US11482342B2
A nuclear fusion reactor includes a chamber containing plasma and two or more devices which include superconducting electromagnetic coils. At least one of the two or more devices may be biased to a high voltage to provide thermal energy to ions in the magnetic confinement region. In some examples, the chamber and the two or more devices can be coaxial and toroid shaped. In some examples, the chamber can be spherical or cylindrical with the two or more devices being toroid or elongated toroid shaped and formed on opposite faces of a cuboid. The two or more devices may be disposed in the chamber to provide a high-beta magnetic confinement region for the plasma.
US11482341B2
Aspects of the invention are directed towards a system and a method for uniformly characterizing equipment category. One or more embodiments of the invention describe the method comprising steps of extracting a plurality of data points from data stream received from a plurality of equipment within an equipment category. The method also comprises steps of normalizing the varying frequency of the extracted data points to generate time normalized information corresponding to each of the plurality of equipment. The method comprises steps of manipulating a plurality of variances in the translated uniform data stream received from each of the plurality of equipment within the equipment category. The method comprises steps of generically mapping the normalized information to one or more aggregation methods and for mapping the output of aggregation methods to one or more reusable data processing algorithms to generate a plurality of uniform equipment characteristics corresponding to the equipment category.
US11482338B2
A cardiac simulation method includes storing, in a memory, a measured electrophysiological (EP) map of at least part of wall tissue of a heart of a patient. Based on the stored EP map, simulated electrical activity in response to computer-simulated pacing, which simulates actual electrical activity that would occur across the wall tissue of the heart of the patient in response to actual pacing, is calculated in a processor. Based on the simulated electrical activity calculated in the processor, one or more candidate locations on the wall tissue of the heart at which arrhythmia is suspected of originating are identified and indicated to a user.
US11482333B2
An apparatus and method for determining injury risk from plurality of exercises using a device with a heart rate sensor, a processor, memory including a resident memory, an output device and software. For example the method may: determine and store values of Training load of each exercise in the resident memory obtaining a register, perform a HRV-based Recovery Test and storing Recovery values in the register, calculate indices depicting Short Term Training Load, ratio of Short Term Training Load to Long Term Training Load, and Recovery, calculate weighting factors for each said index, correct each index with corresponding weighting factor to obtain weighted indices, calculate a value of the Injury Risk using the weighted indices, and display the value of Injury Risk.
US11482330B1
A system comprising an assessment engine configured to asynchronously transmit assessment questions to a user and, in response, receive a plurality of personal data from a user. A behavior module communicatively coupled to the assessment engine and operable to generate a behavior profile associated with the user based, at least in part, on the plurality of personal data. The behavior profile configured to identify one or more addiction habits of the user and respective one or more triggers operable to induce the user to desire the one or more addiction habits. A plurality of sensors positioned proximate the user to provide real-time measurements of one or more biological conditions of the user body. A prediction module communicatively coupled to the plurality of sensors, the prediction module operable to predict occurrence of the one or more triggers based on the behavioral profile and the real-time measurements of the one or more biological conditions of the user body.
US11482329B2
A system for detecting medical audio alarms. The system includes a detector and a server. The detector further comprises a microphone that is configured to receive a sound of the alarm; a microcontroller configured to determine an alarm pattern from the sound and to compare the determined alarm pattern to a plurality of patterns stored in a memory to identify a cause of the alarm; and a network interface configured to transmit the cause of the alarm. The server is configured receive the cause of the alarm and provide notification of the cause of the alarm.
US11482327B2
The present invention relates to methods and apparatuses for estimating the status of a bladder, especially with respect to the likelihood of an imminent voiding of the bladder. The apparatuses carry out computer-implemented methods of estimating a bladder status employing a bladder monitor which collects bladder data (e.g. using ultrasound) and transmits the bladder data to a data processor for algorithmic conversion to a bladder status. Such algorithms may be trained and tuned to a particular person's bladder. Having established a bladder status based on otherwise esoteric bladder data, the data processor may then trigger an alert signal where the bladder status meets particular criteria indicating an imminent voiding event. Such a trigger signal may be used to alert a nocturnal enuresis patient to an impending void so that they can be awoken before any bedwetting occurs.
US11482318B2
An examination image storage stores a plurality of examination images having image-capturing time information. A voice processing unit extracts information regarding a finding by recognizing voice that is input to a microphone, and an extracted information storage stores the extracted information regarding the finding and voice time information in association with each other. A grouping processing unit groups a plurality of examination images into one or more image groups based on the image-capturing time information. An association processing unit associates the information regarding the finding stored in the extracted information storage with an image group based on the voice time information. When one examination image is selected by a user, a finding selection screen generation unit generates a screen that displays information regarding a finding associated with an image group including the examination image that is selected.
US11482308B2
A modular ACD system is configured to automate clinical documentation and includes a machine vision system configured to obtain machine vision encounter information concerning a patient encounter. An audio recording system is configured to obtain audio encounter information concerning the patient encounter. A compute system is configured to receive the machine vision encounter information and the audio encounter information.
US11482307B2
An incremental author disambiguation framework may create new clusters to accommodate new data based on the existing cluster results and newly added data. The proposed system may provide frequent update of taxonomic classification, name disambiguation and many other applications because it takes less time to generate new results. In addition, the proposed methods may reduce the time needed for updating the model and help improve the performance with the limited computational resource.
US11482302B2
There is a need for more effective and efficient predictive data analysis solutions for processing genetic sequencing data. This need can be addressed by, for example, techniques for performing predictive data analysis based on genetic sequences that utilize at least one of cross-variant polygenic risk modeling using genetic risk profiles, cross-variant polygenic risk modeling using functional genetic risk profiles, per-condition polygenic clustering operations, cross-condition polygenic predictive inferences, and cross-condition polygenic diagnoses.
US11482298B2
A method of operating a memory device comprises generating a target voltage using a pump circuit of the memory device, the target voltage to be applied to a word line or pillar of a memory cell of the memory device; providing an indication of current generated by the pump circuit after the pump circuit output reaches the target voltage; and determining when the current generated by the pump circuit is greater than a specified threshold current and generating a fault indication according to the determination.
US11482294B2
A method of managing errors in a plurality of storage drives includes receiving, at a memory controller coupled to at least one storage medium in an SSD, a read command from a host interface. The method also includes retrieving, from the storage medium, read data corresponding to a plurality of data chunks to be retrieved in response to the read command, and determining that at least one data chunk of the plurality of data chunks is unable to be read, the at least one data chunk corresponding to a failed data chunk. And in response to determining the failed data chunk, sending to the host interface the read data including the failed data chunk or excluding the failed data chunk. And in response to the read command sending to the host interface status information about all data chunks.
US11482293B2
A control system includes a plurality of driving circuits coupled in series, which includes a first driving circuit and a second driving circuit. The first driving circuit includes a first receiver, a first transmitter and a replica receiver. The first transmitter is coupled to the first receiver, and the replica receiver is coupled to an output terminal of the first transmitter. The second driving circuit, coupled to the first driving circuit, includes a second receiver and a second transmitter. The second receiver is coupled to the first transmitter, and the second transmitter is coupled to the second receiver.
US11482291B2
The present technology relates to an electronic device. A memory device that reduces noise generated during a sensing operation includes a plurality of pages, each including a plurality of memory cells, a peripheral circuit configured to sense a selected page among the plurality of pages, the selected page including a selected memory cell and a sensing node controller configured to control, based on a result of a first sensing operation among a plurality of sensing operations that are performed to sense a logical page among a plurality of logical pages in the selected page, a sensing node in a page buffer coupled to the selected memory cell through a bit line during a second sensing operation.
US11482269B2
A semiconductor memory device includes a first memory transistor, a first memory capacitor, and a control circuit connected to them. The first memory transistor includes a first gate electrode, a first semiconductor layer, and a first insulating film containing an insulating material. The first memory capacitor includes a first electrode, a second electrode, and a second insulating film containing the insulating material of the first insulating film. The control circuit is configured to perform a first program operation that supplies the first gate electrode with a first program voltage, a second program operation that supplies the first gate electrode with a second program voltage larger than the first program voltage, and a first read operation that supplies at least one of the first electrode or the second electrode with a voltage. The control circuit performs the first or the second program operation after performing the first read operation.
US11482262B1
Technology is disclosed herein for per pin internal reference voltage generation for data receivers in non-volatile memory systems. A receiving circuit may have an on-die voltage generator that has inputs to receive a separate voltage magnitude select signal for each data receiver on the receiving circuit. The on-die voltage generator provides a separate reference voltage for each data receiver. This allows the reference voltage for each data receiver to be calibrated separately. A separate reference voltage for each data receiver compensates for variations between data paths, and provides for a wider data valid window than if the same reference voltage were used for all data receivers. Generating the different reference voltages on-die can potentially require a large area, as well as consume considerable power and/or current. A voltage divider and multiplexers may provide the different reference voltages, which saves space and is power and current efficient.
US11482253B1
Processing hard disk drive (HDD) data track repeatable runout (RRO) compensation data includes, for each read-write head constituent to the HDD, and for each data track on which the read-write head operates, saving RRO compensation data to single-level cell (SLC) area of a NAND memory component, and finalizing the RRO data before processing the next read-write head of the HDD, thereby minimizing the SLC area used. Finalizing the RRO data may include sorting the RRO data for the read-write head in the SLC area, moving the sorted RRO data from the SLC area to triple-level cell (TLC) or other higher-level cell area of the NAND, and then erasing the RRO data from the SLC area to free up that memory space, thereby reducing the risk of wearing out the TLC area.
US11482252B2
According to one embodiment, when an inspection of a defect of a recording surface of the magnetic disk is carried out by using the first processing section and the second processing section on the basis of the output of the gap sensor, a magnetic disk device is configured to compare a threshold defined on the basis of outputs of the first processing section at a plurality of tracks excluding a track which is an inspection object and an output of the first processing section at the track which is the inspection object with each other and, when the output of the first processing section at the track which is the inspection object exceeds the threshold, detect that there is a defect on the track concerned of the magnetic disk.
US11482250B2
In the magnetic recording medium, a number distribution A of a plurality of bright regions, based on equivalent circle diameters thereof, in a binarized image of a secondary electron image obtained by imaging a surface of the magnetic layer by a scanning electron microscope at an acceleration voltage of 5 kV and a number distribution B of a plurality of dark regions, based on equivalent circle diameters thereof, in a binarized image of a secondary electron image obtained by imaging a surface of the magnetic layer by a scanning electron microscope at an acceleration voltage of 2 kV respectively satisfy a predetermined number distribution.
US11482238B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure sets forth a computer-implemented method comprising acquiring image information associated with an environment, acquiring, from one or more sensors, sensor data associated with a gaze of a user, determining a source of interest based on the image information and the sensor data, processing a set of audio signals associated with the environment based on the image information to identify an audio signal associated with the source of interest, enhancing the audio signal associated with the source of interest relative to other audio signals in the set of audio signals, and outputting the enhanced audio signal associated with the source of interest to the user.
US11482234B2
A first noise level, which is an estimated value of a magnitude of a noise component included in a first sound collection signal obtained from a first microphone which collects sound emitted from a first sound collection and amplification position is obtained, a second noise level, which is an estimated value of a magnitude of a noise component included in a second sound collection signal obtained from a second microphone which collects sound emitted from a second sound collection and amplification position is obtained, a ratio of a reproduced noisy sound level, which is an estimated value of a magnitude of noise at a position of a passenger at the second sound collection and amplification position in a case where the first noise level is reproduced from a second speaker placed at the second sound collection and amplification position, with respect to a second noisy sound level, which is an estimated value of a magnitude of noise corresponding to the second noise level at the position of the passenger at the second sound collection and amplification position is obtained, and a noise suppression amount is obtained so that a product of this ratio and the noise suppression amount becomes a constant set in advance.
US11482224B2
A device, such as Network Microphone Device or a playback device, receives an indication of a track change associated with a playback queue output by a media playback system. In response, an input detection window is opened for a given time period. During the given time period the device is arranged to receive an input sound data stream representing sound detected by a microphone. The input sound data stream is analyzed for a plurality of command keywords and/or a wake-word for a Voice Assistant Service (VAS) and, based on the analysis, it is determined that the input sound data stream includes voice input data comprising a command keyword or a wake-word for a VAS. In response, the device takes appropriate action such as causing the media playback system to perform a command corresponding to the command keyword or sending at least part of the input sound data stream to the VAS.
US11482221B2
Systems and methods are disclosed configured to detect impairment issues, and via an interlock device, inhibit operation of an item of equipment when impairment is detected. The interlock device may comprise a solid state relay, an electromechanical relay, and/or a solenoid. The interlock device may perform power isolation and/or may use a mechanism, such as a rotating cam or gear, to immobilize a control and/or other components. Based on detected impairment, a determination is made as to whether the interlock is to be activated or deactivated.
US11482216B2
Modulating packetized audio signals in a voice activated data packet based computer network environment is provided. A system can receive audio signals detected by a microphone of a device. The system can parse the audio signal to identify trigger keyword and request, and generate a first action data structure. The system can identify a content item object based on the trigger keyword, and generate an output signal comprising a first portion corresponding to the first action data structure and a second portion corresponding to the content item object. The system can apply a modulation to the first or second portion of the output signal, and transmit the modulated output signal to the device.
US11482215B2
A method comprising detecting an activation of an intelligent assistant on an electronic device, waking up the intelligent assistant from a sleep mode in response to the activation, and determining an amount of vocabulary the intelligent assistant acts upon during a listening mode based on a type of the activation.
US11482193B2
An example system includes an input engine to determine an aspect ratio of each of a plurality of video signals input to the system. The system includes an arrangement engine to determine positions in a display area for the plurality of video signals based on the aspect ratio of each video signal. The system includes a display engine to output screen content corresponding to the plurality of video signals at the determined positions.
US11482192B2
A system to facilitate AR processing includes receiving captured media from a user device and context information relating to media that is being delivered to a receiving device. The system may use the media being delivered with the captured media to generate one or more virtual objects. The user device may augment a user's view of reality that is reflected in the captured media by overlaying or otherwise incorporating the virtual objects in the user's view of reality.
US11482176B2
A display device includes a substrate including a first pixel area and a second pixel area, wherein the second pixel area is located at a side of the first pixel area, first pixels located in the first pixel area and connected to first scan lines, and second pixels located in the second pixel area and connected to second scan lines, wherein the first pixels and the second pixels include pixel rows extending in a first direction, and at least one of the second scan lines is inclined with respect to the first direction.
US11482174B2
An embodiment provides a display device including: a light emitting diode; a driving transistor configured to supply a current to the light emitting diode; a switching transistor having an input electrode connected to a data line; and a voltage transmitting capacitor disposed between an output electrode of the switching transistor and a gate electrode of the driving transistor, wherein a data voltage applied to the data line may be transmitted to the gate electrode of the driving transistor through the voltage transmitting capacitor, and the data voltage may have a data voltage value from which a voltage variation variable is removed based on leakage of the switching transistor.
US11482173B2
Provided are a display device. The display device comprises: a display unit defined by a display area and a non-display area located outside the display area, and including pixels arranged in the display area, first sensing wirings electrically connected to the pixels, and auxiliary voltage wirings electrically separated from the pixels; and a sensing unit electrically connected to the first sensing wirings, wherein the first sensing wirings and the auxiliary voltage wirings extend in a first direction and are sequentially arranged along a second direction perpendicular to the first direction at first intervals, the first sensing wirings are spaced apart from each other along the second direction at second intervals greater than the first intervals and are electrically separated from each other, and the auxiliary voltage wirings are electrically connected to each other.
US11482170B2
The display panel includes: a base substrate; a silicon semiconductor layer, the silicon semiconductor layer including active silicon layers of a driving transistor and an initialization transistor, each of the active silicon layers being provided with a first region, a second region and a first channel region therebetween; a first insulating layer, a first conducting layer, a second insulating layer and an oxide semiconductor layer, the oxide semiconductor layer including an active oxide layer of a voltage stabilizing transistor, the oxide semiconductor layer being provided with a third region, a fourth region and a second channel region therebetween. In the same sub-pixel, the second region of the active silicon layer of the initialization transistor is electrically connected to the third region, and the fourth region is electrically connected to a gate electrode of the driving transistor.
US11482167B1
Systems and methods for an ambient light sensor (ALS) disposed under a display layer. In some implementations, an ALS reading is adjusted by compensating for light leakage in a display environment. In some aspects, a display leakage component may be determined based on image content driven onto a display pixel array during the ALS reading. An ambient light measurement may be generated by subtracting the display leakage component from the ALS reading and then adjusting a display brightness of the display pixel array in response to the ambient light measurement.
US11482165B2
The present embodiments disclose a pixel driving circuit and a display device including the same. A pixel driving circuit according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a first pixel circuit configured to control light-emission and non-emission of the luminous element in response to a control signal applied to each of a plurality of subframes constituting a frame during a light-emitting period and a second pixel circuit storing a bit value of image data in a data writing period and generating the control signal based on the bit value and a clock signal in the light-emitting period.
US11482163B2
A display device includes scan lines disposed in a first direction; data lines disposed in a second direction substantially perpendicular to the first direction; and unit pixel regions adjacent to the scan lines and the data lines, each unit pixel region including sub-pixels. A portion of an opening region of at least one of the sub-pixels overlaps a unit pixel region adjacent to a unit pixel region corresponding to the at least one of the sub-pixels, and a side of the opening region of the at least one of the sub-pixels extends in a third direction inclined with respect to each of the first direction and the second direction.
US11482151B2
A stage circuit including: a first sub-stage circuit coupled to a first input terminal receiving an input signal, a second input terminal receiving a first clock signal, and a third input terminal receiving a second clock signal, the first sub-stage circuit controlling a voltage of a first node, a second node, and a third node based on the input signal and the first and second clock signals, and supplying a first scan signal to a first output terminal based on the voltage of the second and third nodes; and a second sub-stage circuit coupled to the second input terminal, a fourth input terminal receiving a third clock signal, and the first and second nodes, the second sub-stage circuit supplying a second scan signal to a second output terminal based on the first and third clock signal, and the voltage of the first and second nodes.
US11482139B2
A latching apparatus for mounting and dismounting a housing, such as a modular split flap housing for display, that releasably secures a plug-in modular unit against a corresponding back plate including latches for fastening and securing to a stationary panel and a sliding member that is slidable from a first unlocked offset position to a second locked offset position provided to stabilize the plug-in modular unit against a surface of the back plate.
US11482133B2
Automatically modifying display presentations to programmatically accommodate for visual impairments
Methods, apparatus, systems, computing devices, computing entities, and/or the like for identifying one or more visual impairments of a user, mapping the visual impairments to one or more accessibility solutions, (e.g., program code entries) and dynamically modifying a display presentation based at least in part on the identified accessibility solutions.
US11482132B2
A device for providing a tactile feedback includes an imaging device configured to capture an image of a face of a subject, a tactile feedback device, and a controller communicatively coupled to the imaging device and the tactile feedback device. The controller comprising at least one processor and at least one memory storing computer readable and executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, causes the controller to: process the image, determine a type of a facial expression based on the processed image, determine a level of a facial expression of the type based on the processed image, determine a tactile feedback intensity of the tactile feedback device based on the level of the facial expression, and control the tactile feedback device to provide a tactile feedback having the tactile feedback intensity.
US11482130B2
A method and system for monitoring physiological movements and providing feedback to increase a user's kinesthetic awareness utilizes a kinesthetic awareness tool that includes a plurality of sensors, a processing unit, and a plurality of feedback devices. The plurality of sensors is used to gather data as a set of reference data and in real-time as a user engages in a training session. The plurality of sensors may include an accelerometer, gyroscope, magnetometer, and ultrasonic range finder. Data obtained during the training session is processed in real-time by the processing unit and compared to the set of reference data. The processing device may then instruct one or more of the plurality of feedback devices to produce a response signal to guide the user to the correct position. The plurality of feedback devices may be configured to provide acoustic, visual, haptic, or kinetic feedback.
US11482120B2
A device includes a processor. The processor is configured to execute instructions to receive first operator input and generate layers for a map based on the first operator input. The layers include features to indicate whether an Uncrewed Aerial Vehicle (UAV) operator should or could fly a UAV in an airspace corresponding to an area within the map. The processor is also configured to receive second operator input that specifies a path on the map, for a UAV flight.
US11482119B2
Systems, methods, and devices are provided for controlling an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) associated with flight response measures. The flight response measure may be generated by assessing one or more flight-restriction strips, assessing at least one of a location or a movement characteristic of the UAV relative to the one or more flight-restriction strips, and directing, with aid of one or more processors, the UAV to take one or more flight response measures based on at least one of the location or movement characteristic of the UAV relative to the one or more flight-restriction strips.
US11482117B2
Data associated with a flight, including a flight plan, a vehicle, and/or a pilot is processed via a risk assessment platform to obtain one of more numerical risk values, for example a ground risk value and an air risk value. Based on the processed data, a matrix of risk assessment decisions is generated containing risk related information (such as risk remediation information). Accordingly, based on a consistent set of risk relation information, a predictable and repeatable flight decision (such as a decision whether to fly, or an adjustment to a flight route) can be made. In some instances, the data to be processed is quantitative data collected from one or more third party systems, such as sensor data or geospatial data. The risk assessment platform includes toolkits or services to be used in the processing and transformation of this data to reach a risk assessment decision.
US11482115B2
A system is delineated comprising a processor, a transceiver coupled to the processor, and memory including instructions for execution by the processor to send with the transceiver meteorological data, 4-D position data, velocity data, and time and configuration data to a provided ATC ground station.
US11482114B2
A low flying unmanned vehicle is disclosed that may be able to determine whether a collision is possible and may take evasive action in response to the possible collision. The vehicle may wirelessly communicate and may use a standard protocol such that a variety of additional objects may be taken into account when determining the possible collision risk.
US11482112B2
Systems, methods, computer-readable media, and apparatuses for receiving requests for roadside assistance, generating user interfaces and using machine learning to generate roadside assistance instructions are provided. In some examples, a request for roadside assistance may be received. A user and one or more partners may be identified based on the request. In some examples, a profile associated with the user, partner or the like may be identified. A user interface may be generated based on the profile and may include features unique to the profile, partner, or the like. In some arrangements, the interface may include a first portion and a second portion. Selection of an option from the first portion may cause the system to identify data for display in the second portion and cause the data to be displayed in the second portion. Machine learning may be used to determine or identify one or more roadside assistance instructions and a roadside assistance instruction may be generated and executed.
US11482109B2
In an example, a method captures, at a first connected vehicle situated in a travel path segment, first sensor data describing an environment proximate to the first connected vehicle. The environment includes a first unconnected vehicle. The method wirelessly receives, via a communication network at the first connected vehicle from a second connected vehicle situated in the travel path segment, second sensor data describing one or more operating characteristics of the first unconnected vehicle. The method estimates, using the first sensor data and the second sensor data, a vehicle action of the first unconnected vehicle.
US11482107B2
An information processing apparatus is provided with a controller comprising at least one processor configured to perform: obtaining route information indicating an operation route of a vehicle utilized by unspecified users; and obtaining desired location information indicating desired locations at which the users desire to get on the vehicle or desired locations at which the users desire to get off the vehicle. Then, the controller of the information processing apparatus determines a stop location, at which the vehicle is stopped for the users to get on or off, based on a plurality of pieces of the desired location information and the route information, and presents stop location information indicating the stop location thus determined to the users.
US11482102B2
This invention provides a system-oriented and fully-controlled connected automated vehicle highway system for various levels of connected and automated vehicles and highways. The system comprises one or more of: 1) a hierarchical traffic control network of Traffic Control Centers (TCC's), local traffic controller units (TCUs), 2) A RSU (Road Side Unit) network (with integrated functionalities of vehicle sensors, I2V communication to deliver control instructions), 3) OBU (On-Board Unit with sensor and V2I communication units) network embedded in connected and automated vehicles, and 4) wireless communication and security system with local and global connectivity. This system provides a safer, more reliable and more cost-effective solution by redistributing vehicle driving tasks to the hierarchical traffic control network and RSU network.
US11482096B2
A remote-control arrangement for remotely controlled objects, such as in particular lifting systems and/or working devices, has a handheld transmitter which has a housing on which multiple adjustable-position operating elements for the input of control commands are held, and in which remote control electronics are accommodated, by means of which control commands input via the operating elements can be converted into signals, which can be emitted to control the objects, and a display held on the housing for displaying control-relevant information. The display is formed by a computer display of a portable computer produced separately from the transmitter, and a standard interface, via which the portable computer can be detachably connected to the remote-control electronics of the transmitter, is provided on the housing.
US11482095B2
A wireless control method includes sending, by a controller, a first control command to instruct the first device to execute a corresponding event, receiving, by a wireless router, the first control command, determining, in response to the first control command, that the first device is not connected to a power supply, and sending a power supply connect instruction to an input apparatus, where the power supply connect instruction instructs the input apparatus to connect the first device to the power supply.
US11482091B2
Embers created by fires, particularly fires in environments such as grassland, bushland, and forests, can lead to the loss of property and animal and human lives. In addition to the loss of property and lives, fires caused by embers lead to an increase in greenhouse gasses, an increase in the risk associated with an ember attack and/or a fire, and a reduced ability to effectively fight an ember attack and/or a fire. The concept bush/wildfire should be understood to include forest fires, grassland fires, and the like. The present disclosure relates to an ember detector device, a bush/wild fire detection and threat management system, and methods of reducing greenhouse gasses, reducing the risk associated with an ember attack and/or a fire, and enhancing an ability to effectively fight an ember attack and/or a fire.
US11482086B2
To prevent delay in tactile presentation timing due to the responsiveness of the tactile presentation device, and to improve the reproducibility of the tactile sense. A drive control device according to the present technology includes a drive control unit that causes a drive unit that drives a tactile presentation device by a drive signal based on a tactile signal to execute a pre-drive, which is to drive the tactile presentation device in advance with respect to a rise timing of the tactile signal. By the pre-drive described above, a timing at which a tactile presentation is actually started can be brought close to a rise timing of a tactile signal.
US11482077B2
An electronic gaming machine includes a display, a credit input mechanism, and a processor configured to perform operations comprising: (i) initiating a free play bonus game; (ii) awarding, during the free play bonus game, a plurality of free spins of a plurality of reels; (iii) displaying, on the display, a plurality of numerical indicia, the plurality of numerical indicia displayed one at a time and increasing from an initial numerical indicium associated with an initial free spin to a final numerical indicium associated with a final free spin; and (iv) providing a game award in conjunction with the final free spin.
US11482075B2
The configuring of an electronic gaming machine (EGM) to participate in pools managed by a progressive pools managing controller (PPMC) can be complex. The process is simplified in accordance with the present disclosure by automatically transmitting from an EGM and to its corresponding PPMC, an auto-configuration request identifying the EGM and a predetermined wagering game supported by the EGM; responsively receiving from the PPMC and within the EGM a listing of one or more progressive pools that are managed by the PPMC and that have been determined within the PPMC to be progressive pools that the predetermined wagering game of the requesting EGM is qualified to or required to participate in; and causing the predetermined wagering game of the EGM to begin participating in at least one of the listed progressive pools.
US11482074B1
A secure cryptocurrency transfer system between an electronic gaming machine and a cryptowallet.
US11482071B2
Mechanism (which can include system, methods, and media) for removing a card from a gaming table are provided, the mechanisms comprising: detecting when a playing card is placed on a door on a table surface of a gaming table; and causing the door to automatically open downward when the playing card is detected as being placed on the door so that the playing card slides downward to a space below the table surface. In some embodiments, these mechanisms further comprise controlling the opening of the door using a hardware processor, and optionally using stepper motor to control the opening of the door. In some embodiments, these mechanisms further comprise generating a graphics version of the playing card; and presenting the graphics version of the playing card on a player's computer display after the playing card has slid below the table surface.
US11482055B2
A failure cause analyzing system utilizes numerical data of vehicle equipment during vehicle operation and analyzes the equipment numerical data included in running data of the vehicle to select a failure inducible factor, thereby extracting the numerical data of each equipment from the running data of the vehicle even if a failure symptom does not persist and occurs intermittently, and analyzes the equipment numerical data to select the failure inducible factor, so as to reduce the time and the cost necessary for inspecting and repairing the vehicle equipment upon the occurrence of the failure symptom, and to avoid improper or excessive maintenance.
US11482051B2
A display panel includes a substrate, an organic light-emitting layer disposed over the substrate and having at least one pixel, and at least one optical sensor disposed over the substrate distal from the organic light-emitting layer; wherein the at least one pixel is configured to display an image and as a light source for the at least one optical sensor to realize pattern identification.
US11482041B2
Methods, apparatus, and systems are provided for obfuscating facial identity in images by synthesizing a new facial image for an input image. A base face is detected from or selected for an input image. Facial images that are similar to the base face are selected and combined to create a new facial image. The new facial image is added to the input image such that the input image includes a combination of the base face and the new facial image. Where no base face is detected in the input image, a base face is selected from reference facial images based at least on pose keypoints identified in the input image. After a new facial image is generated based on the selected base face, a combination of the new facial image and the base facial image are added to the input image by aligning one or more pose keypoints.
US11482025B2
An electronic device is disclosed. The electronic device comprises a storage unit for storing a training model of a multi-dimensional long short-term memory (MDLSTM), and a processor for acquiring an image including at least one of handwritten text and printed text, identifying each text line region in the image through image processing, and recognizing text included in the each identified text line region, on the basis of the training model.
US11482024B2
An electronic device and method are disclosed. The electronic device includes a touch-sensitive display, a memory and a processor. The processor implements the method, including: detect a written input including a plurality of strokes through the display, group the plurality of strokes into a first group and a second group based on respective coordinates of each of the plurality of strokes, group first strokes included in the first group into a plurality of blocks, based on a distance between respective coordinates of each of the first strokes, determine a slope for each of the plurality of blocks, rotate an area corresponding to the first group based on the determined slope, execute handwriting recognition on the first strokes based on the rotated area, and displaying a result of the handwriting recognition on the display.
US11482022B2
A method and apparatus of a device that classifies an image is described. In an exemplary embodiment, the method includes tiling at least one region of interest of the input image into a set of tiles. For each tile, the method includes extracting a feature vector of the tile by applying a convolutional neural network, wherein a feature is a local descriptor of the tile; and computing a score of the tile from the extracted feature vector, said tile score being representative of a contribution of the tile into a classification of the input image. The method also includes sorting a set of the tile scores and selecting a subset of the tile scores based on their value and/or their rank in the sorted set. The method also includes applying a classifier to the selected tile scores in order to classify the input image.
US11482015B2
A method for recognizing a parking space for a vehicle and a parking assistance system are disclosed. An obstacle is identified from successive image frames captured when the vehicle is moving and a first boundary for the obstacle is generated by a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) algorithm based on a position of the obstacle shown in each of the successive image frames. Distances between the moving vehicle and the obstacle are detected by ultrasonic sensors. A second boundary for the obstacle is generated by a distance modification module based on the distances between the vehicle and the obstacle. A periphery of the obstacle is defined by a periphery definition module. In view of the periphery of the obstacle, a parking space is thus recognized by a parking space recognition module. The parking process can be changed to a self-drive mode, and remotely controlled by a mobile device.
US11482014B2
A method for 3D auto-labeling of objects with predetermined structural and physical constraints includes identifying initial object-seeds for all frames from a given frame sequence of a scene. The method also includes refining each of the initial object-seeds over the 2D/3D data, while complying with the predetermined structural and physical constraints to auto-label 3D object vehicles within the scene. The method further includes linking the auto-label 3D object vehicles over time into trajectories while respecting the predetermined structural and physical constraints.
US11482013B2
The present application provides an object tracking method. The object tracking method includes obtaining an image of an area in front of a vehicle; dividing the image of the area in the front of the vehicle into a plurality of sub-images; determining a plurality of first sub-images that satisfy a plurality of threshold conditions out of the plurality of sub-images; selecting a plurality of target sub-images out of the plurality of first sub-images, at least one of the plurality of first sub-images is not selected as one of the plurality of target sub-images; and recognizing a target object in one of the plurality of target sub-images.
US11482003B2
In an installation position information providing apparatus, specific two parts in a vehicle or in a vicinity of the vehicle and a floor surface on which the vehicle is mounted are recognized from a video that is captured, an installation position of an adjustment facility in the video is calculated based on the two parts and the floor surface that are recognized, and an installation position object indicative of the installation position is displayed at the installation position that is calculated in a superimposed manner, in the video that is displayed.
US11482000B2
Disclosed herein is an image processing apparatus and a control method thereof. The image processing apparatus includes communication circuitry, a storage, and a controller configured to control the image processing apparatus to: perform object recognition for recognizing a plurality of objects in first image data stored in the storage, obtain a score inferred through operation processing through a neural network for the recognized plurality of objects, generate second image data based on the obtained score and proximity of the plurality of objects, and perform image processing based on the second image data.
US11481996B2
A calculation device includes: an image input unit that receives, as an input, an image acquired by an image acquisition device that photographs a prescribed area; a visibility evaluation unit that calculates an evaluation value showing the visibility of a detection object in the image, on the basis of the contrast of the image and noise information showing the degree of noise included in the image; a calculation unit that calculates a maximum visually recognizable distance, which is the maximum distance from the image acquisition device to the detection object at which the detection object is visually recognized in the image, based on the evaluation value, a value set as the actual size of the detection object in the image, and the image angle of the image acquisition device; and an output unit that generates and outputs output information based on the maximum visually recognizable distance.
US11481985B1
The exemplary embodiments disclose a method, a computer program product, and a computer system for enhancing a user's appetite with one or more augmented reality devices. The exemplary embodiments may include collecting data of the user, the user's environment, and one or more consumable items, extracting one or more features from the collected data, determining one or more augmented reality appetite enhancements based on the extracted one or more features and one or more models, and enhancing the user's appetite by way of the one or more augmented reality devices according to the determined one or more augmented reality appetite enhancements.
US11481973B2
The present disclosure describes a three-dimensional object segmentation method and device, and medium, and relates to the field of computer vision (CV) technologies of an artificial intelligence (AI) technology. The method includes obtaining, by a device, a point cloud of a three-dimensional object. The device includes a memory storing instructions and a processor in communication with the memory. The method includes determining, by the device, three scaling directions of the point cloud; scaling, by the device, positions of points in the point cloud along the three scaling directions to obtain a scaled point cloud, so that the scaled point cloud has the same scale in the three scaling directions; and segmenting, by the device, the three-dimensional object based on the scaled point cloud to obtain a segmentation result.
US11481972B2
The method of performing dendrometry and forest mapping utilizes a stereoscopic camera system, coupled with a machine vision system, to determine the diameters at breast height of selected trees in a forest, based solely on calculations performed from recorded digital image data, as well as to generate a map showing the coordinates and calculated diameters of the selected trees in the forest. A ground plane is first determined, and then bounding box coordinates are generated about selected tree stems of the recorded images. The bounding boxes are evolved to determine stem edges of the selected tree stems, and the diameter of each tree at breast height is then determined. Geographic location data is acquired for each tree, allowing a map to be generated which shows the location of each selected tree, along with a tag representative of geolocation data and corresponding diameter data.
US11481967B2
Systems, apparatuses, and methods for executing a shader core instruction to invoke depth culling are disclosed. A shader core executes an instruction to invoke a culling function on a depth culling unit for one or more entities prior to completing a corresponding draw call. The shader core provides a mode and coordinates to the depth culling unit as a result of executing the instruction. The depth culling unit implements the culling function to access a live depth buffer to determine whether one or more primitives corresponding to the entities are occluded. The culling unit returns indication(s) to the shader core regarding the result(s) of processing the one or more primitives. For example, if the results indicate a primitive is occluded, the shader core cancels the draw call for the primitive.
US11481950B2
Graphics processing unit (GPU) performance and power efficiency is improved using machine learning to tune operating parameters based on performance monitor values and application information. Performance monitor values are processed using machine learning techniques to generate model parameters, which are used by a control unit within the GPU to provide real-time updates to the operating parameters. In one embodiment, a neural network processes the performance monitor values to generate operating parameters in real-time.
US11481944B2
Provided are a medical image processing apparatus, a medical image processing method, a program, and a diagnosis support apparatus that report a region of interest without hindering observation of the boundary between the region of interest and a region of non-interest in a medical image. A medical image processing apparatus includes a superimposition processing unit that superimposes, on a medical image, a figure for reporting a region of interest included in the medical image. The superimposition processing unit superimposes the figure on an inside of the region of interest such that at least part of a boundary between the region of interest and a region of non-interest is not superimposed with the figure, thereby reporting the region of interest without hindering observation of the boundary between the region of interest and the region of non-interest.
US11481940B2
Structural modifications to a person's face in a reference image are captured and automatically applied to the person's face in another image. The reference image is processed to compute landmark information on the person's face and apply a mesh to the reference image. When structural modifications are made to the person's face in the reference image, the mesh is modified, and the modified mesh is stored in association with the landmark information. Another image is analyzed to compute landmark information on the person's face in that image and apply a mesh to the image. A transformation matrix is computed using the landmark information from the reference image and current image, and the modified mesh from the reference image is transformed using the transformation matrix. The mesh in the current image is modified using the transformed mesh, thereby applying the structural modification to the person's face in the current image.
US11481934B2
An exemplary system, method and computer-accessible medium for generating an image(s) of a portion(s) of a patient(s) can be provided, which can include, for example, receiving first information associated with a combination of positron emission tomography (PET) information and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) information, generating second information by applying a convolutional neural network(s) (CNN) to the first information, and generating the image(s) based on the second information. The PET information can be fluorodeoxyglucose PET information. The CNN(s) can include a plurality of convolution layers and a plurality of parametric activation functions. The parametric activation functions can include, e.g., a plurality of parametric rectified linear units. Each of the convolution layers can include, e.g., a plurality of filter kernels. The PET information can be reconstructed using a maximum likelihood estimation (MLE) procedure to generate a MLE image.
US11481933B1
An apparatus, method, and computer readable medium that include accessing a frame buffer of a graphics processing unit (GPU), analyzing, in the frame buffer of the GPU, a first frame representing a first section of a stream of displayed data that is being displayed by the apparatus, the first frame including secondary digital content, analyzing, in the frame buffer of the GPU, a second frame, the second frame including the secondary digital content, determining a change in a position of the secondary digital content from the first frame to the second frame based on a comparison between the first frame and the second frame of the displayed data, and overlaying the secondary digital content in the second frame of the displayed data based on the determined change in the position of the secondary digital content.
US11481932B2
Example embodiments described herein relate to an augmented-reality system to generate and cause display of interactive augmented reality content at a client device.
US11481921B2
Systems and methods for determining the amount of time that an object occupies a predetermined space are provided. In one implementation, a system comprises a sensor configured to determine a start time when a recognizable object enters a predetermined space. The sensor is further configured to determine an end time when the recognizable object leaves the predetermined space. The system also includes a processing device configured to determine an elapsed time, based on the start time and the end time, when the recognizable object remains in the predetermined space.
US11481920B2
An information processing apparatus includes a scene obtaining unit and a suitability determining unit. The scene obtaining unit is configured to obtain a scene including position and attitude information of a movable object equipped with a camera and information regarding a three-dimensional shape of an object to be imaged, the object to be imaged being imaged by the camera. The suitability determining unit is configured to determine suitability of the scene on the basis of suitability data indicating whether or not the obtained scene is suitable for localizing processing.
US11481919B2
An image recognition device includes: an image processing device that acquires a feature amount from an image; and an identification device that determines whether a prescribed identification object is present in the image, and identifies the identification object. The identification device includes a BNN that has learned the identification object in advance, and performs identification processing by performing a binary calculation with the BNN on the feature amount acquired by the image processing device. Then, the identification device selects a portion effective for identification from among high-dimensional feature amounts output by the image processing device to reduce the dimensions used in identification processing, and copies low-dimensional feature amounts output by the image processing device to increase dimensions.
US11481907B2
An image processing apparatus includes a memory configured to store first region detection information of a first frame; and a processor. The processor is configured to: identify a first pixel region corresponding to the first region detection information from a second frame, perform region growing processing on the first pixel region based on an adjacent pixel region that is adjacent to the first pixel region, obtain second region detection information of the second frame, based on the region growing processing, and perform image processing on the second frame based on the second region detection information.
US11481901B2
There is provided a medical image processing apparatus which includes a first extraction unit configured to extract coronary arteries depicted in images of a plurality of time phases relating to the heart, and to extract at least one stenosed part depicted in each coronary artery; a calculation unit configured to calculate a pressure gradient of each of the extracted coronary arteries, based on tissue blood flow volumes of the coronary arteries; a second extraction unit configured to extract an ischemic region depicted in the images; and a specifying unit configured to specify a responsible blood vessel of the ischemic region by referring to a dominance map, in which each of the extracted coronary arteries and a dominance territory are associated, for the extracted ischemic region, and to specify a responsible stenosis, based on the pressure gradient corresponding to a stenosed part in the specified responsible blood vessel.
US11481900B2
In variants, a method for automated gamete selection can include: sampling a video of a scene having a plurality of gametes, tracking each gamete across successive images, and determining attribute values for a gamete, and selecting the gamete. The attribute values can be determined using a model trained to predict the attribute values for the gamete based on a video.
US11481897B2
Methods and systems for angiographic imaging with optical coherence tomography (OCT) are described using ratio-based and angiographic deviation based calculations. In using these calculations to determine motion, arbitrary interframe permutations may be used, post- calculated, non-linear results for projection visualization may be averaged, poor matches may be eliminated on an A-line by A-line basis, windowing functions may be used to improve results, partial spectrums may be used when capturing data, and a minimum intensity threshold may be used for determining which pixels to use.
US11481887B2
The present invention is directed to a system for measuring surface flatness, deformation and/or coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE) of a specimen comprising an image capture and analysis processing calibration means for performing image capture and analysis processing calibration of said system, a measuring means for measuring surface flatness of a specimen in a specimen holder, a heating means for heating said sample holder with a predetermined profile, and a control means for providing the predetermined heating profile onto the surface of said specimen and controlling operations of said image capture and analysis processing calibration means, said measuring means, and said heating means.
US11481867B2
A method and a device for registering three-dimensional data are disclosed. The method for registering three-dimensional data comprises: generating first two-dimensional data by two-dimensionally converting first three-dimensional data indicating a surface of a three-dimensional model of a target, generating second two-dimensional data by two-dimensionally converting second three-dimensional data indicating at least a part of the three-dimensional surface of the target; determining a first matching region in the first two-dimensional data and a second matching region in the second two-dimensional data by matching the second two-dimensional data to the first two-dimensional data; setting, as initial position, a plurality of points of the first three-dimensional data, which correspond to the first matching region and a plurality of points of the second three-dimensional data, which correspond to the second matching region; and registering the first three-dimensional data and the second three-dimensional data using the initial position.
US11481861B1
A system and method runs a query using a GPU and generates a visualization of the query using the same GPU.
US11481860B2
A system for increasing the betting level of profitability via a bet information advisor platform and methods of use, a computer platform having applications to select or identify Bet Information data sources, assign an Age consistency score to each Bet Information data source based on age of source assign a ROI score to each Bet Information data source for each match or game outcome based on profits earned or lost, assign or calculate an Overall Efficiency score for each Bet Information data sources based on Age consistency score and ROI grade/percentage score, utilize Bet Information data sources with an Overall Efficiency score greater than or equal to Threshold for current plays or bets, allocate x %/y %/z % plays or bets to Bet Information data sources 1×/2×/3× Threshold, track each losing positons and the Bet Information data sources associated therewith, assign an increased Risk Amount to the losing Bet Information data sources.
US11481857B2
Methods and systems for generating a product packaging model for a product offering of a set of product items associated with a merchant account. At an e-commerce platform, a trigger event is detected and, in response, two or more product items are automatically selected to form a kit that makes up the product offering. Model data for the two or more product items and packaging parameters are used to automatically select a packaging option and to build a product packaging model that is sent to the merchant account. The product packaging model may be a three-dimensional computer model of the kit containing the two or more product items.
US11481849B1
Techniques are described for providing insurance coverage for a virtual wallet stored on a computing device. The virtual wallet has a value equal to a sum of assigned values of a plurality of virtual financial assets included in the virtual wallet. A user of the computing device purchases an insurance policy for the virtual wallet with an insured amount based on the value of the virtual wallet. The computing device is configured to send messages to an insurance server reporting an updated value of the virtual wallet based on changes to the assigned values of the virtual financial assets. The insurance server updates the insured amount of the insurance policy based on the updated value of the virtual wallet. Upon the virtual wallet being compromised, the insurance policy has an insured amount equal to the most recent updated value of the virtual wallet.
US11481848B1
A system for generating and managing usage-based contracts using blockchains configured to (i) store an insurance contract for a currently occurring or upcoming trip, where the insurance contract is to insure the driver, passenger, and/or vehicle during the trip, where the insurance contract includes terms, conditions, or other clauses (e.g., mileage limitations, limitations on autonomous vehicle operation, etc.) and is in a blockchain structure, and where several nodes store copies of the insurance contract in the blockchain structure; (ii) receive, from the driver and/or (autonomous) vehicle, a requested modification of one or more terms, conditions, or other clauses of the insurance contract, (iii) transmit the requested modification to an insurance auction network, (iv) receive a response to the request from the insurance auction network; and (v) store the response in a new block in the insurance contract (e.g., a smart contract) to facilitate providing trip insurance in a transparent manner.
US11481847B1
Systems, methods, apparatuses and computer-readable media for receiving data from one or more sensors associated with one or more home devices, such as appliances, home systems, etc. are provided. The data may be used to determine whether the home device is operating within an expected range or, if it is outside of an expected range or threshold, whether a home event has occurred. Upon occurrence of the home event, an insurance claim to cover any damage caused by the home event may be initiated and/or processed. In some examples, repair of any damage may also be coordinated by the system. In some arrangements, the initiation and/or processing of the claim, and/or coordination of the repair may be performed without any additional input from the user associated with the policy, home device, etc. or with limited additional input from the user.
US11481846B2
A claim adjudication system including an automatic adjudication pipeline that uses pipeline rules to automatically adjudicate a claim associated with a benefit plan at one or more stages. The automatic adjudication pipeline can redirect the claim to a user interface for manual review when a pipeline rule associated with a manual review condition is triggered. The user interface can present information about the claim relevant to the manual review condition in an integrated format, including highlighting the reasons for the manual review. A user can evaluate the claim in the user interface and provide user input that addresses the manual review condition, and the claim can be routed back to the automatic adjudication pipeline. The user input can also be used as training data for machine learning to adjust pipeline rules that are used to automatically process claims and to redirect future claims for manual review.
US11481844B1
System and methods provide customizable insurance according to consumer preferences. Demand simulators guide the creation of optimized packages of features, which consumers may select from to form an insurance package appropriate for their particular needs. Packages may be formed with a particular appeal to consumers with common needs, wants, or characteristics. In addition, methods and systems are provided for presenting insurance packages for consideration by customers over a network. Presented insurance packages may be formed through an optimization process or according to customer preferences.
US11481839B1
In some examples, a computing device may process a plurality of transactions initiating on at least one of mobile applications or web applications. The computing device may determine eligibility of a first merchant to receive an offer for financing based on one or more attributes of transactions, of the plurality of transactions, that are associated with the first merchant or one or more similar merchants. In addition, the computing device may generate the offer for financing for a particular amount based on the eligibility of the merchant. Further, the computing device may cause presentation of the offer for financing on a first merchant computing device associated with the first merchant. For example, the offer may specify terms for the financing and terms of repayment, the terms of repayment including using a portion of funds from at least one additional transaction for repayment.
US11481834B2
A method and system for displaying and managing products with artificial realities. An N-layer digital image is created that includes an M-layer hierarchy of vector images and/or visual overlays in progressive resolution format and allows progressive resolution display without loss of image quality for selected plural consumer products that appear in the N-layer digital image. Plural artificial reality objects are created with physical location information and product information. Consumer products are displayed via the N-layer digital image from a server network device via a communications network whenever a target network device matches a current physical location included in the physical location information in an artificial reality object.
US11481818B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for automatically determining property value, the systems and methods perform operations comprising: receiving, by a server, subject real-estate property listing information associated with a subject real-estate property; identifying a plurality of comparable real-estate property listings based on attributes of the subject real-estate property listing information; processing the subject real-estate property listing information together with the plurality of comparable real-estate property listings using a trained machine learning technique to predict a value for the subject real-estate property, the trained machine learning technique being trained to jointly establish a relationship between weights assigned to a set of training comparable real-estate property listings and value adjustments of the set of training comparable real-estate property listings and a value of a real-estate property of interest; and performing an action with respect to the subject real-estate property based on the predicted value of the subject real-estate property.
US11481817B2
Described herein are embodiments of a multi-platform integration system. A multi-platform integration system includes a computing system. The computing system hosts an application. The computing system configured to receive a first request from a user device to execute an instance of the application and transmit a graphical user interface (GUI) to the user device to be rendered on a display of the user device, receive a second request, via the GUI, from the user device to deploy a digital advertisement. The computing system is further configured to interface with each one of the platforms in the set of platforms and integrate the digital advertisement directly with each one of selected platforms.
US11481815B1
The Bidding on an Asset in Progress (BAIP) system allows live, real-time bidding on a work (song, artwork, invention, story, concept, etc.) during its inception and evolution. The system captures video and/or audio of the work and/or artist during inception and creation and/or production of the work. The live performance in the auction can take place in a metaverse. Depending on how the artist/musician/creator sets up an auction, fans can bid on digital representations of versions and/or parts of the work, the recorded video and/or audio of the work being created, the physical work created, specific copyright rights, and supplemental assets associated with the work or the artist/musician/creator. Such a system enables bidding on any number of combinations of assets captured, created, or modified during one or more auctions. Fans can band together to bid on any asset and establish fractionalized ownership that is optionally governed through a DAO. After completion of the work and auction, ownership of the asset(s) is preferably transferred through NFTs and the winning bidder(s) receives the finished asset(s) (digital and/or physical).
US11481808B2
Systems, methods, and apparatuses for identifier matching and management are described herein. In various embodiments, the system includes a distributed architecture for receiving and matching public and secure identifiers associated with a particular consumer. In particular embodiments, the system uses the matched public and secure identifiers to transmit one or more messages to the particular consumer.
US11481807B2
A method for creating a unique digital experience based upon meeting a predefined threshold of users within a system comprising: detecting a machine-readable code with a user device and determining an identification of a user, the user device, or both; determining whether the identification of the user device contains a unique ID by querying a server; wherein if no unique ID is identified, issuing the unique ID to the user device; storing the unique ID within a database; determining a threshold of users for the system, wherein unique digital coupons are held until the meeting of said threshold; meeting said threshold and generating a unique digital coupon, said digital coupon being unique to the unique ID; and delivering the unique digital coupon to said user device.
US11481795B2
A system is provided that uses location aware technologies in a variety of environments including retail environments and workplace environments. Location aware technologies associated with computing devices such as mobile phones are used to track users as they move within an environment. With respect to retail environments, a loyalty application may be installed in the phone of a customer that can provide the location of the customer to the retail environment. When it is determined that the customer is near the retail environment, a user profile associated with the customer can be used to select offers or promotions that can be displayed to the customer by the loyalty application to encourage the customer to enter the retail environment. When it is determined that the customer is inside the retail environment, the location of the customer can be used to determine where to dispatch an employee to interact with the customer.
US11481784B2
A system and method are disclosed in which a user engaging in an online or in-person transaction with a merchant may create automatic expiring transactions for a credit card. The user provides the credit card information to an online interface or a point-of-sale device but specifies an expiration date that is on or before the actual expiration date of the credit card, known as an artificial expiration date. A token for the merchant is generated with the artificial expiration date. The issuing bank will honor the transaction with the artificial expiration date using the merchant-specific token, and the token may continue to be used with the online merchant until the artificial expiration date.
US11481780B2
A mobile consumer device with a display, processor(s), and memory: identifies a merchant device in proximity to the consumer device based on broadcasted information transmitted by the first merchant device, the broadcasted information including a first identifier corresponding to the first merchant device; transmits the first identifier to a server and receives from the server an electronic communication including identification and transaction information associated with the merchant; displays the identification information, receives user selection of the merchant identification information; and in response, displays the merchant transaction information, receives supplemental user information, and transmits the supplemental transaction information to the server for completion of the transaction.
US11481778B2
A message processing server includes a message processor and a database of multi-layer tokens. Each token in the database includes a plurality of encrypted data layers. The first layer includes a first data pointer. A primary layer includes the first layer and identifies a reference data value. The message processor receives from a communications device an authentication request identifying a first data value, validates the authentication request from the first data value and the reference data value configured in one of the multi-layer tokens, receives a first authorization message including a first cryptographic key, derives a first decrypted data layer from the first cryptographic key and the first encrypted data layer of the one multi-layer token, and validates the first data pointer by receiving confirmation of the first data pointer pointing to a database entry comprising a second data value less than the reference data value.
US11481773B2
Aspects described herein may relate to a transaction exchange platform using a streaming data platform (SDP) and microservices to process transactions according to review and approval workflows. The transaction exchange platform may receive transactions from origination sources, which may be added to the SDP as transaction objects. Microservices on the transaction exchange platform may interact with the transaction objects based on configured workflows associated with the transactions. Processing on the transaction exchange platform may facilitate clearing and settlement of transactions. Some aspects may provide for dynamic and flexible reconfiguration of workflows and/or microservices. Other aspects may provide for data snapshots and workflow tracking, allowing for monitoring, quality control, and auditability of transactions on the transaction exchange platform.
US11481772B2
A mobile device presents representations of payment accepting unit events on a display, by identifying a payment accepting unit that is available to accept payment from a mobile payment application executing on the mobile device, displaying a visual indication of the payment accepting unit and accepting user input to receive selection of the payment accepting unit and trigger payment, establishing a wireless communication path including the mobile device and the payment accepting unit, enabling user interaction with the user interface to complete the transaction, exchanging information with the available payment accepting unit via the one or more radio transceivers in conjunction with the transaction, and displaying an updated user interface of the mobile payment application.
US11481757B2
Methods for wireless payments using the Bluetooth low energy (BLE) protocol are provided. A first method includes establishing a wireless-short range communication link from a communication device to a peripheral device associated with an access device. The communication device receives item level data associated with an item being processed by the access device. The communication device displays the item level data associated with the item and transmits payment data to the access device. A second method includes establishing wireless-short range communication link to from a peripheral device associated with an access device to a communication device. The peripheral device transmits item level data associated with an item being processed by the access device, wherein the communication device displays the item level data associated with the item and receives payment data from the communication device.
US11481752B2
A commodity purchase system for assisting a customer not in a store in making a purchase includes a relay server, a first terminal, and second terminal. The first terminal captures an image of commodities in the store, and the second terminal displays the image and detects a user selection operation at a position in the image, and then issues a scan request with information indicating a position in the image at which the selection operation was been made. Upon receipt of the scan request, the first terminal, display the image on which the selection operation was made with the position of the selection operation being marked in the image. The first terminal can then be used to scan one of the commodities and transmit, to the relay server, scanned commodity information. The relay server then registers the scanned commodities for purchase.
US11481747B2
Systems, methods, and apparatuses for implementing, managing, controlling, or otherwise processing customer recurrence data for transactions, such as a transaction between a customer and a resource provider, e.g., a merchant.
US11481744B2
Example techniques relate to discovery and media control at a point-of-sale display.
US11481742B2
Systems, methods, and apparatus for handling and/or authorizing payment requests by a consumer for a transaction are provided. Challenge questions may be presented from the non-merchant to the consumer after receiving the payment information, thereby allowing a Judicious determination of when to ask such challenge questions and allowing complex and probative questions. The time limit for such challenge questions may advantageously be unconstrained, while still preserving security. Also, a risk analysis may be started prior to the consumer submitting payment information, thus showing an efficient and complex risk analysis. Information about an access device used by the consumer may be obtained at the non-merchant from the access device with code sent to the access device from the merchant, and the device information may be used in the risk analysis.
US11481741B2
Described is a technology for facilitating money transfer between a sender and a recipient by use of a payment proxy associated with the recipient. The technology enables a sender, who desires to send cash to a recipient, using an application (e.g., a payment service application, a messaging application, etc.), to specify the recipient by inputting, in a message being created using the application, one or more alphanumeric characters and a monetary currency indicator prefixing the alphanumeric characters (e.g., $alex). The monetary currency indicator operates as a tagging mechanism that indicates to a computer system, receiving the message, to treat the input(s) as a request from the sender to transfer cash, wherein detection of a specified syntax, which includes the alphanumeric character tagged by a monetary currency indicator, triggers a transfer of cash.
US11481707B2
Provided are a business default prediction system and an operation method thereof. The method includes collecting a plurality of news articles on the Internet, selecting a business that is an analysis target, classifying news articles related to an analysis target business among the plurality of collected news articles into analysis target articles, calculating a risk level for each of the analysis target articles, generating feature vectors representing each group by performing grouping of the analysis target articles based on the calculated risk level, and calculating the default risk of the analysis target business based on the generated feature vectors.
US11481695B2
Systems and devices related to a transportation device sharing system including vehicles with integrated docking ports are disclosed. In one embodiment, a vehicle includes a docking system for a transportation device, including a docking port, adapted to receive the transportation device and secure the transportation device, a communication device to wirelessly transmit and receive data, one or more processors, and a memory communicably coupled to the one or more processors and storing a status module including instructions that when executed by the one or more processors cause the one or more processors to determine whether the transportation device is present in the docking port and cause the communication device to transmit location data indicating a location of the vehicle, and status data, indicating at least the presence or absence of the transportation device in the docking port, to an external receiver.
US11481685B2
Call propensity source data may be received that include a first percentage of call propensity source data that correspond to presence of post-visit phone calls to a customer service of an entity after some customer visits to a web site of an entity and a second percentage of call propensity source data that correspond to absence of post-visit phone calls to the customer service after other customer visits to the website. A machine-learning model is trained based on a plurality of features in at least a portion of the call propensity source data to generate a trained machine-learning model. The trained machine-learning model is applied to multiple features included in at least one of corresponding website activity data and corresponding activity error data of a customer to generate a probability score that measures a likelihood of the customer calling the customer service regarding an issue that is unresolved via the website.
US11481684B2
A system and method for batched, supervised, in-situ machine learning classifier retraining for malware identification and model heterogeneity. The method produces a parent classifier model in one location and providing it to one or more in-situ retraining system or systems in a different location or locations, adjudicates the class determination of the parent classifier over the plurality of the samples evaluated by the in-situ retraining system or systems, determines a minimum number of adjudicated samples required to initiate the in-situ retraining process, creates a new training and test set using samples from one or more in-situ systems, blends a feature vector representation of the in-situ training and test sets with a feature vector representation of the parent training and test sets, conducts machine learning over the blended training set, evaluates the new and parent models using the blended test set and additional unlabeled samples, and elects whether to replace the parent classifier with the retrained version.
US11481682B2
A method, a computer system, and a computer program product for managing a dataset of training samples, labeled by class, during training of a machine learning model is provided. Embodiments of the present invention may include training the model on a sequence of increasing-sized sets of the training samples and testing performance of the model after training with each set to obtain class-specific performance metrics corresponding to each set size. Embodiments of the present invention may include generating class-specific learning curves from the performance metrics for the plurality of classes. Embodiments of the present invention may include extrapolating the learning curves. Embodiments of the present invention may include optimizing a function of the predicted performance metrics to identify a set of augmentation actions to augment the dataset for further training of the model. Embodiments of the present invention may include providing an output indicative of the set of augmentation actions.
US11481681B2
A system for training a classification model to be robust against perturbations of multiple perturbation types. A perturbation type defines a set of allowed perturbations. The classification model is trained by, in an outer iteration, selecting a set of training instances of a training dataset; selecting, among perturbations allowed by the multiple perturbation types, one or more perturbations for perturbing the selected training instances to maximize a loss function; and updating the set of parameters of the classification model to decrease the loss for the perturbed instances. A perturbation is determined by, in an inner iteration, determining updated perturbations allowed by respective perturbation types of the multiple perturbation types and selecting an updated perturbation that most increases the loss of the classification model.
US11481680B2
Methods, systems, and computer program products for verifying confidential machine learning models are provided herein. A computer-implemented method includes obtaining (i) a set of training data and (ii) a request, from a requestor, for a machine learning model, wherein the request is accompanied by at least a set of test data; obtaining a commitment from a provider in response to the request, the commitment comprising a special hash corresponding to parameters of a candidate machine learning model trained on the set of training data; revealing the set of test data to the requestor; obtaining, from the requestor, (i) a claim of performance of the candidate machine learning model for the test data and (ii) a proof of the performance of the candidate machine learning model; and verifying the claimed performance for the requestor based on (i) the special hash and (ii) the proof of the claimed performance.
US11481678B2
Embodiments of the disclosure relate to learning new watermark algorithms for artificial intelligence (AI) models for a data processing (DP) accelerator. In one embodiment, a system trains a watermark algorithm based on a predetermined set of criteria, where the watermark algorithm is trained to generate variations of the watermark algorithm. The system configures the watermark unit at runtime with a variation of the watermark algorithm for the watermark algorithm to be used by the DP accelerator.
US11481677B2
Various aspects described herein relate to a machine learning based signal recovery. In one example, a computer-implemented method of noise contaminated signal recovery includes receiving, at a server, a first signal including a first portion and a second portion, the first portion indicative of data collected by a plurality of sensors, the second portion representing noise; performing a first denoising process on the first signal to filter out the noise to yield a first denoised signal; applying a machine learning model to determine a residual signal indicative of a difference between the first signal and the first denoised signal; and determining a second signal by adding the residual signal to the first denoised signal, the second signal comprising (i) signals of the first portion with higher magnitudes than the noise in the second portion, and (ii) signals of the first portion having lower magnitudes than the noise in the second portion.
US11481676B2
In an example embodiment, a process is introduced into a machine learned model where additional results are output by the machine learned model in addition to those results that would be obtained through use of the trained model itself. In some example embodiments, these additional results may be random or semi-random to introduce results that might otherwise not have been recommended by the machine learned model. By introducing such additional results in a controlled way, it becomes possible to reduce biases caused by a self-reinforcing feedback loop while still presenting users with accurate machine learned model results.
US11481669B2
A digital processor runs a machine learning algorithm in parallel with a sampling server. The sampling sever may continuously or intermittently draw samples for the machine learning algorithm during execution of the machine learning algorithm, for example on a given problem. The sampling server may run in parallel (e.g., concurrently, overlapping, simultaneously) with a quantum processor to draw samples from the quantum processor.
US11481664B2
A method of transferring operational parameter sets between different domains of additive manufacturing machines includes creating a first machine domain parameter set in a first machine domain, accessing a model of a second additive manufacturing in a second machine domain, creating a second machine domain parameter set by applying transfer learning techniques including learning differences between the first machine domain and the second machine domain, adjusting the first machine domain parameter set using the differences before incorporation into the second machine domain to obtain the second machine domain parameter set, the second machine domain parameter set representing operational settings for the second additive manufacturing machine, the second additive manufacturing machine producing a product sample, determining if the product sample is within quality assurance metrics, and if the product sample is not within the quality assurance metrics, adjusting the second machine domain parameter set.
US11481651B2
A method and apparatus for certification of facts introduces a certifier and a fact certificate into the fact-exchange cycle that enables parties to exchange trustworthy facts. Certification is provided to a fact presenter during the first part of the fact-exchange cycle, and verification is provided to the fact receiver during the last part of the cycle. To request a certification, a fact presenter presents the Certifier with a fact. In return, the certifier issues a fact certificate, after which the fact presenter presents the fact certificate to the fact receiver instead of presenting the fact itself. The receiver inspects the received certificate in order to evaluate the fact's validity and trustworthiness. For some facts and notions of verification, the certificate is sufficient and its inspection does not require any communication. For others, the receiver requests a verification service from the Certifier in order to complete the verification.
US11481648B2
Methods and systems are provided for determining the category of a software application utilizing machine learning (ML) and knowledge graph techniques, and for controlling access to the application by a user based on the category and configured time restrictions for the user. The system includes a feature set extractor and a category predictor with a trained ML model. The trained ML model generates the category of the application based on a feature(s) of the application. The generated category is indicated in a data structure. An access request handler receives a request related to access to the application from a user device. A category determiner determines the category of the application from the data structure. A time usage manager determines an available time usage for the category and the specified user. The access arbiter responds to the request from the user device with the available time usage.
US11481646B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for selecting a text span from an input electronic document that answers an input question. One of the methods includes obtaining a respective first numeric representations of text spans in the input document; for each of the text spans: determining, for a segment that contains the text span, a question-aware segment vector, determining, for the question, a segment-aware question vector, and processing the first numeric representation of the text span, the question-aware segment vector, and the segment-aware question vector using a second feedforward neural network to generate a second numeric representation of the text span; for each unique text span in the plurality of text spans: determining an aggregate representation for the unique text span, and determining, from the aggregate representation, a final score for the unique text span; and selecting a unique text span.
US11481644B2
A system includes at least one connector configured to gather at least partially incomplete data from at least one data source. The gathered data is communicated to a model definition module that converts at least a subset of the gathered data into a prediction model in accordance with a received definition. A prediction module receives a prediction query and, in response, supplies an event prediction based on the prediction model.
US11481638B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for augmenting a neural network with additional operations. One of the methods includes maintaining, by a computational graph system that manages execution of computational graphs representing neural network operations for users of the computational graph system, data specifying a plurality of pre-trained neural networks, wherein each of the pre-trained neural networks is a neural network that has been trained on training data to determine trained values of the respective parameters of the neural network; obtaining data specifying a user computational graph representing neural network operations, the user computational graph comprising a plurality of nodes connected by edges; identifying (i) an insertion point after a first node in the user computational graph and (ii) a particular pre-trained neural network from the plurality of pre-trained neural networks; and inserting a remote call node into the user computational graph.
US11481637B2
An electronic device that includes a controller functional block and a computational functional block having one or more computational elements performs operations associated with a training operation for a generative adversarial network, the generative adversarial network including a generative network and a discriminative network. The controller functional block determines one or more characteristics of the generative adversarial network. Based on the one or more characteristics, the controller functional block configures the one or more computational elements to perform processing operations for each of the generative network and the discriminative network during the training operation for the generative adversarial network.
US11481634B2
A device includes a control input generator and a neural network trainer. A flight simulator is configured to generate first state data responsive to a first control input from the control input generator and to provide the first state data to a first neural network to generate a candidate second control input. The control input generator is also configured to select, based on a random value, a second control input from between the candidate second control input and a randomized offset control input that is based on a random offset applied to the first control input. The flight simulator is configured to generate second state data responsive to the second control input from the control input generator. The neural network trainer is configured to update weights of the first neural network based, at least in part, on the first state data and the second state data.
US11481630B2
A machining condition adjustment device includes a data acquisition unit that acquires at least one piece of data indicating a state of machining including a machining type in a machine tool, a priority condition storage unit that stores priority condition data in which the machining type is associated with a priority condition, a preprocessing unit that produces data to be used for machine learning, and a machine learning device that carries out processing of the machine learning related to at least either of a machining condition and a machining parameter for machining by the machine tool. The machine learning device includes a learning model storage unit that stores a plurality of learning models generated for each machining type and a learning model selection unit that selects a learning model, based on the machining type.
US11481620B2
In an approach to deriving highly accurate models, one or more computer processors train a set of machine learning models utilizing a training set and a deep learning algorithm; generate one or more feedback data sets for each model in the set of trained models; rank each model in the set of trained models based on the generated feedback data sets; dynamically adjust one or more thresholds, that initiate a retraining or deployment of one or more ranked models, based, at least in part, on one or more production environment requirements; responsive to exceeding one or more adjusted thresholds, automatically deploy one or more ranked models to one or more deployment environments based, at least in part, on the ranking of the one or more trained models; responsive to not exceeding one or more adjusted thresholds, retrain each model in the set of trained models.
US11481616B2
To obtain one or more recommendations for the migration of a database to a cloud computing system, information about performance of the database operating under a workload may be obtained. A first machine learning model (e.g., a neural network-based autoencoder) may be used to generate a compressed representation of characteristics of the database operating under the workload. The compressed representation may then be provided as input to a second machine learning model (e.g., a neural network-based classifier), which outputs a recommendation regarding a characteristic (e.g., size, configuration, level of service) of the cloud database to which the database should be migrated. This type of recommendation may be made prior to migration, thereby making it easier to properly estimate the cost of running the cloud database and plan the migration accordingly.
US11481610B2
A neuro-bionic device based on a two-dimensional Ti3C2 material is provided. The device includes a Pt/Ti/SiO2/Si substrate, a neuro-bionic layer formed on a Pt film layer of the Pt/Ti/SiO2/Si substrate, and an Al electrode layer formed on the neuro-bionic layer. The neuro-bionic layer is made of a two-dimensional Ti3C2 material. The neuro-bionic device of the present invention is prepared by an evaporating coating method and a drop-coating method. The preparation process is relatively simple. The prepared device can successfully simulate the characteristics of synapse. More importantly, the resistance of the device can be modulated continuously under a scanning of a pulse sequence with pulse width and interval of 10 ns, which is beneficial to the application of the device in the ultrafast synapse simulation.
US11481608B2
A processor-implemented neural network method includes: determining a respective probability density function (PDF) of normalizing a statistical distribution of parameter values, for each channel of each of a plurality of feature maps of a pre-trained neural network; determining, for each channel, a corresponding first quantization range for performing quantization of corresponding parameter values, based on a quantization error and a quantization noise of the respective determined PDF; determining, for each channel, a corresponding second quantization range, based on a signal-to-quantization noise ratio (SQNR) of the respective determined PDF; correcting, for each channel, the corresponding first quantization range based on the corresponding second quantization range; and generating a quantized neural network, based on the corrected first quantization range corresponding for each channel.
US11481604B2
The present disclosure relates to neural network processing apparatus and method. An exemplary neural network processing apparatus includes: a memory for storing data; an operation unit to perform an operation on a first batch of tensors; a statistics determination unit communicatively coupled to the operation unit and configured to receive an output from the operation unit and determine statistics from the output; and a normalization unit communicatively coupled to the memory and the statistics determination unit and configured to receive a second batch of tensors from the memory and the statistics from the statistics determination unit and to normalize the second batch of tensors using the statistics.
US11481591B1
Embodiments are directed to rectifiers using a single bias current or bias current path to bias multiple rectifying elements. A rectifier that has multiple rectifier stages coupled together serially includes a bias current path coupled to each of the rectifier stages. The bias current path is configured to simultaneously bias rectifying elements in each of the rectifier stages by using a bias current to bias a first rectifying element and reusing the bias current to bias other rectifying elements.
US11481590B1
A pill bottle for prescribed pills includes: a circular top portion having an aperture; a circular bottom portion; walls that form a cylinder and connect the circular top portion with the circular bottom portion; and a pattern of electrically conductive ink disposed on an exterior surface of the walls.
US11481588B2
An image forming apparatus configured to perform high-quality image formation regardless of an accuracy of mounting surface emitting element array chips includes an image data generating portion configured to generate pixel data equivalent to 2,400 dpi; a joint correcting portion configured to correct a misregistration amount at a joint between a predetermined surface emitting element array chip and a surface emitting element array chip arranged adjacent to the predetermined surface emitting element array chip; and a resolution converting portion configured to convert a resolution of the pixel data from 2,400 dpi to 1,200 dpi. The joint correcting portion is configured to correct the misregistration amount at the joint with respect to pixel data obtained after the resolution thereof is converted by the resolution converting portion.
US11481582B2
A method for matching a sensed signal to a concept structure, the method may include: receiving a sensed signal; generating a signature of the input image; comparing the signature of the input image to signatures of a concept structure; determining whether the signature of the input image matches any of the signatures of the concept structure based on signature matching criteria, wherein each signature of the concept structure is associated within a signature matching criterion that is determined based on an object detection parameter of the signature; and concluding that the input image comprises an object associated with the concept structure based on an outcome of the determining.
US11481579B2
Aspects of the disclosure provide for automatically generating labels for sensor data. For instance first sensor data for a first vehicle is identified. The first sensor data is defined in both a global coordinate system and a local coordinate system for the first vehicle. A second vehicle is identified based on a second location of the second vehicle within a threshold distance of the first vehicle within the first timeframe. The second vehicle is associated with second sensor data that is further associated with a label identifying a location of an object, and the location of the object is defined in a local coordinate system of the second vehicle. A conversion from the local coordinate system of the second vehicle to the local coordinate system of the first vehicle may be determined and used to transfer the label from the second sensor data to the first sensor data.
US11481566B2
In an induction system for use with an object processing system, a distribution system is disclosed for providing dissimilar objects into one of a plurality of receiving units. The distribution system includes a conveyor section that travels over a vacuum roller, and the plurality of receiving units arranged generally below the vacuum roller such that an object with a mass will fall toward one of the plurality of receiving units based on both the object's mass and a vacuum force applied to the object through the conveyor section.
US11481554B2
Techniques are described herein for training and evaluating machine learning (ML) models for document processing computing applications using generalized vocabulary tokens. In some embodiments, an ML system determines a set of tokens for non-textual content in a plurality of documents. The ML system generates a fixed-length vocabulary that includes the set of tokens for the non-textual content. The ML system further generates for each respective document in a training dataset of documents, a respective feature vector based at least in part on which tokens in the fixed-length vocabulary occur in the respective document. The ML system trains a ML model based at least in part on the respective feature vector for each respective document in the training dataset.
US11481550B2
A method for generating presentation slides with distilled content including receiving one or more data files as source material for slide generation, obtaining content from the one or more data files for a slide of a slide presentation, identifying a layout template for the slide based on the content, and distilling the content into distilled content to generate a presentation visualization item based on the distilled content. The distilled content may include a subset of the content. The method may also include generating the slide based on the presentation visualization item and the layout template.
US11481544B2
A form processing apparatus includes a processor. The processor is configured to, in a case of extracting text data located near a pre-registered item in a form as data associated with the item, display a form to be processed to register an item, accept from a user an area to be filled in with data to be extracted, the area being included in the form to be processed, and display a text located at a position near the accepted area as a candidate for the item.
US11481538B2
An electronic device, when in a first tilted state, displays a content page in a sketch mode, which includes displaying a zoomed view of a portion of the content page, and configuring the zoomed view of the portion of the content page to accept user inputs modifying content in the first portion of the content page. While displaying the content page in the sketch mode, the device detects that it is tilted from the first tilted state to a distinct second tilted state, and in response, displays the content page in an overview mode, which includes zooming out to display an overview of the content page. Optionally, displaying the content page in the overview mode includes displaying an input position indicator over the overview of the content page to indicate the portion of the content page previously displayed in the zoomed view.
US11481536B2
A method includes the following operations: receiving design rule violations of a first layout; classifying, according to first chip features of the first layout, a first violation of the design rule violations into a first class of predefined classes; generating a first vector array for at least one of the first chip features of the first layout, that is associated with the first violation; selecting, according to the first vector array, first operations from pre-stored operations; generating a second layout based on the first layout and the first operations.
US11481534B2
A method, computer program product, and a computer system are disclosed for providing a trace abstraction framework to compute trace-based functional coverage models that in one or more embodiments receive a set of traces; rewrite a trace of the set of traces into a second trace; abstract the second trace; rewrite the abstracted second trace; and generate an abstract trace representative the trace of the set of traces.
US11481531B2
A method includes, for a first tool-log variable of a set of tool-log variables, comparing a first tool-log variable result from a first integrated circuit (IC) manufacturing recipe to a first tool-log variable result from a second IC manufacturing recipe. The set of tool-log variables corresponds to one or more tool-logs generated from execution of the first IC manufacturing recipe and the second IC manufacturing recipe on an IC manufacturing tool. Based on the comparison, performing an operation of generating instructions to add one of the first IC manufacturing recipe or the second IC manufacturing recipe to an IC manufacturing recipe library, or performing an operation of generating a defense report for one of the first IC manufacturing recipe or the second IC manufacturing recipe.
US11481517B2
Systems, methods, and software products, determine permission profiles for computer executable functions (functions). The systems, methods and software products, utilize both static analysis and dynamic analysis, in order to determine the minimal set of permissions based on the inter-relations between these two analysis methods, i.e., static analysis, and dynamic analysis, to determine the permission profiles for computer executable functions (functions).
US11481511B2
A system for storing and managing secure information is disclosed that includes a secure identity and profiling system, which serves as a middleman between a user and an entity requesting personally identifiable information (PII) from the user. The system collects the PII from the user and stores it securely, such as in an alternate blockchain in an encrypted form. The location of the that PII within the alternate blockchain may be indexed using smart contracts in a main blockchain that can only be read with an access token generated and supplied by the user's mobile device. When an entity requests PII from the user that has already been collected and securely stored, the user can provide permission to release that PII by providing the access token. The system will use the access token to locate where the PII is stored and release the PII to the requesting entity.
US11481510B2
One embodiment provides a method, including: receiving, at an audio capture device associated with an information handling device, command input from a user; providing, to the user and responsive to receiving the command input, a confirmation query, wherein the confirmation query is formed utilizing context data associated with an authorized user; determining, using a processor, whether a response to the confirmation query provided by the user matches a predetermined answer; and performing, responsive to determining that the response matches the predetermined answer, a function corresponding to the command input. Other aspects are described and claimed.
US11481507B2
A method for processing an image of a physical document to show a redacted portion including: identifying a tag associated with the redacted portion and including first user rights; obtaining, using the identified tag, a digital copy of the physical document including a non-redacted form of the redacted portion; receiving, from an external device, second user rights; determining that the second user rights match the first user rights; outputting, based on the determination, information indicating that the non-redacted form of the redacted portion is able to be shown; receiving, in response to the non-redacted form being able to be shown, an instruction to display the non-redacted form; and displaying, based on the instruction and using a projector onto a surface a predetermined distance from the physical document, the non-redacted form of the redacted portion.
US11481504B2
A cloud-based communication framework. A client device may generate a file for an information technology (IT) device. The client device may request a password for the file. The password may be used to encrypt the file. A signature may be determined based on the encrypted file and the password. The signature and encrypted file may then be stored on a cloud-computing platform for downloading by the IT device, wherein the first signature is used by the IT device to validate authenticity of the encrypted file.
US11481502B2
A first computer system is scanned at configured, default time intervals by a software asset management (“SAM”) software application installed on the first computer system, wherein the scanning detects other software applications installed on the first computer system. The SAM software application generates a list of the other software applications installed on the first computer system and stores the list on a computer readable storage medium. An override software module triggers the SAM software application to perform an early scan of the first computer system, before a scan of the first computer system that the SAM software application would otherwise perform at a next default scan time. The triggering is in response to information obtained from a source external to the first computer system about a triggering one of the software applications on the list.
US11481501B2
Source code is scanned to generate a list of vulnerable tokens. Thereafter, the list of vulnerable tokens is inputted into a machine learning model to identify false positives in the list of vulnerable tokens. Based on this identification, the list of vulnerable tokens can be modified to remove the identified false positives. Related apparatus, systems, techniques and articles are also described.
US11481495B2
A method, apparatus and system for anomaly detection in a processor based system includes training a deep learning sequence prediction model using observed baseline behavioral sequences of at least one processor behavior of the processor based system, predicting baseline behavioral sequences from the observed baseline behavioral sequences using the sequence prediction model, determining a baseline reconstruction error distribution profile using the baseline behavioral sequences and the predicted baseline behavioral sequences, predicting test behavioral sequences from observed, test behavioral sequences using the sequence prediction model, determining a testing reconstruction error distribution profile using the observed test behavioral sequences and the predicted test behavioral sequences, and comparing the baseline reconstruction error distribution profile to the testing reconstruction error distribution profile to determine if an anomaly exists in a processor behavior of the processor based system.
US11481493B2
A device may receive data identifying applications, wherein each application includes files and each file includes functions and lines of code. The device may generate file hashes for the files, line hashes for the lines of code, and function hashes for the functions. The device may store, in a data structure, data identifying one or more of the applications, the files, the lines of code, the functions, the file hashes, the line hashes, and the function hashes. When scanning a new application, the device may generate a hash associated with one of the files of the new application, and may determine that the hash associated with the file of the new application matches one of the file hashes. The device may refrain from performing a scan of the file of the new application based on determining that the hash of the file matches one of the file hashes.
US11481486B2
Examples of the present disclosure describe systems and methods for a behavioral threat detection engine. In examples, the behavioral threat detection engine manages execution of one or more virtual machines, wherein each virtual machine processes a rule in relation to a context. The behavioral threat detection engine uses any of a variety of techniques to identify when events occur. Accordingly, the behavioral threat detection engine provides event indications, in the form of event packets, to one or more virtual machines, such that corresponding rules are able to process the events accordingly. Eventually, a rule may make a determination as to the presence or absence of a behavior. As a result, execution of the associated virtual machine may be halted, thereby indicating to the behavioral threat detection engine that a determination has been made. Thus a behavioral threat detection engine employs a behavior-based approach to detecting malicious or potentially malicious behaviors.
US11481484B2
A virtual environment system for validating executable data using authorized hash outputs is provided. In particular, the system may generate a virtual environment using a virtual environment device, where the virtual environment is logically and/or physically separated from other devices and/or environments within the network. The system may then open a specified set of executable data within the virtual environment and perform a set of commands or processes with respect to the executable data. If the system determines that the executable data is safe to run, the system may generate a hash output of the executable data and store the hash output in a database of approved executable data. In this way, the system may securely generate a repository of authorized hashes such that the system may ensure that only safely executable code is processed by the computing systems within the network environment.
US11481482B2
There is disclosed in one example a computing apparatus, including: a processor and a memory; an operating system; an application framework including instructions to search a target directory for one or more shared libraries and to attempt to load the one or more shared libraries if found; and an application including: a library file including a primary feature module to provide a primary feature of the application, the primary feature module structured to operate within the application framework, wherein the library file is not independently executable by the operating system; and an unmanaged executable binary to host the library file, wherein the unmanaged executable binary is not managed by the application framework, and includes hooks to intercept the application framework's attempt to load the one or more shared libraries, and to provide security services to the one or more shared libraries before permitting the application framework to attempt to load the one or more shared libraries.
US11481480B2
A device authenticates a request to verify a user. The device accesses a face image that depicts a face of the person and includes a characteristic noise pattern inserted by a camera of the device. The device also accesses a geolocation at which the device captured the face image and inputs the face image and the geolocation into an artificial intelligence engine that outputs a face score, a device score, and a location score. The device next submits the request with the scores to a server machine and obtains an authentication score from the server machine. The device then presents an indication that the request to verify the person is authentic based on a comparison of the obtained authentication score to a threshold authentication score.
US11481471B2
A system comprises a matrix processor unit that includes a first type of register, a group of a second type of registers, and a plurality of calculation units. The first type of register is configured to concurrently store values from different rows of a first matrix. At least a portion of the first type of register is logically divided into groups of elements, and each of the groups corresponds to a different row of the first matrix. Each of the second type of registers is configured to concurrently store values from a plurality of different rows of a second matrix. Each of the calculation units corresponds to one of the second type of registers and is configured to at least in part determine a corresponding element in a result matrix of convoluting the second matrix with the first matrix.
US11481469B2
We present the architecture of a high-performance constraint solver R-Solve that extends the gains made in SAT performance over the past fifteen years on static decision problems to problems that require on-the-fly adaptation, solution space exploration and optimization. R-Solve facilitates collaborative parallel solving and provides an efficient system for unrestricted incremental solving via Smart Repair. R-Solve can address problems in dynamic planning and constrained optimization involving complex logical and arithmetic constraints.
US11481462B2
Disclosed is a system for conducting network building assessments to generate a content network. The system comprises of an interface implemented via one or more computer processors that, upon executing computer-executable instructions, causes a user to access the content network and receive content in accordance to one or more features of the content network, wherein the interface includes a user input component to obtain at least two user identifiers from the user. A server that implements the network building assessments for generating the content network, wherein the server is implemented via one or more computer processors that, upon executing computer-executable instructions, causes the server to receive from the user input component the at least two identifiers, wherein the at least two identifiers include a content network identifier and a user identifier. The server assesses the content network identifier to determine whether the content network identifier is one of an existing content network or new content network, wherein the content network identifier is new content network, request a new content network identifier to generate the new content network, accesses the user identifier to determine whether the user is one of a member or a non-member of the content network, wherein when the user is a non-member of the existing content networks, request information from the user, and generate user profile based on the received information from the non-member via the user input component, and generates a content network for display in the interface in accordance to one or more features of the new content network and the generated user profile.
US11481459B2
An inferential user matching system can determine a mutual interest between a first user and a second user. Based on determining the mutual interest, the system can transmit an expression of interest indication to a portable device(s) of the first and/or second user.
US11481444B1
Provided methods and systems allow dynamic rendering of a reflexive questionnaire based on a modifiable spreadsheet for users with little to no programming experience and knowledge. Some methods comprise receiving a modifiable spreadsheet with multiple rows, each row comprising rendering instructions for a reflexive questionnaire from a first computer, such as a data type cell, statement cell, logic cell, and a field identifier; rendering a graphical user interface, on a second computer, comprising a label and an input element corresponding to the rendering instructions of a first row of the spreadsheet; receiving an input from the second computer; evaluating the input against the logic cell of the spreadsheet; in response to the input complying with the logic cell of the spreadsheet, dynamically rendering a second label and a second input element to be displayed on the graphical user interface based on the logic of the first row.
US11481440B2
In one embodiment, a computer-implemented method executable by a computer to process metadata of a data source is provided. The method includes: processing, by a processor of the computer, the metadata to determine a graph of nodes and edges; converting, by the processor of the computer, the graph from a cyclic graph to an acyclic graph; converting, by the processor of the computer, the acyclic graph to a listing; performing, by the processor of the computer, a topological sort on the listing; and generating a report that includes the sorted listing.
US11481435B2
A first connection state may be entered on a computing device. While the computing device is in the first connection state, actions taken on a playlist on the computing device may be applied to the playlist and not applied to a playback queue associated with a zone. An input may be received via the computing device, indicating a selection of the zone. In response to receiving the input, a second connection state may be entered. Entering the second connection state may comprise establishing a connected state between the computing device and the one or more playback devices. While the connected state is established, one or more actions taken on the playlist on the computing device may be applied to the playlist and transmitted, in a message to the zone over a network. The one or more actions may be one or more corresponding actions applied to the playback queue.
US11481426B2
The technology described in this document can be embodied in a computer-implemented method that includes receiving identification information associated with a geographic location. The identification information includes one or more features that affect an acoustic environment of the geographic location at a particular time. The method also includes determining one or more parameters representing at least a subset of the one or more features, and estimating at least one acoustic parameter that represents the acoustic environment of the geographic location at the particular time. The at least one parameter can be estimated using a mapping function that generates the estimate of the at least one acoustic parameter as a weighted combination of the one or more parameters. The method further includes presenting, using a user-interface displayed on a computing device, information representing the at least one acoustic parameter estimated for the geographic location for the particular time.
US11481419B2
The present disclosure provides a method and apparatus for evaluating a matching degree based on artificial intelligence, a device and a storage medium, wherein the method comprises: respectively obtaining word expressions of words in a query and word expressions of words in a title; respectively obtaining context-based word expressions of words in the query and context-based word expressions of words in the title according to the word expressions; generating matching features according to obtained information; determining a matching degree score between the query and the title according to the matching features. The solution of the present disclosure may be applied to improve the accuracy of the evaluation result.
US11481418B2
For a passage text and a corresponding answer text, perform a word-level soft alignment to obtain contextualized passage embeddings and contextualized answer embeddings, and a hidden level soft alignment on the contextualized passage embeddings and the contextualized answer embeddings to obtain a passage embedding matrix. Construct a passage graph of the passage text based on the passage embedding matrix, and apply a bidirectional gated graph neural network to the passage graph until a final state embedding is determined, during which intermediate node embeddings are fused from both incoming and outgoing edges. Obtain a graph-level embedding from the final state embedding, and decode the final state embedding to generate an output sequence word-by-word. Train a machine learning model to generate at least one question corresponding to the passage text and the answer text, by evaluating the output sequence with a hybrid evaluator combining cross-entropy evaluation and reinforcement learning evaluation.
US11481404B2
A method, system, and computer program product for automated evaluation of information retrieval systems are provided. The method accesses a natural language query from a set of natural language queries. The natural language query is associated with a query difficulty level. The method generates one or more natural language responses to the natural language natural language query. Each natural language response is associated with at least one facet of the plurality of facets. The method generates a set of feedback cues. A set of search results for the natural language query are returned. The set of search results include a highest ranked natural language response of the one or more natural language responses. The method generates an evaluation result for the HCIR system for the query difficulty level based on the one or more natural language responses, the set of search results, and the set of feedback cues.
US11481403B2
Aspects extend to methods, systems, and computer program products for ranking contextual metadata to generate relevant data insights. Aspects of the invention can be used to enhance data analytics by automatically deriving relevance signals used to generate insights closely related to the context in which a user is exploring or analyzing data. User experiences can include embedded data visualizations, search engines, and natural language querying systems to help users understand their data more effectively. By utilizing metrics on the relevance information, insights related and/or relevant to the context in which the user is analyzing data can be created. Thus, relevance information can define a scope for a variety of automatically generated insights of data. Insight generation can be based on computed relevance signals that target areas interesting to users.
US11481392B2
Provided is a system and method for reconstructing and visualizing transformation steps that are performed to an optimized database query. In one example, the method may include receiving a database query including an initial set of execution steps, generating a plurality of alternative sets of execution steps for the database query based on transformations to the initial set of execution steps, selecting an alternative set of execution steps from among the plurality of alternative sets of execution steps based on a performance of the alternative set of execution steps, identifying transformations that are used to transform the initial set of execution steps into the selected alternative set of execution steps, and displaying information about the identified transformations via a user interface.
US11481391B1
A distributed database system maintains data for a logical table by storing, on a plurality of storage nodes, a collection of key-item pairs. The distributed database system receives a query of the logical table, and identifies one or more portions of a key specified by the query. Based on the one or more portions of the key, the distributed database causes at least one of a get, range query, or scan operation to be performed by one or more of the storage nodes. Results for the query are generated based on one or more items obtained by performance of the operation.
US11481381B2
A method, computer program product, and computer system for maintaining, by a computing device, a plurality of certificates in a credential store using a distributed data source. A certificate of the plurality of certificates may be loaded in an in-memory location from the distributed data source upon startup. A change in at least one certificate of the plurality of certificates may be detected in the distributed data source. The change in the at least one certificate may be loaded from the distributed data source to the in-memory location without requiring a restart of the computing device.
US11481373B2
Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage devices are disclosed for improved concurrency of users of a shared virtual environment. One method including: transmitting, to each single player client of, chunks of world chunk data of a shared virtual environment; receiving, at one or more virtual environment servers from each single player client connected to the shared virtual environment, state data of each user of a respective single player client connected to the shared virtual environment, wherein the single player client of each user manages state data of the user within the one or more virtual environment servers; periodically monitoring, from each user of the single player client connected to the shared virtual environment, updated state data for the user of a respective single player client connected to the shared virtual environment; storing, for the shared virtual environment in a database connected to one or more virtual environment servers, the updated state data for each user of the single player client; and periodically transmitting, for each user of the single player client, the updated state data of other users of the single player client within a predetermined distance of the user of the single player client.
US11481370B1
The disclosure is related to a system for storing and managing hierarchical relationships in a data set. The data set has a plurality of nodes, including root nodes having trees and subtrees, the tree and subtrees including parent, sibling, and child nodes. Each node in the data set has bound values and the bound values of the root nodes are fixed and of equal width. The system further includes processor on a server constructed and arranged to execute a series of steps for optimizing the data set. The processor constructed and arranged to recalculate bound values for updated nodes, sibling nodes and associated subtrees when nodes are updated.
US11481367B2
In some embodiments, a client replication service manages log mining during a rolling upgrade, in which the primary role is switched over from an original primary DBMS to a new primary DBMS having updated software. The client replication service or specifically a mining engine maintains an original session on the original primary DBMS to mine redo logs associated with the original primary DBMS until the original primary DBMS is not a primary DBMS anymore. At that time, if the mining of those redo logs is not complete, the client replication service further starts a downstream session on the new primary DBMS to mine copies of the unmined redo logs.
US11481354B2
A hybrid computing system comprising a digital and an analog processor calculates the ground energy state of a non-diagonal Hamiltonian via diagonalization of the Hamiltonian in different bases and reverse annealing. A first basis is rotated to render part of the Hamiltonian diagonal, then the quantum processor evolves backwards until a value s* of the normalized evolution coefficient. Another basis is rotated to render another part of the Hamiltonian diagonal and the quantum processor evolves backwards again until s*. The bases can be rotated via discrete Fourier transform. The quantum processor may pause for a time t after each backward evolution. The ground state energy is calculated using the final ground states.
US11481352B2
An example includes detecting receiving a bus turn-around (BTA) sequence after detecting a voltage level; sending a BTA acknowledgement in response to the BTA sequence; and sending a configuration command to a peripheral device after the interface is initialized based on the BTA acknowledgement.
US11481343B1
A system includes multiple memory-compute nodes coupled to one another over a scale fabric, where each memory-compute node includes a hybrid threading processor; a memory controller; a fabric interface; and a network on chip (NOC) that provides communication between the hybrid threading processor, the fabric interface, and the memory controller, wherein the fabric interface supports a first virtual channel (VC0), and a second virtual channel (VC1) to the NOC, and supports the first virtual channel (VC0), the second virtual channel (VC1), and a third virtual channel (VC2) to the scale fabric.
US11481342B2
A data storage system can organize a semiconductor memory into a first data set and a second data set with a first queue populated with a first data access request from a host. An assignment of an arbitration weight to the first queue with an arbitration circuit corresponds with the first queue being skipped during a deterministic window based on the arbitration weight.
US11481338B2
A hardware control system and a hardware control method are provided. The hardware control system is for controlling a function circuit, and includes a first transformation circuit, a second transformation circuit and an analysis circuit. The first transformation circuit transforms a command from an operating system to an intermediate address. The second transformation circuit transforms the intermediate address to a permission physical address according to an identifier of the operating system, wherein the permission physical address consists of a hardware physical address and a permission value. The analysis circuit analyzes the permission physical address to generate the hardware physical address and the permission value, and determines a control value corresponding to the hardware physical address according to the permission value. The control value is for permitting the operating system to control the function circuit.
US11481333B2
A method of processing and storing general data by means of hardware obtains initial unhashed data and a fixed value. If a value of the initial unhashed data is greater than the fixed value, the initial data is divided into N sub-data or segments. A size of each sub-data is not more than the fixed value, N being an integer greater than 1. The collection of sub sets of data is input into a memory of the electronic device after hashing.
US11481330B2
Methods, systems, and devices for cache architectures for memory devices are described. For example, a memory device may include a main array having a first set of memory cells, a cache having a second set of memory cells, and a cache delay register configured to store an indication of cache addresses associated with recently performed access operations. In some examples, the cache delay register may be operated as a first-in-first-out (FIFO) register of cache addresses, where a cache address associated with a performed access operation may be added to the beginning of the FIFO register, and a cache address at the end of the FIFO register may be purged. Information associated with access operations on the main array may be maintained in the cache, and accessed directly (e.g., without another accessing of the main array), at least as long as the cache address is present in the cache delay register.
US11481314B2
Disclosed herein are techniques for analyzing hardware change impacts based on at least one functional line-of-code behavior and relation model. Techniques include identifying a new hardware component associated with a system; accessing a first line-of-code behavior and relation model representing execution of functions using the new hardware component; accessing a second line-of-code behavior and relation model representing execution of functions on a previous hardware component of the system; performing a functional differential comparison of the first line-of-code behavior and relation model to the second line-of-code behavior and relation model; determining, based on the functional differential comparison, a status of functional equivalence between the new hardware component and the previous hardware component; and generating, based on the determined difference, a report identifying the status of functional equivalence.
US11481304B1
Task automation is enabled by recording, over a period of time, inputs of a computing device user to generate a log of inputs by the user in connection with one or more task applications. The user inputs are stored along with information pertaining to the one or more task applications. The log is processed to identify the one or more task applications to generate a user task file. The log is further processed to identify the fields in the task applications with which the user entered inputs and the identified fields are stored to the task file. The task file is processed to identify one or more tasks performed by the user. An automated software robot which is encoded with instructions to perform automatically, when invoked, one or more of the tasks performed by the user may be automatically generated.
US11481299B2
A system includes a memory device with microbumps and a processing device. The processing device is operatively coupled with the memory device to perform operations. The operations include transmitting data for a machine learning operation based on a set of the microbumps of the memory device where the data is being stored at the memory device. In addition, the operations include determining a change in a condition of the machine learning operation. Furthermore, the operations include that, in response to determining the change in the condition of the machine learning operation, determining a new set of the microbumps of the memory device that are to transmit subsequent data for the machine learning operation. Moreover, the operations include transmitting the subsequent data using the new set of microbumps of the memory device.
US11481294B2
Runtime memory cell row defect detection and replacement includes detecting in a memory of a computer system operating in a runtime operating system mode, a defective row of memory cells having at least one defective cell. In response to the detection of the defective row, interrupting the operating system of the computer system and, in a runtime system maintenance mode, replacing the defective row of memory cells with a spare row of memory cells as a replacement row of memory cells. Execution of the operating system is then resumed in the runtime operating system mode Other aspects and advantages are described.
US11481293B2
In general, embodiments of the invention relate to storing data and managing the stored data in linked nodes. More specifically, embodiments of the invention relate to nodes linked together in a daisy chain configuration such as, but not limited to, a single-chain configuration and a dual-chain configuration, which use data protection domain (DPD) information to determine where and/or how to store the data.
US11481289B2
According to some aspects, a database system comprising a processor configured to execute a plurality of system components is provided. The plurality of system components may include an interface component configured to receive a write commit command and provide a write commit confirmation, a snapshot component configured to generate a plurality of snapshots of data stored in a data storage node of a plurality of data storage nodes and identify a committed snapshot representative of data that has been replicated on a majority of the plurality of data storage nodes, and a command processing component configured to modify a data element based on the write commit command, determine whether the majority of the plurality of storage nodes have replicated the modification using the committed snapshot, and generate the write commit confirmation responsive to a determination that the majority of the plurality of data storage nodes have replicated the modification.
US11481282B2
A method of fault-tolerant process control includes providing a network process control system in an industrial processing facility (IPF) including a plant-wide network coupling a server to computing platforms each including computing hardware and memory hosting a software application for simultaneously supporting a process controller and another process controller or an I/O gateway. The computing platforms are coupled together by a private path redundancy network for providing a hardware resource pool. At least some of the computing platforms are directly coupled by an I/O mesh network to a plurality of I/O devices to field devices that are coupled to processing equipment. Upon detecting at least one failing device in the hardware resource pool, over the private path redundancy network a backup is placed into service for the failing device from the another process controller or I/O gateway that is at another of the computing platforms in the hardware resource pool.
US11481281B2
A method includes: determining an amount of available storage in a user mobile device; predicting an amount of storage in the device that will be required for a future operation of the device; identifying an amount of data stored on the device that has not been previously backed up to an external storage device that is external to the device; backing up to an external backup device, a portion of the data that has not been previously backed up, the external backup device being external to the device; and deleting from the device the data that is backed up to the external backup device. A sum of an amount of the data deleted and the amount of available storage in the device is greater than the predicted amount of storage, and the backing up is performed after the predicting and automatically while the device is connected to a network.
US11481279B2
A device includes a plurality of memory cells, an error detection circuit configured to detect at least one memory cell storing error data and a refresh control circuit including a register configured to store an error address corresponding to the at least one memory cell storing error data. The refresh control circuit is configured to control a refresh cycle of the error address.
US11481275B2
Techniques involve: determining, according to a determination that a performance level of a target storage unit is lower than a threshold level, whether idle disk slices that can be used for reconstructing malfunctioning disk slices in the target storage unit exist in a slice pool; determining a priority of the target storage unit according to a determination that the idle disk slices do not exist; and selecting replacing disk slices for reconstructing the malfunctioning disk slices from available storage units based at least in part on the priority, wherein the available storage units have performance levels not lower than the threshold level. In this way, data loss due to the off-line of storage units is prevented; and meanwhile, the performance of the entire storage system can be globally stabilized.
US11481269B2
Various embodiments disclosed herein are related to a non-transitory computer readable storage medium. In some embodiments, the medium includes instructions stored thereon that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to classify, on a cloud server, a plurality of clusters of an edge network based on one or more classification parameters, detect that a first cluster in a first datacenter of the edge network has an issue, determine a classification parameter value of the first cluster, determine that a second cluster in a second datacenter of the edge network has a second classification parameter value within a predetermined amount of the classification parameter value, and send an instruction to the second cluster to perform a remediation action.
US11481258B1
An application (or process) may have an amount of steady state work to perform per unit time, as well as one or more mechanisms for doing a lower quality job of that work in the event the application falls behind. Approaches presented herein can utilize a clock monitor that enables the application to determine whether a clock loss was encountered that was due to an external source, and is of an amount of time that may be naturally recoverable by the application. If so, the application can enter into a mode of operation wherein the activation of one or more recovery mechanisms is postponed for a period of time to provide the application time to recover. If, after the period of such mode operation, the application has not recovered from the real time clock loss, then the recovery mechanism(s) can be activated as appropriate.
US11481257B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for generating customized recommendations for environmentally-conscious cloud computing frameworks for replacing computing resources of existing datacenters. One of the methods involves receiving, through a user interface presented on a display of a computing device, data regarding a user's existing datacenter deployment and the user's preferences for the new cloud computing framework, generating one or more recommendations for environmentally-conscious cloud computing frameworks based on the received data, and presenting such recommendations through the user interface for the user's review and consideration.
US11481242B2
An example method comprises receiving flow packets from network traffic analyzing platforms, for each particular flow packet: identify the particular flow packet as belonging to one of at least two flow packet types based on a format, if the particular flow packet is sFlow, determine if the particular flow packet is an sFlow sample, counter record, or a third packet type, if the particular flow packet is the sFlow sample or counter record, identify a flow source of the particular flow packet and at least one metric, and update a flow source data structure else ignore the particular flow packet, and if the particular flow packet is a second flow packet type: if the particular flow packet is of a format that matches a template, identify the flow source, and update the flow source data structure to include the identified flow source and the at least one metric.
US11481239B2
Methods and apparatus to customize deployment using approvals are disclosed. An example deployment approval manager can generate a first Approval Payload including an initial application component approval proposal of an application component that provides a logical template of an application. A deployment event broker can reply-back to the deployment approval manager with a second approval payload that includes a processed application component approval proposal.
US11481236B1
Computer-readable media, methods, and systems for generating a collaboration hub for display within a graphical user interface of a group-based communication system. The collaboration hub comprises a list of recommended active users, a list of recommended active synchronous multimedia collaboration sessions, and a feed of recommended asynchronous collaboration threads such that relevant activity within the group-based communication system is viewable and accessible to users of the group-based communication system.
US11481233B2
Execution systems for augmenting legacy user interfaces include a memory, one or more input/output device, and one or more processors coupled to the memory and the one or more input/output devices. The one or more processors are configured to load a workflow described according to a workflow structure, the workflow structure describing subprocesses of the workflow, routings between the subprocesses, and actions that make up the subprocesses; connect to a legacy user interface based on the workflow; receive a message from the legacy user interface; determine a subprocess for responding to the message based on the workflow; and perform one or more actions of the determined subprocess to respond to the message. In some embodiments, performing the one or more actions includes presenting information from the message to an operator, soliciting input from the operator, and sending a response to the legacy user interface based on the input.
US11481232B2
An approach to managing images in a registry constructed as a multi-layer file system are disclosed. The method comprises receiving a first request for downloading a first image, the first request comprising a download policy. The method also comprises obtaining a plurality of compositions of layers of the first image, wherein content of layers specified by each composition of layers collectively constitute content of the first image. The method also comprises selecting a composition of layers from the plurality of compositions of layers of the first image based on the download policy. The method also comprises sending content of layers specified by the selected composition of layers.
US11481230B2
Systems, devices, and methods discussed herein are directed to modifying aspects of a compute instance. A user may request a change to the compute instance. The system may derive a state object indicating a future state of the compute instance were the change to be applied. A hash of a subset of the state object's attributes may be computed and provided to the requesting computing component. The system may subsequently proceed with applying the change. A current state object indicating a current state of the compute instance may be derived based on applying the change. An additional hash of the subset of the current state object's attributes may be computed and provided to the requesting computing component. The two hashes may be configured to enable the requesting computing component to verify the change to the compute instance has been implemented.
US11481215B2
The present disclosure provides a computing method that is applied to a computing device. The computing device includes: a memory, a register unit, and a matrix computing unit. The method includes the following steps: controlling, by the computing device, the matrix computing unit to obtain a first operation instruction, where the first operation instruction includes a matrix reading instruction for a matrix required for executing the instruction; controlling, by the computing device, an operating unit to send a reading command to the memory according to the matrix reading instruction; and controlling, by the computing device, the operating unit to read a matrix corresponding to the matrix reading instruction in a batch reading manner, and executing the first operation instruction on the matrix. The technical solutions in the present disclosure have the advantages of fast computing speed and high efficiency.
US11481212B2
A processor may analyze one or more sections of code within a program. The processor may compute a context for each of the one or more sections of code. The processor may generate one or more search terms that are respectively associated with each of the one or more sections of code. The processor may automatically display reference data to a user.
US11481211B1
An approach for dynamically generating comments associated with software source code. The identifies a user accessing the software source code. The approach retrieves data associated with the software source code, e.g., server logs, requirements documents, etc. The approach identifies skills associated with the user. The approach, using artificial intelligence (AI), predicts the reason the user is accessing the software source code. The approach identifies navigation patterns based on the user access. The approach, using AI, dynamically generates comments for the user. The approach overlays the comments on the software sour code under review and displays the combination to the user.
US11481208B2
An example software patch difference device includes a processor to: receive current software version indicators of software installed at monitored devices; generate, using a cryptographic function, respective identifiers of the current software version indicators for the monitored devices; retrieve, from storage, respective previous identifiers of previous software version indicators of the software installed at the monitored devices, the respective previous identifiers generated using the cryptographic function; compare, for the current software version indicators, a respective identifier with a respective previous identifier; when a difference is determined therebetween for a given device: replace, at the storage, respective previous software version indicators for the given device with respective current software version indicators; and transmit, to an analytics device, a respective software change indicator of the given device, to trigger the analytics device to generate a report indicating statistics for respective software versions installed at the monitored devices.
US11481196B2
A development engine may enable a developer to customize a user experience using an intuitive developer interface. A rules engine may provide constructs to a card engine in the form of card definitions, which the card engine may evaluate using facts obtained from a facts controller. The evaluated card definitions are cards that may be output for presentation via user equipment. Variants may be assigned weights which can be set or changed dynamically by the card engine substantively and in real time based on factors such as user behavior, account condition, promotions or offerings. The card engine may make content decisions proximate to events occurring to the user. The presentation of the cards may be changed substantively and in real time in accordance with the setting or changes in variants.
US11481194B1
A software development infrastructure can enable user developers to select remote hardware devices to develop and test their software programs. For some tests and development activity, physical access to the remote device can be provided by the infrastructure administrator by replacing the internal calls of an application with mimic code, which can respond to application requests for sensor data, as if the user was physically handling the remote device at the same location.
US11481192B1
A combinational logic circuit includes input circuitry to receive a first and second input signals that transition between supply voltages of first and second voltage domain, respectively. The input circuitry generates, based on the first and second input signals, a first internal signal that transitions between one of the supply voltages of the first voltage domain and one of the supply voltages of the second voltage domain. Output circuitry within the combinational logic circuit generates an output signal that transitions between the upper and lower supply voltages of the first voltage domain in response to transition of the first internal signal.
US11481189B2
Methods and systems for transferring a user session between at least two electronic devices are described. The user session is conducted as an audible session via an audible interface provided by a primarily audible first electronic device. Input data is received from the audible interface, wherein the input data causes the audible interface to progress through audible interface states. An interaction may be determined to be sensitive or non-intuitive based on a logic rule or based on tracking interactions in the user session. A current audible interface state is mapped to a visual interface state defined for a visual interface. The mapped visual interface state is pushed to a second electronic device having a visual output device for displaying the visual interface, to enable the user session to be continued as a visual session on the second electronic device.
US11481182B2
Systems and methods for use in a media playback system comprising one or more playback devices are disclosed, where a playback device has a corresponding first set of device attributes used by a first controller application. The methods include: (i) identifying a second set of device attributes used by a second controller application to control the playback device, (ii) selecting a second device attribute for the playback device from the second set of device attributes based at least in part on a first device attribute; (iii) storing the selected second device attribute in the first set of device attributes; and (iv) controlling at least one function of the playback device using the selected second device attribute.
US11481176B2
A display system includes: a divided image generator grouping divided images obtained by dividing a specific image according to the number of display devices, and generating a plurality of group images; a first image output processor that outputsoutputting, to a predetermined one of the display devices, each of the plurality of group images; a second image output processor outputting a second group image to one of the display devices on a latter stage when a first group image output from a video output device and the second group image output from one of the display devices on a former stage are input; a synthesized image generator extracting, from at least one of the first group image and the second group image, a plurality of the divided images to be displayed by a corresponding one of the display devices, and generating a synthesized image; and a display processor displaying the synthesized image.
US11481175B2
An electronic device and a control method therefor are provided. The electronic device comprises: a communication unit; and a processor configured to receive, from at least one cabinet of a plurality of cabinets, position information on a defective pixel detected in each cabinet through the communication unit, identify a position, on an entire screen consisting of the plurality of cabinets, where the defective pixel is present on the basis of the position information of the defective pixel, identify a defective area on the entire screen on the basis of the identified position, and provide information on the identified defective area. Here, each of the plurality of cabinets includes a plurality of display modules, wherein each of the plurality of display modules includes a plurality of pixels each consisting of a plurality of LEDs.
US11481164B2
A system and method for improved predictive maintenance for multifunction peripherals includes machine learning trained with more accurate problem and resolution coding and categorization. A training set is made from past maintenance records that include accurate problem codes, thorough natural language problem descriptions, accurate resolution codes, thorough problem resolution descriptions and problem/solution categorization. When a service call is received, an operator provides record with a natural language problem description and to which they assign a problem code for categorization. Natural language in the record is compared with records in the training set. When there is a sufficient language match, the problem code and categorization from the training set record is used instead of that which was operator assigned. The corrected record can then be fed to improve predictive maintenance machine learning.
US11481161B2
A control method for an information processing apparatus that communicates with the information processing apparatus includes acquiring information on a first printing apparatus, displaying a first selection screen including a first display item regarding the first print apparatus on a display unit based on the acquired information on the first printing apparatus, and receiving, on the first selection screen, an instruction for registering the first printing apparatus onto the print control software. Based on the reception of the instruction for registering the first printing apparatus on the print control software, the first printing apparatus is registered onto the print control software and on OS-standard print software.
US11481155B2
A controller for controlling a memory device comprising a plurality of multi-level cell memory blocks, the controller includes: a processor suitable for controlling the memory device to perform a read operation on a target logical page using some of the plurality of read voltages in a selected read voltage set; and an error correction code (ECC) component suitable for determining whether the read operation is successful, by performing error detection and correction on data generated in the read operation and output from the memory device, wherein, when the read operation is determined to be successful, the processor updates the selected read voltage set with the read voltages used in the read operation when it is successful and estimated values of unused read voltages of the selected read voltage set, the estimated values being determined based on the used read voltages.
US11481143B2
Metadata of extent-based storage systems can be managed. For example, a computing device can store a first metadata object and a second metadata object in a first memory device. The first metadata object can specify locations of a first set of extents corresponding to a first data unit stored in a second memory device. The second metadata object can specify locations of a second set of extents corresponding to a second data unit stored in the second memory device. The computing device can determine that a first size of the first metadata object is smaller than a second size of the second metadata object. The computing device can remove the second metadata object from the first memory device based on determining that the first size is less than the second size.
US11481139B1
Systems and methods are described for efficiently processing events related to a relationship between a primary copy of data at a primary storage system and a mirror copy of the data at a cross-site secondary storage system of a multi-site distributed storage system. According to an example, a mediator agent that is configured on both primary and secondary storage systems provides coordination and serialization for various events generated in the relationship. The multi-site distributed storage system performs actions based on the event processing such as performing a failover operation from the primary storage system to the secondary storage system or resynchronizing the relationship to ensure application protection and availability.
US11481133B2
A method of managing an integrated circuit memory includes having an integrated circuit card with a memory space including memory space regions for storing user profile data. The memory space is partitioned into segments of memory space regions, where the segments of memory space regions includes allocated regions and empty regions. From the empty regions, the biggest empty region of the memory space is selected. The selected biggest empty region is widened by moving memory blocks positioned in a subset of allocated regions that are at boundaries of the selected biggest empty region into other available empty regions.
US11481105B2
A networked dialysis system includes a dialysis machine, a user interface, and a device that is located remotely from the dialysis machine and that exchanges information with the dialysis machine via a networked communications link. A digital data processor, which is coupled to the dialysis machine and to the remote device, facilitates execution of services on one or more remote digital data processing systems. The digital data processor is coupled to the remote device via the networked communications link and is coupled to the dialysis machine via a second communications link.
US11481099B2
A display apparatus includes a display device, a touch panel, and a control device. The display device displays a screen in a display region. The touch panel is overlaid on the display device. The control device includes a processor, and acts, when the processor executes a control program, as a controller that causes the display device to display a first screen of a size that covers an entirety of the display region, with a predetermined first icon added to the first screen, and to display, instead of the first screen, a second screen smaller in size than the first screen in a predetermined region, when the touch panel detects a predetermined operation performed on the first icon.
US11481082B2
In a computing device executing a master tag embedded in a webpage, identifying a first subsequent tag in the webpage; identifying a second subsequent tag called by the first subsequent tag; identifying information collected by one or more of the first and second subsequent tag; identifying the location of the tag(s) embedded on the webpage in relation to the portion of the webpage currently in view by the party interacting with the webpage; controlling the order of the firing of tags in accordance with rules determined by the user for purposes of increasing the viewability of advertising and other related content; and automatic modification of the order of the firing of tags based on actions taken by the visitor to the webpage.
US11481081B2
An electronic device, including a touch screen. The touch screen includes a special-shaped touch region, and the special-shaped touch region includes multiple touch electrodes. The multiple touch electrodes include multiple first touch electrodes located in a non-edge region of the special-shaped touch region and multiple second touch electrodes located at an edge region of the special-shaped touch region; first edges of the multiple second touch electrodes coincide with the edge of the special-shaped touch region; the area ratios of the second touch electrodes to the first touch electrodes range from 0.9 to 1.1.
US11481070B1
Touch sensing performance can be improved using display noise correction. In some examples, a touch sensor panel in proximity to a display can capture a first touch image from a touch sensor panel concurrently with updating the display and a second touch image from the touch sensor panel concurrently with blanking the display (e.g., while the display is not updating). A composite touch image can be generated by summing a filtered first touch image and a filtered second touch image. The composite touch image can be further filtered using robust regression techniques to remove residual display noise.
US11481056B2
A display device is provided and includes a touch panel including a first substrate, a detection electrode located in a sensor area on the first substrate; an insulating layer covering the detection electrode, a display panel comprising a polarizer opposed to the touch panel; and an insulating material overlapping the detection electrode, contacting the insulation layer and a side surface of the polarizer, and not contacting the detection electrode.
US11481053B2
A touch sensor includes a base layer and a plurality of first touch electrodes disposed on the base layer. The plurality of first touch electrodes are arranged in a first direction. The plurality of first touch electrodes include openings, and are electrically connected to one another. A plurality of second touch electrodes are disposed on the base layer. The plurality of second touch electrodes are arranged in a second direction. The plurality of second touch electrodes are electrically connected to one another. First pressure sensing electrodes and second pressure sensing electrodes are separated from each other and are disposed in the openings. The pressure sensing electrodes and second pressure sensing electrodes are spaced apart from the first touch electrodes. The first pressure sensing electrodes, the second pressure sensing electrodes, the first touch electrodes, and the second touch electrodes are all disposed in a first layer.
US11481050B1
A function parameter switching memory circuit for a peripheral device is provided. The peripheral device includes a function parameter switching memory circuit, a power management device and an optical sensor. The function parameter switching memory circuit includes a function parameter switching key and a simulation control circuit. The function parameter switching key generates and outputs a physical switch signal in response to a switching trigger action of a user. The simulation control circuit generates a virtual switch signal to the optical sensor. The simulation control circuit analyzes the physical switch signal to memorize a switched-and-set function parameter storage value. The simulation control circuit generates the virtual switch signal according to one of the physical switch signal and the switched-and-set function parameter storage value. The optical sensor performs a function parameter switching process according to the virtual switch signal.
US11481047B2
An exemplary embodiment of the present invention provides a stylus pen including: a body portion; a conductive tip configured to be exposed from an inside of the body portion to an outside thereof; a resonance circuit portion positioned in the body portion to be connected to the conductive tip to resonate an electrical signal transferred from the conductive tip; and a conductive blocking member configured to surround at least a portion of the resonance circuit portion.
US11481045B2
An image display control device according to the present invention includes a display control unit, an obtaining unit, a drawing unit, a deleting unit, and an operating unit. The display control unit displays an image on a display device. The obtaining unit obtains contact position information or proximity position information of a drawing device, which is relative to a display area of the display device. The drawing unit generates a drawn image, compose a display image of an information processing apparatus with the drawn image, and displays the composite image on the display device. The deleting unit deletes the drawn image from the displayed image, and display on the display device. The operating unit operates the information processing apparatus. The drawing device switches and specifies a generation and deletion of the drawn image, and an operation of the information processing apparatus.
US11481042B2
A touch sensing device includes: a first sensing coil having conductivity; a second sensing coil having conductivity; a substrate having a space accommodating either one or both of the first sensing coil and the second sensing coil, wherein at least a portion of the substrate is disposed between the first sensing coil and the second sensing coil; and an elastic member configured to be compressed as external pressure is applied and the substrate descends.
US11481038B2
Examples of the present disclosure describe systems and methods for using gesture recognition to control medical hardware and software. In aspects, an activation signal may be received by an input processing system, such as a gesture recognition system, a voice recognition system, or a touch-based system. After receiving the activation signal, user input may be received by the input processing system. The user input may be processed to determine a current or applicable context. Based on the context, one or more actions corresponding to the user input may be identified. The input processing system may then cause the identified action(s) to be performed.
US11481036B2
A method for determining an electronic device, a system for determining an electronic device, a computer system, and a computer-readable storage medium, the method includes: acquiring a recognition result by recognizing a first action performed by an operating object through a first electronic device (S201); and determining a second electronic device which is controllable by the first electronic device according to the recognition result (S202).
US11481022B2
Example implementations relate to motion based power states. For instance, in an example an electronic device includes input components, a motion detector separate from the input components, the motion detector to detect over a period of time an amount of motion of an object proximate to the electronic device, and a controller to compare the detected amount of motion of the object to a motion threshold, and alter a power state of an input component of the input components based on the comparison.
US11481021B2
An information processing apparatus includes: a power supply unit that supplies power to a connection terminal for connection to an external device; a communication control unit that performs data communication with an external device connected to the connection terminal; an operating state detection unit that detects a signal indicating that a controller including at least the communication control unit has entered hibernation; and a power supply control unit that stops power supply to the connection terminal when the signal indicating that the controller has entered hibernation is detected by the operating state detection unit.
US11481016B2
Embodiments of the present invention include a solid state storage device for reporting actual power consumption including an internal power metering unit, a memory including flash memory, one or more components comprising at least a controller and the memory, wherein the memory has stored thereon instructions that are configured to be executed by the controller, and one or more voltage rails connecting the power metering unit to the one or more components so that the power metering unit is capable of measuring power consumed by the one or more components of the storage device.
US11481013B2
In an embodiment, a processor includes processing cores, and a central control unit to: concurrently execute an outer control loop and an inner control loop, wherein the outer control loop is to monitor the processor as a whole, and wherein the inner control loop is to monitor a first processing core included in the processor; determine, based on the outer control loop, a first control action for the first processing core included in the processor; determine, based on the inner control loop, a second control action for the first processing core included in the processor; based on a comparison of the first control action and the second control action, select one of the first control action and the second control action as a selected control action; and apply the selected control action to the first processing core. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US11481007B2
A computer cases includes a rear panel with a slot field and an expansion card with a slot bracket that is fixed laterally to the slot field by a screw. An opening is cut out on the rear panel next to the slot field so that the screw for fixing the expansion card is easily accessible and can be easily mounted with a corresponding tool.
US11480995B2
An all-in-one information handling system holds a display in a raised forward position with a support arm rotationally coupled at a rear side of the information handling system housing and a central location of the display. Gear arms integrated in the support arm engage a gear at the display and gear mechanism at the housing to synchronize rotation of the display from the forward and raised vertical position relative to the housing to a central and lower horizontal position by lowering the support arm to a horizontal position supported by the housing upper surface as the display rotates to the horizontal position.
US11480989B2
A voltage reference circuit is disclosed comprising: a supply terminal; a ground terminal; a first current source and a Zener diode connected in series between the supply and ground terminals and having a first node therebetween and configured to supply a Zener voltage at the first node; an output node configured to provide a voltage reference; and a CTAT, circuit connected between the first node and the output node; wherein the CTAT circuit comprises: two bipolar transistors, having their respective emitters connected at a second node, and configured to, in operation, have equal collector-emitter currents, the base of the first bipolar transistor being connected to the first node, the base of the second bipolar transistor being connected to a centre node of a first voltage divider; and wherein the first voltage divider is connected between the emitter of the second bipolar transistor and the output node.
US11480988B2
A device for controlling a first voltage with a second voltage includes a first terminal of application of the second voltage and a second terminal for supplying the first voltage. A comparator has a first input terminal connected to the first terminal and has a second input terminal receiving information representative of the first voltage. At least one first current source of programmable intensity is connected to the second input terminal of the comparator.
US11480987B2
An error amplifier circuit receives first and second input signals and provides an error amplifier output signal indicative of the difference between the first and second input signals. The error amplifier circuit implements a proportional-integrator-differentiator (PID) circuit having a differential input signal path and including a proportional amplifier circuit, an integrator amplifier circuit, and a differentiator amplifier circuit. The differentiator amplifier circuit receives an AC coupled input signal. The error amplifier circuit sums the output from the proportional amplifier circuit, the integrator amplifier circuit and the differentiator amplifier circuit to provide the error amplifier output signal where the error amplifier output signal is referenced to a first bias voltage.
US11480985B2
In certain aspects, a voltage regulator includes a pass device coupled between an input of the voltage regulator and an output of the voltage regulator. The voltage regulator also includes an amplifying circuit having a first input, a second input, and an output, wherein the first input is configured to receive a reference voltage, the second input is coupled to the output of the voltage regulator via a feedback path, and the output of the amplifying circuit is coupled to a gate of the pass device. The voltage regulator further includes a first current source coupled between a supply rail and the amplifying circuit, and a capacitor coupled between the first current source and the output of the voltage regulator.
US11480980B2
An anti-spin system for an aircraft can include an anti-spin module configured to execute a computer implemented method. The method can include receiving flight data from one or more aircraft flight data systems, determining if the aircraft is near stall or in a stall using the flight data, and determining if the aircraft is in uncoordinated flight while near stall or in a stall to determine if the aircraft is near spin or in a spin using the flight data. If the aircraft is determined to be near spin, the method includes at least one of sending an alert to a warning indicator in a cockpit to warn the pilot of a spin or near spin condition, or sending a signal to an automated control system for inputting automatic control to the aircraft to avoid a spin by coordinating the aircraft or avoiding a stall while uncoordinated.
US11480971B2
Systems and methods for generating instructions for a vehicle to navigate an unsignaled intersection are provided. The method may include: generating an expected return over a sequence of actions of the vehicle; determining an optimal policy by selecting an action with a maximum value for the vehicle; executing dynamic frame skipping to expedite learning a repeated action of the vehicle; prioritize an experience replay by utilizing an experience replay buffer to break correlations between sequential steps of the vehicle; generate a plurality of state-action representations based on at least one of the expected return, the optimal policy, the dynamic frame skipping, or the prioritized experience replay; generate the instructions for navigating the unsignaled intersection based on the plurality of state-action representations; and transmit the instructions for navigating the unsignaled intersection to the vehicle such that the vehicle executes the instructions to navigate the unsignaled intersection.
US11480956B2
A method for generating forecast predictions that indicate an event horizon of an entity or remaining useful life of a consumable using machine learning techniques is provided. Using a server computer system, feature data comprising features vectors that represent a set of signal data over a range of time is stored. Condition data comprising conditions occurring on the entity at particular moments in time is stored. Label data that comprises a plurality of time values that each indicate a difference in time between one condition and another condition is stored. A training dataset is created by combining the feature data, the condition data, and the label data into a single dataset. The training dataset is partitioned by condition. A machine learning model is trained on each target condition training dataset. The trained machine learning models are used to generate forecast values that each indicate an amount of time to an occurrence of a target condition associated with an entity.
US11480954B2
The speed and security of the monitoring the operation of a drive component is improved by transferring data relating to the drive component and/or to the operation of the drive component to a central IT infrastructure. Within the central IT infrastructure, the transferred data are associated with a first model of the drive component, and with a second model of at least one virtual component associated with the first model. An operating state of the drive component is determined from a correlation of the first and second models.
US11480953B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure include automated guided vehicles (AGVs) having a broadcasting system. In one embodiment, the self-driving system includes a body having one or more motorized wheels, a console coupled in an upright position to an end of the body, and a broadcasting system disposed at the console and is operable to send a notification to one or more mobile devices, wherein the broadcasting system uses a first type of positioning system and the one or more mobile devices use a second type of positioning system different from the first type of positioning system.
US11480939B2
The disclosure is a rotation center measurement method of a multi-axis processing machine which relatively moves tables on which a work piece is placed and a tool for processing the work piece by control of rotation axes based on a processing program, and the rotation center measurement method is characterized to include: a processing program acquisition step in which the processing program is acquired; a processing program analysis step in which command angles of tool postures are read from the processing program and analyzed, and measurement angles are calculated based on the analysis results; and a geometric deviation measurement step in which a reference sphere is placed on the tables and the tables and the tool are relatively moved to measure a position of the reference sphere, and directions and positions of rotation centers of the rotation axes are calculated.
US11480934B2
Disclosed is a process for creating an event prediction model that employs a data-driven approach for selecting the model's input data variables, which, in one embodiment, involves selecting initial data variables, obtaining a respective set of historical data values for each respective initial data variable, determining a respective difference metric that indicates the extent to which each initial data variable tends to be predictive of an event occurrence, filtering the initial data variables, applying one or more transformations to at least two initial data variables, obtaining a respective set of historical data values for each respective transformed data variable, determining a respective difference metric that indicates the extent to which each transformed data variable tends to be predictive of an event occurrence, filtering the transformed data variables, and using the filtered, transformed data variables as a basis for selecting the input variables of the event prediction model.
US11480927B2
An electronic watch includes a display surface, a magnetic sensor including a first detection axis and a second detection axis orthogonal to the first detection axis, with the first detection axis and the second detection axis being disposed in a plane parallel to the display surface, a correction unit configured to correct an error due to an offset magnetic field included in a detection value of the magnetic sensor, a calculation unit configured to calculate a bearing and magnetic intensity, based on a value acquired by correcting the detection value by the correction unit, and a display unit configured to cause the display surface to display the bearing and the magnetic intensity that are calculated by the calculation unit to be displayed.
US11480925B2
The mechanical timepiece is equipped with a movement which includes an indicator mechanism of at least one time data item, a mechanical resonator forming a slave oscillator which paces the running of the indicator mechanism, and a mechanical correction device to prevent a possible time drift in the running of the indicator mechanism. The mechanical correction device is formed by a master mechanical oscillator and a mechanical braking device of the mechanical resonator, this braking device arranged to apply periodically to the mechanical resonator mechanical braking pulses at a braking frequency determined by the master mechanical oscillator. Then, the mechanical system, formed by the mechanical resonator and the braking device, is configured to enable the braking device to be able to start the braking pulses preferably at any position of the mechanical resonator. Preferably, the braking pulses have a duration of less than one quarter of a set-point period.
US11480917B2
A method of reconstructing a three-dimensional (3-D) image on the basis of a diffraction grating includes extracting parallax images from a raw image of an object photographed by using a diffraction grating and reconstructing a 3-D image from the extracted parallax image array by using a virtual pinhole model.
US11480914B2
An image forming apparatus includes a cartridge including a portion-to-be-positioned, and an apparatus main body on which the cartridge is mounted in a mounting direction. The apparatus main body includes a positioning portion and a regulating portion. The positioning portion positions the cartridge by engaging with the portion-to-be-positioned. The regulating portion is provided on an upstream side of the positioning portion in the mounting direction. The cartridge includes a portion-to-be-regulated provided on an upstream side of the portion-to-be-positioned in the mounting direction. The portion-to-be-positioned engages with the regulating portion before engaging with the positioning portion, to regulate movement of the cartridge in the direction orthogonal to the mounting direction. The portion-to-be-regulated engages with the regulating portion before the portion-to-be-positioned engages with the positioning portion, to regulate movement of the cartridge in the direction orthogonal to the mounting direction.
US11480913B2
There are provided a developer accommodating portion for accommodating the developer, a discharge portion formed with a discharge opening for discharging the developer accommodated in the developer accommodating portion, and an engaging portion 30. The engaging portion 30 is engaged with an engaged portion 11b with a mounting operation of a developer supply container 1 to displace a developer receiving portion 11 in an upward direction U so that the receiving opening communicates with the discharge opening. The engaging portion 30 has a holding portion 31 which is provided rotatably about a rotation shaft 41 and is provided with holding portion 21 to be engaged with the engaged portion 11b to hold the engaged portion 11b. With the mounting operation, the engaging portion 30 rotates about the rotation shaft 41 so that the engaged portion 11b held by the holding portion 31 moves upward U.
US11480909B2
A drum unit includes a photosensitive drum in a coupling member. The coupling member includes an engageable member having a driving force receiving portion which is capable of entering a recess of a driving shaft to receive a driving force for rotating photosensitive drum. The coupling member includes a holding member configured to hold said engageable member so as to be slidable at least in a radial direction of said drum unit.
US11480903B2
A sheet conveyance apparatus includes a first conveyance portion configured to convey a sheet, a second conveyance portion configured to convey the sheet, the second conveyance portion including an abutment portion configured to form a loop on the sheet by being abutted against a leading edge of a sheet conveyed by the first conveyance portion, a curved guide portion, which is curved, configured to guide the sheet conveyed by the first conveyance portion to the second conveyance portion, and a rotary member arranged downstream of the first conveyance portion and upstream of the second conveyance portion in a sheet conveyance direction, and configured to be driven to rotate by a surface of the sheet that is guided by the curved guide portion, the surface sliding against the curved guide portion.
US11480885B2
An apparatus for and method of cleaning a surface of a support structure in a lithographic system in which a cleaning substrate has at least one motor which causes the cleaning substrate to move laterally across the surface. The cleaning substrate may be provided with a power supply mounted on the cleaning substrate and selectably electrically connectable to the motor.
US11480884B2
A method for improving the yield of a lithographic process, the method including: determining a parameter fingerprint of a performance parameter across a substrate, the parameter fingerprint including information relating to uncertainty in the performance parameter; determining a process window fingerprint of the performance parameter across the substrate, the process window being associated with an allowable range of the performance parameter; and determining a probability metric associated with the probability of the performance parameter being outside an allowable range. Optionally a correction to the lithographic process is determined based on the probability metric.
US11480881B2
A method of processing a substrate includes: performing a first developing process of moving a nozzle having one end surface and a discharge port opened at the end surface while making the end surface come into contact with a developer on a front surface of a substrate in a state in which the nozzle is disposed so that the end surface faces the front surface and the developer is discharged from the discharge port at a first flow rate while rotating the substrate; and after the first developing process, performing a second developing process of discharging the developer from the discharge port at a second flow rate higher than the first flow rate in a state in which the end surface is in contact with the developer on the front surface at a position facing a center of the front surface of the substrate while rotating the substrate.
US11480877B2
The present invention is a compound represented by the following general formula (1).
US11480873B2
A method for producing an optical waveguide by: (a) depositing a first composition: (i) a polysiloxane comprising epoxy and alkenyl groups with refractive index no greater than 1.50, (ii) a compound comprising at least one epoxy group and refractive index no greater than 1.49, and (iii) a polysiloxane having refractive index at least 1.50; (iv) a photo acid generator; (v) a hydrosilylation catalyst, (vi) an inhibitor for hydrosilylation; (b) curing by exposure to ultraviolet light; (c) removing the uncured portion to produce a patterned core layer; (d) after a time from 20 to 300 hours depositing a second composition comprising: (i) a polysiloxane comprising epoxy groups with refractive index no greater than 1.49, and (ii) a compound comprising at least two epoxy groups with a refractive index no greater than 1.49 and an alcohol having refractive index no more than 1.45 (iii) at least one photo acid generator.
US11480871B2
An imprint apparatus is provided. The imprint apparatus includes an imprint head, at least one cable assembly configured to supply a signal to the imprint head, and a cable assembly sensor configured to detect a state of the at least one cable assembly. The signal may include one or more of a voltage signal, a current signal, and a pneumatic signal. The cable assembly sensor may include a strain gauge configured to measure a strain of the at least one cable assembly or a load cell configured to measure a force on the at least one cable assembly. For example, the cable assembly may include an electric wire and/or a gas supply tube.
US11480866B2
Apparatus and methods to improve centroid wavelength uniformity of EUV mask blanks are disclosed. The apparatus and methods may utilize one or more of heating the backside and/or the front side of the EUV mask blank. Selected regions and sub regions of the EUV mask blank are selectively heated, resulting in improved centroid wavelength uniformity of EUV mask blanks.
US11480860B2
An illuminator includes a first light source, a second light source, a first lens on which light emitted from the first and second light sources is incident, a second lens disposed in a downstream of the first lens, and a half wave plate. The first lens, the second lens and the half wave plate are arranged along a first axis. The first light source and the second light source are arranged along a plane perpendicular to the first axis. The half wave plate is disposed in the optical axis between the first lens and the second lens, the half wave plate being disposed in a position close to the second lens.
US11480859B2
A phosphor according to the present disclosure includes a first crystal phase added with an activator agent, a second crystal phase higher in thermal conductivity than the first crystal phase, and a third crystal phase which is disposed between the first crystal phase and the second crystal phase, and is same in crystal structure as the first crystal phase, and is smaller in additive amount of the activator agent than the first crystal phase.
US11480856B2
There is provided a projection lens that is mounted on a housing of a projection device including an electro-optical element. The projection lens includes a first holding frame through which light emitted from the housing passes, a second reflective part that refracts an optical axis of light emitted from the first holding frame and includes a pair of side surfaces facing each other, and a second holding frame that holds the second reflective part and includes a pair of first holes provided at positions corresponding to the pair of side surfaces; and each of the pair of side surfaces has a gap between itself and the second holding frame.
US11480854B2
Systems, devices, and methods are disclosed in which one or more light sources, a detector, a processor and a controller are configured such that light from the one or more light sources can provide illumination or projections that can reduce accidents while the vehicle is in motion and when parked and may also provide information and illumination to the driver and vehicle occupants when entering or exiting the vehicle. These systems may, for example, provide spot illumination to moving objects or pedestrians on the road surface, with the spot illumination following the moving object. Alternatively or in addition these systems may project images on the ground, for example to communicate information to occupants of the vehicle, to occupants of another vehicle, or to pedestrians.
US11480849B2
An optical member driving mechanism is provided. The optical member driving mechanism includes a movable portion, a fixed portion, a driving assembly and a guiding assembly. The movable portion is connected to an optical member, and is movable relative to the fixed portion. The driving assembly drives the movable portion to move relative to the fixed portion. The guiding assembly limits the mode of movement for the movable portion relative to the fixed portion.
US11480846B2
In various embodiments, a beam-parameter adjustment system and focusing system alters a spatial power distribution of a radiation beams before the beam is coupled into an optical fiber or delivered to a workpiece.
US11480840B2
A liquid crystal device includes, on a first base material, pixels and a capacitive element disposed in a light shielding region between the pixels, and the capacitive element includes a first capacitive wiring disposed along the light shielding region, a dielectric layer that covers at least consecutive three surfaces (a surface O, a surface P and a surface Q) of the first capacitive wiring, and a second capacitive wiring that faces at least the consecutive three surfaces of the first capacitive wiring through the dielectric layer.
US11480831B2
A liquid crystal display device includes a TFT substrate and a counter substrate and a liquid crystal layer sandwiched therebetween. A scanning line, a video signal line, a thin film transistor connected to the scanning line and the video signal line, a pixel electrode connected to the thin film transistor, and a counter electrode are formed on the TFT substrate, and a columnar spacer formed on the counter substrate. The pixel and counter electrodes are transparent, and the liquid crystal layer is controlled by an electric field generated between the pixel and counter electrodes. The counter electrode contacts with a metal line having a first part which is extended in parallel with the scanning line and a second part which is extended in parallel with the video signal line, a width of the first part of the metal line being narrower than a width of the scanning line.
US11480825B2
A polarizer and optical display device comprising the same are disclosed. Specifically, the polarizer comprises: a polarizing film; and a contrast ratio improving film formed on one surface of the polarizing film, wherein the contrast ratio improving film comprises a contrast ratio improving layer consisting of a first protective layer, and first and second resin layers facing each other, and the first resin layer has: pattern parts having two or more optical patterns on one surface thereof that faces the second resin layer and a flat part between the optical pattern and another immediately adjacent optical pattern.
US11480822B2
A display substrate, a method for manufacturing the same, and a display device are provided. The display substrate includes a base substrate, a black matrix pattern on the base substrate, display units respectively in regions defined by the black matrix pattern, and a light-reflecting wall between at least two adjacent display units, where at least one of the at least two adjacent display units is a quantum dot display unit, and a reflectance of the light-reflecting wall to light in a first wavelength range is greater than a preset threshold.
US11480800B1
A compact projector for eyewear including a refractive lens to achromatize an image and to reduce the size of the projector. The compact projector includes two total internal reflection (TIR) prisms, a polarizing beamsplitter, a quarter-wave plate, and the refractive lens combining refractive and reflective power, referred to as catadioptric. In one example, a light source generates light that is directed through a collector, into a first TIR prism, to the polarizing beamsplitter, and to a display panel. The display panel modulates the light and creates an image. The image is directed through the beamsplitter, into a second TIR prism, through a quarter-wave plate, and then to the refractive lens. The refractive lens reflects the image back into the second TIR prism, and which image then exits to a waveguide. In a second example, the display generates an illuminated image which is then processed as in the first example.
US11480796B2
The invention discloses a three-dimensional display module using optical wave-guide for providing directional backlights. This display module includes a wave-guide backlight unit with time-sequential directional light sources, a display device, a wavefront modulation device or a light splitting device, and other components. The wave-guide backlight unit with time-sequential directional light sources includes a sequential-switching light-source array, a relay device, and an optical wave-guide device. Each light source of the sequential-switching light-source array provides backlight of corresponding vector characteristics to the display device, making optical message displayed by the display device being guided to the corresponding viewing zone/viewing zones. Through the technology routes of multiple-view-for-one-pupil or/and Maxwellian view, the three-dimensional display module implements displays free from the vergence-accommodation conflict. The introduction of the optical wave-guide device results in a thin structure, and the disclosed display module can be applied to various display terminals, such as mobile phones, iPads, head-mounted VR/AR, etc.
US11480795B2
The disclosed waveguide display device may include a waveguide and one or more projector assemblies configured to project image light into the waveguide, where each of the one or more projector assemblies includes a first monochromatic emitter array having a plurality of emitters of a first color disposed in a two-dimensional configuration and a second monochromatic emitter array having a plurality of emitters of a second color disposed in a two-dimensional configuration. The display device may also include at least one application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) configured to drive the first and second monochromatic emitter arrays to emit images of the first and second color along a common axis, with the first color being different from the second color. Various other devices, systems, and methods are also disclosed.
US11480790B2
Example implementations relate to display adjustments. For example, a non-transitory computer readable medium storing instructions executable by a processing resource to sense a contour of an object using a sensor of a display. The instructions can cause the processing resource to determine a contour of a perimeter of the display that fits a portion of the shape of the object. The instructions can cause the processing resource to adjust the perimeter of the display to the determined contour of the perimeter via an actuator of the display.
US11480787B2
The present technology relates to an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and a program that make it possible to eliminate or minimize VR sickness with an immersive feeling enhanced. On the basis of head posture of a user, a video generation section generates a video resulting from control of an angle of view of a virtual camera, the angle of view corresponding to a field of view of the user travelling in a virtual space. When the user is in an acceleration state in the virtual space, the video generation section changes the angle of view of the virtual camera from a first angle of view at the time when the user is in a non-acceleration state to a second angle of view based on an acceleration direction of the user. The present technology can be applied to, for example, an HMD.
US11480784B2
A near-eye display system comprising a image source, a modulation stack, and an imaging assembly. The modulation stack, in one embodiment, comprises one or more digital light path length modulators.
US11480782B1
The present invention relates to a reflective eyepiece optical system and a head-mounted near-to-eye display device. The system includes: a first optical element and a second optical element arranged successively along an incident direction of an optical axis of the human eye, and a first lens group located on an optical axis of an miniature image displayer. The first optical element reflects the image light refracted by the first lens group to the second optical element, and then transmits the image light reflected by the second optical element to the human eye. The effective focal lengths of the first sub-lens group, the second sub-lens group and the third sub-lens group are a combination of positive, negative and positive. The optical path is effectively folded, the overall size of the optical system is reduced, aberrations are largely eliminated, and a visual experience effect of high liveness is achieved.
US11480780B2
By moving at least one of a culture container having a plurality of wells or an imaging optical system that forms an image of an observation target in each of the wells, an observation position in the culture container is scanned to observe the observation target. In a case where an auto-focus control for each observation position is performed, a start timing of the auto-focus control for each observation position is switched on the basis of a boundary portion between the adjacent wells in a scanning direction of the observation position.
US11480778B2
Disclosed in one aspect is a method for performing a complete blood count (CBC) on a sample of whole blood by metering a predetermined amount of the whole blood and mixing it with a predetermined amount of diluent and stain and transferring a portion thereof to an imaging chamber of fixed dimensions and utilizing an automated microscope with digital camera and cell counting and recognition software to count every white blood cell and red blood corpuscle and platelet in the sample diluent/stain mixture to determine the number of red cells, white cells, and platelets per unit volume, and analyzing the white cells with cell recognition software to classify them.
US11480764B2
The present disclosure provides a camera optical lens, which includes, from an object side to an image side in sequence: a first lens having a positive refractive power; a second lens having a positive refractive power; a third lens having a positive refractive power; a fourth lens having a refractive power; where the camera optical lens satisfies following conditions: 10.00≤d5/d6≤25.00; 2.00≤f2/f≤9.00; 3.00≤(R7+R8)/(R7−R8)≤25.00; and −2.00≤f4/f≤10.41. The camera optical lens satisfies a design requirement of a large aperture, ultra-thinness and a wide angle while having good optical functions.
US11480762B2
A short-wavelength infrared imaging lens includes first and second lens groups arranged in order from an object side. The first lens group has a negative refractive power as a whole. The second lens group has a positive refractive power as a whole and includes at least one positive lens that satisfies following conditional expressions (1) and (2): V2p>40 (1) N2p>1.7 (2) Here, N2p is a refractive index N [1.53] of the positive lens at a wavelength of 1.53 μm, and the Abbe number V2p is an Abbe number of the positive lens in a short-wavelength infrared range and is defined as (N [1.53]−1)/(N [0.9]−N [2.325]) when refractive indexes of the at least one positive lens at wavelengths of 0.9 μm, 1.53 μm, and 2.325 μm are represented by N [0.9], N [1.53], and N [2.325], respectively.
US11480738B2
The present invention relates to a sensor device comprising an optical fiber to be coupled with a laser beam, a through-fiber fabricated cantilever onto one end of said optical fiber, and a light collector. According to the invention, the through-fiber fabricated cantilever is made of a polymer obtained by photo-structuring at least one photo-sensitive monomer species. The present invention also relates to methods for the measurement of parameters such as temperature, mass, viscosity, analyte concentrations, and the degree of a polymerization process, using the device of the invention.
US11480728B2
An optoelectronic device includes a substrate and at least three emitters, which are disposed on the substrate and are configured to emit respective beams of light. A plurality of waveguides are disposed on the substrate and have respective input ends coupled to receive the beams of light from respective ones of the emitters, and curve adiabatically from the input ends to respective output ends of the waveguides, which are arranged on the substrate in an array having a predefined pitch. Control circuitry is configured to apply a temporal modulation independently to each of the beams of light.
US11480723B2
The invention relates to various aspects of a μ-LED or a μ-LED array for augmented reality or lighting applications, in particular in the automotive field. The μ-LED is characterized by particularly small dimensions in the range of a few μm.
US11480722B2
This invention relates to an optical expander device with its display device, and a method of light output and image display, including a waveguide plate, the first optical diffractive in-coupling element, the first retrieval unit, the second retrieval unit, the second optical diffractive expander element, the third optical diffractive expander element, and the fourth optical diffractive out-coupling element. The fourth optical diffractive out-coupling element forms part of the first output light (OB4), by diffracting guided light, the third retrieval light (B3a), and the fourth retrieval light (B4a) to the same direction; simultaneously, the fourth optical diffractive out-coupling element diffracts the first direct-through light (B1b) and the second direct-through light (B2b) to the same direction, forming the other part of the first output light (OB4). This device of the present disclosure may greatly improve the uniformity of the intensity distribution of the output light.
US11480716B2
The optical element is an optical element including a first optically anisotropic layer which is a cured layer of a liquid crystal composition containing a rod-like liquid crystal compound and a second optically anisotropic layer which is laminated on the first optically anisotropic layer and is a cured layer of a liquid crystal composition containing a disk-like liquid crystal compound, wherein each of the first optically anisotropic layer and the second optically anisotropic layer, has a liquid crystal alignment pattern in which an optical axis of the rod-like liquid crystal compound and an optical axis of the disk-like liquid crystal compound are respectively parallel to a surface of the optically anisotropic layer and oriented along at least one in-plane direction, orientation of the optical axis changes continuously and rotationally, and the orientation of the optical axis rotates by 180° with a period of 0.5 μm to 5 μm.
US11480711B2
The present invention may be used for forecasting various weather phenomena including but not limited to flyby anomalies, cyclones, tornadoes, killer (rogue) waves, earthquakes, lightning, sprites, and temperature fluctuations. The invention is based on knowledge of physical and mathematical models regarding the occurrence of Kukharev regions (i.e., K regions) resulting from gravitational resonances occurring within the Earth-Moon-Sun system (and similar systems located elsewhere). These gravitational resonances and combinations thereof, among other things, cause jumps in atmospheric pressure. Such jumps can be recorded and extrapolated to predict the locations and times of the occurrence of Kukharev regions and, in turn, the associated weather-related effects.
US11480700B2
Systems and methods for reducing survey time while enhancing acquired seismic data quality are provided. Data corresponding to plural source lines are acquired simultaneously, using sources at cross-line distance at least equal to their illumination width, with at least one source being towed above a streamer spread.
US11480698B2
A method and apparatus for generating a fluid saturation model for a subsurface region. One example method generally includes obtaining a model of the subsurface region; for each of a plurality of fluid types: flooding the subsurface region model with the fluid type to generate a flood model; and running a trial petrophysical inversion with the flood model to generate a trial petrophysical model; identifying potential fluid contact regions in the trial petrophysical models; partitioning the subsurface region model at the identified potential fluid contact regions; and constructing the fluid saturation model from the partitioned subsurface region model.
US11480695B2
Devices, systems, and methods of using one or more memristors as a radiation sensor are enabled. A memristor can be attractive as a sensor due to its passive low power characteristics. Medical and environment monitoring are contemplated use cases. Sensing radiation as part of a security system (at an airport for example) and screening food for radiation exposure are also possible uses. The memristor as a radiation sensor may possibly provide an inexpensive and easy alternative to personal thermoluminescent dosimeters (TLD). Memristor devices with high current and low power operation may be attached with wearable plastic substrates. An example device includes two metal strips with a 50 μm thick layer of TiO2 memristor material. The device may be made large relative to traditional memristors which are nanometers in scale but its increased thickness can significantly increase the probability of radiation interaction with the memristor material.
US11480685B2
Sensing apparatus includes a transparent window and a LiDAR assembly, including a beam source, which is configured to emit one or more beams of optical radiation along a beam axis, and which is configured to scan the one or more beams over an angular range about the beam axis. A diffractive structure is mounted approximately parallel to the transparent window and positioned to intercept the one or more beams emitted by the LiDAR assembly and turn the beam axis to pass through the transparent window at an angle greater than 30° relative to a normal to a surface of the transparent window.
US11480679B2
A distance measurement sensor that detects a distance to an object based on heterodyne detection using light generated from a light source and another light received by a light receiver, includes: a scanning unit which scans the light in a first direction; a diffusing lens which diffuses the light in a second direction; multiplexers which multiplex the light and the another light to provide optical signals, respectively; and a processor which detects the distance to the object based on the optical signals. The light receiver has light receiving antennas in the second direction. The multiplexers are connected to the light receiving antennas, respectively. The processor performs a parallel processing for detecting the distance to the object based on the optical signals with respect to the light receiving antennas individually.
US11480677B2
A tool for applying a protective film to a lens of a light detection and ranging (LIDAR) sensor is disclosed. The tool includes at least one cover, a film spindle, a film roller, and a pivot bar. The at least one cover has an elongated shape with a first end and a second end opposite of the first end. The film spindle is mounted to the at least one cover adjacent to the second end thereof. The film spindle is configured to hold a roll of the protective film. The film roller is mounted to the at least one cover adjacent to the first end thereof. The film roller is configured to apply the protective film onto the lens. The pivot bar has a first end configured to be pivotally attached to the LIDAR sensor and a second end pivotally attached to the at least one cover.
US11480675B2
A photoacoustic apparatus may include: a ring transducer configured to measure a photoacoustic signal generated from an object, and including a hollow space that is provided as a travel path of light and ultrasonic waves; a mirror part disposed along a light path of the light transmitted from the ring transducer, and configured to reflect the light transmitted from the ring transducer, and the ultrasonic waves generated from the object, and to adjust magnification of the mirror part according to a number of apertures of the photoacoustic apparatus; and a fluid tank including a transparent film that allows the photoacoustic signal to pass through the fluid tank, and accommodating a fluid, the ring transducer, and the mirror part inside the fluid tank.
US11480667B2
Various avionics systems may benefit from appropriate integration of distance measurement equipment, traffic collision avoidance systems, and transponders, with the distance measurement equipment using a dedicated antenna. A system can include a transponder processor. The system can also include a top antenna receiver configured to connect to a top antenna. The transponder processor can be configured to communicate using the top antenna. The system can also include a bottom antenna receiver configured to connect to a first bottom antenna, wherein the transponder processor is configured to communicate using the first bottom antenna. The system can further include a distance measure equipment processor integrated with the transponder processor and configured to measure distance using a second bottom antenna.
US11480664B2
An optical detection device of detecting a distance relative to a target object includes a substrate, an optical sensor and a processor. The optical sensor is disposed on the substrate and adapted to capture an image about the target object. The processor is disposed on the substrate and electrically connected with the optical sensor. The processor is adapted to mark a first region and a second region within the image for acquiring first quantity of the first region and second quantity of the second region, and compare the first quantity with the second quantity for determining whether the distance is varied to a predefined condition.
US11480663B2
A light transmission element for an optical unit for transmitting and, in the process, adapting the angle of transmitted light, including a sequence of a multitude of optical elements situated in the form of a layer, in which the layer forms a first side and a second side, which face away from one another, a respective optical element including a pair of subelements, which each extend from a geometrically essentially identical base in a tapering manner and which face one another with their bases and extend with different lengths along their taper, and the optical elements being aligned in such a way that subelements having a greater length face the first side and subelements having a lesser length face the second side.
US11480661B2
In an example embodiment, a process may select high density points from a point cloud. The process may create one or more clusters from the high density points and identify a circular cluster from the created clusters. The process may identify which points in the circular cluster are inner edge points and determine a center of an ellipse that fits the inner edge points. The process may define a search space utilizing the center of the ellipse. The process may determine the estimated x, y, and z coordinates for the position of the scanner in the search space utilizing a non-linear least square solver with different combinations of a relationship that is true for any pair of points of the cluster. An application may utilize the determined position with an object/file format (e.g., LSA format) to generate a high resolution 3D mesh of a scene.
US11480657B2
A LADAR device, including: a rangefinder; a signal transmission module; a power transmission module; a mechanical rotating part; a housing; a signal processing board; and a timing module. The signal transmission module includes at least one optical communication transmitter and one optical communication receiver. The power transmission module includes coupled magnet rings and communicates with the signal transmission module through electromagnetic induction to achieve wireless power transmission. The mechanical rotating part is adapted to drive the rangefinder to rotate axially in 360 degrees. The rangefinder is disposed on the housing, and includes a laser, an emitting lens assembly, a receiving sensor, and a receiving lens. The emitting lens assembly includes a first accommodation space and the laser is disposed in the first accommodation space. The receiving lens includes a second accommodation space and the receiving sensor is disposed in the second accommodation space.
US11480656B2
A method of configuring a radar monolithic microwave integrated circuit (MMIC) and executing configured commands includes receiving and storing a plurality of configuration commands corresponding to unique time-dependent functions, each configuration command corresponding to a different one of the unique time-dependent functions; generating a unique command handle for each configuration command; transmitting the unique command handle for each configuration command to a controller; receiving and storing a bundled configuration command comprising a plurality of unique command handles corresponding to a set of configuration commands; generating a unique bundled command handle for the bundled configuration command; transmitting the unique bundled command handle to the controller; and receiving an execute command that includes the unique bundled command handle, where the execute command triggers execution of an execution flow of the unique time-dependent functions corresponding to the set of configuration commands associated with the unique bundled command handle.
US11480655B2
Example embodiments relate to transmitter-receiver leakage suppression in integrated radar systems. One embodiment includes a front-end for a radar system. The front-end includes a transmit path that includes a power amplifier and a transmit antenna. The transmit path is configured to transmit a transmit signal. The front-end also includes a receive path that includes a receive antenna and a low-noise amplifier. The receive path is configured to receive at least a leakage from the transmit path. The receive path is configured to generate an amplified signal of the leakage. Further, the front-end also includes a reference path. In addition, the front-end includes a compensation unit in the reference path. The compensation unit is configured to generate compensation for a leakage path between the transmit path and the receive path. The compensation unit is configured to apply the generated compensation to the reference signal to generate a compensated reference signal.
US11480651B2
The present disclosure relates to an acoustic position determination system that includes a mobile communication device and at least one base transmitter unit. The mobile communication device is configured to identify a peak in the received signal, and to de-convolve the signal with all codes that are relevant to the area in which the signal is received. A joint likelihood that a potential code is correct is formed by determining a likelihood based on a signal parameter such as signal-to-noise ratio and a likelihood based on time-of arrival information.
US11480646B2
Systems and methods for signaling information related to wireless device positioning in a cellular communications network are disclosed. In some embodiments, a method of operation of a first network node for signaling information related to wireless device positioning in a cellular communications network comprises signaling, from the first network node to a second node, information comprising information that relates to a new vertical surface model for a plurality of cells in a cellular communications network. The new vertical surface model is a translated and scaled version of an initial vertical surface model.
US11480640B1
In a method and system for reducing motion artifacts in magnetic resonance image data, a scout scan (e.g. a three-dimensional (3D) scout scan) of the region of the patient is performed, a magnetic resonance (MR) measurement of the region of the patient is performed to acquire two-dimensional (2D) MR image data of the region of the patient, and motion correction is performed on the acquired 2D MR image data based on the scout scan to generate corrected MR image data. The motion correction technique advantageously reduces an influence of a patient motion on the magnetic resonance image data.
US11480639B1
A system and method for performing accelerated k-space shift correction calibration scans for non-Cartesian trajectories is provided. The method can include applying an MRI sequence, performing a calibration scan based on the MRI sequence using the non-Cartesian trajectory to acquire k-space shift data, wherein one or more partitions are skipped during the calibration scan, interpolating the skipped one or more partitions using the k-space shift data from adjacent partitions, and calibrating the MRI system using the k-space shift data and the interpolated k-space shift data. In some embodiments, an acceleration factor Acc can be defined and the calibration scan acquires k-space shift data for only one partition in every Acc partitions.
US11480629B2
An electronic determination device for determining at least one characteristic parameter of a connection set connected between a converter and an electric machine; the converter comprising at least two output terminals and, for each output terminal, a switching branch including at least one converter switch; the connection set comprising a filter connected to the output terminals and a cable connected between the filter and the electric machine; the filter including, for each output terminal, a respective electromagnetic coil connected to said output terminal and a respective capacitor connected to said coil; the determination device comprising: for each output terminal, a device switch configured to be connected to the respective capacitor; a generation module configured to generate a voltage pulse through the connection set, by controlling the converter switches and each device switch; an acquisition module configured to acquire measurements of respective current(s) and voltage(s) through the filter, further to the generation of the respective voltage pulse; and a calculation module configured to calculate at least one characteristic parameter of the connection set according to the respective current(s) and voltage(s) measurements.
US11480627B2
Provided is a method for determining a micro short circuit of a lithium ion secondary battery which is capable of determining the presence or absence of a micro short circuit of the lithium ion secondary battery in a short time. A relaxation process after the interruption of a discharging current or a charging current is analyzed and a voltage fluctuation component due to micro short circuit is separated and used in the determination. Specifically, a method for determining a micro short circuit that determines presence or absence of the micro short circuit in a lithium ion secondary battery is provided which includes: a relaxation decomposition step of decomposing a change of a cell voltage in a relaxation process after interrupting charging current during charging or discharging current during discharging into a plurality of decomposition relaxation components; and a micro short circuit determination step of determining presence or absence of micro short circuit by determining presence or absence of a component in which a voltage drop has occurred due to the micro short circuit, among the plurality of decomposition relaxation components.
US11480626B1
Testbeds for battery management systems (BMSs) and/or batteries, as well as methods of using the same, are provided. A testbed can be a control-hardware-in-the-loop (CHIL) testbed and can include a simulation bench including a battery cell simulator, a temperature simulator, and/or a real-time simulator. The simulator bench can further include a programmable power supply, a relay, a resistor, and/or a communication protocol.
US11480625B2
Battery management systems and methods can provide real-time automated monitoring of various aspects of battery health and operation. Some battery management systems can use an equivalent cell circuit model to predict a range for the expected behavior of a battery cell under actual operating conditions in real-time. The prediction can be compared to the actual behavior of the cell to determine whether an anomaly exists. Some battery management systems can maintain an estimate of battery state-of-health parameters such as charge capacity and internal resistance and can update these estimates in real time while the battery is being discharged and/or charged. Anomalous variations in a monitored parameter can trigger a real-time fault notification.
US11480622B2
An apparatus and a method for diagnosing battery replacement for vehicles may accurately diagnose whether a battery has been replaced using an internal resistance of the battery. The apparatus includes a measurer for measuring the internal resistance of the battery, a storage for storing the measured internal resistance, and a controller for diagnosing whether the battery has been replaced based on the internal resistance. The controller, when vehicle power is reset, controls the measurer to measure a first or second internal resistance after starting a vehicle, updates and stores the measured first or second internal resistance in the storage, compares a current first internal resistance value with a former first internal resistance value or a current second internal resistance value with a former second internal resistance value, and diagnoses that the battery has been replaced when the corresponding values differ from each other.
US11480619B2
An estimation apparatus estimates an internal state of an energy storage device having a positive electrode, a negative electrode including a negative active material that contains SiOx, and a nonaqueous electrolyte, the energy storage device changing from a positive-electrode limiting type, in which a discharge capacity is limited by the positive electrode, to a negative-electrode limiting type, in which the discharge capacity is limited by the negative electrode. The estimation apparatus estimates the internal state of the energy storage device by using a voltage value and an energization amount in a predetermined voltage range of the energy storage device or at a predetermined measured voltage value, or based on information on the shape of a discharge curve of the energy storage device.
US11480614B2
The present disclosure describes exemplary methods and systems that are applicable for hardware authentication, counterfeit detection, and in-field tamper detection in both printed circuit board and/or integrated circuit levels by utilizing random variations in boundary-scan path delay and/or current in the industry-standard JTAG-based design-for-test structure to generate unique device identifiers.
US11480611B2
Prober for a test system for testing a device under test is disclosed. In one example, the prober comprises a chuck configured for carrying the device under test, a transport circuitry for transporting electric signals to and/or away from the device under test. A cooling unit is directly thermally coupled with the device under test and configured for cooling the device under test at a main surface of the device under test facing the chuck.
US11480607B2
A method for determining the remaining usability of a semiconductor module in normal use. The semiconductor module is thermally coupled to a cooling device. A predefined electrical load is applied to the semiconductor module while predefined cooling is effected by the cooling device. A temperature of a semiconductor element of the semiconductor module is sensed at least for the predefined electrical load on the semiconductor module. The sensed temperature is compared with a comparison temperature in a first comparison. The comparison temperature is assigned to the predefined electrical load with the predefined cooling, and prediction data for the remaining usability of the semiconductor module in normal use up to a usability end are determined at least in accordance with the first comparison.
US11480606B2
A method for estimating at least one electrical property of a semiconductor device is provided. The method includes forming the semiconductor device and at least one testing unit on a substrate, irradiating the testing unit with at least one electron beam, estimating electrons from the testing unit induced by the electron beam, and estimating the electrical property of the semiconductor device according to intensity of the estimated electrons from the testing unit.
US11480602B2
Transformer assembly including a first transformer stage having a plurality of first-stage transformer cells; and a second transformer stage. An input of the second transformer stage is connected to an output of the first transformer stage. A lightning impulse breakdown voltage of a transformer cell of the second stage is at least double of a lightning impulse breakdown voltage of transformer cells of the first stage.
US11480599B2
The present disclosure relates to a motor vehicle on-board network with a first voltage circuit for supplying electric power to an environment sensor system with a first electrical voltage, wherein an insulation monitor is provided for the first voltage circuit to monitor the insulation resistance of the first voltage circuit.
US11480595B2
The invention relates to the estimation of a time-variable physical quantity by a distributed system comprising a centralized platform and a set of distributed measurement devices each communicating with the platform via a communication network, on the basis of the measurement (100), by each device of the set, of a local datum representative of the physical quantity, the collection (120) by the centralized platform, over a predetermined sampling period, of measurement samples originating from a subset of devices of said set via said communication network, and the estimation (130) of the physical quantity over the sampling period on the basis of the collected samples. According to the invention, each device of said set executes (110), in each sampling period, a local algorithm deciding randomly and based on a sending probability associated with each device, whether the corresponding measurement device is part of said subset. The physical quantity is estimated on the basis of the measurement samples collected and the predefined sending probability for each device belonging to the subset.
US11480594B2
Systems and methods for processing measurement data in an electric power system include acquiring the measurement data by a phasor measurement unit (PMU) coupled to a line of the electric power system, and inputting a plurality of the measurement data within a predetermined time window into a K-nearest neighbor (KNN) for identifying bad data among the plurality of the measurement data, wherein when one of the plurality of measurement data contains a bad datum, the machine learning module sends the bad datum to a denoising autoencoder module for correcting the bad datum, wherein the denoising autoencoder module outputs a corrected part corresponding to the bad datum, and when one of the plurality of measurement data contains no bad datum, the machine learning module bypasses the denoising autoencoder module and outputs the one of the plurality of measurement data as an untouched part.
US11480591B2
A current-sensor structure comprises a conductor for conducting electrical current in a current direction. The conductor has one or more conductor surfaces and an edge. At least one current sensor is disposed on, over, adjacent to or in contact with the conductor and is offset from a centre of the conductor in an offset direction orthogonal to the current direction. The current sensor is aligned with the edge of the conductor or the conductor has a width W and the current sensor is within a distance of W/2.5, W/3, W/4, W/5 or W/6 of the conductor edge. The current-sensor structure can comprise a substrate on which the conductor is disposed.
US11480588B2
The invention relates to a method for providing a probe device for scanning probe microscopy, in particular for atomic force microscopy, wherein a scanning probe microscope is used for measuring a sample by means of a tip which is arranged on a cantilever of the probe device and which has a tip geometry. According to the invention, in a step upstream of the manufacturing process producing the tip, the tip geometry is optimized based on a selected tip basic form with regard to defined, required measurement properties, by computer simulating and evaluating the tip geometry, and modifying the tip geometry according to the evaluation with regard to these measurement properties. The invention further relates to a probe device for scanning probe microscopy, in particular for atomic force microscopy, having a cantilever and a tip formed on the cantilever in the nanometer range, with which samples to be measured can be scanned.
US11480580B2
Disclosed herein is a chemo-proteomic probe for labelling and monitoring a live microbe interacting with a host cell and for qualitative and quantitative analyses of those proteins involved during a microbe infects the host cell. This probe comprises a functional group for conjugating to a surface protein of a live microbe under a physiological condition; a photo-reactive group for covalent cross-linking to an interacting cell protein of a host; and a tag for isolating the cross-linked complex of the surface protein of said live microbe and the interacting protein of a host cell for qualitative and quantitative proteomics analyses. The probe may further comprise a visualization tag. This technology takes advantage of the high throughput feature of mass spectrometry analysis and combines it with a uniquely designed chemistry to achieve high efficient isolation and analysis of host cell proteins interacting with a pathogen at different stages of an infection.
US11480576B2
A phenyleneethynylene macrocycle (PEMC) is constructed that is a cyclic or polycyclic oligo (oligophenyleneethynylene-co-polyamine) where a monodispersed oligophenyleneethynylene is coupled with a polyamine. The PEMC is formed by coupling a monodispersed di-aldehyde end-capped oligophenyleneethynylene with a polyamine to form a macrocyclic imine and reducing the imine to an amine. The PEMC is useful at entering living cells for the fluorescence imaging of the living cells without toxicity to the cells.
US11480559B2
A method for analyzing thrombogenic capacity or blood coagulation capacity, the method comprising adding calcium, a blood coagulation factor XII (FXII) inhibitor, and a kallikrein inhibitor to blood collected with a blood collection tube containing sodium citrate, to allow initiation of blood coagulation reaction, is provided. Preferably, heparin, heparan sulfate, and tissue factor are further added to the blood, and thrombogenic capacity or blood coagulation capacity is analyzed.
US11480555B2
A sensor system includes an electrical circuit having plural leads coupled with one or more sensing regions. The sensing regions include gaps having sensing materials that detect an analyte of interest. The gaps close responsive to the sensing material corresponding to the gaps detecting the analyte of interest. One or more processors communicatively coupled with the electrical circuit receive electrical signals from the electrical circuit indicative of the gaps closing responsive to the sensing material of the corresponding gaps detecting the analyte of interest. The electrical circuit is in a closed position in the presence of the analyte of interest. The sensor system is configured to consume an increased amount of power when the electrical circuit is in the closed position relative to the electrical circuit in an open position responsive to the one or more of the gaps closing. A responsive action is determined based on the electrical signals.
US11480552B2
The present invention provides a method for measuring moisture content in a separator of secondary battery by using a gas chromatograph equipped with a headspace sampler. The separator of secondary battery may be a safety reinforced separator (SRS) in which inorganic substance particles and a binder polymer are coated on a polyolefin substrate.
US11480549B2
According to one embodiment, an estimation device includes a processor. The processor accepts information. The information is acquired by each of a plurality of ultrasonic sensors transmitting an ultrasonic wave in a second direction toward a weld portion and receiving a reflected wave. The ultrasonic sensors are arranged in a first direction. The second direction crosses the first direction. The processor estimates a range of the weld portion in the second direction based on an intensity distribution of the reflected wave in the second direction. The processor calculates a centroid position of an intensity distribution of the reflected wave in the first direction for each of a plurality of points in the second direction, and estimates a range of the weld portion in the first direction based on a plurality of the centroid positions.
US11480541B2
A method for optical imaging of single protein molecules including tethering single protein molecules via a flexible polymer linker to a glass slide having a surface coated with an indium tin oxide (ITO) so that the single protein molecules are tethered to the coated surface. The single protein molecules are driven into oscillation by applying an alternating electric field to the coated surface and the glass slide is located in the field of view of an objective lens. Incident light is directed onto the coated surface from an angle to generate an evanescent field and produce scattered light. The scattered light is collected and imaged by a CMOS imager to record a sequence of images of the scattered light. A Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) filter is applied to each pixel of the recorded image sequence to produce an oscillation amplitude image from which size, charge, and mobility of the plurality of single protein molecules can be determined.
US11480540B2
The present disclosure relates to metal alloys for biosensors. An electrode is made from ruthenium metal or a ruthenium-based alloy. The resulting electrode has physical and electrical property advantages when compared with existing pure metal electrodes.
US11480537B2
A method of measuring contact resistance at an interface for superconducting circuits is provided. The method includes using a chain structure of superconductors to measure a contact resistance at a contact between contacting superconductor. The method further includes eliminating ohmic resistance from wire lengths in the chain structure by operating below the lowest superconducting transition temperature of all the superconductors in the chain structure. The measurement is dominated by contact resistances of the contacts between contacting superconductors in the chain.
US11480534B2
A system comprising a calorimeter for measuring a heat flux of a sample comprising a recipient space for a sample container containing a sample, a heat sink, a first heat transducer whereby the first heat transducer comprises a heat receiving surface in contact with the sample container when the sample container is positioned in the recipient space and a heat absorbing surface in contact with the heat sink. A second heat sink is provided, whereby the second heat sink has a second heat receiving surface in contact with the heat sink and a second heat absorbing surface in contact with the sample container, when the sample container is positioned in the recipient space.
US11480516B2
A system for orienting particles in a microfluidic system includes one or more radiation pressure sources arranged to expose particles to radiation pressure to cause the particles to adopt a particular orientation in the fluid. A system for sorting particles in a microfluidic system includes a detection stage arranged to detect at least one difference or discriminate between particles in the fluid flow past the detection stage, and one or more radiation pressure sources past which the particles move sequentially and a controller arranged to switch radiation energy to cause a change in direction of movement of selected particles in the fluid flow to sort the particles. The particles may be biological particles such as spermatozoa. The radiation pressure may be optical pressure and may be from one or more waveguides which may extend across a channel of the microfluidic system.
US11480515B2
An optical method of characterizing an object comprises providing an object to be characterized, the object having at least one nanoscale feature; illuminating the object with coherent plane wave optical radiation having a wavelength larger than the nanoscale feature; capturing a diffraction intensity pattern of the radiation which is scattered by the object; supplying the diffraction intensity pattern to a neural network trained with a training set of diffraction intensity patterns corresponding to other objects with a same nanoscale feature as the object to be characterized, the neural network configured to recover information about the object from the diffraction intensity pattern; and making a characterization of the object based on the recovered information.
US11480514B2
A sensor network, which includes a sensor controller serially coupled to a plurality of sensor modules, is configured to program the sensor modules so as to transfer measurement data to the sensor controller and to synchronize the sensor modules to picosecond accuracy via on-chip or on-module custom circuits and a physical layer protocol. The sensor network has applications for use in PET, LiDAR, FLIM and flow cytometry applications. Synchronization, within picosecond accuracy, is achieved through use of a picosecond time digitization circuit. The picosecond time digitization circuit is used to measure on-chip delays with high accuracy and precision. The delay measurements are directly comparable between separate chips even with voltage and temperature variations between chips.
US11480508B2
Disclosed herein are systems and methods capable of identifying, tracking, and sorting particles or droplets flowing in a channel, for example, a microfluidic channel having a fluid medium. The channel and the fluid medium can have a similar refractive index such that they appear translucent or transparent when illuminated by electromagnetic radiation. The particles or droplets can have a refractive index substantially different from that of the channel and the medium, such that the particles or droplets interfere with the electromagnetic radiation. A sensor can be disposed adjacent to the channel to record the electromagnetic radiation. The sensor can be attached to a system for identifying, tracking, and sorting the droplets.
US11480504B2
When the type is to be changed from serum (preceding sample) to urine (current sample), “serum” is set to a preceding type and “urine” is set to a measurement type at number 1 in a condition number. At condition number 1, the wash type is pattern 1, with washing performed once with detergent 1. Where the preceding sample is serum and the current sample is CSF, the condition number is 2 and the wash type is pattern 2, with washing performed twice using detergent 1 and once with detergent 2. Where the preceding sample is urine and the current sample is CSF, the condition number is 3 and the wash type is pattern 3, with washing performed once with detergent 1, once with detergent 2, and once with water. In the case of pattern 4, washing is performed three times with detergent 1.
US11480499B2
A sensor tube structure includes a sensor housing, a sensor mounted on the sensor housing, an external tube mounted at an end of the sensor housing to enclose the sensor, an inner tube provided to be movable inside the external tube, a drive plate in which a sensor hole into which the sensor is inserted is formed, and is coupled to the inner tube, and an actuator mounted on the sensor housing and selectively moving the drive plate.
US11480495B2
The invention relates to a contacting module (1) by means of which the individual electrical and optical inputs and outputs (AoC) of optoelectronic chips (2) are connected to the device-specific electrical and optical inputs and outputs of a test apparatus. It is characterized by a comparatively high adjustment insensitivity of the optical contacts between the chips (2) and the contacting module (1), which is achieved, for example, by technical measures which result in the optical inputs (EoK) of the chip (2) or on the contacting module (1) being irradiated in every possible adjustment position by the optical signal (So) to be coupled in.
US11480486B2
An integrated sensor and service port for HVAC (heating, ventilating, and air conditioning) equipment or an HVAC system. The integrated sensor and service port may comprise an anti-blowback mechanism.
US11480483B2
A load detector for detecting a load of a subject on a bed (BD) having a caster (CT) includes: a plate portion (1) which is one-fold and which is to be supported above an installation surface (F), on which the load detector is installed, separately from the installation surface; and a slope portion (SL1, SL2, SL3, SL4) which is provided around the plate portion and which is inclined relative to a surface of the plate portion so as to extend between the surface of the plate portion and the installation surface. The plate portion includes: a peripheral part (13); a placing part (11) on which the caster is to be placed, and which is provided inside relative to the peripheral part separately from the peripheral part; and a linking part (12) which links the placing part and the peripheral part. The load detector further includes a strain sensor (G) attached to the linking part, and the slope portion includes at least two pairs of slopes (SL1, SL2, SL3, SL4) each including a pair of slopes opposed to each other such that the placing part is interposed between the pair of slopes.
US11480480B2
A heat flux sensor comprising: an array of nanofilaments suspended with respect to a support, each nanofilament comprising an electrically conducting material, the array being able to be biased by an electric power source to circulate an electric current in each of the nanofilaments, at least one resonator of the nanoelectro-mechanical system (NEMS) type comprising: a beam consisting of a nanofilament forming a side of the array, an actuation device able to generate a vibration of the beam under the effect of an excitation signal, a detection device configured to measure a displacement of the beam during the vibration and emit an output signal having a resonance at the resonant frequency of the resonator, the resonant frequency depending on the intensity of the electric current flowing through the beam, a temperature variation of the array of heating nanofilaments induced by a variation in a characteristic of a fluid surrounding the array causing an intensity variation of the current flowing through the beam resulting in a variation in the resonant frequency of the resonator.
US11480477B2
A heat utilizing device is provided in which the thermal resistance of the wiring layer is increased while an increase in electric resistance of the wiring layer is limited. Heat utilizing device has thermistor whose electric resistance changes depending on temperature; and wiring layer that is connected to thermistor. A mean free path of phonons in wiring layer is smaller than a mean free path of phonons in an infinite medium that consists of a material of wiring layer.
US11480474B2
An apparatus and method for measuring temperature of a battery, which may effectively measure a temperature of a secondary battery. The apparatus measures a temperature of a secondary battery at an integrated circuit board configured to contact an electrode lead of the secondary battery, and includes a lead connector mounted on the integrated circuit board and configured such that the electrode lead is connected thereto, a temperature sensor mounted on the integrated circuit board and configured to receive an operation power from the secondary battery as a first terminal provided at one end thereof among a plurality of terminals included therein is in direct contact with the lead connector, and a calculating unit electrically connected to the temperature sensor and configured to measure the temperature of the secondary battery based on an electric signal measured by the temperature sensor.
US11480468B2
A terahertz detector circuit can include a high electron mobility transistor (HEMT) having multiple gates that can be controlled by gate signals to generate a gate-induced modulation pattern in a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) of the HEMT. When the gate induced modulation pattern substantially matches a signal induced modulation pattern generated by an incident terahertz signal then a detection efficiency of the incident terahertz signal is improved. Accordingly, an electronically tunable THz detector with high efficiency can be realized. When these THz detectors are arranged in an array and electrically coupled, THz images and/or multi-spectral THz images may be generated.
US11480463B2
An occupancy sensor covering a wide field in an integrated chip is disclosed. The occupancy sensor includes an array of grating coupled waveguide sensors wherein continuous wave (cw) signals monitor an ambient light field for dynamic changes on times scales of seconds, and high frequency signals map in three-dimensions of the space using time-of-flight (TOF) measurements, pixel level electronics that perform signal processing; array level electronics that perform additional signal processing; and communications and site level electronics that interface with actuators to respond to occupancy sensing.
US11480457B2
Calibration of a valve in a vacuum system and providing a diagnostic indication in the vacuum system using the calibration includes measuring conductance of the valve as a function of angular valve position and generating a conductance calibration map or function for use during operation of the valve. An actual angular valve position is set based on the received set point angular valve position and a difference between the measured valve conductance and a predefined metric of conductance versus angular valve position. An actual system conductance and a difference between the actual system conductance and a reference system conductance for the system are determined. The diagnostic indication of a fault in the system is generated based on the actual angular valve position of the valve and the difference between the actual system conductance and the reference system conductance for the system.
US11480455B2
A physical quantity measurement device includes a housing forming a measurement flow path through which the fluid flows and a container space that houses a part of a detection unit. An inner surface of the housing includes a housing intersecting surface that intersects an arrangement direction in which the measurement flow path and the container space are arranged, a housing flow path surface extending from the housing intersecting surface toward the measurement flow path, and a housing container surface extending from the housing intersecting surface toward the container space. The housing includes a housing partition that protrudes from the inner surface toward the detection unit and contacts the detection unit between the housing and the detection unit such that the housing partition separates the measurement flow path and the container space from each other.
US11480448B2
The rotation detection apparatus including an annular member, a scale member having flexibility and being fixed to a circumferential portion of the annular member, and a detector facing the scale member and configured to detect relative rotation between the scale member and the detector. The circumferential portion of the annular member includes multiple convex portions and multiple concave portions along a circumferential direction of the annular member. The scale member is in contact with the multiple convex portions. Both ends, in the circumferential direction, of the scale member are fixed to the circumferential portion.
US11480421B2
An electric powertrain includes a sensor-controller interface, an inverter-controller electrically connected to the battery pack, and an electric machine connected to the inverter-controller and having a rotor with an angular position. The rotor powers a driven load at a torque and/or speed level controlled by the inverter-controller in response to position signals indicative of the angular position. A rotary position sensor is operatively connected to the rotor to generate and output the position signals. The sensor derives the position signals from unmodulated sine and cosine signals, and communicates the position signals and a binary sensor state of health (SOH) to the inverter-controller over the interface. The inverter-controller also decodes the position signals and the binary sensor SOH to generate decoded control data, and controls the torque and/or speed level using the decoded control data.
US11480403B2
The present invention relates to an unlocking mechanism of a pistol magazine comprising at least one control button (2, 9) arranged on the flank of a grip (1) in which a magazine (3) can be inserted, each control button (2, 9) being attached to one end of a control lever (4, 5) controlling the rotation of a latch cam (8) arranged in front of or behind the grip (1), said latch cam (8) comprising a latch (13), cooperating, during use, with a stop surface (15) arranged on the front or rear surface of the magazine (3) in order to lock or unlock said magazine (3), at least one spring (6) keeping the latch cam (8) in the locked position of the magazine in the absence of pressure exerted on the control button (2, 9).
US11480402B2
A location-based gun magazine has a housing having a plurality of locking apertures, a spring, a wireless receiver switching device, a battery, and an electromagnet locking mechanism. The electromagnet locking mechanism has a locking tab for engaging and locking with the plurality of locking apertures, the locking tab actuatable via the electromagnet, the electromagnet receiving a signal from the wireless receiver switching device. The wireless receiver switching device may have a radio receiver, a GPS chip, or other device for receiving location-based information.
US11480401B1
An integrated magazine loading assist device in two embodiments, each embodiment having a body with an inner facing side and an outer facing side, an outer wall having four sizes formed on the outer facing side, a perimeter wall formed on three of the four sizes of the outer wall, an a tab having a wall end attached to the perimeter wall and an unattached opposed end extending from the perimeter wall over the outer wall, with a magazine-receiving gap formed between the tab and the outer wall. The inner facing side is either removably or fixedly attached to a detachable magazine or attached to a rail of a gun. The opposed end of the tab is shaped to mate directly with an exterior shape of an ammunition round or shaped to mate with a piece that mates with the ammunition round.
US11480398B2
The present invention is directed to a manifold for directing cooling fluid and/or gas to a heat exchanger in a flow configuration designed to optimize heat transfer from the heat exchanger. The manifold can take many different forms such as a layered construction with distributed inlet paths, local outlet paths, a central collection changer and a path for fluid removal. The manifold can be formed from a metal, plastic, rubber, ceramic, or other heat resistant material known to or conceivable by one of skill in the art. The manifold can also be combined with any type of heat exchanger known to or conceivable by one of skill in the art to form a thermal management unit. To optimize overall properties such as low pressure drop, high heat transfer, and excellent temperature uniformity of the thermal management unit, the manifold can be graded, expanded and scaled as needed.
US11480397B2
A method of forming a cast heat exchanger plate includes forming at least one hot core plate defining internal features of a one piece heat exchanger plate and at least one first set of interlocking features. At least one cold core plate is formed defining external features of the heat exchanger plate and at least one second set of interlocking features. A core assembly is assembled wherein each hot core plate is directly interlocked to the at least one cold core plate. A wax pattern is formed with the core assembly. An external shell is formed over the wax pattern. The wax pattern is removed to form a space between the core assembly and the external shell. The space is filled with a molten material and cures the molten material. The external shell is removed. The core assembly is removed. A core assembly for a cast heat exchanger is also disclosed.
US11480392B2
A transfer tube for a thermal transfer device can include at least one wall having an inner surface and an outer surface, where the inner surface forms a cavity, where the at least one wall further has a first end and a second end. The first end can be configured to couple to a terminus of a heat exchanger of the thermal transfer device. The second end can be configured to couple to a collector box of the thermal transfer device. At least a portion of the at least one wall can be disposed in a vestibule of the thermal transfer device. The cavity can be configured to simultaneously receive a first fluid that flows from the first end to the second end and a second fluid that flows from the second end to the first end.
US11480388B2
A temperature-regulating apparatus is provided to rapidly cool a beverage to a desired temperature. In some variations, the geometry of the temperature-regulating apparatus is configured to rapidly cool a beverage incorporating one or more inner portions that contain a temperature regulating material, such as a phase change material having a high heat capacity. The geometry of the interior of the container may be configured to aid in rapid heat transfer between the beverage therein and the outer shell of the inner portion and may have a length to width aspect ratio of at least 4:1. The inner portion may be formed between the exterior wall of the container and by a single piece of formed metal that extends along the length, width and base walls to form the interior for receiving a beverage. The cavity formed between the outer shell and the exterior wall may be at least 15 mm deep.
US11480387B2
A cold storage box is provided that allows individual confirmation that stored objects such as medicine, food, and beverages have been managed at an appropriate temperature. The cold storage box 1 includes: a storage part which can house stored objects; a lid part which covers an opening part of the storage part; and a cooling device which cools the storage part, and the cold storage box includes an RF tag provided for each of the stored objects and equipped with a temperature sensor and a control part which communicates with the RF tag at appropriate time intervals via an antenna part provided inside the storage part and stores ID information of the RF tag and temperature information sensed by the temperature sensor of the RF tag.
US11480383B2
Device for detecting formation of water ice on a substrate has a first permanent magnet and a second permanent magnet. The magnets are spaced apart and arranged with a north pole of one magnet opposed to a south pole of the other magnet. A container contains a body of water within the space between the permanent magnets. At least one of the magnets is movable in the container. A heat conductor arrangement conducts heat between the substrate and the body of water the container. As heat is conducted from the body of water in the container to the substrate and the temperature of the body of water decreases below the temperature at which the density of water is a maximum, the volume of the body of water increases which drives the first and second permanent magnets apart from each other.
US11480381B2
A refrigerator includes a vacuum adiabatic body having a storage space to store a product and a door to open or close the storage space. The main body includes a first plate and perforation plate. A cool air supply gap through which cool air flows is formed between the first plate and the perforation plate. At least two holes through which cool air is discharged to the storage space are formed in the perforation plate. The first plate may be a wall of the main body.
US11480371B2
An HVAC system includes a compressor, condenser, and evaporator. A sensor measures a value associated with the refrigerant in the condenser or the evaporator, and a controller is communicatively coupled to the compressor and the sensor. The controller determines, based on an operational history the compressor, that pre-requisite criteria are satisfied for entering a sensor validation mode. After determining the pre-requisite criteria are satisfied, an initial sensor measurement value is determined. Following determining the initial sensor measurement value, the compressor is operated according to a sensor-validation mode. Following operating the compressor according to the sensor-validation mode for at least a minimum time, a current sensor measurement value is determined. The controller determines whether validation criteria are satisfied for the current sensor value. In response to determining that the validation criteria are satisfied, the controller determines that the sensor is validated.
US11480367B2
A reversible refrigeration system including a compressor arranged to compress gaseous refrigerant, a four-way valve switchable between a heating position in which a payload is heated and a cooling position in which the payload is cooled. A payload heat exchanger is connected to the payload requiring heating or cooling, and a dump heat exchanger, two one-way valves, and two controllable expansion valves as well, wherein the one-way valves each are connected parallel to a corresponding expansion valve, wherein switching of the four-way valve between the heating position and the cooling position controls a flow of pressurized refrigerant to either of the payload heat exchanger or the dump heat exchanger and wherein the heat exchanger which receives the flow of pressurized refrigerant functions as a condenser and the other heat exchanger functions as an evaporator.
US11480361B1
A method of operating an HVAC system including a motor having five taps, and an HVAC controller communicatively connected to a plurality of the five taps the motor includes storing, by a processor of the HVAC controller, selected speeds associated with a plurality of operating conditions in a memory of the HVAC control. The processor controls the motor according to the selected speeds and their associated operating conditions using a group of taps of the plurality of taps of the motor to which the HVAC controller is communicatively connected. Data is communicated between the motor and the HVAC controller using one of the plurality of taps of the motor to which the HVAC controller is communicatively connected.
US11480358B2
An indoor air quality control system may be implemented to control a plurality of air handling units within an industrial facility in a concerted effort to effect an overall air quality goal. A remote server analyzes sensor data, historical data, and other environmental data (e.g., predicted weather data), and uses one or more machine learning algorithms to model the behavior of air within the facility. The sensed air quality data is considered holistically to understand the overall condition of the facility and the gradient of air flows and/or contaminant flows within the 3-dimensional space. Air handling models are applied to current sensor data to generate instructions to selectively turn on/off or otherwise control components of various air handling equipment to reach an optimized air quality result. Decisions on how to control the facility are based on environmental health and safety considerations.
US11480357B2
An imaging target includes a light emitter configured to emit visible light from a surface of the imaging target, and an imaging device captures an image of at least the light emitter of the imaging target and acquires image data including the light emitter.
US11480356B2
A thermostat is disclosed. The thermostat can include one or more temperature sensors configured to measure a plurality of temperature values within a building. The thermostat can include a processing circuit coupled to the one or more temperature sensors. The processing circuit can receive the plurality of measured temperature values from the one or more temperature sensors. The processing circuit can determine, based on a time invariant Non-Linear Least Squares (NLSQ) technique and the plurality of measured temperature values, a compensated temperature value within the building, wherein the compensated temperature value accounts for an unknown temperature state of the thermostat when the thermostat is turned on.
US11480349B2
An outdoor unit of an air conditioner includes a compressor that compresses a first refrigerant introduced from an indoor unit of the air conditioner and a condenser that condenses the first refrigerant compressed by the compressor. A first driving circuit drives the compressor and a second driving circuit regulates a voltage of the first driving circuit. A cooling unit includes: a heat dissipation member that comes into thermal contact with the first driving circuit and the second driving circuit, and a refrigerant pipe that is provided in the heat dissipation member, and has a path along which a second refrigerant moves through the first driving circuit and the second driving circuit. As a result, it is possible to efficiently cool the first driving circuit and the second driving circuit.
US11480348B2
A heat exchanger includes: a main body; and a tube sheet that is bonded to the main body with a brazing material and is used to fix the main body to a support by a fixing member. The tube sheet includes: a bonding surface to which the brazing material is applied; a rising portion that rises from the bonding surface; and a through-hole through which the fixing member is passed. The through-hole is opened at the rising portion, penetrates the tube sheet, and has an inner peripheral surface to which the brazing material is not applied. The main body includes heat transfer tubes through which refrigerant flows, and the tube sheet is bonded to surface of the heat transfer tube.
US11480347B2
A single-package air conditioning appliance includes a housing defining an outdoor portion and an indoor portion. An outdoor heat exchanger assembly is disposed in the outdoor portion. The outdoor heat exchanger assembly includes an outdoor heat exchanger and an outdoor fan. An indoor heat exchanger assembly is disposed in the indoor portion. The indoor heat exchanger assembly includes an indoor heat exchanger and an indoor fan. A compressor is in fluid communication with the outdoor heat exchanger and the indoor heat exchanger to circulate a refrigerant between the outdoor heat exchanger and the indoor heat exchanger. The single-package air conditioner unit also includes a make-up air module. The make-up air module extends between the outdoor portion of the housing and an outside of the housing. The make-up air module includes a plurality of make-up air fans.
US11480346B2
An air conditioner includes a housing including an indoor cavity and an outdoor cavity spaced apart from and communicating with each other, an indoor unit assembly provided in the indoor cavity, and an outdoor unit assembly connected to the indoor unit assembly and provided in the outdoor cavity. A part of a bottom wall of the housing is recessed towards an inner cavity of the housing to form a mounting groove and penetrating opposite side walls of the housing. The mounting groove is located between the indoor cavity and the outdoor cavity.
US11480344B2
A multi-split air conditioner and control method are provided. The multi-split air conditioner includes an outdoor unit including an oil separator and a four-way valve. The outdoor unit includes a pipeline connecting the oil separator and the four-way valve, and the pipeline includes a first pipeline and a second pipeline arranged in parallel, wherein the first pipeline is provided with a heat storage module and a heat storage module control valve, and the second pipeline is provided with a first control valve. When the outdoor environment temperature satisfies a certain condition, the first pipeline and the second pipeline are controlled, so that at least part of working medium circulates in the first pipeline between the oil separator and the four-way valve through the heat storage module.
US11480329B2
A lighting unit may include a first light-emitting diode (“LED”), a second LED, and a third LED. The first LED may be configured to emit first electromagnetic radiation having a first wavelength of between about 600 nanometers (“nm”) and about 740 nm, the second LED may be configured to emit second electromagnetic radiation having a second wavelength of between about 500 nm and about 565 nm, and the third LED may be configured to emit third electromagnetic radiation having a third wavelength between about 315 nm and about 430 nm. Thus, the third electromagnetic radiation may be disinfecting UV-A radiation that is incorporated into a lighting unit that produces visible light.
US11480324B2
Example embodiments relate to controllable modular luminaire drivers. One embodiment includes a luminaire driver. The luminaire driver includes a driver housing provided with input connector elements for connection to a power supply and output connector elements for connection to at least one light source. The input connector elements and output connector elements being accessible from outside of the driver housing. The luminaire driver also includes a driver circuitry in the driver housing between the input connector elements and the output connector elements, and configured to perform a driver function of the at least one light source. Additionally, the luminaire driver includes a receiving means configured for receiving at least one pluggable module. The at least one pluggable module includes a first circuitry associated with a first protocol and a second circuitry associated with a second protocol. The second protocol being different from the first protocol.
US11480322B1
Magnet signage lighting systems are disclosed in which electricity and informational data are transferred from wiring extending from an electrical power source to one or more electrical connector members. At least one power source magnet is electrically connected to the connector member or members. Signage lighting members have lighting member magnets affixed thereto such that when the lighting member magnet is attracted to and connected to the power source magnet, electricity and informational data is transmitted from the power source and an informational data controller, through the connector member or members, to the power source magnet, and then to the lighting member magnet to illuminate and provide informational data to the signage lighting members.
US11480321B2
A frame having a clip for securing the frame to an article of clothing or other object. The frame includes a mount for receiving a removable module and a rotatably attached clip. The clip includes an opening for accommodating sewing ribs between portions of a webbing and a gate (which may be a locking wire) moveable between an open position and a closed position at one end of the opening. In the open position, the locking wire removably engages one of a pair of elongated members defining the opening, e.g., by removably engaging that elongated member at a recess in an outside edge thereof, and does not obstruct the opening. When in the closed position, the locking wire removably engages the other of the elongated members, for example by removably engaging that other elongated member at a recess in its outside edge, and obstructs the longitudinal opening.
US11480319B2
A light emitting module includes: a light guide member including: an emission region defined by a sectioning groove, a light source placement part located in the emission region, and a light adjusting hole that, in a schematic top view, is located between the sectioning groove and the light source placement part; and a light source located in the light source placement part. A refractive index of an inside of the light adjusting hole is lower than a refractive index of the light guide member. In the schematic top view, the light adjusting hole is not positioned on a first straight line connecting a center of the light source and a farthest point in the sectioning groove, the farthest point being farthest from the center of the light source.
US11480314B2
Reflector assemblies and lighting devices incorporating such reflector assemblies are disclosed and described. The reflector assembly includes a reflector body defining an interior reflective surface that in some embodiments has a shape akin to a compound elliptic paraboloid. One or more LEDs can be maintained relative to the reflector body such that an entirety of a light cone emitted by the LED reflects from the interior reflective surface out to the world as a collimated beam. Lighting devices enable light rays to travel with a greater solid angle from LEDs than traditional in-plane optics. Light from a directional point source with a mounting position that is embedded in reflector body oriented to face an opposing curved mirror wall surface so light rays that are diverging prior to reflecting off the interior reflective surfaced are merged together after the reflective bounce to travel in parallel as a collimated beam.
US11480310B2
A vehicular lamp body includes a light source which is mounted in a vehicle, an outer lens which guides light from the light source and emits the light, and a housing which holds the outer lens. The outer lens has a lens part which is exposed on an outer surface of the vehicle and guides light from the light source and emits the light to the outside; and a reflection part which is integrally formed with the lens part, reflects light from the light source, and guides the light to the lens part. A light diffusion part is formed on an inner surface of the lens part.
US11480308B2
A full spectrum light emitting device includes photoluminescence materials which generate light with a peak emission wavelength in a range 490 nm to 680 nm (green to red) and a broadband solid-state excitation source operable to generate broadband blue excitation light with a dominant wavelength in a range from 420 nm to 470 nm, where the broadband blue excitation light includes at least two different blue light emissions in a wavelength range 420 nm to 480 nm.
US11480307B2
A downlight apparatus includes a heat dissipation unit, a light source, a driver module, a light guiding module, a light guiding unit and a protruding portion. The protruding portion has a top portion and an enlarging portion. The top portion is attached to the heat dissipation unit and has a smaller diameter than the enlarging portion.
US11480304B1
Provided is a surface light emitting illumination device including: a light guide panel on which a fine pattern is formed; a channel that includes a pair of first and second channels inside an edge of the light guide panel, and a third channel that connects the first and second channels; first and second LED strips inserted in the first and second channels, in which a plurality of LED chips are mounted on a flexible substrate; an electric wire inserted in the third channel to connect the first and second LED strips; first and second fixing bands inserted in the first and second channels to fix the first and second LED so that the first and second LED strips are not separated from the first and second channels; and a channel communication part formed in a side wall of the light guide panel to communicate with the first channel.
US11480292B2
Various mountings are disclosed for holding a portable screen device in an attitude for hands-free viewing. The mountings are particularly, but not exclusively, useful for supporting portable screen devices (522, FIG. 5A) from the seat-back trays (528) found in passenger vehicles, when the trays are in the “up” position. Each mounting comprises a pair of hooked members (510), each hooked member having a spine (515) provided with first and second hook portions (512, 514) arranged on opposite sides of the spine to face in mutually opposed directions. Each hook portion (512, 514) comprises an open end and a closed end bounded by outer and inner, mutually opposed sides of the hook portion. Various embodiments are disclosed that are also capable of supporting portable screen devices when seat-back trays are in the “down” position, see e.g., FIG. 5B. In most embodiments, both hook portions (512, 514) are unitary with the spine (515), which comprises the inner side of both hook portions, but embodiments are also proposed in which the first hook portion (612, FIG. 6) is formed separately from the spine (615) and is selectively positionable thereon. When in use as a mounting, the hooked members 510, FIG. 5 A) are spaced apart from each other and the second hook portions (514) receive the screen device (522), which spans the distance between the hooked members.
US11480288B2
A clamping holder configured to arrange a display on a standing board defining a thickness direction is provided. The clamping holder includes a body, a connecting member, a first clamping member, and a second clamping member. The connecting member is disposed on the body and is connected to the display. The first clamping member is disposed on the body. When the body abuts against a side of the standing board and the second clamping member is assembled with the first clamping member, the second clamping member slides relative to the first clamping member in the thickness direction, such that the second clamping member abuts against the other side of the standing board, and the second clamping member and the body clamp the standing board together.
US11480273B2
A fluid coupling includes a first adapter, a second adapter, an inner sleeve connected to the first adapter and the second adapter, a nut connected to the first adapter and the second adapter, a sealing member connected to one of the first adapter and the second adapter, and/or an outer sleeve connected to the nut. The outer sleeve may include a chamber provided between an inner wall of the outer sleeve and an outer wall of the outer sleeve.
US11480271B2
One aspect of the invention provides a composite refrigeration line set including at least one selected from the group consisting of: a suction line and a return line, characterized in that one or more of the suction line and the return line are a composite refrigeration line set tube include: an inner plastic tube; a first adhesive layer positioned about the inner plastic tube; an aluminum layer positioned about the first adhesive layer and coupled to the inner plastic tube via the first adhesive layer; a second adhesive layer positioned about the aluminum layer; and an outer plastic layer positioned about the aluminum layer coupled to the aluminum layer via the second adhesive layer. The inner plastic tube is polyethylene of raised temperature. The outer plastic tube is polyethylene of raised temperature. The aluminum layer comprises AL 3005-O.
US11480268B2
A seal for a protrusion from an exterior wall of a structure includes a sheet made from flexible material, the sheet comprising a wall cover portion and a protrusion engaging collar. The protrusion engaging collar extends outward from the wall cover portion and defines a hole. The collar has a first inner perimeter adjacent to the wall cover portion and a second inner perimeter spaced from the wall cover portion. The first inner perimeter is larger than the outer perimeter of the protrusion and the second inner perimeter is equal to or smaller than the outer perimeter of the protrusion. The collar provides a seal around the outer diameter of the protrusion when installed.
US11480261B2
Provided is an electromagnetic valve capable of preventing damage due to wear while preventing an increase in weight of a valve element. The electromagnetic valve includes a solenoid having a plunger movably supported along an axial direction, a flow path member having a fluid passage flow path and a valve element housing portion, and a valve element disposed in the valve element housing portion and movable along the axial direction together with the plunger. The valve element includes a body part, a valve part that opens and closes the fluid passage flow path as the plunger moves, and a pin in a rod-like shape that passes through the body part along the axial direction. The body part is provided with at least one opening that opens in a direction orthogonal to the axial direction and through which the pin is exposed.
US11480260B2
A method of operating a vehicle includes navigating the vehicle along a path, collecting a set of navigation parameters of the vehicle from at least one of a sensor, a global positioning system, or an inertial reference system, determining a set of statistical uncertainties related to at least some navigation parameters in the set of navigation parameters, and associating a set of statistical weights to the at least some navigation parameters.
US11480257B2
A valve arrangement to allow a fluid flow in a first direction and block it in a second direction opposite the first direction. The valve arrangement includes: a fluid channel, a valve seat and a closing body arranged in the fluid channel. The closing body prevents fluid flow in the second direction when resting against the valve seat and allows fluid flow in the first direction when the closing body is lifted off the valve seat; a closing body holder in the fluid channel configured to restrict movement of the closing body in the first direction when the closing body is lifted off the valve seat. The closing body holder held on an inner circumferential wall of the fluid channel in a frictional fit and/or movable in the first direction in a position in which the closing body holder is held on an inner circumferential wall of the fluid channel.
US11480252B2
A gate for a gate valve includes a first body portion and a second body portion. The first body portion has a disc shape and a first wedging element extending from the disc shape. The second body portion has a disc shape and a second wedging element extending from the disc shape. The second body portion is pivotably connected to the first body portion. A gate valve includes a valve body and the gate. The valve body includes a first opening, a second opening, a flow passage from the first opening to the second opening, and a gate channel intersecting the flow passage. The gate is configured to move along a center axis of the gate channel between a closed position where the gate is fully in the flow passage to block fluid flow through the flow passage and an open position where fluid can flow through the flow passage.
US11480249B2
A seal for sealing between first and second grooves, the seal comprising a first sealing part for sealing against the first groove and a second sealing part extending from the first seal, the second sealing part having a convex cross-section relative to the seal for providing at least two sealing contact points against the second groove. The second sealing part provides a mandibular structure with chin-like protrusions which may improve conformation to the natural surface irregularities of the sealing surfaces.
US11480248B2
A hydraulic actuator can be provided for actuating a functional part by a movement of a force transmission element, with a working piston which can be acted upon by a hydraulic pressure of a pressure supply and is movable thereover between a first extreme position and a second extreme position in a piston/cylinder unit, wherein two chambers separated from one another by the working piston are present and a first chamber is formed as a first working chamber with a pressure inlet and a hydraulic pressure applied to the first pressure inlet urges the working piston in the direction of the first extreme position in order to enlarge the first working chamber. At least one retaining means is provided which is capable of automatically locking the working piston in one of the extreme positions when this extreme position is reached, even without any hydraulic pressure being applied.
US11480247B2
A control device controls a lockup clutch interposed between an engine and an automatic transmission mechanism of a vehicle. The control device includes a control part supplying hydraulic pressure to the lockup clutch and controlling differential pressure of the lockup clutch. The control part supplies the hydraulic pressure to the lockup clutch so that the differential pressure is lower than a reference differential pressure in a disengaged state of the lockup clutch. In a case of shifting the lockup clutch from the disengaged state to an engaged state, the control part supplies the hydraulic pressure to the lockup clutch so that the differential pressure increases as a filling ratio of an oil passage of the lockup clutch decreases. The reference differential pressure is a lower limit of the differential pressure that increases a slip ratio of the lockup clutch or reduces a slip amount of the lockup clutch.
US11480239B2
A helical sector gear having a body and a gear segment having a plurality of helical teeth. The gear segment has a toothed sector, on which all of the helical teeth are formed, and spacing segments on the opposite circumferential ends of the toothed sector. Each of the spacing segments has a circumferential surface, which is longer than a pitch of the helical teeth, and a radial surface that is formed in a helical manner that conforms to the helix angle of helical teeth. A die set for forming the helical sector gear and a related method are also provided.
US11480231B2
A transmission belt is provided which has a first elastomeric material, a plurality of longitudinal inserts comprising a first material, a working surface covered by a covering including a second material, and an opposite surface to said working surface. At least one of the first material and the second material is a fibrous metallic material. Advantageously, the transmission belt is a toothed belt.
US11480230B2
A damping device of a window covering is provided, including a headrail, a covering material, and a driving device, wherein the driving device is located in the headrail to raise and extend the covering material. The damping device is provided in the headrail, and includes a metal member and a magnetic member, wherein at least a magnetic pole of the magnetic member faces the metal member. The metal member is located within a magnetic field of the magnetic member. Either one or both the metal member and the magnetic member is drivable by the driving device to make the metal member and the magnetic member move relative to each other. Whereby, the damping device is able to provide a desired damping effect at different temperature or after a long period use, such that the rotation of the metal member and the movement of the covering material are slowed down.
US11480226B2
The brake disc arrangement (10) comprises a brake disc (20) which extends annularly about an axially extending central axis and defines an inwardly facing circumference comprising a splined portion for transferring torques between the brake disc (20) and a corresponding hub, when the brake disc arrangement (10) is mounted to the hub. The brake disc arrangement further comprises a spring assembly (30) adapted to be axially connected to the corresponding hub. The inwardly facing circumference of the brake disc (20) comprises one or more cavities (24), each cavity (24) being defined by axially opposing lateral walls (26). The spring assembly (30) is partially contained in said one or more cavities (24), such that a portion of the spring assembly (30) may abut each one out of the axially opposing lateral walls (26).
US11480225B2
A method of making a brake assembly. The method may include providing a brake pad carrier, an air operated brake actuator suitable for attaching to the brake pad carrier, and a hydraulically operated brake actuator suitable for attaching to the brake pad carrier, and attaching one of the air operated brake actuator and hydraulically operated brake actuator to the brake pad carrier to provide a brake assembly.
US11480224B2
A dust retainer for a brake system comprising a retainer receptacle mounted integrally to one or more components of the brake assembly, wherein the retainer receptacle comprises a drum have first and second open ends, one open end being secured to a component of the brake system and the other open end being closed by a dust retainer cap, the drum defining a space within which a brake disk of the brake system is located, in use, wherein removal of the dust retainer cap allows the brake disk to be removed from the open end of the retainer drum, and a removable drawer integrated in the drum. A fastening means to removably secure brake components to each other is also disclosed.
US11480220B2
A control device for a power transmission mechanism includes a controller. The power transmission mechanism includes an engagement mechanism and an operation mechanism including a movable member and a guide member. The guide member includes a plurality of guide areas being configured to move relative to the movable member to guide the movable member to an engaging position or to a disengaging position. The controller is configured to switch, when determining that a predetermined condition related to traveling of the vehicle is satisfied, a contact guide area that is in contact with the movable member to guide the movable member to the engaging position or to the disengaging position, from a first guide area to a second guide area that are included in the plurality of guide areas.
US11480217B2
A bearing unit having a stationary radially outer ring; a radially inner ring rotatable around a central rotation axis (X) of the bearing unit and provided with at least one raceway and, in a terminal portion thereof, with at least one through hole; at least one row of rolling elements interposed between the radially outer ring and the radially inner ring; and at least one clamping element, which is accommodated in the through hole, to lock the radially inner ring on to a rotating shaft. A first radially outer cylindrical surface of the terminal portion of the radially inner ring has a diameter smaller than the diameter of a second radially outer cylindrical surface of a second terminal portion of the radially inner ring.
US11480208B2
A collar and shaft assembly utilizing a ring and a multi-stepped groove. The multi-stepped groove permits the ring to be compressed into one groove while the collar is being assembled and then to expand into a different groove that permits the ring to contact surfaces on both the collar and the shaft.
US11480204B2
A method of assembling a set of panels, to obtain an assembled product, including connecting a first edge of a first panel, with a first main plane, to a first edge of a second panel, with a second main plane, including arranging a third panel with a third main plane perpendicular to the first main plane, arranging a first edge of the third panel at a second edge of the second panel and arranging the third main plane with a second angle in relation to the second main plane; connecting the first edge of the third panel to the second edge of the second panel, by displacing the third panel and/or the second panel; and connecting a second edge of the third panel to a second edge of the first panel and connecting the first edge of the third panel to the second edge of the second panel.
US11480198B2
A damping device for fluids subject to pressure pulsations has at least one hydraulic accumulator (2). The accumulator housing (4, 6) contains a movable separating element (18), which separates a gas side (14) from a fluid room (16) and can be pressurized by a fluid present in the fluid room (16). A damper housing (34) having a second fluid room (38) is provided as a component of the accumulator housing (4, 6). Through the second fluid room (38), the fluid subject to pressure pulsations can flow. The second fluid room (38) contains a second movable separating element (40), which separates the second fluid room (38) from the first fluid room (16) of the hydraulic accumulator (2) without dead space.
US11480189B2
A centrifugal fan is formed from an impeller installed within a casing. The impeller is formed from two plates that are interconnected by a plurality of blades. A duct extends through each blade. At each of its ends, the duct opens at one of the plates. Air enters the fan from through a central opening formed in one of the plates, moves to a medial zone between the plates, and exits the fan at the medial zone's unwalled periphery. Air also crosses the fan by way of the ducts formed within each blade.
US11480181B2
The invention relates to a vacuum system, comprising a vacuum pump, preferably turbomolecular pump, and at least one vacuum chamber, wherein the vacuum pump comprises: at least a first and a second inlet and a common outlet; at least a first and a second pumping stage, each pumping stage comprising at least one rotor element being arranged on a common rotor shaft, wherein the first inlet is connected to an upstream end of the first pumping stage and the second inlet is connected to an upstream end of the second pumping stage; a direction element for preventing a gas flow from a downstream end of the first pumping stage to the second inlet; a conduit having a conduit inlet and a conduit outlet, wherein the conduit inlet is connected to the downstream end of the first pumping stage and the conduit outlet is connected to a location downstream of the second pumping stage; wherein the first inlet and the second inlet of the pump are connected to the same vacuum chamber.
US11480180B2
A self-priming starting device for a centrifugal pump is mounted on a water inlet pipe of the centrifugal pump and includes an outer housing, an inner housing, a primary spacer, a secondary spacer, an opening and closing disc and a tertiary spacer which are sequentially provided in the outer housing from top to bottom, and an elastic steel plate provided in the water inlet pipe. A drum is provided in the inner housing, and air inlet pipes and air discharging pipes are provided on the inner housing. The drum is provided with drum chambers and a three-blade support is provided in the drum. The opening and closing disc is provided with a vertical rod. A gas-liquid cutter is provided between the primary spacer and the secondary spacer. The primary spacer, the secondary spacer, the opening and closing disc and the tertiary spacer are provided with through-holes.
US11480174B2
A compressor unit (10) of a refrigerating machine (100) for domestic or commercial use has a rotary compressor (11) which has a BLDC or BLAC motor (13), connected to a compression element (12) for actuating it, and a control device (16) connected to the motor (13), for driving it at a variable speed. The compressor (11) further has a a housing (17) which encloses the motor (13) and the compression element (16) and which has a side wall (20) inside of which the stator (14) of the motor (13) is fixed. The compressor unit (10) also comprises an operating shell (21) covering the housing (17) and in thermal communication with the side wall (20). The operating shell (21) dissipates heat transmitted to it by the housing (17) and contrasts or absorbs or dissipate sound waves having a frequency of between 4 kHz and 16 kHz.
US11480169B2
A compression unit including at least one volumetric compressor for compressing the air drawn from the external environment, a system for drying the compressed air operatively associated to the at least one volumetric compressor, one tank for storing the compressed air delivered from the at least one volumetric compressor, wherein the drying system comprises a unit for cooling the compressed air positioned downstream of and placed in fluid communication with the tank, and one dryer positioned upstream and placed in communication with the cooling unit, the dryer configured to reduce the moisture content present in the compressed air that can be dispensed by the compression unit, one solenoid valve positioned upstream of the dryer, to shut off the flow of compressed air flowing out from the tank, and a differential pressure switch to control the switching of the solenoid valve.
US11480162B1
A pulsed metal plasma thruster (MPT) cube has a plurality of thrusters, each having a first cathode electrode and a trigger electrode separated from the first electrode by an insulator sufficient to support an initiation plasma, and a porous anode electrode positioned a separation distance from the face of all of the cathode electrodes. The cathode electrode can be either the inner electrode or the outer electrode. A power supply delivers a high voltage pulse to the trigger electrode with respect to the cathode electrode sufficient to initiate a plasma on the surface of the insulator. The plasma transfers between the anode electrode and cathode electrode of selected thrusters, thereby generating a pulse of thrust.
US11480152B2
A rotor arresting device, a wind turbine and a method for arresting and/or rotating a rotor. The rotor arresting device comprises a rotor, a rotational assembly, and a static assembly fixed in position, comprising a toothed disk, which can be arranged on the rotational assembly, having a plurality of arresting recesses arranged along a circumference, wherein two adjacent arresting recesses form a tooth, a first arresting module having at least one first arresting element, a second arresting module having at least one second arresting element, wherein the first and the second arresting module can be arranged on the static assembly, wherein the first and the second arresting element are arranged and designed to engage in arresting recesses of the toothed disk, wherein the spacing of the first arresting element from the second arresting element in the circumferential direction of the toothed disk is a non-integral multiple of a tooth tip spacing of the toothed disk.
US11480151B2
A wind turbine (1) comprising a tower (2), a nacelle (3) mounted on the tower (2) via a yaw system, a hub (4) mounted rotatably on the nacelle (3), the hub (4) comprising a blade carrying structure (5), and one or more wind turbine blades (6) connected to the blade carrying structure (5) via a hinge (7) is disclosed. Each wind turbine blade (6) is thereby arranged to perform pivot movements relative to the blade carrying structure (5) between a minimum pivot angle and a maximum pivot angle. The blade carrying structure (5) is provided with one or more elements (8) configured to improve aerodynamic properties of a surface of the blade carrying structure (5) by increasing a lift and/or decreasing a drag of the blade carrying structure. The increase in lift and/or decrease in drag varies as a function of angle of attack (AOA) between the blade carrying structure (5) and the incoming wind.
US11480148B2
A rotor blade for a wind turbine, to a rotor for a wind turbine, to a wind turbine, to a method for producing a rotor blade, to a method for connecting a rotor blade to a rotor hub and to a method for repairing a rotor of a wind turbine. The rotor blade has a connection interface, the connection interface having at least one cutout for receiving a tension element for connecting the rotor blade to a further element of a wind turbine, an outer circumferential surface of the cutout being formed of a connection material and having an internal thread.
US11480146B2
The present invention relates to a heat exchanger apparatus for a combustion engine. The apparatus comprises a heat exchanger comprising at least one magnetic component; and an induction heater positioned adjacent at least one magnetic component of the heat exchanger. The induction heater is connectable to a power supply to provide inductive heating to the heat exchanger.
US11480145B1
Systems and methods for starting an engine that may be started via an electric machine and a driveline disconnect clutch are described. In one example, the method estimates a maximum motor propulsive torque during engine starting. The maximum motor propulsive torque may be based on an estimated speed that a torque converter impeller speed will be when an engine cranking period ends.
US11480143B2
Methods and systems are provided for a ducted fuel injector. In one example, the ducted fuel injector comprises a plurality of passages, with at least one of the passages configured to receive an oxygen poor gas from a reservoir or an adjacent cylinder to decrease a likelihood of pre-ignition in the duct.
US11480136B1
Embodiments are directed toward a monopropellant continuous detonation engine. In some embodiments, the continuous detonation engine includes an engine body, a monopropellant feed assembly, and a detonation initiator. The engine body defines a detonation wave channel. The monopropellant feed assembly delivers monopropellant from a monopropellant storage tank into the detonation wave channel. The detonation initiator initiates continuous detonation of the monopropellant in the detonation wave channel, preferably without a catalyst to promote decomposition of the monopropellant. Accordingly, specific impulse is increased compared to constant-pressure reaction thrusters that catalytically decompose the monopropellant with deflagration combustion.
US11480134B2
A gas turbine engine including: a high pressure turbine, a low pressure turbine, a high pressure compressor coupled to the high pressure turbine by a high pressure shaft, a propulsor and a low pressure compressor coupled to the low pressure turbine via a low pressure shaft and a reduction gearbox; wherein the high pressure compressor defines an average stage pressure ratio at cruise conditions of between 1.25 and 1.35 and consists of 10 or 11 stages; and the high pressure compressor and low pressure compressor together define a core overall pressure ratio at cruise conditions of between 40:1 and 60:1.
US11480122B1
Methods and systems are provided for cylinder deactivation to reduce tailpipe emissions and increase exhaust temperature. In one example, a method may include operating a first set of cylinders in a first combustion cycle over modified eight strokes and a second set of cylinders in a second combustion cycle over modified four strokes. Each cylinder in the first set of cylinders may be selectively deactivated via a variable displacement engine (VDE) mechanism while each cylinder in the second set of cylinders may be selectively deactivated via an active decompression technology (ADT) mechanism.
US11480120B2
Systems and methods for operating an engine with deactivating and non-deactivating valves are presented. In one example, valves of a cylinder are deactivated in a closed state in response to an indication of degradation of a valve of the cylinder. Further, fuel flow to the cylinder may be stopped via ceasing to inject fuel to the cylinder.
US11480118B2
The invention provides a system for ventilation of a crankcase (217) of an internal combustion engine, the system comprising—an air inlet guide (203, 212) adapted to guide air to at least one cylinder (220) of the engine,—a closed circuit conduit (209) for guiding crankcase gas from the crankcase (217) to the air inlet guide (203, 212),—wherein the system comprises gas detection means (2181, 2182, 2183) positioned in the air inlet guide (203, 212), for detecting crankcase gas in the air inlet guide.
US11480117B2
Methods and systems are presented for improving performance of a vehicle operating in a cruise control mode where a controller adjusts torque output from a vehicle to maintain vehicle speed within a desired range. The methods and systems include adapting a vehicle dynamics model and a vehicle fuel consumption map that provide input to nonlinear model predictive controller.
US11480111B2
A gas turbine engine with a compressor supplying compressed air. A combustor receives the compressed air and fuel and generates a flow of combusted gas. A turbine receives a core flow of the combusted gas to rotate a turbine rotor. A turbine inlet nozzle directs the combusted gas to the turbine rotor. Vanes are disposed in the turbine inlet nozzle and rotate to vary a flow area through which the core flow passes. The vanes adjust a pressure ratio of the gas turbine engine to compensate for changing operational requirements of the gas turbine engine by rotating to positions matching the changing operational requirements.
US11480110B2
The invention relates to a method for estimating and using a dead zone at closing of a flap (P1) of a discharge valve (VBV1) of a turbomachine, in which the actual position of the actuator (V1) is measured for a setpoint signal for closing the flap (P1), a static angle is determined from the actual position, a closing dead zone is determined from the static angle, corresponding to the fact that the joint (J1) remains compressed and seals the closing of the orifice (O1), the dead zone is recorded and the signal (SC1) for controlling the actuator (V1) is generated by the computer as a function of the dead zone.
US11480102B2
A combined cycle power generation system for an aircraft includes fuel cell and supercritical CO2 cycles. The fuel cell cycle includes a compressor and turbine disposed on a first shaft, a fuel cell in fluid communication with the compressor and a fuel source, and a combustor in fluid communication with the fuel cell and the turbine. The combustor is configured to combust partially spent fuel from the fuel cell and produce combustion exhaust gas for delivery to the turbine. The supercritical CO2 cycle includes a compressor and turbine disposed on a second shaft, a supercritical CO2 fluid circuit in thermal communication with the combustor and configured to deliver CO2 to the turbine and compressor, and a heat exchanger in thermal communication with the supercritical CO2 fluid circuit and a source of cooling fluid. A mechanical linkage is configured to transfer power from the second shaft to the first shaft.
US11480099B2
An internal combustion engine includes an internal combustion engine interior and a lubricant disposed in the internal combustion engine interior. The lubricant lubricates a component disposed in the internal combustion engine interior and the lubricant is a water-containing lubricant. In an embodiment, the internal combustion engine interior is fluidically connected to an environment surrounding the internal combustion engine by a ventilation device where the ventilation device has a semipermeable membrane which is impermeable to water and water vapor.
US11480091B2
An exhaust gas purification system of the present disclosure includes a first exhaust gas purification device that purifies exhaust gas discharged from an internal combustion engine and a second exhaust gas purification device that additionally purifies the exhaust gas purified by the first exhaust gas purification device, wherein the exhaust gas is exhaust gas with a gaseous composition in which an amount of reducing agents is in excess compared to a stoichiometric gaseous composition and a gaseous composition in which an amount of oxidants is in excess compared to the stoichiometric gaseous composition are alternately switched between, the first exhaust gas purification device includes a three-way catalyst, and the second exhaust gas purification device includes an exhaust gas purification catalyst containing spinel-type MgAlxFe2.00−xO4.00 supporting particles on which Rh is supported, where 0.00<×≤1.50.
US11480077B2
To achieve an improved rigidity, the an oil pan (3) for forming a lower end part of an internal combustion engine (1) comprises a bottom wall (6) and a side wall (7) extending from a peripheral edge of the bottom wall, wherein the bottom wall includes a pair of first planar surface portions (35) extending in a lateral direction and provided on either end of the bottom wall with respect to a fore and aft direction orthogonal to the lateral direction, and a curved surface portion (36) recessed downward with respect to the first planar surface portions.
US11480076B1
A compression release type engine brake includes a first opening unit and a second opening unit each including an exhaust rocker arm, an adjusting screw provided at an end portion of the exhaust rocker arm, a brake module in which brake oil is selectively and a brake piston mount portion is formed therein, a brake piston which is selectively protruded according to the oil supply inside the brake module, a reset member selectively exhausting the oil in the brake module, and a valve bridge connected to the brake piston and provided with an exhaust valve, and wherein a rocker arm protrusion is formed in the exhaust rocker arm of at least one of the first opening unit and the second opening unit, and the shaft spring presses the rocker arm protrusion and adjusts a distance between the first opening unit and the second opening unit.
US11480073B2
A system and a method of designing a nacelle for a gas turbine engine having a longitudinal centre line. The nacelle includes an air intake, an internal surface, an azimuthal angle, and a plurality of intake lines. The air intake comprises, in flow series, an intake lip, a throat and a diffuser. The internal surface at least partially defines the air intake. The azimuthal angle is defined about the longitudinal centre line. The intake lines extend along the internal surface of the nacelle at respective values of the azimuthal angle. Each intake line axially defines the air intake along the longitudinal centre line at the respective value of the azimuthal angle. The internal surface of the nacelle between the plurality of intake lines at a given axial location along the longitudinal centre line is analytically defined by an equation.
US11480070B2
A coolant delivery system for a component of a gas turbine system includes: a plurality of independent circuits of cooling channels embedded within an exterior wall of the component, each independent circuit of cooling channels including a plurality of headers and a plurality of feed tubes fluidly coupling the plurality of headers to a supply of cooling fluid; and an impingement plate connected to the exterior wall of the component by the plurality of feed tubes of the independent circuits of cooling channels, wherein, in each of the plurality of independent circuits of cooling channels, the cooling fluid flows through the plurality of feed tubes and the plurality of headers into the circuit of cooling channels only in response to a formation of a breach in the exterior wall of the component that exposes at least one of the cooling channels of the circuit of cooling channels.
US11480052B2
An apparatus includes a processor and a machine-readable medium having program code to cause the apparatus to obtain a first dictionary based on a first training set of signals and determine a first subset of the first training set of signals based on a training reconstruction accuracy threshold and the first dictionary, wherein each atom in the first dictionary includes at least one of a signal pattern and a function representing the signal pattern. The program code also includes code to generate a second dictionary based on a second training set of signals, wherein the second training set of signals includes the first subset of the first training set of signals.
US11480051B2
The disclosure provides a well integrity monitoring tool for a wellbore, a method, using a nuclear tool and an EM tool, for well integrity monitoring of a wellbore having a multi-pipe configuration, and a well integrity monitoring system. In one example, the method includes: operating a nuclear tool in the wellbore to make a nuclear measurement at a depth of the wellbore, operating an EM tool in the wellbore to make an EM measurement at the depth of the wellbore, determining a plurality of piping properties of the multi-pipe configuration at the depth employing the EM measurement, determining, employing the piping properties, a processed nuclear measurement from the nuclear measurement, and employing the processed nuclear measurement to determine an integrity of a well material at the depth and within an annulus defined by the multi-pipe configuration.
US11480048B2
A system for collecting subsurface formation data in a petroleum exploration environment includes a drilling tool and a subsurface formation data hub. A drilling tool may include drill pipe, a geophone, a drilling hammer, and a drill bit. The subsurface formation data hub may comprise a seismic data processor and a user interface. The seismic data processor may be operable to drive the drilling hammer at a frequency and an energy, synchronize the geophone to sense seismic vibration at a frequency, and determine subsurface formation properties. The user interface may be operable to display subsurface formation data. A method of collecting subsurface formation data in a petroleum exploration environment may include defining a drilling hammer frequency and energy, synchronizing a geophone to sense seismic vibration at a frequency, generating an impact in the petroleum exploration environment, receiving a returning seismic vibration at the geophone, and collecting subsurface formation data.
US11480045B2
A method of automated or assisted geosteering for drilling of a horizontal well compromises automated or assisted estimation of a well's position in a target geological formation using the data acquired during the drilling process.
US11480040B2
The present invention discloses electro-hydraulic hybrid drive sand-mixing equipment, including a skid base, an electric motor, a hydraulic pump, a discharge centrifugal pump, a suction centrifugal pump, a mixing tank, a dry additive system, a liquid additive system, and a sand auger system. The electric motor, the hydraulic pump, the discharge centrifugal pump, the suction centrifugal pump, the mixing tank, the dry additive system, the liquid additive system, and the sand auger system are integrally skid mounted on the skid base. There are two electric motors, including a first electric motor and a second electric motor. The first electric motor drives the discharge centrifugal pump, and the second electric motor actuates the hydraulic pump, to drive the suction centrifugal pump, the mixing tank, the dry additive system, the liquid additive system, and the sand auger system. The electric motor is an integrated variable-frequency drive electric motor. Beneficial effects: Two integrated variable-frequency drive electric motors are applied. First, the setup of an independent variable-frequency drive cabinet is effectively omitted, that is, the overall size of the sand-mixing equipment is effectively reduced, so that it is more flexible and convenient to transport the equipment and arrange a well site. Next, a control system is simpler, thus optimizing the power matching of the sand-mixing equipment.
US11480039B2
A motor of an electric submersible pump (ESP) is positioned in a wellbore. Measured data is received from one or more sensors. A first deep learning model running on a motor controller of the ESP determines first operating parameters or first operating conditions for the ESP based on the measured data. The motor controller sends the first operating parameters or first operating conditions to a centralized computer system. A second deep learning model running on the centralized computer system determines second operating parameters or second operating conditions associated with the ESP based on the first operating parameters or first operating conditions. The centralized computer system sends the second operating parameters or second operating conditions to the motor controller. The motor controller adjusts operation of the motor of the ESP based on the second operating parameters or second operating conditions.
US11480029B2
A production system and method of operating the production system. A fluid flows through a flow control device. The flow control device having an element that generates an acoustic signal indicative of a value of a parameter of the fluid in response to the fluid flowing through the flow control device. The processor receives the acoustic signal from the element, determines the value of the parameter of the fluid from the parameter of the acoustic signal, and changes an operation of the production system based on the value of the parameter of the fluid.
US11480023B2
A system for determining a fault in a subsea blowout preventer (BOP) stack includes a first sensor and a second sensor adapted to measure one or more properties of a subsea operation. The system further includes a first power supply adapted to provide operational power to the first sensor and a second power supply adapted to provide operational power to the second sensor. The system also includes a first power failure indicator and isolator (PFII) associated with the first sensor and the first power supply, the first PFII measuring a first pair of waveforms to identify a first fault and a second PFII associated with the second sensor and the second power supply, the second PFII measuring a second pair of waveforms to identify a second fault.
US11480022B2
A jarring tool used to dislodge a stuck tubular string or bottom hole assembly within an underground wellbore. Tubular strings with which the tool may be used may be formed from drill pipe, jointed pipe, or coiled tubing. A funnel element is placed underground either within, or as part of, a tubular string. A deformable ball may be seated within the funnel element to block fluid from passing within the tubular string. Hydraulic pressure may build within the tubular string until it exceeds the pressure the ball can withstand. This will cause the ball to deform and be expelled through the funnel element. With no ball to block its flow, fluid will be rapidly released through the funnel element. The rapid release of fluid will cause a powerful jarring or jolting to the tubular string or bottom hole assembly.
US11480013B2
A fall protection system having a top bracket assembly that is mountable to a top portion of the ladder, a spaced bottom bracket assembly that is mountable to a bottom portion of the ladder, and a cable extending therebetween portions of the top bracket assembly and the bottom bracket assembly substantially parallel to a plane bisecting the vertical ladder at a desired distance from the plane.
US11480008B1
An adhesive backed window trim bendable and divisible along a hinge separating the trim into two strips with score lines in each strip. A nub is formed along the side edges of the window trim for use in providing a finished edge concealing the adhesive when the undivided trim or the trim strips are used during installation of a replacement window or the like. The trim is co-extruded from a rigid PVC and plasticized PVC with shallow furrows on the rear face forming the score lines.
US11480007B1
A method of installing a combination door unit into a threshold of a house, comprising placing a combination door unit within a threshold opening of a house surrounded by a plurality of house frame studs. The combination door unit comprises a door frame, a threshold door hingedly coupled to the door frame, and a secondary door. The secondary door is hingedly coupled to a mounting frame and the mounting frame, the door frame, and the plurality of house frame studs are aligned when the combination door unit is placed within the threshold opening. The method of installing the combination door unit may also comprise the steps of leveling the combination door unit, removing the secondary door from the combination door unit, driving a plurality of fasteners through the mounting frame, through the door frame, and into the house frame studs, and replacing the secondary door on the combination door unit.
US11480001B2
A casement window operator includes a linear input mechanism configured to be mounted to a stationary frame of a casement window, a linear to rotary motion converter operably coupled to an output of the linear input mechanism, a gear reducer operably coupled to an output of the rotary motion converter, and a sash arm operably coupled to an output of the gear reducer to rotate in conjunction with the output of the gear reducer. The sash arm is configured to extend from the stationary frame of the casement window to a rotatable window sash of the casement window.
US11479995B2
The present invention relates to a fastening device for fastening a first component to a second component, where the fastening device includes a spacer element which is configured for positioning the first component so as to be spaced apart from the second component in a first axis (Y) and for fixing the first component so as to be spaced apart from the second component, where the spacer element includes a stop surface which is used for supporting the fastening device on the second component, where the spacer element is integrally-formed, and a tolerance element which is configured for movably receiving the spacer element in the first direction (Y) and for compensating tolerances between the first component and the second component in a second axis (X) and in a third axis (Z), where the tolerance element is integrally-formed.
US11479994B1
A restraint apparatus and system includes a rigid bracelet cuff separator connected to and between a pair lockable bracelet cuffs. The bracelet cuff separator is width-adjustable and the bracelet cuffs are rotatable about a longitudinal axis of the bracelet separator. The system includes a leg restraint apparatus with a rigid separator connected to and between ankle cuffs. The ankle cuffs are joined distally to the rigid separator by multi-axis couplings that enable a restrained person to lift his or her feet a sufficient height in order to safely climb stairs or curbs. Sections of the bracelet separator and the leg restraint include portions configured to connect to a quick connect/disconnect coupling of a connector post. The handcuffing apparatus and the leg restraint apparatus may be employed separately of one another or independently of the connector post.
US11479989B2
A magnetically-triggered lock mechanism for interengaging two relatively movable components. The lock mechanism includes a bolt mounted within a first component composed of a first material and displaceable between retracted and extended positions to interengage with a second component when the first and second components are in a predetermined position relative to each other and the bolt is extended, and a magnetically-releasable latch mechanism positioned to latch the bolt in a retracted position, the latch mechanism including a first magnet and mounted for movement between a biased latch engaging position and a latch releasing position. A support collar composed of a second material having higher strength than that of the first material is disposed around the bolt between an inner casing and outer casing of the first component and is spaced from the bolt to allow for sliding movement of the bolt through the support collar as the bolt moves between the extended and retracted positions. The support collar absorbs and distributes to the inner and/or outer casing a load generated from the bolt as the bolt moves to the extended position through the support collar. A second magnet is positioned to displace the latch mechanism to the latch releasing position when the first component is in the predetermined position relative to the second component.
US11479970B2
Building panels, especially floor panels are shown, which are provided with a locking system that is configured to lock the adjacent edges by angling and that have a tongue and a strip on the same edge, and a method to divide a board and produce such building panels. A method for dividing a floor element, into a first floor panel and a second floor panel, said floor element including a core provided with a decorative surface layer and a balancing layer, wherein the method includes the step of forming, through the balancing layer or the decorative surface layer, a second groove by displacing the floor element past a fixed tool.
US11479969B2
A curtain wall includes one or more mullion profiles and one or more transom profiles and panels which are mounted in the mullion profiles and in the transom profiles by their edges. The one or more mullion profiles extend vertically and are provided with an undercut groove on two opposite sides which has an access opening. The grooves form a rebate in which the rim of a panel is mounted. The undercut groove has an elongate cross section which is provided, at the one or several of the transverse ends, with a rounded section and/or which is free from roundings with a radius of less than 2 millimeters at one or several of the transverse ends.
US11479963B2
A modular multi-container housing structure connector for containers, which each have sides including a roof, a floor, and four lateral sides, includes a connector frame comprising vertical and horizontal struts shaped to connect to at least one of the sides of two adjacent containers and at least one interlock configured to secure the connector frame to the side of one container. The at least one interlock may be a plurality of interlocks. The connector frame may comprise two vertical struts and two horizontal struts each shaped and configured to connect to a respective edge of an adjacent side of two adjacent containers and, responsive to the connector frame being connected to two adjacent sides of two adjacent containers by the plurality of interlocks, the connector frame and interlocks form a container-to-connector frame-to-container connection to establish a weather-tight housing structure with the two or multiple connected containers.
US11479960B1
A plurality of wall cells rest upon an underlying cementitious foundation and form a perimeter of the vault. Each wall cell has two lateral sides with mating surfaces thereon which are of complementary undulating shape with adjacent lateral surfaces of adjacent wall cells. The wall cells have different thicknesses and widths to provide desirable wall thickness for a different portions of the oncology vault. A door assembly formed of specialized wall cells and with a pivoting door element are also included within the wall. A ceiling is provided above space inboard of the wall cells. This ceiling is formed of separate ceiling slab elements. The slabs are stacked in at least one layer. In one embodiment, multiple layers of slabs are stacked with seams between slabs of each layer offset from each other. In another embodiment, lateral sides of the slabs have a complementary undulating shape.
US11479959B2
The invention relates to a separation device for removing objects from a water flow, comprising a separation screen and a channel which forms an inlet and an outlet for the separation screen, wherein, during operation, a head water having a head water level can be provided in the inlet upstream of the separation screen and a tail water having a tail water level can be provided in the outlet downstream of the separation screen, wherein the outlet comprises an outlet cross-section for the water flow. The separation device is characterised by a damming body, which can be adjusted via an actuator, for immersion into the outlet, said damming body being able to be adjusted at least between a first position and a second position, wherein the outlet cross-section is smaller in the first position and the outlet cross-section is larger in the second position, and comprising a control device, wherein the control device includes a first operating mode, in which the flow rate in the area of the separation screen is increased by bringing the damming body from the first position to the second position, wherein the control device includes a second operating mode, in which the flow rate in the area of the separation screen is changed by bringing the damming body from the second position to a third position, wherein the outlet cross-section in the third position is smaller or larger than in the second position, and wherein the control device is configured to automatically activate the first and/or the second operating mode. The invention also relates to a method for operating such a separation device.
US11479950B2
A load sharing block includes a body including a flat outer surface defining a first end and a second end, a first arcuate outer portion extending from the first end of the flat outer surface, and a second arcuate outer portion extending from the second end of the flat outer surface. The first arcuate outer portion terminates at a first free end and includes a first elliptical outer surface extending from the first free end.
US11479949B2
A work vehicle includes an axle frame extending in a left-right direction, a cylinder coupled to the axle frame, and a first supply conduit connected to the cylinder and configured to supply hydraulic fluid to the cylinder. The first supply conduit is fixed to the axle frame.
US11479943B2
A liquid level control system, which may be used with a clarifier in a sewage treatment plant, manages liquid level of an upstream basin by controlling liquid flow in or out of a system that may use a midstream device to equally distribute flow in or out of the basin. This headloss inducing device creates a non-linear relationship between upstream liquid level to be controlled and the lesser downstream liquid level behind the gate or valve. Without the use of electrical controls, the systems of the invention include a gate or valve with counterforces that manage the outflow stream of liquid while accounting for the non-linear head loss created by the midstream device, thus reaching a desired liquid level range for all system flowrates.
US11479941B2
A hydraulic excavator includes a controller having an actuator control section that executes machine control of operating a work implement in accordance with a predetermined condition in a case in which a work implement is positioned in a deceleration area, and that does not execute machine control in a case in which the work implement is positioned in a non-deceleration area. The controller further includes an operation deciding section that decides operation of the work implement on the basis of an operation amount of an operation device, and a display control section that displays, on a display device, a positional relationship among the work implement, a target surface and a boundary line between the deceleration area and the non-deceleration area. The actuator control section executes machine control while changing the position of the boundary line depending on a result of the decision by the operation deciding section, and the display control section changes the display position of the boundary line on the display device, depending on the result of the decision by the operation deciding section.
US11479935B2
Extensible shells and related methods for constructing a support pier are disclosed. An extensible shell can define an interior for holding granular construction material and define a first opening at a first end for receiving the granular construction material into the interior and a second opening at a second end. The extensible shell can be flexible such that the shell expands when granular construction material is compacted in the interior of the shell. A method may include positioning the extensible shell in the ground and filling at least a portion of the interior of the shell with the granular construction material. The granular construction material may be compacted in the interior of the extensible shell to form a support pier.
US11479929B2
A formwork system, including a plurality of side formwork elements configured to confront a concrete structure, a horizontal formwork panel configured to support the concrete structure, and at least one working platform, wherein the system is configured to be split in a longitudinal direction and stricken or cycled from the concrete structure in two discrete parts.
US11479925B2
A limiting plate of a road paver is detachably attached to a traverse or to a chassis of the road paver to increase the basic working width. The limiting plate is arranged with variable spacing to a subgrade. In order to prevent a mix from flowing forwards in a direction of travel and at the same time improve the efficiency of a screw conveyor, in which a geometrically defined screw trough is formed, a limiting plate extension is arranged on the limiting plate so that it can be adjusted, particularly in the direction of the subgrade.
US11479923B2
A technique for protecting joints in pavement structures includes applying a hardener/densifier to one or more surfaces that define a joint in a pavement structure and, optionally, to portions of one or more surfaces that are located adjacent to the joint. One or more other compounds, such as hydrophobic materials, water-resistant materials, anti-scaling compounds, anti-wear compounds, multi-functional blended compositions and the like, may also be applied to the surfaces that define a joint and/or to portions of one or more surfaces that are adjacent to the joint. A seal may also be formed in a joint in a pavement structure. Joints that have been protected in accordance with teachings of this disclosure are also disclosed.
US11479919B2
Contoured articles formed in a mold from a fiber slurry are provided. The articles comprise a blend of cellulose fibers and cellulose ester, such as cellulose ester staple fibers. The articles are suitable in a wide array of end uses, including as cups, lids, boxes or pouches, storage containers, trays, plates, food trays, cutlery, coffee cups, coffee cup lid, packaging, bowls, clam shells, bottle caps, straws, covers, and packaging inserts.
US11479917B2
The invention refers to a method to produce a packaging material comprising the steps of; treating at least one surface of a paperboard substrate with a binder and with a metal salt, printing at least a part of said treated surface with ink, and applying at least one polymer layer on said printed surface. The packaging material produced in accordance with the invention shows good printability and simultaneously good adhesion of the applied polymer layer.
US11479900B2
A laundry treating apparatus includes a cabinet; a tub; a drum; a detergent storage unit retracting or extending into or from the cabinet through a detergent opening; and a protective casing coupled to a front panel and disposed in rear of the detergent opening and surrounding at least a portion of the detergent storage unit retracting into the cabinet, wherein the protective casing has an opening stopper protruding toward the detergent storage unit, wherein the detergent storage unit has a stopper protrusion located in rear of the opening stopper while the detergent storage unit has retracted into the cabinet, wherein during a process of extending the detergent storage unit from the cabinet, the stopper protrusion comes into contact with the opening stopper, thus limiting an extending distance of the detergent storage unit.
US11479896B2
An apparatus and a method for treating garments are provided. A method, performed by a garment treatment apparatus, of controlling an operation of the garment treatment apparatus includes: establishing wireless communication with a monitoring device placed inside a drum of the garment treatment apparatus; rotating the drum; receiving movement information associated with movement of the monitoring device from the monitoring device during the rotation of the drum; and controlling the rotation of the drum based on the received movement information.
US11479891B2
In a holding frame, a frame forming portion includes a first holding surface and the second holding surface extending in different directions crossing an area surface of an inner area defined by the frame forming portion. In a state where a holder is magnetically attached to the frame forming portion, the first holding surface and the second holding surface respectively face inner surfaces of a first holding portion and a second holding portion of the holder. The first holding surface includes a first portion connected to a first connecting portion, and a first end located opposite from the first portion. The second holding surface includes a second portion connected to the first connecting portion, and a second end located opposite from the second portion. A distance between the first end and the second end is greater than a distance between the first portion and the second portion.
US11479890B2
A non-transitory computer-readable medium stores computer-readable instructions. The instructions, when executed, cause a processor of an embroidery pattern displaying device provided with a capturing portion and a displaying portion to perform steps. The steps include detecting a marker associated with an embroidery pattern arranged within an augmented reality space from a real image that is an image of a real space captured by the capturing portion. The steps include displaying, when the marker is detected from the real image, a pattern image indicating the embroidery pattern associated with the detected marker, superimposed on the real image with the detected marker as a reference, on the displaying portion.
US11479888B2
A nonwoven fabric having polylactic acid-containing fibers forming a nonwoven web is provided. The web has a side having an alternating pattern of individualized bonded areas which bonded areas define rods arranged in the cross direction of the web. The rods are arranged so that in the machine direction of the web no uninterrupted regions exist along the web while in the cross direction the arrangement of rods defines uninterrupted regions that extend continuously along the web, the alternating pattern of individualized bonded areas defines a non-bonded area. The web has a basis weight from 5-50 g/m2, the surface of the bonded areas is from 5-20% of the total surface of the side, and the surface of the non-bonded area is from 80-95% of the total surface of the side. Processes for forming the nonwoven fabric and an absorbent article including the nonwoven fabric are also provided.
US11479885B2
A device for texturizing strand material into a wool-type product includes outer and inner nozzle sections. The outer and inner nozzle sections interface and define a passage through which the strand material travels. At least a portion of the passage has a non-uniform diameter that increases in a direction moving away from an input end of the device.
US11479879B2
A triple expression vector is disclosed for expressing an antibody molecule comprising an Fc domain in prokaryotic cells and in eukaryotic cells. The triple expression vector comprises a polynucleotide encoding an Fc domain; a polynucleotide encoding a phage coat protein; a cloning site for cloning genes encoding an antibody molecule or a part thereof wherein the antibody molecule or part thereof does not comprise an Fc domain; a prokaryotic secretion signal sequence and a eukaryotic secretion signal sequence, or a secretion signal sequence that drives efficient secretion in both prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells; a promoter for mediating expression in eukaryotic cells; and a stop codon for preventing expression of the phage coat protein in eukaryotic cells. The triple expression vector can be used for expressing an antibody molecule in a phage display format; for producing the antibody molecule in a prokaryotic cell, for example in the periplasm of a prokaryotic cell; and for producing the antibody molecule in a eukaryotic cell, for example a mammalian cell, more particularly a human cell. The antibody molecule contains an Fc domain, and may be for example a VHH-Fc molecule or an scFv-Fc molecule or a VH-Fc or a VL-Fc. Phage display libraries produced with the vector present the antibody molecule in its therapeutic format. Use of the vector avoids the need for repeated cloning when moving from one expression medium to another.
US11479860B2
A plating-pattern plate is configured to transfer, to a substrate, a transfer pattern formed by plating. The plating-pattern plate includes a base body and transfer parts disposed on the base body. Each of the transfer parts has a transfer surface configured to have the transfer pattern to be formed on the transfer surface by plating. The transfer parts are disposed electrically independent of one another on the base body. The plating-pattern plate provides a fine conductive pattern with stable quality.
US11479855B2
Apparatus and methods to process one or more wafers are described. A processing chamber comprises a first processing station comprising a first gas injector having a first face, a first emissivity and a first temperature, a second processing station comprising a second gas injector having a second face, a second emissivity and a second temperature, and a substrate support assembly comprising a plurality of substantially coplanar support surfaces, the substrate support assembly configured to move the support surfaces between the first processing station and the second processing station. When a wafer is on the support surfaces, a temperature skew of less than about 0.5° C. is developed upon moving the wafer between the stations in about 0.5 seconds.
US11479854B2
A method of depositing a layer includes measuring a physical property that is related to an air pressure in a reactor chamber of a deposition apparatus. A main gas mixture including a source gas and an auxiliary gas is introduced into the reactor chamber at atmospheric pressure, the source gas including a precursor material and a carrier gas. A gas flow of at least one of the source gas and the auxiliary gas into the reactor chamber is controlled in response to a change of the air pressure in the reactor chamber.
US11479849B2
A sputtering system includes a vacuum chamber, a power source having a pole coupled to a backing plate for holding a sputtering target within the vacuum chamber, a pedestal for holding a substrate within the vacuum chamber, and a time of flight camera positioned to scan a surface of a target held to the backing plate. The time of flight camera may be used to obtain information relating to the topography of the target while the target is at sub-atmospheric pressure. The target information may be used to manage operation of the sputtering system. Managing operation of the sputtering system may include setting an adjustable parameter of a deposition process or deciding when to replace a sputtering target. Machine learning may be used to apply the time of flight camera data in managing the sputtering system operation.
US11479847B2
A magnetron sputtering system includes a substrate mounted within a vacuum chamber. A plurality of cathode assemblies includes a first set of cathode assemblies and a second set of cathode assemblies, and is configured for reactive sputtering. Each cathode assembly includes a target comprising sputterable material and has an at least partially exposed planar sputtering surface. A target support is configured to support the target in the vacuum chamber and rotate the target relative to the vacuum chamber about a target axis. A magnetic field source includes a magnet array. A cathode assemblies controller assembly is operative to actuate the first set of cathode assemblies without actuating the second set of cathode assemblies, and to actuate the second set of cathode assemblies without actuating the first set of cathode assemblies.
US11479844B2
Article comprising a polymeric substrate having a first major surface comprising a plurality of particles attached thereto with plasmonic material on the particles. Articles described herein are useful, for example, for indicating the presence, or even the quantity, of an analyte.
US11479841B2
This invention relates to a thin and texturized film that can be applied onto a non-smooth surface to improve hardness, corrosion resistance and wear resistance properties of the surface while maintaining the underlying profile of the non-smooth surface. An additive overlaying process can be employed to produce the thin and texturized film on the non-smooth surfaces without substantial alteration or degradation of the underlying surface texture or profile of the non-smooth surfaces so as to sufficiently preserve the underlying surface texture or profile. The thin and texturized film fully covers the non-smooth in a uniform manner and maintains the surface profile.
US11479839B2
A method for producing a hot-rolled titanium plate includes, [1] melting at least one part of the side surface of the titanium slab by radiating a beam or plasma toward the side surface, not toward the surface to be rolled, and thereafter causing re-solidification to form, in the side surface, a layer having grain diameter of 1.5 mm or less and a depth of 3.0 mm or more from the side surface; [2] performing a finishing process on the surface to be rolled of the titanium slab in which the layer is formed, to thereby bring a slab flatness index X to 3.0 or less; and [3] subjecting the titanium slab after the finishing process to hot rolling under a condition in which a length of an arc of contact of a roll L in a first pass of rough rolling is 230 mm or more.
US11479838B2
The invention relates to a manufacturing process for obtaining 6xxx-series aluminium alloy solid extruded products, comprising Si: 0.3-1.7 wt. %; Mg: 0.1-1.4 wt. %, Cu: 0.1-0.8 wt. %, Zn 0.005-0.7 wt %, one or more dispersoid element, from the group consisting of Mn 0.15-1 wt. %, Cr 0.05-0.4 wt. % and Zr 0.05-0.25 wt. %, Fe at most 0.5 wt. %, other elements at most 0.05 wt. % the rest being aluminium, having particularly high mechanical properties, typically an ultimate tensile strength higher than 400 MPa, preferably 430 MPa, and more preferably 450 MPa without the need for a post-extrusion solution heat treatment operation. The invention also concerns a manufacturing process for obtaining a bumper system in which is integrated a towing eye, said towing eye being made with said high mechanical properties aluminium alloys.
US11479836B2
An austenitic Ni-base alloy includes, in weight percent: 2.5 to 4.75 Al; 13 to 21 Cr; 20 to 40 Fe; 2 to 5 total of at least one element selected from the group consisting of Nb and Ta; 0.25 to 4.5 Ti; 0.09 to 1.5 Si; 0 to 0.5 V; 0 to 2 Mn; 0 to 3 Cu; 0 to 2 of Mo and W; 0 to 1 of Zr and Hf; 0 to 0.15 Y; 0.01 to 0.45 C; 0.005 to 0.1 B; 0 to 0.05 P; less than 0.06 N; and balance Ni (38 to 46 Ni). The weight percent Ni is greater than the weight percent Fe. An external continuous scale comprises alumina. A stable phase FCC austenitic matrix microstructure is essentially delta-ferrite-free, and contains one or more carbides and coherent precipitates of γ′ and exhibits creep rupture life of at least 100 h at 900° C. and 50 MPa.
US11479831B2
An apparatus including a heating element and a sublimation vessel disposed adjacent the heating element such that the heating element heats a portion thereof. A collection vessel is removably disposed within the sublimation vessel and is open on an end thereof. A crucible is configured to sealingly position a solid mixture against the collection vessel.
US11479830B2
A method for treating converter slag for the purpose of recirculating iron, wherein a converter slag is brought into contact with oxygen in such a way that by means of turbulence, the slag is mixed, the iron and iron oxide components that are present are oxidized, and the slag is then allowed to stand in the vessel or a vessel until a segregation into a solidifying, silicate and phosphorus-rich first fraction and an underlying liquid iron oxide-rich second fraction has taken place, with the converter slag that is used being mixed with a partial flow from the iron oxide-rich second fraction in such a way that the total FeO content of the slag that is to be treated with oxygen is over 35% by weight, thus enabling the segregation into two fractions.
US11479829B2
A continuous process provides direct reduction of iron ore in a solid state. Briquettes of iron ore fragments and biomass are transported through a preheating chamber and preheated to a temperature of at least 400° C. The preheated briquettes are transported through a heating/reduction chamber that has an anoxic environment, and iron ore and biomass in the briquettes are exposed to electromagnetic energy in the form of microwave energy under anoxic conditions. Microwave energy generates heat within iron ore, and biomass acts as a reductant and reduces iron ore in a solid state, as the briquettes move through the heating/reduction chamber.
US11479826B2
Provided are detection means and method specific for the genus Cronobacter (E. sakazakii) which are sensitive by using a target molecule which is multiple existent in Cronobacter cells.
US11479811B2
The invention relates to imaging, such as in situ imaging by expansion microscopy, labelling, and analyzing biological samples, such as formalin fixed paraffin embedded (FFPE) cells and tissues, as well as reagents and kits for doing so.
US11479807B2
The present technology relates generally to methods and compositions for targeted nucleic acid sequence enrichment, as well as uses of such enrichment for error-corrected nucleic acid sequencing applications. In some embodiments, highly accurate, error corrected and massively parallel sequencing of nucleic acid material is possible using a combination of uniquely labeled strands in a double-stranded nucleic acid complex in such a way that each strand can be informatically related to its complementary strand, but also distinguished from it following sequencing of each strand or an amplified product derived therefrom. In various embodiments, this information can be used for the purpose of error correction of the determined sequence.
US11479786B2
The present invention refers to a method for controlling undesired vegetation at a plant cultivation site, the method comprising the steps of providing, at said site, a plant that comprises at least one nucleic acid comprising a nucleotide sequence encoding protoporphyrinogen oxidase (PPO) which is resistant or tolerant to a PPO-inhibiting herbicide by applying to said site an effective amount of said herbicide. The invention further refers to plants comprising wild-type or mutated PPO enzymes, and methods of obtaining such plants.
US11479785B2
Isolated polynucleotides and polypeptides, and recombinant DNA constructs useful for conferring improved nitrogen use efficiency; compositions (such as plants or seeds) comprising these recombinant DNA constructs; and methods utilizing these recombinant DNA constructs are disclosed. The recombinant DNA constructs comprise a polynucleotide operably linked to a promoter that is functional in a plant, wherein said polynucleotides encode abiotic stress tolerance polypeptides.
US11479783B2
This invention provides recombinant DNA constructs, transgenic plant nuclei and cells with such recombinant DNA construct for expression of proteins that are useful for imparting enhanced agronomic trait(s) to transgenic crop plants. This invention also provides transgenic plants and progeny seed comprising the transgenic plant cells where the plants are selected for having an enhanced trait selected from the group of traits consisting of enhanced water use efficiency, enhanced cold tolerance, increased yield, enhanced nitrogen use efficiency, enhanced seed protein and enhanced seed oil. Also disclosed are methods for manufacturing transgenic seed and plants with enhanced traits.
US11479781B2
The present disclosure relates to recombinant proteins that induce epigenetic gene silencing and to methods of using such proteins for reducing the expression of genes in plants.
US11479779B2
Embodiments disclosed include systems and methods to generate and/or improve non-sporulating filamentous fungal cells using high-throughput techniques. Embodiments disclosed also include systems and methods for evaluation and iterative adjustment of methods to generate and/or isolate and select desired strains of non-sporulating filamentous fungal cells using high-throughput techniques.
