US11478703B2
Methods and apparatus for controlling a game include: controlling a game based on gameplay of a game player; receiving instructions from the game player and forwarding the instructions for controlling the game; and setting respective viewpoints, from among a plurality of viewpoints, serving as bases for generating respective watching screens for viewing the game offered to respective watching players, among a plurality of watching players, different from the game player, where at least one of: (i) the setting includes employing watching player conditions regarding each of the plurality of watching players for each of the plurality of viewpoints; and (ii) the setting includes employing one or more predetermined conditions in setting one or more of the respective viewpoints.
US11478696B2
An interaction method and apparatus for locking a target in a game is provided. The method includes that: when detecting a preset touch operation of a touch medium within an effective operation range of a first operation icon, a first position is determined in a game interface, a sliding touch operation of the touch medium is detected, and the first position is updated according to a sliding trace of the touch medium; an optional virtual character is determined from the at least one optional virtual character as a preselected virtual character; visual marking is performed on the preselected virtual character so as to distinct from other optional virtual characters; and when detecting the touch medium leaves a touch screen, the present preselected virtual character is locked as a target virtual character of the first operation.
US11478684B2
The present invention is direct to a set of golf clubs comprising long irons, mid-irons and short irons. The invention contemplates the use of titanium or steel for the main body portion and a tungsten weight member coupled to the toe and a tungsten heel weight member coupled in a hosel cavity.
US11478681B2
A method of monitoring at least one person in an event, comprises providing at least one sensor associated with the person, measuring data using the at least one sensor, wherein the measured data includes data representative of a motion of at least one part of the person's body, the method further comprising, by a processing unit based at least on said data, determining at least one insight, wherein said insight is characteristic of at least one of (a) an action performed by the person in the event and (b) an event situation, thereby facilitating characterization of at least one of the person and the event.
US11478679B2
Systems and methods for providing a distortion-free pool-surface display beneath a swimmer. In one embodiment, projectors are positioned below a water level at opposite walls of a pool, and are configured to project images to a display surface at the bottom of the pool beneath a swimmer. A camera is used to view images projected by the projectors and to provide corresponding image data to an image correction platform on a graphics processing unit (GPU). The image correction platform identifies distortions in the images, generates image corrections that counter the identified distortions, and applies the corrections to subsequently projected images. The image correction platform also generates image adjustment that cause overlapping portions of the projected images to match seamlessly. The projected images may provide immersive experiences, coaching/training interfaces or other interactive displays.
US11478675B2
A weight adjustable dumbbell, which includes a dumbbell bar assembly, a dumbbell base and a plurality of dumbbell plates placed on two sides of the dumbbell base. The dumbbell bar assembly includes a plurality of synchronously rotatable hanging plates arranged adjacently, an end of each of the hanging plates is provided with an extruded hanging block. An end of each of the dumbbell plates is defined with a U-shaped groove where the hanging block is radially slidable, a bump is provided in the U-shaped groove, and the bump and a wall of the U-shaped groove define a limiting area therebetween, the hanging block can slide into the limiting area and be latched with the bump during the hanging block rotating in the U-shaped groove.
US11478673B2
The present application provides a walking flat belt with a hanging exercise means. The present invention uses a buckle flat belt to form a plurality of installation positions. The buckle flat belt is installed on the flat belt body through a “” shaped buckle. The plurality installation positions of the buckles on the walking flat belt can be adjusted. The user can adjust the distance between two adjacent snaps flat belts according to his own needs, so that the user can freely choose the distance between the hanging objects to meet the needs of the user, to achieve the purpose of exercise.
US11478668B1
Aspects of various embodiments herein may be implemented as follows. An apparatus has a material shell that conforms to a user's face, and a securing portion connected to the shell that may operate to secure a filter to the user's face with the filter covering the user's nose and mouth. A securing force may be applied to the filter via the first material portion in a direction toward the user's face, thereby sealing the filter around the user's nose and mouth. Various implementations involve elastic and other material that facilitate sealing of the filter around the user's nose and mouth.
US11478663B2
An imager includes: an array of imager elements configured to generate image signals based on radiation received by the imager; and circuit configured to perform readout of image signals, wherein the circuit is configured to be radiation hard. An imager includes: an array of imager elements configured to generate image signals based on the radiation received by the imager; and readout and control circuit coupled to the array of imager elements, wherein the readout and control circuit is configured to perform signal readout in synchronization with an operation of a treatment beam source.
US11478662B2
A method of sequential monoscopic tracking is described. The method includes generating a plurality of projections of an internal target region within a body of a patient, the plurality of projections comprising projection data about a position of an internal target region of the patient. The method further includes generating external positional data about external motion of the body of the patient using one or more external sensors. The method further includes generating, by a processing device, a correlation model between the projection data and the external positional data by fitting the plurality of projections of the internal target region to the external positional data. The method further includes estimating the position of the internal target region at a later time using the correlation model.
US11478659B2
In one aspect, a luminaire is provided for illumination, in which the luminaire has a normalized spectral power distribution (SPD) curve for promoting human wellness, the normalized SPD curve having the following percentage areas for the following wavelength domains, the normalized SPD curve including spectral energy in a 620 nm to 640 nm region of the SPD curve ranging from 9.5% to 10.5% of a total of an area for a normalized SPD curve; spectral energy in a 640 nm to 660 nm region of the SPD curve ranging from 7.25% to 9.8% of the total of the area of the normalized SPD curve; spectral energy in a 660 nm to 680 nm region of the SPD curve ranging from 4.8% to 7.8% of the total of the area for the normalized SPD curve; spectral energy in a 680 nm to 700 nm region of the SPD curve ranging from 2.75% to 5.5% of the total of the area for the normalized SPD curve; and a remainder of spectral energy of the total normalized SPD curve is in a 400 nm to 620 nm region area of the SPD curve.
US11478655B2
Concepts and technologies disclosed herein are directed to a smart automated external defibrillator (“AED”). According to one aspect of the concepts and technologies disclosed herein, the AED can present a menu that includes a plurality of modes. The plurality of modes can include a first responder mode, an Internet of Things (“IoT”) mode, and a general use mode. The AED can receive, via an input component, a selection, from the menu, of a mode from the plurality of modes. In response to the selection, the AED can configure a network connectivity component in accordance with a setting specified in the mode.
US11478653B2
A pacemaker has a housing and a therapy delivery circuit enclosed by the housing for generating pacing pulses for delivery to a patient's heart. An electrically insulative distal member is coupled directly to the housing and at least one non-tissue piercing cathode electrode is coupled directly to the insulative distal member. A tissue piercing electrode extends away from the housing.
US11478651B2
The present disclosure provides systems and methods for assembling a subassembly for use in manufacturing an implantable device header. A method includes placing a first split web into a top platen, placing a second split web into a bottom platen, placing a conductor assembly and an antenna assembly in the bottom platen on top of the second split web, compressing the top and bottom platens together, heating the top and bottom platens until a predetermined temperature and a predetermined pressure are reached, such that first split web is fused to the second split web to form the subassembly, separating the top and bottom platens, and removing the formed subassembly.
US11478644B2
The present disclosure provides systems and methods for circuitry for an implantable pulse generator (IPG) of a neurostimulation system. The circuitry includes at least one anode node, at least one cathode node, a plurality of switching circuits, each switching circuit coupled to the at least one anode node and the at least one cathode node, and a plurality of output channels, each output channel coupled between an associated switching circuit and at least one electrode. The circuitry further includes a first DC blocking capacitor coupled between the at least one anode node and the plurality of switching circuits, a second DC blocking capacitor coupled between the at least one cathode node and the plurality of switching circuits. The circuitry further includes mitigation circuitry operable to limit DC leakage from the plurality of switching circuits through the plurality of output channels.
US11478642B2
A neurostimulation system senses electrographic signals from the brain of a patient, extracts features from the electrographic signals, and when the extracted features satisfy certain criteria, detects a neurological event type. A mapping function relates the detected neurological event type to a stimulation parameter subspace and a default stimulation parameter set where the values of the stimulation parameters define an instance of stimulation therapy for the patient. The decision whether to implement a stimulation parameter subspace or a default stimulation parameter set may be informed by integrating other information about a state of the patient. A stimulation parameter subspace or stimulation parameter set may optimized by testing it against various thresholds until certain effectiveness criteria is satisfied. The neurological event type may be one of several electrographic seizure onset types.
US11478636B2
An implantable medical device is disclosed herein and can be in the form of an implantable medical lead or a leadless pulse generator. The implantable medical device includes a body, at least one electrode and a tube-cut helical fixation anchor. The body includes a distal end and a proximal end opposite the distal end. The at least one electrode is supported on the body. The tube-cut helical fixation anchor distally extends from the distal end. The tube-cut helical fixation anchor may be fixed or extendable/retractable relative to the distal end. The tube-cut helical fixation anchor may be a result of a manufacturing process comprising cutting the tube-cut helical fixation anchor from a thin-walled tubular body.
US11478631B2
The present invention provides a thin and flexible device and method of use thereof for wound treatment and infection control. The integrated surface stimulation device may comprise wireless stimulation system in a disposable and/or reusable flexible device for widespread use in multiple therapeutic applications. The invention would be situated on the skin surface of a patient and would be activated so as to reduce the overall occurrence of infections and/or increase wound healing rates. As provided, the device will comprise an integrated power supply and pre-programmable stimulator/control system on a flexible polymeric substrate layer with areas of stimulating electrodes, applied using techniques such as those found in additive manufacturing processes. The device is especially valuable in treating biofilm-based infections.
US11478630B2
Devices, systems and methods are described for providing muscle contraction stimulation therapy to treat myriad diseases, including heart failure, Type 2 diabetes, and peripheral vascular disease using a skin patch or implantable stimulator that includes a multiplicity of electrodes, a processor, a stimulation circuit, one or more sensors and programming for a patient interface unit, wherein the processor is programmed to control selection of a subset of the multiplicity of electrodes and of operation of the stimulation circuit responsive to an indication of an adverse physiologic response. The indication of patient discomfort may be determined by monitoring a physiologic parameter of the subject using the one or more sensors, by direct input from the subject via the patient interface unit programming, or a combination thereof.
US11478619B2
A balloon catheter comprises an elongated, tubular shaft extending in a longitudinal direction, said shaft having a proximal end and a distal end. An inflatable balloon is supported along the distal end of the shaft, the balloon when inflated including a generally cylindrical barrel section forming a working surface, and generally conical end sections that do not form a part of the working surface. The balloon further includes at least one radiopaque identifier for indicating the relative position of the working surface, said identifier being provided on at least one of the conical end sections of the balloon so as to define the extent of the working surface. Related aspects are also disclosed.
US11478606B1
Wearable devices can be used to provide therapy to users and/or to monitor various physiological parameters of the user. In some cases, therapy can be triggered automatically based on the monitored physiological parameters reaching or exceeding predefined thresholds.
US11478603B2
A method of transplanting a desired emotional state from a donor to a recipient, comprising determining an emotional state of the donor; recording neural correlates of the emotional state of the donor who is in the desired emotional state; analyzing neural correlates of the emotional state of the donor to decode at least one of a temporal and a spatial pattern corresponding to the desirable emotional state; converting said at least one of a temporal and a spatial pattern corresponding to the desirable emotional state into a neurostimulation pattern; storing the neurostimulation pattern in the nonvolatile memory; retrieving the neurostimulation pattern from the nonvolatile memory; stimulating the recipients brain with at least one stimulus modulated with the neurostimulation pattern to induce the desired emotional state in the recipient.
US11478588B2
A needle guard grip device may include a body extending from a first end to a second end along a central longitudinal axis of the body. The body may include a plurality of ribs extending perpendicularly to the central longitudinal axis. The plurality of ribs may include a first set of longitudinally spaced ribs disposed on a first side of the central longitudinal axis, and a second set of longitudinally spaced ribs disposed on a second side of the central longitudinal axis that is opposite of the first side. Moving along the central longitudinal axis, ribs of the first set of longitudinally spaced ribs may alternate with ribs of the second set of longitudinally spaced ribs.
US11478572B2
Embodiments of the invention include silica fiber compositions useful for treatment of animal wounds and tissue, as well as for other applications in industry. The fiber compositions may be formed via electrospinning of a sol gel produced with a silicon alkoxide reagent, such as tetraethyl ortho silicate, alcohol solvent, and an acid catalyst.
US11478571B2
Disclosed herein are synthetic hydrogel useful for the generation, storage and administration of cellular structures such as spheroids and organoids.
US11478564B2
Decontamination device and method for sterilizing an inside of facility or an inside of a device installed in the facility in which cells, tissues, culture media, sterile reagents, microorganisms or the like are handled or cultured, including: dry fog generating machine, installed in decontamination area, for converting peracetic acid mixed solution containing low-concentration peracetic acid into dry fog and spraying the dry fog into the decontamination area; humidity sensor, installed in decontamination area, for measuring humidity in decontamination area; gas recovery machine, installed in the above decontamination area, for recovering gas in decontamination area; and control device for controlling spraying from dry fog generating machine and gas recovery operation by the gas recovery machine based on information from the above humidity sensor, a main control and monitoring device, installed outside the above decontamination area, for controlling the control devices of one or more of the above decontamination devices.
US11478559B2
A germicidal system for use in disinfecting a human interface device includes at least one human interface device. One or more ultra-violet (UV) light sources are used in proximity to the at least one human interface device for disinfecting a touch surface of the human interface device below a surgical grade sterilization. A memory for storing usage data of the at least one UV light source. At least one server is used for providing a central storage location for usage data supplied from the memory and a computer is used in communication with the at least one server for controlling the operational parameters of the at least one UV light source.
US11478558B2
Prostate-specific membrane antigen targeted high-affinity agents for endoradiotherapy of prostate cancer are disclosed.
US11478556B2
In alternative embodiments, provided are methods for increasing levels of and/or upregulating the expression of ApoA-I Binding Protein (APOA1BP, AIBP, or AI-BP) to treat, ameliorate, prevent, reverse, decrease the severity or duration of: a neuropathic pain, including an inflammation-induced neuropathic pain, a nerve or CNS inflammation, a, a post nerve injury pain, a post-surgical pain, a chemotherapeutic-induced peripheral neuropathy (CIPN) (e.g., cisplatin-induced allodynia) a neurodegeneration or neurodegenerative disease or condition, a migraine, and/or a hyperalgesia. In alternative embodiments, provided are methods comprising administering formulations and pharmaceutical compositions comprising an APOA1BP polypeptide or protein that is a human or a mammalian APOA1BP, or an AIBP1 or an AIBP2, or a recombinant, peptidomimetic or a synthetic APOA1BP, or a bioisostere of an ApoA-I Binding Protein to treat, ameliorate prevent, reverse, decrease the severity of a neuropathic pain, a TLR4-mediated allodynia and/or a hyperalgesia.
US11478545B2
A wireless wideband transceiver may be able to communicate with multiple frequency-hopped spread-spectrum (FHSS) devices concurrently over multiple frequencies over a short range by including a plurality of digital chains corresponding to the FHSS physical channels, individually and dynamically compensated for in-phase/quadrature imbalance in the transmit and/or receive portion. To further improve communications the transceiver may also mitigate cross interference between adjacent channel signals that are received and/or transmitted simultaneously, avoid false reception and/or transmission of co-channel signals, delay respective FHSS channels transmissions relative to other channels transmissions, speed up connection to FHSS devices and coordinate Time Division Duplexing (TDD) operation according to application dependent TX/RX binary pattern. A device that includes such a transceiver (FHSS-hotspot) may enable the concurrent usage of multiple commercially available FHSS peripheral devices without the need for additional personal host devices to be carried along with them, and in addition enable the concurrent usage of multiple commercially available FHSS personal data devices while reducing their radiation and/or latency and/or usage cost and/or power, to establish a localized multi-device multimedia session, and/or to interface with a communications network to communicate with remote parties, and/or to interface with broadcast devices to stream contents.
US11478538B2
The invention relates to an immunogenic compound comprising an antigenic peptide having amino acid similarity with a tumor antigen, which antigenic peptide is selected in the group consisting of peptides having amino acid similarity with IL13RA2, the said antigenic peptide being selected in the group consisting of sequences described in the specification.
US11478536B2
Disclosed herein are methods of treatment for an intraocular pressure (IOP)-associated condition in a subject, that include administering to the subject an effective amount of a tissue plasminogen activator (tPA) therapeutic agent. In one embodiment, the IOP-associated condition is glaucoma. The administration of a tPA therapeutic agent can be an extended administration intended to cause a reduction in IOP in the subject for a period of at least one day to a year or more, relative to IOP levels in the subject prior to administration of the tPA therapeutic agent. The tPA therapeutic agent can be, for example, tPA, a tPA derivative, a small molecule direct or indirect tPA agonist, or a gene therapy vector.
US11478532B2
The present invention discloses a novel therapeutic intervention for osteoporosis. The present invention discloses that Interleukin-3 (IL-3) can be utilized as a therapeutic intervention against osteoporosis and for regulating bone homeostasis. The present invention also provides a method for determining the pre-disposition of a subject for osteoporosis by measuring the RANKL/OPG level.
US11478529B2
Methods of treating a tumor in a subject include identifying a subject having, at risk for, or suspected of having a tumor, and administering to the subject an effective amount of an SRPX.
US11478519B2
A nutritional supplement containing fungal biomass having at least 100 mg/kg iron and processes for producing the nutritional supplement using filamentous fungi are described.
US11478505B2
Provided herein are compositions comprising ixabepilone, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, and a copolymer represented by formula I: Also provided are methods of treating cancer using the compositions described herein, and methods of preparing the compositions.
US11478498B2
An aqueous formulation for topical application to the skin comprising water, a water-miscible organic solvent, and benzoyl peroxide, wherein the concentration of the organic solvent is sufficient to provide a stable suspension of benzoyl peroxide in the aqueous formulation without the inclusion of a surfactant in the formulation, wherein the ratio of concentrations of water and organic solvent in the formulation is sufficient to maintain the benzoyl peroxide in saturated solubility in the formulation following application to the skin, and wherein the concentration of benzoyl peroxide in the formulation is less than 5.0% and at least 1.0% w/w. The formulation may further contain a chemical compound in addition to benzoyl peroxide that is effective in the treatment of acne. The aqueous formulations of the invention are useful in the treatment of acne and acne rosacea.
US11478496B2
The present invention provides compounds, compositions and methods for the treatment of prostate cancers, preferably, advanced prostate cancers. The subject invention also provides compounds, compositions and methods for preventing/slowing down/reducing the progress and proliferation of prostate cancer cells. The subject invention further provides compounds, compositions and methods for inhibiting DNA repair within cancer cells to slow tumor growth, preferably, by inhibiting BER capacity, including pol β and LIG I.
US11478484B2
A group of inventions relates to pharmaceutics and refers to a method for preparing a liposomal composition and a pharmacologically active liposomal composition for ophthalmotherapy prepared by this method. The method is implemented by creating a mixture of solutions of latanoprost, egg phosphatidylcholine and cholesterol in organic solvents, vacuum drying thereof, emulsifying in an aqueous medium, and dispersing an emulsion under pressure. According to the invention, a solution of dipalmytoyl phosphatidylglycerol is introduced into the mixture of solutions, wherein latanoprost, egg phosphatidylcholine, and cholesterol are dissolved in ethyl alcohol, while dipalmytoyl phosphatidylglycerol is dissolved in a mixture of ethyl alcohol and chloroform. The emulsifying of the dried mixture is conducted by a lactose solution in a pH 7.1 buffer, while the dispersing of the emulsion is conducted at a stepwise pressure increase from 300 to 800 at followed by a sterilizing filtration and a freeze drying. The composition prepared by this method is a frozen-dried powder and a formulation thereof comprises: Latanoprost 1, Egg phosphatidylcholine 20.0-30.0, Dipalmytoyl phosphatidylglycerol 0.6-0.75, Cholesterol 0.5-0.9, Lactose 40.0-60.0, Water residue the remainder. The pharmacologically active liposomal composition has a prolonged antihypertensive and neuroprotective action in case of ocular hypertension and glaucoma, and it is suitable for preparation a solution for an instillation use and/or injectable subconjunctival administration. 2 ind.cls., 2 d.cls.
US11478482B2
The present invention provides an antipsychotic drug comprising fasudil or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof as an active agent for the treatment of schizophrenia, including schizophrenia caused by dysfunction of ARHGAP10.
US11478480B2
The present invention provides formulations of 4-(7-hydroxy-2-isopropyl-4-oxo-4H-quinazolin-3-yl)-benzonitrile (compound I) and methods for treating ocular surface pain by administering such formulations. The present invention also provides methods for treating dry eye disease and ocular hyperemia by administering formulations of 4-(7-hydroxy-2-isopropyl-4-oxo-4H-quinazolin-3-yl)-benzonitrile.
US11478474B2
The present invention relates to heteroaryl heterocyclic compounds, e.g., the compound of the formula shown below, pharmaceutical compositions comprising same, methods for preparing same, and uses thereof.
US11478456B2
The present invention relates to the pharmaceutical composition comprising Zonisamide and one or more pharmaceutically acceptable excipients and also relates to the process for the preparation of the pharmaceutical composition comprising Zonisamide.
US11478450B2
An edaravone suspension for human oral administration includes edaravone particles, a dispersant, and water.
US11478447B2
The invention relates to a solid Δ9-THC composition containing Δ9-THC and a powder former and having a molar ratio of Δ9-THC to powder former to form a flowable Δ9-THC powder. The powder former is selected from the group consisting of adenine, aspartame, caffeine, lactose, mannitol, nicotinamide, β-nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide, pipecolic acid, saccharin, aspartic acid, glutamic acid, glutamine, histidine, leucine, methionine, phenylalanine, proline, serine, tryptophan, valine, Epigallocatechin Gallate (EGCG), 2-Hydroxypropyl-beta-cyclodextrin (HPbCD), and Trimethyl-beta-cyclodextrin (TOMBC) and mixtures thereof. The invention also relates to methods of making a solid Δ9-THC composition of the invention. The Δ9-THC may be synthetic Δ9-THC or may be extracted Δ9-THC. The invention provides pharmaceutical or nutraceutical composition containing a solid Δ9-THC composition of the invention and a pharmaceutically- or nutraceutically-acceptable carrier where Δ9-THC is present in a pharmaceutically or nutraceutically effective amount. The invention also provides methods of treating a disease, disorder, or condition by administering to a patient in need thereof a therapeutically effective amount of a solid Δ9-THC composition. A solid Δ9-THC composition of the invention may also be incorporated into food and beverage products.
US11478441B2
The invention provides a method, composition and kit for treating T-cell mediated diseases, degenerative joint diseases or diseases mediated by platelet activating factor (PAF) comprising administering to an animal in need thereof, an effective amount a pharmaceutical composition containing N-acetyl-kynurenine (NAK) or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof as the active ingredient.
US11478429B2
A two-compartment capsule includes a body, a diaphragm between, which seals off the body and provides a first compartment to hold a first dry ingredient, and a cap applied to the body whereby a space between the inner portion of the cap and the diaphragm defines a second compartment for holding a second dry ingredient. This disclosure also provides particular formulations for use in such a capsule. Examples include a probiotic, a digestive enzyme, an expectorant, a bronchodilator, a stool softener, a platelet aggregation inhibitor, a form or derivative of vitamin E, a statin, and aspirin.
US11478426B2
Capsule dosage forms that provide immediate release of active ingredients and have abuse deterrent properties. In particular, the dosage forms comprise at least one pharmaceutically active ingredient, a combination of hydrophilic gelling polymers, at least one organic acid, and at least one disintegrant.
US11478418B2
The invention relates to a method for obtaining the water-insoluble fraction of Carica papaya sap, enriched with Carica papaya lipase, the water-insoluble fraction obtainable by this method, a method for the preparation of an activated fat and/or an activated wax by means of said water-insoluble fraction of the Carica papaya sap, the activated fat and/or the activated wax capable of being obtained by this method, a composition combining said activated fat and/or said activated wax, as well as the cosmetic use of these products.
US11478417B2
An anhydrous and alcohol-free slow fragrance diffusive composition (lotion, gel or cream) with longer lasting properties than hydroalcoholic formula fragrance product that contains 50 to 75 percent by weight dimethicone crosspolymer gel, 0.01 to 30 percent by weight fragrance oil and 5 to 40 percent by weight volatile linear silicone fluid. Emollients may be added to moisturize the skin, improve the fragrance rendition and/or increase the miscibility of the fragrance oil in the composition when a high level of dimethicone is used (in case of a lotion for example). Moreover, a preservative and some pigments can be added to the formula to preserve the fragrant product from bacteria contamination and to improve the aesthetics respectively.
US11478413B2
In a method for manufacturing black ginseng low molecular collagen essence, koji mould is added to ginseng, to manufacture black ginseng. The black ginseng is mixed with oligosaccharide, to manufacture black ginseng concentrate. The black ginseng concentrate is fermented and sterilized after adding collagen to the black ginseng concentrate.
US11478411B2
Cosmetic compositions are widely used to obtain certain benefits like e.g. anti-aging, skin lightening and moisturizing effect. These benefits are delivered by benefit agents (actives) like e.g. anti-oxidants, hyaluronic acid and resorcinol, pheynylethyl resorcinol and 4-alkyl substituted resorcinol. However, these actives have a certain shelf life beyond which they tend to degrade in terms of chemical activity and/or their color stability. The present invention discloses a novel process to prepare cosmetic compositions that improved color stability of resorcinol, pheynylethyl resorcinol and 4-alkyl substituted resorcinol and compositions comprising such actives when prepared as per said process.
US11478407B2
A medication component mixing system is formed of a first syringe, such as a female syringe, and a second syringe such as a male syringe, wherein the system is configured to mix a female portion and a male portion of the medication. The female syringe and the male syringe mechanically couple to one another in an end-to-end fashion for mixing of the contents of the female and male portions.
US11478403B2
A method of treating a mental disorder of a patient includes generating, by an implantable stimulator configured to be implanted beneath a skin surface of the patient, stimulation sessions at a duty cycle that is less than 0.05 and applying, by the implantable stimulator in accordance with the duty cycle, the stimulation sessions to a tissue location associated with the mental disorder. The duty cycle is a ratio of T3 to T4. Each stimulation session included in the stimulation sessions has a duration of T3 minutes and occurs at a rate of once every T4 minutes. The implantable stimulator is powered by a primary battery located within the implantable stimulator and having an internal impedance greater than 5 ohms.
US11478402B2
A CPR chest compression system includes a retention structure that retains the body of a patient, and a motor and a compressor that can perform CPR compressions to the chest of the patient. The motor is powered by a battery that is located on the retention structure but away from the motor, and is electrically connected to the motor via one or more wires. Accordingly the weight and volume of the battery can be located away from a top portion of the retention structure. This renders the CPR system is less heavy at the top, and therefore less likely to tilt and start compressing the chest at a different point. Moreover, this permits X-Rays of a larger footprint to go through the CPR system and reach the patient, in embodiments where the components are transparent to X-Rays.
US11478396B2
A wheeled walker including a front wheel pair viewed in a driving direction and a rear wheel pair viewed in the driving direction; a frame including rearward oriented struts, wherein each of the rearward oriented struts supports a rear wheel of the rear wheel pair; a platform attached at the wheeled walker, wherein the platform includes at least one platform wheel and a standing platform for a person using the walker; and an electric drive that is configured to move the wheeled walker forward in the driving direction, wherein the wheeled walker includes a coupling device that attaches the platform at the wheeled walker and transfers pull forces and push forces between the wheeled walker and the platform, wherein the coupling device is arranged in an intersection portion of a scissor linkage that is associated with the wheeled walker.
US11478392B2
Medical device capable of properly measuring a center of gravity and capable of preventing overturning of a surgical operation table is provided without performing a significant design change. Medical device S, which includes a plurality of leg portions 20 that lift up a main body 2 from a floor surface and support the main body 2, includes load detection devices 55 that are provided between the main body 2 and the respective leg portions 20, and detect loads in a vertical direction received by the leg portions 20 from the floor surface.
US11478386B2
The present technology relates to an absorbent product for attachment to an article of clothing. The absorbent product comprises a wearer-facing surface and a garment-facing surface opposite the wearer-facing surface. The absorbent product comprises a main body, wherein the main body comprises: a central absorbent core; an external envelope placed around the central core and having a front extremity and a rear extremity; a first attachment line located at the front extremity of the external envelope; and a second attachment line located at the rear extremity of the external envelope; wherein the first attachment line and the second attachment line are for attachment of the absorbent product to the article of clothing; and wherein the absorbent product is free of means for adhesively attaching the garment-facing surface to the article of clothing.
US11478378B2
A system comprising a preservative-removing polymeric matrix comprising an active matrix component and an inactive matrix component. A method for administering an ophthalmic agent comprises providing a solution, emulsion, or suspension comprising an ophthalmic agent, and a preservative; and providing a preservative-removing polymeric matrix comprising an active matrix component and an inactive matrix component, and wherein the polymeric matrix is configured to selectively absorb the preservative when the solution, emulsion, or suspension is passed therethrough.
US11478369B2
A medical device, having a body that is tubular at least in some sections. The body can be transferred from a compressed state into an expanded state and has a circumferential wall having at least one first lattice structure and one second lattice structure. The first lattice structure and the second lattice structure form separate layers of the circumferential wall, which are arranged coaxially one inside the other and connected to each other at least at points in such a way that the first lattice structure and the second lattice structure can be moved relative to each other at least in some sections. A system having such a device is also disclosed.
US11478365B2
A method for manufacturing a custom wearable and/or implantable medical device, such as an orthosis (e.g., an ankle brace, etc.), a prosthesis or the like, includes use of scanning processes. A digital model of a surface may be applied to a digital device model to define a custom digital device model. The digital model and, thus, the custom digital device model may include one or more standard features. The custom digital device model may be used with an automated manufacturing process to make some or all of the custom wearable and/or implantable medical device. In some embodiments, additive manufacturing processes may be used to form a portion or all of the custom wearable and/or implantable medical device.
US11478362B2
A system for facilitating arthroplasty procedures includes a robotic device, a reaming tool configured to interface with the robotic device, and a processing circuit communicable with the robotic device. The processing circuit is configured to obtain a surgical plan comprising a first planned position of an implant cup and a second planned position of an implant augment relative to a bone of a patient, determine a planned bone modification configured to prepare the bone to receive the implant cup in the first planned position and the implant augment in the second planned position, generate one or more virtual objects based on the planned bone modification, control the robotic device to constrain the cutting tool with the one or more virtual objects while the cutting tool interfaces with the robotic device and is operated to modify the bone in accordance with the planned bone modification.
US11478361B2
An intervertebral implant for implantation in an intervertebral space between vertebrae. The implant includes a body extending from an upper surface to a lower surface. The body has a front end, a rear end and a pair of spaced apart first and second side walls extending between the front and rear walls such that an interior chamber is defined within the front and rear ends and the first and second walls. The body defines an outer perimeter and an inner perimeter extending about the internal chamber. At least one of the side walls is defined by a solid support structure and an integral porous structure, the porous structure extending from the outer perimeter to the inner perimeter. The porous structure embeds or encapsulates at least a portion of the solid support structure.
US11478357B2
A system for converting a first joint prosthesis to a second joint prosthesis in-situ includes a plurality of inserts having a bone interface side and a component facing side and a plurality of articulating components having a cavity configured to receive at least one of the plurality of inserts. The plurality of inserts may be unicompartmental, bicompartmental, or tricompartmental. The inserts may be made of metal and may have a bone contacting surface made of a porous metal. The plurality of articulating components may be unicompartmental, bicompartmental, or tricompartmental. The articulating components may be sized and shaped to cover one or more of the plurality of bone interface components and span a distance therebetween. The articulating components may be made of a polymer.
US11478354B2
An implantable device for penile construction can comprise an anchor plate and at least one attachment member. The anchor plate can be configured to engage with a first portion of a pelvic bone of a patient. The anchor plate can comprise a prosthesis attachment interface configured to be coupled to a penile prosthesis, and at least one attachment member configured to attach to the anchor plate. The at least one attachment member can be configured to engage with a second portion of the pelvic bone of the patient. The engagement of the anchor plate with the first portion of the pelvic bone and the engagement of the attachment member with the second portion of the pelvic bone can couple the pelvic bone between the anchor plate and the at least one attachment member.
US11478353B2
A system for treating a heart includes a catheter that is advanceable into a chamber of the heart and that is repositionable within the chamber between a septal wall and an external wall to enable penetration of the septal and external walls via a needle that is disposed within a lumen of the catheter. A first guidewire is deliverable through the penetration of the septal wall so that a distal end of the first guidewire is disposed within another chamber of the heart. A second guidewire is deliverable through the penetration of the external wall so that a distal end of the second guidewire is disposed externally of the external wall. The first guidewire is connectable to the second guidewire to join or form a path within the chamber that extends between the septal wall and the external wall.
US11478350B2
A two-part aortic annular support system for supporting an aortic annulus during aortic valve repair procedures for prevention of further annular dilation. The first part comprises a composite annular ring that is positionable from within an aortic valve into the left ventricular outflow tract at the level of annular plane. The composite ring comprises a semi-rigid section and a resiliently deformable section. The semi-rigid section is shorter in length than the deformable section. The deformable section is extendible into a commissure of the aortic valve. The second part is a resilient band that is positionable external to the aortic root. The resilient band is securable to the composite ring through the aortic annulus by suturing. The present disclosure also relates to a use of the aortic annular support system and a method of inserting and securing the aortic annular support system during a surgical intervention.
US11478347B2
A sphincter sizing instrument includes a body that defines a lumen and a shaft that longitudinally translates through the lumen relative to the body. The body includes opposing proximal and distal ends. The distal end includes a first magnetic coupling feature and a first mechanical coupling feature. The shaft includes opposing proximal and distal ends and a coupler coupled with the distal end. The coupler includes a second magnetic coupling feature and a second mechanical coupling feature. The second magnetic coupling feature is configured to attract and couple with the first magnetic coupling feature to form a magnetic connection. The second mechanical coupling feature is configured to couple with the first mechanical coupling feature to form a mechanical connection.
US11478335B2
Continuous adjustment appliances are provided that can store a large number of geometries that can be successively accessed throughout orthodontic treatment, with each geometry can correspond to an arrangement of the patient's teeth. An appliance according to the present disclosure can be stimulated to transition among the myriad geometries, which can include changes to the overall shape of the appliance as well as the position and geometry of the cavities corresponding to a patient's teeth. Methods of creating the continuous adjustment appliances and methods of treatment using the continuous adjustment appliances are also revealed.
US11478328B2
X-ray imaging systems and methods comprising, at least, an x-ray source, an x-ray detector, and a collimator assembly. The collimator assembly comprising a computer, a display, a camera, an x-ray source to object (patient) measuring device to measure source to object distance (SOD), and a plurality of metallic barriers used to manipulate a size and shape of X-ray beams, thereby also reducing the volume of irradiated tissue in the patient. The collimator may comprise computer-controlled motorized shutters to admit radiation into the region defined by the adjustable beam-defining components of the collimator of an X-ray apparatus. In some embodiments, the plurality of metallic barriers may be a fixed cone, or a cone comprised of movable plates.
US11478325B2
A lighting apparatus for use as a surgical headlamp is disclosed. A light emitting diode is positioned in a recess within a frustoconical, thermally-conductive heat sink that has a several circumferential ridges to provide a desired surface area for heat transfer. The diode and the heat sink are provided in a housing that also includes a fan for drawing ambient air into the housing to contact the heat sink and exhausting heated air. A lens is snap-fit into a slide that frictionally engages the interior of the housing, allowing a user to adjust the spacing between the light emitting diode and the lens as desired. Personal cooling apparatuses usable with the lighting apparatus are also described. Auxiliary undergown switches are also described as are personal cooling apparatuses.
US11478323B2
A staging tray has a bracket with a hook and a bumper. The hook and bumper are configured to be removably engaged with a lipped tray. A pivot mechanism pivotably connects the bracket to the staging tray. The pivot mechanism is selectively positionable into a plurality of positions.
US11478317B2
An apparatus includes a housing, a cable guide, a first cable, and a second cable. The housing is coupled to a shaft of a medical instrument. The cable guide is coupled to the housing, and defines a shaft opening into a passageway defined by the shaft. A first guide groove and a second guide groove are defined by the cable guide, with each of the first guide groove and the second guide groove being splayed outward from the shaft opening. The first cable is routed within the first guide groove and through the shaft opening, and is configured to slide within the first guide groove. The second cable is routed within the second guide groove and through the shaft opening, and is configured to slide within the second guide groove.
US11478313B2
A surgical system according to one or more embodiments may include: manipulators respectively supporting an endoscope and first and second surgical instruments; a remote control apparatus including a display device, a first operation handle for right hand to operate the first surgical instrument, and a second operation handle for left hand to operate the second surgical instrument; and a control apparatus. The control apparatus may display, on the display device, a graphical user interface, overlapped with the image captured by the endoscope, the graphical user interface including a first area that displays information on the first surgical instrument to be operated by the first operation handle, a second area that displays information on the second surgical instrument to be operated by the second operation handle, and a third area that displays information on the endoscope, which are arranged side by side in order from right to left.
US11478310B2
An example method includes registering, via a visualization device, a virtual model of a portion of an anatomy of an ankle of a patient to a corresponding portion of the anatomy of the ankle viewable via the visualization device, the virtual model obtained from a virtual surgical plan for an ankle arthroplasty procedure to attach a prosthetic to the anatomy. The example method also comprises displaying, via the visualization device and overlaid on the portion of the anatomy, a virtual guide that guides at least one of preparation of the anatomy for attachment of the prosthetic or attachment of the prosthetic to the anatomy.
US11478299B2
Systems and methods for delivering energy to passageways in a patient, such as airways in the lung of a patient for treating asthma. One embodiment of a method for delivering energy to a passageway comprises positioning an access device in a lung airway of a patient and advancing an elongated body of a treatment device along the access device until an energy delivery unit at a distal portion of the elongated body projects from the access device. The method can further include expanding the energy delivery unit such that energy delivery elements contact a sidewall of the airway and activating an energy supply coupled to the treatment device such that energy is delivered to the sidewall of the airway. A single person physically operates both the access device and the treatment device while expanding the energy delivery unit and activating the energy supply.
US11478297B2
System and method for controlling energy delivered to an area of tissue during a treatment procedure
Systems and methods for controlling energy delivered to an area of tissue during a treatment procedure are provided. The system includes a device for delivering energy to the area of tissue; an energy generator for generating and supplying energy to the device; and a controller for controlling an amount of energy generated by the energy generator and delivered to the area of tissue by the device. Controlling the amount of energy delivered to the area of tissue alters a primary zone of the area of tissue to a first level, alters a secondary zone to a second level, alters a tertiary zone to a third level, or a combination thereof, where the first level, the second level, the third level, or a combination thereof is predetermined, and where a coverage area of the primary zone, the secondary zone, the tertiary zone, or a combination thereof is also predetermined.
US11478290B2
A method and system for automated and semi-automated predictable, consistent, safe, effective, and lumen-specific and patient-specific cryospray treatment of airway tissue in which treatment duration is automatically set by the system following entry of patient information and treatment location information into the system by the user, and treatment spray is automatically stopped by the system when the automatically selected treatment duration has been achieved as determined by the system.
US11478282B2
A spinal cross-connector comprises an elongated member, a first connector and a second connector. The first connector and the second connector are configured to receive spinal rods and adaptable to directly attach with pedicle screws. The first connector includes a first collet head, a first clamp and a first locking means. The second connector includes a second collet head, a second clamp and a second locking mans. The first locking means is configured to tighten over a first collet head and engage with the first connector. Similarly, the second locking means is configured to tighten over a second collet head and engage with the second connector. The engagement of the first locking means with the first connector and the second locking means with the second connector locks the spinal cross-connector.
US11478279B2
The purpose of the present invention is to provide a spinal fusion implant capable of preserving turning properties of vertebral bodies, and in addition, capable of preventing false screwing (false insertion) of screws. Connection plates 3 constituting a spinal fusion implant 101 each have, on a ventral-side surface 3b, a convex-shaped portion 8 that is fitted into a concave-shaped portion of an intervertebral joint 53. In addition, a center hole 3d through which a center rod 4 is slidably inserted is formed on a side surface of the connection plate 3, such that the center of the hole is positioned closer to the back side than a virtual line L1 connecting midpoints on arc-shaped contour lines C of the concave-shaped portions of the adjacent intervertebral joints 53 when viewed from the head side of a human body.
US11478270B2
An atherectomy system includes a drive mechanism that is adapted to rotatably actuate an atherectomy burr and a controller that is adapted to regulate operation of the drive mechanism. In some cases, the drive mechanism includes a drive cable that is coupled with the atherectomy burr and a drive motor that is adapted to rotate the drive cable. The controller is adapted to receive an indication of an increase in torque experienced at the atherectomy burr and is further adapted to, in response, regulate operation of the drive mechanism such that the increase in torque results in a noticeable reduction in speed of the drive mechanism such that a user of the atherectomy system notices the reduction in speed and is alerted to the increase in torque.
US11478263B2
The disclosure relates to a locking apparatus, and more particularly, to a locking apparatus with improved locking performance as a locking unit is stuck between different members capable of moving relative to each other and in which locking is released as an unlocking unit pushes the locking unit.
US11478261B2
The present disclosure relates generally to thrombectomy devices. An exemplary catheter comprises: an emitter assembly comprising at least one emitter; wherein each emitter comprises an electrode pair, and wherein each emitter is configured to generate a plurality of cavitation bubbles when a voltage is applied to the pair of electrodes; an infusion lumen formed by at least a portion of an outer wall of the catheter, the infusion lumen configured to receive a conductive fluid, wherein the emitter assembly is housed within the infusion lumen, wherein a distal segment of the infusion lumen includes a plurality of holes on the portion of the outer wall of the catheter, and wherein the plurality of holes are configured to release the conductive fluid and the plurality of cavitation bubbles out of the catheter to treat thrombus at a treatment site; an aspiration lumen including aspiration ports at the distal segment thereof.
US11478259B2
The present disclosure relates to a system and method for repairing an articular surface. A guide pin may be secured to an articular surface of a glenoid, wherein the guide pin defines a working axis and the working axis is positioned at an angle α relative to the articular surface, wherein angle α is less than or equal to 90 degrees. An excision device may be advanced over the guide pin, wherein the excision device includes a cannulated shaft and at least one cutter, wherein the at least one cutter is generally aligned in a single plane. A generally hemi-spherical excision site may be formed with the excision device within the articular surface of the glenoid.
US11478246B2
A surgical gripping/holding instrument having two instrument branches which are coupled pivotably with respect to one another. Each branch has a distal gripping/holding portion, a proximal instrument actuating portion, and an intermediate region which connects the distal and proximal portions preferably integrally, and having an instrument lock, of which the locking elements which can be brought into latching engagement with one another are arranged or formed on the instrument branches. The actuation of the instrument for opening and closing is functionally separated from actuation of the instrument for locking and unlocking the instrument by the positioning of the instrument lock in the intermediate region of the instrument. Therefore, each actuation can be carried out individually.
US11478238B2
Circular stapling instruments and anvil assemblies. The anvil assemblies may have collapsible anvil support members that may be inserted through an opening in a patient and then expanded to be attached to an anvil plate assembly that has a staple-forming surface thereon. The anvil support member is attachable to the anvil plate assembly in such a way that when the anvil assembly is coupled to the stapling head of a circular stapler, the staple-forming surface is in substantial registry with the staples supported in the stapling head. A variety of different anvil support members and anvil plate assemblies are disclosed.
US11478236B2
The present disclosure relates to devices and methods for delivery of a ferrofluid to a targeted treatment site, such as delivery of a ferroadhesive to a pathological fistula to occlude the fistula. A device includes a catheter having a lumen and a distal opening. A hollow solenoid is coupled to a distal section of the catheter, and a hollow core of the solenoid allows passage of a ferrofluid through the catheter and through the hollow core so that it may exit past the distal end of the hollow solenoid. The solenoid may be selectively actuated to maintain or control the position of the delivered ferrofluid.
US11478234B2
An articulating working channel system for use with a plurality of flexible tools which are adapted to be interleaved in a single surgical procedure, comprising: a working channel subassembly including a hollow flexible shaft; and a surgical tool subassembly including the flexible tool, wherein the flexible tool includes a flexible tube which is adapted to be inserted into the flexible shaft and wherein the flexible shaft is adapted to be articulated and the flexible tube is adapted to be passively articulated therewith.
US11478232B2
A hand held instrument for harvesting a biopsy sample is provided. The instrument includes a housing, an annular blade on a distal end of said housing for cutting axially cutting a biopsy, a transverse blade unit for transversely cutting the biopsy, and a plunger unit positioned within the housing ejecting the biopsy sample away from inside the housing after said biopsy sample has been transversely cut.
US11478212B2
A method for controlling a scanner comprises: sensing an outer surface of a body of a subject to collect body surface data, using machine learning to predict a surface of an internal organ of the subject based on the body surface data, and controlling the scanner based on the predicted surface of the internal organ.
US11478211B2
The present disclosure provides a system for active noise cancellation for a subject placed in a scanning bore of a medical imaging apparatus. The system may be directed to perform operations including detecting first noise signals by a first array of noise detection units disposed in the scanning bore, at least part of the first noise signals resulting from an operation of gradient coils of the medical imaging apparatus. The system may also be directed to perform operations including detecting, by a second array of noise detection units, second noise signals near a target position associated with the subject. The system may further be directed to perform operations including determining anti-noise signals based on the first noise signals, the second noise signals and excitation signals used for the operation of the medical imaging apparatus.
US11478208B2
An X-ray image quality control system includes an image acquisition unit configured to acquire an X-ray image and determine the type of imaged body part and the type of projection mode. A quality detection unit is configured to detect an image defect in X-ray image with regard to the type of the imaged body part and/or the type of the projection mode. The quality control system effectively identifies image defects including inaccurate positioning, patient movement, external object artifacts, and poor exposure. The system provides feedback to the technician at the image acquisition point to adjust the image acquisition solution in a timely manner.
US11478197B2
A medical imaging apparatus, and a sensor arrangement for acquiring at least one item of patient movement information during a medical imaging examination, have at least one sensor element and a support apparatus, with the at least one sensor element arranged on the support apparatus. The support apparatus has a positioning element for positioning the support apparatus and at least one strut-like support element on which the at least one sensor element is removably arranged.
US11478193B2
Detecting user contact with one or more electrodes of a physiological signal sensor can be used to ensure physiological signals measured by the physiological signal sensor meet waveform characteristics (e.g., of a clinically accurate physiological signal). In some examples, a mobile and/or wearable device can comprise sensing circuitry, stimulation circuitry, and processing circuitry. The stimulation circuit can drive one or more stimulation signals on one or more electrodes, the resulting signal(s) can be measured (e.g., by the sensing circuitry), and the processing circuitry can determine whether a user is in contact with the electrode(s). Additionally or alternatively, in some examples, mobile and/or wearable device can comprise saturation detection circuitry, and the processing circuitry can determine whether the sensing circuitry is saturated.
US11478192B2
An apparatus includes a flexible substrate; at least one sensor mounted on the flexible substrate arranged to provide an electrical output signal dependent upon a first parameter; and at least one conductive trace provided on the flexible substrate arranged to provide a direct current path to the at least one sensor and having an electrical property dependent upon a second parameter and arranged to provide an electrical output signal indicative of the second parameter.
US11478191B1
A smart face mask comprising a mask body; a temperature sensor; a respiration sensor; and a transmitter for transmitting information from the temperature sensor, the respiration sensor and a geotracker to a smart phone or smart watch.
US11478187B2
A method and a system for providing feedback to a user for adjusting sleep pattern of the user. The method includes collecting a set of information related to the user, receiving a set of measurement data related to the user from a wearable electronic device, defining circadian rhythm and duration of sleep of the user, determining sleep scores for a predefined number of days and associating each sleep score with a corresponding go-to-bed time or time of falling asleep of the user. A sleep score is determined for each of the predefined number of days from the collected set of information, the set of measurement data, the circadian rhythm and the duration of sleep of the user. The method further includes analysing the sleep scores and associated go-to-bed time or time of falling asleep of the user to determine an optimum bedtime window for the user and providing feedback to the user based on the analysed sleep scores and the optimum bedtime window.
US11478173B2
A method of calibrating an analyte measurement system is provided.
US11478167B2
New activity recognition, recording, analysis and control techniques, systems and sensors are provided. In one embodiment, multiple sensory tags with unique identification and data transfer attributes, create positional, movement, orientation and acceleration data and supply it to a control system. The tags may be placed at location(s) on the user's body, clothing, personal effects, exercise equipment and other activity-relevant locations, to enhance activity recognition and mapping. The system may define a personal activity space, sample data preferentially from that space, and perform a simplified form of object-recognition to determine, record and analyze user activities.
US11478159B2
In a method and magnetic resonance (MR) apparatus for pulse wave velocity (PWV) measurement along the aorta of a subject using MR imaging, a multislice cardio synchronized segmented ciné MR data acquisition sequence is optimized in order to enhance inflow representation in the slice images, in order to make the multislice MR data acquisition sequence viable for clinical uses, so as to acquire intensity-based MR data from two transverse slices spaced from each other along the descending aorta. The respective intensities of relevant pixels in at least two respective slice images are analyzed in order to identify the arrival of a pulse wave in the respective slices by the onset of flow enhancement in the slices, represented by intensity changes in the pixels. From the onset of flow enhancement in the respective slice images, PWV is calculated. An electronic signal representing the calculated PWV is then provided from a computer.
US11478157B2
Disclosed is an apparatus for estimating bio-information. The apparatus for estimating bio-information includes: a sensor part comprising a pulse wave sensor array configured to detect a pulse wave signal when an object contacts a contact surface of the sensor part, and a load sensor configured to detect a first contact load applied by the object to the contact surface; and a processor configured to obtain contact load distribution of the contact surface based on the pulse wave signal, and to estimate bio-information based on the contact load distribution.
US11478156B2
An illumination source may be configured to illuminate the skin of the user. An illumination detector may detect electromagnetic radiation reflected of the skin of the user. A compensation module may be configured to determine the position of the skin of the user relative to the illumination detector. A processor may be configured to determine a heart rate of the user by analyzing information corresponding to an amount of the electromagnetic radiation detected by the illumination detector. The processor may also determine the heart rate of the user by compensating for the position of the skin of the user as determined by the compensation module.
US11478139B2
The present invention is generally directed toward a laryngoscope having a handle, a rigid tube, and an optical subassembly. The handle has a distal end and a proximate end. The tube is hollow and also has a distal end having a distal opening and a proximate end having a proximate opening. The optical subassembly includes a light source located within the handle, a power source located within the handle and in communication with the light source and a light carrier extending between the handle and the tube and in communication with the light source and providing light inside and along the entire length of the tube.
US11478138B2
An imaging instrument comprises an elongate flexible shaft, a camera disposed at a distal end of the elongate flexible shaft, and a housing coupled to a proximal end of the elongate flexible shaft. The instrument also includes a light emitting diode (LED) within the housing and a heat dissipation system in thermal communication with the LED to transfer heat produced by the LED away from the housing.
US11478133B2
A medical observation system includes a multi-link structure in which a plurality of links is mutually coupled by joint parts, a medical observation apparatus attached on the multi-link structure, a control part configured to control the multi-link structure or the medical observation apparatus, and a user interface part by which a user inputs an instruction to change a visual field of the medical observation apparatus. When a user instructs to move a visual field of the medical observation apparatus vertically or horizontally, to rotate an oblique-viewing endoscope, or to change a magnification of the visual field via the user interface part, the control part controls the multi-link structure or the medical observation apparatus.
US11478132B2
Apparatuses, including sleeves, intraoral scanning systems to use these sleeves, and methods of using the sleeve, that authenticate the sleeve for use with an intraoral scanning system. Authentication may include verifying that the sleeve is new (unused) and/or verifying that the sleeve is appropriate and/or intended for use with the intraoral scanning system. Once authenticated, operation parameters of the intraoral scanning system can be automatically set based on information from a scanned identifier on the sleeve.
US11478123B2
A control apparatus controls an operation of a self-propelled mechanism of an endoscope. The control apparatus includes a drive circuit that outputs a motor current, a motor current detection circuit that acquires a value relating to magnitude of the motor current as a detection value, a storage circuit that stores a limit value relating to the detection value, and a control circuit that performs an operation as a first controller that controls the drive circuit so as to stop the motor when it is determined that the detection value exceeds a value relating to the limit value, and performs an operation as a second controller that controls the drive circuit so as to stop the motor when it is determined that the detection value exceeds the value relating to the limit value.
US11478120B2
A cleaner includes: a body which forms an outer appearance; and a mop module which is detachably connected to the body. The mop module includes: a pair of spin mops which contacts a floor while rotating clockwise or counterclockwise when viewed from a top; and a module housing which connects the pair of spin mops. The cleaner may travel autonomously due to the rotation of the spin mops.
US11478117B2
A surface cleaning apparatus comprises a cyclone positioned in an air flow path having a tangential air inlet with an inlet end, an outlet end, a cross-sectional flow area in a direction of flow through the tangential air inlet, a height in a direction of the cyclone axis of rotation and a width in a direction transverse to the height of the tangential air inlet. The air flow path comprises an air flow conduit at the inlet end of the tangential inlet having a cross-sectional flow area in a direction transverse to a direction of flow through the air flow conduit. The cross-sectional flow area of the tangential air inlet is greater than the cross-sectional flow area of the air flow conduit and one of the width and height of the tangential air inlet is greater than the other of the width and height of the tangential air inlet.
US11478116B2
A hand vacuum cleaner having a front end and a rear end positioned in a rearward direction rearward of the front end is described herein. The hand vacuum cleaner includes a dirty fluid inlet, an air treatment member downstream of the dirty fluid inlet, a pre-motor filter positioned in a pre-motor filter housing downstream from the air treatment member, a suction motor downstream of the pre-motor filter, an air flow path extending from the pre-motor filter to the suction motor, a clean air outlet downstream of the suction motor, and a handle. The pre-motor filter has a longitudinal length in the rearward direction that is longer than a transverse length in a direction transverse to the rearward direction. The pre-motor filter housing has first and second rearwardly extending pre-motor filter housing sidewalls and the pre-motor filter has first and second rearwardly extending pre-motor filter sidewalls that are positioned transversely inwardly of the pre-motor filter housing sidewalls. The pre-motor filter sidewalls are an upstream face of the pre-motor filter and the pre-motor filter has an inner cavity that is downstream of the upstream face.
US11478110B2
A method of chopping or cutting a food item on a cutting board which involves configuring and holding a flexible cutting board in a U-shaped configuration and chopping or cutting a food item in the bottom of the U-shaped configuration. Particles of the food item that would otherwise traject off a flat cutting board are contained between the side walls of the U-shaped configuration of the flexible cutting board and un-chopped and un-cut pieces of the food item fall downward into the bottom of the U-shaped configuration of the flexible cutting board. Also provided is the combination of a flexible cutting board and a cutting board holder that receives and holds a flexible cutting board in the U-shaped configuration.
US11478109B2
A barbecue with spit functionality, the barbecue including: a barbecue body having a first opening and a second opening; a first spit support member mounted in the first opening and settable at a storage position, in which the first spit support member is substantially contained within the barbecue body, or one or more use positions, in which the first spit support member at least partially protrudes from the barbecue body; a second spit support member mounted in the second opening and settable at a storage position, in which the second spit support member is substantially contained within the barbecue body, or one or more use positions, in which the second spit support member at least partially protrudes from the barbecue body; and a spit rod releasably engageable with the first and second spit support members when the first and second spit support members are in their respective use positions.
US11478106B2
A baby food warming system for warming baby food, including milk and other liquid or semi-liquid beverages, without using an AC power source is disclosed. The present invention provides a system including a charging case and a baby food warmer. The charging case includes an upper cover having a magnet, and a charging base having a magnetic switch, a charging connector, and an UV-C light emitting diode. The baby food warmer includes a main body having a temperature regulator, an external sensor, and an internal sensor, all at a lower tip of the main body, and a top cap attachable to the main body for closing the main body. The top cap further includes a micro-controller configured to generate control signals for controlling the temperature regulator, and to receive sensing signals from the external sensor and the internal sensor.
US11478105B2
An automatic hot beverage preparation machine comprising a hydraulic water supply circuit having a first branch to connect a water source and a water boiler, a second branch to connect the water boiler and a hot beverage dispensing assembly, a third branch to connect the first branch and the second branch, and a valve device to selectively control supply of water in the third branch as a function of a signal from a water temperature sensor arranged to measure water temperature at an outlet of the water boiler.
US11478090B2
A food stand system with a plan view in the shape of an incomplete circle, with a flat top surface as a countertop, and a convex customer-facing surface. The stand contains a food preparation appliance having both cooking and refrigeration components. Sensors measure the appliance interior state, and provide data to an automated controller that controls appliance operation to prepare food for consumption.
US11478081B2
A device for fixing a drawer-type element on a rail of a pullout guide has a clamping mechanism, which has a housing having a receptacle into which an oblong retaining part is insertable to fix it on the housing.
US11478078B1
A revolving shelf system including side plates to be mounted on opposite side walls of a cabinet, a drive track on a face of each of the side plates, a plurality of guide tracks on the faces of the side plates, a plurality of shelves, a drive pin arranged on each end of the shelves, and configured to extend respectively into each of the drive tracks, a plurality of guide pins arranged on each end of the shelves, and configured to extend respectively into corresponding ones of the guide tracks, a drive chain arranged in each of the side plates to respectively drive the drive pins, and a motor to transmit driving power to the drive chains, wherein the shelves move with a rotation of the drive chains, and the drive and guide pins remain extended into the respective drive and guide pin tracks at any position of the shelves.
US11478077B2
A cabinet including a housing having a cavity, a door that closes a front opening of the cavity, and a storage device. The storage device may include a movable storage member that is movable relative to the housing between a first position within the cavity and a second position outside of the cavity. The movable storage member may be configured to be coupled to the housing at a plurality of different locations. The storage device may be coupled directly to an inner surface of a sidewall of the housing that defines the cavity. The storage device may also include a fixed storage member that is non-movably coupled to the housing such that the movable storage member is pivotable relative to the housing and relative to the fixed storage member.
US11478067B2
An applicator for cosmetic product includes a core extending along a longitudinal extension direction, also called a main direction, and one or more protrusions integral with the core. The protrusions extend from a proximal end connected to the core to a distal free end along a elongation direction, so as to define a length. At least some of the protrusions have at least one helicoidal winding on at least a portion of the length thereof, called helicoidal winding portion.
US11478065B2
A support for a hand-operated device is disclosed herein. The support comprises a band having an inner surface configured to surround and contact at least a portion of a user's forearm, and an opposite outer surface, and a cordholder attached to the band, the cordholder having a length extending diagonally relative to the length direction of the user's radius when the band is mounted on the user's forearm. Corresponding systems and methods also are disclosed.
US11478061B2
The present invention relates to an applicator device for applying a product of the fluid or pasty type to keratin fibres, comprising a central core (1) having an elongate shape which extends along a longitudinal axis XX, at least one row of elongate spikes (2) comprising a first end (20) embedded in the core and a second, free end (21). According to the invention, at least one of the spikes (2) is delimited by a first flat face (200) that is coincident with a longitudinal plane, known as the reference plane P, and by a second flat face (210) that forms an angle of between 10 and 180° with said first flat face, said at least one spike comprising a first region (22) that is embedded in the core (1) and has a substantially constant cross section in the form of a portion of a circle, and a second region (23) having a variable cross section that is situated substantially in the longitudinal continuation of said first region (22).
US11478047B2
A self-lacing system includes an air bag assembly and a vacuum pump respectively attached on an upper portion and a sole portion of the shoe. The vacuum pump includes a first cover and a second cover. A chamber is formed between the first cover and the second cover when the second cover is located at the first position relative to the first cover. Volume of the chamber changes during movement of the second cover relative to the first cover. During the movement of the second cover relative to the first cover, the vacuum pump drives fluid inside the air bag assembly to flow into the chamber via a suction communication channel to collapse an air passage on the air bag assembly for shrinking and reshaping the air bag assembly, which drives the upper portion of the shoe to shrink and reshape for tightening the shoe.
US11478044B2
An article of footwear comprises a sole, and an upper that has a medial side portion extending from the medial side of the sole with a first distal end remote from the medial side. The upper has a lateral side portion extending from the lateral side of the sole with a second distal end remote from the lateral side. The upper may include a support member extending at least partially across the foot-receiving surface with a first end remote from the medial side. The medial and lateral side portions wrap at least partially around a foot with the first distal end securable proximal to the lateral side, and the second distal end separately securable proximal to the medial side. An article of footwear has cables with proximal ends fixed to one side of the upper and that extend through looped cables on an opposite side of the upper.
US11478042B2
The invention generally relates to removable outsole cushion attachments and shoe covers that are cushioned and disposable. The removable outsole cushion attachments and shoe covers can be used by healthcare professionals and others to achieve comfort and eliminate or at least reduce the fatigue associated with standing for long periods of time.
US11478028B2
A glove includes a material layer made from a plastic material shaped to include a palm, a back, fingers and a thumb and to define an interior space and an opening providing access to the interior space. The glove further includes a plurality of pods formed in the material layer, the pods having a predetermined first thickness, and a plurality of connecting tabs connected between the pods, the connecting tabs having a second thickness less than the first thickness. The pods are configured to provide cut-resistance properties. The glove may be disposable. The glove may be ambidextrous.
US11478026B2
A body limb protection system includes an outer layer, an inner layer, and a force dampening and defusing structure. The outer layer includes a first material composition and has an exterior surface that includes a substantially planer area. The inner layer includes a second material composition and has a shape corresponding to a body limb portion. The force dampening and defusing structure is positioned between the inner layer and the outer layer. The force dampening and defusing structure has a shape corresponding to a difference between the shapes of the inner and outer layers. The force dampening and defusing structure includes a plurality of components arranged to reduce pressure on the body limb portion when a force is applied to the substantially planer area.
US11478023B2
In selected examples, a garment includes an article of clothing, a processor, memory storing instructions, biometric and/or environmental sensors configurable and readable by the processor, and a short range radio frequency (RF) transceiver (e.g., a Bluetooth® transceiver). When the processor executes the instructions, it may configure the garment to establish an RF link with a communication device, enabling the processor to receive from the communication device sensor configuration information, and configure the sensors accordingly. The processor may also collect sensor data, and transmit the data over the RF link from the garment to the communication device. The communication device may be a mobile device, e.g., a smartphone/tablet. The garment may be a “master” coupled through wired/wireless links to “slave” garments, and allow the communication device to communicate with the slaves. The communication device may connect the master/slaves to various networks and other computing devices.
US11478022B2
System includes a haptic garment comprising an integrated circuit (IC) controller coupled to the haptic garment. A sensing circuit configured to cause to transmit a motion signal sensed by a portion of the haptic garment surface to the IC controller is provided. The motion signal is based on one or more of a touch pattern, a gesture pattern, and a movement pattern associated with a user of the haptic garment. The IC controller is configured to transmit a first data associated with the motion signal to an external device. Conductive traces embedded in the haptic garment that electrically couple with the sensing circuit.
US11478020B2
A power supply unit for an aerosol generation device includes: a connector to which a heater configured to heat an aerosol source is connected; a power supply; a boost converter connected between the power supply and the connector; and a switch connected between the boost converter and the connector.
US11478010B2
Nutritional products, uses thereof, methods for the manufacture and methods for improving the cohesiveness of the nutritional products are disclosed. The nutritional products have improved cohesiveness for promoting safer swallowing of food boluses for individuals having swallowing difficulties such as dysphagia.
US11478009B2
The present invention provides a food composition that makes it possible to effectively conduct mastication and swallowing training. The food composition contains a starch, a gelling agent, a paste, and water, the amount of the water contained in the composition being 65 wt % or more and less than 90 wt %, the total amount of the starch, the gelling agent, the paste, and the water being 85 to 100 wt %, the composition having a fracture stress of 20,000 to 70,000 N/m2.
US11478008B2
The present disclosure provides compositions comprising a supercritical rosemary extract and a lipid system comprising raffish liver oil or the product of an enzymatic or chemical glycerolysis processing of ratfish liver oil. The present disclosure also provides use of said compositions for immunotherapy potentiators or adjuvants for patients with cancer or immunological disorders; treatment of autoimmune-based immunological disorder selected from the group consisting of: rheumatoid arthritis, type I diabetes, psoriasis, celiac disease and multiple sclerosis; treatment of tumor growth, chronic lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus infection, hepatitis (B and C) virus infection, or human immunodeficiency virus infection; or prevention of kidney damage.
US11478005B2
A method for controlling foam comprising providing food composition comprising a foam control agent and a foodstuff, the foam control agent comprising a Mono glycidyl ether adduct or a Diglycidyl ether adduct. A composition useful for foam control comprising a mono glycidyl ether adduct, a diglycidyl ether adduct or combination thereof.
US11478001B2
Provided herein are methods of administering pre-operative beverage compositions to be ingested by a patient prior to administration of anesthesia or sedation in preparation for a safe induction of anesthesia or sedation in a patient before surgery. The beverage has one or more carbohydrates, wherein the total Calories available from the carbohydrates is at least about 200 and wherein the one or more carbohydrates are the sole source of significant Calories in the beverage, an acid, in a quantity sufficient to result in a pH of at least about 3.7 to about 4.5 and to enhance the shelf life and flavor of the beverage, a central nervous system (CNS) stimulant that is also a cerebro-vasoconstrictor, a sweetener, and water. The beverage composition, when ingested at least about two hours prior to administration of anesthesia or sedation is effective to relieve one or more symptoms associated with prolonged fasting.
US11477999B2
The present invention relates to a method for producing a whey protein hydrolysate, the method comprising subjecting a whey protein-containing starting material having (a) a lipid content of less than 1 mass % and/or (b) a lactose content of less than 1 mass % to hydrolysis treatment. According to the present invention, a whey protein hydrolysate having excellent flavor with reduced odor is produced by reducing the problems involving rough taste, bitterness, or an unpleasant odor caused by hydrolysis of whey proteins. It is also possible to produce a whey protein hydrolysate that is not easily discolored, and that is prevented from being degraded in quality during the production process and storage thereof.
US11477998B2
An extrusion process is disclosed for turning vegetable protein compositions such as soy protein into a fibrous, meat-like structure. The process involves the application of relatively high moisture contents. An open structure is produced that can be infused with water so as to influence the product's tenderness. The products of the invention can be provided with a fibrosity and tenderness at will. The invention offers the possibility to include relatively high amounts of fat in the product.
US11477996B2
A process for the production of soybean meal with a high content of soluble proteins in which a soybean meal with a content of soluble proteins in KOH in the range of 60 to 75% is reached, in which the soluble sugars are first removed from the soybean meal for extraction with aqueous ethanol solution and then the oil by extraction with hexane, without intermediate desolventization and in a single integrated industrial unit; an SPC soybean meal having 58-62% of a crude protein content; and 60-70% of soluble proteins in KOH.
US11477991B2
Described herein is a process for producing a chewing-gum pellet, which includes a step of granulation of the gum that is carried out in a flow of cryogenic gas.
US11477976B2
In one aspect, an exterior lighting insect zapper includes a photosensor configured to sense an amount of light for turning on or off an exterior light and an insect zapper coupled to the photosensor. The exterior lighting insect zapper also includes a twist-lock plug compatible with a receptacle of an exterior light for a photosensor unit plug, such that the exterior lighting insect zapper can replace existing photosensors of exterior light fixtures.
US11477962B2
A soybean cultivar designated 94110617 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar 94110617, to the plants of soybean cultivar 94110617, to the plant parts of soybean cultivar 94110617, and to methods for producing progeny of soybean cultivar 94110617. The invention also relates to methods for producing a soybean plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic soybean plants and plant parts produced by those methods. The invention also relates to soybean cultivars or breeding cultivars, and plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 94110617. The invention also relates to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines, or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 94110617, and to the soybean plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid soybean seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by crossing cultivar 94110617 with another soybean cultivar.
US11477960B2
The invention relates to the soybean variety designated 01077912. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the soybean variety 01077912. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the soybean variety 01077912 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing soybean plants by crossing the soybean variety 01077912 with itself or another soybean variety and plants produced by such methods.
US11477947B2
A container for propagating or growing plants is configured to receive a substrate for propagating plants and comprises a drain hole, an inclined side wall, and a plurality of ribs positioned on the side wall and extending into the container. At least two ribs are arranged close to and parallel to one another, defining a channel therebetween through which air may flow, in use, when the container contains a substrate. In a plant tray comprising an array of cells, at least one cell comprises a rim, arranged around the drain hole on the underside of the cell, in which a thickness of the rim is greater than a thickness of the side wall. A plant tray comprising an array of cells having octagonal cell openings comprises a plurality of vents arranged between the cells and configured to allow air to flow through the tray top. A plant tray comprising vents in the tray top comprises vent rims arranged around the circumferences of the vents, the vent rims being configured to project downwards from the tray top.
US11477945B2
A lighting device is presented. The lighting device includes an LED light source; and a red/far-red emitting phosphor radiationally coupled to the LED light source, wherein the red/far-red emitting phosphor comprises a host material activated with an activator ion, and wherein the activator ion comprises at least one of Sm2+ and Mn2+. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US11477932B2
A ripper assembly for a machine includes a main ripper unit and at least one auxiliary ripper unit. The main ripper unit is adapted to be coupled to a frame of the machine and is moveable relative to the frame along a height of the machine. The main ripper unit includes a main ripper. The auxiliary ripper unit is pivotably coupled to the main ripper unit, and is pivotable infinitely between a first position and a second position with respect to the main ripper unit. A distance between the main ripper unit and the auxiliary ripper unit, defined laterally in relation to a direction of travel of the machine, varies as the auxiliary ripper unit pivots from the first position to the second position.
US11477930B2
Three-point hitch mount systems for connecting an implement to a tow vehicle having two lower hitch arms and an upper link arm are disclosed. The hitch mount systems may include a lift bar configured to be attached to the two hitch arms of the tow vehicle. The hitch mount systems may include a yoke assembly. The yoke assembly includes a forward-facing slot and a downward-facing slot for removably receiving the lift bar.
US11483948B2
Disclosed herein are thermal interface materials (TIMs) including memory foam cores. In an exemplary embodiment, a thermal interface material generally includes a memory foam core including a plurality of sides defining a perimeter. A heat spreader is disposed at least partially around the perimeter defined by the plurality of sides of the memory foam core.
US11483947B2
A cooling apparatus for an electronic or computing device includes a base for thermal coupling to a surface of the electronic or computing device and a cover spaced from the base. A nozzle plate is disposed between the base and the cover to partially define an inlet volume and an outlet volume. Cooling fluid enters the inlet volume and passes through the nozzle plate to the outlet volume and out of the apparatus. The nozzle plate includes a plurality of flow paths through which the cooling fluid passes from the inlet volume to the outlet volume. The flow paths cause the fluid to exit the nozzle plate as transversely expanding fluid jets.
US11483945B2
Example high-density cable management bars are provided. In an example, a cable management bar comprises a cable channel configured to fit one or more cables and comprising a first end and a second end. The cable management bar can also comprise a first attachment point extending perpendicular from the first end. The cable management bar can also comprise a second attachment point extending perpendicular from the second end, the first attachment point and the second attachment point configured to attach to a rackmount computer, the cable management system configured to extend away from a rack in which the rackmount computer is located when attached to the rackmount computer via the first attachment point and the second attachment point, and when the rackmount computer is mounted in a rack.
US11483943B2
A computing device, comprising: a chassis; an optical base layer, including optical connectors; a power base layer, including power connectors; a thermal base layer, including a cold supply line with liquid disconnects, hot return lines with liquid disconnects, and thermal infrastructure interfaces; a radio frequency base layer, including radio frequency connectors; a power interface, wherein the power interface connects to the power base layer; a power supply to connect to the power interface and provide power to the power base layer through the power interface; and bays defined by bay divider walls, wherein each bay divider wall is removable and each bay comprises one of the optical connectors, one of the power connectors, one liquid disconnect for the supply line, one of the liquid disconnects for a hot return line, and one of the radio frequency connectors.
US11483938B2
A method for connecting stacked circuit boards includes: a connecting structure is provided, the connecting structure is a bendable and flexible circuit board; a first circuit board and a plurality of supporting posts are provided, each of the supporting posts is dispersedly fixed to a side surface of the first circuit board; a second circuit board is provided, and two peripheral portions of the connecting structure are respectively fixed to the first circuit board and the second circuit board, the peripheral portions of the connecting structure are respectively near two opposite ends of the connecting structure; the connecting structure is bent to flip the second circuit board super-positioned above the first circuit board, and the second circuit board is connected to a free end of each of the supporting posts.
US11483935B2
An electronic device includes: a housing and a printed circuit board (PCB) structure disposed in the housing. The PCB structure includes a circuit board including an opening area formed through a first surface of the circuit board and a second surface of the circuit board opposite the first surface and a conductive pattern formed in a peripheral area around the opening area, a plate disposed on the second surface of the circuit board covering the opening area, an electronic element disposed on the plate and electrically connected with the circuit board, a resin portion disposed between the plate and the circuit board and extending from the conductive pattern, the resin portion including a conductive material, and a solder portion formed between the resin portion and the plate.
US11483933B2
Description of a method and equipment for panel (900) treatment in the manufacture of printed circuit boards that includes the following phases: setting up a panel (900) with a first side (905), a second side (910) opposite the first side, and at least one through hole (915) in the thickness of the panel; positioning the opening (205) for an intake system (200) in contact with the first side (905) of the panel (900) so this opening (205) delimits a portion on the first side (905) containing the through hole (915); creating negative pressure within the intake system (200) and simultaneously exposing at least one portion on the second side (910) of this panel (900) to a flow of plasma, whereby this portion on the second side (910) contains the through hole (915).
US11483931B2
An all-directions embedded module includes a substrate layer, many first embedded pads, many second embedded pads, and many side wall circuits. The substrate layer comprises a first surface, a second surface opposite to the first surface, and a plurality of side surfaces connected to the first surface and the second surface. The first embedded pads is formed on the first surface. The second embedded pads is formed on the second surface. The side wall circuits embedded in the substrate layer and exposed from the side surfaces. The all-directions embedded module further includes a plurality of first connecting circuits formed on the first surface and a plurality of second connecting circuits formed on the second surface. The first embedded pads is connected to the side wall circuits by the first connecting circuits. The second embedded pads is connected to the side wall circuits by the second connecting circuits.
US11483922B2
A multi-socket panel device with an anti-crosstalk structure, wherein a plurality of through holes are formed on the circuit board. The through holes are arranged in two rows extending from one side of the circuit board to another side of the circuit board. Two electrical connectors disposed on the circuit board are arranged near two opposite sides of the rows of the through holes. The electromagnetic wave propagating in the circuit board are reflected or refracted by the through holes due to travel in different media, whereby the crosstalk caused by the electromagnetic wave is avoided when signals of high frequency are transmitted in two electrical connectors.
US11483919B2
A system of electron irradiation includes an electron accelerator and an electron beam focusing device. The electron accelerator emits and accelerates a beam of electrons. The electron beam focusing device is located at a rear end of the electron irradiation and includes a beam restraining rail and 2n+1 sets of magnetic poles. The beam restraining rail forms a beam restraining channel through which the beam of electrons are to pass. The 2n+1 sets of magnetic poles are installed on the beam restraining rail and distributed at different locations of the beam restraining channel. An nth set of magnetic poles thereof are arranged for performing, on the beam of electrons, focusing in a first direction. An (n+1)th set of magnetic poles thereof are arranged for performing, on the beam of electrons, focusing in a second direction. The second direction is perpendicular to the first direction. The n is a positive integer.
US11483915B2
The invention relates to the technical field of shoe lights; in particular, to a shoe light device capable of flashing in different modes and a driving method thereof. A motion sensor, an integrated chip and a light-emitting device are integrated on a shoe, and the motion sensor and the light-emitting device are electrically connected to the integrated chip. The integrated chip is configured to control the light-emitting device to emit light in a preset constant-sequence output mode when the duration of reception of pulse signals generated by the motion sensor reaches a preset threshold, so that trigger control over the light-emitting device is realized. The shoe light device capable of flashing in different modes has the advantages of high integrity of elements, simple structure, simple production process, and various integrated cyclic output modes for flashing of the light-emitting device.
US11483910B2
A linear driving system for LED with high power factor including a rectifying circuit receiving an AC voltage and generating a DC voltage to a power supply bus having a protection circuit coupled thereto. The protection circuit includes a detection unit for acquiring a voltage signal based on a power supply bus voltage, and to generate a detection result which indicates undesirable oscillation on the power supply bus voltage. A control unit includes a delay control module connected with the detection unit, and is coupled to the detection unit and for generating a control signal based on the detection result. The delay control module is for outputting a first control signal when undesirable oscillation happens, and outputting a second control signal after a protection period when undesirable oscillation disappears. A switch circuit controlled by the first control signal and the second control signal turns off for the protection period.
US11483907B2
System and method for regulating one or more currents. The system includes a system controller, an inductor, a first resistor, a switch and a first diode. The system controller includes a first controller terminal and a ground terminal, the system controller being configured to output a drive signal at the first controller terminal. The inductor includes a first inductor terminal and a second inductor terminal, the first inductor terminal being coupled to the ground terminal, the second inductor terminal being coupled to one or more light emitting diodes. The first resistor includes a first resistor terminal and a second resistor terminal, the first resistor terminal being coupled to the ground terminal. The switch is configured to receive the drive signal and coupled to the second resistor terminal. The first diode includes a first diode terminal and a second diode terminal and coupled to the first resistor.
US11483906B2
A method for identifying a cooking level of a food load in an electromagnetic cooking device is disclosed. The method includes controlling a frequency and a phase of a first RF signal and a second RF signal and amplifying the first RF signal and the second RF signal thereby generating a first RF feed and a second RF feed. The method further includes emitting the first RF feed and the second RF feed into an enclosed cavity to heat a food load and measuring at least one reflection signal. The method further includes calculating a Q-factor for the enclosed cavity based on the reflection signal, monitoring the Q-factor, and identifying a change in the Q-factor exceeding a predetermined change threshold. In response to identifying the change exceeding the predetermined change threshold, a cooking level for the food load is identified.
US11483905B2
A method of determining heating strategies for a cooking appliance (10) includes obtaining geometry dimensions, power values, and frequency values of the cooking appliance (10), selecting a food item (14) and obtaining a food geometry, permittivity value, and initial temperature of the selected food item (14). A heating pattern (28) for heating the selected food item (14) is estimated based on the food geometry, permittivity value, and initial temperature of the selected food item (14) and data indicative of the estimated heating pattern (28) is inputted to an operating control system (21) to achieve the estimated heating strategy.
US11483899B2
A communication control device that controls a plurality of communication devices in a network system includes: a receiver, a processor and a transmitter. The receiver receives a request pertaining to use of data generated by the data generation device from a user device. The processor determines a route between the data generation device and the user device, specifies first and second communication devices that are implemented at both ends of an overlapped route between a first route corresponding to a first request and a second route corresponding to a second request, and determines, based on the first request and the second request, a function to be executed by at least one of the first and second communication devices. The transmitter transmits an instruction including information for identifying the function determined by the processor to at least one of the first and second communication devices.
US11483896B2
An operating method of a user equipment in a wireless communication system according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes receiving a packet duplication configuration and a logical channel restriction configuration (allowedServingCells) for a data radio bearer (DRB) from a base station through an RRC message; receiving an indication to deactivate packet duplication for the DRB, for which packet duplication is configured, from the base station through a media access control (MAC) control element (CE); and not applying the logical channel restriction configuration for the DRB, for which packet duplication is configured, based on the indication to deactivate the packet duplication.
US11483895B2
A method, apparatus, and computer-readable medium are provided that improves power savings and reliability of communication for DRX/eDRX modes. A base station may receive an indication from a network entity that a UE is in a DRX/eDRX mode. The base station may configure a WUS mode for the UE corresponding to the DRX mode or the eDRX mode. A UE may receive the WUS mode from the base station. When a UE is configured for relaxed RRM measurements for a first cell and moves to a second cell that supports a relaxed RRM measurement, the UE may return to a regular RRM measurement for a time period. When a UE configured for a WUS mode for a first cell moves to a second cell that supports the WUS mode, the UE may return to the DRX mode or the eDRX mode without the WUS mode for a period of time.
US11483891B2
Embodiments herein provide a method and system for performing a bearer type change of a plurality of radio bearers configured for a User Equipment (UE). The proposed method includes changing the bearer type of specific bearer by the network. Further, the proposed method includes checking any changes in keys or Packet Data Convergence Protocol (PDCP) termination point or PDCP version change. Furthermore, the proposed method includes notifying the UE to change the bearer type either through reconfiguration procedure without handover or Secondary Node (SN) change procedure or reconfiguration procedure with handover or SN change procedure. The network indicates one or more operations to the UE for performing the bearer type change.
US11483889B2
The disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. The disclosure relates to a method and a device for quickly recovering a connection to a network in a next-generation mobile communication system when the connection to the network fails.
US11483877B2
A user terminal (UT) for a mobile satellite communications system, and an associated method for managing tracking areas for such a UT is provided. When initiating establishment of a radio connection, the UT transmits a connection request message to a satellite gateway (SGW) of the mobile satellite communications system, where the connection request message includes position information identifying a current location of the UT. The UT processes a connection setup message received in response to the connection request message, where the connection setup message includes a first tracking area identifier (TAID) that identifies a one of a plurality of tracking areas that is associated with the current location of the UT. The UT transmits a connection complete message to the SGW, together with an attach request message for a core network of the mobile satellite communications system, which includes the first TAID.
US11483875B2
A method in a terminal device. The method includes determining a DeModulation Reference Signal (DMRS) configuration for a Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH) and transmitting to a network device the PUSCH using the DMRS configuration along with a preamble, in a random access message.
US11483873B2
User equipment for receiving an instruction to perform a random access procedure from a base station apparatus is provided. The user equipment includes a receiver configured to receive, from the base station apparatus, information specifying available random access channel transmission occasions associated with a synchronization block, a controller configured to identify a random access channel transmission occasion based on the information, and a transmitter configured to transmit a random access preamble by using the identified random access channel transmission occasion.
US11483872B2
Wireless communication devices, systems, and methods related to mechanisms to implement PUCCH resource configuration for two-step RACH for subsequent HARQ messaging. After a UE transmits msgA to a BS, the BS responds with msgB including a PUCCH resource indicator in a DCI of PDCCH, or a PUCCH resource indicator in PDSCH. The UE attempts to decode PDCCH or PDSCH, respectively. Upon decoding, the UE will use the configuration identified by the resource indicator. With the PUCCH resource configuration information, the UE signals a HARQ message.
US11483870B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. The described techniques provide for a user equipment (UE) to adjust a random access message that is transmitted to a base station in an asynchronous uplink transmission. The UE may use a constrained mapping of time and frequency resources for the random access message or transmit all portions of the message in a continuous transmission. The UE may also adjust the timing of the portions of the message. The base station may use a portion of the message, such as a preamble, to perform channel estimation for another portion of the message, such as a payload, to improve decoding of the transmitted message. Additionally, the UE may configure a waveform of the message to improve the continuous transmission of the message, for example by reducing interference between portions of the message.
US11483863B2
The present disclosure provides a method and a device in a User Equipment (UE) and a base station used for wireless communications. The UE receives a first radio signal, receives first information, and then performs a first access detection for determining whether an uplink transmission is performed at a first time on a first sub-band; if so, transmits a second radio signal by a second antenna port group at the first time on the first sub-band; if not, drops transmission of a second radio signal at the first time on the first sub-band; wherein a first receiving parameter group is used for receiving the first radio signal, and a second receiving parameter group is used for generating the second antenna port group. The above method improves uplink channel access chance, thus increasing the system capacity.
US11483857B2
Many aspects pertaining to various apparatuses, methods, and computer-readable medium are described herein. Some aspects pertain to wireless communication between various apparatuses, which may include one or more access points (APs) and/or one or more stations (STAs). The one or more APs and/or one or more STAs may have one or more radios. Some aspects pertain to various features related to such one or more radios. Some aspects pertain to certain technologies related to uplink (UL) communication(s) and/or downlink (DL) communication(s). The written description and appended drawings provide detailed descriptions regarding these and many other aspects.
US11483856B2
Provided are a method and apparatus for determining a transport block size (TBS) when transmitting a transport block through a PUSCH by applying transport block processing over multiple slots (TBoMS) in a wireless communication system. The UE determines the TBS based on the number of resource elements (NRE) allocated for the PUSCH, in this case, considers the number of slots for the TBoMS.
US11483855B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. Generally, the described techniques provide for efficiently signaling configurations of physical resources and transmission parameters to a user equipment (UE) for small data transmissions (for example, data transmissions in an inactive or idle state). A base station may broadcast or multicast downlink control information (DCI) in one or more control channels that schedules data transmissions in a set of data channels. The base station may then multicast one or more configurations in each of the data channels, and a UE may decode one of the data channels to determine a configuration for a small data transmission. Because the configurations may be transmitted in the data channels in addition to system information or paging information, a base station may have access to sufficient resources to provide suitable configurations to a UE for communications in an inactive or idle state.
US11483852B2
Techniques are described for wireless communication. A first method may include classifying feedback received for a first downlink transmission over a shared radio frequency spectrum band; identifying an interference parameter for a subsequent downlink transmission; and scheduling the subsequent downlink transmission based at least in part on feedback classified in a feedback category associated with the identified interference parameter for the subsequent downlink transmission. The feedback may be classified in one of a plurality of feedback categories, and the classifying may be based at least in part on an interference parameter for the first downlink transmission. A second method may include identifying an interference parameter for a first downlink transmission received over a shared radio frequency spectrum band; generating feedback for the first downlink transmission; and sending, to a base station, the feedback along with an indication of the interference parameter.
US11483851B2
The present application discloses a method for data transmission, a terminal device, and a network device. The method can include receiving first control information for scheduling a terminal device to perform data transmission; and determining at least one transmission frequency band corresponding to the transmission information. The first mapping relationship can include a correspondence between a plurality of pieces of transmission information and a plurality of transmission frequency bands, and the transmission information can include at least one of: an attribute of the first control information, resource type information for the data transmission, and traffic information of the terminal device. The terminal device can determine a target transmission frequency band from the at least one transmission frequency band, and transmit data with the network device on the target transmission frequency band according to the first control information.
US11483845B2
A wireless device having a plurality of media access control (MAC) addresses may receive information about a second access point (AP) from a first AP. The wireless device may receive a first group based transmission, on an operating band of the first AP, from the first access point (AP). The first group based transmission may have a preamble portion which indicates a modulation scheme used for a portion subsequent to the preamble portion. The first group based transmission may have a data portion and a first header portion. The wireless device may receive a second group based transmission, on an operating band of the second AP, from the second AP. The second group based transmission may have a second data portion having a second header portion. The second data portion may be modulated according to 4096 QAM.
US11483835B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a first node may transmit, to a second node on a beamformed link from the first node to the second node, a first signal, wherein the first node and the second node are associated with common timing; determine whether a second signal, based at least in part on the first signal, is received on a beamformed link from the second node to the first node; and transmit a third signal based at least in part on receiving the second signal or perform a sidelink beam failure recovery procedure based at least in part on determining that the second signal is not received. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US11483823B2
A data transmission method, a terminal and a base station are provided by the present disclosure. The data transmission method of the present disclosure includes: receiving a downlink control channel carrying an indication field, wherein the indication field is used for indicating a time domain resource of a target transmission corresponding to the downlink control channel, and/or division of uplink resources and downlink resources in a target time unit in which the target transmission is located; determining the time domain resource of the target transmission corresponding to the downlink control channel, according to the indication field; and transmitting data on the time domain resource.
US11483822B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for managing scheduling of wireless communications. A method that may be performed by a user equipment (UE) includes receiving, from a base station, one or more configurations indicating a plurality of minimum scheduling offset values; receiving, from the base station, a signal indicating one of the minimum scheduling offset values as an updated value to be used for communications with the base station and a type of scheduling; determining a delay based on the type of scheduling; and after the reception of the signal, using the updated value for communications with the base station based on the determined delay.
US11483813B2
The present invention relates to wireless communication technology, and particularly relates to a signal transmission method and a communication device. The signal transmission method includes: transmitting, by a first communication node, a signal on one or more first channels located in a primary transmission channel and/or a secondary transmission channel of the first communication node, and before transmitting the signal, performing channel protection on a transmission channel where the first channel is located and/or the primary transmission channel. Correspondingly, further provided is a communication device.
US11483811B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide methods, apparatuses and computer program for signal configuration in a wireless communication system. A method implemented at a network device comprises: transmitting information related to a resource allocation for a signal, and broadcasting the signal in accordance with the resource allocation; wherein the signal includes at least one of: a reference signal and a control signal containing system information. By virtue of the method, resource utilization may be more flexibly controlled.
US11483805B2
The present disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. The disclosure provides a method by which a terminal, during uplink signal transmission: receives, from a base station, first information for indicating transmission of uplink control information and/or data in a specific subframe; receives, from the base station, second information for indicating transmission of the uplink control information and/or the data in the specific subframe; and determines the uplink control information and/or the data to be transmitted in the specific subframe on the basis of a capability of the terminal and transmits the determined uplink control information and/or data in the specific subframe.
US11483804B2
The disclosure discloses a method for transmitting uplink control information. The method includes: receiving, by a user equipment, a carrier activation command or a carrier deactivation command in a downlink subframe n; updating a first downlink activated carrier set according to the received carrier activation command or the carrier deactivation command into a second downlink activated carrier set; taking the second downlink activated carrier set as a current downlink activated carrier set corresponding to a first uplink subframe which belongs to a subframe set of an uplink subframe n+k and uplink subframe(s) after the uplink subframe n+k; sorting X piece(s) of Uplink Control Information (UCI) corresponding to X downlink carrier(s) according to a sorting rule, and transmitting the sorted X pieces of UCI to a base station in the first uplink subframe.
US11483803B2
Wireless communications systems and methods related to autonomous sidelink communication are provided. A first user equipment (UE) communicates, in a first subband of a plurality of subbands within a shared radio frequency band during a first time period, first sidelink control information (SCI) associated with a second subband of the plurality of subbands. The first UE communicates, with the second UE, first sidelink data in the second subband during the first time period based on the first SCI. The first UE communicates, with the second UE in the first subband during a second time period, second SCI associated with a third subband of the plurality of subbands, the third subband being different from the second subband based on a frequency hopping pattern. The first UE communicates, with the second UE, second sidelink data in the third subband during the second time period based on the second SCI.
US11483802B2
A wireless device receives one or more messages. The one or more messages indicate: a plurality of repetition values of a physical sidelink shared channel (PSSCH); and a repetition threshold for the PSSCH. A sidelink control information is received. The sidelink control information schedules a transport block. The sidelink control information indicates a first repetition value of the plurality of repetition values. The transport block is received via the PSSCH. A determination is made, based on the first repetition value and the repetition threshold, to transmit an acknowledgment for the transport block. The acknowledgment for the transport block is transmitted.
US11483800B2
The present disclosure provides a resource allocation method and a User Equipment (UE). The resource allocation method includes the following steps as configuring one or more resource pools, and sensing, by a UE, each configured resource pool to obtain a result of sensing, selecting, from a set of remaining candidate single time unit resources of each resource pool contained in the result of sensing, one candidate single time unit resource as a transmission resource, and transmitting, via the transmission resource, a packet to be transmitted which is borne by the transmission resource. The present disclosure also provides a method of sidelink communication performed by a control user equipment (CUE), which comprises determining transmission resources and reception resources for internal communication, transmitting data to member user equipments (MUEs) in the determined transmission resources, and receiving data from the MUEs in the determined reception resources.
US11483799B2
The embodiments of the present invention relate to apparatuses and methods for resource management in a multi-carrier system wherein a plurality of component carriers (CCs) is defined per cell. According to a method in an apparatus corresponding to a radio base station, a message is assembled comprising information on the structure of the cell served by the radio base station; the information including one or more CCs used in the cell that is/are available for a user equipment for performing initial access in the cell. The method also comprises, transmitting the assembled message to the user equipment and indicating to the user equipment to what resources to use for random access in the cell. The exemplary embodiments of the present invention also relates to a method in the user equipment, to a radio base station and to a user equipment.
US11483796B2
According to certain embodiments, a system comprises one or more processors and one or more computer-readable non-transitory storage media comprising instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause one or more components of the system to perform operations comprising: receiving location data associated with a plurality of remote users accessing one or more existing remote access gateways that are located at one or more network locations; building a heatmap of user locations based at least in part on the received location data; and identifying, from the heatmap of user locations, at least one new network location in which to generate at least one new remote access gateway, or at least one existing network location in which to remove at least one of the existing remote access gateways.
US11483793B2
Disclosed are techniques for determining a location of a user equipment (UE) communicating over a shared communication medium in unlicensed spectrum. In an aspect, the UE measures a positioning reference signal (PRS) from a first evolved NodeB (eNB) for a first secondary cell (Scell) and a second PRS from a second eNB for a second Scell. The UE reports the first and second PRS measurements and the first and second PRS measurement times to a location server. In an aspect, the first and second PRS are configured according to a common PRS configuration. The location server also receives transmission times of the PRS signals from the first and second eNBs. Using the measurement and transmission times, the location server can associate the first PRS measurement to the first eNB and the second PRS measurement to the second eNB, thereby assisting the location server to obtain a location for the UE.
US11483791B2
A method for receiving device position determination includes receiving beamformed position reference signals (BF-PRSs) on a plurality of communications beams from at least two transmitting devices in accordance with a BF-PRS configuration, making at least one observed time difference of arrival (OTDOA) measurement in accordance with the BF-PRSs on the plurality of communications beams, and transmitting OTDOA feedback including the at least one OTDOA measurement.
US11483779B2
A user equipment and a communication method are provided. The user equipment includes a signal transceiver, a first antenna, a second antenna, a third antenna, and a power amplifier module. The signal transceiver applies a conversion between a baseband signal and a radio frequency signal. The first antenna is a primary antenna for receiving and transmitting RF signals. The second antenna is a diversity antenna for receiving RF signals. The third antenna is a low frequency antenna for transmitting signals in a specific low frequency band. The power amplifier module is electrically connected to the signal transceiver, the first antenna, and the third antenna. The power amplifier module amplifies the RF signal output by the signal transceiver and outputs same to either the first or third antenna.
US11483777B2
Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for power headroom report generation. One method includes aggregating multiple serving cells. The method includes determining that a power headroom report is triggered. The method includes determining that an uplink resource for a new transmission on a serving cell of the multiple serving cells is allocated at a first time after the power headroom report is triggered. The method includes determining a power headroom value for each serving cell of the multiple serving cells being activated based on information received prior to and including a predetermined time before the start of the uplink resource at the first time. The method includes generating a power headroom report medium access control control element including at least the power headroom value for each serving cell of the multiple serving cells being activated.
US11483774B2
The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for controlling uplink transmission power in a multiple element carrier wave system. The method for controlling uplink transmission power by a terminal in a multiple element carrier wave system includes the steps of: generating an uplink signal to be transmitted in a first serving cell; receiving, from a base station, random access start information for commanding the start of a random access procedure for a second serving cell; calculating the estimated surplus power from first transmission power scheduled for an uplink signal transmission, and second transmission power scheduled for a transmission of a PRACH to which a random access preamble is mapped; and when the estimated surplus power is smaller than a threshold power, adjusting the first transmission power or the second transmission power on the basis of power allocation priority.
US11483772B2
One example method includes receiving, by a first node, a first message from a second node, wherein the first message is used to page a third node, instruct the third node to access a network, instruct the first node to provide a relay serving for the third node, instruct to set the third node to a low configuration mode, instruct to set the third node to a high configuration mode, or instruct to update system information. The first node can send a second message to a third node, where the second message is used to instruct the third node to access a network, instruct the third node to perform communication with a second node by using the first node, instruct to set the third node to a low configuration mode, instruct to set the third node to a high configuration mode, or instruct the third node to update system information.
US11483768B2
The present disclosure relates to technique for facilitating PDCCH monitoring in carrier aggregation for lower power consumption. A UE monitors a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) on a secondary cell (SCell). The UE stops the PDCCH monitoring on the SCell in response to a monitoring-stoppage event. Then, the UE resumes the PDCCH monitoring on the SCell in response to a monitoring-resumption event. The SCell may remain active during a period between the stopping of the PDCCH monitoring and the resuming of the PDCCH monitoring.
US11483764B2
Selection of a connection system is facilitated in MulteFire that simultaneously supports two types of modes, which are a PLMN access mode and an NHN access mode. A first wireless base station operates in a licensed frequency band and connects to a first network. A second wireless base station operates in an unlicensed frequency band and selects and connects to any of the first network and a second network. A wireless communication unit of a wireless communication device can communicate with each of the first and second wireless base stations. A connection-destination control unit notifies the second wireless base station to connect to the second network with priority over the first network within a range of the second wireless base station.
US11483763B2
Provided are a network slice configuration method, a first network element and a second network element. The network slice configuration method includes: sending, by a first network element, network slice configuration information to a second network element, so that the second network element stores network slice information corresponding to the network slice configuration information; receiving, by a second network element, network slice configuration information of a first network element; and storing, by the second network element, network slice information corresponding to the network slice configuration information.
US11483760B2
Embodiments herein provide methods and systems for performing paging operation in 5G communication networks. The 5G core network can transmit a NAS message to a UE through a N3GPP access network, if the UE is reachable through the N3GPP access network. The NAS message can be sent by the 5G core network to the N3IWF. The N3IWF can send the NAS message to the UE, through the N3GPP access network. The UE can send a service request over 3GPP access, in response to the NAS message, to the 5G core network, through a 5G RAN. If the UE is not having access to the 5G RAN, then the UE can transmit a notification response message to the 5G core network, indicating the inability to transmit a service request. The transmission of NAS message through the N3IWF can lead to a significant saving of radio resources.
US11483758B1
A communication system includes a central cloud server that causes each of a plurality of edge devices to initiate a discovery process. The central cloud server obtains a plurality of sensed parameters from each edge device based on the discovery process, where the plurality of sensed parameters are associated with donor antenna array and one or more relay antenna arrays of each edge device. The central cloud server determines a plurality of path setup parameters specific for each edge device. The plurality of path setup parameters determined specifically for each edge device are communicated to each corresponding edge device. The central cloud server causes the plurality of edge devices to form a mesh network such that a spatial coverage of a first radio access network node is increased to serve one or more remote user equipment via the mesh network with a throughput rate greater than a threshold.
US11483756B1
Apparatus, methods, and computer-readable media for facilitating simplified switching at an RU are disclosed herein. An example method for wireless communication at an RU includes transmitting, to a DU, capability information indicating support of endpoint groups, each endpoint group associated with a respective set of RU endpoints. The example method also includes receiving an eAxC message from the DU based on the capability information, the eAxC message including a DU port identifier, a band sector identifier, a component carrier identifier, and an RU port identifier. The example method also includes using a first portion of the RU port identifier to identify an endpoint group, the respective set of RU endpoints of the endpoint group associated with a set of characteristics. Additionally, the example method includes using a second portion of the RU port identifier to index the eAxC message to an RU endpoint of the endpoint group.
US11483747B2
A method for restoring a wireless backhaul link includes: measuring the signal quality of a first wireless backhaul link between a first new radio (NR) host station being accessed by a NR wireless backhaul base station and the NR wireless backhaul base station; in a case that the signal quality of the first wireless backhaul link is less than a link reselection threshold corresponding to the NR wireless backhaul base station, beginning a new search for an adjacent NR host station; measuring signal quality of a second wireless backhaul link between the NR wireless backhaul base station and a second NR donor base station; and initiating, when the signal quality of the second wireless backhaul link being greater than a first threshold continues a duration exceeding a first time length, a random access request to the second NR donor base station, so as to establish a wireless backhaul link with the second NR donor base station.
US11483739B2
The method includes receiving first video data and network performance information from at least one first agent node associated with at least one first camera, determining event detection information based on the first video data and the network performance information, determining a slice configuration for at least one network slice based upon the first video data, network performance information and the event detection information, and controlling an operation of the communication network by instantiating the at least one network slice based on the slice configuration information.
US11483732B2
Systems, devices, and techniques described herein relate to intelligently allocating network resources to Quality of Service (QoS)-sensitive data traffic. An example method includes identifying a request to deliver QoS-sensitive services to a User Equipment (UE) over at least one delivery network. The at least one delivery network may include at least one reserved resource and at least one pooled resource. The QoS-sensitive services are determined to be delivered over the at least one pooled resource. In addition, delivery of the QoS-sensitive services is caused over the at least one pooled resource.
US11483725B2
Provided is a mobile terminal test device that tests a mobile communication terminal by simulating a mobile communication base station, the mobile terminal test device including: an acquisition unit that acquires terminal capability information, which is information related to a capability of the mobile communication terminal, by communicating with the mobile communication terminal; a generation unit that generates a test case as a combination of parameter setting values set in test parameters based on the terminal capability information; an execution unit that sequentially executes the test cases; an identification unit that identifies a parameter condition in which an error occurs, from a set of test cases in which the error occurred among the executed test cases; and a management unit that excludes unexecuted test cases that meet the identified parameter condition from subsequent execution targets.
US11483724B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, determining a type of Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) within a communication device, and identifying a first testing file associated with a physical SIM type. Further embodiments can include converting the first testing file to a second testing file according to the type of SIM, and transmitting the second testing file utilizing Over-the-Air (OTA) communications to the communication device. Additional embodiments can include providing first instructions to the communication device, wherein the first instructions activate the second testing file on the communication device, and providing second instructions to the communication device, wherein the second instructions initiate testing of the communication device according to the second testing file. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US11483721B1
One embodiment is directed to a method comprising estimating a velocity vector that is experienced by an apparatus; reporting to a network element, NE, the velocity vector; receiving from the NE at least one primary reference signal, RS, which will be experienced during a predicted trajectory, and at least one secondary RS that will potentially be experienced during the predicted trajectory; sending to the NE feedback based on the at least one primary RS and the at least one secondary RS; and sending an update of the velocity vector to the NE.
US11483714B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a spectrum control system. The system comprises one or more high frequency (HF) antennas, one or more multi-band (MB) antennas, and one or more datalinks. A spectrum management processor is configured to receive signals from the one or more HF and MB antennas and the one or more datalinks, and switch to one or more alternate radio-frequency (RF) channels for communications and/or position, navigation, and timing (PNT) information in response to a failure in a current communication channel and/or a global positioning system (GPS) signal.
US11483706B2
A wireless network transfers UE information to an authorization server. The authorization server generates an expected result based on a random number and secret key in response to the UE information. The authorization server transfers the expected result and the random number to the wireless network which transfers the random number to the UE. The wireless network receives an authentication result from the UE and authenticates the UE by matching the authentication result to the expected result. In response to network authentication, the wireless network transfers the expected result to a conferencing server. The conferencing server receives the authentication result from the UE and registers the UE by matching the authentication result to the expected result. The conferencing server establishes media conferences for the UE. The wireless network exchanges media for the UE. Advantageously, the wireless network efficiently eliminates redundant authentication tasks from the authorization server and conferencing server.
US11483705B2
In one example method for generating an access stratum key in a communication system, a terminal device acquires an input parameter, where the terminal device is communicably coupled to a first network-side device through a first air interface and at the same time is communicably coupled to a second network-side device through a second air interface. The terminal device has access to a core network via the first network-side device, and has access to the core network via the second network-side device which has access to the core network through the first network-side device. The terminal device calculates an access stratum root key of the second air interface according to the input parameter and an access stratum root key of the first air interface, and generates an access stratum key of the second air interface according to the access stratum root key of the second air interface.
US11483696B2
A wireless telecommunications device user's home telecommunications service provider determines that the user is traveling or about to travel to a foreign jurisdiction where telecommunications services are provided by a different telecommunications service provider, and proactively provides the user with options for selecting or upgrading telecommunications service and receives a selection from the user before the user leaves the home jurisdiction or ceases contact with the home service provider. When the user arrives in the foreign jurisdiction, upgraded service per the user's selection is established or soon ready to become active. The home service provider can determine the user's travel based on one or more of the user's electronic communications, calendar entries, current location, trending geographical movement, or patterns of past travels.
US11483695B2
Embodiments of this application provide a wireless communication method and a terminal device, to flexibly judge, according to configuration information of a network device, whether a PDCP layer entity needs to re-established, thereby preventing a re-establishment operation from being performed when the PDCP layer entity does not need to be re-established, and then reducing signaling overheads. The method includes: receiving, by a terminal device, configuration information that is used to perform mobility management on the terminal device and that is sent by a network device, where the configuration information includes indication information, and the indication information is used to configure a packet data convergence protocol PDCP layer entity; and determining, by the terminal device according to the indication information, whether to re-establish the PDCP layer entity.
US11483693B2
Providing of relevant information to a responder is described. A responder system receives alert data identifying an incident location. Available relevant data for the incident location is stored in the responder system. When relevant data is not stored, relevant data for the incident location is obtained from an external data source and stored in the responder system. While proceeding to the incident location and based on the alert data and the relevant data, initial augmented reality information is prepared for presentation to a responder. Upon arriving at the incident location, second augment reality information is generated. Upon arriving within a localized area of the incident location, an IoT device operable within the localized area is identified and selected and a communications link therewith is established. First IoT device data is received from the selected IoT device, and based thereon third augmented reality information is generated.
US11483681B2
The present disclosure provides a special effect synchronization method, device, and a storage medium; wherein the method comprises: receiving a synchronization request for synchronizing the special effect file sent by a special effect preview end; based on the synchronization request, when determining that a direct connection condition is satisfied, establishing a communication link with the special effect preview end in a direct connection mode; receiving an acquisition request for the target special effect file through the communication link; synchronizing the target special effect file to the special effect preview end based on the acquisition request.
US11483675B2
A vehicle movement tracking system that employs floor mats having ridges for generating location information in the form of modulated vibrations, detectable with an accelerometer. Two sensors are in a wheel of a vehicle. One sensor senses wheel rotation, and the other sensor senses vertical acceleration. The vehicle passes over a floor mat comprising vertically elevated ridges thereon that code the mat and thereby indicate the location at which the mat is at. When the vehicle travels over this mat the vertical acceleration sensor in the wheel detects the vertically elevated ridges and the wheel rotation sensor detects the distance between the vertically elevated ridges. In combination these two sensors are used to create a location word that denotes the mat over which the vehicle passes over. The location word is stored in non-volatile memory and later uploaded to a location collection station.
US11483673B2
A method of wirelessly connecting a first device to a target device is provided. The method includes searching for at least one device located in an orientation region of the first device, when a first input signal is received, determining the target device based on a direction that the first device is oriented, performing a wireless connection with the target device, and determining whether to maintain the wireless connection with the target device, when a second input signal is received.
US11483670B2
Systems and methods for providing spatial audio are disclosed herein. In one example, the method includes receiving a first position of a first playback device relative to a user in a listening environment; receiving a second position of a second playback device relative to the user in the listening environment; transmitting, to a media content provider, location data corresponding to the first and second positions; receiving, from the media content provider, virtual media audio content associated with a virtual environment, the virtual media audio content comprising first and second audio signals generated based on the transmitted location data, wherein the generated first and second audio signals include one or more audio cues configured to enable the user to spatially perceive a location of a virtual object within the listening environment; and playing back the first audio signal via the first playback device in synchrony with playing back the second audio signal via the second playback device.
US11483667B2
The disclosure presents a method and a hearing device comprising a first portion adapted for being arranged behind an ear of a user for providing a signal, an output transducer for converting the signal to an acoustic output, a coupling element coupled to the first portion, and wherein the coupling element is adapted for transmitting at least the signal or the acoustic output. Furthermore, the hearing device comprises an antenna which includes an external antenna part and an internal antenna part, where the internal antenna part includes a first antenna element, a second antenna element where a first end of the second antenna element is arranged at one end of the first antenna element and is connected thereto, and where a second end of the second antenna element is connected to a ground plane, and a third antenna element which is spaced at a distance from the second antenna element and connected to the first antenna element, a feeding unit configured to supply a current to the antenna via the third antenna element, a wireless interface for receiving and/or sending data by means of the antenna, and wherein the coupling element comprises the external antenna part, and where the external antenna part is connected to the internal antenna part.
US11483663B2
A hearing aid includes a) at least one input unit for providing a time-frequency representation Y(k,n) of an electric input signal representing sound consisting of target speech and noise signal components, where k and n are frequency band and time frame indices, respectively, b) a noise reduction system configured to b1) determine an a posteriori signal to noise ratio estimate γ(k,n) of the electric input signal, and to b2) determine an a priori signal to noise signal ratio estimate ζ(k,n) of the electric input signal from the a posteriori signal to noise ratio estimate γ(k,n) based on a recursive algorithm providing non-linear smoothing. The a posteriori signal to noise ratio estimate of said electric input signal is provided as a mixture of first and second different a posteriori signal to noise ratio estimates. The invention may be used in audio processing devices, such as hearing aids, headsets, etc.
US11483654B2
This application relates to driver circuitry (200) for receiving a digital input signal (D) and outputting, at first and second output nodes (203p, 203n), first and second analogue driving signals respectively for driving a transducer (101), e.g. loudspeaker, in a bridge-tied-load configuration. The driver circuitry may particularly be suitable for driving low-impedance transducers. The driver circuitry has first and second digital-to-analogue converters (201p, 201n) configured to receive the digital input signal and the outputs of the first and second digital-to-analogue converters are coupled to the first and second output nodes respectively. A differential-output amplifier circuit (202) has outputs connected to the first and second output nodes and is configured to regulate the outputs of the digital-to-analogue converters at output nodes to provide the analogue driving signals.
US11483651B2
An apparatus, method and computer program is described comprising: receiving a near-field audio source signal from a near-field microphone (22); receiving a far-field audio signal from an array comprising one or more far-field microphones (23); determining a filter length of a first portion of a room impulse response filter for the near-field microphone, wherein said filter length of said first portion is the same at each of a plurality of frequency bands of the filter and wherein said filter length of said first portion includes a direct acoustic propagation delay; and determining a filter length of a second portion of the room impulse response filter at each of the plurality of frequency bands, wherein the filter length of said second portion is frequency-dependent.
US11483645B2
An acoustic transducer comprises a transducer substrate, and an aperture having a non-circular perimetral shape defined through the transducer substrate. A diaphragm is disposed on the transducer substrate and coupled to a surface of the transducer substrate via at least one diaphragm anchor such that a gap is defined between the diaphragm and the transducer substrate, and an outer periphery of the diaphragm extends radially outwards of a rim of the aperture such that a portion of the diaphragm overhangs the aperture.
US11483632B2
The present disclosure describes a telecommunications equipment mount. The telecommunications equipment mount includes a stabilization frame having a plurality of lower rails, a plurality of vertical rails, and a plurality of upper rails, the lower, vertical, and upper rails forming a top, a bottom, and at least sides of the stabilization frame to define an open interior cavity; at least one mounting member extending outwardly from, and perpendicular to, one of the sides of the stabilization frame a distance; at least one brace member coupled to the stabilization frame and configured to support the at least one mounting member; and at least one mounting pipe secured to the at least one mounting member. The stabilization frame is configured to ballast the mount on a mounting structure when telecommunications equipment is secured to the at least one mounting pipe. Telecommunications equipment mount assemblies are also described herein.
US11483624B2
A media sharing and communication system, including a recording mechanism that records a desired portion of media upon activation by a first individual user, a first user transmitter/receiver that transmits the portion of media and a message generated by the first individual user regarding the portion of media to a second individual user and is capable of transmitting a message to a second individual user, a confirmation mechanism that confirms that the second individual user is authorized to view the portion of media, a notification mechanism that notifies the first individual user if the second individual user is not authorized to receive the portion of media, a second user transmitter/receiver that receives the portion of media and voice message upon authorization of the second individual user, a search mechanism for searching for media and products used in media, and a video recording mechanism for recording and sharing videos of users.
US11483620B2
A method of utilizing tones includes receiving content including at least an audio portion for broadcast to a first plurality of users having a first recipient computing device and a second plurality of users having a second recipient computing device, receiving data comprising a first and a second message, determining one or more locations within the content for embedding the first and second messages, converting at least the first and second messages into a plurality of tones that cannot be directly detected by the first and second pluralities of users during broadcast, incorporating the plurality of tones into the content at the one or more locations, and providing the content with the plurality of tones for broadcast via a presentation device such that the plurality of tones are detected by the first and second recipient devices for determining at least one of the first and second messages.
US11483618B2
A method for improving a user experience through the use of at least one communications device. The method initially senses feedback of the user experience, wherein the user experience include one or more of the following three dimensional geolocation status, temporal status, experiential status, physiological status and emotional status. The method creates at least an initial contextual data set from the initially sensed feedback, and transmits media content to the user. The method subsequently senses feedback of the user experience, creating one or more subsequent contextual data set from the subsequent sensed feedback. The method measures changes in the user experience by comparing the initial contextual data set with the subsequent contextual data set. The method generates personalized user data based on measuring changes, wherein the generated personalized data is indicative of adjustments in one or more of the three dimensional geolocation, experiential status, physiological status and emotional status of the user when the comparing of the initial contextual data set with the subsequent contextual data set.
US11483615B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, providing media content to a communication device. The communication device provides a playback of a presentation of the media content. Further embodiments can include receiving an indication from the communication device that indicates a pause in the presentation of the media content, and determining a plurality of attributes associated with the pause. Additional embodiments can include providing instructions according to the plurality of attributes associated with the pause to the communication device. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US11483613B2
Metadata for a plurality of media content items is received. The metadata identifies a thumbnail representation of each of the plurality of media content items. The plurality of media content items are displayed in an overview area in an electronic program guide (EPG) in a user interface. The overview area comprises a plurality of cells aligned in one or more rows. The plurality of cells comprise a subset of the metadata for a respective media content item. An input of a selection of one of the plurality of media content items displayed at the EPG in the user interface is received. The selected media content item is displayed in a focus area in the EPG. The focus area comprises a rectangular area that is located near the overview area. The focus area comprises expanded metadata of the selected media content item for presentation in the focus area.
US11483612B2
A vehicle entertainment system is for use with wireless headphones, with each wireless headphone being operable via a respective paired wireless connection. The vehicle entertainment system may include video entertainment displays for a vehicle, and a controller for the vehicle. The controller may be configured to establish respective paired wireless connections with the wireless headphones, and provide selectable access to a plurality of different audio/video (A/V) entertainment content streams. Each of the A/V entertainment content streams may include a respective video entertainment stream and an associated audio entertainment stream. The controller may be further configured to send selected video entertainment content streams for viewing at the video entertainment displays, and send selected audio entertainment content streams over the respective paired wireless connections for hearing at the wireless headphones.
US11483610B2
A moderator client device may add program information for multi-media content using interactive elements. The moderator client device may associate an interactive component with the multi-media content using the interactive elements on a moderator interface. An interactive program may be generated from the multi-media content, tags and time-codes, and the interactive component. A response to the interactive program may be received from a viewer client device based on an interaction of the user of the viewer client device with the interactive component. The response received from the viewer client device may be displayed simultaneously with the updated interactive program on the display of each of a plurality of viewer client devices.
US11483602B2
Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture to perform media device asset qualification are disclosed. An example apparatus includes at least one memory, and at least one processor to execute instructions to at least identify a first set of candidate media device assets for disqualification, the candidate media device assets including A) a signature and B) a media identifier that identifies media, generate a hash table using a second set of the candidate media device assets, determine one or more counts of matches between C) a first signature and a first media identifier of a first candidate media device asset of the second set and D) respective signatures and media identifiers of multiple ones of the second set using the hash table, the multiple ones of the second set not including the first candidate media device asset, and load the first signature into a reference database as a reference signature.
US11483596B2
A system is provided for publishing a disparate per-client live media output stream based on dynamic insertion of targeted non-programming content and customized programming content. The system generates a first programming schedule based on one or more live input stream manifests or one or more pre-encoded media asset manifests selected based on one or more parameters, associated indexed metadata, and first additional content. The first programming schedule defines locations and types of decision points defined by one or more content placement opportunities. Based on schedule of one or more pre-encoded media assets and insertion of decision points, the first programming schedule controls publish of pre-encoded media asset manifests as first disparate live media output stream manifest, which is published for first client device based on insertion of the one or more live input stream manifests or one or more pre-encoded media asset manifests, associated indexed metadata, and first additional content.
US11483587B2
An image encoding/decoding method and apparatus are provided. An image decoding method according to the present disclosure may include parsing, from a bitstream, first information specifying whether block difference pulse code modulation (BDPCM) applies to an intra-predicted current block, determining a prediction direction of BDPCM for the current block and generating a residual block of the current block based on the determined prediction direction of BDPCM, based on the first information specifying that BDPCM applies to the current block, generating a prediction block of the current block, by performing intra prediction based on an intra prediction mode of the current block, and reconstructing the current block based on the residual block and the prediction block.
US11483585B2
An electronic apparatus includes a memory storing information on an artificial intelligence (AI) model comprising a plurality of layers, and a processor configured to obtain an output image that is processed from an input image using the AI model. The processor is configured to, based on a number of non-zero data values included in operation data output from a first layer among the plurality of layers, compress the operation data according to at least one of a plurality of coding modes and store the compressed data in an internal memory, obtain restoration data corresponding to the operation data by decompressing the compressed data stored in the internal memory, and provide the obtained restoration data to a second layer among the plurality of layers.
US11483584B2
A motion vector encoding apparatus includes: a predictor configured to obtain motion vector predictor candidates of a plurality of predetermined motion vector resolutions by using a spatial candidate block and a temporal candidate block of a current block, and to determine motion vector predictor of the current block, a motion vector of the current block, and a motion vector resolution of the current block by using the motion vector predictor candidates; and an encoder configured to encode information representing the motion vector predictor of the current block, a residual motion vector between the motion vector of the current block and the motion vector predictor of the current block, and information representing the motion vector resolution of the current block, wherein the plurality of predetermined motion vector resolutions include a resolution of a pixel unit that is greater than a resolution of one-pel unit.
US11483576B2
A method for encoding a picture block is disclosed. A predictor is determined as a weighted sum of sample values of a first motion compensated reference block in a first reference image and of a second motion compensated reference block in a second reference image. Then, a residual block determined from the picture block and the predictor is encoded in a bitstream. Advantageously, the weights of the weighted sum are determined by minimizing an error between reconstructed samples neighboring the picture block and samples neighboring the first and second reference blocks.
US11483572B2
A method for decoding an image based on an intra prediction, comprising: obtaining a first prediction pixel of a first region in a current block by using a neighboring pixel adjacent to the current block; obtaining a second prediction pixel of a second region in the current block by using the first prediction pixel of the first region; and decoding the current block based on the first and the second prediction pixels.
US11483565B2
It is made possible to reduce motion picture quality degradation caused by strobing in a layer of a basic frame frequency and to maintain a high image quality in layers of the other frame frequencies. Image data in a plurality of frequency layers (only image data regarding a lowermost frequency layer is subjected to blending processing using image data regarding another frequency layer) obtained by hierarchically decomposing image data at a predetermined frame frequency is received. Image data for display is obtained according to a display capability, using image data regarding layers from the lowermost frequency layer up to a predetermined higher frequency layer. It is possible to reduce the motion picture quality degradation caused by the strobing in the layer of the basic frame frequency (frame frequency of the lowermost frequency layer) and to maintain the high image quality in the layers of the other frame frequencies.
US11483552B2
A method of video processing is provided to include: performing a conversion between a current video block of a video and a coded representation of the video, wherein the coded representation includes a first parameter that indicates a motion information precision from a multiple precision set for the current video block that does not use a default motion information precision and/or a second parameter which identifies whether an alternative half-pel interpolation filter is used for the conversion, and wherein each of the first parameter and/or the second parameter is associated with one or more bins and a context-model based coding is only used for a first bin of the one or more bins in the coded representation.
US11483549B2
Video processing methods and apparatuses in a video coding system include receiving input video data of a current block in a current picture, determining whether a transform skip mode is enabled for the current picture, signaling or parsing a syntax element associated with a size constraint for enabling the transform skip mode in a SPS referred to by the current picture when the transform skip mode is enabled, determining whether the transform skip mode is applied to the current block when the current block satisfies the size constraint, processing residues of the current block according to the transform skip mode when the transform skip mode is applied to the current block, and encoding or decoding the current block. An enabling flag is signaled in a high-level syntax set or parsed from the high-level syntax set to determine whether the transform skip mode is enabled for the current picture.
US11483541B1
A stereoscopic image display device capable of reducing grid visual effect includes a flat display unit, a light source unit disposed on a side of the flat display unit, and a lens array unit disposed on another side of the flat display unit. A light source provided by the light source unit satisfies an optical characteristic as follows: an attenuation amplitude of a luminance of the light source before entering the lens array unit being not greater than 65% within a divergence angle of a light field system of the stereoscopic image display device, thereby reducing the grid visual effect of a stereo image generated by the stereoscopic image display device.
US11483538B2
The technology relates to a motion sensory and imaging device capable of acquiring imaging information of the scene and providing at least a near real time pass-through of imaging information to a user. The sensory and imaging device can be used stand-alone or coupled to a wearable or portable device to create a wearable sensory system capable of presenting to the wearer the imaging information augmented with virtualized or created presentations of information.
US11483537B2
Disclosed herein are devices and methods for generating stereoscopic views of the eye (or any desired anatomic structure) using a dual-camera portable computing device. The locations of the two cameras are fixed, and the camera lenses may have different focal lengths. For example, the focal length of the second camera lens may be longer than the focal length of the first camera lens. One variation of a detachable imaging system comprises an objective lens and a relay lens that are disposed over the two cameras. The relay lens may be disposed over the first and second cameras, and have a focal length that is greater than the focal length of the first camera lens and less than or equal to the focal length of the second camera lens.
US11483529B2
A tangible, non-transitory machine-readable medium includes machine-readable instructions that, when executed, cause processing circuitry to receive a signal indicative of high dynamic range content. The signal includes 1) a first portion that forms a first percentage of the signal and is associated with a first brightness range and 2) a second portion that forms a second percentage of the signal associated with a second brightness range. The instructions, when executed, are also configured to cause the processing circuitry to produce an adjusted signal to represent the signal such that a graphical representation of the adjusted signal includes an area corresponding to the first portion of the signal that is expanded relative to a graphical representation of the first portion of the signal. Furthermore, the instructions, when executed, are configured to cause the processing circuitry to cause display of a graphical representation of the adjusted signal.
US11483523B2
A server comprises a communications module, a processor coupled to the communications module, and a memory coupled to the processor. The memory stores processor-executable instructions which, when executed by the processor, configure the processor to receive, via the communications module and from a remote computing device, video data of a vehicle in an original state, store, in the memory, at least some of the video data of the vehicle and associate the stored video data with an account, receive, via the communications module and from the remote computing device, an indication of a claim, the indication associated with an account identifier, retrieve, using the account identifier and from the memory, the video data of the vehicle in the original state from the memory, and send, via the communications module and to the remote computing device, instructions for obtaining video data of the vehicle based on the video data of the vehicle in the original state.
US11483522B2
Example door control systems and methods are described. In one implementation, a method receives image data from a camera mounted to a vehicle. The image data is analyzed by a door control system to determine whether a user is near the vehicle. If a user is identified near the vehicle, the method determines whether the user intends to open a garage door based on the image data.
US11483517B2
In described examples, a receiver includes a receiver input adapted to receive input data. A selector is coupled to an output of the receiver and is configured to generate a destination indication at an output of the selector. A switch is coupled to the receiver input. The switch is adapted to generate a first transmission at a switch local output in response to an indication of the selector output and the input data. The switch is further adapted to generate a second transmission at a switch system output in response to the input data. The switch local output is adapted to be coupled to a first destination node, and the switch system output is adapted to be coupled to a second destination node.
US11483515B2
An image recording and reproduction apparatus includes: a record data generation circuit configured to generate record data based on an inputted video signal; an operation input device configured to receive a signal generated based on an operation of one or more persons, for one or more operation instructors that accept an operation for adding chapter information to the video signal; an operation system determination circuit configured to determine at least one of the operation instructor generating the signal received by the operation input device, and a person performing the operation, and output a determination result; and a first processor configured to cause the record data generation circuit to generate the record data that associates the chapter information with the video signal, by generating chapter information of a chapter type based on the determination result of the operation system determination circuit, and supplying the information to the record data generation circuit.
US11483510B2
Techniques are described for implementing read-out architectures to support high-speed serialized read-out of a large number of digital bit values, such as for high-resolution pixel conversions in CMOS image sensor applications. For example, outputs from a large number of digital data sources (e.g., counters) are coupled with transmission gates of the read-out architecture, and the transmission gates are sequentially enabled, thereby shifting in bit data from the data sources one at a time. The transmission gates are grouped into gate groups. For each gate group, embodiments seek balance total path delay across the gate groups by controlling clock and data path delays to be inversely related, and ensuring that total path delays for all gate groups are within a single clock period. Some embodiments include a partitioned bus for further gate group-level control over the path delay and data bus capacitance.
US11483505B2
In accordance with an embodiment of the present disclosure, an image synchronization device includes a light emitting source configured to emit light at intervals of a predetermined time, a sampling phase calibration circuit configured to calibrate a sampling phase of each of the first image sensor and the second image sensor on the basis of a light emitting timing of the light emitting source and a delay calibration circuit configured to generate delay information on the basis of a result of comparison between first image information transmitted from the first image sensor and second image information transmitted from the second image sensor.
US11483501B1
A blemish detection and characterization system and techniques for an optical imaging device includes determining a ratio of the light intensity of the image lost to the blemish relative to an expected light intensity of the image without the blemish. The system and technique may include receiving an image, transforming an image into a processed image with transformations and filters, as well as determining a relative magnitude of an intensity of a portion of the processed image relative to another area of the image. The system and technique may include taking an action based on the relative magnitude including rejecting a sensor, reworking the sensor, cleaning the sensor, or providing information about the blemish to a system to use in weighing data collected from the sensor.
US11483496B2
A system and method of synchronizing auxiliary content to a video stream is disclosed that uses a block of bit-vectors linked to a target frame in a video steam. The block of bit-vectors consists of a multi-frame sequence of image bit-vectors. The video stream and block of bit-vectors are transmitted to an end user device that uses the bit-vector block to uniquely identify the target frame. The target frame is used to synchronize auxiliary content to the video stream.
US11483483B2
A display apparatus that includes a first imaging unit that images a user, a first distance detector that identifies an eye of the user and measure a first distance that is a distance from the identified eye to the first imaging unit, a second imaging unit that images an object, a second distance detector that measures a second distance that is a distance from the second imaging unit to the object, an image processor that processes the images, and a display unit, the image processor calculating a display imaging range, extracting the calculated display imaging range from the image imaged by the second imaging unit, and causing the display unit to display it, and the display imaging range being such a range that the object displayed and an external scenery not interrupted by the display unit seen from a viewpoint of the user have the same size.
US11483482B2
An electronic device comprising a display control unit configured to perform control to display a plurality of display items on a display, each display item corresponding to one of a plurality of setting items including a specified setting item; and a control unit configured to perform control to in case where the predetermined operation for the specified setting item is received and a line-of-sight input to a corresponding region for a display item corresponding to the specified setting item is received, display the display item corresponding to the specified setting item in a first display appearance, and in case where the predetermined operation for the specified setting item is received and a line-of-sight input to the corresponding region is not received, display the display item corresponding to the specified setting item in a second display appearance different from the first display appearance.
US11483481B2
The present disclosure relates to an electronic instrument capable of downsizing an electronic instrument having a function of imaging at least a part of a user. In an electronic instrument worn or used by a user, the electronic instrument includes an imaging unit arranged at a position where at least a part of the user wearing or using the electronic instrument is capturable, the imaging unit including two or more pixel output units that each receive incident light from a subject incident not via either an imaging lens or a pinhole and output one detection signal indicating an output pixel value modulated depending on an incident angle of the incident light. The present disclosure can be applied to, for example, a wearable device.
US11483476B2
A method of decoding an image with a decoding apparatus includes receiving a bitstream in which the image is encoded; and dividing a first coding block in the image into a plurality of second coding blocks. The tree structure-based block division includes a binary-tree division and a triple-tree division, and the binary-tree division is representative of a division type to divide one coding block into two coding blocks and the triple-tree division is representative of a division type to divide one coding block into three coding blocks. The method also includes decoding each of the second coding blocks with reference to syntax information acquired from the bitstream. The syntax information includes most probable mode (MPM) information.
US11483475B2
Innovations in stream configuration operations and playback operations for adaptive streaming of panoramic video are described. The innovations include features of adaptive streaming of panoramic video with composite pictures. For example, a stream configuration tool splits an input picture of panoramic video into multiple sections and creates multiple composite pictures. A composite picture includes one of the sections as well as a low-resolution version of the input picture. A playback tool reconstructs one or more composite pictures. Under normal operation, the playback tool can use the reconstructed section(s) of the composite picture(s) to render high-quality views of the panoramic video. If the view window dramatically changes, however, or if encoded data for a section is lost or corrupted, the playback tool can use the low-resolution version of the input picture to render lower-quality details for views of the panoramic video, without disruption of playback.
US11483473B2
An image processing part applies an image process by software to a surgical region image, and a display control part controls a display of the surgical region image to which the image process is applied. The image processing part produces a pre-update processed image acquired by applying the image process established before updating the software to the surgical region image and a post-update processed image acquired by applying the image process established after updating the software to the surgical region image, and the display control part controls a display of at least a portion of at least either one of the pre-update processed image or the post-update processed image. The present technique is applicable to a CCU of an endoscopic surgery system.
US11483466B2
An imaging apparatus includes: an imager configured to capture a subject image formed via an optical system including a focus lens, to generate image data; a display configured to display an image indicated by the image data; an operation member configured to receive a user operation; and a controller configured to control a focusing operation for adjusting a position of the focus lens along an optical axis in the optical system according to an evaluation value for a focus state, wherein the controller is operable to cause the display to display a graph indicating the evaluation value for a focus state in each position of the focus lens.
US11483463B2
Some implementations relate to determining whether glare is present in captured image(s) of an object (e.g., a photo) and/or to determining one or more attributes of any present glare. Some of those implementations further relate to adapting one or more parameters for a glare removal process based on whether the glare is determined to be present and/or based on one or more of the determined attributes of any glare determined to be present. Some additional and/or alternative implementations disclosed herein relate to correcting color of a flash image of an object (e.g., a photo). The flash image is based on one or more images captured by a camera of a client device with a flash component of the client device activated. In various implementations, correcting the color of the flash image is based on a determined color space of an ambient image of the object.
US11483458B2
A camera module is provided. A camera module according to an aspect of the present invention comprises: a lens barrel accommodating a lens; a lens holder accommodating the lens barrel; an image sensor disposed under the lens barrel; and a printed circuit board having an image sensor mounted thereon and coupled to the lens holder, wherein the lens barrel and the lens holder are primarily coupled to each other in a state where an optical axis of the lens and an optical axis of the image sensor are aligned, and are secondarily coupled to each other in the primarily coupled state.
US11483455B2
A protective connector having a good connection reliability includes a main body, a plurality of conductive circuits embedded in the main body, two first conductive blocks formed on the main body, and two second conductive blocks formed on the main body and opposite to the two first conductive blocks. The two first conductive blocks and the two second conductive blocks are electrically connected to one of the plurality of conductive circuits, respectively. The disclosure further relates to a lens module.
US11483446B2
An image forming apparatus includes an image reading unit configured to read an image formed on an object to be scanned, an image forming device configured to form an image on a printing object, a first processing unit configured to perform short-range radio communication to perform at least one of data reading operation from an information storage unit mounted on the object to be scanned and data writing operation to the information storage unit, and a second processing unit configured to perform short-range radio communication with the information storage unit mounted on the printing object to perform at least one of the data reading operation from the information storage unit and the data writing operation to the information storage unit. In the image forming apparatus, each one of the first processing unit and the second processing unit is configured to perform the short-range radio communication using a same antenna unit.
US11483434B2
A volume adjustment method includes performing analysis on the collected sound signal surrounding a user terminal to obtain composition information, where the composition information includes sound types included in the sound signal and proportions of sounds of the various types, and the sound types include blank sound, human sound, and noise, determining a current scene mode of the user terminal according to the composition information, and adjusting volume of the user terminal according to the determined scene mode.
US11483420B2
In some embodiments, an active application is identified from an outgoing communication and/or what application is active on a device. In some embodiments, system will intercept and/or analyze a message sent by a computing device. For example, the system may run as an Internet proxy application on the device and/or on an Internet server. Optionally, the system reads message header and/or uses information from the header to determine what application sent the message. In some embodiments, the system includes a procedure that recognizes communications that are not of interest and/or discards these communications. Additionally or alternatively, the system includes a procedure that truncates a communication header and/or eliminates data not useful in determining the source of the communication. Optionally, the system uses a short list to identify the application and a long list when the application was not recognized based on the short list.
US11483418B2
Various systems and methods for network optimization or bandwidth conservation may use plugin migration or mirroring to access a plugin utilizing a first network protocol in the cloud. A cloud-based plugin allows for routing optimization to leverage resource directory from the first network protocol to provide discovery or access to the plugin. The plugin may be used when a device operating the first network protocol communicates with a device operating a second, different, network protocol.
US11483412B2
A computer-implemented method comprises receiving a subscription request from at least one subscriber, the subscription request defining one or more subscription parameters; obtaining one or more events from at least one publisher; marshalling the one or more events according to the one or more subscription parameters; and delivering the one or more events to the subscriber based on the marshalling.
US11483406B1
A method for distributing network function (NF) high availability (HA) topology information in a core network includes, at an NF repository function (NRF) including at least one processor, receiving, from a plurality of producer NFs in an NF set, NFRegister requests including NF HA topology information for the producer NFs. The method further includes registering the producer NFs and storing the NF HA topology information for the producer NFs. The method further includes receiving, from a consumer NF or service communication proxy (SCP), an NFDiscover request containing at least one service discovery parameter that corresponds to a service provided by the producer NFs. The method further includes responding to the NFDiscover request by generating an NFDiscover response, including, in the NFDiscover response, the NF HA topology information for the producer NFs, and transmitting the NFDiscover response to the consumer NF or SCP.
US11483403B2
Various techniques for facilitating communication with and across a clinical environment and a cloud environment are described. For example, a method for providing messaging in a clinical environment during a temporary network interruption is described. A connectivity adapter may keep the messages in the queue despite the temporary network interruption. As long as the network connection is restored before the messages become stale, the connectivity adapter may be able to transmit the messages in the queue despite the network interruption.
US11483401B2
One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods are provided. Event information associated with a plurality of events may be identified. The plurality of events may be associated with client devices and entities. A network profile associated with the client devices and the entities may be generated based upon the event information. A similarity profile associated with the client devices may be generated based upon the network profile. The similarity profile may be indicative of one or more similarity scores associated with a first client device and one or more client devices. A user profile associated with the first client device may be modified, based upon the similarity profile and/or one or more user profiles associated with the one or more client devices, to generate a modified user profile. Content may be selected for presentation via the first client device based upon the modified user profile.
US11483398B2
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for offloading session management processing into a forwarding plane. In some examples, a subscriber is coupled to a network endpoint through a session manager during a network session of the subscriber in a network environment. A session manager offloading system of the session manager can be maintained in a vector packet processing system in a forwarding plane of the network environment. The session manager offloading system can be configured to offload processing from the session manager into the forwarding plane. Further, at least a portion of subscriber traffic in a stream between the subscriber and the network endpoint through the session manager can be intercepted. Subsequently, the at least the portion of the subscribed traffic that is intercepted can be processed at the session manager offloading system as part of offloading the processing from the session manager into the forwarding plane.
US11483393B1
A non-transitory computer readable storage medium has instructions executed by a processor to receive network session information from network monitoring devices distributed throughout an enterprise network. The network session information characterizes communications between a client device within the enterprise network and a server external to the enterprise network. The network session information is transformed into vectors of network communication session parameters. The vectors are combined into different time series of data. A similarity measure is computed between the different time series of data to detect unique sessions between the client device and a middlebox network device within the enterprise network or unique sessions between a middle box network device within the enterprise network and the server. The unique sessions are evaluated to infer relationships between networked devices within the enterprise network. A visualization of the relationships to characterize enterprise network topology is supplied.
US11483384B2
In some examples, a system may include a processing resource and a memory resource. The memory resource may store machine-readable instructions to cause the processing resource to create a migration plan, defining characteristics of a migration of an application from a native computing data center to a computing cloud of a plurality of distinct candidate computing clouds, based on: a first migration constraint for the application determined from an analysis of historical behavior of the application executed on the native computing data center; a second migration constraint for the application determined from an analysis of administrator cloud migration preferences for the application; and a cloud computing characteristic of each of the plurality of distinct candidate computing clouds.
US11483382B2
A method, apparatus and system for transmitting data. The system includes: the load balance gate wall translating a virtual MAC address of the virtual server in a destination address of a data packet from a client to a real MAC address of the real server according to a pre-configured address mapping relationship between a real server and a virtual server; the load balance gate wall sending a modified data packet to the virtual switch; the virtual switch determining a data packet flowing into the real server after receiving the data packet from the load balance gate wall, then translating a virtual IP and a virtual port of the virtual server in the destination address in the determined data packet to a real IP and a real port of the real server; and the virtual switch sending the modified data packet to the real server.
US11483370B2
A method includes receiving, with a computing device, a configuration file and a client request to apply a machine learning model to a set of data from a sensor. The method includes performing, with the computing device, preprocessing on the set of data from the sensor based on the configuration file to generate preprocessed data. The method includes sending, with the computing device, a call to a model server to apply the machine learning model to the preprocessed data.
US11483362B2
When data is to be transmitted, the amount of data regarding the attribute of the data is reduced. Upon a connection with a server apparatus being established, a requesting unit transmits a request that includes attribute information indicating the attribute of a data group, to the server apparatus via the connection. An acquisition unit acquires data. An addition unit adds, to unit data that includes the acquired data, an identifier that identifies the data group to which the unit data belongs, and that is associated with the connection. A transmission unit that transmits the unit data to which the identifier has been added, to the server apparatus via the connection.
US11483343B2
Detecting a phishing message by providing a phishing detector having a scan engine and a fetcher, detecting a URL in the message by the scan engine, resolving the URL to a webpage by the scan engine, downloading the webpage by the fetcher, analyzing the downloaded webpage by the fetcher to determine whether the webpage is a phishing webpage, and, when the webpage is determined to be a phishing webpage, deleting the message by the scan engine.
US11483336B2
Certain edge networking devices such as application gateways may report status to a cloud-based threat management platform using a persistent network connection between the gateway and the cloud platform. Where a cloud computing platform for an edge networking device or the treat management platform imposes periodic timeouts, the threat management platform may monitor connects and disconnects for edge devices and asynchronously evaluate connection status of edge devices independently of a heartbeat or other signal through the persistent connection in order to distinguish periodic timeouts imposed by the cloud computing platform from networking devices that are compromised or malfunctioning.
US11483335B1
Statistical models for predicting minimum number of step data of an attacker and reliability functions of a computer network system are described. The models are based on utilizing vulnerability information along with an attack graph. Using the model, it is possible to identify the interaction among vulnerabilities and individual variables or risk factors that drive the minimum number of step data. Gaining a better understanding of the relationship between the vulnerabilities and their interactions can provide security administrators with a better view and understanding of their security status.
US11483334B2
A set of attributes of a particular asset of a computing environment is identified that are determined from data collected by one or more utilities in the computing environment. A criticality rating is automatically determined for the particular asset based at least in part on the set of attributes. A security activity is caused to be performed relating to the particular asset based on the automatically determined criticality rating of the particular asset.
US11483326B2
Adaptive normal profiles are generated at a hierarchical scope corresponding to a set of endpoints and a process. Abnormal endpoint activity is detected by verifying whether event data tracking activity on the set of endpoints conforms to the adaptive normal profiles. False positives are reduced by verifying alarms correspond to normal endpoint activity. Abnormal event data is forwarded to a causality chain identifier that identifies abnormal chains of processes for the abnormal endpoint activity. A trained threat detection model receives abnormal causality chains from the causality chain identifier and indicates a likelihood of corresponding to a malicious attack that indicates abnormal endpoint behavior.
US11483323B2
Briefly, embodiments, such as methods and/or systems for managing and/or monitoring secure network connections between endpoints without intervening between the endpoints, for example, are described.
US11483318B2
A method to secure a production environment in a network begins by associating a set of resources into a simulated environment layer configured to simulate at least a portion of the production environment. A preferred approach to building the simulated environment layer utilizes generative adversarial network (GAN) machine learning modeling. Upon detecting a suspect user attempting to interact with the production environment, one or more requests received from the suspect user are routed to the simulated environment layer as opposed to the production environment. At least one behavior of the simulated environment layer is then modified as the suspect user interacts within the simulated environment layer. The modified behavior facilitates that an attack initiated by the suspect user can proceed. Information (such as the user's tactics, techniques and procedures (TPPs), or other Indicators of Compromise (IoCs) associated with the attack is captured for analysis and subsequent action.
US11483316B1
A processor-implemented method includes (i) automatically defining a first Circle of Trust (CoT) by a first CoT administrator, in a CoT database, (ii) automatically receiving, at a digital identity management (DIM) server, a first digital identity wallet (DIW) application request from a first DIW application provider server, (iii) automatically adding the first DIW application to the CoT database if the first CoT administrator approves the first DIW application request, (iv) automatically receiving, at the DIM server, a relying party application request from the at least one relying party application associated with the relying party and (v) automatically adding, the at least one relying party application to the CoT database, if the first CoT administrator approves the relying party application request.
US11483314B2
Methods and systems for providing distributed evaluation list updating. One system includes a data processing server. The data processing server receiving a request event associated with an update to an active evaluation list version. The active evaluation list version is actively accessible for request validation. The data processing server also generates an updated evaluation list version according to the update associated with the request event. After generating the updated evaluation list version, the data processing server replaces the active evaluation list version with the updated evaluation list version in storage, where, in response to storing the updated evaluation list version, the updated evaluation list version is actively accessible for request validation.
US11483313B2
Technologies for updating an access control list (ACL) table while minimizing disruption includes a network device. The network device receives a request to store a rule in the ACL. The rule is associated with a precedence group. A precedence group is indicative of a placement priority of a given rule in the ACL. The network device determines, as a function of the precedence group, a placement for the requested rule in the ACL. The network device stores the rule according to the determined placement in the ACL.
US11483310B1
A smart card system, method, and non-transitory computer readable medium for biometric template protection are described. The smart card system includes a server, a smart card, and a biometric probe. The biometric probe is configured to record a biometric trait. The smart card includes at least one memory configured to store program instructions, a contact pad configured to interface with the biometric probe to receive the biometric trait, and a microprocessor configured to receive the biometric trait. The microprocessor is configured to execute the program instructions to extract a biometric reference template, tr, from the biometric trait. Further, the microprocessor stores the biometric template, tr, in the memory, and protects the biometric template with a lattice-based post-quantum fuzzy commitment.
US11483308B2
Provided is a system, method, and apparatus for aggregated authentication in an online, open loop payment network. The method includes receiving a single authentication request message to conduct a plurality of transactions with a plurality of merchants, the single authentication request message comprising an aggregation identifier, detecting the aggregation identifier in the single authentication request message, in response to detecting the aggregation identifier, generating a single authentication response message comprising a plurality of authentication codes, each authentication code of the plurality of authentication codes corresponding to a merchant of the plurality of merchants, and communicating the single authentication response message to the merchant system, the single authentication response message configured to cause the merchant system to separately process each transaction of the plurality of transactions.
US11483305B2
An illustrative embodiment disclosed herein is an apparatus including a processor with programmed instructions to receive, from a user device and via a network, encrypted credentials for logging on a user associated with the user device to a virtual machine. The processor is coupled to the virtual machine via a hypervisor. The processor has programmed instructions to decrypt the credentials, send, to an operating system of the virtual machine, the decrypted credentials, and cause the operating system to log the user on to the virtual machine.
US11483304B2
The present invention discloses a method for setting a password for an electronic cigarette, a system, a storage medium, and an electronic cigarette, the method comprising: sending, by a mobile terminal, a request for setting a password to the electronic cigarette, wherein the request carries an application identifier; searching, by the electronic cigarette, for the corresponding password information according to the received application identifier, and feeding back the first information in which a password is not set to the mobile terminal when the corresponding password information is not found; when the mobile terminal receives the first information, displaying a password setting interface for the user to set a password and sending the password set by the user to the electronic cigarette; receiving, by the electronic cigarette, the password, and saving the password in association with the application identifier to generate the password information of a corresponding application.
US11483298B2
An apparatus for use in a digital messaging system includes a storage device and a processor coupled to the storage device. The storage device storing software instructions for controlling the processor that when executed by the processor configured the processor to: generate a first message comprising a payload portion; encrypt the payload portion of the message; derive a first session key from a domain-specific key; and sign the message using the first session key.
US11483297B2
A method is provided for securely providing data for use in a consumer electronics device having a processor performing instructions defined in a software image. The method includes receiving the data encrypted according to a global key, further encrypting the data according to a device-unique hardware key, storing the further encrypted data in a secure memory of the consumer electronics device, providing the global key to a whitebox encoder for encoding according to a base key to generate a whitebox encoded global key, and transmitting the software image to the consumer electronics device for storage in an operating memory of the consumer electronics device, the software image having a whitebox decoder utility corresponding to the whitebox encoder and the whitebox encoded global key.
US11483294B2
The invention described herein is directed to methods and systems for protecting network trace data. Network traces are used for network management, packet classification, traffic engineering, tracking user behavior, identifying user behavior, analyzing network hierarchy, maintaining network security, and classifying packet flows. In some embodiments, network trace data is protected by subjecting network trace data to data anonymization using an anonymization algorithm that simultaneously provides sufficient privacy to accommodate the organization need of the network trace data owner, provides acceptable data utility to accommodate management and/or network investigative needs, and provides efficient data analysis, at the same time.
US11483283B1
A wireless infrastructure that communicates with a DHCP server and a wireless client that rotates its MAC address performs a method including: upon receiving, from the wireless client, a first request with a first MAC address, creating a session context including the first MAC address and a stable identifier, and relaying the first request to the DHCP server; relaying, from the DHCP server to the wireless client, a first DHCP reply that includes an Internet Protocol (IP) address bound to the stable identifier; upon receiving, from the wireless client, a second request with the IP address and a second MAC address, merging the second MAC address and the IP address into the session context, and relaying, to the DHCP server, the second request including the stable identifier; and relaying, from the DHCP server to the wireless client, a second DHCP reply including the IP address bound to the stable identifier.
US11483280B2
A method of translating an Internet protocol (IP) packet, the method including forming, by a first electronic device, a forwarding table by assigning a first IP address and a second IP address to a second electronic device, a tethering service being provided to the second electronic device through the first electronic device through an internal network, the first IP address and the second IP address having different formats and being associated in the forwarding table, and performing, by the first electronic device, an IP address translation on a first IP packet to be transmitted based on the forwarding table such that the first IP packet includes the first IP address or the second IP address, the first IP packet being included in a communication between the second electronic device and an external network through the internal network and the first electronic device.
US11483275B1
A social networking system provides a user interface for a user to create, share, and participate in challenges. A challenge includes a challenge prompt. The challenge prompt instructs a challenge recipient to perform an action, such as to record a video or capture an image. A challenge creator sets parameters for the challenge, such as the challenge prompt, a challenge duration, available formats for challenge responses, challenge permissions, etc. Upon creation of the challenge, the social networking system distributes the challenge to other users of the social networking system. After a user submits a response to the challenge, or after expiration of the challenge duration, the user may view the challenge responses submitted by other users.
US11483272B2
A method, apparatus, and system for internet protocol (IP) warming is described. Some systems may send large volumes of communication messages from a single IP address. If the IP address does not have a strong sender reputation, these emails may be sent to spam folders or blocked, and the IP address may be blacklisted. To build a strong sender reputation, a user may implement an IP warming plan for the IP address. To support automated IP warming, an application may identify a target number of communication messages to transmit from the IP address, retrieve communication information for a target set of devices, generate, for the IP address, a set of transmission thresholds corresponding to a set of time durations for transmitting communication messages based on the target number of communication messages and the communication information, and transmit a set of communication messages based on the set of transmission thresholds.
US11483270B2
An email message delivery system is disclosed that enables the efficient processing and delivery of email messages by selectively sampling and scanning email messages prior to delivering the email messages to its intended recipients. The system selects an email message for processing and determines a group for the email message. The system determines a sampling probability for the group and based on the sampling probability determines whether the email message is selected for scanning. If the email message is selected for scanning, the system scans content of the email message and based on the scanning, determines whether the email message is to be filtered out. If the email message is not to be filtered out based on the scanning, the system relays the email message for delivery to the recipient.
US11483268B2
Systems, devices, methods, media, and instructions for automated image processing and content curation are described. In one embodiment a server computer system communicates at least a portion of a first content collection to a first client device, and receives a first selection communication in response, the first selection communication identifying a first piece of content of the first plurality of pieces of content. The server analyzes analyzing the first piece of content to identify a set of context values for the first piece of content, and accesses accessing a second content collection comprising pieces of content sharing at least a portion of the set of context values of the first piece of content. In various embodiments, different content values, image processing operations, and content selection operations are used to curate the content collections.
US11483267B2
Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system and a method for performing operations comprising: storing, on a distributed storage system, a plurality of real-time graph (RTG) instances that include a plurality of device objects; receiving, by a first device object of the plurality of device objects, a status update from a client device associated with a first user; transmitting, by the first device object, a first message comprising the status update to a second device object associated with a second user over a real-time link; and transmitting, by the first device object, a second message comprising the status update to a third device object associated with a third user over a first rate-limited link.
US11483265B2
Systems and methods for the creation and management of electronic associations between social media systems and web pages. Such associations promote greater interactions between web page visitors and users of social media pages. A social graph management system (SGMS) receives information related to a web page, and creates associations between the web page and social media pages. A process of creating such associations involves configuration of social media software for insertion into the web page. Furthermore, creating associations also involves creation of an intermediary page (and related data structures) by the SGMS in order to direct traffic between the web page and social media pages. User activity in the web page is tracked in addition to web traffic arriving at the intermediary page at subsequent times for computation of various analytics.
US11483264B2
The present disclosure provides an information interaction method, an apparatus, a device, a storage medium and a program product. In the information interaction method provided by the present disclosure, by acquiring a reply instruction acting on target information in an information display interface, inputting a target video used to reply to the target information in a shooting interface, thereby making a video reply to the target information in the information display interface. Taking advantage of a large amount of information carried by a video, reply content has a more obvious intention, so that while improving reply efficiency of a responder, it also makes it easier for a user to understand.
US11483263B2
A method for processing information can include acquiring a chat scenario of a first terminal and a second terminal; determining a chat topic for the first terminal and the second terminal according to the chat scenario; and determining a first question and first question options according to the chat topic, wherein the first question is sent by the first terminal; sending the first question and the first question options to the first terminal and the second terminal; and displaying the first question and the question options on the first terminal and the second terminal, respectively.
US11483261B2
Embodiments of the present invention disclose a data packet processing method and apparatus, and a device. The method includes: if a first data packet is received, determining a first cache queue that is in the first buffer and that is used to store the first data packet; buffering the first data packet in the second buffer if a state of the first cache queue is an invalid state, where a data amount of the first data packet is less than the capacity of the second buffer, and the state of the first cache queue is set to the invalid state when a current data amount of the first buffer reaches the capacity of the first buffer; and if a data amount of the second buffer reaches the capacity of the second buffer, sending all data packets that are in the second buffer to a control plane device.
US11483256B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for reducing latency and power consumption of on-chip movement through an approximate communication framework for network-on-chips (“NoCs”). The technology leverages the fact that big data applications (e.g., recognition, mining, and synthesis) can tolerate modest error and transfers data with the necessary accuracy, thereby improving the energy-efficiency and performance of multi-core processors.
US11483253B2
A network resource pushing method, a device, and a storage medium. The method comprises: a server receiving information of a network resource accessed by a user, and information of the environment of the user when the user accessed the network resource (101); the server applying, according to the information of the environment of the user, a pre-established scenario determination model to determine a user scenario (102); the server establishing an association model between the user scenario and the type of network resource accessed by the user (103); and the server receiving information of a current environment of the user, applying the scenario determination model to determine a current scenario corresponding to the information of the current environment of the user, and pushing to the user, according to the association model, a network resource having a type corresponding to the determined current scenario (104).
US11483249B2
An adaptive congestion control device (“ACCD”) may dynamically optimize network congestion control for different active flows. The ACCD may initiate a first flow that is associated with a first set of flow parameters, may select a first congestion control algorithm from a plurality of congestion control algorithms based on the first set of parameters, and may control transmission of packets for the first flow according to the first congestion control algorithm. While the first flow is active, the ACCD may initiate a second flow that is associated with a different second set of flow parameters, may select a different second congestion control algorithm from the plurality of available congestion control algorithms based on the second set of parameters, and may control transmission of packets for the second flow according to the second congestion control algorithm.
US11483244B2
Packets to be transmitted from a network device are buffered in queues in a first packet memory. In response to detecting congestion in a queue in the first packet memory, groups of multiple packets are transferred from the first packet memory to a second packet memory, the second packet memory configured to buffer a portion of traffic bandwidth supported by the network device. Prior to transmission of the packets among the one or more groups of multiple packets from the network device, packets among the one or more groups of multiple packets are transferred from the second packet memory back to the first packet memory. The packets transferred from the second packet memory back to the first packet memory are retrieved from the first packet memory and are forwarded to one or more network ports for transmission of the packets from the network device.
US11483239B2
Provided are a port configuration method and device, a storage medium, and an electronic device. Said method comprises: receiving a target message, the target message being a message which is transmitted through a physical port of a data link layer and carries target identifier information; searching, in a plurality of access modes supported by the physical port, for a target access mode corresponding to the target identifier information; and configuring the current access mode of the physical port in the data link layer to be the target access mode.
US11483237B2
At a router, at least one memory and computer program code stored therein are configured to, with at least one processor, cause the router to: determine source router identification information for a tunnel traversing the router based on a routable source IP address for the tunnel; determine destination router identification information for the tunnel based on a routable destination IP address for the tunnel; program a bit string entry for the tunnel in a Bit Index Forwarding Table (BIFT) for tunnels from a source router to a plurality of destination routers, the BIFT being indexed based on the source router identification information and at least a portion of the destination router identification information; and route packet data received at the router according to the BIFT.
US11483234B2
In one embodiment, a device obtains routing forecasts for a software defined network. The device splits a particular routing policy for the software defined network into two or more routing policies, based on the routing forecasts. The device makes an evaluation as to whether the two or more routing policies should be reverted back into the particular routing policy. The device sends, to a user interface, data indicative of the particular routing policy that was split into the two or more routing policies and the evaluation as to whether the two or more routing policies should be reverted back into the particular routing policy.
US11483227B2
The subject matter described herein includes methods, systems, and computer readable media for active queue management. A method for active queue management occurs at a network test system (NTS). The method includes transmitting, by a test packet generator and during a test session, a test packet to a system under test (SUT); receiving queue performance information associated with a SUT queue related to the test packet; generating, utilizing the queue performance information, control signaling information usable for controlling the test packet generator; and controlling the test packet generator using the control signaling information.
US11483219B2
A device may receive a thermal report from a user equipment. The thermal report may indicate a temperature of the user equipment. The device may determine, based on the thermal report, whether the temperature of the user equipment satisfies a temperature threshold. The device may select a network action to reduce the temperature of the user equipment based on the temperature of the user equipment satisfying the temperature threshold. The device may perform the network action.
US11483218B2
Systems and methods implemented by a workflow engine include obtaining data from a plurality of interfaces and network functions, NF, in one or more datacenters associated with a 5G core, 5GC, network, wherein the data relates to lifecycle management in the 5GC network; responsive to analyzing the data with a set of key performance indicators, KPI, and rules associated therewith that are formulated to detect anomalies that impact the lifecycle management, generating an alarm based on the analyzing based on detection of an anomaly that impacts the lifecycle management; and creating a workflow based on the alarm and pushing the workflow to the 5GC network via an orchestrator.
US11483217B2
A method for accurately measuring one or more network performance statistics during one or more sampling periods comprises processing a received data packet to identify flow information and time of arrival; transmitting the data packet, along with metadata comprising the flow information and the time of arrival, to a sample processing module; replaying the reception of the data packet based on the relative speed of the transmission link and the databus and the time of arrival; incrementing a number of bytes received for the data packet for a first sampling period; starting a second sampling period at a predetermined time and incrementing a number of bytes received for the data packet for the second sampling period, if the replaying is not completed. The number of bytes received for the data packet for the first and second sampling periods are processed into first and second sampling period statistics, respectively.
US11483216B1
The disclosed method may include (i) aggregating, within a group network application, program user accounts registered to perform a respective task defined in a database of the group network application with resource user accounts registered as sources to provide resources for performance of the respective task, (ii) provisioning a program application subcomponent within the group network application that enables a specific program user account to complete a program data structure that defines the respective task, (iii) provisioning a metadata application subcomponent within the group network application that enables the specific program user account to enter rich network data that describes the respective task defined in the database, and (iv) linking, within the database of the group network application, and in response to user instruction, the program data structure completed through the program application subcomponent with the rich network data entered through the metadata application subcomponent.
US11483211B2
A method, a computer program product, and a system for infrastructure discovery and service offering. The method includes discovering configuration information of components on an IT infrastructure of an enterprise. The method also includes discovering components, resources, and workload characteristics based on the configuration information. The method further includes analyzing the configuration information, components, resources, and workload characteristics to determine predictive need analytics and discovering applications operating within the IT infrastructure. The method also includes comparing the applications and predictive need analytics to cloud-based services to detect service compatibilities, and generating a decision-making chart based on the service compatibilities, wherein the decision-making chart indicates migratable components and applications in the IT infrastructure.
US11483207B2
In various embodiments, a device classification service obtains traffic telemetry data for a plurality of devices in a network. The service applies clustering to the traffic telemetry data, to form device clusters. The service generates a device classification rule based on a particular one of the device clusters. The service receives feedback from a user interface regarding the device classification rule. The service adjusts the device classification rule based on the received feedback.
US11483202B2
A method for automatically configuring router and a routing system are provided. The method is operated in a routing system including a router, a user equipment and an analysis platform, and the method includes the following steps. The router collects related data used by the user equipment to connect to the Internet, and stores the data in a memory. When each time the router determining that a first event meets a first preset condition, the router uploads the data to the analysis platform. The analysis platform uses a computational model to analyze the data, and stores an analysis result in the analysis platform. When the analysis platform each time determines that a second event meets a second preset condition, the analysis platform forms a configuration file, and loads the configuration file into the router, so that the router performs a configuration work according to the configuration file.
US11483201B2
A system for configuring an adaptive computer cluster is disclosed. The system includes a cluster configuration server communicatively coupled to a cluster hosting environment through a network, the cluster configuration server having a processor and a memory. The memory includes a plurality of inert containers and a configuration tool configured to receive at least one procedure having a trigger event and at least one task and further configured to instruct the cluster hosting environment to instantiate the adaptive computer cluster based upon the at least one procedure and using the plurality of inert containers. The instantiation instructions include instructions to instantiate, within the cluster hosting environment, an API gateway container, a storage container, a distributed computing master node container, at least one solution-specific container, and an orchestrator container. The instructions from the configuration tool further include instructions to communicatively couple all of the containers to the orchestrator container.
US11483200B2
A system is provided for streaming media content in a vehicle. The system includes a personal media streaming appliance system configured to connect to a media delivery system and receive media content from the media delivery system at least via a cellular network. The media delivery system is configured to link a user media streaming account with a particular personal media streaming appliance to provide personalized media content to the appliance. Media contexts are assigned to multiple preset settings automatically so that the personal media streaming appliance system is configured to output personalized media content upon first use.
US11483194B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may transmit a random access preamble to a base station as part of a two-step random access procedure. The UE may generate the preamble by identifying a discrete Fourier transform (DFT) matrix and generating a set of sequences based on the DFT matrix. Each sequence of the set of sequences may be generated by selecting a column of the DFT matrix and performing deterministic sampling of respective entries from the selected column in accordance with a sampling function. The UE may then select a sequence from the set of sequences based on generating the set of sequence. The UE may transmit the selected sequence to a wireless device (e.g., a base station).
US11483188B2
It is made possible to favorably perform signal transfer between a plurality of daisy-chain-connected devices. There is a communication line for performing communication between a first electronic device and a second electronic device. A data generating section generates first data to be transmitted to the first electronic device. Then, a data input section inputs the first data to a first position on the communication line. In addition, a first data suppressing section is provided at a second position on the communication line, the second position being closer to the second electronic device than the first position is, and the first data suppressing section prevents the first data from being sent to the second electronic device.
US11483185B1
Disclosed is an improved approach for a training approach to implement DFE for an electronic circuit. The inventive concept is particularity suitable to address, for example, circuits that implement high speed parallel data transmission protocols, such as GDDR6, that are used for graphics applications. The training scheme uses minimal hardware when compared to existing schemes by reusing calibration receiver in auto zeroing receiver as error receiver. Further it works for closed eyes by running the algorithm multiple times with gradual increase in complexity of training pattern, where DFE coefficients from previous iteration is used for the current iteration, thereby gradually opening the eye.
US11483174B1
Systems and methods for device functionality control utilizing activity prediction are disclosed. For example, an activity model is utilized to identify activities associated with sensor data collected from connected devices within an environment. Target device usage data is then associated with the activities to determine probability values that the target device will be operated when the identified activities are detected. Commands may be generated and sent to the target device to perform a function when the identified activities are detected.
US11483171B2
Exemplified systems and methods facilitate multicasting latency optimization operations for router, switches, and other network devices, for routed Layer-3 multicast packets to provide even distribution latency and/or selective prioritized distribution of latency among multicast destinations. A list of network destinations for serially-replicated packets is traversed in different sequences from one packet to the next, to provide delay fairness among the listed destinations. The list of network destinations are mapped to physical network ports, virtual ports, or logical ports of the router, switches, or other network devices and, thus, the different sequences are also traversed from these physical network ports, virtual ports, or logical ports. The exemplified systems and methods facilitates the management of traffic that is particularly beneficial in in a data center.
US11483168B2
A plurality of physically unclonable function (PUF) bit cells are surveyed by supplying a plurality of threshold control values to the PUF bit cells. Survey results associated with each of the threshold control values are evaluated to determine a threshold control pair having a positive threshold control value and a negative threshold control value among the plurality of threshold control values that results in a desired number PUF bit cells that are strong ones and that are strong zeros.
US11483163B2
The present disclosure generally relates to one or more line replacement units (“LRUs”) for an airplane including a method for provisioning a second line replacement unit (“LRU”) using a first LRU in an airplane. The method includes providing, by the first LRU, a communication to the second LRU to request a certificate signing request (“CSR”) based on a public-private key pair generated by the second LRU; obtaining the CSR from the first LRU; providing the CSR and a certificate revocation request for a replaced LRU to a certificate authority (“CA”); obtaining a composite airline modifiable information (“AMI”) comprising a public key certificate associated with a private key generated by the first LRU; and providing the composite AMI to the first LRU.
US11483139B2
Systems, computer program products, and methods are described herein for secure data transmission using fully homomorphic encryption. The present invention is configured to electronically retrieve a data file from a source computing device, wherein the data file in encrypted using a public key; initiate a homomorphic engine on the data file, wherein the homomorphic engine comprises one or more homomorphic encryption algorithms; generate, using a first homomorphic encryption algorithm, a header and a trailer for the data file; generate, using the first homomorphic encryption algorithm, a unique row for the data file; generate an evaluation key based on at least generating the header, the trailer, and the unique row for the data file; append the header, the trailer, and the unique row to the data file to generate an appended data file; and transmit the appended data file to a target computing device.
US11483137B2
A processing device is configured to process an initial set of command types. A command extension module and a digital signature are received. The digital signature is generated based on the command extension module using a private key of a key pair. The command extension module, once installed by the processing device, enables the processing device to process a new command type that is not included in the initial set of command types. The digital signature is verified using a public key of the key pair. Based on a successful verification of the digital signature, the command extension module is temporarily installed by loading the command extension module in a volatile memory device.
US11483130B2
The invention relates to a method for the tamper-proof storage of data in an electronic store using a bidirectionally linked blockchain structure. The method comprises the steps of: providing a first family of functions, which comprises a plurality of functions, wherein the functions differ by at least one first parameter and are uniquely identifiable using the first parameter of each; generating an additional block to extend the blockchain structure which comprises the data to be stored; creating a first block-dependent bidirectional linking function for bidirectional linking of the last block to the additional block.
US11483128B2
A homomorphic encryption device includes: a recryption parameter generating circuit, a recryption circuit, and an arithmetic circuit. The recryption parameter generating circuit is configured to generate a recryption parameter including a plurality of recryption levels respectively for a plurality of ciphertexts based on an arithmetic scenario including information about an arithmetic schedule between the plurality of ciphertexts. The recryption circuit is configured to generate a plurality of recrypted ciphertexts by recrypting each of the plurality of ciphertexts to a corresponding recryption level based on the recryption parameter. The arithmetic circuit is configured to output an arithmetic result by performing operations by using the plurality of recrypted ciphertexts, according to the arithmetic scenario.
US11483124B2
The present disclosure provides a clock and data recovery processor for recovering timing information from a measured signal with a data input interface configured to receive samples representing the measured signal, a level comparator coupled to the data input interface and configured to determine the signal level for each of the received samples in a group comprising a predetermined number of samples, a transition comparator coupled to the level comparator and configured to compare the number of signal transitions for the samples in the group with a predetermined transition number, and a bit value determiner coupled to the transition comparator and configured to determine bit values for data symbols in the measured signal based on the detected transitions, if the transition comparator determined the number of signal transitions being equal to or larger than the predetermined transition number. Further, the present disclosure provides a measurement device and a respective method.
US11483119B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to techniques for secondary cell (SCell) configuration signaling and activation procedures. For example, certain aspects provide a method for activating at a user equipment one or more secondary cells of a target base station. The method includes transmitting a measurement report for the one or more secondary cells. The method includes receiving secondary cell activation information for the user equipment from the target base station prior to completion of connection of the user equipment to the target base station, wherein the secondary cell activation information indicates the one or more secondary cells. The method includes activating the one or more secondary cells at the user equipment after completion of connection to the target base station.
US11483118B2
A method of receiving, by a user equipment (UE), a reference signal in a wireless communication system. The method includes: receiving downlink control information (DCI) for scheduling downlink data in a first transmission time interval (TTI); acquiring, from the DCI, information related to whether the reference signal is included in the first TTI in which the downlink data is scheduled; and receiving, in the first TTI, the reference signal for the first TTI based on the information related to whether the reference signal is included in the first TTI. The method further includes, based on the downlink data scheduled to be repeatedly transmitted in the first TTI and at least one second TTI: receiving, in each of the at least one second TTI, a reference signal for the each of the at least one second TTI.
US11483113B2
Disclosed is a method for a terminal for receiving a positioning reference signal (PRS) in a wireless communication system. Particularly, the method includes: receiving first information related to a PRS resource group including a plurality of PRS resources, and second information related to a repetition count for the PRS resource group; and receiving a PRS on the plurality of PRS resources based on the first information and second information, wherein the PRS resource group may be allocated repeatedly as many times as the repetition count within a certain period.
US11483111B2
A data transmission method includes determining, by a base station, a first phase noise compensation reference signal (PCRS) port set and a second PCRS port set in a first scheduling period, where the first PCRS port set includes at least one port used to transmit a PCRS, but the second PCRS port set does not include a port used to transmit a PCRS in the first scheduling period; determining, by the base station, a first time-frequency resource element corresponding to the at least one port used to transmit a PCRS in the first PCRS port set; if a quantity of first time-frequency resource elements is greater than or equal to 1, sending, by the base station, a PCRS to user equipment on the first time-frequency resource element; and sending, by the base station, data to the user equipment on a second time-frequency resource element corresponding to the second PCRS port set.
US11483108B2
The disclosure pertains to methods and apparatus for transmitting uplink data to a wireless network asynchronously comprising generating data for transmission to the network on an uplink shared channel (UL-SCH) transport channel, selecting between transmitting the data to the network orthogonally or non-orthogonally, and transmitting the data on the selected physical channel.
US11483106B1
Systems and methods for the secure transmission of data and algorithms are disclosed. The coding and modulation schemes meet the need of low signal-to-noise (SNR) ratio applications in areas of high interference. A radio transmitter is used to transmit data signals and a radio receiver is used to receive signals. The new coding algorithms and modulation for wideband communication at very low SNR domains. Systems use orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing modulation and a channel pilot algorithm for timing synchronization and frame alignment. Systems also use an orthogonal code, a super orthogonal convolutional code, and a block code to achieve channel capacity within 80% of the Shannon limit in the subzero decibel (dB) domain with reasonable decoding complexity. In an implementation example given, a 12.5 MHz band radio can transmit at a 108 kbps user data rate at −20 dB SNR and escape adversity detection.
US11483104B2
This application provides a channel state information report transmission method and a communications device. The method includes: determining N channel state information reports; and sending M of the N channel state information reports based on priorities of the N channel state information reports, where both N and M are positive integers greater than or equal to 1, and M is less than or equal to N; and a priority of a channel state information report in the N channel state information reports.
US11483101B2
Systems and methods presented herein provide for channel reservation for a wireless telephony system operating in an RF band with a wireless system comprising a conflicting wireless technology. One method is operable with an eNodeB. The method includes assigning an ID (e.g., a pseudorandom number sequence, or “PN sequence”) to a user equipment (UE) operating in the RF band, processing a scheduling request for uplink (UL) data from the UE, and granting a time and a frequency for the UE to transmit the UL data. The method also includes waiting until the UE performs a Listen Before Talk (LBT) operation to determine whether the granted time and frequency is occupied by another wireless system employing a different wireless technology. The method also includes transmitting the ID to the UE to reserve the granted time and frequency when unoccupied by the other wireless system, and processing the UL data from the UE.
US11483097B2
This application provides a wireless communication method, a network device, a terminal device, and a computer-readable storage medium. The method includes: sending, by a network device, a first PDSCH and a second PDSCH to a terminal device, where scheduling performed by the network device on the first PDSCH and the second PDSCH is out-of-HARQ order scheduling; determining, by the network device, whether transmission of the second PDSCH interrupts a processing performed by the terminal device on the first PDSCH; and if the network device determines that the transmission of the second PDSCH interrupts the processing performed by the terminal device on the first PDSCH, determining, by the network device, that data corresponding to the first PDSCH is not successfully received.
US11483091B2
Provided are a data communication processing method and device. The method includes: acquiring a modulation order and a target code rate; calculating an intermediate number Ninfo of information bits at least according to a total number of resource elements, the modulation order and the target code rate; quantizing the intermediate number Ninfo of the information bits to obtain the quantized intermediate number N′info; determining a transport block size (TBS) according to the quantized intermediate number N′info.
US11483089B2
An integrated apparatus with optical/electrical interfaces and protocol converter on a single silicon substrate. The apparatus includes an optical module comprising one or more modulators respectively coupled with one or more laser devices for producing a first optical signal to an optical interface and one or more photodetectors for detecting a second optical signal from the optical interface to generate a current signal. Additionally, the apparatus includes a transmit lane module coupled between the optical module and an electrical interface to receive a first electric signal from the electrical interface and provide a framing protocol for driving the one or more modulators. Furthermore, the apparatus includes a receive lane module coupled between the optical module and the electrical interface to process the current signal to send a second electric signal to the electrical interface.
US11483088B2
A service mapping processing method for an optical transport network, an apparatus, and a system are provided, where the method includes: generating mapping adaptation indication information according to a mapping granularity of a to-be-carried LO ODU, where the mapping granularity is M×g bytes, M is a quantity of timeslots occupied by the to-be-carried LO ODU in an OPUCn, g is a size of a mapping granularity corresponding to each timeslot of the timeslots occupied by the LO ODU, and g is a positive integer greater than 1; mapping, according to the mapping adaptation indication information, the to-be-carried LO ODU to an ODTUCn.M payload area; encapsulating the mapping adaptation indication information into the ODTUCn.M overhead area; encapsulating the ODTUCn.M into an OTUCn; and sending the OTUCn to a receive end device. The method avoids that OTUCns that use different mapping granularities cannot interwork between a receive end and a transmit end.
US11483084B2
A method including while receiving a live digital audio stream from one or more remote servers and outputting the live digital audio stream via a speaker of a client device, receiving the updated content schedule from the one or more remote servers, generating and displaying a real-time programming guide user-interface including the updated content schedule, the real-time programming guide user-interface including at least one content segment component corresponding to at least one of the content segment data in the updated content schedule, and, in response to a content selection command at the at least one content segment component, transmitting a content segment digital audio signal request to the one or more remote servers for a prior portion of the live digital audio stream corresponding to the content segment data; and, in response to receiving the prior portion of the live digital audio stream, ceasing outputting the live digital audio stream and outputting the prior portion of the live digital audio stream corresponding to the content segment data.
US11483080B2
A method for determining pass path can be applied to a narrowband internet of things (NB-IoT) device. The method includes: determining transmission power of a downlink narrowband reference signal (NRS); determining a measurement value of narrowband reference signal received power (NRSRP); and in a case that a preset higher layer filter parameter is not received from a base station, determining path loss between the base station and the UE according to the transmission power of the downlink NRS and the measurement value of the NRSRP. As such, during the determination of transmission power of the NB-IoT device, a configuration information sending burden of the base station can be reduced, unnecessary retransmission can be avoided, and power consumption of user equipment (UE) in the NB-IoT may be reduced.
US11483078B1
The present disclosure provides a method for long range communication through underwater and underground environments by converting encoded message data into spherical coordinates and rotating a magnet about axes of rotation corresponding to those spherical coordinates at a transmitter. A receiver configured to detect the magnetic dipole field of the generated electromagnetic wave can thus determine the orientation of the magnetic dipole, deduce the spherical coordinates, and decipher the encoded data. A system comprising a mechanical antenna transmitter and receiver with a magnetic field sensor arrangement for carrying out the method is also provided.
US11483070B2
Systems, methods, and devices for infrared (IR) communications in accordance with embodiments of the invention are disclosed. In one embodiment, a first infrared (IR) device configured for real time mapping comprises: a mapping module; a communication module; an IR receiver configured to receive an IR signal transmitted from at least one second IR device; a processor operatively connected to the mapping module, communication module, and IR receiver; and memory storing a program comprising instructions that cause the first IR device to: capture map data using the mapping module; transmit a request for an IR signal using the communication module; scan for IR signals using the IR receiver; receive an IR signal, from the at least one second IR device, using the IR receiver; and validate the at least one second IR device to a location by mapping the received IR signal to a position on the map data.
US11483068B2
Provided are an optical transmission line monitoring apparatus, an optical transmission line monitoring system, and an optical transmission line monitoring method capable of monitoring a plurality of optical transmission lines in parallel. A monitoring light output unit outputs monitoring lights with different frequencies to optical transmission lines. A local oscillation light source outputs a local oscillation light. An interference unit, to which return lights corresponding to the monitoring lights are input, configured to output an output light generated by interference between input lights and the local oscillation light. A conversion unit converts the output light into an electrical signal. A signal processing unit extracts, from the electrical signal, an intermediate-frequency signal based on each of the monitoring lights, and generates monitoring results of the optical transmission lines from the intermediate-frequency signal.
US11483064B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. Generally, the described techniques provide for efficiently determining appropriate uplink frequencies for uplink transmissions to a satellite. As described herein, a wireless communications system may support a closed loop frequency correction scheme where a satellite may provide an uplink frequency correction to a user equipment (UE) such that the UE may be able to identify an appropriate uplink frequency for an uplink transmission. In some implementations, the UE may first transmit an uplink signal to the satellite on an initial uplink frequency, and the satellite may determine a corrected uplink frequency for the UE based on the initial uplink frequency. The satellite may then transmit an indication of the corrected uplink frequency to the UE, and the UE may transmit a second uplink signal based on the corrected uplink frequency.
US11483056B2
An apparatus is provided for generating a transmission wave. The apparatus includes a plurality of antennas and a plurality of signal generators. The plurality of antennas has polarization diversity. The plurality of signal generators are each coupled to one of the antennas and configured to generate a continuous twisted wave by driving each of the antennas using independent, coordinated, and distinct sinusoidal waves, and having a twist frequency and a carrier frequency, the twist frequency lower than the carrier frequency. A method is also provided.
US11483054B2
A method for SCell BFR performed by a UE is provided. The method includes: receiving a first SCell BFR configuration corresponding to a first SCell, the first SCell BFR configuration including at least one of a resource list for BFD and a resource list for NBI; detecting a beam failure condition in the first SCell by measuring at least one BFD reference signal; determining a first new candidate beam index for the first SCell based on the first SCell BFR configuration; and transmitting a beam failure recovery request that includes a cell index of the first SCell in which beam failure occurs and the determined first new candidate beam index.
US11483053B2
A method is disclosed for a transmitter apparatus configured to transmit signals to a receiver apparatus using a beam selected from a plurality of available beams, wherein a set of the plurality of available beams is for beam selection measurements by the receiver apparatus. The method comprises determining a collection of linear combinations of beams of the set, wherein the cardinality of the collection is lower than a cardinality of the set, and transmitting each of the linear combinations of beams for beam selection measurements by the receiver apparatus. A method is also disclosed for a receiver apparatus configured to receive signals from a transmitter apparatus via a beam selected from a plurality of available beams. The method comprises receiving a number of measurement signals for beam selection measurements from the transmitter apparatus, wherein the number of measurement signals correspond to a collection of linear combinations of beams of a set of the plurality of available beams, wherein the cardinality of the collection is lower than a cardinality of the set, and performing beam selection measurements on the number of measurement signals for selection of the beam from the plurality of available beams. Corresponding transmitter apparatus, receiver apparatus, network node, wireless communication device and computer program products are also disclosed.
US11483041B2
Examples disclosed herein relate to a high frequency component isolation for wireless and radar systems. The disclosure herein includes a radar system that has an array of radiating elements and a phase control module coupled to the array of radiating elements. The phase control module is configured to isolate one or more transmission signal paths through the phase control module from at least one conductor electrically coupled to one or more active circuits in the phase control module, the at least one conductor proximate to the one or more transmission signal paths. The phase control module is configured to adjust a reactance in a transmission signal propagating through the isolated one or more transmission signal paths to one or more radiating elements of the array of radiating elements. Other examples disclosed herein include beamforming system with high frequency component isolation and a method of beamforming with high frequency component isolation.
US11483033B2
A wireless power transmission system includes a transmitter antenna, transmission controller, and an amplifier. The transmitter controller is configured to provide a driving signal for driving the transmitter antenna based on, at least, an operating mode for transmission of AC wireless signals and determine the operating mode for transmission of the AC wireless signals, wherein the operating mode includes a power level for the wireless power signals and a data rate for the wireless data signals, the power level chosen from a series of available power levels and the data rate chosen from a series of available data rates, each of the series of available power levels corresponding to one of the series of available data rates, wherein corresponding pairs of available power levels and available data rates are inversely related.
US11483032B2
A method for operating a wireless power transmission system includes providing a driving signal for driving a transmission antenna of the wireless power transmission system, the driving signal based, at least, on an operating frequency for the wireless power transmission system. The method further includes inverting, by the at least one transistor, a direct current (DC) input power signal to generate an AC wireless signal at the operating frequency, based on provided driving signals. The method includes receiving, at a damping circuit, damping signals configured for switching the damping transistor to one of an active mode and an inactive mode to control signal damping, wherein the damping signals switch to the active mode periodically. The method further includes selectively damping, by the damping circuit, the AC wireless signals, during transmission of the wireless data signals if the damping signals set the damping circuit to the active mode.
US11483030B2
A power distribution system including a first and second speaker is provided. The first speaker includes (1) a first input receiving a first power signal; (2) a second input receiving a second power signal phase shifted 120 degrees from the first signal; (3) a third input receiving a third power signal phase shifted 120 degrees from both the first and second signal; (4) a first output transmitting the third power signal; (5) a second output transmitting the first power signal; (6) a third output transmitting the second power signal; and (7) a first load coupled to the first and second input. The second speaker includes (1) a first input receiving the third power signal; (2) a second input receiving the first power signal; (3) a third input receiving the second power signal; and (4) a second load coupled to the first and second input.
US11483027B2
We have demonstrated that the bandwidth millimeter wavelengths offer can be leveraged to deeply spread a low-data rate signal below the thermal floor of the environment (sub-thermal) by lowered transmit power combined with free space losses, while still being successfully received through a novel dispreading structure which does not rely on pre-detection to extract timing information. The demonstrated data link ensures that it cannot be detected beyond a designed range from the transmitter, while still providing reliable communication. A demonstration chipset of this sub-thermal concept was implemented in a 28 nm CMOS technology and when combined with an InP receiver was shown to decode signals up to 30 dB below the thermal noise floor by spreading a 9600 bps signal over 1 GHz of RF bandwidth from 93 to 94 GHz using a 64 bit spreading code. The transmitter for this chipset consumed 62 mW while the receiver consumed 281 mw.
US11483026B1
A method and an apparatus are provided for improving a carrier to noise density ratio (CNO) of a matched filter. A signal is received at a signal register of the matched filter. A local code is received at a local code register and a nulling register of the matched filter. An adder tree of the matched filter correlates the signal register and the local code register with respect to the nulling register to obtain a correlation result. The nulling register prevents high frequency samples of the signal register from affecting the correlation result.
US11483022B2
A wideband tunable frequency single-subband converter is proposed. The wideband frequency tunable converter operates within a wideband and tunable frequency range, and has process, voltage, and temperature (PVT) tracking capability. In one embodiment, the wideband converter comprises a frequency tunable polyphase filter having a plurality of switchable polyphase resistors. The polyphase resistors are controlled by a frequency tuning control signal to achieve wideband frequency tunability. In a preferred embodiment, a triode mode transistor is used as a polyphase resistor, and a different resistance value of the polyphase filter is realized by turning on one or multiple of the different transistors in triode mode. In addition, a constant Gm(R) bias generator is used to provide the gate biases to the triode mode transistors to maintain a constant and stable resistance value across PVT and other variation.
US11483021B2
In an embodiment, a receiver included in a communications system includes a channel extractor configured to segregate a received signal into a plurality of channel signals, wherein the plurality of channel signals includes a plurality of data signals; and a plurality of decoders electrically coupled to the channel extractor and configured to decode each of the plurality of channel signals into a respective plurality of decoded data beam portions.
US11483015B2
Embodiments provide a data receiver, wherein the data receiver is configured to receive a broadband signal, wherein the broadband signal includes at least two partial data packets that are distributed in time and/or frequency, wherein the data receiver is configured to perform detection of the at least two partial data packets in the broadband signal and to provide at least one detection parameter for the detected partial data packets, wherein the data receiver is configured to perform decoding of the detected partial data packet by using the at least one detection parameter, wherein the data receiver is configured to perform or process detection and decoding separately from one another.
US11483014B2
A controller of a memory system performs a soft decoding without additional reads. The controller applies each of read voltages to cells to obtain a corresponding cell count and corresponding data, stores the obtained data, and processes the stored data. The controller determines a set of parameters, based on (i) the read voltages, (ii) cell counts corresponding to the read voltages and (iii) a non-negative regularization parameter. The controller estimates an optimal read voltage based on the set of parameters, generates log-likelihood ratio (LLR) values using the processed data and the optimal read voltage and performs soft decoding using the LLR values.
US11483011B2
Provided are a decoding method, a decoding device and a decoder. The method includes: setting a decoder parallelism P, and splitting soft information of a block to be decoded according to the parallelism P; performing decoding calculation on the block to be decoded according to the split information, and outputting decoded hard bit information; and recombining the hard bit information according to the parallelism P.
US11483009B2
Methods, apparatus, systems, and software for implementing self-checking compression. A byte stream is encoded to generate tokens and selected tokens are encoded with hidden parity information in a compressed byte stream that may be stored for later streaming or streamed to a receiver. As the compressed byte stream is received, it is decompressed, with the hidden parity information being decoded and used to detect for errors in the decompressed data, enabling errors to be detected on-the-fly rather than waiting to perform a checksum over an entire received file. In one embodiment the byte stream is encoded using a Lempel-Ziv 77 (LZ77)-based encoding process to generate a sequence of tokens including literals and references, with all or selected references encoded with hidden parity information in a compressed byte stream having a standard format such as DEFLATE or Zstandard. The hidden parity information is encoded such that the compressed byte stream may be decompressed without parity checks using standard DEFLATE or Zstandard decompression schemes. Dictionary coders such as LZ78 and LZW may also be used.
US11483002B2
A multi-loop controller component for an electric discharge machining (EDM) system includes a plurality of power loop circuits coupled to an output of a power supply of the EDM system and configured to receive DC electric power from the power supply. Each power loop circuits electrically-isolated from other power loop circuits. The multi-loop controller component also includes a plurality of transistors. Each transistor is coupled to a respective power loop circuit and is configured to switch between an ON state and an OFF state to generate a pulse of the DC electric power through the respective power loop circuit. In addition, the multi-loop controller component has a drive controller coupled to the plurality of transistors. The drive controller is configured to transmit at least one control signal to at least one of the transistors to facilitate switching the transistor between the ON state and the OFF state.
US11482999B2
A capacitive sensor includes: a substrate that is in the form of a sheet; and a sensor electrode that is capacitive and disposed on a frontside of the substrate. The sensor electrode is a conductive fabric made by applying a metal plating on a mesh fabric that is woven of a plurality of warps and a plurality of wefts and that has openings each formed by two adjacent warps among the plurality of warps and two adjacent wefts among the plurality of wefts. An area defined by a maximum outside diameter of a warp or weft is smaller than an area of an opening space of each of the openings.
US11482988B1
A system and method for tuning a transistor-based circuit. The system includes a negative impedance converter circuit having a capacitor, a first transistor, and a second transistor. As a current travels through the capacitor, the first transistor and the second transistor each sample voltage at the capacitor and invert the voltage at an input of the negative impedance converter circuit. The negative impedance converter circuit also has a third transistor in series with the capacitor. The third transistor has a base voltage. Changing the base voltage of the third transistor changes the voltage sampled by the first transistor and the second transistor.
US11482984B2
An elastic wave device includes an LiNbO3 substrate, a first elastic wave resonator including a first IDT electrode and a first dielectric film, and a second elastic wave resonator including a second IDT electrode and a second dielectric film. A Rayleigh wave travels along at least one surface of the elastic wave device. A thickness of the first dielectric film differs from a thickness of the second dielectric film. A propagation direction of an elastic wave in the first elastic wave resonator coincides with a propagation direction of an elastic wave in the second elastic wave resonator. Euler angles of the LiNbO3 substrate fall within a range of (0°±5°, θ, 0°±10°).
US11482974B2
An RF power amplifier is described including a first amplifier and a second amplifier arranged in parallel between an RF power amplifier input and an RF power amplifier output. A phase adjuster adjusts the phase of a signal on at least one of the first amplifier signal path and the second amplifier signal path. A first impedance inverter has a first impedance inverter input coupled to an output of the second amplifier and a first impedance inverter output coupled to the RF power amplifier output. The RF power amplifier is configured to enable at least one of the first amplifier and the second amplifier dependent on an operation mode and the first impedance inverter is configured to modulate the load impedance of the second amplifier in response to the operation mode changing.
US11482972B2
A power supply for a radio-frequency power amplifier includes: first and second linear circuits, configured to linearly amplify a low-power signal and a high-power signal in a first envelope signal respectively and provide first and second voltages to the radio-frequency power amplifier respectively, wherein the low-power signal is a signal with a power ratio less than or equal to 30% in the envelope signal, and the high-power signal other than the low-power signal is a signal with a power ratio greater than or equal to 70% in the envelope signal; and a third circuit, configured to detect the linearly-amplified high-power signal and work in a constant on time control mode having a constant on time or a constant off time control mode having a constant off time so as to provide a third electric current to the radio-frequency power amplifier according to the detected linearly-amplified high-power signal.
US11482970B2
A power management circuit operable to adjust voltage within a defined interval(s) is provided. The power management circuit is configured to generate a time-variant voltage for amplifying an analog signal based on a target voltage. In embodiments disclosed herein, the power management circuit can be configured to generate a lower initial target voltage at a start of the defined interval(s), such as during a cyclic prefix (CP) of an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbol, and dynamically adjust the initial target voltage, if necessary, within the defined interval(s) based on a time-variant power envelope of the analog signal. By generating the lower target voltage, in contrast to a conventional method of generating a maximum target voltage, at the start of the defined interval(s), it is possible to reduce energy waste and help improve efficiency in a power amplifier configured to amplify the analog signal based on the time-variant voltage.
US11482959B2
A motor driving method includes steps of: at an open loop phase and in response to a motor being operated under a steady-state, calculating an angle difference between an estimation coordinate axis of the motor and an actual coordinate axis by a controller, according to an estimation voltage value, an estimation current value and at least one electrical parameter feedback from the motor and in reference with the estimation coordinate axis of the motor; calculating an actual current value in reference with the actual coordinate axis according to the angle difference by the controller; calculating a load torque estimation value associated with the motor according to the actual current value by the controller; and, in response to the open loop phase being switched to a close loop phase, compensating an output torque of the motor according to the load torque estimation value by the controller.
US11482953B2
An electronic actuator device and a control method thereof are provided. The electronic actuator device includes a plurality of first and second power switches and a driving circuit. The first power switches respectively provide a first reference voltage to a plurality of voltage receiving ends of a motor respectively according to a plurality of first control signals. The second power switches respectively provide a second reference voltage to the voltage receiving ends respectively according to a plurality of second control signals. The driving circuit generates the first and second control signals. In a braking operation, the first power switches are turned on during a plurality of first time periods, and the second switches are turned on during a plurality of second time periods that are alternate and non-overlapped with the first time periods. An interval time period is present between each adjacent two of the first and second time periods.
US11482948B2
A system for providing both driving and charging functionality by using a plurality of traction inverters and a plurality of energy storage devices coupled to one another across the electric motor; an AC/DC converter front-end circuit interfacing the first/second traction inverters and the power source; a controller circuit configured to control operating characteristics of the AC/DC converter front-end circuit, wherein the first/second traction inverters are provided gating signals to one or more switching gates of the first/second traction inverters to shape power characteristics of power delivered to the first/second energy storage devices, from the power source.
US11482947B2
An apparatus may include a first switch leg connected between a first input terminal and a first output terminal, the first switch leg comprising serially connected switches. The apparatus may also include a second switch leg connected between a second input terminal and the first output terminal, the second switch leg comprising serially connected switches. The apparatus may further include a third switch leg connected between an input voltage midpoint and the first output terminal. A control circuit may control the first switch leg, the second switch leg and the third switch leg.
US11482946B2
Electric power conversion devices carry out feedback control, so that a difference between a duty ratio and a duty ratio target value may approach zero, while a duty ratio, which becomes the origin of a drive signal of a semiconductor switching element, is limited by a prescribed upper limit. The control part issues a first operation result, which is limited by a first upper limit, with respect to an operation value which is on an operation process for controlling an output electric power, and further a second operation result which is limited by a second upper limit, which is set as a value higher than the first upper limit, with respect to an operation value. In addition, the control part is configured to carry out the proportional plus integral control, by a difference between the second operation result and a target value of the second operation result.
US11482945B2
A rectifying circuit includes: a voltage-current converting circuit that converts an input voltage into a current; a first transistor and a second transistor that are connected in series and that are connected to a first node into which the current converted by the voltage-current converting circuit flows; a third transistor and a fourth transistor that are connected in series, and that respectively mirror a current flowing through the first transistor and a current flowing through the second transistor; and a first diode that is connected between a second node connected to the third transistor and the fourth transistor, and an output terminal.
US11482940B2
A high-efficiency LLC resonant converter is disclosed. During a normal operation of the LLC resonant converter, an error amplifier unit generates a modulated voltage signal to a first control unit after receives a data of voltage difference from a detection unit, and then the first control unit calculates an immediate load rate based on the modulated voltage signal. Subsequently, the second control unit receives a first adjustment signal that is outputted by the first control unit, so as to correspondingly generate a switch element controlling signal to a switch element of a DC power supplying unit of the LLC resonant converter, thereby achieving an output voltage modulation of the DC power supplying unit. As such, the LLC resonant converter is controlled to exhibit a conversion efficiency of at least 98% in case of working at any one load state.
US11482935B2
A control circuit for a driving an electronic switch associated with a switching node of a flyback converter includes a comparison circuit configured to generate a switch-off signal by comparing a current measurement signal with a current measurement threshold signal. A valley detection circuit is configured to generate a trigger in a trigger signal when a valley signal indicates a valley in a voltage at the switching node of the flyback converter, and a blanking circuit is configured to generate a switch-on signal by combining the trigger signal with a timer signal provide by a timer circuit. The timer signal indicates whether a blanking time-interval has elapsed.
US11482934B2
The invention provides a series resonant LLC power converter unit to provide a plurality of power outputs. The power converter unit comprises a plurality of transformers arranged such that at least one primary winding of each transformer is connected in parallel and configured to provide a power output. An inductive element is positioned in parallel with at least one primary winding selected from said plurality of transformers, wherein the inductive element restricts variation in inductance for said plurality of transformers and power outputs in operation.
US11482927B2
A driving circuit for a switched capacitor converter having first and second switched capacitor branches, where the first switched capacitor branch includes first and second switch groups connected between an input voltage and a reference ground, the second switched capacitor branch includes third and fourth switch groups connected between the input voltage and the reference ground, and where each switch group includes an upper power switch and a lower power switch, the driving circuit comprising: a plurality of drivers configured to correspondingly drive each power switch in the switched capacitor converter; a bootstrap capacitor that provides a power supply voltage for each driver that is configured to drive the upper power switches that are connected to the input voltage of the switched capacitor converter; and where a charging voltage for charging the bootstrap capacitor is not greater than the input voltage of the switched capacitor converter.
US11482924B2
Power isolators for providing electrical isolation between an input port and an output port that exhibit low electromagnetic interference (EMI) are described. The low EMI may be achieved by, for example, canceling out a common mode current across a transformer in the power isolator that may be converted into EMI. The power isolator may include at least one oscillator circuit that is configured to apply a first signal to a first transformer and a second, different signal to a second transformer. The first and second signals may be configured such that the common mode current generated in each of the first and second transformers has an opposite direction. Thus, the common mode currents in the first and second transformers may at least partially cancel out. As a result, the EMI exhibited by the power isolator may be reduced.
US11482923B1
A system includes a controller for a DC to AC inverter including a processor configured to execute instructions to perform operations including: generating a first pulse for a first phase of a center-aligned PWM signal to alternately activate a first phase switch of a first switch group of the inverter for a first duration and a first phase switch of a second switch group of the inverter for a second duration within a period of the PWM signal; and generating a second pulse for a second phase of the PWM signal to alternately activate a second phase switch of the first switch group of the inverter for a third duration and a second phase switch of the second switch group of the inverter for a fourth duration within the period of the PWM signal, wherein the second duration is different from the third duration during a stall condition.
US11482919B2
An apparatus includes a first gate drive transistor and a second gate drive transistor connected in series, a common node of the first gate drive transistor and the second gate drive transistor connected to a gate of a power switch, the second gate drive transistor configured as a bulk switch having a bulk terminal connected to a bulk terminal of the power switch, a first auxiliary transistor connected between the bulk terminal and a source of the power switch, a second auxiliary transistor coupled between the gate of the power switch and a system ground, and a third auxiliary transistor coupled between a logic control ground and the system ground, wherein the second auxiliary transistor and the third auxiliary transistor are configured to pull the gate of the power switch and the logic control ground down to the system ground in response to a turn off of the apparatus.
US11482918B2
A gate drive circuit, which drives a gate of a first transistor, includes a first switch on a high potential side and a second switch on a low potential side connected in series at a second connection node between a high potential end and a low potential end of a series connection structure, constituted of a first voltage source and a second voltage source connected in series at a first connection node; and a third switch and an inductor connected in series between the first connection node and the second connection node. The gate of the first transistor can be electrically connected to the second connection node.
US11482915B2
Disclosed is a radial-axial air gap three-phase disc-type transverse flux permanent magnet motor. Each phase includes a stator consisting of shoe-shaped stator cores and shoe-shaped permanent magnets, and a radial-axial rotor. The permanent magnets are magnetized in the circumferential direction, and the magnetization directions of the two adjacent permanent magnets are opposite to each other. Armature windings are wound in the grooves formed by the alternately arranged stator cores and the permanent magnets. The radial-axial rotor includes radial teeth, axial teeth, and right-angled yokes. The radial teeth are connected to the axial teeth through the right-angled yokes. Adjacent radial/or axial teeth are spaced at a mechanical angle of 360/n degrees. Radial teeth and the adjacent axial teeth under the same pole pairs are spaced at a mechanical angle of 180/n degrees, where n is the number of pole pairs of the radial-axial air gap three-phase disc-type transverse flux permanent magnet motor.
US11482911B2
Electrical power distribution devices with a bypass unit that electrically engages one of two alternate units for powering a load while electrically isolating the other using a six pole power transfer switch and mechanical and electrical interlocks to allow a technician to access one of the alternate units when de-energized and in position while the other of the alternate units is energized and powering the load.
US11482910B2
A stator for an AC motor, includes windings of a first layer, which extend over a first region of the stator and are connectable to a first phase, and windings of a second layer, which extend over a second region of the stator and are connectable to a second phase, wherein the first region is offset relative to the second region and at least one overlap region is formed which is smaller than the individual regions, and wherein a temperature detection unit is arranged in the overlap region and is designed to measure the temperature of the windings in the overlap region.
US11482898B2
The invention reduces tensile stress generated in the rotor core in a radial direction when a rotor core and a rotor support member are joined. A region in an axial direction (L) in which a melted joint portion (W2) for joining a rotor core (2) and a rotor support member (9) is formed is set as an axial joint region (JR). Among a plurality of corner portions (4c) of the permanent magnet (4), at least one corner portion (4c) that overlaps with the axial joint region (JR) when seen in a radial direction and that faces an outer peripheral surface (CP2) of the rotor core (2) is set as a specific corner portion (4s). Among facing surface portions (5p) of an inner wall portion of the magnet insertion hole (5) that face the corner portions (4c), the facing surface portion (5p) that faces the specific corner portion (4s) is set as a specific facing surface portion (5s). A clearance (G) formed between the specific corner portion (4s) and the specific facing surface portion (5s) is larger than a clearance formed between another corner portion (4c) and another facing surface portion (5p).
US11482891B1
A power transmitter includes a control and communications unit, an inverter circuit, a coil, and a shielding. The control and communications unit is configured to provide power control signals to control a power level of a power signal configured for transmission to a power receiver, provide a power timing request to an external power supply, and determine if the timing of the external power supply is compliant if the power timing request is met within a timing interval. The coil is configured to transmit the power signal to a power receiver, the coil formed of wound Litz wire and including at least one layer, the coil defining, at least, a top face. The shielding comprises a ferrite core and defining a cavity, the cavity configured such that the ferrite core substantially surrounds all but the top face of the coil.
US11482890B2
A surface mountable housing for a power transmitter for wireless power transfer includes a connector system configured for use to mount, at least, a transmitter antenna to an underside of a structural surface, such that the transmitter antenna is configured to couple with a receiver antenna of a power receiver when the receiver antenna is proximate to a top side of the structural surface. The surface mountable housing further includes a heat sink, the heat sink configured to rest, at least in part, below the transmitter antenna, when the power transmitter is connected to the structural surface, and configured to direct heat generated by the power transmitter away from the structural surface, and an antenna housing, the antenna housing substantially surrounding a side wall of the transmitter antenna, the antenna housing connected to the heat sink and positioned between the heat sink and the structural surface.
US11482884B2
A PCB for wireless power transfer includes an antenna and the antenna includes a coil. A method for manufacturing the PCB includes providing a prefabricated PCB, the prefabricated PCB including a PCB design and a first area and providing a first sheet of a conductive metal for the first area. The method includes applying an etch resistant coating on a coil area within the first area and laser cutting the first sheet within the coil area, based on a laser cutting path for a first plurality of turns for a first layer of the coil, the first geometry configured wireless power transfer. The method further includes substantially exposing the first sheet to an etching solution, the etching solution substantially removing first portions of the conductive metal from the substrate to define, at least, first turn gaps between at least two of the first plurality of turns.
US11482883B2
A tile is provided with built in wireless power transfer technology that enables power to be wirelessly transferred from a wireless power transfer resonator of the tile to a wireless power receiver device of the tile. The wireless power receiver device includes, or is electrically coupled to, one or more electrical devices disposed on a front surface of the tile that are to be power by the receiver device. An array of the tiles may be provided in which case each tile has a wireless power transfer resonator. At least one of the tiles of the array is electrically coupled to an RF power source. The EM field generated by each tile is inductively coupled from that tile to a nearest-neighbor tile of the array.
US11482877B2
An electronic device is provided that enables a secondary battery to be used until the end of an assumed battery life by appropriately setting charging conditions in accordance with an environment in which the secondary battery has been used. An electronic device is provided that includes: a measurement unit that measures an operation environment of a secondary battery; and a controller that reduces a charging voltage of the secondary battery by a predetermined amount, when the operation environment satisfies a predetermined condition.
US11482857B2
Disclosed are a surge protection device and a chip constituted thereby, and a communication terminal. The surge protection device comprises an input pad and an output pad. The input pad is connected to a power supply voltage, and the output pad is connected to a ground wire. NMOS transistor groups are provided between the input pad and the output pad. The NMOS transistor groups are connected to the input pad and the output pad respectively by means of metal wires. The structures of the metal wires between the NMOS transistor groups and the input pad and the output pad respectively and/or the structures of the NMOS transistor groups are changed to reduce or cancel non-uniform turn-on of the NMOS transistor groups caused by metal wires having different lengths from the NMOS transistor groups to the input pad and the output pad respectively along a power supply voltage wire direction.
US11482855B2
An electrical protection system arranged to detect and isolate faults either in a electrical power distribution. The system comprises at least a first busbar and a second busbar in electrical communication with each other through s powerline having a first end electrically coupled to the first busbar by a first circuit breaker and a second end connected to the second busbar by a second circuit breaker. It is connected to the at least two busbars, and configured to simultaneously collect/determine a first electrical quantity at each of the at least two busbars and compare the collected/determined electrical quantity to a second. When the first electrical quantity value less than the second quantity value, the system causes the first and second circuit breakers to open so as to decouple the electrical connection between first and second busbars. The system 100 detects and isolates fault efficiently while using voltage measurements.
US11482854B2
There is disclosed a circuit breaker arrangement for interrupting a current flowing through a direct current (DC) transmission line including a semiconductor switching device and a pulse injection circuit configured to inductively inject into the transmission line a pulse current that opposes the current flowing through the transmission line to thereby reduce the current in the transmission line to cause the semiconductor switching device to turn-off to interrupt the path for the current flow through the transmission line.
US11482846B2
Device including a housing, at least one electrical conductor and at least one support, the electrical conductor being configured to carry an electric current, the housing defining a chamber accommodating the electrical conductor, the support being configured to attach the electrical conductor to the housing, the housing being in particular made of a metal. The support is made of a ceramic, the support making contact both with the electrical conductor and with the housing.
US11482842B2
A supporting device for mounting tools on a switchgear front panel which includes a first, fixing, plate and a second, supporting, plate connected to each other and free to rotate with respect to each other in a first plane; a first locking device for locking the first, fixing, plate and the second, supporting, plate at selected angular position with respect to each other; a magnetic fixing device comprising fixing magnets adapted to be fixed on the switchgear front panel; an adjustable connection device connecting the fixing magnets to the first, fixing, plate and including a second locking device for locking the fixing magnets at different positions with respect to the first, fixing, plate; a third locking device for fixing a tool on the second, supporting, plate. A tool kit for a switchgear including a switchgear tool and a supporting device is also disclosed.
US11482840B2
A multiphase switchgear includes a switch panel, a vertical input housing module and a vertical switch housing module. The switch housing module and the input housing module are spaced apart from one another by a transverse housing module. The input housing module, the transverse housing module and the switch housing module form a first phase block. A plurality of phase blocks are located flush one behind the other in the direction of the transverse housing.
US11482836B2
A driver circuit includes a fly capacitor with a first end and a second end. The driver circuit includes a laser diode having an anode and a cathode. The driver circuit is configured to operate in first and second operating states. The anode is coupled to the first end of the fly capacitor. In the first operating state, the cathode is coupled to a first voltage supply node, the first end of the fly capacitor is coupled to a second voltage supply node, and the second end of the fly capacitor is coupled to a first reference terminal. In the second operating state, the cathode is coupled to a second reference terminal and decoupled from the first voltage supply node, the first end of the fly capacitor is decoupled from the second voltage supply node, and the second end of the fly capacitor is coupled to a third reference terminal.
US11482831B2
Provided is a laser device in which: a laser medium doped with ytterbium emits light upon absorption of excitation light; the light emitted by the laser medium is amplified to obtain output light; and the output light is outputted in the form of a plurality of pulses. In the laser device, a spatial filter is disposed in the optical path of the light emitted by the laser medium or is disposed in the optical path of the output light outputted from an optical resonator, the spatial filter being configured to filter out a portion of the light or of the output light around the optical axis.
US11482824B2
An apparatus (102) for holding at least one elongated workpiece (106) to be crimped, wherein the apparatus comprises a holder frame (122), a guide member (124) and a locator element (114) having at least one holder surface (116) defining an elongated cavity (118) for receiving and holding the workpiece. The holder frame is arranged to hold the guide member and the locator element, the at least one elongated cavity having a longitudinal main extension (120). The locator element is movable in a first guide (126) in the direction (127) of the longitudinal main extension. The guide member is movable in a second guide (128) in relation to the locator element in a direction (129) perpendicular to the direction (127) of the longitudinal main extension. The guide member and the locator element are slidably engaged with one another. The guide member, when being moved in a direction (129) perpendicular to the direction (127) of the longitudinal main extension, is configured to move the locator element in the direction (127) of the longitudinal main extension. A crimping tool (170) comprising such an apparatus (102).
US11482819B2
An add-on housing for a plug-in connection is provided and includes a frame-like basic form, wherein fastening devices for fastening the add-on housing to a wall aperture are integrally formed within the frame-like basic form, wherein the add-on housing has at least one clamping element which can be captively clamped within the frame-like basic form, and wherein a holding frame or a contact insert can be fixed to the at least one clamping element. A method for fastening an add-on housing to a wall aperture is also provided, wherein: a frame-like basic form is fixed to the wall aperture by internal fastening devices; then, at least one clamping element, but preferably two clamping elements, is/are fixed within the frame-like basic form without tools; and a holding frame which is fitted with plug-in connector modules or a contact insert is then mounted onto the clamping elements and fixed thereto.
US11482816B2
An oil temperature sensor includes a sensor body that detects the temperature of oil. The sensor body is formed by covering a thermistor mounted on a first lead frame and a second lead frame with a resin mold portion. The sensor body is fixed to the housing in a manner that the resin mold portion is buried and a first terminal portion and a second terminal portion are partially exposed to space.
US11482805B2
Provided is an electrical contactor that is formed from a small number of components that can improve the conductivity in the electrical contactor, while improving the slidability of an elastic member and the electrical contact stability with a contact target. The present disclosure provides an electrical contactor which is formed from a plate-shaped member, the plate-shaped member including: a main body; an upper arm portion; a first tip end portion provided at a tip end of the upper arm portion; a lower arm portion; and a second tip end portion provided at a tip end of the lower arm portion, the electrical contactor including: a first contact portion formed by winding the first tip end portion; a first elastic portion formed by winding the upper arm portion and having a bamboo-shoot-like spring structure; a second contact portion formed by winding the second tip end portion; a second elastic portion formed by winding the lower arm portion and having a bamboo-shoot-like spring structure; and a coupling portion that couples the first elastic portion and the second elastic portion to enable elasticity of each of the first elastic portion and the second elastic portion by winding the main body, in which each or either of a tip end surface of the first contact portion that contacts the first contact target and a tip end surface of the second contact portion that contacts the second contact target is an inclined surface.
US11482802B2
An apparatus includes a printed circuit board (PCB). The PCB includes a plurality of through-holes extending through the PCB between a PCB first surface and a PCB second surface that opposes the PCB first surface, where each through-hole includes a via extending from the PCB first surface to a depth within the through-hole that is distanced from the PCB second surface. An integrated circuit surface mount is connected at the PCB first surface with vias of the through-holes, and a cable interconnect assembly is surface mount connected at the PCB second surface. The cable interconnect assembly includes a plurality of contact pins, each contact pin extending within a corresponding through-hole and having a sufficient dimension to engage and electrically connect with the via of the corresponding through-hole so as to facilitate exchange of an electrical signal between the integrated circuit and the cable interconnect assembly.
US11482796B2
An antenna comprising two sub antennas each sub antenna comprising at least one radiating element is disclosed. The two sub antennas comprise an inner sub antenna and an outer sub antenna. The antenna comprises signal feed circuitry for supplying a first signal to the inner sub antenna and signal feed circuitry for supply a second signal to the outer sub antenna. The at least one radiating element of the outer sub antenna comprises at least one flexible radiating patch mounted on a flexible material arranged to wrap at least partially around at least a portion of the inner sub antenna.
US11482788B2
An antenna device includes a package, a radiating element, and a director. The package includes a radio frequency (RF) die and a molding compound in contact with a sidewall of the RF die. The radiating element is in the molding compound and electrically coupled to the RF die. The director is in the molding compound, wherein the radiating element is between the director and the RF die, and a top of the radiating element is substantially coplanar with a top of the director.
US11482786B2
An antenna apparatus includes a ground layer and an antenna patch overlapping via a dielectric layer therebetween, a first feed via and a second feed via penetrating at least a portion of the dielectric layer, a power supply line connected to the first feed via, and a coupling pattern disposed adjacent to the power supply line and coupled with the power supply line.
US11482774B2
Base station antennas include an externally accessible active antenna module releasably coupled to a recessed segment that is over a chamber in the base station antenna and that is longitudinally and laterally extending along and across a rear of a base station antenna housing. The base station antenna housing has a passive antenna assembly that cooperates with the active antenna module.
US11482772B2
A wireless device comprises a radiating system that comprises: an antenna system, a ground plane, and a matching network. The antenna system comprises an antenna component including a first multi-section antenna component comprising two sections, each comprising a conductive element. The matching network connected to the antenna system for impedance matching to a first frequency range. The radiating system operates in a frequency range of operation including the first frequency range, the first frequency range comprising a first highest frequency and a first lowest frequency. The first antenna component has a maximum size larger than 1/30 times and smaller than ⅕ times a free-space wavelength corresponding to the lowest frequency of operation. The conductive elements in the different sections of the first antenna component are spaced apart from each other.
US11482764B2
A battery pack in one aspect of the present disclosure includes a communication terminal and a detector, and supplies electric power to an external device. The communication terminal receives a first signal, a second signal, and a third signal. The first signal has a first potential, the second signal has a second potential, and the third signal has a third potential. The first potential, the second potential, and the third potential are different from one another. The detector determines a potential at the communication terminal, to thereby detect the first signal, the second signal, or the third signal in accordance with the determined potential.
US11482752B2
A pouch cell includes a copper foil forming a pouch, an active material layer adjacent to the copper foil inside the pouch forming a cathode with the copper, and a lithium-based anode inside the pouch. The cell includes a separator interposing the one active material layer and the lithium-based anode, and an electrolyte.
US11482747B2
An embodiment of the present invention relates to a pouch-type secondary battery. According to embodiment of the present invention, the pouch-type secondary battery includes: an case configured to house an electrode assembly from which electrode tab are drawn out; sealing parts formed by adhering the case along outer peripheries of the electrode assembly; and folding parts formed by folding the sealing parts of surfaces on which the electrode tab drawn to an outside of the case is not formed, wherein a length of the folding part has a relationship with a thickness of the electrode assembly as the following equation: H≤T/2 (wherein, H is the height of the folded folding part, T is the thickness of the electrode assembly, based on a cross-section perpendicular to a direction in which the electrode tabs of the electrode assembly are drawn out).
US11482742B2
A battery module includes: a battery stack; a restraint member on one side that restrains one side, in a Y direction, of the battery stack and includes a coolant passage on one side through which coolant flows; a restraint member on the other side that restrains the other side, in the Y direction, of the battery stack and includes a coolant passage on the other side through which coolant flows; an end plate on one side that restrains one side, in an X direction, of the battery stack; and an end plate on the other side that restrains the other side, in the X direction, of the battery stack. At least one of the end plates on the sides, includes a coolant passage on end side through which coolant passes, and the coolant passage on the end side communicates with the coolant passages on the sides.
US11482730B2
A lithium ion secondary battery includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and an electrolytic solution containing a polycyclic aromatic compound.
US11482725B2
An electrode and a lithium-ion battery employing the electrode are provided. The electrode includes an active layer, a conductive layer, and a non-conductive layer. The conductive layer is disposed on the top surface of the active layer. The conductive layer includes a first porous film and a conductive lithiophilic material, and the conductive lithiophilic material is within the first porous film and covers the inner surface of the first porous film. The non-conductive layer includes a second porous film and a non-conductive lithiophilic material, and the non-conductive lithiophilic material is within the second porous film and covers the inner surface of the second porous film. The conductive layer is disposed between the active layer and the non-conductive layer. The binding energy (ΔG) of the lithiophilic material with lithium is less than or equal to −2.6 eV.
US11482711B2
A lithium battery cell with an internal fuse component without any welded tabs present for conductance from the internal portion thereof externally to power a subject device is provided. Disclosed herein are lithium ion (liquid electrolyte) battery configurations utilizing thin metallized film current collectors as conducting tabs that provide full electrical conductivity from one pole to another throughout the internal portions of the battery with sufficient space for liquid electrolyte flow as well. Such thin metallized film current collectors thus provide both safety features with low electrical charge runaway potential, low internal resistance, and high thermal conductivity with a simplified manner of providing external electrical conductivity simultaneously.
US11482695B2
An organic light emitting display device includes a substrate, a lower electrode, a light emitting layer, an upper electrode, and a light guide structure. The substrate includes a sub-pixel region and a transparent region. The lower electrode is disposed in the sub-pixel region on the substrate. The light emitting layer is disposed on the lower electrode, and includes an organic emission layer. The upper electrode is disposed on the light emitting layer. The light guide structure is disposed on the upper electrode, and partially overlaps the organic emission layer that is located at the sub-pixel region and the substrate that is located at the transparent region in a plan view.
US11482687B2
A light-emitting apparatus with low power consumption is provided. A light-emitting apparatus including a first light-emitting device and a first color conversion layer. The first light-emitting device includes an anode, a cathode, and an EL layer positioned between the anode and the cathode. The EL layer includes a layer including a material with a refractive index lower than or equal to 1.75 at 467 nm. The first color conversion layer includes a first substance capable of emission by absorbing light. Light emitted from the first light-emitting device enters the first color conversion layer.
US11482686B2
A light emitting device including a first electrode and a second electrode spaced from each other, and, a light emitting film between the first electrode and the second electrode, wherein the light emitting film has a first surface facing the second electrode and a second surface opposite thereto, the light emitting film includes a quantum dot layer including a plurality of quantum dots and a matrix including a metal chalcogenide, the plurality of quantum dots includes selenium, the matrix covers at least a portion of the quantum dot layer, the metal chalcogenide comprises zinc and sulfur, and in an X-ray photoelectron spectroscopic analysis of the first surface of the light emitting film, a mole ratio of zinc with respect to selenium is greater than or equal to about 2:1 and a mole ratio of sulfur with respect to selenium is greater than or equal to about 1.1:1.
US11482679B2
A light-emitting device having a light-emitting layer containing a delayed fluorescence emitter and an n-type compound has an extended lifetime and high performance. A compound having a triazine ring substituted by a spiro aromatic group can be used as the n-type compound.
US11482674B2
A light-emitting element containing a light-emitting material with high light emission efficiency is provided. The light-emitting element includes a high molecular material and a guest material. The high molecular material includes at least a first high molecular chain and a second high molecular chain. The guest material has a function of exhibiting fluorescence or converting triplet excitation energy into light emission. The first high molecular chain and the second high molecular chain each include a first skeleton, a second skeleton, and a third skeleton, and the first skeleton and the second skeleton are bonded to each other through the third skeleton. The first high molecular chain and the second high molecular chain have a function of forming an excited complex.
US11482673B2
The present disclosure relates to a solar battery. The solar battery comprises a semiconductor structure, a back electrode, and an upper electrode. The semiconductor structure defines a first surface and a second surface. The semiconductor structure comprises an N-type semiconductor layer and a P-type semiconductor layer. The back electrode is located on the first surface. The upper electrode is located on the second surface. The back electrode comprises a first carbon nanotube, the upper electrode comprises a second carbon nanotube, and the first carbon nanotube intersects with the second carbon nanotube. A multilayer structure is formed by an overlapping region of the first carbon nanotube, the semiconductor structure and the second carbon nanotube.
US11482670B2
A method of fabricating a variable resistance memory device includes: forming a bottom electrode on a substrate; forming a dielectric layer on the substrate, wherein the dielectric layer has a first trench that exposes the bottom electrode; forming a variable resistance layer in the first trench; and irradiating the variable resistance layer with a laser, wherein the variable resistance layer is irradiated by the laser for a time of about 1.8 μs to about 54 μs.
US11482668B2
In some embodiments, the present disclosure relates to method of forming an integrated chip. The method includes forming a bottom electrode structure over one or more interconnect layers disposed within one or more stacked inter-level dielectric (ILD) layers over a substrate. The bottom electrode structure has an upper surface having a noble metal. A diffusion barrier film is formed over the bottom electrode structure. A data storage film is formed onto the diffusion barrier film, and a top electrode structure is over the data storage film. The top electrode structure, the data storage film, the diffusion barrier film, and the bottom electrode structure are patterned to define a memory device.
US11482665B2
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate: a vertical Hall element formed in the semiconductor substrate, and having a magnetosensitive portion; a first excitation wiring disposed above the magnetosensitive portion, and configured to apply a first calibration magnetic field (M1) to the magnetosensitive portion; and second excitation wirings disposed above the magnetosensitive portion on one side and on another side of the first excitation wiring, respectively, along the first excitation wiring as viewed in plan view from immediately above a front surface of the semiconductor substrate, and configured to apply second calibration magnetic fields (M2) to the magnetosensitive portion.
US11482664B2
The invention provides a planarization method, which can make the local flatness of the product to be processed more uniform. The product has a cavity filled with oxide and includes a first electrode layer, a piezoelectric layer and a second electrode layer superposed on the cavity. The first electrode layer covers the cavity and includes a first inclined face around the first electrode layer, and the piezoelectric layer covers the first electrode layer and is arranged on the first electrode layer. The planarization method includes: depositing a passivation layer on the second electrode layer and etching the passivation layer completely until the thickness of the passivation layer is reduced to the required thickness.
US11482662B2
Provided is an aluminum nitride film in which, aluminum nitride crystal grains containing a metal element differing from aluminum and substituting for aluminum are main crystal grains of a polycrystalline film formed of crystal grains, and a concentration of the metal element in a grain boundary between the aluminum nitride crystal grains in at least one region of first and second regions corresponding to both end portions of the polycrystalline film in a film thickness direction of the polycrystalline film is higher than a concentration of the metal element in a center region of the aluminum nitride crystal grain in the at least one region, and is higher than a concentration of the metal element in a grain boundary between the aluminum nitride crystal grains in a third region located between the first region and the second region in the film thickness direction of the polycrystalline film.
US11482661B2
A piezoelectric driving device includes a piezoelectric vibrating body and a driving circuit. The piezoelectric vibrating body includes a contact which extends in a first direction and comes into contact with a driven member, a first piezoelectric element which generates bending vibration in a direction intersecting with the first direction in accordance with a first driving voltage, and a second piezoelectric element which generates longitudinal vibration in the first direction in accordance with a second driving voltage. The piezoelectric vibrating body is configured such that a resonance frequency of the longitudinal vibration is higher than a resonance frequency of the bending vibration. The driving circuit sets a driving frequency of each of the first driving voltage and the second driving voltage to be equal to or higher than the resonance frequency of the longitudinal vibration.
US11482656B2
Methods, systems and apparatus for implementing a tunable qubit coupler. In one aspect, a device includes: a first data qubit, a second data qubit, and a third qubit that is a tunable qubit coupler arranged to couple to the first data qubit and to couple to the second data qubit such that, during operation of the device, the tunable qubit coupler allows tunable coupling between the first data qubit and the second data qubit.
US11482653B2
A light emitting diode apparatus is provided. The light emitting diode apparatus includes a wavelength conversion layer, a light emitting diode layer, a light transmission layer, and a sheath layer. The wavelength conversion layer has a first refractive index. The light emitting diode layer includes a base layer arranged on the wavelength conversion layer, and a light emitting structure layer arranged on the base layer. The light transmission layer is arranged on the wavelength conversion layer, surrounds a sidewall of the light emitting diode layer and contacts the sidewall of the light emitting diode layer, and has a second refractive index. The sheath layer is arranged to cover the light emitting diode layer and the light transmission layer, and has a third refractive index less than the second refractive index.
US11482651B2
The disclosure discloses an optoelectronic element comprising: an optoelectronic unit comprising a first metal layer, a second metal layer, and an outermost lateral surface; an insulating layer having a first portion overlapping the optoelectronic unit and extending beyond the lateral surface, and a second portion separated from the first portion in a cross-sectional view; and a first conductive layer formed on the insulating layer.
US11482644B2
Embodiments described herein comprise micro light emitting diodes (LEDs) and methods of forming such micro LEDs. In an embodiment, a nanowire LED comprises a nanowire core that includes GaN, an active layer shell around the nanowire core, where the active layer shell includes InGaN, a cladding layer shell around the active layer shell, where the cladding layer comprises p-type GaN, a conductive layer over the cladding layer, and a spacer surrounding the conductive layer. In an embodiment, a refractive index of the spacer is less than a refractive index of the cladding layer shell.
US11482643B2
A light-emitting device includes a light-emitting element that includes a semiconductor structure including a first semiconductor layer, a second semiconductor layer, and a light-emitting layer therebetween and is configured to emit first light from an upper surface of the first semiconductor layer; a protective film over the upper surface of the first semiconductor layer; a light-transmissive resin layer disposed in contact with the protective film; and a wavelength conversion layer facing the upper surface of the first semiconductor layer over the protective film and the light-transmissive resin layer, the upper surface of the first semiconductor layer having first projections and a flat portion, an upper surface of the protective film having second projections above the first projections. In a cross-sectional view a void is located above the flat portion and between the protective film and the light-transmissive resin layer.
US11482629B2
A method for manufacturing a solar cell, includes providing a silicon substrate, forming an oxide layer on a first surface of the silicon substrate, forming a doped polycrystalline silicon layer on the oxide layer, forming a passivation layer on the doped polycrystalline silicon layer, printing a metal paste on the passivation layer, and forming a metal contact connected to the doped polycrystalline silicon layer by firing the metal paste to penetrate the passivation layer.
US11482621B2
Embodiments include transistor devices and a method of forming the transistor devices. A transistor device includes a first dielectric over a substrate, and vias on a first metal layer, where the first metal layer is on an etch stop layer that is on the first dielectric. The transistor device also includes a second dielectric over the first metal layer, vias, and etch stop layer, where the vias include sidewalls, top surfaces, and bottom surfaces, and stacked transistors on the second dielectric and the top surfaces of the vias, where the sidewalls and top surfaces of the vias are positioned within a footprint of the stacked transistors. The stacked transistors include gate electrodes and first and second transistor layers. The first metal layer includes conductive materials including tungsten or cobalt. The footprint may include a bottom surface of the first transistor layer and a bottom surface of the gate electrodes.
US11482618B2
Methods of forming a strained channel device utilizing dislocations disposed in source/drain structures are described. Those methods and structures may include forming a thin silicon germanium material in a source/drain opening of a device comprising silicon, wherein multiple dislocations are formed in the silicon germanium material. A source/drain material may be formed on the thin silicon germanium material, wherein the dislocations induce a tensile strain in a channel region of the device.
US11482614B2
Disclosed herein are quantum dot devices, as well as related computing devices and methods. For example, in some embodiments, a quantum processing device may include a quantum well stack, the quantum well stack includes a quantum well layer, the quantum processing device further includes a plurality of gates above the quantum well stack to control quantum dot formation in the quantum well stack, and (1) gate metal of individual gates of the array of gates is tapered so as to narrow farther from the quantum well stack or (2) top surfaces of gate metal of individual gates of the array of gates are dished.
US11482613B2
An integrated circuit includes an extended drain MOS transistor with parallel alternating active gap drift regions and field gap drift regions. The extended drain MOS transistor includes a gate having field plates over the field gap drift regions. The extended drain MOS transistor may be formed in a symmetric nested configuration. A process for forming an integrated circuit containing an extended drain MOS transistor provides parallel alternating active gap drift regions and field gap drift regions with a gate having field plates over the field gap drift regions.
US11482609B2
Semiconductor devices and methods of forming the same are provided. A semiconductor device according to the present disclosure includes a ferroelectric structure including a channel region and a source/drain region, a gate dielectric layer disposed over the channel region of the ferroelectric structure, a gate electrode disposed on the gate dielectric layer, and a source/drain contact disposed on the source/drain region of the ferroelectric structure. The ferroelectric structure includes gallium nitride, indium nitride, or indium gallium nitride. The ferroelectric structure is doped with a dopant.
US11482602B2
A semiconductor device is disclosed. The semiconductor device includes a gate electrode on a substrate and extending in a first direction, source/drain patterns spaced apart from each other, in a second direction, with the gate electrode interposed therebetween, a gate contact electrically connected to the gate electrode, and an active contact electrically connected to at least one of the source/drain patterns. The active contact includes a lower contact pattern electrically connected to the at least one of the source/drain patterns, the lower contact pattern having a first width in the first direction, and an upper contact pattern electrically connected to a top surface of the lower contact pattern, the upper contact pattern having a second width in the first direction that is smaller than the first width. The upper contact pattern and the gate contact horizontally overlap each other.
US11482601B2
A vertical trench shield device can include a plurality of gate structures and a termination structure surrounding the plurality of gate structures. The plurality of gate structures can include a plurality of gate regions and a corresponding plurality of gate shield regions. The plurality of gate structures can be disposed between the plurality of source regions, and extending through the plurality of body regions to the drift region. The plurality of gate structures can be separated from each other by a first predetermined spacing in a core area. A first set of the plurality of gate structures can extend fully to the termination structure. The ends of a second set of the plurality of gate structures can be separated from the termination structure by a second predetermined spacing. The first and second spacings can be configured to balance charge in the core area and the termination area in a reverse bias condition.
US11482597B2
A semiconductor wafer of monocrystalline silicon. The semiconductor wafer having: a substrate wafer of monocrystalline silicon; and a layer of monocrystalline silicon that lies on a front side of the substrate wafer. The substrate wafer has a crystal orientation. An averaged front side-based ZDD of the semiconductor wafer, with a division of a surface of an epitaxial layer into 16 sectors and an edge exclusion of 1 mm, is not less than −30 nm/mm2 and not more than 0 nm/mm2. An ESFQRmax of the semiconductor wafer, with an edge exclusion of 1 mm and 72 sectors each with a length of 30 mm, is at most 10 nm.
US11482595B1
A semiconductor device with dual side source/drain (S/D) contact structures and a method of fabricating the same are disclosed. The method includes forming a fin structure on a substrate, forming a superlattice structure on the fin structure, forming first and second S/D regions within the superlattice structure, forming a gate structure between the first and second S/D regions, forming first and second contact structures on first surfaces of the first and second S/D regions, and forming a third contact structure, on a second surface of the first S/D region, with a work function metal (WFM) silicide layer and a dual metal liner. The second surface is opposite to the first surface of the first S/D region and the WFM silicide layer has a work function value closer to a conduction band energy than a valence band energy of a material of the first S/D region.
US11482594B2
A semiconductor structure includes one or more channel layers; a gate structure engaging the one or more channel layers; a first source/drain feature connected to a first side of the one or more channel layers and adjacent to the gate structure; a first dielectric cap disposed over the first source/drain feature, wherein a bottom surface of the first dielectric cap is below a top surface of the gate structure; a via disposed under and electrically connected to the first source/drain feature; and a power rail disposed under and electrically connected to the via.
US11482590B2
A display device can include a substrate on which reference lines extending in a first direction are disposed, first sub pixels which include a first circuit area disposed at one side of the reference lines and a first emission area disposed at another side of the reference lines, second sub pixels which include a second emission area disposed at one side of the reference lines and a second circuit area disposed at another side of the reference lines, first data lines which extend in the first direction and are disposed to be spaced apart from the reference lines, and second data lines which extend in the first direction and are disposed to be spaced apart from the reference lines.
US11482588B2
A display device includes a first substrate having a display area and a non-display area. The first substrate includes a conductive line in the non-display area. A second substrate faces the first substrate and is spaced apart from the first substrate. A conductive layer is disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate. The conductive layer is spaced apart from the first substrate in a direction perpendicular to a top surface of the first substrate. The conductive layer at least partially overlaps the conductive line and is electrically floated.
US11482573B2
A photovoltaic device including a photovoltaic cell and method of use is disclosed. The photovoltaic cell includes at least a first photovoltaic layer and a second photovoltaic layer arranged in a stack. The first photovoltaic layer has a first thickness and receives light at its top surface. A second photovoltaic layer has a second thickness and is disposed beneath the first photovoltaic layer and receives light passing through the first photovoltaic layer. The first thickness and the second thickness are selected so that a first light absorption at the first photovoltaic layer is equal to a second light absorption at the second photovoltaic layer. The photovoltaic cell is irradiated at its top surface with monochromatic light to generate a current.
US11482569B2
A light emitting device includes at least three light emitting elements arranged side by side, and one or more light transmissive members each containing a phosphor and covering the light emitting elements. The at least three light emitting elements include two outer light emitting elements arranged on outer sides, and an inner light emitting element arranged between the two outer light emitting elements and having a different peak emission wavelength than a peak emission wavelength of the two outer light emitting elements. The phosphor has a longer peak emission wavelength than the peak emission wavelengths of the outer light emitting elements and the peak emission wavelength of the inner light emitting element. The two outer light emitting elements and the inner light emitting element are connected in series.
US11482566B2
A light emitting device for a display including a first LED stack configured to generate light having a first peak wavelength, a second LED stack disposed under the first LED stack, and configured to generate light having a second peak wavelength, a third LED stack disposed under the second LED stack, and configured to generate light having a third peak wavelength, and a floating reflection layer disposed over the first LED stack, and configured to reflect light having the first peak wavelength, in which the first peak wavelength is longer than the second and third peak wavelengths.
US11482562B2
Methods for forming image sensors that leverage cavity profiles and induced stresses. In some embodiments, the method includes forming a cavity in a substrate where the cavity has a cavity profile that is configured to accept a sensor pixel structure for an image sensor, forming at least one passivation layer in the cavity, and forming at least one optical layer in the cavity on at least a portion of one of the at least one passivation layer. The at least one optical layer is configured to provide, at least, pixel-to-pixel optical isolation of the sensor pixel structure. The method further includes forming the sensor pixel structure in the cavity on the at least one optical layer of the sensor pixel structure where the cavity profile is configured to control stress on the sensor pixel structure.
US11482548B2
Provided is a semiconductor device having a structure suitable for higher integration. The semiconductor device includes a transistor that includes a gate section, a first diffusion layer, and a second diffusion layer. The semiconductor device further includes a first electrically-conductive section a second electrically-conductive section that is electrically insulated from the first electrically-conductive section, a first storage element that is located between the first diffusion layer and the first electrically-conductive section and is electrically coupled to each of the first diffusion layer and the first electrically-conductive section, and a second storage element that is located between the second diffusion layer and the second electrically-conductive section and is electrically coupled to each of the second diffusion layer and the second electrically-conductive section.
US11482545B2
A method of forming an array substrate, the array substrate and a display device are provided. The method of forming the array substrate includes: in a case that a display unit is formed on one of two opposite surfaces of a base substrate and a driving circuit is formed on the other of the two opposite surfaces of the base substrate, performing a roughening treatment on edge regions of the two opposite surfaces of the base substrate and a side surface of the base substrate connecting the edge regions of the two opposite surfaces, to form a roughened region; and forming, at the roughened region, a metal wiring connecting a signal input terminal of the display unit and a signal output terminal of the driving circuit.
US11482533B2
An apparatus and a method for forming a 3-D NAND device are disclosed. The method of forming the 3-D NAND device may include forming a plug fill and a void. Advantages gained by the apparatus and method may include a lower cost, a higher throughput, little to no contamination of the device, little to no damage during etching steps, and structural integrity to ensure formation of a proper stack of oxide-nitride bilayers.
US11482530B2
Numerous embodiments of a precision tuning algorithm and apparatus are disclosed for precisely and quickly depositing the correct amount of charge on the floating gate of a non-volatile memory cell within a vector-by-matrix multiplication (VMM) array in an artificial neural network. Selected cells thereby can be programmed with extreme precision to hold one of N different values.
US11482519B2
Disclosed a transient voltage suppressor and a method for manufacturing the same. According to the transient voltage suppressor, an additional gate stack layer is introduced based on the prior transient voltage suppressor, and the diffusion isolation regions are reused as the conductive vias, so that, the gate stack layer, the first doped region, the conductive vias, and the second semiconductor layer constitute a MOS transistor being coupled in parallel to the Zener diode or the avalanche diode of the transient voltage suppressor. When the current of the I/O terminal is relatively large, the MOS transistor is turned on to share part of the current of the I/O terminal through the Zener diode or the avalanche diode, thereby protecting the Zener diode or the avalanche diode from being damaged due to excessive current. Thus, the robustness of the transient voltage suppressor is improved without increasing the manufacture cost.
US11482512B2
An optoelectronic component includes an optoelectronic semiconductor chip that generates primary radiation during intended operation of the semiconductor chip, which primary radiation is coupled out via an emission side of the semiconductor chip, an optical element on the emission side and including a plurality of transmission fields arranged laterally side by side, wherein each transmission field is individually and independently electrically controllable, the transmission fields each include an electrochromic material, the transmission fields are such that, by electrically driving a transmission field, the transmittance of the electrochromic material for a radiation coming from the direction of the semiconductor chip during operation is changed and transmittance of the optical element in the region of the respective transmission field is changed for the respective radiation.
US11482511B2
A lighting device and a related manufacturing method are provided. The lighting device includes a substrate and at least one lighting unit formed on the substrate. The lighting unit includes an accommodating hole and a first light emitting diode spaced apart from the accommodating hole. The accommodating hole is for a second light emitting diode.
US11482510B2
There is provided an apparatus comprising: a base substrate and a component substrate having at least two electronic components arranged thereon. At least one aperture is formed through an entire thickness of the component substrate. The at least one aperture is formed in an interspace between the at least two electronic components. The component substrate is coupled to the base substrate using a solder joint. Each of the at least two electronic components may comprise a light emitting diode element. A method of manufacturing an apparatus is also disclosed.
US11482509B2
Disclosed is a semiconductor package comprising a first memory chip including a first semiconductor substrate and a first through structure that penetrates the first semiconductor substrate, a second memory chip that directly contacts a top surface of the first memory chip and includes a second semiconductor substrate and a second through structure that penetrates the second semiconductor substrate, a first dummy chip that directly contacts a top surface of the second memory chip and includes a first conductive via, a second dummy chip that directly contacts a top surface of the first dummy chip and includes a second conductive via, and a logic chip in direct contact with a top surface of the second dummy chip. The logic chip is electrically connected to the first through structure through the second conductive via, the first conductive via, and the second through structure.
US11482508B2
A manufacturing method of a semiconductor package includes the following steps. A chip is provided. The chip has an active surface and a rear surface opposite to the active surface. The chip includes conductive pads disposed at the active surface. A first solder-containing alloy layer is formed on the rear surface of the chip. A second solder-containing alloy layer is formed on a surface and at a location where the chip is to be attached. The chip is mounted to the surface and the first solder-containing alloy layer is aligned with the second solder-containing alloy layer. A reflow step is performed on the first and second solder-containing alloy layers to form a joint alloy layer between the chip and the surface.
US11482507B2
A semiconductor package includes a package substrate, a first semiconductor chip disposed on the package substrate, at least one second semiconductor chip disposed on a region of an upper surface of the first semiconductor chip, a heat dissipation member disposed in another region of the upper surface of the first semiconductor chip and at least a region of an upper surface of the second semiconductor chip, and having an upper surface in which at least one trench is formed, and a molding member covering the first semiconductor chip, the second semiconductor chip, an upper surface of the package substrate, and side surfaces of the heat dissipation member, and filling the at least one trench while exposing the upper surface of the heat dissipation member.
US11482504B2
Systems and methods for a semiconductor device having an edge-notched substrate are provided. The device generally includes a substrate having a front side, a backside having substrate contacts, and an inward notch at an edge of the substrate. The device includes a die having an active side attached to the front side of the substrate and positioned such that bond pads of the die are accessible from the backside of the substrate through the inward notch. The device includes wire bonds routed through the inward notch and electrically coupling the bond pads of the die to the substrate contacts. The device may further include a second die having an active side attached to the backside of the first die and positioned laterally offset from the first die such that the second bond pads are accessible by wire bonds around the edge of the first die and through the inward notch.
US11482498B2
A semiconductor device with improved reliability is provided. The semiconductor device is characterized by its embodiments in that sloped portions are formed on connection parts between a pad and a lead-out wiring portion, respectively. This feature suppresses crack formation in a coating area where a part of the pad is covered with a surface protective film.
US11482494B1
A semiconductor device including: a silicon layer including a single crystal silicon layer and a plurality of first transistors; a first metal layer disposed over the first silicon layer; a second metal layer disposed over the first metal layer; a third metal layer disposed over the second metal layer; a second level including a plurality of second transistors, the second level disposed over the third metal layer; a fourth metal layer disposed over the second level; a fifth metal layer disposed over the fourth metal layer; and a via disposed through the second level and has a diameter of less than 450 nm, where the second level thickness is less than four microns, where the fifth metal layer includes a global power distribution grid, and where a typical thickness of the fifth metal layer is greater than a typical thickness of the second metal layer by at least 50%.
US11482491B2
A package structure includes an insulating encapsulation, at least one die, and conductive structures. The at least one die is encapsulated in the insulating encapsulation. The conductive structures are located aside of the at least one die and surrounded by the insulating encapsulation, and at least one of the conductive structures is electrically connected to the at least one die. Each of the conductive structures has a first surface, a second surface opposite to the first surface and a slant sidewall connecting the first surface and the second surface, and each of the conductive structures has a top diameter greater than a bottom diameter thereof, and wherein each of the conductive structures has a plurality of pores distributed therein.
US11482488B2
A method for fabricating a memory is provided. The method includes providing a bit-line layer, on a semiconductor substrate and having bit lines arranged in the bit-line layer; providing a shielding layer, on the bit-line layer and having a conductive shielding structure arranged in the shielding layer. The conductive shielding structure is within a top-view projection area of the bit lines and is grounded. The method further includes providing a word-line layer, on the shielding layer and having word lines arranged in the word-line layer.
US11482480B2
A package substrate and method of manufacturing a package substrate and a semiconductor device package are provided. The package substrate includes a circuit layer, an optically-cured dielectric layer, a plurality of block layers and a sacrificial layer. The circuit layer includes a plurality of conductive pads. The optically-cured dielectric layer has an upper surface and a lower surface opposite to the upper surface. The optically-cured dielectric layer covers the circuit layer, and first surfaces of the conductive pads are at least partially exposed from the upper surface of the optically-cured dielectric layer. The block layers are respectively disposed on the first surfaces of the conductive pads exposed by the optically-cured dielectric layer. The sacrificial layer is disposed on the optically-cured dielectric layer and covering the block layers.
US11482477B2
A packaged electronic device includes a die pad directly connected to a first set of conductive leads of a leadframe structure, a semiconductor die attached to the conductive die pad, a conductive support structure directly connected to a second set of conductive leads, and spaced apart from all other conductive structures of the leadframe structure. A magnetic assembly is attached to the conductive support structure, and a molded package structure that encloses the conductive die pad, the conductive support structure, the semiconductor die, the magnetic assembly and portions of the conductive leads, the molded package structure including a top side, and an opposite bottom side, wherein the lamination structure is centered between the top and bottom sides.
US11482469B2
A transistor heat dissipation module is adapted for at least one transistor. The transistor heat dissipation module includes a heat dissipation member and an elastic member. The heat dissipation member includes a first wall and a second wall opposite to each other and a first connecting member connected to the first wall and the second wall. An accommodating space is formed between the first wall and the second wall. The transistor is disposed in the accommodating space. The elastic member is disposed in the accommodating space and is located between the at least one transistor and the first wall to press the at least one transistor against the second wall. An assembly method of a transistor heat dissipation module is further provided.
US11482461B2
A semiconductor package includes a semiconductor chip disposed over a first main surface of a first substrate, a package lid disposed over the semiconductor chip, and spacers extending from the package lid through corresponding holes in the first substrate. The spacers enter the holes at a first main surface of the first substrate and extend beyond an opposing second main surface of the first substrate.
US11482455B2
A cutting method includes: forming a reformed region in a workpiece; and after forming the reformed region in the workpiece, cutting the workpiece along an intended cut line. In the cutting the workpiece, a dry etching process is performed from a front surface toward a rear surface of the workpiece while the workpiece is fixed on a support member at least under its own weight or by suction, to form a groove from the front surface to reach the rear surface of the workpiece.
US11482449B2
An electrical component and method for manufacturing the electrical component with a substrate a conductor stack having multiple layers and including at least one electrically conductive path. The conductor stack mounted to the substrate with a dielectric passivation stack encasing at least a portion of the conductor stack.
US11482448B2
Semiconductor devices and methods of forming the same are provided. The methods may include forming a stacked structure that may include a stacking area and a stepped area and may include first layers and second layers alternately stacked. The second layers may have a stepped shape in the stepped area, and the stepped area may include at least one flat area and at least one inclined stepped area. The methods may also include forming a capping insulating layer covering the stacked structure. The capping insulating layer may include a first capping region having a first upper surface and a second capping region having a second upper surface at a lower level than the first upper surface. The methods may further include patterning the capping insulating layer to form protrusions at least one of which overlaps the stepped area and then planarizing the capping insulating layer.
US11482440B2
A semiconductor device, the device including: a first single crystal substrate and plurality of logic circuits, where the first single crystal substrate has a device area, where the device area is significantly larger than a reticle size, where the plurality of logic circuits include an array of processors, where the plurality of logic circuits include a first logic circuit, a second logic circuit, and third logic circuit, where the plurality of logic circuits include switching circuits to support replacing the first logic circuit and the second logic circuit by the third logic circuit; and a built-in-test-circuit (“BIST”), where the built-in-test-circuit is connected to test at least the first logic circuit and the second logic circuit.
US11482439B2
A method for producing a 3D memory device including: providing a first level including a single crystal layer and control circuits, where the control circuits include a plurality of first transistors; forming at least one second level above the first level; performing a first etch step including etching holes within the second level; performing processing steps to form a plurality of first memory cells within the second level, where each of the first memory cells include one of a plurality of second transistors, where the control circuits include memory peripheral circuits, where at least one first memory cell is at least partially atop a portion of the memory peripheral circuits, and where fabrication processing of the first transistors accounts for a temperature and time associated with processing the second level and the plurality of second transistors by adjusting a process thermal budget of the first level accordingly.
US11482431B2
A substrate processing apparatus includes a holder having thereon an attraction surface configured to attract a substrate and including an outer attracting member configured to attract a peripheral portion of the substrate and an inner attracting member configured to attract a portion of the substrate inside the peripheral portion of the substrate attracted by the outer attracting member in a diametrical direction of the attraction surface; a moving device configured to move the outer attracting member with respect to the inner attracting member; and a controller configured to control a distortion, which is caused at the substrate attracted to the attraction surface, by controlling a movement of the outer attracting member with respect to the inner attracting member.
US11482430B2
The disclosed techniques include a space filling device to be used with a wet bench in chemical replacement procedures. The space filling device has an overall density that is higher than the chemicals used to purge the wet bench. As such, when embedded into the wet bench, or more specifically, the chemical tank of the wet bench, the space filling device will occupy a portion of the interior volume space. As a result, less purging chemicals are used to fill and bath the wet bench.
US11482424B2
The invention discloses an active region structure and a manufacturing method thereof, which also comprises a edge portion around the active region, so that the stress generated by the shallow trench insulation layer in the peripheral area on the active region can be blocked, and the component unit in the peripheral edge area of the active region can be prevented from being damaged due to stress. In addition, the edge portion includes branches extending into the active region, and the branches extend in at least two different directions, which can compensate the uneven stress at the end between the active lines and avoid the damage of the component unit.
US11482422B2
In some embodiments of the present disclosure, a method of manufacturing a semiconductor structure includes providing a substrate including a first atom and a second atom; forming a compound over the substrate by bonding the first atom with a ionized etchant; and removing the compound from the substrate by bombarding the compounds with a charged particle having a bombarding energy smaller than a bonding energy between the first atom and the second atom, wherein the charged particle and the ionized etchant include different ions.
US11482415B2
A substrate processing apparatus includes: a process chamber configured to process a substrate; a precursor gas supply section for supplying a precursor gas; a reactant gas supply section for supplying a reactant gas; an exhauster for exhausting the process chamber; a plasma generator including first and second plasma generators for converting the reactant gas into plasma to activate the reactant gas, the first and second plasma generators being disposed so that a straight line passing through the center of the process chamber and the exhauster is interposed therebetween; and a gas rectifier including a first partition member disposed along an inner wall of the process chamber between the precursor gas supply section and the first plasma generator, and a second partition member disposed at an outer circumferential portion of the substrate along an inner wall of the process chamber between the precursor gas supply section and the second plasma generator.
US11482410B2
A wafer-cleaning apparatus includes an inner pin that supports a wafer. The wafer-cleaning apparatus further includes a nozzle disposed above the inner pin, a light source disposed under the inner pin, a window disposed between the light source and the wafer, and a window protector disposed between the wafer and the window. The nozzle supplies a chemical liquid to the wafer and the inner pin distributes a portion of the chemical liquid on an upper surface of the wafer by rotating the wafer. The window protector receives a portion of the chemical liquid that flows out of the wafer and the light source supplies the light to the wafer through the window protector and the window.
US11482406B2
At least one of the electrodes of a discharge lamp, including at an interior of a main body of the electrode: a heat-transmitting substance of the melting point lower than that of a material which makes up the main body; and a regulating body that is made up of a material of the melting point higher than that of the heat-transmitting substance, that includes a blade which extends in the axial direction and in a radial direction perpendicular to the axial direction, and that regulates convection of the heat-transmitting substance. Surface roughness Rz of at least one of a region which is on an inner wall face of the main body and with which the regulating body makes contact and a region which is on a surface of the regulating body and with which the inner wall face makes contact is not greater than 1.52 μm.
US11482405B2
A mass spectrometry device that is provided with an ionization unit and ionizes, by the ionization unit, a sample separated by a separation column, subjects the sample to mass separation and detect ions obtained in the mass separation, includes: a gas introduction unit that introduces a first gas obtained by vaporizing a liquid into the ionization unit using a second gas, wherein: the ionization unit ionizes the sample by reacting ions obtained by ionizing the first gas with the sample.
US11482403B1
The present disclosure provides a thin-film-deposition equipment for detecting shielding mechanism, which includes a reaction chamber, a carrier, a shielding mechanism and two distance sensors. The carrier and the shielding mechanism is partially disposed within the reaction chamber. The shielding mechanism includes two shield unit and a driver. The driver interconnects and drives the two shield units to sway in opposite directions and into an open state and a shielding state. Each of the two shield unit is disposed with a reflective surface for each of the two distance sensors to respectively project optical beams onto and detect a distances therebetween when the two shield units are operated in the shielding state, such that to confirm that the shielding mechanism is in the shielding state.
US11482402B2
Methods and apparatus for processing a substrate are provided herein. For example, an apparatus can be a controller for a high peak power radio frequency (RF) generator. The controller comprises a control logic circuit in operable communication with an RF generator operating in a burst mode, the control logic circuit configured to receive a power, P, request at a predetermined duty cycle, δ, from a plasma processing chamber, determine a peak maximum power, Ppeakmax, based on a maximum average power, Pavgmax, and a maximum absolute power, Pabsmax, of the RF generator and the predetermined duty cycle, and transmit a control signal to the RF generator to limit a peak power, Ppeak, to the plasma processing chamber based on the Ppeakmax.
US11482384B2
An ultracapacitor that includes an energy storage cell immersed in an electrolyte and disposed within an hermetically sealed housing, the cell electrically coupled to a positive contact and a negative contact, wherein the ultracapacitor is configured to output electrical energy within a temperature range between about 80 degrees Celsius to about 210 degrees Celsius. Methods of fabrication and use are provided.
US11482379B2
A ceramic electronic component includes a multilayer chip including a multilayer structure and cover layers disposed on top and bottom faces in a stack direction of the multilayer structure, and a pair of external electrodes respectively formed on two edge faces of the multilayer structure and extending to four side faces of the multilayer chip, wherein each external electrode has a recessed portion on at least one of two side faces facing each other in the stack direction or at least one of remaining two side faces, and wherein each external electrode has no recessed portion on the two side faces when each external electrode has the recessed portion on at least one of the remaining two side faces, and has no recessed portion on the remaining two side faces when each external electrode has the recessed portion on at least one of the two side faces.
US11482378B2
A three-terminal multilayer ceramic capacitor includes a capacitor including a ceramic layer, first and second internal electrodes, first and second end surface electrodes, and first and second side surface electrodes, and has a lengthwise dimension of about 1300 μm or more and about 1500 μm or less, a widthwise dimension of about 1000 μm or more and about 1200 μm or less, a heightwise dimension of about 570 μm or more and about 680 μm or less, and a capacitance of about 12 μF or more and about 32 μF or less. The first and second end surface electrodes, and the first and second side surface electrodes include a Ni underlying electrode layer and at least one plating electrode layer. The first and second end surface electrodes have a thickness of about 0.73% or more and about 3.00% or less relative to the lengthwise dimension.
US11482373B2
A multilayer coil component includes a multilayer body formed by stacking a plurality of insulating layers in a length direction and that has a built-in coil, and a first outer electrode and a second outer electrode that are electrically connected to the coil. The coil is formed by a plurality of coil conductors stacked in the length direction being electrically connected to each other. The first and second outer electrodes respectively cover parts of first and second end surfaces and parts of a first main surface. Two coil conductors are stacked in order to form one turn of the coil. Adjacent land portions of coil conductors in the stacking direction are connected to each other through via conductors. In a plan view from a width direction, the land portions are disposed in an upper half of the multilayer body on the opposite side from the first main surface.
US11482359B2
Devices for detachable attachment to a ferromagnetic object and/or surface are disclosed. The device may comprise a core housing defining a pocket, a magnet disposed in the pocket, and a baseplate fixed to the magnet sheet assembly. The baseplate may include a pivot portion that engages a corresponding portion of the core housing to form a hinge joint such that the baseplate and the magnetic sheet assembly selectively pivot about a pivot axis of the hinge joint relative to the core housing. The camming mechanism may apply a camming force to a portion of the baseplate and the camming force may urge the magnet and the baseplate to pivot about the pivot axis of the hinge joint.
US11482358B2
A control method for a superconducting magnet apparatus comprising steps of: causing a superconducting coil to transition to a superconductive state by causing a cooler to cool the superconducting coil to or below a critical temperature; supplying electric current to the superconducting coil, which has transitioned to the superconductive state, from an excitation power supply; starting a persistent current mode by stopping supply of the electric current; adjusting temperature of the superconducting coil to a specific temperature which is equal to or lower than the critical temperature and higher than a steady operation temperature; and starting a steady operation by cooling the superconducting coil to or below the steady operation temperature, after a specific condition for stabilizing a magnetic field of the superconducting coil is satisfied.
US11482356B2
A powder core includes a compact including a soft magnetic powder, and an outer coating of the compact. The outer coating contains polyethersulfone. An electric or electronic component including the powder core, and an electric or electronic device having the electric or electronic component mounted therein are also provided.
US11482353B2
When bending a superconducting cable of a stack conductor structure in which a plurality of layers of tape wires are stacked, a twisting process is performed for the superconducting cable immediately before a bending portion of the superconducting cable.
US11482348B2
The present method includes graphene, preferably in the form of flat graphene oxide flakes with, by mass, preferably between 0.5% and 35% PAN. The graphene oxide and conductive-polymer PAN is in a co-suspension in water and is co-deposited on a surface. The deposited PAN with a high-percentage graphene-oxide layer is dried. Our tests have produced electrical conductivities 1000 times more conductive than the PAN by itself. Our testing indicates that using flakes that are flat is essential to getting very high conductivity, and that controlled oxidation is very important in suspending graphene oxide in water.
US11482344B2
Disclosed embodiments include nuclear fission reactor cores, nuclear fission reactors, methods of operating a nuclear fission reactor, and methods of managing excess reactivity in a nuclear fission reactor.
