US11412869B2
Disclosed is a flat-fold fitted sheet with elastic around the entire perimeter, allowing it to fit snugly to the mattress yet fold easily in its open form. The flat fold fitted sheet includes a string attached to the elastic, which provides a means for releasing the elastic into the casing to achieve the flat form and a means of pulling the elastic out of the casing to resume the fitted form. In the fitted form, the elastic is tethered at the corners and excess string is wound around a spindle, which may be contained in a pocket when the sheet is in use. Zippers on each corner provide traditional pockets that fit snugly to the mattress when in the fitted form but enable the sheet to lay flat when in the open position. When both zippers and elastic are in the open position, the sheet lays completely flat and is therefore easy to fold and store.
US11412857B2
A convertible seat including: a support frame; and a user support having a support surface on one side defining a rounded periphery, the user support being movable from a first configuration supported by the support frame with the rounded periphery presented upwardly, to a second configuration supported by the support frame such that a seat or seat base is presented upwardly, the seat or seat base being substantially flat or at least less rounded than the rounded periphery, with the support surface being stowed substantially below the seat or seat base in the second configuration. The seat allows the attainment in a single unit both the healthy balance/core-strengthening of a fitness chair and a conventional chair.
US11412856B2
Armrest (10) comprising a base (19) and an arm (13) that can be moved by a mount (17) between at least one use position and a non-use position, wherein the arm (13) is movable by the mount (17) axially of a pivot axis (a) between a proximal and a distal position, and is pivotable about the pivot axis (a) between a primary and a secondary position, wherein the armrest (10) has an actuator (30) comprising a motor drive having a drive part (29) that is movable between a first and a second position in order to displace the arm (13) in a first direction (y1) between the non-use position and the use position, at least in part, wherein the actuator (30) has at least one spring (21) that can be tensioned upon movement of the drive part (29) or an additional drive part (29) of the actuator (30), wherein the arm (13) can be moved axially, in a second direction (y2) by the spring (21), which second direction is directed opposite the first direction (y1).
US11412852B2
Disclosed is a planar exterior forming square rack pipe, which comprises a rack pipe main body, a joint coupling protrusion part, and a plane forming member, and thus the outer surfaces of the planar exterior forming square rack pipes can be simply formed as a plane without operations such as the attachment of a separate member, such that the coupling of additional objects to the outer surface of the planar exterior forming square rack pipe such as the assembly of a planar panel, the mounting of a shock absorber, the mounting of a name plate, and the fastening of angles is simplified, assembly and mounting for the coupling of the additional objects can be completely carried out, and external foreign material such as dust can be blocked, and the rigidity of the exterior of the planar exterior forming square rack pipe can be reinforced relatively more than that of a conventional rack pipe having a curved shape so as to allow the rack pipe to be used as a pillar for supporting heavy materials or receiving a heavy load, thereby enabling stable support.
US11412851B2
A slide rail assembly includes a bracket device, a driving device and a rail member. The bracket device includes a supporting frame, a bracket and a fastening member. The bracket is arranged on the supporting frame. The driving device and the bracket device are movable relative to each other. The rail member and the bracket device are movable relative to each other. When the rail member is moved relative to the bracket device from a first predetermined position along a direction, the rail member is able to drive the driving device to move from a first position to a second position, in order to drive the fastening member to switch from a first state to a second state.
US11412850B2
A floating shelf apparatus that includes a mounting bracket and a shelf. The mounting bracket is coupled directly to a support surface such as a wall and the shelf is mounted to the support surface to hang the shelf from the support surface. The mounting bracket includes a first portion that is coupled to the wall, a second portion having an S-shape that extends from a first end of the first portion, and a third portion having a linear shape that extends from a second end of the first portion. The shelf includes a ledge portion upon which items may be supported and a mounting portion that facilitates mounting the shelf to the mounting bracket. The mounting portion has a mounting element that interacts with the second portion of the mounting bracket to mount the shelf to the mounting bracket.
US11412837B2
An ambidextrous hand mount for an electronic device comprises: a proximal fastener configured to engage with a wrist of an operator; a distal fastener configured to engage with a finger of the operator; a body connecting the proximal fastener and the distal fastener and configured to extend along a back of a hand of the operator from the wrist to the finger; wherein the body includes: a main segment configured to support the electronic device; and a flexible segment between the main segment and the proximal fastener, the flexible segment configured to deform to accommodate changes in an angle between the body and the proximal fastener.
US11412832B2
A cosmetic package for applying a product including a cosmetic, care or pharmaceutical product onto the keratinous substrate comprises a receptacle and a cosmetic applicator. The cosmetic applicator comprises an applicator head, a stem and a closure. The applicator head further comprises a connecting member, an applying member and a rivet member. The connecting member further comprises a shank portion at a proximal portion thereof, a locking portion at a distal portion thereof, and a flexing portion which extends between the shank portion and the locking portion. The applying member rotates with respect to the stem and the flexible portion of the applicator head flexes during application of the cosmetic product onto the keratinous substrate.
US11412825B2
A shielding card holder system for providing a versatile protector and holder which shields wireless transmissions from a card such as a smartcard. The shielding card holder system generally includes a card protector adapted to shield wireless transmissions from a card such as a smartcard. A card holder is removably attached to the card protector, the card holder being adapted to removably receive cards of varying thicknesses. A protector magnet on the card protector is adapted to magnetically engage with a holder magnet on the card holder or the card holder itself to removably attach the card holder to the card protector. A securing member may be utilized to secure the card protector against an article of clothing, with the securing member including a securing magnet adapted to magnetically engage with the protector magnet through the clothing.
US11412813B2
In some examples, an assembly for a footwear includes a cell comprising a housing structure, the cell comprising a first chamber to contain a fluid. The assembly further includes a port and a vibrator responsive to activation to cause a reduction in fluid flow through the port between the first chamber and a second chamber by changing a characteristic of the fluid in the port.
US11412798B2
An apparatus for curing adhesive gels used for lash and hair extensions. A housing includes a flexible tube extending from the front of the housing. An LED lamp is affixed within the flexible tube for illuminating a target area in front of the tube. A circuit is configured to drive the LED lamp. A front wedge is affixed to the bottom of the housing for holding and guiding a pair of tweezers for operation in the target area, and a rear wedge is affixed to the bottom of the housing in alignment with the first wedge for holding the back end of the pair of tweezers.
US11412796B2
A garment having one or more wipe zones for transferring away perspiration from a wearer's skin upon contact with the wearer's skin is provided herein. The wipe zones may be comprised of hydrophobic material formed from yarns having a smaller denier per filament (DPF) than adjacent non-wipe zones on the garment. In some aspects, the DPF of the wipe-zone material is within a range of 0.025 to 0.0025. The wipe zones may be positioned on an outer-facing surface of the garment or an inner-facing surface of the garment in areas that are readily accessible to remove perspiration from the wearer's hands and/or head. Methods of manufacturing a garment having wipe zones are also provided herein.
US11412794B2
A sleeve for wear on a body limb includes a sleeve body and a strap body. The strap body includes straps with fasteners at or near the ends of the straps for attachment to the sleeve body. An arm sleeve includes a thumb opening connected to a tension strap that extends along the length of the sleeve. The arm sleeve is configured to apply a twisting force when the opening is placed on the thumb. An arm and shoulder sleeve includes a lower sleeve, and upper arm cover and straps extending from an elbow band to extend from the upper arm cover for attachment to another garment.
US11412785B2
A packer-support brief for releasably retaining a packer in the packer-support brief has a male underwear in the form of a brief with a waistband at an upper portion of the brief. A pocket is below the waistband. The pocket is configured to removably receive the packer. An attachment loop is attached to the waistband and extends into the pocket. An endless loop has a first end attached to the attachment loop and a second end removably attachable to the packer.
US11412780B2
A holder for a tobacco container is provided. The device includes a body having a base, a sidewall extending upwardly therefrom, and a top side defining an interior volume. The base includes a recession that frictionally secures a container of chewing tobacco therein. In one embodiment, the sidewall diameter tapers inwardly from an upper end to a lower end thereof, such that a funnel is formed. A clip is attached to the holder that can secure the holder to a keychain or other similar object. An opening tool will be embedded in the top side of the tobacco container holder's body. In one embodiment of the tobacco container holder, the opening tool will further comprise a sharpened edge that can puncture the wrapper on a tobacco container. The sidewall catches chewing tobacco that may be accidentally dropped when retrieving chewing tobacco from its container, thereby reducing waste.
US11412771B2
The present invention generally relates to compositions and methods for supporting exercise performance or activities of daily living. The compositions described herein are pharmaceutical or nutritional compositions suitable for enhancing exercise performance. The compositions are based on a specially formulated mixture of essential amino acids (EAAs) with additional components. The compositions target support of muscle protein synthesis and reduction of muscle breakdown during exercise, increasing muscle blood flow during exercise, decreasing the perception of fatigue by supporting optimal availability of neurotransmitter precursors, providing energy for rapids bursts of exertion during exercise, and maintaining adequate electrolyte balance during exercise.
US11412769B2
The present invention relates to porous particles comprising a sweetener, a bulking agent and a non-dairy protein. Further aspects of the invention relate to a food product comprising the porous particles; a process of making the porous particles and a fat based confectionery product containing them; and the use of the porous particles as sugar replacers in food products such as fat based confectionery products for example, chocolate.
US11412768B2
The present invention relates to a method of improving tolerance to hypoallergenic infant formulas. The method comprises neutralizing the pH of infant formulas containing ingredients exhibiting fishy, sour, or beany characteristics.
US11412758B2
The invention relates to a dipping or enrobing coating composition for coating frozen confection, comprising, expressed in weight % based on the total weight of the coating, 30-75 wt. % of a single fat, preferably 40-65 wt. %, said fat comprising the following fatty acids: 45<=C16:0<=52 wt. %, 4<=C18:0<=8 wt. %, 30<=C18:1<=40 wt. 5<=C18:2<=10 wt. %, and said fat comprising a solid fat profile comprising: 85%≤N 0<=95%; 75%<=N 10<=90%; 40%<=N 20<=60%; 18%<=N 25<=35%; 0%<=N 30<=10%; and 0%
US11412757B2
The present disclosure provides an improved system and method that includes a food dispensing machine for dispensing a base food product through a dispensing valve and adding ingredients and other additives, such as flavors and the like, to the base food product when the product is dispensed from a product chamber. Apparatuses and methods for maintaining a consistent mix of the base product in the freezing chamber are disclosed as are processes for calibrating desired proportions of ingredients.
US11412752B2
The present invention relates to a process for forming a stabilized fat blend. Further aspects of the invention are a composition comprising a fat blend and micronized antioxidant-containing vegetable material. The invention also provides for the use of micronized antioxidant-containing vegetable material to protect a fat blend from oxidation, for example a fat blend with a low level of saturated fat.
US11412746B2
A system for forming a food product, the system includes a mould drum that includes a multitude of cavities; a feed channel that feeds the food mass into the cavities; a seal plate located downstream of the feed channel, which seals the cavities against leakage during and/or after filling; a valve provided in the seal plate, the valve includes a piston that reciprocates between a retracted position and an extended position to open and close a connection between the feed channel and the cavities in the mould member. The feed channel is tapered or includes an insert that is tapered in a direction opposite a flow direction of the food mass through the feed channel. The feed channel includes a sloped wall that tapers in a direction opposite a flow direction of the food mass, and the feed channel has a straight wall downstream of the sloped wall.
US11412744B2
In an embodiment, a form press includes three die assemblies which form press a meat product along the height, width and length thereof. Each die assembly includes a single proportional directional valve which operates a hydraulic cylinder under control of a controller. The three die assemblies are first operated under position control, and are thereafter operated under force/position control. The form press has a single hydraulic circuit which operates the die assemblies.
US11412724B2
Fishing reel components and a manufacturing method thereof that achieve not only highly accurate finishing dimensions, but also a deep and glossy metallic appearance while maintaining sufficient corrosion resistance at a precision finishing portion that rotatably supports a drive member, and that can increase the work efficiently of the entire surface treatment. The fishing reel components include a body member having a coating layer formed of higher-purity aluminum than that of the die-cast material on the die-cast material; and the anticorrosion layer formed by anodization on the coating layer. The body member is provided with the support portion that rotatably supports a drive member. The support portion independent from the body member is formed by the support member having a higher corrosion resistance than the die-cast material of the body member.
US11412723B2
A connector for a flexible fishing lure with an interchangeable swimbait is an apparatus used as a fastener for a modular fishing lure. The apparatus includes a lure body, a lure tail, a male connector, and a female connector. The lure body and the lure tail mirror the body and the tail of a live bait. The lure tail is made of soft-plastic material. The lure body is removably connected with the lure body with the male connector and the female connector. The male connector is integrated with the lure tail and the female connector is integrated with the lure body. Moreover, the lure tail is molded around a stabilizing frame and at least one panel of the male connector. The male connector latches with the female connector and is easily separated so that the lure tail may be interchanged.
US11412718B2
A fish tank air hose channel apparatus for channeling and hiding air hoses includes a triangular top housing having a hose aperture extending through a pair of back walls. A pair of clips is coupled to the top housing is configured to engage a rim of a fish tank. A top end of a shaft is coupled to a bottom wall of the top housing around a shaft aperture extending therethrough. A bottom end of the shaft is coupled around an entry aperture extending through a rear face of a base. The base has a plurality of exit apertures extending through a front face to the entry aperture. The apparatus is configured to receive a plurality of air hoses fed through the hose aperture, into the shaft aperture, through the shaft, into the entry aperture of the base and out the plurality of exit apertures.
US11412717B1
An aquarium includes a container defining a perimeter and an aquarium space, a filter space arranged to receive a fluid, and a filter holder coupled to the container. The filter holder defines the filter space and is operable to direct the fluid from the filter space into the container. A pump operates to draw the fluid from the container and a spout is coupled to the pump to selectively receive the fluid. The spout includes a first leg that extends along a first axis and a second leg that extends along a second axis and defines an outlet, The spout is movable along the first axis between an on position in which fluid from the pump flows through the spout and is discharged through the outlet and an off position in which no fluid flows through the spout.
US11412716B2
A floating breakwater and wind energy integrated system used for offshore aquaculture. The system contains the wind turbine system, the floating breakwater system, and offshore aquaculture system. The combination of wind turbine, floating breakwater system and offshore aquaculture system makes full use of the floating breakwater, thus decrease the wave load on the floating cage. In addition, the floating breakwater offers a supporting platform to the floating wind turbine, which effectively reduces the costs of the wind turbine. Meanwhile, a power autarkic offshore aquaculture system may be realized by using the electrical energy generated by the turbine. Compared with the simple offshore aquaculture system, the utilization rate of the sea per unit becomes even higher while the costs of the floating wind turbine becomes even lower.
US11412714B2
A pet monitoring method and a pet monitoring system according to embodiments of the disclosure are provided. The method is described hereinafter. An image is obtained by a photographic device. At least one of an exercise status detection, an excretion status detection and a danger status detection of a pet is performed according to the image. Pet management information is presented on a management interface of a remote device according to a detection result.
US11412711B2
A pet leash includes a loop handle that is configured to fit loosely over a user's wrist or to be held in the user's hand. A sliding cinch member is disposed on the loop handle and is configured to allow a user to adjust the size of the loop between the sliding cinch member and the end of the loop handle, allowing a user to place their hand through the loop and slide the sliding cinch member to make the portion of the loop handle over the user's wrist fit snugly.
US11412706B2
An animal feed trough that includes a base having a triangular configuration defined by a central ridge extending along a length of the base, tapering downwardly and outwardly from the central ridge to define a plurality of feed dishes extending along the length of the base. A body having a side wall panel and opposing, spaced-apart end caps defining an interior for storing a supply of grain is adapted for being mounted on and supported by the base and having an open bottom for gravity flow of grain from the body onto the base and into the plurality of feed dishes. An opening is provided in the body for introducing grain into the interior of the body, and a lid panel is provided for covering and closing the opening in the body.
US11412699B1
A novel soybean variety, designated 5PUMF50 is provided. Also provided are the seeds of soybean variety 5PUMF50, cells from soybean variety 5PUMF50, plants of soybean 5PUMF50, and plant parts of soybean variety 5PUMF50. Methods provided include producing a soybean plant by crossing soybean variety 5PUMF50 with another soybean plant, methods for introgressing a transgenic trait, a mutant trait, and/or a native trait into soybean variety 5PUMF50, methods for producing other soybean varieties or plant parts derived from soybean variety 5PUMF50, and methods of characterizing soybean variety 5PUMF50. Soybean seed, cells, plants, germplasm, breeding lines, varieties, and plant parts produced by these methods and/or derived from soybean variety 5PUMF50 are further provided.
US11412697B1
A novel soybean variety, designated 5PYKF69 is provided. Also provided are the seeds of soybean variety 5PYKF69, cells from soybean variety 5PYKF69, plants of soybean 5PYKF69, and plant parts of soybean variety 5PYKF69. Methods provided include producing a soybean plant by crossing soybean variety 5PYKF69 with another soybean plant, methods for introgressing a transgenic trait, a mutant trait, and/or a native trait into soybean variety 5PYKF69, methods for producing other soybean varieties or plant parts derived from soybean variety 5PYKF69, and methods of characterizing soybean variety 5PYKF69. Soybean seed, cells, plants, germ plasm, breeding lines, varieties, and plant parts produced by these methods and/or derived from soybean variety 5PYKF69 are further provided.
US11412692B2
A soybean cultivar designated 90290600 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar 90290600, to the plants of soybean cultivar 90290600, to the plant parts of soybean cultivar 90290600, and to methods for producing progeny of soybean cultivar 90290600. The invention also relates to methods for producing a soybean plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic soybean plants and plant parts produced by those methods. The invention also relates to soybean cultivars or breeding cultivars, and plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 90290600. The invention also relates to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines, or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 90290600, and to the soybean plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid soybean seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by crossing cultivar 90290600 with another soybean cultivar.
US11412685B1
A novel maize variety designated PH4DP6 and seed, plants and plant parts thereof are provided. Methods for producing a maize plant comprise crossing maize variety PH4DP6 with another maize plant are provided. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into PH4DP6 through backcross conversion and/or transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby are provided. Hybrid maize seed, plants or plant parts are produced by crossing the variety PH4DP6 or a locus conversion of PH4DP6 with another maize variety.
US11412683B2
According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the corn variety designated CV459525. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CV459525, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CV459525 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to corn seeds and plants produced by crossing plants of variety CV459525 with plants of another variety, such as another inbred line. The invention further relates to the inbred and hybrid genetic complements of plants of variety CV459525.
US11412681B2
The present invention provides an inbred corn line designated KDC5164, MIJ6800, MFF7398, or MFX7761, methods for producing a corn plant by crossing plants of the inbred line KDC5164, MIJ6800, MFF7398, or MFX7761 with plants of another corn plant. The invention further encompasses all parts of inbred corn line KDC5164, MIJ6800, MFF7398, or MFX7761, including culturable cells. Additionally provided herein are methods for introducing transgenes into inbred corn line KDC5164, MIJ6800, MFF7398, or MFX7761, and plants produced according to these methods.
US11412680B1
A novel sorghum variety designated 2PAGJ69 and seed, plants, plant parts and plant cells thereof are produced from a cross of inbred sorghum varieties. Methods for producing a sorghum plant comprise crossing hybrid sorghum variety 2PAGJ69 with another sorghum plant. Sorghum variety 2PAGJ69, the seed, the plant produced from the seed, and variants, mutants, and minor modifications of sorghum variety 2PAGJ69 are provided. Methods for producing a sorghum plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into sorghum variety 2PAGJ69 include one or both of backcross conversion and transformation of one or both inbred parents. The sorghum seed, plants and plant parts produced thereby are described.
US11412676B1
A New Guinea Impatiens plant designated SAKIMP063 is disclosed. Embodiments include seeds of New Guinea Impatiens SAKIMP063, plants of New Guinea Impatiens SAKIMP063, to plant parts of New Guinea Impatiens SAKIMP063, and methods for producing an impatiens plant produced by crossing New Guinea Impatiens SAKIMP063 with itself or with another impatiens variety. Embodiments include methods for producing an impatiens plant containing in its genetic material one or more genes or transgenes and transgenic impatiens plants and plant parts produced by those methods. Embodiments also relate to impatiens varieties, breeding varieties, plant parts, and cells derived from New Guinea Impatiens SAKIMP063, methods for producing other impatiens lines or plant parts derived from New Guinea Impatiens SAKIMP063, and the impatiens plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods. Embodiments further include hybrid impatiens seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by crossing New Guinea Impatiens SAKIMP063 with another impatiens variety.
US11412666B2
The present invention relates generally to a rotary-type vegetable cultivation apparatus configured to grow various vegetables in cultivation containers fixed to a drum-shaped loop rotated by the driving of a motor and a cultivation container used in the rotary-type vegetable cultivation apparatus, and more particularly to a rotary vegetable cultivation apparatus and a cultivation container that enable the cultivation of a large quantity of edible vegetables in a narrow installation space and considerably facilitate the harvest and planting of vegetables.
US11412661B2
An agricultural harvester includes a controller configured to receive at least one wing angle signal indicative of an angle at least one wing with respect to a center section of a header. The controller is also configured to receive a wing height position signal indicative of a distance between the at least one wing and a soil surface, determine whether the angle of the at least one wing exceeds an angle limit threshold based at least in part on the wing angle signal, and output a tilt signal to a tilt actuator in response to determining the angle of the wing exceeds the angle limit threshold. The tilt signal is indicative of instructions to maintain the distance between the at least one wing and the soil surface within a target distance threshold.
US11412660B2
A transportable agricultural combine header includes a frame and a wheel assembly attached to the frame. The wheel assembly includes: (a) at least one spindle to which a wheel is configured to be mounted; (b) a rotatable arm connected to and extending from the spindle; (c) a frame attachment structure attaching the at least one spindle and the rotatable arm to the frame; and (d) a suspension system interconnecting the rotatable arm and the frame attachment structure for reducing stress on the frame as the agricultural combine header is transported.
US11412654B2
An agricultural planting machine includes a frame, a row unit supported by the frame, the row unit comprising a disk opener configured to create a furrow for planting agricultural material in a first row and a row cleaner disposed in a path of the disk opener and configured to move residue from the path. A residue shield is configured to shield a second row from the residue.
US11419251B2
A component mounting device includes multiple selector valves corresponding individually to multiple holders disposed on a rotary head and switching between making and breaking communication between a corresponding holder flow path and a negative pressure source, and valve driving devices driving selector valves corresponding to holders, among the multiple holders, located in predetermined revolving positions. The component mounting device executes a negative pressure recovery operation when a suction error has occurred in which the component is not held by suction to the nozzle after suction operation. When a suction error occurs at the nozzle held by the holder, the component mounting device performs the negative pressure recovery operation by waiting for the holder to be rotated to a predetermined revolving position and drives the selector valve corresponding to the holder using the valve driving device to cut off communication between the holder flow path and the negative pressure source.
US11419250B2
A noise suppression sheet comprises a non-magnetic metal layer, a plurality of metal magnetic layers, and a plurality of insulating layers, and the metal magnetic layer and the insulating layer are alternately laminated on the non-magnetic metal layer. The noise suppression sheet can absorb and suppress noise generated from a circuit or the like in an electronic component by being mounted on the electronic component or the like. In the noise suppression sheet, noise is absorbed by each of the metal magnetic layers. Noise that is transmitted without being absorbed by the metal magnetic layer can be reflected by the non-magnetic metal layer and can be absorbed again by the metal magnetic layer, and hence the noise suppression sheet can suppress noise effectively.
US11419247B2
An approach for controlling a working condition of electronic devices via controlling a climate parameter. The approach comprises measuring a climate parameter distribution; feeding the climate parameter distribution to a climate control system; obtaining operational data from each of the electronic devices; feeding the operational data into the climate control system to determine control actions; obtaining activity data about external activities; providing a machine learning algorithm trained with past activity data; feeding new activity data to the machine learning algorithm; feeding the prediction output to the climate control system; generating a current climate map; generating a target climate map; and generating a rearrangement plan with rearrangement steps for the electronic devices.
US11419245B2
A data centre, a method of cooling electrical equipment in a data centre, and a services module for a data centre, are disclosed. The data centre is for accommodating a plurality of racks of IT equipment and comprises: a) a plurality of hot aisles interleaved with a plurality of cold aisles separated by IT equipment rack storage areas; b) an air handling unit configured to supply cooling air to the cold aisles; c) a services area for accommodating at least one UPS switchboard for directing electrical power to a plurality of IT equipment racks, the services area comprising hot and cold zones, a hot zone being separated from a cold zone by at least one of (i) a UPS switchboard storage area and (ii) a partition; wherein, in use, cooling air is supplied to the UPS switchboard storage area from the air handling unit via the cold zone of the services area.
US11419243B2
A system having a rack, an input manifold, an output manifold, and a drain manifold is installed. The rack is configured to support a computing device. The input manifold, the output manifold, and the drain manifold are each configured to be fluidly coupled to the housing. When the computing device is in a first position relative to the rack, the input manifold and the output manifold are fluidly coupled to the housing and the drain manifold is disconnected from the housing. When the computing device is in a second position relative to the rack, the input manifold and the output manifold are disconnected from the housing and the drain manifold is fluidly coupled to the housing. When the computing device is in a third position relative to the rack, the input manifold, the output manifold, and the drain manifold are disconnected from the housing.
US11419242B2
A negative pressure liquid cooling system and a method for controlling a negative pressure liquid cooling system are provided, and the negative pressure liquid cooling system separately controls pressures at an inlet and an outlet of a cold plate, so that the pressures at the inlet and the outlet of the cold plate remain negative. In this way, when a pipeline between the inlet and the outlet of the cold plate is perforated, a pressure at the outlet of the cold plate can be separately controlled to remain negative, so that a coolant is suppressed in the pipeline, and a coolant leakage phenomenon is avoided. Therefore, damage or a security threat to a to-be-cooled electronic device that is caused by leakage of a conductive operating medium such as water is avoided.
US11419240B2
A wireless charger configured to charge a device includes: a charging base disposed at a lower portion of the vertical wireless charger; a support portion disposed over the charging base and configured to support the device being charged; a charging coil disposed in the support portion and configured to charge the device being charged; and a cross-flow fan disposed over the charging base, having a fan air outlet extending in a width direction of the support portion, and configured to dissipate heat away from the device being charged and/or the wireless charger through exhaust air. As such, a size of the vertical wireless charger in a length direction can be reduced, and the wind propagates in a straight line and covers a larger size of the wireless charger in the width direction, thereby improving heat dissipation and increasing wind propagation distance.
US11419239B2
A semiconductor component system includes a motherboard and a cooling system mounted to the motherboard. The cooling system includes sidewalls projecting from the motherboard. A sub-motherboard extends between the sidewalls and is spaced apart from the motherboard. The sidewalls and the sub-motherboard define a cooling channel over the motherboard. A connector is attached to the sub-motherboard and is configured to receive a semiconductor device daughterboard. The connector has contacts to electrically couple the semiconductor device daughterboard to the sub-motherboard.
US11419230B1
An electrical unit may include an electrical unit housing having a first housing member, a second housing member, and/or a third housing member; a circuit board that may be disposed at least partially in the electrical unit housing; a fastener that may be disposed at least partially in the first housing member, the second housing member, the third housing member, and/or the circuit board; and/or a bushing that may be disposed at least partially in the first housing member, the second housing member, and/or the circuit board. The fastener may be disposed at least partially in the bushing.
US11419228B2
Locking mechanisms and separable, repairable (e.g., electronic) devices having locking mechanisms are described herein. In one example, a locking mechanism includes a chassis having a base, a first side wall extending from a surface of the base, and a second side wall extending from the surface of the base. A cavity is provided in a volume formed by the first side wall, the second side wall, and the surface of the base, wherein the cavity is configured to receive a mating component of the device. The locking mechanism also includes a cantilevered plate having a first end and a second, opposite end, wherein the cantilevered plate is attached to the first side wall of the chassis at or adjacent to the first end, and wherein the second end of the cantilevered plate is positioned with the cavity.
US11419220B2
A method for protecting a substrate from corrosion, which method comprises in sequence: a first step including plasma polymerization of a precursor monomer and deposition of the resultant polymer onto at least one surface of a substrate; a second step including exposing the polymer to an inert gas in the presence of a plasma without further deposition of polymer onto the or each surface of the substrate; a third step including plasma polymerization of the precursor monomer used in the first step and deposition of the resultant polymer onto the polymer deposited in the first step so as to increase the thickness of the polymer; and optionally, a fourth step including exposing the polymer to an inert gas in the presence of a plasma without further deposition of polymer onto the or each surface of the substrate.
US11419216B2
A display device includes: a panel including a plurality of panel pads; a circuit board including a plurality of connection pads corresponding to the plurality of panel pads, respectively; and a layer disposed between the panel and the circuit board and including a plurality of conductive particles. The layer includes: an overlapping portion that overlaps the plurality of panel pads and the plurality of connection pads in a first direction; and a non-overlapping portion that does not overlap the plurality of panel pads and the plurality of connection pads in the first direction. In the non-overlapping portion, the conductive particles are adjacent to one side of one panel pad of adjacent panel pads in a second direction intersecting the first direction.
US11419205B1
A circuit board structure and a layout structure thereof are proposed. The layout structure includes at least one signal transmission line, at least one bonding pad, and at least one impedance adjusting wire. The signal transmission line, the bonding pad, and the impedance adjusting wire are disposed on a first circuit board. The impedance adjusting wire is electrically connected between the signal transmission line and the bonding pad. The impedance adjusting wire is disposed along a periphery of the bonding pad, and at least partially surrounds the bonding pad.
US11419203B2
A method and system for generating EUV light includes providing a laser beam having a Gaussian distribution. This laser beam can be then modified from a Gaussian distribution to a ring-like distribution. The modified laser beam is provided through an aperture in a collector and interfaces with a moving droplet target, which generates an extreme ultraviolet (EUV) wavelength light. The generated EUV wavelength light is provided to the collector away from the aperture. In some embodiments, a mask element may also be used to modify the laser beam to a shape.
US11419201B2
Systems and methods for providing dynamic lighting are provided. In an exemplary aspect, one or more characteristics of light provided from a lighting device or a group of lighting devices changes over time to shape the environment of an indoor space according to dynamic lighting instructions. Dynamic lighting may improve the health or wellbeing of individuals in an indoor space, for example, by simulating an outdoor environment to reduce stress, by providing circadian entrainment to improve sleep and wakefulness, or the like. Other aspects of the present disclosure enable lighting devices to provide light that is synchronized with one or more other devices and does not significantly drift over time so that the lighting devices can provide seamless dynamic lighting experiences that shape the environment of an indoor space.
US11419198B2
A light sensor and control method thereof, which controls the light sensor comprising a first light emitted element, a second light emitted element, a first light sensing element and a control circuit. The light wavelength of the second light emitted element is greater than the light wavelength of the first light emitted element. The control circuit is coupled to the first and second light elements and the first light sensing element. When the display of an electronic device is in a light-up status, the control circuit switches on the first light emitted element to emit light; when the display of the electronic device is in a light-off status, the control circuit switches on the second light emitted element to emit light. Thus, it will prevent from the influence to the image of the display, and obtained the better sensing ability.
US11419196B2
A warning light control system based on dangerous behavior detection includes a plurality of red light-emitting diodes, a plurality of blue light-emitting diodes, a control element, a circuit board, and a lampshade. The plurality of red light-emitting diodes and the plurality of blue light-emitting diodes are disposed at one end of the circuit board. The control element is disposed at another end of the circuit board. The lampshade is disposed above the plurality of red light-emitting diodes, the plurality of blue light-emitting diodes, the control element, and the circuit board. The lampshade comprises a lens for concentrating and emitting light uniformly. The lampshade is fixed on a top of a police car. Wherein, the number of the plurality of red light-emitting diodes is equal to the number of the plurality of blue light-emitting diodes. The system acts a deterrent effect on the dangerous behavior.
US11419184B2
Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for multiple radio access technology communications. One method includes receiving at a user equipment, from a first radio access technology, resources for a second radio access technology. The method includes receiving at the user equipment, from the first radio access technology, sidelink radio bearer configuration information.
US11419181B2
The application relates to a device control method and apparatus, a storage medium, a processor, a terminal, and a computer program product. The device control method includes: detecting multiple devices, wherein each of the multiple devices has a data network connection module and a Bluetooth connection module, each device can establish a connection with a wireless network node through the respective data network connection module, and the multiple devices are connected to each other in a Bluetooth network through the respective Bluetooth connection modules; acquiring the signal strength of each device in the multiple devices to establish a connection with the wireless network node through the respective data network connection modules; determining one or more first devices with the highest signal strength in the multiple devices; controlling one or more first devices to establish a connection with the wireless network node through the data network connection module; and deactivating or idling the data network connection modules of other devices than the first device in the multiple devices. The technical solution of the application can effectively reduce the load of wireless network nodes.
US11419176B2
Disclosed in the present disclosure are a data transmission method and apparatus. The method comprises: a network device sends data to a target terminal, and instructs the target terminal to send the data to a first device group, wherein the first device group comprises at least two terminals; the target terminal receives the data sent by the network device; and the target terminal sends the data to the first device group on the basis of the instruction of the network device, wherein the first device group comprises at least two terminals.
US11419170B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a network device may determine that a ping-pong condition is satisfied with regard to a Long Term Evolution (LTE) radio access technology (RAT) and a New Radio (NR) RAT. The network device may configure a dual connectivity mode for the UE based at least in part on the ping-pong condition being satisfied. The network device may cause the UE to deprioritize the NR RAT based at least in part on the ping-pong condition being satisfied. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US11419156B2
In some embodiments, a wireless device receives one or more messages including one or more configuration parameters of a cell. The one or more configuration parameters indicate physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) resources for transmission of a message A (MsgA) payload of a two-step random-access procedure of the cell. The wireless device transmits, via a first PUSCH resource of the PUSCH resources, the MsgA payload for the two-step random-access procedure. Based on completing the two-step random-access procedure, the wireless device releases the PUSCH resources.
US11419150B2
A terminal device for use in a wireless telecommunications network, the terminal device comprising: first receiver circuitry configured to receive a first signal from each of one or more signal emitting devices located at respective spatial positions; transmitter circuitry configured to transmit a second signal to infrastructure equipment of the wireless telecommunications network; second receiver circuitry configured to receive a third signal from the infrastructure equipment, the third signal being transmitted by the infrastructure equipment in response to the infrastructure equipment receiving the second signal, the third signal being for determining, in combination with the first signal received from each of the one or more signal emitting devices, the spatial position of the terminal device, and the third signal being comprised within a predetermined system information block (SIB); and control circuitry configured to determine a spatial position of the terminal device based on the received first and third signals.
US11419146B2
The present invention constructs L RLC PDUs, where L is larger than 1; and submit the L RLC PDUs to a medium access control (MAC) layer for a transmission opportunity. The L RLC PDUs include a first RLC PDU having a poll to trigger status reporting at a receiving device and a second RLC PDU not having the poll and having a highest sequence number (SN) among SNs of the L RLC PDUs. The present invention sets a state variable to a highest SN among SNs of RLC PDUs having the poll submitted to the MAC layer, upon submitting the first RLC PDU to the MAC layer.
US11419126B2
One embodiment of the present disclosure provides a method for a first device carrying out Long-Term Evolution (LTE) sidelink (SL) communication via downlink control information (DCI). The method comprises the steps of: receiving DCI from a NR base station via a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH); on the basis of the DCI, acquiring a first timing offset, and a second timing offset which is associated with LTE SL communication; and carrying out LTE SL communication from the time point of the very first LTE SL communication determined on the basis of the first timing offset and the second timing offset.
US11419101B2
Three-dimensional (3D) depth imaging systems and methods are disclosed for assessing an orientation with respect to a container. A 3D-depth camera captures 3D image data of a shipping container. A container feature assessment application determines a representative container point cloud and (a) converts the 3D image data into 2D depth image data; (b) compares the 2D depth image data to one or more template image data; (c) performs segmentation to extract 3D point cloud features; (d) determines exterior features of the shipping container and assesses the exterior features using an exterior features metric; (e) determines interior features of the shipping container and assesses the interior features using an interior features metric; and (f) generates an orientation adjustment instruction for indicating to an operator to orient the 3D-depth camera in a second direction for use during a shipping container loading session, wherein the second direction is different than the first direction.
US11419100B2
Example information transmission methods, and apparatus are described. One example information transmission method includes determining resources for carrying N pieces of uplink control information (UCI) that partly overlap or completely overlap in time domain. The N pieces of UCI comprise at least one piece of beam channel quality information and at least one of a piece of channel state information or an acknowledgement (ACK)/a negative acknowledgement (NACK). A priority of the beam channel quality information is higher than a priority of the channel state information. A priority of the beam channel quality information is lower than a priority of the ACK/NACK.
US11419095B2
Disclosed in the present invention are a data transmission method, a terminal device, a network device and a computer storage medium. The method includes: determining, by the terminal device, a transmission waveform used by a first channel; and performing, by the terminal device, data transmission on the first channel according to the transmission waveform.
US11419091B2
A user equipment (UE) enhances positioning performance using Evolved Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) Terrestrial Radio Access Network (E-UTRAN) New Radio (NR)-Dual connectivity (EN-DC) based on an indication from the E-UTRAN base station that it is capable of EN-DC, e.g., in the upper layer indication of SIB2. When in idle mode, a UE that supports EN-DC and that has multiple carrier subscriptions may check the availability of EN-DC on both subscriptions that are camped on E-UTRAN base stations and use the subscription with EN-DC when a positioning session is initiated, e.g., from an emergency call. If one subscription is camped on a E-UTRAN base station and the other on an NR base station, the UE may use the E-UTRAN base station if EN-DC is supported or may use the NR base station if EONR and location based services are supported. A list of E-UTRAN base stations capable of EN-DC may be generated and used for selections of base stations to connect to or to prioritize during a handover procedure.
US11419088B2
An emitter positioning method based on spectrum monitoring big data processing comprises the following steps: station monitoring data obtaining, multi-station spectrum monitoring data-based emitter direction finding, multi-station spectrum monitoring data-based emitter cross positioning, and emitter continuous positioning.
US11419087B2
Systems and methods of determining a location of a mobile computing device associated with a real-time locating system are provided. For instance, a mobile computing device can determine a first location of the mobile computing device. The mobile computing device can then receive acoustic-contextual data that is correlated with the first location of the mobile computing device. The acoustic-contextual data can include data associated with one or more transmitting devices, and data associated with an environment proximate the one or more transmitting devices. The mobile computing device can receive one or more signals from at least one of the one or more transmitting devices, and can determine a more accurate second location of the mobile computing device based at least in part on the acoustic-contextual data and the one or more received signals.
US11419084B1
A method for transporting time synchronization information in a wireless network comprising a first wireless node and a second wireless node. The method comprising: transmitting, by the first wireless node, a first message at a first time, the first message comprising a first timestamp; receiving, by the second wireless node, the first message at a second time; transmitting, by the second wireless node, a second message at a third time in response to receiving the first message, the second message comprising a second timestamp. The method further comprising transmitting, by the first wireless node, a third message; receiving by the second wireless node, the third message; and generating a timing correction value based, in part, on the contents of the first message, the second message and the third message.
US11419082B2
A method for synchronizing a first device and a second device, the first device and the second device being connectable via a wireless link. The method comprises generating (202), at the first device, a synchronization signal comprising a sequence of signals, wherein each of the signals in the sequence has a first frequency; transmitting (204) the sequence of signals from the first device to the second device; performing (206), at the second device, signal processing of the sequence of signals to determine relative phase information of each of the signals in the sequence; and synchronizing (208), based on the determined relative phase information, the first device and the second device by correcting phase offset of subsequent individual signals transmitted from the first device to the second device.
US11419061B2
In SIB2 there is an entry containing information on PUSCH power control parameters. The current signaling entity is extended with entries that are dependent on UE operational altitude. For example, an altitude-dependent factor for the alpha parameter, or one parameter range for zero (ground level, default as per of today), one parameter range for intermediate altitude operation, and one entry for high-altitude operations, so that an airborne UE can select its appropriate power control parameters.
US11419056B2
Disclosed is a power control method. The method includes: receiving downlink control information (DCI), where the DCI carries a transmit power control (TPC) command; determining a closed loop power control index of the TPC command in the DCI; and updating a closed loop power control part corresponding to the closed loop power control index in transmit power of a first communication node according to the TPC command. Also disclosed are a power control device, a first communication node, a second communication node, and a computer storage medium.
US11419046B2
Methods and systems for performing multi-domain network slice selection and approval are provided. According to one aspect, a method performed by a Network Slice Selection Function comprises: receiving, from a requesting entity, a request for a network slice for use by a client device; upon determining that the network slice selection requires approval, identifying an Authorizing Network Function (ANF) for authorizing a network slice for the client device; determining a trust status of the ANF; identifying, based on the trust status, a network interface to use when communicating with the ANF; sending a slice selection authorization request to the ANF via the identified network interface; receiving from the ANF an approval status of a network slice; determining, based on the approval status and approval conditions, an allowed network slice; and sending, to the requesting entity, information including the allowed network slice.
US11419045B2
A method includes learning, by at least one device associated with a slice selection function, a slice reselection decision for at least one self-operation case. The method includes determining, by the at least one device associated with the slice selection function, whether an evaluation condition for at least one new self-operation case has been met. The at least one new self-operation case includes the at least one self-operation case. The method also includes requesting, at least one device associated with a management function, evaluate the at least one new self-operation case in response to determining that the evaluation condition has been met, receiving evaluation results from the at least one device associated with the management function, and learning the evaluation results.
US11419042B2
A wireless device receives message(s) comprising configuration parameters of cells comprising a first secondary cell. The wireless device may receive a downlink transport block comprising MAC CE(s) indicating activation of the first secondary cell. A MAC CE, in the MAC CE(s), may comprise a first field with a first value indicating triggering transmission of reference signal(s) that are used in activation of the first secondary cell. The wireless device may activate the first secondary cell based on the reference signal(s).
US11419039B2
A system and method for allocating network resources are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, the system and method are configured to perform: transmitting a message to a wireless communication device through a first channel. In some embodiments, the message indicates a portion of system information that is configured to be transmitted through a second channel different from the first channel.
US11419033B2
A method of controlling communications within a wireless communications network is provided. The method comprises receiving, at a first of the infrastructure equipment acting as a donor node connected to a core network part of a wireless communications network, signals representing data from a second of the infrastructure equipment over a first communications path via one or more other infrastructure equipment acting as relay nodes, receiving, at the first infrastructure equipment, assistance information from at least one of the second infrastructure equipment and the one or more other infrastructure equipment acting as the relay nodes, and determining, by one of the first infrastructure equipment and the one or more other infrastructure equipment acting as the relay nodes in the case that the assistance information satisfies a trigger condition, that the second infrastructure equipment should communicate with the first infrastructure equipment over a second communications path.
US11419031B2
A method of operation of a wireless communication device to perform handover from a source cell to a target cell in a wireless communication system is provided. The wireless communication device performs (202) a beam tracking procedure for one or more neighbor cells to provide, for each neighbor cell, a list of tracked beams for the neighbor cell. The wireless communication device receives (212) a handover command from a source radio access node that instructs the wireless communication device to perform a handover from a source cell served by the source radio access node to a target cell served by a target radio access node. The target cell is one of the one or more neighbor cells for which the beam tracking procedure is performed. The wireless communication device then selects (214) a beam of the target cell from the list of tracked beams for the target cell based on random access resource configuration and/or a quality threshold. The wireless communication device then performs (216) random access on the selected beam.
US11419018B2
A method may include determining that a user equipment (UE) device is a dual connectivity device capable of communicating via a Fifth Generation (5G) network and a non-5G network. The method may also include receiving, a radio resource control (RRC) connection request, establishing an RRC connection with the UE device and determining whether the first wireless station is a dual connectivity wireless station. The method may further include initiating, in response to determining that the first wireless station is not a dual connectivity wireless station, a handover of a wireless connection to the UE device from the first wireless station to a second wireless station that is a dual connectivity wireless station, or identifying, in response to determining that the first wireless station is a dual connectivity wireless station, a 5G wireless station in the 5G network to act as a serving cell for the UE device.
US11419013B2
A communication path switching method and device, where the method includes receiving, by a first base station, a first message from a first terminal, where the first message requesting to switch the first terminal from a first path for independently accessing a network to a second path for accessing the network using a second terminal, and the first base station serves the first terminal, determining, by the first base station according to the first message, a second base station serving the second terminal, obtaining, by the first base station, configuration information from the second base station, where the configuration information enabling the first terminal to access the network using the second terminal, and sending, by the first base station, the configuration information to the first terminal. Therefore, communication path switching for different complex application scenarios can be implemented.
US11419012B2
An interworking gateway for X2 interface communication is disclosed, comprising: an X2 internal interface for communicating with, and coupled to, a plurality of radio access networks (RANs) using a X2AP protocol; a database for associating each of the plurality of RANs with support status for an X2AP protocol version; an X2AP interworking broker for determining, based on communications with each of the plurality of RANs via the X2 internal interface, the support status for an X2AP protocol version for each of the plurality of RANs, the communications further comprising an observed response to a X2AP message of a first X2AP protocol version; and an X2 external interface for communicating with, and coupled to, a destination outside of the plurality of RANs.
US11419011B2
Disclosed herein are systems and methods for dynamically selecting network paths for data transmission in a virtual overlay network created and maintained across multiple communication networks managed by service providers. The simple creation and management of network overlays is accomplished via a network orchestrator manager, allowing for automation of configuration of connected network devices throughout an entire organization's network, regardless of the physical location of each device. Further, error correcting information can be transferred across a different network path than a plurality of data packets, in accordance with a designated bonding policy.
US11419010B2
Example information transmission methods and apparatus are described. One example method includes determining first information by a relay node, where the first information includes at least one of the following information: a buffer status at a granularity of the relay node, a buffer status at a granularity of an RB between the relay node and at least one first node, a buffer status at a granularity of each first node in the at least one first node, and a buffer status at a granularity of an RB between each first node in the at least one first node and a child node, where the at least one first node is a child node of the relay node. A first packet that carries the first information is sent by the relay node to a second node.
US11419007B2
The disclosed technology is directed towards load balancing in an adaptive and automated way for wireless mobility networks to improve the overall harmonic-average UE throughput within each controlled group of cells (e.g., different frequency carriers serving a sector of a base station). A load balancer (e.g., analytics component) obtains various device traffic data including throughput data for cells of a group. Pairs of cells in a group (sharing a site and face) can be selected based on satisfying various criteria, with estimated throughput gain achieved by changing the handoff rates between the cell pairs. The technology iteratively repeats the overall process, driving a system to an optimal equilibrium.
US11419004B2
A method for optimizing the processing of logical channels when multiple transport formats are to be served is provided. In certain aspects, instead of filling sequentially each transport format one by one, the protocol packets to be transmitted by the transport block are concurrently constructed. This may be accomplished, for instance, by taking into consideration the requirements of the data (for example, latency and reliability) to be transmitted as well as the characteristics of the available transport format (for example, size, expected channel quality, transmission length, etc.).
US11418979B2
The embodiments herein relate to dynamic backup AMF determination and publication. In one embodiment, there proposes a method (900) in a Access and (Start Mobility Management Function (AMF) node (201, 202, 203, 204, 1100), comprising: obtaining (S901) first information of the AMF node (201, 202, 203, 204, 1100), the first information at least includes one or more identifier; obtaining (S902) second information of each of all other nodes (201, 203, 204, 1200) within the same AMF set as the AMF node (201, 202, 203, 204, 1100), the second information includes Relative Capacity (RC) and one or more identifier; and determining (S903) backup AMF for at least one identifier of the AMF (201, 202, 203, 204, 1100) based on the first information and the second information in an autonomous way, without the participation of the Operation Administration and Maintenance (OAM) (206). With embodiments herein, the backup AMF information is determined per GUAMI granularity and published automatically among all AMFs within the AMF set in an autonomous way.
US11418976B2
A method may include obtaining multiple first parameters associated with a wireless network. The first parameters include one or more environment-specific parameters and one or more packet-specific parameters. The method may include generating a metric from a combination of the first parameters. The method may include, in response to determining to adjust the performance of the wireless network based on the metric, determining one or more operating parameters to adjust. The method may include adjusting the performance of the wireless network by adjusting the one or more operating parameters.
US11418971B2
A beamforming integrated circuit system is configured to optimize performance. Among other things, the system may run at a lower power than conventional integrated circuits, selectively disable branches to control certain system functions, and/or selectively position ground pads around receiving pads to enhance isolation. The system also may use a beamforming integrated circuit as a distribution circuit for a number of similar or like beamforming integrated circuits.
US11418969B2
A network design tool enables users to easily and quickly graphically design a model of a wireless communication network in a process control environment. Specifically, the network design tool may provide an interactive user interface including a canvas that enables users to design network models by way of the users placing and arranging within the canvas symbols representing model devices and links. The tool may dynamically indicate the strengths of communication links at potential locations as the user moves a pointer or cursor around the canvas, and may automatically suggest devices to be added to desired locations. After a desired device has been selected, the tool may automatically connect the selected device to other devices in the model based on an analysis of the plant environment, real-world positions of the existing devices and the new device, and signaling attributes of the existing devices and the new device.
US11418966B2
The present disclosure a method and a device in a UE and a base station used for wireless communications. A first node performs Q energy detection(s) on a first sub-band to obtain Q detection value(s); and determines based on the Q detection value(s) that a first radio signal is transmitted on the first sub-band at a first instant of time; performs P energy detection(s) on a second sub-band to obtain P detection value(s); and transmits or drops transmitting a second radio signal on the second sub-band at the first instant of time; each of the Q energy detection(s) is associated with a first antenna port group; when each of the P energy detection(s) is associated with the first antenna port group, the P is P1, otherwise the P is P2. The present disclosure is advantageous in ensuring fairness in the contention for spectrum occupancy in multicarrier-supporting Unlicensed Spectrum communications.
US11418964B2
A network node is arranged to provide communication at least in an unlicensed band where clear channel assessment, CCA, is required before transmissions. The unlicensed band comprises a plurality of carriers, or sets of carriers, defining channels. The network node is arranged to prepare code block groups comprising code blocks from transport blocks, which transport blocks each comprises a payload intended for a respective receiver, wherein each code block comprises a checksum enabling a hybrid automatic repeat request, HARQ, procedure on a per code block group basis, map the code block groups to a wideband signal comprising a consecutive set of channels on the carriers of the unlicensed band, assess whether the channels, respectively, are clear, and transmit the code block groups mapped on the channels which are clear and omit transmissions of code block groups mapped on channels that are not clear, wherein the assessment and the transmissions are performed within a first time interval, and transmit code blocks groups omitted to be transmitted using the HARQ procedure for retransmission prior receiving a non-acknowledgement, NAK, from a respective receiver of the code block group.
US11418963B2
The disclosed technology provides a system and method for provisioning network resource slices to wireless network operators where the network slices are supported by a single modular cell (e.g., a small cell) shared between, e.g., multiple different wireless network operators.
US11418956B2
Techniques are described to detect and/or prevent malicious wireless attacks and/or suspicious wireless activity related to a wireless network in a commercial passenger vehicle. For example, an access point located in the commercial passenger vehicle receives a set of wireless beacon frames from a first wireless device, makes a first determination of a first beacon frame rate of the set of wireless beacon frames, receives a second beacon frame after a first beacon frame, makes a second determination of a second beacon frame rate of the second beacon frame relative to the first beacon frame, makes a third determination that a second wireless device is impersonating the first wireless device upon comparing the first beacon frame rate to the second beacon frame rate, and sends, upon making the third determination, a security alert message to an external input/output (I/O) device in the commercial passenger vehicle.
US11418949B2
A video stream from a user device that is destined for a recipient device is received at a core network of a wireless carrier network. The video stream has a video quality that at least meets a quality threshold for behavioral biometric analysis. A determination of whether a video privacy policy for the user device permits transmission of the video stream of the video quality to the recipient device is made. In response to the video privacy policy not permitting the transmission of the video stream of the video quality, the video quality of the video stream is downgraded to generate a downgraded video stream that prevents behavioral biometric analysis for transmission to the recipient device. However, in response to the video privacy policy permitting the transmission of the video stream of the video quality, the video stream of the video quality is transmitted to the recipient device.
US11418941B2
A technique is provided that is related to a terminal apparatus, a base station apparatus, a communication method, and an integrated circuit which enable efficient communication. A terminal apparatus includes a receiver configured to receive, from a base station apparatus, a message requesting mobility history information, and a transmitter configured to notify the base station apparatus of the mobility history information, based on the message. The mobility history information includes a list including identifier information (first identifier information) of a cell of a first radio access technology, and a list including identifier information (second identifier information) of a cell of a second radio access technology. The mobility history information includes stay time information of a limited number of entries, each corresponding to a visit by the terminal apparatus in a cell and/or outside a network.
US11418940B1
Systems and methods are provided for mitigating denial of service attacks in a communications network. Based on a determination that requests to access an E11 resource exceeds a threshold, it may be determined that a denial of service attack attempt is occurring. One or more mitigation protocols can be used to block, filter, or re-route attempts that are associated with the denial of service attack. Association with the denial of service attack can be identified based on a distance between the user devices associated with the requests and a time period for which the requests were originated.
US11418935B2
A system, automobile, and method for implementing an electronic control function of an automobile. The system includes a first vehicle integration unit (VIU), an automobile control unit, and a plurality of automobile parts. The automobile control unit includes a first domain controller (DC) or a central computing platform (CCP). The automobile control unit is configured to send first control information to the first VIU. The first VIU is configured to control the plurality of automobile parts based on the first control information. In embodiments of this application, the first VIU controls the plurality of automobile parts.
US11418920B2
Methods, systems, and computer-readable media are disclosed for verifying geolocation data provided with an electronic content request received from a mobile device. One method includes: receiving, over a network, a content request including a unique identifier and geolocation data; determining a unique device identifier of a mobile device based on the received unique identifier; transmit, over the network, a verification request that requests geolocation data of the mobile device, the verification request including the unique identifier of the mobile device; receiving, over the network, verified geolocation data of the mobile device in response to the transmitted verification request; verifying the geolocation data included with the content request based on the verified geolocation data; and transmitting, over the network, a verification result.
US11418919B1
A method and system for recommending locations based on audience interaction metrics is provided. In various embodiments, recommendations for actions at a location are generated based on existing location data and audience metrics at the existing locations. In various embodiments, recommendation data is generated for existing locations based on similarity to a first selected location. In various embodiments, location recommendation data is generated based on a selection of audience metrics of certain degrees of interaction. In various embodiments, negligible and non-existent audience interactions are substitutes to generate an optimized location recommendation.
US11418917B2
A device receives, in a first sequence (501) of transmission frames (202) of a wireless channel, first positioning reference signals (151, 152) from a first base station. The device receives, in a second sequence (502) of transmission frames (202) which is at least partly different from the first sequence (501), second positioning reference signals (153, 154) from a second base station. A time-difference of arrival (TDOA) is determined based on the first positioning reference signals (151, 152) and the second positioning reference signals (153, 154).
US11418908B1
A method of presenting data on a mobile device is provided, comprising reading a compass and an accelerometer for sensing orientation and movement of the mobile device, initiating a local geographic search or query by pointing the mobile device in a desired direction, determining a boundary for search results, the boundary based on a current location of the mobile device, providing the boundary to a server, storing (a) search rules for a given location, (b) localized storage of POI data, and (c) logic for switching the search from a macro database to a micro database, and initiating a geographic query for points of interest (POIs) that have an associated geographic position within the boundary.
US11418897B2
An apparatus includes a housing configured to be positioned within an ear canal of a recipient, at least one transducer, and at least one communication circuit. The at least one transducer is configured to respond to sound within the ear canal by generating output signals indicative of the sound. The at least one communication circuit has at least one resonance frequency and is configured to receive the output signals from the at least one transducer and to modulate the at least one resonance frequency in response to the output signals from the at least one transducer.
US11418892B2
A hearing device has an acceleration sensor that measure along three mutually perpendicular measurement axis. A movement of the hearing aid wearer is deduced from acceleration data of the acceleration sensor issued in an acceleration signal, a movement plane of the movement of the hearing aid wearer is derived from the acceleration data, a movement axis and a movement direction of the movement are ascertained from the acceleration data, and the presence of a rotational movement of the head is deduced on the basis of the movement plane, the movement axis and the movement direction. A direction of view probability distribution is created from the detected rotational movements, in particular on the basis of a yaw angle ascertained in the process. The direction of view probability distribution specifies a probability that the actual direction of view of the hearing aid wearer extends along an assigned angle.
US11418883B2
An audio interface apparatus includes a communication apparatus configured to receive first time-series sound data from a computing device, an input circuit including an input port configured to be coupled with a sound input apparatus, an output circuit including an output port configured to be coupled with a sound output apparatus, a memory, and a processor. The processor is configured to: store, in the memory, the first time-series sound data, to output, to the output circuit, the first time-series sound data stored in the memory, to acquire a second time-series sound data from the input circuit, to store, in the memory, the second time-series sound data, to generate an identifier for synchronizing the second time-series sound data with the first time-series sound data, and to transmit, to the computing device, the second time-series sound data and the identifier.
US11418882B2
A device that includes an adaptive acoustic detection circuit and an acoustic sensor device such as a microphone is described. The device includes in addition to the sensor a circuit configured to detect when an input stimulus to the sensor satisfies an adaptive threshold, and further configured to produce a signal upon detection that causes adjustment of performance of the device, wherein the adaptive threshold is a threshold value that varies over time in accordance with detected changes to sound of an environment in which the device is located.
US11418877B2
An electronic apparatus is provided. The electronic apparatus includes a microphone and a processor configured to, based on a second sound including a first sound of an audio signal being received through the microphone, obtain a noise about the electronic apparatus based on the audio signal and the second sound, obtain an enduring component of the noise, and based on the enduring component being equal to or greater than a threshold value, process the audio signal.
US11418876B2
Systems and methods for detecting and acknowledging audio transmissions containing data. In one embodiment, a method is presented that includes receiving multiple audio signals that are detected by multiple receivers from within a service area. A first audio transmission may be detected in a first subset of the audio signal that are received by a first subset of the receivers. The first subset of the receivers may be positioned to receive audio transmissions from computing devices located within a first portion of the service area. At least one transmitter may be identified that is positioned to transmit audio transmissions to computing devices located within at least a subset of the first portion of the service area. A second audio transmission may be transmitted using the at least one first transmitter.
US11418874B2
A first digital signal processor (DSP) associated with a first user outputs audio to the first user via first headphones, and captures speech from the first user via a first microphone. Similarly, a second DSP associated with a second user outputs audio to the second user via second headphones, and captures speech from the second user via a second microphone. The first DSP is coupled to the second DSP in order to allow the first and second users to share music and communicate with one another. The first user may speak into the first microphone, and the first and second DSPs may then interoperate to output that speech to the second user without substantially disrupting audio output to the second user. Each of the first and second users may also select between first and second audio sources that may be coupled to the first and second DSPs, respectively.
US11418873B2
An acoustic microphone assembly for surveillance into a protected space includes a microphone including a transducer and a diagram adapted for picking up acoustic sound waves, electronic circuitry for processing input, a power source, and an audio output wire or trace for delivering processed digital sound to a sound system, a cover plate having at least two bolt openings for mounting to a base plate on a wall or structure the cover plate covering an opening there through into the protected space, the cover plate accepting an orthogonal mounting of the microphone, and a sound diffraction pattern of different sized openings placed through the cover plate, the sound diffraction pattern located in alignment to the mounted microphone head and having a foot print roughly equal to the circumference of the head of the microphone.
US11418866B2
A voice-activated encoding method includes determining a voice power parameter based on a frequency domain representation of a voice signal from a voice microphone. The method includes determining an ambient power parameter based on a frequency domain representation of at least one ambient signal from at least one ambient microphone spaced from the voice microphone. The method also includes enabling encoding of an audio signal based on the voice signal in response to comparing the power parameters and a threshold value. A headset including a controller may use the method to determine whether to enable or disable encoding, transmission, or both of an audio signal to another device.
US11418864B2
A modular head-wearable loudspeaker system includes a headphones module and an earphones module, including a principal earphone. The principal earphone includes an earphone loudspeaker, an audio signal processor, an earphone wireless interface, an earphone audio output, and an earphone microphone input. The headphones module includes two earcups interconnected by a flexible headband and comprising respective headphone loudspeakers, a headphone microphone, a mechanical earphone attachment interface detachably attached to the principal earphone, a headphone audio input communicatively connected to the headphone loudspeakers and detachably communicatively connected to the earphone audio output, and a headphone microphone output communicatively connected to the headphone microphone and detachably communicatively connected to the earphone microphone input.
US11418863B2
A system for providing shower entertainment. The system includes a horizontally extendable shower rod including a first portion and a second portion, wherein the second portion is configured to retract into and extend from a channel disposed within the first portion, a plurality of lights disposed along an exterior surface of the shower rod, a plurality of speakers configured for playing sounds, a processor communicably coupled to the plurality of lights and the plurality of speakers, the processor configured for receiving audio data, via radio frequency, and playing said audio data on the plurality of speakers, and activating and deactivating the plurality of lights; and a rechargeable battery configured for providing power to the plurality of lights, the plurality of speakers and the processor.
US11418855B2
Methods and apparatus are disclosed for video transmission using tokens. According to one example, computer-readable storage media storing computer-readable instructions, which when executed by a computer having at least one processor, cause the computer to: generate a video including an animation of an avatar object of a distributor generated on the basis of motion data regarding a motion of the distributor and an animation of a token object given by a viewer to the distributor operating according to a predetermined rule; and transmit, toward a plurality of viewer terminals via a communication line, coordinate data including data regarding coordinates of the token object associated with a reference time, and audio data regarding a voice of the distributor associated with the reference time.
US11418843B2
Provided are a method and a device for forwarding a video-on-demand flow, which may be applied to a network with virtualization of network functions. In an example of the method, for a Virtual Broadband Remote Access Server (vBRAS) Service Orchestrator (vBRASSO) managing at least one vBRAS in a vBRAS resource pool in the network with virtualization of network functions, if a particular vBRAS completes user authentication, the vBRASSO determines a Point Of Presence (POP) switch for forwarding a video-on-demand flow to the user based on the user information from the vBRAS, and notifies the POP switch of a route for forwarding the video-on-demand flow to the user in such a way that the POP switch advertises the route to a core router configured to receive the video-on-demand flow from a video-playing source in the network with virtualization of network functions.
US11418841B2
A method includes determining, at a media device, a rating associated with an advertisement. The method also includes receiving, at the media device, information from one or more sensors, where the information indicates that a viewer (e.g., a child) is located within an area associated with the media device. The method includes determining whether the advertisement includes age-inappropriate content for the viewer based on the rating and based on the information. When the advertisement includes age-inappropriate content for the viewer, the method includes inhibiting display of the advertisement.
US11418836B2
A handset or other end device in a local service domain receives video service notifications. The video service notifications can provide information to a user of the end device about a video service (e.g., a television program or a movie) available within a local network. The video service notification can include a request for a response to the notification, with the request having a corresponding URI or other type of link to cause a desired action (e.g., to commence recording or playing content associated with a particular video service). A mobile device configurable for direct communication in a wide area wireless network can join a local service domain and receive services through a gateway of that local service domain.
US11418834B2
Techniques are described for synchronizing internet (“over the top”) video streams for simultaneous playback. In particular, techniques are described to improve the performance and accuracy of stream synchronization among participant media player applications playing a same video content item, for example, as part of a “watch party.” The techniques can be further augmented to allow interaction between the users watching the presentation, e.g., by sending messages to other users or by annotating the video presentation with comments, and can be further used to enable “cross device control,” a feature that enables multiple users, or a single user with multiple devices, to control a shared video playback session on another device. For example, two users watching a streaming video on a set-top box connected to a TV in their living room could each use an app on their respective smart phones to pause/play/seek the playback session, providing a more collaborative experience.
US11418832B2
Disclosed are a video processing method an electronic device and a computer-readable storage medium. The electronic device includes a display screen. The video processing method includes: obtaining an audio stream and a video stream by parsing a video file; wherein the video file is an online video; generating a subtitle stream based on the audio stream; obtaining a target video stream by synthesizing the subtitle stream and the video stream; and displaying the target video stream on the display screen.
US11418830B2
A receiving device receives from a base unit across a network an instruction stream that includes drawing commands for producing graphic frames of a user interface. The receiving device is connected to a display. The receiving device parses the instruction stream to determine the drawing commands and their arguments. The receiving device executes the drawing commands in a graphics engine of the receiving device to generate the graphic frames of the user interface. Executing includes performing rendering functions and interpolating coordinates for animation. The receiving device outputs the graphic frames of the user interface for display.
US11418825B2
A television playout system provided in a broadcast provider system receives a playout schedule, which corresponds to a live video feed of a channel broadcasted to one or more multichannel video program distributors (MVPDs), from a playout schedule source, and generates a new channel comprising one or more video on demand (VOD) content assets, based on one or more scheduling rules of the playout schedule, to be transmitted to a plurality of MVPDs at a time specified in the received playout schedule. The received live video feed of the channel is sanitized by removal of a lower third graphical content overlay from the live video feed for the generation of the new channel. A discontinuity is inserted between program segments to allow dynamic ad insertion (DAI) within the program segments of the live video feed for the new channel.
US11418819B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, system for tile-based video streaming using a proxy executing at a mobile edge cloud, which adaptively offloads decoding and merging of video tiles from mobile devices to the mobile edge cloud. A processing system including the proxy communicates with a video server and a client device. The proxy receives a request for video content from a client device; the request includes historical field of view (FoV) information. The proxy predicts a client FoV, requests video tiles from the server, downloads the tiles from the server, generates a video chunk by decoding and merging the downloaded tiles, and delivers the video chunk to the client device. The client device performs local decoding and rendering of the generated video chunk. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US11418816B2
Systems, methods, and instrumentalities may be provided for discounting reconstructed samples and/or coding information from spatial neighbors across face discontinuities. Whether a current block is located at a face discontinuity may be determined. The face discontinuity may be a face boundary between two or more adjoining blocks that are not spherical neighbors. The coding availability of a neighboring block of the current block may be determined, e.g., based on whether the neighboring block is on the same side of the face discontinuity as the current block. For example, the neighboring block may be determined to be available for decoding the current block if it is on the same side of the face discontinuity as the current block, and unavailable if it Is not on the same side of the face discontinuity. The neighboring block may be a spatial neighboring block or a temporal neighboring block.
US11418812B2
File formats and parsing and coding of video data are defined to promote more efficient random accessibility of coded video data. Constraints may be imposed on placement of parameter sets and the definition of sync samples in video files. Parameter set data for video data may be coded, for a non-sync sample, only in the sample entry for the sample, the sample, a previous sample in decoding order that is a sync sample, or in a sample occurring in decoding order between the sample and the previous sample in decoding order that is a sync sample.
US11418807B2
The disclosure provides methods and apparatuses for video encoding/decoding. An apparatus includes processing circuitry that decodes prediction information for a coding region partially located outside a picture boundary. The processing circuitry determines whether a shared merge list is used for the coding region. Responsive to the shared merge list being used for the coding region, the processing circuitry constructs the shared merge list and reconstructs the coding region based on the shared merge list. Another apparatus includes processing circuitry that decodes prediction information for a current block and examines coding blocks of a collocated block of the current block according to an examination order. A second examined position in the examination order is one of the coding blocks located adjacent to a top-left corner of the collocated block. The processing circuitry determines a TMVP according to the examined coding blocks and reconstructs the current block based on the TMVP.
US11418806B2
A method for decoding image frames at a client is described. The method includes generating an estimated image frame after receiving an encoded image frame of a stream of encoded image frames. The method further includes decoding the encoded image frame when the encoded image frame is received at a decode interval set for a frame rate of presentation. The method includes using the estimated image frame when a corresponding encoded image frame fails to arrive within the stream for presentation at the frame rate.
US11418804B2
A method of generating an encoded video bitstream using at least one processor, including making a first determination regarding whether a current layer of a current picture is an independent layer; making a second determination regarding whether reference picture resampling is enabled for the current layer; based on the first determination and the second determination, disabling wrap-around compensation for the current layer; and encoding the current layer without the wrap-around compensation.
US11418796B2
An example method includes determining, for each respective coding block of a plurality of coding blocks of a current coding tree unit (CTU) of video data in a current picture of video data, a respective search area of a plurality of respective search areas, wherein at least one of the plurality of search areas includes samples of the current picture located outside of the current CTU, and wherein at least one of the plurality of search areas does not include samples of the current picture located outside of the current CTU; selecting, for each respective coding block and from within the respective search area for the respective coding block, a respective predictor block of a plurality of predictor blocks; and reconstructing samples of each respective coding block based on samples included in a corresponding predictor block in the plurality of predictor blocks.
US11418793B2
A video coding device is configured to determine control point motion vectors (CPMVs) for an affine motion predicted block of video data. For a four parameter affine model, two CPMVs may be positioned at any two corners of the current block, such as top-left and bottom-right or bottom-left; top-right and bottom-left or bottom-right; or bottom-left and bottom-right. For a six parameter affine model, three CPMVs may be positioned at any three corners of the current block, such as top-left, bottom-left, and bottom-right; top-right, bottom-left, and bottom-right; or top-left, top-right, and bottom-right. The video coder may further predict the CPMVs using motion information of neighboring blocks to the determined CPMVs, code the CPMVs, and code the current block using the CPMVs. The video coder may be a video encoder or a video decoder.
US11418790B2
Techniques are described of hybrid coders that are configured to selectively use adaptive or non-adaptive coding techniques. A video coder (e.g., video encoder or video decoder) may code (e.g., encode or decode) first video data (e.g., a syntax element or value), for coding a first block, based on an adaptive context model (e.g., one or more adaptive context models) and code second video data, for coding a second block, based on a non-adaptive context model (e.g., one or more non-adaptive context models).
US11418780B2
Devices, systems and methods related to management of syntax flags with respect chroma formats in video processing are described. In one representative aspect, a video decoding method includes determining, for a conversion between a video and a coded representation of the video, whether a syntax element associated with an adaptive loop filtering (ALF) operation for a chroma component of the video is included in the coded representation based on a condition. The method also includes performing the conversion according to the determining.
US11418769B1
A system comprises an encoder configured to compress and encode data for three-dimensional volumetric content. The encoder also is configured to segment the three-dimensional volumetric content based on viewing areas, wherein different ones of the viewing areas correspond to visible portions of the volumetric content. The system may provide metadata to a client device to support viewport adaptive rendering of the three-dimensional volumetric content or may adaptively stream portions of the three-dimensional volumetric content to a rending device based on viewing areas of the three-dimensional volumetric content that are to be rendered at the rendering device.
US11418751B2
A method of an electronic device including an image sensor that acquires an optical signal corresponding to an object and a controller that controls the image sensor, is provided. The method includes identifying a mode for generating an image corresponding to the object by using the optical signal, determining a setting of at least one image attribute to be used for generating the image at least based on the mode, generating image data by using pixel data corresponding to the optical signal at least based on the setting, and displaying the image corresponding to the object through a display functionally connected to the electronic device at least based on the image data.
US11418748B2
An image sensor for stably generating pulses of a precharge signal is disclosed. The image sensor includes a divider configured to generate a plurality of divided clock signals by dividing one or ore input clock signal, a precharge pulse generator configured to generate a first pulse signal by selecting any one of the plurality of divided clock signals in response to decoding signals of a first group, and generate a second pulse signal by selecting any one of the plurality of divided clock signals in response to decoding signals of a second group, and a precharge signal generator configured to generate a precharge signal by combining the first pulse signal and the second pulse signal.
US11418745B2
An imaging apparatus including a ramp voltage generation circuit having a first period for outputting an offset voltage that sets a reference voltage for the comparator circuit, and a second period for outputting a reference voltage having a slope-shaped voltage waveform that varies with time, wherein the generation circuit has a first drive state in which a voltage change amount per unit time of the reference voltage in the second period is a first voltage amount, and a second drive state in which the voltage change amount per unit time of the reference voltage in the second period is a second voltage amount that is less than the first voltage amount, and wherein the offset voltage in the second drive state is less than a value obtained by multiplying the offset voltage in the first drive state by a ratio of the second voltage amount to the first voltage amount.
US11418743B2
A photoelectric conversion apparatus includes a pulse shaping circuit that shapes an output from a diode of avalanche amplification type into a pulse, and a pulse conversion circuit that converts a pulse signal output from the pulse shaping circuit. The pulse conversion circuit converts a pulse signal having a first amplitude and output from the pulse shaping circuit into a pulse signal having a second amplitude smaller than the first amplitude.
US11418741B2
The present disclosure relates to a solid-state imaging device and an electronic device that can be provided with phase difference pixels with a lower degree of difficulty in manufacturing. Provided is a solid-state imaging device including a pixel array unit in which a plurality of pixels is two-dimensionally arrayed, in which the pixel array unit has an array pattern in which a plurality of pixel groups each including neighboring pixels of an identical color is regularly arrayed, and among the plurality of pixel groups arrayed in the array pattern, pixels configuring a light-shielded pixel group are shielded in an identical direction side from light, the light-shielded pixel group being a pixel group including pixels each being shielded in a part of a light incident side from the light. The present technology can be applied to, for example, a CMOS image sensor including pixels for phase difference detection.
US11418732B2
The invention relates to a method allowing the use of the information accessible by fluorescence imaging to be optimized. For this purpose, it implements the combination of a protocol for calibration and synchronization of a pulsed light for exciting a fluorescent marker, with the operation in “rolling shutter” mode of a fluorescence camera. An appropriate correction factor allows the complete signal integrated by all of the photodiodes of the camera to be used so that no image is lost.
US11418730B2
The image capture system of the present disclosure comprises an illuminator comprising at least one infrared light LED or laser and one visible light LED, an image sensor that is sensitive to infrared light and visible light, a memory configured to store instructions, and a processor configured to execute instructions to cause the image capture system to emit infrared light, receive image data comprising at least one infrared image, and determine depth maps, visible focus settings, or infrared exposure settings based on the infrared image data.
US11418729B2
An image sensor including a pixel matrix and an opaque layer is provided. The pixel matrix includes a plurality of unblocked pixels, a plurality of first pixels and a plurality of second pixels. The opaque layer covers upon a first region, which is a part of each first pixel, and upon a second region, which is a part of each second pixel, but does not cover upon the unblocked pixels, wherein the first region and the second region are symmetrically arranged in a first direction, and uncovered regions of the first pixels and the second pixels are arranged to be larger at a pixel edge than at a pixel center.
US11418723B1
Disclosed here are various techniques to increase dynamic range of an image recorded from a display. A processor performing preprocessing splits an input image containing both bright and dark regions into two images, image A containing bright regions, and image B containing dark regions. The display presents image A and image B in alternating fashion. Camera is synchronized with the display to record image A and image B independently. In postprocessing, a processor obtains the recorded images A and B. The processor increases the pixel value of the recorded image A to obtain image A with increased pixel value. Finally, the processor increases pixel value of the image recorded from the display by combining the first recorded image with increased pixel value and the second recorded image.
US11418711B2
The lens interchangeable digital camera includes a sensor movement type shake correction mechanism that performs a sensor movement operation of moving an image sensor in a direction to cancel a shake. A characteristic data acquisition unit acquires optical characteristic data corresponding to optical characteristics of an imaging optical system of a lens unit mounted on a body mount. A determination unit determines whether or not adaptive optical characteristic data that can be handled by an image correction unit that performs image correction based on the optical characteristic data can be acquired. An operation deciding unit prohibits a shift operation which is at least a part of a sensor movement operation in an uncorrectable state where the image correction based on the adaptive optical characteristic data is not possible since the adaptive optical characteristic data cannot be acquired.
US11418706B2
The technology disclosed relates to adjusting the monitored field of view of a camera and/or a view of a virtual scene from a point of view of a virtual camera based on the distance between tracked objects. For example, if the user's hand is being tracked for gestures, the closer the hand gets to another object, the tighter the frame can become—i.e., the more the camera can zoom in so that the hand and the other object occupy most of the frame. The camera can also be reoriented so that the hand and the other object remain in the center of the field of view. The distance between two objects in a camera's field of view can be determined and a parameter of a motion-capture system adjusted based thereon. In particular, the pan and/or zoom levels of the camera may be adjusted in accordance with the distance.
US11418705B2
A detection system detects an occurred event at a plurality of positions with high accuracy. The detection system includes a plurality of cameras, each of which performs detection processing to output detection information, a network that transmits pieces of detection information from the plurality of cameras and a system control unit that provides notification of occurrence of a predetermined event on the basis of the pieces of detection information from the plurality of cameras. Each of the plurality of cameras includes an image capturing element that captures an image of a target object, and generates image-data frames that time-sequentially line up and a detection frame determination unit that determines relationship between the target object and a predetermined detection frame, and generates a result of the determination as the detection information.
US11418704B2
A dolly zoom effect can be applied to one or more images captured via a resource-constrained device (e.g., a mobile smartphone) by manipulating the size of a target feature while the background in the one or more images changes due to physical movement of the resource-constrained device. The target feature can be detected using facial recognition or shape detection techniques. The target feature can be resized before the size is manipulated as the background changes (e.g., changes perspective).
US11418703B2
Electronic equipment includes a first operating member having a detecting unit to detect touch and slide operations. Where a detecting unit touch detecting face is touched in the touch operation over a first and a second predetermined area, larger than the first predetermined area, or less, a first function is executed. Where the touch detecting face of the detecting unit is touched in the touch operation over more than the second predetermined area, a second function is executed. The touch detecting face is divided into a first, a second, and a third touch detecting face, in that order in a direction of the slide operation. A relation of 1.4≤W1/W2≤6.0 is satisfied. W1 represents a length of the touch detecting face in the direction of the slide operation, and W2 represents a length of the second touch detecting face in the direction of the slide operation.
US11418702B2
The implementations of the present disclosure provide a method for displaying a shooting interface, which is applied to a terminal in which an image acquisition component is integrated into a touch screen. The method includes: receiving a first operation signal, where the first operation signal is a signal configured to enable the image acquisition component to perform shooting; enabling the image acquisition component according to the first operation signal; and displaying a shooting interface on the touch screen, where the shooting interface is provided with a component location information which is a prompt information configured to indicate the location of the image acquisition component. The present disclosure also provides a device for displaying a shooting interface, and the terminal.
US11418700B2
Provided is a control device, an endoscope system, a processing method, and a program which can select a region other than the center region in an image to perform a predetermined process. An endoscope system includes an image generation unit which processes an image signal generated by an imaging unit to generate a display image to be displayed, a display controller which overlaps a plurality of select regions selectable according to an external operation to the display image and outputs the overlapped image to the display device, and an autofocus controller which performs a predetermined process on at least one select region selected according to the external operation.
US11418699B1
The present disclosure generally relates to user interfaces for altering visual media. In some embodiments, user interfaces capturing visual media (e.g., via a synthetic depth-of-field effect), playing back visual media (e.g., via a synthetic depth-of-field effect), editing visual media (e.g., that has a synthetic depth-of-field effect applied), and/or managing media capture.
US11418694B2
Disclosed is an electronic apparatus. The electronic apparatus includes: a camera; a first microphone; a second microphone; and a processor configured to: control the electronic apparatus to obtain first sound data through the first microphone, control the electronic apparatus to obtain second sound data through the second microphone, identify an object corresponding to the first sound data and the second sound data in image data obtained through the camera, obtain position information of the identified object from the image data, and change volume information of at least one of the first sound data or the second sound data based on the obtained position information.
US11418693B2
A vehicle includes a camera unit disposed in the vehicle to have a plurality of channels and configured to obtain an image around the vehicle, the camera unit including one or more cameras, a sensing device including an ultrasonic sensor, the sensing device configured to obtain distance information between an object and the vehicle, and a controller configured to match a part of the image around the vehicle with at least one mask, form map information based on the at least one mask and the distance information, determine at least one control point based on the map information, and obtain the image around the vehicle based on a priority of the camera unit corresponding to a surrounding type of the vehicle determined based on the control point.
US11418690B2
An extending-type functional assembly is mounted on a frame of a smart terminal, and electrically connected to a control unit of the smart terminal. The extending-type functional assembly comprises a body, a camera module, and a driving. The body comprises a rotating end and a free end, the rotating end is rotatably connected to the frame of the smart terminal, and the free end can be rotated into or out of the frame of the smart terminal. The camera module is disposed on the body, and the body can drive the camera module to move. When the free end is rotated out of the frame of the smart terminal, the camera module is exposed from the frame of the smart terminal; when the rotating end is rotated into the frame of the smart terminal, the camera module is hidden in the frame of the smart terminal.
US11418689B2
Display devices and electronic apparatuses with 3D camera modules are provided. An exemplary device comprises a display and a 3D camera module, wherein the 3D camera module comprises a depth camera module disposed at a backlight side of the display; the depth camera module comprises an edge-emitting laser and an imaging module; the edge-emitting laser is configured for emitting laser light, for the emitted laser light to penetrate the display to reach an object; and the imaging module is configured for receiving laser light reflected by the object that penetrates the display, and obtaining a depth image of the object based on the reflected laser light.
US11418688B2
Embodiments provide a camera module including a lens unit, a first board formed with an electromagnetic circuit, a second board spaced apart from the first board, the second board including a terminal for external electrical connection and being formed with an electromagnetic circuit, a first support member having one side coupled to the first board and the other side coming into contact with one surface of the second board, so as to maintain a constant distance between the first board and the second board, and an electromagnetic-field shield configured to receive the first board and the second board therein, the electromagnetic-field shield serving to inhibit outward leakage of an electromagnetic-field formed in each board.
US11418687B2
An embodiment comprises: a lens barrel; a holder; a filter disposed in the holder; a circuit board having an aperture; a reinforcing member including a first region corresponding to the aperture and a second region in which the circuit board is disposed; and an image sensor disposed in the first region of the reinforcing member, wherein the first region of the reinforcing member includes a protruding part protruding farther than the second region of the reinforcing member, and the image sensor is disposed on the upper surface of the protruding part.
US11418684B2
Matching timings of transmitting pieces of information for reproducing video and audio with presence and handling loss are provided. An information synchronization device is configured to synchronize, to a reference timestamp, data in which one or more labels for identifying respective one or more subjects on a video and one or more pieces of location information for identifying respective locations of the one or more subjects are respectively associated. The information synchronization device includes a reception unit for receiving the data at each time, a buffer for storing the received data, and a location information interpolation unit for generating, when pieces of the location information at times before and after the reference timestamp is stored into the buffer for any of the labels, location information of the label at the reference timestamp by interpolation using the pieces of the location information.
US11418681B1
A method in described in which a halftone matrix is generated using a kernel by mapping kernel values of each pixel to a halftone matrix value at a corresponding element of the halftone matrix. Where a plurality of pixels have the same kernel value, the kernel value is randomly mapped to a respective halftone matrix value in a range of halftone matrix values corresponding to the kernel value.
US11418679B2
An image processing apparatus that is capable of preventing an additional image from being arranged at a position that overruns from a displayed base image when a user carelessly designates such a position. The image processing apparatus including an instruction unit that instructs a composition position by a user's operation at which an additional image selected by a user is combined with a base image displayed on a display, and a controller that controls so as to combine the additional image with the base image at a composition position instructed by the instruction unit. When the composition position where at least a part of the additional image overruns from the base image is instructed by the instruction unit, the controller changes the composition position so that the additional image will fit into the base image and combines the additional image at the changed composition position.
US11418678B2
An electronic apparatus includes a first communication apparatus, a second communication apparatus, a serial bus, and a first control circuit. The second communication apparatus includes a storage device configured to store stored data. A first control circuit determines whether or not a first data amount of stored data serving as request target of request data matches a second data amount of stored data included in response data transmitted from the second communication apparatus via a second signal line of the serial bus in response to the transmission of the request data on the basis of a data amount specifying signal transmitted by a third signal line of the serial bus when the request data is transmitted from the first communication apparatus via a first signal line of the serial bus, and outputs a determination result.
US11418677B2
A method for preventing image modification, an image capturing device and an image verification method are disclosed. The image modification method includes: processing a compressed image of at least one frame to obtain feature data of the compressed image of the at least one frame; encrypting the feature data to generate a checksum; generating supplemental enhancement information, which at least includes a time parameter and the checksum; and transmitting and/or storing the supplemental enhancement information and the compressed image of the at least one frame together so as to verify authenticity of the compressed image of the at least one frame by using the supplemental enhancement information. The time parameter is a counter value of a counter in the image capturing device and the counter value continuously increases. With the above method, authenticity of image data can be verified.
US11418673B2
An illumination device and an image reading device are characterized by including: a rod-shaped light guide extending in a longitudinal direction and configured to guide light entering from an exterior and emit the light as linear light from a lateral surface; a light guide holding portion having a hole into which an end surface of the light guide is inserted; a supporter supporting the light guide holding portion slidably along the longitudinal direction; and a housing supporting or housing the light guide, the light guide holding portion and the supporter, at least the supporter being fixed to the housing, a direction of sliding of the light guide holding portion being restricted to the longitudinal direction by a supporter-side concave-convex portion that is a supporter-side groove portion or a supporter-side protruding portion at least one of which is formed on the supporter along the longitudinal direction.
US11418670B2
A printing apparatus connectable to an external power supply having outputtable voltage information, including: a printing head performing printing by electric power supplied from the external power supply; a resistor having an electric resistivity based on the printing head; a detector detecting a substantial voltage; and a controller configured to: obtain the voltage information from the external power supply; decide a tentative voltage; request the external power supply to output the tentative voltage; energize the resistor with the tentative voltage; decide the substantial voltage if a voltage corresponding to each of the obtained voltage information is supplied based on a result of the detector during the energizing of the resistor; decide an electric power supply voltage based on the substantial voltage; and request the external power supply to output the electric power supply voltage.
US11418669B2
An image processing apparatus includes a selection unit, a determination unit, and a control unit to set candidates to be selected by the selection unit. If determination unit determines that there is not a set of a size and an orientation of a document of which the orientation cannot be correctly determined, the control unit sets, as selection unit selection candidates, candidates of sets of sizes and orientations of a plurality of documents. If the determination unit determines that there is a set of a size and an orientation of a document of which the orientation cannot be correctly determined, the control unit sets, as selection unit selection candidates, candidates obtained by excluding the set of the size and the orientation of the document of which the orientation cannot be correctly determined from the candidates of the sets of the sizes and the orientations of the plurality of documents.
US11418668B2
An image forming system includes: an image forming apparatus; and a recording material information detecting apparatus provided outside the image forming apparatus, wherein the recording material information detecting apparatus includes a recording material information detector that detects recording material information about a recording material, and the image forming apparatus includes: an image former; an operation detector; and a hardware processor.
US11418665B2
An image reading apparatus includes a first conveyance roller, a second conveyance roller, a first conveyance guide, a second conveyance guide configured to move between an opposed position being opposed to the first conveyance guide and a retracting position being retracted from the opposed position, and an image reading unit opposed to the first conveyance guide and configured to move in a width direction orthogonal to the sheet conveyance direction and read image information on a sheet. The second conveyance guide is configured to move to the retracting position in response to the image reading unit moving in the width direction and reading the image information on the sheet.
US11418663B2
An image forming apparatus a display unit includes a reception unit configured to receive a user operation, a setting unit configured to set, as a default language, a language selected by a plurality of operations, a changing unit configured to change, from the default language to a language different from the default language, a language to be displayed by a single operation, and a control unit configured to perform control in such a manner that in a case where the setting unit does not change the default language and the changing unit changes the language to be displayed to the language different from the default language, the language to be displayed is changed to the default language, whereas in a case where the setting unit changes the default language to another language, the language to be displayed is not changed from the other language.
US11418660B2
In a communication device, if a first touch on a touch panel is detected and, subsequently, a second touch is detected within a predetermined period of time from a time of the first touch and if an object displayed on the touch panel at a position at which the second touch is detected is an object used to select a destination, selection of the destination by the touch on the object is not performed. If a first touch on the touch panel is detected and, subsequently, a second touch is detected within a predetermined period of time from a time of the first touch and if an object displayed on the touch panel at a position at which the second touch is detected is not an object used to select a destination, processing to be activated by the touch on the object is performed.
US11418647B1
To enable analysis of the performance of a customer contact center handling interactions across multiple types of communication channels, a system is provided that collects and analyzes data across the multiple channels and allows a user, such as an analyst, to analyze customer journeys that comprise multiple interactions, or contacts, across multiple communication channel types. That analysis can be used to identify journeys with similar, perhaps problematic, characteristics and provide the analyst user with the ability to examine the collected data for each identified journey individually. Once a journey is selected, the system displays the collected data in a coordinated display of journey timeline, text history, and sequence of automatically detected significant events. This single-journey display, applied to multiple journeys in succession, allows the analyst to explicitly annotate problems or formulate hypotheses about problems that can then be quantified for impact by refining the initial multi-journey analysis.
US11418638B2
Embodiments are directed to an enclosure for an electronic device. In one aspect, an embodiment includes an enclosure having an enclosure component and an internal component that may be affixed along a bonding region. The enclosure component may be formed from an enclosure material and defines an exterior surface of the enclosure and an opening configured to receive a display. The internal component may be formed from a metal material different than the enclosure material. The bonding region may include an interstitial material that has a melting temperature that is less than a melting temperature of either one of the enclosure material or the metal material. The bonding region may also include one or more of the enclosure material or the metal material.
US11418634B2
A transmitting apparatus is provided. The transmitting apparatus includes: a baseband packet (BBP) generator configured to generate a BBP including a header and payload data; a frame generator configured to generate a frame including the BBP; a signal processor configured to signal-process the generated frame; and a transmitter configured to transmit the signal-processed frame. The header includes information about a type of the payload data, whether an additional header exists, a length of the payload data, and a Least Significant Bit (LSB) of the length of the payload data. Therefore, various types of data are mapped on a physical layer based on information included in the header, and data processing efficiency is improved.
US11418633B2
Methods and apparatuses for scheduling and indicating scheduling information in a wireless local area network (WLAN). A station (STA) includes a transceiver configured to receive a header for a protocol data unit and a controller configured to identify common information for a plurality of STAs that are scheduled in the WLAN from a common field in the header and to identify user-specific information for the STA from a user-specific field in the header that follows the common field. An access point (AP) includes a controller configured to include common information for a plurality STAs that are scheduled in the WLAN in a common field in a header of a protocol data unit, and to include user-specific information for the STAs in a user-specific field in the header that follows the common field. The AP also includes a transceiver configured to transmit the protocol data unit including the header.
US11418632B2
In one embodiment, a system comprises logic to receive a data packet. The logic is further to identify, based on the data packet, a plurality of candidate rules. The candidate rules may comprise a first candidate rule from a first database of rules and a second candidate rule from a second database of rules. The logic is further to select a rule from among the plurality of candidate rules based on a priority associated with the rule and a determination that the rule matches the data packet. The rule specifies at least one action to be performed on the data packet.
US11418631B2
A communications apparatus includes a receiver and a processor. The receiver is configured to receive wireless signals. The wireless signals include a plurality of packets. The processor is coupled to the receiver and includes a first logic configured to perform operations of a first protocol layer and a second logic configured to perform operations of a second protocol layer higher than the first protocol layer. The operations of the first protocol layer includes: starting a timer in response to receiving a first packet with a first count value that is different from a deliver count value; and delivering a second packet with a second count value that is different from the deliver count value to the second logic before the timer expires.
US11418623B2
One example method includes configuring an input device based in part on a type of network with which the input device is expected to be used, configuring an output device based in part on a type of network with which the output device is expected to be used, registering the input device and the output device with an orchestrator, downloading a service needed to process a data stream generated by the input device, configuring an execution pipeline, and the execution pipeline includes the service, receiving the data stream from the input device and processing the data stream with the execution pipeline, and transmitting information relating to the processed data stream to the output device.
US11418618B2
A method for optimal placement of microservices of a micro-services-based application in a multi-tiered computing network environment employing 5G technology is presented. The method includes accessing a centralized server or cloud to request a set of services to be deployed on a plurality of sensors associated with a plurality of devices, the set of services including launching an application on a device of the plurality of devices, modeling the application as a directed graph with vertices being microservices and edges representing communication between the microservices, assigning each of the vertices of the directed graph with two cost weights, employing an edge monitor (EM), an edge scheduler (ES), an alerts-manager at edge (AM-E), and a file transfer (FT) at the edge to handle partitioning of the microservices, and dynamically mapping the microservices to the edge or the cloud to satisfy application-specific response times.
US11418615B2
A proxy device receives a resource request from a requestor via a client device. The resource request is associated with a hosted resource, and the hosted resource is associated with a version-control tag. The proxy device determines, based on the version-control tag, information indicating a current state of the hosted resource. The proxy device obtains user management information associated with the requestor, and conditionally dispatches a processed resource request from the proxy device to a resource host based, at least in part, on the current state of the hosted resource and the user management information.
US11418614B2
The present invention provides a system and method for processing subscription related data, wherein a subscription document of an existing subscription is received by a server via a user device. The subscription document is processed to extract pre-determined parameters; and primary parameters are obtained from service provider servers and secondary parameters are obtained from third party servers. The pre-determined parameters are correlated with the primary parameters and the secondary parameters and a customized output is generated. The customized output may be a comparative analysis of particulars of the existing subscription and new subscriptions.
US11418613B2
Described embodiments provide systems and methods for recording metadata about a microservice for requests to the microservice. A device configured as a proxy to one or more microservices of a service can receive a registration request to register a microservice of the one or more microservices with the device. Metadata can be received during registration of the microservice with the device. The metadata can identify an identifier of the microservice, a deployment version of the microservice and a region of deployment of the microservice. The device can store the metadata in association with the microservice and record the metadata of the microservice registered with the device in association with a plurality of requests. The device can identify, via a user interface and the metadata recorded to the log, a change in operation of the microservice in connection with one of the deployment version or the region of the microservice.
US11418608B2
Systems and methods for providing application services to a customer are provided. Customer-managed computing resources on a customer network may facilitate the provision of application services to a client device coupled to the customer network. Application instances providing the application services may execute either on the customer-managed computing resources or on computing resources managed by the service provider. Application services may be rendered to the customer while sensitive customer data maintains residency on storage resources on the customer network. Application instances may receive requests for services from the customer, and generate corresponding requests for particular data of the sensitive customer data. These requests may be conveyed to the endpoints on customer network capable of fulfilling the requests. Customer-managed computing resources and service provider-managed computing resources may be respective first and second subsets of a pool of shared computing resources, implemented as virtual private clouds (VPCs) accessible over respective private networks.
US11418601B2
Implementations disclose a handoff feature for a content sharing platform. A method includes maintaining a session history of a session that occurred at a first client device, the session history identified by a visit identifier (ID) and comprising a set of recently consumed content items on a content sharing platform, determining that a user associated with the session is active on a second client device, transmitting, to the second client device, a session continuation notification associated with the visit ID and a navigation end-point of the session, receiving, from the second client device, a request for a content item corresponding to the navigation end-point of the session, and transmitting, to the second client device, instructions to load the content item and to request additional components of the content item using the visit ID.
US11418598B2
A system for exchanging data in an aircraft between at least two on-board devices which are interconnected by a communication link clocked at a predetermined link frequency, a first device being configured so as to: acquire measuring signals at frequencies native to the measuring signals; create frames on the basis of the measuring signals according to the native frequencies; and transmit the frames at the predetermined link frequency to a second device via the communication link.
US11418593B2
A data distribution system includes a data distribution module and at least two host-bus adapters coupled to the data distribution module. The data distribution system includes a memory-management system including a plurality of memory regions. The memory-management system is coherent across the plurality of memory regions and an absolute address of each of the plurality of memory regions accessed by a same offset.
US11418580B2
A method begins by a processing module of a dispersed storage network (DSN) receiving a signature contribution request and payload, logging the request and determining whether a timestamp for the request compares favorably to a timing template. When the timestamp for the request compares favorably to the timing template the method continues with the processing modules determining whether the request compares favorably to a functionality template and when it compares favorably to a functionality template retrieving a key share based on sharing function parameters and outputting a signature result. When the timestamp for the request does not compare favorably to the timing template or the request does not compare favorably to the functionality template the method continues with the processing module outputting a signature contribution request rejection message.
US11418579B2
A control device configuration system may receive, store, process, and/or display control device configuration information. The control device configuration system may filter the control device configuration information based on user selections of configuration options for configuration parameters. The control device configuration system may identify compatible and incompatible configuration options for various configuration parameters. The control device configuration system may allow selections of the incompatible configuration options. The control device configuration system may adjust how it filters the control device configuration information based on the selections of the incompatible configuration options. The control device configuration system may implement a configuration model that includes configuration parameter groups for efficient evaluation of user selections.
US11418572B2
Methods and systems are provided for improving system responsiveness while increasing efficiency and scalability of network communication by combining reliable and unreliable network transports. A method and system is provided for client polling a status server to see if there is new data, receiving a notification that there is new data, sending a client request to a server premises which retrieves the new data from a database and returns the new data to the client. Communication with the status server uses an unreliable packet or a reliable packet, whereas communication between the client and the server premises uses reliable transport. A redundant cluster of status servers and methods is provided.
US11418571B1
An embodiment may involve a server-side log collected by a server device, where the server-side log includes a set of entries indicating a unique identifier, and wherein the unique identifier is assigned to a work item of a server-based application executed by the server device. The embodiment may further involve one or more processors configured to: receive, from a client device disposed upon a network, a client-side log, wherein the client-side log includes operational data related to usage of a client-based application executed by the client device; identify, from the operational data, the client-based application and one or more activities performed by the client-based application; determine that the one or more activities are related to the unique identifier; based on the one or more activities, determine an action that can be taken to improve efficacy of the server-based application; and write, to the persistent storage, a representation of the action.
US11418567B2
This application provides a media data transmission method and apparatus. The method includes: receiving, by a client, a media presentation description (MPD) file, where the MPD file includes priority indication information, and the priority indication information is used to indicate a priority or priorities of one or more overlays; and processing, by the client, the one or more overlays based on the priority indication information.
US11418564B2
Disclosed herein are a transmitting method and a receiving method of point cloud data. The transmitting method may include encoding point cloud data, encapsulating a bitstream including the encoded point cloud data into a file, and transmitting the file, the bitstream is stored in one or more tracks of the file, the file further includes signaling data, the signaling data includes at least one parameter set and viewport-related information, and the viewport-related information includes at least first viewport information or second viewport information.
US11418563B2
Embodiments described herein involve an auxiliary zone contributing audio to a primary zone. In an example implementation, a network media system determines that a first zone in the network media system is playing back a first type of audio content and that a second zone in the network media system is not playing back audio content. While the first zone is playing back the first type of audio content and the second zone is not playing back audio content, the network media system forms a temporarily playback configuration. In the temporary playback configuration, the first zone plays back primary audio content including full frequency range audio content and the second playback device of the second zone plays back auxiliary audio content including low frequency range audio content.
US11418558B2
A method for real-time-capable data transmission between two networks includes a first real-time-capable communication system having a first real-time mechanism for real-time-capable data transmission set up in a first network. A second real-time-capable communication system having a second real-time mechanism for real-time-capable data transmission is set up in a second network. The first network and the second network are connected to one another via a mapping module which reciprocally maps the first real-time mechanism of the first real-time-capable communication system and the second real-time mechanism of the second real-time-capable communication system to one another. For real-time-capable data transmission from one of the two networks to the other of the two networks, a data packet is transmitted in the one of the two networks according to the real-time mechanism of the real-time-capable communication system set up in the network.
US11418555B1
Systems and methods stream an application on a computer system. A compressed archive of an installation directory of the application may be created and stored as a storage object. Two mount points may be established at the computer system. One mount point may provide a window to the storage object holding the compressed archive. The other mount point may present an interface to the installation directory. In response to requests by the application to access files from its installation directory, the systems and methods may retrieve the portion of the compressed archive containing that file from the storage object. The systems and methods may extract, e.g., decompress, the requested file from the retrieved page and serve it at the second mount point. The computer system may then provide the requested file to the application.
US11418554B2
A method performed at a server system includes providing to a device a media content item included in a listening session. The method includes receiving from the device characteristics of the listening session corresponding to a first time and determining, based on the characteristics, a default decision as to whether to provide a media content clip after the media item. The method includes receiving characteristics of the listening session corresponding to a second time and initiating a determination of a first decision as to whether to provide the media content clip after the media item. In accordance with the first decision being reached within a latency period, the media content clip is provided in accordance with the first decision. In accordance with the latency period being lapsed without the first decision being reached, the media content clip is provided in accordance with the default decision.
US11418553B2
The present disclosure relates to a video connection method and apparatus. The method includes: obtaining matched video connection requests from a plurality of video connection requests; creating a video connection room for the matched video connection requests; generating identification information of the video connection room; and informing a first client and a second client of entering the video connection room and making a video connection by sending the identification information of the video connection room to the first client and the second client corresponding to the matched video connection requests respectively.
US11418552B2
Systems, devices, and techniques described herein are directed to device service capability discovery. An initiating user equipment (UE) can transmit a request to establish a communication session (e.g., a voice call, a video call, etc.) with a destination UE. The initiating UE can also transmit a request for capability information associated with the destination UE. The destination UE can provide capability information associated with features beyond those required for the communication session. Thus, capability information for a plurality of features can be determined in parallel with establishing a communication between an initiating UE and a destination UE. In some cases, an initiating UE can receive an error message in response to signaling to establish the communication session, in which case the initiating UE can update capability information associated with the destination UE.
US11418545B2
Methods and systems for removing sensitive information from a digital image. An instruction to share a digital image is received. It is then determined that the digital image contains a depiction of a corporate display medium that is classified as sensitive based on a policy and, based on the determination that the digital image contains the depiction of the corporate display medium that is classified as sensitive based on the policy, the digital image is processed to modify the depiction. The digital image is shared.
US11418542B2
A system for providing network data processing, comprising a processor operating one of more algorithms that are configured to interface with one or more clients to receive a client hello data message. A transport layer security extension extraction system operating on the processor and configured to extract an extension from the client hello data message. A transport layer security extension identification system operating on the processor and configured to process the extension from the client hello data message and to identify a data networking session using the extension.
US11418537B2
A malware inspection apparatus includes one or more memories, and one or more processors configured to, when a first terminal belonging to a first system is infected with malware, in response to receiving, from the first terminal, a first packet destined for a second terminal belonging to the first system, change a destination address of the first packet to an address of a third terminal belonging to a second system, and send the changed first packet to the third terminal.
US11418535B2
Techniques for performing root cause analysis in dynamic software testing via probabilistic modeling are provided. In one example, a computer-implemented method includes initializing, by a system operatively coupled to a processor, a threshold value, a defined probability value, and a counter value. The computer-implemented method also includes, in response to determining, by the system, that a probability value assigned to a candidate payload of one or more candidate payloads exceeds the defined probability value, and in response to determining, by the system, that the counter value exceeds the threshold value: determining, by the system, that a match exists between the candidate payload and an input point based on an application of the candidate payload to the input point resulting in a defined condition, wherein the one or more candidate payloads are represented by population data accessed by the system.
US11418529B2
A method, apparatus, and computer program are disclosed. The method may be performed by one or more processors and may comprise receiving first data representing an infrastructure of a computer network, the first data comprising an indication of hosts which form at least part of the computer network and one or more software resources on respective hosts. The method may also comprise receiving second data from a vulnerability scanning software, the second data comprising an indication of one or more vulnerabilities detected in the one or more software resources provided on at least some of the hosts of the computer network. Using a combination of the first data and the second data, output data may be generated representing a risk profile of the computer network infrastructure, the output data indicating one or more subsets of hosts, determined as being at risk of being affected by the detected vulnerabilities by virtue of the software resources they provide for output on a user interface.
US11418516B2
In particular embodiments, a consent conversion optimization system is configured to test two or more test consent interfaces against one another to determine which of the two or more consent interfaces results in a higher conversion percentage (e.g., to determine which of the two or more interfaces lead to a higher number of end users and/or data subjects providing a requested level of consent for the creation, storage and use or cookies by a particular website). The system may, for example, analyze end user interaction with each particular test consent interface to determine which of the two or more user interfaces: (1) result in a higher incidence of a desired level of provided consent; (2) are easier to use by the end users and/or data subjects (e.g., take less time to complete, require a fewer number of clicks, etc.); (3) etc.
US11418492B2
Data stored on a data asset may be migrated to another data asset while maintaining compliance to applicable regulations. A data asset may experience a failure. Based on the type of data stored by that data asset and the applicable regulations, requirements, and/or restrictions that relate to a transfer of that type data from that data asset, a target data asset may be determined. The data stored on the data asset may then be transferred to the target data asset. The disclosed systems may use data models and/or data maps in determining the requirements for a data transfer and selecting target data assets.
US11418491B2
The present disclosure is directed to systems and methods for dynamic firewall discovery on a service plane. The method includes the steps of identifying a source data packet for transmission from a source machine at a source site to a destination machine at a destination site, wherein the source data packet corresponds to a request for connection between the source machine and the destination machine over a WAN, inspecting the source data packet at a first firewall associated with the source site, marking the source data packet with a marker to indicate inspection by the first firewall, transmitting the marked source data packet to the destination site, determining at the destination site that the source data packet has been inspected based on the marker, and forwarding the source data packet to the destination machine at the destination site, without inspection of the source data packet by a second firewall associated with the destination site.
US11418482B2
A content provider has a plurality of content provider domain names, and a content delivery network (CDN) allocates a plurality of CDN domain names to the particular content provider. The content provider domain names are mapped to the CDN domain names. CDN domain names are bound to corresponding CDN clusters. The binding of the of CDN domain names to corresponding CDN clusters is modified.
US11418481B2
Systems and methods may include sending, to a network registrar, a first message including a first nonce generated by a host computing device, and receiving, from the network registrar, a second message including a second nonce, the second nonce being signed by the network registrar via a private key of a first public key infrastructure (PKI) key pair of the network registrar via a first signature. The method further includes sending a first neighbor advertisement (NA) message to the host computing device including the second nonce. The second nonce and the private key of the network registrar verifies the first signature from the network registrar, the verification of the first signature indicating that the router is not impersonating the network.
US11418465B2
Systems and methods are provided for receiving a selection to add an event invite media overlay to a media content item, receiving content to be added to the event invite media overlay, the content corresponding to an event, and adding to the event invite media overlay, the content corresponding to the event to generate a custom event invite media overlay. The systems and methods further comprise causing display of the custom event invite media overlay on the media content item, receiving at least one user to which to send an invite to the event, and sending, to a second computing device associated with the at least one user, an invite to the event, the invite comprising the custom event invite media overlay and the media content item.
US11418462B2
Provided is a bot for a communication platform, wherein the bot is set up to read in an input data record, wherein the input data record includes a plurality of tickets or a plurality of numerical representations of tickets, listen in on at least one communication process between at least two persons on the communication platform, wherein the at least one communication process has at least one service case or at least one numerical representation of a service case, and generate an output data record, wherein the output data record has the input data record and the at least one communication process. A corresponding communication platform, a computer-implemented method, and a computer program product are also provided.
US11418452B2
An electronic device including a communication circuit receiving data transmitted from another electronic device, a memory storing instructions, and at least one processor electrically connected to the communication circuit and the memory and including a control core and a plurality of operation cores. The at least one processor may execute the stored instructions to cause the control core to receive the data from the communication circuit, to classify the received data into data flows of a specified number depending on an attribute of the data, and to respectively allocate the data flows to the plurality of operation cores.
US11418450B2
A novel method of operating a Distributed Cable Modem Termination System is provided. Each branch CMTS node in a distributed CMTS supports a complete CMTS system and with full-spectrum ports. One or more MAC domains are defined at each branch CMTS node. A MAC domain defined at a branch CMTS node includes only service flows of the CMs that are connected to the branch CMTS node. Identifiers of service flows coming from a branch CMTS node are always unique, i.e., two different service flows of the branch CMTS would always have different SIDs, even if they belong to different MAC domains. On the other hand, service flows belonging to different branch CMTS nodes are free to reuse the same identifiers.
US11418447B1
Implementations are described herein for leveraging an “out-of-band” communication channel between nodes of a process automation system. In various implementations, an out-of-band communication channel may be established between two or more process automation nodes of a process automation system. The out-of-band communication channel may be outside of a process automation network through which the two or more process automation nodes are communicatively coupled with other process automation nodes of the process automation system. The two or more process automation nodes may cooperate with one or more of the other process automation nodes to implement an at least partially automated process. One or more characteristics of the process automation system may be monitored, and based on the monitoring, traffic may be selectively diverted from the process automation network to the out-of-band communication channel.
US11418438B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a signaling packet processing method and an entity. The method may include: obtaining, by a gateway user plane entity, processing information of a target signaling packet; and receiving, by the gateway user plane entity, the target signaling packet, and processing the target signaling packet according to the processing information. Network costs can be reduced in the embodiments of the present disclosure.
US11418433B2
A control method for a spanning tree protocol (STP) of an EasyMesh network, wherein the STP includes a plurality of stations, includes assigning a bridge identification (ID) to each of the plurality of stations to classify the plurality of stations into a plurality of network layers; assigning a first station of the plurality of stations as a root bridge; determining a root port of each of the plurality of stations and a corresponding path cost to the root bridge; and blocking a designated port of a lower station of the plurality of stations at a lower layer of the EasyMesh network, when a network loop is detected.
US11418427B2
In an environment comprising a group of servers and at least two network devices, a link fault is detected. A data cable connects each of the servers to both network devices. An active communication path from one of the network devices to the servers is determined. In response to detecting a failure of the active communication path, a second of the network devices is indicated as the active network device. The configuration is detected by the network devices based on packets received at the network devices.
US11418426B2
A method for initializing the border gateway protocol (BGP) on network devices. The method includes initializing a plurality of BGP convergence variables corresponding to a plurality of BGP sessions with a plurality of peer network devices. The first network device initializes the plurality of BGP sessions with the plurality of peer network devices, and receives from each of the plurality of peer network devices, route updates and a plurality of markers. The BGP convergence variables are updated and it is determined that first network device has received all the route updates. The duration of the BGP session is less than a C_TIMEOUT value for that peer network device, exceeds an I_P_TIMEOUT value, where the C_TIMEOUT value is greater than the I_P_TIMEOUT value. The first network device updates a routing information base (RIB) using the route updates and updates a forwarding information base (FIB) using the updated RIB.
US11418422B1
A rate Detection Apparatus (RDA) includes a power spectral density (PSD) estimator and a rate selector. The PSD estimator is configured to receive samples of a signal, and to estimate a PSD of the signal. The rate selector is configured to identify a transmission rate of the signal responsively to the estimated PSD.
US11418419B2
According to one embodiment, a monitoring system includes an information processing device and a server, in which the information processing device includes an information transmission unit that transmits information related to operation log information to the server when the operation log information of the information processing device is detected, and the server includes a reception unit that receives the operation log information transmitted by the information transmission unit, a first operation modulation unit that generates frequency information indicating an operation of the information processing device based on the operation log information received by the reception unit, and a lighting control unit that blinks a lighting light source provided in a store to illuminate the store based on the frequency information generated by the first operation modulation unit.
US11418411B1
A system, method, and computer-readable medium are disclosed for performing a data center monitoring and management operation. The data center monitoring and management operation includes: monitoring a plurality of data center assets contained within a data center; identifying a plurality of data center issues based upon the monitoring; performing a data center issue grooming operation, the data center issue grooming operation identifying a number of data center issues from the plurality of data center issues; and performing a data center issue prioritization operation, the data center issue prioritization operation prioritizing the number of data center issues from the plurality of data center issues, the prioritizing being for at least one of resolution and remediation.
US11418409B2
An architecture-specific web-based executable specification tool maintains specification information and metadata for chip and system on a chip (SoC) design. Metadata available in the development ecosystem may be leveraged to improve the specification-to-design process. A unified, integrated environment for subsystem creation, SoC integration, and SoC specification teams is presented using a tool that comprehends SoC constructs. A modern web-based framework (not stand-alone tool) provides collaboration capabilities and allows visual representation and manipulation of data. Connection fabrics (e.g., network on a chip (NoC)) and other project-specific infrastructure can be configured and synthesized on demand and brought in to the design using the common environment. Netlists and other connectivity data can be fed into automated RTL generation processes directly, or used as a reference for implementation design teams. Reports and automated software generation satisfy the needs of the design verification and software teams. Functional and performance testing feedback loops are also provided.
US11418405B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for determining a topology of a network comprising a plurality of intermediary devices and intermediary paths. One method includes transmitting probes having a TTL value with a destination set to a destination device; receiving, for each probe transmitted, a response including an IP address of a responding device; determining whether more than one responding device has responded to the probes; determining whether more than one responding device has been found for two previous transmissions of probes when more than one responding device has responded to the probes; and transmitting, for each more than one responding device, probes having a decreased TTL value with a destination set to one of the IP addresses of the more than one responding devices, when more than one responding device has been found for two previous transmissions.
US11418395B2
Systems and methods may include a managerial server, such as an intermediary measurement, instrumentation, and discovery (MID) server, communicatively coupled to an instance hosted by a cloud service platform. The managerial server is also coupled to an agent. The managerial server is configured to receive a first result from a first check executed by the agent having a first check type and to transmit the first result to the instance using a connection type generic to multiple check types including the first check type. The managerial server is also configured to receive a second result from a second check executed by the agent having a second check type and to transmit the second result using a dedicated pipeline for the second check type.
US11418394B1
Techniques and mechanisms for using a domain-specific language (DSL) to express overall network behaviors by describing what network-level behavior is desired. A compiler breaks down the DSL into portions of executable code that are to be run at different network devices and locations of the network architecture. In some instances, the executable code output from the compiler may be used to determine what network functions, network devices, and/or network topology is required to implement the overall network behavior that is desired. In other examples, an inventory and/or topology of available network devices may be fed into the compiler, and the compiler may compile the DSL into executable code that is able to be supported by the inventory and/or topology of available network devices. Thus, the DSL can be used to describe overall network behaviors to easily generate executable code that is used to implement a desired network-level behavior.
US11418389B2
Methods, devices, and systems for management of a cloud computing environment for use by a software application. The cloud computing environment may be an N-tier environment. Multiple cloud providers may be used to provide the cloud computing environment.
US11418381B2
A system and method of deploying and managing an integration for a hybrid computing environment is disclosed. The proposed systems and methods provide an intelligent hybrid cloud architecture and environment that offers reduced deployment times, and little to no errors. The system incorporates an artificial intelligence (AI) powered solution that is API-enabled and pre-integrated with system chatbots, as well as providing a secure, accelerated integration with available cloud ecosystems. The proposed solution is able to analyze business processes and derive and build deep insights toward the enterprise cloud integration, improving security, design, and performance of the hybrid architecture.
US11418379B2
The present disclosure relates to a method and a device for a terminal performing decoding in a wireless communication system. According to the present disclosure, a method and a device may be provided, the method comprising a step for receiving a first demodulation reference signal (DMRS) and a second DMRS configured according to particular patterns from a base station via DMRS symbols, wherein the first DMRS and the second DMRS are respectively transmitted on particular antenna ports and are positioned on the same time axial symbol as that of at least one other DMRS transmitted on another antenna port, and the position of the time axial symbol of the second DMRS is determined according to a slot format or the last symbol on which downlink data is transmitted, and data is decoded using at least one of the first DMRS or the second DMRS.
US11418376B2
Various aspects provide for communicating a first set of broadcast reference signals (RSs) in a first subframe that includes a synchronization (SYNC) channel and communicating a second set of broadcast RSs in a second subframe that follows the first subframe. The second subframe may immediately follow the first subframe. A portion of the SYNC channel may include information indicating a configuration of broadcast RSs in one or more other subframes. The broadcast RSs may be configured for timing-error estimation, frequency-error estimation, and/or channel estimation. Additional and alternative aspects, embodiments, and features are also provided herein.
US11418375B2
The present specification provides a method for receiving information on a guard symbol, which is performed by a node in a wireless communication system, the method comprising: receiving information on the guard symbol; and applying the information on the guard symbol, wherein the information on the guard symbol indicates the number of guard symbols for each combination of a mobile terminal (MT) operation and a distributed unit (DU) operation, and the guard symbol is a symbol that is not used on the basis of a transition between the MT operation and the DU operation.
US11418371B2
According to one embodiment, in a semiconductor integrated circuit, the second circuit samples an amplitude of the output second signal at a plurality of timings every given cycle in a period corresponding to a second period of the pattern. The second circuit controls a parameter relating to the frequency characteristic for the first circuit according to a first magnitude relation and a second magnitude relation. The first magnitude relation is a relation between an absolute value of a first amplitude and a first threshold. The first amplitude is an amplitude sampled at a first timing among the plurality of timings. The second magnitude relation is a relation between an absolute value of a second amplitude and the first threshold. The second amplitude is an amplitude sampled at a second timing. The second timing is a timing after the first timing among the plurality of timings.
US11418369B2
A PoDL system that uses a center-tapped transformer, for galvanic isolation of the PHY, has AC-coupling capacitors in series between the transmission wires and the transformer's secondary windings for blocking DC voltages generated by a PSE power supply. The center tap is conventionally connected to ground. As a result, one capacitor sees the full VPSE voltage across it, and the other capacitor sees approximately 0 V across it. Since the effective value of a ceramic capacitor significantly reduces with increasing DC bias voltages across it, the effective values of the capacitors will be very different, resulting in unbalanced data paths. This can lead to conversion of common mode noise and corrupt the data. To avoid this, a resistor divider is used to generate VPSE/2, and this voltage is applied to the center tap of the transformer. Therefore, the DC voltage across each capacitor is approximately VPSE/2, so their values remain equal.
US11418367B2
A method in a wireless receiver for estimating a channel. The method includes receiving a signal comprising a plurality of transmission layers, each layer having at least one reference signal according to a predefined reference signal sequence; determining a window size for performing a sampling operation, wherein the operation is performed in a transformed domain of the received signal; selecting a channel tap length, from a range of channel tap lengths, wherein the selection is based on the window size, a noise mean and a noise variance. The channel estimation is performed from a reference signal sequence for the at least one reference signal and based on samples corresponding to the selected channel tap length.
US11418361B2
A method of controlling a master device includes, providing a measured service level by measuring a service level with respect to requests of a master device that is connected to a slave device through an interconnect device and generates the request to demand services from the slave device and controlling a power level of a request control circuit included in the master device based on the measured service level. Power consumption of the master device and the system including the master device is reduced without performance degradation by controlling the power level of the request control circuit adaptively based on the measured service level.
US11418355B2
A power sourcing equipment includes a control logic circuit and current source circuits that are coupled to a powered device via first and second wire pairs of a network cable respectively. The control logic circuit controls one of the current source circuits to drain a current from the powered device via the first wire pair during a first interval, to detect a first voltage of the first wire pair and a second voltage of the second wire pair, and controls the current source circuits to respectively drain currents from the powered device via the first and the second wire pairs during a second interval, to detect a third voltage of the first wire pair and a fourth voltage of the second wire pair, and determines whether the powered device is a single signature or a dual signature according to the first to the fourth voltages.
US11418352B2
A method to generate a trusted certificate on an endpoint appliance located in an untrusted network, wherein client devices are configured to trust a first Certificate Authority (CA) that is administered by the untrusted network. In this approach, an overlay network is configured between the endpoint appliance and an origin server associated with the endpoint appliance. The overlay comprises an edge machine located proximate the endpoint appliance, and an associated key management service. A second CA is configured in association with the key management service to receive a second certificate signed by the first CA. A third CA is configured in association with the edge machine to receive a third certificate signed by the second CA. In response to a request from the appliance, a server certificate signed by the third CA is dynamically generated and provided to the appliance. A client device receiving the server certificate from the endpoint appliance trusts the server certificate as if the server certificate originated from the first CA, thereby enabling the endpoint appliance to terminate a secure information flow received at the endpoint appliance.
US11418350B2
A management system and a method for secure signing of certificates, which have a certificate signing subsystem set up in a device of a controlled management site, unless authorized externally, internal data of the subsystem cannot be accessed arbitrarily, and each unit applying for a certificate needs confirmation of identity to increase the security of certificate application and signing. In addition, the certificate signing subsystem is a device with arithmetic capability, which operates fast and can increase the efficiency of certificate signing. Because units or companies applying for certificates do not need to set up a certificate signing system by themselves, provided that they are connected to the certificate signing subsystem of the present invention, certificates can be applied for and obtained, thereby saving business operating costs.
US11418345B2
A database management system stores an entry in a journal. Upon storage of the entry, the journal comprises a plurality of threaded leaf nodes and a hierarchy of interior nodes comprising hash values computed from the threaded leaf nodes. A first set of hash values is provided to prove that the entry is stored in a first version of the journal. A second set is provided to prove that the entries stored in the first version of the journal are unmodified and stored in a second version of the journal.
US11418335B2
In some examples, a device includes a memory, a processor, and a controller separate from the processor to derive a security credential based on information comprising a key accessible by the controller. The controller communicates the derived security credential in a secure manner to a program code executable on the processor, and uses the derived security credential to protect data stored in the memory against unauthorized access.
US11418334B2
Systems and methods for performing modular inversion operations in a manner protected from external monitoring attacks. An example method comprises: determining, by a processor, a first masked value based on a public cryptographic key and a first random integer value; determining a second masked value based on the public cryptographic key and a second random integer value, and determining, based on the first masked value and the second masked value, a private cryptographic key represented by a modular inversion of the public cryptographic key.
US11418333B2
A system includes a communication channel monitor configured to calculate a hash value of a first encrypted code segment based on a measurement. A security module may derive a first encryption key using a key decryption function operation from the hash value of the first encrypted code segment. A processor decrypts the first encrypted code segment with a seed key retrieved from a storage device, and if the decryption is successful then executes the first decrypted code segment. The processor may retrieve a second one of the encrypted code segments, wherein the second encrypted code segment is a next encrypted code segment for execution after the first encrypted code segment according to a sequence of execution, decrypt the second encrypted code segment with the first encryption key, and if the decryption is successful then execute the second decrypted code segment.
US11418332B2
An operation method of a security device which includes a plurality of physical unclonable function (PUF) cells includes selecting a target PUF cell of the plurality of PUF cells, selecting at least two reference PUF cells of the plurality of PUF cells based on a sorted list, reading a plurality of sensing data from the target PUF cell and the at least two reference PUF cells, and determining a target bit corresponding to the target PUF cell based on the plurality of sensing data to output the determined target bit.
US11418331B1
Techniques are provided to import a cryptographic key into a key vault in which an application programming interface for the key vault does not support importing existing cryptographic keys into the key vault. A key management system obtains a cryptographic key from a first key vault. The cryptographic key includes a key value and attributes which describe the cryptographic key. The key management system imports the cryptographic key into a second key vault by generating a surrogate key in the second key vault which corresponds to the cryptographic key. The surrogate key includes a key attribute having a value which corresponds to the key value of the cryptographic key.
US11418328B2
Disclosed is a system for performing key management of an in-vehicle network. The key management system of the in-vehicle network includes a reception unit configured to receive a shared secret key of a central gateway and a domain gateway, a memory configured to store a program for performing key management of the in-vehicle network using the shared secret key, and a processor configured to execute the program. The processor generates a secret key to be stored in a node of the in-vehicle network using the shared secret key and a unique ID of the node.
US11418326B2
A method for securing data in a data cluster is performed by a data manager of a data cluster. The method includes receiving, by a data cluster, a write request for a user to write data to the data cluster, wherein the write request comprises an object identifier (OID) associated with data and a user identifier (UID) associated with the user; sending, to a key manager, an intermediate key request, wherein the intermediate key request comprises the UID; receiving, by the data cluster from the key manager, an intermediate key; processing the data to obtain a plurality of chunks and metadata associated with the plurality of chunks; generating an encryption key using the intermediate key and the OID; encrypting the metadata using the encryption key to generate encrypted metadata; deleting, after generating the encrypted metadata, the encryption key; and storing the encrypted metadata and the plurality of chunks in the data cluster.
US11418310B2
A method for operating a communications controller adapted for full duplex (FD) operation includes receiving a measurement report from a user equipment served by the communications controller, the measurement report indicating a first power margin between a current transmit power and a transmit power break point and a second power margin between the current transmit power and a maximum transmit power capable of supporting FD operation, performing FD link adaptation (LA) in accordance with the first power margin and the second power margin to adjust one or more FD configuration parameters of a link between the communications controller and the user equipment, wherein the link includes a downlink and an uplink, and instructing the user equipment to communicate over the link in accordance with the one or more FD configuration parameters.
US11418309B2
In the present disclosure, even if different UL-DL configurations are set for a plurality of unit bands, notification timing of error detection results for SCell is not dispersed complicatedly, and the processing relating to the error detection results can be simplified. At the reference notification timing of a response signal with respect to downlink data of a second unit band, if a sub-frame of the second unit band is an uplink communication sub-frame and a sub-frame of a first unit band is a downlink communication sub-frame, a control unit transmits the response signal with respect to the downlink data in a specific uplink communication sub-frame (for example, #2 or #7) set in the first unit band.
US11418302B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. Generally, the described techniques provide for communicating an uplink grant and a channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) trigger. A wireless device may identify a pending collision for a slot of a carrier between a CSI-RS and uplink data. The wireless device may determine a communication configuration for the CSI-RS and the uplink data such that no collision occurs. The determined communication configuration for the CSI-RS may include delaying one of the colliding signals, transmitting only one of the colliding signals and suppressing the other, or reconfiguring the slot such that both signals can be transmitted successfully. Additionally, the UE and the base station may determine a CSI reporting configuration based on the determined communication configuration.
US11418301B2
A user terminal is disclosed that includes a transmitter that transmits uplink control information (UCI) using an uplink control channel and a processor that controls at least one of generation and transmission of the UCI based on a spreading factor of the uplink control channel. Additionally, at least one of a number of symbols and a position of a demodulation reference signal for the uplink control channel is fixed irrespective of the spreading factor.
US11418298B2
Aspects of the present disclosure relates to a method, device, and system for transmitting data. The method can include receiving a transport block (TB) transmitted by a transmitting terminal, the TB comprising a plurality of code blocks (CBs), and determining an erroneous CB in the TB, and determining, according to a preset affiliation between CBs and code block groups (CBGs), whether each CBG includes an erroneous CB, any CB corresponding to m CBGs in the affiliation, and m being a preset positive integer. The method can further include, for each CBG, if the CBG includes an erroneous CB, determining that feedback information corresponding to the CBG is a negative acknowledgement (NACK), and if the CBG does not comprise an erroneous CB, determining that the feedback information corresponding to the CBG is a positive acknowledgement (ACK), and transmitting the feedback information corresponding to each CBG to the transmitting terminal.
US11418293B2
Example hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback methods and apparatus are provided. One example method includes a network device obtains first indication information used to instruct a terminal device to feed back HARQ feedback information. The first indication information is obtained based on information amounts corresponding to a data channel and/or information amounts corresponding to a control channel that are in a reference slot and at least one first slot. The reference slot and the at least one first slot each correspond to a different component carrier of a plurality of component carriers serving the terminal. The reference slot and the at least one first slot have a same start moment, and at least two of the plurality of component carriers have different slot lengths. The network device sends, to the terminal device, indication information used to indicate at least the first indication information.
US11418291B2
The present application is related to a method and apparatus of using redundant bits in semi-statically configured HARQ-ACK feedback. A method of receiving information according to one embodiment comprises receiving a first number of code block groups from a base unit, wherein each code block within a code block group is independently decodable; determining a (HARQ-ACK) codebook size corresponding to the first number of code block groups; and transmitting a HARQ-ACK codebook to the base unit, wherein the HARQ-ACK codebook comprises the first number of HARQ-ACK bits with each bit corresponding to one code block group and a second number of padded bits. The first number plus the second number is equal to the determined HARQ-ACK codebook size. The present application enhances the downlink (DL) transmission performance and the uplink (UL) HARQ-ACK transmission reliability.
US11418288B2
Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for transmitting and/or receiving feedback information for a data block group. One apparatus (102) includes a processor (202) that determines (502) a data block group size of a data block group for received data. Each data block in the data block group is independently decodable. The processor (202) generates (504) feedback information for the data block group of the received data. The feedback information is used for indicating a decoding status corresponding to the data block group. The apparatus (102) also includes a transmitter (210) that transmits (506) the feedback information for the data block group.
US11418287B2
Systems and methods for utilizing dynamic codes in a dynamic system comprising neural networks are disclosed. In an exemplary embodiment, training data is transmitted to an encoder block, the encoder block having an encoder neural network. Training data is encoded utilizing the encoder neural network of the encoder block, and then decoded by a decoder block, the decoder block having a decoder neural network. An end-end error is determined by comparing the training data that was transmitted to the encoder block against the decoded training data that was received from the decoder block. Encoder/decoder parameters to minimize the end-end error are optimized and transmitted. Upon receipt of the encoder/decoder parameter updates, the encoder block and the decoder block are initialized.
US11418283B2
A blind detection parameter acquisition method, a relevant device and a system are provided. The blind detection parameter acquisition method includes: detecting a signal or a channel to acquire a detection result; and acquiring a blind detection parameter corresponding to the detection result. The signal includes a wake-up signal or a go-to-sleep signal, and the channel includes a wake-up channel or a go-to-sleep channel.
US11418282B2
The present disclosure provides a transceiver for transmission of data coded according to a Bi-phase Mark Coding (BMC) protocol through a configurable channel (CC) of a USB type-C port. The transceiver includes: a transmitter configured to receive the coded BMC data and transmit the coded BMC data through the CC line. The transmitter includes: a low dropout (LDO) regulator configured to receive a reference voltage (VREF) and generate a local programmable supply voltage; a delay control logic configured to receive the BMC data, and including flipflops connected in series, wherein, output from each flipflop is delayed with respect to input received by the flipflop; and a transmitter driver configured to receive output from each flipflop of the delay control logic, the transmitter driver including a NMOS switches and a PMOS switches. The transceiver includes an eye correction receiver configured to receive output from the transmitter driver of the transmitter.
US11418280B2
The present disclosure relates to an information sending method and a device. In examples of the present disclosure, a terminal may send feedback information for a downlink subframe to a network device in a first feedback manner, that is, a first codebook of the feedback information is determined according to an instantly scheduled downlink subframe set.
US11418268B2
A transmission device identification system includes: one or more reception units; a feature output unit that outputs, for each of the one or more reception units, a feature of a reception signal of the reception unit, the feature being corrected based on a receiver characteristic of the reception unit; and an identification unit that identifies a transmission device that is a radio wave transmitting source based on the feature and a transmission radio wave feature, the transmission radio wave feature indicating a feature of a transmission radio wave for each transmission device.
US11418267B2
Provided is a receiver. The receiver according to the inventive concept includes a first filter circuit, a second filter circuit, and an amplifier. The first filter circuit provides a first path for first frequency components below first cutoff frequency of input frequency components and passes second frequency components except for the first frequency components of the input frequency components through second path. The second filter circuit attenuates third frequency components below a second cutoff frequency of the second frequency components. The amplifier amplifies the second frequency components including the attenuated third frequency components.
US11418266B2
A power over fiber system includes a power sourcing equipment, a powered device, an extender, and first and second optical fiber cables. The power sourcing equipment outputs feed light. The extender extends a laser wavelength of the feed light. The first optical fiber cable transmits the feed light from the power sourcing equipment to the extender. The second optical fiber cable transmits the feed light from the extender to the powered device. Based on a loss-to-transmission-length characteristic of the laser wavelength before extended by the extender and a loss-to-transmission-length characteristic of the laser wavelength after extended by the extender, the first optical fiber cable has a length that is equal to or shorter than a transmission length where a loss due to the laser wavelength before extended by the extender is equal to a loss due to the laser wavelength after extended by the extender.
US11418257B2
An LED may include a third contact, for example to increase speed of operation of the LED. The LED with the third contact may be used in an optical communication system, for example a chip-to-chip optical interconnect.
US11418245B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for reporting channel state information (CSI) with spatial and time domain compression. A method comprises receiving one or more signals from a second wireless communications device, determining a precoder matrix index (PMI) based on the signals, performing a channel-tap compression of the PMI and transmitting the channel-tap compressed PMI to the second wireless communications device.
US11418240B2
A user equipment (UE) (200, 500, 1530) transmits data to a base station (100, 500, 1520) in a wireless communication network. The UE (200, 500, 1530) comprises multiple antenna ports, and selects a precoding matrix from a respective first, second, third, or fourth set of precoding matrices according to a number of spatial layers. The first, second, third, and fourth sets of precoding matrices are available for all coherence capabilities and are comprised within a larger set of precoding matrices. The larger set comprises precoding matrices that are not available for all coherence capabilities. The first, second, third, and fourth sets of precoding matrices correspond to one, two, three, or four spatial layers, respectively. The number of columns in the selected precoding matrix is equal to the number of spatial layers and each column comprises a single non-zero element and one or more zero elements. The UE (200, 500, 1530) transmits data on the number of spatial layers according to the selected precoding matrix.
US11418238B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for providing channel state information associated with sidelink air interfaces. A method that may be performed by a first wireless node (e.g., a user equipment) includes receiving, from a base station, a reference signal (RS) configuration indicating one or more sidelink resource sets and transmitting, to one or more second wireless nodes, one or more sidelink reference signals based at least in part on the RS configuration. The method also includes receiving one or more feedback reports from the one or more second wireless nodes, wherein each of the feedback reports includes an ordered sequence of at least one parameter associated with a sidelink channel quality of the sidelink reference signals. The method further includes forwarding the one or more feedback reports to the base station.
US11418221B2
The disclosure provides a method and a polar code decoder for determining a to-be-flipped bit position when performing a successive cancellation list flip operation. The method includes: obtaining a polar code decoding tree generated by performing a successive cancellation list (SCL) operation on a polar code segment, and the polar code segment includes multiple bit positions, and each bit position in the polar code decoding tree includes multiple surviving paths and multiple pruned paths; in a post-processing stage for the SCL operation, estimating a correct path probability of each of the surviving paths and the pruned paths of the i-th bit position and accordingly estimating a reliability for the i-th bit position; selecting a specific bit position among the bit positions based on the reliability of each bit position; and performing an SCL flip operation on the polar code decoding tree based on the specific bit position.
US11418218B2
A decoding device that includes a decoding determination unit to determine a procedure of recovering and decoding missing packets in consideration of a packet missing pattern in data including a set of media packets and redundant packets generated by a two-dimensional XOR-based FEC encoding method. Further, a decoding unit executes the recovery of the missing packets according to the procedure determined by the decoding determination unit.
US11418208B2
A method for light-to-digital conversion includes setting a time integrator circuit into a reference condition and starting to integrate charge from a sensor device for the duration of an integration time. An integration signal is generated and is indicative of the integrated charge. The integration signal is compared with an adjustable reference signal. A first count is generated when the comparison indicates that the integration signal has reached an integration range, wherein the integration range is defined by a low and a high voltage. A second count is generated when the comparison indicates that the integration signal has reached the adjustable reference signal. The adjustable reference signal is incremented in discrete steps when a second count has been generated. Then, the time integrator circuit is reset into the reference condition, when the comparison indicates that the integration signal has reached the integration range. The generated first counts is collected as first count signal and the generated second counts are collected as second count signal. Finally, a digital output signal is generated depending on the first count signal and the second count signal.
US11418191B2
A capacitive sensing device can include multiple capacitive sensors. A first device controller is operatively connected to a portion of the capacitive sensors, while a second device controller is operatively connected to another portion of capacitive sensors. A common node or shield can be connected between the first device controller and the second device controller. Charging and discharging events of selected drive lines in the capacitive sensing device and/or of the common node or shield can be synchronized to reduce undesirable effects such as noise and/or to prevent the charging events and the discharging events from overlapping with each other. One or more reference capacitive sensors can be shared by the multiple device controllers.
US11418183B2
A positive-logic FET switch stack that does not require a negative bias voltage, exhibits high isolation and low insertion/mismatch loss, and may withstand high RF voltages. Embodiments include a FET stack comprising series-coupled positive-logic FETs (i.e., FETs not requiring a negative voltage supply to turn OFF), series-coupled on at least one end by an “end-cap” FET of a type that turns OFF when its VGS is zero volts. The one or more end-cap FETs provide a selectable capacitive DC blocking function or a resistive signal path. Embodiments include a stack of FETs of only the zero VGS type, or a mix of positive-logic and zero VGS type FETs with end-cap FETs of the zero VGS type. Some embodiments withstand high RF voltages by including combinations of series or parallel coupled resistor ladders for the FET gate resistors, drain-source resistors, body charge control resistors, and one or more AC coupling modules.
US11418181B2
Aspects of the present disclosure provide for a circuit comprising a switch coupled between a first node and a second node, a first transistor having a gate terminal, a drain terminal coupled to the second node, and a source terminal coupled to a ground terminal, a logic gate having a first input, a second input coupled to a third node, and an output coupled to the gate terminal of the first transistor, and a comparator having a first input coupled to the second node, a second input coupled to a fourth node, and an output coupled to the first input of the logic gate.
US11418177B2
A propagation delay balance circuit includes a signal generating circuit, a path switching element, and a signal change detecting element. The signal generating circuit includes delay chains for outputting delay signals respectively. The path switching element has input terminals and output terminals. Each output terminal of the path switching element is electrically connected to the input terminal of each delay chain one-to-one, and input terminals of the path switching element are electrically connected one-to-one to the output terminals of the delay chains. The path switching element is controlled by the path switching controlling signal to change the one-to-one internal electrical connection between input terminals and output terminals of the path switching element. The signal change detecting element is electrically connected to the path switching element, and generates a path switching controlling signal according to delay signals of the path switching element.
US11418172B2
A two-terminal electrical protective device operates by harvesting energy from a small but non-zero voltage drop across a closed solid-state switch. From a default, open-circuit state, the device is remotely triggered by an AC signal to enter the desired conductive state. Power scavenged by an energy harvesting circuit while the device is in the conductive state, powers a gate drive circuit to hold the device in the conductive state for as long as current flows. When current stops, the device returns to the default open-circuit state.
US11418168B2
An acoustic resonator includes a membrane layer disposed on an insulating layer; a cavity formed by the insulating layer and the membrane layer and having a hydrophobic layer disposed on at least one of a portion of an upper surface of the cavity and a portion of a lower surface of the cavity; and a resonating portion disposed on the cavity and having a second electrode on a piezoelectric layer on a first electrode.
US11418166B2
An example integrated circuit package includes an acoustic wave resonator, the acoustic wave resonator including a Fresnel surface. In some examples, the Fresnel surface includes a plurality of recessed features and/or protruding features at different locations on the Fresnel surface, each of the plurality of features to confine main mode acoustic energy from a respective portion of the Fresnel surface in a central portion of the acoustic wave resonator.
US11418161B2
A digital to analog converter (DAC) can include a current mode DAC to receive an OC word from digital logic indicating an amount of current to add to or remove from sources of respective transistors of an amplifier and generate a current based on the OC word, an active output stage including a positive current mirror and a negative current mirror to generate a positive current and a negative current based on at least a portion of the generated current, and a plurality of outputs including a plurality of sink outputs and a plurality of source outputs to provide the positive and negative currents to the sources of the respective transistors.
US11418159B2
The present invention provides a differential signal offset adjustment circuit, wherein first and second transistors are respectively coupled between a power supply line and a first current source, and between the power supply line and a second current source. First and second resistors are respectively coupled between the first transistor and a first variable current source, and between the second transistor and a second variable current source. Third and fourth transistors are respectively coupled between a third resistor and a third current source, and between a fourth resistor and a fourth current source, and have input terminals respectively coupled to the first and second resistors. Fifth and sixth transistors are respectively coupled between the power supply line and a fifth current source, and between the power supply line and a sixth current source, and have input terminals respectively coupled to the third and fourth transistors. A fifth resistor is coupled between the third and fourth current sources.
US11418153B2
This application relates to amplifier circuitry and, in particular, to class-D amplifier circuits. The application describes amplifier circuitry (400) for receiving an input signal (Sin) and generating first and second driving signals (SoutP, SoutN) for driving a bridge-tied-load. The amplifier circuitry includes first and second class-D output stages (403p, 403n) for generating the first and second driving signals based on the input signal. A controller (406) controllably varies a common-mode component of the first and second driving signals based on an indication of amplitude of the first and second driving signals. The controller varies the common-mode component, at lower signal amplitudes, so the common-mode level of the first and second driving signals is moved away from an operating region that leads to distortion.
US11418149B2
A configurable passive mixer is described herein. According to one exemplary embodiment, a passive mixer for a wireless receiver comprises a plurality of passive mixer cores coupled in parallel with each mixer core configured to receive a same set of radio frequency input signals and a separately driven set of local oscillator input signals. Further, each mixer core is configured to be separately enabled or disabled so that the passive mixer can be selectively configured during operation to convert the same set of radio frequency input signals to a set of downconverted output signals that satisfy a certain performance requirement or performance parameter of the passive mixer.
US11418134B2
A vibration type motor includes first and second vibrators, a friction member configured to contact the first and second vibrators, a pressure member configured to press the first and second vibrators against the friction member, and first and second guide members configured to guide a relative movement between the first and second vibrators and the friction member. The first and second vibrators are spaced in a direction different from a relative movement direction between the first and second vibrators and the friction member. The first and the second guide member are provided between the first vibrator and the second vibrator in a direction different from the relative movement direction. A pressure center of a pressure applied to the first vibrator and the second vibrator by the pressure member is located between the first guide member and the second guide member.
US11418127B2
The present disclosure relates to a converter cell (4) for a power converter. The cell comprises a plurality of semiconductor devices (T) forming a half-bridge or full-bridge topology in the cell. The cell also comprises an energy storage (5) connected across the at least one switch leg (6). The cell also comprises a crowbar leg (7) connected across the at least one switch leg, comprising a plurality of series connected semiconductor crowbar switches (C) arranged to short-circuit the energy storage (5). The cell also comprises first and second AC terminals (A, B), wherein at least one of said AC terminals is connected to one of the at least one switch leg, between two of the plurality of series connected semiconductor devices of said switch leg, and connected to the crowbar leg, between two of the plurality of series connected crowbar switches of said crowbar leg.
US11418126B2
An inrush current suppression device is an inrush current suppression device that suppresses an inrush current flowing from a DC power supply through a mechanical switch, and includes: a first capacitor having one end connected to a positive terminal of the DC power supply through the mechanical switch; a semiconductor switching element connected to the other end of the first capacitor and a negative terminal of DC power supply between the other end of the first capacitor and the negative terminal of the DC power supply; a resistance element connected in parallel to the semiconductor switching element; and a control circuit for controlling the semiconductor switching element. The control circuit has a first output port, and controls ON time and OFF time of the semiconductor switching element by outputting a PWM signal from the first output port to the semiconductor switching element after the mechanical switch is closed.
US11418125B2
A bidirectional AC power converter, having a front-end comprising parallel sets of three switches in series, which connects multi-phase AC to coupling transformer through a first set of tank circuits, for synchronously bidirectionally converting electrical power between the multi-phase AC and a DC potential, and for converting electrical power between the DC potential to a bipolar electrical signal at a switching frequency, controlled such that two of each parallel set of three switches in series are soft-switched and the other switch is semi-soft switched; the coupling transformer being configured to pass the bipolar electrical power at the switching frequency through a second set of the tank circuits to a synchronous converter, which in turn transfers the electrical power to a secondary system at a frequency different from the switching frequency.
US11418122B2
An integrated circuit for a power supply circuit that generates an output voltage from an input voltage and includes an inductor and a transistor, the integrated circuit configured to switch the transistor to control a current of the inductor. The integrated circuit includes a first terminal that receives a power supply voltage, a second terminal that receives a voltage corresponding to an operation state of the integrated circuit, a storage circuit, a switching circuit that switches an operation mode of the integrated circuit based on voltage levels at the first and second terminals, the operation mode including a write mode, a test mode and a normal mode, a memory control circuit that writes setting information into the storage circuit, when the integrated circuit operates in the write mode, and a setting target circuit that operates based on the setting information stored in the storage circuit, when the integrated circuit operates in the test mode.
US11418121B2
An auxiliary converter coupled to an output of a main power converter comprising an auxiliary switch, a timing circuit, and an energy transfer element. The auxiliary switch coupled to the output of the main power converter. A timing circuit coupled to receive a control signal from a controller of the main power converter, wherein the controller regulates the output of the main power converter, the timing circuit configured to output an auxiliary drive signal to control switching of the auxiliary switch in response to the control signal. The energy transfer element coupled to the auxiliary switch, wherein the energy transfer element is configured to transfer energy from the output of the main power converter to a supply of the controller, the supply provides operational power for the controller of the main power converter.
US11418119B2
Aspects of the disclosure provide for a circuit. In some examples, the circuit includes a timing circuit and a state machine circuit. The timing circuit determines a relationship between a duty cycle of a power converter and a threshold value. The state machine circuit is coupled to the timing circuit and includes a plurality of states including a buck state, a boost state, and a buck-boost state. The state machine circuit transitions among the plurality of states according to time domain control and voltage domain control, based at least partially on the determined relationship between the duty cycle and the threshold value, transitions among the states according to the time domain control when the time domain control indicates an exit from the buck-boost state, and transitions among the states according to the voltage domain control when the voltage domain control indicates the exit from a buck-boost state.
US11418114B2
This application discloses a boost power conversion circuit, a method, an inverter, an apparatus, and a system. In the conversion circuit, a voltage control circuit is added on a three-level boost. The voltage control circuit can be connected in series in a third closed loop, and the third closed loop is a loop including an inductor, a first switching transistor, a flying capacitor, a second diode, and an input end. The voltage control circuit clamps a voltage of a common point of the first diode and the second diode when a voltage on an input end of the boost power conversion circuit is less than a startup voltage of the boost power conversion circuit. The voltage borne by the second diode is reduced, so that a diode with relatively small voltage stress can be selected.
US11418111B2
A power conversion circuit board (1) is a circuit board on which a power conversion circuit configured to convert a direct current into an alternating current is mounted. A low-voltage circuit (10b) to which a low voltage is applied and a high-voltage circuit (10a) to which a high voltage is applied are separately disposed in different areas on the same circuit board surface. Furthermore, part of wiring of the high-voltage circuit (10a) is formed on the circuit board surface, and the other wiring is constituted by a bus bar provided at a predetermined distance from the circuit board surface.
US11418109B2
An integrated cinema amplifier comprises a power supply stage that distributes power over a plurality of channels for rendering immersive audio content in a surround sound listening environment. The amplifier automatically detects maximum and net power availability and requirements based on audio content by decoding audio metadata and dynamically adjusts gains to each channel or sets of channels based on content and operational/environmental conditions. A power supply stage provides power to drive a plurality of channels corresponding to speaker feeds to a plurality of speakers. The amplifier has a front panel having an LED array with each LED associated with a respective channel or group of channels of the multi-channel amplifier, and a control unit configured to light the LEDs according to display patterns based on operating status or error conditions of the amplifier.
US11418101B2
Since wires connected to a linear motor are routed in a vacuum sample chamber, outgassing is generated from wire coating and efficiency of assembly operations is reduced. Further, there is a problem that thrust generation efficiency of the linear motor is reduced when a gap between a coil and a permanent magnet of the linear motor cannot be small. In order to solve the above problems, a linear motor for vacuum is provided, the linear motor for vacuum including: a mover having a permanent magnet; and a stator having a support member to which a coil is fixed, in which the support member includes a vacuum sealing portion that vacuum seals with a wall surface of a vacuum sample chamber, and a feed-through for supplying a current to the coil provided in the vacuum sample chamber.
US11418084B2
A generator includes an inverter cover which receives water intruding into a casing through a ventilation port provided on the casing and going along on a fuel tank existing in a periphery of an inverter to drop toward the inverter.
US11418079B1
A magnetic machine including a rotor in concentric arrangement with a stator. The rotor includes a plurality of protruding magnets arranged on a back iron and the stator includes a plurality of windings which interface with the plurality of protruding magnets. Illustrated embodiments of the rotor and stator form an in-runner machine where the stator surrounds an interior rotor or an out-runner machine where the rotor surrounds the stator.
US11418077B2
Rotor assembly with magnets and cooling channels and cooling channel separation element in the shaft
A rotor assembly for an electric machine includes a rotor core, a plurality of permanent magnets, which are arranged within a magnet pocket each, formed in the rotor core, with a clearance extending in the axial direction, and a shaft connected to the rotor core for conjoint rotation. A cooling channel arrangement is formed within the rotor assembly, and includes a first cooling channel extending within the shaft, a second cooling channel fluidically connected to the first cooling channel and extending in the radial direction along an end face of the rotor core, and a third cooling channel, which, adjoining the second cooling channel, extends in the axial direction through the clearances in the magnet pockets. The arrangement further includes a separation element, which separates an interior of the shaft into a first shaft portion, in which the first cooling channel extends, and into a second shaft portion.
US11418075B2
A rotor includes a shaft, a rotor core, magnets on a radial outside surface of the rotor core, and sheet-shaped magnetic portions provided on radial outside surfaces of some of the magnets. The magnets include first magnets in which the magnetic portions are on a circumferential portion in a radial outside surface of the first magnets and second magnets in which the magnetic portions are not on a radial outside surface of the second magnets. The first magnets and the second magnets are alternately arranged in the circumferential direction in each of a first portion and a second portion along the axial direction in the radial outside surface of the rotor core. The first magnets of the first portion and the second magnets of the second portion overlap each other, and the second magnets of the first portion and the first magnets of the second portion overlap each other.
US11418073B2
A rotor of an electric machine, in particular an electric motor, comprising a rotor body which circumferentially surrounds a shaft, and with a plurality of magnets. Each of the magnets is in each case arranged within a radially extending pocket of the rotor body, and each of the pockets is connected by means of an axially extending slot, each with a radially inner chamber of the rotor body. An electric machine is also provided.
US11418070B2
Phase coils include a first phase coil and a second phase coil, the phase coils are configured by connecting together end portions of the coil terminals of the first phase coil and the second phase coil that extend outward from identical radial positions in the slots axially outside the stator core so as to be radially outside a coil end group, and the coil terminals of the first phase coils of the phase coils of three phases include joint coil portions that extend outward from the slots within a pitch of one magnetic pole, are then bent so as to extend in an identical circumferential direction, and are placed in close proximity to the end portions of the coil terminals of the second phase coils that are intended for connection therewith.
US11418066B2
Described herein are techniques that increase the charging and/or discharging rate of a rechargeable battery, at least in part, by using frequency modulated (FM) signals having a frequency in the megahertz (MHz) frequency range. In some embodiments, the MHz frequency range may include any frequency between 0.1 MHz and 1 gigahertz (GHz). In some embodiments, a battery charger described herein may be configured to generate and transmit, to a battery, an FM signal modulated over a frequency range during a period of time, the FM signal having a frequency of at least 0.5 MHz during at least a first portion of the period of time. In some embodiments, a method described herein includes transmitting an FM signal modulated over a frequency range during a period of time and having a frequency of at least 0.5 MHz during at least a first portion of the period of time to a battery.
US11418065B2
The technology described herein is directed to wireless power chargers with integrated power receiving facilities. Indeed, embodiments of the present disclosure describe systems, methods, and apparatuses for implementing wireless power chargers with integrated power receiving facilities. In some implementations, a portable wireless power charging apparatus is disclosed. The portable wireless power charging apparatus includes one or more antennas configured to wirelessly receive directed wireless power from a wireless power transmission system via a first radiative wireless power transfer technology in a multipath wireless power delivery environment. The portable wireless power charging apparatus further includes a wireless power receiver configured to convert the wireless power received via the first radiative wireless power transfer technology to direct current (DC) power, and a wireless power transmitter configured to wirelessly transmit the DC power to a portable electronic device via a nonradiative wireless power transfer technology.
US11418063B2
An electrically conductive material configured having at least one opening of various unlimited geometries extending through its thickness is provided. The opening is designed to modify eddy currents that form within the surface of the material from interaction with magnetic fields that allow for wireless energy transfer therethrough. The opening may be configured as a cut-out, a slit or combination thereof that extends through the thickness of the electrically conductive material. The electrically conductive material is configured with the cut-out and/or slit pattern positioned adjacent to an antenna configured to receive or transmit electrical energy wirelessly through near-field magnetic coupling (NFMC). A magnetic field shielding material, such as a ferrite, may also be positioned adjacent to the antenna. Such magnetic shielding materials may be used to strategically block eddy currents from electrical components and circuitry located within a device.
US11418057B2
Divergence of state estimation solutions for multi-area power grids typically occurs due to a single anomaly in the measurement set or network model, yet will cause failure of the state estimator to provide the solution for the entire system. Disclosed herein are methods and systems that allow detection, identification and isolation of the anomaly during the state estimation solution so that a large percentage of the system states can still be estimated, while isolating the anomaly that is causing the divergence for the estimator.
US11418056B2
A monitoring control system includes: at least one transmission monitoring control subsystem; and at least one distribution monitoring control subsystem. The transmission monitoring control subsystem and the distribution monitoring control subsystem respectively include an operation procedure creation unit that creates an operation procedure that defines a procedure of an operation for a facility installed in an electric power system, and an operation unit that, in a case an on-site operation that cannot be remotely performed on the facility is included in the operation procedure, transmits, to an on-site terminal associated with the on-site operation, a start confirmation instruction to confirm whether or not the on-site operation can be started and the operation procedure for the on-site operation. The monitoring control system performs monitoring control of the power transmission system and the power distribution system based on the operation procedure.
US11418054B2
Methods and apparatus according to various aspects of the present invention may operate in conjunction with a microgrid capable of connecting to a main electrical grid supplying electrical power at a frequency (or other characteristic, such as voltage). A sensor may provide a signal to a control system, wherein the signal corresponds to the frequency (or other characteristic) of the electrical power from the main electrical grid. The control system may compare the frequency (or other characteristic) of the electrical power from the main electrical grid to a first threshold, and automatically provide power from the microgrid to the main electrical grid if the frequency (or other characteristic) of the electrical power from the main electrical grid crosses the first threshold.
US11418046B2
A charge and discharge circuit includes: a charging loop, including a battery pack, a first switch module and a charging device connected in series, where, the charging loop is configured to charge the battery pack using the charging device, and precharge the charging device; and a discharging loop, including the battery pack, a second switch module and an electric device connected in series, where, the discharging loop is configured to make the battery pack discharge to the electric device, and precharge the electric device; where, the first switch module and the second switch module each include at least one switch, and a part of switches in the first switch module and the second switch module are semiconductor switches, and the other part of the switches in the first switch module and the second switch module are relays.
US11418036B2
A power system includes a photovoltaic cell panel, a first power conversion device converting the DC power from the photovoltaic cell panel into AC power, and outputting the AC power to an electric power grid, a DC-side switch device provided between the photovoltaic cell panel and the first power conversion device and opening upon a trouble, a storage battery, and a second power conversion device connected to a connection point between the photovoltaic cell panel and the DC-side switch device and controlling charging and discharging of the storage battery. The second power conversion device includes a normal charging control mode for charging the storage battery based on a command signal from the system host monitor. Disconnection charging control mode may be executed when the DC voltage of the connection point exceeds a predetermined threshold value even if the command signal does not instructs the normal charging control mode.
US11418035B2
A system includes a power source configured to provide constant-current power to a medium-voltage direct current (MVDC) bus. The system also includes a first rotating electrical machine configured to receive the power from the MVDC bus. The system further includes a plurality of second rotating electrical machines connected in series with the first rotating electrical machine, with a long distance transmission line between adjacent rotating electrical machines. In addition, the system includes a flywheel energy storage coupled to each of the rotating electrical machines, where each flywheel energy storage is configured to store inertial energy. Each of the rotating electrical machines is electrically connected to a battery or ultra-capacitor subsystem and a pulse forming network (PFN).
US11418029B2
A monitoring system includes in-field measurement devices adapted to generate measurement data of a power supply network, and a processing unit adapted to process the measurement data using a local network state estimation model to calculate local network state profiles used to generate a global network state profile. The processing unit is adapted to process the measurement data to provide a relevance profile comprising, for the in-field measurement devices, a relevance distribution indicating a probability where an origin of a contingency within the power supply network resides. The processing unit is adapted to compute a similarity between a candidate contingency profile formed by the generated global network state profile and by the calculated relevance profile and reference contingency profiles stored in a reference contingency database of the monitoring system to identify a reference contingency profile having a highest computed similarity as a recognized contingency within the power supply network.
US11418026B1
An electrostatic protection device for protecting an input port of an electronic circuit. The electrostatic protection device includes a first stacked coil, a second stacked coil, and an input terminal, wherein the second stacked coil is inductively coupled to the first stacked coil. The first stacked coil comprises a first coil input connected to the input terminal, a first coil output port connected to a lower frequency ESD protection circuit, and a first coil termination port connected to a termination load, and wherein the lower frequency ESD protection circuit comprises a lower frequency output. The second stacked coil comprises an output port connected to a higher frequency ESD protection circuit, and wherein the higher frequency ESD protection circuit comprises a higher frequency output. The electrostatic protection device comprises a summation circuit configured for outputting a summation of the higher frequency output and the lower frequency output.
US11418020B2
Testing device for testing an overcurrent protector, and method of operating the same. First and second switches are provided for connecting the first and second terminals of the overcurrent protector to first and second capacitors, respectively. The first and second capacitors are pre-charged to first and second voltages, where the second voltage is lower than the first. A controller switches the first and second switches to their test positions, which establishes a current path from the first capacitor to the second capacitor through the overcurrent protector. The first and second voltages are selected so that the peak current that would be generated in the current path is greater than the overcurrent threshold of the overcurrent protector.
US11418018B2
An arc detection circuit includes: a current detector that detects a current supplied from a power supply apparatus via a transmission path; a voltage detector that detects a voltage applied to the transmission path; and an arc determination unit configured to determine whether an arc has occurred in the transmission path based on the voltage, when one or more particular frequency components of the current exceed a first threshold.
US11418010B2
An optoelectronic device includes a semiconductor substrate. A first set of thin-film layers is disposed on the substrate and defines a lower distributed Bragg-reflector (DBR) stack. A second set of thin-film layers is disposed over the lower DBR stack and defines an optical emission region, which is contained in a mesa defined by multiple trenches, which are disposed around the optical emission region without fully surrounding the optical emission region. A third set of thin-film layers is disposed over the optical emission region and defines an upper DBR stack. Electrodes are disposed around the mesa in gaps between the trenches and are configured to apply an excitation current to the optical emission region.
US11418008B2
Disclosed is a laser device. The laser device includes a substrate, a pump light source which is disposed on the substrate and provided with a light emitting layer configured to generate pump light, and an upper waveguide which is disposed above the pump light source in a first direction and provided with an upper resonator configured to allow laser light to be generated and resonate by using the pump light.
US11418006B1
An optoelectronic device includes a semiconductor substrate and an optically-active structure, including epitaxial layers defining a lower distributed Bragg-reflector (DBR) stack, a quantum well structure with P- and N-doped layers disposed respectively on opposing sides of the quantum well structure, and an upper DBR stack. Electrodes are coupled to apply a bias voltage between the P- and N-doped layers. Control circuitry, disposed on the substrate, is configured to apply a forward bias voltage between the electrodes so as to cause the optically-active structure to emit an optical pulse through the upper DBR stack, and then to reverse the bias voltage between the electrodes so as to cause the optically-active structure to output an electrical pulse to the control circuitry in response to incidence of one or more of the photons, due to reflection of the optical pulse, on the quantum well structure through the upper DBR stack.
US11417992B2
The disclosed angled modular edge patching system is configured to be mounted to a ceiling, furniture or wall, facilitate cable management functions and enhance space utilization. The disclosed angled modular edge patching system including a patch panel element and a base, which are configured to be releasably engaged.
US11417989B2
A system may include an aircraft galley insert configured to be installed within an aircraft galley insert bay, a mounting plate attached to a rear of the aircraft galley insert, and a power connector assembly attached to the mounting plate. The power connector assembly may include compressible spring assemblies that compress as the power connector assembly is mated with a corresponding power connector assembly of the aircraft galley insert bay. The power connector assembly may self-align with the corresponding power connector assembly of the aircraft galley insert bay when the aircraft galley insert is installed within the aircraft galley insert bay.
US11417987B2
A soft neural interface connector apparatus includes a PCB having a two-dimensional array of solder balls, a transparent top board, a cushioning layer on one side of the transparent top board, and a soft neural interface including a flexible and/or stretchable microelectrode array (MEA) through which neural signals are obtained or delivered. The MEA includes a two-dimensional array of contact pads corresponding to the array of solder balls. The PCB, the transparent top board, the cushioning layer, and the MEA are stacked together such that the MEA is between the cushioning layer and the PCB, and the contact pads are aligned with and in electrical contact with associated solder balls. A magnetic connector system having at least one magnetic connector component on the transparent top board is magnetically connected with at least one magnetic connector component on the PCB to press the contact pads and associated solder balls together.
US11417983B2
Provided is an airtight terminal that is designed for an automotive electric compressor and that eliminates the need for use of a gasket. The airtight terminal includes a metallic outer ring having through holes formed for screw fastening and sealing holes arranged linearly, leads inserted through the sealing holes in the metallic outer ring, and pieces of an insulating material to seal gaps between the metallic outer ring and the respective leads. The metallic outer ring has a seal coat possessing elastic deformability. The seal coat is put on a predetermined surface of the metallic outer ring that is at least a contact surface to which an external device is attached. The seal coat is put in a shape of an oval embankment, and the sealing holes are disposed inside a region surrounded with the embankment-shaped coat. When the airtight terminal is attached to the external device such as an airtight container for an electric compressor, the airtight terminal is fastened with screws, with the embankment-shaped seal coat being pressed against an outer wall surface of the external device and being elastically deformed. At the same time, a terminal attachment hole formed in the outer wall surface of the external device is disposed inside the oval embankment of the seal coat. This can hermetically isolate an inside and an outside of the oval embankment from each other.
US11417980B2
An electrical plug includes an inner housing slidably received within an outer housing. The inner housing includes corrugations at an end of the inner housing to prevent an electrical cable from pulling out of the plug. The inner housing also includes a protrusion that is structured to be received in an aperture of the outer housing to couple the inner housing and the outer housing and provide a visual indicator of proper assembly. The electrical plug further includes fuse clips that increase the contact area between terminals and fuses of the plug, which improves reliability.
US11417976B2
An electrical connector includes a connector housing and a plurality of conductive terminals mounted in the connector housing. The plurality of conductive terminals include a plurality of ground terminals and a plurality of signal terminals. The ground terminals and the signal terminals are each made of a lossy metal. A surface of each of the signal terminals is coated with a low lossy metal.
US11417965B2
An antenna system, an apparatus, and a method for configuring an antenna system are provided. The antenna system includes a dielectric substrate. The dielectric substrate has a top surface and a bottom surface. The antenna system also includes a first planar inverted-F antenna (PIFA) radiating element and a second PIFA radiating element disposed on the top surface of the dielectric substrate, each of the PIFA radiating elements having a F-head portion. The antenna system also includes at least two defected ground structures (DGSs) disposed on the bottom surface of the dielectric substrate and configured to provide isolation between the first and the second PIFA radiating element. Each DGS includes a varactor diode. The antenna system also includes a bias circuit corresponding to each of the at least two DGSs.
US11417951B2
An electronic device may have a cover layer and an antenna. A dielectric adapter may have a first surface coupled to the antenna and a second surface pressed against the cover layer. The cover layer may have a three-dimensional curvature. The second surface may have a curvature that matches the curvature of the cover layer. Biasing structures may exert a biasing force that presses the antenna against the dielectric adapter and that presses the dielectric adapter against the cover layer. The biasing force may be oriented in a direction normal to the cover layer at each point across dielectric adapter. This may serve to ensure that a uniform and reliable impedance transition is provided between the antenna and free space through the cover layer over time, thereby maximizing the efficiency of the antenna.
US11417949B2
This antenna module (100) includes a dielectric substrate (130) and radiation electrodes (121) and a ground electrode (GND) that are arranged on or in the dielectric substrate (130). A plurality of openings (122) are formed in at least one electrode out of the radiation electrode (121) and the ground electrode (GND), the plurality of openings (122) penetrating through the electrode but not penetrating through the dielectric substrate (130).
US11417938B2
In described examples, an integrated waveguide transition includes a substrate with a waveguide side and an opposing waveguide termination side. A first layer of metal covers a portion of the waveguide side, a second layer of metal is separated from the first layer of metal by a first layer of dielectric, and a third layer of metal covers a portion of the waveguide termination side and is separated from the second layer of metal by a second layer of dielectric. A substrate waveguide perpendicular to a plane of the substrate extends from the waveguide side to the waveguide termination side; and a length and a width of the substrate waveguide is defined by a fence of ground-stitching vias that short the first layer of metal and the second layer of metal to a plate of the third layer of metal that forms a back short.
US11417927B2
A battery system of a vehicle may include a main battery pack, a secondary battery pack, and one or more secondary contactors. The main battery pack is integrated into the vehicle and includes a first plurality of battery cells, a first DC bus coupled to the first plurality of battery cells, and main contactors coupled to the first DC bus to form a switched DC bus. The secondary battery pack includes a second plurality of battery cells, and a second DC bus coupled to the second plurality of battery cells. The second DC bus of the secondary battery pack is electrically coupled to the switched DC bus of the main battery pack via the secondary contactors. In some embodiments, the main battery pack includes control circuitry configured to communicate with control circuitry of the secondary battery pack to manage or monitor coupling of the battery packs.
US11417920B2
A power storage device includes at least one power storage cell, a heater that increases a temperature of the power storage cell, a pressing member that presses the heater against the power storage cell, and a sensor provided in the heater. The heater includes a base material and a heater wire provided on the base material. The base material includes a lead portion drawn from between the pressing member and the power storage cell. The heater wire includes a heater lead wire formed on the lead portion. The sensor is provided on the heater lead wire.
US11417918B2
In a battery monitoring system including a plurality of battery modules each including one or more cells, the battery modules are connected in series to each other. The battery monitoring system monitors the state of each cell based on the voltage value of the cell and the current value of the battery modules. A current detection unit detects the current value. Each voltage detection unit is associated with the corresponding one of the battery modules and detects the voltage value. Each slave unit is associated with the corresponding one of the battery modules, and wirelessly transmits information including synchronous current and voltage values detected by the current detection unit and the voltage detection unit. A master unit receives the information transmitted from the slave units. A central monitoring unit receives the information received by the master unit.
US11417915B2
A battery unit including a battery, a circuit board, a switching device which achieves charge or discharge of the battery, and a casing made up of a bottom and a peripheral wall. The battery is disposed on the bottom. The circuit board is arranged farther away from the bottom than from the battery. The switching device is located closer to the bottom than the circuit board is. The switching device has a visible area visually or optically perceived, as inwardly facing inside the casing from outside the circuit board, and includes a data-retaining area on which data on characteristics of the switching device is provided, for example, in the form of a code. This structure facilitates the ease with which the data on the characteristics of the switching device is visually or optically read out of the data-retaining area without having to have an increased size of the battery unit.
US11417914B2
The present application discloses a battery, an electronic device and a battery pack. The battery according to one embodiment comprises a battery cell assembly, the battery cell assembly including a first tab and a protection assembly. The protection assembly is connected to the first tab, and comprises a breaker and a first unidirectional conduction element, the breaker and the first unidirectional conduction element are connected in parallel. The battery, the electronic device and the battery pack provided by the embodiments of the present application may achieve overcharge protection on a soft package battery, and may meet a performance requirement of the soft package battery for discharge at large current.
US11417912B2
A secondary battery that includes a partial electrode assembly having a planar stacking structure in which a plurality of electrode constituting layers are stacked, the plurality of electrode constituting layers each include a pair of electrodes and a separator therebetween, and at least one of the pair of electrodes includes a double-sided electrode having an electrode material layer on opposed main surfaces of a current collector; and an outermost layer electrode surrounding the partial electrode assembly along at least a portion of a contour of the partial electrode assembly in a cross-sectional view thereof, the outermost layer electrode including a single-sided electrode having an outermost electrode material layer on one main surface of an outermost current collector.
US11417911B2
The invention provides a laminated all-solid-state battery that can increase volumetric energy density and maintain the shape of the all-solid-state battery, as well as a method for producing the laminated all-solid-state battery. The all-solid-state battery comprises a battery stack having two or more unit cells and an exterior film sealing the battery stack, wherein the battery stack has a hexahedron shape formed by a top surface and bottom surface in the stacking direction and first, second, third and fourth side walls, the exterior film is a single film covering the battery stack from the top surface and bottom surface in a manner covering the fourth side wall, and condition (i) is satisfied when collector tabs protrude from the first or third side wall or condition (ii) is satisfied when collector tabs protrude from the second side wall, as well as a method for producing the all-solid-state battery.
US11417910B2
Provided is a method of efficiently producing a laminate for a non-aqueous secondary battery having excellent process adhesiveness. The method of producing a laminate for a non-aqueous secondary battery is a method of producing a laminate for a non-aqueous secondary battery including an electrode and a separator that are affixed to each other and includes: a step (A) of supplying, to at least one of an affixing surface of the electrode and an affixing surface of the separator, a substance that can plasticize a polymer contained in a surface layer part at an affixing surface side of at least one of the electrode and the separator; and a step (B) of affixing the electrode and the separator to each other after step (A).
US11417908B2
Provided are a solid electrolyte composition containing an inorganic solid electrolyte having a conductivity of an ion of a metal belonging to Group I or II of the periodic table and a binder having a specific constituent component, a solid electrolyte-containing sheet in which the same solid electrolyte composition is used and a manufacturing method therefor, an all-solid state secondary battery and a manufacturing method therefor, a polymer having a specific constituent component, a non-aqueous solvent dispersion thereof, and a diol compound.
US11417903B2
An anode layer for a solid oxide electrochemical device comprises a metal support structure having an electrolyte-facing surface and a gas distribution-facing surface, the metal support structure defining pores having a pore diameter, anode catalyst supported within the metal support structure, channels formed within the gas distribution-facing surface of the metal support structure, and a first reformer catalyst deposited onto surfaces of the metal support structure defining the channels, the first reformer catalyst having a diameter greater than the pore diameter. The anode layer can further comprise a second reformer catalyst, with the first reformer catalyst reforming a first fuel and the second reformer catalyst reforming a second fuel.
US11417902B2
A controller of a fuel cell system detects catalytic layer deterioration and drainage malfunction by the following inspection process. The controller may: execute drainage of water from a fuel cell, and acquire first/second output voltages of the fuel cell when an output current density of the fuel cell is a first reference current density A1/A2 (A2>A1). When the first output voltage is lower than a first threshold voltage and the second output voltage is higher than a second threshold voltage, the controller may output a first determination signal indicating that the catalytic layer is deteriorated and the drainage is executed without malfunction. When the first output voltage is higher than the first threshold voltage and the second output voltage is lower than the second threshold voltage, the controller may output a second determination signal indicating that the catalytic layer is not deteriorated and the drainage is executed with malfunction.
US11417899B2
A fuel cell system to be mounted on a vehicle includes a fuel cell configured to generate electric power through chemical reaction of reactive gases, a gas-liquid separator configured to separate water from an off-gas discharged from the fuel cell and store the separated water, a discharge valve configured to drain the water flowing out through an opening at a bottom of the gas-liquid separator, an attitude control device configured to control an attitude of the gas-liquid separator relative to the vehicle, and an instruction device configured to send an instruction for a control target of the attitude of the gas-liquid separator to the attitude control device.
US11417898B2
A fuel cell system that includes a fuel cell module having first and second electrical supply terminals with an electrical output voltage applied thereto during operation of the fuel cell module. The electrical supply terminals are coupled to an electrical load, an air supply device that supplies air in an adjustable air quantity to the fuel cell module as one of the reactants for generating the output voltage, and a control device that controls an output power of the fuel cell module at the electrical supply terminals and adjusts the quantity of air supplied by the air supply device. The control device detects a load demand of the load and controls the output power of the fuel cell module in accordance with the detected load demand, to adjust and update the air quantity supplied by the air supply device in accordance with the detected load demand in air-ratio-controlled manner.
US11417895B2
A single cell includes a linear sealing portion bonded to a pair of gas separators, the sealing portion being provided between the gas separators. A fuel cell in which a plurality of single cells is laminated includes: a gasket provided between the single cells adjacent to each other; a first manifold communicating with an inside-cell gas passage; and a second manifold communicating with an inter-cell refrigerant passage. The gasket includes a first gasket placed to surround the outer periphery of the first manifold and configured to seal the first manifold, and a second gasket configured to seal the second manifold and an inter-cell refrigerant passage. When the fuel cell is viewed from the laminating direction, the first gasket, the sealing portion, and the second gasket are placed in this order from the first manifold toward the second manifold between the first manifold and the second manifold.
US11417884B2
A titanium disulfide-sulfur (TiS2—S) composite particle contains a titanium disulfide (TiS2) substrate having solid elemental sulfur (S) disposed directly on a surface of the TiS2. The TiS2 substrate has a layered crystalline hexagonal structure of space group P-3 ml and includes at least 100 distinct layers. The TiS2 and S are present in the composite in a weight ratio (TiS2:S) of 20:80 to 50:50. Cathodes and batteries containing the composite particle, as well as related methods, are also disclosed.
US11417872B2
Provided are a porous inorganic insulator-sulfur composite and a lithium-sulfur battery including the same. More particularly, provided are a composite having sulfur supported in pores of a porous inorganic insulator, a cathode for lithium-sulfur batteries or an interlayer, which includes the composite, and a lithium-sulfur battery including the cathode or the interlayer.
US11417871B2
A system for producing electrodes for lead-acid batteries is disclosed. An electrode that has been produced comprises at least one upper and/or one lower frame element as well as a lattice-shaped region that extends away from said upper or lower frame element and has a plurality of openings, the upper and/or lower frame element being of a greater thickness than the lattice-shaped region. Said system comprises the steps of: a) producing a profiled strip-shaped blank using a casting method in which the strip-shaped blank is formed, solely by means of said casting method, to have a greater thickness on one side in at least one of the regions which should eventually form the upper or lower frame element, than the thickness in regions which should eventually form the lattice-shaped region, and b) producing said lattice-shaped region with the openings in a subsequent expanded metal process.
US11417867B2
Disclosed is a display device that is capable of realizing low power consumption. The display device includes a first thin film transistor having a polycrystalline semiconductor layer in an active area and a second thin film transistor having an oxide semiconductor layer in the active area, thereby realizing low power consumption, wherein at least one opening disposed in a bending area has the same depth as one of a plurality of contact holes disposed in the active area, whereby the opening and the contact holes are formed through the same process, and the process is therefore simplified.
US11417849B2
Integrated circuit structures, arrangements, and manufacturing processes are discussed herein. In one example, a method of forming a transistor structure includes forming a dielectric layer onto a gate element and forming a corrugated surface into the dielectric layer using at least an atomic layer etching (ALE) process to remove portions of the dielectric layer. The method also includes forming a semiconductor layer onto the corrugated surface and forming a source element and a drain element onto the semiconductor layer.
US11417847B2
A method for manufacturing a display substrate, a display substrate, a display panel and a display device are provided. The method includes: disposing a mask plate including an occlusion area above a base substrate, an orthographic projection of occlusion area on the base substrate partially overlapping a folding area of the base substrate; forming an inorganic layer pattern with an opening on the base substrate by using mask plate, an orthographic projection of opening on the base substrate partially overlapping the folding area of base substrate. An orthographic projection of opening on the base substrate partially overlaps the folding area of base substrate. The folding area of base substrate is occluded by mask plate. The inorganic layer is formed on the base substrate by using mask plate. Effect of conveniently and quickly removing a portion the inorganic layer located in the folding area can be achieved without removing the portion.
US11417845B2
An organic compound having a spiro-anthracene core and an aromatic or heteroaromatic group and/or an amino group bonded to the core, and an organic light-emitting diode and an organic light-emitting device including the organic compound are disclosed. Since the organic compound of the present disclosure has a rigid structure and a substantially narrow full width at half maximum (FWHM), it is possible to manufacture an organic light-emitting diode and an organic light-emitting device with lowered driving voltages and enhanced luminous efficiency and color purity using the organic compound.
US11417843B2
An organic electroluminescence device of an embodiment includes a first electrode and a second electrode opposite of the first electrode, and at least one organic layer between the first electrode and the second electrode, wherein the at least one organic layer includes an amine compound represented by Formula 1 below.
US11417839B2
A memory device, a memory integrated circuit and a manufacturing method of the memory device are provided. The memory device includes a composite bottom electrode, a top electrode and a resistance variable layer disposed between the composite bottom electrode and the top electrode. The composite bottom electrode includes a first bottom electrode and a second bottom electrode disposed over the first bottom electrode. A sidewall of the second bottom electrode is laterally recessed from sidewalls of the first bottom electrode layer and the resistance variable layer.
US11417838B2
A method for fabricating a semiconductor device includes the steps of: forming a first inter-metal dielectric (IMD) layer on a substrate; forming a first metal interconnection and a second metal interconnection in the first IMD layer; forming a channel layer on the first metal interconnection and the second metal interconnection; forming a magnetic tunneling junction (MTJ) stack on the channel layer; and removing the MTJ stack to form a MTJ.
US11417829B2
A three dimensional magnetic random access memory array that includes a sourceline formed on a substrate and a magnetic memory element pillar that includes a plurality of magnetic memory element pillars formed over the substrate. The three dimensional magnetic random access memory array also includes a transistor formed between the magnetic memory element pillar, the transistor being functional to electrically connect the sourceline and magnetic memory element pillar. A plurality of magnetic memory element pillars may be formed over the substrate with a transistor between each memory element pillar to selectively connect or disconnect each of the magnetic memory element pillars. The transistor can include an epitaxial semiconductor structure having a gate dielectric formed at a side of the epitaxial semiconductor and a gate material formed on the gat dielectric such that the gate dielectric material is between the gate material and the semiconductor material.
US11417827B2
A MEMS piezoelectric device includes a monolithic semiconductor body having first and second main surfaces extending parallel to a horizontal plane formed by first and second horizontal axes. A housing cavity is arranged within the monolithic semiconductor body. A membrane is suspended above the housing cavity at the first main surface. A piezoelectric material layer is arranged above a first surface of the membrane with a proof mass coupled to a second surface, opposite to the first surface, along the vertical axis. An electrode arrangement is provided in contact with the piezoelectric material layer. The proof mass causes deformation of the piezoelectric material layer in response to environmental mechanical vibrations. The proof mass is coupled to the membrane by a connection element arranged, in a central position, between the membrane and the proof mass in the direction of the vertical axis.
US11417826B2
The embodiments of the present disclosure disclose an ultrasonic sensor, a manufacturing method thereof, and a display device. The ultrasonic sensor includes a substrate and at least one sensor component located on the substrate. The sensor component includes a first electrode, a second electrode, and a piezoelectric layer located between the first electrode and the second electrode. The substrate is provided with a groove on a side close to the sensor component, and the orthographic projection of the piezoelectric layer on the substrate has a portion overlapping with a region of the groove in the substrate.
US11417824B2
According to one embodiment, a sensor module includes at least one sensor and at least one switch. The sensor includes a first piezoelectric element. The first piezoelectric element includes a first electrode. The first piezoelectric element is set with a resonance frequency to resonate at a vibration frequency of a detection target. The switch includes a second piezoelectric element. The second piezoelectric element includes a second electrode connected to the first electrode and a third electrode electrically separated from the second electrode.
US11417820B2
An oxide superconductor includes: REBa2Cu3O7-x (RE being one element selected from a “RE element group” of Pr, Nd, Sm, Eu, Gd, Y, Tb, Dy, Ho, Er, Tm, Yb, and Lu). The RE includes at least three types of metallic elements (M1, M2, and M3), and the three types of metallic elements are any element of the RE element group selected in order. In an oxide system satisfying R(M1)≤20 mol % and R(M2)≥60 mol % and R(M3)≤20 mol %, R(M1) being an average metallic element ratio of M1 in M1+M2+M3, SD(Ms)>0.15 is satisfied at a position at 50% of an average film thickness of a cross section including the c-axis, Ms being the metallic element of not larger of R(M1) and R(M3), SD(Ms) being a standard deviation/average value of a concentration of Ms.
US11417816B2
A thermoelectric element according to an embodiment of the present invention comprises: a first metallic substrate; a first resin layer which is disposed on the first metallic substrate and comes in direct contact with the first metallic substrate; a plurality of first electrodes disposed on the first resin layer; a plurality of P-type thermoelectric legs and a plurality of N-type thermoelectric legs disposed on the plurality of first electrodes; a plurality of second electrodes disposed on the plurality of P-type thermoelectric legs and the plurality of N-type thermoelectric legs; a second resin layer disposed on the plurality of second electrodes; and a second metallic substrate disposed on the second resin layer, wherein a surface of the first metallic substrate that faces the first resin layer comprises a first region and a second region disposed inside the first region, wherein a surface roughness of the second region is greater than a surface roughness of the first region, wherein the first resin layer is disposed on the second region.
US11417815B2
The present invention provides a thermoelectric conversion module which can utilize sunlight and solar heat by using high output charge-transport-type thermoelectric conversion elements. The present invention provides A thermoelectric conversion module which comprises at least a thermoelectric conversion module-element in which charge-transport-type thermoelectric conversion elements are formed and a photothermal conversion substrate containing photothermal conversion material, wherein the thermoelectric conversion module-element comprises an insulating substrate, and n-type and/or p-type charge-transport-type thermoelectric conversion elements are formed on the insulating substrate, wherein the charge-transport-type thermoelectric conversion element comprises a charge transport layer and thermoelectric conversion material layers and electrodes, wherein the photothermal conversion substrate is disposed so that it absorbs external light and converts it into heat and transfers the heat to the electrodes or the thermoelectric conversion material layers disposed on the charge transport layers.
US11417814B2
An LED chip module includes a first electrode plate and a second electrode plate. A first set of LED chip and a second set of LED chip are respectively set on the first electrode plate and the second electrode plate. The second set of LED chip is electrically connected to the first set of LED chip. A plastic shell is fixedly connected to the first electrode plate and the second electrode plate by injection molding to make the first electrode plate and the second electrode plate keep a predetermined space between each other and make a lower surface of the first electrode plate and a lower surface of the second electrode plate be respectively connected to two different polarity terminals of the power supply to drive the first set of LED chip and the second set of LED chip to emit light.
US11417810B2
An LED device includes: a first semiconductor layer of a first type; a second semiconductor layer of a second type; a light emitting layer formed between the first semiconductor layer and the second semiconductor layer and configured to emit light; and a filter formed on the second semiconductor layer and configured to transmit light in the second wavelength band within the first wavelength band. The filter includes a defect layer, first refractive layers, and second refractive layers having a refractive index greater than a refractive index of the first refractive layers, the first refractive layers and the second refractive layers are formed alternately on one side and other side of the defect layer. A thickness of the defect layer is determined based on a center wavelength of the first wavelength band, a peak wavelength of the second wavelength band and a refractive index of the defect layer.
US11417809B2
A light emitting display apparatus is disclosed, which can improve light extraction efficiency of light emitted from a light emitting diode. The light emitting display apparatus comprises a substrate including a plurality of pixel areas having an opening area, an uneven portion arranged in the opening area, and a light emitting diode arranged over the uneven portion, the uneven portion may have roughness average value of about 0.19 to about 0.29 for a unit size.
US11417790B2
A photodetector having a small form factor and having high detection efficiency with respect to both visible light and infrared rays may include a first electrode, a collector layer on the first electrode, a tunnel barrier layer on the collector layer, a graphene layer on the tunnel barrier layer, an emitter layer on the graphene layer, and a second electrode on the emitter layer. The photodetector may be included in an image sensor. An image sensor may include a substrate, an insulating layer on the substrate, and a plurality of photodetectors on the insulating layer. The photodetectors may be aligned with each other in a direction extending parallel or perpendicular to a top surface of the insulating layer. The photodetector may be included in a LiDAR system.
US11417789B2
An electronic device is provided that includes a photodiode. The photodiode includes a semiconductor region coupled to a node of application of a first voltage, and at least one semiconductor wall. The at least one semiconductor wall extends along at least a height of the photodiode and partially surrounds the semiconductor region.
US11417782B2
The invention relates to a layered structure (1) with semiconducting materials on a support layer (3) comprising at least one planar semiconducting layer (6) and several electrodes, in particular a first (4) and second (5) one. The semiconducting layer (6) has a top (8) and bottom (7) flat face extending essentially parallel and spaced apart from one another by the height of the layer (10). The semiconducting layer (6) is also applied by the bottom flat face (7) to a flat face of the support layer (2) and the two electrodes are connected to the semiconducting layer in an electrically conducting manner. The at least two electrodes are applied by means of a structuring process and are disposed on two oppositely lying faces of the semiconducting layer and/or in planes at least approximately parallel between the two faces.
US11417779B2
The disclosure is applicable for the technical field of semiconductor devices manufacturing, and provides a gallium oxide SBD terminal structure. The gallium oxide SBD terminal structure comprises a cathode metal layer, an N+ high-concentration substrate layer, an N− low-concentration Ga2O3 epitaxial layer and an anode metal layer from bottom to top, wherein the N− low-concentration Ga2O3 epitaxial layer is within a range of certain thickness close to the anode metal layer; and a doping concentration below the anode metal layer is greater than a doping concentration on two sides of the anode metal layer. Namely, only a doping concentration of the part outside the corresponding area of the anode metal layer is changed, so that the breakdown voltage of the gallium oxide SBD terminal structure is improved under the condition of guaranteeing low on resistance.
US11417775B2
Disclosed herein are transistor gate-channel arrangements that may be implemented in nanowire thin film transistors (TFTs) with textured semiconductors, and related methods and devices. An example transistor gate-channel arrangement may include a substrate, a channel material that includes a textured thin film semiconductor material shaped as a nanowire, a gate dielectric that at least partially wraps around the nanowire, and a gate electrode material that wraps around the gate dielectric. Implementing textured thin film semiconductor channel materials shaped as a nanowire and having a gate stack of a gate dielectric and a gate electrode material wrapping around the nanowire advantageously allows realizing gate all-around or bottom-gate transistor architectures for TFTs with textured semiconductor channel materials.
US11417772B2
A semiconductor device includes a substrate, an oxide semiconductor film on the substrate, a first gate structure on the oxide semiconductor film and a contact that is in contact with the oxide semiconductor film, the contact being disposed on a boundary surface with the oxide semiconductor film, and including a metal oxide film that includes a transition metal.
US11417766B2
A semiconductor device according to the present disclosure includes a first transistor and a second transistor. The first transistor includes a plurality of first channel members and a first gate structure wrapping around each of the plurality of first channel members. The second transistor includes a plurality of second channel members and a second gate structure disposed over the plurality of second channel members. Each of the plurality of first channel members has a first width and a first height smaller than the first width. Each of the plurality of second channel members has a second width and a second height greater than the second width.
US11417760B2
A vertical semiconductor device includes a substrate, a buffer layer over the substrate, and a drift layer over the buffer layer. The substrate has a first doping type and a first doping concentration. The buffer layer has the first doping type and a second doping concentration that is less than the first doping concentration. The drift layer has the first doping type and a third doping concentration that is less than the second doping concentration.
US11417754B2
It is an object to provide a highly reliable semiconductor device which includes a thin film transistor having stable electric characteristics. It is another object to manufacture a highly reliable semiconductor device at lower cost with high productivity. In a method for manufacturing a semiconductor device which includes a thin film transistor where a semiconductor layer having a channel formation region, a source region, and a drain region are formed using an oxide semiconductor layer, heat treatment (heat treatment for dehydration or dehydrogenation) is performed so as to improve the purity of the oxide semiconductor layer and reduce impurities such as moisture. Moreover, the oxide semiconductor layer subjected to the heat treatment is slowly cooled under an oxygen atmosphere.
US11417753B2
A semiconductor device and method for making the semiconductor device comprising a flash memory cell is provided. In accordance with some embodiments, the method includes: patterning a first gate material layer and a gate insulating film over a substrate, the first gate material layer comprising a first gate material, the gate insulating film disposed on the first gate material layer; forming a second gate material layer over the substrate, the gate insulating film, and side walls of the first gate material layer, the second gate material layer comprising a second gate material; etching the second gate material layer to expose the substrate and the gate insulating film and provide a portion of the second gate material layer along each of the side walls of the first gate material layer; and etching the gate insulating film and the first gate material layer so as to form a plurality of gate structures.
US11417738B2
Semiconductor structures and fabrication methods thereof are provided. The method includes: providing a substrate, the substate having a first opening; forming a first epitaxial layer in the first opening, the first epitaxial layer having a second opening; forming a stop layer on sidewall surfaces and a bottom surface of the second opening; forming a second epitaxial layer on a top surface of the stop layer; after forming the second epitaxial layer, forming a dielectric layer on the substrate, the dielectric layer having a third opening exposing a surface of the second epitaxial layer; forming a fourth opening in the second epitaxial layer by etching the second epitaxial layer exposed by the third opening until the stop layer is exposed; and forming a contact layer on sidewall surfaces and a bottom surface of the fourth opening by performing a semiconductor metallization process.
US11417733B2
Epitaxially coated semiconductor wafers of monocrystalline silicon comprise a p+-doped substrate wafer and a p-doped epitaxial layer of monocrystalline silicon which covers an upper side face of the substrate wafer; an oxygen concentration of the substrate wafer of not less than 5.3×1017 atoms/cm3 and not more than 6.0×1017 atoms/cm3; a resistivity of the substrate wafer of not less than 5 mΩcm and not more than 10 mΩcm; and the potential of the substrate wafer to form BMDs as a result of a heat treatment of the epitaxially coated semiconductor wafer, where a high density of BMDs has a maximum close to the surface of the substrate wafer.
US11417729B2
A method includes forming a first low-dimensional layer over an isolation layer, forming a first insulator over the first low-dimensional layer, forming a second low-dimensional layer over the first insulator, forming a second insulator over the second low-dimensional layer, and patterning the first low-dimensional layer, the first insulator, the second low-dimensional layer, and the second insulator into a protruding fin. Remaining portions of the first low-dimensional layer, the first insulator, the second low-dimensional layer, and the second insulator form a first low-dimensional strip, a first insulator strip, a second low-dimensional strip, and a second insulator strip, respectively. A transistor is then formed based on the protruding fin.
US11417724B2
A capacitor includes a lower electrode, a first dielectric layer provided on the lower electrode including a perovskite structure, an upper electrode including a perovskite structure, a first dielectric layer between provided on the lower electrode and the upper electrode; and a second dielectric layer, having a band gap energy greater than that of the first dielectric layer, provided between on the first dielectric layer and the upper electrode, the capacitor may have a low leakage current density and stable crystallinity, thereby suppressing a decrease in a dielectric constant.
US11417717B2
A partial transparent display device has a light transmitting function and a light emitting function in one area. The partial transparent display device includes a substrate, a transparent emission area, a driving emission area, and a pad part. The transparent emission area is disposed to be adjacent to one side of the substrate. The driving emission area is disposed to be adjacent to the transparent emission area and to be closer to the other side opposite to the one side. The pad part extends from the driving emission area and is disposed on the other side. The driving emission area includes driving emission pixels which are defined by scan lines, data lines, and pixel driving power supply lines. The transparent emission area includes transparent emission pixels which are defined without the scan lines, the data lines, and the pixel driving power supply lines.
US11417716B2
A display substrate includes a substrate (10) that is divided into a plurality of subpixel areas, a drive transistor (20) and a photodetector (30) in each of the plurality of subpixel areas, and an insulation layer (40) on the photodetector (30). The drive transistor (20) includes an electrode layer that includes a source electrode (21) and a drain electrode (22). The photodetector (30) is coupled to one of the source electrode (21) and the drain electrode (22). An entirety of an orthographic projection of the insulation layer (40) on the substrate is inside an orthographic projection of the electrode layer on the substrate (10).
US11417707B2
A nonvolatile memory device according to an embodiment includes a substrate and a gate structure disposed on the substrate. The gate structure includes at least one gate electrode layer and at least one interlayer insulation layer that are alternately stacked. In addition, the nonvolatile memory device includes a hole pattern penetrating the gate structure on the substrate, and a gate insulation layer, a first ion retention layer, a second ion retention layer, and a channel layer sequentially covering a sidewall surface of the gate electrode layer in the hole pattern. The first and second ion retention layers comprise ions exchangeable with each other.
US11417706B2
A semiconductor storage device includes lower and upper bit lines, word lines between the bit lines, and memory cells between the bit lines and the word lines. The memory cells are divided into logical slices and a memory cell from each logical slice is selected when carrying out a read or write operation. A first logical slice includes memory cells, each of which is between one of two bit lines and one of three word lines that are adjacent to each other. The two bit lines include one lower bit line and one upper bit line. A second logical slice includes memory cells, each of which is between one of three bit lines and one of three word lines that are not adjacent to each other. The three bit lines include one lower bit line and two upper bit lines.
US11417705B2
A memory cell is disclosed. The memory cell includes a word line contact, a cylindrical electrode having a top region and a bottom region, and RRAM material covering the surface of the cylindrical electrode from the top region to the bottom region. A select transistor contact is coupled to the bottom region of the cylindrical electrode.
US11417697B2
An imaging device suitable for focus detection of a pupil division phase difference method includes: a light receiving unit provided on a first surface side of a semiconductor substrate and having a plurality of pixels arranged in a two-dimensional form; and a read-out circuit provided on a second surface side of the semiconductor substrate opposite to the first surface side and configured to read signals from the pixels. Each of pixels has at least two photoelectric conversion elements and a separation region which is a region between the two photoelectric conversion elements and a separation region control electrode arranged on the second surface side of the separation region and configured to control a potential of the separation region.
US11417693B2
Provided is a module including an organic substrate, an image sensor mounted on an upper surface of the organic substrate, a wire connecting the image sensor and the organic substrate, and a wire sealing unit adhered to a side surface of the image sensor while encompassing the wire. A thermal conductivity of the wire sealing unit is higher than a thermal conductivity of the organic substrate.
US11417685B2
A fin transistor structure is provided. The fin transistor structure includes a first substrate. An insulation layer is disposed on the first substrate. A plurality of fin structures are disposed on the insulation layer. A supporting dielectric layer fixes the fin structures at the fin structures at waist parts thereof. A gate structure layer is disposed on the supporting dielectric layer and covers a portion of the fin structures.
US11417684B2
A semiconductor device includes a substrate, a first semiconductor fin and a gate stack. The first semiconductor fin is over the substrate and includes a first germanium-containing layer and a second germanium-containing layer over the first germanium-containing layer. The first germanium-containing layer has a germanium atomic percentage higher than a germanium atomic percentage of the second germanium-containing layer. The gate stack is across the first semiconductor fin.
US11417682B2
Some embodiments include a NAND memory array having a vertical stack of alternating insulative levels and conductive levels. The conductive levels include terminal regions, and include nonterminal regions proximate the terminal regions. The terminal regions are vertically thicker than the nonterminal regions, and are configured as segments which are vertically stacked one atop another and which are vertically spaced from one another. Blocks are adjacent to the segments and have approximately a same vertical thickness as the segments. The blocks include high-k dielectric material, charge-blocking material and charge-storage material. Channel material extends vertically along the stack and is adjacent to the blocks. Some embodiments include integrated assemblies. Some embodiments include methods of forming integrated assemblies.
US11417678B2
Provided is a semiconductor memory device including a substrate, an isolation structure, a first gate dielectric layer, a first conductive layer, a second gate dielectric layer, a second conductive layer, and a protective layer. The substrate has an array region and a periphery region. The isolation structure is disposed in the substrate between the array and periphery regions. The first gate dielectric layer is disposed on the substrate in the array region. The first conductive layer is disposed on the first gate dielectric layer. The second gate dielectric layer is disposed on the substrate in the periphery region. The second conductive layer is disposed on the second dielectric layer. The second conductive layer extends to cover a portion of a top surface of the isolation structure. The protective layer is disposed between the second conductive layer and the isolation structure.
US11417677B2
According to one embodiment, a semiconductor memory device includes a first conductive layer, and a first structure that extends in a first direction orthogonal to a stacking direction of a stacked body and the stacking direction, and reaches a position deeper than an upper surface of the first conductive layer. The first structure has a first width at a bottom of the stacked body, and a second width narrower than the first width, in a first depth region from a position of the upper surface of the first conductive layer to a first depth position. A third conductive layer is connected to a side surface of the first conductive layer in the first depth region in a second direction orthogonal to the stacking direction and the first direction.
US11417668B2
An antifuse One-Time-Programmable memory cell includes a substrate, and a hybrid select transistor and a hybrid antifuse capacitor formed on the substrate. The hybrid select transistor includes a first gate dielectric layer formed on the substrate, wherein the first gate dielectric layer is thinner than 40 nm, a first high-voltage junction formed in the substrate, and a low-voltage junction formed in the substrate. The hybrid antifuse capacitor includes a second gate dielectric layer, wherein the second gate dielectric layer is thinner than 40 nm, which enables a low-voltage antifuse capacitor device, a second gate formed on the gate dielectric layer, a second high-voltage junction formed in the substrate, and a third high-voltage junction formed in the substrate.
US11417648B2
An intelligent power module (IPM) comprises a first, second, third and fourth die supporting elements, a first group of insulated gate bipolar transistors (IGBTs), a second group of IGBTs, a first group of super-junction metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFETs), a second group of super-junction MOSFETs, a fifth die supporting element, a low voltage IC, a high voltage IC, and a molding encapsulation. The low and high voltage ICs are attached to the fifth die supporting element. The molding encapsulation encloses the first, second, third and fourth die supporting elements, the first group of IGBTs, the second group of IGBTs, the first group of super-junction MOSFETs, the second group of super-junction MOSFETs, the fifth die supporting element, the low voltage IC, the high voltage IC.
US11417643B2
Embodiments relate to packages and methods of forming packages. A package includes a package substrate, a first device die, first electrical connectors, an encapsulant, a redistribution structure, and a second device die. The first device die is attached to a side of the package substrate, and the first electrical connectors are mechanically and electrically coupled to the side of the package substrate. The encapsulant at least laterally encapsulates the first electrical connectors and the first device die. The redistribution structure is on the encapsulant and the first electrical connectors. The redistribution structure is directly coupled to the first electrical connectors. The first device die is disposed between the redistribution structure and the package substrate. The second device die is attached to the redistribution structure by second electrical connectors, and the second electrical connectors are directly coupled to the redistribution structure.
US11417637B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to an integrated circuit package having a land-side capacitor electrically coupled to an embedded capacitor. One example integrated circuit package generally includes a package substrate having a first capacitor embedded therein, a semiconductor die disposed above the package substrate, and a second capacitor disposed below the package substrate and electrically coupled to the first capacitor.
US11417636B2
A display device includes a substrate and a display element layer on the substrate. The display element layer includes: first and second electrodes extending along a first direction and spaced apart from each other in a second direction; and light emitting elements electrically connected to the first and second electrodes. The first electrode has a first convex portion convex toward the second electrode and a first concave portion concave in a direction away from the second electrode, and the second electrode has a second convex portion convex toward the first electrode and a second concave portion concave in a direction away from the first electrode. The light emitting elements includes a first and second light emitting elements, respectively close to the first concave portion and the second concave portion based on an imaginary extension line extending in the first direction between the first electrode and the second electrode.
US11417631B2
A semiconductor package includes: a first semiconductor package including: a first frame having a first through portion, a first semiconductor chip in the first through portion and having a first surface on which a first connection pad is disposed and a second surface on which a second connection pad is disposed, and a through via connected to the second connection pad, a first connection structure on the first surface and including a first redistribution layer, and a backside redistribution layer on the second surface; and a second semiconductor package on the first semiconductor package and including: a second connection structure including a second redistribution layer, a second frame on the second connection structure and having a second through portion, and a second semiconductor chip in a second through portion and having a third surface on which a third connection pad is disposed.
US11417628B2
A method for manufacturing a semiconductor structures is provided. The method includes forming a first hybrid bonding layer over a first wafer having a logic structure, forming a second hybrid bonding layer over a second wafer having a first capacitor structure, bonding the first wafer and the second wafer through a hybrid bonding operation to connect the first hybrid bonding layer and the second hybrid bonding layer, thereby obtaining a first bonded wafer, and the first capacitor structure is electrically connected to the logic structure through the first hybrid bonding layer and the second hybrid bonding layer, and singulating the first bonded wafer to obtain a plurality of semiconductor structures.
US11417625B2
A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device includes (i) a step of preparing a first semiconductor chip having a first electrode pad thereon and a second semiconductor chip having a second electrode pad thereon and larger in thickness than the first semiconductor chip, the second electrode pad being larger in size than the first electrode pad, (ii) a step of mounting the first semiconductor chip and the second semiconductor chip on the same planarized surface of a substrate having a uniform thickness, (iii) a step of bonding a ball formed by heating and melting a bonding wire to the second electrode pad, (iv) a step of first-bonding the bonding wire to the first electrode pad, and (v) a step of second-bonding the bonding wire to the ball.
US11417621B2
A memory die includes an alternating stack of insulating layers and electrically conductive layers located between a drain-side dielectric layer and a source-side dielectric layer. Memory openings vertically extend through the alternating stack. Each of the memory openings has a greater lateral dimension an interface with the source-side dielectric layer than at an interface with the drain-side dielectric layer. Memory opening fill structures are located in the memory openings. Each of the memory opening fill structures includes a vertical semiconductor channel, a vertical stack of memory elements, and a drain region. A logic die may be bonded to a source-side dielectric layer side of the memory die.
US11417604B2
A method embodiment includes forming a patterned first photo resist over a seed layer. A first opening in the patterned first photo resist exposes the seed layer. The method further includes plating a first conductive material in the first opening on the seed layer, removing the patterned first photo resist, and after removing the patterned first photo resist, forming a patterned second photo resist over the first conductive material. A second opening in the patterned second photo resist exposes a portion of the first conductive material. The method further includes plating a second conductive material in the second opening on the first conductive material, removing the patterned second photo resist, and after removing the patterned second photo resist, depositing a dielectric layer around the first conductive material and the second conductive material.
US11417598B2
Implementations of semiconductor packages may include: a prefabricated electrically conductive section; two or more metal oxide semiconductor field effect transistors (MOSFET) physically coupled together; and a back metal coupled to the two or more MOSFETs; wherein the electrically conductive section may be coupled to the back metal and may be configured to electrically couple the two or more MOSFETs together during operation of the two or more MOSFETs.
US11417597B2
Provided is a semiconductor package including a redistribution substrate, a connection substrate on the redistribution substrate, the connection substrate having an opening that penetrates the connection substrate, a semiconductor chip in the opening of the connection substrate, and a molding layer that covers the semiconductor chip and the connection substrate, and fills a space between the semiconductor chip and the connection substrate, the connection substrate includes a base layer, a plurality of vias that vertically penetrate the base layer, a plurality of first patterns on a top surface of the base layer and connected to the plurality of vias, and a plurality of second patterns on a bottom surface of the base layer and connected to the plurality of vias, an extension of the molding layer extends into a plurality of holes that are spaced apart from the plurality of vias and are formed to vertically penetrate the base layer.
US11417593B2
Microelectronic assemblies, related devices and methods, are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, a microelectronic assembly may include a die, having an active surface and an opposing backside surface, including a plurality of through silicon vias (TSVs); and an inductor including a first conductive pillar with a first end and an opposing second end, wherein the first end of the first conductive pillar is coupled to the backside surface of a first individual TSV; a second conductive pillar with a first end and an opposing second end, wherein the first end of the second conductive pillar is coupled to the backside surface of a second individual TSV, wherein the second end of the second conductive pillar is coupled to the second end of the first conductive pillar, and wherein the first and the second conductive pillars are at least partially surrounded in a magnetic material.
US11417592B2
Methods/structures of joining package structures are described. Those methods/structures may include a device disposed on first side of substrate and an array of conductive interconnect structures disposed on a second side of the first substrate. The conductive interconnect structures of the array may comprise a solder material, wherein the solder material comprises a low temperature alloying element concentration of less than about 5 percent. A second substrate is coupled to the array of conductive interconnect structures.
US11417591B2
A semiconductor module includes: a circuit board; a semiconductor chip having a first electrode pad on a first surface, bonded to the circuit board at a second surface that is opposite to the first surface, and having side surfaces intersecting the first surface and the second surface; an external terminal electrically connected to the first electrode pad; and an insulating member configured to fix the external terminal, wherein by the insulating member contacting the side surfaces of the semiconductor chip at a plurality of locations, parallel movement and rotational movement of the semiconductor chip relative to the insulating member in a plane parallel, to the first surface are restricted, and wherein the external terminal penetrates the insulating member.
US11417585B2
A device is provided that includes a heat conductive structure; a heat transfer structure for extracting heat from the heat conductive structure by means of a boundary layer; a motor for rotating the heat transfer structure relative to the heat conductive structure; and a vertical fixing mechanism for allowing the heat transfer structure to rotate above the heat conductive structure without making contact with the heat conductive structure so as to define a boundary layer between the heat conductive structure and heat transfer structure, wherein the heat transfer structure extracts heat from the heat conductive structure by means of the boundary layer, and wherein the heat conductive structure includes small geometric turbulators.
US11417584B2
The present technology relates to a semiconductor device that makes it possible to enhance a heat dissipation capacity without occurrence of a fluctuation in high frequency characteristics. A glass substrate is adhered to a wiring layer-attached glass substrate, and a heat dissipation part is formed between the wiring layer-attached glass substrate and the glass substrate. The present disclosure is applicable to, for example, a high-frequency module and a high-speed communication module.
US11417583B2
An LED module is disclosed. In an embodiment an LED module includes a thermally conductive substrate made of a multilayer ceramic, at least one LED on the substrate, passive SMD components arranged on the substrate, a passive component integrated in the substrate and a heat spreader configured to dissipate waste heat in horizontal and vertical directions.
US11417578B2
A semiconductor device includes: a semiconductor element; a frame which has a first surface, holds the semiconductor element on the first surface, and is electrically connected with the semiconductor element; and a seal which has electrical insulation properties and seals the semiconductor element and the frame, wherein a through-hole is formed in the seal, the through-hole has a hole axis which extends in a direction intersecting with the first surface, and an inner peripheral end surface of the seal exposed inside the through-hole is inclined with respect to the hole axis.
US11417576B2
Representative implementations of techniques and devices provide seals for sealing the joints of bonded microelectronic devices as well as bonded and sealed microelectronic assemblies. Seals are disposed at joined surfaces of stacked dies and wafers to seal the joined surfaces. The seals may be disposed at an exterior periphery of the bonded microelectronic devices or disposed within the periphery using the various techniques.
US11417575B2
A board in an aspect of the present invention includes a substrate, a first film, a first layer, and a second film. The substrate has a first elastic modulus. The first film is at an upper surface of the substrate. The first layer is at a lower surface of the substrate. The first layer has a second elastic modulus lower than the first elastic modulus and has a first thermal expansion coefficient. The second film is at a lower surface of the first layer. The second film includes the same material as the first film and has a second thermal expansion coefficient lower than the first thermal expansion coefficient.
US11417571B2
A semiconductor device with different gate structure configurations and a method of fabricating the same are disclosed. The semiconductor device includes a fin structure disposed on a substrate, and first and second gate structures on the fin structure. The first and second gate structures includes first and second interfacial oxide layers, respectively, first and second high-K gate dielectric layers disposed on the first and second IO layers, respectively, and first and second dopant control layers disposed on the first and second HK gate dielectric layers, respectively. The second dopant control layer has a silicon-to-metal atomic concentration ratio greater than an Si-to-metal atomic concentration ratio of the first dopant control layer. The semiconductor further includes first and second work function metal layers disposed on the first and second dopant control layers, respectively, and first and second gate metal fill layers disposed on the first and second work function metal layers, respectively.
US11417563B2
The invention is directed to an alignment assembly for changing the relative position of a plate of a pedestal assembly with respect to a processing chamber of a reactor. The alignment assembly is connected at a first end to a riser shaft of the heating assembly and at a second end to a drive shaft. One or more portions of the alignment assembly may be selectively axially rotated or laterally moved change the relative position of the plate with respect to the processing chamber as desired.
US11417560B2
A device for fixing different-sized base area objects with a vacuum including on a table: first, second, and third vacuum chambers. The third chamber extending the first and second chambers to the entire x direction extension, and the second chamber having parallel, line-forming grooves in the x direction and connected to each other by a first connection channel in the y direction and being released/closed serially relative to the first chamber by a line-switching device. The third chamber includes parallel, column-forming grooves extending in the y direction and connected to each other via a second connection channel in the x direction and being released/closed serially relative to the first chamber by a column-switching device. The third chamber being released/closed serially in the y direction by the line-switching device, in a simultaneous, segmented manner according to the number and positions of the line-forming grooves in correspondence with the second chamber.
US11417556B2
According to one embodiment, an electrostatic chuck includes a ceramic dielectric substrate, a base plate, and first and second porous parts. The ceramic dielectric substrate includes first and second major surfaces. The second major surface is opposite to the first major surface. The base plate supports the ceramic dielectric substrate and includes a gas feed channel. The first porous part is provided in the ceramic dielectric substrate and is opposite to the gas feed channel. The second porous part is provided in the base plate and is opposite to the gas feed channel. The ceramic dielectric substrate includes a first hole part positioned between the first major surface and the first porous part. The first porous part includes a first porous region including pores and a first dense region. The second porous part includes a second porous region including pores and a second dense region.
US11417545B2
A radiation shield and an assembly and a reactor including the radiation shield are disclosed. The radiation shield can be used to control heat flux from a susceptor heater assembly and thereby enable better control of temperatures across a surface of a substrate placed on a surface of the susceptor heater assembly.
US11417541B2
A mold chase has first and second mold clamps having corresponding teeth and recesses configured such that, when the mold chase is closed onto a sub-assembly having an IC die mounted onto and wire-bonded to a lead frame, there are gaps between the recesses and the leads of the lead frame that allow molding compound to extend along opposing sides of proximal ends of the leads to increase the metal-to-metal distance between adjacent leads, thereby reducing the chances of, for example, tin migrating during HAST testing to form undesirable conduction paths between adjacent leads. In some embodiments, the mold clamp teeth have chamfered edges that are tapered at the mold chase cavity to form wedge-shaped gaps that allow the molding compound to extrude along the proximal ends of the leads of MaxQFP packages having two levels of “J” leads and gullwing leads.
US11417540B2
In described examples, a method for encapsulating a semiconductor device includes the steps of immersing a layer of the semiconductor device in a liquid encapsulation material, irradiating portions of the liquid encapsulation material to polymerize the liquid encapsulation material, and moving the semiconductor device further from a surface of the liquid encapsulation material proximate to the layer. Immersing the semiconductor device is performed to cover a layer of the device in the liquid encapsulation material. Targeted locations of the liquid encapsulation material covering the layer are irradiated to form solid encapsulation material. The semiconductor device is moved from a surface of the liquid encapsulation material so that a new layer of the semiconductor device and/or of the solid encapsulation material can be covered by the liquid encapsulation material. The irradiating and moving steps are then repeated until a three dimensional structure on the semiconductor device is formed using the solid encapsulation material.
US11417539B2
In a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device first conductive layers are formed over a substrate. A first photoresist layer is formed over the first conductive layers. The first conductive layers are etched by using the first photoresist layer as an etching mask, to form an island pattern of the first conductive layers separated from a bus bar pattern of the first conductive layers by a ring shape groove. A connection pattern is formed to connect the island pattern and the bus bar pattern. A second photoresist layer is formed over the first conductive layers and the connection pattern. The second photoresist layer includes an opening over the island pattern. Second conductive layers are formed on the island pattern in the opening. The second photoresist layer is removed, and the connection pattern is removed, thereby forming a bump structure.
US11417537B2
A method of removing a metal-containing layer (e.g., tungsten) from a substrate is provided. The method includes generating a first plasma in a process volume of a plasma chamber when a patterned device is disposed on a substrate support in the process volume. The patterned device includes a patterned region and an unpatterned region; a substrate; a tungsten-containing layer formed over the substrate; a supporting layer disposed between the tungsten-containing layer and the substrate. The patterned region includes exposed surfaces of the supporting layer and the unpatterned region does not include any exposed surfaces of the supporting layer. The method further includes depositing a first film over the patterned region of the tungsten-containing layer with the first plasma; and removing portions of the unpatterned region of the tungsten-containing layer with the first plasma without depositing the first film over the unpatterned region.
US11417535B2
A technique protects a mask in plasma etching of a silicon-containing film. An etching method includes providing a substrate in a chamber included in a plasma processing apparatus. The substrate includes a silicon-containing film and a mask. The mask contains carbon. The etching method further includes etching the silicon-containing film with a chemical species in plasma generated from a process gas in the chamber. The process gas contains a halogen and phosphorus. The etching includes forming a carbon-phosphorus bond on a surface of the mask.
US11417534B2
Exemplary methods for removing nitride may include flowing a fluorine-containing precursor into a remote plasma region of a semiconductor processing chamber. The methods may further include forming a plasma within the remote plasma region to generate plasma effluents of the fluorine-containing precursor and flowing the plasma effluents into a processing region of the semiconductor processing chamber housing a substrate. The substrate may include a high-aspect-ratio feature. The substrate may further include a region of exposed nitride and a region of exposed oxide. The methods may further include providing a hydrogen-containing precursor to the processing region to produce an etchant. At least a portion of the exposed nitride may be removed with the etchant.
US11417529B2
A p-n diode includes a first electrode, a n-GaN layer on the first electrode, a p-GaN layer on the n-GaN layer, and a second electrode on a first portion of the p-GaN layer. A region of the p-GaN layer surrounding the electrode is a passivated region. Treating a GaN power device having a p-GaN layer includes covering a portion of the p-GaN layer with a metal layer, exposing the p-GaN layer to a hydrogen plasma, and thermally annealing the p-GaN layer, thereby passivating a region of the p-GaN layer proximate the metal layer.
US11417528B2
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device is provided. The method includes forming a carbon structure on a handle substrate at a first surface of the handle substrate. The method further includes attaching a first surface of a semiconductor substrate to the first surface of the handle substrate. The method further includes processing the semiconductor substrate and performing a separation process to separate the handle substrate from the semiconductor substrate. The separation process comprises modifying the carbon structure.
US11417520B2
A semiconductor structure includes a substrate. The semiconductor structure further includes a first III-V layer over the substrate, wherein the first III-V layer includes a first dopant type. The semiconductor structure further includes a second III-V layer over the first III-V layer, wherein the second III-V layer has a second dopant type opposite the first dopant type. The semiconductor structure further includes a third III-V layer over the second III-V layer, wherein the third III-V layer has the first dopant type. The semiconductor structure further includes a fourth III-V layer over the third III-V layer, the fourth III-V layer having the second dopant type. The semiconductor structure further includes an active layer over the fourth III-V layer. The semiconductor structure further includes a dielectric layer over the active layer.
US11417519B2
A semiconductor device and method for fabricating same is disclosed. Embodiments are directed to a semiconductor device and fabrication of same which include a flexible substrate and a buffer stack overlying the substrate. The buffer stack comprises at least one epitaxial buffer layer. An epitaxial doped layer comprised predominantly of silicon overlies the at least one epitaxial buffer layer. Mobility of the device is greater than 100 cm2/Vs and carrier concentration of the epitaxial doped layer is less than 1016 cm−3.
US11417516B2
Provided is a dielectric layer that has a rock salt structure in a room temperature stable phase. The dielectric layer is made of a compound having a chemical formula of BexM1-xO, where M includes one of alkaline earth metals and x has a value greater than 0 and not greater than 0.19. A semiconductor memory device also is provided that includes a capacitor composed of a lower electrode; a dielectric layer disposed on the lower electrode; and an upper electrode disposed on the dielectric layer, wherein the dielectric layer has a rocksalt structure in a room temperature stable phase and is made of a compound having a chemical formula shown below, BexM1-xO, where M comprises an alkaline earth metal and x has a value greater than 0 and not greater than 0.19.
US11417514B2
There is provided a film forming method, including: forming a film containing silicon, carbon and nitrogen on a substrate in a first process; and oxidizing the film with an oxidizing agent containing a hydroxy group and subsequently supplying a nitriding gas to the substrate in a second process.
US11417508B2
A system for sampling a liquid includes a sample fluid conduit including a membrane having pores. The membrane prevents the passage of the sample liquid through the pores at a first pressure of the sample liquid in the sample fluid conduit. A surface sampling capture probe has a distal end. The capture probe includes a solvent supply conduit and a solvent exhaust conduit. A solvent composition flowing at the distal end of the capture probe establishes a liquid junction with the membrane and establishes a second pressure within the liquid junction at the membrane. The second pressure is lower than the first pressure. Sample liquid will be drawn through the pores of the membrane by the second pressure at the liquid junction. A method for sampling a liquid and for performing chemical analysis on a liquid are also disclosed.
US11417505B2
A CEM and an ion detector of one embodiment have a structure for enabling ion detection with higher sensitivity than the prior art. A channel electron multiplier includes a channel body, an input-side conductive layer, an output-side conductive layer, and an electrode. The channel body includes a channel, and a resistance layer and an electron emission layer formed on the channel's inner wall surface. The input-side conductive layer is provided on the channel body, and a part thereof extends into the tapered opening. The output-side conductive layer is provided on the tapered opening. The electrode has openings through which charged particles pass, and is disposed on an opposite side of the output end face to the input end face. The electrode and the input-side conductive layer are set to the same potential to eliminate the influence of an external electric field in the tapered opening.
US11417498B2
The invention relates to a method of manufacturing a charged particle detector, comprising the steps of providing a sensor device, such as an Active Pixel Sensor (APS). Said sensor device at least comprises a substrate layer and a sensitive layer. The method further comprises the step of providing a mechanical supporting layer and connecting said mechanical supporting layer to said sensor device. After connection, the sensitive layer is situated in between said substrate layer and said mechanical supporting layer. By connecting the mechanical supporting layer, it is possible to thin said substrate layer for forming said charged particle detector. The mechanical supporting layer forms part of the manufactured detector. The detector can be used in a charged particle microscope, such as a Transmission Electron Microscope for direct electron detection.
US11417489B2
A circuit breaker with improved trip unit fixation is disclosed. Another circuit breaker and a system also perform the functions of the circuit breaker. A circuit breaker includes a frame and a trip unit mounted in the frame. The trip unit includes a terminal for securing a wire to the trip unit. One of a wall of the frame and the trip unit include a protrusion and the wall of the frame or the trip unit without the protrusion includes an opening. The protrusion conforms to the opening and the protrusion and opening are positioned to oppose movement of the trip unit in a direction of a force resulting from securing the wire in the terminal.
US11417484B2
A contactor is provided in the present utility model, the contactor comprising: a housing; a static iron core, a movable iron core, and a contact holder positioned in the housing, wherein the static iron core is fixed to the housing, the movable iron core and the static iron core are disposed opposite to each other, and the contact holder is fixed to the movable iron core; and a built-in switch positioned in the housing, wherein the built-in switch comprises a static contact piece fixed to the housing and a moving contact piece fixed to the contact holder, and the contact holder is configured to drive the moving contact piece to move so as to switch an on/off state of the built-in switch. The contactor of the present utility model has high expandability and improves the convenience of connecting to an external circuit module.
US11417469B2
A multilayer ceramic electronic component includes a multilayer body and a protective layer provided at least on a first main surface or a second main surface of the multilayer body, in which the protective layer includes a carbon material, has a carbon content of about 70 atm % or more determined through exclusion of hydrogen, oxygen, and halogen contents, and has a sp3 percentage of about 10% or more as an index of C—C bond type.
US11417464B2
Described herein are concepts, system and techniques which provide a means to construct robust high-field superconducting magnets using simple fabrication techniques and modular components that scale well toward commercialization. The resulting magnet assembly—which utilizes non-insulated, high temperature superconducting tapes (HTS) and provides for optimized coolant pathways—is inherently strong structurally, which enables maximum utilization of the high magnetic fields available with HTS technology. In addition, the concepts described herein provide for control of quench-induced current distributions within the tape stack and surrounding superstructure to safely dissipate quench energy, while at the same time obtaining acceptable magnet charge time. The net result is a structurally and thermally robust, high-field magnet assembly that is passively protected against quench fault conditions.
US11417460B2
A technique facilitates use of an inductive coupler assembly with casing, e.g. well casing. An inductive coupler is formed as a female inductive coupler with an inductive coil. The inductive coupler is constructed for sliding movement along an exterior of the casing so that it may ultimately be positioned and secured at a suitable location along the casing. The inductive coupler is designed for connection with an electrical device, e.g. a sensor. The inductive coupler facilitates the transfer of sensor data and/or power signals across the casing. Signal transfer across the casing is further enabled by a male inductive coupler positioned within the casing at a location which allows it to cooperate with the exterior, female inductive coupler.
US11417455B2
Provided is a reactor including: a coil including two wound portions obtained by winding a winding wire; and a magnetic core in which the wound portions are arranged. The magnetic core includes: inner leg portions arranged inside the inner peripheries of the wound portions; a central leg portion provided between the wound portions; two outer leg portions that are provided outside the outer peripheries of the wound portions and between which the inner leg portions and the central leg portion are provided; and two coupling portions between which the inner leg portions, the central leg portion, and the outer leg portions, which are arranged in parallel, are sandwiched and with which these portions are coupled.
US11417454B2
A power circuit common mode filter includes: a U-shaped soft magnetic core and two cylindrical soft magnetic cores, wherein recessed grooves are provided at tops of two side walls of the U-shaped soft magnetic core, and the two cylindrical soft magnetic cores are movably installed in the U-shaped soft magnetic core; two ends of each of the cylindrical soft magnetic cores are embedded in the corresponding recessed grooves, and a coil is set on each of the two cylindrical soft magnetic cores in the U-shaped soft magnetic core; the U-shaped soft magnetic core and the cylindrical soft magnetic cores are both covered with a high-voltage-resist insulating material to form insulating layers; surfaces of the insulating layers at the recessed grooves are provided with electrode layers, and ends of the coil is fixedly connected to the electrode layers through soldering tin.
US11417448B2
A method for manufacturing a device having a three-dimensional magnetic structure includes applying or introducing magnetic particles onto or into a carrier element. A plurality of at least partly interconnected cavities are formed between the magnetic particles, which contact one another at points of contact, by coating the arrangement of magnetic particles and the carrier. The cavities are penetrated at least partly by the layer generated when coating, resulting in the three-dimensional magnetic structure. A conductor loop arrangement is provided on the carrier or a further carrier. When a current flows through the conductor loop, an inductance of the conductor loop is changed by the three-dimensional magnetic structure, or a force acts on the three-dimensional magnetic structure or the conductor loop by a magnetic field caused by the current flow, or when the position of the three-dimensional magnetic structure is changed, a current flow is induced through the conductor loop.
US11417435B2
Various example embodiments are directed towards an improved control drum, as well as systems, apparatuses, and/or methods for operating a nuclear reactor with a plurality of improved control drums. The control drum includes an outer shell, an inner shell, a plurality of tubes, the plurality of tubes including at least one neutron absorbing tube and at least one neutron scattering tube, and at least one baffle plate arranged between the outer shell and the inner shell, the at least one baffle plate including a plurality of perforations, and at least one perforation of the plurality of perforations configured to support a tube of the plurality of tubes.
US11417429B2
In one embodiment, the present disclosure is directed to a method for providing a recommended wellness behavior. User data is received for different wellness components, the user data including data related to physical health, finances, and psychology. A user's wellness is assessed by, for each wellness component, determining a difference between the current user score and a relevant demographic standard, and determining a predicted future score based thereon. A recommended behavior is determined based on an identification of the wellness components having greatest differences between the predicted future score and the demographic standard. An indicator of the recommended behavior is then output to the user.
US11417428B1
A system provides artificial intelligence health support for people. The system renders specific, targeted treatments for people by using a flow engine and a conversational service to call one or more conversational modules. The treatments for the people may be tracked. The flow engine and/or one or more of the modules may include different instructions to perform for different programs and/or goals that have been configured. The flow engine and/or one or more of the conversational modules may also include instructions to perform when certain features are active (which may be activated when certain programs and/or goals are configured), when data regarding activity for people are received, and so on. Other modules may be dedicated to particular programs and/or goals. Some modules may determine whether or not to perform various instructions repetitiously, and/or may determine to do so when a priority of a previous instruction is below a threshold.
US11417420B2
A computer implemented method for managing health-related data captures an image from a display of an exercise machine using a camera, has the images processed to extract the text data from the captured images, and analyzes the text data to identify information relating to extrinsic physical activity performed by a person at the exercise machine. The results are stored in memory and a profile specific to the person is updated. The profile comprises a log of past exercise activity that allows the person to track his or her activity and progress and overall health. The profile can be accessed by the person through a portal such as using a smart phone or a computer program or web browser. The results can be combined with other data to arrive at a health score which can be published through the portal while personal data remains masked from public inspection.
US11417411B2
A memory device includes a memory bank that includes a first set of memory rows in a first section of the memory bank, a first set of redundant rows in a first section of the memory bank, a second set of memory rows in a second section of the memory bank, and a second set of redundant rows in the second section of the memory bank. The memory bank also includes a repeater blocker circuit that when in operation selectively blocks a signal from transmission to the second section of the memory bank and blocker control circuitry that when in operation transmits a control signal to control the selective blocking of the signal by the repeater blocker circuit.
US11417402B2
A storage device having an improved operation speed includes memory blocks and a sudden power-off manager. The memory blocks connected to word lines as part of a super block. The sudden power-off manager in communication with the memory blocks and configured to, in response to a sudden power off, 1) select reference word lines among the word lines to group the word lines into word line zones defined using the reference word lines, 2) perform read operations on pages connected to the reference word lines to determine states of the pages connected to the reference word lines, 3) select a first erase page search zone among the word line zones based on results of the read operations, and 4) determine a first erase page located at a boundary between a program page and an erase page in the first erase page search zone.
US11417399B2
The present technology relates to an electronic device. According to the present technology, a method of operating a memory device including a program operation speed in which an effect of a disturbance is reduced, and including a plurality of memory blocks each including a plurality of memory cell strings each including a plurality of memory cells connected in series between a bit line and a source line, a plurality of source select transistors connected in series between the source line and the plurality of memory cells, and a plurality of drain select transistors connected in series between the bit line and the plurality of memory cells, includes applying a precharge voltage to the source line, and applying the precharge voltage to a first source select line connected to a source select transistor adjacent to the source line among source select transistors included in an unselected memory block among the plurality of memory blocks.
US11417381B2
Some embodiments include apparatuses and methods operating the apparatuses. One of the apparatuses includes a first data line located over a substrate, a second data line located over the first data line, a third data line located over the second data line and electrically separated from the first and second data lines, and a memory cell coupled to the first, second, and third data lines. The memory cell includes a first material between the first and second data lines and electrically coupled to the first and second data lines; a second material located over the first data line and the first material, the second material electrically separated from the first material and electrically coupled to the third data line; and a memory element electrically coupled to the second material and electrically separated from the first material and first and second data lines.
US11417380B2
Methods, systems, and devices for dual mode ferroelectric memory cell operation are described. A memory array or portions of the array may be variously operated in volatile and non-volatile modes. For example, a memory cell may operate in a non-volatile mode and then operate in a volatile mode following a command initiated by a controller while the cell is operating in the non-volatile mode. The memory cell may operate in the volatile mode and then operate in the non-volatile mode following a subsequent command. In some examples, one memory cell of the memory array may operate in the non-volatile mode while another memory cell of the memory array operates in the volatile mode.
US11417379B2
A magnetoresistive memory device includes a magnetic tunnel junction including a free layer, at least two tunneling dielectric barrier layers, and at least one metallic quantum well layer. The quantum well layer leads to the resonant electron tunneling through the magnetic tunnel junction in such a way that it strongly enhances the tunneling probability for one of the magnetization states of the free layer, while this tunneling probability remains much smaller in the opposite magnetization state of the free layer. The device can be configured in a spin transfer torque device configuration, a voltage-controlled magnetic anisotropy, a voltage controlled exchange coupling device configuration, or a spin-orbit-torque device configuration.
US11417373B2
A dual-port, dual function memory device can be configured to perform operations on data written to the memory device using artificial intelligence (AI) circuitry, such as a neuromorphic array and/or a deep learning accelerator (DLA), of the memory device. The memory device can include a port dedicated for communication between the AI circuitry and a host device and another port dedicated for communication between a memory array of the memory device and a host device. Performing operations, such as image processing operations, using AI circuitry of a memory device can reduce data transfers, reduce resource consumption, and offload workloads from a host device.
US11417371B2
A quantizer generates a thermometer coded signal from an analog voltage signal. Data weighted averaging (DWA) of the thermometer coded signal is accomplished by controlling the operation of a crossbar switch controlled by a switch control signal to generate an output DWA signal. The output DWA signal is latched to generate a latched output DWA signal which is processed along with bits of the thermometer coded input signal in feedback loop to generate the switch control signal. The latching of the output DWA signal is performed in an input register of a digital-to-analog converter which operates to convert the latched output DWA signal to a feedback analog voltage from which the analog voltage signal is generated. The switch control signal specifies a bit location for a beginning logic transition of the output DWA signal cycle based on detection of an ending logic transition of the latched DWA signal.
US11417366B1
A method for synchronizing a plurality of presentation slide content with a soundtrack comprises obtaining the plurality of presentation slide content and the soundtrack including a plurality of audio samples. Each presentation slide content is associated with a metadata and each audio sample is indexed with a corresponding timecode. The method comprises detecting, triggering event that identifies a current audio sample of the soundtrack as an audio sample to transition from a first presentation slide content to a second presentation slide content. The method comprises obtaining a timecode indexed with the identified audio sample corresponding to the detected triggering event and associating the timecode with the metadata of the second presentation slide content to link the second presentation slide content with the identified audio sample. The method comprises generating a synchronized presentation multimedia file having the linked second presentation slide content with the identified audio sample.
US11417353B2
A method for detecting an audio signal and an apparatus, where the method includes determining a segmental signal-to-noise ratio (SSNR) of an audio signal in response to the audio signal being an unvoiced signal, reducing a reference voice activity detection (VAD) decision threshold to obtain a reduced VAD decision threshold, and comparing the SSNR with the reduced VAD decision threshold to determine whether the audio signal is an active signal.
US11417349B2
This application relates to methods and apparatus for transfer of multiple digital data streams, especially of digital audio data over a single communications link such as a single wire. The application describes audio interface circuitry comprising a pulse-length-modulation (PLM) modulator. The PLM is responsive to a plurality of data streams (PDM-R, PDM-L), to generate a series of data pulses (PLM) with a single data pulse having a rising and falling edge in each of a plurality of transfer periods defined by a first clock signal (TCLK). The timing of the rising and falling edge of each data pulse is dependent upon a combination of the then current data samples from the plurality of data streams. The duration and position of the data pulse in the transfer window in effect defines a data symbol encoding the data. Circuitry for receiving and extracting the data is also disclosed. An interface receives the stream of data pulses (PLM) and data extraction circuitry samples the data pulse to determine which of the possible data symbols the pulse represents and determines a data value for at least one received data stream.
US11417348B2
A method, system, and computer program to encode and decode a channel coherence parameter applied on a frequency band basis, where the coherence parameters of each frequency band form a coherence vector. The coherence vector is encoded and decoded using a predictive scheme followed by a variable bit rate entropy coding.
US11417347B2
A binaural room impulse response (BRIR) can be generated based on a position of a listener's head, and a plurality of head related impulse responses (HRIRs). Each of the plurality of HRIRs are selected for a respective one of a plurality of acoustic reflections which, when taken together, approximate reverberation of a room. Each of the acoustic reflections have a direction and a delay. The BRIR filter is applied to source audio to generate binaural audio output.
US11417343B2
A speaker identification system (“system”) automatically assigns a speaker to voiced segments in a call. The system identifies one or more speakers in a call using one or more speaker-identification parameters. The system processes the call to determine one or more speaker-identification parameters, such as a transcript of the call, a facial image of the speaker, a scene image, which is an image of a scene in which the speaker is located during the call, or textual data associated with the call such as names of the speaker or an organization that are retrieved from the scene images or video data of the call. The system analyzes one or more of the speaker-identification parameters and determines the identity of the speaker. The system then identifies the voice segments associated with the identified speaker and marks the voice segments with the identity of the speaker.
US11417327B2
An electronic apparatus is provided. The electronic device includes: a storage configured to store recognition related information and misrecognition related information of a trigger word for entering a speech recognition mode; and a processor configured to identify whether or not the speech recognition mode is activated on the basis of characteristic information of a received uttered speech and the recognition related information, identify a similarity between text information of the received uttered speech and text information of the trigger word, and update at least one of the recognition related information or the misrecognition related information on the basis of whether or not the speech recognition mode is activated and the similarity.
US11417324B2
Techniques are described for selectively adapting and/or selectively utilizing a noise reduction technique in detection of one or more features of a stream of audio data frames. For example, various techniques are directed to selectively adapting and/or utilizing a noise reduction technique in detection of an invocation phrase in a stream of audio data frames, detection of voice characteristics in a stream of audio data frames (e.g., for speaker identification), etc. Utilization of described techniques can result in more robust and/or more accurate detections of features of a stream of audio data frames in various situations, such as in environments with strong background noise. In various implementations, described techniques are implemented in combination with an automated assistant, and feature(s) detected utilizing techniques described herein are utilized to adapt the functionality of the automated assistant.
US11417322B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs stored on a computer-readable storage medium, for transliteration for speech recognition training and scoring. In some implementations, language examples are accessed, some of which include words in a first script and words in one or more other scripts. At least portions of some of the language examples are transliterated to the first script to generate a training data set. A language model is generated based on occurrences of the different sequences of words in the training data set in the first script. The language model is used to perform speech recognition for an utterance.
US11417321B2
A device for changing a speech recognition sensitivity for speech recognition can include a memory and a processor configured to obtain a first plurality of speech data input at different times, apply a pre-trained speech recognition model to the first plurality of speech data at a plurality of different speech recognition sensitivities, obtain a first speech recognition sensitivity from among the plurality of different speech recognition sensitivities based on the pre-trained speech recognition model and the plurality of different speech recognition sensitivities, the first speech recognition sensitivity corresponding to an optimal speech recognition sensitivity at which a speech recognition success rate of the speech recognition model satisfies a set first recognition success rate criterion, and change a setting of the speech recognition sensitivity based on the first speech recognition sensitivity obtained from among the plurality of different speech recognition sensitivities.
US11417319B2
According to one embodiment, a dialogue system includes a setting apparatus and a processing apparatus. The setting apparatus sets in advance a plurality of words that are in impossible combination relationships to each other. The processing apparatus acquires speech of a user, and when a speech recognition result of an object included in the speech includes a word combination included in the plurality of words that are in impossible combination relationships to each other, output a notification to the user that processing of the object cannot be carried out.
US11417317B2
Aspects described herein may relate to the determination of data that is indicative of a greater range of speech properties than input text data. The determined data may be used as input to one or more speech processing tasks, such as model training, model validation, model testing, or classification. For example, after a model is trained based on the determined data, the model's performance may exhibit more resilience to a wider range of speech properties. The determined data may include one or more modified versions of the input text data. The one or more modified versions may be associated with the one or more speakers or accents and/or may be associated with one or more levels of semantic similarity in relation to the input text data. The one or more modified versions may be determined based on one or more machine learning algorithms.
US11417316B2
The present disclosure provides a speech synthesis method as well as an apparatus and a computer readable storage medium using the same. The method includes: obtaining a to-be-synthesized text, and extracting to-be-processed Mel spectrum features of the to-be-synthesized text through a preset speech feature extraction algorithm; inputting the to-be-processed Mel spectrum features into a preset ResUnet network model to obtain first intermediate features; performing an average pooling and a first down sampling on the to-be-processed Mel spectrum features to obtain second intermediate features; taking the second intermediate features and the first intermediate features output by the ResUnet network model as an input to perform a deconvolution and a first up sampling so as to obtain target Mel spectrum features corresponding to the to-be-processed Mel spectrum features; and converting the target Mel spectrum features into a target speech corresponding to the to-be-synthesized text.
US11417311B2
Water impermeable, air permeable membrane assemblies are described herein. In some embodiments, the assemblies include a polymer membrane and at least one support structure. Certain assemblies are configured to provide an acoustic impedance having phase angle of +45 degrees to −45 over a frequency range of 50 to 20,000 Hz.
US11417310B2
An inspection device is provided, including a base, a circuit assembly, an electrocardiogram sensor, a diaphragm, an annular member, and a positioning member. The base has a top surface, a bottom surface, a guiding portion, an opening, and an accommodating space. The guiding portion is formed on the top surface, the opening is formed on the bottom surface, and the accommodating space is formed between the top surface and the bottom surface. The circuit assembly is disposed in the accommodating space, and has a first contact and a second contact. The electrocardiogram sensor is disposed on the bottom surface and electrically connected to the circuit assembly. The diaphragm covers the opening. The annular member is rotatably connected to the base and has a guiding member. The guiding member is slidably connected to the guiding portion. The positioning member is affixed to the annular member and has a contacting portion.
US11417305B2
An hourglass transducer including a longitudinal driver, a shell, and a pair of endcaps is provided. The driver drives the transducer. The pair of endcaps is attached to ends of the driver and cap the shell enclosing the transducer. The shell includes a first shell end, a second shell end, and a pleated geometry. The first shell end and second shell end are structured with circular cross sections. The pleated geometry is between the first shell end and the second shell end. A perimeter of the pleated geometry is the same as perimeters of the circular cross sections of the first shell end and the second shell end.
US11417304B2
An electronic percussion instrument includes a body having a top opening and an internal support area, and a drumhead having a striking surface and a drumhead bottom surface opposite thereto, the drumhead is stretched over the top opening of the body and is configured to receive a percussion strike thereon, and at least one peripheral sensor disposed on the internal support area of the body, and at least one rising element configured to be flexible and disposed on the internal support area of the body, and a peripheral carrier, adapted to receiving vibrations from the periphery of the drumhead, the peripheral carrier is supported by the at least one rising element such that a pressing force is formed for setting a top circumferential edge of the peripheral carrier in contact with the drumhead bottom surface.
US11417300B2
The present invention relates to a saliva collector which comprises: a container which provides a space to accommodate at least one absorber; and a head wherein one end is detachably disposed on at least one part of a musical instrument and another end is detachably disposed so as to communicate with at least one part of a side of the container.
US11417296B2
[Problem] An information processing device, an information processing method, and a recording medium that enable change in display of real space without being noticed by a communicatee are to be proposed. [Solution] An information processing device, including: a determining unit that determines a gazing state or a non-gazing state of a first user present in first real space, for a display object displayed by a display device of the first user, the display object being associated with second real space different from the first real space; and a display control unit that changes appearance of the display object when the gazing state has been changed to the non-gazing state.
US11417294B2
A system to calibrate, monitor, and communicate compliance reporting of monochromatic imagery on an image presentation device includes a local terminal in operative communication with a remote host. The local terminal includes an image presentation device, an application-specific integrated circuit (“ASIC”), and a terminal application in communication with the ASIC. The terminal application is configured to initiate a verification task, via the ASIC, pertaining to an operating condition of the image presentation device and to communicate a verification report about a result of the verification task to a remote host. A system provides a mechanism to remotely monitor and calibrate medical imaging image presentation device and diagnosis devices to certify diagnosis quality and retain trustworthy data for legal compliance.
US11417288B1
The present invention provides a control circuit applied to a display panel, wherein the control circuit includes a receiving interface, an image processing circuit and a transmission interface. The receiving interface is configured to receive image data, wherein the image data has a variable frame rate. The image processing circuit is configured to receive the image data from the receiving interface, and perform a frequency multiplication operation on the image data according to a frame rate of the image data to generate output image data, wherein a frame rate of the output image data is a positive integer multiple of the frame rate of the image data. The transmission interface is configured to receive the output image data from the image processing circuit, and transmit the output image data to the display panel.
US11417283B2
Disclosed herein are a display device for low-speed driving and a driving method thereof. The display device according to embodiments of the present disclosure may set a reference compensation voltage for compensating a node voltage of each pixel during an image holding period after a refresh period where image data are input at the time of low-speed driving, and may compensate a node voltage of each sub pixel on the basis of a unit of at least one frame during each image holding period between the refresh periods, thereby making it possible to prevent a deterioration of image quality and reduce electricity consumption.
US11417282B2
A display device and a method of manufacturing the display device are provided. The display device comprises a pixel which is connected to a scan line and a data line intersecting the scan line, wherein the pixel comprises a light emitting element and a driving transistor controlling a driving current, which is supplied to the light emitting element, according to a data voltage received from the data line, wherein the driving transistor comprises a first active layer having an oxide semiconductor containing tin (Sn).
US11417281B2
One of a plurality of data signal lines or one of a plurality of control lines that is electrically coupled to a first lead wiring line, and another one of the plurality of data signal lines or another one of the plurality of control lines that is electrically coupled to a second lead wiring line are adjacent to each other. The first lead wiring line is provided in a first metal layer. The second lead wiring line is provided in a second metal layer being a layer different from the first metal layer. The first lead wiring line and the second lead wiring line are superposed on one another through intermediation of an inorganic insulating film.
US11417272B2
A pixel circuit and driving method are provided. The pixel circuit includes a light emitting device having a first terminal and a second terminal; a driving circuit, electrically connected to the first terminal of the light emitting device, for providing power to the light emitting device; a voltage comparator for generating a pulse width modulated signal having a duty cycle based on a data voltage and a reference voltage; an offset voltage detecting circuit, electrically connected to an output terminal of the voltage comparator, for detecting an input offset voltage of the voltage comparator; and a data voltage compensation circuit, electrically connected to the offset voltage detecting circuit, for compensating the data voltage according to the input offset voltage detected.
US11417271B2
A brightness adjustment method of a display panel, a display panel and a driving method thereof are disclosed. The display panel includes a display region. The brightness adjustment method includes: determining a target pulse width for a gate signal inputted into the display region according to data write time determined for the display region; and adjusting a pulse width of the gate signal to the target pulse width, to make the display region display target brightness corresponding to the display region.
US11417267B2
Various embodiments of the present invention relate to an electronic device for adjusting voltage and an operation method therefor. The electronic device may comprise: a display; and a processor, wherein the processor is configured to: identify first information which relates to the brightness of at least one first content included in a first image layer and is to be displayed using the display, and second information which relates to the brightness of at least one second content included in a second image layer and is to be displayed using the display; adjust the brightness of the second content at least on the basis of a difference between the first information and the second information; and in a state where the second image layer is superimposed on the first image layer including the first content, display the at least one first content, and the second content the brightness of which has been adjusted, using the display. Other embodiments are also possible.
US11417257B2
The present disclosure relates to display devices, and more specifically, to a display device with a sensor circuit capable of sensing the presence or absence of an abnormality in a signal line located in a bending area. Through these, a display device is provided that enables an accurate check to be performed for the presence or absence of an abnormality, such as a crack, or the like in signal lines located in the bending area, and thus, has a normal bending structure without defects.
US11417251B2
A flexible circuit board, a display panel, a display device, and a test method are provided. The flexible circuit board includes a flexible circuit board body and a driving chip. First to third dummy terminals are provided on a surface of the flexible circuit board body. Fourth to sixth dummy terminals are electrically connected to a common node in the driving chip. An external sink current output line and an external sink current input line form an external sink current loop through the driving chip. A bonding resistance between the first and fourth dummy terminals is a first bonding resistance, and a bonding resistance between the second and the fifth dummy terminals is a second bonding resistance. The first bonding resistance and the second bonding resistance each are a resistance on the external sink current loop.
US11417249B2
A projection image apparatus includes an image display element that generate image light according to an input image signal, a transparent parallel plain plate that is swing-drive-controlled about one or two of two axes, the transparent parallel plain plate changing an optical path of the image light to perform pixel shift about the one or two of the two axes, a resampling processor that performs resampling process for the input image signal, and a controller that selectively executes one of the following three actions in response to a number of pixels and a frame rate of the input image signal, (1) to avoid the resampling process and the pixel shift, (2) the resampling process related to pixel shift about the one axis and pixel shift about the one axis, and (3) the resampling process related to pixel shift about the two axes and pixel shift about the two axes.
US11417241B2
Disclosed herein are anatomic models that comprise components that simulate canine components. The models may be used for development, experimentation, or training in the field of orthopedic surgical devices, and/or implant devices. The models may also be used for training of students in the veterinarian field for procedures performed in practice.
US11417238B2
A method, system and apparatus of determining search parameters for welding seam point calibration. The method includes determining, for a seam vertex point on a welding seam, three reference faces which are perpendicular to each other, based on geometry of an object to be weld in a virtual model; and determining a start point and a search point of a search motion for welding seam point calibration based on the three reference faces and predetermined criteria respectively for the start point and the search point. Three reference faces can be extracted automatically, and search parameters needed for the search instructions can be determined based thereon which enables automatic generation of search instructions and thus the time, manpower and cost for the welding seam point calibration can be reduced greatly.
US11417230B1
The present invention is a system, method, and teaching aid for continuously improving the system for educating students to a level of mastery and for systematically improving the mastery standard The invention includes a cost efficient system that enables multiple cycle of learning for each lesson, and the system is continuously reviewed and revised based on feedback showing the understanding and knowledge on the part of the students. Repetitive cycles of learning result in students with mastery level skill and confidence. The invention also includes a cost efficient method for creating the course and preparing instructors to teach the course.
US11417229B2
A method for coordinating remote user engagement and instructional demonstrations may include transmitting an instructor video signal from the instructor device, receiving a communication request from the remote audience device, assigning the remote audience device a queue position for a communication queue according to the received communication request, and indexing one or more audience devices automatically into an active speaker role according to the communication queue. The method may further provide for directing display of a countdown or restricting audio from other devices.
US11417218B2
A platooning controller and a method thereof include a processor configured to perform a platooning control and a communicator configured perform a vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communication in a platooning line. The processor calculates a waiting time for an expected departure of an outside vehicle based on surrounding information when the outside vehicle cuts in the platooning line during platooning. The processor forms a platoon again when the outside vehicle does not depart from the platooning line after the waiting time.
US11417217B2
A system, method, infrastructure, and vehicle for performing automated valet parking enable an unmanned vehicle to autonomously move to and park at an empty parking space by communicating with a parking infrastructure. The system, method, infrastructure, and vehicle enable an unmanned vehicle to autonomously move from a parking space to a pickup zone by communicating with a parking infrastructure.
US11417205B1
Methods and systems for a graduated process of increasing bandwidth and increasing complexity to identify and confirm a location of a target vehicle based on information received from motor vehicles are described. In one embodiment, a method for detection of a target vehicle includes requesting, from one or more remote devices in a geographic area, information associated with a target vehicle. The method also includes receiving, from the one or more remote devices, information associated with the target vehicle. The method further includes determining whether the received information associated with the target vehicle matches the requested information. Upon determining that the received information matches the requested information, the method includes increasing at least one of a bandwidth or a complexity level of the requested information associated with the target vehicle and decreasing the geographic area associated with the request.
US11417202B2
Systems and methods for detecting potential theft and identifying individuals having a history of committing theft use an electromagnetic emission associated with a personal electronic device associated with an individual is received from at least one of a sensor that is coupled to at least one of a traffic camera or an aerial drone camera. One or more signal properties of the electromagnetic emission are analyzed to determine an emission signature. Video data and video analytics are correlated with the emission signature to identify the individual having possession of the item. The emission signature and video data are stored for later use during a checkout. If an emission signature detected at a checkout station matches that of the individual having possession of the item, and the item is not processed through the checkout station, an alert is issued and the individual is flagged as a potential shoplifter.
US11417197B2
Pest control systems and methods are described. The systems comprise a portable electronic device which is configured to identify one or more of multiple PCDs within a range of a portable electric device which have been activated, and to provide an indication to a user corresponding to at least one of the identified activated PCDs.
US11417196B2
Alarm system arrangements (e.g., methods, apparatus, etc.) including receiving data originating from an entity located outside of a monitored premise, the data providing information detailing an impending request for temporary access of the monitored premise; and using the data to determine a predefined access plan to allow the temporary access to a predefined sub-area of the premises without triggering an alarm event, and to implement the predefined access plan at a time of receipt of an actual request for the temporary access. One example involves using the data to determine a predefined access plan which includes temporarily disabling of the alarm system's ability to recognize an alarm event with respect to activities occurring with respect to a predefined sub-area of the premises during the temporary access, and to implement the predefined access plan at a time relative to receipt of an actual request for the temporary access.
US11417192B1
A system includes a memory and at least one processor to perform one of (1) determine that a vehicle is within a geofence, receive a checkout notification in response to the user selecting a checkout user interface element displayed on a display, and disable the emergency countdown timer, (2) determine that the vehicle is within the geofence, display the checkout user interface on the display, fail to receive the checkout notification, and after the particular period of time, send the at least one of the text message and the automated call to the emergency responder requesting assistance for a person in a seat of the vehicle, and (3) determine that the vehicle is outside of the geofence and after the particular period of time, send at least one of a text message and an automated call to an emergency responder requesting assistance for the person in the seat of the vehicle.
US11417185B2
In order to achieve the object described above, a communication management system includes: a surveying instrument including a survey unit, a GPS device, a control unit, and a communication unit; a management server capable of communicating with the surveying instrument; and a remote terminal capable of communicating with the management server, wherein the remote terminal sets a usable range of the surveying instrument, and sets determination on entrance and exit of the surveying instrument into and from the usable range, and an operation responsive to results of the determination, and makes the management server store these, the surveying instrument transmits own GPS information to the management server, and the management server compares entrance and exit of the surveying instrument into and from the usable range with the GPS information and executes the determination, and executes the operation based on results of the determination.
US11417180B2
A method of detecting a ligature on a door is provided whereby the load applied by the door to a load sensing means and the movement of the door relative to the door frame are used to determine whether a ligature is being applied to the door to thereby trigger an alarm. Apparatus for carrying out the method is also provided.
US11417169B2
Interactions between a player, an electronic gaming machine being played by the player, and a control system that is interfaced with both the electronic gaming machine and the player's smart device are described. The player registers with the electronic gaming machine and also registers with the control system using an application residing on the player's smart device which establishes the player's identity and physical location as being within the venue containing the electronic gaming machine and/or near the electronic gaming machine. In one embodiment, when both registrations are active, a control command can be sent from the player's smart device that controls an operation of the electronic gaming machine.
US11417165B2
A vending machine interface includes a front panel, a product selection panel, and a piezoelectric element. The front panel bends in a normal direction when being pushed by a user. The product selection panel is disposed facing the front panel. A detection element is attached to the product selection panel and configured to detect bending of the front panel.
US11417157B2
A computer includes a processor. The processor is programmed to generate, upon detecting a vehicle entry device, a first data block including a hash of identification data for the entry device. The processor is further programmed, upon detecting a trip event, to generate a second data block including a hash of trip event data and a hash linking the second data block to the first data block.
US11417155B2
Data elements are identified, from a diagnostic request received from a remote server, to collect from controllers of the vehicle. The data elements are captured for inclusion in a diagnostic data message, responsive to receipt of the diagnostic request to allow the data elements to be collected without approval of the diagnostic request. The data elements are stored to the data storage. The remote server is queried for an approval status of the diagnostic request. Responsive to the approval status specifying that the diagnostic request is approved, the diagnostic data message is sent to the server. Responsive to the approval status failing to specify within a predefined time period that the diagnostic request is approved, the data elements are discarded from the data storage to maintain data privacy for the diagnostic request upon condition that the diagnostic request is not approved.
US11417153B2
A method of notifying an owner of a fault associated with a vehicle system of a vehicle. The method includes receiving, at a computing processor, one or more fault messages from a vehicle system of the vehicle. Each fault message includes a fault source identifying the vehicle system, a fault time identifying a time of the fault, and a fault description. The method also includes determining, by the computing processor, a fault value associated with the received one or more fault messages. The fault value indicative of a period of time or a number of events from an initial received fault message. The method also includes transmitting, from the computing processor to a third party in communication with the computing processor, the fault value. The method also includes receiving, from the third party, a service notification, and displaying, on a display in communication with the computing processor, the service notification.
US11417139B2
The present invention is a display device, comprising a display module, a fingerprint recognition module and a speaker module. The back of the display module is provided with a fingerprint recognition module and a speaker module. A common electrode layer is arranged between the fingerprint recognition module and the speaker module, so that the thickness of the display can be greatly reduced.
US11417138B2
An electronic device includes: a cover glass, including a first side and a second side; an ultrasonic wave transmitter and an ultrasonic wave receiver, arranged on the second side of the cover glass. Orthographic projections of the ultrasonic wave transmitter and the ultrasonic wave receiver onto the cover glass may be at two opposing ends of the cover glass. The ultrasonic wave transmitter is configured to emit an ultrasonic wave, the ultrasonic wave is able to enter the cover glass from an end, reflected between the first side and the second side for a plurality of times, emitted out of the cover glass from another end, and received by the ultrasonic wave receiver.
US11417136B2
Disclosed are techniques for quantifying body postures of a player employing a loop drive technique to strike a ball, such as performed in table tennis activities. A video recording of a player striking a ball with a loop drive technique is received and divided, using image processing techniques, into two segments: the first concerning player body postures before the ball is hit, and the second concerning body postures from the moment of impact between the ball and racket and the subsequent follow-through body postures. Then, image processing techniques are again leveraged to isolate and quantify specific body postures contributing to a loop drive technique in a given segment.
US11417128B2
Receive first context information (FCI) including entered in-field incident timeline information values from an in-field incident timeline application and a time associated with an entry of the FCI values. Access a mapping that maps in-field incident timeline information values to events having a pre-determined threshold confidence of occurring and identify an event associated with the received FCI. Determine a location associated with the entry of the FCI and a time period associated with the entry of the FCI. Access a camera location database and identify cameras that have a field of view including the location during the time period. Retrieve audio and/or video streams captured by the cameras during the time period. And provide the audio and/or video streams to machine learning training modules corresponding to machine learning models for detecting the event in and/or video streams for further training of the machine learning models.
US11417125B2
A system and method for recognition of license plate numbers from Bayer-domain image data is provided. The system acquires Bayer-domain image data of a scene comprising a vehicle and inputs such image data to a Deep Neural Network (DNN) model trained for license plate detection (LPD) and license plate recognition (LPR). The system extracts an LPD result as an output of the DNN model. Based on the LPD result, the system extracts, from the input Bayer-domain image data, a region-of-interest (RoI) comprising a license plate image associated with the vehicle. The system inputs the extracted RoI to the DNN model and extracts, as an output of the DNN model, an LPR result which indicates a confidence of the DNN model in recognition of a license plate number of the vehicle from the input RoI. The system determines the license plate number based on the extracted LPR result.
US11417121B1
The present disclosure is directed to apparatuses, systems and methods for automatically classifying images of occupants inside a vehicle. More particularly, the present disclosure is directed to apparatuses, systems and methods for automatically classifying images of occupants inside a vehicle by comparing current image feature data to previously classified image features.
US11417117B2
A method of detecting lanes includes the steps: capturing (S1) a camera image (K) of a vehicle environment by a camera device (2) of a vehicle (5); determining (S2) feature points (P1 to P15) in the camera image (K), which feature points correspond to regions of possible lane boundaries (M1, M2); generating (S3) image portions of the captured camera image (K) respectively around the feature points (P1 to P15); analyzing (S4) the image portions using a neural network to classify the feature points (P1 to P15); and determining (S5) lanes in the vehicle environment taking account of the classified feature points (P1 to P15).
US11417116B2
A trailering assist system includes a control and a camera disposed at a rear portion of a vehicle and having a field of view at least rearward of the vehicle. The control includes an image processor operable to process image data captured by the camera. The control, responsive to image processing of captured image data, transforms captured image data of the trailer hitch from a pivoting orientation of the portion of the trailer that pivots about the trailer hitch to a vertical orientation of the portion of the trailer that moves laterally across the transformed image data. The control transforms pivotal movement of the portion of the trailer about the trailer hitch to lateral movement of the trailer hitch in the transformed image data. The control determines a trailer angle of the trailer relative to the vehicle based on the lateral position of the trailer hitch in the transformed image data.
US11417114B2
A method and apparatus for processing information are provided. A specific embodiment of the method includes: identifying at least one obstacle from a point cloud collected by a lidar during a traveling process of a vehicle; for an obstacle in the at least one obstacle, determining an appearance rate of the obstacle within a life cycle corresponding to the obstacle; determining a confidence degree of a grid region of at least one grid region based on appearance rates of obstacles in the at least one obstacle; determining a target grid region from the at least one grid region based on the confidence degree, and determining whether an obstacle detected in the target grid region is an obstacle detected for a first time; and if yes, filtering out a point cloud corresponding to the obstacle detected in the target grid region for the first time.
US11417109B1
An event detection system for detecting events related to vehicles based on sensor data from the vehicles. An event detection service on a network may receive streams of sensor data from vehicles and apply machine learning techniques to train models and to analyze the data to detect vehicle-related events. Supervised and unsupervised techniques may be used to train the models and to detect known as well as anomalous events. Events may be detected based on data from one or from multiple vehicles. The system may respond to events by alerting entities and/or signaling vehicle control systems to respond to the events. Trained models may be downloaded to vehicles; the vehicle computer systems can then locally detect events. The downloaded models can be further trained on the vehicles, uploaded to the network, and integrated into the network-based models to improve the performance of the models.
