US11468962B2
A system includes a memory component and a processing device operatively coupled with the memory component. The processing device performs a test of the memory component by generating an error correction code (ECC) value for an initial operation of the test based on an address in the memory component on which the initial operation of the test is performed, generating ECC values for subsequent operations of the test, and reporting the ECC value generated for the last of the subsequent operations of the test in an event log. The ECC value for each respective subsequent operation of the test is generated based on an address in the memory component on which that respective subsequent operation of the test is performed, and the ECC value generated for the operation of the test that was performed immediately before that respective subsequent operation.
US11468945B2
A three-dimensional (3D) storage circuit includes two or more tiers of semiconductor dies, and a storage array of bitcells distributed on the two or more tiers to form a plurality of storage subarrays. One of the storage subarrays is arranged on a respective one of the tiers. Row and column replica/dummy tracking cells are arranged on each of the tiers. A timing circuit is coupled to the tracking cells of each of the tiers. In response to receipt of tier-specific trim bits for each of the tiers, the timing circuit independently controls a timing and/or voltage state of each of the tiers during an access operation of the 3D storage circuit to account for process and/or thermal variation between tiers of the 3D storage circuit.
US11468937B2
Apparatuses and methods for calculating targeted refresh addresses may include circuitry that may be used to calculate victim row addresses having a variety of spatial relationships to an aggressor row. The spatial relationship of the victim row addresses calculated by the circuitry may be based, at least in part, on states of control signals provided to the circuitry. That is, the circuitry may be used to calculate the different victim row addresses by changing the states of the control signals.
US11468936B2
A semiconductor memory device includes a plurality of memory blocks including a plurality of word lines; a plurality of sense amplifying circuits, each being shared by adjacent memory blocks among the memory blocks; a refresh counter suitable for generating a counting address, a value of which increases according to a refresh command; an address storing circuit suitable for storing first and second target addresses by sampling an active address at different times; and a control circuit suitable for activating a word line corresponding to one of the counting address and the first target address according to the refresh command, and activating at least one word line corresponding to one or more of the active address and the second target address according to an active command.
US11468924B2
A memory device includes a memory area configured to store data, a data input/output (I/O) part configured to receive and output data through an external bus, an I/O buffering part coupled between the memory area and the data I/O part to store data outputted from the memory area, and a first internal data transmission line providing a data transmission path between the memory area and the I/O buffering part and having a first bandwidth which is greater than a bandwidth of the external bus, Data transmission between the memory area and the I/O buffering part through the first internal data transmission line is executed using a portion of the first bandwidth in a first operation mode and is executed using all of the first bandwidth in a second operation mode.
US11468902B2
A voice recognition device includes a memory that stores dictionary data in which likelihoods that each of registered words precedes other registered words are stored, and digital voice data corresponding to a voice signal input through a microphone, and a processor configured to perform voice recognition and acquire a first character string corresponding to the digital voice data, when a first letter of the first character string is a vowel letter, generate a plurality of first words that precede a second word in the first character string according to the dictionary data, each of the first words having a different first letter, and select one of the first words based on the likelihoods and output the second character string that is a combination of the selected first word and the second word.
US11468901B2
The present invention is directed to a deep neural network (DNN) having a triplet network architecture, which is suitable to perform speaker recognition. In particular, the DNN includes three feed-forward neural networks, which are trained according to a batch process utilizing a cohort set of negative training samples. After each batch of training samples is processed, the DNN may be trained according to a loss function, e.g., utilizing a cosine measure of similarity between respective samples, along with positive and negative margins, to provide a robust representation of voiceprints.
US11468895B2
A computer implemented method includes receiving audio streams at a meeting server from two distributed devices that are streaming audio captured during an ad-hoc meeting between at least two users, comparing the received audio streams to determine that the received audio streams are representative of sound from the ad-hoc meeting, generating a meeting instance to process the audio streams in response to the comparing determining that the audio streams are representative of sound from the ad-hoc meeting, and processing the received audio streams to generate a transcript of the ad-hoc meeting.
US11468882B2
Customer relationship management (“CRM”) implemented in a computer system, including parsing a word, from call notes of a conversation between a tele-agent of a call center and a customer representative, into a parsed triple of a description logic; determining whether the parsed triple is recorded in a semantic CRM triple store of the computer system; if the parsed triple is not recorded in the semantic CRM triple store, recording the parsed triple as a call note in the semantic CRM triple store.
US11468875B2
Active noise cancellation systems and methods include a feedforward path configured to receive a reference signal comprising ambient noise and adaptively generate an anti-noise signal to cancel the ambient noise. The adaptive filter is tuned in accordance with at least one parameter, which is set by a logic device configured to determine an ambient noise condition based the reference signal by estimating a fullband power of the reference signal, estimating a low-frequency power of the reference signal, comparing the fullband power and low-frequency power to one or more thresholds, and/or setting one or more ambient noise flags. The ambient noise condition may include a quiet background, a wideband noise condition, and/or a low-frequency dominant noise condition.
US11468870B2
An electronic musical instrument includes: a memory that stores lyric data including lyrics for a plurality of timings, pitch data including pitches for said plurality of timings, and a trained model that has been trained and learned singing voice features of a singer; and at least one processor, wherein at each of said plurality of timings, the at least one processor: if the operation unit is not operated, obtains, from the trained model, a singing voice feature associated with a lyric indicated by the lyric data and a pitch indicated by the pitch data; if the operation unit is operated, obtains, from the trained model, a singing voice feature associated with the lyric indicated by the lyric data and a pitch indicated by the operation of the operation unit; and synthesizes and outputs singing voice data based on the obtained singing voice feature of the singer.
US11468851B2
Disclosed is an organic light-emitting diode display device including: a display panel in which pixels adjacent to each other are paired and arranged to share a single data line in pixel areas defined by gate and data lines; a gate driver configured to drive the plurality of gate lines; a data driver configured to output a data voltage to data voltage output channels on the basis of an arrangement of pixels; a data switcher configured to alternately select a data line and to electrically connect the data line with the data voltage output channel of the data driver; and a timing controller configured to control the data switcher and the gate and data drivers, thereby making it possible to drive a data driving circuit at high driving frequency and to reduce a deterioration of image quality and image distortion even in a simplified structure of the data driving circuit.
US11468847B2
A display device includes a display panel including a plurality of pixels, a plurality of data lines extending in a first direction and coupled to the plurality of pixels, a plurality of first scan lines extending in a second direction different from the first direction and coupled to the plurality of pixels, and a plurality of second scan lines extending in the first direction and coupled to the plurality of first scan lines, a data driver which provides data voltages to the plurality of pixels through the plurality of data lines, and a scan driver which sequentially provides a scan signal to the plurality of pixels on a row-by-row basis through the plurality of second scan lines and the plurality of first scan lines. The data driver and the scan driver are implemented with a data-scan integration chip which outputs the data voltages and the scan signal.
US11468845B2
A scan driver including a stage that includes: an input circuit controlling a voltage of a first node in response to signals at first and second input terminals; a first signal processing circuit controlling a voltage of a second node in response to the signal at the first input terminal and supplies a voltage of a first power to the second node in response to the signal at the second input terminal; a second signal processing circuit supplying a voltage of a second power to the first node in response to a signal at a third input terminal and the voltage of the second node; a first output circuit outputting the signal at the third input terminal as a first scan signal; and a second output circuit outputting a signal at a fourth input terminal as a second scan signal at a different time from the first scan signal.
US11468841B2
An emission control driver includes: a plurality of stages having: a first circuit portion configured to generate a first control signal at a first node and a second control signal at a second node; a second circuit portion configured to control a voltage level of the first control signal; a third circuit portion configured to generate a third control signal based on the first control signal, the second control signal, and the second clock signal; a first output transistor configured to output a first voltage as the emission control signal in response to the first control signal; and a second output transistor configured to output a second voltage as the emission control signal, and wherein the third circuit portion comprises a first capacitor configured to maintain a substantially constant voltage between both electrodes while each of the plurality of stages outputs the emission control signal.
US11468839B2
Disclosed is an electroluminescent display device using a variable refresh rate (VRR) mode. The purpose of the present disclosure is to reduce the occurrence of a difference in luminance at a time point of a refresh rate change, thereby preventing viewers from perceiving the variation of the refresh rate.
US11468838B2
An organic light emitting display device includes a plurality of pixels. Each of the pixels includes an organic light emitting diode, first to third transistors, a storage capacitor, and a first capacitor. The second transistor includes a gate electrode receiving a first scan signal, a first electrode receiving a data signal, and a second electrode connected to a first electrode of the first transistor. The third transistor includes a gate electrode receiving a second scan signal, a first electrode connected to a second electrode of the first transistor, and a second electrode connected to a gate electrode of the first transistor. The storage capacitor includes a first electrode receiving a power voltage and a second electrode connected to the gate electrode of the first transistor. The first capacitor includes a first electrode connected to the gate electrode of the third transistor and a second electrode receiving the power voltage.
US11468829B2
A display device is proposed. The display device includes unit pixels in which red, white, blue, and green sub-pixels are sequentially arranged, and includes an image processor configured to detect text from an image signal input from outside, perform image processing on the text, and output the text, wherein in the unit pixels respectively corresponding to both edges of the text, the image processor may perform image processing so that predetermined sub-pixels adjacent to a central part of the text are driven in a light-emitting state.
US11468825B2
The present disclosure provides a pixel circuit including: a current control circuit and a time control circuit, the time control circuit includes: a first resetting sub-circuit configured to write a reference voltage and a first initialization voltage to a first node and a second node, respectively; a first data writing sub-circuit configured to write a first data voltage to the first node; a first threshold compensation sub-circuit configured to perform threshold compensation on a transistor within a switch sub-circuit; a ramp writing sub-circuit configured to write a preset ramp signal to the first node; and the switch sub-circuit configured to control electrical coupling and decoupling between a third node and a fourth node. The present disclosure further provides a driving method of the pixel circuit and a display device.
US11468824B2
The present disclosure relates to methods, control devices, and display apparatus for controlling edge display of display screens. A method includes: determining an irregular-shaped cutting line cutting at least a part of edge sub-pixels of the display screen, an light-emitting region of each of the edge sub-pixels passed through by the irregular-shaped cutting line being divided into a first region and a second region; obtaining coordinate values of each vertex of the edge sub-pixel and coordinate values of an intersection point of the edge sub-pixel and the irregular-shaped cutting line, in a two-dimensional coordinate system of a plane of sub-pixels of the display screen; calculating an area ratio coefficient of the edge sub-pixel; obtaining an optimized brightness value less than a preset brightness value of the edge sub-pixel; and causing the edge sub-pixel to display at the optimized brightness value.
US11468823B2
The present disclosure relates to a video wall. The video wall according to an embodiment of the present disclosure comprises: a plurality of displays disposed adjacent to each other; an image divider configured to divide an input image into a plurality of images; and at least one controller configured to control a plurality of image display apparatuses, wherein in response to a video displayed on the plurality of image display apparatuses being repeatedly played back, the controller is configured to store a boundary area and transmit the stored boundary area to adjacent image display apparatuses, and the respective image display apparatuses synthesize a received boundary area with an image area to be displayed, and display a portion of the synthesized image. Accordingly, an occurrence of black areas may be reduced while reducing afterimage on the video wall comprising the plurality of displays.
US11468819B2
The present disclosure relates to the field of display technologies, and in particular, to a shift register circuit and a display device. The shift register circuit may include a plurality of GOAs for outputting scan signals to a plurality of pixel driving circuits and a plurality of EOAs for outputting control signals to the plurality of pixel driving circuits, where the GOAs and the EOAs are alternately arranged in a straight line.
US11468817B1
A display device includes a data driver that outputs a first data signal and a second data signal of different voltages, and a pixel that emits light in response to the first data signal and the second data signal. The pixel includes a current generator generating a driving current corresponding to the first data signal, a first light emitting part including a first electrode, a second electrode, and a first light emitting element, a second light emitting part including a third electrode, a fourth electrode connected, and a second light emitting element, and a current controller controlling a divided current supplied to the second light emitting part in response to the second data signal.
US11468815B2
A display device includes a display panel including a first display region and a second display region surrounding the first display region, where a first pixel having a first size is disposed in the first display region, and a second pixel having a second size is disposed in the second display region, a gate driver which applies a gate signal to a gate line, a data driver which applies a data voltage to a data line, and a timing controller which controls the gate driver and the data driver. The gate line includes a first gate line connected to both the first pixel and the second pixel, and a second gate line connected only to the second pixel. The data line includes a first data line which does not transmit the data voltage to the second pixel connected to the second gate line, and a second data line which transmits the data voltage to the second pixel connected to the second gate line.
US11468814B1
A display panel and a display device are provided. The display panel includes a pixel circuit including a driving module and a compensation module. The driving module includes a driving transistor, and the compensation module is connected between a gate and a drain of the driving transistor. A time period of one frame includes a non-light-emitting stage including a bias adjustment stage. In the bias adjustment stage, the compensation module is turned off, and one of a source and the drain of the driving transistor receives a bias adjustment signal for adjusting a bias state of the driving transistor. Time lengths of the non-light-emitting stages in the first mode and the second mode are L1 and L2, respectively, where L1>L2. Time lengths of the bias adjustment stages in the first frame in the first mode and the second frame in the second mode are W1 and W2, where W1/L1
US11468810B2
A shift-register unit circuit (100) includes a first input sub-circuit (120) configured to receive a display-input signal from a display-input terminal (STU2, VDD, VGH) and input a display output-control signal to a first node (Q) based on the display-input signal during a display period of one cycle of displaying one frame of image. The shift-register unit circuit (100) also includes a second input sub-circuit (110) configured to receive a blank-input signal for charging a blank-control node (H), and configured to input a blank-output-control signal to the first node (Q) based on the blank-input signal during a blank period of the one cycle. The shift-register unit circuit (100) further includes an output sub-circuit (130) configured to output a hybrid signal controlled by the first node (Q). The second input sub-circuit (110) is also configured, before an end of the blank period, to receive a first blank-reset signal to reset the blank-control node (H).
US11468805B2
A liquid crystal projector includes a red liquid crystal panel, a green liquid crystal panel, a blue liquid crystal panel, a green liquid crystal panel, an optical shift element configured to shift an emission optical path of a synthesized image of each liquid crystal panel, and a control circuit configured to control these. The control circuit controls the optical shift element to set a projection position to a projection position (A) in a subframe f1 and to a projection position (B) in a subframe f2. The control circuit causes a resolution of the liquid crystal panel expressed in the subframes f1 and f2 to be lower than the resolution of the liquid crystal panel expressed in the subframes f1 and f2.
US11468802B1
A system and method are disclosed for a lamp that includes a unit capable of receiving various inserts that allow the lamp to adapt in appearance for changing the decor of a room and/or provide information to a user in proximity to the lamp.
US11468801B2
A display device includes a display panel; a back cover disposed on a rear surface of the display panel to support the display panel; a roller disposed on a rear surface of the back cover, wherein the display panel and the back cover are wound around or unwound from the roller; a support bar disposed on a front surface of the display panel and fastened to the display panel and the back cover through fastening means; and at least one anti-shift means disposed on the rear surface of the back cover and fastened to a fastening groove of the roller when the display panel and the back cover are wound around the roller. Accordingly, it is possible to prevent cracks in the pad area and damages to the flexible film, thereby solving the issues of driving failure and reliability of the display panel.
US11468795B2
The disclosure describes an arm assembly for a crash test dummy. The arm assembly includes a model forearm, a model hand, and a model wrist joint coupling the model forearm and model hand. The model wrist joint includes at least one sensor configured to generate sensor data indicative of a force or a moment experienced by the model wrist joint.
US11468793B2
Airway management virtual reality (VR) training systems and methods are provided, which use relatively simple and passive physical patient models to train users in performing airway management procedures. Patient models may include a respiratory tract, a moveable head and an openable jaw, which are anatomically realistic; and electromagnetic sensors that measure the movements of parts of the physical model and movement of tools used to handle the model. The parameters of the medical procedure being performed are sensed, tracked and displayed, providing the trainee with a continuous, detailed and coherent VR representation of the training situation in a realistic scene, utilizing and modifying a sensors' hierarchy to focus the VR representation on key features of the training and to yield interactivity of the VR patient and assessment of the trainee's performance.
US11468791B2
Implementations relate to medical simulations for medical procedure training. In some implementations, a system includes a simulation processing component including at least one processor and which generates a virtual environment using position signals that describe at least one of a position and a configuration of a physical surgical instrument relative to a physical surgical site. The simulation processing component updates the virtual environment according to changes in the position signals and according to control signals corresponding to inputs by a user of the system. The updating includes moving a virtual surgical instrument within the virtual environment, where an interaction of the virtual surgical instrument with a virtual surgical site is defined at least partly by a physical relationship between the physical surgical instrument and the physical surgical site. The simulation processing component outputs a representation of a simulation state signal indicative of a current state of the virtual environment.
US11468787B1
Providing a treatment adjustment plan for a user based on blood glucose data may include obtaining a user profile comprising health information for a user; obtaining, from a camera, image data capturing a food product in front of the user; and identifying the food product based on the image data. Providing the treatment adjustment plan may also include detecting user consumption of the food product; obtaining blood glucose characteristics associated with the food product; determining an estimated blood glucose response based on the blood glucose characteristics and the user profile; and determining a treatment adjustment based on the estimated blood glucose response.
US11468780B2
A computer-implemented method and a smart-learning and knowledge retrieval system (SLKRS) are provided for imparting adaptive and personalized e-learning based on continually artificially learned unique characteristics of a knowledge seeker. The SLKRS ingests data in multiple formats from multiple sources, merges the data into a knowledge base based on computed strengths of terms in the sources, and assimilates the merged data to generate experiences. In response to a query received from the knowledge seeker, the SLKRS retrieves and sends in an immersive format one of the generated experiences or an experience created based on an artificially intelligent understanding of the received query. The SLKRS receives feedback from the knowledge seeker and computes a score based on the feedback and the query to artificially learn unique characteristics of the knowledge seeker. The SLKRS generates interventions and improved experiences for the knowledge seeker based on the computed score.
US11468770B2
According to one embodiment, a travel control apparatus includes an area setter configured to set a second area on at least one of a plurality of travel paths provided among a plurality of first areas; and a travel controller configured to control timing of a first mobile body to pass through the second area on a travel route of the first mobile body based on passing sequence information on one of the first areas that is located behind the second area, wherein the passing sequence information defines a sequence in which a plurality of mobile bodies including the first mobile body passes through the first area.
US11468769B2
A method and an electronic device for detecting a vehicle queue length are disclosed. The method includes: when determining that a traffic light turns green, obtaining vehicle information of each vehicle on a lane section to be detected in a first preset time period before a time point when the traffic light turns green; determining at least one vehicle that has a static position and a static time point on the lane section to be detected; determining a first queuing vehicle and a last queuing vehicle on the lane section to be detected based on the at least one vehicle that has the static position and the static time point on the lane section to be detected; and determining a vehicle queue length on the lane section to be detected based on a position of the first queuing vehicle and a position of the last queuing vehicle.
US11468760B2
A method of and device for reducing energy consumption of a motion sensing device by reducing or avoid using function of device's internal GPS system when a predetermined condition is senses. The predetermined condition includes a predetermined state of motion or no-motion sensed. The motion sensing device includes Personal Emergency Response Systems.
US11468756B2
An AFE chip for a smoke detector includes a DC/DC boost converter having a boost input, a boost output, and a boost upper power supply input. The boost input is coupled to a first pin that is adapted for coupling to a battery through an inductor and the boost output is coupled to a second pin. The DC/DC boost converter is configured to not switch when a voltage on the second pin is greater than a programmed boost voltage. A set of power regulator circuits have a power input, which is coupled to a third pin, and a power output. The third pin is adapted for receiving an input voltage, the power output is coupled to provide an internal voltage, and the set of power regulator circuits are further coupled to the boost upper power supply input.
US11468755B2
A method for tracking a parcel with a tracking device is provided.
US11468747B2
An ATM exception handler automatically handles certain forms of exceptions. The exception handler receives messages indicating amounts of cash counted and amounts of cash shown at different ATMs. If exceptions are indicated by these messages, the exception handler attempts to reconcile exceptions with each other depending on several factors, such as, the servicer of the ATMs and day of servicing.
US11468740B2
A computer-implemented method of operating a computing device, comprises enabling a player to play a wager-based game, the wager-based game being configured to present a plurality of wagering opportunities on a display, each of which being configured such that a player interaction therewith via a player interface generates a wager whose outcome is determined by a random process. First player interactions with at least some of the plurality of wagering opportunities may be received and corresponding wagers generated. Second player interactions with in-game items not associated with wagers may be received, the in-game items not associated with wagers having no present value to the player but having respective future potential values. During game play, it may be determined whether one or more predetermined in-game conditions are satisfied. When the one or more predetermined in-game conditions are satisfied, the user may be presented with a graphic mechanism configured to enable selection of one of the in-game items with which player interactions were received. One of the future potential values may then be randomly awarded to the player, the randomly awarded future potential value thereby becoming an awarded actual value.
US11468737B2
A method of providing a secondary skill-based game to a player utilizing an electronic game machine includes providing the player with a plurality of wagering units enabling the participants to play a machine-implemented game, initiating the game whereby the player wagers during individual games, displaying indicia representing a game state to the player whereby the player may select from at least two different potentially winning actions to continue each game, determining an outcome for the machine-implemented game, and, if the number of wagering units held by the participant is greater than a predetermined number of wagering units and if the elapsed time from the initiation of the first game played by the player is less than a predetermined time interval and if the number of games played by the player is less than a predetermined maximum number of games, providing the player the a secondary skill-based game prize.
US11468736B2
Gaming systems and methods that provide audio content control features for enhanced use in gaming establishments.
US11468732B2
A gaming machine having a game controller, a display, and a player interface. The game controller generates a game state to be displayed. The display also displays an object outside of the game state to be moved into a location within the game state. The player interface receives a player selection of a direction or a speed to move the object into the location to effect a change in the game state.
US11468727B2
Disclosed is an automatic-cooking-and-processing vending system for frozen-food, comprising the low-temperature chamber, the object-moving system, the product shelves, the low-temperature chamber equipment, the food container; the said low-temperature chamber equipment is inside the low-temperature chamber, or connected to the casing of the low-temperature chamber; the low-temperature chamber equipment contains hot-air source and the humid-air source; the product shelves is inside the low-temperature chamber with disposable food containers placed on; the object-moving system is inside the low-temperature chamber. This system has the air-circulating system, which can force the outer hot-and-humid air to come inside in one-way from a cold chamber, so as to isolate the hot-and-humid air. Further disclosed is a food-automatic-cook-and-processing system, which may be used in the automatic-cooking-and-processing vending system, comprising a series of auto piercing food-processing devices for disposable food containers and different foods, and with the working patterns of these devices.
US11468725B2
A method of detecting passage by an individual carrying a mobile device past an impediment operably connected to an access control is provided. The method including: detecting positional data of a mobile device; transmitting an access request from the mobile device to an access control operably connected to an impediment; detecting at least one of a sound from the impediment and a motion of the impediment; and determining that an individual carrying the mobile device has moved past the impediment in response to at least one of the sound from the impediment, the motion of the impediment, and the positional data of the mobile device.
US11468724B2
A control apparatus includes a controller configured to generate an electronic key for unlocking a storage configured to be locked with an article stored therein, and a communication interface configured to transmit the electronic key generated by the controller to a terminal apparatus of a user in a case in which the user is forecasted to arrive at a store after a time slot for providing the article at the store has passed.
US11468720B2
An access control system is described in which a primary credential device has a master key and a secondary credential device has a key derived from the master key. Both the master key and the derivative key are required to gain access to the resource protected by the access control system. If the secondary credential device is lost, misplaced, or stolen, it cannot be used to gain illicit access to the protected resource, and it can be easily replaced by providing a different secondary credential device with another key derived from the master key.
US11468714B1
Methods, computer-readable media, software, and apparatuses provide a system for making toll payments using toll payment equipment. The system may include a mobile computing device, a toll gateway, and an insurance company computing device. The mobile computing device (e.g., a phone) may be configured to communicate with the toll gateway when a vehicle carrying the mobile computing device passes through the toll gateway. The mobile computing may send a signal to the insurance company computing device to cause the insurance company computing device to pay an appropriate toll or discounted toll (if applicable). The insurance company may maintain an account for a customer from which toll payments are made. In addition, the insurance company computing device may collect information about the vehicle as it passes through the toll gateway. The insurance company computing device may use this information to determine an insurance-related value, such as an insurance premium.
US11468712B2
A liveness detection device comprising a light source unit, image sensor unit, and data processing module and authentication method thereof are provided. The light source unit comprises a substrate having a first inclined surface, whereby emitted light is reflected light from the first inclined surface. An application triggers an authentication process, which is indicated to a user. The light source unit begins illumination having a specific pattern and for a specific period and image signals are generated. Liveness detection signals are generated, via calculation of interference patterns, each, from more than one image signal, in sequence, for determination of liveness. When a liveness threshold is met, feature recognition data is generated, via calculation of interference patterns, each, from more than one image signal, in sequence, for matching. Then, the features are compared with previously enrolled data for locking or unlocking of the liveness detection device and/or system coupled thereto.
US11468707B2
Techniques of automatic image classification and modification in computing systems are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a method includes scanning an inbox on email servers for emails containing image files. Upon detecting that an email in the inbox contains an image file, the method includes retrieving an identification photo of a user from a data store. The method also includes determining, via facial recognition, whether the image file in the email contains at least a partial image of the user based on the retrieved identification photo. In response to determining that the image file in the email contains at least a partial image of the user, a metadata value is inserted into the image file indicating that the image file contains at least a partial image of the user before the image file is stored in the inbox on the one or more email servers.
US11468705B1
A display device with a fingerprint sensing function is provided. The display device includes a display panel and a sensor panel. The display panel includes a plurality of display pixels. The sensor panel is disposed under the display panel. The sensor panel includes a plurality of sensor pixels arranged in an array. The array has a first sensor pitch in a first direction. Each of the sensor pixels includes a sensor. Every two neighboring sensors of the sensors have a first shift pitch in the first direction, and the first shift pitch is not equal to the first sensor pitch.
US11468703B2
A method, storage media and device for biometric identification driving is provided. The method for biometric identification driving includes the steps. First, a touch action of a living organism is detected on a screen. Next, a position information of the touch action is obtained on the screen. Next, a scanning data of a corresponding biometric scanning unit of the screen is obtained according to the position information of the touch action on the screen. the above technical solution could effectively utilize existing screen detection mechanisms. Pre-detection steps is performed before detecting a fingerprint. A relative position of the fingerprint on the screen is obtained according to the existing screen detection mechanism. Thus, the biometric scanning unit or a fingerprint scanning unit detected by the relative position is effective. Finally, an effective scanning result of the biometric scanning unit is obtained.
US11468702B1
A fingerprint capturing apparatus includes a plurality of panel capacitors each configured to output an alternating charge signal indicating a capacitance proportional to a proximity of a portion of a subject's finger, a de-serialized amplifier circuit including an operational amplifier that receives the alternating charge signal from the plurality of panel capacitors, and a change in condition control circuit configured to make a change in an operating condition of the de-serialized amplifier based on a voltage of an output of the operational amplifier. The change in condition control circuit also configured to output a count of a number of times of making the change in the operating condition of the de-serialized amplifier. The apparatus also including a processor circuit configured to recognize the subject's fingerprint based on the count of the number of times of making the change in the operating condition of the de-serialized amplifier.
US11468692B2
A control device includes a controller. The controller detects, as an event, that a target present outside a vehicle has been overlooked by a driver of the vehicle during. The controller controls the outputting of a target image, which is an image including the target overlooked in the detected event, toward the driver.
US11468684B2
A system for situational awareness monitoring within an environment, wherein the system includes one or more processing devices configured to receive an image stream including a plurality of captured images from each of a plurality of imaging devices, the plurality of imaging devices being configured to capture images of objects within the environment and at least some of the imaging devices being positioned within the environment to have at least partially overlapping fields of view, identify overlapping images in the different image streams, the overlapping images being images captured by imaging devices having overlapping fields of view, analyse the overlapping images to determine object locations within the environment, analyse changes in the object locations over time to determine object movements within the environment, compare the object movements to situational awareness rules and use results of the comparison to identify situational awareness events.
US11468682B2
A target object identification system includes a first camera, a second camera, and a processor. The first camera acquires an image of a first target region. The second camera synchronously acquires an image of a second target region. The second target region includes part or all of the first target region. Resolution of the first camera is higher than that of the second camera, and field of view of the second camera is greater than that of the first camera. The processor identifies first target objects according to the image of the first target region, and second target objects according to the image of the second target region, and determines association relationships between the first target objects in the image of the first target region and the second target object in the synchronously acquired image of the second target region.
US11468675B1
Systems, methods, and computer storage media are described herein for identifying objects within video content. Utilizing an image recognition technique (e.g., a previously trained neural network) an object may be detected within a subset of the video frames of a scene of the video content. Metadata may be generated comprising a set of object attributes (e.g., an object image, a URL from which the item may be procured, etc.) associated with the object detected within the subset of video frames. A request for object identification may subsequently be received while a user is watching the video content. A run time of the request may be utilized to retrieve and display one or more object attributes (e.g., an object image with an embedded hyperlink) corresponding to an object appearing in the scene.
US11468674B2
Disclosed are systems and methods for dynamically determining categories for images. A computer-implemented method includes training a neural network to receive an input image and determine one or more image categories associated with the input image; obtaining a set of images associated with a user; and determining, using the trained neural network, one or more image categories associated with each image included in the obtained set of images.
US11468671B2
A Network Operation Center may receive video data, sensor data and third-party data for a situation that a police officer or security service personnel has been called to. Using the video data, a sentiment analysis engine may generate a sentiment data file that contains the sentiment of at least one individual involved in the situation. Using the video data, sensor data, third party data and the sentiment data file, the sentiment analysis engine may generate a safety quality value for the situation. Subsequently, the safety quality value is compared to a predetermined sentiment value to establish a safety rating and confidence interval for the situation. Furthermore, the sentiment analysis engine may generate a situational awareness file, that contains the safety rating and confidence interval, and route it to the field computing device of the officer for evaluation and implementation.
US11468670B2
Various embodiments detect and manage target vegetation in vegetation areas, including crop beds, between crop beds, and turfgrasses. In one embodiment, a machine learning model is trained to detect target vegetation in captured images. An information processing system is programmed utilizing the machine learning model. One or more images of a particular area are captured, and target vegetation is detected within the one or more images. A position of the detected target vegetation is determined within the one or more images. An applicator disposed on an agrochemical applicator system that is mapped to the position of the detected target vegetation within the one or more images is determined. The applicator is activated based on a current speed of a vehicle coupled to the agrochemical applicator system, and further based on configuration data associated with the applicator. Activating the applicator selectively applies an agrochemical to the detected target vegetation.
US11468667B2
Aspects of the present disclosure describe systems, methods and structures providing wide-area traffic monitoring based on distributed fiber-optic sensing (DFOS) that employs deep neural network(s) for denoising noisy waterfall traces measured by the DFOS. Such systems, methods, and structures according to aspects of the present disclosure may advantageously monitor multiple highways/roadways using a single interrogator and optical fiber switch(es) which provides traffic information along every sensing point of existing, deployed, in-service optical telecommunications facilities.
US11468660B2
Techniques are disclosed for extracting micro-features at a pixel-level based on characteristics of one or more images. Importantly, the extraction is unsupervised, i.e., performed independent of any training data that defines particularly objects, allowing a behavior-recognition system to forgo a training phase and for object classification to proceed without being constrained by specify object definitions. A micro-feature extractor that does not require training data is adaptive and self-trains while performing the extraction. The extracted micro-features are represented as a micro-feature vector that may be input to a micro-classifier which groups object into object type clusters based on the micro-feature vectors.
US11468658B2
This disclosure involves automatically generating a typographical image using an image and a text document. Aspects of the present disclosure include detecting a region of interest from the image and generating an object template from the detected region of interest. The object template defines the areas of the image, in which words of the text document are inserted. A text rendering protocol is executed to iteratively insert the words of the text document into the available locations of the object template. The typographical image is generated by rendering each word of the text document onto the available location assigned to the word.
US11468651B2
This size measuring system has: a size measuring instrument 10 which has, disposed on the surface thereof, a plurality of identifiable markers and which is attached to the body of a user when measuring the size of the body of the user; a measurement terminal 20 which measures the size of the body of the user by photographing the user having the size measuring instrument 10 attached thereto; a business operator terminal 30 which is operated by a provider providing the size measuring instrument 10; and a product data management server 40 which stores therein a database of product data including size information of products, such as garments to be worn by the user.
US11468650B2
A unique storytelling system is disclosed herein in which a plug-and-play hardware platform with an integrated augmented reality (AR) environment brings stories to life. The storytelling system includes an electronics toolkit and a structure toolkit which enable the user to prototype interactive physical devices for storytelling. The interactive physical devices crafted by the user are easily programmed using a simple visual programing environment of the storytelling system. Additionally, a story event planning tool of the storytelling system enables the user to create customized interactions between the interactive physical devices and virtual AR objects, such as virtual AR avatars or the like. Finally, an AR storytelling application of the storytelling system utilizes an AR device, such as a smartphone, to bring the interactive physical devices to life and enable the user to tell stories using the custom interactions that he or she created.
US11468637B2
Aspects of the present disclosure provide a method of navigating a Virtual Reality (VR) environment. The method includes providing the VR environment, receiving, from a user, inputs indicative of a user-drawn path in the VR environment, the user-drawn path originating at a position of the user and terminating at a terminal point in the VR environment, generating a plurality of waypoints along the user-drawn path, moving the user to a first waypoint of the plurality of waypoints, pausing the user at the first waypoint, and moving, responsive to a criterion being met, the user to a second waypoint of the plurality of waypoints.
US11468636B2
Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing a program and a method for receiving a monocular image that includes a depiction of a hand and extracting features of the monocular image using a plurality of machine learning techniques. The program and method further include modeling, based on the extracted features, a pose of the hand depicted in the monocular image by adjusting skeletal joint positions of a three-dimensional (3D) hand mesh using a trained graph convolutional neural network (CNN); modeling, based on the extracted features, a shape of the hand in the monocular image by adjusting blend shape values of the 3D hand mesh representing surface features of the hand depicted in the monocular image using the trained graph CNN; and generating, for display, the 3D hand mesh adjusted to model the pose and shape of the hand depicted in the monocular image.
US11468621B2
One embodiment provides for a data processing system comprising a memory module to store a multisample render target, the multisample render target to store multiple sample locations for each pixel in a set of pixels and a general-purpose graphics processor including a hardware graphics rendering pipeline to generate pixel color data to be output to the multisample render target, a multisample antialiasing compressor to request allocation of one or more planes to store color data for a set of sample locations of a pixel in the set of pixels, and a memory allocator to allocate memory to store color data associated with the multisample render target. The memory allocator can merge a memory allocation for multiple pixels having a sample associated with a same color value.
US11468617B2
Selectively redacting an image by determining a set of attributes used by a machine learning model for an analysis, receiving image data detecting, by the one or more computer processors, a portion of the image data relevant to the analysis, the portion comprising at least some of the set of attributes, generating a synthetic portion from the portion, wherein the synthetic portion retains at least some of the attributes of the detected portion, replacing the portion with the synthetic portion, yielding redacted image data, and providing the redacted image data for analysis.
US11468616B1
The disclosed computer-implemented method may include identifying a set of action units (AUs) associated with a face of a user. Each AU may be associated with a muscle group engaged by the user to produce a viseme associated with a sound produced by the user. The method may also include, for each AU in the set of AUs, determining a set of AU parameters associated with the AU and the viseme. The set of AU parameters may include (1) an onset curve, and (2) a falloff curve. The method may also include (1) detecting that the user has produced the sound, and (2) directing a computer-generated avatar to produce the viseme in accordance with the set of AU parameters in response to detecting that the user is producing the sound. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
US11468613B2
Various embodiments provide for systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for annotating a digital image with a texture fill. An annotation system may receive a user input defining a border separating a first portion of a target digital image from a second portion of the target digital image. The annotation system may then generate a contour mask, such as a binary mask, for the target digital image based on the user-defined border. The annotation system may then apply a media overlay to the target image based on the contour mask. In particular, the contour mask can define portions of the target digital image such that the annotation system will apply a media overlay to at least one of those portions while not applying the media overlay to remaining portions of the target digital image.
US11468612B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose an image processing method and apparatus, an image device, and a storage medium. The image processing method includes: obtaining an image; obtaining first rotation information of each of multiple nodes of a target; determining second rotation information of each child node with respect to a parent node in the multiple nodes of the target according to a hierarchical relationship among the nodes and multiple pieces of the first rotation information; and controlling movements of nodes in a controlled model corresponding to the multiple nodes based on multiple pieces of the second rotation information.
US11468599B1
A monocular visual simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) data processing method. The SLAM data processing method comprises: obtaining rotation angular velocities and accelerations of a camera cyclically; obtaining a plurality of feature point pairs in two frames of images acquired by the camera, and obtaining pixel coordinate values of feature points in the feature point pairs, where each of the feature point pairs includes two feature points that correspond to a same feature of a same object and that are respectively in the two frames of images; obtaining to-be-selected rotation matrices and to-be-selected displacement matrices according to the pixel coordinate values; obtaining a reference rotation matrix of the camera according to the rotation angular velocities, and obtaining a reference displacement matrix of the camera according to the accelerations; and filtering the to-be-selected rotation matrices and the to-be-selected displacement matrices according to the reference rotation matrix and the reference displacement matrix.
US11468596B2
A bird's-eye view image generating device for a vessel generates a bird's-eye view image from a view point above a vessel by projective transformation of images obtained by cameras installed on the vessel into a bird's-eye view plane. Imaging regions to be respectively imaged by the cameras are positioned such that imaging regions adjacent to each other have an overlapping region. A method of calibrating the bird's-eye view image generating device includes acquiring calibration images by imaging a calibration marker with the cameras in which the calibration marker is positioned in the overlapping region in a calibration plane, and acquiring application parameters to be applied for projective transformation of the calibration images into the calibration plane so that images of the calibration marker included in the calibration images match each other.
US11468592B2
There is provided an information processing apparatus capable of improving an identification accuracy for a user. The information processing apparatus according to the present technology includes a control unit. The control unit causes, when a user is unable to be identified by identification in a feature quantity space based on a registered feature quantity and an acquired feature quantity of the user, the acquired feature quantity of the user to be stored in a storage unit as an unidentifiable feature quantity, sets an additional registration feature quantity on the basis of a distribution of unidentifiable feature quantities in the feature quantity space, specifies a user corresponding to the additional registration feature quantity, and additionally registers the additional registration feature quantity as a feature quantity of the specified user.
US11468589B2
An image processing apparatus includes search area calculation means for calculating a search area size on the basis of a pixel size of at least one image among a first image and a second image, position obtaining means for obtaining a position of interest on the first image and a correspondence position on the second image corresponding to the position of interest, search area setting means for setting a search area made up of the search area size in a surrounding of the correspondence position on the second image, and difference means for deciding a difference value corresponding to the position of interest on a basis of a density value of the position of interest on the first image and density values of a plurality of positions in the search area on the second image.
US11468587B2
A method for reconstructing a downsampled depth map includes receiving, at an electronic device, image data to be presented on a display of the electronic device at a first resolution, wherein the image data includes a color image and the downsampled depth map associated with the color image. The method further includes generating a high resolution depth map by calculating, for each point making up the first resolution, a depth value based on a normalized pose difference across a neighborhood of points for the point, a normalized color texture difference across the neighborhood of points for the point, and a normalized spatial difference across the neighborhood of points. Still further, the method includes outputting, on the display, a reprojected image at the first resolution based on the color image and the high resolution depth map. The downsampled depth map is at a resolution less than the first resolution.
US11468584B2
There is provided a depth information generating apparatus. A first generating unit generates first depth information on the basis of a plurality of viewpoint images which are obtained from first shooting and which have mutually-different viewpoints. A second generating unit generates second depth information for a captured image obtained from second shooting by correcting the first depth information so as to reflect a change in depth caused by a difference in a focal distance of the second shooting relative to the first shooting.
US11468579B2
A method for image processing includes: receiving a third two-dimensional image and a depth image corresponding to the third two-dimensional image, wherein the third two-dimensional image and the depth image include a face; establishing a three-dimensional model of the face according to the depth image; rotating the three-dimensional model of the face by a first angle; projecting the three-dimensional model of the face rotated by the first angle to an image coordinate system of the third two-dimensional image; and building a three-dimensional model of a background region of the third two-dimensional image, processing a background region of an image projected to the image coordinate system of the third two-dimensional image to obtain a fourth image.
US11468577B2
A device for providing 3D image registration includes: a collection unit acquiring 3D depth data of a part and an image of a registration body from a depth recognition camera and acquiring three-dimensional coordinates of a positioning tool on the registration body from a positioning device; a first registration unit performing surface registration of a pre-stored 3D medical image of patient and the 3D depth data; a second registration unit extracting camera reference three-dimensional coordinates of a landmark attached to the registration body from the image of the registration body and converting pre-stored relative position information of the landmark with reference to the three-dimensional coordinates of the positioning tool, to perform registration of camera reference three-dimensional coordinates of the landmark and the converted position information thereof; and a third registration unit performing final registration by using results of registration performed by the first registration unit and the second registration unit.
US11468563B2
A colon polyp image processing method and apparatus and a system are disclosed in the embodiments of this application to detect a position of a polyp in real time and determine a property of the polyp, and thereby improve the processing efficiency of a polyp image. Embodiment of this application provide a colon polyp image processing method that can include detecting a position of a polyp in a to-be-processed endoscopic image by using a polyp positioning model, and positioning a polyp image block in the endoscopic image. The polyp image block can include a position region of the polyp in the endoscopic image. The method can further include performing a polyp type classification type on the polyp image block by using a polyp property identification model, and outputting an identification result.
US11468561B2
A system and method for operating a personal grooming/household appliance, including: providing a personal grooming/household appliance including at least one physical sensor taken from a group consisting of: an orientation sensor, an acceleration sensor, an inertial sensor, a global positioning sensor, a pressure sensor, and a load sensor, audio sensor, humidity sensor, and a temperature sensor; providing a camera associated with the personal grooming/household appliance; classifying data received from the physical sensor and from the camera using at least one trained machine learning classifier to generate an augmented classification; and providing user feedback information based upon the augmented classification or modifying operation of the grooming/household appliance based upon the augmented classification.
US11468556B2
This inventions provides an artificial intelligence (A.I.) identified measuring method for a semiconductor image, comprising the steps of: providing an original image of a semiconductor; identifying a type and/or a category of the original image by an artificial intelligence; introducing a predetermined dimension measuring mode corresponding to the identified type and/or the identified category to scan the original image to generate a measurement signal of the original image; and extracting a designated object from the original image to generate a specific physical parameter of the original image after operation based on a measurement signal of the designated object and the measurement signal of the original image.
US11468555B2
A method of generating a correction line indicating a relationship between an amount of deviation of an edge of a wafer pattern from an edge of a reference pattern and a width of a space adjacent to the edge of the reference pattern, includes: creating an appearance-frequency graph of widths of spaces adjacent to reference patterns located within a designated area; obtaining images of wafer patterns corresponding to a plurality of space widths shown in the appearance-frequency graph; calculating amounts of deviation between edges of the wafer patterns on the images and edges of corresponding reference patterns; plotting a plurality of data points on a coordinate system, the plurality of data points being specified by the plurality of space widths and the amounts of deviation; and generating a correction line from the plurality of data points on the coordinate system.
US11468548B2
The exemplary embodiments relate to converting standard dynamic range (SDR) content to high dynamic range (HDR) content. An SDR image may be decomposed into a base layer of the SDR image that includes low frequency information from the SDR image and a detail layer of the SDR image that includes high frequency information from the SDR image. A base layer of an HDR image may be generated using the base layer of the SDR image and a detail layer of the HDR image may be generated using the detail layer of the SDR image. An HDR image is then generated using the base layer of the HDR image and the detail layer of the HDR image.
US11468535B2
The present disclosure provides a method, non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, and a vehicle tracking system for real-time, dynamic and adaptive an artificial-intelligence based cost negotiation for transportation services. The system trains the artificial-intelligence based system to negotiate with one or more users for transportation services. In addition, the system obtains a first set of data from the one or more users. Further, the system prepares a first cost quotation for one or more transport vehicles. Furthermore, the system sends the first cost quotation to the one or more users. Moreover, the system receives a response from the one or more users for negotiating on cost. Also, the system analyses the response from the one or more users. Also, the system continuously interacts with the one or more users for the cost negotiation. Also, the system sends a final cost quotation to the one or more users.
US11468511B2
Systems and methods for determining implied spreads are provided. More particularly, implied spread financial transactions are generated using information from requests for quotes (RFQs). An RFQ processor module may focus the calculations performed by an implied spread determination module. A financial instrument associated with an RFQ may be provided to the implied spread determination module to trigger the determination of whether implied orders exist related to that particular financial instrument.
US11468505B1
A computer system is described that is configured to calculate probable risks of assets being transferred away from an institution that is currently holding the assets. In order to reduce transfers of assets from an institution, the computer system is configured to predict a likelihood of transfer of the asset from the institution based on the client data. The computer system is configured to predict a risk of transfer of the asset that takes into account the value of the asset. For example, particular higher value assets may be more valuable to the financial institution than other assets given a comparable likelihood of transfer. The computer system is further configured to propose and/or prioritize actions, such as potential advising opportunities, to minimize the risk of transfer of the asset from the financial institution.
US11468503B2
Techniques to provide on demand rental of electric vehicles are disclosed. In various embodiments, data representing one or more of a location and an availability state of each of a plurality of electric vehicles comprising a fleet of electric vehicles made available for use on demand is received. The received location and availability state data is used to determine a set of vehicles currently available to be used. Data is provided to each of a plurality of user, the data provided to each user indicating the respective locations of one or more vehicles currently available for use by the user within an area of interest associated with the user.
US11468489B2
System and method for generating a ranked list are disclosed. A plurality of prior interactions for a first customer are received by a computing device. Each of the prior interactions includes a product interaction and time. A ranked list of item recommendations is generated based on the plurality of prior interactions. The ranked list of item recommendations is generated by a trained prediction model trained using temporal information embedded into a finite-dimensional vector space. The ranked list of item recommendations is output by the computing device.
US11468487B2
An apparatus for delivering information to a mobile computing device regarding a packaged food product includes an information delivery computing device comprising a processor and non-transitory memory. The non-transitory memory includes executable instructions that when executed by the processor cause the information delivery computing device to send information about one or more characteristics of the packaged food product to the mobile computing device in response to a request from the mobile computing device. The request from the mobile computing device can be received by the information delivery computing device when a customer scans a QR code on the packaged food product with a camera on the mobile computing device.
US11468483B2
Techniques for generation and management of pools for events are presented. Pool management component (PMC) generates an event associated with a recipient. Within a period of time of the event, PMC generates a pool relating to the event. Based on contact user data, transaction data relating to transactions or interactions between recipient and merchants, and affinities of the recipient to contact users or merchants, PMC determines which users to invite as candidates to contribute monetary funds to the pool and which merchants to be candidates to the pool and to present offers for products. Notification component notifies candidates of their invitation to participate in the pool. Pool component receives contributions from user candidates and offers from merchant candidates. At time of the event, notification component notifies recipient of the gift being presented to recipient via the pool, the gift comprising money, a product, or offer for a product.
US11468480B2
A system for evaluating health risk is provided. The system may be configured for requesting first data from a merchant associated with a user and second data from an activity tracking service associated with the user. The system may also comprise analyzing the item to determine a first health impact for the item based on the item and demographic information associated with the user. The system may further comprise analyzing the level of activity to determine a second health impact from the level of activity based on the level of activity and the demographic information associated with the user. The system may further comprise selecting an advertisement based on medical data, and at least one of the first health impact, the second health impact and the demographic information associated with the user.
US11468479B2
Example methods, apparatus and articles of manufacture are disclosed herein to generate information about portable device advertising. An example apparatus includes memory and at least one processor to execute machine readable instructions to, in response to one or more commands from a simulation processor external to the at least one processor, access data via the Internet based on a usage profile, the usage profile representative of portable device usage by persons having similar usage characteristics, sample portions of the data to distinguish an advertisement from non-advertising content, determine an attribute of the advertisement; and transmit the attribute to the simulation processor.
US11468475B2
Methods, apparatuses, and computer program products are disclosed for generating an augmented reality interface, for example for provision of promotions. Some example embodiments receive camera data and location data associated with a consumer device; receive map data based on the location data; identify at least a provider location in a field of view based on the map data; determine a number of consumer devices within a proximity radius of the provider location; determine the number of consumer devices satisfies a predetermined number of consumer devices; determine, based on the determining that the number of consumer devices within the proximity radius satisfies the predetermined number of consumer devices, a promotion for the provider location; and cause display of an impression of the promotion in an augmented reality displayed via an interface of the consumer device.
US11468468B2
A mobile device with a display, processor(s), and memory: identifies a retail machine configured for wireless communications based on broadcasted information transmitted by the retail machine and including an identifier corresponding to the retail machine; transmits the identifier to a server and receives from the server an electronic communication including a promotional offer for products or services offered by the retail machine; displays the promotional offer; detects selection of a promotional offer; receives a notification from the retail machine that a product or service was provided by the retail machine for a user of the mobile device; transmits confirmation information associated with the notification to the server, receives promotion validation information from the server indicating validation of the promotional offer; and based on the promotion validation information, displays information confirming application of the promotional offer.
US11468459B2
Example methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture to implement calibration of convenience panel data to reduce behavioral bias are disclosed. Disclosed example apparatus include a distribution estimator to determine a first behavioral distribution for first convenience panel data associated with a first market and a measurement period, determine a second behavioral distribution for second convenience panel data associated with a second market and the measurement period, and determine a third behavioral distribution for probabilistic panel data associated with the second market and the measurement period. Disclosed example apparatus also include a distribution calibrator to calibrate the first behavioral distribution determined for the first convenience panel data associated with the first market based on (i) the second behavioral distribution determined for the second convenience panel data associated with the second market and (ii) the third behavioral distribution determined for the probabilistic panel data associated with the second market.
US11468455B2
There are provided systems and methods for automatic determination of card data based on network category codes. A user may engage in a transaction with another user, such as a purchase of goods, services, or other items a merchant using a physical payment card. An online transaction processor may receive information from processing of the payment card over an electronic card network so that the online transaction processor may determine data for the payment card. The data may be determined over a time period, which may be dynamically adjusted based on additional data for the user, time period, and/or payment card. The data is further identified and determined based on network category codes for different transaction data when processed over the electronic network. Thereafter, categories of data may be selected to provide benefits back to the user's account or payment card.
US11468445B2
A service processing method includes: receiving RF signals sent by at least one terminal device, the RF signals including at least one device identifier of the at least one terminal device; selecting an RF signal from the received RF signals, and determining a terminal device corresponding to a device identifier included in the RF signal as a target payment device; collecting first biometric feature information of a user using the terminal device; and after obtaining a verification result of a verification on the user's identity based on the first biometric feature information, sending a payment request to a server if the verification is passed, wherein the payment request is configured to request for completing payment based on a payment account corresponding to the target payment device.
US11468444B2
A method for transaction initiation with a bypass of merchant systems includes: storing a consumer public key and a blockchain comprised of a plurality of blocks, each block being comprised of a block header and data values, each block header including a block timestamp, and each data value including a unique transaction identifier; receiving a data message originating from a merchant system including a specific transaction identifier, a transaction timestamp, and transaction data; identifying a specific data value in a specific block that includes the specific transaction identifier; verifying that the block timestamp in the specific block is within a predetermined period of time of the transaction timestamp; identifying payment credentials associated with a user transaction account corresponding to the specific data value; and initiating a payment transaction between the merchant system and the transaction account using the identified payment credentials and transaction data.
US11468439B2
A proof-of-payment system may receive a payment confirmation including a transaction amount and a merchant identifier. The system may select a record from a registration repository by matching the merchant identifier to the record. The record may have a public key associated with the merchant identifier via a registration process, for example. The system may also generate a proof-of-payment payload comprising an identifier and a payment amount, and encrypt the proof-of-payment payload using the public key. The system may write the encrypted proof-of-payment payload to a blockchain maintained on a first blockchain node.
US11468433B1
Systems and methods for biometric payments are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method for conducting a biometric payment may include (1) receiving at a server and from an electronic device, transaction information comprising an identification of a good or service to purchase from a merchant and a biometric payment instruction from an individual that was captured by the electronic device; (2) at least one computer processor authenticating the individual based on the biometric payment instruction; (3) the at least one computer processor determining a payment account for the transaction from the biometric payment instruction; (4) the at least one computer processor retrieving a payment device associated with the payment account; and (5) the at least one computer processor providing the payment device to the merchant.
US11468429B1
Provided are a payment method and system through generation of a one-time payment-only number of a real card linked with an application, wherein in order to make payment safely by generating a one-time payment-only number every payment without leaving card information of a user in a provider's payment terminal or by using the generated one-time payment-only number, when a real card is linked with an application installed on a user terminal and the payment terminal recognizes the real card, a user signature input window, and transaction information about payment performed with a one-time payment-only number generated by a card company server are displayed on a screen of the application of the user terminal, and payment is performed when a signature of the user is input to the signature input window.
US11468420B2
A digital module built-in desk to be placed at a location where business transactions between a clerk and a customer are performed is provided. The desk includes a desk body including an upper plate having a customer-side desk portion providing a space for the customer; a customer digital module mounted in the customer-side desk portion, the customer digital module including a tablet through which information necessary for the business transactions is inputted; and a clerk digital module provided in the side of the clerk-side desk portion, the clerk digital module including a monitor for displaying information necessary for the business transactions.
US11468419B2
A payment terminal, including: a display, an input device configured to generate input signals indicative of a user input, a payment instrument reader configured to receive payment instrument data from a financial payment instrument, a secure processor connected to the payment instrument reader, a main processor connected to the display, the main processor separate and distinct from the secure processor, a secure input processor connected to the input device and the secure processor, wherein the secure processor is operable between an unsecured mode, wherein the secure processor sends input coordinates based on the input signals received from the secure input processor to the main processor; and a secured mode, wherein the secure input processor ceases input coordinate forwarding to the main processor.
US11468417B2
Disclosed are various embodiments of a file service. In some embodiments, a plurality of files are stored. Each of the files includes a corresponding file object identifier and a corresponding storage object identifier. A user interface comprises a single view that shows the plurality of files. A file object identifier of a particular file is mapped to a storage object identifier for the particular file. The storage object identifier specifies a network address where a storage object of the particular file is stored. Access is provided to the particular file based at least in part on the storage object identifier.
US11468415B2
Aspects of the disclosure relate to systems for processing transactions between two entities. A transaction control platform may determine attributes associated with different transfer channels between the two entities. Based on the determined attributes, the transaction control platform may determine a transfer channel to be used for transmitting a message corresponding to the transaction. The transaction control platform may use machine learning algorithms to identify an optimal transfer channel that meets particular desired factors.
US11468408B2
One or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media having instructions stored thereon that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to receive a request to hold a meeting in a building, the request including an individual, retrieve, from the request, contact information for the individual, transmit a request for identifying information to the individual using the contact information, determine a purpose of the individual based on the identifying information, generate a virtual ticket for the individual based on the purpose of the individual, identify a presence of the individual at the building based on the identifying information and image data, and control access control devices in response to identifying the presence of the individual to grant the individual access to the building.
US11468405B2
An optimization method includes: receiving space information regarding sections, a route between sections, and a route from each section to an entrance for a target space; setting a coefficient used to change a maximum load capacity of a cargo to be arranged in each region included in each section; generating a first constraint condition indicating that another cargo does not exist on the route from a cargo to be loaded or to be unloaded to the entrance at the time when the cargo is loaded and unloaded, a second constraint condition indicating the number of cargoes to be loaded and the number of cargoes to be unloaded calculated using the coefficient, and a third constraint condition indicating the maximum load capacity calculated using the coefficient; and determining cargo arrangement in the target space based on the first and second and third constraint conditions.
US11468395B2
An autonomous delivery vehicle including locking storage containers may be used for item deliveries, rejections, returns, and/or third-party fulfillment. A delivery vehicle or robot may include a number of locking storage containers, an authorization interface, and one or more sensors to receive delivery requests, detect and authorize users, and control locker access at various delivery locations to allow users to receive delivered items, and reject or return items. The vehicle may also include a passenger compartment to transport one or more passengers. The vehicle may be reconfigurable to accommodate different combinations of lockers and/or passenger seats. An item delivery system may receive delivery requests and determine routes for delivery vehicles, including centralized delivery locations and/or direct deliveries to recipients.
US11468392B2
A managing wireless device includes a local area communication device, a wide area communication device, a global position determination device, and a battery. The managing wireless device is attached to a first shipment component of a consolidated shipment. The managing wireless device is in communication with a server computing system. The managing wireless device has a unique identifier. Each of one or more additional wireless device(s) includes a local area communication device and a battery. Each of the additional wireless device(s) is attached to a respective shipment component of the consolidated shipment, other than the first shipment component. Each of the additional wireless device(s) is in bi-directional communication with the managing wireless device. Each of the additional wireless device(s) has a unique identifier. The managing wireless device and each of the additional wireless device(s) are associated with a same broadcast address.
US11468391B2
Systems and methods for providing integrated, secure, and verifiable home services, such as delivery of physical items within a home and execution of services within a home, are disclosed. In certain embodiments, the system includes cameras, sensors and locks wirelessly connected and configured to provide information to a server associated with the delivery of items and services. In one embodiment, the disclosed methods track and deliver a package in a secure and verifiable manner through use of a time-limited electronic key. Other embodiments include apparatuses having wirelessly connected cameras that allow monitoring of the status of the delivery of an item or of services.
US11468387B2
A computer system and computer-implemented method for autonomous enterprise planning for instance in a retail enterprise comprising retail planning processes such as assortment planning, regular price planning, promotional product planning, promotional pricing, inventory allocation, size/pack optimization, markdown pricing, or in an insurance enterprise comprising insurance underwriting, adjudication, fraud detection and subrogation. The computer system can comprise a data input module configured to input sensory data from an enterprise computer system, a data processor module configured to pre-process said inputted sensory data and generate pre-processed sensory data, a data storage module configured to store the inputted sensory data and the pre-processed sensory data, a calculation module configured to execute an enterprise state model and generate an optimized output for the enterprise process based on the inputted sensory data, a plurality of agent modules configured to execute a sub-process associated with the enterprise process and generate a sub-process decision output.
US11468380B2
Plan of action and milestones (POA&M) automated generation engine (PAGE) systems are provided along with related methods. A number of distributed tamper protected configuration scanning systems configured to scan computer files in selected target systems across a network and generate target system configuration scan results files. The PAGE system also includes a number of POA&M configuration selection user interfaces and visualization systems enabling users to select, inform, and customize POA&M outputs based on POA&M configuration files that include POA&M library files that are associated with different types of plans or actions (e.g., cyber security configuration for networked computers). An expert system is also provided for receiving a plurality of configuration file inputs (e.g., configuration scan results file and various baseline files, e.g., security configuration files, etc), comparing the scan results file and baseline files, then generating customized POA&M outputs based on the user interface(s) and/or visualization system(s) inputs or selections.
US11468378B2
The present disclosure provides a method and apparatus for skill sharing. A user's first click operation on a sharing link of a first skill is received; and the page jumps to a skill development page according to the first click operation, where the skill development page includes an input box of a link and an import button, and the input box is used to input a sharing link of a skill, while the import button is used to input an import instruction of the skill; and the first skill is imported into a skill development platform according to a user operation. By generating a sharing link of the skill, the sharing link of the skill can be shared within any location in existing sharing ways. The sharing manner thus enables the user to import the first skill in a variety of ways and avoids repeated development from different developers.
US11468375B2
A computer-implemented method of generating predicted energy consumption data for a first energy consumer based on energy consumption data of a plurality of further energy consumers is disclosed. Prediction is based on a set of training samples, each training sample comprising predictor attribute data and energy consumption data for a respective one of the further energy consumers, as well as one or more predictor attribute values for the first energy consumer. A predictive model is generated based on the training samples, the predictive model defining a relationship between values of predictor attributes and energy consumption data of the training samples. Predicted energy consumption data for the first energy consumer is then determined using the predictive model and the predictor attribute values. A method of clustering energy consumption profiles is also disclosed.
US11468373B2
Some embodiments provide a non-transitory machine-readable medium that stores a program. Upon receiving an email from a client device, the program determines a datamap from a plurality of datamaps that corresponds to the email. The program further uses the determined datamap to parse the email and extract data from the email. Based on the extracted data from the email, the program also determines that the email is a cancelation for a first event. The program further determines that the cancelation for the first event matches a second event of a collection of events. The program also associates the cancelation for the first event with the second event of the collection of events.
US11468371B2
A method of explaining the reasons for a prediction made by a machine learning ensemble prediction process as to the probability of an outcome for a target observation following training on a plurality of training observations determines the similarity between the target observation and each training observation of a set of said training observations; selects a fraction of the training observations that are most similar to said target observation; ranks the training observations by similarity of each training observation to the target observation; and determines the significance of the features of the ranked training observations to the prediction based upon the increase in variance in a local prediction model when a feature is removed from the local model.
US11468370B1
A communication compression method based on model weight distribution in federated learning, and belongs to the technical field of wireless communication. Based on the existing federated average idea in federated learning, counts the distribution of model weight information to be transmitted between nodes during each communication, then performs scalar quantization and compression through Lloyd-Max quantizer according to their distribution characteristics, then encodes with Huffman coding method, and finally sends the codes to the target node, thereby the minimum mean square quantization error is realized and the number of bits required for communication is reduced.
US11468369B1
The present application discloses a method, system, and computer system for building a model associated with a dataset. The method includes receiving a data set, the dataset comprising a plurality of keys and a plurality of key-value relationships, determining a plurality of models to build based at least in part on the dataset, wherein determining the plurality of models to build comprises using the dataset format information to identify the plurality of models, building the plurality of models, and optimizing at least one of the plurality of models.
US11468368B2
A system for predicting future outcomes of dynamic and complex systems using simulation results driven by a parametric and blended analytic and modeling approach. A model engine and simulation engine in combination with a visualization engine using such an approach has been developed to produce geospatial and temporal context aware system models for use in generating predictive results which may be used to recommend future outcomes from continuously competing models derived from ingesting large amounts of varied but related data.
US11468361B2
An artificial intelligence system and method for real-time event trend analysis are provided for a population of machine learning models configured to monitor a real-time data stream. A controller is configured for analyzing the population of machine learning models and determining data trends in response to changes in the real-time data stream; receiving a collective output from the population of machine learning models, wherein the output comprises an analysis of the real-time data stream; extracting an event horizon data trend based on the collective output, the event horizon data trend comprising a determined upcoming data variation in the real-time data stream; and continuously reconfiguring the population of machine learning models based on the collective output and the event horizon data trend.
US11468359B2
Example implementations relate to a failure policy. For example, in an implementation, storage device status data is encoded into storage device states. An action is chosen based on the storage device state according to a failure policy, where the failure policy prescribes, based on a probabilistic model, whether for a particular storage device state a corresponding action is to take no action or to initiate a failure mitigation procedure on a storage device. The failure policy is rewarded according to a timeliness of choosing to initiate the failure mitigation procedure relative to a failure of the storage device.
US11468356B2
Methods for randomly storing data received at a plurality of silicon-based devices included in a matrix-computer-cluster are provided. The silicon-based devices may be arranged in predetermined rows within the matrix-computer-cluster. The matrix-computer-cluster may include a matrix formation of x, y and z coordinates. Methods may encapsulate a first device in a first quantum case. Methods may receive a data element at the first device. Methods may intercept the data element at the first case. Methods may generate a random number sequence at a first quantum random number generator included in the first case. The random number sequence may identify a set of x, y and z coordinates. Methods may determine a second device located within the matrix-computer-cluster that corresponds to the identified set of x, y and z coordinates. Methods may include transmitting the data element to second device, and storing the data element at the second device.
US11468348B1
Methods and apparatus for identifying features that may have a high potential impact on key application metrics. These methods rely on observational data to estimate the importance of application features, and use causal inference tools such as Double Machine Learning (double ML) or Recurrent Neural Networks (RNN) to estimate the impacts of treatment features on key metrics. These methods may allow developers to estimate the effectiveness of features without running online experiments. These methods may, for example, be used to effectively plan and prioritize online experiments. Results of the online experiments may be used to optimize key metrics of mobile applications, web applications, websites, and other web-based programs.
US11468343B2
A method and system are disclosed for a novel architecture in which competing suggestions, possibly generated by competing systems, are selected by a Cognitive Unit (CU). The CU observes the user context and learns which contextual circumstances affect the user's cognitive behaviour. Majority of the traditional models trained over multiple users fail to represent the individual because (1) they ignore personal bias toward certain decisions and (2) they don't have complete visibility of all options available to users (i.e. from competitive systems). The invention is ideally suited to interact with several other products as more and more modern products are using AIs to drive the user experience. That shifts traditional HCI towards a novel form of interaction that we call human-AI interaction (HAII). When applied to user experience, predictive models make decisions on users' behalf attempting to minimise user interaction while guiding them toward the completion of predefined funnels. This invention presents a novel approach using a personal model capable of partially replicating cognitive behaviours by learning personal situational biases using the CU. By leveraging the personal biases, the system allows the AI to learn situational biases otherwise not available to predictive models. Once trained cognitive unit can supplement the decision-making process of the user.
US11468340B2
This disclosure provides a knowledge base system and method for curating both factual and logical knowledge while using a common data storage repository. According to an exemplary embodiment, a knowledge base stores complied Boolean information which represents factual knowledge and logic for interpreting the factual knowledge. Combining the knowledge base, i.e., functional logic knowledge (FLK) repository, with a logic evaluator creates a knowledge abstraction layer.
US11468334B2
A computer-implemented method is provided for learning an action policy. The method includes obtaining, by a processor, environment dynamics including triplets of a state, an action, and a next state. The state in each of the triplets is an expert state. The method further includes training, by the processor using the environment dynamics as training data, a dynamics model which obtains a pair of the state and the action as an input and outputs, for each next state, state-transition probabilities. The method also includes learning, by the processor, the action policy using trajectories of expert states according to a supervised learning technique by back-propagating error gradients through the trained dynamics model.
US11468324B2
A processor-implemented method includes: using an encoder, determining, for each of a plurality of tokens included in an input sequence, a self-attention weight based on a token and one or more tokens that precede the token in the input sequence; using the encoder, determining context information corresponding to the input sequence based on the determined self-attention weights; and using a decoder, determining an output sequence corresponding to the input sequence based on the determined context information.
US11468323B2
A method, system and computer-program product for identifying neural network inputs for a neural network that may have been incorrectly processed by the neural network. A set of activation values (of a subset of neurons of a single layer) associated with a neural network input is obtained. A neural network output associated with the neural network input is also obtained. A determination is made as to whether a first and second neural network input share similar sets of activation values, but dissimilar neural network outputs or vice versa. In this way a prediction can be made as to whether one of the first and second neural network inputs has been incorrectly processed by the neural network.
US11468317B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a storage medium, for processing radio signals. In once aspect, a system is disclosed that includes a processor and a storage device storing computer code that includes operations. The operations may include obtaining first output data generated by a first neural network based on the first neural network processing a received radio signal, receiving, by a signal transformer, a second set of input data that includes (i) the received radio signal and (ii) the first output data, generating, by the signal transformer, data representing a transformed radio signal by applying one or more transforms to the received radio signal, providing the data representing the transformed radio signal to a second neural network, obtaining second output data generated by the second neural network, and determining based on the second output data a set of information describing the received radio signal.
US11468315B2
In some aspects, a computing system can generate and optimize a neural network for risk assessment. The neural network can be trained to enforce a monotonic relationship between each of the input predictor variables and an output risk indicator. The training of the neural network can involve solving an optimization problem under a monotonic constraint. This constrained optimization problem can be converted to an unconstrained problem by introducing a Lagrangian expression and by introducing a term approximating the monotonic constraint. Additional regularization terms can also be introduced into the optimization problem. The optimized neural network can be used both for accurately determining risk indicators for target entities using predictor variables and determining explanation codes for the predictor variables. Further, the risk indicators can be utilized to control the access by a target entity to an interactive computing environment for accessing services provided by one or more institutions.
US11468311B2
A micro-processor circuit and a method of performing neural network operation are provided. The micro-processor circuit is suitable for performing neural network operation. The micro-processor circuit includes a parameter generation module, a compute module and a compare logic. The parameter generation module receives in parallel a plurality of input parameters and a plurality of weight parameters of the neural network operation. The parameter generation module generates in parallel a plurality of sub-output parameters according to the input parameters and the weight parameters. The compute module receives in parallel the sub-output parameters. The compute module sums the sub-output parameters to generate a summed parameter. The compare logic receives the summed parameter. The compare logic performs a comparison operation based on the summed parameter to generate a plurality of output parameters of the neural network operation.
US11468304B1
In one example, a hardware accelerator comprises an event register that stores an event; a hardware execution engine; and a controller configured to: extract, from an instruction, parameters of an operation to be performed by the hardware execution engine, and a synchronization primitive of a plurality of synchronization primitives for the event; and based on the synchronization primitive, perform at least one of: controlling a start time of the operation at the hardware execution engine, or determining whether to access the event register. The synchronization primitives include a set operation to set the event and/or a wait operation to suspend the operation at the hardware execution engine until the event is set. The plurality of synchronization primitive defines different conditions to be satisfied in order to perform the set operation.
US11468303B2
A graphics processor is described that includes a single instruction, multiple thread (SIMT) architecture including hardware multithreading. The multiprocessor can execute parallel threads of instructions associated with a command stream, where the multiprocessor includes a set of functional units to execute at least one of the parallel threads of the instructions. The set of functional units can include a mixed precision tensor processor to perform tensor computations to generate loss data. The loss data is stored as a floating-point data type and scaled by a scaling factor to enable a data distribution of a gradient tensor generated based on the loss data to be represented by a 16-bit floating point data type.
US11468302B2
A hardware architecture for implementing a convolutional neural network.
US11468300B2
A circuit structure and a driving method thereof, a neural network are disclosed. The circuit structure includes at least one circuit unit, each circuit unit includes a first group of resistive switching devices and a second group of resistive switching devices, the first group of resistive switching devices includes a resistance gradual-change device, the second group of resistive switching devices includes a resistance abrupt-change device, the first group of resistive switching devices and the second group of resistive switching devices are connected in series, in a case that no voltage is applied, a resistance value of the first group of resistive switching devices is larger than a resistance value of the second group of resistive switching devices.
US11468286B2
A computerized prediction guided learning method for classification of sequential data performs a prediction learning and a prediction guided learning by a computer program of a computerized machine learning tool. The prediction learning uses an input data sequence to generate an initial classifier. The prediction guided learning may be a semantic learning, an update learning, or an update and semantic learning. The prediction guided semantic learning uses the input data sequence, the initial classifier and semantic label data to generate an output classifier and a semantic classification. The prediction guided update learning uses the input data sequence, the initial classifier and label data to generate an output classifier and a data classification. The prediction guided update and semantic learning uses the input data sequence, the initial classifier and semantic and label data to generate an output classifier, a semantic classification and a data classification.
US11468261B2
An information processing apparatus includes: a memory configured to store an image processing program having a tree structure in which a partial program is incorporated in each of a plurality of nodes; and a processor configured to performs, based on the image processing program, operations of; calculating a feature amount based on a processing result in each intermediate node excluding a terminal node among the plurality of nodes when executing image processing on a captured image which is captured by an imaging device; and calculating a performance evaluation value of the image processing program based on a variation amount of the feature amount in accordance with elapse of time.
US11468253B2
The present invention discloses an information processing apparatus (401) for a tissue processor (402). The tissue processor includes one or more sample baskets (403), a plurality of cassettes are located in each sample basket. The information processing apparatus (401) includes: a scanner, configured to scan a barcode containing information to be inputted to acquire a scan result; a camera, configured to capture at least one image for the plurality of cassettes in each sample basket; and a processor, configured to parse the scan result to acquire the information to be inputted and to process the at least one image to acquire an identification of each cassette. Further, the present invention provides an information processing system and an information processing method for a tissue processor.
US11468245B1
A method for generating bespoke clause language for document or individual clause creation using machine learning and natural language processing. By capturing Author usage and preference data an application employing this method can extract, evaluate, compare, and produce clause language meeting an Author's specific requirements both mechanically, the clause appropriately matches the document purpose, and situationally, the clause appropriately matches the tone the Author wishes to convey in the document.
US11468230B1
Systems and methods for processing, management and display of email content for proofing and review are provided. A first message is received, and the first message is inspected for a first variant identifier. Then, the first message is assigned with a first versioning code and displayed in a user interface. When a second message with a first variant identifier is received, the second message is assigned with a second versioning code that denotes the second message as a newer version of the first message. Then, using the second versioning code, the second message is automatically displayed in place of the first message within the user interface. In some embodiments, the first variant identifier is automatically included in the first message sent by a sender, in response to the sender utilizing a selected attribute to create the first variant identifier.
US11468229B2
A method performed by an electronic device includes retrieving, from a first computing environment, a first set of structured documents that contains metadata for a first version of a workflow to be performed by a workflow engine, the first version of the workflow including a first set of workflow elements. The method further including retrieving, from a second computing environment, a second set of structured documents. The method determines whether a rule is to be applied, based on one but not both of the first and second sets of structured documents including at least one section for a workflow element having a type to which the rule applies, and generating a description of a change in the second version of the workflow relative to the first version of the workflow.
US11468225B2
The presently disclosed inventive concepts are directed to systems, computer program products, and methods for intelligent screen automation. The inventive computer program products include program instructions configured to cause a computer, upon execution thereof, to perform a method including: identifying, from among a plurality of elements within one or more images of a user interface, a first set of elements and a second set of elements, wherein the first set of elements and the second set of elements each independently comprise either or both of: textual elements, and non-textual elements; determining one or more logical relationships between the textual elements and the non-textual elements; building a hierarchy comprising some or all of the first set of elements and some or all of the second set of elements, wherein building the hierarchy forms a data structure representing functionality of the user interface; and outputting the data structure to a memory.
US11468215B2
The disclosure includes embodiments for providing a vehicle risk evaluation and a modification for an onboard system of a vehicle to improve the operation of the onboard system. In some embodiments, a method includes generating a digital twin of a vehicle. The method includes receiving digital data recorded by a sensor and describing a condition of the vehicle as it exists in a real-world and a behavior of the vehicle as operated in the real-world. The method includes updating the digital twin of the vehicle based on the digital data so that the digital twin is consistent with the condition and the behavior.
US11468208B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for linking a two-dimensional (2D) design image to a three-dimensional (3D) design model. One method comprises receiving a 2D design document and a 3D design file, the 2D design document comprising a 2D design image and the 3D design file comprising a 3D design model including design elements. The 3D design model is converted to a coded 2D design image. A unique identifier is determined for each design element based on the coded 2D design image, and stored in association with the respective design element in the 3D design file. Upon a user selection of a point in the 2D design image, detailed information on the design element corresponding to the user-selected point may be retrieved from the 3D design file. The retrieval may be based on matching a code associated with the user-selected point to a unique identifier in the 3D design file.
US11468207B2
A simulation-based framework for optimizing resource allocation and layout design is disclosed.
US11468205B2
A system is provided. The system includes a processor for implementing a computer-aided technology (CAx) system, the CAx system including a graphical-user-interface (GUI) configured to present a first computer-aided design (CAD) model, the first CAD model including a first part. The system includes memory storing instructions configured to cause the processor to present the GUI and to display, via the GUI, a first product manufacturing information (PMI), wherein the first PMI is linked to a first feature of the first part included in the first CAD model. The instructions further cause the processor to iterate through a second CAD model to identify a second feature related to the first feature and to copy the PMI to the second feature of the second CAD model.
US11468200B2
An information handling system includes a baseboard management controller and a media controller. The baseboard management controller includes a memory, and an immutable attribute of the baseboard management controller is fused in the memory during a factory process of the information handling system. The baseboard management controller generates a first seed value based on the immutable attribute, generates a first key value based on the first seed value, and provides the first key value. The media controller includes a secure memory and a processor. The processor receives the first key value from the baseboard management controller, and stores, during the factory process, the first key value in the secure memory. The first key value cryptographically links the secure memory to the baseboard management controller.
US11468199B2
An apparatus includes one or more functional circuits, a debug circuit configured to implement one or more debug features for the one or more functional circuits, and a validation circuit. The validation circuit is configured to receive a request to access debug features, and to send an identification value corresponding to the apparatus. The validation circuit is further configured to receive a certificate generated by a server computer system, the certificate including encoded debug permissions, and to decode the debug permissions using the identification value. Using the decoded debug permissions, the validation circuit is further configured to enable one or more of the debug features.
US11468194B2
Various methods and systems for processing at least some of genome sequences and at least some of associated information, for an individual, may include one or more of: segmenting genome sequences for at least a purpose of anonymizing genome information; using anchor segments for a purpose of minimizing electronic storage space in storing of genetic sequence information; generating at least one linkage record; generating at least one anonymized linkage record; processing a request for genetic study results; processing genetic study results received; and/or generating personalized information of interest pertaining to the individual. A purpose of such processing may be to prevent, minimize, and/or mitigate against (1) identification of the individual from such genome sequence information and/or from associated information; and/or (2) using such genome sequence information and/or associated information as a basis for discriminating against the individual.
US11468192B2
A computer-implemented method, computer program product and system for identifying pseudonymized data within data sources. One or more data repositories within one or more of the data sources are selected. One or more privacy data models are provided, where each of the privacy data models includes pattern(s) and/or parameter(s). One or more of the one or more privacy data models are selected. Data identification information is generated, where the data identification information indicates a presence or absence of pseudonymized data and of non-pseudonymized data within the one or more of the data sources. The data identification information is generated utilizing the pattern(s) and/or the parameter(s) to determine pseudonymized data.
US11468190B2
Application programming interfaces (API) are provided for notebook settings, for example, classroom notebook settings. The APIs allow for a teacher or other user of a class notebook to manage permissions to the class notebooks, and particularly allow for fine control over parts of the class notebook through a class notebook application. An API for generating a guest access link is provided. APIs for creating permission groups for a collaboration space are provided. A post permission API is provided that creates or updates the permission for a section group. A get permission API is provided that retrieves permission information of a section group. A delete permission API is provided that removes permission for a user of a section group.
US11468187B2
Aspects of the disclosure provide a technological improvement to a cipher by improving data security of format-preserving encryption (FPE), by, inter alia, embedding specific key identifiers for rotating keys directly into ciphertext. Aspects of the disclosure relate to methods, computer-readable media, and apparatuses for improving data security in a format-preserving encryption (FPE) context by using specific methods of rotating and identifying the appropriate encryption key from among numerous rotating keys stored in a key data store. Specific to FPE, a plaintext of the data and its corresponding ciphertext of the data remain the same in length/size; yet the methods, computer-readable media, and/or apparatuses disclosed herein permit embedding of an identification of a specific key among the plurality of rotating keys for the particular ciphertext without compromising the technical requirements of FPE.
US11468176B2
According to embodiments, possession of a private key is replaced with possession of a registered personal electronic device, such as a smartphone, as proof of identity. Registration on a blockchain includes publishing a person's public key and registering the person's IMEI (Hardware ID) Hash, according to an embodiment. Registration on the blockchain gives others a way to verify that a transaction was signed by the person and sent from the person's personal electronic device by transmitting a challenge message to the person as a digital challenge, and verifying that the person possesses a corresponding private key by responding with an encrypted message that can be decrypted to display the original message.
US11468175B2
A system can provide a web browser application that generates a request for a data object to a server. The system can include a syncer delegate that intercepts the request from the web browser application and determines whether the requested data object is available in a cache memory. If the data object is available in the cache memory, the requested data object is transferred from the memory to the web browser application and the request is forwarded to a server over a network. If the data object is not available in the cache memory, the request is forwarded to a server over a network. The server can transfer the data object over the network to the syncer delegate, which can provide the data object to the web browser application and update the cache with the newly-received data object.
US11468168B1
Systems, apparatuses, and methods for efficient handling of subroutine epilogues. When an indirect control transfer instruction corresponding to a procedure return for a subroutine is identified, the return address and a signature are retrieved from one or more of a return address stack and the memory stack. An authenticator generates a signature based on at least a portion of the retrieved return address. While the signature is being generated, instruction processing speculatively continues. No instructions are permitted to commit yet. The generated signature is later compared to a copy of the signature generated earlier during the corresponding procedure call. A mismatch causes an exception.
US11468159B2
A memory system includes a nonvolatile memory including user areas, a volatile memory, a battery, and a controller configured to, when the volatile memory maintains first information indicating an access to a user area is permitted and a verification value upon startup of the system, determine whether the information is validated by the value, and upon determining that the information is validated, permit an access to the user area and prohibit the access to any other area, and when the volatile memory does not maintain the information and value, or the information is not validated, prohibit an access to any user area, and thereafter, upon receipt of a command and authentication information from the host, permit an access to the user area requested by the command, and generate and store in the volatile memory the information and the value for validating the generated information.
US11468157B2
Disclosed is a method for authenticating a user by user identifier and associated graphical password. The graphical password includes a sequence of several images belonging to a group of images. The user provides a user identifier to an application, and graphically selects a sequence of several images in this group of images, the image order being randomly displayed by the application with each authentication of the user. The application identifies the position of each selected image in the sequence, establishes the correspondence between the sequence of the positions and the sequence of the identifiers of the selected images, compares the sequence of the selected images identifiers with the registered sequence, the application being the only entity able to establish this correspondence and/or the application being the only entity able to make this comparison, and authenticates the user if the comparison is positive but refuses authentication for negative comparison.
US11468154B2
An information content viewing method includes displaying, by a terminal, a first lock screen or keeps in a screen-off state, and displaying, by the terminal, a second lock screen after receiving first information, where the second lock screen displays a first control, and the first control prompts that content of the first information is hidden, receiving, by the terminal, a first operation of a user on a touchscreen, and collecting and verifying, by the terminal, fingerprint information of the user based on the first operation and displaying, by the terminal, a third lock screen after the verification on the fingerprint information succeeds, where the third lock screen displays the first control, and the first control displays the content of the first information.
US11468150B2
A system to generate a graphical user interface to display a presentation of a set of shared user groups between users of a social networking service is described. Embodiments of the present disclosure relate generally to systems for: receiving an identification of a second user from a user account of a first user; identifying a user group that includes the first user and the second user in response to the identification of the second user from the user account of the first user; retrieving user identifiers of the first user and the second user, wherein the user identifiers may include graphical avatars; generating a group identifier based on the user identifiers; and causing display of a presentation of the user group at a client device.
US11468149B2
Content screening operations, which can include watermark extraction and the application of content usage enforcement actions, may be organized such that some or all of the operations can be conducted by different devices that are connected via connectors such as HDMI (High-Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI), analog composite video, DVI (Digital Visual Interface), SDI (Serial Digital Interface), DisplayPort, or networked via Ethernet or wireless. Authentication and encryption methods are disclosed that can be used to establish the trust and secure communication between devices that conduct collaborative content screening. Delegation architecture may be based on ascertained screening capabilities of the sink device wherein the source device verifies that the sink device is capable and trusted to perform partial or whole screening operations delegated by the source. Alternatively, delegation architecture may be based on ascertained screening capabilities of the source device wherein the sink device verifies that the source device is capable and trusted to provide correct content credential and content use policy (“content credential”) that is needed for the sink device to determine whether content screening should be performed, and if yes, what content screening operations should be performed.
US11468136B2
Methods, computer program products, and systems are presented. The method computer program products, and systems can include, for instance: obtaining item search query data from one or more mobile client computer device and location data associated to the item search query data, wherein the location data specifies a location of at least one of the one or more mobile client computer device when initiating an item search query; processing the item search query data and the location data; performing augmentation of an item inventory list in response to the processing indicating that a search query for an item has been initiated by a client computer device located at a venue currently operating as a vending venue; and providing one or more output in dependence on the performing augmentation.
US11468128B1
A search engine optimizer, which works independently and in parallel with a browser and search engine supercomputer to gather, analyze, and distill input information interactively. The optimizer reorganizes the input, and providing an optimized version as an output. The optimized version of the input (e.g. output) is sent to the search engine, which responds to the end user with search results. The optimizer recognizes each request as a pattern and stores the pattern in an advanced Glyph format. This permits the optimizer to identify a left and ride side check mate combination required to achieve certitude.
US11468127B1
This disclosure generally relates to data delivery in distributed applications. One example method includes identifying a data source associated with a shuffle operation, the data source configured provide data from a data set associated with the shuffle operation; identifying a data sink associated with the shuffle operation, the data sink configured to receive data provided by the data source; associating a shuffler component with the shuffle operation, the shuffler component configured to receive data from the data source and provide the data to the data sink; receiving, by the shuffler component, a first data portion from the data source; providing, by the shuffler component, the first data portion to the data sink; receiving, by the shuffler component, a second data portion from the data source, the second data portion being received from the data source prior to or concurrent with providing the first data portion to the data sink.
US11468126B2
A method for collecting a component model in a component e-commerce platform includes: S1: adding preset hyperlinks to component models in a PDF file of the web server; S2: downloading the PDF file from the web server, clicking one preset hyperlink in the downloaded PDF file to jump to a corresponding webpage, and displaying collection information when the web server identifies a link type; and S3: if a collect instruction is received, converting information of the component models included in the preset hyperlinks, and saving the component model information obtained by the conversion into a user personal account. This method allows the user to quickly return from off-line use of the PDF file back to a webpage on which a component model is present, and displays collection information to allow the user to timely collect component information thus improving the user experience of use.
US11468117B2
A method for processing an individual multimedia content by an electronic device, which includes a database containing a user list and a table of recorded individual multimedia contents, a calculation system and a storage system, the method including storing the individual content by allocating a storage space on the storage system; adding an entry relating to the individual multimedia content stored in the table of recorded individual multimedia contents; acquiring the individual multimedia content and writing to memory the individual multimedia content in the allocated storage space, and creating a table of users relating to the stored individual multimedia content, the table of users including, for each user of a sub-set of the list of users contained in the database, a context data. The method also includes performing a method for managing the storage space and/or a method for reading the multimedia content stored in the storage space.
US11468107B2
System and methods discussed for automatically generating conversation-based reports from email threads for easier and more intuitive user-consumption may include a parser, configured to identify all related emails, extract relevant portions of each email including embedded or in-line comments within quoted portions, and generate a single report document that presents the conversation in chronological order. Duplicate portions of each email are automatically removed and excluded from the report, reducing memory and bandwidth requirements, and also making the report more intuitive and easier to read. Attachments to the email may be included in the report, with additional deduplication to further reduce memory and bandwidth requirements.
US11468094B2
A computer system and a fault tolerance processing method thereof of image file are provided. In the method, whether to segment the image file is determined. The image file is segmented into multiple image segmented files sequentially, and a segmenting process is recorded in response to determining to segment the image file. The segmenting process relates to a number of a last segmented file. Each time the image file is segmented once, the number of the last segmented file is accumulated. Segmenting the image file is continued according to the segmenting process in response to a segmenting exception situation. On the other hand, the deployment for the image file is performed in conjunction with a record of the current progress during the deployment, so that the deployment also can be continued in response to an interruption of the deployment. Accordingly, efficiency and successful rate can be improved.
US11468091B2
Maintaining consistency for asynchronous replication of LUNs of a local storage system to corresponding LUNs of a remote storage system includes copying application data written to LUNs to cache slots, copying metadata of LUNs to cache slots, associating a first sequence number to all metadata modifications and all application data writes that are begun after a first time and before a second time, associating a second sequence number, different from the first sequence number, to all metadata modifications and all application data writes that are begun after the second time, and, after completion of all metadata modifications and all application data writes associated with the first sequence number, initiating transfer to the remote storage system of all metadata modifications and all application data writes associated with the first sequence number. Each cache slot may include a field that indicates a corresponding sequence number.
US11468088B2
An exemplary method includes sending a storage query to a plurality of storage nodes of a data storage system, the storage query including a data identifier of a data instance and an inquiry as to which of the storage nodes can store the data instance; receiving, in response to the storage query, a plurality of responses from a subset of storage nodes included in the plurality of storage nodes and that have at least a predetermined minimum amount of free storage space, the responses including information about each of the storage nodes included in the subset; selecting, based on the information included in the responses, multiple storage nodes included in the subset; and sending the data instance and the data identifier to the selected storage nodes for storage by the selected storage nodes.
US11468086B2
The present teaching relates to a system and method for providing a response to a query related to a data sketch. A local data sketch is obtained in response to a synchronization parameter being set to a first value. The data sketch is updated based on the obtained local data sketch. The synchronization parameter is set to a second value that is different than the first value and thereafter propagated. A response to a query is generated based on the updated data sketch.
US11468082B2
A first data format may include real data. A second data format and a third data format each may include real data and metadata indicative of an attribute of the real data. The second data format may include the real data and the metadata in data units different from each other. The third data format may include the real data and the metadata in a single data unit. A program may cause a processor to convert, in response to an input data being in the first data format or in the third data format, the data format of the input data to generate output data in the second data format.
US11468081B2
Various methods, apparatuses/systems, and media for enhanced transaction utility are disclosed. A processor implements a single data source for accessing to transaction data associated with each type of transaction related to a user account; causes a receiver to receive user input data from a user computing device for requesting access to a type of transaction data related to the user account from the single data source; and authenticate the user based on verifying the received user input data with pre-stored user data. The processor also routes, in response to authenticating, to a transaction application programming interface (API) corresponding to the requested type of transaction data; calls the transaction API via an API gateway to fetch the requested type of transaction data from the single data source; and causes a GUI of the user computing device to display the requested type of transaction data.
US11468074B1
Systems and methods are disclosed for an approximate string searching technique to search for match results that have character differences with the search string. A cost is computed to measure the amount of character differences, and a match is recognized if the cost is below a threshold. The match is determined based on an inferred state machine, whose states are iteratively generated in computer memory for successive characters in the input text. States are added to represent modifications to the string needed to account for character differences and track the costs of the modifications. States are removed when their costs become excessive. Advantageously, the search process never generates the full state machine in memory, retaining only a selected set of best states to continue with the approximate match process. The technique thus enables a practicable implementation of approximate searching that can tolerate an arbitrary number of character deviations.
US11468072B2
A computer-implemented method and system for searching over queries, writing and performing a data query. The computer-implemented method includes analyzing the query to understand elements described in the query. Further, the computer-implemented method includes extracting aliases for expressions to identify alternate names. Furthermore, the computer-implemented method includes allowing a user to annotate the elements. Moreover, the computer-implemented method includes establishing whether the query contains content for defining a new query, and if so, then enables writing a query according to a shorthand system.
US11468064B2
The manner in which tables are joined can affect the outcome of the query and database performance. Example types of join operations include semi-join and inner-join. The techniques described herein are approaches that may be used to substitute a semi-join operator with an inner-join operator and may be used to transform and optimize representations of queries.
US11468059B2
A query that is frequently processed to access an object storage is identified. Results from the query returned from the object storage is transformed into a relational database format as a materialized view. When the query is submitted a subsequent time, updated results are managed from the materialized view, other materialized views, and/or the object storage when needed.
US11468053B2
Disclosed are systems and methods of querying a hybrid event index of a user. The systems and methods can include receiving a search request pertaining to at least a first namespace of a plurality of namespaces and determining a first index server storing a first portion of the hybrid event index associated with the first namespace. The systems and methods can further include searching, the first portion of the hybrid event index stored at the first index server, determining one or more attributes from the search request, and determining a payload based on the search results of the first portion of the hybrid event index. Finally, the systems and methods can include applying one or more attributes to the payload and sending the filtered payload.
US11468050B2
A system and a method for determining user synonyms in a query processing system is disclosed. A first query is received from a user of the query processing system. The query is processed through the query processing system to generate results for the first query. The user then provides a second query. The system determines a contextual similarity between the first query and the second query. When the first query and the second query are determined to be contextually similar, a first term is identified in the first query that is different from a second term in the second query. Once identified, the system determines if the first term and the second term are not listed as synonyms in the thesaurus. If they are not listed as synonyms they can be added as synonyms to the thesaurus.
US11468041B1
Methods and systems for anomaly detection in relational databases. The methods and systems perform operations comprising: accessing a data object including a data set that has been collected over a given time interval; selecting a reference data point from the data set; computing an angle representing a data growth rate of the data set at least within the given time interval relative to the reference data point; determining that the angle representing the data growth rate of the data set within the given time interval exceeds a specified threshold; and in response to determining that the angle representing the data growth rate of the data set within the given time interval exceeds the specified threshold, triggering an anomaly detection operation.
US11468039B2
Embodiments disclosed herein include methods and apparatuses for providing security to computer users with disabilities, who configure their computers to personalize output in a fashion that enables the user to more easily understand the content of the output. While previously a computer configured to personalize output accordingly may have served as a source of disability information to unauthorized parties accessing the computers, embodiments disclosed herein configure computers for personalization without leaving thereon a record how the personalization was specified during the configuration process. Thus, an unauthorized party gaining access to the user's computer would find it very difficult, if not impossible, to determine the user's disability from an inspection of the computer, so the user is much less likely to become a victim of fraud based on an unauthorized discovery of information regarding vulnerabilities.
US11468037B2
A method for verifying data in a memory device and a circuit. Data from a microcontroller unit or a data storage structure is copied to a register block. A checksum value and a checksum seed value are determined from the data copied to the register block. These values may be determined using a cyclic redundancy check technique. A verification value is determined using the checksum seed value and the checksum value, which verification value is used to verify the integrity of the data in the memory device. In accordance with another aspect the motor driver circuit includes a memory device configured to have a reserved data section, a non-reserved data section, and a checksum storage section. A register block is coupled to the memory device where the register block includes a checksum seed storage register; and a check function circuit is coupled to the storage register.
US11468035B2
Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for using a data statistic as a dynamic data integrity constraint. An embodiment operates by defining a data statistic for a column or a set of columns of a partition of a plurality of partitions of a database table. The embodiment creates a constraint data statistics object based on the data statistic. The embodiment receives a query for the database table. The embodiment determines the constraint data statistics object is consistent with a data state of the partition. The embodiment derives an implied constraint based on the constraint data statistics object. The embodiment processes the query for the partition based on the implied constraint.
US11468020B2
Disclosed are systems, apparatus, methods, and computer readable media for discontinuing the following of records in an on-demand database service environment. In one embodiment, one or more records are identified according to one or more designated criteria. The records are stored in a database. The records are being followed by one or more users in an on-demand database service environment such that updates to the records are capable of being stored as feed items in one or more feed tables in the database. The feed items are capable of being published in an information feed displayed on one or more devices associated with the one or more users. The following of the identified one or more records by the one or more users is discontinued.
US11468012B2
A garbage collection assisted deduplication process determines whether or not data segments should be deduplicated or not based on the liveness of segment data in a region, and the number of segments subject to deduplication in the region. Ingested data is divided into a plurality of segments, and a fingerprint is calculated for each segment. An index table entry maps a fingerprint to a region and container ID, and a perfect hash vector is setup for this mapping. A percentage of live segments in the region relative to a liveness threshold is determined, as is a number of segments in the region subject to deduplication relative to a deduplication threshold. If a region is sufficiently live, deduplication is performed, but if the region is dead, deduplication is not performed. For a live region, if the number of deduplicated segments is too low, deduplication is not performed.
US11468007B1
Predictive revision recommendations are disclosed. A first tokenized file is received, as is a second tokenized file. An indication is received that a modification has been made to the first tokenized file. A determination that a token in the first tokenized file has an association with a token in the second tokenized file is made. Based at least in part on the received indication, a recommended action that should be taken with respect to the second tokenized file is generated. A change to at least one related token is predicted based on a past history of correlated events occurring to the first token and related tokens.
US11468005B2
Virtualization sprawl can lead to virtual machines with no designated periodic backup. If the data associated with these unprotected virtual machines is not backed up, it cannot be restored if needed, leading to system failures. A data storage system identifies and protects the unprotected virtual machines. For instance, the system compares a list of virtual machines with a list of computing devices having a designated backup policy in the data storage system and determines which of the virtual machines are unprotected. The system further automatically categorizes the unprotected virtual machines, identifies those unprotected virtual machines that remain uncategorized, and applies a default backup policy to the uncategorized and unprotected virtual machines to provide protected virtual machines.
US11468003B2
A processor includes a scalar processor core and a vector coprocessor core coupled to the scalar processor core. The scalar processor core is configured to retrieve an instruction stream from program storage, and pass vector instructions in the instruction stream to the vector coprocessor core. The vector coprocessor core includes a register file, a plurality of execution units, and a table lookup unit. The register file includes a plurality of registers. The execution units are arranged in parallel to process a plurality of data values. The execution units are coupled to the register file. The table lookup unit is coupled to the register file in parallel with the execution units. The table lookup unit is configured to retrieve table values from one or more lookup tables stored in memory by executing table lookup vector instructions in a table lookup loop.
US11468001B1
A processing system includes a processing unit and a memory device. The memory device includes a processing-in-memory (PIM) module that performs processing operations on behalf of the processing unit. An instruction set architecture (ISA) of the PIM module has fewer instructions than an ISA of the processing unit. Instructions received from the processing unit are translated such that processing resources of the PIM module are virtualized. As a result, the PIM module concurrently performs processing operations for multiple threads or applications of the processing unit.
US11467999B2
Aspects of the embodiments are directed to a port comprising hardware to support the multi-lane link, the link comprising a lane that comprises a first differential signal pair and a second differential signal pair. Link configuration logic, implemented at least in part in hardware circuitry, can determine that the port comprises hardware to support one or both of receiving data on the first differential signal pair or transmitting data on the second differential signal pair, and reconfigure the first differential signal pair to receive data with the second differential signal pair or reconfigure the second differential signal pair to transmit data with the first differential signal pair; and wherein the port is to transmit data or receive data based on reconfiguration of one or both the first differential signal pair and the second differential signal pair.
US11467998B1
Techniques for low-latency packet processing are disclosed. A network device receives a first set of write transactions including a first set of data segments corresponding to a first DMA descriptor from a host. The network device receives a second set of write transactions including a second set of data segments corresponding to a second DMA descriptor from the host. The network device detects that the first set of data segments have been written. In response to detecting that the first set of data segments have been written, and prior to completely writing the second set of data segments and to receiving a packet notifier from the host, the network device processes the first DMA descriptor.
US11467994B2
In some examples, an adapter device includes a bridge to determine that a storage device includes a plurality of bus controllers, where the plurality of bus controllers are communicatively coupled to respective adapter devices. The bridge determines a quantity of supported connections over the network to the storage device, and in response to determining that the storage device comprises the plurality of bus controllers, the bridge computes an identifier based on the quantity of supported connections and to which respective bus controller of the plurality of bus controllers the adapter device is connected, and assigns the identifier to a connection from the host to the storage device.
US11467989B2
A serial transmission system includes a first storage circuit, a second storage circuit, a control circuit, and a serial processing circuit. The first storage circuit is configured to store data-to-be-transmitted of a plurality of users. The second storage circuit is coupled to the first storage circuit. The control circuit is configured to control the second storage circuit to receive the data-to-be-transmitted from the first storage circuit. The serial processing circuit is configured to receive the data-to-be-transmitted from the second storage circuit in series, and output a plurality of multi-user packets.
US11467983B1
Access control request parameter interleaving may be implemented that supports user-configurable and host-configurable processing stages. A request may be received and evaluated to determine whether user-configured interleaving, host-configured interleaving, or both user-interleaving and host-interleaving are applied. For applied interleaving, two different portions of a request parameter may be swapped.
US11467974B2
Aspects of the disclosure provide for implementing host address space identifiers for non-uniform memory access (NUMA) locality in virtual machines. A method of the disclosure includes determining, by a virtual machine (VM) executed by a processing device and managed by a hypervisor, that a memory page of the guest is to be moved from a first virtual non-uniform memory access (NUMA) node of the VM to a second virtual NUMA node of the VM. The method further includes updating, by the VM in a guest page table, upper bits of a guest physical address (GPA) of the memory page to include a host address space identifier (HASID) of the second virtual NUMA node, and causing an execution control to be transferred from the VM to the hypervisor due to a page fault resulting from attempting to access the updated GPA.
US11467973B1
Systems and methods are provided to perform fine-grained memory accesses using a memory controller. The memory controller can access elements stored in memory across multiple dimensions of a matrix. The memory controller can perform accesses to non-contiguous memory locations by skipping zero or more elements across any dimension of the matrix.
US11467972B2
In one embodiment, a microprocessor, comprising: a first data cache; and a second data cache configured to process both a miss in the first data cache resulting from a first load or store operation and an eviction from the first data cache to accommodate the first load or store operation, the second data cache configured to indicate to the first data cache that the eviction is complete before the eviction is actually complete based on a first state corresponding to the eviction.
US11467969B2
An accelerator and a system for accelerating operations are disclosed. A respective apparatus comprises an interface configured to couple the apparatus to an interconnect, a plurality of processing modules, each processing module configured to process data, a control module configured to control processing of each of the plurality of processing modules, and a cache module configured to store at least a portion of data processed by at least one of the plurality of processing modules. Each processing module includes a processing core configured to process data by performing an operation on the data using a plurality of processing elements, an input control unit configured to retrieve data via the interface and data stored in the cache module and to provide the retrieved data to the processing core, and an output control unit configured to provide data processed by the processing core to the interface and the cache module.
US11467966B2
A cache memory is disclosed. The cache memory includes an instruction memory portion, a tag memory portion, and one or more peripheral circuits configured to receive a CPU address corresponding with an address of the RAM memory storing a particular CPU instruction. The one or more peripheral circuits are configured to receive a way quantity indication indicating of a number of ways into which the instruction memory portion and the tag memory portion are to be subdivided, the one or more peripheral circuits are configured to identify which bits of the CPU address form the tag portion based on the way quantity indication, and the one or more peripheral circuits are configured to determine whether the particular CPU instruction is stored in the cache memory based on the identified tag portion of the CPU address and tag data stored in the cache memory.
US11467965B2
A PIM device includes a plurality of first storage regions, a second storage region, and a column control circuit. The second storage region is coupled to each of the plurality of first storage regions through a data transmission line. The column control circuit generates a memory read control signal for reading data stored in an initially selected storage region of the plurality of first storage regions and a buffer write control signal for writing the data read from the initially selected storage region to the second storage region. The column control circuit generates a global buffer read control signal for reading the data written to the second storage region and a memory write control signal for writing the data read from the second storage region to a subsequently selected storage region of the plurality of first storage regions.
US11467963B2
A method, computer program product, and computing system for receiving, at a node of a multi-node storage system, one or more updates to a reference count associated with a metadata block. One or more reference count deltas associated with the metadata block may be stored in a cache memory system of the node. An existing copy of the metadata block in a cache memory system of each other node of the multi-node storage system may be retained.
US11467962B2
Described are methods and a system for atomic memory operations with contended cache lines. A processing system includes at least two cores, each core having a local cache, and a lower level cache in communication with each local cache. One local cache configured to request a cache line to execute an atomic memory operation (AMO) instruction, receive the cache line via the lower level cache, receive a probe downgrade due to other local cache requesting the cache line prior to execution of the AMO, and send the AMO instruction to the lower level cache for remote execution in response to the probe downgrade.
US11467958B2
A cache management method performed by an information processing apparatus includes: in a case where a correspondence relation between a request and a response to the request is not stored in a first cache, executing a plurality of operations for generating the response to the request; in association with input data of each operation of the plurality of operations, storing a result of the operation in a second cache; storing the response generated based on results of the plurality of operations in the first cache in association with the request; and returning the response with respect to the request.
US11467954B2
In one aspect, a device may include at least one processor and storage accessible to the at least one processor. The storage may include instructions executable by the at least one processor to allocate, in memory, a read-once memory container to store data from a first computer program. The instructions may also be executable to write the data from the first computer program to the read-once memory container and to permit a second computer program to use the data as stored in the read-once memory container. The data, upon being accessed from the read-once memory container, may not be readable again from the read-once memory container without being written again.
US11467952B2
A system for providing an API-driven continuous test platform is disclosed. The system may include one or more processors, a test engine, one or more test agents, and a database. The system may prepare (according to a configuration file) a first test configuration comprising a first selection of the one or more test agents, execute (using the test engine) the first test configuration to produce one or more first test results, and store (using the database) the one or more first test results. Finally, the system may process (using a continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipeline) the first test results by performing at least one of the following CI/CD processes: updating a central code base of an enterprise production environment, rejecting at least one code snippet processed by the test engine during execution of the first test configuration, and marking the first test results as inconclusive.
US11467951B2
An embodiment of the present invention is directed to a Mainframe CI/CD design solution and pattern that provides a complete end to end process for Mainframe application. This enables faster time to market by performing critical SDLC processes, including build, test, scan and deployment in an automated fashion on a regular basis. An embodiment of the present invention is directed to a CI/CD approach that journeys from receiving requirements to final deployment. For any new application onboarding, teams may implement the CI/CD approach that may be customized per requirements of each LOB/Application.
US11467950B2
Disclosed herein are system, method, and device embodiments for implementing dynamic codeless logging in an integration platform system. An integration platform may provide a declaratively-configurable asset pre-configured to implement a logging functionality associated with a log point, package the declaratively-configurable asset within an integration application, and receive a selection of the log point associated with the declaratively-configurable asset. In addition, the integration application may generate log information corresponding to the log point based on the selection of the log point and the logging functionality. Further, the integration platform may present the log information within a graphical user interface.
US11467945B1
Provided herein are systems and methods for resilience testing. A system includes at least one hardware processor coupled to a memory and configured to decode a workflow to obtain a workload specification and a failure experiment specification. A first set of containers is configured to execute one or more workloads on a testing node. The one or more workloads are defined by the workload specification. A second set of containers is configured to execute one or more failure experiments on the testing node. The one or more failure experiments are based on the failure experiment specification. Execution of the one or more failure experiments triggers an error condition on the testing node. A notification is generated based on at least one metric associated with execution of the one or more workloads and the one or more failure experiments.
US11467943B2
A struggle identification system, the system comprising processing circuitry configured to: obtain first information of first entries into a first stage and second information of second entries into a second stage, each entry of the first entries and each entry of the second entries is (a) performed during a respective session for performing an action, and (b) associated with a characteristic characterizing the respective session, wherein the characteristic is a discrete variable with a number of values; calculate, for each given value of the values, (a) a first entries number being the number of first entries associated with the characteristic having the given value into the first stage, and (b) a second entries number being the number of second entries associated with the characteristic having the given value into the second stage; and identify one or more deviating values of the values, wherein a deviating value is a value of the values associated with a first ratio between the first entries number and the second entries number of the deviating value that deviates from a second ratio of the first entries number and the second entries number for the values other than the deviating value, as determined by a statistical test, wherein the deviating values are indicative of struggle of users of sessions characterized by the characteristic with the deviating values to complete the first stage.
US11467942B2
Systems and methods for predictive performance indicators for storage devices are described. The data storage device may process host storage operations and maintenance operations that impact real-time performance. A performance value and corresponding threshold may be determined. Increases in maintenance operations and resulting changes in the performance value may be predicted. When the predicted change in performance value crosses the performance threshold, the host device may be notified.
US11467935B2
Embodiments of the invention provide a management console enabling monitoring of distributed components of a process control application. The management console includes a management console window that can be customized according to one or more user-defined software code modules that interface to data sources to populate views supported by the console window. The invention further includes a language and method of composing blocks of executable code within the management console that provide the capability to run many analyses simultaneously. The console window includes a set of view templates including controls for manipulating graphically displayed representations of data rendered by the distributed components, and an interface for exchanging requests and data with an extensible set of software modules that provide data links to one or more distributed data-linked components. The set of software modules also define the customizable portions of the view rendered by the console window.
US11467929B2
A storage node that maintains a replica of a logical volume for use in response to a failover trigger includes a data node with volatile memory in which a filesystem and its metadata and a VDM and its metadata associated with the replica are maintained prior to the failover trigger. The storage node also includes a SAN node in which data associated with the replica is maintained. The data is maintained in a RW (read-write) state by the SAN node prior to the failover trigger. However, the replica is presented in a RO (read-only) state by the storage node prior to the failover trigger. The storage node changes the in-memory state of the filesystem and VDM to RW responsive to the failover trigger. Because the filesystem and its metadata and VDM and its metadata are already in memory and the data is in a RW state in block storage the failover is completed relatively quickly.
US11467928B2
A data storage circuit for storing data from volatile memory in response to a power loss, the data storage circuit including an input for receiving a power loss signal in response to a power loss from at least one power source, an input configured to receive data from a volatile memory, a single block of non-volatile matrix of memory cells and a driver circuit coupled to said single row of non-volatile matrix of memory cells. The driver circuit is configured to write data to and read data from said single block of non-volatile matrix of memory cells. The single block of non-volatile matrix of memory cells can be provided as a single row electrically erasable programmable read only memory (EEPROM).
US11467927B2
Methods and systems for restoring a tenant database of a multitenant database system with multiple tenant databases is provided. In response to a request to restore a first tenant database, a system verifies that the first tenant database is present in the multitenant system database system with a same identifier when a backup of the first tenant database was taken during a backup operation and when the restore request was received. A restore method is selected based on a storage type used for storing the first tenant database. The selected restore method is executed for restoring the first tenant database utilizing an internal file associated with the first tenant database, while processing requests for other tenant databases.
US11467926B2
A database receives pages that are piped from backup media with each of the pages having a corresponding savepoint version. At least a portion of the pages are then flagged as being from recovery. The savepoint versions for the pages are maintained if they have a flag. A single checksum is then calculated for each page to confirm integrity. Each page is then loaded into memory of the database after it is confirming the corresponding calculated single checksum. Related apparatus, systems, techniques and articles are also described.
US11467923B2
In a first virtual storage device managed by a helper virtual machine, first data of a first application is stored, the first application executing on a first system, the helper virtual machine executing on a recovery system. Responsive to determining that a duplicate of the first application should be activated on the recovery system, a compute instance is spawned in a hypervisor executing on the recovery system. In the compute instance, a duplicate of the first application is provisioned. The first data is reassociated from the helper virtual machine to the provisioned duplicate application. The duplicate application is activated, the activating causing the duplicate application to execute on the second system using the first data.
US11467918B2
A computing device for storing backups of virtual machines includes a persistent storage and a backup manager. The persistent storage stores backup policies. The backup manager identifies an end of a backup generation session for a virtual machine of the virtual machines and, in response to identifying the end of the backup generation session, identifies a continuity chain implicated by the backup generation session using the backup policies; performs a membership analysis of the identified continuity chain to identify a continuity state of the continuity chain; makes a first determination that the identified continuity chain is broken based on the identified continuity state; and, in response to the first determination, remediates the continuity chain.
US11467906B2
An apparatus comprises a storage system comprising at least one processing device and a plurality of storage devices. The at least one processing device is configured to obtain a given input-output operation from a host device and to determine that the given input-output operation comprises an indicator having a particular value. The particular value indicates that the given input-output operation is a repeat of a prior input-output operation. The at least one processing device is further configured to rebuild at least one resource of the storage system that is designated for servicing the given input-output operation based at least in part on the determination that the given input-output operation comprises the indicator having the particular value.
US11467905B1
A stripe merging method and system based on erasure codes are provided. A StripeMerge-P algorithm is used first to determine alignment information of parity chunks of erasure code stripes based on a preprocessed hash table. Through a greedy strategy, erasure code stripe pairs to be merged are selected for merging. Through the hash table, location information of the parity chunks is directly looked up, so that no additional computing overhead is required, and the overhead of selecting and merging the erasure code stripe pairs is further reduced through the combination with the greedy strategy.
US11467900B2
An error associated with a read operation corresponding to a target memory die of a memory sub-system is detected. In response to detecting the error, a first read throughput level of the memory sub-system is identified. The first read throughput level is adjusted to a second read throughput level. A read retry operation associated with the target memory die is executed at the second read throughput level.
US11467899B2
In one embodiment, content-addressable memory lookup result integrity checking and correcting operations are performed, such as, but not limited to protecting the accuracy of packet processing operations. A lookup operation is performed in the content-addressable memory entries based on a lookup word resulting in one or more match vectors. One or multiple result match vectors are produced, depending on whether each of the content-addressable memory entries and the lookup word have been partitioned into multiple portions. An error accuracy code (e.g., error detection, error correction) is acquired for each portion of the one or multiple portions based on a corresponding portion of the lookup word. An accurate result is generated by processing each of the result match vector(s) with their corresponding error accuracy code. When using multiple portions, the (possibly corrected) result match vectors are combined into a single accurate result match vector.
US11467894B2
A screen freezing processing method and a terminal are provided. The method includes: displaying a user interface of an application, and receiving an operation on the user interface, where the operation on the user interface is used to implement a first function; skipping responding to, by the terminal within first duration, the operation on the user interface, and skipping implementing the first function; and after the first duration, responding to, by the terminal, the operation on the user interface, and implementing the first function. This technical solution can automatically restore implementation of the first function, thereby improving user experience.
US11467891B2
The present technology pertains to responding to a kernel level file event for a content item and presenting a file event window associated with the content item. A client device can detect the kernel level file event for the content item. This can be accomplished using a kernel extension on a client device that is networked with a content management system. The client device can then retrieve data associated with the content item, including an instruction for the content item. The client device can then perform the instruction. This instruction can be to retrieve collaboration data from the content management system and present the collaboration data in a file event window.
US11467890B2
A service manages a plurality of virtual machine instances for low latency execution of user codes. The service can provide the capability to execute user code in response to events triggered on an auxillary service to provide implicit and automatic rate matching and scaling between events being triggered on the auxiliary service and the corresponding execution of user code on various virtual machine instances. An auxiliary service may be configured as an event triggering service to detect events and generate event messages for execution of the user codes. The service can request, receive, or poll for event messages directly from the auxiliary service or via an intermediary message service. Event messages can be rapidly converted to requests to execute user code on the service. The time from processing the event message to initiating a request to begin code execution is less than a predetermined duration, for example, 100 ms.
US11467887B1
The present disclosure relates to systems and techniques for developing APIs that utilize multiple pre-existing APIs. The present disclosure also relates to a user interface that allows for chaining APIs together as a function of multiple pre-existing APIs. The present disclosure also relates to security and authorization of a user to execute one or more APIs as part of an API chain.
US11467882B2
Methods and systems for rapid deployment of virtual computing resources are described. One method includes receiving a text file defining a collection of desired virtual computing resources, the text file including a plurality of text fields defining a project name, a virtual local area network (VLAN) and a plurality of virtual servers to be provisioned within the VLAN, an IP address to be assigned, a processing capability, and a definition of disks associated with the corresponding virtual server. The method also includes executing a scheduled job to deploy a plurality of virtual computing resources according to the text file. The scheduled job parses the text file, issues commands to a provisioning interface to provision virtual computing resources, and validates provisioning of the plurality of virtual computing resources based on status messages received from the provisioning interface indicating a result of provisioning in response to each command.
US11467879B2
Techniques for implementing rollback of infrastructure changes in an infrastructure orchestration service are described. In certain examples, an infrastructure orchestration service is disclosed that manages both provisioning and deploying of infrastructure assets within a cloud environment. The service receives a plan comprising a set of instructions associated with a set of infrastructure assets of an execution target and identifies a first state of the set of infrastructure assets. The service executes the set of instructions in the plan to achieve a second state for the set of infrastructure assets. Based in part on the executing, the service receives a trigger for rolling back the plan to restore the set of infrastructure assets in the plan to the first state and executes a rollback plan for the plan. The service then transmits a result associated with the execution of the rollback plan.
US11467853B2
The present disclosure generally relates to setting up an account for a service. A request to set up an account for a first service is received. In response to receiving the request to set up the account for the first service, a first login option and a second login option are displayed. If an input selecting the first login option is detected, a request to use first contact information for a user to set up the account for the first service is transmitted. If an input selecting the second login option is detected, a request to use second contact information for the user to set up the account for the first service is transmitted. The second contact information is automatically generated for the service and does not reveal the first contact information for the user.
US11467851B1
Disclosed herein are system, computer-readable storage medium, and method embodiments of machine-learning (ML)-based static verification for derived hardware-design elements. A system including at least one processor may be configured to extract a feature set from a hardware description and evaluate a similarity index of a first hardware element with respect to a second hardware element, using an ML process based on the feature set, wherein the first hardware element is described in the hardware description. The at least one processor may be further configured to update one or more parameters corresponding to a static verification of the hardware description while the static verification is being performed, by providing at least one test attribute, corresponding to the second hardware element, applicable to the first hardware element, in response to determining that the similarity index is within a specified range, and additionally output a first result of the static verification.
US11467841B1
A microprocessor that includes a shared functional unit, a first execution queue and a second execution queue is introduced. The first execution queue includes a plurality of entries, wherein each entry of the first execution queue includes a first count value which is decremented until the first count value reaches 0. The first execution queue dispatches the first-type instruction to the shared functional unit when the first count value reaches 0. The second execution queue include a plurality of entries, wherein each entry of the second execution queue comprises a second count value which is decremented until the second count value reaches 0. The second execution queue dispatches the second-type instruction to the shared functional unit when the second count value reaches 0. The issue unit resolves all data dependencies and resource conflicts so that the first and second count values are preset for the first-type and second-type instructions to be mutually executed at the exact time in the future by the shared functional unit.
US11467826B1
Disclosed are various embodiments for the extraction of isolated nodes during source code refactoring. A graph model representative of a computing application is generated having nodes and bridges that connect some nodes to other nodes. An application component corresponding to a selected one of the nodes may be extracted from the computing application. An independently deployable component of the computing application may be generated and deployed on a network service such that the independently deployable component is accessible through a network-based call.
US11467820B2
A novel data collection technique is disclosed. This data collection technique gathers data relating to various technical processes implemented in a computer network. A database including past assignment of requirements is also provided. These requirements can be software update requirements relating to a computer network. A classification model is trained using the assignment records fort these requirements and the data collected relating to the technical processes. Using the classification model, new requirements can be classified and implemented on the computer network.
US11467819B2
An information handling system includes a shared device, first and second compute nodes, and a chassis management controller. The first compute node includes a first management controller, which initiates a firmware update for firmware in the shared device. The first management controller detects that that the firmware update is complete. In response to the firmware update being completed, the management controller sends rollback information for the firmware to the chassis controller. The chassis controller stores the rollback information as a rollback image within a storage location of a memory. The chassis controller further sends the rollback information to the second compute node. The second compute node includes a second management controller, which in turn receives the rollback information from the chassis controller, and updates the rollback information within the second compute node.
US11467818B2
A software update device is connected to a control device and includes an update control unit executing an update process of causing software for the control device to transit from a non-updated state to a completely updated state, a recovery control information managing unit acquiring recovery control information, and a recovery control unit executing a recovery process of causing the software to transit to the completely updated state on a basis of the recovery control information in a case where an abnormality in the update process has prevented the software from transiting to the completely updated state.
US11467815B2
Disclosed are various implementations for distributing and installing packages in response to user logon events. A logon event associated with a user account is detected for a client device. A query containing a respective user account identifier is sent to a provisioning service to retrieve a set of packages to install on the client device. The set of packages are received from the provisioning service and installed on the client device.
US11467797B2
Provided is a virtual world construction system that does not impair consistency between virtual worlds and places only small loads on terminals. A client application 10 that is implemented on a user terminal, a plurality of server applications 20 that are implemented on servers, and a proxy 30 that is located on a communication path between the user terminal and the servers and relays operation information and video information are provided. The proxy 30 includes a motion duplication unit 31 that transmits operation information to the plurality of servers by duplicating the operation information, and a video integration/rendering control unit 32 that transmits timing information regarding rendering timing to the plurality of servers, and transmits video information received from at least one of the servers, to the user terminals. A rendering processing unit/video processing unit 23 of each of the servers performs rendering processing and video information transmission processing based on the timing information received from the proxy 30.
US11467796B2
A display control system includes a plurality of display devices and a display controller (display device). The display controller generates a graphics command for each frame, and attaches, to the graphics command, time stamp corresponding to an order of generation of the graphics command. Each of the plurality of display devices: acquires the graphics command; performs, in parallel, first processing of acquiring only the time stamp attached to the graphics command in the order of generation and second processing of performing rendering processing based on the graphics command in the order of generation and acquiring the time stamp attached to the graphics command based on which the rendering processing is performed; and when a difference between the time stamp acquired in the first processing and the time stamp acquired in the second processing exceeds a predetermined threshold value, performs reduction processing for reducing a load on the rendering processing.
US11467795B2
A system and associated method for mapping an orchestration of multiple digital display devices to display a digital content item across the multiple digital display devices, including multiple digital display devices, a user device, and a cloud-based computing system, where the cloud-based computing system is configured to perform a machine learning operation to identify a calibration pattern associated with each digital display device and determine a position of each digital display device, and where, upon selection of a digital content item on the user device by a user, the multiple digital display devices are configured to receive data representing the digital content item and display a synchronized display representing the digital content item, the synchronized display being a continuous display that accounts for space between multiple digital display devices and only displays portions of the continuous display at locations where a digital display device is positioned.
US11467794B1
Various embodiments of the present application set forth a computer-implemented method that includes detecting a tag that is associated with a real-world object, determining an object identifier (ID) associated with the tag, transmitting a request for data associated with the real-world object, wherein the request includes the object ID, receiving a set of values associated with the object ID from a data source, where the set of values is provided by the data source based on the object ID and on a query executed on raw machine data associated with the real-world object, and displaying, by a client device within the XR environment, a visualization associated with the set of values.
US11467792B2
An apparatus that executes communication includes a communication unit configured to transmit advertising information, and an acquisition unit configured to acquire position information of the apparatus, wherein the communication unit transmits advertising information including the acquired position information.
US11467790B2
The image forming apparatus according aspects of the present disclosure includes an image processor, a storage, a network interface and a controller. The controller is configured to update, at the setting update time, setting data and update the setting update time in response to completion of update of the setting data. Further, the controller is configured to determine, at a connection start time when a connection between the network interface and a server is established, whether the connection start time is later than the setting update time, and, when the connection start time is later than the setting update time, update the setting data, otherwise not update the setting data.
US11467788B2
An image forming apparatus includes a storage unit configured to store user information and a print job in association with each other, an operation reception unit configured to receive a user operation, an authentication unit configured to authenticate a user with use of the user information, and a print control unit configured to execute and print the print job stored in association with the user information based on the user operation received by the operation reception unit. In a case where the operation reception unit is in failure, the print control unit executes the print job stored in association with the user information in response to authentication of the user with use of the user information.
US11467785B1
A processor maintains image quality degradation for a printing device. A communications device receives a print job that includes instructions to print a plurality of printed sheets in a sheet printing sequence. The processor generates a predicted output image for a mid-job sheet of the printed sheets based on the image quality degradation and the sheet count of the mid-job sheet within the sheet printing sequence. The printing engine alter printing characteristics to print a proof sheet matching an appearance of the predicted output image.
US11467784B2
An information processing apparatus includes circuitry and a memory, the circuitry performing perceptual image conversion of converting two image data generated from one color image data respectively into perceptual images based on human visual characteristics, collation of determining whether the two perceptual images converted by the perceptual image conversion are same, and comparison result outputting of outputting the comparison result by the collation.
US11467774B2
Techniques are provided for compacting indirect blocks. For example, an object is represented as a structure comprising data blocks within which data of the object is stored and indirect blocks comprising block numbers of where the data blocks are located in storage. Block numbers within a set of indirect blocks are compacted into a compacted indirect block comprising a base block number, a count of additional block numbers after the base block number in the compacted indirect block, and a pattern of the block numbers in the compacted indirect block. The compacted indirect block is stored into memory for processing access operations to the object.
US11467770B2
A memory system may include a memory device and a memory controller. The memory device may include input/output pads. The memory controller may control an operation of the memory device through the input/output pads. The memory controller may generate an offset adjustment command and transmit the offset adjustment command to the memory device. The memory device may store an offset of a signal received to the input/output pads, in response to the offset adjustment command.
US11467769B2
The disclosure relates in some aspects to managing the fetching and execution of commands stored in submission queues. For example, execution of a command may be blocked at a data storage apparatus due to an internal blocking condition (e.g., a large number of commands of a particular type are pending for execution at the data storage device). As another example, execution of a command may be blocked at a data storage apparatus due to an external blocking condition (e.g., a host device may specify that certain commands are to be executed immediately one after another). The disclosure relates in some aspects to controlling how commands are fetched and executed so that commands that cannot be executed by the data storage apparatus in the near future do not prevent other commands (that are not subject to the same blocking condition) from being executed.
US11467761B2
The present disclosure relates to method for checking the reading phase of a non-volatile memory device including at least an array of memory cells and with associated decoding and sensing circuitry and a memory controller, the method comprises: storing in a dummy row associated to said memory block at least internal block variables and a known pattern; performing a reading of said dummy row; comparing a result of the reading with the known pattern; trimming the parameters of the reading and/or swapping the used memory block based on the result of the comparing.
US11467757B1
A target-less point in time image (snapshot) of a storage volume is allowed to be built after activation, by enabling the snapshot data to be modified to create a crash-consistent replica of the source data after the snapshot has been activated. The data of the snapshot remains immutable from a user standpoint, but the snapshot is able to be quickly activated before all of the data of the snapshot has been included in the snapshot, to thus reduce an amount of time IO operations on the source volume are quiesced. A first snapshot of a storage volume is created on a primary storage system and a corresponding second snapshot of the storage volume is activated on a backup storage system before all the data of the first snapshot is received at the backup storage system. Entries of the activated second snapshot are then changed to point to correct back-end allocations.
US11467756B1
A backup management system includes storage and a processor. The processor filters copies of storage system transactions of a service device using a block level filter to identify a portion of the storage system transactions impacting a protected data asset; obtains at least one data protection metric based on the portion of the storage system transactions; makes a determination that the at least one data protection metric indicates that the backup schedule will not provide the protected data asset with a predetermined level of data protection; in response to the determination: generates a service-device initiated backup for the protected data asset; stores the service-device initiated backup in backup storage; and remediates a backup schedule for the service device based on the service-device initiated backup.
US11467752B2
When performing a data migration of a first data store management system to a second data store management system, a data migration system receives a data migration rule, based on a data migration rule, converts a first data into a second data, acquires a first data model as a data model of the first data, acquires a second data model as a data model of the second data, and acquires a second program. Then, a data model conversion rule that causes the first data model to correspond to the second data model is generated based on the data migration rule, the first data model, and the second data model, and the second program is converted into a first program based on the data model conversion rule.
US11467751B2
Techniques for data placement may include receiving data portions stored at logical addresses, and storing the data portions on slices of physical storage located in storage tiers. The storage tiers may include different size slices on the different tiers. In one embodiment, slices in the same tier are all the same size. In another embodiment, slices in the same tier may be of different sizes. Slices of data may be demoted and promoted among the storage tiers as the workloads of the slices changes over time. Demotion may include combining slices into a larger slice. Promotion may include partitioning a slice into smaller slices. Additionally, multiple slices of a tier may be combined into a larger slice in the tier. A slice in the tier may be partitioned into multiple smaller slices also located in the tier.
US11467743B2
The present disclosure describes technologies and techniques for use by a data storage controller—such as a controller for use with a NAND or other non-volatile memory (NVM)—to provide a user-expandable memory space. In examples described herein, a customer may choose to purchase access to only a portion of the total available memory space of a consumer device, such as a smartphone. Later, the customer may expand the user-accessible memory space. In one example, the customer submits suitable payment via a communication network to a centralized authorization server, which returns an unlock key. Components within the data storage controller of the consumer device then use the key to unlock additional memory space within the device. In this manner, if the initial amount of memory the consumer paid for becomes full, the consumer may conveniently expand the amount of user-accessible memory.
US11467738B2
A method for managing a storage includes applying, by a host, a first type of snapshot service to the LU of the storage, wherein the LU is identified by a logical unit number (LUN), in response to applying the first snapshot service, making a first determination that the LU is not visible to the host, wherein the host is operationally coupled to the storage and the first snapshot service continues to be applied to the LU, in response to the first determination, discontinuing applying the first type of snapshot service to the LU, and when the first snapshot service is no longer applied to the LU, applying, by the host, a second type of snapshot service to the LU.
US11467725B2
An operation target switching apparatus includes: a display part that displays an operation target that a user can select and operate; an operation input part that receives an input of a touch operation on an operation part not dedicated to an instruction for switching selection of the operation target; and a hardware processor that switches the selection of the operation target, in accordance with a mode of the touch operation.
US11467718B2
An information sharing system includes: a post reception unit configured to receive a post from a user; a display control unit configured to display a thumbnail indicating the post at a terminal device of the user for each received post; and a vote reception unit configured to receive a vote from the user to the post, and the display control unit changes a display aspect of the thumbnail according to a number of the votes received by the vote reception unit regarding the corresponding post, for each thumbnail.
US11467715B2
Disclosed are a user interface display method, a terminal and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium. The method is applied to a terminal. The terminal includes a foldable screen including a first display area and a second display area. The method includes: displaying a user interface of a first application in full screen while the foldable screen is in a stretched state; receiving a first multi-finger swipe signal acted on the user interface of the first application displayed in full screen; wherein the first multi-finger swipe signal is generated in response to detecting at least two fingers sliding on the foldable screen; and in response to receiving the first multi-finger swipe signal, displaying the user interface of the first application in the first display area and displaying a user interface of a second application in the second display area.
US11467711B2
Systems and methods for displaying and associating context images with zones or devices of a security system or a home automation system are provided. Such systems and methods may include associating each of a plurality of zones or devices of the security system or the home automation system with a respective context image and displaying the respective context image for one of the plurality of zones or devices in response to a user interface of the security system or the home automation system receiving user input.
US11467702B2
A touch input device and a method for manufacturing the same are disclosed. The touch input device includes: a first base including a metal compound; a first pattern groove formed over one surface of the first base; a first sense pattern formed over the first pattern groove and including a conductive material; a second base stacked over the first base, and configured to include a metal compound; a second pattern groove formed over one surface of the second base; a second sense pattern formed over the second pattern groove, including a conductive material, and spaced apart from the first sense pattern; and a line unit connecting the first sense pattern and the second sense pattern to an integrated-circuit.
US11467697B2
One embodiment provide an electronic device including: a housing including a touch area; a touch IC; a sensor circuit configured to generate a first signal in response to detecting a movement of the electronic device; a sensor hub; and a processor. The touch IC is configured to: when a contact on the touch area is detected, transmit a second signal to the sensor hub; and after transmitting the second signal to the sensor hub, transmit a third signal for identifying an event corresponding to the contact to the sensor hub. The sensor hub is configured to: when the first signal is received within a first interval starting from a time point at which the second signal is received, invalidate the first signal; and when the third signal is received from the touch IC, transmit the third signal or a fourth signal based on the third signal to the processor.
US11467693B1
Apparatus and methods of impedance sensing are described. One method includes performing a first digital conversion of an attribute of a sensor electrode and performing a second digital conversion of the attribute of the sensor electrode. The second digital conversion differs by at least one characteristic from the first digital conversion. The method further includes calculating a resistance of the sensor electrode from a first and second digital value of the first and second digital conversions, respectively; and calculating a capacitance of the sensor electrode from the first and second digital value of the first and second digital conversions, respectively.
US11467683B2
A display device includes sensor electrodes for sensing a touch. The sensor electrodes may also be used as an antenna. A display circuit board of the display device includes a radio signal connection unit for providing touch sensing signals and radio reception signals of the sensor electrodes to a touch driving circuit and an antenna driving circuit. Therefore, the display device not only senses a user's touch using the sensor electrodes but also conducts mobile communication using the sensor electrodes. For example, sensor electrodes for sensing a touch may also be used as an antenna.
US11467653B2
A radio module, comprises a battery; and a radio circuit, the radio circuit comprising: a DC-to-DC converter coupled with the batters and configured to convert a battery voltage to a first DC voltage level; at least one regulator coupled with the DC-to-DC converter and configured to covert the first DC voltage level to a second DC voltage level; at least one circuit block coupled with the at least one regulator such that the second DC voltage level is configured to provide power to the at least one circuit block; a real time clock configured to provide a clock signal to the at least one circuit block; and a management unit coupled with the at least one circuit block and configured to implement a state machine to control the at least one circuit block, wherein the state machine causes the management unit to cause the second DC voltage level to be removed from the at least one circuit during a first state comprising the state machine and, during a second state comprising the state machine, cause the second DC voltage level to be provided to the at least one circuit block, cause certain components within the circuit block to be reset, and provide a start signal to the circuit block enabling the circuit block to perform a function, and wherein the circuit block is configured to generate a signal indicating the function has been completed that is provided to the management unit, which causes the state machine to transition to a third state in which the second DC voltage is gain removed from the at least one circuit block.
US11467651B2
The present disclosure provides a photodynamic energy electronic label, a working method thereof, a managing method and a managing apparatus thereof. The photodynamic energy electronic label includes a photodynamic energy converter configured to convert light energy into electric energy, and a triggering circuit connected with the photodynamic energy converter and configured to send out a triggering signal to enable the photodynamic energy electronic label to be in a working state when an output of the photodynamic energy converter reaches a set condition.
US11467650B2
The described embodiments include an electronic device that has a hardware controller and one or more hardware subsystems. The one or more hardware subsystems support an active state, a first low power state, and a second low power state. The first low power state and second low power states are separate low power states, with the first low power state being associated with a more rapid resumption of the active state than the second low power state. The hardware controller is configured to cause the one or more hardware subsystems to transition from the first low power state to the second low power state upon detecting an idle event that indicates that a user interaction is not likely to occur and to transition from the second low power state to the first low power state upon detecting an active event that indicates that a user interaction is likely to occur.
US11467648B2
Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture to reduce power consumption and improve battery life of display systems using adaptive sync are disclosed. An example apparatus includes an interface to transmit frame data to a sink device, the frame data generated by a processor; a timer to initiate in response to the transmission of the frame data to the sink device; and the interface to transmit a low power indication to the sink device after the timer reaches a threshold amount of time.
US11467647B2
A wireless mobile device in a public communication network receives network-initiated signaling or messaging, while operating in a battery-conserving mode, or modes that, keep(s) minimal baseband processing functions awake. The baseband processing functions process incoming signaling or data in a received message to determine whether to act further on information in the incoming message by enabling additional processing capability in the mobile device. The mobile device may have permanent template criteria values, either coded in firmware or implemented in hardware, or temporary template criteria values, stored in RAM or processor registers, that are compared to values of an incoming message or datagram from the mobile network to determine whether to perform additional actions, such as awakening an application processor. Multiple templates may co-exist to allow different incoming datagrams to cause the device to take some additional action, respond, or even ignore information in an incoming datagram or message.
US11467646B2
One embodiment provides a method, including: receiving, at an information handling device in a low power mode, a wake indication; waking, responsive to the receiving, the information handling device from the low power mode; receiving, at the awoken information handling device, context data obtained by at least one other device; and performing an action based on the received context data. Other aspects are described and claimed.
US11467632B2
A flexible display apparatus including: a first film including a first surface and a second surface that are opposite each other, and a first groove formed in the first surface, the first film having a first rigidity; a third film on the second surface of the first film; a fourth film facing the third film; an emission display unit between and encapsulated by the third film and the fourth film; and a second film on the fourth film and facing the first film, the second film having a second rigidity that is less than the first rigidity.
US11467614B2
A voltage regulator circuit includes a switch device that is coupled between an input power supply and a regulated power supply node. The voltage regulator circuit adjusts a value of a current flowing from the input power supply to the regulated power supply node by modifying a voltage level of a control node coupled to the switch device. A control circuit adjusts the voltage level of the control node using an error signal based on a comparison of the voltage level of the regulated power supply node and a reference voltage. To improve the response time of the voltage regulator circuit to changes in load current, the control circuit additionally sources current to and/or sinks current from the control node based on a voltage level of the control node.
US11467608B2
A mass flow control apparatus is capable of controlling a flow rate of a fluid to a tool. Pressure of the fluid is regulated by a solenoid valve, which receives signals from a control module. Various set points may be inputted to the control module, whereby control module receives pressure sensor signals from across a flow restrictor and adjusts the solenoid valve to control the fluid flow rate to equal a set point.
US11467605B2
A work machine receives a thematic map that maps values of a variable to different geographic locations at a worksite. Control zones are dynamically identified on the thematic map and actuator settings are dynamically identified for each control zone. A position of the work machine is sensed, and actuators on the work machine are controlled based upon the control zones that the work machine is in, or is entering, and based upon the settings corresponding to the control zone. These control zones and settings are dynamically adjusted based on in situ (field) data collected by sensors on the work machine.
US11467604B2
Disclosed is a device and method of controlling a plurality of robots. According to an embodiment, a device and method of controlling a plurality of robots periodically measures variations in the density of people per unit quarter and deploys a robot, which is positioned close to a high-density unit quarter and has a low workload, in the unit quarter. According to an embodiment, the artificial intelligence (AI) module may be related to unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), robots, augmented reality (AR) devices, virtual reality (VR) devices, and 5G service-related devices.
US11467600B2
A robotic working tool comprising a sensor for detecting magnetic fields connected to a controller for controlling the operation of the robotic working tool. The controller is configured to operate according to a first control signal being transmitted through a first boundary wire and according to a second control signal being transmitted through a second boundary wire. The robotic working tool is thereby configured to operate within a composite work area comprising at least a first partial work area and a second partial work area. The first boundary wire delimits the first partial work area and the second boundary wire delimits the second partial work area. The at least first and second boundary wires provide a common perimeter for the composite work area. Analysing the magnetic fields detected by the sensor, the controller determines whether the robotic working tool is inside or outside the composite work area.
US11467596B2
A vehicle control device includes a tracking unit estimating a motion of a moving object, a model selection unit selecting a motion model corresponding to a moving object type, an abnormality determination unit determining a presence or absence of an abnormality of the estimation of the motion of the moving object based on the estimated moving object motion and the motion indicated by the motion model, and a control unit. A control mode in which the control unit controls traveling of a host vehicle when the abnormality determination unit determines that the abnormality is present differs from a control mode in which the control unit controls the traveling of the host vehicle when the abnormality determination unit determines that the abnormality is absent.
US11467595B2
A system and method include scanning a light detection and ranging (LIDAR) device through a range of orientations corresponding to a scanning zone while emitting light pulses from the LIDAR device. The method also includes receiving returning light pulses corresponding to the light pulses emitted from the LIDAR device and determining initial point cloud data based on time delays between emitting the light pulses and receiving the corresponding returning light pulses and the orientations of the LIDAR device. The initial point cloud data has an initial angular resolution. The method includes identifying, based on the initial point cloud data, a reflective feature in the scanning zone and determining an enhancement region and an enhanced angular resolution for a subsequent scan to provide a higher spatial resolution in at least a portion of subsequent point cloud data from the subsequent scan corresponding to the reflective feature.
US11467584B2
Path planning is performed using a multi-layer grid searching algorithm to position an ADV in a target position. A first layer grid including a first set of nodes is defined. A second layer grid is defined. The second layer grid includes a second set of nodes corresponding to at least a portion of the first set of nodes. From a start node until a goal node, following operations are iteratively performed. A set of next node candidates are identified by searching in the first set of nodes and the second set of nodes. For each next node candidate of the set of next node candidates, a cost is determined using a cost function. A next node having a lowest cost is selected from the set of next node candidates based on their respective costs. A path trajectory of the ADV is generated to position the ADV at the target position.
US11467583B2
A steering for a marine propulsion unit adjusts at least one of a required steering speed and a required steering torque such that the required steering speed and the required steering torque fall within an output region when the required steering speed and the required steering torque are outside the output region, sets a target steering angle according to the adjusted required steering speed and required steering torque, and sets the target steering angle according to a rotation angle of a steering wheel when the required steering speed and the required steering torque are within the output region.
US11467578B2
Provided is a moving object configured to move in an airport. The moving object includes a communication unit configured to acquire identification information of a user and second information acquisition means for acquiring information about a destination, to which baggage of the user is to be transported, from a server apparatus based on the identification information of the user. Furthermore, the moving object includes a control device for moving to the destination in a state where the baggage of the user is held.
US11467574B2
Provided herein are platforms for determining a non-navigational quality of at least one infrastructure by a plurality of autonomous or semi-autonomous land vehicles through infrastructure recognition and assessment.
US11467562B2
An online monitoring device of 3D printing equipment includes a signal collection module, a signal processing module, a feature extraction module, a monitoring module and a knowledge base module. A vibration signal of a preset component of the 3D printing equipment is collected by a vibration sensor. The collected vibration signal of each preset component is converted from an analog signal to a digital signal and the spectrum characteristics are extracted. Based on the spectrum characteristics of each preset component, the operation state type of the preset component is obtained by a comparative analysis model. The knowledge base module is configured to store newly added samples and initial samples of the 3D printing equipment. The initial samples include spectrum characteristic information and corresponding fault category of known faults, and the newly added samples include spectrum characteristic information and corresponding fault category of new faults.
US11467558B2
Provided are an interruption recovery method for a machine tool machining file and a machine tool applying the method. The interruption recovery method includes: generating first check information when a machine tool machining file is executed, the machine tool machining file being stored in an external memory; generating second check information when the machine tool machining file is re-executed after an interruption occurs; comparing the first check information and the second check information to determine whether the machine tool machining file is changed before and after the interruption; and recovering the execution of the machine tool machining file when the first check information matches the second check information. By generating and comparing the check information before and after the interruption to verify the integrity and consistency of data of the machine tool machining file, the machine tool machining can be carried out accurately and unerringly.
US11467557B2
A system and apparatus for Computer Numerically Controlled (CNC) machines wherein a workpiece is maneuvered about a working surface.
US11467552B2
Systems and methods are provided for generating a flow control plan for a plurality of components in a flow control system. A decentralized multi-agent control framework is used to plan and schedule for each agent independently without a central processor. Each agent of the multi-agent control framework separately optimizes a local portion of the system as a function of values for one or more parameters. Agents communicate with other connected agents, sharing values for parameters. The communication provides a negotiation and consensus for values of the shared parameters that are used by the agent to recalculate optimized parameters values for the local portion of the system.
US11467549B2
A building management system includes a plurality of meters configured to provide data samples of a plurality of points relating to a building and a space hierarchy database configured to store a sibling relationship for each of the points. Each sibling relationship identifies two or more of the points as sibling points. The building management system includes a batch metrics engine configured to receive a first data sample of a first point, access the sibling relationship for the first point to identify one or more sibling points of the first point, aggregate the first data sample with data samples of the sibling points to generate a batch, and calculate an aggregate metric using the first data sample and the other data samples in the batch. The building management system also includes a controller configured to adjust an operation of building equipment based on the aggregate metric.
US11467548B2
A method comprises measuring a light intensity at a window; determining if the light intensity exceeds a cloudy-day threshold; operating in a sunlight penetration limiting mode to control the motorized window treatment to control the sunlight penetration distance in the space; enabling the sunlight penetration limiting mode if the light intensity is greater than the cloudy-day threshold; and disabling the sunlight penetration limiting mode if the total lighting intensity is less than the cloudy-day threshold. The cloudy-day threshold is maintained at a constant threshold if a calculated solar elevation angle is greater than a predetermined solar elevation angle, and the cloudy-day threshold varies with time if the calculated solar elevation angle is less than the predetermined solar elevation angle. The cloudy-day threshold is a function of the calculated solar elevation angle if the calculated solar elevation angle is less than the predetermined solar elevation angle.
US11467530B2
An image forming apparatus, having a housing, a drawer, and a cartridge, is provided. The drawer is movable between an inner position and an outer position. The cartridge includes a photosensitive drum and a drum cover. The photosensitive drum is rotatable about an axis extending in a first direction. The drum cover is movable with respect to the photosensitive drum between a first position and a second position. The drawer includes a guide, a stopper, and a contacting portion. The guide guides the cartridge in a second direction, when the cartridge is being attached to the drawer. The stopper stops the cartridge from separating from the guide in a third direction. The contacting portion contacts the drum cover and move the drum cover from the first position to the second position in a state where the cartridge is being guided by the guide.
US11467517B2
An example toner refill cartridge includes a body to accommodate toner and having a toner discharge hole, a shutter being rotatable between a first position at which the toner discharge hole is closed and a second position at which the toner discharge hole is opened, a coupler to rotate by receiving an external rotational force, an agitation member to rotate and agitate the toner by receiving a rotational force from the coupler, and a connection member to selectively transmit a rotational force of the coupler to the shutter.
US11467514B2
An apparatus includes an image bearing member, a developer container having a replenishment port, a developer bearing member, a detection portion configured to output remainder amount information corresponding to the amount of developer accommodated in the developer container, a notification portion capable of notifying a first state, and a second state, and a control portion. The maximum amount of the developer that the developer container is capable of accommodating is larger than a value obtained by adding the amount of the developer accommodated in a replenishment container containing the developer for replenishment to the first amount, and wherein notification of the second state corresponds to notification of a case where the amount of the developer remaining in the developer container is larger than a case where the amount of the developer remaining in the developer container is the smallest.
US11467501B2
There is provided a reflective image-forming optical system which is applicable to an exposure apparatus using, for example, EUV light and which is capable of increasing numerical aperture while enabling optical path separation of light fluxes. In a reflective imaging optical system (6) forming an image of a first plane (4) onto a second plane (7), the numerical aperture on a side of the second plane with respect to a first direction (X direction) on the second plane is greater than 1.1 times a numerical aperture on the side of the second plane with respect to a second direction (Y direction) crossing the first direction on the second plane. The reflecting imaging optical system has an aperture stop (AS) defining the numerical aperture on the side of the second plane, and the aperture stop has an elliptic-shaped opening of which size in a major axis direction (X direction) is greater than 1.1 times that in a minor axis direction (Y direction).
US11467497B2
A method of forming a mask includes forming a base film containing a treatment agent on an object, forming a photosensitive organic film on the base film, forming an infiltrated portion by infiltrating the treatment agent into a lower portion of the photosensitive organic film, selectively exposing the photosensitive organic film to form a first region soluble in an alkaline solution and a second region insoluble in the alkaline solution, forming a third region insoluble in the alkaline solution in the infiltrated portion in the first region by causing a reaction between the first region and the treatment agent, developing the photosensitive organic film to remove a fourth region that is in the first region and other than the third region while leaving intact the second region and the third region, and etching the photosensitive organic film to remove one of the second region and the third region.
US11467496B2
Substrate processing apparatus, method of adjusting parameters of coating module, and storage medium
An apparatus includes: a coating module for applying a coating liquid to each wafer and discharging a removing liquid from a nozzle toward a beveled portion of the wafer under rotation; an imaging module; and a controller for controlling: the imaging module to image outer end and rear surfaces of the wafer; obtaining a height dimension of an outer edge of a coating film with respect to an inner edge of the beveled portion based on the imaging result; determining whether or not the obtained dimension is an allowable value; if the result is negative, resetting the number of revolutions of the wafer based on the obtained dimension and a first reference data; controlling the coating module to again perform the application and removal operations; performing the determination process; and if the result is positive, storing the reset number of revolutions in a storage part.
US11467493B2
A chemically amplified photoresist composition comprising a triazole-based plasticizer and an alkali developable resin, which is capable of minimizing cracking of a photoresist obtained from the composition and improving adhesion to a substrate and sensitivity, and a photoresist film comprising a cured product of the chemically amplified photoresists composition.
US11467489B2
An actinic ray-sensitive or radiation-sensitive resin composition contains a compound that generates an acid upon irradiation with actinic rays or radiation and a resin whose polarity increases by the action of an acid, in which the compound is represented by a specific General Formula (X).
US11467487B2
A manufacturing method of a template includes: providing a base; forming a photoresist pattern on the base and patterning the base by using the photoresist pattern as a mask, and the forming the photoresist pattern includes: forming a plurality of first patterns spaced apart from each other on the base; forming a first material layer on the plurality of first patterns; patterning the at least one first pattern by using the first material layer as a mask so that the first pattern is formed into at least one first sub-pattern; and removing the first material layer; and the first material layer at least cover one side of at least one of the plurality of first patterns in a direction perpendicular to a surface on which the base is located.
US11467484B2
A method for inspecting a reticle including a reflective layer on a reticle substrate is provided. The method may include loading the reticle on a stage, cooling the reticle substrate to a temperature lower than a room temperature, irradiating a laser beam to the reflective layer on the reticle substrate, receiving the laser beam using a photodetector to obtain an image of the reflective layer, and detect a particle defect on the reflective layer or a void defect in the reflective layer based on the image of the reflective layer.
US11467483B1
A photographic film is formed by combining panchromatic black and white emulsion with a color filter array to produce a full color image using only black and white film and processing.
US11467482B2
A signal processing device performs a displaying process in a display unit on the basis of a parameter being predetermined in an image capture device provided with an anamorphic lens.
US11467481B2
A light source device according to the present disclosure includes a light source section for emitting first light, a first polarization split element for performing polarization split on the first light, a second polarization split element for reflecting the first light polarized in a first polarization direction and transmitting the first light polarized in a second polarization direction, a diffusion element for diffusing the first light from the first polarization split element, a wavelength conversion element for performing wavelength conversion on the first light entering the wavelength conversion element from the second polarization split element to emit second light, and an optical element having a flat-surface area and the concave-surface area.
US11467467B2
Reflection between a Mach-Zehnder modulator and a termination resistor is suppressed. An optical modulator includes a differential drive open collector driver IC, a differential drive semiconductor Mach-Zehnder modulator, and a differential terminator. The Mach-Zehnder modulator includes waveguides and a differential high-frequency line. The differential terminator includes a differential high-frequency line and termination resistors. The differential high-frequency line includes a capacity provided at least one of between signal lines and between a signal line and a ground line.
US11467466B2
A display device (30) comprises a reflective display (38) arranged to render a first image viewable through a viewing surface and a projection means (31-37) arranged to render a second image viewable in reflection on the viewing surface, the reflective display (38) and the projection means (31-37) being mounted on a common frame.
US11467458B1
A circuit substrate includes a substrate, an active device, a first signal line, a second signal line, a shielding electrode, a data line, a pixel electrode, and a common electrode. The first signal line is electrically connected to the active device, and includes a main portion and a connection portion connected to the main portion. The main portion extends along a first direction. The second signal line extends along a second direction. The second signal line is electrically connected to the connection portion. The shielding electrode overlaps the connection portion in a normal direction of the substrate. The shielding electrode and the second signal line belong to a same conductive layer. The data line is electrically connected to the active device. The common electrode is electrically connected to the shielding electrode.
US11467456B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide an array substrate, a display panel, and a display apparatus. The array substrate includes: a display region for displaying an image; a non-display region; a shift register provided in the non-display region; a gate line provided in the display region and extending along a first direction; and a gate signal output line, provided in the non-display region and having a first end and a second end. The first end of the gate signal output line is connected to the shift register, and the second end of the gate signal output line is connected to the gate line at a side of the gate line in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction.
US11467445B2
A display panel and a display device are disclosed. The display panel includes liquid crystal display panel, and a light control panel that are stacked; the liquid crystal display panel includes first mesh lines extending along a first direction and second mesh lines extending along a second direction intersecting with the first direction that define color subpixel units; the light control panel allows back light to be enter the liquid crystal display panel after passing through the light control panel, and includes first signal lines extending along the first direction and second signal lines extending along the second direction that define light control units; N color subpixel units continuously arranged and respectively displaying different colors constitute one pixel unit; N is a positive integer; along the first direction, a maximum length of one light control unit is m times a maximum length of one pixel unit; m is a non-integer.
US11467443B2
The present application discloses a polarizer and a preparation method thereof and a display device. Embodiments of the present disclosure provides a polarizer, wherein the polarizer includes: a polarizing layer, and a depolarizing layer located on a light emitting side of the polarizing layer; the depolarizing layer includes: nanoparticles, and a reflective part covering the nanoparticles; and the reflective part covering the nanoparticles generates resonance scattering with incident light.
US11467431B2
Swimming goggles of the present invention include a pair of lenses. Each lens has a window. The window is connected with a ventilated waterproof device that is watertight but not airtight, through which a heat on an inner side of the lens produced by human body in form of fog and water particles permeates toward an outer side of the lens; relatively, fog on the outer side of the lens is soon turned into water drops through condensation, the water drops are too large to undergo reverse permeation into the inner side of the lens; because of the effect of surface tension within the condensed water drops, water molecules pull each other as a stable state and are unable to be separated from the water drops toward the inner side of the lens so that the water leakage of the swimming goggles is eliminated and waterproof function is achieved.
US11467426B2
An apparatus to treat refractive error of an eye comprises an optic comprising an optical zone and a peripheral defocus optical structure to form images of a plurality of stimuli anterior or posterior to a peripheral portion of a retina of the eye. In some embodiments, the peripheral defocus optical structure located outside the optical zone. In some embodiments, the peripheral defocus optical structure comprises optical power to focus light to a different depth of the eye than the optical zone. In some embodiments, the optic comprises one or more of a lens, an optically transparent substrate, a beam splitter, a prism, or an optically transmissive support.
US11467423B2
Systems, devices, apparatuses and methods for an active projection system that may be incorporated into spectacles, contact lenses or provided as an add-on layer to existing spectacles or lenses. The active projection system operates to generate a stimulus or stimuli for viewing by a person's eye. The stimulus or stimuli creates an image that is defocused in front of the person's retina and can assist in slowing or stopping the progression of myopia or other refractive errors in the person.
US11467422B2
According to embodiments of the present application, a carbon dioxide sensing color changeable dye can comprise a carbon dioxide status indicator, a solvent, a polymer wherein the carbon dioxide status indicator is dispersed, an optional plasticizer, and an optional agent to facilitate mixing. The color changeable dye is a first color in the presence of a carbon dioxide rich environment and is capable of changing to a second color upon exposure to atmospheric condition for a period of time corresponding to the intended use time of a restricted, disposable or limited use product. Methods of making and using the color changeable dye and apparatuses incorporating such dye are also disclosed.
US11467415B1
A system to provide a multi-image head up display (HUD) in a vehicle includes a fixed mirror to project a far-plane image at a first distance from an occupant of the vehicle. Control of a position of display of the far-plane image is based on an eye height position of the occupant. The system also includes a rotatable mirror to project a near-plane image at a second distance, closer than the first distance, from the occupant. Control of a position of display of the near-plane image is based on a manual adjustment of a rotational angle of the rotatable mirror by the occupant. Processing circuitry automatically adjusts the position of display of the far-plane image based on inferring the eye height position of the occupant from the rotational angle of the rotatable mirror that controls the display of the near-plane image.
US11467412B2
A contact lens system (110) for placing in an eye for augmented reality systems is disclosed. The contact lens system (110) comprises a display (111) comprising a matrix of display elements; a driver unit (112) configured to receive data from a host (120) and to present the data on the display (111) and a set of sensors (113) integrated on the display (111) for measuring pupil size. The driver unit (112) is further configured to read outputs from the set of sensors to determine the pupil size and adjust a size of an active area of the display.
US11467395B2
An electro-mechanical device includes a payload of a magnet affixed to a mirror, and a coil assembly. The coil assembly has a body with wound electrically conducting wires and a payload aperture through which the payload travels. When voltage is applied to the coil assembly, current through the coil assembly generates a magnetic field resulting in a net upward force on the magnet that accelerates the payload to travel upward through the payload aperture for the mirror to block an optical pulse. As the magnet travels through the payload aperture, due to a magnetization direction of the magnet and a magnetic field in an upper portion of the coil assembly, the magnet experiences a net deceleration force that arrests the payload.
US11467390B2
Techniques for acquiring focused images of a microscope slide are disclosed. During a calibration phase, a “base” focal plane is determined using non-synthetic and/or synthetic auto-focus techniques. Furthermore, offset planes are determined for color channels (or filter bands) and used to generate an auto-focus model. During subsequent scans, the auto-focus model can be used to quickly estimate the focal plane of interest for each color channel (or filter band) rather than re-employing the non-synthetic and/or synthetic auto-focus techniques.
US11467385B2
In an optical system according to each exemplary embodiment, an interval between adjacent lens units changes in focusing from an infinite-distance object to a close-distance object, and a first in-focus state in which β=−1.2 is obtained can be caused, where β is a lateral magnification of an entire system. The optical system according to each exemplary embodiment includes a plurality of focus lens units, and out of a focus lens unit having a largest absolute value of a focus sensitivity and a focus lens unit having a second largest absolute value of a focus sensitivity in a state in which focus is put on an infinite-distance object, a focus lens unit disposed on an object side is a lens unit LA, and a focus lens unit disposed on an image side is a lens unit LB. A partial optical system LC including all lenses disposed on the image side of the lens unit LB has negative refractive power. The partial optical system LC satisfies a predetermined conditional expression.
US11467372B2
A lens system (10) for image pickup includes, in order from an object side (11), a first lens group (G1) with positive refractive power that moves during focusing, a second lens group (G2) with positive refractive power that is disposed on an opposite side of a stop (St) to the first lens group and moves during focusing, and a third lens group (G3) with positive refractive power that is disposed closest to an image plane side (12) and is fixed. The third lens group includes, in order from the object side, a cemented lens (B31) composed of a lens with positive refractive power and a lens with negative refractive power. A combined focal length (f3) of the third lens group and a combined focal length (f12) of the first lens group and the second lens group satisfy a following condition: 2≤f3/f12≤200.
US11467370B2
An augmented reality (AR) device including a variable focus lens of which a focal length may be changed by adjusting refractive power and adjusting the position of a focus adjustment region of the variable focus lens according to a direction of the user's view. The AR device may obtain an eye vector indicating a direction of the user's view using an eye tracker, adjust a refractive power of a first focus adjustment region of a first variable focus lens to change a focal length for displaying a virtual image, and complementarily adjust a refractive power of a second focus adjustment lens with respect to the adjusted refractive power of the first focus adjustment region.
US11467360B2
A power cable joint includes splices and extra-length portions of first and second optical fibers which are included in respective first power cable and second power cable, and a cable joint sleeve (100). The abovementioned splices and extra-length portions are accommodated in an organizer (10) that includes a tray (20) having a recessed area (22) and configured to shapingly fit to an outer surface (101) of the cable joint sleeve (100). In particular, splices and extra-length portions of optical fibers are housed in an upper surface (21) of the tray (20). The organizer (10) further includes a fastener (40) configured to secure the tray (20) to the outer surface (101) of the cable joint sleeve (100) and a cover (50) configured to at least partially cover the upper surface (21) of the tray (20).
US11467350B2
A method of terminating an optical fiber having an inner core with a fiber optic connector including a ferrule having a micro-bore and an end face with a mating location is disclosed. The method includes determining a bore bearing angle of a bore offset of the micro-bore in the ferrule; determining a core bearing angle of a core offset of the inner core in the optical fiber; orienting the ferrule and the optical fiber relative to each other to minimize the distance between the inner core and the mating location; heating the ferrule to an processing temperature above room temperature; and coupling the optical fiber to the micro-bore of the ferrule. The size of the micro-bores and optical fibers may be selected to maximize the number of interference fits in a population of ferrules and optical fibers while minimizing failed fittings between the ferrules and optical fibers in the populations.
US11467347B2
A double flexible optical circuit includes: a flexible substrate supporting a plurality of optical fibers; a first connector terminating the optical fibers at a first end of the double flexible optical circuit; and a second connector terminating the optical fibers at a second end of the double flexible optical circuit. Each of the optical fibers is positioned in one of a plurality of separate extensions formed by the flexible substrate as the optical fibers extend from the first connector to the second connector. The first and second connectors are configured to be tested when the first and second connectors are connected through the double flexible optical circuit. The double flexible optical circuit is configured to be divided in half once the testing is complete to form two separate flexible optical circuits.
US11467343B2
Optical coupler structures include a waveguide having waveguide metamaterial segments aligned along a first line. A second insulator is on the first insulator and the waveguide metamaterial segments. A coupler structure is in the second insulator and has coupler metamaterial segments aligned along a second line. The first line and the second line are parallel and within a plane. A portion of the waveguide overlaps a portion of the coupler structure. The waveguide metamaterial segments intersect the plane and have first widths perpendicular to the plane, and the first widths have a first taper along the first line. The coupler metamaterial segments intersect the plane and have second widths in the direction perpendicular to the plane. The second widths have a second taper along the second line that is different from the first taper of the first widths where the waveguide overlaps the coupler structure.
US11467333B1
A backlight unit for blind spot warning lighting includes a printed circuit board (PCB) mounted with a light-emitting diode (LED), a bottom case having the PCB embedded on a lower portion thereof, and having an opened front surface, and a top case comprising a front plate covering a the front surface of the bottom case, and a guide protrusion formed to protrude backward from a rear surface of the front plate to guide the light from the LED to the front plate, and an object of the present disclosure is to provide a backlight unit, which can uniformly emit light while unifying the number of reflection and diffusion layers, and be advantageous for applying a hot wire, thereby improving visibility.
US11467327B2
The present disclosure provides numerous applications for the use of liquid crystal polarization gratings (LCPGs) to controllably steer light. When combined with an image sensor, light generated or reflected from different fields of view (FOV) can be steered, allowing an increase in the FOV or the resolution of the image. Further, the LCPG can stabilize the resulting image, counteracting any movement of the image sensor. The combination of LCPGs and liquid crystal waveguides (LCWGs) allows fine deflection control of light (from the LCWG) over a wild field of view (from the LCPG). Further applications of LCPGs include object tracking and the production of depth images using multiple imaging units and independently steered LCPGs. The LCPG may be used in controlling both the projection and reception of light.
US11467326B2
A color filtering film, a color filter substrate and a display device are disclosed. The color filtering film includes: a color filtering layer and a quantum dot layer laminated on the color filtering layer. The color filtering layer includes a plurality of groups of color filtering units, each group of color filtering units includes a first color filtering unit and a fourth color filtering unit, any first color filtering unit being spaced apart from the third color filtering unit.
US11467325B2
An optical filter and manufacturing method therefor, a display substrate, and a display apparatus. The optical filter includes: a base substrate; an ordered porous film disposed on the base substrate, wherein the ordered porous film is formed with channels each of which having an extension direction at least at an angle to the base substrate and having an opening at a surface of the ordered porous film; and a plurality of quantum dots respectively disposed in at least part of the channels. The optical filter, the display substrate having the optical filter and the display apparatus can significantly improve the display colour gamut of the display apparatus.
US11467324B2
A retroreflective composite bead for highway marking having high retroreflectivity both when initially installed and over the bead lifetime, allowing vehicle drivers to see highway marking lines at night and in adverse conditions during nighttime. When installed the retroreflective beads essentially retroreflect the base color of the highway marking material in which the retroreflective beads are embedded. The beads comprise a larger bead with a coating of smaller particles heat bonded to its surface.
US11467323B2
A laminate used under an environment irradiated with external light includes a light diffusion control film having an internal structure in the film. The internal structure includes a plurality of regions having a relatively high refractive index in a region having a relatively low refractive index. The laminate further includes an ultraviolet absorbing layer located further on the external light incident side than the light diffusion control film. The light diffusion control film has an indentation elastic modulus of 30 MPa or more as measured at a maximum load of 2 mN by a nanoindentation method.
US11467321B2
An imaging lens assembly includes five lens elements, which are, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element, a fourth lens element and a fifth lens element. The first lens element has positive refractive power. The second lens element has positive refractive power. The fourth lens element with negative refractive power has an object-side surface being convex in a paraxial region thereof and an image-side surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof, wherein the two surfaces of the fourth lens element are both aspheric. The fifth lens element having an image-side surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof, wherein two surfaces of the fifth lens element are both aspheric, and the image-side surface of the fifth lens element includes at least one convex critical point in an off-axis region thereof.
US11467318B2
The disclosed embodiments include devices and methods to perform inversion processing of well log data. In one embodiment, a method to perform inversion processing of well log data includes obtaining an initial model of an earth formation based on a plurality of modeling parameters that includes formation parameters of the earth formation and calibration factors associated with orientations of antennas of a logging tool utilized to measure raw measurements of the earth formation. The method also includes performing a forward modeling of the modeling parameters to obtain a modeling response, and performing a joint cost function of the first modeling response and raw measurements obtained by the logging tool. The method further includes readjusting the initial model if a result of the joint cost function is not below a threshold, and providing the modeling response if the result of the joint cost function is below the threshold.
US11467316B2
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for in-situ calibration of magnetic field measurements. In some examples, a method can involve generating a magnetic field via a magnetic field source that is coupled to a downhole tool. The magnetic field source can be located within a fixed distance from one or more sensors coupled to the downhole tool. The method can also involve obtaining respective field measurements of the known magnetic field from the one or more sensors, and comparing the respective field measurements from the one or more sensors with respective reference measurements previously obtained from the one or more sensors to yield respective comparisons. The method can then involve determining, based on the respective comparisons, a respective sensitivity drift for each of the one or more sensors.
US11467313B1
A system and method for identifying a foreign object in a stack of media items is disclosed. An upper clamping plate and an opposing lower clamping plate are positioned to hold a received stack of media items. Each clamping plate has an array of capacitive electrodes positioned on an inner surface thereof. Each of the capacitive electrodes in the one array positioned directly across from a corresponding one in the first array to form a capacitive electrode pair. A controller measures the capacitance of each capacitive electrode pair when the received stack of media items is positioned between the clamping plates, determine if a foreign object is present within the received stack of media items based on the capacitance measurements from each capacitive electrode pair, and generate a signal indicating that a foreign object has been detected when a foreign object is determined to be present.
US11467309B2
The subject technology relates to synthetic aperture to image leaks and sound sources. Other methods and systems are also disclosed. The subject technology includes drilling a wellbore penetrating a subterranean formation. The subject technology includes logging the wellbore using the stationary acoustic sensor and the moving acoustic sensor of the logging tool to obtain logged measurements, and obtaining an actual acoustic signal associated with a leak source in the wellbore using logged measurement data. The subject technology also includes determining a synthetic acoustic signal indicating an estimated leak source in the wellbore, and determining a correlation between the synthetic acoustic signal and the actual acoustic signal. The subject technology also includes generating a probability map from the determined correlation, in which the probability map indicates a likelihood of the leak source being located at a given location in the wellbore based on the probability map.
US11467308B2
Various embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to systems and methods for data collection using fiber-optic cable in a well, and analysis of the data to determine instantaneous frequency, instantaneous phase, instantaneous amplitude, and/or dominant frequency. These measures can be used to determine parameters associated with the operation of the well. The parameters can be used to control the operation of the well and/or the fracturing process.
US11467303B2
A system for seismic imaging of a subterranean geological formation, the system includes a receiver configured to obtain seismic data comprising a data volume representing a post-stacked image. The system includes a filtering module configured to: apply frequency-wavenumber (F-K) filter to the data volume extract a negative-dip structure image and apply the frequency-wavenumber (F-K) filter to the data volume extract a positive-dip structure image. The system includes a diffraction rendering module configured to: multiply the positive-dip structure image with the negative-dip structure image and generate a diffraction-enhanced seismic image representing a geological formation of the data volume.
US11467300B2
A method for detecting an unknown fault in a target seismic volume. The method includes generating a number of patches from a training seismic volume that is separate from the target seismic volume, where a patch includes a set of training areas, generating a label for assigning to the patch, where the label represents a subset, of the set of training areas, intersected by an known fault specified by a user in the training seismic volume, training, during a training phase and based at least on the label and the training seismic volume, a machine learning model, and generating, by applying the machine learning model to the target seismic volume during a prediction phase subsequent to the training phase, a result to identify the unknown fault in the target seismic volume.
US11467295B2
An instrument and software methodology to detect a radioactive source and incorporates the following: 1) two radiation detectors in a co-axial configuration, housed in a handheld probe, and 2) a gamma detection control unit executing software algorithms to limit the functional field of view to the front aspect of the probe, vary the depth and width of the field of view to provide collimation without the use of metallic shielding, and allowing the instrument to measure the distance to the radiation source.
US11467288B2
A LIDAR system, preferably including one or more: optical emitters, optical detectors, beam directors, and/or processing modules. A method of LIDAR system operation, preferably including: determining a signal, outputting the signal, receiving a return signal, and/or analyzing the return signal.
US11467279B2
An aspect of the present disclosure is directed to and provides radar-reflecting systems and apparatus that employ metasurfaces to produce enhanced radar cross sections that are greater than those produced by the geometry of the surfaces alone. Another aspect of the present disclosure is directed to and provides heat-ducting systems and apparatus that include metasurfaces. A further aspect of the present disclosure is directed to and provides cards with metasurfaces. Exemplary embodiments utilize fractal plasmonic surfaces for a metasurface.
US11467276B2
Approaches, techniques, and mechanisms are disclosed for range data compression. According to one embodiment, a current range data frame for a current time point is generated. Each current range data cell in the current range data frame includes current ranges representing points in a point cloud in a 3D space for the current time point. Accumulated prior ranges in an accumulated prior range buffer are propagated from a prior time point to the current time point. Current ranges in the current range data frame are compared with the propagated accumulated prior ranges to determine range differences between the current ranges and the propagated accumulated prior ranges. A proper subset of current ranges in the set of current ranges is identified based on the range difference. The proper subset of current ranges is included in a range data signal excluding other current ranges not in the proper subset.
US11467268B2
Disclosures of the present invention describe an optical proximity sensor, which is particularly designed to have functionality of canceling an ambient light noise and/or an optical crosstalk noise by using light-to-frequency conversion technique, and comprises: a controlling and processing circuit, a lighting unit, a light receiving unit, an analog adder, a first DAC unit, a second DAC unit, and a light-to-digital conversion (LDC) unit. In the controlling of the controlling and processing circuit, the first DAC unit and the second DAC unit would respectively generate a first compensation current signal and a second compensation current signal to the analog adder, such that a noise signal of ambient light and a noise signal of optical crosstalk existing in an optical current signal of object reflection light would be canceled by the two compensation current signals in the analog adder.
US11467267B1
A light detection and ranging (LIDAR) system includes an automatic gain control (AGC) unit to reduce the dynamic range, reducing processing power and saving circuit area and cost. The system detects a return beam of a light signal transmitted to a target, having a first dynamic range in a time domain. An analog to digital converter (ADC) generates a digital signal based on the return beam. A processor can perform time domain processing on the digital signal, convert the digital signal from the time domain to a frequency domain, and perform frequency domain processing on the digital signal in the frequency domain. The AGC unit can measure a power of the return beam, and apply variable gain in the time domain to reduce a dynamic range of the return beam to a second dynamic range lower than the first dynamic range.
US11467264B2
Provided is an apparatus for measuring a depth with a pseudo 4-tap pixel structure, the apparatus including a delta sigma circuit configured to calculate, through a delta sigma operation, a delta value of a first angle corresponding to a first row line of a pixel array for measuring a depth of an object and calculate, through a delta sigma operation, a delta value of a third angle corresponding to a second row line of the pixel array, a memory configured to store the calculated delta value of the first angle corresponding to the first row line, and an arithmetic logic unit (ALU) configured to compute depth information corresponding to the first row line by using the stored delta value of the first angle corresponding to the first row line and the calculated delta value of the third angle corresponding to the second row line.
US11467259B2
An optical scanning apparatus includes a light source, a substrate, a reflection member, a drive unit, and a controller. A scanning mirror and an attitude detector are integrated with substrate. An attitude detector outputs a first signal according to an attitude angle of substrate. A reflection member reflects a light beam reflected by scanning mirror. A drive unit can adjust an inclination of reflection member with respect to a main surface of substrate. A controller controls drive unit based on first signal. For this reason, an outgoing angle of light beam from optical scanning apparatus with respect to a horizontal surface can stably be maintained regardless of the inclination of optical scanning apparatus with respect to horizontal surface.
US11467255B2
A lidar sensor system and method use the parallax phenomenon to determine one or more attributes of an object, such its distance, size, or shape. An optical element illuminates the object with a linear beam along a first plane. A photodetector is displaced from the optical element so that it detects the reflection of the linear beam from the object along a second plane, which is at an angle to the first plane. A computer-implemented line detection module determines a measure of deviation of the linear beam reflection from a vanishing point of the first plane. A computer-implemented analysis module determines the attribute based on the measure of deviation.
US11467253B2
This radar device can recognize the type of a specific target (in particular, a two-wheeled vehicle) with high precision, using only the radar device. The radar device comprises: a transmission unit that transmits a transmission wave, based on a transmission signal, toward the target; a receiving unit that receives a reflected wave generated by the transmission wave being reflected by the target, and thereby generates a reception signal; and a target detection unit that acquires information on the target on the basis of the transmission signal and the reception signal. The target detection unit calculates the relative speeds of a plurality of detection points within the same target, and determines the type of the target on the basis of the spread of the relative speeds.
US11467246B2
A mobile device is configured for determining a position of the mobile device within buildings, the mobile device including: one or more motion sensors; one or more proximity sensors; a relative feature spot map establishing module; wherein the relative feature spot map establishing module is configured for transmitting the one or more relative feature spot maps to an absolute coordinates determining module configured for determining absolute coordinates of the mobile device; wherein the absolute coordinates determining module is configured for determining the absolute coordinates of the position of the mobile device by determining to which absolute feature spot map of the absolute feature spot maps the one or more relative feature spot map correspond.
US11467241B2
Systems and methods for MR signal synchronization may be provided. The method may include determining a time difference in a local clock generator at a coil side assembly compared to a system clock generator at a system side assembly. The method may include maintaining a constant phase difference between clock signals generated by the local clock generator and by the system clock generator by correcting the local clock generator based on the time difference. The method may include acquiring MR echo signals by scanning at least a part of a subject in response to the clock signal generated by the corrected local clock generator. The method may further include digitizing the MR echo signal at the coil side assembly.
US11467240B2
A method for accelerating diffusion magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) acquisition via slice interleaved diffusion encoding (SIDE) includes conducting a plurality of simultaneous multislice (SMS) excitations for each of a plurality of SIDE diffusion-weighted volumes to obtain SMS images of an MRI subject at different diffusion orientations, regrouping the images into slice groups with different orientations, generating a plurality of slice-undersampled diffusion weighted volumetric images of the subject, wherein each of the plurality of slice-undersampled diffusion weighted volumetric images is produced by cyclically interleaving the slice groups, such that each slice group is associated with a different diffusion wavevector, and reconstructing a full diffusion-weighted volumetric image of the subject by providing the plurality of slice-undersampled diffusion weighted volumetric images to a neural network trained to produce full diffusion-weighted volumetric versions of diffusion magnetic resonance images from undersampled versions of the diffusion magnetic resonance images.
US11467239B2
A magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system, comprising: a magnetics system comprising: a B0 magnet configured to provide a B0 field for the MRI system; gradient coils configured to provide gradient fields for the MRI system; and at least one RF coil configured to detect magnetic resonance (MR) signals; and a controller configured to: control the magnetics system to acquire MR spatial frequency data using non-Cartesian sampling; and generate an MR image from the acquired MR spatial frequency data using a neural network model comprising one or more neural network blocks including a first neural network block, wherein the first neural network block is configured to perform data consistency processing using a non-uniform Fourier transformation.
US11467221B2
A degradation-determination system includes at least four strain gauges that are installed on a principal surface of a lithium-ion battery and each of which is configured to detect pressure of a battery surface at a corresponding installation position, and a degradation determining unit configured to determine degradation of the lithium-ion battery based on measured values at the strain gauges. The degradation determining unit is configured to estimate a maximum expansion position where volume expansion is maximal in a region defined by the strain gauges, of the surface of the lithium-ion battery.
US11467218B2
The battery degradation detection device includes an impedance measurement unit and a degradation detection unit. The impedance measurement unit measures impedances of a battery at a plurality of frequencies. The impedance for at least one of the plurality of frequencies, measured by the impedance measurement unit, has a positive imaginary component. The degradation detection unit detects degradation of the battery on the basis of real components of the impedances at the plurality of frequencies detected by the impedance measurement unit.
US11467216B2
For each cell in a plurality of cells from a same manufacturing run, a first and a second cell characteristic are received in order to obtain a plurality of cell characteristics. For each cell, a batch compatibility number that is associated with a number of compatible cells that that cell is compatible with is determined based at least in part on the plurality of cell characteristics. The plurality of cells is sorted according to the batch compatibility numbers to obtain a sorted list of cells. A plurality of compatible cells to include in a battery is selected from the plurality of cells, including by evaluating the plurality of cells according to the order of the sorted list of cells and beginning with the lowest batch compatibility number.
US11467208B2
A method for releasing contact between probes and a substrate is provided. In a state where the probes are pressed against the substrate to be in contact with the substrate, a pressure is reduced in an inspection space that is surrounded by a substrate support having thereon the substrate, a tubular member attracting and holding the substrate support through a seal member, and a frame to which a probe card is fixed. The method includes raising an alignment mechanism to a predetermined position to be close to the substrate support, subsequently stopping the pressure reduction of the inspection space and supporting the substrate support by the alignment mechanism located at the predetermined position while preventing release of the contact, subsequently lowering the alignment mechanism supporting the substrate support to release the contact, and subsequently stopping the attracting and holding of the substrate support by the tubular member.
US11467204B2
Circuitry for testing an integrated capacitor that includes a first capacitor, a supply node for connecting to a voltage supply, a test node for connecting to the integrated capacitor, and a charge monitoring circuit. The circuitry is operable in a sequence of states including a first state in which the first capacitor is connected to the supply node and is disconnected from the test node so as to charge the first capacitor to a test voltage and a second state in which the first capacitor is disconnected from the supply node and is connected to the test node to apply the test voltage to the integrated capacitor. The charge monitoring circuit is configured to monitor a charge transfer from the first capacitor to the integrated capacitor in said second state and to generate a measurement value based on an amount of the charge transfer.
US11467200B2
Method and device for determining a fault location in an electric power distribution network with an infeed and lines in the form of a main strand and a multiplicity of branches of the main strand. First and second measured values are acquired at a first and second measurement point of the power distribution network, and a fault location is determined based on the first and the second measured values. Arrival of respective traveling waves are identified based on the first and the second measured values, and the times of the respective arrival of the traveling wave are stored. A first fault location value is generated using the respective times of both measurement points and a second fault location value is generated using the times of only the first measurement point. The fault location is determined based on the first fault location value and the second fault location value.
US11467196B2
An electronic circuit for detecting a change in a property of interest, the circuit comprising a voltage detector having an input and a device for providing a bias current to the input of the voltage detector, wherein the circuit is arranged such that a change in the property of interest modifies the current received at the input of the voltage detector. A change in the property of interest may modify the current by adding or subtracting a current to the bias current. The property of interest may be a signal which is combined with the bias current thereby to alter the current at the input of the voltage detector. The signal may be capacitively coupled into the bias current. The signal may be provided by a sensor, which may be a voltage generating sensor and could be an antenna, rectenna, microphone or any other suitable sensor.
US11467192B2
A microelectronic device has a common terminal transistor with two or more channels, and sense transistors in corresponding areas of the channels. The channels and the sense transistors share a common node in a semiconductor substrate. The sense transistors are configured to provide sense currents that are representative of currents through the corresponding channels. The sense transistors are located so that a ratio of the channel currents to the corresponding sense currents is less than a target value of cross-talk. The microelectronic device may be implemented without a compensation circuit which provides a compensation signal used to adjust one or more of the sense currents to reduce cross-talk. A method of forming the microelectronic device, including estimating a potential distribution in the semiconductor substrate containing the common node of the common terminal transistor, and selecting locations for the sense transistors based on the estimated potential distribution, is disclosed.
US11467187B2
A multiphase current measuring apparatus and method for measuring current of a multiconductor current system with N current conductors, where N>2, by determining a magnetic field strength difference in a measurement plane between conductor currents of adjacent current conductors by using the multiphase current measuring apparatus having N−1 magnetoresistive gradient sensors. At least one bypass conductor of at least one of the further current conductors is arranged with respect to each magnetoresistive gradient sensor for compensating a DC field component of the two adjacent current conductors. The DC component of the conductor currents of the two adjacent current conductors is suppressed by passing a bypass current of the at least one further current conductor through the bypass conductor symmetrically through the measurement plane of the magnetoresistive gradient sensor.
US11467172B1
A dispensing assembly and related methods to facilitate dispensing of a fluid sample from a sample cylinder may include a sensor connected to one or more of conduits of the dispensing assembly and configured to provide indication of a leak in the conduits. A cap assembly may include a cap body and one or more cap conduits positioned to engage with a flush fluid source and provide fluid flow between the flush fluid source and a flush conduit. The cap assembly further may include a first quick connect coupler for connection and disconnection to a second quick connect coupler connected to a flush conduit. A pressure control device may be provided to prevent damage resulting from pressure to containers containing flush fluid. Inlet and outlet conduits connecting to the sample cylinder may configured to be flexible and align with corresponding connectors on the sample cylinder.
US11467171B2
Described herein are methods and systems for the determination of constituents in biosamples by NMR spectroscopy and more specifically for the determination of lipoprotein constituents LP-X, LP-Y, and LP-Z in blood plasma and serum.
US11467169B2
The present invention relates to biomarkers associated with the clinical response to an FGF-18 compound before or during treatment of a cartilage disorder. It relates more particularly to specific proteins present in the blood, serum, synovial fluid or in the urine, which can be used as biomarkers for the diagnosis, pre-treatment of patients and during therapy of cartilage disorders. The invention can be used in predicting the response to an FGF-18 compound treatment, before starting the treatment or during the treatment. It could be used for selecting/identifying subjects to be treated according to specific doses and/or dosing regimens by intra-articular administration of an FGF-18 compound. The use of these biomarkers in diagnostics could result in increased benefit and reduced risk-benefit ratio in subjects.
US11467167B2
Provided herein are methods for developing selected reaction monitoring mass spectrometry (LC-SRM-MS) assays.
US11467161B2
The present invention relates to methods of diagnosing a kidney disorder in a patient, as well as methods of monitoring the progression of a kidney disorder and/or methods of monitoring a treatment protocol of a therapeutic agent or a therapeutic regimen. The invention also relates to assay methods used in connection with the diagnostic methods described herein.
US11467158B2
The present invention generally relates to the fields of cancer therapy and cancer prevention. More particularly, the present invention generally relates to a diagnostic marker for predicting the efficacy of topoisomerase I (topo I) inhibitors in the treatment of cancers. More specifically, the present invention relates to methods, machines, computer systems, computable readable media and kits which can be used to identify and determine the effectiveness of topoisomerase I (topo I) inhibitors in the treatment of cancers, and in some embodiments, the level of sensitivity or resistance of a tumor cell to a topoisomerase I inhibitor, such as camptothecin (CPT), or CPT analogues such as topotecan and irinotecan and derivatives thereof. More specifically, the present invention related to methods, machines, computer systems, computable readable media and kits which can be used to determine a mutation in the BRCA1 gene, e.g., in the RING domain and/or BRCT domain of BRCA1, and where the presence of such mutation which interferes with the interaction of BRCA1 with phosphorylated Topo I indicates that the subject who has the mutation is likely to be responsive to a topo I inhibitor, Other aspect of the present invention relate to assays and methods to screening candidate compounds to interrupt or interfere with the interaction of BRCA1 with phospho-serine10 topoisomerase I, and uses thereof.
US11467152B2
Provided is a method for evaluating the progression of glioma in an individual comprising monitoring the levels of circulating exosomes that are positive for survivin and a glial marker (such as glial fibrillary acidic protein). An increase in the level of such exosomes is indicative of poor prognosis. Levels of circulating exosomes that are positive for survivin and glial marker can also be used for evaluating the efficacy of a therapy for glioma in an individual, and modifying the therapy or introducing additional therapy if levels of such exosomes are found to be increasing.
US11467150B2
A system and method for characterizing matter, for example, soil organic content is disclosed. A radiation and electric field sensor measure sample properties before, during and after irradiation. Calibrations are developed relating those measurements to useful properties of matter, for example, soil density and organic content. As an example of an embodiment of the disclosed invention an instrument attachment for portable X-ray fluorescence instrumentation was prototyped enabling concurrent volumetric soil organic matter quantification. This primary prototype outperformed more expensive emerging visible-near infrared multivariate instrumentation using parsimonious soil specific simple linear regression (R2 ranged 0.85-0.97) enabling rapid, parallel, nondestructive, cost-effective acquisition of soil elemental concentrations together with organic content data.
US11467149B2
Disclosed herein is an electronic apparatus and method capable of identifying a state of an object. The electronic apparatus includes a light-emitting diode array configured to transmit light beams having different wavelengths, a photodiode array configured to receive the light beams, a display, and a processor configured to control the light-emitting diode array to transmit the light beams having the different wavelengths toward an object, identify a state of the object based on intensities reflected on the object according to the light beams having the different wavelengths that are received by the photodiode array, and display information about the state of the object on the display.
US11467137B2
When a flow path switch valve is in a first flow path state, an aqueous solvent supplied by an aqueous solvent supplier is guided to a first flow path, and a pH of the aqueous solvent is measured by a pH meter provided in the first flow path. When the flow path switch valve is in a second flow path state, the aqueous solvent supplied by the aqueous solvent supplier is guided to a second flow path. A sample to be analyzed is supplied by a sample supplier at a position farther downstream than the flow path switch valve. The solvent that has passed through the second flow path and the sample supplied by the sample supplier are guided to a separation column. The sample that has passed through the separation column is detected by a detector.
US11467136B2
A septum contains at least one internal chamber along the central axis of the septum. The chamber provides relief space into which the sealing sections of the septum can deform as a needle passes through the septum. Incorporation of the chamber reduces surface area contact and friction between the septum and needle, which results in reduced septum tearing and reduced production of particulate matter from abrasion.
US11467135B2
An online measuring system for the semi-volatile organic compounds in the gas phase is provided in the disclosure. The system comprises a filter head, a three-way electromagnetic valve, an enrichment-thermal desorption device, a two-position six-way valve, a mass flow controller, a gas pump, a gas chromatograph, a primary capture trap, a secondary focus trap, and a gas supply and pressure control system, the inlet of the filter head is connected to be provided with a sampling object, the outlet of the filter head is connected with the port B of the three-way electromagnetic valve through a passivated stainless steel tube, the port C of the three-way electromagnetic valve is connected with the inlet of the primary capture trap through a passivated stainless steel tube, and the port A of the three-way electromagnetic valve is connected to the gas supply and pressure control system through a passivated stainless steel tube.
US11467133B2
The present disclosure provides methods and systems for the characterization of a potential microtexture region (MTR) of a sample, component, or the like. The methods may include determining a threshold width of spatial correlation coefficient and/or a threshold spatial correlation coefficient slope for an actual MTR, characterizing a potential MTR as an actual MTR or a defect, characterizing an actual MTR as an acceptable MTR or not, and/or characterizing various components with potential MTRs as defective or not. The characterization may include calculating a width of spatial correlation coefficient and/or a spatial correlation coefficient slope of the potential MTR and comparing the width of spatial correlation coefficient to a threshold width of spatial correlation coefficient and/or comparing the spatial correlation coefficient slope to a threshold spatial correlation coefficient slope for the potential MTR to be characterized as an actual MTR or a defect (crack).
US11467121B2
Disclosed is a manufacturing method of a gas sensor. The gas sensor has a plate-shaped sensor element with at least one pair of electrode pads, a separator disposed around the sensor element, and at least one pair of opposed metal terminals held in an insertion hole of the separator and electrically connected at contact regions thereof to the respective electrode pads. The manufacturing method includes mounting the metal terminals in the insertion hole of the separator with use of a mounting jig. The mounting jig has a flat portion interposed between the contact regions of the metal terminals during the mounting of the metal terminals in the separator so as to prevent contact and entanglement of the opposed metal terminals.
US11467115B2
According to a further embodiment, a fluid sensor includes a fluid sensor element with a substrate including a recess for receiving a fluid to be examined, wherein the substrate surrounding the recess is formed, at least in parts, as a substrate electrode, an isolation layer arrangement between a floating gate electrode of a transistor and the substrate electrode and a sensor layer in the recess and adjacent to the floating gate electrode, an additional electrode at an opening area of the recess, wherein the additional electrode is arranged electrically isolated from the sensor layer, the substrate electrode and the floating gate electrode and is connected or connectable to a control potential and a processor configured to provide the control potential at the additional electrode such that an electric field between the additional electrode and the sensor layer is at least reduced or compensated during operation of the fluid sensor.
US11467111B2
A crack detection device for detecting a crack that occurs in a structure, includes: an MI cable that includes a metal sheath and a conductive wire accommodated in the metal sheath via a mineral insulating powder, and that is disposed along the structure so as to intersect an assumed crack C in a part of the structure where occurrence of a crack is assumed; a joint portion that is made of a metal that forms a joint when solidified from a melting state, and that joins the MI cable to the structure or a member fixed to the structure; and a detection device connected to both ends of a conductive wire, and configured to detect electrical characteristics of the conductive wire. The joint portion is present on one side and the other side with respect to the assumed crack C in a direction intersecting the assumed crack C.
US11467107B2
The X-ray analysis apparatus contains an X-ray generation unit. The X-ray generation unit includes a target plate having a target that is irradiated with an electron beam from an electron beam source and generates X-rays, X-ray convergence optics that converges X-rays generated from the target in conjunction with a movement of the target plate, and a driving unit that changes a position of the target plate or the X-ray convergence optics relative to the electron beam source.
US11467102B2
Various examples related to microwave dielectric analyzers and their use are provided. In one example, a microwave dielectric analyzer includes a measurement apparatus having a conductive electrode that can couple to a microwave analyzer and processing circuitry that can determine a dielectric characteristic of the dielectric specimen using a reflection coefficient measured by the microwave analyzer. The dielectric characteristic can be determined using a computational electromagnetic model of the measurement apparatus. The reflection coefficient can be measured by the microwave analyzer with the dielectric specimen in contact with the conductive electrode and/or sandwiched between conductive electrodes. The conductive electrodes can be axially aligned, and the second electrode may not be coupled to the microwave analyzer.
US11467100B2
A borescope for use within an unlit, closed conduit can include an elongated probe, an artificial light source illuminating the conduit, and a microlens array mounted to the probe. An imaging device can be in data communication with the microlens array.
US11467098B2
A system for monitoring a petrochemical installation is disclosed. The system can include an optical imaging system comprising an array of optical detectors. The system can comprise processing electronics configured to process image data detected by the optical imaging system. The processing electronics can be configured to detect a target species based at least in part on the processed image data. The processing electronics can further be configured to, based on a detected amount of the target species, transmit an alarm notification to an external computing device over a communications network indicating that the target species has been detected at the petrochemical installation.
US11467083B2
A system, apparatus, and method for analyzing cathodic protection (CP) current shielding of a coating are provided. The system includes: a test cell configured to have a coating film disposed therein and to be filled with electrically conductive solution surrounding the coating film; an electrical resistance (ER) probe mounted through a port of the test cell; and a potentiostat configured to: apply potential to the test cell to thereby polarize a sensing element of the ER probe such that the ER probe is configured to measure data indicative of a corrosion rate of the sensing element when the coating film is disposed within the test cell and while a CP current flows through the sensing element; and measure a current density through the sensing element in order to indicate an extent of CP current shielding of the coating film.
US11467071B2
The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for facing a tissue block. In some embodiments, a method is provided for facing a tissue block that includes imaging a tissue block to generate imaging data of the tissue block, the tissue block comprising a tissue sample embedded in an embedding material, estimating, based on the imaging data, a depth profile of the tissue block, wherein the depth profile comprises a thickness of the embedding material to be removed to expose the tissue sample to a pre-determined criteria, and removing the thickness of the embedding material to expose the tissue to the pre-determined criteria.
US11467065B2
An actuator comprising a linear electrical machine (LEM) having a stator with a stator bore and a translator axially movable within the stator bore and defining a magnetic circuit airgap therebetween, at least one fluid bearing journal formed on the translator, at least one fluid bearing providing a bearing gap adjacent the translator to allow the translator to move axially within the stator bore, a preload chamber for applying a preload force to the translator, wherein the preload chamber is defined by a side wall, a first end wall and a second end wall at least part of which is movable with the translator, and wherein the bearing gap and the magnetic circuit airgap are coaxial.
US11467062B2
An oil pressure switch, which is connected in an oil path of a piston oil cooling jet to diagnose oil pressure, includes an upper body and a lower body, in which a plunger vertically moves according to oil pressure; a fixing plate that is disposed between the upper body and the lower body; a moving plate that selectively contacts a fixing plate according to movement of the plunger; a spring that generates an elastic force in a direction in which the moving plate selectively contacts the fixing plate; an output terminal that outputs an output signal according to contact between the moving plate and the fixing plate; and a parallel resistor that is electrically connected with the output terminal and electrically connected with a control resistor of a controller.
US11467061B2
Aspects of the present disclosure describe a method for estimating mode field distribution in optical fibers from guided acoustic-wave Brillouin scattering wherein light for which the optical mode-field distribution is determined remains in the optical fibers and the distribution is made for light inside the fiber, and not at a fiber/air interface or other perturbation points to the fiber resulting in a more accurate representation of the optical mode-field distribution in the fiber. Since light is always in the fiber during the determination, no complicated fiber preparation steps or procedures are required and the mode-field distribution is determined as an average distribution along the length of the fiber under test.
US11467060B2
An optical pulse test apparatus according to the present disclosure includes a light generation unit configured to generate an optical pulse for generating backscattered light beams in an optical fiber under test and generate first light having an optical frequency for amplifying backscattered light in an LP11 mode out of the backscattered light beams in two LP modes through stimulated Brillouin scattering, and second light having an optical frequency for attenuating backscattered light in an LP01 mode out of the backscattered light beams in the two LP modes through stimulated Brillouin scattering, a mode demultiplexing unit configured to input the optical pulse, the first light, and the second light generated by the light generation unit into the optical fiber under test in the LP01 mode and separate, out of the backscattered light beams generated by the optical pulse, the backscattered light in the LP11 mode, a local oscillation light generation unit configured to generate local oscillation light by which the backscattered light separated by the mode demultiplexing unit is heterodyne-detected, a light reception unit configured to multiplex the backscattered light in the LP11 mode separated by the mode demultiplexing unit and the local oscillation light generated by the local oscillation light generation unit and photoelectrically convert the multiplexed light into an electrical signal, and an arithmetic processing unit configured to calculate a time-intensity distribution of the electrical signal obtained by the light reception unit photoelectrically converting the backscattered light in the LP11 mode.
US11467052B2
A system and method for detecting faulty engine anti-ice sensor is disclosed and may include obtaining first pressure data representing a first pressure over a period of time at a first engine anti-ice pressure sensor on an aircraft engine. The method may further include obtaining second pressure data representing a second pressure over the period of time at a second engine anti-ice pressure sensor on the aircraft engine. The method may also include generating a variance value based at least partially on a variance of a difference between the first pressure data and the second pressure data. The method may include providing an indication that liquid is within the first engine anti-ice pressure sensor or the second engine anti-ice pressure sensor when the variance value exceeds a threshold.
US11467050B2
An orientation device, an orientation system and an orientation method are provided. The orientation device includes a seat body, a pressure sensor, and a computing unit. The seat body includes a bearing surface, and the seat body is non-directional. The pressure sensor is disposed below the bearing surface. The pressure sensor is configured to obtain a plurality of pressure data of the bearing surface when an object is disposed on the bearing surface. The computing unit is coupled to the pressure sensor. The computing unit is configured to analyze the pressure data to obtain a direction data. The direction data is configured to determine a first direction of the seat body.
US11467047B2
A force sensing device includes: a substrate disposed inside a housing and spaced apart from inner side surfaces of a first force member and a second force member; a first inductor element mounted on a first surface of the substrate and spaced apart from the first force member, the first inductor element having a first inductance, variable at a time of force input pressing the first force member; a second inductor element mounted on the first surface of the substrate and spaced apart from the second force member, the second inductor element having a second inductance, variable at a time of force input; and a support member having one end contacting the first surface of the substrate between the first inductor element and the second inductor element and another end contacting an inner side surface of the housing between the first force member and the second force member.
US11467028B2
A road surface state determination device includes a tire-side device and a vehicle-body-side system. The tire-side device is attached to each of a plurality of tires included in a vehicle. The vehicle-body-side system is included in a body of the vehicle. The tire-side device may output a detection signal corresponding to a magnitude of vibration applied to the tire. The tire-side device may extract data items of a road surface state indicative of the vibration of the tire during one rotation of the tire from the detection signal. The tire-side device may generate road surface data. The tire-side device may transmit the road surface data. The vehicle-body-side system may receive the road surface data. The vehicle-body-side system may determine the road surface state based on the road surface data.
US11467023B2
A windshield structure (30) is provided for a weighing balance (100) having a base body (48), a floor (46), and a load receiving arrangement (11). The base body and the floor, which is attached to the base body, are positioned horizontal to the ground surface. The load receiving arrangement has a load receiver, with the windshield structure arranged below the load receiver. The windshield structure has a central portion and a circumferential portion that surrounds the central portion. The central portion also has a topological surface with a plurality of alternating hills (32) and valleys (31) which aid in regulating airflow below the load receiver.
US11467021B2
Provided is an electronic balance that enables a user to recognize the magnitude of disturbances in real time. An electronic balance (1) whose natural frequency is known, includes a load measurement mechanism (4) configured to detect weighing data (Zn), and an arithmetic processing unit (8) configured to perform arithmetic processing by using the weighing data (Zn), wherein the arithmetic processing unit (8) extracts a vibration component (Fr) of the natural frequency from the weighing data (Zn) detected by the load measurement mechanism (4) and displays the vibration component (Fr) of the natural frequency. By using the vibration component (Fr) of the natural frequency as an index of disturbances, it becomes possible to recognize in real time the magnitude of the disturbances during weighing.
US11467010B2
The present disclosure includes a method for determining the necessity of a measure and/or the success of a measure in the case of a sensor in a retractable assembly, comprising the steps: moving the sensor in the direction of a service chamber of the retractable assembly; analyzing an attribute associated with the sensor, wherein the attribute is a state of at least a portion of the surface of the sensor and/or composition of a medium in the service chamber; and deriving measures from the analysis. The present disclosure also includes a system comprising a retractable assembly having a sensor and a corresponding analysis device.
US11467009B2
The present disclosure relates to a connecting element for electrical connecting two electrical modules arranged in a transmitter housing of a field device, into which transmitter housing the connecting element is insertable, the connecting element including: at least two essentially rod-shaped metal conductor elements, each with two opposing end sections, wherein the conductor elements are arranged in a defined separation relative to one another; and surrounding the conductor elements and electrically insulating them from one another, a multi-membered insulating body including two insulating body end segments of at least a first synthetic material and an insulating body intermediate segment of a second synthetic material different from the first synthetic material, wherein the first synthetic material has a modulus of elasticity greater than a modulus of elasticity of the second synthetic material.
US11467008B1
In general, the subject matter described in this disclosure can be embodied in methods, systems, and program products for receiving an indication that a vehicle has begun accelerating from a stationary state. A computing system sets, in response to having received the indication that the vehicle has begun accelerating from the stationary state, an orientation value generated using a gyroscope to a default orientation value. The computing system repeatedly updates the orientation value generated using the gyroscope, based on changes in gyroscope orientation that occurred after the computing system set the orientation value to the default orientation value. The computing system determines that the updated orientation value satisfies criteria that indicates that the vehicle is likely to encounter or has encountered a dangerous situation. The computing system outputs a signal to cause the vehicle to employ a safety measure.
US11467005B2
A position sensing system for sensing a position of an input shaft of a variable differential transformer (VDT), comprising said VDT, which comprises first and second AC signal output means that are configured to output a first AC output signal and a second AC output signal respectively. The sensing system further comprises AC/DC converting means configured to convert said first AC output signal to a first DC output signal and an AC/DC converting means configured to convert said second AC output signal to a second DC signal. The first and second DC output signals each indicate an individual position of said input shaft.
US11466995B2
Systems, computing devices, and methods for indicating a geographic location of transportation for a user are disclosed. According to an aspect, a method includes determining an approximate time when a user is expected to use a mode of transportation. The method also includes determining an estimated time to travel from a current geographic location of the user to a current geographic location of the mode of transportation. Further, the method includes presenting, via a computing device of the user, a message at a time based on the determined approximate time and the determined estimated time.
US11466994B2
Systems and methods for optimizing issue reporting in a navigation environment are provided. In example embodiments, a networked system causes presentation of a navigation user interface on a user device of a user, whereby the navigation user interface includes a route being navigated and navigation instructions. The networked system also causes presentation of one or more issue icons on the user device, whereby each issue icon represents a different type of issue to be reported. A selection of an issue icon from the one or more issue icons is received by the networked system. In response to receiving the selection of the issue icon, the networked system infers a location associated with the issue. The networked system updates a database with the issue and the inferred location. In some embodiments, the database is updated after the inferred location or the issue is verified.
US11466987B2
The present invention reduces measurement time. A gyroscope of the present invention includes a planar ion trap part, a microwave irradiation part, a laser irradiation part and a measurement part. The planar ion trap part includes two rf electrodes and two DC electrode rows, and forms ion traps that trap one ion on a substrate, a normal direction of the surface of the planar ion trap part corresponds to a z direction. The rf electrodes are disposed in the x direction on the substrate at a predetermined interval. The DC electrode rows are disposed in the x direction on the substrate so as to sandwich the two rf electrodes. The DC electrode rows each include at least five DC electrodes in the x direction. The trapped ions are spaced so as not to interfere with each other. The microwave irradiation part irradiates the ions with π/2 microwave pulses.
US11466983B2
The disclosure relates to an ultrasound-based method for calculating wall thickness, or a change thereof, in points within a monitored area of a wall, said method being based on measurement results from a process in which acoustic, guided waves are transmitted from transmitting transducers, propagated in the wall, received by receiving transducers and then recorded. Each recorded signal is interpreted as carrying information about the wall thickness, or change thereof since a previous measurement, throughout a measured section comprising a two-dimensional area of the wall. The wall thickness, or change thereof, is at least in part calculated for each segment of the monitored area, wherein a segment is a subset of the monitored area contained in a distinct combination of the measured sections. The disclosure further relates to an apparatus for acoustic, guided-wave measurement or monitoring of wall thickness, or a change thereof.
US11466981B2
System for diagnosing the wheel alignment of a vehicle includes a measuring device configured to measure a characteristic parameter of the wheel alignment, wherein the measuring device comprises a wireless communication device to remotely transmit a signal related to the characteristic parameter. The system further comprises a portable remote device, distinct and separate from the measuring device, having a wireless communication device to remotely receive the signal related to the measured characteristic parameter, and a control unit adapted to receive the related signal from the wireless communication device and to carry out a step of processing the signal to derive a value of the characteristic parameter. The portable remote device further has a screen to display a characteristic information representative of the value of the characteristic parameter, and a battery connected to the wireless communication device, to the control unit and to the screen to allow their respective operation.
US11466980B2
A lithographic process is used to form a plurality of target structures distributed at a plurality of locations across a substrate and having overlaid periodic structures with a number of different overlay bias values distributed across the target structures. At least some of the target structures comprising a number of overlaid periodic structures (e.g., gratings) that is fewer than said number of different overlay bias values. Asymmetry measurements are obtained for the target structures. The detected asymmetries are used to determine parameters of a lithographic process. Overlay model parameters including translation, magnification and rotation, can be calculated while correcting the effect of bottom grating asymmetry, and using a multi-parameter model of overlay error across the substrate.
US11466971B2
There is provided an automatic measurement device that automates a contact type measuring instrument, which is inexpensive and good usability. An automatic measurement device includes a measuring instrument support base portion that supports a measuring instrument and a workpiece holding base portion that holds a workpiece in a measurement region of the measuring instrument. The measuring instrument support base portion includes a measuring instrument holder that holds a fixed element of the measuring instrument and an automatic operation unit attachable to and detachable from the measuring instrument. The automatic operation unit is configured to automate advance and retreat of the movable element of the measuring instrument by a power from a motor.
US11466967B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for a shooting target mounting bracket with improved portability, versatility, and safety over existing devices. The mounting bracket is easily adjustable for height, compactable for transportation, and compatible with existing target posts and existing target shapes.
US11466965B2
A non-lethal dazzling device includes a laser operable in the visible spectrum. The laser can be a relatively low-powered laser, such as a laser having a maximum output power of 2.5 mW, or it can be a higher-powered laser with a drive circuit that lowers the maximum output power to a safe level based on the range of the hostile target from the laser. In certain embodiments, the disclosed non-lethal dazzling device can be coupled to the bridge of a binocular device.
US11466947B2
A linear encoder may be used to accurately determine a number of cartridges within a magazine. Further, using a set of magnetic sensors within a buffer tube of a firearm, it is possible to determine whether a cartridge is loaded within a chamber of the weapon and/or whether the firearm is jammed. The determination of cartridges within the magazine in conjunction with the determination of whether a cartridge is in a chamber of a firearm can give a user an accurate ammunition count. Further, the use of the linear encoder makes it possible to accurately determine the cartridge count when different cartridges are loaded into the magazine or when the magazine degrades in quality over time. Moreover, the ability for magazines to communicate with a firearm enables a user to determine a total available ammunition to the user in a single display without individually checking each magazine.
US11466938B2
The disclosure relates to a heat transfer assembly for a rotary regenerative heat exchanger. The assembly includes a rotor arranged between at least two separated fluid flow passages passing flow axially through the rotor, where each flow passage is connected to a sector part of the rotor. The assembly further includes a plurality of channels in the rotor for flowing a fluid through the rotor, each of the channels is enclosed by heat transfer and heat accumulating surfaces in the rotor, and the heat transfer and heat accumulating surfaces of the channels are made in a material providing an average axial thermal conductivity less than 100 W/mK arranged to reduce the Longitudinal Heat Conductivity of the rotor.
US11466935B2
Systems and methods for altering microstructures of materials are disclosed. The system may include at least one computing device in communication with a heating device and an electromagnetic device. The computing device(s) may be configured to alter a microstructure of a material forming a component by performing processes including heating the component using the heating device to a predetermined temperature. The predetermined temperature may be below a first phase-transformation temperature based on the material forming the component, and a second phase-transformation temperature based on the material forming the component, where the second phase-transformation temperature greater than the first phase-transformation temperature. The computing device(s) may also perform processes including intermittently magnetizing the heated component using the electromagnetic device for a predetermined number of cycles, and cooling the component after intermittently magnetizing the heated component.
US11466934B2
A hinged protective collar for a kiln with rigid first and second body portions, each with a shape and size corresponding to the shape and size of a portion of a peripheral edge surface of the kiln sidewall and a hinge structure that pivotally couples the first and second body portions so they can be pivoted from a collapsed configuration to an expanded, use configuration. For a kiln with a faceted shape, each of the first and second body portions has a given number of corresponding facets. The hinged protective collar can span a portion of the periphery of the kiln, or the hinged protective collar could span 360 degrees and could have first and second hinge structures coupling the first and second body portions. The first and second body portions can have upturned proximal and, additionally or alternatively, distal end portions to prevent damage to kiln brick.
US11466919B2
A portable cooler container is provided. The temperature control system cools a chamber of the container to transport temperature sensitive contents via the container. An electronic display screen on one of the lid and the container body selectively displays an electronic shipping label for the portable cooler container.
US11466908B2
A heat exchanger includes heat exchange fins, refrigerant pipes are arranged across the heat exchange fins, and connecting pipes connected to the refrigerant pipes to thereby define refrigerant passages. The connecting pipes include a first pipe portion having a first end connected to one of the refrigerant pipes, a branch pipe portion that is branched from the first pipe portion, that extends parallel to the first pipe portion, and that is connected to another of the refrigerant passages, and a second pipe that is connected to the first pipe portion and that is configured to guide gas-phase refrigerant separated from the refrigerant in the first pipe portion. The second pipe includes an inner insert portion inserted into a second end of the first pipe portion and an outlet portion that extends from the inner insert portion in direction opposite to the second end of the first pipe portion.
US11466906B2
Disclosed is a heat transfer system with a module that includes a peripheral frame (10) and an electrocaloric element (46) disposed in an opening in the peripheral frame. The electrocaloric element includes an electrocaloric film (46), a first electrode (48) on a first side of the electrocaloric film, and a second electrode (50) on a second side of the electrocaloric film. First and second electrically conductive elements (24, 25) are disposed adjacent to first and second surfaces of the peripheral frame, and provide an electrical connection to the first and second electrodes.
US11466896B2
Provided is a heating blower, comprising an air duct, a motor and a wind wheel arranged in the air duct, and a heating device arranged at a first air outlet of the air duct; the wind wheel is fixed to a rotating shaft of the motor; the heating device comprises a housing, an electric heater, a rotary assembly and an air deflector; the housing is sleeved on the first air outlet, forming an inner chamber, which comprises a first area facing directly to the first air outlet and a second area not facing directly to the first air outlet; the electric heater is arranged in one of the first area and the second area; one end of the air deflector is fixedly arranged on the rotary assembly, and the other end of the air deflector rotates with the rotary assembly between the first area and the second area, separating the first area and the second area, so that the first air outlet is communicated with one of the first area and the second area.
US11466893B2
A packaged terminal air conditioner (PTAC) system includes a wall sleeve in which a chassis is mounted. The chassis includes the major electrical and mechanical components for the evaporator and condenser sections, and includes a pan that collects condensate from the evaporator section for use in cooling the condenser coil. The sleeve includes one or more guide openings in a sidewall, and correspondingly mounted guide structures inside the sleeve that are configured to guide spheroid-shaped treatment pellets into different portions of the PTAC system to suppress or inhibit microbial growth. This arrangement obviates the need to partially disassemble the PTAC unit to remove the chassis so that treatment pellets can be placed into the PTAC unit. The bottom of the wall sleeve includes a drain reservoir and is sloped to direct water on the bottom to the drain reservoir.
US11466891B2
An indoor unit includes a housing, an air duct member, and a thermal insulation tube. The housing has an accommodating cavity. the air duct member is detachably mounted in the accommodating cavity. A mounting space is formed at a side of the air duct member in a length direction of the air duct member. The mounting space has a mounting opening facing an outside of the housing. The thermal insulation tube includes a tube section extending along a direction perpendicular to the length direction of the air duct member. The tube section is at least partially arranged in the mounting space.
US11466886B2
An artificial intelligence (AI) device includes a display, a communication unit configured to transmit indoor air quality information received from an air quality measurement device and meta information input through the display to an AI server, and a processor configured to receive an air quality analysis report generated based on outdoor air quality information, the indoor air quality information and the meta information from the AI server through the communication unit and display the received air quality analysis report on the display. The air quality analysis report includes a first analysis report including a result of analyzing an indoor air quality condition during a measurement period of the air quality measurement device, and a second analysis report including an air quality type according to the indoor air quality condition and a solution for fine dust management according to the air quality type.
US11466878B2
An HVAC system having a fan coil and an oxygen concentrator.
US11466860B2
A fuel supply assembly for a gas turbine engine comprises a plurality of fuel injectors configured for mounting circumferentially to an engine casing of the gas turbine engine and to be serially interconnected. At least one pair of the plurality of the fuel injectors has a first fuel injector including a first manifold adapter having a first outlet defined around a first outlet axis, and a first stem connected to the first manifold adapter at the first outlet and extending longitudinally along a first stem axis; and a second fuel injector including a second manifold adapter having a second outlet defined around a second outlet axis, and a second stem connected to the second manifold adapter at the second outlet, the first and second outlet axes being disposed circumferentially between the first and second stem axes.
US11466859B2
A nozzle assembly for a gas turbine engine, comprising: a nozzle at a downstream end of the assembly relative to fuel flow; a first and a second body upstream of the nozzle, the first body defining a first passage between a first inlet connectable to a source and a first outlet, and the second body defining a second passage between a second inlet and a second outlet in fluid communication with the nozzle, the inlets in fluid communication with each other; the bodies matingly engaged together along an axis, the inlets spaced apart relative to the axis to define a gallery having a depth in an axial direction and a width in a transverse direction; and a gap filler within the gallery, compressible in at least one of the directions, having an uncompressed dimension greater than a corresponding dimension of the gallery in the at least one of the directions.
US11466857B2
A self-pumping fuel injector includes a pump and a motor for, in-part, delivering fuel to a combustor at higher fuel pressures during start-up and ramping-up conditions. Each pump may include a stationary flow interuptor that intermittently and variably supplies fuel to a rotating spindle that, in-turn, expels the fuel into a nozzle of the injector for improve fuel spray distributions.
US11466834B2
A plastic glazing of a window of a vehicle having a light feature includes a first vehicle window glazing component, a second vehicle window glazing component molded onto the first vehicle window glazing component, and a light unit configured to produce light for the light feature. The light unit being integrated with at least one of the following: the first vehicle window glazing component and the second vehicle window glazing component. The light unit further configured to direct the light for the light feature through or from at least one of the following: the first vehicle window glazing component and the second vehicle window glazing component. The plastic glazing is a one-piece molded plastic construction. At least one of the first vehicle window glazing component and the second vehicle window glazing component is translucent or transparent.
US11466833B2
A lighting device is attached to a vehicle and includes a forward facing visible light source that emits visible light in a forward direction relative to the vehicle. The lighting device further includes a rearward facing ultraviolet light source that emits ultraviolet light in a rearward direction relative to the vehicle, such that a reflecting material of an object, which is not illuminated by the visible light source, is illuminated by the ultraviolet light source. A control device is connected to the light sources, and is configured to turn the light sources on and off. A light sensor is connected to the control device and is configured to sense ambient light and to provide a signal to the control device. The control device is configured to turn the ultraviolet light source on and off responsive to the signal of the light sensor.
US11466829B2
A flame lamp made of filament lamps, including a fixing device, a controller and one or a plurality of LED filament lamps, wherein the LED filament lamps are fixedly installed on the fixing device and electrically connected with the controller, and the controller is used for controlling the light emitting frequency and pulse brightness of the LED filament lamps. Each LED filament lamp includes at least two light sources from top to bottom, wherein the light emitting frequencies and/or the pulse brightnesses of the at least two light sources are different. Each LED filament lamp is vertically arranged, and the upper end and the lower end of each LED filament lamp are fixedly connected with the fixing device. Various specific assembly methods are provided. The present invention innovatively makes a flame lamp of filament lamps and uses one or a combination of a plurality of filaments to achieve the luminous effect of a flame through different assembly structures and flashing methods, which can effectively simplify the production process, reduce production cost and provide a good visual effect.
US11466828B2
A lighting system that includes a lighting device and a dimming controller. The lighting device has a support structure that supports multiple lighting zones. Each lighting zone including one or more lighting sources. The dimming controller is in communication with multiple dimmers supported by the lighting device. Each of the lighting sources is coupled to a corresponding dimmer from the multiple dimmers. The dimming controller is configured to communicate a controlled setting for one or more of the lighting zones to the multiple dimmers. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
US11466827B2
Various aspects of a light emitting apparatus include a substrate having at least one angled portion. Some aspects of the light emitting apparatus include at least one light emitting device arranged on the substrate. Some aspects of the light emitting apparatus include a plurality of conductors arranged on the substrate. In some aspects of the light emitting apparatus, the conductors are electrically coupled to the at least one light emitting device.
US11466824B1
A security light having optional connection to multiple power supplies. The lighting controller can sense the appropriate connected supply and automatically connect to three different power supplies which include house voltage connection through a typical junction box, a remote solar charging station, and on-board batteries that can be used as a third backup power supply. Additional implementations include power outage detection and backup illumination along with low voltage power supply from a mounting structure.
US11466820B2
A luminaire driver system comprising: a package with input connections for connection to a power supply and output connections for connection to a light emitting device; a predetermined set of circuits arranged in said package; said predetermined set of circuits being adapted to perform a driving functionality of the light emitting device; a receiving means configured for receiving a pluggable module comprising a further circuit, such that the pluggable module can be received from outside of the package, wherein the further circuit is connected to the predetermined set of circuits when the pluggable module is plugged in the receiving means; and connections which are connected to the further circuit when the pluggable module is plugged in the receiving means; wherein the connections are accessible by a user from outside of the package.
US11466807B2
An insulation device for a low-temperature pipe according to the present disclosure includes: a pair of primary insulation materials surrounding a first radially outer surface and a second radially outer surface of the pipe; a pair of secondary insulation materials surrounding outer surfaces of the primary insulation materials; a pair of tertiary insulation materials surrounding outer surfaces of the secondary insulation materials; a pair of finishing covers surrounding outer surfaces of the tertiary insulation materials; an out-profile coupled to each of the finishing covers so as to surround each of widthwise opposite ends of the finishing cover; and an in-profile coupled to each of the finishing covers so as to surround each of lengthwise opposite ends of the finishing cover, wherein the pair of secondary insulation materials are configured such that each of opposed contact surfaces thereof is formed in a shape bent at least one time.
US11466786B2
The invention relates to a valve (1, 1a), in particular an expansion valve, for controlling fluid flow, having a valve central housing (10, 10a) having a first and a second opening (12, 12a, 14, 14a) and a valve element (20, 20a) which has a rotationally symmetrical outline and is arranged rotatably within the valve element housing (10, 10a). According to the invention, the valve element (20, 20a) has a cut-out, wherein the cut-out (30, 30a, 30b, 30c) has a variable dimension, and a sub region (32, 32a) of the cutout (30, 30a, 30b, 30c) is formed continuously through the valve element (20, 20a).
US11466777B2
A sliding element for an internal combustion engine may include a base material having an annular external surface. The external surface may include a bonding layer, a first layer of coating, and a second layer of coating sequentially disposed thereon. The first layer of coating and the second layer of coating may include hard amorphous carbon (DLC) of a combined matrix having a plurality of sp3/sp2 bonds. The first layer of coating may include 45% sp3 bonds or less and may have a thickness of at least 10 micrometers. The second layer of coating may include at least 55% sp3 bonds and may have a thickness of at least 3 micrometers.
US11466774B2
In a hydraulic control device switchable between a first state in which a first oil is supplied from a first pump to a hydraulic operation part via a bypass valve and a second state in which the first oil supplied from the first pump is pressurized by using the second pump and the pressurized first oil is supplied, as a second oil, to the hydraulic operation part, when the second pump is stopped in the second state, control that gradually decreases a target rotation speed of the second pump is performed, and rates at which the target rotation speed of the second pump decreases differ in a case where the second pump is stopped in an operation-allowed region and in a case where the second pump is stopped when the second pump is determined as in an operation-disallowed region.
US11466771B2
A controller drives a shifting actuator to move a first engagement member from an original position of a first engagement portion in one direction along a relative motion path and acquires first position information representing a first position, the first position being a position where the first engagement portion moved in the one direction contacts a second engagement portion. The controller drives the shifting actuator to move the first engagement member from the original position in the other direction along the relative motion path and acquires second position information representing a second position where the first engagement portion moved in the other direction contacts the second engagement portion. The controller calculates a center position of the first engagement portion on the relative motion path from the acquired first position information and the acquired second position information, compares the calculated center position to the original position.
US11466768B2
A transmission includes a housing, a plurality of components, and a cooling system. The housing has a plurality of walls that cooperate to define an interior space and a sump configured to store lubricating fluid in use of the transmission. The plurality of components are arranged in the interior space and configured to cooperatively transmit rotational power between an input shaft and an output shaft of the transmission to reduce a rotational speed of the output shaft relative to a rotational speed of the input shaft in use of the transmission. At least one of the plurality of components is supplied with lubricating fluid stored by the sump in use of the transmission. The cooling system is supported by the housing.
US11466766B2
Gear devices and methods for operating gear devices are provided. In one example, a gear device is provided that comprises structures designed to attenuate targeted vibrations occurring during rotation of the gear device. The structures includes radially aligned struts extending between an inner carrier and an outer carrier, a plurality of openings arranged between the struts, and/or resonators extending between sequential struts.
US11466764B1
A vehicle having a pair of electric actuators for use with a pair of drive apparatuses is disclosed herein. For each actuator, an electric motor drives a reduction gear train to position a control shaft, the reduction gear train having a worm drive that motivates a spur gear reduction. The housing of the electric actuator features a motor chamber to accommodate the electric motor and is sealed by a cap having an electric connector.
US11466762B2
Provided is a ball screw device which enables easy production and assembly of a nut member and formation of an endless circulation path for balls in the nut member with high accuracy. The nut member includes a plurality of nut components arranged in a superposed manner along an axial direction of a screw shaft. At a boundary portion between the nut components which are adjacent to each other, a raceway path for balls extending around a periphery of the screw shaft is formed. A joining surface of each of the nut components used for joining with another one of the nut components includes: a raceway forming surface which is annularly formed around the through hole; and an abutment surface for joining which is formed on an outer side in a radial direction with respect to the raceway forming surface.
US11466760B2
A solar tracking system includes a solar array, support beams that support the solar array, a torque tube coupled to the support beams, a base that rotatably supports the torque tube, and an articulation system that rotates the torque tube relative to the base. The articulation system includes an outer tube, a screw rod, and a nut and/or inner tube that rotates and translates along a length of the screw rod as the screw rod rotates. The interior portion of the outer tube includes helical grooves and the exterior portion of the nut or inner tube includes ridges or rollers that mate with the helical grooves, which cause the nut and/or inner tube to rotate as the nut and/or inner tube is translated along a length of the screw rod when the screw rod is rotated by the motor.
US11466754B2
The present invention is a chain structure of bicycles, which comprises a plurality of rollers, a plurality of chain sheets and a plurality of chain rollers. Wherein the rollers define a mounting space. Each chain sheet comprises a chain body, a first pivot joint part extending from one end of chain body and to be arranged in the mounting space, a second pivot joint part horizontally extending from the other end of chain body, the second pivot joint part is installed on the roller with the first pivot joint part, wherein the first pivot joint part is in a horizontal position different from chain body, the first pivot joint part defines a rotation space for placing the second pivot joint part of another chain sheet, so that the first pivot joint part and second pivot joint part can rotate a preset angle in the rotation space. When the chain sheets are combined with rollers respectively, the chain bodies remain on the same plane, the chain roller penetrates the second pivot joint part and the first pivot joint part respectively for connecting the roller to the chain sheets on both sides of roller. Thereby, the chain is thinned and the weight is reduced, the tensile strength is increased by thickening the chain sheet.
US11466752B2
Elements of a transmission belt wound around pulleys of a continuously variable transmission each include a body part, a pair of pillar parts, and a pair of side surfaces. The pair of side surfaces each include a first side surface formed on a corresponding one of the pillar parts; and a second side surface formed so as to continue from the first side surface, and located more on an inner circumference side than the first side surface. A pair of the first side surfaces each are formed so as to be inclined toward an inner side of a corresponding one of the pillar parts with respect to an extending direction, from an inner circumference side to an outer circumference side of a ring, of a corresponding one of the second side surfaces continuing from the first side surface, and a pair of the second side surfaces is formed such that the second side surfaces are spaced farther apart from each other as the second side surfaces extend from the inner circumference side to the outer circumference side, and that an angle formed between the pair of the second side surfaces is larger by 0.2 to 0.8 degrees than an opening angle of V-shaped grooves of the pulleys.
US11466738B2
The invention relates to a method and an apparatus for ascertaining a positional deviation of a brake disc (30) relative to a caliper seat (11). According to the invention, an angular deviation (34) from the parallel between the brake disc (30) and the caliper seat (11) is measured in that an apparatus (1) for ascertaining the positional deviation of the brake disc (30) is connected to the caliper seat (11), the apparatus (1) comprising at least two distance sensors (20, 22) that are stationary with respect to the caliper seat (11) and take measurements in the direction of a first flat face of the brake disc (30), the distance sensors (20, 22) transmitting distances (A, A′) between the first flat face of the brake disc (30) and the distance sensors (20, 22) measured at different radii (R, R′) of the brake disc (30) to an evaluation device, the angular deviation (34) of the brake disc (30) being ascertained by the evaluation device from the distances.
US11466728B2
A bearing including a backing formed of a steel material, a lining formed of aluminum or an aluminum alloy, and a diffusion barrier layer disposed between the backing and the lining is provided. The diffusion barrier layer is formed of nickel or a nickel alloy and has a thickness ranging from 1 micron to 100 microns. The bearing is typically formed by cladding the lining or plating the steel backing with the diffusion barrier layer, bonding the lining and the backing with the diffusion barrier layer between, heating to a temperature of at least 400° C., and forming the bearing into a shape after or before the heating step.
US11466725B2
A composite shaft with an end fitting mounted on one end of said shaft and a preload structure arranged to provide a biasing force to bias the composite shaft against the end fitting. The end fitting has a first interface surface, the first interface surface being tapered at an angle to the shaft axis and the shaft has a second interface surface for engagement with the first interface surface and is tapered at an angle to the shaft axis, the second interface surface extending axially from a first end to a second end, the shaft being thicker at the second end than at the first end. The shaft has a third interface surface and the preload structure has a fourth interface surface and the contact pressure of the third interface against the fourth interface increases from the first end of the shaft to the second end of the shaft.
US11466722B2
A floating fastener includes a position-limiting cover with a perforation and a protruding butting portion, a locking member having a head, a shaft and a locking portion, a stopper having a vertical movement hole for the shaft to pass through and a plurality of locking points formed in the vertical movement hole, and a socket having an accommodating groove providing a bottom surface and a through space and a bottom positioning portion for fixation to a first preset plate. The locking portion of the locking member is inserted into the through space. The position-limiting cover outside the shaft covers the top of the socket. The stopper outside the shaft is limited to the limiting space between the protruding butting portion and the accommodating groove, and the locking portion of the locking member can be tilted and locked into a second preset plate.
US11466710B2
An actuating mechanism includes a target, a smasher, an elastic component, and a blocker. The smasher is movably disposed at a side of the target. The elastic component is configured to provide an elastic force to drive the smasher to move toward the target. The blocker is movably disposed corresponding to the smasher. When the blocker contacts the smasher, the blocker clamps the smasher. When the blocker is moved to a position where the clamping to the smasher is released, the smasher is driven by the elastic force to move toward and smash the target. An electronic device is also provided.
US11466702B2
Improved systems and methods for cleaning a filter are described, including apparatuses that include a built-in mechanism for cleaning a filter screen. The system can include a brush mounted in contact with a filter screen, adapted so that the brush can be moved to clean the filter screen. In some versions, the brush rotates with an axis of rotation perpendicular to a plane defined by a substantially planar filter screen. In other versions, the brush is adapted to be moved by a gravitational force along a surface of a filter screen upon removal of a pump housing from a pump well. In still other versions, a substantially cylindrical brush is mounted nested with a substantially semi-cylindrical filter screen, and the brush can be rotated while in contact with the filter screen and with an axis of rotation aligned with a longitudinal axis of the filter screen.
US11466701B2
To provide a vacuum pump suited for removal of a product deposited in a flow path of the vacuum pump, and a stator component, a discharge port, and control means that are used in the vacuum pump. A vacuum pump includes a flow path through which a gas is transferred from an inlet port toward an outlet port and removing means that removes a product deposited on an inner wall surface of the flow path. The removing means has injection holes with one ends opened at the inner wall surface of the flow path and injects the removing gas into the flow path through the injection holes.
US11466700B2
A turbine engine for an aircraft can includes a casing. The casing can be a fan casing surrounding a fan assembly for drawing air into the turbine engine. The fan casing can have a peripheral wall. A surface cooler can be provided in the turbine engine confronting the peripheral wall of the fan casing. The surface cooler can have a mounting bracket for mounting the surface cooler to the fan casing.
US11466698B2
An actuator assembly includes a first actuator, a second actuator, and a moving piece that is disposed between the first actuator and the second actuator. The moving piece is positionable to close a gap in the compressor.
US11466693B2
A high speed electric blower is provided. A rotor assembly of the blower has a bearing, a moving impeller and a magnetic ring. A housing of the blower has a bearing chamber. The diameter of the magnetic ring is smaller than the diameter of the bearing chamber. The magnetic ring can pass through the bearing chamber. The moving impeller and the magnetic ring are respectively located at either end of the bearing chamber. The single bearing is located between the moving impeller and the magnetic ring of the rotating shaft.
US11466684B2
A compressor may include a casing; an electric motor provided in the casing and that operates a rotational shaft; and a compression device. A flow path guide may be installed between the electric motor and the compression device, and may separate a refrigerant flow path from an oil flow path. The flow path guide may have a first partition wall and a second partition wall which are spaced apart from each other. In addition, the flow path guide may have an oil discharge port formed in at least a section of the flow path guide along a circumferential direction thereof, the oil discharge port allowing a guide space between the first partition wall and the second partition wall to be open toward the inner surface of the casing.
US11466675B2
A reciprocating piston air compressor includes a programmable logic controller, a tank, a motor, a pump, a variable speed drive, a head unloader and a cooling system. The programmable logic controller and/or variable speed drive are utilized to monitor the operating state of the air compressor and to control various operational variables, such as motor and pump speed. The air compressor can utilize the variable speed drive to operate a three phase motor on single-phase power.
US11466674B2
An air flow generating device includes an enclosing wall, a frame sheet, a cover film, and a vibrating part. The frame sheet is disposed inside an air flow passage formed by the enclosing wall and closely contacts the air flow passage by its periphery. The cover film includes a central connection portion fixed to a central portion of the frame sheet, and a plurality of movable cover portions connected to the central connection portion. The cover film is between the frame sheet and an outlet of the air flow passage. The movable cover portions selectively cover a plurality of through holes of the frame sheet. The vibrating part is fixed on the frame sheet. When the vibrating part vibrates, the central portion and the central connection portion move together with the vibrating part so that the movable cover portions seal the through holes or move relative to the through holes.
US11466670B2
A thermobimetal heat driven turbine having a rotor, and a series of vanes extending from the rotor wherein the vanes comprise two or more separate materials laminated together, said two separate materials having different coefficients of expansion whereby exposure to a heat source causes the two separate materials to expand at different rates thereby re-shaping the vanes to drive the rotor. The rotating turbine is thus able to generate power using direct heat from an energy source. The heat source may be radiant, convection and/or conduction type heat.
US11466667B2
Wind turbine lightning stroke diagnostic apparatus for a wind turbine having conductive blades. A lightning protection system input is provided for receiving measured current data associated with a current conducted by the lightning protection system following a lightning stroke. An air pressure sensor is mounted using a mount within an internal cavity of a conducive wind turbine blade assembly. A sensor monitor monitors the measured current data and the output of the air pressure sensor for identifying a bypass lightning stroke when a measured current increase coincides with the detection of a lightning generated shockwave within the internal cavity by the air pressure sensor.
US11466665B2
There is provided a method of installing a wind turbine rotor blade. A holding unit is releasably fixed at the exterior to the rotor blade without intervention in the surface of the rotor blade. A holding cable is fixed to the holding unit. The rotor blade is installed on the hub of the wind turbine, for which purpose the rotor blade is pulled up for example by means of a crane. The holding unit is released by changing the pitch of the rotor blade.
US11466659B2
A multirotor wind turbine (1) comprising a yaw arrangement (6) and a tower (2) is disclosed. A load carrying structure comprises first and second arms (3) extending from the yaw arrangement (6) and carrying energy generating units (4). the yaw arrangement (6) comprises an outer wall part (7) arranged coaxially with the tower (2) and forming a closed ring extending circumferentially about an outer surface of the tower (2), thereby forming a space (8) between the tower (2) and the outer wall part (7). The outer wall part (7) and the outer surface of the tower (2) are rotatable relative to each other.
US11466657B2
To suppress a failure of ignition of a fuel caused by a spark plug while suppressing wear of an electrode of the spark plug in an internal combustion engine. A control device 1 for an internal combustion engine includes an ignition control unit that controls energization of an ignition coil 300 that applies electric energy to a spark plug 200 that discharges in a cylinder 150 of an internal combustion engine 100 to ignite a fuel. The ignition control unit continuously transmits a first pulse signal (pulse signal for corona discharge) to an igniter connected to the ignition coil 300 before dielectric breakdown between electrodes of the spark plug 200, and continuously transmits a second pulse signal (pulse signal for arc discharge) to the igniter after the dielectric breakdown between the electrodes of the spark plug 200 to control the energization of the ignition coil 300. At this time, a period of the pulse signal for corona discharge is shorter than a period of the pulse signal for arc discharge.
US11466642B2
A gasket material, in which a crosslinked rubber layer compounding 30 to 200 parts by weight of titanium oxide based on 100 parts by weight of NBR or hydrogenated NBR is formed on a metal plate, improves blister resistance, and thus exhibits an excellent effect of preventing rubber peeling of the gasket in the engine and leading to an improvement of engine malfunction. Further, the use of NBR or hydrogenated NBR results in an advantage of low cost relative to that of fluororubber. Therefore, the gasket material of the present invention is effectively used as a cylinder head gasket.
US11466637B2
An injection control device controls fuel injection to an internal-combustion engine by driving a fuel injection valve with an electric current to open and close the valve. The injection control device includes a boost circuit boosting a battery voltage; a boost controller controlling the boosting of the boost circuit; and a charge control setter setting charge permission or charge prohibition of the boost circuit to the boost controller. The charge control setter sets the charge permission or charge prohibition of the boost circuit to the boost controller according to a magnitude of an influence of a drive current error.
US11466634B1
Systems and methods for operating an internal combustion engine that is included in a hybrid vehicle are described. In one example, the internal combustion engine is operated in a two stroke mode during cold starting to increase mass flow to an electrically heated catalyst so that engine emissions may be reduced.
US11466633B1
Methods and systems are provided for heating a catalyst via a catalyst heater are presented. In one example, the catalyst may be heated to provide a minimum amount of time for the catalyst to reach a threshold temperature. In another example, the catalyst heater may be heated to minimize an amount of power that is used to heat the catalyst.
US11466626B2
A method for controlling a turbomachine comprising an electric motor forming a torque injection device on a high-pressure rotation shaft, in which method a fuel flow setpoint QCMD and a torque setpoint TRQCMD provided at the electric motor are determined, the control method comprising: • a step of implementing a first fuel control loop in order to determine the fuel flow set point QCMD, • a step of implementing a second, torque control loop in order to determine the torque setpoint TRQCMD comprising i. a step of determining a torque correction variable ΔTRQCMD as a function of a transitory speed setpoint NHTrajAccelCons, NHTrajDecelCons and ii. a step of determining the torque setpoint TRQCMD as a function of the torque correction variable ΔTRQCMD.
US11466621B2
An adaptive thermal management system for a gas turbine engine includes a heat exchanger transferring heat into a coolant, a temperature sensor measuring a temperature of the coolant, and a sensor assembly that measures a parameter of the coolant during operation of the gas turbine engine. The parameter measured by the sensor assembly is indicative of a capacity of the coolant to accept heat from the hot flow. A control valve governs a flow of coolant into the heat exchanger. A controller adjusts the control valve to communicate coolant to the heat exchanger based on a determined capacity of the coolant to accept heat in view of the measured temperature of the coolant and that the measured parameter of the coolant is within a predefined range.
US11466615B2
An engine balancing system includes an engine body. At least two slider-crank mechanisms are provided inside the engine body. One of the slider-crank mechanisms is arranged opposite to the other slider-crank mechanism. A slider in one of the slider-crank mechanisms is moved at a speed and acceleration similar to a speed and acceleration of a slider in the other slider-crank mechanism. The slider-crank mechanism includes a connecting rod and a crankshaft with a crank. One end of one of the slider-crank mechanisms and one end of the other slider-crank mechanism are connected to the same crankshaft through the crank. The balancing system can effectively eliminate first-order, second-order and higher-order vibrations generated during engine operation, thus reducing the probability of equipment damage.
US11466612B2
A cylinder head assembly for an internal combustion engine includes a cast cylinder head having at least one oil gallery, a turbocharger housing integrally cast with the cylinder head, and a turbocharger cartridge assembly configured to be inserted into the turbocharger housing and including at least one bearing rotatably supporting a shaft coupled between a compressor wheel and a turbine wheel. A lubricant passage is formed within the turbocharger housing and configured to supply oil from the at least one oil gallery to the turbocharger cartridge assembly to lubricate the at least one bearing. A seal assembly is disposed at least partially within the turbocharger housing to receive lubricant from the lubricant passage and includes a sealing end configured to seal against the turbocharger cartridge assembly.
US11466611B2
A vehicular internal combustion engine is equipped with a supercharger, a drain pipe for draining lubricating oil in the supercharger, a cylinder block including a first oil passage, and a PCV separator including a second oil passage connected to an outlet of the drain pipe and an inlet of the first oil passage.
US11466609B2
An air cooler for a natural gas engine. The air cooler includes a cooler body having an air inlet, an air outlet, a natural gas inlet, and a natural gas outlet, wherein the air inlet is configured to receive air and the air outlet is configured to discharge the air, and wherein the natural gas inlet is configured to receive natural gas and the natural gas outlet is configured to discharge the natural gas; and a plurality of cooling tubes disposed within the cooler body between the air inlet and the air outlet and in fluid communication with the natural gas inlet and the natural gas outlet, wherein the plurality of cooling tubes are configured to draw heat away from the air using the natural gas when the air flows through the cooler body from the air inlet to the air outlet and passes over the plurality of cooling tubes.
US11466606B2
A mixer assembly for mixing an injected reductant with an exhaust gas comprises a tubular housing including a reductant inlet, an exhaust gas inlet and an exhaust gas outlet. The reductant inlet is positioned on a first side of the tubular housing and oriented to direct injected reductant along an injection access that extends transversely to a longitudinal axis. A first flow guide element is shaped as a sheet including a first aperture extending therethrough as well as a surface facing upstream. Exhaust gas flowing through the first aperture is impinged by the injected redundant. A second flow guide element is shaped as a sheet, positioned downstream from the first flow guide element and fixed to the first flow guide element to define a mixing chamber between the first flow guide element and the second flow guide element in which the injected redundant and the exhaust gas mix.
US11466593B2
A double walled stator housing includes a first stator housing wall, a second stator housing wall located radially outward from the first stator housing wall, and an air gap located between the first and the second stator housing walls. The housing also includes at least one support structure attached to the first stator housing wall and the second stator housing wall, spanning the air gap and configured to minimize heat transfer between the first wall and the second wall.
US11466589B2
A gas turbine engine article includes a substrate and an environmental barrier coating (EBC) system disposed on the substrate. The EBC system includes, from the substrate, a dense bond coat layer, a porous bond coat layer, and a topcoat layer in contact with the porous bond coat layer at an interface. The porous bond coat layer includes a matrix, oxygen-scavenging gas-evolution particles dispersed through the matrix, and engineered buffer pores. The oxygen-scavenging gas-evolution particles react with oxygen and generate a gaseous byproduct that diffuses through the interface to escape the EBC system. The engineered buffer pores buffer diffusion of gaseous byproduct to the interface by retaining at least a portion of the gaseous byproduct.
US11466586B2
A shroud assembly adapted for use with a gas turbine engine includes a seal segment, a carrier, and a mount system. The seal segment extends circumferentially at least partway around an axis to define a gas path boundary of the shroud assembly. The carrier is configured to support the seal segment in position radially relative to the axis. The mount system couples the seal segment with the carrier.
US11466585B2
A flow path component assembly includes a flow path component having a plurality of segments that extend circumferentially about an axis and mounted in a support structure. At least one of the plurality of segments have a first wall and a second wall that extend radially outward from a base portion. The first wall is axially spaced from the second wall. A coating is on a portion of the first wall and a portion of the second wall. The coating is in contact with a feature on the support structure.
US11466578B2
A turbine nozzle for an aircraft turbine engine, the nozzle including at least one vane and a base having a platform. The nozzle is fitted with a passive system for reintroducing blow-by gas into the primary jet, the passive system including gas extraction ports on the base as well as gas reinjection ports on the radially outer surface of the platform and/or on a suction-side surface of the vanes, the gas reinjection ports being designed to redirect the gas flow in a reinjection direction having a circumferential orientation.
US11466571B1
A turbomachine assembly is provided. The assembly includes: a first rotor module including a first blade, a second rotor module, connected to the first rotor module, and including a second blade of smaller length than the first blade, and a damping device including a plurality of first radial external surfaces supported with friction against the first module. The damping device is stepped, and includes a second radial external surface supported with friction against the second module, so as to couple the modules for the purpose of damping their respective vibrational movements during operation.
US11466565B2
A resistivity-measuring sensor disposable within a drillstring includes a sensor body having a longitudinal axis, wherein the sensor body is separable from and disposable in the drillstring at a radially offset distance from the longitudinal axis of the drillstring. The sensor further includes a transmitting antenna disposed along a length of the sensor body, a receiving antenna disposed along a length of the sensor body, and an electronics section contained within the sensor body for generating and receiving signals to and from the transmitting and receiving antennas.
US11466563B2
A method of monitoring fluid outflow along a wellbore includes obtaining an acoustic signal from a sensor within the wellbore, determining one or more frequency domain features from the acoustic signal, and identifying one or more fluid outflow locations along the portion of the depth of the wellbore using the one or more frequency domain features. The acoustic signal includes acoustic samples across a portion of a depth of the wellbore.
US11466550B2
An electric driven hydraulic fracking system is disclosed. A pump configuration that includes the single VFD, the single shaft electric motor, and the single hydraulic pump that is mounted on the single pump trailer. A power distribution trailer distributes the electric power generated by the power generation system at the power generation voltage level to the single VFD and converts the electric power at a power generation voltage level to a VFD voltage level and controls the operation of the single shaft electric motor and the single hydraulic pump. The power distribution trailer converts the electric power generated by the power generation system at the power generation level to an auxiliary voltage level that is less than the power generation voltage level. The power distribution trailer distributes the electric power at the auxiliary voltage level to the single VFD that controls an operation of the of the auxiliary systems.
US11466537B2
A mechanical stepper and method of incrementally actuating a device. An insert is placed within a housing. The housing has a cavity and a stepper sleeve located within the cavity. The stepper sleeve includes a first stop member having an equilibrium position defined by a first equilibrium diameter and a second stop member having an equilibrium position defined by a second equilibrium diameter less than the first equilibrium diameter. The insert including a first protrusion. The insert moves through the housing, and motion of the insert through the housing is incrementally restricted by changing a diameter of the first stop member and a diameter of the second stop member via the first protrusion.
US11466496B2
A device configured for opening and closing a charging door may include a guide rail mounted to be long in a charging hole in a longitudinal direction thereof, an actuator configured to provide a driving force, and a charging door engaged to the actuator and configured to be concealed and moved in the charging hole along the guide rail according to the driving force received from the actuator in a state of being closed to open the charging hole.
US11466482B2
A door lock device for a vehicle includes: a support member; a latch supported to be rotatable around a first shaft member supported by the support member and rotating in a first direction and engaging with a striker provided in a vehicle main body when a vehicle door is closed; a pawl supported to be rotatable around a second shaft member supported by the support member and restricting rotation of the latch in a second direction by engaging with the latch engaged with the striker; and an elastic member having one and other end portions and elastically deformed by an external force, in which in a state where the elastic member is elastically deformed, the one end portion engages with the pawl, the other end portion is supported by the support member, and an elastic force is applied to the pawl to bias the pawl to the latch side.
US11466479B2
A vehicle interior component is disclosed. The component may comprise a cover moveable relative to a base and a latch mechanism to provide an unlatched state for the cover and a latched state when actuated by an external/inertia force (e.g. in an event such as a rollover). The latch mechanism may comprise a latch/member extending through an opening in the cover into the base when the cover is closed and retracted into the cover when the cover is open. When the cover is closed, the latch mechanism may provide an unlatched state with the latch in an intermediate position (for an occupant's ordinary use) and a latched state with the latch fully extended to engage a catch in the base (upon the event providing the external force to prevent the cover opening). The component may comprise a console providing a storage compartment or an armrest.
US11466473B2
An electro-mechanical lock for use with a lock device having a locked state and an unlocked state is disclosed. The electro-mechanical lock incorporates an actuation motor susceptible to lockdown and features a variety of lockdown mitigation structures and arrangements to combat the same.
US11466467B2
A modular construction shelter for protecting workers and equipment or building materials adjacent a building wall. The shelter comprises a plurality of substantially identical lightweight panels that can be interconnected interchangeably into wall and roof sections. Each panel comprises a rectangular frame of flat-edged frame members covered by a lightweight sheet of flexible weatherproof cover material such as clear plastic, with interconnection features such as aligned bores for clips or bolts formed through the frame members behind the plastic sheeting to secure the panels to one another. Each flexible weatherproof cover includes an overlap flap of the sheet material extending beyond lower and first-side edges of the frame, the overlap flap including interior-facing fastener material to mate with corresponding exterior-facing fastener material formed on the outside faces of the upper and second-side frame members of adjacent panels.
US11466464B2
A panel system consisting of a panel having a repetitive pattern of aligned peaks and valleys, a series of ledges associated with the valleys and configured such that at least a portion of each ledge extends beyond adjacent peaks, and a plurality of clips, wherein each clip is attachable to a ledge and is further configured to attach to and support a product.
US11466452B2
A collapsible formwork element, the element including: a pair of opposing side wall panels; and at least one connector member extending between the side wall panels, wherein the formwork element is movable between an expanded configuration, wherein the opposing panels are spaced apart, and a collapsed configuration, wherein the opposing panels are relatively closer together.
US11466451B2
A panel attachment structure including a panel assembly having a channel member including a channel therein. The panel assembly further includes at least one reinforcing member directly or indirectly coupled to the channel member, and an insert assembly including an insert portion. The insert portion is configured to be closely slidably received in the channel member in an insertion direction, and the insert assembly is configured to be coupled to an underlying support structure.
US11466446B1
Exemplary embodiments relate to a quick-assemble construction system that includes various components that can be positioned and interconnected quickly and later adjusted and tightened. The quick-assemble construction system was envisioned specifically for freestanding seating systems that can be quickly installed and removed if needed, although the quick-assemble construction system can be used in a wider range of applications and is not limited to seating systems.
US11466445B2
The present invention discloses an integrated steel concrete building and its construction method. The building comprises a plurality of prefabricated room modules of steel, each including at least one column having a structure of hollow steel tube, which has an inner chamber inserted with penetrating rebars and poured with concrete. The penetrating rebars extend upwardly out of the column of the prefabricated room module into an inner chamber of a column of a prefabricated room module of an upper floor.
US11466443B2
In a joint (100) for a structure that includes at least one rod (104) and a plurality of cables (102), each cable (102) having an outside diameter, a rod end (160) is affixable to the rod (104) so that the rod has a rod (104) centerline that passes through the rod end (160). The rod end (160) includes a mechanism (166) that allows the rod end (160) to pivot about a center point that is on the rod centerline. A cable attachment device (150) is couplable to each cable (102) and to the rod end (160). The cable attachment device (150) holds each cable (102) coupled thereto in a relationship to the rod end (160) so that each cable (102) has a cable centerline that intersects the center point so as to minimize any moments from the rod (104) or the cables (102) on the joint (100).
US11466435B2
A work machine (1) having a controller (40) that can perform area limiting control, the work machine further includes a machine control ON/OFF switch (17) that alternatively selects an ON position permitting execution of the area limiting control and an OFF position prohibiting execution of the area limiting control. The controller (40) has an engine control section (63) that performs automatic idling control when a predetermined period of time (T1) has elapsed after a point in time when all of operation levers (1, 23) have attained a neutral state. The engine control section (63) is configured to execute the automatic idling control during when the switch (17) is in the OFF position and not to execute the automatic idling control during when the switch (17) is in the ON position.
US11466434B2
A hydraulic system for a working machine, the hydraulic system includes: a hydraulic fluid reservoir; a boom actuator having an ascending chamber and a descending chamber; a first pump; a first directional control valve comprising a first ascending state configured for moving the boom in the ascending direction, a descending state configured for moving the boom actuator in the descending direction, and a first neutral state; a second pump; a second directional control valve comprising a second ascending state configured for moving the boom actuator in the ascending direction, and a second neutral state; wherein the second directional control valve further comprises a float state configured to connect at least one of the ascending and descending chambers to the hydraulic reservoir for permitting the boom to move freely in the descending and/or descending directions.
US11466433B2
A mechanism (100) for raising and lowering lifting arms (104) of a work vehicle includes an operating lever (111) that is secured at the column (103) of the steering wheel (102) of the work vehicle, a hydraulic arrangement and at least one linkage for operating the lifting arms (104). The hydraulic arrangement further includes a plurality of piston-cylinder pairs (105a-105b, 110a-110b, 115a-115b, 120a-120b, and 125a-125b) provided between the operating lever (111) and the linkage, for controlling the raising and lowering operation of the lifting arms (104). The operating lever (111) permits an effective and easy control of the raising and lowering operation of the lifting arms (104).
US11466426B2
In accordance with one embodiment of the present disclosure, a material moving machine comprises a pilot hydraulic switching system. The pilot hydraulic switching system comprises a control unit, a first directional valve, and a second directional valve. The control unit is configured to operate the first and second directional valves to shift a variable position actuator valve between a static state, a retract state, and an extend state. The actuator valve comprises a first and second control element. In the retract and extend states, the first and second directional valves control fluid flow to the variable position actuator valve with a positive net pressure on either the first or second control elements and a negative net pressure on the other control element to move the material moving implement. In the static state, the first and second directional valves control fluid flow equally on the first and second control elements.
US11466422B1
A method for constructing a retaining wall using an adjustable single stage panel system has the steps of placing a wall panel adjacent a fill location, then placing a facing wedge adjacent the wall panel, and installing fabric sheet. Next, adding a layer of fill material in the fill location abutting against the facing wedge, and compacting the layer of fill material so that it is compacted against the facing wedge. Then, placing an elongate non-extensible panel anchor on top of the layer of fill material, and attaching the elongate non-extensible panel anchor to the wall panel. At a next step, the facing wedge is moved up to a next course above the layer of fill material, and fabric sheet is installed. An additional layer of fill material is added and compacted with enough force to mobilize the fill. Finally, the method includes the steps of removing the facing wedge, and adjusting the elongate non-extensible panel anchor so that it is plum with the wall panel.
US11466419B2
An oil containment system aboard a vessel includes a pneumatic system to provide power to a winch and reel assembly containing boom whereby the pneumatic supply is capable of simultaneously powering the winch-reel assembly for boom deployment through inflatable gas fed to a pneumatic motor while also inflating the boom. The inflation of the boom is accomplished by diverting, all or any portion thereof, the inflatable gas from a pneumatic supply through a hose that runs concurrently on the outside of the boom. The pneumatic supply originates from a single pneumatic system powering both the winch and reel assembly as well as associated brake and feeding inflatable gas pressure to the inflation hose running concurrently with the boom. The system can be utilized to confine a discharge of a floating material such as hydrocarbons floating on the surface from a vessel or structure.
US11466409B2
In general, the present invention is directed to a process for producing multi-ply tissue products from a single ply tissue web and the resulting multi-ply products, which have good softness and strength characteristics. The process of the present invention generally involves producing a first single ply tissue web and then splitting the web into two separate single ply tissue webs that can be converted into a multi-ply web. In certain preferred embodiments the single ply web may be manufactured such that when it is split into two separate webs the two webs are substantially identical.
US11466408B2
Absorbent wet laid products are made containing cellulose fibers and cellulose ester staple fibers that are co-refined to obtain products and articles that have improved water absorbency and tensile strength or burst strength or both. The absorbent wet laid products can now be made with a synthetic fiber in the wet laid operation since cellulose ester can be subjected to a refining operation.
US11466404B2
A machine or apparatus for producing structured tissue or towel using a press section.
US11466395B2
A laundry appliance includes a cabinet having a top panel that defines an aperture for selectively accessing a treatment chamber defined within the cabinet. A lid is rotationally operable relative to the aperture of the top panel between open and closed positions. Hinge assemblies extend between the lid and the top panel. The hinge assemblies include a first hinge assembly. A second hinge assembly is selectively retractable into the lid to a retracted position. A biasing member biases the second hinge assembly out to an extended position. At least the second hinge assembly is operable to the retracted position to bypass a portion of the top panel to define an installed position where the first and second hinge assemblies are engaged with respective hinge receptacles of the top panel.
US11466394B2
A support for household appliance includes a hydraulic plate which is fixed to the bottom of the household appliance; a sheath, which is fixedly connected with the hydraulic plate; a regulating support, which is arranged in the sheath and is axially movable relative to the sheath; an accommodation chamber, which is formed by the hydraulic plate, the sheath and the regulating support; and a flexible accommodation body, which accommodates a liquid medium and is arranged in the accommodation chamber. The flexible accommodation body extends and retracts to drive the regulating support to axially move in the sheath for leveling under the action of pressure. The hydraulic plate and the sheath can be rapidly, reliably and fixedly connected, the requirements on the strength of connection between the hydraulic plate and the sheath are lowered, and the essential space and height required by the connection are further lowered.
US11466393B2
A recirculating fluid flow system for an appliance includes a fluid pump that delivers process fluid through a fluid path. A tub is disposed within a cabinet and defines a processing space. The fluid path includes at least a portion of the processing space. The tub has an outlet that directs the process fluid toward the fluid pump. A sprayer assembly is coupled with the tub for directing the process fluid into the processing space. The sprayer assembly includes a spray head having a plurality of spray nozzles and an operable seam that extends through each spray nozzle of the plurality of spray nozzles. The operable seam is selectively separable to define a release opening that includes at least two spray nozzles of the plurality of spray nozzles.
