radial retention portion, the axial retention portion defining a second portion of the central opening that the motor shaft is disposed within, the inner diameter of the axial retention portion in splined engagement with the motor shaft to rotationally couple the drive pulley to the motor shaft, the axial retention portion including a flange protruding radially inwardly from the inner diameter of the axial retention portion to be disposed in a groove of the motor shaft.
US11384825B2
A wave gear apparatus comprises a spline having top, bottom, exterior, and interior surfaces. A plurality of spline teeth extend from the interior surface toward a center axis. A wave generator is rotatably disposed in the spline. A belt extends about the wave generator. The belt includes a plurality of belt teeth extending radially outwardly from the belt whereby a total number of the belt teeth is less than a total number of the spline teeth. An output member defines a recess receiving the wave generator and the belt whereby, in response to a rotational movement from the wave generator, the output member rotates in a direction same or opposite of the wave generator. A vehicle lifting system including the wave gear apparatus is also disclosed herein.
US11384824B2
A lock-up device includes a clutch part, a piston, a sleeve, and an oil chamber plate. The clutch part is disposed between a front cover and a turbine. The piston is axially movable, and brings the clutch part into a torque-transmission state. The sleeve is fixed to the inner peripheral part of the front cover. The sleeve has a piston support part and a first butt part. The piston support part supports an inner peripheral surface of the piston to be axially movable. The first butt part is formed on the outer peripheral surface of the piston support part. The oil chamber plate is provided between the piston and the turbine. The oil chamber plate has a second butt part. The second butt part is butt-welded with the first butt part. The oil chamber plate forms an oil chamber. Hydraulic fluid is supplied between the oil chamber and the piston.
US11384823B2
A motive power transmission device for a vehicle includes a transmission that outputs motive power input from a drive source while performing gear-shifting for the motive power and a drive shaft that is coupled with the transmission and transmits the motive power from the drive source, which is output from the transmission, to a drive wheel. The transmission has a transmission mechanism unit that is arranged in a transmission casing such that an axis line extends in a vehicle front-rear direction and that performs gear-shifting for the motive power from the drive source. The drive shaft extends in a vehicle width direction on a central side of the transmission mechanism unit in the vehicle front-rear direction and is provided such that the drive shaft passes through the transmission casing.
US11384820B2
Linear actuator comprising a housing (1) consisting of two parts (1a, 1b), an electric motor (3) with a motor shaft, a transmission (8-11) in connection with the motor shaft, a spindle unit in connection with the transmission, where the spindle unit comprises at least a spindle (7) with a spindle nut (14) and where the spindle (7) is equipped with a bearing (12), an adjustment element (13) in connection with the spindle unit. The linear actuator is characterized in that a mounting unit (2) is embedded in the housing, said mounting unit (2) has a front and a rear end, and where the motor (3) is placed on the rear end of the mounting unit (2) and the spindle (7) is mounted on the front end of the mounting unit (2), and where the transmission (8-11) is located inside the mounting unit (2). In addition to being able to reduce the number of components with this construction, e.g. the activation element (13), the front mounting (15) and the spindle nut (14) can be moulded as one single plastic unit, it also allows for a slackening of the tolerances as the assembly of the components is considerably simplified, namely only with regard to the mounting unit (2). In that connection, the transmission (8-11) is expediently placed in the mounting unit (2).
US11384819B2
The present invention relates to a linear module. The linear module according to an example of the present invention comprises a base plate; a screw disposed on the base plate and arranged in the longitudinal direction of the base plate; a carrier block including a hollow part surrounding a portion of the screw; a carrier block rail disposed on one side of the carrier block and arranged in the longitudinal direction of the base plate; a long rail disposed on the base plate and arranged in the longitudinal direction of the base plate; and a roller guide disposed between the carrier block rail and the long rail and to reduce the frictional force between the carrier block rail and the long rail when the carrier block moves in the longitudinal direction of the base plate.
US11384804B2
A disc brake caliper has a caliper body and a pair of pads and, in each side portion of the caliper body, a distal piston and a proximal piston, having radially distanced and aligned pressure centers.
US11384795B2
A tensioning arrangement for a bearing ring, which introduces a compressive force towards a rotational centre of the bearing ring, to prevent the bearing ring distorting as a shaft supported by the bearing turns. The tensioner arrangement includes a strap and a tensioner. The strap has a connector at each end, and tensioner has an element for connecting to the connectors. The tensioner also has an element for applying tension to the strap. In use, the strap is arranged around the bearing ring and a circumferential length of the strap in contact with the bearing ring is reduced, thereby applying compressive force to the bearing ring.
US11384792B2
A slewing bearing includes an inner annular body formed of unhardened stainless steel and coupleable with a fixed member and having an inner race with an unhardened race surface. An outer annular body is disposed about the inner body and is formed of unhardened stainless steel, is coupleable with a rotatable member, and has an outer bearing race with an unhardened race surface and a plurality of gear teeth engageable by a drive pinion to angularly displace the outer body. Rolling elements are disposed between and rotatably couple the inner and outer annular bodies. An annular seal is coupled with the outer annular body and has two opposing axial ends, an axial thickness defined between the ends, a sealing lip engageable with the inner body and an outside diameter and is sized such that the ratio of the outside diameter to the axial thickness is greater than fifty.
US11384791B2
The present invention relates to an apparatus for sliding friction free and lubricant free movement in vacuum, wherein the apparatus has a fixed position rail and a rail movable relative thereto by means of magnetic force. The invention further relates to a vacuum chamber, for example for a coating plant having an apparatus in accordance with the invention.
US11384778B2
The electrohydrostatic actuator system according to the invention comprises a volume-variable and/or rotational-speed-variable hydro machine, which is driven by an electric motor, for providing a volume flow of a hydraulic fluid, and a main shaft which is movable by the hydraulic fluid and which has at least one first chamber, wherein the first chamber, with at least one first main hydraulic line and a first main valve, is hydraulically connected to the hydro machine via a connection line. The actuator system according to the invention further comprises a secondary shaft which is movable by the hydraulic fluid and which has at least one first chamber, wherein the first chamber, with at least one first secondary hydraulic line and a first secondary valve, is hydraulically connected to the hydro machine via a connection line. Furthermore, according to the invention, a hydraulic accumulator is hydraulically connected to the first secondary hydraulic line in the area between the first chamber of the secondary shaft and the first secondary valve.
US11384762B2
A cylindrical symmetric volumetric machine, includes a housing (2) with an inlet opening (3) and an outlet opening (4), with an outer rotor (6a) which is mounted rotatably in the housing (2) and an inner rotor (6b) which is mounted rotatably in the outer rotor (6a), whereby liquid is injected in the machine (1). At the outlet opening (4) on the level of the inner rotor (6b) and outer rotor (6a) a liquid separation takes place, whereby the separated liquid ends up in the machine (1) again, and in that the outer rotor (6a) has an axial extension (17) on the level of the outlet opening (4) which extends around this outlet opening (4) almost up against the housing (2) such that a space (19) is located between the axial extension (17) and the housing (2).
US11384760B2
A lower end plate includes: bolt holes through which bolts penetrate; a lower discharge valve; a lower discharge-valve accommodating recessed portion into which the lower discharge valve is accommodated; and a lower discharge-chamber recessed portion. A lower end plate cover is provided with a bulging portion. A lower end-plate cover chamber is formed by the lower discharge-valve accommodating recessed portion, the lower discharge-chamber recessed portion, and the bulging portion. Refrigerant passage holes include main refrigerant passage holes provided on the lower discharge-chamber recessed portion, and sub-refrigerant passage holes provided between the bolt hole and the lower discharge-valve accommodating recessed portion away from the lower discharge-valve accommodating recessed portion. The bulging portion is, in a cross section orthogonal to a rotating shaft, formed so as to overlap with at least a part of each of the main refrigerant passage holes and the sub-refrigerant passage holes.
US11384749B2
A pump assembly includes a housing having two parts with internal cylindrical chambers having openings for the inlet and outlet of a pumped fluid, and two longitudinally deformable bellows fastened inside the respective parts of the housing. The opposite end of each bellows has a plug. On the end surface of the housing the bellows are connected to is an opening for the inlet of a working fluid into the corresponding internal chamber. A hydraulic system for controlling the pump assembly includes a tank containing a working fluid, a positive displacement pump, two independent hydraulic pipelines, and a system of valves for alternately connecting the bellows' internal chambers containing working fluid to the pipelines. The internal chamber of each bellows is alternatingly connected to the positive displacement pump for supplying working fluid by a first hydraulic pipeline and to the working fluid tank by a second hydraulic pipeline.
US11384747B2
A heat insulating vessel for a low temperature liquefied gas pump, which includes an inner tank configured to accommodate low temperature liquefied gas, an outer tank provided externally around the inner tank, and a low temperature liquefied gas pump disposed inside the inner tank. The outer tank has an outer tank upper part that is an upper end portion thereof, and an outer tank body other than the outer tank upper part. A lid structure having a heat-insulated structure detachably fitted into an upper part of the inner tank. The pump is fixed to the lid structure, and a suction pipe and a discharge pipe are insertedly fixed to the lid structure. A vacuum insulating layer is provided between the inner tank and the outer tank. With this heat insulating vessel for the low temperature liquefied gas pump, adiabaticity of the lid structure and maintainability of the pump are increased.
US11384742B2
A torque bracket arrangement for a wind power gearbox for transmitting a supporting force to a support structure of a wind power plant includes at least one radial support arm having an associated opening configured to receive a horizontal support pin. The at least one radial support arm is provided on a gearbox side and is configured to establish a detachable connection to at least one corresponding opening of a support eyelet unit arranged on the support structure. The at least one corresponding opening of the support eyelet unit includes an elastomer bearing bush into which the horizontal support pin is configured to be inserted. The elastomer bearing bush has differing rigidities depending on the load. The elastomer bearing bush consists of at least one soft region of low rigidity and at least one comparatively harder region of greater rigidity.
US11384736B1
A floating offshore wind turbine includes a rotor and a generator turned by the rotor. An elongated buoyant body supports a tower that supports the generator and rotor. The buoyant body or the tower may support aerodynamic features to counteract heeling forces or to steer the floating wind turbine as it swings on its anchor line. The floating offshore wind turbine may be configured to move the anchor line force vector to counteract heeling forces. A control system may control the aerodynamic features and the movement of the anchor line force vector.
US11384727B2
A buoyant hydrodynamic pump is disclosed that can float on a surface of a body of water over which waves tend to pass. The pump incorporates an open-bottomed tube with a constriction. The tube partially encloses a substantial volume of water with which the tube's constriction interacts, creating and/or amplifying oscillations therein in response to wave action. Wave-driven oscillations result in periodic upward ejections of portions of the water inside the tube that can be collected in a reservoir that is at least partially positioned above the mean water level of the body of water, or pressurized by compressed air or gas, or both. Water within such a reservoir may return to the body of water via a turbine, thereby generating electrical power (making the device a wave engine), or else the device's pumping action can be used for other purposes such as water circulation, propulsion, or cloud seeding.
US11384719B2
A power tool includes a tool head having a working element and a powerhead configured to provide power to the working element. The powerhead includes a fluid tank configured to hold a combustible fuel and defines an initial internal volume having an internal pressure. A diaphragm is formed of a flexible material and forms at least a portion of the fluid tank. The diaphragm moves from an unexpanded state to an expanded state when a temperature of the combustible fuel increases above a threshold value. Movement of the diaphragm to the expanded state increases the internal volume of the fluid tank to allow the internal pressure of the fluid tank to remain approximately constant.
US11384718B2
A robust apparatus to improve the efficiency and emissions of a combustion process using a plurality of cell elements disposed within a housing that is placed in the air intake to a combustion chamber. The ozone cell includes an element assembly where the cell elements are bonded together with two or more mounting rings. The mounting rings incorporate rubber-like mechanical isolation such as an o-ring between the mounting rings and the cell elements. The cell elements may also include rubber-like isolation between the insulating tubes and the outer electrodes. The robust element assembly as described herein is better suited to survive the harsh environment of the ozone cell place in or near a combustion engine or process.
US11384710B2
A control device is included in a fuel injection system. The fuel injection system includes a low pressure pump, a high pressure pump, an accumulator, a fuel injection valve, a relief valve, and a return pipe. The high pressure pump increases a pressure of a fuel discharged from the low pressure pump and discharges high pressure fuel. The accumulator stores the high pressure fuel discharged from the high pressure pump. The relief valve is provided in a high pressure portion provided downstream from the high pressure pump and opens when a high pressure abnormality occurs in the high pressure portion. The return pipe returns the high pressure fuel in the high pressure portion to a low pressure portion provided downstream from the low pressure pump by the relief valve opening.
US11384708B1
Operating an engine includes injecting a liquid alcohol fuel such as methanol into a stream of compressed intake air at an upstream injection location, and injecting the liquid fuel at a plurality of downstream injection locations into a plurality of streams of the compressed intake air from an intake manifold to combustion cylinders in the engine. A fueling control unit apportions a total injected quantity of the liquid fuel between the upstream injection location and the plurality of downstream injection locations based on a temperature parameter of the compressed intake air. The compressed intake air is combusted with the liquid fuel and a compression ignition pilot fuel in the plurality of combustion cylinders.
US11384700B2
Control of a spark ignited internal combustion in response to an exhaust manifold pressure measurement of an engine is disclosed. An engine out NOx amount for at least one cylinder is determined at least in part in response to the exhaust manifold pressure measurement and a brake mean effective pressure of the at least one cylinder. An operating condition of the engine is adjusted in response to the engine out NOx amount.
US11384699B2
A method of operating a gaseous fuel internal combustion engine comprises performing at least one measurement relating to the combustion of a mixture of gaseous fuel and air in a combustion chamber of an associated cylinder in a combustion cycle. At least one combustion parameter, for example, a start of combustion, is determined based on the at least one measurement. When the combustion parameter differs from a desired combustion parameter, an ignition device associated with the cylinder is controlled based on the comparison in order to control the combustion in the current combustion cycle.
US11384691B2
A baffle is provided herein. The baffle includes a cylindrical baffle section. The cylindrical baffle section includes one or more holes. The baffle also includes a split line retaining section. The split line retaining section includes one or more mounting bosses. Each of the one or more mounting bosses receives one or more mounting bolts.
US11384690B2
A cooling system configured to reduce a temperature within a gas turbine engine in a shutdown mode of operation includes a first gas turbine engine including a compressor having a bleed port. In a first operating mode of the gas turbine engine, the compressor bleed port is configured to channel a high pressure flow of air from the compressor. During a shutdown mode of operation, the compressor bleed port is configured to channel an external flow of cooling air into the compressor. The cooling system also includes a source of cooling air and a conduit coupled in flow communication between the compressor bleed port and the source of cooling air. The source of cooling air configured to deliver a flow of cooling air into the compressor through the compressor bleed port.
US11384684B2
A rotary engine, parts thereof, and methods associated therewith is provided. The engine is modular and adjustable to accommodate a variety of requirements and preferences. The system includes a combustion assembly having a housing and a power rotor positioned therein. The power rotor rotates in a first direction from the beginning of each combustion process through the end of each exhaust process. The system also includes a compression assembly linked to the combustion assembly such that the compression rotor rotates in the first direction from the beginning of each intake process through the end of each compression process. A tank assembly in fluid communication with the compression assembly and the combustion assembly provides stability to the system while eliminating or otherwise reducing transitional loses.
US11384680B2
Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media provide a cooling component including an underbody wheel well fan that is installed in proximity to the wheel well at each side of the front wheels. Specifically, an apparatus for vehicle radiator cooling control is provided, including a first suction component disposed in proximity to a first wheel well at a first side of a vehicle, a first tube component having a first end connected to the first suction component and a second end extended to a direction towards a back of the vehicle, and a first fan component connected to the second end of the first tube component.
US11384673B2
An energy recovery system and a method of recovering energy are disclosed. In one arrangement, an exhaust gas conduit system guides a flow of exhaust gas generated by a combustion process. A heat exchange fluid circuit guides a flow of a heat exchange fluid. An electrical generator generates electrical power from the flow of heat exchange fluid. The heat exchange fluid circuit is configured so that heat is transferred from the exhaust gas to the heat exchange fluid while the exhaust gas is flowing through the exhaust gas conduit system.
US11384672B2
A secondary air introduction device is configured to supply air into an exhaust passage of an engine to combust unburned gas contained in exhaust gas. The secondary air introduction device includes: an air introduction passage configured to introduce air into the exhaust passage; and a secondary air valve configured to be attached to an outer surface of a cylinder head of the engine and to control opening and closing of the air introduction passage. The secondary air valve is configured to be attached to an outer lateral surface of the cylinder head on one side in an axial direction of a crankshaft, and the secondary air valve includes an air introduction inlet formed in a position opposite to the outer lateral surface of the cylinder head in the axial direction of the crankshaft.
US11384661B2
A valve train includes a camshaft which has a cam group having a firing cam and a braking cam. A first cam follower is assigned to the firing cam with the first cam follower being provided in a firing mode for actuating a gas exchange valve. A second cam follower is assigned to the braking cam which is provided in a braking mode for actuating the gas exchange valve. A changeover device is provided to changeover between the firing mode and the braking mode. The camshaft has a separate switching cam which, in at least one operating mode, is provided to act directly on a switching element of the changeover device and which is provided for a direct changeover between the firing mode and the braking mode.
US11384642B2
An airfoil for a turbine engine, comprising an outer wall defining an exterior surface bounding an interior and defining a pressure side and a suction side extending between a leading edge and a trailing edge to define a chord-wise direction and extending between a root and a tip to define a span-wise direction, outlets on the exterior surface, and a cooling air supply conduit within the interior and having a supply passage.
US11384634B2
The invention relates to a maintenance device (1) for determining the position of a blockage point (2) of a tubular member (3), characterized in that it includes a fiber-optic cable (40) and a plurality of holding guides (20), each holding guide (20) being attached to the fiber-optic cable (40) and including a means (21) for attaching to the tubular member (3). The invention also relates to a method and a system for determining the position of a blockage point of a tubular member.
US11384627B2
A system for initiating a charge downhole in a wellbore includes a first donor charge detonable to produce a first detonation wave, a second donor charge detonable to produce a second detonation wave, and an acceptor charge detonable by either the first detonation wave or the second detonation wave. The system also includes a donor charge barrier separating the first donor charge from the second donor charge. The donor charge barrier includes heat dissipative and conduction characteristics for preventing deflagration from spreading between the first donor charge and the second donor charge. The system also includes an acceptor charge barrier separating the acceptor charge from the first donor charge and the second donor charge. The acceptor charge barrier includes Shockwave impedance characteristics for conveying the first detonation wave or the second detonation wave to the acceptor charge to detonate the acceptor charge.
US11384625B2
A steerable sub for controlling an angular orientation of a well tool in a well, the steerable sub including a housing; a steering element attached to the housing and configured (i) to partially extend out of the housing and (ii) to change an orientation relative to the housing; and an actuation mechanism connected to the steering element and configured to change the orientation of the steering element relative to the housing.
US11384611B2
Provided are systems and methods that relate to separating drilling waste fluids. A method for separating a drilling waste fluid, the method comprising: introducing the drilling waste fluid into a thermal extraction chamber; allowing the drilling waste fluid to flow longitudinally along two screws disposed within the thermal extraction chamber, wherein each screw comprises a shaft, a first flite segment, and a first kneading block sequence; allowing the geometry of the screws to separate drilling waste fluid into evaporated fluid and solids; removing evaporated fluid through a first outlet port; removing solids through a second outlet port. A thermal extraction chamber for separating drilling waste fluids, wherein the thermal extraction chamber comprises: barrel; first screw; second screw, wherein first screw and second screw comprise identical profiles, wherein first screw and second screw comprise shaft, first flight segment, and first kneading block sequence; inlet port; first outlet port; second outlet port.
US11384610B2
A method for cooling drilling mud includes controlling operation of a first closed-loop cooling system to cool a flow of drilling mud when a first temperature of the flow of drilling mud exceeds a first predetermined mud set point temperature, and controlling operation of a second closed-loop cooling system to further cool the flow of drilling mud when a second temperature of the flow of drilling mud that has been cooled by the first closed-loop cooling system exceeds a second predetermined mud set point temperature.
US11384609B1
An offshore platform slot recovery tool system and method. Here, the slot recovery tool system can include a body, wherein the body comprises a plurality of supports extending therefrom, wherein the plurality of supports are configured to engage an interior surface of a conductor pipe, and an articulating arm extending from the body, wherein the articulating arm is configured in either a stowed configuration or a deployed configuration. In addition, the articulating arm is further configured to couple to a seafloor oil well casing, such that the conductor pipe is moved in a direction away from the seafloor oil well casing.
US11384607B2
A motion compensating system is usable on a vessel during well intervention operations through a riser. The system includes a first floor; a second floor; a plurality of hydraulic cylinders connecting the first floor to the second floor; a bearing retainer attachable to the second floor; a spherical bearing provided between the second floor and the bearing retainer, wherein the spherical bearing includes a central opening therethrough for the riser to allow angular movement of the riser relative to the first and second floors; an insert bearing sleeve at least partially located inside the central opening of the spherical bearing; and a slip bowl attachable to the insert bearing sleeve. Each of the first floor, the second floor, the bearing retainer, the insert bearing sleeve and the slip bowl have an opening therethrough for the riser, and each opening is aligned with the central opening of the spherical bearing.
US11384604B2
Optical fiber having a graphene coating, a method to apply a graphene coating onto an optical fiber, and a fiber optic cable having a graphene coating are disclosed. A first carbon based coating is applied to an optical fiber along a longitudinal axis of the optical fiber. A laser beam is focused at the first carbon based coating. A first surface of the first carbon based coating is photothermally converted into a first layer of graphene.
US11384602B2
A boring assembly extends along a main axis and comprises a boring head comprising at least one first nozzle and at least one second nozzle The or each second nozzle is different from the or each first nozzle. The boring assembly includes a first delivery device configured to deliver a jet of abrasive-free water at a pressure comprised between 2000 bar and 4000 bar to the at least one first nozzle. The boring assembly includes a second delivery device configured to deliver a jet containing at least one abrasive material at a pressure comprised between 2000 bar and 6000 bar to the at least one second nozzle.
US11384598B2
There is provided a screen guide that engages a support rail or is detachable from the support rail at an intermediate position on the support rail. The support rail supports the screen guide and includes first and second engagement edges, and the screen guide is formed by connecting a plurality of guide pieces to one another in series. Each of the guide pieces includes a piece body that engages an end portion of a screen and an engagement member that includes first and second engagement portions that engage the first and second engagement edges of the support rail, respectively. Each of the engagement members is coupled to the corresponding piece body such that the engagement member is capable of being displaced to a first position at which the first and second engagement portions engage the first and second engagement edges, respectively, and to a second, detached position.
US11384594B2
The present disclosure relates to an HVAC system door assembly that includes a door that includes a panel having a first side and a second side opposite the first side, and a first seal circuit. The first seal circuit is disposed on the first side. The HVAC system door assembly also includes a door frame that includes a second seal circuit. HVAC system door assembly further includes a ridge projecting from one of the first seal circuit or the second seal circuit configured to align with and engage a central portion of the other of the first seal circuit or the second seal circuit when the door is in a closed position with respect to the door frame. The ridge includes a cross-sectional profile having a flattened peak section with sloping side sections that extend from boundaries of the flattened peak section to a base of the ridge.
US11384589B2
The invention relates to a control system for driving a motorized closure element of a motor vehicle, wherein, in order to detect operator control events, at least one sensor control means and at least one elongate distance sensor which extends along a sensor extent are provided, wherein the sensor control means drives the associated distance sensor and/or evaluates the sensor signals from said distance sensor, and wherein the distance sensor detects a distance from a user. It is proposed that, with the control system installed, a vehicle component is arranged or can be arranged in or along the sensor extent, and that the distance sensor is designed such that it has a blind section in the region of the vehicle component, said blind section having no sensitivity or a lower level of sensitivity compared to that region of the distance sensor which adjoins the blind section.
US11384578B2
Present invention is related to a door hinge for opening and closing a door, the door hinge including: a fixing member fixed to the door frame of the oven range; an operating frame that is rotatably connected to the fixing member and is fixed to the door to open and close the door; a hinge bracket configured to rotatably connecting the operating frame to the fixing member, wherein the hinge bracket includes: a plate connected with the inside of the lower end of the operating frame, and a gap holding member having a first end, a second end, and in a shape of a “” at the center thereof for forming a space, wherein the first end of the gap holding member is connected to a lower end of the plate, and the second end of the gap holding member is connected to lower end of the fixing member.
US11384576B2
A hinge is arranged to move two panels, such as a stationary fence panel and a gate, between an open position and a closed position. When the hinge is in a closed position, the posts to which the hinge is attached are maintained in substantial contact along substantially the entire longitudinal length of the posts, thereby preventing small animals from passing through the fence. The hinge has two hinge halves, each having a finger portion arranged to interlace with a finger portion of the other hinge half, each finger of the finger portions defining an opening, and an arcuate post-engaging portion extending for at least 90 degrees and defining a longitudinal opening for receiving an end post, wherein each longitudinal opening faces the other when the hinge is in a closed position. The hinge also has a hinge pin passing through and within the openings allowing rotation.
US11384574B2
A vehicle handle device configured to operate a door lock device via a cable device, the vehicle handle device includes an operation member connected to the cable device and a handle case housing the operation member. The handle case includes a cable fixing base in which the cable device is arranged, a cap portion configured to fix the cable device to the cable fixing base, and a hinge portion configured to engage an engaging piece provided on one of the cable fixing base and the cap portion with an engaged piece provided in another of the cable fixing base and the cap portion, and rotatably connect the cap portion to the cable fixing base.
US11384568B2
The present invention relates to a hinged door locking device and, more particularly, to a hinged door locking device comprising a rotatable lever installed on a door frame separately from a main locking device generally used for security, wherein a side to be opened by rotation in the hinged door is brought into tight contact with the door frame at multiple points in the longitudinal direction by operating the lever. Thus, the hinged door locking device is configured to readily maintain the tight contact and has high usability as an auxiliary locking device.
US11384565B2
Disclosed is a system for monitoring a location of a key relative to a keybox, configured to perform: (i) providing access to the key by: communicating over a personal area network with a first mobile-device for the first user as the first user approaches the keybox in an attempt to obtain the key, obtaining first credentials from the first mobile-device, determining whether the first credentials are valid or invalid, when the first credentials are valid: putting the keybox in an unlocked configuration, (ii) tracking a location of the key by: communicating over the personal area network with: the key and/or mobile-device to determine whether the key is being returned to the keybox, wherein upon a determination by the keybox or the mobile-device that the key is not being returned, an alert is provided by the mobile-device to the first user.
US11384558B2
A multidirectional adaptive re-centering torsion isolator is used for isolating buildings, tanks and bridges from earthquakes. The multidirectional adaptive re-centering torsion isolator includes a flat and/or articulated slider and four or more cylindrical energy dissipaters. The flat and/or articulated slider positioned on top of the column provides vertical load transmission, low friction and horizontal displacement capacity. The cylindrical energy dissipaters provide displacement, re-centering and damping in any of the horizontal directions.
US11384557B2
A swimming pool cleaner may include motive elements intentionally driven in an unbalanced manner. This unbalanced driving may allow a cleaner to maintain contact with (“hug”) walls of a pool, allowing the cleaner to, e.g., obtain information allowing mapping of the pool perimeter.
US11384553B2
A pool shell including a wall, a floor and a region of curvature running along a bottom of the wall and connecting the wall to the floor. A fastener-receiving formation, on an exterior of the region of curvature is for rigidly connecting the bottom to a support. Also discussed is a swimming pool including a pool shell, having a wall and two or more upright supports. The wall has a top, a bottom, a first elongate stiffening portion and an exterior. The upright supports are spaced along the exterior. The first elongate stiffening portion runs along the wall and is positioned more than 250 mm from each of the top and the bottom. Each of the upright supports are rigidly connected to the first elongate stiffening portion and at least one of the top and the bottom, and predominantly formed of elongate rigid members.
US11384548B2
A sleeve for forming a channel through a concrete slab is described herein. The sleeve includes a sleeve body with top and bottom ends extending along a longitudinal axis, wherein the top end is wider than the bottom end. The sleeve includes an attachment flange attached to the bottom end that extends laterally outward with respect to the longitudinal axis. The attachment flange may be secured to a concrete form. An alternative sleeve has an attachment mechanism protruding from the first end of the sleeve body for facilitating the attachment of the sleeve body to a concrete form. In some embodiments, the sleeve can also include a removal mechanism disposed at the second end of the sleeve body to facilitate removal of the sleeve body from the concrete slab. Various sleeve configurations are described, some of which are reusable and some of which are one-time use only.
US11384544B2
A self-supporting gutter guard device is described having a bridge member composed of a decking material having a plurality of orifices, and having a roof side and an opposing gutter lip side, at least one groove disposed in the decking material altering a profile of the deck material to outline a 3-dimensional geometry that spans the bridge member from a proximal end of the bridge member's roof side to a proximal end of the bridge member's gutter lip side, a roof attachment member configured to attach to the roof side of the bridge member, and a gutter attachment member configured to attach to the gutter lip side of the bridge member, wherein the 3-dimensional geometry of the at least one groove enables the device to be self-supporting.
US11384538B1
A ceiling tile clip includes a top wall, a pair of parallel, spaced side walls that extend downwardly from opposite edges of the top wall and flanges at lower edges of the side walls that extend outwardly. The top wall includes a threaded opening in the center thereof. The ceiling tile clip is configured to be attached to an elongated ceiling grid member by a threaded member that threadedly engages the threaded opening. The elongated ceiling grid member has side surfaces and lower flange portions. When the ceiling tile clip is attached to the elongated ceiling grid member, the top wall of the ceiling tile clip is above the elongated ceiling grid member, the side walls of the ceiling tile clip are alongside the side surfaces of the elongated ceiling grid member and the flanges of the ceiling tile clip are above the flange portions.
US11384532B2
The present invention provides a construction set suitable for creating a variety of structures and includes a plurality of elements. A modular construction system includes hubs which are embodied as solid-surfaced hexahedrons having at least one flanged protrusion on at least two faces of each hexahedron. Adjacent structural bodies in the modular construction system may be connected to as few as one face of a hub, or to as many as all six faces, by means of attachable connector elements. The hexahedron at the core of the hub may be of the same or larger dimensions relative to the cross-section of the framing materials (e.g., lumber, tubing, composites, metals, extruded members) it connects.
US11384526B2
The present disclosure relates to deployable structures and methods of use thereof. In particular, deployable structures with non-cylindrical or irregular shapes and methods of use thereof are disclosed. Non-cylindrical combustion elements can be used to rigidize such non-cylindrical or irregular shapes. The use of gaseous oxidizers along with deployable structures is also disclosed.
US11384522B2
The disclosure is directed to a discharge system for usage in fluid transportation. Further, embodiments relate to a discharge system comprising a plurality of discharge apparatuses that may remove a fluid from one area and transport it to another area. A discharge system may comprise a first discharge apparatus, wherein the first discharge apparatus comprises a tubular, wherein the tubular comprises a plurality of sections, a central bore, a first opening, and a second opening; and a second discharge apparatus, wherein the second discharge apparatus comprises the tubular.
US11384521B2
A flush toilet according to an embodiment includes a bowl part, a rim part, a water spout port, and a water storage part. The bowl part receives waste. The rim part is formed on a top of the bowl part. The water spout port spouts a washing water. The water storage part is formed on a bottom of the bowl part. A first region that is connected to a discharge channel and a second region that is located on a front side of the first region are formed in the water storage part. A main stream of the washing water that is spouted from the water spout port along the rim part swirls on the bowl part and flows into the first region.
US11384520B2
The present disclosure provides a descaling apparatus of an electronic toilet bidet, the descaling apparatus comprising: a descaling liquid storage tank comprising a descaling liquid chamber configured to house descaling liquid, wherein a pressure element is disposed and movable in the descaling liquid chamber, wherein the descaling liquid chamber comprises a descaling liquid outlet, wherein the descaling liquid storage tank further comprises a main body liquid outlet fixedly connected to and in communication with a bidet liquid inlet of the electronic toilet bidet, and wherein the main body liquid outlet is configured to be controlled to connect or disconnect the descaling liquid outlet. The descaling apparatus according to the present disclosure may supply the descaling liquid automatically and continuously to the internal pipes of the electronic toilet bidet for several times after the descaling liquid is added at one time.
US11384519B2
The present disclosure discloses a wall mount base device. The wall mount base device comprises a wall mount bracket and a hanging member configured to be hung on the wall mount bracket. The wall mount bracket is disposed with a hanger, and the hanger comprises a locking groove. The hanging member is disposed with a locking mechanism, and the locking mechanism comprises one or more locking members, a transmission mechanism, and an operating member. The hanging member is configured to detachably cooperate with and encompass an outer side of the hanger, and the hanger cooperates with and is encompassed in the hanging member disposed on an outer side of the hanger. When the one or more locking members are disposed at the locked positions, the one or more locking members are disposed in the locking groove to enable the hanging member to be locked to the wall mount bracket.
US11384518B2
A sink system and methods of making and using sink systems including a sink basin and a discharge conduit coupled to the sink basin, which is positioned to expel fluid into the sink basin via an outlet thereof. The flow of fluid through the discharge conduit may be activated via a motion sensor or switch coupled directly to the basin or a spacer ring positioned between the basin and the countertop. Controls for adjusting the temperature and/or flow rate of fluid through the discharge conduit may also be coupled to the basin or a spacer ring positioned between the basin and the countertop, or alternatively, to a surface of the countertop.
US11384514B2
An earthmoving machine of a work vehicle or the like includes: a work implement including a bucket having teeth; and a main controller that obtains design data based on a dimension obtained from manufacturing data of a component included in the work implement, and used for calculating the position of the teeth, and uses the design data to calculate the position of the teeth.
US11384505B2
A work vehicle includes an engine, a drive wheel, a power transmission mechanism configured to transmit a driving power of the engine to the drive wheel, and a control unit configured to control the power transmission mechanism. The power transmission mechanism has a torque converter including a first clutch, and a second clutch coupled to the torque converter. The control unit controls an oil pressure supplied to the first clutch to a predetermined oil pressure when the second clutch is partially engaged.
US11384503B2
A foundation for a windmill includes an annular pedestal, which is divided into several ring sections and is composed of prefabricated concrete elements, the pedestal including a platform for a windmill tower and several support elements extending radially outward from the pedestal, wherein the pedestal is supported by strut ribs on the support elements, wherein the pedestal, at its end forming the platform, includes a circumferential projection extending radially outward from the pedestal and including at least one channel for receiving a tensioning cable, the channel being provided in the projection and extending in the circumferential direction.
US11384499B2
A drainage channel support assembly including a support member adapted to support drainage channel, a pair of pegs arranged to anchor the support member to the ground, and a pair of coupling elements mounted to respective of each of the pair of pegs. The coupling arrangements are configured where on anchoring of the support member to the ground via respective of the pair of pegs either: in a first install mode, the coupling arrangement contacts an upper surface of the support member with the associated peg penetrating the ground along substantially the full length of the peg; or, in a second install mode, the coupling arrangement couples to a fitting which contacts the upper surface of the support member, the coupling arrangement contacting a lower surface of the support member for suspension of the drainage channel above the ground.
US11384495B2
Disclosed is a method for guiding aquatic organisms. The method includes disposing a plurality of electrode units at a distance from one another in water; and applying an electrical pulse to at least one electrode unit of the plurality of electrode units to generate an electric field and/or a magnetic field around the at least one electrode unit to guide the aquatic organisms by stimulating the aquatic organisms with the generated electric and/or magnetic fields.
US11384491B2
Systems, devices, and methods are presented for securing a railroad tie atop a support. In one implementation, a unitary length of metal rod is made into a clip that includes a vertical leg, a horizontal leg, and a resilient hook-shaped portion having a hook point. The hook-shaped portion is made so that the clip is biased toward a seated position, with the hook point positioned beneath part of the support. During installation, the vertical leg is placed through a hole in the railroad tie, driven downward until the resilient hook-shaped portion collapses into a compressed position, and driven further until the hook point moves beyond a free edge of the support and expands into the seated position. The clip secures the railroad tie without any additional parts and without requiring a worker to labor beneath the support.
US11384490B2
A construction joint bridging device with a joint sealing profile and a joint sealing profile as such, as well as a method for producing a joint sealing profile and a method for producing and disassembling a construction joint bridging device. The joint sealing profile consisting at least partially of an elastic material and having a holding portion for fastening to the construction joint bridging device, wherein the holding portion has at least in sections a material composition which can be activated in a targeted manner by chemical, thermal and physical exposure so that the volume of the holding portion changes.
US11384487B2
The invention relates to a paving stone (1) and to a paving produced using same. A strip-shaped connection section (4) is provided at least on one lateral face of the paving stone, which vertically projects from same and interacts with strip-shaped connection sections of adjoining stones in the course of producing a paving and establishing a connection. The connection section (4) has a stepped shape with at least three graduated shoulders one over another. This both achieves a joint that expands in the upward direction, and prevents the pointing from loosening or being cast upward when forces act upon the paving, for example when subject to vibrations.
US11384484B2
The present invention provides multi-layered tissue webs, and tissue product comprising the same, comprising long, high-coarseness wood pulp fibers selectively deposited in one or more outer layers of the multi-layered web. Surprisingly disposing long, high-coarseness wood pulp fibers in one or more outer layers, even in relatively modest amounts, may improve certain product properties, such as durability, without negatively affecting softness. In certain instances, both the softness and durability may be improved by selectively incorporating long, high-coarseness wood pulp fibers in one or more of the outer layers.
US11384477B2
A garment treatment device includes a base, a water reservoir received on the base, a steam generator housed in the base and in fluid communication with the water reservoir, an air delivery system housed in the base, a pole extending from the base, and a garment bag having an interior space sized to receive a garment, the garment bag being receivable on the pole. The air delivery system is configured to provide air to the interior space to dry the garment in a drying mode of operation, and to inflate the garment bag so that an exterior, front face of the garment bag forms a cushioned support surface for supporting the garment on the exterior, front face in an ironing mode of operation. The steam generator is configured to convert water from the water reservoir into steam for passage into the garment bag in a steaming mode of operation.
US11384473B2
A washing machine appliance, as provided herein, may include a cabinet, a tub disposed within the cabinet, a basket, and a fluid additive dispenser. The fluid additive dispenser may include a housing, a dispenser drawer, and a pod cup. The housing may extend between an open front end and a closed rear end. The housing may be disposed within the cabinet. The dispenser drawer may be slidably received in the housing above the basket. The dispenser drawer may extend from a forward end to a rearward end. The dispenser drawer may define a primary compartment and a pod compartment adjacent to the primary compartment between the forward end and the rearward end. The pod cup may be selectively received on the dispenser drawer within the pod compartment to hold an additive pod. The pod cup may define an opening therein to permit a wash fluid therethrough.
US11384470B2
An apparatus and method for reducing displacement of a washing machine having a drum rotatable about an axis of rotation is disclosed. The washing machine comprises a chassis and a motor for rotation a drum. The drum is suspended from the chassis by a suspension. The suspension can comprise springs having six natural frequencies that can resonate at a rotational speed of the drum driven by the motor. The suspension system can be tuned such that resonant frequencies can be varied based upon rotational speed of the drum.
US11384466B2
The present disclosure relates to a laundry treating apparatus, including a housing configured to supply laundry detergent to the tub and define an outer appearance; a storage container disposed to extend in a front-rear direction of the main body to store the laundry detergent, and mounted to the housing; a laundry detergent pump provided at a rear portion of the housing to define a movement of laundry detergent stored in the storage container; and a remaining amount sensing unit that applies a current toward an inside of the storage container to sense a remaining amount of laundry detergent stored in the storage container.
US11384461B2
In a sewing machine, a plurality of needle plate holes are formed in a needle plate. The needle plate holes are arranged at positions respectively corresponding to a plurality of blade-side rotation positions of a cutwork blade. In this manner, the needle plate hole is formed in a shape corresponding to a shape of a blade portion, and a direction of the needle plate hole can match a direction of the blade portion that is arranged above to face the needle plate hole. Specifically, a linear hole-side cutting surface corresponding to a blade-side cutting surface of the blade portion is formed in the needle plate hole, and the blade-side cutting surface and the hole-side cutting surface can be arranged to face each other in a direction orthogonal to both the surfaces in a plan view.
US11384460B2
A needlepunching machine for needlepunching a flat textile material comprises a needle bar arranged in a needling zone, on which needle bar a needle board is arranged. A plurality of needles projects from the needle board. A drive device for the needle bar is configured to move the needle bar at least in an up-and-down stroking movement. Upper and lower support and guide for the flat textile material extend at least over the needling zone and guide the flat textile material between them. Both the upper and the lower support and guide are each formed by a plurality of parallel, tensioned wires, between which through-openings for the needles are arranged. The wires of the upper and lower support and guide are immovable in the conveying direction of the needlepunching machine.
US11384450B2
Embodiments disclosed herein include potassium sodium niobate (KNN) films and methods of making such films. In an embodiment, a method of forming a potassium sodium niobate (KNN) film comprises preparing a solution comprising water, potassium hexaniobate salts, and sodium hexaniobate salts. In an embodiment, the solution is spin coated onto a substrate to form a film on at least a portion of a surface of the substrate. In an embodiment, the method may further comprise heat treating the film.
US11384449B2
In various embodiments, growth of large, high-quality single crystals of aluminum nitride is enabled via a two-stage process utilizing two different crystalline seeds.
US11384447B2
Provided is a substrate holder including a first holding member and a second holding member configured to sandwich and fix a substrate, wherein the first holding member includes a first holding member body, and a clamp provided on the first holding member body, the clamp being rotatable about a shaft extending parallel to a surface of the first holding member body, or being reciprocable in a direction intersecting with the surface of the first holding member body, the second holding member includes a second holding member body, and the clamp is capable of engaging with the second holding member in a state where the first holding member body and the second holding member body are brought into contact with each other, to fix the second holding member to the first holding member.
US11384416B2
This nickel-containing steel for low temperature includes, as a chemical composition, by mass %: C: 0.020% to 0.070%; Si: 0.03% to 0.30%; Mn: 0.20% to 0.80%; Ni: 12.5% to 17.4%; Al: 0.010% to 0.060%; N: 0.0015% to 0.0060%; and O: 0.0007% to 0.0030%, in which a metallographic structure contains 2.0% to 30.0% of an austenite phase by volume fraction %, in a thickness middle portion of a section parallel to a rolling direction and a thickness direction, an average grain size of prior austenite grains is 3.0 μm to 20.0 μm, and an average aspect ratio of the prior austenite grains is 1.0 to 2.9.
US11384415B2
The present invention relates to a steel alloy with high energy absorption capacity and good formability, comprising beside inevitable impurities due to smelting and iron the following components in weight percent: C 0.05-0.6% Sum of Cr+2*Ti+3*(Mo+V+Nb)+4*W=2-7%, wherein the structure of the steel alloy comprises beside martensite portions of 10-40 Vol.-% retained austenite, wherein the energy absorption capacity expressed by the product of tensile strength (Rm) and uniform strain (Ag) is higher than 12,000 MPa % and the steel alloy has a minimal tensile strength of 1000 MPa. In addition, the invention relates to a steel tube product with high energy absorption capacity and good formability, which is characterized in that it at least partially consists of such a steel alloy.
US11384414B2
A nickel-based superalloy composition including by weight percent: Cobalt 7.5; Chromium 9.75; Aluminum 5.45; Titanium 1.0; Niobium 3.5; Tungsten 6.0; Molybdenum 1.5; Carbon 0.08; Hafnium 0.15; Boron 0.01; and Nickel 65.0; and incidental impurities.
US11384411B2
A process is provided for recovering uranium comprising (A) bringing a solution (A) into contact with a resin (A) to produce a mixture of solution (B) and resin (B), wherein the solution (A) is an aqueous solution comprising dissolved sodium carbonate, sodium bicarbonate, or a mixture thereof, and wherein the resin (A) is a strong acid cation exchange resin that comprises one or more cationic moiety that comprises uranium and one or more cationic moiety that comprises iron, and (B) separating the solution (B) from the resin (B).
US11384401B2
Provided herein is technology for gastrointestinal neoplasia screening and particularly, but not exclusively, to methods, compositions, and related uses for detecting the presence of gastrointestinal neoplasm, and classifying the site location of such a gastrointestinal neoplasm (e.g., a colorectal region, a pancreaticobiliary region, a gastroesophageal region).
US11384399B2
Described herein are innovations for classifying subtypes of DLBCL, as well as using the results of classification for diagnosis, prognosis, and therapy selection. In this way, the classifier can effectively classify subtypes of DLBCL and provide meaningful output for the benefit of medical practices and DLBCL patients. Also described are arrays and kits that can be used to measure expression of DLBCL signatures genes.
US11384398B2
The disclosure is directed to kits and methods for amplifying and detecting human papilloma virus (HPV) of genotype 16, 18, 31, 33, 35, 39, 45, 51, 52, 56, 58, 59, 66, and/or 68 in a sample, which comprises a variety of combinations of forward oligonucleotide primers, reverse oligonucleotide primers, and oligonucleotide probes.
US11384390B2
The present disclosure relates to base sequence determination. A base sequence determination system includes a fluid device and an optical device, a reaction device includes a first component and a second component, and a repeated executable unit is defined as: a second biochemical reaction—a first biochemical reaction—photographing. A method includes, after initiation steps, using the fluid device to perform the second biochemical reaction and the first biochemical reaction of the sample on the first component, while using the optical device to photograph the sample on the second component. The initial steps include: using the fluid device to perform the first biochemical reaction of the sample on the first component, using the optical device to photograph the sample on the first component after the first biochemical reaction, and using the fluid device to perform the first biochemical reaction of the sample on the second component.
US11384371B2
The use of a cytochrome P-450 enzyme comprising SEQ ID NO: 3, or a variant enzyme having at least 70% identity thereto and having CYP-450 activity, for the hydroxylation of an organic compound.
US11384367B2
The present invention provides for a method of converting a depolymerized lignin aromatic compound into a bioproduct, comprising: (a) providing a composition comprising a depolymerized lignin aromatic compound, optionally a depolymerized cellulose, and optionally a depolymerized hemicellulose, and (b) introducing a genetically modified microorganism to the composition, wherein the genetically modified microorganism is capable of converting the depolymerized lignin aromatic compound into a bioproduct; such that the depolymerized lignin aromatic compound is converted into a bioproduct.
US11384364B2
Provided herein are methods and compositions useful in the production of recombinant AAV (rAAV) in insect cells. In some embodiments, methods and compositions include the use of modified Kozak sequences to express AAV VP1 proteins in amounts that are useful for producing infective rAAV particles.
US11384362B1
The present invention relates to novel squash plants displaying an increased resistance to downy mildew infection. The present invention also relates to seeds and parts of said plants, for example fruits. The present invention further relates to methods of making and using such seeds and plants. The present invention also relates to novel genetic sequences associated with said increased resistance and to molecular markers associated with said novel genetic sequences.
US11384359B2
Genetically engineered bacteria, pharmaceutical compositions thereof, and methods of treating or preventing autoimmune disorders, inhibiting inflammatory mechanisms in the gut, and/or tightening gut mucosal barrier function are disclosed.
US11384358B2
The disclosure provides methods of making a tetracycline inducible expression system in a cell. The methods include providing the cell with a first nucleic acid sequence comprising a first promoter operably linked to a tetracycline repressor gene coding sequence, providing the cell with a second nucleic acid sequence comprising a second promoter operably linked to a coding sequence of a gene of interest wherein the second promoter is modified to include one or more tetracycline repressor protein binding sites, and determining the expression of the gene of interest in the presence or absence of tetracycline. The disclosure further provides nucleic acid sequences, vectors and cells including the tetracycline inducible modified promoter.
US11384357B2
The present invention is directed to an aptamer composition comprising at least one oligonucleotide consisting of: deoxyribonucleotides, ribonucleotides, derivatives of deoxyribonucleotides, derivatives of ribonucleotides, and mixtures thereof; wherein said aptamer composition has a binding affinity for one or more fungi species from the genus Malassezia.
US11384355B2
The invention relates to a RNA interference triggers for inhibiting the expression of an AAT gene through the mechanism of RNA interference. The invention also relates to a pharmaceutical composition comprising the AAT RNAi trigger together with an excipient capable of improving delivery of the RNAi trigger to a liver cell in vivo. Delivery of the AAT RNAi trigger to liver cells in vivo provides for inhibition of AAT gene expression and treatment of alpha 1-antitrypsin deficiency and associated diseases.
US11384329B2
A system for growing algae includes a gas concentrator configured to receive a first gas containing CO2 at a first concentration and discharge a second gas containing CO2 at a second concentration higher than the first concentration, and a photobioreactor containing algae in an algae slurry and fluidically coupled to the gas concentrator to receive the second gas. A recycling line extends from a gas outlet on the photobioreactor to remove a third gas from the photobioreactor for future use in the photobioreactor.
US11384325B2
A bioreactor vessel is provided. The bioreactor vessel comprises a bioreactor bag wall having an interior side and an exterior side and an aperture extending from the interior side to the exterior side, wherein the interior side is configured to contact and house a reaction mixture. The bioreactor vessel also comprises a port mounted proximate the aperture, the port including a flange fixedly attached to the bioreactor bag, such that a fluidic seal is maintained along a circumference of the flange. The bioreactor vessel also comprises a plurality of sensors disposed within the port.
US11384322B2
The present invention relates to methods for preparing cereal-based beverages. Particularly, the present invention provides, for example, methods for steeping and germination of cereal grain under continuous aeration. The present invention also provides for wet milling of germinated cereal grains and direct transfer of the germinated grain, without drying, to the brewery for further processing. Compared to current methods the methods of the present invention significantly reduces water consumption, energy consumption and transport need.
US11384315B2
The present invention relates to a copolymer comprising units of type A deriving from carboxylic acid monomers and units of type B deriving from sulfonic acid monomers, said units of type A and B representing more than 80 mol % of the total moles of units in the copolymer, characterized in that it comprises at least: —one first block formed of at least 95 mol % of units of type A and having a degree of polymerization DP1 comprised between 5 and 150; and —one second block formed of at least 95 mol % of units of type A and B with a molar ratio of units of type A to units of type B greater or equal to 1, wherein said units of type A and units of type B are statistically distributed, said second block having a degree of polymerization DP2 such that DP2/DP1≥1. It also relates to new detergent compositions comprising such a copolymer, and to the use of this copolymer in a detergent composition, especially an ADW composition, to prevent, limit or eliminate the filming phenomena.
US11384313B2
A wooden wick comprising a strip of wood. Such wick further includes a wood booster member connected to the strip of wood. At least the strip of wood or the booster member comprises a grain, wherein the grain is figured.
US11384311B2
A comb copolymer viscosity modifier may be made by polymerization comprising at least, or consisting essentially of, the following monomers: (a) a hydrogenated polybutadiene-based (alk)acrylate ester macromonomer (which repeat units may comprise from 7.0 wt % to 18 wt % of the repeat units of the comb copolymer viscosity modifier); (b) a C3-C8 alkyl (alk)acrylate ester monomer (which repeat units may comprise from 40 wt % to 71 wt % or from 45 wt % to 64 wt % of the repeat units of the comb copolymer viscosity modifier); and (c) a C12-C24 alkyl (alk)acrylate ester monomer, wherein repeat units based on the C12-C24 alkyl (alk)acrylate ester monomer comprise at least 21.0 wt % (and optionally up to 35.0 wt %) of repeat units of the comb copolymer viscosity modifier. Lubricant compositions comprising the comb copolymer viscosity modifier, as well as uses thereof and methods for modifying viscosity, are also contemplated herein.
US11384308B2
A lubricant composition comprising an oil of lubricating viscosity and 0.01 to 5 percent by weight of a substantially sulfur-free alkyl phosphate amine salt, where at least 30 mole percent of the phosphorus atoms are in an alkyl pyrophosphate salt structure, exhibits good antiwear performance. In the phosphate amine salt, at least 80 mole percent of the alkyl groups are typically secondary alkyl groups of 3 to 12 carbon atoms.
US11384298B2
Separation of asphaltenes from residual oil is carried out with naphtha as solvent. In particular, straight run naphtha obtained from the same crude oil source as the residual oil feed is used as the solvent. The mixture of deasphalted oil and solvent is passed to a hydroprocessing zone, without typical separation and recycle of the solvent back to the solvent deasphalting unit. Asphalt is separated from the residual oil (residue from atmospheric or vacuum distillation); the mixture of deasphalted oil and naphtha solvent is passed to the hydroprocessing unit.
US11384295B2
In a method of hydroprocessing, hydrogen gas for the hydroprocessing reaction is combined with a liquid feed composition comprising a feedstock to be treated and a diluent to form a feed stream, at least a portion of the hydrogen gas being dissolved in the liquid feed composition of the feed stream, with non-dissolved hydrogen gas being present in the feed stream in an amount of from 1 to 70 SCF/bbl of the liquid feed composition. The feed stream is contacted with a hydroprocessing catalyst, within a reactor while maintaining a liquid mass flux within the reactor of at least 5000 lb/hr·ft2 to form a hydroprocessed product.
US11384291B1
The present disclosure is directed to petrochemical processing systems that may include a component including a first surface oriented to contact a process fluid, which may define a plurality of channels. The petrochemical processing systems may further include a plurality of metal spheres disposed at least partially in the plurality of channels. Each one of the plurality of metal spheres may be fixed in place within one of the plurality of channels such that each of the plurality of metal spheres is freely rotatable. Methods for reducing accumulation and formation of solid deposits during petrochemical processing using the petrochemical processing systems are also disclosed.
US11384287B2
The present disclosure provides a side chain liquid crystal epoxy monomer (S-LCEM) and a preparation method thereof, and a side chain liquid crystal epoxy resin (S-LCER) with high intrinsic thermal conductivity, and belongs to the technical field of epoxy resin materials. There are biphenyl mesogenic groups with strong rigidity in a molecular structure of the S-LCEM provided in the present disclosure and there are also flexible connections among chain segments, which promotes the ordered arrangement of S-LCEM molecular chains during a curing process. The highly-ordered arrangement of such mesogenic units is conducive to the formation of a local crystalloid structure, so that a heat flow is transferred along a direction of the ordered molecular chain, which effectively inhibits the scattering of phonons in the S-LCER with high intrinsic thermal conductivity and greatly improves the intrinsic thermal conductivity of the S-LCER with high intrinsic thermal conductivity.
US11384285B2
Embodiments of composite scintillators which may include a scintillator material encapsulated in a plastic matrix material and their methods of use are described.
US11384284B2
Disclosed are compositions and methods for the pressure protection of existing wells during infill drilling operations. The methods can include injecting a foamed pressure protection composition into the existing wellbore in fluid communication with an unconventional subterranean formation prior to and/or during fracturing of the new wellbore in fluid communication with the unconventional subterranean formation.
US11384277B2
Method for enhancing oil recovery in a hydrocarbon-containing carbonate reservoir including: injecting a slug of an oil recovery solution into the carbonate reservoir such that the wettability of a rock surface of the hydrocarbon-containing reservoir is altered toward more water-wet; and injecting a slug of a displacing fluid into the hydrocarbon-containing carbonate reservoir formation after injecting the slug of the oil recovery solution. The oil recovery solution comprising: a manganese-bearing aqueous solution having manganese ions and one or more major ions. The aqueous saline solution having a concentration of manganese ions between 100 and 1,000 ppm TDS and a concentration of major ions that is equivalent to the concentration of major ions in seawater as it is found in nature. The one or more major ions can include: sodium ion, magnesium ion, calcium ion, chlorine ion, sulfate ion, bicarbonate ion, and combinations of the same.
US11384275B2
A high temperature-resistant and high oil-absorption resin particle plugging agent suitable for oil-based drilling fluid and its preparation method is prepared from raw materials in parts by mass as follows: 15-30 parts of reaction monomers, 5-12 parts of linear high polymers, 0.1-1.5 parts of cross-linking agents, 0.1-0.5 parts of initiators, 1-3 parts of modified starches, 1-5 parts of filler particles and 1-5 parts of dispersing agents; it has high oil absorption capacity under a high-temperature condition and high toughness after oil-absorbing expansion.
US11384269B1
The present invention provides environmentally benign deicing compositions comprising deicers or anti-icing agents with oxygen release compounds for the mitigation of dissolved oxygen depletion in receiving waters due to the decomposition of organic deicers. The compositions also include additives for the effective release of oxygen from metal peroxides and for pH control as needed.
US11384266B2
A method for surfacing a polymeric composite article and/or for joining (for example, by bonding or by co-curing) the article and an adherend (for example, a second polymeric composite article) comprises (a) providing a cured or curable polymeric composite article; (b) providing a curable composition comprising (1) at least one thermosetting resin, and (2) at least one preformed, substantially non-functional, particulate modifier comprising at least one elastomer; and (c) directly or indirectly applying the composition to at least a portion of at least one surface of the article.
US11384262B2
A packaging material can include cold seal adhesive on a first side of a substrate, glossy material on a second side of the substrate, and matte material on the glossy material, so that the matte material covers at least a predetermined portion of the glossy material. Each of the glossy and matte materials can be a cold seal release lacquer configured so that when the packaging material is formed into a roll, the cold seal adhesive is releasably adhered to the cold seal release lacquers, the glossy cold seal release lacquer is fixedly adhered to the substrate, and the matte cold seal release lacquer is fixedly cohered to the glossy cold seal release lacquer.
US11384256B2
The present invention provides a polishing method in which the polishing speed of silicon germanium is sufficiently high, the etching of the silicon germanium is suppressed, and the selection ratio of the polishing speed of the silicon germanium is sufficiently high. The present invention relates a polishing method including: polishing an object to be polished containing silicon germanium using a polishing composition, in which the polishing composition contains an abrasive, an inorganic salt, and a polishing accelerator having an acid group, and pH of the polishing composition is 8 or more.
US11384253B2
The invention provides a chemical-mechanical polishing composition comprising (a) an abrasive comprising colloidal silica, (b) a compound of formula (I), (c) a compound of formula (II), (d) hydrogen peroxide, and (e) water, wherein the polishing composition has a pH of about 1 to about 5. The invention also provides a method of chemically-mechanically polishing a substrate, especially a nickel-phosphorous substrate, by contacting the substrate with the inventive chemical-mechanical polishing composition.
US11384251B2
A hydrophilic coating material including an alginic acid compound and a resin, in which the alginic acid compound is granulated and dispersed in the resin. In a coating film using the material, it is preferred that the granulated alginic acid compound is exposed on the surface. Such a hydrophilic coating film is suitable as a hydrophilization treatment film of a nozzle face surface of an inkjet recording head.
US11384245B2
Aqueous leucoindigo solution comprising an aromatic amine, in particular aniline or aniline and N-methylaniline, wherein the concentration of the aromatic amine is below 200 ppm, wherein the leucoindigo salt in the solution is in the form of a mixed sodium and potassium salt, wherein the molar ratio of sodium to potassium is in the range of from above 3:1 to 10:1, preferably wherein the concentration of the salt is in the range of from above 25 to 45% by weight, based on the total weight of the solution.
US11384244B2
Provided are a curable organopolysiloxane composition, and a pattern forming method using the curable organopolysiloxane composition. The curable organopolysiloxane composition generally has hydrosilylation reaction curing properties, may be precisely applied using, for example, a jet dispenser, and has a viscosity at a strain rate of 1,000 (1/s) of 2.0 Pa·s or less, and a viscosity at a strain rate of 0.1 (1/s) of at least 50.0 times the viscosity at a strain rate of 1,000 (1/s). The curable organopolysiloxane composition has rheological properties suitable for precision application and micropattern formation using a microdroplet coating device such as a jet dispenser.
US11384243B2
An addition-curable silicone rubber composition and an air bag are provided. The addition-curable silicone rubber composition is characterized by comprising: (A) 100 parts by mass of an alkenyl-group-containing organopolysiloxane; (B) an organohydrogenpolysiloxane, contained in such an amount that the number of moles of silicon-atom-bonded hydrogen atoms contained in (B) component is 5 or greater per mole of the alkenyl groups contained in (A) component; (C) an addition reaction catalyst, contained in an amount of 1-500 ppm, in terms of the mass of the catalyst metal element, of the total mass of (A) and (B) components; (D) 0.1-50 parts by mass of finely powdery silica; (E) 0.1-5.0 parts by mass of an adhesion improver [a mixture comprising (E-1) an organohydrogenpolysiloxane, (E-2) an alkoxysilyl-modified isocyanurate compound, and (E-3) an organosilicon compound]; and (F) 0.1-5.0 parts by mass of a condensation catalyst.
US11384239B2
The present disclosure provides a resin composition which comprises: 90 parts by weight of vinyl-containing polyphenylene oxide resin; 35 to 70 parts by weight of chemically synthetic silica; and 10 to 30 parts by weight of spherical inorganic fillers, wherein the spherical inorganic fillers include spherical boron nitride, spherical hollow boron silicate or a combination thereof. The present disclosure also provides an article made from the resin composition, wherein the article includes a prepreg, a resin film, a laminate or a printed circuit board. The resin composition of the invention can make the article made therefrom achieve better peeling strength, dielectric constant, dissipation factor, no weave exposure produced and no stripes of branch-like pattern produced at the laminate edge.
US11384225B2
The present invention relates to a TPO sheet allowing display and touch sensing. More specifically, the present invention relates to a TPO sheet having a color and light-transmitting properties used as surface materials for automobile interior parts. According to the present invention, when the TPO sheet is used as surface materials for automobile interior parts, an interior decorative effect may be obtained due to color properties thereof. In addition, when the TPO sheet is attached to the surface of a display panel, due to light-transmitting properties thereof, light emitted from the display panel may be transmitted through the TPO sheet. Thus, content displayed on the display panel may be visible through the TPO sheet. In addition, a touch sensing operation may be performed on the TPO sheet.
US11384223B2
A fluororubber composition containing a ternary fluororubber polymer including vinylidene fluoride, perfluorovinyl ether and tetrafluoroethylene; a reaction product of silica-aluminum silicate with vinyl ethoxysilane; and hydrotalcite. The fluororubber composition does not substantially contain magnesium oxide and calcium hydroxide. The fluororubber composition contains 2 to 55 parts by weight of the reaction product of silica-aluminum silicate with vinyl ethoxysilane and 0.5 to 10 parts by weight of the hydrotalcite relative to 100 parts by weight of the ternary fluororubber polymer.
US11384222B2
The invention relates to the use of at least one compound of the formula (1) herein R1, R2 and R3 are the same or different and denote a C1-C10-alkyl as a hydrolysis stabilizer in polyester materials.
US11384219B2
The invention provides a method of making a electrocatalyst from waste tires. The method comprises the steps of providing rubber pieces; optionally contacting the rubber pieces with a sulfonation bath to produce sulfonated rubber; pyrolyzing the rubber to produce tire-derived carbon composite comprising carbon black, wherein the pyrolyzing comprises heating to at least 200° C.-2400° C.; activating the tire-derived carbon composite by contacting the tire-derived carbon composite with an alkali anion compound to provide activated tire-derived carbon supports; and loading the activated carbon-based supports with platinum cubes. In another embodiment, the tire-derived carbon composite is activated by annealing in a carbon dioxide atmosphere.
