US11419248B2
The present invention provides a display module and a display device. By disposing a second heat dissipation layer between a first heat dissipation layer and a first substrate, and connecting the first heat dissipation layer with the second heat dissipation layer, heat in a driving chip is transmitted to the second heat dissipation layer and then directly transmitted to the first heat dissipation layer, thereby the display module allows the heat to be quickly distributed throughout the panel and reducing the temperature in the areas corresponding to the driving chip. Therefore, the present invention solves the technical problem that areas corresponding to driving chips have higher temperature when current display modules are in operation.
US11419246B2
A thermosiphon includes a condenser; an evaporator that includes a fluid channel and a heat transfer surface, the heat transfer surface defining a plurality of fluid pathways in the fluid channel that extend through the fluid channel, the evaporator configured to thermally couple to one or more heat-generating electronic devices; and a transport member that fluidly couples the condenser and the evaporator, the transport member including a liquid conduit that extends through the transport member to deliver a liquid phase of a working fluid into the fluid pathways, the transport member further including a surface to vertically enclose the plurality of fluid pathways.
US11419244B1
A heat dissipation device includes a console box, multiple casings and two flow-spilt assemblies. The casings are vertically superposed on the console box. Each casing has a heat dissipation loop. The two flow-split assemblies are disposed outside the casings. Each flow-split assembly has a water reservoir, a connecting tube communicated between the console box and the water reservoir and multiple curved tubes disposed on the water reservoir. The water reservoir is of a rod shape along a direction of the superposing of the casings. The curved tubes are arranged sequentially and spacedly along the water reservoir to communicate between the water reservoir and each casing correspondingly and connect each of the heat dissipation loops.
US11419241B2
A heat exchanging arrangement for a subsea electronic system, the heat exchanging arrangement including: at least one pipe having an external surface; and at least one heat exchanging element arranged inside the at least one pipe and defining at least one internal passage for conducting a dielectric fluid through the at least one pipe; wherein the at least one heat exchanging element is arranged to press laterally outwards against an internal surface of the at least one pipe to establish a heat transfer bond between the at least one heat exchanging element and the at least one pipe. A subsea electronic system including the heat exchanging arrangement is also provided.
US11419236B2
An electronic system includes a rack assembly including a first rail and a second rail defining a first width therebetween and a chassis that supports electronic components and is insertable between the first rail and the second rail. The chassis includes a first side and a second side defining a second width therebetween that is less than the first width. The electronic system further includes a power connector coupled to the chassis and movable between a first position and a second position. The power connector and the second side define a third width when the power connector is in the first position. The power connector and the second side define a fourth width when the power connector is in the second position. The third width is greater than the first width and the fourth width is less than the first width.
US11419231B1
A cover for an electronic device includes a glass cover defining a substantially planar first surface, a substantially planar second surface opposite the first surface, an opening extending through the glass cover, and a raised wall surrounding the opening and defining a portion of an interior surface of the opening.
US11419226B1
An interlock system is provided that limits the ability of a user or seismic event to dislodge or partially remove more than one chassis from a rack at any one time. Thus, embodiments reduce the potential for the rack to be toppled by the weight of too many chassis extending from the rack at the same time. The interlock system includes a dynamic rail with locking blocks that move to engage hooks on the rear of the chassis. A trigger at each chassis slot is depressed with installation of a chassis. Upon the removal of any chassis, the associated trigger extends and causes the dynamic rail to be pulled down into a locking position in which the locking blocks engage the hooks on the remaining chassis, which prevents their removal.
US11419223B2
A touch display module has plural sensors and includes an integrated frame, a backlight module, a thin film transistor substrate, a color filter, and a polarizer. The integrated frame has a bottom plate portion and a side plate portion, and the side plate portion stands on the bottom plate portion. The backlight module is disposed on the bottom plate portion. The thin film transistor substrate is disposed on the backlight module. The color filter is disposed on the thin film transistor substrate. The polarizer is disposed on the color filter. One surface of the polarizer is an outer surface of the touch display module. The thin film transistor substrate and/or the color filter is connected to the side plate portion of the integrated frame. Therefore, by using the integrated frame to integrate required components into one mechanical part, the touch display module has thinner thickness and lighter weight.
US11419218B2
The present disclosure relates to a multilayer ceramic substrate preparation method. The multilayer ceramic substrate preparation method according to the present disclosure includes firing a plurality of ceramic green sheets, to create a plurality of ceramic thin films; forming a via hall in each of the plurality of ceramic thin films; filling the via hall of the plurality of ceramic thin films with conductive paste, and heat treating the via hall filled with the conductive paste, to form a via electrode; printing a pattern on a cross section of each of the plurality of ceramic thin films, and heat treating the printed pattern, to form an inner electrode; applying a bonding agent on the cross section of each of the ceramic thin films excluding an uppermost ceramic thin film of the plurality of ceramic thin films; aligning and laminating each of the plurality of ceramic thin films such that each of the plurality of ceramic thin films is electrically connected through the via electrode and the inner electrode; and firing or heat treating the laminated plurality of ceramic thin films.
US11419213B2
Described herein is a multilayer flex circuit having a first dual flex circuit and a second dual flex circuit where each one comprises an outer metal layer, a base insulation layer, and an inner metal layer. The base insulation layer is disposed between the outer metal layer and the inner metal layer. The inner metal layer of the first dual flex circuit is configured to face toward the inner metal layer of the second dual flex circuit. The multilayer flex circuit also includes a coupling layer that adhesively couples the inner metal layer of the first dual flex circuit to the inner metal layer of the second dual flex circuit. The multilayer flex circuit also comprises an electrically conductive material that electrically connects the inner metal layer of the second dual flex circuit to the inner metal layer of the first dual flex circuit.
US11419212B2
A flexible printed circuit and a manufacturing method thereof, an electronic device module and an electronic device are provided. The flexible printed circuit includes a main sub-circuit board and a bridge sub-circuit board; the main sub-circuit board includes a first substrate, and a first bridge end, a second bridge end, a first wiring portion, and a second wiring portion on the first substrate; the bridge sub-circuit board includes a second substrate, and a third bridge end, a fourth bridge end, and a third wiring portion on the second substrate, the third bridge end and the fourth bridge end are electrically connected by the third wiring portion, and the bridge sub-circuit board is configured to be mounted on the main sub-circuit board by electrically connecting the third bridge end and the fourth bridge end to the first bridge end and the second bridge end, respectively.
US11419208B2
A circuit board (3) is provided with a first rigid part (11) having a power system electronic component mounted thereon, a second rigid part (12) having a control system electronic component mounted thereon, and a thin flexible part (13) connecting the first and second rigid parts to each other. The flexible part (13) is provided with a plurality of conductive wires (27) conducted with the electronic components of the first and second rigid parts (11, 12). A non-conductive metal pattern (33) that is a dummy pattern is formed along an outer edge (13a) of the flexible part (13). By the non-conductive metal pattern (33), the disconnection of the conductive wires (27) due to cracking is suppressed.
US11419204B2
An ignition circuit and a method of operating an igniter (preferably a traveling spark igniter) in an internal combustion engine, including a high pressure engine. A high voltage is applied to electrodes of the igniter, sufficient to cause breakdown to occur between the electrodes, resulting in a high current electrical discharge in the igniter, over a surface of an isolator between the electrodes, and formation of a plasma kernel in a fuel-air mixture adjacent said surface. Following breakdown, a sequence of one or more lower voltage and lower current pulses is applied to said electrodes, with a low “simmer” current being sustained through the plasma between pulses, preventing total plasma recombination and allowing the plasma kernel to move toward a free end of the electrodes with each pulse.
US11419202B2
The present disclosure is directed to laser produced plasma light sources having a target material, such as xenon, that is coated on the outer surface of a drum. Bearing systems rotate the drum that have structures for reducing leakage of contaminant material and/or bearing gas into the LPP chamber. Injection systems are disclosed for coating and replenishing target material on the drum. Wiper systems are disclosed for preparing the target material surface on the drum, e.g. smoothing the target material surface. Systems for cooling and maintaining the temperature of the drum and a housing overlying the drum are also disclosed.
US11419189B2
An induction heating device capable of preventing a fuse breaking phenomenon that occurs when a user preheats an empty vessel by determining whether or not a load is present in the vessel, and a method for controlling an induction heating device. In order to prevent a rapid rise in temperature of a vessel occurring in process during which a user preheats an empty vessel using an induction heating device and a fuse breaking phenomenon resulting therefrom, a controller of the induction heating device may determine whether or not a vessel placed on a working coil is an empty vessel in a vessel heating process, that is, whether or not a load is present in the vessel.
US11419171B2
This application provides a subflow establishment method. A local-end device obtains an identifier of an operator currently accessed by a network interface card of the local end device. The local-end device obtains a plurality of IP addresses of a peer-end device and identifiers of operators to which the plurality of IP addresses are homed; and establishes, by matching a plurality of operators corresponding to the local-end device and the plurality of operators corresponding to the peer-end device, a subflow between an IP address pair homed to a same operator. In this way, the established subflow does not cross operators as far as possible. This reduces negative impact of cross-operator communication of some subflows on transmission performance of a multipath connection, thereby better leveraging an advantage of the multipath connection in transmission performance in comparison with a single-path connection.
US11419168B2
A system comprising a provider server configured to establish communication with a mobile device, receive a user ID form the mobile device, provide device IDs for a plurality of devices to the mobile device, and provide the user ID and device IDs to a device manager server; a device manager server configured to receive the user ID and device IDs associate them in a database, and provide the device IDs to the mobile device associated with the device ID; a mobile device comprising an application associated with the provider server and a short range communication interface, the mobile device configured to receive a plurality of device IDs via the short range communication interface, provide the received device IDs with device IDs received from a device manager, and when the device IDs match, then automatically pair with devices associated with the device IDs and begin receiving data from the devices.
US11419164B2
A device may obtain a device identifier from a monitoring device. The device may provide, to a server device, a request for a network-assigned identifier that is associated with the monitoring device. The request may cause the server device to use the device identifier to search a data structure for the network-assigned identifier. The device may receive the network-assigned identifier from the server device. The device may provide a request to establish a communication session with the monitoring device. The request may include the network-assigned identifier of the monitoring device and a network-assigned identifier of the device. The device may receive, after providing the request, an indication that the communication session is established.
US11419155B2
Aspects are provided which improve RAR coverage through RAR PDSCH repetition. A UE is configured to transmit, to a BS, a preamble to initiate a RACH procedure. The BS is configured to transmit a first RAR to the UE in response to receiving the preamble during a first portion of a RAR window. The BS is configured to determine that an RRC connection request is not received in response to the transmitted first RAR. The BS is configured to transmit a first plurality of RARs to the UE in a first plurality of slots during a second portion of the RAR window subsequent to the first portion of the RAR window upon determining that an RRC connection request was not received in response to the transmitted first RAR. The UE is configured to receive, from the BS, the plurality of RARs in response to the transmitted preamble.
US11419149B2
A wireless communication node includes a receiving portion configured to detect, over a wireless communication channel, a request to send (RTS) message from a transmitting station within a communication vicinity of the wireless communication node. The RTS message includes at least one duration field. The wireless communication node further includes a processor configured to (i) calculate an estimated time parameter, (ii) add the estimated time parameter to a current timestamp of the wireless communication node, and (iii) form a control packet from the RTS message, the at least one duration field, and the estimated time parameter. The wireless communication node further includes a transmitting portion configured to transmit over the wireless communication channel (i) a clear to send (CTS) message the transmitting station, and (ii) the control packet to a modem in operable communication with the wireless communication channel.
US11419142B2
A data transmission method and a communications apparatus are described that reduce complexity and overhead of data reception performed by a base station. The method includes receiving information about a repetition quantity R1 corresponding to Tmax, where Tmax is a maximum transport block size allowed to be used to transmit data. The method further includes determining a cyclic parameter L based on R1, where the cyclic parameter L indicates that content carried in each of a plurality of time units to which a transport block used to transmit the data is mapped is repeated in L consecutive time units, and wherein a size of the transport block actually used to transmit the data is Ts, and Ts is less than a maximum transport block size (Tmax). The method further includes transmitting the data based on the cyclic parameter L.
US11419141B2
A method of performing wireless communication by a first device is proposed. The method includes receiving downlink control information (DCI) related to first sidelink from a base station, and transmitting, to the base station, a confirmation message for reception of the DCI related to the first sidelink through a first medium access control (MAC) control element (CE). For example, the first MAC CE may include at least one index information related to at least one semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) configuration activated or released by the DCI.
US11419140B2
A wireless device receives one or more messages. The one or more messages may comprise a first RNTI for a first SPS and a second for a second SPS. A downlink control information (DCI) corresponding to one of the first RNTI or the second RNTI may be received. The DCI may be validated, at least based on a cyclic shift value associated with the DCI, if the DCI corresponds to the first RNTI. Otherwise, the DCI may be validated without considering the cyclic shift value. One of the first SPS or the second SPS, corresponding to the DCI, may be activated in response to the validating being successful.
US11419131B2
There is provided a method and system for transmitting control information for user equipment. According to embodiments there is provided a method and apparatus for enabling multi-transport block scheduling with time diversity. According to embodiments, there is provided a method and apparatus for managing multi-transport block transmission.
US11419130B2
The present invention discloses a resource allocation method and apparatus for resolving a technical issue of a conflict of transmission resources used by user equipment adopting mode 3 and user equipment adopting mode 4. The method comprises: a base station determining whether a shared transmission resource pool shared by first-mode user equipment and second-mode user equipment includes available resources, wherein a transmission resource of the first-mode user equipment is allocated by the base station, and a transmission resource of the second-mode user equipment is selected from the shared transmission resource pool; and if the base station determines that the shared transmission resource pool includes available resources, the base station allocating, on the basis of the available resources, a transmission resource to the first-mode user equipment.
US11419129B2
A method for a user equipment (UE) to perform an uplink transmission through a frequency hopping in a wireless communication system is disclosed. More specifically, the method includes receiving uplink (UL)-downlink (DL) configuration information from a base station; and performing the uplink transmission through the frequency hopping for each non-slot on non-slots that are repeated at least two times within one slot based on the UL-DL configuration information, wherein the non-slot is a scheduling unit with a smaller time interval than the one slot.
US11419127B2
A method allocating resources in a mobile telecommunications system including a base station, one or more terminals, and one or more infrastructure nodes configured to communicate via a wireless interface allocated for successive time periods. The method includes: obtaining measurements that relate to a link between a first of the terminals and one of the infrastructure nodes; identifying communications between the first terminal and the one infrastructure node as delay-sensitive communications; identifying, based on the obtained measurements and identification of the communications between the first terminal and the one infrastructure nodes as delay-sensitive communications, resources to allocate for the first terminal to communicate with one or more of the infrastructure nodes, selected from two or more of the time periods; and allocating the identified resources for the first terminal to communicate with the one or more of the infrastructure nodes during the two or more time periods.
US11419120B2
This disclosure provides an information transmission method and a communications device. The method includes: when determining that higher layer signaling is not configured with a scrambling identifier, scrambling or descrambling, by a communications device, data by using a second initial scrambling value, where the scrambling identifier is used by the communications device to determine a first initial scrambling value used for data scrambling or descrambling, and the second initial scrambling value is related to at least one or two of a cell identifier, a radio network temporary identifier, and a reserved bit. Therefore, in the embodiments of this disclosure, when determining that the higher layer is not configured with the scrambling identifier, the communications device scrambles or descrambles the data by using the second initial scrambling value. This resolves a problem in the prior art that a terminal device cannot determine an initial scrambling value used for data scrambling.
US11419115B2
A communication method and system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT) are provided. The communication method and system may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. A method of a user equipment (UE) for receiving data is provided. The method includes receiving, from a base station, information on radio resources allocated to the UE, and receiving, from the base station, data based on the information on the radio resources. The radio resources are associated with a plurality of symbols in a time domain and a plurality of resource block groups in a frequency domain. The information on the radio resources includes at least one of first information on a starting symbol, or second information on a size of each of the resource block groups.
US11419109B2
Methods, systems, and devices for latency minimization in wireless communications employing multi-level coding and multi-level sequential demodulation and decoding are described. A user equipment (UE) receive a set of codeblock groups in a first time period. Each codeblock group jointly sharing same channel resources may be associated with a respective decoding level of a set of decoding levels. The UE may determine a first outcome for a first codeblock group and a second outcome for a second codeblock group. The UE may then transmit a feedback message that is based on the first outcome and the second outcome. In case that the feedback message indicates that the first outcome or the second outcome is a failed decoding procedure, the UE may receive, in a second time period, a retransmission of all the codeblock groups. These retransmissions may continue on additional time periods until all related codeblock groups are successfully decoded.
US11419107B2
A method, performed by a terminal, of performing vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communication includes: applying, to a sidelink radio bearer, first configuration information; receiving second configuration information according to a movement of the terminal; determining a time point at which the second configuration information is to be applied; and changing, based on the time point and the second configuration information, a configuration of the sidelink radio bearer.
US11419105B2
A method is disclosed performed by an RRU (120) of a distributed base station system (100) of a wireless communication network, the distributed base station system (100) further comprises a BBU (110) connected to the RRU, the RRU (120) being connected to a plurality of antennas (121, 122, 123) through which the RRU transmits user-layer signals to a plurality of UEs (161, 162, 163). The method comprises sending information related to received uplink signals to the BBU so that the BBU can obtain a first part of precoding coefficients to be used for precoding digital user-layer signals. The method further comprises obtaining a second part of the precoding coefficients and receiving, from the BBU, the digital user-layer signals precoded using the first part of the precoding coefficients. The method further comprises precoding the received digital user-layer signals precoded with the first part of the precoding coefficients also with the second part of the precoding coefficients, and transmitting the user-layer signals to the plurality of UEs (161, 162, 163) via the plurality of antennas (121, 122, 123).
US11419103B2
According to an embodiment, a method for use in a user equipment is disclosed. Hereby, the user equipment is adapted to communicate with a wireless network using a plurality of radio access technologies. According to this, the method comprises prioritizing at least one radio access technology from the plurality of radio access technologies. Further, the method also comprises transmitting uplink control signaling indicative of the prioritized at least one radio access technology to the wireless network. According to further embodiments, a method for use in a network node of a wireless network as well as respective first and second devices are disclosed.
US11419102B2
A method comprising receiving from a node of a wireless communications network slot configuration information indicating a configuration of one or more slots of a wireless access interface, and in accordance with the received slot configuration information receiving signals by the communications device in each of the one or more slots on the one or more of the symbols allocated for receiving signals, and transmitting signals from the communications device in each of the one or more slots on the one or more of the symbols allocated to the communications device for transmitting signals.
US11419096B2
A wireless device may initialize a candidate resource set for a sidelink transmission. The wireless device may exclude a first resource from the candidate resource set based on: the first resource being offset from a second resource by one or more reservation periods, and the second resource not being monitored in a sensing window. The wireless device may receive sidelink control information (SCI) indicating a resource reservation of the first resource. The wireless device may transmit, via the first resource, the sidelink transmission.
US11419090B2
Techniques for supporting positioning for a terminal (sometimes referred to herein as a target device) in a wireless network are described. In an aspect, positioning for a target device includes receiving a Request Location Information message, for a server, that includes a first information element and a second information element, wherein the first information element includes at least one field that is common to multiple positioning methods and wherein the at least one field comprises a quality-of-service (QoS), an indication of whether periodic location information is requested, an indication of whether triggered location information is requested, or any combination thereof, wherein the second information element includes at least one field that is specific to a first positioning method, and performing positioning in response to the Request Location Information message.
US11419089B2
This disclosure provides methods, devices, and systems for beam group reporting for positioning in new radio (NR) wireless communications systems. In some wireless communications systems, multiple PRS resources, e.g., a beam group, received by a user equipment (UE) from the same network entity may be used to produce a combined Time of Arrival (TOA) measurement for the reference or target to derive an Reference Signal Time Difference (RSTD) estimate. The UE provides to a network entity an indication of the PRS resources in the beam group, which may be specifically or generally identified. Additionally, parameters associated with the beam group are provided, such as a relative quality of the TOA measurement for each PRS resource in the subset, a spread of the TOA measurements in the subset, a relative signal strength of each PRS resource in the subset, or a spread of the signal strength in the subset.
US11419078B2
Indication of globally synchronous communications mode is disclosed. A first node may detect an indication signal transmitted by a second node at a synchronization boundary of a shared communication channel. The indication signal is configured to identify a first transmission synchronization mode of the second node. The first node may then adjust its communications configuration in response to the indication signal. In making such adjustments, the first node may either contend for communications on the shared communication channel using the first transmission synchronization mode or refrain from attempting the communications on the shared communication channel using a second transmission synchronization mode.
US11419077B2
Aspects of the disclosure provide a method and an apparatus for synchronization to a common synchronization reference source. For example, the apparatus can include receiving circuitry and processing circuitry. The receiving circuitry can be configured to receive from a BS a signaling indicating a timing offset between sidelink synchronization timings of the apparatus and a GNSS. The processing circuitry can be configured to adjust the sidelink synchronization timing of the apparatus based on the timing offset.
US11419076B2
Provided are a synchronization signal detection method performed by a receiver including a processor and a memory, the synchronization signal detection method comprises calculating a PSS correlation value for a primary synchronization signal (PSS) included in a received signal, detecting a frequency offset for the PSS and a timing offset for sampling timing of the received signal and detecting the PSS based on the PSS correlation value, the frequency offset, and the timing offset.
US11419075B2
The present disclosure relates to a 5G or pre-5G communication system for supporting a higher data transmission rate than a 4G communication system such as LTE. A method for transmitting and receiving data comprises the steps of: receiving a first synchronization block over a first narrow band; identifying whether an indicator indicating that the first narrow band is not allocated to a terminal is included in the first synchronization block; and performing synchronization in the first narrow band if the indicator indicating that the first narrow band is not allocated to the terminal is not included in the first synchronization block.
US11419074B2
A device-to-device (D2D) user equipment (UE) apparatus identifies at least first and second synchronization reference (SyncRef) UEs each satisfying a predetermined selection/reselection criterion with respect to the D2D UE, determines a measurement period in which to perform one or more measurements on the identified at least first and second SyncRef UEs, and performs the one or more measurements on each of the identified at least first and second SyncRef UEs during the determined measurement period.
US11419072B2
A method for processing a packet in a mobile communication network and a network element for performing the same. A first network element may receive a first data packet to be transmitted to a second network element via a third network element and add a header to the first data packet. The first network element may add time information associated with the first data packet to the header and transmit the first data packet with the header to the third network element.
US11419070B2
A method for acquiring system information, a method for transmitting system information, a terminal, a network reception and transmission node and a storage medium are provided. The method for acquiring the system information includes: receiving a synchronization signal transmitted from a network reception and transmission node, and acquiring feature information of the synchronization signal, node information of the network reception and transmission node and a correspondence between the feature information and a transmitting position of the system information; acquiring the transmitting position of the system information corresponding to the node information based on the feature information and the correspondence; and receiving, at the transmitting position of the system information, the system information transmitted from the network reception and transmission node.
US11419067B2
Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for uplink power control. One method includes: receiving a message that configures a set of resources that each includes a downlink resource or an uplink sounding resource and is associated with an uplink transmission beam pattern; receiving scheduling information for an uplink transmission that is associated with a resource of the set of resources; determining an uplink transmission beam pattern associated with the resource; determining a configured maximum output power for the uplink transmission beam pattern that is based on an antenna array property associated with the uplink transmission beam pattern; determining a transmit power for the uplink transmission based on the configured maximum output power; and performing the uplink transmission using the uplink transmission beam pattern based on the transmit power.
US11419057B2
A method includes obtaining a power control parameter for a sounding reference signal (SRS), where the power control parameter for the SRS includes at least one of a target power parameter value for the SRS, a path loss compensation factor, and a closed-loop power control parameter value for the SRS. The method further includes determining transmit power for the SRS on a first carrier based on the power control parameter for the SRS.
US11419049B2
The present disclosure relates to a network access method and apparatus, user equipment, and a base station. The network access method includes: determining, on the basis of a traffic type of data to be transmitted and a service type of at least one wireless backhaul small base station, a wireless backhaul small base station to be accessed; and accessing the wireless backhaul small base station. According to the technical solution of the present disclosure, by means of wireless backhaul small base stations deployed in different regions and supporting different traffic types, corresponding services are provided for user equipment, so that the user equipment can be served better.
US11419048B2
A User Equipment (UE) includes a transmitter configured to, in a case that, at a time when a Public Land Mobile Network (PLMN) is changed, a first timer is running for a certain Data Network Name (DNN) and an old PLMN but that a second timer is not running for the DNN or a new PLMN and is not deactivated, be capable of transmitting a PDU session establishment request message for the DNN or no DNN in the new PLMN without stopping the first timer for the DNN and the old PLMN. Thus, a communication control method is provided that is used in a case that, in 5G congestion control in which multiple types of congestion control are applied, the PLMN is changed during application of the congestion control.
US11419035B2
The embodiments herein relate to a method performed by a SMF (108) for handling traffic for an application (201). The SMF (108) receives, from an AF (135), a plurality of candidate locations (200a, 200b) for the application (201) and traffic routing information for the application (201) for each of the plurality of locations (200a, 200b). The SMF (108) determines that the SMF (108) is allowed to steer traffic for the application (201) to a selected one of the plurality of locations. The SMF (108) selects one of the candidate locations (200a, 200b) among the plurality (200a, 200b) received from the AF (135), and steers the traffic for the application (201) to the selected candidate location (200a, 200b).
US11419032B2
The present disclosure in an aspect provides a method of managing mobility of a UE in a wireless communication system, including 1) determining in an RRC inactive state (an RRC inactive mode), whether to change a serving cell that is currently attached, 2) when determining to change the serving cell, receiving a system information from a target cell, and checking, based on the system information, whether a base station that controls the serving cell is identical to or different from a base station that controls the target cell, and 3) depending on identity or difference between the base station that controls the target cell and the base station that controls the serving cell, performing i) releasing an RRC-connection to thereby transition into an idle state, or ii) a cell change procedure to the target cell.
US11419030B2
A method and apparatus for handling a frequency priority based on a service in a wireless communication system is provided. The wireless device camps on a serving cell operated on a first frequency. The wireless device receives, from the serving cell, a paging including an information related to a service. The wireless device prioritizes or de-prioritizes the first frequency based on the information. The wireless device performs cell reselection based on a priority of the first frequency.
US11419027B2
The present disclosure relates to user plane link establishment methods. One example method includes sending, by a first base station, an obtaining request associated with user equipment to a second base station, receiving, by the first base station, a response message corresponding to the obtaining request, where the response message includes a peer address associated with the user equipment, and establishing, by the first base station and based on the peer address, a user plane link corresponding to the user equipment.
US11419025B2
This application discloses a path switching method that includes: sending, by a first terminal, a first message to a first network device, where the first message is used to request to switch a second terminal from an indirect connection path for communicating with the first network device by using the first terminal to a direct connection path for communicating with the first network device or a second network device, or the first message is used to request to release a link between the first terminal and the second terminal, and the first network device is different from the second network device; and releasing, by the first terminal, the link between the first terminal and the second terminal. With this solution, a relay terminal can trigger switching of a remote terminal from an indirect connection path to a direct connection path, to adapt to a relay scenario more flexibly.
US11419022B2
Some of the present embodiments provide a method for a user equipment (UE) for cell (re)selection, while the UE is in a radio resource control (RRC) inactive state. The method includes assigning a cell (re)selection priority level to a plurality of candidate cells based on a core network connection support of each of the plurality of candidate cells, and selecting, in a cell (re)selection procedure, a serving cell from the plurality of candidate cells, the serving cell having a highest cell (re)selection priority level.
US11419014B2
A device (110) arranged for wireless communication (130) has a processor (112) to execute a handover sequence to establish a new connection with a further device (120). A handover request message has a protocol indication indicating one or more alternative communication protocols that are supported by the requester and a channel indication indicating at least one channel to be used for a new connection. Upon receiving a first handover request message including an initial protocol indication and an initial channel indication, it is determined whether the new connection is to be established based on the initial protocol indication and via a selected channel based on the initial channel indication. If not so, the processor determines a second protocol indication and a second channel indication indicating at least one further channel to be used for the new connection and sends a second handover request message. Effectively the role of handover requester and handover selector are switched.
US11418999B2
A wireless local area network (WLAN) station (STA) reports, with a medium access control (MAC) frame, a buffer status of an urgent traffic identifier (TID) to a second STA. In some embodiments, the second STA is also an access point (AP). The delay in reporting is reduced by providing a buffer status report for the urgent TID in a data frame being transmitted to carry data for a current TID. The buffer status report, in some embodiments, provides the value of the urgent TID. In some embodiments, the buffer status report provides an indication of the amount of data in a buffer corresponding to the urgent TID. In some embodiments, the buffer status report is based on an aggregated measure of more than one buffer with data awaiting transmission. The transmission of the MAC frame, in some embodiments, is unsolicited.
US11418993B2
Systems and methods to understand the roadways (roads, highways, etc.) where customers are experiencing network congestion and the time of day when customer experience is degraded are disclosed. The method receives and aggregates data from a variety of sources, including customer data (e.g., speed, experience throughputs, reported coverage, etc.), network data (site coverage—RSRP/RSRQ, site capacity—users and bandwidth), maps/traffic data (speed limit), etc. to measure both vehicular congestion and network congestion on roadways. Ultimately, the method can generate an enhanced map that merges vehicular traffic congestion and network traffic congestion to present feature-added routes to a user. A user can then use the enhanced map to better plan their trip to ensure maximum network coverage during their trip.
US11418990B2
The present invention relates to an apparatus and a method for performing measurement reporting considering in-device coexistence interference. The present invention provide a user equipment transmitting a measurement report in a wireless communication system, comprising an interference detection unit, an assistant information generation unit, a measurement controller and a transmitter. According to the present invention, a measurement procedure can be clearly defined in an interference delicate band where in-device coexistence interference occurs and scheduling restrictions on an eNodeB due to measurement reporting about an interference delicate band can be reduced.
US11418984B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for implementing a network feature tester are disclosed. In one aspect, a method includes the actions of selecting computing devices that are configured to communicate with a wireless carrier network based on the computing devices having a common characteristic. The actions further include identifying a subset of the computing devices that are likely to communicate with a same base station of the wireless carrier network during a first period of time and a second period of time. The actions further include determining first monitoring data during the first period of time. The actions further include adjusting a characteristic of the same base station. The actions further include determining second monitoring data during the second period of time. The actions further include determining an effect that adjusting the characteristic has on the wireless carrier network.
US11418974B2
A method for generating a probability map for a cell served by a network node is provided. The method includes generating a first probability map (P1) indicating a likelihood of primary beam directions (step 602). Generating the first probability map includes recording a first direction of a first user equipment (UE), the first direction indicating a direction of a first beam (e.g., a first set of antenna weights (a.k.a., precoding vector)) associated with the first UE when the first UE appears in the cell served by the network node. The method further includes generating a second probability map (P2) indicating a joint likelihood of primary and secondary beam directions (step 604). Generating the second probability map includes recording a second direction of a second beam associated with the first UE when the first UE switches from the first beam to the second beam, the second direction being recorded in association with the first direction.
US11418968B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. Discontinuous reception (DRX) operation may be configured differently on enhanced component carriers (eCCs) than on other component carriers, including a primary cell (PCell). In some cases, a user equipment (UE) may be configured with several different eCC DRX modes. An eCC DRX configuration may, for example, be coordinated with downlink (DL) transmission time interval (TTI) scheduling so each DRX ON duration may correspond to a DL burst duration of the corresponding eCC. The eCC DRX ON durations may also be scheduled according to hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) process scheduling. In some examples, eCC DRX ON durations may be based on listen-before-talk (LBT) procedures. In some cases, eCC DRX ON durations may be configured to contain an uplink (UL) burst to enable channel state information (CSI) reporting. The eCC DRX may also be configured to minimize interruption of the PCell.
US11418967B2
A method for resource sharing comprises receiving, from a first network node adapting a first radio access technology (RAT), a resource coordination message which indicates a first cell served by the first network node; coordinating, at a second network node adapting a second RAT, at least one resource allocation for at least one second cell served by the second network node based on the resource coordination message; aggregating, at the second network node, the at least one resource allocation into a resource allocation message; and forwarding, to the first network node, the resource allocation message. The method provides a central unit of a network node to perform a resource coordination between the network nodes adapting different RAT.
US11418958B1
A subscriber identity module (SIM). The SIM comprises a processor, a non-transitory memory storing a configuration file, a wireless identity, a wireless access key, and a remote update agent stored in the non-transitory memory. When executed by the processor, the remote update agent determines that the SIM is communicatively coupled to a wireless communication network via a radio transceiver of a communication device with which the SIM is associated, in response to determining that the SIM is communicatively coupled to the wireless communication network, sends a provide local information (PLI) command to the mobile communication device to acquire network measurement results (NMR) based on the configuration file, transmits NMR data via the radio transceiver using a bearer independent protocol (BIP), receives SIM update information via the radio transceiver, and stores the SIM update information in the configuration file in the non-transitory memory.
US11418957B2
A device may receive, from a network device, a user equipment (UE) parameter update request notification indicating an update to a UE parameter of a universal subscriber identity module (USIM), and may generate an encrypted UE parameter update request. The device may cause the encrypted UE parameter update request to be provided to the USIM to cause the USIM to update the UE parameter and to generate an encrypted UE parameter update response. The device may receive, from the network device, the encrypted UE parameter update response, and may verify an authenticity of content of the encrypted UE parameter update response based on whether the encrypted UE parameter update response is signed by the USIM. The device may provide, to the network device, a result indicating whether the UE parameter is updated and whether the authenticity of the content of the encrypted UE parameter update response is verified.
US11418947B2
Apparatus comprising a plurality of servers and at least one router that are configured to receive from a communications network data records that the network generates, which are associated with IMSIs and comprise metadata characterizing communications that the network propagates, associate IMSIs with the data records, and store data records associated with a same IMSI in a memory correlated with their shared associated IMSI.
US11418946B2
Disclosed is a method for updating radio access technology related characteristic of a radio access network device, the method including: receiving a request requesting a service applying the radio access technology related characteristic; in response to a detection that the radio access network device does not support the requested service determining a capability to update the radio access network device; in response to a detection that the radio access network device is updateable retrieving data package to update at least the radio access network device; and delivering the data package to the radio access network device for updating the radio access network device to support the requested radio access technology related characteristic. The invention also relates to a network node, a communication system and a computer program thereto.
US11418944B2
A method of adaptive generation of a profile package is constructed to install a profile in the eUICC. The method includes adaptive generation of a code package constructed to install an executable code in the device. A batch of multiple profile (or code) descriptions is provided. The target eUICC/target device or some other competent instance is arranged to provide the transfer server with configuration information of the target eUICC/target device. The transfer server retrieves, instead of a ready-made profile (code) package (eSIM), only a profile (code) description and profile (code) data. The transfer server then generates the profile package adaptively, there-in flexibly considering the configuration information on the target eUICC/target device. By this adaptive way of profile generation, profile packages matching with the real target eUICC/target device are generated. Such a matching profile package can be successfully installed in the eUICC.
US11418931B2
An information handling system operating as a thin client across a 5G infrastructure may include a wireless network interface device to communicate with a 5G communication network using a mm-wave antenna transceiver; an input/output (I/O) controller to send user input across to the 5G communication network to a backend server via a 5G antenna transceiver; and a graphical processing unit (GPU) to: transmit graphics data across the 5G communication network; and receive application program interface (API)-processed graphics data across the 5G communication network from the backend server descriptive of a user interface to be displayed on a video display communicatively coupled to the GPU.
US11418929B2
Systems and methods for sharing location information during a message conversation are provided. An electronic device displays a message region for displaying a message transcript of messages sent between a first participant and a second participant in a message conversation. The electronic device displays a location-sharing affordance. The electronic device detects a selection of the location-sharing affordance, where detecting a selection of the location-sharing affordance by the first participant comprises detecting a single contact by the first participant. In response to detecting a selection of the location-sharing affordance, the electronic device enables the second participant to obtain the first participant location information and displays a modified location-sharing affordance.
US11418925B2
Communication methods and apparatuses to reduce a transmission delay of a multicast message are described. A first radio access network device receives a first message from a terminal device on a radio bearer or a first message from a second radio access network device. The first radio access network device multicasts the first message through a first air interface.
US11418922B2
Disclosed are techniques for calculating a predicted location of a location tracking device. In an aspect, a wireless communications device detects a breach of a geofence made by the location tracking device, receives data representing a state of the location tracking device, the state of the location tracking device comprising at least a current location of the location tracking device and a velocity of the location tracking device, and determines, based on the data representing the state of the location tracking device, the predicted location of the location tracking device.
US11418918B2
A method, an apparatus, a computer device and a storage medium for stay point recognition are disclosed. The method comprises: obtaining reference stay points corresponding to a to-be-recognized positioning point; selecting from the reference stay points a stay point in a predetermined relationship with the to-be-recognized positioning point; and determining whether the to-be-recognized positioning point is a stay point based on the stay point selected. The technical solution may improve the accuracy and recall rate of the stay point recognition.
US11418911B2
A system and method for determining location information of a portable device relative to an object based on an environment of the object is provided. The system and method may determine an environment of the object based on a received signal characteristic of communications transmitted from a first object device disposed on the object. Based on the determined type of environment or a characteristic thereof, a locator or an adapter, or both, may be selected for determining location information about a portable device relative to the object.
US11418909B2
A driver-assistance device includes: a memory; and a processor including hardware. The processor is configured to perform switching control on an operation of a function that is included in a wearable device to be worn by a user and that acquires information on privacy, based on an occupancy state indicating a relative positional relation between a vehicle and the user.
US11418898B2
A method for operating a hearing system is specified. The hearing system includes a hearing aid, which is worn by a user. The hearing system includes an auxiliary device, which includes a camera, by which a real-time image is recorded of a current environment. The auxiliary device includes a display screen, on which the real-time image is output, so that the environment is displayed on the display screen. The hearing aid transmits an item of information to the auxiliary device, which is linked to a section of the environment and is thus an item of information with respect to this section. The information is also displayed on the display screen, in that an image element is generated and is overlaid with the real-time image in such a way that it is recognizable for the user with which section of the environment the information is linked.
US11418890B1
The disclosure relates to microphone and other sensor assemblies having a transduction element and an integrated circuit. The integrated circuit includes a switched-capacitor delta-sigma analog-to-digital converter (ADC) including a first integrator stage having a switched-capacitor circuit and a first plurality of parallel amplifiers. A logic circuit coupled to the integrator circuit is configured to selectably disable a subset of enabled amplifiers of the first integrator stage during a first phase of operation and to re-enable the subset of disabled amplifiers during a second phase.
US11418889B2
A back plate is disposed in a vibration area of a MEMS microphone. The back plate includes a central area located at a central portion of the back plate and having a plurality of acoustic holes formed therein, and a peripheral area located to surround the central area. The acoustic holes are arranged to be spaced apart from each other by the same interval.
US11418886B2
An electrodynamic acoustic transducer, is disclosed, which comprises a frame and/or a housing, a membrane, at least one coil and a magnet system. The coil in a cross sectional view with a coil axis being part of the sectional plane comprises a plurality of conductive layers formed by an electrical conductor of the coil. The electrical conductor has a rectangular cross section in said cross sectional view, wherein a longer side of the rectangular cross section is substantially perpendicular to the loop axis. Furthermore, a method for manufacturing an electrodynamic acoustic transducer of the proposed kind is disclosed. According to this method, a stack of conductive layers is made from the electrical conductor by stacking of separate pieces of the electrical conductor and electrically connecting the stacked separate pieces and/or by folding of the electrical conductor.
US11418884B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide an audio processing apparatus, and an audio crosstalk processing method and apparatus. The audio processing apparatus includes: an audio processing chip, a control switch and an audio output interface. The audio processing chip includes a first power amplifier and a second power amplifier; wherein the first power amplifier is configured to output a left channel signal; the second power amplifier is configured to output a right channel signal; and the control switch is coupled with a common negative terminal of the first power amplifier and the second power amplifier, and is configured to feed back a reference feedback signal to the common negative terminal, and connect a headphone ground signal of the audio output interface with a main board ground, the reference feedback signal is obtained by performing voltage sampling on the headphone ground signal.
US11418880B2
Amplifier architecture that allows low-cost class-D audio amplifiers to be compatible with ultrasonic signals, as well as loads presented by thin-film ultrasonic transducers. The amplifier architecture replaces the traditional capacitor used as an output filter in the class-D amplifier with the natural capacitance of the ultrasonic transducer load, and employs relative impedance magnitudes to create an under-damped low-pass filter that boosts voltage in the ultrasonic frequency band of interest. The amplifier architecture includes a secondary feedback loop to ensure that correct output voltage levels are provided.
US11418878B1
An active noise cancellation system has a secondary path including a loudspeaker configured to output an anti-noise signal to cancel noise in a noise cancellation zone, and an error microphone configured to sense sound in the noise cancellation zone. The ANC system further includes a logic device configured to adaptively generate the anti-noise signal for playback through the loudspeaker based at least in part on a feedback signal from the error microphone and identify a user of the active noise cancellation system based, at least in part, on a measured frequency response of the secondary path. The logic device is further configured to identify the user of the active noise cancellation system through a comparison of the measured frequency response of the secondary path to stored models and may be configured to execute a new user enrollment process, store user profiles, and/or switch between in-ear and open-air states.
US11418861B2
An optical switching unit comprising: a plurality of arrays of multiple optical waveguides; and a switching structure controllable to direct light received from any of the optical waveguides in a first array of the plurality of arrays to one or more optical waveguides of each other array in the plurality of arrays.
US11418857B2
A method for controlling virtual reality (VR) video playing and an apparatus are provided. In this method, a video server device renders a jump icon in a video image. When a user wants to perform video jump based on video content, a jump icon corresponding to a scene in which the user is interested may be selected to form an input. The video server obtains, based on the input of the user, a jump time of a jump target video corresponding to the jump icon, and plays the jump target video for the user from the jump time. The jump target video may be a video that is being played, or may be another video. According to the application, a video can be switched based on preferences of the user.
US11418845B2
Disclosed is a media sharing system that provides shared experiencing of licensed media content such as movies. The system includes a web server that communicates with multiple client devices over the internet whereby a user's multiple social contacts can participate in a synchronized stream of licensed media content such as movies. The system is able to schedule the multi-user experiencing of the licensed media content and further synchronize the streaming of the licensed content so the participating users receiving the media streams in a substantially synchronized manner. The system still further provides for social content interaction amongst the multiple recipients so that the multiple users can interact in a time-contextual manner consistent with the substantially synchronized receipt of the licensed media content.
US11418831B2
Virtual site inspections to support clinical trials is disclosed. A frame and glasses subsystem has at least a global positioning system (GPS) and is associated with a first computing device at a physical site where an inspection is conducted. A session is opened in a web-based application on a second communication device that is in communication with, but that is physically remote from, the first computing device. Location tracking using GPS allows for a location of the frame and glasses subsystem to be continuously tracked. A script from the web-based application to the first computing device enables association with a video stream and locations within the physical site. The script enables responses to be provided from the first computing device at the locations. The locations, time stamps, video stream, the responses from the script, and a device identifier is provided immutably to the web-based application.
US11418817B2
A data structure defining a high dynamic range image comprises a tone map having a reduced dynamic range and HDR information. The high dynamic range image can be reconstructed from the tone map and the HDR information. The data structure can be backwards compatible with legacy hardware or software viewers. The data structure may comprise a JFIF file having the tone map encoded as a JPEG image with the HDR information in an application extension or comment field of the JFIF file, or a MPEG file having the tone map encoded as a MPEG image with the HDR information in a video or audio channel of the MPEG file. Apparatus and methods for encoding or decoding the data structure may apply pre- or post correction to compensate for lossy encoding of the high dynamic range information.
US11418803B2
A picture decoding method performed by a decoding apparatus according to the present disclosure includes detecting intra prediction modes of a plurality of luma blocks in a luma region corresponding to a current chroma block, generating a first predicted block for the current chroma block based on a first intra prediction mode of the intra prediction modes of the plurality of luma blocks, generating a second predicted block for the current chroma block based on a second intra prediction mode of the intra prediction modes of the plurality of luma blocks, generating a predicted block for the current chroma block based on a weighted sum using the first predicted block and the second predicted block, and generating a reconstructed block based on the predicted block for the current chroma block.
US11418798B2
Devices, systems and methods for applying intra-block copy (IBC) in video coding are described. In general, methods for integrating IBC with existing motion compensation algorithms for video encoding and decoding are described. In a representative aspect, a method for video encoding using IBC includes determining whether a current block of the current picture is to be encoded using a motion compensation algorithm, and encoding, based on the determining, the current block by selectively applying an intra-block copy to the current block. In a representative aspect, another method for video encoding using IBC includes determining whether a current block of the current picture is to be encoded using an intra-block copy, and encoding, based on the determining, the current block by selectively applying a motion compensation algorithm to the current block.
US11418797B2
Systems, apparatuses, and methods for performing efficient video transmission are disclosed. In a video processing system, a transmitter identifies multiple planes in a scene. The transmitter renders and compresses each of the multiple planes with a combination of a corresponding compression level and a resolution, which is different from a combination of compression level and resolution of any other plane. For each plane, the transmitter inserts, in multi-plane information, data such as identification of the plane, a location in the video frame for the plane, and one or more of a resolution and compression level for the plane. The transmitter conveys the rendered and compressed planes along with the multi-plane information to a receiver. The receiver decodes each of the planes and insets each of the planes on any lower resolution planes of the multiple planes.
US11418789B2
Techniques related to coding video using adaptive quantization rounding offsets for use in transform coefficient quantization are discussed. Such techniques may include determining the value of a quantization rounding offset for a picture of a video sequence based on evaluating a maximum coding bit limit of the picture, a quantization parameter of the picture, and parameters corresponding to the video.
US11418778B2
A method of and an apparatus for controlling intra prediction for decoding of a video sequence are provided. The method includes, based on a reference line index signaling, to a decoder, a first reference line nearest to a coding unit, among a plurality of reference lines adjacent to the coding unit, applying intra smoothing on only the first reference line, based on the intra smoothing being applied only on the first reference line, applying intra prediction on the coding unit, and based on the intra prediction being applied on the coding unit, applying a position-dependent intra prediction combination (PDPC) on only the first reference line.
US11418777B2
Aspects of the disclosure provide methods and apparatuses for video encoding/decoding. In some examples, an apparatus for video decoding includes receiving circuitry and processing circuitry. For example, the processing circuitry decodes prediction information of a current block in a picture from a coded video bitstream, and determines, based on an intra block copy (IBC) prediction mode usage flag from the decoded prediction information, an IBC prediction mode that is separate from an inter prediction mode and an intra prediction mode. Further, the processing circuitry determines, a block vector that points to a reference area in the picture in response to the determination of the IBC prediction mode, and reconstructs the current block based on reference samples within the reference area in the picture.
US11418774B2
Provided is a display device. The display device comprises: a display module including a display panel, wherein the display panel includes a display area having a plurality of pixels and an alignment mark area surrounded by the display area, and a display driver driving at least one of the plurality of pixels in the alignment mark area to form an alignment mark; and a stereoscopic lens including a base disposed on the display module, a plurality of lenses disposed on the base at an angle offset from a side of the display module, and a marking portion formed on one or more of the plurality of lenses to overlap the alignment mark area.
US11418770B2
A device for determining the surface topology and associated color of a structure, such as a teeth segment, includes a scanner for providing depth data for points along a two-dimensional array substantially orthogonal to the depth direction, and an image acquisition means for providing color data for each of the points of the array, while the spatial disposition of the device with respect to the structure is maintained substantially unchanged. A processor combines the color data and depth data for each point in the array, thereby providing a three-dimensional color virtual model of the surface of the structure. A corresponding method for determining the surface topology and associate color of a structure is also provided.
US11418764B2
Methods and systems for projecting wave fields use a diffusing medium, a wavefront shaper, an illumination source, and a control system. A system for projecting an object wave field into a projection volume includes a wave scatterer, a wave field projector configured to project a wave field onto the wave scatterer, and a controller coupled to the wave field projector. The controller is configured to cause the wave field projector to project a wave field that, upon interacting with the wave scatterer, is redirected to form an object wave field that forms a predetermined pattern in the projection volume.
US11418756B2
The present invention discloses a signal enhancement relay apparatus is provided. A display data channel stretching circuit includes a direct and an indirect channels. A snooper circuit is disposed at the direct channel. The indirect channel includes a master and a slave paths having a master and a slave transmission circuits disposed thereon. The direct channel is selected under a default passive mode such that a snooper link bridging handler circuit is enabled to monitor a display data transmission on the direct path through the snooper circuit, to perform a channel link bridging process corresponding to a data enhancement transmission channel accordingly. When the channel link bridging process under the passive mode fails, the indirect channel is selected under an active mode such that a intervening link bridging handler circuit t is enabled to access the display data transmission on the master and the slave paths respectively through the master and the slave transmission circuits, to perform the channel link bridging process respectively.
US11418754B1
An image capture device may be physically connected to a computing device using a data cable. The image capture device may masquerade as an ethernet card to the computing device over the physical connection. The image capture device may communicate with the computing device over the physical connection using a wireless communication protocol.
US11418752B2
A capturing device includes an image sensor that generates an image signal by performing photoelectric conversion for light from a subject, a control unit that generates a setting value for setting a range where an image resulting from the image signal is cut, based on a first instruction input from a user, a setting value storage unit that stores the setting value generated by the control unit, an image conversion unit that reads the setting value from the setting value storage unit, and cuts a specific region specified by the setting value from the image and enlarges the cut region, when there is a second instruction input from the user, and an output unit that converts a signal of the image cut and enlarged by the image conversion unit into an image signal of a predetermined format and outputs the converted image signal.
US11418747B2
An imaging sensor comprising: an imaging chip in which a plurality of pixel are arranged in a matrix; and a signal processing chip that is each provided for one or more pixel columns or one or more pixel rows, has a device that performs signal processing on a pixel signal output from a pixel, and is stacked with the imaging chip is provided. For example, the device that performs signal processing is an A/D converter that converts a pixel signal output from the pixel into a digital signal, and when a pixel signal output from the pixel is converted into a digital signal, at least two or more A/D converters among the A/D converters are controlled in parallel.
US11418742B2
A method includes capturing a first image of an object at a first time using a camera and assigning shade values to a plurality of pixels in a portion of the first image. The object includes a light portion and a dark portion that is darker than the light portion. The method further includes identifying a first mode value of the shade values corresponding to the light portion of the object in the first image, and identifying a second mode value of the shade values corresponding to the dark portion of the object in the first image. The method further includes determining a difference between the first and second mode values, and determining a contrast of the first image based on the difference.
US11418733B2
An imaging device includes a pixel unit including pixels arranged in rows and columns, a pixel control unit that outputs, from each pixels, a first signal based on a charge generated during a first exposure period and a second signal based on a charge generated during a second exposure period, and an exposure time determination processing unit that determines a length of the second exposure period based on the first signal. The pixel unit includes areas each including at least one pixel, the exposure time determination processing unit determines the length of the second exposure period in each areas based on the first signal in each areas, and the pixel control unit starts the second exposure period in the pixels in a first area after outputting the first signal from the pixels in the first area and before outputting the first signal from the pixels in a second area.
US11418724B1
The processor obtains a first pixel value and a second pixel value of the display. The processor determines a desired pixel value range that exceeds the second pixel value of the display. The processor obtains a threshold between the first pixel value of the display and the second pixel value of the display. The processor obtains a function mapping the desired pixel value range to a range between the threshold and the second pixel value. The processor applies the first function to an input image prior to displaying the input image on the display. The display presents the image. Upon recording the presented image, the processor determines a region within the recorded image having a pixel value between the threshold and the second pixel value. The processor increases dynamic range of the recorded image by applying an inverse of the function to the pixel value of the region.
US11418713B2
Aspects relate to a launch sequence for a camera application. An example method includes obtaining a first user input on a region of a display. The method also includes determining, by a processor, whether the first user input is a first input type or a second input type. The first input type includes the first user input on the region of the display for greater than a threshold amount of time. The second input type includes the first user input on the region of the display for less than the threshold amount of time. The method further includes executing, by the processor, a first launch sequence of a camera application based on the first user input being the first input type. The method may also include executing, by the processor, a second launch sequence of the camera application based on the first user input being the second input type.
US11418710B2
A composite reception and emission apparatus comprises: a plurality of first-type devices that receives or emits energy; a plurality of second-type devices whose type is different from a type of the first-type devices; and a base body. The first-type devices and the second-type devices measure a full solid angle, and are arranged on the base body such that a device closest to each of the first-type devices in an orientation space is at least one of the second-type devices, and a device closest to each of the second-type devices in the orientation space is at least one of the first-type devices.
US11418708B2
A method includes operating a remote image capture system within a defined geolocation region. The remote image capture system includes a camera, position orientation controls for the camera, ambient sensors and a control unit. A user of a client device that enters the geolocation region is designated based upon identifying information received from the client device and user facial recognition data. Attributes of the geolocation region are communicated to the client device. An image capture location within the geolocation region is communicated to the client device. The client device is provided a prompt to activate the camera.
US11418698B2
A focus adjustment device comprising: a first detector which detects a focused state by a contrast detection system; second detectors which detect a focused state by a phase difference detection system; and a control unit which controls the first detector and second detectors so as to detect the focused state by the second detectors when detecting the focused state by the first detector.
US11418686B2
An imaging module includes: a substrate on which an imaging element is mounted and in which a through-hole is formed; a holding section that has a support pin inserted into the through-hole in such a manner that the support pin penetrates the through-hole and that holds an optical system forming a subject image on the imaging element; and an adhesive that is provided in the through-hole and that fixes the substrate to the support pin, and at least a tip end portion of the support pin has a tapered shape from a root side of the support pin toward a tip end of the support pin.
US11418680B2
An apparatus prints images for a density adjustment on a plurality of sheets, reads the image on a sheet printed later among the plurality of printed sheets, determines a representative value by carrying out a calculation from at least a first density value read from an image at a predetermined position on a first sheet and a second density value read from an image at the predetermined position on a second sheet, which are printed later, and performs a print density adjustment using the determined representative density and a target density.
US11418675B1
An image forming method: imaging an image forming medium in the image forming unit to generate medium image data representing the image forming medium; controlling an image formation in a plurality of modes including a single-side image forming mode and a duplex image forming mode; and detecting an ink stain based on tone differences between first medium image data and second medium image data by comparing the first medium image data as medium image data representing one surface of the image forming medium and the second medium image data as medium image data representing another surface of the image forming medium when the duplex image forming mode is selected. The controlling includes setting the whole image formable region as the target of the ejection restriction process in response to the detection of the ink stain to inhibit an ejection of the ink to the other surface.
US11418672B2
An image forming apparatus, includes: a media sensor that detects a sheet type; a fixer that fixes the image on a sheet; a storage that stores a fixing temperature for each sheet type; and a hardware processor that controls power supplied to the fixer by pulse-width modulation (PWM) control and controls a temperature of the fixer to the fixing temperature corresponding to the sheet type detected by the media sensor.
US11418666B2
An image forming system includes: a first storage that stores paper ejected after image formation processing; a second storage that stores the paper transferred from the first storage; a hardware processor that controls an operation of the image forming system; and a notifier that notifies of a state of the image forming system, wherein the hardware processor determines whether the paper remains in the first storage, and allows the notifier to notify that the paper is left untaken based on determination that the paper remains in the first storage.
US11418656B2
An image printed on a recording sheet is read, and the read image is displayed on a display unit. An instruction to use the displayed image as a correct answer image is accepted, and an image generated from the image that the instruction to use is accepted is registered as the correct answer image. A printed image is verified by comparing the printed image with the registered correct answer image.
US11418646B1
Contact centers often provide a restricted amount of time for agents to perform post-call activities, including identifying and selecting a relevant completion code from a large set of codes. Providing automated systems and methods to identify the relevant code or codes can present a limited number of the codes (e.g., quick release codes) to the agent and/or automatically enter the completion code. When the quick release code is entered, the record of the call is then updated with the code and the communication is terminated as a single step.
US11418643B2
Technologies relating to enhanced Caller ID information selection for a caller associated with a call and delivery of the selected enhanced Caller ID information to a callee associated with the call include one or more processors selecting, according to selection criteria, one or more enhanced Caller ID information items from a collection of available enhanced Caller ID information items pertaining to the caller that are stored across one or more databases of enhanced Caller ID information.
US11418642B1
Methods for determining a cause of a detected anomalous event in a telecommunications system are provided. The methods include detecting an anomalous event in the telecommunications system and retrieving relevant call detail record (CDR) data associated with the detected anomalous event for at least one identified time interval responsive to detecting the anomalous event. The relevant CDR data includes both current CDR data for the at least one identified time interval and historical CDR data for past intervals corresponding to the at least one identified time interval. The relevant CDR data including the current CDR data and the historical CDR data is preprocessed and the preprocessed relevant CDR data is processed to determine a root cause of the detected anomalous event. Processing the preprocessed relevant CDR data includes comparing the current CDR data and the historical CDR data to determine the root cause of the detected anomalous event.
US11418619B1
Technology is described for configuring data communication schedules for devices. A computing hub in a wireless network may determine a data communication schedule for a device in the wireless network. The data communication schedule may include an assigned time slot for the device to communicate with the computing hub. The data communication schedule with the assigned time slot may be provided from the computing hub to the device. The device may be instructed to wake up from a reduced power mode and enter into an active mode during the assigned time slot defined in the data communication schedule. The computing hub may prioritize data communication for the device during the assigned time slot defined in the data communication schedule and when the device is in the active mode.
US11418611B2
An information sending method is provided. The method includes determining, by the apparatus, an interaction setting between a first terminal device and a second terminal device; determining a service index of the first terminal device based on the interaction setting between the first terminal device and the second terminal device; determining information to send based on the service index; and sending the determined information to the first terminal device.
US11418604B2
A local server for managing storage across client devices in an intermittent network may include a processor, and a memory communicatively coupled to the processor. The local server may also include an internet connection manager to manage data transfer from an internet to the local server, and a wireless local area network (LAN) access point to communicatively couple at least one local client device to the local server. The local server manages the local client device to use the local server as a proxy server. The local server may also include a local network manager. The local network manager may include an update manager to push data downloaded by the local server device to the local client device based on relevancy of the data to a user of the local client device.
US11418587B2
The technology described herein documents and verifies interactions in a cloud computing environment. The system creates a first partition within the cloud computing environment for a first entity and a second partition within the cloud computing environment for a second entity. A blockchain ledger can be created for a set of interactions between the first entity and the second entity, where the blockchain ledger is disengaged when the first entity and the second entity are not interacting. The system can receive a request from the first entity for an interaction with the second entity and can activate the blockchain ledger. In response to receiving consensus from a blockchain community within the cloud computing environment, the system can allow the interaction, where the interaction is appended to the blockchain ledger.
US11418582B1
Described embodiments provide systems and methods for priority-based transport connection control. A first packet engine can read connection information of existing connections of a second packet engine written to a shared memory region by the second packet engine. The first packet engine can establish one or more virtual connections according to the connection information of existing connections of the second packet engine. Each of the first packet engine and the second packet engine can receive mirrored traffic data. The first packet engine can receive a first packet and determine that the first packet is associated with a virtual connection corresponding to an existing connection of the second packet engine. The first packet engine can drop the first packet responsive to the determination that the first packet is associated with the virtual connection.
US11418565B2
There is provided a space information sharing apparatus, a space information sharing method, and a program adapted to let users feel as if their spaces are interconnected in a multidirectional communication system while saving bandwidth. A control section is provided to control communication of space information indicative of appearances of a space of a first user to an apparatus of a second user on the basis of first sensing information representative of the state of the first user and second sensing information representative of the state of the second user. This technology is applied advantageously to multidirectional communication systems.
US11418559B2
A wireless communication system is provided including a group of media devices that includes a first media device, a second media device, a third media device, and a fourth media device. The first media device, during a first time period, is designated as an access point media device that is configured to transmit media content to each of the other media devices in the group. The second media device is configured to become the access point media device during a second time period and transmit media content to each of the other media devices in the group based on a determination that the second media device is better suited than the first media device to be the access point media device for the group during the second time period. Each media device is configured to output the media content transmitted by the access point media device in a synchronized manner.
US11418549B2
Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for providing IMS level awareness of high latency device are provided. One method, when a UE attaches to EPC, receiving, at a network node, an indication that the UE is a high latency device. The method may also include assigning, to the UE, an IP address selected from a special IP address range that is designated specifically for high latency devices. When the UE performs IMS registration, the method may include determining that the UE is a high latency UE based on the UE's IP address provided with the IMS registration request and assigned during the EPC attach procedure.
US11418544B2
Solution management systems and methods are presently disclosed that enable receiving, compiling, and analyzing vendor solutions, determining the vendor solutions that address a target vulnerability of a client network and/or client devices, determining additional vulnerabilities of the client network and/or client devices that the vendor solutions address, and selecting a vendor solution to remediate the target vulnerability. The presently disclosed systems and methods also enable scoring, risk evaluation, and additional metrics to facilitate determining the vendor solution(s) that have the largest impact and/or benefit to the various vulnerabilities of the client network and/or client devices.
US11418540B2
A denial of service (DoS) detection and circumvention system is described herein. The DoS detection and circumvention system can track phone calls that are initiated and store a list of phone numbers that are called. The DoS detection and circumvention system can also track the number of carrier congestion messages over a certain time window. Using the list of called phone numbers and the tracked number of carrier congestion messages, the DoS detection and circumvention system can identify excessive congestion. If the DoS detection and circumvention system identifies excessive congestion, the DoS detection and circumvention system can delay calls so as to prevent a possible DoS condition.
US11418538B2
The network reachability module maps and dynamically tracks network reachability of network addresses and/or devices. The network reachability module can map and dynamically track network reachability of a response-orchestrator engine, via communicating and cooperating with the response-orchestrator engine. The network reachability module has a tracking module to 1) monitor network traffic and 2) keep a list of known devices and/or known subnets on the network, which is dynamically tracked and updated as previously unknown devices and subnets on the network are detected. A trigger module generates a spoofed transmission and/or response communication, supported by a network protocol used by the network. The spoofed transmission and/or response communication can be used to map network reachability of i) network devices, ii) network addresses, and iii) any combination of both, which either 1) can receive or 2) cannot receive protocol communications from a host for the network reachability module in the network.
US11418536B2
A computer-implemented method, computer program product and computing system for importing threat data from a plurality of threat data sources, thus generating a plurality of raw threat data definitions. The plurality of raw threat data definitions are processed, thus generating a plurality of processed threat data definitions. The plurality of processed threat data definitions are processed to form a master threat data definition. The master threat data definition is provided to one or more client electronic devices.
US11418534B2
A threat analysis system includes a storage unit that stores first information in which a device configuring a threat analysis target system and a vulnerability included in the device are associated with each other, and second information in which the device and a threat from a viewpoint of a business operator assumed in the threat analysis target system are associated with each other; a threat analysis processing unit that associates the vulnerability included in the device and a threat in the threat analysis target system with each other on a basis of the first information and the second information stored in the storage unit; and a threat-analysis result output unit that outputs a relationship between the vulnerability and the threat associated by the threat analysis processing unit.
US11418532B1
This disclosure describes techniques for automating a system-level security review of a network-based service. The techniques may include generating and utilizing a machine-readable threat model to identify system-level security threats to the network-based service. The network-based service may be scanned upon being provisioned in a service-provider network, and the machine-readable threat model may be generated based on results of the scan. The machine-readable threat model may represent components of the network-based service, system-level security constraints configured to identify system-level security threats to the service, and mitigations to remedy violations to the system-level security constraints. The network-based service may be continuously, or periodically, scanned to identify changes in the network-based service. The techniques further include updating the machine-readable threat model to account for the detected changes to the network-based service, and analyzing the updated machine-readable threat model to determine whether the changes to the network-based service violate a system-level security constraint.
US11418527B2
A computer-implemented method including scanning, by one or more processors, data that is maintained on one or more social networks, identifying, one or more social entities associated with the scanned data, determining a risk score for each of the one or more social entities, analyzing the scanned data using one or more machine learning techniques, assigning a rating to each of the one or more social entities based on the determined risk score and the analyzed data, and determining, based on the rating assigned to at least one of the one or more social entities that the at least one social entity is a security risk.
US11418522B1
A keyboard detection system, that includes a processor that operates to detect at least one anomaly in input data and determine a correlation between the at least one anomaly and a characteristic of an inconsistent keyboard type. The processor may operate to determine the correlation between the at least one anomaly and the characteristic of the inconsistent keyboard type based on a lookup table or algorithm.
US11418517B2
A method of utilizing blockchain to verify maintenance data of a system including: determining a part identity of a part of a system; detecting a location of the system; detecting a time stamp depicting when maintenance was performed on the part of the system; organizing the part identity of the part, the location of the part, and the time stamp into a maintenance data package receipt; and uploading the maintenance data package receipt into a blockchain network.
US11418513B2
A system for controlling accesses to network enabled devices includes a network interface over which a hub communicates with network enabled devices, a processor, and a multilayer access control layer. The access control layer includes instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to detect, at the hub, a request representing an attempt by an application executing on a remote host device to access a network enabled device communicatively coupled to the hub, characterize the request according to a user of the remote host device, the application making the attempt, and the network enabled device, and determine whether to allow or deny the request based upon the characterization and a plurality of rules. The rules may include definitions of access rights, with respect to the network enabled device, for users, applications, commands or queries made by applications, remote host devices, and network domains.
US11418505B2
According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus is applied to an embedded system in an electric device and includes a first circuit. The first circuit is configured to request a server different from the information processing apparatus to determine whether a debug or software change is possible in response to external access.
US11418503B2
Aspects of the disclosure relate to notification, and assistance systems that may utilize sensor-based authentication techniques. A computing platform may receive user information corresponding to a first user. The user information may be authentication information from a sensor and/or a first communication device associated with the user. Based on the received user information, the computing platform may authenticate an identity of the first user and determine a location of the first user. Then, based on authenticating the identity and determining the location, the sensor may retrieve data corresponding to the first user and transmit the data to a second communication device.
US11418502B2
Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method, a computer program product, and a computer system for entering a user input based on validating a user identity. A computer receives a user input and, provided the computer has received user consent, captures user data. In addition, computer extracts purported user identity data and determines whether the data of the purported user identity matches that captured. Based on determining that the user identity is validated, the computer enters the received user input and provides feedback regarding the user input. Based on determining that the user identity is not validated, the computer does not enter the received user input, provides feedback regarding the user input, and provides recourse or an opportunity to cure deficiencies causing the input not to be entered.
US11418496B2
Provided is an image capture system capable of improving the safety and operability of application control, by a control device that makes a control request for an application, over an image capture device. The image capture system includes an image capture device and a management device that manages control over an application for the image capture device, which are connected with each other through a network. The management device generates a control authority based on the contract relating to the application for the image capture device and the image capture device, transmits image capture device identification information relating to the contract, to a control device, acquires the control request and the image capture device identification information from the control device, determines whether or not the control device has the control authority, based on the image capture device identification information, and transmits the control request to the image capture device identified by the image capture device identification information, in a case where the control device has the control authority. The image capture device receives the control request from the management device, and controls the application for the image capture device, in response to the control request.
US11418486B2
A method and system for controlling internet browsing user security is provided. A control device (120) receives, via a first communication channel, a web page request from a control agent (102) implemented in a browser (101), the browser (101) being installed in a computer device operated by a user. Then, the control device (120) requests, to a control service (130), via a second communication channel, a security level of said requested web page including a status of the user and the presence of risks in the requested web page. The control service (130) executes a security check on said requested web page by checking whether the requested web page is included in a blacklist or a whitelist and also by checking certain risk control criteria of the requested web page. Finally, in response to receipt a result of said security check, the control device (120) allows or denies access to said web page.
US11418484B2
An information processing system includes: one or more internal devices that are connected to an internal network, the internal network being connected to an external network through a firewall; and an intermediation device that can communicate with the internal network and the external network; each of the internal devices including: a storage unit that stores one or more documents and metadata of each of the documents; and a request acceptance unit that accepts, from a user, a request for processing by an external server on the external network as to one of the documents stored in the storage unit, and transmits the accepted request to the intermediation device; the intermediation device including: a request transmission unit as defined herein.
US11418479B2
A method for obtaining and maintaining Internet protocol (IP) address pools and using the IP address pools to respond to IP address allocation requests from service management functions (SMFs) includes, at an IP address provider microservice implemented using at least one processor, obtaining from dynamic host configuration protocol (DHCP) servers, a plurality of IP addresses and corresponding IP address leases and storing the IP addresses in IP address pools. The steps further include maintaining the IP address leases. The method further includes receiving, from an SMF, a request for allocation of an IP address. The method further includes allocating one of the IP addresses from one of the pools to the SMF. The method further includes communicating the IP address to the SMF.
US11418474B2
Disclosed are methods and apparatuses for processing a notification using a notification preset. A notification processing method may include providing, by the at least one processor, a notification preset setting function for setting a notification preset, the notification preset including a preset condition and a preset result, creating, by the at least one processor, at least one notification preset instance through the notification preset setting function, monitoring, by the at least one processor, whether a condition meets one of the at least one notification preset instance, and dynamically changing, by the at least one processor, a notification setting of the computer apparatus from a first state to a second state in response to a result of the monitoring indicating that the condition meets a first notification preset instance, from among the at least one notification preset instance.
US11418468B1
Computing system and method for automatically reversing an action indicated by an electronic message
A computing device, method and computer program product are provided to automatically reverse an action indicated by an electronic message. In relation to a method, an electronic message is parsed to separately identify a plurality of fields of the electronic message providing different types of information. The method constructs a response to the electronic message that reverses the action indicated by the electronic message and transmits the response to the electronic message to a request processor that provided the electronic message. The method constructs an alternative message that provides an alternative action to the action indicated by the electronic message and transmits the alternative message to a source. In response to the alternative message, the method receives a subsequent request from the source. If the alternative action is to be taken, the method processes the subsequent request in a different manner than the request that generated the electronic message.
US11418467B2
The current invention describes a method and system for imposing a dynamic sentiment vector to an electronic message. In one embodiment of the invention, the method comprises of receiving a text input comprising message content from an electronic computing device associated with a user. The message content is further parsed and comprised in the text input for emotionally-charged language, assigned a sentiment value, based on the emotionally-charged language, from a dynamic sentiment value spectrum to the text input. Additionally, based on the sentiment value, imposing a sentiment vector, corresponding to the assigned sentiment value, to the text input, the imposed sentiment vector rendering a sensory effect on the message content designed to convey a corresponding sentiment.
US11418459B1
Methods and systems for performing operations comprising: accessing one or more data objects including a data set that has been collected over a given span of time, the data set representing resource utilization of a given server; generating a first model based on a moving average of a subset of data points in the data set; generating a second model based on a historical value of a given data point in the data set, the given data point having been collected on a prior time period that corresponds to the given time period; combining the first and second models into a third model that provides an expected measure of resource utilization of the given server; and triggering an anomaly detection operation in response to determining that current resource utilization of the given server fails to correspond to the expected measure of resource utilization of the given server.
US11418457B1
A voice coding rate is selected for a voice call involving a user equipment (UE) device based on an air interface efficiency of the base station serving the UE device. The air interface efficiency of the base station is determined based on at least one of (i) a beamforming capability of the base station, (ii) a multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO) capability of the base station, or (iii) an antenna configuration of the base station. The voice coding rate could be selected by either the UE device or by the base station. The UE device transmits to the base station during the voice call one or more voice frames that convey voice data coded at the selected voice coding rate. During the voice call, a new air interface efficiency may be determined, and a new voice coding rate may be selected based on the new air interface efficiency.
US11418456B1
A voice coding rate is selected for a voice call involving a user equipment (UE) device based on an air interface efficiency of the base station serving the UE device. The air interface efficiency of the base station is determined based on at least one of (i) a beamforming capability of the base station, (ii) a multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO) capability of the base station, or (iii) an antenna configuration of the base station. The voice coding rate could be selected by either the UE device or by the base station. The UE device transmits to the base station during the voice call one or more voice frames that convey voice data coded at the selected voice coding rate. During the voice call, a new air interface efficiency may be determined, and a new voice coding rate may be selected based on the new air interface efficiency.
US11418454B2
Apparatus including a first interface to a host processor, a second interface to transmit and receive data packets having headers and payloads, to and from a packet communication network, a memory holding context information regarding a flow of the data and assigning serial numbers to the data packets in the flow, according to a session-layer protocol, and processing circuitry between the first and second interfaces and having acceleration logic, to decode the data records according to the session-layer protocol, using and updating the context information based on the serial numbers and the data records of the received packets, and processing circuitry writing the decoded data records through the first interface to a host memory. The acceleration logic, upon receiving in a given flow a data packet containing a serial number that is out of order, reconstructs the context information and applies that context information in decoding data records in subsequent data packets in the flow.
US11418453B2
Techniques for determining packet path visibility, packet drops, and latency measurements associated with data flows of a networked computing environment are disclosed herein. The techniques may include receiving flow data associated with a data flow of a networked computing environment and determining a packet path associated with the data flow. The packet path may indicate that a first leaf switch is configured to send packets to a service chain device and that a second leaf switch is configured to receive the packets from the service chain device. The techniques may also include receiving timestamp data indicating a first time when the first leaf switch sent a packet to the service chain device and a second time when the second leaf switch received the packet from the service chain device. Based at least in part on the timestamp data, a latency associated with the service chain device may be calculated.
US11418448B2
A system, and corresponding method, is described for finding the optimal or the best set of routes from a master to each of its connected slaves, for all the masters and slaves using a Network-on-Chip (NoC). More precisely, some embodiments of the invention apply to a class of NoCs that utilize a two-dimensional mesh topology, wherein a set of switches are arranged on a two-dimensional grid. Masters (initiators or sources) inject data packets or traffic into the NoC. Slaves (targets or destinations) service the data packets or traffic traveling through the NoC. The NoC includes switches and links. Additionally, the optimal routes defined by the system includes moving the traffic in a way that avoids deadlock scenarios.
US11418446B2
Technologies for remote direct memory access (RDMA) congestion control include a requester device and a responder device in communication over an Ethernet network. The requester device sends routable RDMA packets to the responder device over the Ethernet network. The packets may be RDMA over Converged Ethernet version 2 (RoCEv2) packets. The responder device determines whether any of the received packets have been marked by the network with a congestion encountered codepoint. If so, the responder device sends an acknowledgment packet with an express congestion notification bit set in the RDMA base transport header. The requester device updates a congestion window as a function of a number of congested packets acknowledged and a total number of packets acknowledged. Those operations may be performed by a network controller of each of the requester device and the responder device. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US11418443B2
A method for distributing transmission path information, including: distributing, by a first routing bridge which stores a MAC address of a host on a local link, transmission path information of the host on the local link to a remote routing bridge of a non-local link, the transmission path information including the MAC address of the host on the local link and identification information of a second routing bridge, so that the remote routing bridge learns the transmission path information from the first routing bridge. The present application further provides corresponding routing bridges. The present application may enable the remote routing bridge to timely learn the transmission path information of the host under the condition that a data packet sent by the host is not received, so as to send data to the host according to a new transmission path.
US11418440B2
In association with a virtual area, a first network connection is established with a first network node present in the virtual area and a second network connection is established with a second network node present in the virtual area. Based on stream routing instructions, a stream router is created between the first network node and the second network node. The stream router includes a directed graph of processing elements operable to receive network data, process the received network data, and output the processed network data. On the first network connection, an input data stream derived from output data generated by the first network node is received in association with the virtual area. The input data stream is processed through the stream router to produce an output data stream. On the second network connection, the output data stream is sent to the second network node.
US11418436B2
A node in a Segment Routing network includes a plurality of ports and a switching fabric between the plurality of ports, wherein, for an Ethernet Tree (E-tree) service, a port is configured to transmit a packet with a plurality of Segment Identifiers (SID) including a first SID, a second SID, and a third SID, wherein the first SID identifies one of multicast, ingress replication for broadcast, and a destination node including any of a node SID and an anycast SID, wherein the second SID identifies a service including the E-tree service, and wherein the third SID identifies a source of the packet. A second port of the node is connected to a customer edge, and wherein the third SID is based on whether the customer edge is a leaf node or a root node in the E-tree service.
US11418435B2
The present technology pertains to a group-based network policy using Segment Routing over an IPv6 dataplane (SRv6). After a source application sends a packet, an ingress node can receive the packet, and if the source node is capable, it can identify an application policy and apply it. The ingress node indicates that the policy has been applied by including policy bits in the packet encapsulation. When the packet is received by the egress node, it can determine whether the policy was already applied, and if so, the packet is forward to the destination application. If the egress node determines that the policy has not be applied the destination application can apply the policy. Both the ingress node and egress nodes can learn of source application groups, destination application groups, and applicable policies through communication with aspects of the segment routing fabric.
US11418429B2
A route anomaly detection and remediation system analyzes a prefix for each route received to validate the route. A route monitoring component provides a centralized querying system for all routers from all devices to study routing history. A route collection component receives and stores all routes from multiple routers at a server. A set of microservice analysis components performs prefix analysis on each received route. Each microservice analysis component analyzes one or more portions of the prefix for each route to detect hijacked routes, leaked routes, withdrawn routes and/or other unhealthy routes before the routes are utilized for routing traffic on the network. The analysis performs new prefix validation and identifies healthy routes. Alerts identifying invalid routes are transmitted to an incident management system. Healthy routes are approved for usage by routers on the network to prevent network outages while improving network reliability, availability and stability.
US11418417B2
Managing stateful workloads executing on temporarily available resources of a cloud computing system
Stateful workloads executing on temporarily available resources of a cloud computing system can be managed. For example, a computing device can receive, from a scheduled unit executing on a temporarily available resource of a compute node in a cloud computing system, a state measurement indicating a size of a state of the scheduled unit. The computing device can receive, from the compute node, a safe state capacity that is a size of data capable of being saved in response to the temporarily available resource being unavailable. The computing device can determine the state measurement for the scheduled unit exceeds the safe state capacity. In response to determining the state measurement exceeds the safe state capacity, the computing device can transmit a command to the scheduled unit to perform a state-reduction operation.
US11418415B2
Systems and methods for ticket-based provisioning of cloud infrastructure from one or more cloud providers to build one or more computing workspaces of an enterprise. A provisioning platform provides a module catalog having one or more infrastructure-as-code (IAC) modules, each including code that is executable to provision cloud computing resources for the cloud infrastructure from the cloud providers to build the computing workspaces of the enterprise. A service catalog has one or more electronic entries mapped to and corresponding with the IAC modules of the module catalog. The service catalog receives one or more tickets that each specify at least one of the electronic entries in the service catalog, to bind each specified electronic entry with a corresponding IAC module, causing the provisioning platform to instantiate on the more cloud providers the computing resources for the cloud infrastructure corresponding to the ticket.
US11418413B2
A method and system of unifying data transmission and storage in a communication network are provided. The method comprises determining, by a coordinator associated with a network data analytics function (NWDAF) service instance set, what data that more than one NWDAF service instances in the NWDAF service instance set requires, if the data required by the more than one NWDAF service instances is the same, requesting, by the coordinator associated with the NWDAF service instance set, the data from a network function service instance set, and receiving the data from a data storage function that is notified by the network function service instance set of the request from the coordinator associated with the NWDAF service instance set.
US11418398B1
A method may include receiving topology information associated with a linear motor system that includes multiple track modules. Each track module may include one or more motors. The topology information may include one or more media access control (MAC) addresses associated with the motors. The method may also include associating one or more IP addresses with the MAC addresses associated with the motors, generating a configuration file associated with the linear motor system based on the topology information and the IP addresses, and transmitting one or more commands to the motors to control or adjust one or more operations of the motors based on the configuration file.
US11418392B2
A method of managing a configuration of a computer network system includes creating of an instance of a server by a user through an interface of a public cloud service. A management process detects the existence of the instance by regularly polling the cloud service for infrastructure data and analyzing the infrastructure data to determine that the newly created instance exists. The method also includes testing parameters of the server indicated in the infrastructure data, which parameters are fully determined by the request, against predefined one or more infrastructure policies, whereby the parameters are available and testable against the policies during the generating, but are tested after the request is enacted to create the instance without creating policy enforcement encumbrance on the user when the user creates the new instance of the server.
US11418365B2
A system for automatically assigning sequential identification values to networked nodes, such as accessory modules within a storage and dispensing enclosure. The system includes a host controller communicating with client controllers via both a shared, multi-drop communications bus and an initial segment of a daisy-chained, point-to-point communications bus. The host controller issues a token to a first client controller via the point-to-point bus, then queries the client controllers, receives a reply from the client controller having the token (associating that controller with a sequential identification value), and commands passing of the token, each via the multi-drop bus. The client controllers receive the token and query via the respective busses and, if that controller has the token, reply to the query via the multi-drop bus, as well as receive the command and, if that controller has the token, pass the token via the point-to-point bus to a subsequent controller.
US11418363B2
A controller area network (CAN) sleep diagnosis apparatus can be used with a vehicle. A CAN signal detector is configured to detect a CAN signal from a CAN that connects a plurality of controllers and a CAN sleep diagnosis unit is configured to diagnose whether the CAN enters a sleep state. A memory unit is configured to determine whether to store data received from the CAN signal detector and the CAN sleep diagnosis unit depending on whether the CAN enters the sleep state and to store the data in a memory. A diagnosis unit is configured to check the data stored in the memory and to diagnose a non-sleep state of the CAN.
US11418344B1
A method, program storage device, and computer processing system are provided. The method includes providing a set of credentials for accessing a live event. The set of credentials include tiered credentials with respect to access privileges from a queue imposed to access the live event. The access privileges specify a queued order based access time and an access duration. The method further includes evaluating the credentials received from users seeking to access the live event. The method also includes controlling, by a real-time visual media generation engine of a streaming server, the access time and the access duration of each of the users to the live event based on the credentials by placing the users in predetermined queuing positions associated with corresponding levels of the credentials.
US11418341B2
Non-limiting examples of the present disclosure relate to generation and implementation of a new security protocol that is used to secure common data access transactions across distributed network examples. An exemplary proof of verification protocol is disclosed that implements consensus security mechanisms across a plurality of distributed nodes, which may be utilized to validate owners of data in common data access transactions. Extending principles of blockchain security to common data access transactions and Internet of Things (IoT) networking requires a solution that: improves speed in transactional processing; reduces computational complexity; and presents efficient, secure and repeatable validation for owners of data in distributed networking environments. An exemplary proof of verification protocol provides such technical advantages by validating both user-specific data for a subscriber of an application/service and session data for user activity (past and present) within the application/service.
US11418330B2
A quantum communications system includes a communications system that operates with a quantum key distribution (QKD) system, which includes a transmitter node, a receiver node, and a quantum communications channel coupling the transmitter node and receiver node. The transmitter node may be configured to transmit to the receiver node a bit stream of optical pulses, and switch between first and second QKD protocols based upon at least one channel condition.
US11418329B1
Techniques for sharing secret key information in a system that includes a remote server that proxies cryptographic keys. In one technique, a proxy server receives, from a client device, a request for a cryptographic operation. The proxy server also receives, from the client device, secret key information that is associated with the request. Prior to the request, the proxy server did not have access to the secret key information. While storing the secret key information in memory of the proxy server, the proxy server sends the secret key information to a cryptographic device that stores one or more cryptographic key. The proxy server does not store the secret key information in any persistent storage. The cryptographic device performs the cryptographic operation based on the secret key information.
US11418324B1
This disclosure relates generally to techniques for encrypting and decrypting data and to systems that encrypt and/or decrypt data to maintain secrecy associated with such data as the data is transmitted from a source to one or more recipients. More specifically, this disclosure relates to techniques for encrypting and decrypting standalone data packages (e.g., user datagram protocol (UDP) data packages, etc.) and to systems that encrypt and/or decrypt standalone data packages. Even more specifically, encryption techniques are disclosed that employ scrambled headers and payloads that are uniquely encrypted from package to package.
US11418322B2
An example operation may include one or more receiving an entry at a blockchain-as-a-service (Baas) provider, determining whether the entry satisfies a first set of policies, and controlling placement of the entry into a first queue when the first set of policies is satisfied and into a second queue when the first set of policies is not satisfied, wherein the first queue is to store confirmed entries to be submitted for consensus without validation and the second queue is to store pending entries that require validation before consensus.
US11418319B2
Embodiments may provide distance computations on homomorphic and/or functional encrypted vectors while detecting whether the resulting distance has wrapped around due to the vectors having elements not in an allowed range. A method of user authentication processing may comprise receiving and storing enrollment information from a client computer system, the enrollment information comprising a template of authentication data and at least one additional encrypted vector, receiving an additional template to be used to authenticate the user from the client computer system, authenticating the user using the received additional template using the stored template and the stored at least one additional encrypted vector, and determining that authentication is successful when the received additional template matches the stored template and is valid based on the stored at least one additional encrypted vector.
US11418311B2
A frequency-division duplex communication apparatus, including a first radio frequency port, a second radio frequency port coupled to an antenna, a third radio frequency port, a fourth radio frequency port coupled to a balancing circuit, and a filtering arrangement having filters of a first type, a filter of a second type and a filter of a third type. The filters of the first type pass signals at a first frequency band and reject signals at a second frequency band. The filter of the second type rejects signals at the first frequency band and passes signals at the second frequency band. The filter of the third type rejects signals at the first frequency band and passes signals at the second frequency band and the phase response of the filter of the second type is 180 degrees from the phase response of the filter of the third type.
US11418308B2
A terminal is disclosed including a receiver that receives system information, the system information including an index value that indicates a first offset value; and a processor that determines a frequency resource for an uplink control channel using frequency-hopping, based on the first offset value and a second offset value, the second offset value being based on at least one of a field value in a downlink control information and an index value of a control channel element. In other aspects, a base station and a radio communication method are also disclosed.
US11418305B2
There is disclosed a method of operating a transmitting node in a millimeter-wave communication network. The method comprises transmitting communication signaling in a transmission timing structure, the communication signaling comprising control signaling and data signaling, the communication signaling further comprising reference signaling common to the control signaling and data signaling. The disclosure also pertains to related devices and methods.
US11418303B2
A resource mapping method for a demodulation reference signal (DMRS) and a base station are provided. The method includes: determining a target orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbol for mapping a physical broadcast channel (PBCH)-DMRS from OFDM symbols corresponding to a new radio (NR) synchronization signal block (SS block); and mapping the PBCH-DMRS in the target OFDM symbol.
US11418299B2
Methods, systems, and devices related to reducing out-of-band emissions for Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiplexing (OFDM) technology are described. In one representative aspect, a method for wireless communication includes obtaining N groups of spread data by multiplying N groups of data with N spreading codes, combining the N groups of spread data into a data sequence, modulating the data sequence onto 2K subcarriers, and transmitting the modulated data sequence. In particular, an individual spreading code of the N spreading codes comprises 2K elements organized as a sequence of K pairs, wherein the pairs comply with at least one of (1) two elements in a pair have a 180-degree phase difference or (2) corresponding elements in neighboring pairs have a 180-degree phase difference. N and K are integers greater than 1 and N is less than 2K.
US11418294B2
An apparatus (e.g., receive chain) for wireless communications may perform de-interleaving, de-rate matching, and hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) combining in a single step. The apparatus may include a data pool configured to store HARQ log likelihood ratio (LLR) data from previous transmissions. The apparatus may include a HARQ onload controller configured to load HARQ LLR data from the HARQ data pool into a HARQ buffer. The apparatus may include an LLR buffer configured to store received demodulated, interleaved, and rate matched LLR data. The apparatus may include a plurality of processing engines configured to, starting at different locations of the LLR buffer: receive new input data from the LLR buffer; combine the HARQ LLR data from the HARQ buffer with the new input data to generate de-interleaved, de-rate matched, and HARQ combined data; and write the de-interleaved, de-rate matched, and HARQ combined data into the HARQ buffer.
US11418277B2
Provided is an optical communication system configured as an optical ring network including: a first optical communication device configured to transmit a first optical signal having a first wavelength in a first direction, and to transmit a second optical signal having a second wavelength in a second direction opposite to the first direction; and a second optical communication device configured to generate a first reflected signal by reflecting the first optical signal when the first optical signal is received, to generate a second reflected signal by reflecting the second optical signal when the second optical signal is received, and to transmit the first and second reflected signals to the first optical communication device, wherein the first optical communication device analyzes a connection state of the second optical communication device based on the first and second reflected signals.
US11418275B2
An audio playback system that includes audio playback devices each including a communication module, a playback module and a processing module is provided. The communication module receives a beacon signal and audio signal packets and generates an interrupt signal. The processing module receives the interrupt signal to retrieve an audio source timestamp corresponding to an audio source system time from the beacon signal, compares the audio source timestamp with an internal time generated based on an internal system time when the beacon signal is received to calculate a difference therebetween, receives a playback initialization signal from the audio source device that includes an audio source system playback initialization time, calculates an internal system playback initialization time according to the difference and the audio source system playback initialization time and controls the playback module to playback the audio signal packets from the internal system playback initialization time.
US11418260B2
A system and method for mitigating nonlinearity in an optical communication link with multiple carriers uses mutual frequency referencing to stabilize at least a portion of the multiple carriers. Using at least one frequency-referenced signal, carrier nonlinearity can be determined and compensated within the link by pre-distortion, back-propagation, or a combination of both. Mutual frequency referencing may be performed at the emitting end of the link, at the receiving end, or a combination of both.
US11418252B2
A method for transmitting successive messages forming a frame in a telecommunication system with M sources (s1, . . . , sM), L relays and a destination, M>1, L≥1 according to an orthogonal multiple-access scheme of the channel between the M sources and the L relays with a maximum number of M+Tmax time slots per transmitted frame including M slots and Tmax cooperative transmission slots. The method includes: a slow type link adaptation determining an initial rate for each source by destination based on an average SNR of each link and transmitting to each source the initial rate; and for each frame out of several, successively transmitting the messages of the M sources during the M slots phase with, respectively, modulation and coding schemes determined from the initial rates. The link adaptation maximizes the aggregate rate of all the sources subject to the constraint of a target average BLER εcom after Tmax≥X≥1 cooperative transmissions.
US11418251B2
Technology for a repeater is disclosed. The repeater can include a first port, a second port, and a third port. The repeater can include a first amplification and filtering path communicatively coupled between the first port and the second port for a first frequency range. The repeater can include a second amplification and filtering path communicatively coupled between the first port and the third port for a second frequency range. The first frequency range can be spectrally adjacent to the second frequency range in a same signal direction, and a combination of the first frequency range and the second frequency range can have a fractional bandwidth that is greater than a defined fractional bandwidth threshold ratio for a selected filter type.
US11418243B2
Methods, systems, and devices related to transmissions of control information to enhance channel coverage are disclosed. In one exemplary aspect, a method for wireless communication includes receiving, from a base station, a control message for scheduling a transmission of control information on a physical channel based on a transmission mode of the physical channel, the control information comprising at least channel state information; and transmitting, based on the control message, one or more redundant versions of the control information on the physical channel using a plurality of adjacent slots or mini-slots in time domain.
US11418230B2
Disclosed is an electronic device that may sense the proximity of a user by using a director of an antenna module as an electrode of a grip sensor without a separate sensor for detecting the user's proximity, thereby enabling efficient use of the internal space of the electronic device without having to secure a space for mounting a separate sensor. The electronic device may also reduce the power of a transmission signal by a preset back-off value in response to sensing the user's proximity, thereby minimize an adverse effect of electromagnetic waves on the human body caused by signal transmission.
US11418227B2
A radio apparatus capable of reducing the amount of calculation required to suppress an interference signal is provided. A radio apparatus (1) includes a spatial transformation unit (2) configured to perform a spatial transformation on a received signal including a desired signal and an interference signal received by a plurality of antennas, and thereby calculate a first beam-space received signal vector, a beam selecting unit (3) configured to select at least two elements from the first beam-space received signal vector and generate a second beam-space received signal vector, and an interference suppression synthesis unit (4) configured to estimate a covariance matrix of an interference noise signal including a noise signal and the interference signal included in the second beam-space received signal vector, generate a reception weight by using this covariance matrix, and detect the desired signal based on the reception weight and the second beam-space received signal vector.
US11418216B2
A system for generating a parity check matrix for low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes includes a memory and a processing circuitry that retrieves a base matrix from the memory. The base matrix represents sets of valid and invalid positions for a set of circulant matrices. The processing circuitry determines a value for each valid position based on a heuristic function. The value for each valid position indicates a corresponding circulant matrix of the set of circulant matrices. The processing circuitry replaces each valid position with the corresponding circulant matrix based on the determined value, and each invalid position with a null matrix, to generate the parity check matrix. The parity check matrix thus generated has a high girth and equal distribution of cycles within the parity check matrix.
US11418209B2
A signal conversion circuit includes a first pair of capacitors and a comparator. The first pair of capacitors includes a first capacitor and a second capacitor having a same capacitance value. Each of the first capacitor and the second capacitor is coupled to an input signal during a first sampling phase, while uncoupled from the input signal during a first conversion phase after the first sampling phase. The comparator has a first input terminal and a second input terminal. During the first conversion phase, the first capacitor is coupled between the first input terminal and a first reference signal, the second capacitor is coupled between the first input terminal and a second reference signal different from the first reference signal, and the comparator is configured to compare a signal level at the first input terminal and a signal level at the second input terminal to convert the input signal.
US11418206B2
A flash analog to digital converter includes double differential comparator circuits and a calibration circuit. Each double differential comparator circuit compares a first input signal with a corresponding voltage in a first set of reference voltages, and compares a second input signal with a corresponding voltage in a second set of reference voltages, in order to generate a corresponding signal in first signals. The calibration circuit outputs a first test signal to be the first input signal and outputs a second test signal to be the second input signal in a test mode, and calibrates a common mode level of each of the first input signal and the second input signal, or calibrates at least one first reference voltage in the first set of reference voltages and at least one second reference voltage in the second set of reference voltages according to a distribution of the first signals.
US11418205B1
In accordance with an embodiment, a method of operating a fractional-N phase locked loop (FN-PLL) includes: dividing a first clock signal using a multi-modulus divider (MMD) based on a modulus control signal to form a frequency-divided clock signal, where the first clock signal is based on an output clock of the PLL; generating the modulus control signal based on a divider control input value using a delta-sigma modulator (DSM); and when a fractional portion of the divider control input value is within a first range of values, and repeatedly removing a first number of clock cycles from the first clock signal before dividing the first clock signal using the MMD, where the first number of clock cycles is a non-integer number of clock cycles.
US11418199B1
In accordance with an embodiment, a method of operating a phase locked loop (PLL), the method including: comparing a phase of a reference signal with a phase of a clock signal using a plurality of parallel matched phase detection circuits to provide a plurality of phase detection signals, where each of the plurality of the parallel matched phase detection circuits is configured to have a same phase difference to output characteristic; filtering a sum of the plurality of phase detection signals to form a filtered phase detection signal; and controlling a frequency of an oscillator using the filtered phase detection signal, where the oscillator is configured to provide the clock signal.
US11418198B2
In certain aspects, a digital circuit comprises a delay line to generate a plurality of delayed versions of an input clock. The digital circuit also comprises selection circuitry to provide a selected one of the plurality of delayed versions of the input clock based on a clock selection signal and feedback circuitry to generate the clock selection signal based on the selected one of the plurality of delayed versions of the input clock and based on the input clock. The clock selection signal is further used for selecting and generating other clocks and/or for variation control.
US11418192B2
A push button switch assembly for a vehicle includes a housing having a plurality of walls that collectively define an inner space, and an elastic button that is moveable between a first unactuated position and a second unactuated position. A plate is positioned in the housing and an actuator is pivotable between a first position and a second position. The actuator includes a magnetic element. When the elastic button is in the first unactuated position, the magnetic element biases the actuator into the first position, and when the elastic button is moved to the section actuated position, a force applied to the elastic button is transmitted to the actuator to pivot the actuator to the second position.
US11418188B1
In an integrated circuit, a bootstrapped switch includes a capacitor and first, second, and third transistors. The first transistor has a first current electrode coupled to a first voltage supply node and a gate electrode coupled to a first circuit node. The second transistor has a first current electrode coupled to a second voltage supply terminal, a second current electrode coupled to a top terminal of the capacitor, and a control electrode coupled to the first circuit node. The third transistor has a first current electrode coupled to the first voltage supply terminal, a control electrode coupled to the first circuit node, and a second current electrode coupled to a body terminal of the second transistor. The fourth transistor has a first current electrode coupled to the body terminal of the second transistor, and a second current electrode coupled to the top terminal of the capacitor.
US11418178B2
An analog beamformer includes: an input circuit configured to receive an input signal to generate a first input signal having the same phase as the input signal and a second input signal having a phase difference corresponding to a first phase with respect to the input signal; a first delay circuit configured to delay the first input signal to output a first delayed signal; a second delay circuit configured to delay the second input signal to output a second delayed signal; and an output circuit configured to output an output signal by summing the first delayed signal and the second delayed signal, wherein a first write signal has the phase difference corresponding to the first phase with respect to a second write signal, and a first read signal has the phase difference corresponding to the first phase with respect to a second read signal.
US11418170B2
A bias generation circuit may include a bias generator and compensator. The bias generator may be configured to generate a bias voltage based on a reference voltage. The compensator may be configured to detect level changes of a power voltage. The compensator may be configured to control a level of the bias voltage based on detection results.
US11418165B2
In one implementation, a matching network is provided comprising a pair of input terminals; a pair of output terminals; and at least two reactive components disposed between the pair of input terminals and the pair of output terminals. At least one of the reactive components comprises a coupled-inductor. In various implementations, the second reactive component can be a capacitor, and the capacitor can be at least partially realized using the parasitic capacitances of the environment. The matching network may be disposed in a capacitive wireless power transfer (WPT) system. In other implementations, inductors and coupled-inductors are further provided. In some implementations, for example, an inductor, such as but not limited to a coupled-inductor, may comprise a toroidal or semi-toroidal core comprising foil wire interleaved without notches.
US11418147B2
An integrated photovoltaic cable having a connecting terminal and a housing injection-molded on the connecting terminal. The connecting terminal has a connecting sheet, a through hole, and a plurality of U-shape groove sheets. Exposed conductors obtained by peeling front ends of the photovoltaic cable are respectively placed into corresponding U-shape groove sheets and crimped by a crimping plier. A manufacturing method for manufacturing the integrated photovoltaic cable includes three steps of manufacturing a connecting terminal, crimping photovoltaic wires, and injection molding a housing. An improvement of the cable connecting structure simplifies the production, improves the connecting quality, and reduces a volume of an adapter. The conductor end and the U-shape groove are firmly and conveniently connected to ensure the connection quality, reduce a contact resistance of a connecting wire, and cause a smaller volume of the adapter.
US11418146B2
An electrical connection box for connecting a panel of exterior cladding of a building, the connection box including a first shell and a second shell which are interlockable, the first shell including a base including one aperture topped by a sealing chamber, a lateral wall surrounding the base and extending perpendicularly to it, the lateral wall including a removable hatch, removable to expose a wire passage, an electrical terminal connected to the base, with the axis perpendicular to the base; the second shell including a base, a lateral wall surrounding the base and extending perpendicularly to it, the lateral wall including a wire passage, an electrical terminal of inverse polarity to that of the electrical terminal of the first shell, the electrical terminal having an axis perpendicular to the base, connected to the base and positioned in such a way that it is plumb with the electrical terminal of the first shell when the first and the second shell are interlocked.
US11418136B2
A motor control device provided with a control unit which controls the number of rotations of a motor by implementing a first control which enables high-torque and precise control, or a second control enabling more efficient control than the first control with respect to the motor; and a switching determination unit which, if an actual measurement value of the number of rotations of the motor is greater than a prescribed threshold value of the number of rotations, switches the first control to the second control. The switching determination unit further switches the first control to the second control if the actual measurement value of the number of rotations is not more than the threshold value of the number of rotations, and when a prescribed time has passed from a point in time at which the actual measurement value of the number of rotations matched the required number of rotations.
US11418133B2
A system to control slip-stick stages that includes a slip-stick stage including an actuator and a processor coupled to the actuator to obtain a frequency, a number of measurement samples, and a voltage; determine a time period based on the number of measurement samples and the frequency; sample a displacement of the actuator during the time period. The system functions to calculate an error value based on the displacement and a reference position; determine a step value based on the error value and a modulation protocol. The modulation protocol includes a proportional modulation protocol or a proportional-integral modulation protocol to generate a control signal based on the step value, the frequency and the voltage based on an integral of a function of voltage and a Heaviside function according to a direction specified by a sign of the step value; and transmit the control signal to the actuator.
US11418132B2
The various embodiments herein provide an energy harvester which can capacitively harvest stray electric field from low-voltage AC power lines without a physical grounding connection. The energy harvester comprises an inner electrode, an outer electrode and a circuit. The inner electrode forms an inner periphery of an upper portion of a harvester housing. The outer electrode forms an inner base of a lower portion of the harvester housing to provide a local ground reference. The circuit is housed within the lower portion of the harvester housing to direct stored energy and control an energy discharge.
US11418123B2
A power supply apparatus (10) suppressing a transient voltage is applied to an input voltage (50). The power supply apparatus (10) includes a power supply circuit (20), a feedback signal generation circuit (30) and a feedback signal control circuit (40). If the power supply circuit (20) stops receiving the input voltage (50), the feedback signal control circuit (40) controls the feedback signal generation circuit (30) to discharge so that the feedback signal generation circuit (30) controls the power supply circuit (20) to decrease an output voltage (60), so that when the power supply circuit (20) receives the input voltage (50) again, the power supply circuit (20) avoids generating an output overvoltage condition for the output voltage (60).
US11418118B1
One or more embodiments relate to a regulation loop control circuit for regulation of a parameter such as an input voltage or output voltage for a buck-boost converter. In these and other embodiments, the regulation loop control circuit is configured to select between an input voltage loop for regulation of the input voltage or an output voltage loop for regulation of the output voltage in response to an input voltage error, an output voltage error, and a threshold detector to protect the converter without sacrificing output voltage regulation and transient response.
US11418112B2
A power converter includes: capacitors; switches coupled to the corresponding capacitors, wherein the switches switch electrical connection relationships of corresponding capacitors according to operation signals; one or more charging inductors connected in series to one or more corresponding capacitors; one or more discharging inductors connected in series to one or more corresponding capacitors. In a charging process, by switching the switches, a series connection of the capacitors and the corresponding charging inductor(s) is formed between the input voltage and the output voltage, so as to form a charging path. In a discharging process, by switching the switches, each capacitor and one of the corresponding discharging inductors are connected in series between the output voltage and ground voltage level, so as to form plural discharging paths. The charging process and the discharging process are arranged in alternating and repetitive manner, to convert the input voltage to the output voltage.
US11418110B2
A power factor calibration circuit includes a multiplier, a boost inductor, an auxiliary winding, a detection resistor, a compensation capacitor, a comparator, and an auxiliary switch. The comparator is configured to detect inductor current flowing through the boost inductor. When the detected inductor current is too small, the energy stored in the compensation capacitor is transmitted to the auxiliary winding for generating compensation current, thereby enhancing the level of the inductor current.
US11418108B2
A system includes a transformer having a primary winding and an auxiliary winding at a primary side of an AC-DC converter, the auxiliary winding reflecting an output voltage of a secondary winding of the transformer. A primary side controller includes an over-voltage protection (OVP) pin and an OVP circuit. A voltage divider includes a first resistor coupled between the auxiliary winding and the OVP pin and a second resistor coupled between the first resistor and a ground. The voltage divider provides, to OVP pin, a reduced voltage that is proportional to the output voltage. In absence of a pulse signal from a secondary side controller, the OVP circuit turns off a gate driver that drives a primary switch in response to the OVP voltage exceeding a reference OVP voltage. The primary switch is coupled between the primary winding of the transformer and the ground.
US11418107B2
In an embodiment, a brown-out protection circuit includes: a monitoring terminal; a threshold generator supplying a threshold voltage; a comparator to compare a monitoring voltage at the monitoring terminal and the threshold voltage; and a logic module supplying an enable signal having a brown-in logic value and a brown-out logic value. When the enable signal is at the brown-out logic value, the logic module checks transition conditions, relating to a number of usable transitions of the monitoring voltage from lower to greater than the threshold voltage, and time conditions, relating to permanence of the monitoring voltage above the threshold voltage after a usable transition or in an aggregated manner after a plurality of consecutive usable transitions. The logic module sets the enable signal to the brown-in logic value when the transition conditions or the time conditions are met.
US11418106B2
An apparatus for conversion between AC power and DC power. The apparatus includes: a first power conversion circuit having a first AC side and a DC side, at least one second power conversion circuit each having a second AC side and sharing the DC side with the first power conversion circuit, and at least one choke having a first terminal, a second terminal and at least one third terminal, wherein: the first terminal is arranged to be electrically coupled to a phase of the AC power, and the second terminal and the at least one third terminal are electrically coupled to respective same phases of the first AC side of the first power conversion circuit and the second AC side of the at least one second power conversion circuit. Moreover, the choke includes: a first common-mode choke and a first differential-mode choke, wherein: the first common-mode choke and the first differential-mode choke are electrically coupled in series via a first group of coil ends of the first common-mode choke and a first group of coil ends of the first differential-mode choke, and a second group of coil ends of one of the first common-mode choke and the first differential-mode choke are electrically coupled to the first terminal of the choke, and a second group of coil ends of the other are respectively electrically coupled to the second terminal and the at least one third terminal of the choke. The first common-mode choke can help provide high inductance to the high-frequency components of the common-mode current, which flows from the AC power source, since the impedance of the common-mode choke and the differential-mode choke depends on frequency on the same scale as inductance. The advantages of using the common-mode choke is that it provides twice the inductance of separate inductor design due to the coupling effect. Therefore it filters the common-mode current more effectively on the inductance size can be reduced for a given current ripple requirement.
US11418105B2
A power converter controller includes a fractional valley controller configured to determine a target number of valleys of a resonant waveform at a drain node of a main switch, the target number of valleys corresponding to a desired off-time of the main switch, the fractional valley controller modulating an off-time of the main switch between two or more modulated off-times. The target number of valleys corresponds to a non-integer number of valleys of the resonant waveform at the drain node of the main switch. Each of the modulated off-times of the main switch corresponds to an integer number of valleys, and the two or more modulated off-times of the main switch has an average value that corresponds to the desired off-time.
US11418093B2
An electric motor includes a front housing positioned on a load side and including an annular groove in an inner surface of the front housing, a winding wound around a stator core and including a coil end projecting forward from the stator core and disposed in the annular groove, and a heat conductive resin filled in the annular groove and configured to be in contact with both the coil end and the front housing.
US11418092B2
A lubrication mechanism for supplying oil to a bearing of a vehicle electric motor that includes the bearing, a housing, a stator and a rotor having a rotor shaft rotatably held by the housing through the bearing. The housing defines an oil passage to which oil discharged from an oil pump is to be supplied. The oil passage and the bearing are located on respective opposite sides of a wall of the housing. The lubrication mechanism includes: a bolt hole passing through the wall; and a bolt engaged in the bolt hole.
US11418087B2
The present disclosure relates to a modular system for producing drives, in particular piece goods conveyor drives, with different drive properties, comprising at least one first group of transmission units, said first group comprising at least one transmission unit, at least one second group of motor units, said second group comprising at least one motor unit, and a third group of electronic units, said third group comprising at least one electronic unit for actuating the motor unit, wherein the groups can be combined together in order to produce the drive.
US11418085B2
The present invention may provide a motor including a housing coupled to a first bearing, a stator disposed in the housing, a rotor disposed in the stator, and a shaft coupled to the rotor, wherein the housing includes a body and a first pocket formed to be bent from one side of the body toward an inner side of the housing, the first pocket includes an extended part bent from the one side of the body and a first support part bent from the extended part, the first pocket includes a first opening formed by one side of the extended part adjacent to the one side of the body and a second opening formed by the first support part, and a size of the first opening is greater than a size of the second opening.
US11418080B2
A rotary electric machine includes a rotor having a rotor core, an end plate disposed on a rotor core end surface, and a stator including a stator core disposed at a gap from the rotor, and a coil provided to the stator core. The stator core includes a stator yoke portion having a substantially annular shape, stator teeth portions provided along a circumferential direction and protruding radially from the stator yoke portion, and slot portions formed between adjacent stator teeth portions. The coil is inserted into each slot portion of the stator core and includes a coil end portion protruding in an axial direction from a stator core end surface. A refrigerant is discharged radially outward of the rotor. A refrigerant guide unit for guiding the refrigerant discharged radially outward in a protruding direction of the coil end portion is disposed on the stator core end surface.
US11418074B2
A rotor assembly includes a rotor member and a plurality of permanent magnets. The rotor member has a hub with a central axis and a plurality of spokes extending radially outward relative to the hub. Each spoke has a radially inward end and a radially outward end. Each spoke also has a body section, a mounting section, and a flux barrier section. The body section extends from the radially outward end towards the radially inward end. The mounting section is interconnected to the hub. The flux barrier section is disposed between the body section and the mounting section and has at least one flux restriction web extending between the body section and the mounting section. The flux restriction web magnetically isolates the body section from the mounting section. A permanent magnet is disposed within each magnet-receiving slot between pairs of adjacent spokes. A motor with the rotor assembly is also disclosed.
US11418061B2
Techniques for wireless power transfer are disclosed. An example of an apparatus for receiving power in a wireless power transfer system includes a power receiving element, a tuning and current doubler circuit operably coupled to the power receiving element, a power flow controller circuit operably coupled to the tuning and current doubler circuit, and a controller operable coupled to the power receiving element and the power flow controller circuit and configured to detect a signal in the power receiving element and to synchronize the power flow controller circuit based on the signal.
US11418051B2
An energy management system (controller) operates on a charging voltage Vba of a specified storage battery out of storage batteries to control power converting operations by bidirectional DC/DC converters. The energy management system controls the power converting operations of the respective bidirectional DC/DC converters so that the SOC of the specified storage battery is always higher than the SOCs of the other storage batteries, executes supplying of power from the other storage batteries to the DC bus with priority over supplying of power from the specified storage battery to the DC bus, and causes the corresponding bidirectional converters to stop the supplying of power from the other storage batteries the DC bus when the SOCs of the storage batteries have fallen below a lower limit value set in advance due to the supplying of power to the DC bus.
US11418045B2
A portable charger, relating to the field of electric vehicle and having a body comprising a shell, a connecting system and a controller, wherein the controller is arranged inside the shell, the connecting system is arranged on both sides of the shell, a cable placing ring is formed on the side wall of the shell, one side of the cable placing ring is provided with a hook, by arranging the cable placing ring and the hook, cables are twined along the contour of the cable placing ring and placed in the cable placing ring, after the cables are retracted and twined, the cable of the uppermost layer is snap-fitted in the hook, thereby fixing the cables, having simple structure, and reducing the overall occupied space of the charger.
US11418038B2
A power generation plant includes a plant device, an AC motor for starting the plant device, at least one DC power source, and an inverter disposed between the at least one DC power source and the AC motor and between the at least one DC power source and an electrical power grid. The inverter is configured to convert DC power from the at least one DC power source to AC power and is capable of selectively supplying the AC power to the AC motor or the electrical power grid.
US11418034B1
A zero-sequence current balancer for a controlling zero-sequence current in a three-phase power system includes a cascade multilevel modular inverter (CMMI) coupled to the three-phase power system, wherein the CMMI has a plurality of modules, each module having a module capacitor, and a real power injector circuit provided between the three-phase power system and the CMMI, wherein the real power injector circuit is structured and configured to cause real power to injected into and/or absorbed from the CMMI to regulate a voltage of one or more of the module capacitors.
US11418033B2
A power converter system including an input configured to receive input AC power from an input power source, the input power source having a peak voltage limit, at least one output configured to provide output power to at least one load, a charger coupled to the input and configured to convert the input AC power into first DC power, a DC bus configured to receive the first DC power, at least one power converter configured to convert DC power from the DC bus into the output power, and an auxiliary power source coupled to the DC bus and configured to provide second DC power to the DC bus to supplement the first DC power provided by the charger in response to a voltage demand of the at least one load exceeding the peak voltage limit of the input power source.
US11418032B2
An energy monitoring system is provided including a device such as an inductive clamp associated with an electric circuit and configured to measure current load of the electric circuit and an energy monitoring device. The energy monitoring device comprises a processor and a memory including computer program code, the memory and the computer programming code configured to, with the processor, cause the monitoring device to receive circuit data including the measured current from the inductive clamp, determine a Power Set for one or more intermittent loads associated with the electric circuit based at least in part on the circuit data, determine a solution for the circuit data based on determined Solution Sets of the Power Set, and determine an energy usage for an appliance based on the solution.
US11418030B2
Fast simultaneous feasibility testing (SFT) for management of an electrical power grid is achieved through various innovations. The computation problem relates to evaluation of candidate solutions for external power flows into a power grid, with respect to predetermined constraints and contingencies. Storage and computations are reduced by formulating the problem in terms of transactional nodes (e.g. third party connections for generators and loads) instead of the larger number of bus nodes. Further advantages are achieved by precomputing matrices that can be reused across multiple SFT invocations, organizing matrices and operations to reduce storage and computation, and eliminating branches that have no contingency violations. The fast SFT further enables new applications for integrating SFT with a Security-Constrained Unit Commitment (SCUC) optimizer for efficient single pass solutions; operating SFT as a service to multiple SCUC solvers; or integration with Security-Constrained Economic Dispatch (SCED) optimization.
US11418027B1
An electrostatic discharge protection circuit including a silicon controlled rectifier and a transistor is provided. The silicon controlled rectifier includes a first end, a second end, and a third end. The first end of the silicon controlled rectifier is coupled to a first pad. The second end of the silicon controlled rectifier is coupled to a second pad. The transistor includes a first end, a second end, and a control end. The first end of the transistor is coupled to the first pad. The second end of the transistor is coupled to the second pad. The control end of the transistor is coupled to the third end of the silicon controlled rectifier.
US11418024B2
An electrostatic discharge (ESD) circuit including a booster cell is disclosed. The ESD circuit may include first and second rails configured to provide power to the ESD circuit. The first rail may include two spaced apart conductors. The ESD circuit may further include an input/output (I/O) pad and a power/ground (P/G) pad. The P/G pad may include a power clamp electrically coupled between the first and second rails. The booster cell may be physically located between the I/O pad and the P/G pad. The booster cell may provide an electrical connection between the two spaced apart conductors.
US11418022B2
An active inrush current limiter and method of limiting inrush current actively monitor line voltage and voltage drop across a current limiting resistance in a manner that eliminates the impact of fluctuations of line voltage on the decision of when to close a relay and bypass a current limiting resistance between the AC source and a group of power supplies. The active inrush current limiter includes a microcontroller connected to control the electronic switch and relay. The microcontroller is configured to sample the source AC power and detect a pattern of current flow through the electronic switch and current limiting resistance. A program executed in the microcontroller includes calculations that determine when to close the relay and bypass the current limiting resistance by detecting changes in power flow through the current limiting resistance that reliably correspond to a time when the capacitors in the power supplies have completed charging.
US11418017B1
A multi-axis adjustable rough-in box for flushing electrical plugs and fixtures with walls includes a mounting bracket with a plurality of attachment apertures to receive hardware to attach to a wall stud. The bracket inner edge has a set of three screw notches. An adjustment frame is coupled to the mounting bracket. A set of three adjustment screws is coupled to the mounting bracket and extends through the adjustment frame. Each adjustment screw has a gear. A plurality of clips is coupled to the adjustment frame. A rough-in box has a box inner side with a plurality of adjustment apertures selectively engageable with the plurality of clips. The box inner side has a plurality of channels in operational communication with the gear of each of the three adjustment screws such that rotation of the adjustment screws causes movement of the rough-in box relative to the adjustment frame.
US11418001B2
This application describes a wavelength-tunable laser apparatus, which reduces complexity of wavelength tuning of a laser. The laser includes a reflective gain unit, an optical phase shifter, a coupler, and a passive filter unit array. Furthermore, an output port of the reflective gain unit is connected to an input port of the optical phase shifter, an output port of the optical phase shifter is connected to an input port of the coupler, a first output port of the coupler is connected to an input port of the passive filter unit array, and a second output port of the coupler is an output port of the laser. The passive filter unit array includes a plurality of passive filter units, where any two of the plurality of passive filter units have different wavelength tuning ranges, and each filter unit has a linearly tunable wavelength.
US11417993B2
An adapter for connecting a single voltage battery pack to a power tool, the single voltage battery pack configured to output only one voltage and provided with a single voltage battery interface, the power tool detachable coupled with a multi-voltage battery pack and provided with a power tool interface, the single voltage battery interface being not coupleable to the power tool interface, the adapter comprising a housing, an input interface disposed in the housing and provided for electrically and mechanically coupling with the single voltage battery interface of the single voltage battery pack, an output interface disposed in the housing and provided for electrically and mechanically coupling with the power tool interface of the power tool, the input interface electrically connected with the output interface, wherein the power tool can be powered by the single voltage battery pack through the adapter.
US11417984B2
A pop-up outlet includes a lower housing configured to receive one or more conductors. A middle housing is connected to the lower housing. An upper housing is moveably connected to the middle housing. An outlet is positioned in the upper housing having an outlet body and at least one receptacle opening. A raise/lower mechanism is configured to move the upper housing with respect to the middle housing from a first position where the outlet body is positioned in the middle housing to a second position where the outlet body is exposed to a user.
US11417975B2
A connector includes a flat-plate housing made of insulating resin and including a first positioning hole and a second positioning hole, a plurality of contacts held on the housing, and a first hold-down and a second hold-down made of metal and disposed to correspond to a first positioning hole and a second positioning hole, respectively. The housing includes a CPU board opposed surface to be opposed to a CPU board. The first hold-down includes a reinforcing plate part to cover the CPU board opposed surface around the corresponding first positioning hole. The second hold-down includes a reinforcing plate part to cover the CPU board opposed surface around the corresponding second positioning hole.
US11417974B2
A car window glass includes a glass plate having a conductor layer, a connection terminal, and a power line. The connection terminal includes metal-plate first and second join parts joined to the conductor layer via the first and second solder layers, a metal-plate bridge section connected to the first and second join parts and spaced apart from the conductor layer, and a fixing part for fixing the power line to a bridge section main surface. The power line extends from the fixing part along a glass plate main surface, and the side opposite of the side facing the glass plate main surface is free of the bridge section, and the starting point of the power line extending from the fixing part is positioned in the upper direction of a virtual line connecting the center portions of the first and second join parts with each other.
US11417971B2
An assembly element for establishing an electrical contact to an actuator for a vehicle transmission may include a base plate and two electrical circuit points projecting on one side of the base plate for the assembly element. The assembly element has a shavings protection device provided at least partially between the electrical circuit points, which is designed to at least partially impede a short circuit between the contacts when the assembly element is in contact with the actuator.
US11417970B2
There is provided a hermetic terminal for a large amount of power so as to secure wettability of a lead member to glass and improve hermetic reliability of a glass sealing portion. A hermetic terminal includes: a metal base provided with at least one through hole; a lead inserted in the through hole of the metal base; and an insulating member that seals the lead in the metal base. The lead includes: a core member; a binding member that at least coats an outer diameter portion of the core member; an intermediate member that coats a surface of the binding member and that is composed of a low-electric-resistance material; and an outer coating member that coats the intermediate member and that has a stable glass binding characteristic at a sealing temperature.
US11417961B2
A stacked patch antenna comprises two or more patch antennas physically disposed in a stack to provide a multi-frequency or broad band antenna. However, independence of the resonant response frequencies of the lower and upper patches of each stacked patch antenna pair ground requires metallization dimensions for the upper patch's lower surface be contained within the perimeter of the lower patch's resonant metallization. Accordingly, composite stacked patch element dimensions are limited by the desired resonant frequency of the lower patch. The inventors have established an alternate physical structure where the resonant patch geometry of the lower patch element's upper metallization is not limited by the lower surface ground plane metallization of the first upper patch element. The inventors have also established design solutions allowing the lower frequency performance of the first, lower patch within a stacked patch antenna to be lowered without compromising footprint of the resulting antenna.
US11417954B2
An electronic device according to an embodiment of the present invention may include a housing and an antenna module disposed on one surface of the housing, wherein the antenna module may include a printed circuit board including a first layer facing the one surface of the housing, a second layer facing the first layer, and at least one ground layer disposed between the first layer and the second layer, a first antenna array disposed on the first layer, a second antenna array disposed on the second layer and at least partially overlapping the first antenna array when viewed from the one surface of the housing, and a communication circuit (radio frequency integrated circuit (RFIC)) electrically connected to the first antenna array and the second antenna array and feeding the first antenna array and the second antenna array, wherein the communication circuit may be configured to receive a first signal from an external device via at least one of the first antenna array or the second antenna array, change a phase of at least a portion of the first antenna array and the second antenna array based on the first signal, and transmit/receive a second signal in a direction of a beam formed by the changed phase. Other various embodiments could be derived from the description.
US11417947B2
An antenna device for a vehicle includes a camera that facilitates assembly. The antenna device for a vehicle includes: an antenna case that has a housing space formed therein; an antenna base that is covered with the antenna case from above to form the housing space; an antenna element that is held by the antenna base and housed in the housing space; and a camera that is housed in the housing space The antenna base has a wall portion extending upward. The camera is fixed to the wall portion.
US11417943B2
A modular monopole for wireless communications includes: an antenna module having a floor, a ceiling and a side wall that form an antenna compartment, wherein at least one antenna resides within the antenna compartment; a radio module having a floor, a ceiling and a side wall that form a radio compartment, wherein at least one remote radio unit (RRU) resides within the radio compartment; and a base. The base, the radio module, and the antenna module are arranged in vertically stacked relationship, with the base below the radio module and the antenna module above the radio module.
US11417934B2
A connection element for mechanical and electrical connection to a contact element of an electrical storage cell comprises a contact receptacle and a clamping device. The contact receptacle is open in a set-on direction and receives a portion of the contact element. The clamping device extends into the contact receptacle in a press-on position of the clamping device. The clamping device is formed from a shape memory alloy transferable by a phase transformation into the press-on position.
US11417933B2
A composition for a non-aqueous secondary battery functional layer including a particulate polymer, wherein the particulate polymer is a copolymer containing 20% by weight or more and 80% by weight or less of an aromatic monovinyl monomer unit; and 0.01% by weight or more and 2% by weight or less of a polyvalent ethylenically unsaturated crosslinkable monomer unit, a volume-average particle diameter D of the particulate polymer is 0.5 μm or more and 5 μm or less, and a swelling degree of the particulate polymer to an electrolyte solution is more than 1 time and 3 times or less; and a non-aqueous secondary battery including the same.
US11417926B2
The disclosed technology relates to electrical feedthroughs for thin battery cells. A battery cell enclosure includes a terraced portion having a reduced thickness relative to another portion of the enclosure. The enclosure includes an opening disposed on a horizontal surface of the terraced portion for receiving the electrical feedthrough. Because the feedthrough is disposed on the horizontal surface of the terraced portion, the feedthrough may be over-sized thereby reducing the resistance and impedance of the feedthrough without increasing the height or thickness of the enclosure.
US11417923B2
A battery pack includes a battery assembly, a heat radiation molding being molded in advance and having flexibility, and an external case housing the battery assembly. The battery assembly includes at least one secondary battery cell and a battery holder to hold and house the at least one secondary battery cell. A heat radiation molding covers a surface of the at least one secondary battery cell and is designed to melt in response to heat generated from the at least one secondary battery cell.
US11417922B2
A cooling plate (10) for temperature control of a battery cell, having a frame (12) with a coolant flow space (16) and at least one perturbing contour (30) inside the flow space (16), which is provided to increase turbulence in the coolant and is designed to support the at least one battery cell or for mechanical contacting with a cover (14) of the flow space (16). The perturbing contour (30) is arranged such that the coolant can flow around the perturbing contour (30) and the perturbing contour (30) is formed in the manner of at least one opening (50) in such a way that the coolant can flow through the at least one perturbing contour (30) and/or the frame (12) forms an opening (52) beneath the perturbing contour (30) in such a way that the coolant can flow beneath the at least one perturbing contour (30).
US11417916B2
A system and method for intelligent battery charging management to improve battery life and charging efficiency of high capacity batteries that may not be deeply discharged on a regular basis may learn driving habits automatically and/or with user input and select an ending state-of-charge (SOC) to limit battery charging to less than maximum capacity based on current and/or anticipated ambient temperature and battery health of life (HOL). An expected vehicle travel distance before the next charge may be learned or determined based on vehicle or user inputs. An ending SOC based on battery temperature, a delta SOC to meet propulsive energy for the expected travel distance, cycling effect (depth of discharge) on battery HOL for a given delta SOC, and/or battery working efficiency may be used to control charging of the vehicle battery.
US11417913B2
The disclosure concerns an electrolyte, an electrolyte ink, a battery or other electrochemical cell including the same, and methods of making the electrolyte and electrochemical cell. The electrolyte includes an ionic liquid comprising a hydrophilic or hydrophobic anion, a multi-valent metal cation suitable for use in a battery cell, a polymer binder, and optional additives (e.g., a solid filler). The electrolyte ink includes components of the electrolyte and a solvent. The solvent and the polymer binder (or, when present, the solid filler) have a hydrophilicity, hydrophobicity or polarity similar to or matching that of the ionic liquid's anion, or form hydrogen bonds with the ionic liquid's anion. The electrolyte includes a solid inorganic filler that provides mechanical support form hydrogen bonds with the anion and/or a counterpart anion of the multi-valent metal cation, and links with a material in an adjacent layer of the electrochemical cell.
US11417904B2
Provided are membranes useful for electrochemical or fuel cells. A membrane may be formed of or include a sulfonated polymer whereby the sulfonated polymer is covalently or ionically associated with a multi-nitrogen containing heterocyclic molecule. The resulting membranes possess excellent ion conductivity and selectivity.
US11417901B2
Provided herein are methods for operating carbon oxide (COx) reduction reactors (CRR) and related apparatus. In some embodiments, the methods involve shutting off, reducing, or otherwise controlling current during various operation stages including hydration, break-in, normal operation, planned shut-offs, and extended shutoff or storage periods.
US11417894B2
Methods for fabricating an interconnect for a fuel cell stack that include providing a protective layer over at least one surface of an interconnect formed by powder pressing pre-alloyed particles containing two or more metal elements and annealing the interconnect and the protective layer at elevated temperature to bond the protective layer to the at least one surface of the interconnect.
US11417890B2
A flexible battery assembly includes a positive plate, a first filling film, a separator, a second filling film, and a negative plate stacked in order. The positive plate includes a first insulating layer, spaced first current collectors, and a positive electrode active layer. The negative plate includes a second insulating layer, spaced second current collectors, and a negative electrode active layer. Each first current collector corresponds to one second current collector. The first filling film comprises first openings each corresponding to one first current collector, and the first current collectors are embedded in the first openings. The second filling film comprises second openings each corresponding to one second current collector, and the second current collectors are embedded in the second openings. An electrolyte is sealed in the first openings and the second openings. A method for manufacturing such flexible battery assembly is also disclosed.
US11417885B1
Filled carbon nanotubes (CNTs), methods of synthesizing the same, and lithium-ion batteries comprising the same are provided. In situ methods (e.g., chemical vapor deposition techniques) can be used to synthesize CNTs (e.g., multi-walled CNTs) filled with metal sulfide nanowires. The CNTs can be completely (or nearly completely) and continuously (or nearly continuously) filled with the metal sulfide fillers up to several micrometers in length. The filled CNTs can be synthesized on a carbon substrate. A lithium-ion battery can comprise a cathode, an anode comprising filled CNTs as described herein, and an electrolyte in contact with the cathode and/or the anode.
US11417883B2
The present application discloses positive electrode active material, preparation method thereof, positive electrode plate, lithium-ion secondary battery and battery module, pack, and apparatus. The positive electrode active material includes a nickel-containing lithium composite oxide satisfying a chemical formula Li1+a[NixCoyMnzMb]O2, in the formula, M is a doping element at transition metal site, 0.5≤x<1, 0≤y<0.3, 0≤z<0.3, −0.1≤a<0.2, 0
US11417882B2
Electrode materials for electrochemical cells and batteries and methods of producing such materials are disclosed herein. The electrode materials comprise an active lithium metal oxide material prepared by: (a) contacting the lithium metal oxide material with an aqueous acidic solution containing one or more metal cations; and (b) heating the so-contacted lithium metal oxide from step (a) to dryness at a temperature below 200° C. The metal cations in the aqueous acidic solution comprise one or more metal cations selected from the group consisting of an alkaline earth metal ion, a transition metal ion, and a main group metal ion.
US11417880B2
A method for preparing an iron oxyhydroxynitrate, a positive electrode for a lithium secondary battery including the iron oxyhydroxynitrate prepared therefrom, and a lithium secondary battery including the same. The positive electrode for the lithium secondary battery containing the iron oxyhydroxynitrate includes the iron oxyhydroxynitrate represented by the following Formula 1: FeO(NO3)x(OH)1-x, wherein 0
US11417868B2
A manufacturing method for a secondary battery that includes coating a metal current collector sheet material with an electrode material layer raw material such that a shape of a coating surface of the electrode material layer raw material is changed based on a shape of a non-rectangular electrode to be formed to form an electrode precursor, and cutting the electrode precursor into a non-rectangular electrode shape.
US11417856B2
It is an object of the present invention to provide a light-emitting device where periphery deterioration can be prevented from occurring even when an organic insulating film is used as an insulating film for the light-emitting device. In addition, it is an object of the present invention to provide a light-emitting device where reliability for a long period of time can be improved. A structure of an inorganic film, an organic film, and an inorganic film is not continuously provided from under a sealing material under a cathode for a light-emitting element. In addition, penetration of water is suppressed by defining the shape of the inorganic film that is formed over the organic film even when a structure of an inorganic film, an organic film, and an inorganic film is continuously provided under a cathode for a light-emitting element.
US11417850B2
The present disclosure provides a quantum dot (QD) light emitting diode including: a first electrode; a second electrode facing the first electrode; a QD emitting material layer positioned between the first electrode and the second electrode and including a QD and an organic material; a hole auxiliary layer positioned between the first electrode and the QD emitting material layer; and an electron auxiliary layer positioned between the QD emitting material layer and the second electrode, wherein the organic material has a highest occupied molecular orbital (HOMO) level higher than a material of the hole auxiliary layer.
US11417836B2
The present invention is directed to a magnetic memory element including a magnetic free layer structure incorporating three magnetic free layers separated by two perpendicular enhancement layers (PELs) and having a variable magnetization direction substantially perpendicular to layer planes thereof; an insulating tunnel junction layer formed adjacent to the magnetic free layer structure; a first magnetic reference layer formed adjacent to the insulating tunnel junction layer opposite the magnetic free layer structure; a second magnetic reference layer separated from the first magnetic reference layer by a third perpendicular enhancement layer; an anti-ferromagnetic coupling layer formed adjacent to the second magnetic reference layer; and a magnetic fixed layer formed adjacent to the anti-ferromagnetic coupling layer. The first and second magnetic reference layers have a first invariable magnetization direction substantially perpendicular to layer planes thereof. The magnetic fixed layer has a second invariable magnetization direction substantially opposite to the first invariable magnetization direction.
US11417832B2
The present disclosure provides a semiconductor structure, including a substrate, including a first region and a second region adjacent to the first region, a magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) over the first region, a spacer on a sidewall of the MTJ, a hard mask over the MTJ, a first dielectric layer laterally surrounding the spacer and the hard mask, a top electrode over the hard mask, and an etch stop stack laterally surrounding the top electrode.
US11417830B2
Embodiments herein relate to magnetically doping a spin orbit torque electrode (SOT) in a magnetic random access memory apparatus. In particular, the apparatus may include a free layer of a magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) coupled to a SOT electrode that is magnetically doped to apply an effective magnetic field on the free layer, where the free layer has a magnetic polarization in a first direction and where current flowing through the magnetically doped SOT electrode is to cause the magnetic polarization of the free layer to change to a second direction that is substantially opposite to the first direction.
US11417817B2
Woven flexible thermoelectric fabrics are provided. The fabric is a woven material that includes a series of longitudinal threads interwoven with a series of transverse threads. Within the longitudinal series, the threads have a repeating thread pattern of an n-type thermoelectric thread, a p-type thermoelectric thread, and an insulating thread. Within the transverse series, the threads have a repeating thread pattern of a first double-sided thread with conducting side down and insulating side up, a second double-sided thread with conducting side down and insulating side up, and a third double-sided thread with conducting side up and insulating side down.
US11417812B2
A semiconductor light emitting device includes a main lead, a sub lead, a semiconductor light emitting element bonded to the main lead, and a protective element bonded to the sub lead, wherein the semiconductor light emitting element is connected to the main lead and the sub lead via a first wire and a second wire, respectively, wherein the protective element has a main surface electrode and a back surface electrode which is connected to the sub lead via a conductive bonding material, and wherein the main surface electrode of the protective element is connected to the main lead via a third wire, a connecting wiring which connects electrodes of the semiconductor light emitting element, and a connecting member including the second wire.
US11417808B2
A light emitting device includes: a resin package including first and second leads, and a resin part defining a recess defined by a lateral wall and an upward-facing surface, which includes an upper surface of a portion of each of the first lead, the second lead, and the resin part; and a light emitting element on the first lead. The resin part includes a holding resin portion between the first and second leads at the upward-facing surface, and a covering resin portion that covers a portion of the upper surface of the holding resin portion and a portion of an upper surface of at least one of the first and second leads. A portion of an upper surface of the holding resin portion is exposed from the covering resin portion, and is located on the same plane as the upper surfaces of the first and second leads.
US11417803B2
The present invention provides a backplate manufacturing method including: manufacturing a second metal layer on an underlay substrate; patterning the second metal layer to form an anode and a cathode; forming a first passivation layer on the second metal layer, patterning the first passivation layer to form an aperture region, wherein the aperture region is configured to expose out the anode and the cathode; manufacturing a second passivation layer on the first passivation layer, the anode, and the cathode; manufacturing a light shielding layer on the second passivation layer, patterning the light shielding layer to remove a part of the light shielding layer in a position corresponding to the aperture region; and removing a part of the second passivation layer above the anode and the cathode. The method of the present invention can provide a soldering effect of the light emitting device and a yield rate of a backplate.
US11417802B2
A light-emitting device, includes: a semiconductor stack, including a top surface, wherein the top surface includes a first region and a second region which are coplanar; a current barrier layer formed on the first region, wherein the current barrier layer includes an insulating material; and a transparent conductive layer formed on the current barrier layer and the second region; and a first electrode formed on the transparent conductive layer; wherein the current barrier layer includes: an electrode region at a position corresponding to the first electrode, having a shape substantially the same as the first electrode; and a plurality of extension regions extending from the electrode region and not covered by the first electrode.
US11417798B2
A light emitting display apparatus can include an insulating layer on a substrate and the insulating layer includes a base portion and a protrusion portion. The light emitting display apparatus further includes a first electrode covering an upper portion of the base portion and a side portion and an upper portion of the protrusion portion. The light emitting display apparatus further includes a bank layer covering a portion of the insulating layer and a portion of the first electrode and having a concave portion. The light emitting display apparatus further includes a light emitting layer on the first electrode and the bank layer, and a second electrode on the light emitting layer.
US11417795B2
A die-bonding method and a spraying device for an LED include: providing a substrate provided with a pad and a white oil layer covering wiring, placing a steel mesh on the substrate, and then spraying suspension containing solder paste on the pad by the spraying device, to form a solder paste film layer. Finally, a reflow process for the solder is performed. The solder paste is prepared on the pad by spraying, so that a crystal wafer is prevented from being tilted or short-circuited due to pulling or dragging of the solder paste during the reflow process for the solder, thereby improving uneven brightness of the surface light source.
US11417791B2
Disclosed herein is a radiation detector comprising: a layer of quantum dots configured to emit a pulse of visible light upon absorbing a radiation particle; an electronic system configured to detect the radiation particle by detecting the pulse of visible light.
US11417768B2
The disclosed technology generally relates to ferroelectric materials and semiconductor devices, and more particularly to semiconductor memory devices incorporating doped polar materials. In one aspect, a semiconductor device comprises a capacitor which in turn comprises a polar layer comprising a base polar material doped with a dopant. The base polar material includes one or more metal elements and one or both of oxygen or nitrogen. The dopant comprises a metal element that is different from the one or more metal elements and is present at a concentration such that a ferroelectric switching voltage of the capacitor is different from that of the capacitor having the base polar material without being doped with the dopant by more than about 100 mV. The capacitor stack additionally comprises first and second crystalline conductive oxide electrodes on opposing sides of the polar layer. The capacitor stack further comprises first and second barrier metal layers on respective ones of the first and second crystalline conductive oxide electrodes on opposing sides of the polar layer.
US11417767B2
Semiconductor devices including backside vias with enlarged backside portions and methods of forming the same are disclosed. In an embodiment, a device includes a first transistor structure in a first device layer; a front-side interconnect structure on a front-side of the first device layer; a first dielectric layer on a backside of the first device layer; a first contact extending through the first dielectric layer to a source/drain region of the first transistor structure; and a backside interconnect structure on a backside of the first dielectric layer and the first contact, the first contact including a first portion having first tapered sidewalls and a second portion having second tapered sidewalls, widths of the first tapered sidewalls narrowing in a direction towards the backside interconnect structure, and widths of the second tapered sidewalls widening in a direction towards the backside interconnect structure.
US11417765B2
Disclosed herein are quantum dot devices, as well as related computing devices and methods. For example, in some embodiments, a quantum dot device may include: a quantum well stack; a first gate above the quantum well stack, wherein the first gate includes a first gate metal and a first gate dielectric layer; and a second gate above the quantum well stack, wherein the second gate includes a second gate metal and a second gate dielectric layer, and the second gate dielectric layer extends over the first gate.
US11417761B1
A transistor structure includes a substrate, having a gate region and a first trench in the substate at a first side of the gate region. Further, a first gate insulating layer is disposed on a first portion of the gate region, opposite to the first trench. A second gate insulating layer is disposed on a second portion of the gate region and a first portion of the first trench abutting to the gate region, wherein the second gate insulating layer is thicker than the first gate insulating layer. A gate layer is disposed on the first and second gate insulating layers, having a downward protruding portion corresponding to the first trench. A first doped region is in the substrate at least under the first trench. A second doped region is in the substrate at a second side of the gate region.
US11417759B2
According to one embodiment, a semiconductor device, having a semiconductor substrate comprising silicon carbide with a gate electrode disposed on a portion of the substrate on a first surface with, a drain electrode disposed on a second surface of the substrate. There is a dielectric layer disposed on the gate electrode and a remedial layer disposed about the dielectric layer, wherein the remedial layer is configured to mitigate negative bias temperature instability maintaining a change in threshold voltage of less than about 1 volt. A source electrode is disposed on the remedial layer, wherein the source electrode is electrically coupled to a contact region of the semiconductor substrate.
US11417757B2
A semiconductor arrangement including a substrate, a dielectric layer, and a semiconductor layer disposed between the substrate and the dielectric layer. The arrangement further includes an ohmic contact including a plurality of metal contact fragments located in a plurality of trenches formed in the dielectric layer, and a metallic connector layer electrically connecting the metal contact fragments. The ohmic contact electrically connects the metallic connector layer to the semiconductor layer.
US11417750B2
Fin-like field effect transistors (FinFETs) and methods of fabrication thereof are disclosed herein. The FinFETs disclosed herein have gate air spacers integrated into their gate structures. An exemplary transistor includes a fin and a gate structure disposed over the fin between a first epitaxial source/drain feature and a second epitaxial source/drain feature. The gate structure includes a gate electrode, a gate dielectric, and gate air spacers disposed between the gate dielectric and sidewalls of the gate electrode.
US11417746B2
A transistor device includes a gate finger and a drain finger extending on a semiconductor structure, a gate bond pad coupled to the gate finger, and a drain bond pad coupled to the drain finger. The gate bond pad extends on the gate finger and/or the drain bond pad extends on the drain finger.
US11417736B2
A method (200) of fabricating a semiconductor device includes etching (205) a group of trenches in a semiconductor surface layer of a substrate. The group of trenches includes an outermost trench that has a first width and remaining trenches of the group of trenches have a second width that is less than the first width. The outermost trench is formed at an edge of the group of trenches. A dielectric liner is formed (210) in the group of trenches and the dielectric liner is etched (215) in an upper portion of the group of trenches to remove a partial thickness of the dielectric liner. A full thickness of the dielectric liner is maintained in a lower portion of the group of trenches. The group of trenches is filled (220) with a polysilicon layer.
US11417735B2
A method for fabricating a semiconductor device is provided. The method includes providing a substrate, having a cell region and a logic region and including a first conductive layer as a top layer, wherein shallow trench isolation (STI) structures are disposed in the substrate at cell region and the logic region. A first dry etching process is performed to preliminarily etch the first conductive layer and the STI structures at the cell region. A wet etching process is performed over the substrate to etch the STI structures down to a preserved height. A control gate stack is formed on the first conductive layer at the cell region. A second dry etching process is performed on a portion of the first conductive layer to form a floating gate under the control gate stack at the cell region and remove the first conductive layer at the logic region.
US11417731B2
A semiconductor device includes an active pattern on a substrate, a pair of source/drain patterns on the active pattern, a channel pattern between the pair of source/drain patterns, the channel pattern including semiconductor patterns stacked to be spaced apart from each other, and a gate electrode crossing the channel pattern and extending in a first direction. One of the pair of source/drain patterns includes a first semiconductor layer and a second semiconductor layer thereon. The first semiconductor layer is in contact with a first semiconductor pattern, which is one of the stacked semiconductor patterns. The largest widths of the first semiconductor pattern, the first semiconductor layer, and the second semiconductor layer in the first direction are a first width, a second width, a third width, respectively, and the second width is larger than the first width and smaller than the third width.
US11417725B2
An integrated circuit is formed by forming an isolation trench through at least a portion of an interconnect region, at least 40 microns deep into a substrate of the integrated circuit, leaving at least 200 microns of substrate material under the isolation trench. Dielectric material is formed in the isolation trench at a substrate temperature no greater than 320° C. to form an isolation structure which separates an isolated region of the integrated circuit from at least a portion of the substrate. The isolated region contains an isolated component. The isolated region of the integrated circuit may be a region of the substrate, and/or a region of the interconnect region. The isolated region may be a first portion of the substrate which is laterally separated from a second portion of the substrate. The isolated region may be a portion of the interconnect region above the isolation structure.
US11417721B2
A display device includes: a second wiring layer on the first insulating film, the second wiring layer overlapping with a part of the first pad portion, the second wiring layer including a second pad portion not overlapping with the first line portion; an etching-stop layer overlapping with at least a boundary between the first pad portion and the first line portion; a second insulating film covering the second wiring layer, the second insulating film having a contact hole, the contact hole including a first area where the second insulating film, the first insulating film, and the first pad portion are penetrated, the contact hole including a second area where the second insulating film is penetrated and the second pad portion is a bottom; and a third wiring layer inside the contact hole, the third wiring layer connected to the first pad portion and the second pad portion.
US11417712B2
An array substrate, a display panel, and a method of manufacturing the array substrate are provided. The display panel includes the array substrate. The array substrate is provided with a light transmitting region and a capacitor region, and includes a substrate, a driving circuit layer, a second conductive layer, a passivation layer, a color filter, an anode layer, light emitting layer, and cathode layer, which are sequentially disposed from bottom to top.
US11417698B2
A semiconductor package includes electric integrated circuit dies, photoelectric integrated circuit dies, and an inter-chip waveguide. The electric integrated circuit dies are laterally encapsulated by a first insulating encapsulant. The photoelectric integrated circuit dies are laterally encapsulated by a second insulating encapsulant. Each one of photoelectric integrated circuit dies includes an optical input/output terminal. The inter-chip waveguide is disposed over the second insulating encapsulant, wherein the photoelectric integrated circuit dies are optically communicated with each other through the inter-chip waveguide.
US11417691B2
An image sensor includes a first transfer gate formed over a substrate, and including a first projection; a second transfer gate formed over the substrate, neighboring the first transfer gate, and including a second projection; and a floating diffusion formed in the substrate, and partially overlapping with the first transfer gate and the second transfer gate, wherein the first projection and the second projection face each other.
US11417689B2
The present application proposes a display panel, which includes a substrate, and a first thin film transistor and a second thin film transistor disposed on the substrate at intervals, wherein a first metal layer is disposed on a side of the oxide semiconductor layer away from the third gate, a first interlayer insulating layer is disposed between the first metal layer and the oxide semiconductor layer, a second gate insulating layer is disposed on a side of the first metal layer away from the oxide semiconductor layer, and the first metal layer includes a second gate corresponding to the oxide semiconductor layer.
US11417687B2
A high-definition display device is provided. A display device with low power consumption is provided. A highly reliable display device is provided. The display device includes a first transistor and a display element electrically connected to the first transistor. The first transistor includes a first oxide, a second oxide, a first conductor, a second conductor, a third conductor, a first insulator, and a second insulator. The first conductor and the second conductor are positioned over the first oxide to be apart from each other. The first insulator is positioned over the first conductor and the second conductor and includes an opening. The opening overlaps with a portion between the first conductor and the second conductor. The third conductor is positioned in the opening. The second insulator is positioned between the third conductor, and the first oxide, the first conductor, the second conductor, and the first insulator. The second oxide is positioned between the second insulator, and the first oxide, the first conductor, the second conductor, and the first insulator.
US11417676B2
A method of forming a microelectronic device comprises forming a memory array region comprising memory cells vertically over a base structure comprising a semiconductive material and alignment mark structures vertically extending into the semiconductive material. First contact structures are formed to extend through the memory array region and into the alignment mark structures. A support structure is formed over the memory array region. A portion of the base structure is removed to expose the alignment mark structures. A control logic region is formed vertically adjacent a remaining portion of the base structure. The control logic region comprises control logic devices in electrical communication with the first contact structures by way of second contact structures extending partially through the alignment mark structures and contacting the first contact structures. Microelectronic devices, memory devices, electronic systems, and additional methods are also described.
US11417671B2
Some embodiments include apparatuses and methods of using such apparatuses. One of the apparatuses includes a semiconductor material, a pillar extending through the semiconductor material, a select gate located along a first portion of the pillar, memory cells located along a second portion of the pillar, and transistors coupled to the select gate through a portion of the semiconductor material. The transistors include sources and drains formed from portions of the semiconductor material. The transistors include gates that are electrically uncoupled to each other.
US11417670B2
The present disclosure provides an integrated circuit. The integrated circuit includes a substrate; a field effect transistor disposed in a periphery region of the substrate, the field effect transistor including a gate electrode, a first source, a first drain; a floating gate non-volatile memory device disposed in a memory region of the substrate, the floating gate non-volatile memory device including a second source, a third source, and a second drain, wherein the second source, the third source, and the second drain are disposed along an axis; and a floating gate electrode in the memory region including a first portion, a second portion, and a third portion, wherein the first portion, the second portion, and the third portion are electrically connected, wherein the first portion, the second portion and the third portion extend perpendicular to the axis.
US11417664B2
A semiconductor device includes a substrate including a first region having a first trench and a second region having a second trench. A first buried insulation layer pattern is disposed in the first trench. The second trench includes the first buried insulation layer pattern, a second buried insulation layer pattern, and a third buried insulation layer pattern sequentially stacked therein. A first buffer insulation layer is disposed on the substrate in the first and second regions and has a flat upper surface. A second buffer insulation layer is disposed on the first buffer insulation layer. A bit line structure is disposed on the first and second regions. A first portion of the bit line structure is disposed on the second buffer insulation layer and has a flat lower surface. A second portion of the bit line structure directly contacts a surface of the substrate in the first region.
US11417657B2
A semiconductor memory cell includes a floating body region configured to be charged to a level indicative of a state of the memory cell selected from at least first and second states. A first region of the memory cell is in electrical contact with the floating body region. A second region of the memory cell is spaced apart from the first region and is also in electrical contact with the floating body region. A gate is positioned between the first and second regions. A back-bias region is configured to generate impact ionization when the memory cell is in one of the first and second states, and the back-bias region is configured so as not to generate impact ionization when the memory cell is in the other of the first and second states.
US11417656B2
A semiconductor device includes a first and second channel patterns on a substrate, each of the first and second channel patterns including vertically-stacked semiconductor patterns; a first source/drain pattern connected to the first channel pattern; a second source/drain pattern connected to the second channel pattern, the first and second source/drain patterns having different conductivity types from each other; a first contact plug inserted in the first source/drain pattern, and a second contact plug inserted in the second source/drain pattern; a first interface layer interposed between the first source/drain pattern and the first contact plug; and a second interface layer interposed between the second source/drain pattern and the second contact plug, the first and second interface layers including different metallic elements from each other, a bottom portion of the second interface layer being positioned at a level that is lower than a bottom surface of a topmost one of the semiconductor patterns.
US11417653B2
A semiconductor structure includes a substrate including a first region and a second region, a first FET device disposed in the first region, and a second FET device disposed in the second region. The first FET device includes a fin structure, a first work function metal layer disposed over the fin structure, and a high-k gate dielectric layer between the first work function metal layer and the fin structure. The second FET device includes a plurality of nanosheets stacked over the substrate and separated from each other, a second work function metal layer surrounding each of the nanosheets, and the high-k gate dielectric layer between the second work function metal layer and each of the nanosheets. In some embodiments, the fin structure has a first width, each of the nanosheets has a second width, and the second width is greater than the first width.
US11417644B2
Examples of integrated semiconductor devices are described. In one example, an integrated device includes first and second transistors formed on a substrate, where the transistors share a terminal metal feature to reduce a size of the integrated device. The terminal metal feature can include a shared source electrode metalization, for example, although other electrode metalizations can be shared. In other aspects, a first width of a gate of the first transistor can be greater than a second width of a gate of the second transistor, and the shared metalization can taper from the first width to the second width. The integrated device can also include a metal ground plane on a backside of the substrate, and the terminal metal feature can also include an in-source via for the shared source electrode metalization. The in-source via can electrically couple the shared source electrode metalization to the metal ground plane.
US11417639B2
An optoelectronic device is specified, with a radiation-emitting semiconductor chip configured to generate electromagnetic radiation, and an active element configured to change a physical state, wherein the active element is embedded in a component of the component, and the physical change of state comprises the following: temperature change, sound generation, mechanical motion.
US11417638B2
A semiconductor structure includes a semiconductor package and a connector. The semiconductor package includes a die and a redistribution structure. The redistribution structure is disposed over the die, and includes a plurality of conductive patterns stacking on one another and electrically connected to the die. The connector is disposed on the redistribution structure, and includes a connecting element. The connecting element penetrates the conductive patterns and is electrically connected to the die.
US11417635B2
Pixelated-LED chips and related methods are disclosed. A pixelated-LED chip includes an active layer with independently electrically accessible active layer portions arranged on or over a light-transmissive substrate. The active layer portions are configured to illuminate different light-transmissive substrate portions to form pixels. Various enhancements may beneficially provide increased contrast (i.e., reduced cross-talk between pixels) and/or promote inter-pixel illumination homogeneity, without unduly restricting light utilization efficiency. In some aspects, a light extraction surface of each substrate portion includes protruding features and light extraction surface recesses. Lateral borders between different pixels are aligned with selected light extraction surface recesses. In some aspects, selected light extraction surface recesses extend through an entire thickness of the substrate. Other technical benefits may additionally or alternatively be achieved.
US11417626B2
In a manufacturing method of a semiconductor device according to an embodiment, a first substrate having a first elastic modulus is joined onto a second substrate having a second elastic modulus higher than the first elastic modulus. A first semiconductor element is formed on the first substrate. The first substrate is detached from the second substrate.
US11417623B2
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor layer having a first surface, an insulating layer formed at the first surface of the semiconductor layer, a Cu conductive layer formed on the insulating layer, the Cu conductive layer made of a metal mainly containing Cu, a second insulating layer formed on the insulating layer, the second insulating layer covering the Cu conductive layer, a Cu pillar extending in a thickness direction in the second insulating layer, the Cu pillar made of a metal mainly containing Cu and electrically connected to the Cu conductive layer, and an intermediate layer formed between the Cu conductive layer and the Cu pillar, the intermediate layer made of a material having a linear expansion coefficient smaller than a linear expansion coefficient of the Cu conductive layer and smaller than a linear expansion coefficient of the Cu pillar.
US11417620B2
A package structure includes a first dielectric layer, a first semiconductor device over the first dielectric layer, a first redistribution line in the first dielectric layer, a second dielectric layer over the first semiconductor device, a second semiconductor device over the second dielectric layer, a second redistribution line in the second dielectric layer, a conductive through-via over the first dielectric layer and electrically connected to the first redistribution line, a conductive ball over the conductive through-via and electrically connected to the second redistribution line, and a molding material. The molding material surrounds the first semiconductor device, the conductive through-via, and the conductive ball, wherein a top of the conductive ball is higher than a top of the molding material.
US11417619B2
A package includes a first die, a second die, an encapsulant, and through insulating vias (TIV). The first die has a first bonding structure. The first bonding structure includes a first dielectric layer and first connectors embedded in the first dielectric layer. The second die has a second bonding structure. The second bonding structure includes a second dielectric layer and second connectors embedded in the second dielectric layer. The first dielectric layer is hybrid bonded to the second dielectric layer. The first connectors are hybrid bonded to the second connectors. The encapsulant laterally encapsulates the second die. The TIVs penetrate through the encapsulant and are connected to the first bonding structure.
US11417616B2
A package structure includes a chip package and an antenna package. The chip package includes at least one semiconductor die and a first insulating encapsulation encapsulating the at least one semiconductor die. The antenna package is located on and electrically coupled to the chip package. The antenna package includes metallic patterns embedded in a second insulating encapsulation, wherein each of the metallic patterns has a first surface, a second surface opposite to the first surface and a side surface connecting the first surface and the second surface, wherein the first surface and the side surface of each of the metallic patterns are covered by the second insulating encapsulation, and the second surface is levelled and coplanar with a third surface of the second insulating encapsulation. A method of manufacturing a package structure is also provided.
US11417614B2
Embodiments include an electronic package that includes a first layer that comprises a dielectric material and a second layer over the first layer, where the second layer comprises a magnetic material. In an embodiment, a third layer is formed over the second layer, where the third layer comprises a dielectric material. In an embodiment, the third layer entirely covers a first surface of the second layer. In an embodiment a first conductive layer and a second conductive layer are embedded within the second layer. In an embodiment, sidewalls of the first conductive layer and the second conductive layer are substantially vertical.
US11417608B2
The present application discloses a semiconductor device with an electromagnetic interference protection structure and a method for fabricating the semiconductor device. The semiconductor device includes a connection structure having a connection dielectric layer, a first conductive plate positioned in the connection dielectric layer and electrically coupled to a supply voltage, a first bottom protection layer positioned below the first conductive plate, and a first top protection layer positioned on the first conductive plate, and a connection conductive layer positioned in the connection dielectric layer. The first bottom protection layer and the first top protection layer are formed of manganese-zinc ferrite, nickel-zinc ferrite, cobalt ferrite, strontium ferrite, barium ferrite, lithium ferrite, lithium-zinc ferrite, single crystal yttrium iron garnet, or gallium substituted single crystal yttrium iron garnet.
US11417606B2
A package structure includes a plurality of semiconductor dies, an insulating encapsulant, a redistribution layer and a plurality of connecting elements. The insulating encapsulant is encapsulating the plurality of semiconductor dies. The redistribution layer is disposed on the insulating encapsulant in a build-up direction and electrically connected to the plurality of semiconductor dies, wherein the redistribution layer includes a plurality of conductive lines, a plurality of conductive vias and a plurality of dielectric layers alternately stacked, and a lateral dimension of the plurality of conductive vias increases along the build-up direction. The connecting elements are disposed in between the redistribution layer and the semiconductor dies, wherein the connecting elements includes a body portion joined with the semiconductor dies and a via portion joined with the redistribution layer, wherein a lateral dimension of the via portion decreases along the build-up direction.
US11417605B2
The present disclosure relates to methods and apparatus for forming thin-form-factor reconstituted substrates and semiconductor device packages for radio frequency applications. The substrate and package structures described herein may be utilized in high-density 2D and 3D integrated devices for 4G, 5G, 6G, and other wireless network systems. In one embodiment, a silicon substrate is structured by laser ablation to include cavities for placement of semiconductor dies and vias for deposition of conductive interconnections. Additionally, one or more cavities are structured to be filled or occupied with a flowable dielectric material. Integration of one or more radio frequency components adjacent the dielectric-filled cavities enables improved performance of the radio frequency elements with reduced signal loss caused by the silicon substrate.
US11417595B2
A semiconductor package includes a redistribution substrate having first and second surfaces, and an insulating member and a plurality of redistribution layers on different levels in the insulating member and electrically connected together; a plurality of under bump metallurgy (UBM) pads in the insulating member and connected to a redistribution layer, among the plurality of redistribution layers, adjacent to the first surface, the UBM pads having a lower surface exposed to the first surface of the redistribution substrate; a dummy pattern between the UBM pads in the insulating member, the dummy pattern having a lower surface located at a level higher than the lower surface of the UBM pads; and at least one semiconductor chip on the second surface of the redistribution substrate and having a plurality of contact pads electrically connected to a redistribution layer, among the plurality of redistribution layers, adjacent to the second surface.
US11417587B2
A package structure including a first semiconductor die, a first insulating encapsulation, a bonding enhancement film, a second semiconductor die and a second insulating encapsulation is provided. The first insulating encapsulation laterally encapsulates a first portion of the first semiconductor die. The bonding enhancement film is disposed on a top surface of the first insulating encapsulation and laterally encapsulates a second portion of the first semiconductor die, wherein a top surface of the bonding enhancement film is substantially leveled with a top surface of the semiconductor die. The second semiconductor die is disposed on and bonded to the first semiconductor die and the bonding enhancement film. The second insulating encapsulation laterally encapsulates the second semiconductor die.
US11417577B2
Provided is a semiconductor package including: at least one first substrate including at least one first substrate terminal extended therefrom; at least one second substrate joined to the upper surface of the first substrate using ultrasonic welding; at least one semiconductor chip joined to the upper surface of the second substrate; a package housing covering the at least one semiconductor chip and an area of the second substrate, where ultrasonic welding is performed; and terminals separated from the first substrate, electrically connected to the at least one semiconductor chip through electric signals, and at least one of them is exposed to the outside of the package housing, wherein a thickness of the terminals formed inside the package housing is same as or smaller than a thickness of the first substrate and the second substrate includes at least one embossing groove on the upper surface thereof.
US11417574B2
The present application discloses a semiconductor device and a method for fabricating the semiconductor device. The semiconductor device includes a first testing area, a word line structure positioned in the first testing area and arranged parallel to a first axis, a first column of capacitor contact structures positioned in the first testing area and arranged parallel to a second axis perpendicular to the first axis, a second column of capacitor contact structures positioned adjacent to the first column of capacitor contact structures and arranged parallel to the first column of capacitor contact structures, and a first testing structure including a first drain portion extended along the second axis and a first source portion extended along the second axis. The first drain portion is positioned on the first column of capacitor contact structures and the first source portion is positioned on the second column of capacitor contact structures.
US11417567B2
Conductive cap-based approaches for conductive via fabrication is described. In an example, an integrated circuit structure includes a plurality of conductive lines in an ILD layer above a substrate. Each of the conductive lines is recessed relative to an uppermost surface of the ILD layer. A plurality of conductive caps is on corresponding ones of the plurality of conductive lines, in recess regions above each of the plurality of conductive lines. A hardmask layer is on the plurality of conductive caps and on the uppermost surface of the ILD layer. The hardmask layer includes a first hardmask component on and aligned with the plurality of conductive caps, and a second hardmask component on an aligned with regions of the uppermost surface of the ILD layer. A conductive via is in an opening in the hardmask layer and on a conductive cap of one of the plurality of conductive lines.
US11417566B2
A method for forming a semiconductor device structure is provided. The method includes forming a first metal layer over a substrate, forming a dielectric layer over the first metal layer. The method includes forming a trench in the dielectric layer, and performing a surface treatment process on a sidewall surface of the trench to form a hydrophobic layer. The hydrophobic layer is formed on a sidewall surface of the dielectric layer. The method further includes depositing a metal material in the trench and over the hydrophobic layer to form a via structure.
US11417562B2
One embodiment of a substrate supporting apparatus comprises: a support member for supporting a substrate; and a temperature compensating member disposed at the edge of the support member, and compensating the temperature of the substrate, wherein the support member may be made of a light-transmissive material, the temperature compensating member may be made of an opaque material, and the surface of the temperature compensating member may be made of a material having corrosion resistance against a cleaning gas.
US11417553B2
A method and apparatus for detecting and correcting incoming substrate deformation is disclosed. Substrates are positioned in a first process chamber, where the presence and type of substrate bow is detected. Based upon the detection of substrate bow, and a determination of whether the substrate has a compressive bow or a tensile bow, a substrate processing program is selected for execution. The substrate processing program can be executed in the first process chamber or in a second process chamber to correct or alleviate the bow prior to or during further processing of the substrate.
US11417552B2
A computer-implemented method for inferring a device feature of a device produced on a wafer. The method includes: providing a wafer feature model associating a wafer position indicating a position of a produced device on the wafer to a device feature, wherein the wafer feature model is configured to be trained by one or more wafer feature maps and particularly configured as a Gaussian process model, providing a sample device feature of at least one device at a sample wafer position, and inferring the device feature of at least one other device of the wafer depending on the provided wafer feature model.
US11417548B2
A component mounting machine includes a control device that controls a wafer supply device and a component transfer device. The control device includes a die information storage section storing the position of the dies stored in the wafer supply device associated with a rank of the dies, a block information acquisition section acquiring the condition of the dies to be mounted on a block provided on a board, a rank designation section designating the rank of the die to be picked up by the component transfer device, and a position designation section designating the position of the die to be picked up by the component transfer device. The position designation section designates the position of the die so that the die having the rank designated by the rank designation section is continuously picked up over the multiple wafers stored in the wafer supply device.
US11417542B2
A semiconductor processing apparatus is provided. The apparatus includes a body portion, which includes at least one semiconductor processing unit. Each semiconductor processing unit includes a recess formed on an upper surface of the body portion, wherein a bottom surface of the recess has at least one location and a peripheral. The bottom surface ascends from the at least one location toward the peripheral against a direction of gravity or descends from the at least one location toward the peripheral following the direction of gravity. Each semiconductor processing unit also includes a first channel that connects to the recess at the at least one location, as well as at least one second channel connecting to the recess at the peripheral. Each of the first channel and the at least one second channel serves as an inlet or an outlet via which a fluid enters or exits the recess. A method according to the present disclosure may control a flowing direction of a fluid flowing across a substrate surface. When the fluid flow as programmed, the fluid may contact the substrate surface and process the surface via various physical and/or chemical reactions.
US11417538B2
A semiconductor package includes a die pad, a die, a first lead, a plurality of second leads, and a mold material. The die is electrically coupled to the die pad. The first lead is electrically coupled to the die. The plurality of second leads are electrically coupled to the die. The plurality of second leads are adjacent to the first lead. The mold material encapsulates at least a portion of the die pad, the die, the first lead, and the plurality of second leads. Each of the plurality of second leads extends a farther distance from the mold material than the first lead.
US11417536B2
A method for wafer planarization includes forming a second insulating layer and a polishing layer on a substrate having a chip region and a scribe lane region; forming a first through-hole in the polishing layer in the chip region and the scribe lane region and a second through-hole in the second insulating layer in the chip region, wherein the second through-hole and the first through-hole meet in the chip region; forming a pad metal layer inside the first through-hole and the second through-hole and on an upper surface of the polishing layer; and polishing the polishing layer and the pad metal layer by a chemical mechanical polishing (CMP) process to expose an upper surface of the second insulating layer in the chip region and the scribe lane region.
US11417533B1
The present disclosure provides a method of manufacturing a semiconductor structure, including: providing a base; forming first mask layers and second mask layers on the base, wherein the first mask layers each extend along a first direction, the second mask layers each extend along a second direction, the first direction is different from the second direction, and the first mask layers intersect the second mask layers; cutting off the first mask layers to form first sub-mask layers, wherein the second mask layers each span a plurality of the first sub-mask layers, and partial sidewalls of each of the first sub-mask layers are covered by the second mask layers; etching the base by using a first etching process, to form active regions; forming a isolation structure; and forming word line trench.
US11417532B2
The invention provides a method for reducing mismatch of semiconductor device patterns, which comprises the following steps: defining an initial lithography area which partially overlaps a target gate structure, a first gate structure and a second gate structure; if a length and a width of the target gate structure are smaller than a preset channel length and a preset channel width respectively, adjusting and reducing the area of the initial lithography area to define a second lithography area. The second lithography area partially overlaps with the target gate structure but does not overlap with the first gate structure and the second gate structure, and the second lithography region is defined as the active area.
US11417526B2
A method of forming a device includes depositing a first etch mask layer over a mandrel formed using a lithography process. The method includes depositing a second etch mask layer over the first etch mask layer. The method includes, using a first anisotropic etching process, etching the first etch mask layer and the second etch mask layer to form an etch mask including the first etch mask layer and the second etch mask layer. The method includes removing the mandrel to expose an underlying surface of the layer to be patterned. The method includes, using the etch mask, forming a feature by performing a second anisotropic etching process to pattern the layer to be patterned, where during the first anisotropic etching process, the first etch mask layer etches at a first rate and the second etch mask layer etches at a second rate, and where the first rate is different from the second rate.
US11417518B2
There is included (a) forming a protective film on a surface of a third base by supplying a processing gas to a substrate in which a first base containing no oxygen, a second base containing oxygen, and the third base containing no oxygen and no nitrogen are exposed on a surface of the substrate; (b) modifying a surface of the second base to be fluorine-terminated by supplying a fluorine-containing gas to the substrate after the protective film is formed on the surface of the third base; and (c) selectively forming a film on a surface of the first base by supplying a film-forming gas to the substrate after the surface of the second base is modified.
US11417509B2
A device of detecting a current from a sensor is disclosed. The device includes an integrating circuit including a network of capacitors for providing a gain setting and configured to convert the current to a voltage ramp over a length of integration time, the integrating circuit further including a reset switch configured to connect an input and an output of the network of capacitors; an ADC configured to digitize the voltage ramp into a plurality of voltage samples; and a set of modules including an analyzing module configured to analyze the plurality of voltage samples to determine a slope of the voltage ramp; an outputting module configured to determine a magnitude of the current based on the slope of the voltage ramp and the gain setting; and a reconfiguring module that is configured to reconfigure the network of capacitors and reset the voltage ramp via the reset switch.
US11417506B1
Embodiments relate to an apparatus that includes an electronics layer with at least one electronic component, and a thermal energy harvesting thermionic device to receive thermal energy and generate an electrical output for powering the electronic component. The thermionic device includes a cathode, an anode spaced from the cathode, and a plurality of nanoparticles in at least one medium contained between the cathode and the anode to permit electron transfer between the cathode and the anode. An intermediate layer is positioned between the thermionic device and the electronics layer. The intermediate layer is made of a gradient thermal expansion material (TEM). Related systems and methods are also provided.
US11417502B2
In a disclosed plasma processing system, radio frequency power is supplied in a first period to generate plasma, and the power lever of the radio frequency power is set to a reduced power level in a second period. In the second period, bias power is applied to a lower electrode of a substrate support. The bias power changes a potential of the substrate within each cycle that is defined at a second frequency. In the second period, a direct-current voltage is applied to the upper electrode. The direct-current voltage is set such that within each cycle that is defined at the second frequency, a polarity thereof in a first sub-period is negative and an absolute value thereof in the first sub-period is larger than an absolute value thereof in a second sub-period.
US11417501B2
The plasma processing apparatus has a plasma processing chamber where plasma processing of the sample is performed, and plasma power supply that supplies radio frequency electric power for generating plasma. The radio frequency electric power is time modulated by a pulse wave having a first period and a second period that are repeated periodically. The pulse wave of the first period has first amplitude and the pulse wave of the second period has second amplitude which is a limited value smaller than the first amplitude. The extinction of the plasma, which is generated during the first period having the first amplitude, is maintained during the second period having the second amplitude with a predetermined dissociation.
US11417494B2
The present invention addresses the problem of providing a method for automatically adjusting an electron beam emitted from an electron gun equipped with a photocathode to the incident axis of an electron optical system. [Solution] An incident axis alignment method for an electron gun equipped with a photocathode, the electron gun being capable of emitting an electron beam in a first state due to the photocathode being irradiated with excitation light, and the method including at least an excitation light radiation step, a first excitation light irradiation position adjustment step for changing the irradiation position of the excitation light on the photocathode and adjusting the irradiation position of the excitation light, and an electron beam center detection step for detecting whether a center line of the electron beam in the first state coincides with an incident axis of an electron optical system.
US11417492B2
A light modulated electron source utilizes a photon-beam source to modulate the emission current of an electron beam emitted from a silicon-based field emitter. The field emitter's cathode includes a protrusion fabricated on a silicon substrate and having an emission tip covered by a coating layer. An extractor generates an electric field that attracts free electrons toward the emission tip for emission as part of the electron beam. The photon-beam source generates a photon beam including photons having an energy greater than the bandgap of silicon, and includes optics that direct the photon beam onto the emission tip, whereby each absorbed photon creates a photo-electron that combines with the free electrons to enhance the electron beam's emission current. A controller modulates the emission current by controlling the intensity of the photon beam applied to the emission tip. A monitor measures the electron beam and provides feedback to the controller.
US11417481B2
A structure for closing an actuator in a magnetically actuated switch assembly, where the actuator includes an armature and a winding, and the switch assembly includes a manual actuation device coupled to one end of the armature and a movable terminal in a vacuum interrupter coupled to an opposite end of the armature. The structure includes commencing a closing operation of the actuator using the manual actuation device to move the armature towards a closed latch position, detecting that the actuator is being manually closed, and energizing the winding to assist moving the armature to the closed latch position when the armature gets to a predetermined distance from the closed latch position.
US11417477B2
A rotary switch having a fixing body, a rotating body disposed in the fixing body, a cover coupled to an upper portion of the fixing body, and a first elastic body positioned under the cover to contact a plurality of protrusions formed on the rotating body is provided. The protrusions of the rotating body protrude in a side direction and radial direction of the rotating body to improve a rotational operation feeling and the quality of a rotational sound.
US11417475B2
Electrical switch contact sets are disclosed. A disclosed example apparatus includes a movable platform having first and second contacts, where the first and second contacts electrically coupled via the movable platform, and a stationary portion having third and fourth contacts, where the movable platform is movable to bring the first and second contacts in contact with the third and fourth contacts, respectively, to simultaneously close a current path of an electrical circuit associated with the first, second, third and fourth contacts.
US11417466B2
Disclosed herein is a dielectric composite comprising an organic polymer that has a glass transition temperature greater than or equal to about 250° C.; and a dielectric filler present in an amount effective to impart to the dielectric composite a dielectric constant that varies by less than 5% over a temperature range of 25 ° C. to 300° C., with an applied alternating electric field having a frequency of 104 Hz and a maximum operating electric field strength of at least 250 megavolt per meter. Disclosed herein too is a method of manufacturing the dielectric composite and articles that contain the dielectric composite.
US11417453B2
The present invention relates to an electronic device including an input and an output, the device generating an output voltage when the input of the device is supplied, the device comprising: a conversion unit converting a spin current into a charge current having an amplitude and a sign, a spin current application unit applying a spin current to the conversion unit, a ferroelectric layer, which has a ferroelectric polarization and is arranged such that the ferroelectric polarization controls at least one among the amplitude and the sign of the charge current, and an electric field application unit suitable for applying an electric field to the ferroelectric layer to control the ferroelectric polarization.
US11417452B2
An object is to provide a new electronic control unit that can improve detection accuracy of a sense current even in a region where the current value of the sense current is small. Provided is a sense current detection unit including a plurality of sense transistors that have different current flow rates and that are connected to current output transistors controlling a current flowing in a coil load. The current in the sense current detection unit is input to an analog/digital converter, and the current value of the current flowing in the sense current detection unit is converted into a digital value. The current value of the current flowing in the sense current detection unit is increased through a combination or a selection of the plurality of sense transistors of the sense current detection unit in a region where the current value of the main current of the current output transistors is small compared to a region where the current value of the main current is large.
US11417451B2
Example implementations relate to an electronic system providing a thermal management of a removable device when connected to a host device of the electronic system. The host device includes a cooling component having a first surface, and a plurality of first blocks of magnetic materials coupled to the cooling component. The removable device includes a heat spreader having a second surface, a plurality of second blocks of magnetic materials coupled to the heat spreader, and a TIM disposed on the second surface. The removable device is detachably connectable to the host device. When the removable device is connected to the host device, and magnetic forces applied by at least one of the first blocks or second blocks to couple respective blocks to each other, the first blocks is aligned with the second blocks such that the first surface is in thermal communication with the second surface through the TIM.
US11417447B2
This ferrite magnet has a ferrite phase having a magnetoplumbite structure, and an orthoferrite phase, and is characterized in that the composition ratios of the total of each metal element A, R, Fe and Me is represented by expression (1) A1-xRx(Fe12-yMey)z, (in expression (1), A is at least one element selected from Sr, Ba, Ca and Pb; R is at least one element selected from the rare-earth elements (including Y) and Bi, and includes at least La, and Me is Co, or Co and Zn) and in that the content (m) of the orthoferrite phase is 0
US11417445B2
In various embodiments, superconducting wires feature assemblies of clad composite filaments and/or stabilized composite filaments embedded within a wire matrix. The wires may include one or more stabilizing elements for improved mechanical properties.
US11417441B2
According to embodiments of the present invention, a method of interconnecting nanowires is provided. The method includes providing a plurality of nanowires, providing a plurality of nanoparticles, and fusing the plurality of nanoparticles to the plurality of nanowires to interconnect the plurality of nanowires to each other via the plurality of nanoparticles. According to further embodiments of the present invention, a nanowire network and a transparent conductive electrode are also provided.
US11417439B2
Methods for rapid isolation of radionuclides (e.g., 68Ga) produced using a cyclotron and methods for recycling of the parent isotope (e.g., 68Zn) are disclosed. In one version of the method, a solution including a radionuclide (e.g., 68Ga) is created from a target including cations (e.g., 68Zn). The solution including the radionuclide is passed through a first column including a sorbent comprising a hydroxamate resin to adsorb the radionuclide on the sorbent, and the radionuclide is eluted off the sorbent. The cations (e.g., 68Zn) are recovered from a recovery solution that has passed through the first column by passing the recovery solution through a second column including a second sorbent comprising a cation exchange resin.
US11417438B2
In accordance with the present invention, provided is a method for producing a solidifying material for radioactive waste disposal, the method including a first step (S100) of pulverizing radioactive concrete waste and separating aggregates and paste and a second step (S200) of using the paste to produce a solidifying raw material, wherein the second step (S200) includes a calcination treatment step (S210) of calcining a mixture obtained by mixing an additional material with the paste; a sintering treatment step (S220) of sintering the mixture in a sintering furnace after the calcination treatment step (S210); and a rapid-cooling treatment step (S230) of rapid-cooling the mixture after the sintering treatment step (S220) to produce a clinker.
US11417436B2
An apparatus for decommissioning heavy-water reactor facilities includes a shielding device including a drawing-out space that is mounted on the reactivity mechanism deck and communicates with one through-hole among the plurality of through-holes, a separating device that is inserted into the inside of one of the plurality of guide tubes through the drawing-out space and the one through-hole and cuts an end portion of the one guide tube connected to the calandria, and a drawing-out device that is inserted into the inside of the one guide tube through the drawing-out space and the one through-hole and supports the end portion of the one guide tube to draw out the one guide tube into the inside of the drawing-out space through the one through-hole.
US11417423B2
A method includes acquiring magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) data with multi-coil dimensions, compressing the coil dimensions to a fixed and predetermined number of virtual coils, and utilizing the fixed and predetermined number of virtual coils by an artificial intelligence engine for artificial intelligence applications.
US11417422B2
A medication management system is described that is operable to determine whether a user is actually following a protocol, provide additional assistance to a user, starting with instructions, video instructions, and the like, and moving up to contact from a medication administrator if it is determined that the user would need such assistance in any medical adherence situation, including clinical trial settings, home care settings, healthcare administration locations, such as nursing homes, clinics, hospitals and the like. Suspicious activity on the part of a patient or other user of the system is identified and can be noted to a healthcare provider or other service provider where appropriate.
US11417421B1
A system and method for obtaining prior authorization and fulfilling a prescription is described. The method includes receiving, by a computing device, prescription information for a patient from a prescriber; identifying, by the computing device, an electronic health record associated with the patient; collecting, by the computing device, medical information for the patient related to the prescription from the electronic health record; submitting, by the computing device, a claim for the prescription with a payor associated with the patient; and completing, by the computing device, a prior authorization request for the prescription.
US11417419B1
A method includes displaying a window of a first application which includes text corresponding to a patient identifier for a first patient. The method further includes receiving input corresponding to a preconfigured input sequence associated with an electronic health records (EHR) agent, and initiating, by the EHR agent in response to the preconfigured input sequence, a patient information overlay process. The patient information overlay process includes sending a copy command to copy first text from the window of the first application to the clipboard, accessing the first text, searching the accessed first text for an identification of a patient, determining that the patient identifier represents an identification of a patient, accessing patient information for the first patient based on the patient identifier, and displaying an overlay interface overlaid over the window proximate a cursor, the overlay interface including accessed patient information for the first patient.
US11417418B1
Systems and methods for selectively distributing programs to remote devices are described. In some implementations, one or more computers access candidate profile for a candidate to participate in interactive programs involving collection of data from participants using remote devices. The one or more computers also identify program profiles for multiple programs in which the candidate is eligible to enroll as a participant. Scores are determined for each of the programs with respect to the candidate, and one or more of the programs are selected for the candidate based on the scores. Selection results are provided over the communication network to a client device, the selection results being provided for presentation by the client device to indicate the selected one or more programs on an interface of the client device.
US11417404B2
A semiconductor storage device includes a memory cell unit which includes memory cell arrays including a plurality of memory cells; a peripheral circuit which performs voltage transmission control including a write operation, a read operation, and an erasing operation with respect to the memory cell unit; and signal lines which connect the peripheral circuit to the memory cell unit, and at least a portion of the signal lines is formed in a non-facing region, the non-facing region being a region where the memory cell unit does not face the peripheral circuit, the non-facing region being in a peripheral region formed around a periphery of the memory cell arrays of the memory cell unit.
US11417392B2
A method for writing a mode register in a semiconductor device, the method includes receiving a mode register command and a mode signal; generating a first mode register setting signal; delaying the first mode register setting signal in a first latency shifter to provide a second mode register setting signal; receiving a data signal in synchronization with the second mode register setting signal; and writing the mode signal to the mode register only if the received data signal has a first logic level.
US11417377B2
An integrated circuit includes an array of write assist circuits electrically connected to a memory cell array. Each write assist circuit is configured to set an operating voltage of a corresponding memory cell. Each write assist circuit is configured to receive at least a first control signal, and generate an output signal at least in response to the first control signal. The output signal controlling the operating voltage of the corresponding memory cell. Each write assist circuit includes a programmable voltage tuner. The programmable voltage tuner includes a first P-type transistor and a second P-type transistor coupled to the first P-type transistor. A first terminal of the first P-type transistor is configured as a first input node to receive a first select control signal. A first terminal of the second P-type transistor is configured as a second input node to receive a second select control signal.
US11417376B2
A semiconductor device includes a memory string coupled between a source line and a bit line and including a plurality of memory cells, a plurality of word lines, a peripheral circuit configured to apply a program voltage to a word line, apply a first pass voltage to a word line coupled to a first memory cell adjacent to the selected memory cell, and apply a second pass voltage to a second memory cell adjacent to the selected memory cell, and control logic configured to control the peripheral circuit so that the first pass voltage has a higher voltage level than the second pass voltage when a program target level of the selected memory cell is lower than a first threshold value, and the first pass voltage has a lower voltage level than the second pass voltage when the program target level is higher than a second threshold value.
US11417374B1
Systems and methods described herein provide decision feedback equalizer (DFE) circuitry that includes one or more phases. The one or more phases receive bit feedback at respective inputs of the phases. The DFE circuitry also may include variable reset circuitry. The variable reset circuitry may reset voltages of the bit feedback at inputs of each of the phases. The variable reset circuitry is configured to change its reset frequency between resets.
US11417364B2
A mobile image capture device is provided that can include an image capture system operable to capture image frames and be configured to: provide a live video stream for display in a viewfinder portion of a user interface that depicts at least a portion of a current field of view of the image capture system; store a video segment from the live video stream in a temporary image buffer that includes a plurality of image frames captured by the image capture system; receive a user input that is directed to the viewfinder portion of the user interface that requests a rewind operation; and, in response to such user input, perform the rewind operation in the viewfinder portion of the user interface with respect to the video segment in which at least two of the image frames of the video segment can be provided for display in the user interface in a reverse chronological order.
US11417362B2
A data storage device is disclosed comprising a head actuated over a disk comprising a plurality of servo sectors defining a plurality of data tracks, wherein each servo sector comprises a track ID followed by a sync mark followed by at least one servo burst, and a first servo sector does not include a preamble. During a read operation, a servo gate is opened in order to read the track ID, the sync mark, and the servo burst of the first servo sector. During a write operation, the servo gate is opened in order to miss reading at least part of the track ID of the first servo sector so as to reduce a write gap preceding the first servo sector.
US11417351B2
According to an aspect, a method for multi-channel echo cancellation includes receiving a microphone signal and a multi-channel loudspeaker driving signal. The multi-channel loudspeaker driving signal includes a first driving signal that drives a first loudspeaker, and a second driving signal that drives a second loudspeaker. The first driving signal is substantially the same as second driving signal. The microphone signal includes a near-end signal with echo. The method includes determining a unique solution for acoustic transfer functions for a present acoustic scenario based on the microphone signal and the multi-channel loudspeaker driving signal. The acoustic transfer functions include first and second acoustic transfer function. The unique solution is determined based on time-frequency transforms of observations from the present acoustic scenario and at least one previous acoustic scenario. The method includes removing the echo from the microphone signal based on the first and second acoustic transfer function.
US11417345B2
An encoding apparatus performing encoding by an encoding process in which bits are preferentially assigned to a low side to obtain a spectrum code, the encoding apparatus judging whether a sound signal is a hissing sound or not, obtaining and encoding, if the encoding apparatus judges that the sound signal is a hissing sound, what is obtained by exchanging all or a part of a spectrum existing on a lower side than a predetermined frequency in a frequency spectrum sequence of the sound signal for all or a part of a spectrum existing on a higher side of the predetermined frequency in the frequency spectrum sequence, the number of all or the part of the high-side frequency spectrum sequence being the same as the number of all or the part of the low-side frequency spectrum sequence.
US11417338B2
An electronic apparatus and method of controlling the electronic apparatus are provided. The electronic apparatus includes a communicator, a storage storing information on places wherein Internet of Things (IoT) devices are located, and a processor configured to, based on receiving a control signal for controlling an IoT device located in a specific place through the communicator, control the IoT device located in the specific place based on information on the place stored in the storage. The processor is further configured to receive motion information generated based on a motion of a wearable device from the wearable device, identify a place corresponding to the motion information, and store the identified place as information on a place of an IoT device located within a predetermined distance from the wearable device, in the storage.
US11417331B2
The present disclosure provides a method for controlling a terminal, including the following operations: obtaining recognition results corresponding to control signals after receiving the control signals, and determining whether control instructions corresponding to the recognition results conflict, each control signal comprising at least one of a voice signal or a gesture signal; determining a credibility of each control instruction in response to a determination that there exists conflict among control instructions; and sending the control instruction with highest credibility to a control terminal. The present disclosure further provides a device for controlling a terminal and a computer readable storage medium. When control instructions are received and there exists conflict among control instructions, the control instruction with the highest credibility is sent to the control terminal after the credibility of each control instructions is determined, thereby avoiding settings from conflict.
US11417330B2
Technology is provided for conversation analysis. The technology includes, receiving multiple utterance representations, where each utterance representation represents a portion of a conversation performed by at least two users, and each utterance representation is associated with video data, acoustic data, and text data. The technology further includes generating a first utterance output by applying video data, acoustic data, and text data of the first utterance representation to a respective video processing part of the machine learning system to generate video, text, and acoustic-based outputs. A second utterance output is further generated for a second user. Conversation analysis indicators are generated by applying, to a sequential machine learning system the combined speaker features and a previous state of the sequential machine learning system.
US11417326B2
A hub-dialogue system includes a speech processor configured to determine a user intention that is included in inputted user dialogue. A communicator is configured to connect a local speaker corresponding to an external dialogue system through wireless communication. A controller is configured to determine the external dialogue system corresponding to the user intention from among a plurality of external dialogue systems, to generate a command sentence indicating the user intention, to convert the command sentence to a voice signal, and to control the communicator to transmit the voice signal to the local speaker corresponding to the determined external dialogue system.
US11417314B2
A speech synthesis method, a speech synthesis device, and an electronic apparatus are provided, which relate to a field of speech synthesis. Specific implementation solution is the following: inputting text information into an encoder of an acoustic model, to output a text feature of a current time step; splicing the text feature of the current time step with a spectral feature of a previous time step to obtain a spliced feature of the current time step, and inputting the spliced feature of the current time step into an decoder of the acoustic model to obtain a spectral feature of the current time step; and inputting the spectral feature of the current time step into a neural network vocoder, to output speech.
US11417309B2
An ultrasonic transducer that includes a delay line, an active piezoelectric element, and interposing metal conductive layer between the delay line and active piezoelectric element. The delay line and active piezoelectric element are joined so that ultrasonic waves may be coupled from the active piezoelectric element into the delay line or from the delay line into the active piezoelectric element. A via is formed, using a milling operation, in the active piezoelectric element to expose the edge of the interposing metal conductive layer between the delay line and active piezoelectric element. A conductive layer makes electrical contact between the interposing metal conductive layer and the surface of the active piezoelectric element to allow an electrical connection to be made from the surface of the active piezoelectric element to the interposing metal conductive layer.
US11417308B2
Embodiments include systems with active sound canceling properties, fenestration units with active sound canceling properties, retrofit units with active sound canceling properties and related methods. In an embodiment a system can include a sound cancellation device include a sensing element to detect vibration of a transparent pane and/or a sound input device configured to detect sound incident on the transparent pane, as well as a vibration generator configured to vibrate the transparent pane and a sound cancellation control module. The sound cancellation control module can evaluate the detected vibration of the transparent pane at two or more discrete frequency bands. The sound cancellation control module can cause the vibration generator to vibrate the transparent pane causing destructive interference with sound waves at the two or more discrete frequency bands. Other embodiments are also included herein.
US11417303B2
In a performance operator group, a partial region including at least one first performance operator and at least one second performance operator is set as a first key region. An allocator allocates musical sound data to the first key region. An operation detector detects an operation using each of the plurality of first and second performance operators of the performance operator group. A reproduction controller carries out first control relating to a reproduction method of the allocated musical sound data in response to detection of an operation using one of the first and second performance operators in the first key region, and carries out second control relating to the reproduction method of the allocated musical sound data and being different from the first control in response to detection of an operation using another one of the first and second performance operators in the first key region.
US11417302B2
Apparatus, methods, and systems that operate to provide interactive streaming content identification and processing are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a classifier to determine an audio characteristic value representative of an audio characteristic in audio; a transition detector to detect a transition between a first category and a second category by comparing the audio characteristic value to a threshold value among a set of threshold values, the set of threshold values corresponding to the first category and the second category; and a context manager to control a device to switch from a first fingerprinting algorithm to a second fingerprinting algorithm different than the first fingerprinting algorithm, responsive to the detected transition between the first category and the second category.
US11417298B2
An electronic display may include a pixel circuit. The pixel circuit may include memory storage to store data values representative of image data to be depicted via the pixel circuit. The memory storage may also include memory components for storing bits of the data value. The pixel circuit may also include a light-emitting device for emitting light based at least in part on the data value and a controller. The controller may receive the data value and store the bits based on a mapping between the bits and the memory components. The mapping may be determined based on routing one or more of the bits associated with one or more defective memory components of the memory components to one or more other memory components of the memory components. The controller may also drive the light-emitting device to emit light based on the bits stored in accordance with the mapping.
US11417285B2
Provided are a method for controlling backlight of a display device, a backlight controller for a display device, and a display device. The method includes: identifying a light emission luminance of each backlight partition in a backlight module according to display luminances of the plurality of display partitions; when the plurality of backlight partitions include two adjacent backlight partitions and an absolute value of a difference between the light emission luminance of the two adjacent backlight partitions is greater than a target threshold, adjusting the light emission luminance of at least one of the two adjacent backlight partitions such that the absolute value of the difference between the light emission luminances of the two adjacent backlight partitions is decreased; and after the luminance is adjusted, controlling light-emitting of each backlight partition.
US11417278B2
Disclosed are a display device and a driving method thereof. A reference compensation voltage for compensating for a node voltage of each pixel for an image holding period after a refresh period for which image data is input in a low-speed driving mode is set. Then, the node voltage of each sub-pixel is compensated for using a corresponding reference compensation voltage on at least one frame basis at each start time and each end time of the image holding period, thereby preventing low image quality and reducing power consumption.
US11417277B2
A display device includes a substrate including a display area and a non-display area adjacent to the display area, a pixel disposed in the display area, a first voltage line disposed in the non-display area and supplying a first power supply voltage to the pixel, a second voltage line disposed in the non-display area and supplying a second power supply voltage to the pixel, the second voltage line being apart from the first voltage line, and a metallic pattern disposed between the first voltage line and the second voltage line. A shortest distance between the first voltage line and the second voltage line is greater than a width of the metallic pattern.
US11417273B2
A semiconductor device that reduces variations in the characteristics of driving transistors and corrects image data is provided. The semiconductor device includes an image data retention portion, a correction data retention portion, a driver circuit portion, a display element, and a threshold voltage correction circuit portion. The image data retention portion has a function of retaining first image data, and the correction data retention portion has a function of retaining correction data, and a function of generating second image data corresponding to the first image data and the correction data when the first image data is retained in the image data retention portion. The driver circuit portion has a function of generating a current corresponding to the second image data and feeding the current to the display element, and the threshold voltage correction circuit portion has a function of correcting a threshold voltage of a driving transistor in the driver circuit portion. With the above structure, the semiconductor device can correct the image data, correct the threshold voltage of the driving transistor, and perform display based on the second image data.
US11417262B2
A display device includes a display panel, a gate driving circuit including a plurality of stages, and a power supply circuit outputting a clock signal, a clock-bar signal, a first discharge voltage, and a second discharge voltage. Each of stages includes a charge part that charges a clock signal having a first high voltage to a charge node, an output part that charges the first high voltage to an output node in response to a first node voltage of the charge node and outputs a second node voltage of the output node to a gate signal, a first discharge part that discharges the second node voltage to a first discharge voltage in response to the clock-bar signal having a second high voltage, and a second discharge part that discharges the first node voltage to a second discharge voltage in response to the clock-bar signal having the second high voltage.
US11417261B2
A gate driving unit circuit comprises an input sub-circuit and an output sub-circuit. The input sub-circuit is connected to a first pull-up node, a second pull-up node, and an input terminal, and transmits a signal input from the input terminal to the first pull-up node and the second pull-up node. The output sub-circuit is connected to the first pull-up node, the second pull-up node, a first control terminal, a third control terminal, a first output terminal, and a second output terminal. The output sub-circuit transmits a signal input through the first control terminal to the first output terminal, and transmits a signal input through the third control terminal to the second output terminal under the control of a potential of the second pull-up node, wherein, an effective voltage of a signal of the first control terminal is greater than that of a signal of the third control terminal.
US11417255B2
The present invention discloses a driving circuit for a display panel and a display device. The driving circuit includes a driving circuit board configured to carry a driving circuit, and first pads located on the driving circuit. The first pads are connected through a detachable connector.
US11417250B2
A method of adjusting a test gray voltages applied to a component of an electronic display during a test frame between image frames, wherein the adjustment is based at least in part on the control signal to the component during a prior image frame. The method may reduce hysteresis effects on the extraction of sensed currents of the component during the test frame, which may increase the accuracy and/or consistency of determined parameters evaluated from the sensed currents. The determined parameters may include temperature and/or aging of the component. The determined parameters may be used to adjust control signals for the component and other components in a region near the component during the next image frame.
US11417242B2
A technique simulator for training in a technique using a catheter includes: a flow path configured to contain a liquid that imitates blood; a liquid flow generation member configured to generate flow of the liquid; and a catheter insertion port configured to allow the catheter to be interposed into the flow path. The flow path includes: a bifurcated portion that is located downstream of the catheter insertion port and is to be bifurcated into at least two flow paths, and a plurality of bifurcated flow paths provided downstream of the bifurcated portion. The plurality of bifurcated flow paths includes a first bifurcated flow path and a second bifurcated flow path. The technique simulator further comprises a pressure difference generation member configured to cause a pressure difference to be generated between a downstream side of the first bifurcated flow path and a downstream side of the second bifurcated flow path.
US11417237B2
A rotatable language demonstration device is an apparatus that is used to teach languages easily and efficiently in a dynamic and engaging manner to accommodate different learning styles of the students. The apparatus may include at least one demonstration mechanism, a plurality of display tiles, and an elongated frame. The at least one demonstration mechanism provides multiple surfaces for the user to write on without having to erase and rewrite the already written content. The plurality of display tiles enables the quick editing of the written content on the at least one demonstration mechanism. The elongated frame supports the at least one demonstration mechanism in an upright orientation so that the writable surfaces of the at least one demonstration mechanism are easily reachable by the user. The at least one demonstration mechanism includes a plurality of turnable wheels that enables the easy rearrangement of the writable surfaces.
US11417232B2
Disclosed is a method of providing user-customized learning content. The method includes: a step a of configuring a question database including one or more multiple-choice questions having one or more choice items and collecting choice item selection data of a user for the questions; a step b of calculating a modeling vector for the user based on the choice item data and generating modeling vectors for the questions according to each choice item; and a step c of calculating choice item selection probabilities of the user based on the modeling vectors of the user and the modeling vectors of the questions.
US11417224B1
A system and method for pilot assists of an electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft. The system generally includes a pilot control and a flight controller. The pilot control is attached to the eVTOL aircraft. The pilot control is configured to transmit an input relating to the flight path of the aircraft. The flight controller is communicatively connected to the pilot control. The flight controller is configured to receive the input relating to the flight path, generate an output of a recommended flight maneuver as a function of the input, and display the recommended flight maneuver.
US11417221B2
A method includes separating a flight plan of a vehicle into a number of portions with each portion including a particular length that is determined based on a complexity of an environment where the flight plan takes place. The complexity of the environment is based on at least one of a set of factors including at least one of a terrain of the environment, one or more obstacles, one or more no-fly zones, or one or more no-landing zones within the environment. The method also includes determining an escape route for each portion of the flight plan. The escape route includes a route to a safe landing site in response to a failure of a system onboard the vehicle. The method additionally includes generating an escape route plan for the flight plan in response to all portions of the flight plan being assigned at least one escape route.
US11417216B2
A method for predicting behaviors of road users, the method may include sensing a vicinity of a vehicle to provide sensed information; processing the sensed information to provide compact contextual signatures of sensed road users within the vicinity of the vehicle; wherein a compact contextual signature of each a sensed road user includes (a) coarse contextual metadata regarding the sensed road user, (b) coarse location information regarding the sensed road user, (c) identifiers of other sensed road users, and (d) coarse situation information; feeding the compact contextual signatures to a machine learning process trained to estimate behaviors of road users based on compact contextual signatures of road users; and predicting, by the machine learning process, the behaviors of the sensed road users.
US11417208B1
A video analytics based image verification system for obtaining initial vehicle profiles is presented. The system may include an external processing server that receives a location of a vehicle and proximate traffic information to determine whether it is safe for a user to obtain an initial vehicle profile. The external processing server may further determine first and second profile features from video data indicative of the vehicle. The external processing server may compare the second profile feature to an image verification indicator to generate an image verification score. A provider server may receive the first profile feature and the image verification score from the external processing server, and update a risk evaluation to include the initial vehicle profile if the image verification score is above an image verification threshold.
US11417207B2
A safety system to prevent a wrong-way vehicle from entering a roadway by driving onto an exit ramp in the wrong direction. A detection system monitors and detects the wrong-way vehicle as soon as it enters the exit ramp in the wrong direction. Upon detecting a wrong-way vehicle, the roadway safety system remotely sends a signal to turn off the motor of the wrong-way vehicle. The system may also record the vehicle's identification and communicate it to a command center to determine the mobile phone number of the owner/driver and call the driver to alert them that they are driving the wrong-way. Alternatively, a series of one or more penetrable and/or impenetrable barriers could be deployed to stop the wrong-way vehicle. The safety system may further include a communications system to communicate to a central office to initiate other alarms and control traffic on the roadway in response to detecting a wrong-way vehicle.
US11417193B2
A wearable Social Distance Reminder (SDR) device can signal that a preset distance between the device and an individual has been breached. The device can remind people to maintain a certain predetermined social distance to avoid transfer of airborne pathogens and minimize spread of diseases.
US11417182B2
A contact sensor includes a permanent magnet, first and second magnetic field sensors, and a computing device in communication with the first and second magnetic field sensors and configured to execute an “Open/Close” function to generate an “Open/Close” decision, and a “Masking” function to generate a “Masking” decision, based on at least one of a first measurement from the first magnetic field sensor or a second measurement from the second magnetic field sensor.
US11417181B2
A security system includes a sensor configured to detect a distance to an object along a direction in an area; an alarm panel in communication with the sensor; at least one of the sensor and the alarm panel configured to determine a state of the object in response to the distance to the object along the direction.
US11417178B1
A utility device for receiving and dispensing bills is disclosed. The utility device includes a sensor structured to detect a parameter associated with the bills received by the utility device, a cleaning component structured to perform a cleaning operation on one or more of the bills, and memory having stored thereon instructions that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform a utility operation. The utility operation includes receiving quality data from the sensor. The operations also include causing the cleaning component to perform the cleaning operation on one or more of the bills based on at least the quality data. The one or more bills represent a subset of bills available in a cash-bearing cassette, which remains operational throughout the cleaning operation. The operations also include transmitting a notification to a remote computing device in response to completing the utility operation.
US11417176B2
A system for modifying video of a live sporting event to include details of a micro market wager. A wagering platform that offers wagers on micro markets inside of a sporting event can produce personalized content for each user around highlights of their wagering experience.
US11417171B2
Systems, devices, and methods for artificial intelligence implementation of providing game recommendations at a gaming device may include receive a plurality of first graphical interface elements of a first wagering game. An artificial-intelligence predictive model may generate a plurality of correlations between the plurality of first graphical interface elements and player data associated with a plurality of second graphical interface elements. Based on the plurality of correlations, one or more recommendation score values are generated for the plurality of first graphical interface elements, which may be used to recommend games to a player, to modify user interface elements of existing games, and/or to create new games based on the recommendation score values.
US11417168B2
An overhead display assembly includes a display monitor coupled to a monitor tray. The monitor tray is positionable in an operational position and a maintenance position. A support stanchion has an anchoring part, a coupling part, and a stanchion body extending from the anchoring part to the coupling part. The anchoring part is coupleable to a fixed vertical or horizontal supporting structure. A counter-balanced hinging mechanism has one or more pivots upon which monitor tray is configured to rotate with respect to said support stanchion. A force producing device is configured to apply a variable amount of force to the monitor tray based upon a position of the display monitor, the variable amount of force being at least a force sufficient to maintain the monitor tray stationary in an intermediate position between the operational position and the maintenance position.
US11417164B2
A power assembly is configured to detachably mate with the power input member of a storage column of a vending machine, to supply power for the power input member. The driving assembly is connected to the power assembly and is configured to drive the power assembly to move reciprocatively in a width direction of the vending machine. Also disclosed is a vending machine.
US11417159B2
The present disclosure discloses methods and systems for controlling a smart lock. The method may include establishing a secure connection with a network, obtaining security control information through the secure connection, obtaining an operation input; performing a security verification based on the security control information and the operation input, and performing a corresponding operation based on the operation input when the security verification is passed.
US11417146B2
An image forming apparatus includes an image processing device, an image forming device, an operating device, a vital sensor, and a controller. The image processing device corrects an image. The image forming device performs an image formation of forming the image on a recording sheet. The operating device is operable by a user and through which an instruction to start the image formation by the image forming device is inputted. The vital sensor is provided at the operating device and detects a blood oxygen level of the user who is operating the operating device. The controller, when the instruction to start the image formation is inputted through the operating device, causes the image processing device to correct the image in accordance with the blood oxygen level of the user detected by the vital sensor and causes the image forming device to form a corrected image on the recording sheet.
US11417144B2
A technique for accurately extracting a fingerprint image for accurate authentication from 3D tomographic luminance data of a finger at a high speed. A processing apparatus (11) according to the present disclosure includes means for, after performing edge detection processing on a tomographic image (101, 102, . . . 10 k, . . . , 10n) at each depth, calculating the total number of edge pixels in the tomographic image from 3D (three-dimensional) tomographic luminance data, and acquiring depth dependence of the number of edges (111, 112), and means for extracting a tomographic image having a striped pattern from the depth dependence of the number of edges and the 3D tomographic luminance data.
US11417141B2
An in-screen fingerprint identification apparatus includes a display panel and a fingerprint identification module. The display panel includes a backlight module, a liquid crystal layer, and a cover glass, which are sequentially stacked. The cover glass includes a fingerprint identification area. The fingerprint identification module includes a light source, a photosensor, and light guiding layers disposed on the cover glass. The light guiding layers at least cover portions of opposite sides of the cover glass, respectively, such that light emitted by the light source after being reflected in the cover glass is guided to the fingerprint identification area. The photosensor is disposed in the display panel and corresponds to the fingerprint identification area to receive an optical signal of the light source emitted by the light source after being reflected by a finger in the fingerprint identification area.
US11417119B2
A method and system for navigating vehicles based on road conditions determined in real-time is disclosed. The method includes the steps of receiving a first dataset including an image of a section of a road within a Field of View (FOV) of a camera attached to a vehicle and a second dataset associated with the road. The method further includes detecting edges and a vanishing point in the image, correcting road perspectivity in the image, and determining surface anomalies in the road based on a set of parameters, the second dataset and a Time of Flight technique (ToF), creating a digital elevation model for the image, and assigning a value, in real-time, from a predefined value range to each of a plurality of grids in the image based on a digital elevation model to generate a digital elevation image. The set of parameters includes volume associated with the surface anomalies.
US11417107B2
A stationary vision system at a road along which vehicles travel includes an imaging sensor disposed at the road and having a field of view that encompasses a portion of the road. A wireless communication device is operable to wirelessly communicate with vehicles traveling along the road. A control includes a data processor operable to process image data captured by the image sensor. The control is operable to communicate with vehicles traveling along the road via the wireless communication device. The control, responsive to processing of image data captured by the imaging sensor, generates a three dimensional (3D) model of the portion of the road encompassed by the field of view of the imaging sensor. The control transmits the 3D model to vehicles traveling along the road.
US11417102B1
Systems and techniques are provided for anomalous path detection within cameras' fields of view. Video of the field of view of a camera in an environment may be received from the camera. A person may be detected in the video. Motion of the person in the video may be tracked to generate a motion path. Contextual data for the motion path may be received. The motion path and contextual data may be stored in a camera training data set. A camera model for the camera and the field of view may be generated by inputting the camera training data set to a machine learning system. The camera model for the camera and the field of view may be stored.
US11417099B1
Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for digital fingerprinting of media content. The system does this by normalizing and pre-processing the media content into a standard format, then generating fingerprints for image, audio, and/or video aspects of the media. These fingerprints are mathematical vectors generated using one or more techniques, such as perceptual hashes coupled with machine learning. Once the fingerprints for new content is generated, the system can compare those fingerprints to fingerprints of known content to determine if the new content contains prohibited content.
US11417096B2
Methods, systems, and computer program products for classifying a spatial format of a video file. The system includes one or more processors and a memory coupled to the processors. The memory stores data comprising program code that, when executed by the processors, causes the system to allow video sharing platforms to support multiple formats without asking users to manually identify the format of the video.
US11417087B2
An image processing system may include a processor and an associated memory configured to store training data that includes training geospatial images. Each training geospatial image may include pixels. The processor may be configured to operate a training model to identify a given feature from each of the training geospatial images, and to iteratively generate a probability distribution function based upon a number of pixels corresponding to the given feature and also based upon a bias factor being reduced with each iteration.
US11417084B2
A platform for design of a lighting installation generally includes an automated search engine for retrieving and storing a plurality of lighting objects in a lighting object library and a lighting design environment providing a visual representation of a lighting space containing lighting space objects and lighting objects. The visual representation is based on properties of the lighting space objects and lighting objects obtained from the lighting object library. A plurality of aesthetic filters is configured to permit a designer in a design environment to adjust parameters of the plurality of lighting objects handled in the design environment to provide a desired collective lighting effect using the plurality of lighting objects.
US11417079B2
In an approach for guiding a visually impaired user to position a mobile device appropriately in relation to a screen so that dynamic information on the screen can be reliably extracted and conveyed to the visually impaired user, a processor receives an image captured by a camera of a mobile device. A processor performs object recognition on the image to identify a digital screen and a location of the digital screen in the image. A processor retrieves a template of the digital screen. A processor performs angle-sensitive optical character recognition (OCR) on the location of the digital screen in the image. Responsive to a processor determining text on the digital screen can be extracted, a processor conveys the text to a user. Responsive to a processor determining text on the digital screen cannot be extracted, a processor guides the user to re-orient the mobile device to capture a better image.
US11417065B2
Methods and systems are provided for a reprojection engine for augmented-reality devices. The augmented-reality device projects virtual content within a real-world environment. The augmented-reality device tracks a six degrees of freedom headpose of the augmented-reality device, depth information of the virtual content, motion vectors that correspond to movement of the virtual content, and a color buffer for a reprojection engine. The reprojection engine generates a reprojection of the virtual content defined by an extrapolation of a first frame using the headpose, the depth information, motion vectors, and the color surface data structure. The reprojected virtual content continues to appear as if positioned with the real-world environment regardless of changes in the headpose of the augmented-reality device or motion of the virtual content.
US11417063B2
One or more images (e.g., images taken from one or more cameras) may be received, where each of the one or more images may depict a two-dimensional (2D) view of a three-dimensional (3D) scene. Additionally, the one or more images may be utilized to determine a three-dimensional (3D) representation of a scene. This representation may help an entity navigate an environment represented by the 3D scene.
US11417061B1
Devices and techniques are generally described for three dimensional mesh generation. In various examples, first two-dimensional (2D) image data representing a human may be received. In various further examples, bounding box data identifying a location of the human in the first 2D image data and joint data identifying locations of joints of the human may be received. Second 2D image data representing a cropped portion of the human may be generated using the bounding box data and the joint data. A three-dimensional (3D) mesh prediction model may be used to determine a pose, a shape, and a projection matrix for the human. The 3D mesh prediction model may be used to determine a transformed projection matrix for the portion of the human represented in the second 2D image data.
US11417048B2
In an image processing system, artist user interface provides for user input of specifications for an inserted object, specified in frame space. The inserted objects can be specified in frame space but can be aligned with object points in a virtual scene space. For other frames, where the object points move in the frame space, the object movements are applied to the inserted object in the frame space. The alignment can be manual by the user or programmatically determined.
US11417043B2
A method for generating one or more visual representations of an object colliding with an interface between a simulated fluid and a material. The method includes obtaining shape and movement data of a bulk fluid and an object, identifying an interface where the bulk fluid covers a portion of the object, generating an emitted fluid at the interface, generating shape and movement data of the emitted fluid interacting with the object.
US11417038B2
A non-transitory computer-readable medium includes a figure data generation program to cause a computer to execute a first process of displaying a drawing screen to make/edit an intended figure, a second process of commanding a processor to draw the intended figure on a surface of a workpiece to project a visible light onto a predetermined position on the surface, the processor including a visible-light source, the predetermined position having been designated by a user, and a third process of presenting a position corresponding to the predetermined position in the drawing screen.
US11417022B2
A fry assessment system (10) is disclosed and includes an image analyzer (12). The image analyzer (12) includes both a fry identification module (90) and a fry scoring module (100). A color image (70) is analyzed by the fry identification module (90) to identify all fries in the color image (70). Thereafter, the fry scoring module (100) determines a score for each identified fry in the color image (70). These determined scores may be used for any appropriate purpose, for instance for purposes of determining a selling price for associated potatoes, to monitor a condition of associated potatoes in a common storage area, or the like.
US11417019B2
Implementations provide for automated detection of a calibration object within a recorded image. In some implementations, a system receives an original image from a camera, wherein the original image includes at least a portion of a calibration chart. The system further derives a working image from the original image. The system further determines regions in the working image, wherein the regions include groups of pixels having values within a predetermined criterion. The system further analyzes two or more of the regions to identify a candidate calibration chart in the working image. The system further identifies at least one region within the candidate calibration chart as a patch, where the identifying of the at least one region is based on a color of the patch. The system further predicts a location of one or more additional patches based on at least the identified patch.
US11417015B2
A mapping system for an environment includes an image sensor configured to generate image data of the environment. The mapping system includes a fixed tag including position indicia, where the position indicia identifies a predefined position coordinate of the fixed tag. The mapping system includes an entity tag including entity indicia, where the entity indicia identifies an entity associated with the entity tag. The mapping system includes a controller configured to determine a position coordinate of the entity tag based on the image data, where the image data includes the position indicia and the entity indicia.
US11417012B2
A method includes the steps: a) capturing image of an environment surrounding a vehicle by a camera; b) determining an area of increased brightness in the image based on pixels having a brightness exceeding a predefined threshold; c) estimating position coordinates of a light source in the environment from the area of increased brightness; d) detecting a shadow of the vehicle in the image; and e) determining a type of the light source as a spot light source or a direction light source from the shadow, environment.
US11417008B2
A volume of contents in a container of a work vehicle can be estimated in various examples. One example involves a system with a 3D sensor on a work vehicle, where the sensor captures images of a material in a container of the work vehicle. A processor device that is in communication with the 3D sensor determines a volume of the material in the container using the images.
US11417007B2
A method of controlling an electronic apparatus includes acquiring an image and depth information of the acquired image; inputting the acquired image into a neural network model trained to acquire information on objects included in the acquired image; acquiring an intermediate feature value output by an intermediate layer of the neural network model; identifying a feature area for at least one object among the objects included in the acquired image based on the intermediate feature value; and acquiring distance information between the electronic apparatus and the at least one object based on the feature area for the at least one object and the depth information.
US11417006B2
A stereo matching method includes extracting feature points of a first image and feature points of a second image, the first image and the second image together constituting a stereo image, determining reference points by matching the feature points of the second image to the feature points of the first image, classifying the reference points, and performing stereo matching on pixels of which disparities are not determined in the first image and the second image based on disparities of the reference points in the pixels determined based on a result of the classifying.
US11417003B2
There is provided a method and apparatus for tracking eyes of a user. The method and apparatus may acquire an image of the user, acquire an illuminance of a viewpoint from which the image is captured, and output coordinates of the eyes tracked from the image by operating at least one of a high illuminance eye tracker that operates at a high illuminance or a low illuminance eye tracker that operates at a low illuminance based on the acquired illuminance.
US11416999B2
Methods, systems, and computer programs are disclosed for segmenting, from an image, a tooth's pulp region comprising a pulp chamber and root canals. Curvature-based shape recognition is performed at different spatial scales using smoothed versions of the image. An indication of a point or region is received, located in the pulp chamber and referred to as “seed”. The seed is used as initial segmentation mask. An update procedure, iteratively carried out, comprises: (i) determining candidate image elements for updating the segmentation mask, comprising: (i−1) in the first n iteration(s), a grayscale thresholding taking as reference the current segmentation mask; and, (i−2) in at least one iteration, taking the curvature-based shape recognition into account; (ii) retaining, among the candidate image elements, a region of connected candidate image elements that comprises the seed; and (iii) using the retained region to update the segmentation mask.
US11416998B2
A method to process a contributing digital image of a subject in an image-processing computer. The contributing digital image is received in a depth-resolving machine configured to furnish a depth image based at least in part on the contributing digital image. The contributing digital image is also received in a classification machine previously trained to classify a pixel of the contributing digital image as liable to corrupt a depth value of a corresponding pixel of the depth image. A repair value is computed for the depth value of the corresponding pixel of the depth image, which is then corrected based on the repair value and returned to the calling process.
US11416996B2
The present application discloses a method of adjusting a parameter, the parameter being used to derive a physiological characteristic of an individual from an image of the user, the method comprising the steps of: obtaining the parameter for the individual; obtaining a corresponding parameter for a plurality of other individuals within a cohort of the individual; comparing the parameter for the individual with a statistically significant parameter for the plurality of other individuals; and adjusting the parameter for the individual in accordance with the difference between the parameter for the individual and the statistically significant parameter for the plurality of other individuals.
US11416993B2
The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for image splicing. The systems and methods may acquire a first image and a second image, determine a plurality of first feature points in a first region of the first image, determine a plurality of second feature points in a second region of the second image, then match the plurality of first feature points with the plurality of second feature points to generate a plurality of point pairs. Based on the plurality of point pairs, a third region on the first image and a fourth region on the second image may be determined. Finally, a third image may be generated based on the first image and the second image, wherein the third region of the first image may overlap with the fourth region of the second image in the third image.
US11416986B2
Aspects of the invention include a computer implemented method for simulating visual field test results from structural scans, the method includes processing eye image data to extract visual functioning related features. Additionally, generating a representation of a visual function of the eye that is independent of a visual field test (VFT) configuration. Then generating a simulated VFT configuration specific test result based at least in part on the representation.
US11416980B2
The present disclosure provides embodiments of methods, systems, and apparatuses for detecting wet spots on machined surfaces of wood workpieces. Images of laser spots on a workpiece may be processed to determine area and aspect ratio values of the laser spots. Wet spots may be detected on the workpiece based at least on the area and aspect ratio values, and optionally based in part on color image data. A facility may use wet spot detection in grade determination and/or to classify wood pieces as ‘wet’ or ‘dry’ for the determination of appropriate drying conditions.
US11416975B2
An information processing apparatus constructs a virtual space to express a subject by acquiring an image obtained by observing a reality space in which one or more subjects are present, and arranging a plurality of unit volume elements at positions that are determined depending on a subject captured in the acquired image, and the information processing apparatus constructs a virtual space by arranging multiple types of unit volume elements with different sizes.
US11416973B2
The presently disclosed subject matter includes a computerized method and system dedicated for reducing image artifacts and differences in an image mosaic and providing a smooth output image build from a collection of partially overlapping images. According to the disclosed technique image correction is applied on all regions of the corrected image and not only on overlapping regions between images.
US11416965B2
An image processing method includes determining, based on a coordinate position of a to-be-interpolated sample in a target image, a first coordinate position of the to-be-interpolated sample in a source image, determining m reference samples based on the first coordinate position, determining an interpolation weight of each of the m reference samples for the to-be-interpolated sample based on a spherical distance between a coordinate position of each of the m reference samples and the first coordinate position, and determining a pixel value of the to-be-interpolated sample based on a pixel value corresponding to each of the m reference samples and the interpolation weight of each of the m reference samples for the to-be-interpolated sample to obtain the target image.
US11416953B2
Systems and methods for monitoring of utility assets using crowd-sourced digital image data are disclosed. In embodiments, a method includes: monitoring, by a computing device, incoming real-time utility data; determining, by the computing device, that a triggering event has occurred based on the monitoring; sending, by the computing device, an event message to one or more agent devices comprising a request for digital image collection at a location based on the triggering event, the event message including event information, wherein the one or more agent devices are associated with respective agents in a crowd-sourcing network; receiving, by the computing device, event data from the one or more agent devices, the event data including one or more digital images; and processing, by the computing device, the one or more digital images to determine next steps with respect to the triggering event.
US11416947B2
Systems and methods are provided for use in locating one or more merchant terminals based on transaction data associated with the terminals. One exemplary method generally includes accessing, by a computing device, transaction data for a transaction to a payment account between a merchant and a consumer at a merchant terminal where the transaction data includes a terminal ID for the merchant terminal, a merchant ID of the merchant, an acquirer ID for an acquirer associated with the merchant, and a temporal indicator. In addition, the method includes receiving, by the computing device, location data associated with the transaction, identifying, by the computing device, a location associated with the location data as a location of the merchant terminal, and assigning, by the computing device, a score to the identified location indicative of a confidence that the identified location is the actual location of the merchant terminal.
US11416931B2
A decentralized investment fund operates according to consensus code on a shared ledger and raises capital by issuing ownership tokens on the shared ledger. The decentralized investment fund may hold digital assets in the consensus code and distribute profits to the token owners according to each owner's dividend preference. A token owner's dividend preference can include digital assets tracked by a different shared ledger, stabletoken digital assets pegged to the value of a digital asset, and cross-chain digital asset swaps. Token issuance may include a proof of accreditation requirement based on cryptographic proof on a shared ledger. The decentralized investment fund may distribute fund documents to the token holders by encrypting the document, first with a symmetric key common to all token holders, and second with an asymmetric key unique to each token holders and based on the token's holder's known public address on the shared ledger.
US11416930B2
A method for registering a point distributor and information on an exchange rate for providing a united point service is provided. The method includes steps of: a system managing server (a) verifying a registration transaction TrxA and a confirmation transaction TrxB if at least one of conditions is satisfied which include (i) a condition that the TrxA having (i-1) a public key of a point managing server, and (i-2) a first XEA, an exchange rate of a point A managed by the point distributor to a united point, is acquired from a point distributing server, and (ii) a condition that the TrxB having (ii-1) a public key of the point distributing server, and (ii-2) a second XEA, is acquired from the point managing server; and (b) recording it on a certain blockchain database, and acquiring a transaction ID which locates the TrxA, the TrxB on the certain blockchain database.
US11416928B2
An exchange through which swap contracts may be traded. Embodiments may allow a trader to announce a potential crossing before the crossing is requested. The user may then request the crossing between two parties. An announcement window may be kept open through a chaining of announcements. An interloper with a same price but better time than a party to the cross may be kept out of interloping in the cross. A ticker symbol system may list a clearinghouse to be used to execute a requested cross.
US11416923B1
A system, method and apparatus for exchanging value using a smart card in a financial transaction is disclosed. The system includes a smart card having a contact interface and a contactless interface interactive with a closed purse application and an open purse application controlled by a microprocessor. The closed purse application contains application-specific value, while the open purse contains general value. The application-specific value and general value are each compatible within the system of the invention to perform and settle the financial transaction. The financial transaction may include the smart card communicating with a load terminal or a transaction terminal to add or change the amount of value on the smart card. Further, the present invention include auto-load functionality for adding an amount of value to the smart card. Finally, applications such as a transportation application and a loyalty application are described.
US11416917B2
Described herein are techniques for presenting a graphical user interface with an improved content carousel for presenting a set of content items (e.g., images, photos, video clips, content/page links) in accordance with configuration settings set by an end-user. The content carousel may, for example, select content and present content in a manner that is consistent with the configuration settings established by the end-user, thereby giving the end-user confidence to invoke the content carousel in a variety of scenarios where content carousels might not traditionally be deployed.
US11416916B2
In various example embodiments, a system and method for managing products at a physical marketplace is described. A method includes receiving an image and a category of a product for sale by a merchant at a physical marketplace, including the image in a list of images for the category, providing the list of images to customers of the physical marketplace, retrieving additional information regarding the product in response to a request by one of the customers, and generating a listing for the product using the image, the category, and the additional information received from the merchant.
US11416913B1
Disclosed is e-commerce processing for an event-centric online shopping transaction. The e-commerce processing involves receiving an identification or selection of an event from a device of a customer, and the disclosed methods and systems use the identified and/or selected event to populate, without item-related input from the customer, an online shopping cart with items for purchase in an e-commerce computing environment. The e-commerce processing can be accomplished without any party to the transaction having to add items to the online shopping cart on an item-by-item basis.
US11416912B2
Embodiments of the invention are directed to a system and method for providing a high-volume transaction queueing, reserve ecommerce solution that automatically engages and queues transactions when a primary back-end transaction processing system becomes unresponsive or unstable. Through machine learning algorithms, embodiments of the invention control transaction submission rates by queuing them and throttling the rate at which they are processed based on self-awareness and constant monitoring, feedback and health checks of the primary system. When metrics indicate that the third-party system can begin accepting transactions again, the system automatically feeds the queued transactions along with real-time orders at a rate that the third-party system can successfully manage.
US11416905B2
The present invention aims to provide an information processing device, an information processing method, and the like capable of reducing labor of associating an item for sale with a category. The information processing device acquires an image specified by a user. The information processing device extracts a feature value of the specified image. The information processing device acquires category information corresponding to an item for sale represented by the specified image. The information processing device searches for images similar to the specified image, based on the extracted feature value. The information processing device causes at least one of the found images to be displayed as a search result. The information processing device, when the user has selected any one image from the displayed search result, makes a storage unit store the acquired category information in association with sale item identification information corresponding to the selected image.
US11416903B2
A transaction arbiter system and method is disclosed which incorporates a merchant function database under control of a transaction arbiter that permits merchants to interact in an automated way with bids generated by other merchants. Rather than utilizing fixed price schedules as taught by the prior art, the present invention permits each merchant to define a set of functions which describe how the merchant will respond to a customer request-for-quote for a given product or service. These merchant functions interact with both the customer request-for-quote and the results of other merchant functions to generate a dynamic real-time bidding system which integrates competition among merchant bidders to achieve an optimal consumer price for a given product or service.
US11416902B2
A scan avoidance monitoring system detects instances in which a respective customer in a retail environment fails to properly scan or tally one or more retail items for purchase. To avoid generating false positives, such as flagging of events as scan avoidances when they really are not or likely are not scan avoidances, the scan avoidance system can be configured to require a level of confirmation by one or more other analyzers to flag a particular circumstance as a scan avoidance.
US11416880B2
Provided herein are systems, methods and computer readable media for managing a sales pipeline, and in some embodiments, generating demand based on real time demand and predicted demand. An example method comprises generating a virtual promotion, wherein the virtual promotion comprises a combination of a category or sub-category, a location, and a price range, calculating a probability that a particular consumer would buy the virtual offer in a predetermined time period, wherein the probability is generated at least based on historical data related to the particular consumer and one or more related consumers, determining an estimated number of units to be sold for the virtual offer as a function of at least the probability, the estimated number of units representing a predicted demand, calculating a real time demand, wherein the real time demand is generated based on a plurality of generated identification pairs for the predetermined time period, and determining, using a processor, total demand by summing the predicted demand and the real time demand.
US11416877B2
A method, computer system, and a computer program product for computing a product drag effect is provided. The present invention may include receiving a plurality of transaction record data. The present invention may then include tuning a plurality of parameters based on the received transaction record data. The present invention may further include determining a product drag frequency based on the authorized parameter tuning and received transaction record data. The present invention may then include calculating a drag probability based on the determined product drag frequency. The present invention may then include deriving an observation from the calculated drag probability. The present invention may lastly include outputting the derived observation to a user.
US11416875B2
Techniques for integrating advertising content into client applications are presented. Events occurring within client applications are monitored and when a predefined event is encountered and external advertising service is consulted for acquiring external content. The external content is then integrated into one or more portions of presentations associated with the client applications.
US11416870B2
Systems for centralized processing of regulatory control events. A method embodiment applies regulatory compliance rules against regulatory control events that occur at a plurality of heterogeneous remote cloud-based systems. A centralized cloud-based platform manages the compliance of the plurality of heterogeneous remote cloud-based systems by applying a set of data compliance rules pertaining to regulatory controls. The regulatory controls pertain to data access events and data manipulation events that occur on the plurality of computing systems. The centralized cloud-based platform receives control event messages, the control event messages being raised any one or more of the heterogeneous remote cloud-based systems. Rules are processed against the received control event messages to determine a set of compliance actions. Compliance action occurrences are logged in a log facility such that at any moment in time, an audit can be run over the logged events so as to verify and report compliance or non-compliance.
US11416862B2
Systems and methods for in location-based mobile payments are disclosed. According to one embodiment, in an information processing apparatus comprising at least one computer processor, a method for location-based mobile payments may include: (1) receiving, from a first computer program executed by a first electronic device for a first party, a request to conduct a location-based transaction; (2) receiving, from the first computer program, a location of the first electronic device; (3) identifying a potential counterparty based on a location of a second electronic device associated with the potential counterparty; (4) communicating an image of the potential counterparty to the first computer program; (5) receiving a selection of the potential counterparty from the first computer program; and (6) conducting the location-based transaction between the party and the potential counterparty.
US11416858B2
A method and apparatus are herein disclosed for allowing suppliers to generate an invoice from a purchase order without requiring them to log in or pre-register with a networked application. Implementation is provided by having a first user provide a first document to a networked application. An electronic notification is dispatched to a receiver for the first document with a unique link to a data entry page within the networked application. The data entry page is sandboxed with limited functionality within the networked application, but accepts data from the receiver to be sent directly into the first user's system.
US11416857B2
A terminal configuration apparatus is configured to receive a merchant identifier and a manufacturer identifier from a communications device, and to locate a first terminal cryptographic key that is associated with the manufacturer identifier in a terminal database. The terminal configuration apparatus is configured to confirm, using the located first terminal cryptographic key, that the merchant identifier was signed with a second terminal cryptographic key, and to download a payload to a terminal via the communications device. The located first terminal cryptographic key and the second terminal cryptographic key are an asymmetric cryptographic key pair.
US11416849B1
A method performed by a processor of a financial institution computing system includes authorizing an account holder to execute transactions in an MBC from a financial account of the account holder that includes funds in a fiat currency. A transaction request is received, including a request to transfer a first amount of funds from the financial account to a recipient. The first amount is defined in MBC. The financial account is debited by a second amount, which is an amount of fiat currency equivalent to the first amount of MBC. A service call is transmitted to the MBC partner. The service call includes instructions to create a temporary account to hold the MBC, to exchange the second amount from fiat currency to MBC, to credit the temporary account with the funds exchanged to MBC, and to transfer the first amount in MBC from the temporary account to the recipient.
US11416837B2
Methods, systems, and computer readable media for electronically facilitating streaming payments are provided. An exemplary method includes receiving a request to access protected media content hosted by a content provider, determining a minimum currency increment based on a user designated payment type, and establishing a predefined content increment that corresponds to the protected media content. The method further includes determining a minimum session expense ratio based on the minimum currency increment and the predefined content increment, initiating a user session that permits access to the protected media content, and determining a quantification of protected media content that is consumed at a termination of the user session. The method also includes using the minimum session expense ratio and the quantification to determine an on-demand streaming payment amount and utilizing the user designated payment type to determine a manner of routing the on-demand streaming payment amount to a payment processing entity that is configured to facilitate a payment transaction.
US11416832B2
Systems and methods for performing a plurality of operations, in which at least one operation comprises a blockchain transaction, are described. A request to perform a plurality of operations is received, where the operations comprise a blockchain transaction and a second transaction of a type other than a block chain transaction. A conversion factor is obtained from a service and a blockchain transaction is recorded based on the conversion factor. The recorded blockchain transaction comprises an amount of a digital asset (e.g., Bitcoin) based on the conversion factor, a generated blockchain address, and an interstitial change address. The second transaction is performed as a result of the blockchain transaction having been validated.
US11416829B2
A system and method for providing an email as a command is disclosed. The system and method include formatting an action in an e-commerce system based on an assigned address, wherein communication with the assigned address initiates the action, and authenticating a message addressed to the assigned address, wherein for a positively authenticated message the action is performed. The system and method may also include receiving the message sent to the assigned address. For negatively authenticated messages, the system and method include providing a sender of the message a sign-up to enable positive authentication. The system and method may include requesting details of the action based on the message. The system and method may include sending an invoice for the action to the address that sent the authenticated message and processing a payment based on a response to the sent invoice.
US11416828B2
Systems and methods discussed herein are related to optimizing time slot yield rates. A method can include: determining that an earlier time slot has become available; identifying a set of users corresponding with preexisting time slots scheduled for a time later than the available earlier time slot; ranking the set of users according to ranking criteria; selecting, based on ranking the set of users, a subset of top ranked users eligible for the available time slot; sending a set of messages to the subset of users indicating that the earlier time slot is available; receiving a message from a first user of the subset of users indicating that the first user is willing to replace their corresponding preexisting time slot with the available earlier time slot; and replacing the first user's corresponding preexisting time slot with the available earlier time slot.
US11416824B2
An activity stream based interaction model and systems implementing such a model are disclosed. In various embodiments, a text-based tag is recognized in a received communication stream, such as an activity stream. An action indicated by text included in the tag is determined and performed in response to receiving the tag. In some embodiments, a tag to be inserted into the communication stream may be determined automatically by a machine or a process running on a machine, for example a workflow engine.
US11416823B2
A help desk management system uses segment partitioning and matching of each identified segment to a suitable problem and resolver group and then sequencing the partitioned segments based on sentiment analysis and sequence mining on historical tickets and audit logs to actuate effective resolution and pipelining of helpdesk tickets needing resolutions from multiple resolver groups. The helpdesk tickets can be in the form of e-mails.
US11416821B1
Aspects relate to apparatuses and methods for determining and processing dormant data records on an immutable sequential listing. An exemplary apparatus includes a processor configured to monitor a plurality of timestamps associated with a plurality of data records stored on the immutable sequential listing, wherein the data record includes a job resume, detect inactivity in a first data record of the plurality of data records over a predetermined time period as a function of a first timestamp of the first data record, wherein the predetermined time period may be set by the user, tag, as a function of the inactivity, the first data record as an inactive first data record, and process, as a function inactivity, the first data record, wherein processing may include adding additional data or archiving inactive data records from the immutable sequential listing.
US11416816B1
A software tool automatically generates a components list (also known as a “solution”, “recipe”, or “bill of materials”) to be used in completing an installation. This components list may include, for example, fixtures and control devices for use in implementing lighting solutions for a building. The system takes as input a sequence of operations table, and identifies components to satisfy the requirements specified in the sequence of operations table. A number of different solutions may be presented, offering different configurations, cost levels, product lines, and/or the like; the different solutions may also indicate different degrees to which controls are embedded in fixtures. The user can then select among the presented solutions, and/or can perform other operations to change the configuration and/or parameters so as to generate new options.
US11416811B2
A system, method, and apparatus for logistics management. Inventory is received for storage at a physical storage location. The inventory is associated with an identifier. The inventory is stored in a location. The inventory is associated with the location. A system is updated with the inventory information including at least the identifier and the location for subsequent utilization. A virtual reality environment is shown to a number of users mirroring the physical storage location and movements of the inventory within the physical storage location.
US11416805B1
A package tracking system comprises a package room for holding packages intended for delivery to one or more package recipients, an optical sensing device positioned to capture one or more images of each package brought to the package room, one or more light sources, and a computing system including a processor, memory, and executable code stored on the memory. The processor executes the executable code to detect a presence and location of a given package held in the package room based on the one or more images captured by the optical sensing device and on package identification information relating to the given package. The processor further executes the executable code to cause the one or more light sources to shine on or near the given package in the package room to provide light-based guidance specific to the given package.
US11416801B2
A device may receive data related to operations of an organization. The operations of the organization may be associated with a value. The data may be received from two or more systems associated with the organization. The device may process the data using a set of rules to permit an analysis of the data. The device may process the data to identify an error related to the data or a source of the error. The error may negatively impact the value associated with the operations of the organization. The device may perform an action after identifying the error or the source of the error. The action may facilitate fixing the error.
US11416798B2
Data processing systems and methods, according to various embodiments, are adapted for performing a process of procuring a vendor and sub-processes associated therewith, such as performing vendor risk assessments and providing training specific to the procurement of that particular vendor. Training requirements for the user procuring the vendor and/or for the vendor itself are determined and any deficiencies in current, valid training requirements are identified. Training to address any identified deficiencies is provided as part of the vendor procurement process. Training may be customized based on trainee and/or organization attributes to improve the effectiveness of such training.
US11416796B2
A method for controlling an energy production and distribution system includes identifying sources that supply input resources, subplants that produce output resources using the input resources, and sinks that consume the output resources. The method includes obtaining a cost function including a cost of producing the output resources and generating a transit time constraint that requires the input resources be sent from the sources to the subplants at a first departure time that occurs before a first arrival time at which the input resources are predicted to be used by the subplants. The method includes solving an optimization problem to determine an amount of the output resources to produce at each of multiple time steps within a time period. Solving the optimization problem includes performing an optimization of the cost function subject to the transit time constraint.
US11416795B2
Systems, methods, apparatus, and computer-readable media provide for allocating vehicle resources to future vehicle requirements. In some embodiments, allocating a vehicle resource to a vehicle requirement may be based on an iterative analysis of candidate vehicle resources using one or more of: a suitability of a candidate vehicle resource to fulfil the vehicle requirement, a journey time from a vehicle location to a start location, and/or a start time for the vehicle requirement.
US11416785B2
A method includes generating, at a controller, a snapshot of content displayed at a user interface screen. The content associated with a domain for a particular service. The method also includes performing user interface element recognition on the snapshot to identify a user interface element in the content. The method further includes associating the user interface element with a user interface element intent and associating the user interface element intent with a particular phrase based on the domain. The method also includes generating an automated interactive support prompt based on the particular phrase to be output for user interaction. The user interaction is usable for performance of the particular service.
US11416776B2
A system for identifying and enumerating cross-body degradations, the system comprising a computing device, wherein the computing device is configured to receive biological extraction data. Computing device may generate a first body degradation function, using a machine-learning model trained with data that correlates biological extraction data with rates of biological degradation of the body. Computing device may determine, using a machine-learning process and the first body degradation function, a second body degradation function, wherein the second body degradation function describes a rate of biological degradation that is statistically associated with a first body degradation function. Computing device identify, using the first body degradation function and the second body degradation function, a predictive relationship between the first body degradation function and the second body degradation function according to the biological extraction datum. Computing device may generate a body degradation packet and may provide to a user, the body degradation packet.
US11416772B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure include a computer-implemented method, a system, and a computer program product for integrating bottom-up segmentation techniques into a semi-supervised image segmentation machine learning model. The computer implemented method includes training a machine learning model with a labeled dataset. The labeled dataset includes ground truth segmentation labels for each sample in the labeled dataset. The computer implemented method also includes generating a pseudo labeled dataset by applying an unlabeled dataset to the machine learning model using a top-down segmentation grouping rule. The computer implemented method further includes evaluating the pseudo labeled dataset using a bottom-up segmentation grouping rule to produce evaluation results, combining the pseudo labeled dataset with the second pseudo labeled dataset into a training dataset, and then retraining the machine learning model with the training dataset.
US11416770B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure include a computer-implemented method and system for determining when to retrain an individual-item model within a recommendation engine. The computer-implemented method includes defining a consumer feature vector having attributes of historical consumers that impact an individual-item model. The computer-implemented method further includes calculating a historical feature vector relating to the historical consumers. The computer-implemented method also includes determining a retraining threshold for the individual-item model and calculating a new feature vector relating to new consumers. The new feature vector containing new attribute values of the new consumers and defined by the consumer feature vector. The computer-implemented method further includes determining a distance between the historical feature vector and the new feature vector and retraining the individual-item model upon determining that the distance between the historical feature vector and the new feature vector exceeds the retraining threshold.
US11416767B2
Embodiments are directed to the tracking of data in a generative adversarial network (GAN) model using a distributed ledger system, such as a blockchain. A learning platform implementing a classification model receives, from a third party, a set of data examples generated by a generator model. The set of data examples are processed by the classification model, which outputs a prediction for each data example indicating whether each data example is true or false. The distributed ledger keeps a record of data examples submitted to the learning platform, as well as of predictions determined by the classification model on the learning platform. The learning platform analyzes the records of the distributed ledger, and pairs the records corresponding to the submitted data examples and the generated predictions determined by the classification model, and determines if the predictions were correct. The classification model may then be updated based upon the prediction results.
US11416763B2
A classifier training method includes detecting error data from training data; and training a classifier configured to detect an object based on the error data.
US11416762B1
A method, apparatus and product includes obtaining a logical representation of a quantum circuit and selecting a quantity of physical qubits for a physical representation of the quantum circuit, wherein the selecting of the quantity is based on a utility per-qubit metric that is used to define a utility per-qubit score of the quantum circuit. The utility per-qubit score is determined based on a ratio between a quality score of the quantum circuit when using the quantity of physical qubits and between a cost function of the quantum circuit, wherein the quality score is defined by a quality metric that is monotonically correlated to error rates of logical output qubits. The quantum circuit is synthesized using the quantity of the physical qubits that was selected.
US11416760B2
A method for machine-learning based user interface generation is provided. The method may include training a machine-learning model by processing, with the machine-learning model, a training data that includes one or more sequences of software applications accessed by a user at a client. The machine-learning model may be applied to identify a software application based at least on a probability of the user at the client accessing the software application. A user interface may be generated for display at the client. The user interface may provide, to the user at the client, access to the software application. Related systems and articles of manufacture, including computer program products, are also provided.
US11416754B1
A method includes receiving first input, analyzing the first input using a first model, receiving second input, analyzing the second input using a second model; and generating infrastructure-as-code. A computing system includes a processor; and a memory comprising instructions, that when executed, cause the computing system to: receive first input, analyze the first input using a first model, receive second input, analyze the second input using a second model; and generate infrastructure-as-code. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing executable instructions that, when executed by a processor, cause a computer to: receive first input, analyze the first input using a first model, receive second input, analyze the second input using a second model; and generate infrastructure-as-code.
US11416749B2
An integrated circuit includes a processing engine configured to execute instructions that are synchronized using a set of events. The integrated circuit also includes a set of event registers and an age bit register. Each event in the set of events corresponds to a respective event register in the set of event registers. The age bit register includes a set of age bits, where each age bit in the age bit register corresponds to a respective event register in the set of event registers. Each age bit in the age bit register is configured to be set by an external circuit and to be cleared in response to a value change in a corresponding event register in the set of event registers. Executing the instructions by the processing engine changes a value of an event register in the set of event registers.
US11416744B2
The present disclosure belongs to the technical field of artificial neural networks, and provides to a max pooling processor based on 1T1R memory, comprising an input module, a max pooling operation module, and an output module; the input module is configured to transmit an operating voltage according to the convolution result in the convolutional neural network; the 1T1R memory in the max pooling operation module is configured to adjust a conductance value of the RRAM according to the gate voltage of the transistor therein to achieve the max pooling operation by using the non-volatile multi-value conductance regulation characteristic of the RRAM, and store a max pooling result; and the output module is configured to read the max pooling result and output it.
US11416738B1
Techniques for model reutilization with heterogeneous sensor stacks via sensor data auto-normalization are described. A normalization model can be trained and utilized to normalize sensor data generated by a first type of sensor stack so that it can be used with an existing machine learning model that was trained using data from another type or types of sensor stacks having different characteristics. A sensor data can be generated by the sensor stack and provided as an input to the normalization model to yield normalized sensor data. The normalized sensor data can be provided as input to the existing model to generate accurate results despite the sensor stack having different characteristics than the one(s) used to train the machine learning model.
US11416735B2
Examples described herein utilize multi-layer neural networks to decode encoded data (e.g., data encoded using one or more encoding techniques). The multi-layer neural networks include an encoder configured to encode input data using encoded bits in accordance with an encoding technique and to provide encoded input data, and a memory configured to receive the encoded input data from the encoder and configured to store the encoded input data. The multi-layer neural networks further include combiners configured to receive the encoded input data from the memory and further configured to combine the encoded input data among a set of predetermined weights. The combiners are further configured to provide encoded data with reduced noise, the noise introduced by the memory.
US11416729B2
The present invention relates to a metal card manufacturing method including the steps of: preparing a metal sheet having a given size capable of accommodating a plurality of individual cards; forming holes on at least one or more edges of stacked sheets formed by stacking a plurality of sheets inclusive of adhesive sheets and an inlay sheet on which antenna coils are printed, the plurality of sheets having the same size capable of accommodating the plurality of individual cards as each other; fitting the holes formed on the stacked sheets to pins located on a loading plate; placing the metal sheet on top of the stacked sheets; forming a metal card sheet through lamination among the metal sheet and the stacked sheets; and cutting the metal card sheet along individual card outlines of the plurality of individual cards.
US11416728B2
Apparatus and method for producing contact, contactless and dual-interface metal transaction cards that provides enhanced durability and aesthetics, with increased production efficiency. The cards may include (i) a metal core subassembly comprising a metal layer or layers (metal inlay) having a slit (S) allowing for contactless functionality, and (ii) a UV hard coat on a release-carrier layer disposed on one or both sides of the metal core subassembly, and (iii) everything may be laminated together in a single step, providing a metal face smartcard. The hard coat provides a durable, scratch-resistant surface, and protects underlying layers while allowing the passage of a laser beam to write on or within the underlying layer(s), such as a transparent laser-reactive layer. Techniques for hiding or camouflaging the slit provide a more aesthetically pleasing appearance to the metal transaction card.
US11416709B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method, an apparatus, a device and a computer readable medium for generating VQA training data. The method comprises: obtaining a first group of training data of the VQA system, the first group of training data including a first question for an image in the VQA system and a first answer corresponding to the first question; determining a second question associated with the first question in term of semantic; and determining a second answer corresponding to the second question based on the first question and the first answer, to obtain a second group of training data for the image in the VQA system, the second group of training data including the second question and the second answer.
US11416702B2
A system and methods are provided for decision making under uncertainty, for selecting an optimal action from among multiple candidate actions in belief space planning (BSP), including, for a new propagated belief: selecting from stored propagated beliefs a closest propagated belief; selecting, from among the stored measurement samples associated with the closest propagated belief, re-use measurement samples that provide a representative set of a measurement likelihood distribution corresponding to the new propagated belief; determining an information gap between a stored posterior belief associated with a re-use measurement sample and a new posterior belief that would be inferred by applying the re-use measurement sample to the new propagated belief; updating the stored posterior belief to account for the information gap; and calculating objective values for the multiple candidate actions, the objective values being weighted summations including immediate scores of the updated posterior beliefs.
US11416699B2
A method and a system for generating an assistance function for an ophthalmological surgery are presented. The method includes capturing digital image data of a surgical microscope, which were generated during an ophthalmological surgery by an image sensor and which are annotated. The method furthermore includes capturing sensor data of a phaco system, which were generated during the ophthalmological surgery by a sensor of the phaco system and which are annotated, wherein the annotated sensor data and the annotated digital image data have synchronized timestamps and wherein the annotations refer in indicative fashion to a state of an ophthalmological surgery. Finally, the method includes training a first machine learning system by means of the annotated image data and the annotated sensor data to generate a learning model to predict a state of an ophthalmological surgery and, on the basis thereof, output a control signal, wherein the control signal is suitable for facilitating an assistance function in a subsequent use of the trained learning model during a prediction phase of a machine learning system.
US11416692B2
An embodiment method comprises transmitting a reader carrier signal from a contactless reader to a contactless device, receiving by the reader, a device modulated carrier signal from the device, the device modulated carrier signal having a carrier frequency, preferably turning off by the reader, the transmission of the reader carrier signal during reception of the device modulated carrier signal, and after having turned off the transmission of the reader carrier signal, determining by the reader the presence or the absence at the reader's antenna of a modulated carrier signal having at the reader's antenna the carrier frequency with a tolerance, without relying on the data content of the modulated carrier signal.
US11416686B2
Techniques for natural language processing based on user context include identifying a context of a user and responsive to receiving a request from the user intended for processing by a natural language processing (NLP) model, accounting for the context of the user in relation to the request. A result from the NLP model having accounted for the context of the user is provided.
US11416681B2
Aspects of the present disclosure provide a method and an apparatus for determining a reply to a statement. The apparatus includes processing circuitry determining, based on a preset lexicon, potential reply statements in response to a statement, and first matching probabilities respectively corresponding to the potential reply statements. A first matching probability indicates a probability of the corresponding potential reply statement being output in response to the statement according to the preset lexicon. The processing circuitry also obtains second matching probabilities respectively corresponding to the potential reply statements. A second matching probability indicates a probability of words in the statement being output in response to the corresponding potential reply statement according to the preset lexicon. According to a combination of the first matching probabilities and the second matching probabilities, the processing circuitry selects one of the potential reply statements as a target reply statement.
US11416680B2
Described herein is a framework for classifying social media inputs. In accordance with one aspect of the framework, one or more social media inputs is acquired from one or more social media platforms. The social media inputs are cleaned to remove redundant elements. One or more features are extracted from the cleaned social media inputs. The social media inputs are classified by a trained classifier into predefined categories using the extracted one or more features.
US11416674B2
An information processing apparatus includes circuitry configured to acquire first form definition information defining a positional relationship between one or more items and a respective value of the one or more items stored in a memory, recognize and extract a specific item set with a specific character string and a specific value of the specific item from data of a form image based on the first form definition information as a recognition result, and display, on a display, the recognition result and an input reception section used for receiving an input of second form definition information.
US11416673B1
An apparatus includes a memory and a processor. The memory stores a set of sentence blocks, each including one or more sentence variants, and information identifying a selected variant. The processor displays a sequence of elements, each associated with a block and displaying the selected variant of the block, and a plurality of sentences, each assigned to a block and corresponding to the selected sentence variant of the block. The processor receives a selection of a first element, associated with a first block, or a first sentence, corresponding to the selected sentence variant of the first block, and, in response, displays the sentence variants of the first block, and an identification of the first sentence as the selected sentence variant of the first block. The processor receives information identifying a new selected sentence variant of the first block, and replaces the displayed first sentence with the new selected sentence variant.
US11416648B2
A tessellated output file format describing a computer-aided design (CAD) model including a plurality of vertices, a plurality of curves, a plurality of surfaces, and at least one volume, the tessellated output file format comprising base polygon data, a vertex metadata container, a curve metadata container, and a surface metadata container. The base polygon data defines the CAD model for additive manufacturing and includes a plurality of connected polygons, each polygon including a plurality of nodes, a plurality of edges, and a face. The vertex metadata container includes a listing of CAD model vertices and one polygon node associated with each CAD model vertex. The curve metadata container includes a listing of CAD model curves and at least one polygon edge associated with each CAD model curve. The surface metadata container includes a listing of CAD model surfaces and at least one polygon face associated with each CAD model surface.
US11416642B2
Various embodiments include a method for preparing a three-dimensional model for a fabrication component in the context of production for data transmission to different receiving entities comprising: receiving three-dimensional model data via an input interface; providing a detail-state for processing of the three-dimensional model on the respective receiving entity; and executing a reduction algorithm on a reference version of the received three-dimensional model data for automatically calculating and providing a reduced reference version with the provided detail-state.
US11416638B2
Described is a lattice cryptography processor with configurable parameters. The lattice cryptography processor includes a sampling circuit configured to operate in accordance with a Secure Hash Algorithm 3 (SHA-3)-based pseudo-random number generator (PRNG), a single-port random access memory (RAM)-based number theoretic transform (NTT) memory architecture and a modular arithmetic unit. The described lattice cryptography processor is configured to be programmed with custom instructions for polynomial arithmetic and sampling. The configurable lattice cryptography processor may operate with lattice-based CCA-secure key encapsulation and a variety of different lattice-based protocols including, but not limited to: Frodo, NewHope, qTESLA, CRYSTALS-Kyber and CRYSTALS-Dilithium, achieving up to an order of magnitude improvement in performance and energy-efficiency compared to state-of-the-art hardware implementations.
US11416619B1
A method of boot-loading an electronic device. The method comprises boot-loading a trusted execution environment (TEE) in a trusted security zone of a processor of the electronic device, where the TEE boot-loads before a rich execution environment (REE) boot-loads, launching a boot-loader authentication application by the TEE in the trusted security zone, determining a signature value of an REE boot-loader by the boot-loader authentication application over the instructions of the REE boot-loader, comparing the signature value of the REE boot-loader to an authentication signature value stored in the TEE, and, in response to the signature value of the REE boot-loader not matching the authentication signature value, taking action by the boot-loader authentication application.
US11416614B2
Statistical detection of firmware-level compromises can be enabled and performed on a computing system. During pre-boot, a pre-boot agent can access firmware loaded in memory and cause it to be stored in a manner that will allow the firmware to be accessed at runtime. During runtime, the firmware can be accessed and stored as files in the file system or other storage location accessible to an antivirus solution. The antivirus solution can then analyze the files using statistics-based techniques to thereby detect compromises in firmware.
US11416605B2
There is provided mechanisms for handling instances of a trusted execution environment on an execution platform. The trusted execution environment is associated with a secure cryptoprocessor. The secure cryptoprocessor holds a register. The trusted execution environment is configured to read from and write to a volatile part of the register at a given index i. A method is performed by the trusted execution environment. The method comprises checking, upon start of a new instance of the trusted execution environment, status of the register at the given index i. The method comprises enabling the new instance to keep running only when successfully reading a first value representing no currently run instance of the trusted execution environment from the register at the index i or if the register at the given index i has its status set to “undefined” when checking the status. The method comprises writing a second value representing one currently run instance of the trusted execution environment to the register at the given index i.
US11416593B2
The present disclosure provides an electronic device, a control method therefor, and a control program therefor capable of preventing an operation for activating a function protected by user authentication from becoming complicated. An electronic device includes: a keyword management DB for storing identification information of a registrant and a registered keyword in association with each other; a command management DB for storing a command and required authentication scores in association with each other; a data generator for creating grammar data including a registered keyword and a command; an utterance recognizer for matching the grammar data and extracted data extracted from an utterance of a user and acquiring a recognized authentication score and a recognized command; and an authenticator for determining that the command is recognized by comparing the required authentication score associated with the command determined to be the same as the recognized command and the recognized authentication score.
US11416591B2
There is provided an electronic apparatus, and an improved design flexibility and minimized power consumption for biometric authentication in an electronic apparatus that performs biometric authentication, the electronic apparatus including: a wearable part movable to be worn on a user's body; and a biometric information acquisition unit provided on the wearable part and configured to acquire biometric information of the user for user authentication. This configuration makes it possible to improve design flexibility and minimize power consumption for biometric authentication in an electronic apparatus that performs biometric authentication.
US11416588B2
Mobile terminal with enhanced security by having explicit authentication and implicit authentication
A mobile terminal includes an output unit configured to output whether authentication successes, a controller configured to perform explicit authentication based on authentication information, to collect data for implicit authentication if the explicit authentication successes, and to enroll a user behavior pattern for the implicit authentication based on the collected data, and a memory configured to store the user behavior pattern.
US11416579B2
A recursive discrete Fourier transform (RDFT) of this invention uses an input-decimation technique to reduce the number of input sequences for a recursive-filter so as to decrease the computation cycle of the recursive-filter. Therefore, the time complexity of the RDFT can be minimized, namely, increasing the throughput of the RDFT.
US11416567B2
A computing entity storing a user profile data store and an informational content data store receives new event information corresponding to a user. The new event information is associated with a user identifier and is provided via user interaction with an interactive user interface (IUI). Using the user identifier, the computing entity identifies and accesses a user profile from the user profile data store that comprises profile information corresponding to the user. Based on the new event information and/or the profile information stored in the user profile, the computing entity prioritizes a plurality of informational content items stored in the informational content data store. Based on the prioritization of the plurality of informational content items, the computing entity selects one or more informational content items that are of high priority for the user and provides a selected informational content item for presentation to the user via the IUI.
US11416545B1
System and method for object based query of video content captured by a dynamic surveillance network
A solution for a video surveillance system and method that leverages a dynamic geographic footprint and supports an object-based query of archived video content is described. An exemplary embodiment of the solution receives video footage from any number of unrelated sources. The video footage is parsed for content and stored in a database in connection with data that identifies the content (object class, aspects of the object, confidence scores, time and location data, etc.). Advantageously, the video footage may be queried based on content of the video footage and not just time and location data. In this way, embodiments of the solution provide for efficient query and review of relevant video footage.
US11416541B2
The Loupe system creates a display and channel creation capability for art images to be presented to a user to optimize the user experience in viewing art images delivered onto digital displays, TVs and other screens facilitating the artwork transition with and without human interaction. Art imagery to be streamed includes imagery such as, but not limited to, filtered and personalized streams of art imagery. The Loupe system recommendations engine utilizes both human and machine curated data to determine factors of art images that optimize and extend the user time spent on viewing the images. The Loupe system gathers data that is analyzed through machine learning and AI algorithms to inform recommendations and select art images to optimize the user experience. The user may purchase fine art prints or select originals of the artwork image displayed, if available for sale, from the Loupe integrated electronic marketplace.
US11416536B2
Disclosed are systems and methods for determining similarities in content preferences among a plurality of users and generating content recommendations based on a requesting user's content consumption history. A requesting user may access the recommendation system to request content items for consumption. The recommendation system may be configured to identify users having consumed the same or similar content items as the requesting user, and to determine a ratio of content items consumed by the requesting user and an identified user to the total number of content items previously consumed by the requesting user. In one embodiment, the system may determine a degree of similarity in content preferences between the two users based on an inverse proportion of a level of popularity associated with the content items consumed by the requesting user and the identified user (e.g., sampled user).
US11416532B2
A method of identifying relevant keywords from a document is disclosed. The method includes splitting text of the document into a plurality of keyword samples, such that each of the plurality of keyword samples comprises a predefined number of keywords extracted in a sequence. Further, each pair of adjacent keyword samples in the plurality of samples includes a plurality of common words. The method further includes determining a relevancy score for each of the plurality of keyword samples based on at least one of a trained Convolution Neural Network (CNN) model and a keyword repository. The method further includes classifying keywords from each of the plurality of keyword samples as relevant keywords or non-relevant keywords based on the relevancy score determined for each of the plurality of keyword samples.
US11416527B2
A device can receive a search query from another device. The device can determine an information content of the partial query. The device can determine a set of tiles for identifying search results based on the information content of the partial query. The set of tiles can correspond to a geographic area within a proximity of the other device. The set of tiles can be associated with data identifying a set of points of interest associated with the geographic area. The device can obtain the data identifying the set of points of interest associated with the geographic area based on determining the set of tiles. The device can identify a set of search results based on the partial query and the data identifying the set of points of interest associated with the geographic area. The device can provide information identifying the set of search results.
US11416525B2
A method for displaying content to a user at a user device, the method comprising: initiating, at the user device, a web element request indicative of a web element; transmitting, at a web element server, the web element to the user device in response to the web element request; receiving, at a code provisioning server, a code portion request in response to the web element request; transmitting, at the code provisioning server, a code portion to the user device in response to the code portion request; executing, at the user device, the code portion in response to the web element request, wherein executing the code portion causes a processor at the user device to: collate user data at the user device; and generate an instruction to execute an action based on the collated user data.
US11416520B2
Aspects of the present disclosure relate to a unified activity service. In one aspect, different files stored on different storage platforms may be rendered on different user interfaces. Multiple activities associated with each of the different files may be obtained from the activity service. In another aspect, activity metadata corresponding to the multiple activities may be stored in the activity service. Activities associated with the different files may include content changes in a file (e.g., edits and deletions), sharing a file, renaming a file, comments within a file, messaging, and conversations related to a file. The different storage platforms may be independent of the activity service.
US11416516B2
Prioritization and quality of service control operations for any PiT replication operations. When replicating data from a production site to a replica site, the transmission of data is prioritized based on the perspective of a splitter and based on the perspective of an appliance, which may coordinate with multiple splitters. Quality is controlled by prioritizing which data is sent. The transmission may also perform compression when transmitting the data and may handle situations where available resources are scarce or unavailable.
