US11502705B2
A method, a system, and a computer program product for decompressing data. One or more compressed blocks in a set of stored compressed blocks responsive to a request to access data in the set of stored compressed blocks are identified. String prefixes inside the identified compressed blocks are decompressed using front coding. String suffixes inside the identified compressed blocks are decompressed using a re-pair decompression. Uncompressed data is generated.
US11502703B2
A descrambler receives data from a memory device. The descrambler calculates a sub-syndrome weight for multiple bits in each of the plurality of descrambled sequences using a set parity check matrix to generate multiple sub-syndrome weights, one for each of the plurality of descrambled sequences. The descrambler selects a sub-syndrome weight among the multiple sub-syndrome weights. The descrambler determines, as a correct scrambler sequence for descrambling the data, a scrambler sequence corresponding to the selected sub-syndrome weight, among the plurality of scrambler sequences.
US11502700B2
A calibratable switched-capacitor voltage reference and an associated calibration method are described. The voltage reference includes dynamic diode elements providing diode voltages, input capacitor(s) for sampling input voltages, base-emitter capacitor(s) for sampling one diode voltage with respect to a ground, dynamically trimmable capacitor(s) for sampling the one diode voltage with respect to another diode voltage, and an operational amplifier coupled to the capacitors for providing reference voltage(s) based on the sampled input and diode voltages and on trims of the trimmable capacitor(s). The voltage reference can be configured as a first integrator of a modulator stage of a delta-sigma analog-to-digital converter.
US11502691B2
An adder uses with first and second majority gates. For a 1-bit adder, output from a 3-input majority gate is inverted and input two times to a 5-input majority gate. Other inputs to the 5-input majority gate are the same as those of the 3-input majority gate. The output of the 5-input majority gate is a sum while the output of the 3-input majority gate is the carry. Multiple 1-bit adders are concatenated to form an N-bit adder. The input signals to the majority gates can be analog, digital, or a combination of them, which are driven to first terminals of non-ferroelectric capacitors. The second terminals of the non-ferroelectric capacitors are coupled to form a majority node. Majority function of the input signals occurs on this node. The majority node is then coupled to a first terminal of a non-linear polar capacitor. The second terminal of the capacitor provides the output of the logic gate.
US11502689B2
A communication device is disclosed. The disclosed communication device comprises: a transmission circuit for generating a transmission signal by using a first field effect transistor (FET) and a signal inputted from a first control circuit, and transmitting the transmission signal to a second control circuit; and a reception circuit for generating a reception signal by using a second field effect transistor (FET) and a signal received from the second control circuit, and outputting the reception signal to the first control circuit.
US11502688B2
The invention relates to a signal isolation and conversion circuit and a control apparatus. The signal isolation and conversion circuit comprises a pulse signal generating circuit and an optical coupling complementary isolation circuit connected with the pulse signal generating circuit; the pulse signal generating circuit is used for receiving an input signal and converting the input signal into a pulse signal; the optical coupling complementary isolation circuit comprises at least two photocouplers, and the at least two photocouplers are switched on or off according to the pulse signal so as to transmit the pulse signal to the output end of the signal isolation and conversion circuit. By arranging the optical coupling complementary isolation circuit, the problems of transmission delay, transmission signal distortion and light attenuation and temperature drift of the light-emitting diode in the optocoupler are effectively solved, the timeliness of isolation signal transmission is improved.
US11502684B1
A driver circuit includes a high side transistor, a low side transistor, a first trigger circuit, and a second trigger circuit. The high side transistor has a first control terminal and a first current path coupled between a first voltage terminal and an output voltage terminal. The low side transistor has a second control terminal and a second current path coupled between the output voltage terminal and ground. The first trigger circuit is coupled to the first control terminal, the first voltage terminal, and the output voltage terminal. The first trigger circuit is operable to protect the high side transistor. The second trigger circuit is coupled to the second control terminal, the first trigger circuit, and ground. The second trigger circuit is operable to protect the low side transistor.
US11502683B2
A method for driving an output node includes driving a control node of an output device coupled to the output node according to an input signal and using a fixed regulated voltage and a variable regulated voltage. The method includes generating the fixed regulated voltage based on a first power supply voltage, a second power supply voltage, and a first reference voltage. The method includes generating the variable regulated voltage based on the first power supply voltage, the second power supply voltage, and a second reference voltage. The method includes generating the second reference voltage based on the first power supply voltage, the second power supply voltage, a reference current, and a predetermined target voltage level of the control node of the output device. In an embodiment of the method, generating the second reference voltage includes periodically calibrating the second reference voltage.
US11502682B2
A radio frequency, RF, switch circuit (201, 301, 401, 501, 601, 701, 751, 801) includes at least one first PiN diode device (252, 352, 452, 552, 652, 752, 852, 945) configured to sink or source a first alternating current; and an impedance inversion circuit (222, 322, 422, 522, 622, 722, 822, 922), connected to the at least one first PiN diode device and arranged to provide a transformed impedance between a first side of the impedance inversion circuit and a second side of the impedance inversion circuit. The RF switch further includes a second diode-based device (254, 354, 454, 554, 654, 754, 854, 945) configured to source or sink a second alternating current; and a bias circuit (330, 430, 530, 630, 830, 930) connected to at least one of the at least one first PiN diode device and the second diode-based device, wherein the at least one first PiN diode device cooperates with the second diode-based device as a push-pull current circuit.
US11502681B2
A transmitter merges even and odd data streams to drive a serialized signal. Identical even and odd drivers take turns driving symbols from respective even and odd streams using respective pull-up transistors and pull-down transistors. Each transistor exhibits a significant source-gate capacitance that is charged when the transistor is turned onto drive the serialized signal. Charging one of these capacitances loads the power supply and thus introduces noise. Each even and odd driver includes a pre-driver that times the charging of a source-gate capacitance in the active driver to the discharge of a source-gate capacitance in the inactive driver. The discharge of the source-gate capacitance in the inactive driver counters the effect of charging the active driver, providing much of the power required by the active driver and thus reducing supply noise.
US11502680B2
A power down detection circuit and a semiconductor storage apparatus, which can adjust a power down detection level while suppressing temperature dependence, are provided. The power down detection circuit includes a BGR circuit, a trimming circuit, a resistance division circuit, and a comparator. The BGR circuit generates a reference voltage based on a supply voltage. The trimming circuit adjusts the reference voltage based on a trimming signal to generate a reference voltage for power down detection. The resistance division circuit generates an internal voltage lower than the supply voltage. The comparator detects that the internal voltage is lower than the reference voltage for power down detection and outputs a reset signal.
US11502676B2
Provided is a driver circuit that controls an output unit that switches whether or not to supply a current to an output line, in accordance with a potential difference between a first control signal to be input and a voltage of the output line. The driver circuit comprises a control line that transmits the first control signal to the output unit; a low potential line to which a predetermined reference potential is applied; a first connection switching unit that switches whether or not to connect the control line and the low potential line, in accordance with a second control signal; and a cutoff unit that is provided in series with the first connection switching unit between the control line and the low potential line and cuts off the control line and the low potential line based on a potential of the low potential line.
US11502674B2
An analog switch includes a first field effect transistor (FET) which has a first terminal coupled to an input voltage terminal, a second terminal coupled to a common source, and a control terminal coupled to a common gate. The switch includes a second FET which has a first terminal coupled to an output voltage terminal, a second terminal coupled to the common source, and a control terminal coupled to the common gate. The switch includes a switched current source which has an input coupled to a high voltage supply terminal and an output coupled to the common gate. The switch includes a clamp circuit which has a first terminal coupled to the common gate, a second terminal coupled to the common source, and a third terminal coupled to the low voltage supply terminal.
US11502665B2
A method of manufacturing a bonded substrate, which has a quartz substrate and a piezoelectric substrate bonded, includes irradiating a bonding surface of the quartz substrate and a bonding surface of the piezoelectric substrate with ultraviolet light under a pressure lower than atmosphere pressure. After the irradiation, the bonding surface of the quartz substrate and the bonding surface of the piezoelectric substrate are brought into contact. And the quartz substrate and the piezoelectric substrate are pressurized in a thickness direction to bond the bonding surfaces.
US11502655B2
A logarithmic amplifier circuit includes an adaptive gain amplifier circuit and a transistor. The adaptive gain amplifier circuit includes a gain stage and a diode. The gain stage includes an input terminal, and an output terminal. The diode includes a cathode terminal coupled to the output terminal, and an anode terminal coupled to a common terminal. The transistor includes a first terminal coupled to the input terminal, a second terminal coupled to the common terminal, and a third terminal coupled to the output terminal.
US11502652B2
A device that includes a substrate and a power amplifier coupled to the substrate. The substrate includes at least one dielectric layer, a plurality of interconnects, and a capacitor configured to operate as an output match element, where the capacitor is defined by a plurality of capacitor interconnects. The power amplifier is coupled to the capacitor. The capacitor is configured to operate as an output match element for the power amplifier. The substrate includes an inductor coupled to the capacitor, where the inductor is defined by at least one inductor interconnect. The capacitor and the inductor are configured to operate as a resonant trap or an output match element.
US11502651B2
An overvoltage protection and gain bootstrap circuit of a power amplifier includes a power amplification transistor, and a diode reversely connected with a gate of the power amplification transistor. A negative electrode of the diode is connected with the gate of the power transistor, and a positive electrode of the diode is connected with a constant voltage source, such that a function of overvoltage protection and gain bootstrap of the circuit is realized by controlling a turn-on state of the diode. By adding a diode device to the circuit, gate-drain overvoltage protection for the power amplification transistor can be provided, and the gain of the amplifier can be improved before power compression, thereby improving linearity of the power amplifier. The structure of the circuit can be simple, with reduced occupied area hardware cost.
US11502650B2
A power amplifier comprising: a first amplifier; a second amplifier, wherein the first and second amplifiers are arranged in parallel; an analogue pre-distortion network; a first coupler; and a second coupler, wherein the first coupler is configured to receive an input signal, direct said input signal to the first amplifier, and direct a first pre-distortion signal to the analogue pre-distortion network, wherein the first pre-distortion signal comprises a first distortion component generated at the input of the first amplifier, and the analogue pre-distortion network is configured to receive the first pre-distortion signal and manipulate its amplitude and/or phase to obtain a manipulated first pre-distortion signal, and the second coupler is configured to direct the manipulated first pre-distortion signal to the second amplifier.
US11502647B2
Provided is an amplifier that includes a first transistor including a gate terminal to which an applied input signal is input, where a current depending on the applied input signal flows through the first transistor. A gate terminal of a second transistor is connected to a load section, and a current depending on a change in a voltage of the drain terminal of the first transistor flows through the second transistor. A source terminal of the first transistor and a drain terminal of the second transistor are connected in common to a first resistance, and the current from the first transistor and the current from the second transistor flow through the first resistance. A third transistor supplies a current approximately equal to the current of the second transistor. The current supplied by the third transistor is output from an output end.
US11502644B2
A vibration device includes a base including a semiconductor substrate and through electrodes that pass through the portion between first and second surfaces of the semiconductor substrate, and a vibrator fixed to the first surface via an electrically conductive joining member. The following components are placed at the second surface: an oscillation circuit that is electrically coupled to the vibrator via the through electrodes and generates an oscillation signal by causing the vibrator to oscillate, a temperature sensor circuit, a temperature compensation circuit that performs temperature compensation on the oscillation signal, and an output buffer circuit that outputs a clock signal based on the oscillation signal. Dsx1
US11502641B2
A photovoltaic string combiner box with protection functions includes: a plurality of input connections for connecting a plurality of photovoltaic strings to the combiner box, the plurality of input connections respectively including a first input terminal and a second input terminal; an output connection for connecting an inverter to the combiner box; a plurality of current lines, a respective one of the current lines being connected to a respective one of the input connections; a plurality of controllable switches being connected to the plurality of input connections for short-circuiting a respective one of the first and second input terminals; a plurality of disconnectors; a common current line connected to the output connection and having an input node connected to each of the plurality of current lines by a respective one of the disconnectors; and a controllable network arranged in the common current line between the output connection and input node.
US11502640B2
A photovoltaic panel having a distributed support frame adhered to a photovoltaic module is described. For example, the distributed support frame may include one or more support member or support mounts adhered to the photovoltaic module by an adhesive layer. The photovoltaic module may include layers bound together by an encapsulant. Accordingly, the distributed support frame may be attached to the photovoltaic module during a same lamination process used to laminate the photovoltaic module.
US11502639B2
An actuator comprising a bottom plate, a top-plate and one or more hub assembly extending between and rotatably coupling the bottom and top plates. The actuator also includes one or more bellows units disposed between the top plate and bottom plate, the one or more bellows units comprising a first and second inflatable bellows coupled by a web extending between the first and second bellows, the first and second bellows defining respective and separate first and second bellows cavities, with the first bellows of the bellows units disposed on a first side of the bottom plate, and the second bellows of the bellows units disposed on a second side of the bottom plate, opposing the first side, and between the top and bottom plates.
US11502631B2
Vector flux weakening control system for permanent magnet synchronous motor of electric drive system
The present disclosure disclose a vector flux weakening control system for a permanent magnet synchronous motor of an electric drive system, which includes a current closed-loop regulation module, a modulation index deviation calculation module, a current characteristic point setting module, a current compensation vector angle calculation module, a current compensation vector amplitude calculation module, a current compensation vector calculation module and a current instruction correction module. In the present disclosure, the three-phase short-circuit current of the motor is taken as the end point of flux weakening regulation, and when voltage saturation occurs, the motor control system can exit saturation; since an inverter supplies power through a power battery bus at the terminal of the motor, the terminal voltage thereof will not be as low as zero, and there is a large margin to deal with abnormal factors; by introducing a dq current and correcting it at the same time, the pressure of resisting voltage saturation can be distributed to the dq current, thus avoiding excessive deviation of an output torque caused by excessive uniaxial current regulation. According to the present disclosure, the influence of the flux weakening control process on the output torque of the drive system is reduced as much as possible while ensuring the safety of the drive system.
US11502630B2
A fluid apparatus includes a hydraulic machine, a rotary electric machine connected to the hydraulic machine, and a power conversion controller that converts power from the rotary electric machine. A non-normal operation is performed in a warning state that differs from a normal state in which a normal operation is continued and an anomalous state in which operation is stopped to continue a stopped condition.
US11502618B2
DC supply circuitry is disclosed to supply DC power from an AC source to a DC PV panel input associated with a PV energy storage system (ESS) inverter system. The DC power may be supplied in accordance with a DC current and DC voltage. The DC PV panel input may function by adjusting the drawn current that is supplied by the DC supply circuitry based upon changes in the load, e.g. battery charging. The DC supply circuitry may function to adjust the supplied DC voltage in accordance with changes in the drawn current using a corresponding point on a predetermined DC voltage current-voltage characteristic (I-V) curve. The predetermined I-V curve may represent an ideal I-V curve associated with a DC PV panel system that is compatible with the PV ESS inverter system, thereby allowing for the use of DC PV panel inputs that may typically go unused.
US11502615B2
A device determines a first current, of a first input phase of a power system, and a second current, of a second input phase of the power system. The device determines whether the first input phase and the second input phase are balanced based on the first current and the second current. When the first input phase and the second input phase are not balanced, the device selects the first input phase and an output phase of the power system. The device balances the first input phase and the second input phase by using the first input phase and the output phase.
US11502609B2
A power converter controller includes an analog to digital converter (ADC) to generate a digital representation of a feedback signal of a power converter, the feedback signal being received from a compensator of the power converter and being based on an output voltage of the power converter. A nonlinear gain block of the power converter controller receives the digital representation of the feedback signal and generates a transformed digital representation of the feedback signal using a nonlinear function. A switch control block of the power converter controller controls an on-time of a primary-side switch of the power converter based on the transformed digital representation of the feedback signal.
US11502604B2
A buck converter includes an output stage, a FCVB control circuit and a driver. The output stage includes a plurality of switches and a flying capacitor, wherein the switches are connected in series, the flying capacitor is coupled between two of the switches, and the output stage is configured to receive an input voltage to generate an output voltage. The FCVB control circuit is configured to compare a voltage of the flying capacitor with half of the input voltage to generate a comparison result, and the FCVB control circuit further responds to the comparison result to generate a first control signal and a second control signal based on a first PWM signal and a second PWM signal. The driver is configured to generate a plurality of diving signals according to the first control signal and the second control signal, wherein the driving signals are arranged to control the switches, respectively.
US11502594B2
A switched-mode power converter apparatus includes a switching converter to receive an input voltage, to convert the input voltage to an output voltage, and to transmit the output voltage to an output node. The apparatus also includes a ripple attenuation circuit coupled to the output node and a voltage source. The voltage source is adjusted to generate a ripple attenuation signal by the ripple attenuation circuit at the output node.
US11502586B2
An arm of a coil segment having an approximate U shape is placed in a slot of a stator core, and a portion protruding from the slot is bent in a circumferential direction. An arm is bent in a direction of an arrow A, and another arm positioned at an inner side in the radial direction in relation to this arm is bent in a direction of an arrow B. The arm positioned at the outer side has at least a part of a bending inner side surface of a bent portion hardened by pressurization.
US11502579B2
A motor unit includes a motor including a rotor, a stator radially outside of the rotor; a housing for housing the motor; an oil passage for circulating the oil in the housing space; and a gear portion connected to a shaft of the rotor. The housing includes a motor housing portion defining a motor chamber in an interior, a gear housing portion defining a gear chamber in an interior, and a partition dividing the gear chamber and the motor chamber. The oil passage includes a flow passage arranged in an interior of the housing, and an oil feeding structure on an upper side of the motor to feed the oil to at least one of a stator core or coil ends. The flow passage includes a portion extending along an axial direction to feed the oil to the oil feeding structure. The partition includes the portion of the flow passage.
US11502572B2
An electric machine stator includes a cylindrical core, windings, a plurality of terminal plates, a plurality of parallel lead wire pairs. The cylindrical core extends axially between a front surface and a back surface. The windings have multiple phases and are disposed radially along the core. Each of the pairs of parallel lead wires extend axially between the front surface and one of the terminal plates. Each of the pairs of parallel lead wires electrically connects one of the terminal plates to one phase of the windings.
US11502568B2
A stator for an electric alternating current machine includes a stator winding arranged about a central axis and including conductor windings. The conductor windings are grouped to form electrical phases. The stator winding has winding layers. The conductor windings of a phase each have axially oriented conductor limbs that are connected to one another in two axial end regions in pairs by two winding heads. Individual coils are thus formed for each phase. As viewed in a circumferential direction, the axial conductor limbs of the individual phases follow one another in alternation in a uniform order. The winding heads of a given individual coil extend within a winding layer. A sequence of the axial conductor limbs of the respective phases and the distribution of the individual coils on the individual winding layers are chosen to avoid crossovers within the individual winding layers in the region of the winding heads.
US11502565B2
A rotor, a motor, a reinforcement ring tool and a mounting method therefor are disclosed. A reinforcement ring tool may be mounted on the outer circumference of a rotor of a motor, the reinforcement ring tool comprising two or more separate components and two or more connecting members. The two or more connecting members correspond to the two or more separate components, and the two or more separate components are connected to each other by means of the two or more connecting members so as to form an annular body. At least two of the two or more connecting members are movable connecting members, and corresponding separate components are movably coupled to each other by means of the movable connecting members such that the reinforcement ring tool may be detachably engaged at the outer circumference of the rotor.
US11502564B2
A motor comprising a shaft, an array of stator assemblies rigidly attached to the shaft, each stator assembly includes a stator yoke having a toroid shape fixed around the shaft and having a number of slots at radial and axis directional faces with windings within the slots of the stator yoke, and a rotor assembly rotatively attached to the shaft to enclose the array of stator assemblies, the rotor assembly has a rotor drum with sections, each section embraces one stator assembly, each section has two axial-flux permanent magnet arrays attached on axial-directional inner surfaces of the section and has one radial-flux permanent magnet array attached on a radial-directional inner surface of the section furthest from the shaft, wherein the axial-flux and the radial-flux permanent magnet arrays with the number of pole pairs equals the number of the stator slots plus or minus the number of stator winding pole pair.
US11502563B2
According to one aspect of the present disclosure, a rotor includes a plurality of permanent magnets and a support supporting the permanent magnet. The support includes at least one of an outside support fixed to a radial outside of the outer cores to circumferentially support an end face of the permanent magnet from both sides and an inside support fixed to a radial inside of the outer cores to circumferentially support the end face of the permanent magnet from both sides. Each of the outer cores includes an opposite face parallelly opposed to the end face of the permanent magnet in the circumferential direction. The outside support and the inside support each includes a support face circumferentially supporting the end face. The support face is disposed on a side closer to a center line of the permanent magnet than the opposite face in the circumferential direction.
US11502562B2
A field coil type rotating electric machine includes a stator and a rotor. The stator includes a stator core, stator teeth arranged in a circumferential direction and each radially protruding from the stator core, and a stator coil wound on the stator teeth. The rotor includes a rotor core, main poles arranged in the circumferential direction and each radially protruding from the rotor core, and a field coil wound on the main poles. Each of the stator teeth and the main poles extends in an axial direction. Each of the main poles has a pair of main-pole end portions located respectively at circumferential ends of the main pole and both radially facing the stator. For each of the main poles, in at least one of the main-pole end portions of the main pole, there is formed at least one cut for part of an axial length of the main pole.
US11502561B2
A stator includes a yoke extending to surround an axis, and having an outer circumference and an inner circumference. The yoke has a crimping portion projecting from the outer circumference, and a split surface provided at a position different from a position of the crimping portion. The yoke has a magnetic path which is provided between the outer circumference and the inner circumference and through which magnetic flux flows. When L1 represents the width of the magnetic path, and L2 represents the width of the yoke including the crimping portion, L1
US11502551B2
A method of charging multiple receivers, the method includes: (i) receiving, via the communication radio, first data that allows the transmitter to determine a locations for a first receiver and a second receiver, (ii) determining waveform features used to transmit wireless power waves focused at the location of the first receiver, (iii) determining waveform features used to transmit wireless power waves focused at the location of the second receiver, (iv) causing a first subset of antennas to transmit wireless-power waves having the first waveform features to create focused energy at the location of the first receiver and (v) causing a second subset of antennas to transmit wireless-power waves having the second waveform features to create focused energy at the second location of the second receiver, where transmitting the wireless-power waves having the first waveform features occurs while transmitting the wireless-power waves having the second waveform features.
US11502550B2
A power transmitting device transmits power to a power receiving device having a power receiving coil in water. The power transmitting device includes a power transmitting coil configured to transmit the power to the power receiving coil via a magnetic field. The power transmitting device also includes a support member that supports the power transmitting coil, and one or more spacers that hold the transmitting coil and the support member.
US11502547B2
A wireless electrical energy transmission system is provided. The system comprises a wireless transmission base configured to wirelessly transmit electrical energy or data via near field magnetic coupling to a receiving antenna configured within an electronic device. The wireless electrical energy transmission system is configured with at least one transmitting antenna and a transmitting electrical circuit positioned within the transmission base. The transmission base is configured so that at least one electronic device can be wirelessly electrically charged or powered by positioning the at least one device external and adjacent to the transmission base.
US11502545B2
A watch charging assembly 10 has a coil 22, a membrane 24 and a back plate 12. The coil 22 is configured to pass electric current received at a first or second contact pad 27, 28. The membrane 24 is affixed to the coil 22 forming a membrane and coil assembly 20. The back plate 12 has a pair of conductive inserts 30. Each conductive insert 30 is aligned with and contacts each contact pad 27, 28. The back plate 12 with the coil 22 and membrane 24 form the charging assembly 10. The charging assembly 10 is configured to form a bottom or underside or, alternatively, be attached to a bottom or underside of a rechargeable battery operated wristwatch 100 and when worn, the charging assembly 10 receives electric current from the wearer to charge a rechargeable battery of the wristwatch 100. The coil 22 can be a pancake coil.
US11502543B2
Methods, apparatuses, and systems for wireless power transfer (WPT) in ball-and-socket type structures are provided. A ball and ball-socket structure can include conductive windings and conductive plates having a variety of shapes to optimize WPT over different angles as the ball moves or rotates within the ball-socket. One or both of capacitive coupling and inductive coupling can be incorporated.
US11502539B2
A DC/DC converter system includes a current sensor sensing a current flowing from a photovoltaic panel to a power converter device, and a DC/DC converter provided between a battery facility and the power converter device and configured to convert first DC power output from the battery facility into second DC power. The DC/DC converter includes a first operation mode in which the second DC power is generated to allow an output current and an output voltage to simulate the photovoltaic-cell current-voltage characteristics according to a current value sensed with the current sensor. The DC/DC converter may also include a second operation mode executing a boost operation of increasing a potential at a connection node, and a third operation mode in which a voltage at the connection node is converted to charge the battery facility. The DC/DC converter can selectively switch among the first, second, and third operation modes.
US11502528B2
A portable power bank and remote server are described, where a rechargeable device includes a rechargeable battery that receives electric charge from the power bank via an electrical connection. Systems and methods facilitate determination of a “number of potential rechargings” of the rechargeable device battery via the power bank, e.g., how many times the power bank can charge the rechargeable device battery to a desired fuel gauge (e.g., 100%) before the power bank is depleted. The number of potential rechargings is determined by the remote server based upon the desired fuel gauge of the rechargeable device, present fuel gauges of the rechargeable device and the power bank, and charging efficiency factors corresponding to the rechargeable device and the power bank, respectively.
US11502519B2
The present invention relates a modular charging system including a wall mounted outlet preserving charger and charging additional accessories, such as battery blocks, wireless device chargers, supporting chargers for wearable devices such as watches, and car chargers, each for use independently or in combination with electronic devices. The present invention typically includes a wall charger with one or more electrical outlets on the front face so that the use of the wall outlet is not lost. The wall charger of the present invention is suitable for use in any major country and may be adapted to the outlet configuration and voltage of those countries.
US11502515B2
A micro grid system comprises a secondary energy source and a power controller. The secondary energy source is associated with a micro grid that includes a fixed or mobile facility, and the secondary energy source is configured to generate first DC power signal. The power controller is in communication with the secondary energy source and an electric grid, and configured to receive first AC power signal from the electric grid and the first DC power signal from the secondary energy source and output a second AC power signal to loads in communication with the power controller. The power controller comprises an AC to DC frequency converter configured to change frequency and/or voltage of the second AC power signal, a processor, and a memory configured to store instructions that, when executed, cause the processor to control the frequency converter to change the frequency and/or voltage of the second AC power signal.
US11502505B2
An electronic device according to various embodiments of the present invention may comprise: a housing; an interface connected to the housing or exposed through the housing and comprising at least one configuration channel (CC) pin; a circuit disposed inside the housing, comprising a current generator and a comparator, and electrically connected to the interface; a processor disposed inside the housing and operatively connected to the interface and the circuit; and a memory operatively connected to the processor. The memory cause the processor, when executed, to detect moisture corresponding to the at least one CC pin on the basis of the comparator while the at least one CC pin is connected to the current generator and to control at least one switch disposed between the current generator and the at least one CC pin, in response to detection of the moisture, thereby conducting switching such that the at least one CC pin is not connected to the current generator. Other embodiments are also possible.
US11502501B2
The invention discloses an overcurrent protection circuit, coupled to a DC bus between first and second DC ends, the DC bus including positive bus and negative bus, and the circuit including: a main protection branch connected in series with the positive or negative bus, and including first and second protection switches connected in series and connected to a first node; a freewheeling switch branch having two ends, one end being connected to the first node, the other end being connected to an opposite bus to the main protection branch; a detection unit coupled to the DC bus for detecting a voltage or a current of the DC bus to output an overcurrent detection signal; and a control unit coupled to the detection unit and the main protection branch, and configured to control the main protection branch according to the overcurrent detection signal.
US11502497B2
A cable gland for securing a cable to a box comprises a tightening element configured to surround the cable, the tightening element having at least two connecting ends mutually approachable to tighten the tightening element on the cable, and a gland body extending along an axial direction between a first end and a second end, the gland body defining a passing through channel extending along the axial direction between the first end and the second end and configured to receive the cable passing through the first and second ends, the gland body surrounding at least partially the tightening element. The cable gland comprises a first locking arrangement configured to lock along the axial direction the gland body relative to the tightening element.
US11502494B2
A cable spacer includes first and second angle arms each having a cable engaging end at one end and a flat tab portion at an opposite end having a connecting tab and an aperture to connect the arms to each other. An insulator extends between and connects the angle arms at their respective connecting tabs. The insulator has a non-conductive core. The angle arms and insulator mounted to each other define a spacer plane. A bottom arm is mounted to and depends from insulator. The bottom arm is mounted to the insulator to sway into and out of the spacer plane. A clamp secures the cable spacer to a messenger and includes upper and lower clamp portions. The upper clamp portion mounts to the messenger and the lower clamp portion mounts to cable spacer angle arms. The lower clamp portion is rotatable relative to the upper clamp portion.
US11502491B2
At least two cascaded chains of intelligent support boxes linked by optical cable provide the needed elements to link the electric AC power line and low voltage DC power lines to the many known outlets and switches (wiring devices) and their loads be it AC or DC operated, with the AC and DC lines are separately drawn through separated conduits and ducts safely and accurately controlled by an home controller and/or via a command converter and a distributor.
US11502478B2
A laser apparatus according to the present disclosure includes: a laser output unit configured to perform laser oscillation; and a control unit configured to acquire first laser performance data obtained when the laser output unit performs laser oscillation based on a first laser control parameter, and second laser performance data obtained when the laser output unit performs laser oscillation based on a second laser control parameter, while laser output from the laser output unit to an external device is stopped, and determine whether the second laser performance data has been improved as compared to the first laser performance data.
US11502474B2
An optical material including: a silica host; and a Praseodymium dopant; wherein the Praseodymium atoms are configured to form nanoclusters in the silica host. In addition, the optical material may include an Ytterbium co-dopant. The nanoclusters include Ge, Te, Ta, Lu and/or F, Cl to minimize multi-phonon quenching. Moreover, the nanoclusters may be encapsulated in a low phonon energy shell to minimize energy transfer to the host matrix.
US11502459B2
A backplane connector includes a number of conductive terminals, an insulating frame, a first metal shield and a second metal shield. Each conductive terminal includes a connection portion. The conductive terminals include differential signal terminals, a first ground terminal and a second ground terminal. The first metal shield and the second metal shield are respectively in contact with two opposite side surfaces of the first ground terminal and the second ground terminal. As a result, a shielding cavity surrounding the connection portions of the differential signal terminals is formed. This arrangement can provide better shielding for the differential signal terminals over the length of the connection portion, reduce crosstalk, and improve the quality of signal transmission.
US11502457B2
A substrate protection structure during inner housing assembling includes an outer housing, a substrate, an inner housing that is disposed with the substrate and is disposed in the outer housing by moving in a predetermined direction relative to the outer housing together with the substrate, and a first projecting portion that is disposed to the inner housing, and projects further on a rear side than the substrate in the predetermined direction when the inner housing is disposed in the outer housing.
US11502456B2
The invention relates to a charging contact unit (100, 1100) for a vehicle, for integrating beneath a road surface, with a charging contact element carrier head (113, 1113) designed to interact with a contact device on the lower side of a vehicle, the contact making and the contact separation being carried out by a relative movement of the charging contact element carrier head and the contact device in a contacting direction (6), the charging contact element carrier head (113, 1113) being movable inside the charging contact unit and/or rotatable or pivotable about the contacting direction (6) in order to compare incorrect positioning in either one or a plurality of directions extending transversely to the contacting direction (6). The invention also relates to a contact system and a road covering.
US11502443B2
A terminal holder to be inserted into a connector housing and a connector including the terminal holder is disclosed. The terminal holder can include a pair of locking arms facing each other, a coupling arm connecting one of the ends of the pair of locking arms opposite each other, and a supporting arm connecting inner surfaces of the pair of locking arms facing each other, wherein a locking portion is provided on an outer surface of each of the pair of locking arms opposite to the inner surface. In accordance with an aspect of an embodiment of the terminal holder of present disclosure, the insertion force for inserting the terminal holder can be effectively reduced, the breakage of the terminal holder in the insertion process can be suppressed, and the terminal retention force for holding the terminal and the retaining force between the terminal holder and the connector housing can be improved.
US11502441B1
An electrical connector assembly is provided. The electrical connector assembly includes a housing and two electrically conductive connection members. Each of the two electrically conductive connection members is arranged in the housing and is connected to at least one electrically conductive cable. The electrically conductive connection member has an electrically conductive terminal, a cable connection member, and a terminal holding member. The electrically conductive terminal has two leaf springs that are opposite to each other and a U-shaped connection part connected between the two leaf springs. The cable connection member is bent and has a first connection part and a second connection part. The terminal holding member has two sheet bodies that are arranged opposite to each other and a plate-shaped connection part connected between same sides of the two sheet bodies, so that the terminal holding member is in a shape of an inverted U.
US11502429B2
A terminal cover includes a cover body equipped with a curved portion and a base portion. The curved portion has formed therein a pair of claws diametrically opposed to each other. The claws are arranged at an interval away from each other. The interval is selected to be smaller than the width of the terminal and increased by elastic deformation of the cover body arising from installation of a terminal in the terminal cover, so that the claws retain the terminal. This structure enables the terminal cover to be simple and small-sized and facilitates installation of the terminal in the terminal cover without being scraped by the terminal when inserted into the terminal cover.
US11502427B2
A low profile dual-frequency antenna device comprises an insulative carrier having a first surface and a second surface which are opposite and a conductor unit, the conductor unit comprises a first conductor which is provided to the first surface and a second conductor which is provided to the second surface and connected with the first conductor, a first radiation slot as a low frequency slot antenna is formed between the first conductor and the second conductor, the first conductor is formed with a second radiation slot, a third radiation slot which is communicated with the first radiation slot and the second radiation slot, a fourth radiation slot and a fifth radiation slot, and the third radiation slot, the fourth radiation slot and the fifth radiation slot together constitute a high frequency slot antenna, the second radiation slot decides an impedance and a resonance frequency width of each antenna, a first side edge and a second side edge is oppositely positioned at a location where the second radiation slot and the third radiation slot are communicated, the first conductor has a signal feeding-in portion thereon close to the first side edge, the first conductor has a ground portion thereon close to the second side edge.
US11502417B2
An antenna system includes a first substrate, a plurality of chips and a waveguide antenna element based beam forming phased array that includes a plurality of radiating waveguide antenna cells for millimeter wave communication. Each radiating waveguide antenna cell includes a plurality of pins where a first pin is connected with a body of a corresponding radiating waveguide antenna cell and the body corresponds to ground for the pins. The first pin includes a first and a second current path, the first current path being longer than the second current path. A first end of the radiating waveguide antenna cells is mounted on the first substrate, where the plurality of chips are electrically connected with the plurality of pins and the ground of each of the plurality of radiating waveguide antenna cells.
US11502413B2
Disclosed is an electronic device including a housing having a front surface, a rear surface, and a side surface partially surrounding a space between the front surface and the rear surface, wherein at least one of the front surface, the rear surface, and the side surface comprises a non-conductive portion, and at least a partial region of the non-conductive portion comprises a first through hole, a component at least partially overlapping the first through hole when the non-conductive portion is viewed from outside the housing, wherein the component is disposed at a position spaced apart from the non-conductive portion by a first distance, and an antenna structure disposed at a position spaced apart from the non-conductive portion by a second distance shorter than the first distance, wherein the antenna structure is configured to radiate radio waves through the non-conductive portion, and comprises at least one second through hole.
US11502412B2
An antenna configured to transmit or receive a signal is provided. The antenna includes a substantially transparent base substrate and an antenna electrode on the substantially transparent base substrate. The antenna electrode includes a substantially transparent conductive layer, and a first conductive line abutting an edge portion of the substantially transparent conductive layer and electrically connected to the edge portion of the substantially transparent conductive layer. An electrical conductivity of the first conductive line is greater than an electrical conductivity of the substantially transparent conductive layer.
US11502410B2
Provided is a method for matching antenna impedance in a wireless communication system. The method includes determining an approximate reflection coefficient based on an input signal and an output signal of a bidirectional coupler connected to a signal path of an antenna; determining an antenna impedance matching parameter corresponding to the determined approximate reflection coefficient by using a lookup table; and performing antenna impedance matching based on the antenna impedance matching parameter.
US11502402B2
A device includes a ground plane electrically connected to a proximal end of at least one conductive pillar and an antenna pad substantially parallel to the ground plane, wherein the antenna pad is separated from a distal end of the at least one conductive pillar by a dielectric pad having a first dielectric constant, wherein the ground plane, the at least one conductive pillar, and the dielectric pad surround an antenna cavity filled with a dielectric fill material having a second dielectric constant different from the first dielectric constant.
US11502398B2
A complex curvature conformal antenna system that can include an RF antenna element, a radome housing the RF antenna element, and a contour matching conformal gasket sealed to the radome such that, when the contour matching conformal gasket is installed on an installation surface having a complex compound curvature and features, the contour matching conformal gasket can be configured to conform to the complex compound curvature and features to seal the contour matching conformal gasket to the installation surface and protect the RF antenna element from external moisture, dust, or unwanted elements.
US11502397B2
A series-connected antenna structure is provided. The series-connected antenna structure includes an insulating substrate, a first connecting line, two first antennas, a second connecting line, two second antennas, and a load point. The first connecting line and the two first antennas are disposed on one of two surfaces of the insulating substrate, and the second connecting line and the two second antennas are disposed on another one of the two surfaces of the insulating substrate. Each of the two first antennas and each of the two second antennas have a same symmetrical shape. A region defined by orthogonally projecting any one of the two second antennas toward the first surface and one of the two first antennas that corresponds in position to the any one of the two second antennas jointly have a two-fold rotational symmetry relative to a corresponding one of the reference positions.
US11502395B2
An antenna device includes: an antenna element for vertically polarized waves, having a first straight line portion of which one end serves as a power feeding point, and an annular portion of which one end is connected to another end of the first straight line portion; and a first dielectric cover covering the antenna element from outside. An antenna device includes: an antenna element for vertically polarized waves, having a first straight line portion of which one end serves as a power feeding point, and an annular portion of which one end is connected to another end of the first straight line portion; and a second dielectric cover covering the first straight line portion and the annular portion from outside.
US11502392B2
The present disclosure provides a packaging structure and a packaging method for an antenna. The packaging structure comprises a redistribution layer, having a first surface and an opposite second surface; a first metal joint pin, formed on the second surface of the redistribution layer; a first packaging layer, disposed on the redistribution layer covering the first metal joint pin; a first antenna metal layer, patterned on the first packaging layer, and a portion of the first antenna metal layer electrically connects with the first metal joint pin; a second metal joint pin, formed on the first antenna metal layer; a second packaging layer, disposed on the first antenna metal layer covering the second metal joint pin; a second antenna metal layer, formed on the second packaging layer; and a metal bump and an antenna circuit chip, bonded to the first surface of the redistribution layer.
US11502384B2
A microwave transmission arrangement, comprising an electrically conductive hollow waveguide having a first waveguide portion, a second waveguide portion between the first waveguide portion and a first end of the hollow waveguide, and a conductive transition surface of the hollow waveguide forming a transition between the first waveguide portion and the second waveguide portion; and a microwave circuit board including a dielectric carrier, and a first conductor pattern on a first side of the dielectric carrier, the first conductor pattern including a patch for radiating or receiving microwave signals in the predefined wavelength range, and a first ground plane surrounding the patch, wherein the first ground plane of the microwave circuit board is in conductive contact with the first end of the hollow waveguide, and extends into the second waveguide portion cross-section area to define at least one conductive pocket together with the second waveguide portion and the transition surface of the hollow waveguide.
US11502370B2
The present disclosure discloses a cylindrical or button battery. The battery includes a cap, a shell and a ring seal, wherein the cap and the shell are both of a tubular structure having a cover portion and are fitted together to form a hermetic space for accommodating a battery cell; the ring seal is located between a side wall of the cap and a side wall of the shell and is capable of shrinking or being torn when reaching a set temperature so as to form a slit between the side wall of the cap and the side wall of the shell to release pressure. The ring seal of the battery can shrink or be torn at the set temperature to release pressure, and therefore the battery is characterized by excellent safety.
US11502368B2
A battery pack includes a battery cell and a casing configured to receive the battery cell. The casing has a vent configured to allow gas generated in the battery cell to be discharged therethrough, and a sound generator installed in the vent so as to block the vent hole. The sound generator is configured to allow the gas to pass therethrough, and generate a sound by the flow of the gas when the gas is discharged from the casing through the vent hole.
US11502366B2
Disclosed is an echelon utilization battery pack with good seismic resistance. The echelon utilization battery pack involves a battery pack body and a battery, wherein the battery pack body is of a hollow cuboid structure, fixed seats are fixed at two ends of the inner bottom of the battery pack body, first fixed shafts are fixed between the two fixed seats, the first fixed shafts are slidably connected with a mounting seat in a sleeving mode, a first sliding groove is formed in the top of the mounting seat, second fixed shafts are fixed in the first sliding groove, and the two ends of the second fixed shafts are slidably connected with first sliding blocks.
US11502361B2
An energy storage apparatus includes an energy storage device and an outer case. The outer case includes: an outer case body; and a lid body having a plurality of fixing portions, and fixed to the outer case body by the plurality of fixing portions. The plurality of fixing portions and the plurality of fixing portions are arranged at different positions in an arrangement direction of the outer case body and the lid body, and have the same rigidity.
US11502360B2
A battery housing for a traction battery may include a first housing part and a second housing part fixed removably to each other. Battery modules of the traction battery may be fixable on the first housing part. The housing may also include a reinforcing structure having a plurality of reinforcing ribs reinforcing the first housing part, and a ducted structure with a plurality of coolant ducts for a coolant fixed on the first housing part. The plurality of coolant ducts may each be connectable to a respective temperature-control unit of a battery module in a coolant-conducting fashion. At least one of the coolant ducts may be at least partially embedded in one of the reinforcing ribs.
US11502357B2
A lithium ion conducting protective film is produced using a layer-by-layer assembly process. The lithium ion conducting protective film is assembled on a substrate by a sequential exposure of the substrate to a first poly(ethylene oxide) (PEO) layer including a cross-linking silane component on the first side of the substrate, a graphene oxide (GO) layer on the first PEO layer, a second poly(ethylene oxide) (PEO) layer including a cross-linking silane component on the GO layer and a poly(acrylic acid) (PAA) layer on the second PEO layer. The film functions as a lithium ion conducting protective film that isolates the lithium anode from the positive electrochemistry of the cathode in a lithium-air battery, thereby preventing undesirable lithium dendrite growth.
US11502354B1
Energy storage systems, battery cells, and batteries of the present technology may include a heat exchanger or fluid delivery structure that may transfer heat from a battery cell or cell block to a heat exchange fluid. The heat exchanger or fluid delivery structure may substantially maintain an interfacial temperature during a temperature increase from the battery cell or cell block.
US11502344B2
A method for recycling lead from spent lead-acid battery paste, relating to the technical field of hydrometallurgy. In the method, firstly a reducing agent, and a lead paste are added into a zinc chloride solution for leaching in a stirring mill to cause lead in the lead paste to enter the solution, a lead cementation is performed by using zinc in the leached solution, after the lead cementation, the electrolytic zinc is produced by controlling an electrodeposition on the zinc chloride solution for a short time, the reducing agent is zinc, lead or hydrogen peroxide, a part of the electrolytic zinc is returned as the reducing agent for leaching, the step of returning the electrolytic zinc as the reducing agent can be omitted when the lead or the hydrogen peroxide is used as the reducing agent.
US11502338B2
A winding-type battery includes a battery case, a power generating element, a cap for blocking an opening of the battery case, and a gasket for insulating the battery case from the cap. The power generating element includes a first electrode, a second electrode, a separator interposed between them, and an electrolyte. The first electrode and the second electrode are wound via the separator to form an electrode group, and the first electrode is connected to the cap via a first current collecting lead, and the second electrode is connected to the battery case via a second current collecting lead. A groove is formed near the opening end of the battery case. The gasket includes: an annular seal portion interposed between a rim of the cap and the region from the groove to the end; and a tubular portion that is integrated with the seal portion, and is disposed closer to the electrode group than the seal portion is. The first current collecting lead is connected to the cap through a hollow in the tubular portion.
US11502335B2
Provided are an electrolyte for a non-aqueous electrolyte battery using a positive electrode including nickel, where the battery generates a small amount of gas during a durability test even if the cell potential reaches 4.1 V or more, as well as a non-aqueous electrolyte battery using the electrolyte. In the electrolyte for a non-aqueous electrolyte battery including a positive electrode including at least one selected from the group consisting of oxides containing nickel and phosphates containing nickel as a positive electrode active material, the electrolyte comprises (I) a non-aqueous organic solvent, (II) a fluorine-containing solute being an ionic salt, (III) at least one additive selected from the group consisting of compounds represented by formulae (1) and (2), and (IV) hydrogen fluoride in an amount of 5 mass ppm or more and less than 200 mass ppm based on the total amount of the components (I), (II), and (III).
US11502330B2
A method of forming a solid, dense, hermetic lithium-ion electrolyte membrane comprises combing an amorphous, glassy, or low melting temperature solid reactant with a refractory oxide reactant to form a mixture, casting the mixture to form a green body, and sintering the green body to form a solid membrane. The resulting electrolyte membranes can be incorporated into lithium-ion batteries.
US11502307B2
A manufacturing method of a gas diffusion layer with a microporous layer includes coating a gas diffusion layer containing titanium with a precursor containing an electroconductive material, a water-repellent resin, and a polyethylene oxide, and heating the gas diffusion layer coated with the precursor to form a microporous layer containing the electroconductive material and the water-repellent resin on a surface of the gas diffusion layer. The heating atmosphere is a non-oxidation atmosphere where an oxygen concentration is no more than 0.3% by volume.
US11502301B2
The presently disclosed and/or claimed inventive process(es), procedure(s), method(s), product(s), result(s), and/or concept(s) (collectively hereinafter referred to as the “presently disclosed and/or claimed inventive concept(s)”) relates generally to the composition of a binder for use in battery electrodes and methods of preparing such. More particularly, but not by way of limitation, the presently disclosed and/or claimed inventive concept(s) relates to a binder composition containing an ionizable water soluble polymer and a redispersible powder containing a latex, a protective colloid, and an anticaking agent for use in the production and manufacture of electrodes of a lithium ion battery. Additionally, the presently disclosed and/or claimed inventive concept(s) relates generally to the compositions and methods of making electrodes, both anodes and cathodes, with a binder composition containing an ionizable water soluble polymer and a redispersible powder.
US11502295B2
Methods of preparing Si-based anode slurries and anode made thereof are provided. Methods comprise coating silicon particles within a size range of 300-700 nm by silver and/or tin particles within a size range of 20-500 nm, mixing the coated silicon particles with conductive additives and binders in a solvent to form anode slurry, and preparing an anode from the anode slurry. Alternatively or complementarily, silicon particles may be milled in an organic solvent, and, in the same organic solvent, coating agent(s), conductive additive(s) and binder(s) may be added to the milled silicon particles—to form the Si-based anode slurry. Alternatively or complementarily, milled silicon particles may be mixed, in a first organic solvent, with coating agent(s), conductive additive(s) and binder(s)—to form the Si-based anode slurry. Disclosed methods simplify the anode production process and provide equivalent or superior anodes.
US11502294B2
A producing method of a solution that contains lithium, at least one of a niobium complex and a titanium complex, and ammonia, wherein an amount of the ammonia in the solution is 0.3 mass % or less. The solution is suitable for forming a coating layer capable of improving battery characteristics of an active material in a battery.
US11502290B2
A composite powder for use in the negative electrode of a battery, whereby the composite powder comprises composite particles, whereby the composite particles comprise a matrix material and silicon, whereby the composite particles have a particle size distribution having a d10 and a d90, whereby over at least part of the size range from d10 to d90 the composite particles have a size-dependent silicon content. Preferably a finer fraction of the composite powder has an average particle size D1 and a silicon content S1 and a coarser fraction of the composite powder has an average particle size D2 and a silicon content S2, whereby a size dependence factor F is defined as follows F=(S2−S1)/(D2−D1), whereby the absolute value of the size dependence factor F is at least 0.04 wt % silicon/μm.
US11502289B2
A carbon-sulfur composite including a carbonized metal-organic framework (MOF); and a sulfur compound introduced to at least a part of an outside surface and an inside of the carbonized metal-organic framework, wherein the carbonized metal-organic framework has a specific surface area of 1000 m2/g to 4000 m2/g, and the carbonized metal-organic framework has a pore volume of 0.1 cc/g to 10 cc/g, and a method for preparing the same.
US11502287B2
In a method of manufacturing an electrochemical cell, a porous or non-porous metal substrate may be provided. A precursor solution may be applied to a surface of the metal substrate. The precursor solution may comprise a chalcogen donor compound dissolved in a solvent. The precursor solution may be applied to the surface of the metal substrate such that the chalcogen donor compound reacts with the metal substrate and forms a conformal metal chalcogenide layer on the surface of the metal substrate. A conformal lithium metal layer may be formed on the surface of the metal substrate over the metal chalcogenide layer.
US11502280B2
A display device includes a display panel including a front surface at which an image is displayed and a rear surface which is opposite to the front surface; a circuit board connected to the display panel and facing the rear surface of the display panel; and a heat dissipation layer between the rear surface of the display panel and the circuit board. The heat dissipation layer includes a first heat dissipation sheet electrically connected to the circuit board and a second heat dissipation sheet spaced apart from the first heat dissipation sheet in a direction along the display panel.
US11502271B2
An electronic device including a window having a front surface and a rear surface, a display panel disposed on the rear surface of the window, the display panel having a front surface and a rear surface, and a sensory button set disposed on the rear surface of the display panel. The sensory button set includes a sensor unit, and a pusher disposed between the sensor unit and the display panel configured to transfer an external force applied to a predetermined area of the window to the sensor unit.
US11502270B2
A display device includes: a display panel; a window disposed on the display panel; a window protection layer disposed on the window; and a first adhesive layer disposed between the window and the window protection layer; wherein the first adhesive layer has a creep value of about 38.1876% to about 40.4371% at a temperature of about 25° C. when a stress of about 2,000 Pa is applied to the first adhesive layer for about 10 minutes, the first adhesive layer has a storage modulus of about 0.0317 MPa to about 0.0348 MPa, a loss modulus of about 0.0108 MPa to about 0.0120 MPa, and a tan delta value of about 0.3354 to about 0.3480 at the temperature of about 25° C. when a frequency of about 1 Hz and an axial force of about 1.0 N are applied and the first adhesive layer maintains a strain of about 1%, and the tan delta value is defined by dividing the loss modulus by the storage modulus.
US11502269B2
A light-emitting device (100) includes a substrate (110), a first electrode (120), an auxiliary electrode (124), an insular conductive layer (126), an insulating layer (170), an organic layer (130), and a second electrode (140). The first electrode (120) is formed over the substrate (110), and is formed using a transparent conductive material. The auxiliary electrode (124) is formed over the first electrode (120). The conductive layer (126) is formed over the first electrode (120), and is formed of the same material as that of the auxiliary electrode (124). The insulating layer (170) is formed over a portion of the first electrode (120), and covers the auxiliary electrode (124) and the conductive layer (126). The organic layer (130) is formed over the first electrode (120), and the second electrode (140) is formed over the organic layer (130).
US11502261B2
The present disclosure relates to a compound represented by Formula 1 and an organic light emitting device using the same. The compound used as a material of an organic material layer of the organic light emitting device provides improved efficiency, low driving voltage, and improved lifetime characteristic.
US11502258B2
The present invention relates to a compound of formula 1 and an organic electronic device comprising an organic semiconductor layer, wherein at least one organic semiconductor layer comprises a compound of formula (1), wherein L1 has the formula (2) and L2 has the formula (3), wherein L1 and L2 are bonded at “*” via a single bond independently to the same or different arylene groups or heteroarylenes group of Ar1; and wherein X1, X2 are independently selected from O, S and Se; Ar1 is selected from substituted or unsubstituted C20 to C52 arylene or C14 to C64 heteroarylene, wherein the substituent of the substituted C20 to C52 arylene or C14 to C64 heteroarylene are independently selected from C1 to C12 alkyl, C1 to C12 alkoxy, CN, halogen, OH, C6 to C25 aryl and C2 to C21 heteroaryl; R1, R2 are independently selected from substituted or unsubstituted C1 to C16 alkyl, wherein the substituent of substituted C1 to C16 alkyl is selected from C6 to C18 arylene or C2 to C12 heteroarylene; R3, R4 are independently selected from substituted or unsubstituted C1 to C16 alkyl, substituted or unsubstituted C6 to C18 arylene, C2 to C20 heteroarylene, wherein the substituent of substituted C1 to C16 alkyl, the substituent of the substituted C6 to C18 arylene, C2 to C20 heteroarylene are independently selected from C6 to C18 arylene or C2 to C12 heteroarylene; n is selected from 1 to 5, wherein n is an integer number.
US11502247B2
A method of manufacturing a magnetoresistive device may comprise forming a first magnetic region, an intermediate region, and a second magnetic region of a magnetoresistive stack above a via; removing at least a portion of the second magnetic region using a first etch; removing at least a portion of the intermediate region and at least a portion of the first magnetic region using a second etch; removing at least a portion of material redeposited on the magnetoresistive stack using a third etch; and rendering at least a portion of the redeposited material remaining on the magnetoresistive stack electrically non-conductive.
US11502246B2
A magnetoresistive device includes a spin-orbit-torque (SOT) electrode layer, and a first magnetic layer, a first non-magnetic layer, and a second magnetic layer sequentially stacked over the SOT electrode layer. An interface layer is located between the SOT electrode layer and the first magnetic layer, and an etch stop layer covers a surface portion of the SOT electrode layer and is located adjacent the interface layer. The interface layer includes a metal having a spin diffusion length that is greater than a thickness of the interface layer, and the etch stop layer includes an oxide or nitride material of the metal.
US11502241B2
A magnetic memory device includes a magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) stack, a spin-orbit torque (SOT) induction wiring disposed over the MTJ stack, a first terminal coupled to a first end of the SOT induction wiring, a second terminal coupled to a second end of the SOT induction wiring, and a selector layer coupled to the first terminal.
US11502230B2
A light emitting device including first, second, and third light emitting parts disposed one over another and each including a first-type semiconductor layer, an active layer, and a second-type semiconductor layer, a first conductive pattern at least partially disposed between the second and third light emitting parts, the first conductive pattern including a first portion electrically coupled with at least one of the first-type and second-type semiconductor layers of the first and second light emitting parts, and a second portion extending from the first portion and disposed on one surface of the second light emitting part between the second and third light emitting parts, and a second conductive pattern disposed on the third light emitting part and electrically coupled with the first conductive pattern, in which the second conductive pattern at least partially overlaps with the second portion of the first conductive pattern.
US11502229B2
A light source module includes a circuit board, light emitting diode chips on an upper surface of the circuit board, the light emitting diode chips being spaced apart and each emitting blue light and having a first surface facing the upper surface of the circuit board, a second surface opposite the first surface, and first and second electrodes on the first surface, a first multilayer reflective structure on the second surface and including a plurality of alternately stacked insulating layers having different refractive indices, and a lens respectively covering each of the light emitting diode chips and contacting the upper surface of the circuit board at an acute contact angle, the lens having a thickness of 2.5 mm or less from the upper surface of the circuit board, and a contact region with the upper surface of the circuit board with a diameter of 1 mm to 3 mm.
US11502227B2
An electronic device includes a first electronic component and a second electronic. Each electronic component includes a carrier substrate having a back side and a front side, an electronic chip including an integrated optical element, an overmolded transparent block encapsulating the electronic chip above the carrier substrate, and electrical connections between the electronic chip and electrical contacts of the carrier substrate. An overmolded grid encapsulates and holds the first and second electronic components. The grid is configured so that sides of the first and second electronic components are at least partially exposed.
US11502224B2
A semiconductor body main include a III-V compound semiconductor material having a p-conductive region doped with a p-dopant. The p-conductive region may include at least one first section, one second section, and one third section. The second section may be arranged between the first and third sections. The second section may directly adjoin the first and third sections. An indium concentration of at least one of the sections differs from an indium concentration of the other two sections.
US11502223B1
A semiconductor structure can include a substrate comprising a first in-plane lattice constant, a graded layer on the substrate, and a first region of the graded layer comprising a first epitaxial oxide material comprising a second in-plane lattice constant. The graded layer on the substrate can include (Alx1Ga1−x1)y1Oz1, wherein x1 is from 0 to 1, wherein y1 is from 1 to 3, wherein z1 is from 2 to 4, and wherein x1 varies in a growth direction such that the graded layer has the first in-plane lattice constant adjacent to the substrate and a second in-plane lattice constant at a surface of the graded layer opposite the substrate. In some cases, a semiconductor structure includes a first region comprising a first epitaxial oxide material; a second region comprising a second epitaxial oxide material; and the graded region located between the first and the second regions.
US11502208B2
Methods of fabricating solar cell emitter regions with differentiated P-type and N-type regions architectures, and resulting solar cells, are described. In an example, a back contact solar cell includes a substrate having a light-receiving surface and a back surface. A first polycrystalline silicon emitter region of a first conductivity type is disposed on a first thin dielectric layer disposed on the back surface of the substrate. A second polycrystalline silicon emitter region of a second, different, conductivity type is disposed on a second thin dielectric layer disposed on the back surface of the substrate. A third thin dielectric layer is disposed laterally directly between the first and second polycrystalline silicon emitter regions. A first conductive contact structure is disposed on the first polycrystalline silicon emitter region. A second conductive contact structure is disposed on the second polycrystalline silicon emitter region.
US11502206B2
A semiconductor wafer manufacturing method including: forming a plurality of trench capacitors at a main surface of a semiconductor wafer, wherein each of the plurality of trench capacitors is configured as unit cells that internally include unit trench capacitors, and wherein a length component in a predetermined direction of a layout pattern of trenches of the plurality of trench capacitors is made equivalent, within a fixed tolerance range, to a length component in a direction that intersects the predetermined direction.
US11502205B2
A semiconductor device according to an embodiment includes first and second electrode, and semiconductor layer between the first and the second electrode. The semiconductor layer has first and second plane. The semiconductor layer includes first region of first conductivity type, second region of second conductivity type between the first plane and the first region, third region of second conductivity type between the first plane and the first region and, fourth region of second conductivity type between the second and the third region, and fifth region of first conductivity type having first portion provided between the first and the fourth region. Width of the fourth region is larger than that of the second region. Distance between the second region and the first portion is smaller than distance between the second and the fourth region. And width of the first portion is smaller than that of the fourth region.
US11502204B2
Provided is a semiconductor device of the embodiment including: an oxide semiconductor layer; a gate electrode; a first electrode electrically connected to one portion of the oxide semiconductor layer, the first electrode including a first region, second region, a third region, and a fourth region, the first region disposed between the first portion and the second region, the first region disposed between the third region and the fourth region, the first region containing at least one element of In, Zn, Sn or Cd, and oxygen, the second region containing at least one metal element of Ti, Ta, W, or Ru, the third region and the fourth region containing the at least one metal element and oxygen, the third region and the fourth region having an atomic concentration of oxygen higher than that of the second region; and a second electrode electrically connected to another portion of the oxide semiconductor layer.
US11502202B2
A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device includes forming a plurality of semiconductor layers on a semiconductor substrate, and forming a plurality of gate structures spaced apart from each other on the semiconductor layers. The semiconductor layers are patterned into a plurality of patterned stacks spaced apart from each other, wherein the plurality of patterned stacks are under the plurality of gate structures. The method also includes forming a plurality of sacrificial spacers on lateral sides of the plurality of gate structures, and growing a plurality of source/drain regions. The source/drain regions are adjacent the patterned stacks and include a plurality of pillar portions formed on lateral sides of the sacrificial spacers. The sacrificial spacers and the plurality of pillar portions are removed.
US11502198B2
The present disclosure provides many different embodiments of an IC device. The IC device includes a gate stack disposed over a surface of a substrate and a spacer disposed along a sidewall of the gate stack. The spacer has a tapered edge that faces the surface of the substrate while tapering toward the gate stack. Therefore the tapered edge has an angle with respect to the surface of the substrate.
US11502197B2
The present disclosure is directed to semiconductor structures with source/drain epitaxial stacks having a low-melting point top layer and a high-melting point bottom layer. For example, a semiconductor structure includes a gate structure disposed on a fin and a recess formed in a portion of the fin not covered by the gate structure. Further, the semiconductor structure includes a source/drain epitaxial stack disposed in the recess, where the source/drain epitaxial stack has bottom layer and a top layer with a higher activated dopant concentration than the bottom layer.
US11502187B2
A semiconductor device structure is provided. The semiconductor device structure includes an isolation structure formed over a substrate, and a first stacked nanostructure and a second stacked nanostructure extending above the isolation structure. The semiconductor device structure includes an inner spacer layer surrounding the first stacked nanostructure, and a dummy fin structure formed over the isolation structure. The dummy fin structure is between the first stacked nanostructure and the second stacked nanostructure, and a capping layer formed over the dummy fin structure. The inner spacer layer is in direct contact with the dummy fin structure and the capping layer.
US11502185B2
A method includes forming a dummy gate stack over a semiconductor region, removing the dummy gate stack to form a trench between gate spacers, forming a replacement gate dielectric extending into the trench, and forming a replacement gate electrode on the replacement gate dielectric. The forming the replacement gate electrode includes depositing a metal-containing layer. The depositing the metal-containing layer includes depositing a lower layer having a first average grain size, and depositing an upper layer over the lower layer. The lower layer and the upper layer are formed of a same material, and the upper layer has a second average grain size greater than the first average grain size. Source and drain regions are formed on opposing sides of the replacement gate electrode.
US11502176B2
Techniques in accordance with embodiments described herein are directed to semiconductor devices including a layer of aluminum nitride AlN or aluminum gallium nitride AlGaN as a ferroelectric layer and a method of making a thin film of AlN/AlGaN that possesses ferroelectric properties. In a ferroelectric transistor, a thin film of AlN/AlGaN that exhibits ferroelectric properties is formed between a gate electrode and a second semiconductor layer, e.g., of GaN.
US11502171B2
A semiconductor device includes an extremely thin semiconductor-on-insulator substrate (ETSOI) having a base substrate, a thin semiconductor layer and a buried dielectric therebetween. A device channel is formed in the thin semiconductor layer. Source and drain regions are formed at opposing positions relative to the device channel. The source and drain regions include an n-type material deposited on the buried dielectric within a thickness of the thin semiconductor layer. A gate structure is formed over the device channel.
US11502155B2
A display device includes a substrate including an opening area in a display area and a non-display area between the display area and the opening area; signal wires disposed in the non-display area to bypass the opening area, and at least one groove disposed between the signal wires.
US11502153B2
An array substrate and a manufacturing method thereof, a display device and a manufacturing method thereof are provided, which belong to the technical field of display. The array substrate includes: an interposer substrate, a thin-film transistor disposed on one side of the interposer substrate, and a bonding connection line embedded in the other side of the interposer substrate. The bonding connection line is configured to be connected to a drive circuit. An interposer via hole is arranged on the interposer substrate. A conductive structure is arranged in the interposer via hole. The thin-film transistor is electrically connected to the bonding connection line by the conductive structure.
US11502146B2
A first metal layer provided on a resin substrate layer, a flattening film provided on the first metal layer, a second metal layer and a plurality of organic EL elements provided on the flattening film, and a sealing film covering the plurality of organic EL elements are provided. An organic layer provided in the sealing film includes a circumferential end edge positioned in a frame region. A slit overlapping the circumferential end edge of the organic layer is formed in an outer side of the flattening film. The first metal layer and the second metal layer are in contact with each other inside the slit. An opening is formed in a metal layer of the first metal layer and the second metal layer, the opening exposing an interlayer insulating film from the metal layer of the first metal layer and the second metal layer at a position at which the organic layer and the slit overlap each other.
US11502144B2
A display device includes a first base, a pixel electrode on the first base, a pixel defining layer having an opening that at least partially exposes the pixel electrode, a light emitting layer on the pixel electrode, an auxiliary electrode on the same layer as the pixel electrode, a partition wall on the auxiliary electrode that at least partially exposes a side surface of the auxiliary electrode, an organic layer on the partition wall, and a common electrode continuously arranged on the light emitting layer and the organic layer, wherein a side surface of the partition wall has a reverse-tapered shape, and the common electrode contacts the side surface of the auxiliary electrode.
US11502138B2
An electronic substrate, a manufacturing method thereof and a display panel are provided. The electronic substrate includes a base substrate as well as a photosensitive unit and a touch structure which are provided on the base substrate. The photosensitive unit includes a first electrode layer, and the touch structure includes a first touch electrode layer. The first electrode layer and the first touch electrode layer are in a same first conductive layer and made of a same material, and the first electrode layer and the first touch electrode layer insulated from each other.
US11502136B2
A display panel includes: a first substrate including a plurality of light emitting elements to emit a first light; and a second substrate disposed on the first substrate, the second substrate including: a first color filter including a first blue filter, a second blue filter, and a third blue filter disposed on the first substrate; a light control layer including a first light control portion to transmit the first light and disposed on the first blue filter, a second light control portion to convert the first light to a second light and disposed on the second blue filter, and a third light control portion to convert the first light to a third light and disposed on the third blue filter; and a second color filter exposing an upper surface of the first light control portion and covering the second light control portion and the third light control portion.
US11502135B2
A display substrate, a display panel and a display device are provided. The display substrate has a plurality of sub-pixel regions and a plurality of inter-sub-pixel regions between the plurality of sub-pixel regions. The display substrate includes a plurality of sub-pixels located in the plurality of sub-pixel regions and at least one separation pillar, and at least one sub-pixel region is provided with at least one separation pillar therein.
US11502133B2
The present disclosure provides a display panel, a manufacturing method thereof and a display device. The display panel includes a substrate, a pixel structure layer on the substrate, and a sensor layer on a side of the pixel structure layer away from the substrate. The pixel structure layer includes a plurality of sub-pixels. At least one of the plurality of sub-pixels is configured to emit a first light. The sensor layer includes a photoelectric conversion device. The photoelectric conversion device is configured to receive a second light produced after the first light is reflected by an external object, and convert the second light into an electrical signal.
US11502129B2
A three-dimensional semiconductor integrated circuit includes a first CMOS circuit layer including a plurality of first CMOS circuit blocks; an insulating layer disposed on a top of the first CMOS circuit layer; a plurality of atomic switching elements respectively disposed inside via holes extending through the insulating layer, wherein the plurality of atomic switching elements are electrically connected to the plurality of first CMOS circuit blocks, respectively; a driver circuit layer disposed on a top of the insulating layer, and electrically connected with the atomic switching elements, wherein the driver circuit layer include a driver circuit for selectively turning on and off the atomic switching elements; and a second CMOS circuit disposed on a top of the driver circuit layer and connected to the atomic switching elements.
US11502124B2
Disclosed herein are IC structures, packages, and devices that include III-N transistors integrated on the same substrate or die as resonators of RF filters. An example IC structure includes a support structure (e.g., a substrate), a resonator, provided over a first portion of the support structure, and an III-N transistor, provided over a second portion of the support structure. The IC structure includes a piezoelectric material so that first and second electrodes of the resonator enclose a first portion of the piezoelectric material, while a second portion of the piezoelectric material is enclosed between the channel material of the III-N transistor and the support structure. In this manner, one or more resonators of an RF filter may be monolithically integrated with one or more III-N transistors. Such integration may reduce costs and improve performance by reducing RF losses incurred when power is routed off chip.
US11502113B2
An array substrate and a display panel are disclosed. The array substrate includes a base substrate, a driver circuit, and a first chip-on-film structure. The array substrate further includes a plurality of transition modules and a plurality of array lines. A gate driver on array (GOA) circuit is separate from the driver circuit to be independently electrically connected to the transition modules and is connected to the base substrate through the array lines, so that problems of occurrence of corner regions in the array lines and heat likely to be produced in the corner regions can be avoided, and display quality of the display panel can be improved.
US11502105B2
A semiconductor structure and a method for manufacturing the same are provided. The method includes: forming a silicide layer, forming a vertical Si channel layer, wherein the vertical Si channel layer is on an upper surface of the silicide layer, the vertical Si channel layer has a first silicon phase; performing a first annealing step so as to move the silicide layer upward and change a solid phase of the vertical Si channel layer from the first silicon phase to a second silicon phase at an interface of the silicide layer and the vertical Si channel layer, wherein the second silicon phase has a conductivity higher than a conductivity of the first silicon phase.
US11502098B2
Embodiments of structures and methods for forming three-dimensional (3D) memory devices are provided. In an example, a 3D memory device includes a core region and a staircase region. The staircase region includes a plurality of stairs each has at least a conductor/dielectric pair extending in a lateral direction. The staircase region includes a drain-select-gate (DSG) cut structure extending along the lateral direction and a vertical direction, and a plurality of support structures extending in the DSG structure along the vertical direction. Of at least one of the support structures, a dimension along the lateral direction is greater than a dimension along a second lateral direction perpendicular to the lateral direction.
US11502097B2
An integrated circuit device includes a channel layer in a channel hole penetrating a conductive line and an insulating layer, a charge trap pattern inside the channel hole between the conductive line and the channel layer, and a dummy charge trap pattern inside the channel hole between the insulating layer and the channel layer. In order to manufacture the integrated circuit device, a channel hole penetrating an insulating layer and a mold layer is formed. A mold indent connected to the channel hole is formed. A preliminary dielectric pattern is formed in the mold indent. The preliminary dielectric pattern is oxidized to form a first blocking dielectric pattern. A charge trap layer is formed in the channel hole. The mold layer is removed to form a conductive space. A portion of the charge trap layer is removed to form charge trap patterns and dummy charge trap patterns.
US11502090B2
A low-cost and low-voltage anti-fuse array includes a plurality of sub-memory arrays. In each sub-memory array, the anti-fuse transistor of all anti-fuse memory cells includes an anti-fuse gate commonly used by other anti-fuse transistors. These anti-fuse memory cells are arranged side by side between two adjacent bit-lines, wherein the anti-fuse memory cells in the same row are connected to different bit-lines, and all anti-fuse memory cells are connected to the same selection-line and different word-lines. The present invention utilizes the configuration of common source contacts to achieve a stable source structure and reduce the overall layout area, and meanwhile minimizes the types of control voltage to reduce leakage current.
US11502078B2
In an integrated circuit supporting complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) integrated circuits, latch-up immunity is supported by surrounding a hot n-well with an n-well strap spaced from the hot n-well by a specified distance in accordance with design rules. The n-well strap is positioned between the hot n-well and other n-well or n-type diffusion structures.
US11502077B2
Semiconductor devices and manufacturing and design methods thereof are disclosed. In one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes an active FinFET disposed over a workpiece comprising a first semiconductive material, the active FinFET comprising a first fin. An electrically inactive FinFET structure is disposed over the workpiece proximate the active FinFET, the electrically inactive FinFET comprising a second fin. A second semiconductive material is disposed between the first fin and the second fin.
US11502072B2
A device package includes a first die directly bonded to a second die at an interface, wherein the interface comprises a conductor-to-conductor bond. The device package further includes an encapsulant surrounding the first die and the second die and a plurality of through vias extending through the encapsulant. The plurality of through vias are disposed adjacent the first die and the second die. The device package further includes a plurality of thermal vias extending through the encapsulant and a redistribution structure electrically connected to the first die, the second die, and the plurality of through vias. The plurality of thermal vias is disposed on a surface of the second die and adjacent the first die.
US11502070B2
A electronic module includes a printed circuit board (PCB) substrate, a controller substrate, a controller, a memory device, and a heat spreader. The controller is disposed on the controller substrate. The memory device is disposed on the PCB substrate. The heat spreader is disposed on the controller and the memory device, in which the heat spreader has a first portion on the controller and a second portion on the memory device, and the heat spreader has a first opening between the first portion and the second portion.
US11502062B2
In an embodiment, a device includes: a bottom integrated circuit die having a first front side and a first back side; a top integrated circuit die having a second front side and a second back side, the second back side being bonded to the first front side, the top integrated circuit die being free from through substrate vias (TSVs); a dielectric layer surrounding the top integrated circuit die, the dielectric layer being disposed on the first front side, the dielectric layer and the bottom integrated circuit die being laterally coterminous; and a through via extending through the dielectric layer, the through via being electrically coupled to the bottom integrated circuit die, surfaces of the through via, the dielectric layer, and the top integrated circuit die being planar.
US11502052B2
A chip structure including a chip body and a plurality of conductive bumps. The chip body includes an active surface and a plurality of bump pads disposed on the active surface. The conductive bumps are disposed on the active surface of the chip body and connected to the bump pads respectively, and at least one of the conductive bumps has a trapezoid shape having one pair of parallel sides and one pair of non-parallel sides.
US11502037B2
A device package and a method of forming a device package are described. The device package includes a dielectric on a conductive pad, and a first via on a first seed on a top surface of the conductive pad. The device package further includes a conductive trace on the dielectric, and a second via on a second seed layer on the dielectric. The conductive trace connects to the first via and the second via, where the second via connects to an edge of the conductive trace opposite from the first via. The dielectric may include a photoimageable dielectric or a buildup film. The device package may also include a seed on the dielectric prior to the conductive trace on the dielectric, and a second dielectric on the dielectric, the conductive trace, and the first and second vias, where the second dielectric exposes a top surface of the second via.
US11502031B2
An apparatus is provided, which includes a stack of a first plurality of layers interleaved with a second plurality of layers. In an example, the first plurality of layers includes conductive material, and the second plurality of layers includes insulating material. In an example, the first plurality of layers includes an upper layer and lower layer. A first via may extend through at least a portion of the stack, where the first via may be in contact with the upper layer and the lower layer. A second via may extend through at least a portion of the stack, where the second via may be isolated from the upper layer and lower layer.
US11502027B2
In a general aspect, an apparatus can include an inner package including a first silicon carbide die having a die gate conductor coupled to a common gate conductor, and a second silicon carbide die having a die gate conductor coupled to the common gate conductor. The apparatus can include an outer package including a substrate coupled to the common gate conductor, and a clip coupled to the inner package and coupled to the substrate.
US11502026B2
A semiconductor device includes a die body having a frontside and a transistor having an active area formed in the die body, the active area being bounded by an outer periphery. An interconnect structure is formed over the frontside of the die body and contains patterned electrically conductive material defining first, second, and third contacts electrically coupled to first, second, and third subregions, respectively, within the active area of the transistor. A frontside input/output (I/O) interface is formed in an outer portion of the interconnect structure. The frontside I/O interface contains first, second, and third contact pads, the first contact pad being electrically connected to the first contact, the second contact pad being electrically connected to the second contact, and the third contact pad being electrically connected the third contact, wherein the third contact pad is positioned at a location overlying the active area of the transistor.
US11502024B2
A semiconductor device package and a method of manufacturing the same are provided. The semiconductor device package includes a first semiconductor element, a first redistribution layer, a second redistribution layer, and a conductive via. The first semiconductor element has a first active surface and a first back surface opposite to the first active surface. The first redistribution layer is disposed adjacent to the first back surface of the first semiconductor element. The second redistribution layer is disposed adjacent to the first active surface of the first semiconductor element. The conductive via is disposed between the first redistribution layer and the second redistribution layer, where the conductive via inclines inwardly from the second redistribution layer to the first redistribution layer.
US11502018B2
A problem to be solved by the present invention is to prevent smoke emission and ignition of a power semiconductor element that is installed inside a power conversion device connected to a battery in the field of power electronics, for example. A semiconductor holding device according to the present invention includes: a package which houses a power semiconductor element therein and dissipates heat to a cooler from a first surface of the package; a plate covering a second surface opposing the first surface of the package; and a pressing member pressing the plate against the package.
US11502017B2
An integrated circuit (IC) package comprises a substrate comprising a dielectric and a thermal conduit that is embedded within the dielectric. The thermal conduit has a length that extends laterally within the dielectric from a first end to a second end. An IC die is thermally coupled to the first end of the thermal conduit. The IC die comprises an interconnect that is coupled to the first end of the thermal conduit. An integrated heat spreader comprises a lid over the IC die and at least one sidewall extending from the edge of the lid to the substrate that is thermally coupled to the second end of the thermal conduit.
US11502016B2
A power amplifier module includes a substrate including, in an upper surface of the substrate, an active region and an element isolation region. The power amplifier module further includes a collector layer, a base layer, and an emitter layer that are stacked on the active region; an interlayer insulating film that covers the collector layer, the base layer, and the emitter layer; a pad that is thermally coupled to the element isolation region; and an emitter bump that is disposed on the interlayer insulating film, electrically connected to the emitter layer through a via hole provided in the interlayer insulating film, and electrically connected to the pad. In plan view, the emitter bump partially overlaps an emitter region which is a region of the emitter layer and through which an emitter current flows.
US11502015B2
Semiconductor package includes interposer, dies, encapsulant. Each die includes active surface, backside surface, side surfaces. Backside surface is opposite to active surface. Side surfaces join active surface to backside surface. Encapsulant includes first material and laterally wraps dies. Dies are electrically connected to interposer and disposed side by side on interposer with respective backside surfaces facing away from interposer. At least one die includes an outer corner. A rounded corner structure is formed at the outer corner. The rounded corner structure includes second material different from first material. The outer corner is formed by backside surface and a pair of adjacent side surfaces of the at least one die. The side surfaces of the pair have a common first edge. Each side surface of the pair does not face other dies and has a second edge in common with backside surface of the at least one die.
US11502014B2
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor element, first and second leads, and a sealing resin. The semiconductor element includes first and second electrodes. The first lead includes a mounting base having a main face to which the first electrode is bonded and a back face, and includes a first terminal connected to the first electrode. The second lead includes a second terminal connected to the second electrode. The sealing resin includes a main face and a back face opposite to each other, and includes an end face oriented in the protruding direction of the terminals. The back face of the mounting base is exposed from the back face of the resin. The sealing resin includes a groove formed in its back face and disposed between the back face of the mounting base and a boundary between the second terminal and the end face of the resin.
US11502010B2
Embodiments are generally directed to module installation on printed circuit boards with embedded trace technology. An embodiment of a printed circuit board includes one or more layers including a top layer; multiple embedded traces that are contained in an area of a surface of a first layer of the one or more layers of the printed circuit board; and a first module, the first module being installed on the plurality of printed traces in the area.
US11501991B2
A container storage includes a purger that supplies a purge gas into a stored container and an evacuator that is disposed near a lid of the container and evacuates an atmosphere around the lid.
US11501989B2
A system and method include receiving, by a processing device of a manufacturing execution system (MES), a target profile associated with products, wherein the target profile comprises an identifier of a block of steps in a process to make the products and a target work-in-progress (WIP) value representing a target number of parts waiting to be processed by a group of machines used in the block of steps to make the products, identifying a move list or an assignment list that, when issued, causes the group of machines to operate to maintain a number of parts waiting for processing to match the target WIP value of the target profile.
US11501987B2
A semiconductor manufacturing apparatus includes a loadlock module including a loadlock chamber in which a substrate container is received, wherein the loadlock module is configured to switch an internal pressure of the loadlock chamber between atmospheric pressure and a vacuum; and a transfer module configured to transfer a substrate between the substrate container received in the loadlock chamber and a process module for performing a semiconductor manufacturing process on the substrate, wherein the loadlock module includes a purge gas supply unit configured to supply a purge gas into the substrate container through a gas supply line connected to the substrate container; and an exhaust unit configured to discharge a gas in the substrate container through an exhaust line connected to the substrate container.
US11501982B1
A circuit assembly with an electrical connection between two individual Printed Circuit Boards (PCBs) or Circuit Card Assemblies (CCAs) that are vertically stacked with a connection formed entirely of solder and with a gap in between surfaces that components may occupy. Coalescing solder paste merges between the surfaces when it is in a liquid state to form a solder bridge. The resultant assembly can be encapsulated to form a solid monolithic electronic assembly to improve robustness and allow the assembly to better withstand compressive forces.
US11501981B2
Disclosed is a method for fabricating a semiconductor package. A mold press with upper and lower chases is used. A molded underfill (MUF) material is dispensed on a bottom surface of a mold cavity to form a first dispensed pattern with a serpentine shape. A base substrate on which die stacks are mounted is loaded on the upper chase. The mold cavity in which the die stacks are inserted is closed and MUF material flows between the die stacks to impregnate the die stacks.
US11501974B2
An electrode structure of a back electrode including metal layers laminated in the following order: a Ti layer, a Ni layer, and a Ag alloy layer. The Ag alloy layer includes an Ag alloy and an addition metal M selected from Sn, Sb, and Pd. The electrode structure is configured such that when subjected to elemental analysis with an X-ray photoelectron spectrometer in the depth direction from the Ag alloy layer to the Ni layer, on the boundary between the Ni layer and the Ag alloy layer, an intermediate region where spectra derived from all the metals, Ni, Ag, and the addition element M, can be detected is observable, and, when each metal content in the intermediate region is converted based on the spectra derived from all the metals Ni, Ag, and the addition element M, the maximum of the addition element M content is 5 at % or more.
US11501959B2
Some embodiments provide a magnetron sputtering apparatus including a vacuum chamber within which a controlled environment may be established, a target comprising one or more sputterable materials, wherein the target includes a racetrack-shaped sputtering zone that extends longitudinally along a longitudinal axis and comprises a straightaway area sandwiched between a first turnaround area and a second turnaround area, a gas distribution system that supplies a first gas mixture to the first turnaround area and/or the second turnaround area and supplies a second gas mixture to the straightaway area, wherein the first gas mixture reduces a sputtering rate relative to the second gas mixture. In some cases, the first gas mixture includes inert gas having a first atomic weight and the second gas mixture includes inert gas having a second atomic weight, wherein the second atomic weight is heavier than the first atomic weight.
US11501957B2
Process chambers and methods for calibrating components of a processing chamber while the chamber volume is under vacuum are described. The process chamber includes a motor shaft connected to the process chamber with a plurality of motor bolts. A support plate is positioned under the chamber floor to accommodate for deflection of the chamber floor due to vacuum conditions within the chamber volume. A bellows assembly extending from the chamber floor to the support plate maintains vacuum conditions within the chamber.
US11501950B2
Provided is a technique capable of achieving both throughput and robustness for a function of adjusting brightness (B) and contrast (C) of a captured image in a charged particle beam device. The charged particle beam device includes a computer system having a function (ABCC function) of adjusting the B and the C of an image obtained by imaging a sample. The computer system determines whether adjustment is necessary based on a result obtained by evaluating a first image obtained by imaging an imaging target of the sample (step S2), executes, when the adjustment is necessary based on a result of the determination, the adjustment on a second image of the imaging target to set an adjusted B value and an adjusted C value (step S4), and captures a third image of the imaging target based on the adjusted setting values to generate an image for observation (step S5).
US11501947B1
Provided is an aberration corrector having a plurality of magnetic poles including a first magnetic pole and further magnetic poles, a ring that magnetically connects the plurality of magnetic poles with one another, the ring having a constant spacing to at least the first magnetic pole, a plurality of magnetic field modulators including a first magnetic field modulator and further magnetic field modulators, and a plurality of guides including a first guide and further guides; wherein the first magnetic field modulator includes a soft magnetic material, wherein the first magnetic field modulator is disposed in a first position, the first position being one of the following: adjacent to a first air gap separating the first magnetic pole and the ring, or at an inner ring surface or radially outward of the inner ring surface along an axis of the first magnetic pole, and wherein the first guide constrains the first magnetic field modulator to positions along a first axis substantially parallel to or coincident with the axis of the first magnetic pole.
US11501925B2
A capacitor is disclosed. In an embodiment a capacitor includes a receptacle with an opening, at least one capacitor element disposed inside of the receptacle and a lid sealing the receptacle, wherein a vent is arranged in a recess in an inner surface of the lid.
US11501923B2
A multilayer capacitor includes a capacitor main body including dielectric layers, first inner electrodes, and second inner electrodes that are laminated together, first outer electrodes, second outer electrodes, first via conductors that electrically connect the respective first outer electrodes to the first inner electrodes, and second via conductors that electrically connect the respective second outer electrodes to the second inner electrodes. Through holes are provided in the second inner electrodes, and the first via conductors pass through the through holes. Through holes are provided in the first inner electrodes, and the second via conductors pass through the through holes. The first outer electrodes and the second outer electrodes are not provided on the first principal surface of the capacitor main body and provided only on its second principal surface.
US11501922B2
A multilayer electronic component includes a silicon (Si) organic compound layer having a body cover portion disposed in a region, in which electrode layers are not disposed, of external surfaces of a body, and an extending portion disposed to extend from the body cover portion between an electrode layer and a conductive resin layer of an external electrode, and thus, may improve bending strength and humidity resistance reliability.
US11501911B2
The invention comprises a method for manufacturing an inductor, comprising the steps of: casting a cast winding comprising an inner cavity; inserting a first inductor core subsection into the inner cavity; inserting a second inductor core subsection into the inner cavity; and mechanically coupling the first inductor core subsection to the second inductor core subsection to form an inductor core wound by the cast windings. The method of manufacturing optionally includes the steps of: forming at least a portion of the cast winding into an arced helical shape; forming the first inductor core subsection and the second inductor core subsection into elements of a torpid shaped inductor core; deforming the cast winding to physically allow the step of inserting the first inductor core subsection into the inner cavity; and/or deforming at least a portion of the cast winding into an arced helical coil shape after the step of inserting.
US11501909B2
An inductor built-in substrate includes a core substrate having openings, a magnetic resin filled in the openings and having through holes, and through-hole conductors formed in the through holes respectively such that each of the through-hole conductors includes a metal film. The magnetic resin is formed such that each of the through holes has an angle part having an obtuse angle formed by an upper surface of the magnetic resin and a side wall of a respective one of the through holes.
US11501903B2
The actuator comprises a movable armature swivelling with respect to a stator provided with flanges on which magnets are fitted and a coil fitted around one of the flanges. The magnets have an axial magnetisation in a z axis and are aligned in an x axis. The movable armature is arranged between the magnets in the x axis. The movable armature is mounted on a guide imposing swivelling around a y axis perpendicular to the x and z axes. The movable armature is separated from the magnets by air-gaps. Each magnet forms a static magnetic circuit with one end of the movable armature and one of the flanges. The coil forms a dynamic magnetic circuit with the ends of the movable armature and the flanges.
US11501902B2
A system comprising a solenoid electromagnet for generating a magnetic field and a driver circuit coupled to the solenoid electromagnet for modulating the magnetic field generated by the solenoid electromagnet. The magnetic field generated by the solenoid electromagnet of the present invention exhibits improved control over the direction and projection of the generated magnetic field. The generated magnetic field has the ability to detach permanent magnets from metal plates, cause motion of permanent magnets and soft magnetic materials as well as create separation between two magnetically bound permanent magnets.
US11501899B2
An oxide superconductor according to an embodiment includes an oxide superconducting layer includes a single crystal having a continuous perovskite structure containing at least one rare earth element selected from the group consisting of yttrium, lanthanum, neodymium, samarium, europium, gadolinium, terbium, dysprosium, holmium, erbium, thulium, ytterbium, and lutetium, barium, and copper, containing praseodymium in a part of the site of the rare earth element in the perovskite structure, and having a molar ratio of praseodymium of 0.00000001 or more and 0.2 or less with respect to the sum of the at least one rare earth element and praseodymium; fluorine in an amount of 2.0×1015 atoms/cc or more and 5.0×1019 atoms/cc or less; and carbon in an amount of 1.0×1017 atoms/cc or more and 5.0×1020 atoms/cc or less.
US11501889B2
A method for treatment of spent ion-exchange resins for disposal includes feeding a mixture of spent ion-exchange resins to the a loading tank, separating the ion-exchange resins, feeding separated ion-exchange resins into the a drying chamber, vacuum drying the ion-exchange resins and subjecting the resins to additional heat treatment in a high-temperature furnace, and unloading the treated ion-exchange resins into a transport container. A device for treatment of spent ion-exchange resins includes a loading tank, a metering device connected to a drying chamber, an inclined feed screw located between the loading tank and the metering device, a vacuum pump, a heated gas filter, a high-temperature furnace equipped with a vacuum drying and gas purification system, and a feeding device located between the drying chamber and the high-temperature furnace. A docking unit is connected to a lower part of the high-temperature furnace.
US11501878B2
An apparatus, a process and a system for monitoring a plurality of patients (P) affected by kidney failure over a time frame (T) are disclosed. The system includes blood treatment units, laboratory storage units, at least one hub module, and client units. The system collects values (VM) of a plurality of session parameters, set values (VS) of a plurality of prescription parameters, values (VL) of a plurality of laboratory parameters and the hub module stores values (KPVi) of selected parameters (KPi) which are a subclass of the collected values (VM, VS, VL) and which are transferred to the client units. Each client unit may define, for each of said patients, a number of indicators (IDk) based on the values (KPVi,k) taken by a respective subclass (KPi,k) of said selected parameters (KPi) and to operate the respective display according to various display modes.
US11501876B2
Provided is a distribution platform for physician-owned Durable Medical Equipment (DMEs). In the platform, the system authenticates a physician and selects or creates a patient, and determines a set of possible diagnosis code combinations that match a service being provided. The system selects a product from a displayed set of products that match the service being provided, dynamically generates a set of medical necessities, and confirms the generated set of medical necessities. The system selects a product SKU based on the determined set of possible diagnosis code combinations, the selected product, and the confirmed set of medical necessities. The system dynamically generates confirmations based on DMEPOS standards, and confirms the generated confirmations by electronical signature of the physician, where the confirmation with signature is recorded with a time stamp. The physician electronically signs a recap of the prescription, and the patient confirms and electronically signs the generated set of confirmations.
US11501873B2
A method includes training a machine learning model to generate predicted images to obtain a trained machine learning model, based on: a) pre-treatment training images; b) a plan of treatment; and c) post-treatment training images; where the plan of treatment includes: a) a first mark identifying where to apply a product, b) a first product to be applied at the first mark, and c) a first volume of the first product to be applied at the first mark; generating a predicted post-treatment image by applying the trained predictive visualization machine learning model to a new pre-treatment image, based on: a) a second mark on a new pre-treatment image of the area of a patient, b) a second product to be applied at the second mark, and c) a second volume of the second product to be applied at the second mark; where the predicted images identifies a modified area.
US11501864B1
A method and system may provide an automated pharmacy processing system which automatically processes an electronic prescription by converting the electronic prescription into a pharmacy prescription record. In this way, an electronic prescription can be filled by a pharmacist without manual data entry. The system receives an electronic prescription and compares data from the electronic prescription with entries in one or more pharmacy database(s). When there is a match between the electronic prescription data and an entry in the one or more pharmacy database(s), the system populates the pharmacy prescription record with data from the matching pharmacy database entry. If all of the data fields from the pharmacy prescription record have been populated the pharmacist can fill the electronic prescription.
US11501863B2
This disclosure relates to determining a personalized dose of a pharmaceutical for an individual. First data representative of one or more characteristics of the individual prior to administration of the pharmaceutical is received, and second data representative of a measurement of a physiological parameter of the individual after administration of the pharmaceutical is received. A computational model having pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic components is used to generate a first target concentration and one or more first doses determined to likely achieve the first target concentration for the pharmaceutical. The computational model is updated to reflect the measurement of the physiological parameter. A second target concentration and one or more second doses determined to likely achieve the second target concentration are generated, wherein the update to the pharmacodynamic component of the computational model is used to predict that the second target concentration will have a therapeutic effect on the individual.
US11501861B2
A system, method, and computer program product for automatically identifying a casualty and matching an electronic health record (EHR) to the casualty. A casualty identification is determined by matching a presenting image of the casualty with one of a master image or a social media profile image of the casualty. A recognized patient messaging system (RPMS) is configured to query one or more electronic health records (EHR) service providers for the existence of an EHR corresponding the identified casualty and automatically communicate the existence of the EHR to the EMS provider. A blockchain trusted identification module (BTIM) is configured to establish a trust relationship between the EMS provider and the one or more EHR service providers to establish a trusted pathway for delivery of the casualty's EHR to the EMS provider. With the casualty's EHR emergency responders to can provide better care for the casualty in an emergency situation.
US11501859B1
A user interface for a physician or other health care provider to follow up with high-risk patients recently discharged from the emergency department (ED) and update the patient's health care record using the physician or provider's mobile or end user device is described. The user interface is generated after extracting patient detail batch information at a pre-defined time interval for one or more past patients from an electronic medical records (EMR) database or other patient information database into a medical activity tracking batch database, and constructing a real-time database from streams of real-time Health Level 7 (HL7) clinical administrative data, wherein at least one stream of real-time HL7 clinical administrative data is associated with at least one high-risk patient in a recent medical encounter and at least one stream of real-time HL7 data comprises daily schedule information associating at least one clinician with the at least one high-risk patient.
US11501856B2
A method for providing nutritional supplement information for a subject is proposed, including a sequence of steps in given order and repeated at least once after a time span of at least 2 days or one week for adapting the provided nutritional information: A) taking a sample from the subject; B) analyzing said sample to determine the nutritional status; C) based on the results calculation of nutritional supplements to improve the nutritional status; D) providing individualized nutritional supplement information. This sequence involves the prediction of at least one initial characteristics matrix and multiplication of this matrix weighted with factors, with an initial recommendation vector for the calculation of a target profile vector after a given first time interval from the profile vector as determined in step B), and in each following cycle adaptation by adapting at least one of the characteristics matrix and the weighting factors.
US11501853B2
In a method of molecular scaffold hopping an interface of a scheduler computer sends instructions, prepared by the scheduler computer, to a job runner computer to perform a plurality of separate computational tasks. Each of the separate computational tasks includes calculating one or more chemical properties for a query molecule or molecules in a library of molecules. One or more of the plurality of separate computational tasks performed on the job runner computer are preemptible computing instances. Status indicators sent from the job runner computer are received by the interface for each of the plurality of separate computational tasks. The indicators are one of: incomplete, completed, or failed computing instances. The interface resends the instructions to the job runner computer that correspond to the separate computational tasks having the failed computing instance indicator to increase fault-tolerance against the separate computational tasks not attaining the completed computing instance indicator.
US11501846B2
A semiconductor memory device included in each of a plurality of chips which are divided by a scribe lane and formed on an upper surface of a wafer, includes a memory core and a built-in self test (BIST) circuit. The memory core includes a memory cell array that stores data and a data input/output circuit connected to a data input/output pad. The BIST circuit is connected to a test pad that is separate from the data input/output pad. The BIST circuit generates test pattern data including first parallel bits based on commands and addresses received from an external automatic test equipment (ATE) during a wafer level test process performed on the semiconductor memory device. The BIST circuit tests the memory core by applying the test pattern data to the memory cell array through the data input/output circuit.
US11501845B2
A data access system includes a flash memory, a first inversion circuit, a block buffer memory, an error checking and correcting circuit, a second inversion circuit, and an application circuit. The first inversion circuit inverts a plurality of pieces of data stored in a block of the flash memory to generate a plurality of pieces of inverted data. The block buffer memory stores the plurality of pieces of inverted data. When the ECC circuit determines that the plurality of pieces of inverted data are correctable, the ECC circuit corrects at least one piece of inverted data stored in the block buffer memory. The second inversion circuit inverts the plurality of pieces of inverted data stored in the block buffer memory to generate a plurality of pieces of recovered data. The application circuit receives the plurality of pieces of recovered data and performs a corresponding operation accordingly.
US11501844B2
A memory device adopting an on-chip ECC scheme includes a plurality of banks, each including a normal cell region and a parity cell region; a plurality of parity generation circuits, each generating parity bits for write data to be stored in the normal cell region within a corresponding bank; a test input circuit generating common test bits by comparing the parity bits of the respective banks, and generating individual test bits by comparing bits of the write data with the common test bits; a plurality of write circuits, each writing the write data to the normal cell region within the corresponding bank and writing the individual test bits to the parity cell region within the corresponding bank; and a plurality of test output circuits, each comparing data read from the normal region with the individual test bits read from the parity cell region within a corresponding bank.
US11501839B2
A memory system includes a semiconductor storage device including a memory cell array including a plurality of groups of memory cells, and a control circuit configured to perform, upon receipt of a write command, a write operation on one of the groups of memory cells, and a memory controller is configured to, when transmitting the write command to perform the write operation on the one of the groups of memory cells, determine a first write voltage value for the write operation based on a total number of write operations or erase operations that have been performed on the one of the groups of memory cells, and transmit the write command to the semiconductor storage device together with the determined first write voltage value.
US11501829B2
A resistive random-access memory (RRAM) system includes an RRAM cell. The RRAM cell includes a first select line and a second select line, a word line, a bit line, a first resistive memory device, a first switching device, a second resistive memory device, a second switching device, and a comparator. The first resistive memory device is coupled between a first access node and the bit line. The first switching device is coupled between the first select line and the first access node. The second resistive memory device is coupled between a second access node and the bit line. The second switching device is coupled between the second select line and the second access node. The comparator includes a first input coupled to the bit line, a second input, and an output.
US11501827B2
A memory device includes: a substrate; a bit line which is vertically oriented from the substrate; a plate line which is vertically oriented from the substrate; and a memory cell provided with a transistor and a capacitor that are positioned in a lateral arrangement between the bit line and the plate line, wherein the transistor includes: an active layer which is laterally oriented to be parallel to the substrate between the bit line and the capacitor; and a line-shaped lower word line and a line-shaped upper word line vertically stacked with the active layer therebetween and oriented to intersect with the active layer.
US11501821B2
A semiconductor structure includes a peripheral circuit, a first three-dimensional memory array overlying the peripheral circuit and including a first alternating stack of first insulating layers and first electrically conductive layers containing first word lines and first select lines, and first memory stack structures vertically extending through the first alternating stack, and a second three-dimensional memory array overlying the first three-dimensional memory array and including a second alternating stack of second insulating layers and second electrically conductive layers containing second word lines and second select lines, and second memory stack structures vertically extending through the second alternating stack. The peripheral circuit includes a first word line driver circuit having first word line driver output nodes electrically connected to at least some of the first word lines and at least some of the second word lines, and each first word line is electrically connected to a respective second word line.
US11501820B2
A method and apparatus for selective reference voltage calibration in a memory subsystem is disclosed. A memory subsystem includes a memory coupled to a memory controller. The memory controller may operate in one of a number of different performance states. The memory controller further includes a calibration circuit configured to perform reference voltage calibrations for the various ones of the performance states to determine corresponding reference voltages. For a performance state change from an initial performance state to a final performance state, via an intermediate performance state, the memory controller is configured to transition to the intermediate performance state without causing the calibration circuit to perform a reference voltage calibration in that state. Thereafter, the memory controller transitions to the final performance state.
US11501815B2
Methods, systems, and devices for sensing a memory with shared sense components are described. A device may activate a word line and a plate line each coupled with a set of memory cells, where each memory cell of the set of memory cells is coupled with a respective digit line of a set of digit lines. The device may activate a set of switching components to couple each digit line of the set of digit lines with a respective sense component of a set of sense components, where each switching component of the set of switching components is coupled with a respective memory cell of the set of memory cells. The device may sense the set of memory cells based on activating the word line and the plate line and based on coupling the set of digit lines with the set of sense components.
US11501808B2
A memory controller may include: a request checker identifying memory devices corresponding to requests received from a host among the plurality of memory devices and generating device information on the identified memory devices to perform operations corresponding to the requests; a dummy manager outputting a request for controlling a dummy pulse to be applied to channels of selected memory devices according to the device information among the plurality of channels; and a dummy pulse generator sequentially applying the dummy pulse to the channels coupled to the selected memory devices, based on the request for controlling the dummy pulse. A memory controller may include an idle time monitor outputting an idle time interval of the memory device and a clock signal generator generating a clock signal based on the idle time interval and outputting the clock signal to the memory device through the channel to perform a current operation.
US11501799B2
Provided are a magnetic tape comprising a magnetic layer containing a ferromagnetic powder and a binding agent on a non-magnetic support, in which the magnetic layer contains an oxide abrasive, an average particle diameter of the oxide abrasive obtained from a secondary ion image acquired by irradiating a surface of the magnetic layer with a focused ion beam is greater than 0.08 μm and 0.14 μm or smaller, and an absolute value ΔN of a difference between a refractive index Nxy measured with respect to an in-plane direction of the magnetic layer and a refractive index Nz measured with respect to a thickness direction of the magnetic layer is 0.25 to 0.40, and a magnetic recording and reproducing device including the magnetic tape.
US11501797B2
A suspension is described. The suspension includes a base plate and a load beam coupled to the base plate. The base plate includes a distal elongated element and a proximal elongated element. The distal elongated element includes at least one non-straight baseplate edge and the proximal elongated element includes at least one non-straight baseplate edge. The load beam includes a first mounting shelf and a second mounting shelf. The load beam is coupled to the base plate such that the first mounting shelf is exposed adjacent to the distal elongated element, and the second mounting shelf is exposed adjacent to the proximal elongated element. The first and second mounting shelves are configured to receive an actuator, such that an edge of the actuator and the at least one non-straight baseplate edge forms a gap.
US11501788B2
An envelope sequence is provided that can improve approximation accuracy near peaks caused by the pitch period of an audio signal. A periodic-combined-envelope-sequence generation device according to the present invention takes, as an input audio signal, a time-domain audio digital signal in each frame, which is a predetermined time segment, and generates a periodic combined envelope sequence as an envelope sequence. The periodic-combined-envelope-sequence generation device according to the present invention comprises at least a spectral-envelope-sequence calculating part and a periodic-combined-envelope generating part. The spectral-envelope-sequence calculating part calculates a spectral envelope sequence of the input audio signal on the basis of time-domain linear prediction of the input audio signal. The periodic-combined-envelope generating part transforms an amplitude spectral envelope sequence to a periodic combined envelope sequence on the basis of a periodic component of the input audio signal in the frequency domain.
US11501786B2
Methods and apparatus are disclosed for supplementing partially readable and/or inaccurate codes. An example apparatus includes a watermark analyzer to select a first watermark and a second watermark decoded from media; a comparator to compare a first decoded timestamp of the first watermark to a second decoded timestamp of the second watermark; and a timestamp adjuster to adjust the second decoded timestamp based on the first decoded timestamp of the second watermark when at least a threshold number of symbols of the second decoded timestamp match corresponding symbols of the first decoded timestamp.
US11501780B2
Devices, systems, and methods for automatic real-time moderation of meetings, by a computerized or automated moderation unit able to manage, steer and guide the meeting in real-time and able to selectively generate and convey real-time differential notifications and advice to particular participants. A Meeting Moderator Bot monitors audio conversations in a meeting, and analyzes their textual equivalent; detects topics that were skipped or that should be discussed, and notifies participants; detects double-talk or interferences and generates warnings accordingly; detects absence of participants that are relevant to particular topics; detects that the conversation should shift to another topic on the agenda; generates other meeting steering notifications; and monitors compliance of the meeting participants with such steering notifications.
US11501773B2
In one aspect, a playback device includes a voice assistant service (VAS) wake-word engine and a command keyword engine. The playback device detects, via the command keyword engine, a first command keyword, and determines whether one or more playback conditions corresponding to the first command keyword are satisfied. Based on (a) detecting the first command keyword and (b) determining that the one or more playback conditions corresponding to the first command keyword are satisfied, the playback device playback device performs a first playback command corresponding to the first command keyword. When the playback device detects, via the wake-word engine, a wake-word in voice input, the playback device streams sound data corresponding to at least a portion of the voice input to one or more remote servers associated with the VAS.
US11501772B2
One or more context aware processing parameters and an ambient audio stream are received. One or more sound characteristics associated with the ambient audio stream are identified using a machine learning model. One or more actions to perform are determined using the machine learning model and based on the one or more context aware processing parameters and the identified one or more sound characteristics. The one or more actions are performed.
US11501768B2
It is an object of the present invention to promote a user's understanding or agreement, and to cause a dialogue to last long. A dialogue system 100 conducts a dialogue with a user 101. A humanoid robot 50-1 presents a first utterance which is a certain utterance. When the user 101 performs an action indicating that the user cannot understand the first utterance or it is predicted that the user performs an action indicating that the user cannot understand the first utterance or when the user does not perform any action indicating that the user can understand the first utterance, or it is predicted that the user will not perform any action indicating that the user can understand the first utterance, then the humanoid robot 50-1 presents a second utterance which is at least one utterance resulting from paraphrasing the contents of the first utterance.
US11501767B2
The invention relates to a method for operating a motor vehicle having an operating device, which includes a speech recognition and language determination device. A recognition of a voice input of a user of the motor vehicle, and a check as to whether a language of the voice input corresponds to the first operating language take place in a first operating mode with a first operating language. Depending on a result of the checking process, a confidence value is assigned to the voice input, which describes a probability with which the language of the voice input is the second operating language. Depending on the assigned confidence value, a query signal is generated, which describes a request, understandable in a second operating language, to the user for indicating the operating mode to be set or the operating language to be set. In response to a received operating signal, the operating mode to be set or the operating language to be set are set.
US11501765B2
A system includes a microphone and a computing device including a processor and a memory. The memory stores instructions executable by the processor to identify a word sequence in audio input received from the microphone, to determine a behavior pattern from the word sequence, and to report the behavior pattern to a remote server at a specified time.
US11501763B2
Embodiments provide systems and methods for navigating a dialogue flow using a trained intelligence bot. Upon initiation of a chat session between a user and a trained intelligence bot, one or more utterances can be received. The utterances can be processed using the trained intelligence bot to resolve an intent from among a plurality of predefined intents, where the intelligence bot is trained to resolve predefined intents based on training data associated with the predefined intents. A predefined dialogue flow associated with the resolved intent can be navigated using the intelligence bot, where the intelligence bot guides the user through the dialogue flow using context variables that are associated with the user or the chat session. The user can be provided enterprise data retrieved by the intelligence bot using a retrieval request generated based on one or more of the navigation of the dialogue flow or the context variables.
US11501754B2
Desired vehicle destinations may be determined from spoken dialogs. A speech input may be received from a user through a voice user interface. Current utterance variables may be obtained by tokenizing the user speech input. One or more of a plurality of utterance templates for a reply to the user speech input may be determined by a trained automatic agent based on the plurality of current utterance variables. One of a plurality of Application Programming Interfaces (API) to call and one or more parameters for the API to call with may be determine by the trained automatic agent based on the plurality of current utterance variables. A response may be obtained from the API call. A context string for the reply to the user speech input by the trained automatic agent may be constructed based on the utterance templates and the response of the API call.
US11501750B2
An ultrasonic imaging apparatus includes a plurality of transducers that transmit ultrasonic waves and a transmission unit that supplies drive signals to the plurality of transducers. An amplitude control voltage generation unit and a transmission circuit unit are connected to a common voltage power supply. An amplitude control voltage generation unit receives an output voltage of the voltage power supply and an attenuation degree setting signal instructing an attenuation degree of the drive signal for each of the transducers for weighting of the drive signal, and generates an amplitude control voltage corresponding to a voltage obtained by attenuating the output voltage by the attenuation degree. The output voltage of the voltage power supply is reduced to a voltage corresponding to the amplitude control voltage, and a drive signal having a predetermined waveform is generated whose amplitude is the voltage after the reduction for each of the transducers.
US11501738B1
A brightness adjustment method for a display system is disclosed. The display system includes a high dynamic range (HDR) display device, wherein the HDR display device is utilized for displaying an image. The brightness adjustment method includes detecting a distance between the HDR display device and a user, updating a brightness of the image according to the distance, calculating metadata corresponding to the image according to the brightness of the image and determining the image displayed on the HDR display device according to the calculated metadata corresponding to the image.
US11501734B2
An electronic device includes: a host configured to output image data and a timing control signal in response to an image intended to be displayed; a display driver IC coupled to the host through a first interface and a second interface and configured to output a data signal based on the image data; and a display configured to display an image based on the data signal, wherein the host is configured to output the image data and the timing control signal through any one of the first interface and the second interface depending on a display mode.
US11501733B2
The present disclosure is directed to systems and methods of transferring bulk data, such as OLED compensation mask data, generated by a source device to a sink device using a high-bandwidth embedded DisplayPort (eDP) connection contemporaneous with an ENABLED Panel Self-Refresh (PSR) mode. Upon ENABLING the PSR mode, the source control circuitry causes the source transmitter circuitry, the sink receiver circuitry, and the eDP high-bandwidth communication link to remain active rather than inactive. The source control circuitry generates one or more data transport units (DTUs) having a header portion that contains data indicative of the presence of a bulk data payload and the non-display status of the bulk data payload carried by the DTUs.
US11501732B2
A method for operating as electronic apparatus includes displaying, by a display apparatus, a first image based on first image data transmitted from a first terminal apparatus to the electronic apparatus in a first area of a display surface and changing, by the first terminal apparatus the amount of the first image data transmitted by the first terminal apparatus per unit time period to the electronic apparatus in accordance with a change instruction to change the size of the first area.
US11501730B2
Disclosed is a display driving apparatus configured to provide a signal to a display panel, including an output buffer unit configured to output the source signal to the display panel for the active period and output a porch signal to the display panel for the blank period, and a low dropout (LDO) unit configured to supply the porch signal to the output buffer unit, wherein the output buffer unit includes a buffer configured to output the source signal or the porch signal to the display panel, a first switch configured to switch a connection between the LDO unit and an input line of the buffer, and a second switch configured to switch a connection between the LDO unit and an output line of the buffer, and the buffer is turned on or off according to a switching state of each of the first switch and the second switch.
US11501728B2
A semiconductor device where delay or distortion of a signal output to a gate signal line in a selection period is reduced is provided. The semiconductor device includes a gate signal line, a first and second gate driver circuits which output a selection signal and a non-selection signal to the gate signal line, and pixels electrically connected to the gate signal line and supplied with the two signals. In a period during which the gate signal line is selected, both the first and second gate driver circuits output the selection signal to the gate signal line. In a period during which the gate signal line is not selected, one of the first and second gate driver circuits outputs the non-selection signal to the gate signal line, and the other gate driver circuit outputs neither the selection signal nor the non-selection signal to the gate signal line.
US11501724B2
Apparatus and methods are provided that employ one or more of a variety of techniques for reducing the time required to display high resolution images on a high dynamic range display having a light source layer and a display layer. In one technique, the image resolution is reduced, an effective luminance pattern is determined for the reduced resolution image, and the resolution of the effective luminance pattern is then increased to the resolution of the display layer. In another technique, the light source layer's point spread function is decomposed into a plurality of components, and an effective luminance pattern is determined for each component. The effective luminance patterns are then combined to produce a total effective luminance pattern. Additional image display time reduction techniques are provided.
US11501721B2
A display driving circuit includes: a grayscale voltage generator configured to generate a plurality of grayscale voltages by linearly dividing a plurality of gamma tap voltages; a gamma correction module configured to calculate a compensation value with respect to an input pixel value by using a compensation model, and configured to apply the compensation value to the input pixel value to generate a compensated pixel value; and a data driver configured to receive the plurality of grayscale voltages from the grayscale voltage generator, and configured to output a data voltage corresponding to a grayscale voltage to a display panel, the grayscale voltage being selected from the plurality of grayscale voltages based on the compensated pixel value.
US11501708B2
Provided are a pixel driving circuit, a driving method and a display panel. The pixel driving circuit includes a driving transistor, a storage sub-circuit, a data writing sub-circuit, an initialization sub-circuit, a first light-emission control sub-circuit, a second light-emission control sub-circuit and a light-emitting element. The data writing sub-circuit is configured to write a data signal to a first electrode of the driving transistor in response to a second scan signal. The storage sub-circuit is configured to store the data signal written by the data writing sub-circuit. The initialization sub-circuit is configured to apply a reset voltage of an initial voltage terminal to the light-emitting element in response to a first scan signal. The first light-emission control sub-circuit is configured to apply a voltage of a first power terminal to the first electrode of the driving transistor in response to a first light-emission signal.
US11501704B2
The present disclosure provides a method for sending driving data of a backlight source, a control circuit and a display device. The method includes: acquiring driving data of a plurality of rows of light-emitting elements included in the backlight source; and sending the driving data of the plurality of rows of light-emitting elements to a driving circuit of the backlight source at many times, wherein at least one data packet is sent each time, each data packet includes driving data for driving one row of light-emitting elements and a quantity of data packets sent each time is less than a quantity of rows of light-emitting elements included in the backlight source.
US11501703B2
Provided are a data current generation circuit, a driving method therefor, a driver chip, and a display panel, where a threshold capture module of the data current generation circuit is connected between a gate and a second electrode of a first transistor and is configured to capture a threshold voltage of the first transistor, a data voltage generation module is configured to generate a data voltage, a data voltage transmission module is connected between the data voltage generation module and a threshold voltage acquisition and superposition module and is configured to transmit the data voltage generated by the data voltage generation module to the threshold voltage acquisition and superposition module when the data voltage transmission module is turned on, and the threshold voltage acquisition and superposition module is configured to acquire the threshold voltage of the first transistor.
US11501700B2
A image sticking compensating device according to example embodiments includes a degradation calculator configured to calculate a degradation weight based on input image data, and to calculate degradation data of a frame, an accumulator configured to accumulate the degradation data, and to generate age data using the accumulated degradation data, and a compensator configured to determine a grayscale compensation value corresponding to the age data and an input grayscale of the input image data, and to output age compensation data by applying the grayscale compensation value to the input image data.
US11501696B2
A pixel driving device includes a capacitance, a reset circuit, a compensation circuit, a driving transistor and a first transistor. Reset circuit and compensation circuit are coupled to a first end and a second end of capacitance. First transistor is coupled between second end of driving transistor and second end of capacitance. Reset circuit resets first end of capacitance at a power supply voltage and reset second end of capacitance at a reference voltage according to a first sweep signal respectively. Compensation circuit writes a data voltage into first end of capacitance via driving transistor and second end of capacitance is maintained at reference voltage according to a second sweep signal. First transistor generates a driving voltage difference between first end and second end of capacitance according to a control signal. Driving transistor outputs a current to a luminous element according to driving voltage difference.
US11501695B2
The power consumption of a display device is reduced. The power consumption of a driver circuit in a display device is reduced. A pixel included in the display device includes a display element. The pixel is configured to have a function of retaining a first voltage corresponding to a first input pulse signal and a function of driving the display element with a third voltage obtained by addition of a second voltage corresponding to a second input pulse signal to the first voltage.
US11501691B2
A display device may include a timing controller, a level shifter, a gate driver, and a display panel. The timing controller may generate a first on-clock signal, a first off-clock signal, and a first output control signal. The level shifter may generate a first-type gate clock signal. A rising edge of the first-type gate clock signal and a falling edge of the first-type gate clock signal may be respectively synchronized with a rising edge of the first on-clock signal and a falling edge of the first off-clock signal. The gate driver may output first-type gate signals based on the first-type gate clock signal. The display panel may include pixels. The pixels may emit lights in response to the first-type gate signals. The level shifter may partially block a pulse of the first-type gate clock signal based on the first output control signal to generate sub-pulses.
US11501685B2
A display device includes: a pixel unit including first pixels disposed in a first pixel area and second pixels disposed in a second pixel area; an image data corrector adjusting a limit grayscale of first image data corresponding to the first pixel area based on a dimming level defining a maximum luminance at which the pixel unit is able to emit light, and correcting the first image data based on the limit grayscale; a data driver supplying data signals to the pixel unit based on the corrected first image data and second image data corresponding to the second pixel area; and a scan driver supplying scan signals to the pixel unit.
US11501681B2
In an embodiment an arrangement includes a plurality of pixels, wherein each pixel includes at least two subpixels of each color, wherein each color is defined by a predefined target color location, wherein each subpixel comprises an optoelectronic component defined by a color location, wherein the color locations of the optoelectronic components of each color is chosen such that during operation of the optoelectronic components the predefined target color location is met for each color, wherein the optoelectronic components for each color are of identical design, and a controller configured to commonly control the optoelectronic components of a color.
US11501670B2
A display device includes: a display module; a window disposed on the display module; a window protective layer disposed on the window; and a window adhesive layer disposed between the window and the window protective layer, wherein the window adhesive layer includes a surfactant, and has an adhesive force of about 100 gf/inch to about 300 gf/inch at about 25° C.
US11501662B2
A surgical training model can have features for training surgical suturing techniques. The training model can be formed as a sheet of simulated tissue having at least one cut with markings arranged on either side of the cut. The markings can be formed of a first layer of resilient simulated tissue material having a color that contrasts with a color of the remainder of the sheet of simulated tissue material. The sheet of simulated tissue material can have several cuts having different configurations and orientations to facilitate suturing training for a variety of tissue orientations. The sheet of simulated tissue material can further include holes positioned to be mounted to a base of a surgical training system. The sheet of simulated tissue material can be manufactured by molding a marking layer and casting a tissue layer over the marking layer.
US11501661B2
A method for simulating an insertion of an elongated instrument into a subject, the method comprising: receiving one of an actual angular position and a rotation angle for a proximal section of the elongated instrument, at least a distal end of the elongated instrument being inserted into a medical apparatus; determining a distal angular position for the distal end of the elongated instrument inserted into the medical apparatus using an adjustment factor and the one of the actual angular position and the rotation angle for the proximal section of the elongated instrument; generating a medical image of at least a portion of the subject, the medical image comprising at least a representation of a distal section of the elongated instrument, the representation of the distal section being generated according to the distal angular position; and outputting the generated medical image.
US11501660B2
A method, computer system, and computer program product for providing spatial weather map data to the visually impaired are provided. The embodiments may include receiving a weather map image that contains weather information and a subject of interest, wherein the subject of interest comprises a user current location, a business location, or an asset location. The embodiments may also include receiving a request from a user for current time, historical or forecast data depicted in the weather map and a request for a geo-location of the subject of interest. The embodiments may further include generating sounds corresponding with the requested weather map data, wherein the generated sounds appear to the user to originate in a particular direction and at a particular distance from the subject of interest, wherein the apparent location of the sounds correspond with a weather map feature including the location of approaching or surrounding weather.
US11501659B2
A magnetic building set and method for teaching numeracy and spelling is disclosed. An example magnetic building set includes a plurality of trays that receive a plurality of unit markers implemented in various manipulative exercises and games that teach numeracy, elementary arithmetic, story arithmetic problems, geometric shapes, and spelling. The magnetic building set enables a user to build a plurality of geometric shapes, structures, and other constructions. Trays can be provided to represent a plurality of numeric quantities. A tray and marker assembly representing a specific numeric quantity can be manipulated as a whole, while the unit markers contained therein are visible to the student and can be viewed, manipulated, arranged and counted individually. Students are instructed to manipulate the trays and markers in various exercises in order to learn counting, number composition and decomposition, subitizing of quantities, arithmetic operations, place value, story arithmetic problems, geometric shapes, and spelling.
US11501652B2
Systems (200), devices (101), and methods are configured to generate and provide to users an indication representative of conversion of consumption from a first type of aerosol-generating article to a second type of aerosol-generating article. The systems (200), devices (101), and methods may be configured provide at least one first value representative of consumption of the first type of aerosol-generating article (2) such as, for example, combustion-style aerosol-generating articles (e.g., combustible cigarettes), and at least one second value representative of consumption of a second type of aerosol-generating article (4) such as, e.g., for example, a heated-type aerosol-generating articles (e.g., heat sticks), over a time period. The indication representative of conversion of consumption may be based on the at least one first value (2) and the at least one second value (4).
US11501651B2
A flight control apparatus includes a detection unit that detects within a predetermined range of an air vehicle another air vehicle. A specifying unit specifies a type of the detected other air vehicle. A determining unit determines a possibility that the air vehicle and the other air vehicle will collide, based on an attribute relating to movement of the other air vehicle. When it is determined that a possibility of collision exists, a flight control unit controls the flight of the air vehicle according to the specified type of the other air vehicle to avoid collision with the other air vehicle.
US11501648B2
The disclosure provides a method and an apparatus for predicting flight delay, a device and a storage medium. The method includes: acquiring flight historical data, where the flight historical data includes take-off amount and delay amount of flights during each of a plurality of time periods; determining prior knowledge of each of the plurality of time periods according to the take-off amount and the delay amount of the flights during each of the plurality of time periods; constructing a SVM prediction model according to the prior knowledge and a standard SVM model; and predicting a flight delay situation according to the SVM prediction model. The prediction of the flight delay situation for each of the plurality of time periods is realized.
US11501643B2
Systems and methods for controlling an autonomous vehicle to reduce idle data usage and vehicle downtime are provided. In one example embodiment, a computing system can obtain data associated with autonomous vehicle(s) that are online with a service entity. The computing system can obtain data indicative of the geographic area with an imbalance in a number of vehicles associated with the geographic area. The computing system can determine a first autonomous vehicle for re-positioning with respect to the geographic area based at least in part on the data associated with the one or more autonomous vehicles and the data indicative of the geographic. The computing system can communicating data indicative of a first re-positioning assignment associated with the first autonomous vehicle. In some implementations, the computing system can generate vehicle service incentive to entice a vehicle provider to re-position its autonomous vehicles with respect to the geographic area.
US11501640B2
Disclosed is a processing device that is mounted in a vehicle and is able to perform communication with a center server during a normal time. The processing device includes a controller configured to execute searching for one or a plurality of other vehicles with which a host vehicle is able to perform communication, in emergency where a situation of emergency occurs and communication with the center server is disrupted, inquiring the other vehicles searched by the search about whether or not to enable intervention control related to the situation, and deciding a center vehicle giving an instruction related to the intervention control from among the other vehicles replying to enable the intervention control and the host vehicle.
US11501635B2
A vehicle-vehicle communication system performs wireless communication between multiple vehicles each having an in-vehicle communication apparatus that transmits and receives information using a wireless signal. The vehicle-vehicle communication system includes a roadside communication apparatus including a roadside reception unit receiving information transmitted by the in-vehicle communication apparatus using a wireless signal and a roadside transmission unit transmitting the information received by the roadside reception unit using a wireless signal, and relays communication between multiple vehicles. The in-vehicle communication apparatus includes a vehicle-side reception unit that receives information wirelessly transmitted by an in-vehicle communication apparatus mounted in another vehicle and information wirelessly transmitted by a roadside communication apparatus; a determination unit determines whether or not the information received by the vehicle-side reception unit is needed; and an information processing unit performs information processing based on information determined by the determination unit as being needed.
US11501634B2
The present invention is an information management apparatus, capable of communicating with a plurality of vehicles, the apparatus comprising a receiving unit for receiving information indicating an occurrence of a failure in one vehicle of the plurality of vehicles, from the one vehicle, and a transmission unit for transmitting information based on the failure to the other vehicles of the plurality of vehicles, thereby, a recurrence of a similar failure in a predetermined region can be appropriately prevented.
US11501623B1
A penetration-type monitor includes a casing pipe and sensor penetration scissors, the sensor penetration scissors are arranged in a shear shape, and a first blade and a second blade rotate close to each other or away from each other in the vertical direction so as to define an initial position and a monitoring position of the sensor penetration scissors; when the sensor penetration scissors are located at the initial position, ends of pressed portions of the first blade and the second blade are arranged at an interval one above the other, when the sensor penetration scissors are located at the monitoring position, the pressed portions move close to each other, and shearing portions penetrate out of a mounting hole to shear a sliding mass; and a monitor arrangement system drives the sensor penetration scissors to move from the initial position to the monitoring position.
US11501622B2
Disclosed is a system (102) for determining a location of an explosive device. The system (102) detects an explosive device using one or more devices (204) based on one or more nano-explosive detection sensors (206) associated with the one or more devices (204). The system (102) further identifies a type, a quantity and a signal strength associated with the explosive device. The system (102) computes a distance between the explosive device and the one or more devices (204). The system (102) determines explosive device co-ordinates based on the computed distance and device co-ordinates associated with each device (204). The system (102) receives a data packet comprising data associated with the explosive device from the one or more devices (204). The system (102) determines a location of the explosive device based on an analysis of the data packet received from the one or more devices (204).
US11501610B2
A central determination gaming system which provides predetermined game outcomes while utilizing limited term persistent elements which persist over a quantity of two or more plays of a game and expire after a conclusion of the quantity of two or more plays of the game.
US11501607B2
System and methods are provided for effecting user experience in an electronic game environment through use of virtual currency or vCoins. In a multi-level game, the systems and methods include memory for storing information on game play, the information including input received from the user, information relating to levels within the multi-level game and game display information for output to the user. A processor is coupled to the memory for generating game play information, preferably including game play with virtual money. The virtual money is acquired through game play or cash purchase. The virtual money is convertible into a non-cash good comprising advancement to another level within the game.
US11501605B1
Provided is a method for data processing. The method includes the following actions. Recognition data obtained by performing game object recognition on each frame of game image in a game image frame sequence is acquired. The recognition data includes type data of a game object and position data of the game object on a game table. At least one heat zone map corresponding to a surface of the game table is acquired. Each heat zone map represents a game region on the surface of the game table corresponding to each of respective at least one type of game object. Based on the type data, the position data, and the at least one heat zone map, recognition data of a game object that is located in a corresponding game region in each frame of game image in the game image frame sequence is filtered out.
US11501599B2
An electronic gaming machine and method having independently operable game display windows comprising independent displays and controls to play a game individually or as a group game between or among players. The electronic gaming machine comprises a video display and a game controller configured to display on the video display a first set of reels and a second set of reels, control the video display to initially synchronously spin pairs of first and second reels to a stop, and, upon a potential trigger condition being met, control the video display to asynchronously spin pairs of first and second reels to a stop. The game controller is further configured to control the video display to move a special symbol on the video display in a direction opposite to an evaluation direction towards an evaluated position.
US11501598B2
A video gaming machine provides partial symbols that match other partial symbols across adjacent horizontal frames. Matches of two melding frames provides absolute payouts, multipliers, bonus events and the like.
US11501596B2
Mobile vending machines for storing and dispensing products to consumers at various locations. A mobile vending machine may include a product storage system, a user interface, a powertrain system, and a control unit. A consumer may view a list of products in the mobile vending machine using a mobile device, such as a smart phone. The consumer may summon the mobile vending machine to a location using the mobile device, and the mobile vending machine may automatically complete a transaction with the consumer, where the consumer receives a product from the mobile vending machine. The control unit may enable the mobile vending machine to autonomously travel to the location of the consumer.
US11501595B2
Provided is a belt conveyor type dispensing mechanism for an article vending machine, in which an associated component other than a belt can be easily and compactly installed. The dispensing mechanism for the article vending machine includes a drive section that is disposed in an article storing shelf 13 and on which articles arranged in a front-rear direction are carried, the drive section being configured to drive based on a vending command, and a belt conveyor unit 57 that sequentially dispenses the articles forward, the belt conveyor unit 57 includes two belt conveyors 71 moving forward and arranged away from each other in a right-left direction, and a detection unit 100 of an article detection device and a gear to drive a rear rotary shaft over which belts of the belt conveyors 71 are looped are arranged between the two belt conveyors 71.
US11501594B2
A vending machine (100) and a vending method and vending system (1000) therefor, the vending machine (100) comprising a machine body (10), a door body (20), and at least one layer of shelves (30) and a weighing device (40) that are installed inside the machine body (10). The vending method comprises: collecting the weight of products on a shelf before and after vending (S1); calculating the difference of the change between the weight of the products on the shelf before vending and the weight of the products on the shelf after vending (S2); and if the difference of the change is less than a first weight change threshold, issuing an alarm prompt (S3), wherein the first weight change threshold is less than or equal to zero. Using the present invention may promptly determine the misplacement and replacement of the products without relying on an RFID tag.
US11501593B2
A method and associated system for authentication, including irradiating an item including a polymer security thread including a polymer material and a doping material within the polymer material and configured to produce a radiation spectrum in response to the irradiating, the doping material capable of absorbing, scattering, or emitting radiation, and detecting the produced radiation spectrum to confirm the presence of the polymer security thread.
US11501582B2
A system for tracking competitors conducting a race on a track includes multiple object-recognition devices positioned to recognize objects at predetermined locations along the track. The object-recognition devices are configured to recognize at least one physical feature of each of the competitors. A processing device is configured to determine a time at which a competitor reached a selected one of the predetermined locations during the race based on object-recognition data from at least one of the object-recognition devices. A transmitter is configured to transmit to an output device the time at which the competitor reached the selected location during the race.
US11501579B2
A method of enrolling a user at a biometric lockset is described. The method includes receiving user access information from a mobile device of an administrative user of the biometric lockset. The user access information indicates to the biometric lockset to enter an enrollment mode in which a user identity is associated with fingerprint data in a user entry within a memory of the biometric lockset. A plurality of different light codes are displayed on the lockset, each one of the plurality of light codes representative of a different state of fingerprint data capture. A message is transmitted to the mobile device, and corresponds to the light code displayed at the lockset. The completed fingerprint data is stored in association with the user identity of the user in the user entry.
US11501573B1
Personal equipment detection may utilize pose-based detection. Input image data may be evaluated to detect persons in the image data. For detected persons, regions of the persons may be determined. Personal equipment may be detected for the detected persons in the image data and compared with the regions of the persons to determine whether the detected personal equipment is properly placed on the person.
US11501570B2
An authentication system according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes: at least one memory storing a set of instructions; and at least one processor configured to execute the set of instructions to: track an object included in a video captured by a first capture device; detect a candidate for biometric authentication in the object being tracked; determine whether biometric authentication has been performed for the candidate based on a record of biometric authentication performed for the object being tracked; and perform the biometric authentication for the candidate based on a video of an authentication part of the candidate when the biometric authentication has not been performed for the candidate, the video of the authentication part being captured by a second capture device having a capture range including a part of a capture range of the first capture device.
US11501569B2
A system receives an image including a live facial image of the user and an identity document including a photograph of the user. Moreover, the system calculates a facial match score by comparing facial features in the live facial image to facial features in the photograph. The system recognizes data objects and characters in the identity document using optical character recognition (OCR) and computer vision, and then identifies, based on the recognized data objects and characters, a type of the identity document. Further, the system calculates a document validity score by comparing the recognized characters and data objects to character strings and data objects known to be present in the identified type of the identity document. Additionally, the system determines and outputs the user's identity verification status based on comparing the facial match score to a facial match threshold and comparing the document validity score to a document validity threshold.
US11501568B2
An information processing apparatus (1) includes: a presence information acquisition unit (2) that acquires presence information that is generated based on images shot for each of a plurality of predetermined places and indicates a place where a person is present at a point in time of the shooting of the images; and a presence place estimation unit (3) that estimates a place where a specific person is currently present from among the plurality of predetermined places based on the acquired presence information. The presence information includes time information at the point in time of the shooting. The presence place estimation unit (3) estimates the place where the specific person is currently present using a presence probability of the specific person at the predetermined places, the presence probability being calculated based on an amount of time elapsed from the point in time of the shooting.
US11501560B2
An example method of infrared access, comprising, receiving a plurality of visual images, receiving a plurality of infrared images, calibrating the plurality of visual images to the plurality of infrared images, determining an average temperature of the plurality of infrared images, determining an outlier temperature of an outlier infrared image of the plurality of infrared images and matching the outlier infrared image to a visual image.
US11501559B2
The present disclosure provides a fingerprint identification substrate and a display device. The fingerprint identification substrate includes a base substrate, a plurality of photosensitive modules on the base substrate, a collimating optical structure located on light entering sides of the photosensitive modules, a plurality of function layers and an insulation layer between every two adjacent function layers; where the photosensitive modules are configured to collect light rays reflected by a fingerprint; and the collimating optical structure includes light shading layers and light transmitting layers arranged alternately; where each of the light shading layers has a plurality of light transmitting holes; orthographic projections of the light transmitting holes on the base substrate are in orthographic projections of the photosensitive modules on the base substrate.
US11501557B2
The present disclosure provides a display apparatus and a method for manufacturing the same. The display apparatus includes: a self-luminous display module, a fingerprint identification module below the self-luminous display module, at least two light shield layers between the self-luminous display module and the fingerprint identification module, and a planarization layer correspondingly arranged on one side, facing the self-luminous display module, of each light shield layer. Each light shield layer includes a plurality of mutually-independent openings; openings of one of the at least two light shield layers and openings of another of the at least two light shield layers overlap in a direction perpendicular to the fingerprint identification module; the planarization layer between two adjacent light shield layers includes a groove; and the groove and the openings do not overlap in the direction perpendicular to the fingerprint identification module, and a light blocking part is arranged in the groove.
US11501552B2
Provided is a control apparatus that receives information regarding a motion of user's fingers and information regarding a shape of user's hands, generates first pose information indicative of a pose of user's hands in accordance with the received information regarding the motion of user's fingers, generates second pose information indicative of a pose of user's hands in accordance with the received information regarding the shape of user's hands, combines the generated first pose information with the generated second pose information in accordance with criteria based on a predetermined condition, and generates and outputs information indicative of the pose of user's hands.
US11501548B2
The present disclosure discloses a method and an object determination system for determining one or more target objects in an image. The image is segmented by the object detection system into one or more segments based on visual attributes in a first set. Morphological operations are performed on the one or more segments to obtain one or more morphed segments. One or more candidates of target objects are identified based on visual attributes in a second set corresponding to each one or more morphed segments. The object determination system identifies at least one of true positive and false positive from the one or more candidates which indicates presence or absence of the one or more target objects respectively, based on neighborhood information associated with the one or more candidates. The present disclosure facilitates in determining target objects in document automatically, thereby eliminating manual intervention in identifying target objects in the document.
US11501545B2
Automation of microscopic pathological diagnosis relies on digital image quality, which, in turn, affects the rates of false positive and negative cellular objects designated as abnormalities. Cytogenetic biodosimetry is a genotoxic assay that detects dicentric chromosomes (DCs) arising from exposure to ionizing radiation. The frequency of DCs is related to radiation dose received, so the inferred radiation dose depends on the accuracy of DC detection. To improve this accuracy, image segmentation methods are used to rank high quality cytogenetic images and eliminate suboptimal metaphase cell data in a sample based on novel quality measures. When sufficient numbers of high quality images are found, the microscope system is directed to terminate metaphase image collection for a sample. The International Atomic Energy Agency recommends at least 500 images be used to estimate radiation dose, however often many more images are collected in order to select the metaphase cells with good morphology for analysis. Improvements in DC recognition increase the accuracy of dose estimates, by reducing false positive (FP) DC detection. A set of chromosome morphology segmentation methods selectively filtered out false DCs, arising primarily from extended prometaphase chromosomes, sister chromatid separation and chromosome fragmentation. This reduced FPs by 55% and was highly specific to the abnormal structures (≥97.7%). Additional procedures were then developed to fully automate image review, resulting in 6 image-level filters that, when combined, selectively remove images with consistently unparsable or incorrectly segmented chromosome morphologies. Overall, these filters can eliminate half of the FPs detected by manual image review. Optimal image selection and FP DCs are minimized by combining multiple feature based segmentation filters and a novel image sorting procedure based on the known distribution of chromosome lengths. Consequently, the average dose estimation error was reduced from 0.4 Gy to <0.2 Gy with minimal manual review required. Automated image selection with these filters reduces the number of images that are required to capture metaphase cells, thus decreasing the number of images and time required for each sample. A microscope system integrates image selection procedures controls with an automated digitally controlled microscope then determines at what point a sufficient number of metaphase cell images have been acquired to accurately determine radiation dose, which then terminates data collection by the microscope. These image filtering approaches constitute a reliable and scalable solution that results in more accurate and rapid radiation dose estimates.
US11501523B2
A goods sensing system includes: a sample collector that collects a plurality of sets of image samples, where each set of the image samples comprise sample images of a type of goods at multiple angles, where a set of the image samples of a same type of goods are provided with a same group identification, and the group identification is the type of the goods corresponding to the set of image samples; a model trainer that trains a convolutional neural network model according to each sample image and a group identification of the sample image to obtain a goods identification model; a real-time image collector that continuously acquires at least one real-time image of space in front of a shelf, each real-time image including part or all of images of goods; and a goods category deriver that obtains a type and quantity of the goods displayed in the real-time.
US11501510B2
A thermal image positioning method for determining a heat source location of the thermal image is disclosed. The thermal image positioning method includes obtaining a temperature array corresponding to the thermal image and determining a region of interest (ROI) of the temperature array. The thermal image positioning method further includes determining an ROI center reference point of the ROI, determining a plurality of corner points corresponding to the ROI, and determining the heat source location according to at least one of the plurality of corner points. A thermal image positioning system is also disclosed herein.
US11501508B2
Disclosed are computer-readable devices, systems and methods for generating a model of a clothed body. The method includes generating a model of an unclothed human body, the model capturing a shape or a pose of the unclothed human body, determining two-dimensional contours associated with the model, and computing deformations by aligning a contour of a clothed human body with a contour of the unclothed human body. Based on the two-dimensional contours and the deformations, the method includes generating a first two-dimensional model of the unclothed human body, the first two-dimensional model factoring the deformations of the unclothed human body into one or more of a shape variation component, a viewpoint change, and a pose variation and learning an eigen-clothing model using principal component analysis applied to the deformations, wherein the eigen-clothing model classifies different types of clothing, to yield a second two-dimensional model of a clothed human body.
US11501501B1
Biometric feedback systems and methods for measuring user reaction to the indoor or outdoor environment are described. In some embodiments, one or more user(s) wears a body-worn sensor and the user's heart rate variability or other indication of stress is monitored as the user travels along a pre-determined route.
US11501500B2
An augmented reality (AR) providing method for recognizing a context using a neural network includes acquiring, by processing circuitry, a video; analyzing, by the processing circuitry, the video and rendering the video to arrange a virtual object on a plane included in the video; determining whether a scene change is present in a current frame by comparing the current frame included in the video with a previous frame; determining a context recognition processing status for the video based on the determining of whether the scene change is present in the current frame; and in response to determining that the context recognition processing status is true, analyzing at least one of the video or a sensing value received from a sensor using the neural network and calculating at least one piece of context information, and generating additional content to which the context information is applied and providing the additional content.
US11501497B1
Techniques for creating a virtual space correlated with the geometry of a real space, to enable a user to experience the virtual space by moving virtually in the real space. Multiple users, each in a different real space, can share a single generated virtual space. If the real space is too small to fit the virtual space, the virtual space is laid out hanging over the edge of the real space. When the user reaches this edge, the virtual space is flipped over and re-correlated with the real space, so that by turning around in the real space, the may continue straight ahead in the virtual space. Also described are other ways a large virtual space can be placed and flipped over a smaller real space, recursively, for example to reduce the user's overall walking.
US11501496B2
A system for generating a path for navigating an environment, the system comprising a bounding volume hierarchy, BVH, generation unit operable to generate a BVH comprising a plurality of bounding volumes representing one or more objects in the environment, a BVH analysis unit operable to identify information about the geometry of the environment from the BVH, and a path planning unit operable to generate a path through the environment in dependence upon the identified geometry.
US11501495B2
Systems and methods for interactions between an autonomous vehicle and one or more external observers include virtual models of drivers the autonomous vehicle. The virtual models may be generated by the autonomous vehicle and displayed to one or more external observers, and in some cases using devices worn by the external observers. The virtual models may facilitate interactions between the external observers and the autonomous vehicle using gestures or other visual cues. The virtual models may be encrypted with characteristics of an external observer, such as the external observer's face image, iris, or other representative features. Multiple virtual models for multiple external observers may be simultaneously used for multiple communications while preventing interference due to possible overlap of the multiple virtual models.
US11501494B2
A tessellation method uses both vertex tessellation factors and displacement factors defined for each vertex of a patch, which may be a quad, a triangle or an isoline. The method is implemented in a computer graphics system and involves calculating a vertex tessellation factor for each corner vertex in one or more input patches. Tessellation is then performed on the plurality of input patches using the vertex tessellation factors. The tessellation operation involves adding one or more new vertices and calculating a displacement factor for each newly added vertex. A world space parameter for each vertex is subsequently determined by calculating a target world space parameter for each vertex and then modifying the target world space parameter for a vertex using the displacement factor for that vertex.
US11501485B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for integrating imaging data from multiple sources to create a single, accurate model of a patient's anatomy. One method includes receiving a representation of a target object for modeling; determining one or more first anatomical parameters of the target anatomical object from at least one of one or more first images of the target anatomical object; determining one or more second anatomical parameters of the target anatomical object from at least one of one or more second images of the target anatomical object; updating the one or more first anatomical parameters based at least on the one or more second anatomical parameters; and generating a model of the target anatomical object based on the updated first anatomical parameters.
US11501483B2
An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) may couple to a sensor payload device that includes cameras, radar, lidar, and/or other sensors. The UAV, coupled to the sensor payload device, may fly within the airspace of and/or around a property and capture images and/or sensor measurements of the property. The images and sensor measurements may be certified so that they may be verified as unaltered by viewers. A 3D representation of the property may be generated, and defects in the property may be detected by comparing the 3D representation to media depicting property defects. A report identifying the defects may be generated.
US11501481B2
A method for generating one or more visual representations of a porous media submerged in a fluid is provided. The method can be performed using a computing device operated by a computer user or artist. The method includes defining a field comprising fluid parameter values for the fluid, the fluid parameter values comprising fluid velocity values and pore pressures. The method includes generating a plurality of particles that model a plurality of objects of the porous media, the plurality of objects being independently movable with respect to one another, determining values of motion parameters based at least in part on the field when the plurality of particles are submerged in the fluid, buoyancy and drag forces being used to determine relative motion of the plurality of particles and the fluid, and generating the one or more visual representations of the plurality of objects submerged in the fluid based on the values of the motion parameters.
US11501462B2
A device determines positions of objects in a scene. The device obtains object detection data (ODD) which identifies the objects and locations of reference points of the objects in 2D images of the scene. The device processes the ODD to generate candidate association data (CAD) which associates pairs of objects between the images, computes estimated 3D positions in the scene for associated pairs of objects in the CAD, and performs clustering of the estimated positions. The device further generates, based on estimated 3D positions in one or more clusters, final association data (FAD) which associates one or more objects between the images, and computes one or more final 3D positions in the scene for one or more reference points of the one or more objects in the FAD. The final 3D position(s) represent the 3D position or the 3D pose of the respective object in the scene.
US11501457B2
A method for identifying a dendritic pore is provided. Line and pore images are obtained from a digital image of a subject's skin. These line and pore images are overlaid to identify those pores having at least one line intersecting the pore as dendritic pores.
US11501455B2
A tracking system includes a camera subsystem that includes cameras that capture vide of a space. Each camera is coupled with a camera client that determines local coordinates of people in the captured video. The camera clients generate frames that include color frames and depth frames labeled with an identifier number of the camera and their corresponding timestamps. The camera clients generate tracks that include metadata describing historical people detections, tracking identifications, timestamps, and the identifier number of the camera. The camera clients send the frames and tracks to cluster servers that maintain the frames and tracks such that they are retrievable using their corresponding labels. A camera server queries the cluster servers to receive the frames and tracks using their corresponding labels. The camera server determines the physical positions of people in the space based on the determined local coordinates.
US11501454B2
An item position tracking system includes weight sensors each associated with a weight board. Each weight sensor transmits sensor data indicative of a weight of an item to its corresponding weight board. Each weight board is configured to assign a particular address number to its corresponding weight sensor. The weight boards transmit the sensor data and the address numbers to a circuit board that transmits the sensor data and the address numbers to a weight server. The weight server determines from which weight sensor data is originated based on the address numbers, and whether items were removed from the weight sensors.
US11501453B2
A camera array for a scalable tracking system includes cameras that are communicatively coupled to camera clients. The cameras are arranged in a grid such that no camera is directly adjacent in the same row or column of the grid to another camera that is communicatively coupled to the same camera client. Cameras that are arranged along a diagonal of the grid are communicatively coupled to the same camera client.
US11501450B2
A tracking device according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes: a memory storing instructions; and one or more processors configured to execute the instructions to: acquire tracking information regarding a tracking indicating a movement of a person in a monitoring region; determine one or more feature points on the tracking in the monitoring region based on the tracking information; determine one or more sections of the tracking according to the feature points determined; and analyze the tracking information for each section of the tracking determined.
US11501446B2
A facility for identifying the boundaries of 3-dimensional structures in 3-dimensional images is described. For each of multiple 3-dimensional images, the facility receives results of a first attempt to identify boundaries of structures in the 3-dimensional image, and causes the results of the first attempt to be presented to a person. For each of a number of 3-dimensional images, the facility receives input generated by the person providing feedback on the results of the first attempt. The facility then uses the following to train a deep-learning network to identify boundaries of 3-dimensional structures in 3-dimensional images: at least a portion of the plurality of 3-dimensional images, at least a portion of the received results, and at least a portion of provided feedback.
US11501445B2
A system and method for operating a robotic system to scan and register unrecognized objects is disclosed. The robotic system may use an image data representative of an unrecognized object located at a start location to implement operations for transferring the unrecognized object from the start location. While implementing the operations, the robotic system may obtain additional data, including scanning results of one or more portions of the unrecognized object not included in the image data. The robotic system may use the additional data to register the unrecognized object.
US11501444B2
The present invention relates to a method for color visualization and separation of a natural and medical image comprising pixels defined by color pixel vector a=[a1a2, a3] in a Cartesian color space (e.g. RGB), where the color pixel vector is represented by a pure quaternion q=+a1i+a2j+a3k with i,j, k satisfying: i2=j2=k2=ijk=−1, ij=−ji=k,jk=−kj=i, ki=−ik=j and the image is decomposed into q+ and q using the orthogonal 2D planes split concept according to: (formula (I)) wherein/and g are pure unit quaternions or f and g describe interactively determined or computed colors (s1, s2). The method allows not only visualizing and separating certain colors in a digital image in a rapid fashion, but also permits a flexible definition pertinent to the kind of colors that can be visualized or separated by defining the corresponding decompositions by means of pure unit quaternions/and g. Colors s1, s2 can be defined manually or computed automatically from the image.
US11501442B2
Disclosed is a computer-implemented method of determining a correspondence between a region of interest as it appears in a first digital medical patient image and as it appears in a second digital medical image. The correspondence is determined by calculating the ratio of overlap of the region of interest with a data object defining an anatomical body part in the first image and the second image and determining whether the larger of the two ratios exceeds a threshold. If the threshold is exceeded, the method assumes that the appearances in the two images describe the same region of interest.
US11501437B1
A system and a method for monitoring a brain CT scan image using ASPECTS score. The method includes receiving the brain CT scan image of a patient. Further, a basal ganglia region and a corona radiata level are identified in a plurality of slices in the brain CT scan image. Furthermore, a plurality of anatomical regions and a plurality of infarcts are segmented using deep learning. Subsequently, an overlapping region across the plurality of slices is determined based on the plurality of anatomical regions and the plurality of infarcts. The overlapping region and a predefined threshold are used to compute an ASPECTS score. The ASPECTS score is further used to recommend a course of action to the patient.
US11501436B2
The disclosure herein relates to systems, methods, and devices for medical image analysis, diagnosis, risk stratification, decision making and/or disease tracking. In some embodiments, the systems, devices, and methods described herein are configured to analyze non-invasive medical images of a subject to automatically and/or dynamically identify one or more features, such as plaque and vessels, and/or derive one or more quantified plaque parameters, such as radiodensity, radiodensity composition, volume, radiodensity heterogeneity, geometry, location, and/or the like. In some embodiments, the systems, devices, and methods described herein are further configured to generate one or more assessments of plaque-based diseases from raw medical images using one or more of the identified features and/or quantified parameters.
US11501432B2
A spiking retina microscope comprising microscope optics and a neuromorphic imaging sensor. The microscope optics are configured to direct a magnified image of a specimen onto the neuromorphic imaging sensor. The neuromorphic imaging sensor comprises a plurality of sensor elements that are configured to generate spike signals in response to integrated light from the magnified image reaching a threshold. The spike signals may be processed by a processor unit to generate a result, such as tracking biological particles in a specimen comprising biological material.
US11501431B2
An image processing method performed by a terminal is provided. A molybdenum target image is obtained, and a plurality of candidate regions are extracted from the molybdenum target image. In the molybdenum target image, a target region is marked in the plurality of candidate regions by using a neural network model obtained by deep learning training, a probability that a lump comprised in the target region is a target lump being greater than a first threshold, a probability that the target lump is a malignant tumor being greater than a second threshold, and the neural network model being used for indicating a mapping relationship between a candidate region and a probability that a lump comprised in the candidate region is the target lump.
US11501421B2
A machine device state monitoring system includes an image data acquisition unit that acquires image data of an inside of a housing chamber in which a mechanical part is housed, an image analysis unit that outputs foreign substance data relating to a foreign substance in oil in the housing chamber based on the image data, a storage unit that stores characteristic data indicating a characteristic of the foreign substance, and an estimation unit that estimates a state of a machine device having the mechanical part based on the foreign substance data and the characteristic data to output estimation data.
US11501417B2
An image processing apparatus comprising a first correction unit which performs first gray-level correction on an image of a target region using a first correction amount, a first estimation unit which estimates a number of specific objects in the image of the target region corrected by the first correction unit, a second correction unit which performs second gray-level correction on the image of the target region using a second correction amount that is different from the first correction amount, a second estimation unit which estimates the number of specific objects in the image of the target region corrected by the second correction unit; and a selection unit which selects a larger one of the number of the specific objects estimated by the first estimation unit and the number of the specific objects estimated by the second estimation unit.
US11501414B2
A debanding determination method for an image and a debanding determination circuit thereof are provided. The method includes: calculating change amounts between color components respectively corresponding to a start pixel, an end pixel, and at least one intermediate pixel in a plurality of pixels of the image; adjusting the change amounts according to weight values corresponding to the color components, and calculating a weighted total change amount according to the adjusted change amounts; calculating change counts between the color components of the start pixel, the end pixel, and the at least one intermediate pixel; and determining whether to perform debanding compensation on each of the color components of the start pixel by using the end pixel as a reference pixel.
US11501412B2
Image processing apparatus, imaging apparatus, image processing method, and image processing program
An image processing apparatus, an imaging apparatus, an image processing method, and a non-transitory computer readable medium for storing an image processing program capable of controlling the brightness of a desired color in a captured image are provided. A brightness and color difference conversion processing unit generates a reference first brightness signal “Y1” and color difference signals “Cb and Cr” from color signals “R1, G1, and B1” of three primary colors after gamma conversion. A second brightness signal generation unit generates a second brightness signal “Y2” in which a value of a brightness signal corresponding to a target color is decreased with respect to the first brightness signal “Y1” from the color signals “R1, G1, and B1”. The brightness of the desired target color can be controlled according to the reference first brightness signal “Y1” and the second brightness signal “Y2”.
US11501411B2
The disclosure provides an animation configuration method and a display device. The display device includes: a screen; a rotating component for driving the screen to rotate; and a controller. The controller is configured to receive a command for rotating the screen from a user, control the rotating component to drive the screen to rotate, monitor component rotation information of the rotating component, and configure a rotation animation based on the component rotation information.
US11501402B2
Dynamic geofence zones may be deployed and updated for a ride sharing service. At least one set of dynamic geofence zones may be created which are associated with a ride sharing service. At least one time period may be set for the at least one set of dynamic geofence zones. The at least one set of dynamic geofence zones may be deployed. The at least one set of dynamic geofence zones may be updated.
US11501394B1
A reanalysis ensemble service includes a plurality of conversion utilities, each conversion utility configured to convert a specific one of a plurality of disparate climate data collections from different sources to common format files that are temporally and spatially registered, where the disparate climate data collections include reanalysis data sets and forward processing data products, a data analytics platform for storing and operating on the different sourced common format files, a service interface for mapping service requests to analytic operations performed on the different sourced common format files by the data analytics platform, and a services library that dynamically creates data objects from one or more of the different sourced common format files in response to the analytic operations, and delivers the data objects to the service interface.
US11501389B2
Systems and methods for financial settlement of transactions within an electric power grid network are disclosed. A multiplicity of active grid elements are constructed and configured for electric connection and network-based communication over a blockchain-based platform. The multiplicity of active grid elements are operable to make peer-to-peer transactions based on their participation within the electric power grid by generating and executing a digital contract. The multiplicity of active grid elements generate messages autonomously and/or automatically within a predetermined time interval. The messages comprise energy related data and settlement related data. The energy related data of the multiplicity of active grid elements are based on measurement and verification. The energy related data and the settlement related data are validated and recorded on a distributed ledger with a time stamp and a geodetic reference.
US11501381B2
A method for learning an insurance claim statement on a basis of a deep neural network, includes: receiving, by an insurance claim statement reviewing device, an input of a plurality of insurance review claim statements containing at least one of first information, second information, third information and fourth information; classifying, by the insurance claim statement reviewing device, the general items, the diagnosed patient injury/disease items, the treatment history items, or the prescription items; converting, by the insurance claim statement reviewing device, the categorical data or the numerical data; inputting, by the insurance claim statement reviewing device, the converted data; training, by the insurance claim statement reviewing device, the deep neural network using training data of the converted data; and verifying, by the insurance claim statement reviewing device, the deep neural network using verification data of the converted data.
US11501375B1
One embodiment relates to a financial institution computing system. The financial institution computing system includes a network circuit enabling the financial institution computing system to exchange information over a network and a risk analysis circuit. The risk analysis circuit is configured to receive user information, simulate a plurality of investment outcomes for a first investment risk level based on the received user information, display at least one augmented reality or virtual reality depiction of at least one of the investment outcomes via a display device, monitor a reaction of the user to each displayed augmented reality or virtual reality depiction, and select an investment strategy for the user based on the reactions of the user.
US11501374B1
Various systems and methods are provided for accessing and traversing one or more complex data structures and generating a functional user interface that can enable non-technical users to quickly and dynamically generate detailed reports (including tables, charts, and/or the like) of complex data including time varying attributes and time-series data. The user interfaces are interactive such that a user may make selections, provide inputs, and/or manipulate outputs. In response to various user inputs, the system automatically calculates applicable time intervals, accesses and traverses complex data structures (including, for example, a mathematical graph having nodes and edges), calculates complex data based on the traversals and the calculated time intervals, displays the calculated complex data to the user, and/or enters the calculated complex data into the tables, charts, and/or the like. The user interfaces may be automatically updated based on a context selected by the user.
US11501372B2
Methods, systems and computer-readable storage media disclosed herein provide visual depictions of warnings and errors. An example method includes detecting, using a computing device, a change in a design of a trading algorithm. The trading algorithm is defined by a user-specified arrangement of blocks representing trading functionality. The example method includes determining, using the computing device, whether the trading algorithm complies with a trading algorithm rule. The example method includes facilitating, using the computing device, at least one of warning handling or error handling when the trading algorithm does not comply with the trading algorithm rule. Facilitating warning handling or error handling includes displaying a warning or an error to the user in connection with the trading algorithm before the trading algorithm is available for execution.
US11501371B2
This invention provides a distributed energy transaction matching method based on energy network constraints and multiple knapsack model. First, it considers the matching between financial market transactions and actual energy network scheduling, then generates security constraints on the results of distributed transactions. Next, it designs a multiple knapsack model for peer-to-peer distributed transactions, which can meet the common quotation needs of users or producers who issue transactions and achieve efficient matching under energy network security checks. Finally, the model is verified based on the blockchain Ethereum smart contract test verification. This method provides new ideas for the connection between distributed energy trading and actual physical dispatch, proposes an inclusive and efficient matching model for the point-to-point distributed trading market, which has great reference value for the connection between distributed energy trading and actual conditions.
US11501359B1
A system and method facilitate modification of an order including selection of a different supplier than the supplier originally designated to fill the order. The system includes a communication interface configured to receive an order identifying a product, a designated supplier and a price of the product. The system also includes a supplier database configured to store information for a plurality of suppliers. The system further includes processing circuitry configured to identify one or more alternative suppliers and the price of the product at the alternative suppliers based upon the information stored by the supplier database. The processing circuitry is also configured to cause information to be provided to a customer regarding the price of the product at the alternative suppliers. The processing circuitry is further configured, based on feedback from the customer that identifies a different supplier, to facilitate modification of the order to identify the different supplier.
US11501357B2
Systems and methods relating to recommending vehicles similar to a first vehicle based on telematic data and vehicle manufacturing data and using machine learning techniques, and systems and methods for ranking recommended vehicles according to evaluation criteria are disclosed.
US11501354B2
A memory stores therein, with respect to a database containing records each having a first data item and a second data item, an index that includes, in association with each candidate value that is used as the first data item, record specification information specifying two or more records with the candidate value and a statistical value obtained from values of the second data item registered in the two or more records. A processor receives a query including a search condition specifying a requested value of the first data item and a command requesting statistical processing of values of the second data item registered in records satisfying the search condition, retrieves the statistical value associated with a candidate value satisfying the search condition from the index, and outputs a processing result based on the retrieved statistical value for the query.
US11501342B2
A system and methods for zero-step proximity detection and private matchmaking using mobile device low emissions beacons, which uses user mobile devices, a single or plurality of BLUETOOTH™ low-emissions (BTLE) beacons, a network, a server, and an application that may operate separately on a mobile device and the single or plurality of BLUETOOTH™ low-emissions (BTLE) beacons, which calculates the proximity between two or more users, which allows users to be alerted to other users in their proximity, and which provide a means for verifying and managing meetups between two or more users of the mobile devices.
US11501341B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method including obtaining an advertisement package, wherein the advertisement package defines an interactive extended reality advertisement and includes a plurality of optional features; obtaining information about a user, their equipment, and their environment; creating an interactive extended reality advertisement by choosing a selected feature of the plurality of optional features according to the user information; and presenting the interactive extended reality advertisement to the user equipment. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US11501337B2
A processor may generate, based on a predicted route of a user, a timeslot for presenting information to the user. The predicted route may be associated with a route segment, and the timeslot may be associated with the route segment. The processor may match one or more proposals to the timeslot associated with the route segment. The one or more proposals may be matched, at least in part, based on proposal criteria set by a proposal criteria user associated with the proposal. The processor may predict an acceptance potentiality of the user. The processor may select a subset of the one or more proposals. The processor may provide the selected subset of the one or more proposals. The selected subset may be provided, at least in part, based on the acceptance potentiality.
US11501335B1
A system and method of zone tracking for delivery of media to customers within a store is disclosed. Zone tracking enables targeting of media to at least one electronic device both in the presence of as well as in the absence of customer triggers by monitoring the physical location of the electronic device associated with the customer in the store. The zone tracking system and method preferably use a combination of at least one location-tracking server and at least one access point to track a customer's present location within a store as well as items in the vicinity of the customer.
US11501333B2
Certain exemplary embodiments disclosed herein relate to systems and/or methods for distributing advertisements from a central advertisement network to one or more peripheral devices at a location via a local advertisement server. In certain exemplary embodiments, the local advertisement server within a location receives advertisements from the central advertisement network and rebroadcasts them to peripheral devices within that location. Advertising information may be tracked and reported, e.g., for accounting, revenue-sharing, and/or other purposes in certain exemplary embodiments. Thus, in certain exemplary embodiments, the distribution of advertisements is provided to peripherals via a non-web- and non-PC-dependent network. Moreover, in certain exemplary embodiments, reporting and advertising related communications are substantially bi-directional regardless of device type. Certain exemplary embodiments provide revenue sharing among some or all of the central advertising network provider, the proprietors of locations, operators tasked with maintaining the local ad server and/or the peripheral devices, etc.
US11501331B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide systems, methods, and computer storage media directed to a proof and attestation service that can confirm the veracity of a claim or a statement of truth based on data dynamically-retrieved from various data repositories. A server device receives, from a client device, a request to determine the veracity of a claim or a statement of truth. The server device is generally a trusted computing device, having privileged-access to a variety of data repositories that the client device may or may not access. The server device can select one or more data repositories based on the claim, obtain results data from the selected one or more data repositories, and evaluate each result to determine whether it corresponds to or contradicts the claim. A veracity score can be calculated for the claim or for a result that corresponds to or contradicts the claim. The server device can generate an attestation notification that includes the claim or the result for communication to the requesting client device. In this way, the client device can utilize the proof and attestation service, facilitated via the server device, to determine a claim's veracity or its calculated likelihood of being true.
US11501326B1
A store low-stock item reporting and promotion system may include a remote device to be carried by a shopper when shopping within a store and may be configured to acquire an image associated with an item. The system may include a server configured to obtain the image from the remote device, identify the item based upon the image, and determine a low-stock condition for the item based upon the image. Upon determining the low-stock condition, the server may generate a low-stock notification and communicate the low-stock notification to another device, and generate a digital promotion and communicate the digital promotion to the remote device.
US11501311B2
A method includes receiving a payment request that indicates a card identifier corresponding to a payment instrument to be used for payment. The method further includes determining that the card identifiers fails to satisfy at least one card activity criteria. Additionally, method includes subsequent to determining that no failed authorization attempts were performed for the card identifier within a previous time period, retrieving, from a database, a decline probability score associated with the card identifier. The method also includes based on the decline probability score, determining whether to transmit an authorization request for the card identifier prior to processing the payment request.
US11501309B2
Processing transaction requests may be considered a computationally expensive operation for a computing system such as an e-commerce platform. An aspect of the present disclosure relates to systems and methods to reduce the number of transaction requests that are received and/or processed by a computing system. This may reduce demand on the computing system's resources and potentially improve the responsiveness of the computing system. In some embodiments, a set of users is selected based on at least one defined condition for a particular transaction request. Origination of the particular transaction request on behalf of users excluded from the set of users is prevented in order to reduce the number of the particular transaction requests that are received and/or processed by a corresponding computing system.
US11501308B2
A method for facilitating data security for transaction data includes receiving, by a first transaction processing server, a transaction message for a transaction. The transaction message includes a plurality of data elements indicative of the transaction data of the transaction. The first transaction processing server identifies a set of data elements of the plurality of data elements that is to be in a state of compliance with a set of rules. The first transaction processing server modifies a first data element of the plurality of data elements to include a bitmap mapped to the set of data elements. The first transaction processing server communicates the transaction message having the modified first data element to a second transaction processing server for processing the transaction. The second transaction processing server identifies the set of data elements that is to be in the state of compliance based on the first data element.
US11501300B1
A computing system may be configured to determine payment details for funds transfers from unstructured sets of data. The system may maintain historical transaction information associated with each of a plurality of users. The system may receive data associated with a transaction. The system may identify a user associated with the data, wherein the user is one of the plurality of users. The system may determine, based on contextual information of the data and the historical transaction information associated with the user, payment details about the transaction. The payment details may include a payment amount and one or more recipients. The system may execute a funds transfer for the payment amount from a source account associated with the user to one or more destination accounts associated with the one or more recipients.
US11501298B2
This invention relates to systems and methods for authenticating transactions using a mobile device based primarily on the introduction of a layer of middleware and wherein the Payment Networks, Merchants, Issuing Banks, Credit Reporting Bureaus, Insurance Companies, Healthcare Providers may customize the implementation of the services based on individual strategy and consumer preferences.
US11501297B1
A blockchain agnostic token network is described. In an example, a request to purchase a non-fungible token (NFT) minted on a blockchain from a seller is received. Based at least in part on context data associated with at least one of the user, the seller, or a digital asset associated with the NFT, a plurality of available blockchains is determined for holding the NFT. Information associated with the plurality of blockchains is surfaced and one of the plurality of blockchains is determined for holding the NFT. Based at least in part on the determined blockchain, the NFT is transferred to the determined blockchain and associated with a user account for subsequent viewing.
US11501295B2
The present disclosure provides an object distribution processing method, device, and system. The object distribution processing method includes: receiving, by an object distribution server, content of an object distribution transaction from a blockchain node, where the content of an object distribution transaction includes a transaction hash specific to the object information to be distributed; after the object distribution server reaches a distribution start time, receiving object distribution requests from a plurality of clients; determining a corresponding award winner from a plurality of object distribution requests; and sending an object distribution message with the hash value to the award winner. With this method, the tamper-resistant characteristic of transaction content in a blockchain is used, and a proof for a transaction hash value specific to initial object information is provided for a user, thereby improving fairness of an object distribution service.
US11501276B1
Performing point of sale transactions are performed by configuring a point of service (POS) environment with a sensor pod including an active sensor and a passive sensor. A first signal is sent from the active sensor of the sensor pod to a user device that is initiating a sale for a service. A converted first signal is received at the active sensor, wherein the converted version of the first signal includes identification information for the user. It can be determined that the active sensor of the sensor pod of the point of service environment has not functioned. A user wake up call is received from the user device at the passive sensor of the sensor pod. Functionality of the active sensor is restored with a POS wake up signal sent from the passive sensor to the active sensor.
US11501275B2
Techniques for configuring a point of sale (POS) system may include using an optical sensing module to read an identifier associated with a POS component and associating the POS component with a zone that is monitored by the optical sensing module, where the zone includes the POS system. In response to optically sensing the identifier, the system may automatically configure the component to function within the POS system.
US11501272B2
Embodiments of the disclosure enable a transaction to be preauthorized. A system receives a request for preauthorization of a transaction including a transaction amount and a cardholder identifier, identifies a cardholder account based on the cardholder identifier, determines a transaction timeframe and a machine identifier, and accesses the cardholder account to determine whether to process the transaction in accordance with a nonvisual communication program. On condition that the transaction is to be processed in accordance with the nonvisual communication program, the system generates an instruction to identify a capture time, determine whether the capture time satisfies the transaction timeframe, and dispense the transaction amount of cash in accordance with the nonvisual communication program on condition that the capture time satisfies the transaction timeframe. Aspects of the disclosure provide for preauthorizing the transaction in a secure and user-friendly manner.
US11501268B2
A transaction processing system for performing one or more steps of a method is disclosed. The system may receive user receipt preferences including rules specifying whether or not a user wants a receipt. The system may also receive (i) a purchase authorization request associated with an attempted purchase and (ii) user device location data. The system may further set a receipt flag corresponding to the receipt status. If the system determines that the transaction is to be authorized, it attaches the receipt flag to the authorization message and transmits the authorization message to the merchant. Alternatively, if the system determines that the transaction is not to be authorized, it attaches the receipt flag to the cancellation message and transmits the cancellation message to the merchant.
US11501267B2
A system and method for implementing a fast payment is described. A request to execute a payout to a payee account is received, where the request includes information about the payout. At least one payment rail available for the requested payout is determined from a plurality of payment rails based on the included information. Rules associated with each of the at least one payment rail are identified. A fastest payment rail is determined from the at least one payment rail for executing the payout based on the identified rules and the information about the payout. The payout is then executed over the determined fastest payment rail.
US11501265B2
A method, system, and data structure for creating electronic calendar entries are disclosed. One aspect of the invention involves a computer data structure that includes an email message with an embedded link. The embedded link contains event information corresponding to multiple parameters for an event described in the email message. The embedded link is configured, upon activation, to initiate generation of an electronic calendar entry form with multiple fields. A plurality of the multiple fields contain event information from the embedded link.
US11501263B2
A collection of individuals will often be grouped together, such as a team or department or an ad hoc grouping, such as to perform a specific task. These collections are often established as distribution lists receiving communications, such as text messages and emails addressed to the distribution list, rather than the individual members of the distribution lists. Often the communication may comprise meeting invitations, which are then provided to the members. However, if a new member is added or an existing members leaves, the calendaring systems may not consider these modifications. By automatically inviting newly added members to an event that were the subject of a communication sent before the new member was added, the new member can be notified of the event and respond accordingly. Similarly, departing members can automatically be removed or have attendance declined for any event previously accepted as a member of the distribution list.
US11501250B2
A refrigerator for providing an item guide service using artificial intelligence includes an output unit, a sensing unit configured to acquire user identification information for identifying a user, a memory configured to store a collaborative filtering model for determining an item to be used by the user, and a processor configured to recognize the user based on the acquired user identification information, predict an item to be used by the recognized user using the collaborative filtering model and output item identification information for identifying the predicted item through the output unit.
US11501247B1
Systems and methods for using machine learning to estimate courier arrival times are described herein. According to an embodiment, a server computer receives a request to deliver to a requester prepared items associated with a preparation entity. The server additionally receives courier data identifying available couriers within the geographic region of the preparation entity and current request data identifying current requests to deliver prepared items from a plurality of entities in the geographic region. The server uses a trained machine learning system to compute an estimated pickup time, using at least the courier data and courier request data as inputs. The server computer then routes a preparation request to the preparation entity along with the estimated pickup time.
US11501243B2
A product exchange system includes a controller and a memory coupled to the controller. The controller is configured to provide an interface configured to receive a request from a first user for purchase of an item; assign a unique transaction code to a transaction associated with the request, wherein a plurality of parties scans the unique transaction code during a process of the transaction; receive a notification in response to the scanning of the unique transaction code by one of a plurality of parties; and trigger an action, upon receipt of the notification, in connection with the one of the plurality of parties.
US11501242B2
Computer program products, methods, systems, apparatus, and computing entities for determining/identifying confidence ratings/indicators for delivery of items. In one embodiment, this comprises determining a number of location events that occurred within a zone of confidence for delivery an item to a serviceable address; and responsive to determining the number of location events that occurred within the zone of confidence for delivery the item to the serviceable address, determining, via one or more processors, a confidence rating for delivery of the item to the serviceable address based at least in part on the number of location events that occurred within the zone of confidence.
US11501233B2
The present disclosure relates to system(s) and method(s) to perform control testing to mitigate risks in an organization. The system may extract sentences from control documents, and may classify the sentences into one of questions and non-questions, based on at least one of active learning and pro-active learning. Interpretations of the questions may thereafter be generated. Relevant documents related to each of the interpretations of the questions may be identified and extracted, from repositories. Artificial Intelligence (AI) may be used to identify the relevant documents. A cognitive master may be implemented to organize meetings between control testers and process owners for discussing over effectiveness of design and implementation test of test plans to mitigate the risks.
US11501212B2
A method for protecting a first machine learning (ML) model is provided. In the method, a dataset of non-problem domain (NPD) data is selected from a large dataset using a second ML model. The second ML model classifies the large dataset into NPD classifications and PD classifications. The PD classified data is excluded. A distinguisher includes a third ML model that is trained using selected NPD data from the large dataset. The distinguisher receives input samples that are intended for the first ML model. The third ML model provides either a PD classification or NPD classification in response to receiving each input sample. An indication of a likely extraction attempt may be provided when a predetermined number of NPD classifications are provided. The method provides an efficient way to create a training dataset for a distinguisher and for protecting a ML model with the distinguisher.
US11501211B2
The present disclosure describes methods, devices, and non-transitory computer readable storage medium for managing lifecycle of a knowledge base (KB) in chatbot systems. The method includes receiving an update request and updating a current-version KB as a new current-version KB. The method also includes receiving a first test request from a knowledge point (KP) operator and determining whether the new current-version KB passes a first test; and in response to the determination that the new current-version KB passes the first test, submitting the new current-version KB as a new submit-version KB. The method further includes receiving a second test request from a KP manager and determining whether the new submit-version KB passes a second test; and in response to the determination that the new submit-version KB passes the second test, storing an original production-version KB as a pervious-version KB and submitting the new submit-version KB as a new production-version KB.
US11501206B2
A method and machine learning system for detecting adversarial examples is provided. A first machine learning model is trained with a first machine learning training data set having only training data samples with robust features. A second machine learning model is trained with a second machine learning training data set, the second machine learning training data set having only training data samples with non-robust features. A feature is a distinguishing element in a data sample. A robust feature is more resistant to adversarial perturbations than a non-robust feature. A data sample is provided to each of the first and second trained machine learning models during an inference operation. if the first trained machine learning model classifies the data sample with high confidence, and the second trained machine learning model classifies the data sample differently with a high confidence, then the data sample is determined to be an adversarial example.
US11501205B2
Systems and methods for constructing sets of synthetic data. A single data record is identified from a first set of data. The first set of data comprises a first plurality of data records, each of the data records including multiple items of data describing an entity. Using pattern recognition, the single data record is processed to identify a group of records from within the first set that have corresponding characteristics equivalent to the single data record. The identified group of records comprises a target set of variables and the group of records from the first set that are not identified comprises a control set of variables. The target set of variables and the control set of variables are processed, using probability estimation and optimization constraints, to determine a score for each of the records in the first set. The score describes how similar each of the records in the first set is to the single data record. The records associated with a percentage of the highest scores are identified. The data associated with the single data record is replaced with data associated with the identified records identified, item-by-item.
US11501203B2
A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium stores therein a learning data selection program that causes a computer to execute a process including: extracting a first input data group relating to first input data in correspondence with designation of the first input data included in an input data group input to a machine learning model, the machine learning model classifying or determining transformed data that is transformed from input data; acquiring a first transformed data group of the machine learning model and a first output data group of the machine learning model, respectively, the first transformed data group being input to the machine learning model and corresponding to the first input data group, the first output data group corresponding to the first transformed data group; and selecting learning target data of an estimation model from the first input data group.
US11501195B2
Systems, methods and aspects, and embodiments thereof relate to unsupervised or semi-supervised features learning using a quantum processor. To achieve unsupervised or semi-supervised features learning, the quantum processor is programmed to achieve Hierarchal Deep Learning (referred to as HDL) over one or more data sets. Systems and methods search for, parse, and detect maximally repeating patterns in one or more data sets or across data or data sets. Embodiments and aspects regard using sparse coding to detect maximally repeating patterns in or across data. Examples of sparse coding include L0 and L1 sparse coding. Some implementations may involve appending, incorporating or attaching labels to dictionary elements, or constituent elements of one or more dictionaries. There may be a logical association between label and the element labeled such that the process of unsupervised or semi-supervised feature learning spans both the elements and the incorporated, attached or appended label.
US11501193B2
An apparatus for controlling a system includes a memory to store a model of the system including a motion model of the system subject to process noise and a measurement model of the system subject to measurement noise, such that one or combination of the process noise and the measurement noise forms an uncertainty of the model of the system with unknown probabilistic parameters, wherein the uncertainty of the model of the system causes a state uncertainty of the system with unknown probabilistic parameters. The apparatus also includes a sensor to measure a signal to produce a sequence of measurements indicative of a state of the system, a processor to estimate a Gaussian distribution representing the state uncertainty, and a controller to determine a control input to the system using the model of the system with state uncertainty represented by the Gaussian distribution and control the system according to the control input. The processor is configured to estimate, using at least one or combination of the motion model, the measurement model, and the measurements of the state of the system, a first Student-t distribution representing the uncertainties of the model and a second Student-t distribution representing the state uncertainty of the system, the estimation is performed iteratively until a termination condition is met, and fit a Gaussian distribution representing the state uncertainty into the second Student-t distribution.
US11501187B2
A computer implemented method, computer system and computer program product are provided for aspect-based sentiment analysis. According to the method, at least one sentence and at least one aspect are received by one or more processing units. At least one opinion snippet of the at least one sentence is determined based on the at least one sentence and the at least one aspect, through a trained aspect-sentence fusion model, by one or more processing units. A sentiment prediction of the at least one opinion snippet is calculated by one or more processing units for the at least one aspect.
US11501183B2
Disclosed is a system for generating a recommendation associated with an extraction rule for big-data analysis. The system may receive a set of data blocks and an extraction rule. The extraction rule comprises an identifier and a first range associated with the identifier in the set of data blocks. The system identifies a set of words associated with the identifier in one or more data blocks from the set of data blocks based on a provenance knowledge. The provenance knowledge is indicative of a relationship between the word and the identifier. The system identifies a set of locations associated with the set of words in the one or more data blocks. The system generates a second range associated with the identifier based on the set of locations. The system recommends the second range for modifying the extraction rule for big-data analysis based on an accuracy change.
US11501178B2
The present disclosure relates to a data processing method, a medical term processing system, a medical diagnostic system, a medical intelligent triage apparatus and a computer readable storage medium. The method comprises: acquiring statement information inputted by a user; dividing the statement information into a plurality of information segments by means of a predetermined algorithm, the plurality of information segments comprising a first information segment; establishing a Gaussian distribution of each of the information segments; calculating the similarity between the first information segment and words in a database by means of a similarity model; and obtaining, from words in the database, at least one second information segment for describing the first information segment based on the calculated similarity. The present disclosure can provide professional terms, such as medical terms, corresponding to colloquial expressions, to facilitate users' diagnosis and treatment.
US11501173B1
A compression policy to produce compression profiles for compressing trained machine learning models may be trained using reinforcement learning. An iterative reinforcement learning may be performed response to a search request. Different prospective compression profiles may be generated for received machine learning models according to a compression policy being trained. Performance of compressed versions of the trained neural networks according to the compression profiles may be caused using data sets used to train the machine learning models. The compression policy may be updated according to reward signal determined from an application of a reward function for performance criteria to performance results of the different versions of the machine learning models. When a search criteria is satisfied, the trained compression policy may be provided.
US11501162B2
A device is configured to classify data. Its operation involves providing (210) data samples including one or more of: image data, radar data, acoustic data, and/or lidar data to a processing unit. The data samples include at least one test sample, including positive samples and negative samples. Each positive sample has been determined to contain data relating to at least one object to be detected including at least one pedestrian, car, vehicle, truck or bicycle. Each negative sample has been determined not to contain data relating to the at least one object to be detected. These determinations regarding the positive samples and the negative samples are provided as input data, validated by a human operator, and/or provided by the device itself through a learning algorithm. A first plurality of groups is generated (220) by the processing unit implementing an artificial neural network, wherein at least some of the first plurality of groups are assigned a weighting factor. Each group of the first plurality of groups is populated (230) by the processing unit implementing the artificial neural network with a different at least one of the plurality of negative samples based on a different feature of sample data similarity for each group, which involves processing the negative samples to determine a number of different features of sample data similarity in order to populate different groups with negative samples that share or substantially share that or a similar feature, wherein at least one of the groups of the first plurality of groups contains at least two negative samples. It is determined (240) by the processing unit implementing the artificial neural network whether the at least one test sample contains data relating to the at least one object based on the plurality of the positive samples and the first plurality of groups. The artificial neural network implements the learning algorithm.
US11501161B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide systems, methods, and computer storage media for providing factors that explain the generated results of a deep neural network (DNN). In embodiments, multiple machine learning models and a DNN are trained on a training dataset. A preliminary set of trained machine learning models with similar results to the trained DNN are selected for further evaluation. The preliminary set of machine learning models may be evaluated using a distribution analysis to select a reduced set of machine learning models. Results produced by the reduced set of machine learning models are compared, point-by-point, to the results produced by the DNN. The best performing machine learning model with generated results that performs closest to the DNN generated results may be selected. One or more factors used by the selected machine learning model are determined. Those one or more factors from the selected best performing machine learning model may be provided to explain the results of the DNN and increase confidence in the understanding and accuracy of the results generated by the DNN.
US11501159B2
A method for text sequence style transfer by two encoder-decoders, including generating, by a first encoder-decoder network model, an output sequence based on a first input sequence and an input sequence style, wherein the output sequence is associated with a second sequence, generating, by a second-encoder decoder network model, a prediction of the first input sequence based on the first input sequence, the output sequence, and a first input sequence style associated with the first input sequence, generating, by a classifier, a prediction of the first input sequence style based on the prediction of the first input sequence, and updating the neural network model based on comparisons between the output sequence and the second sequence, between the prediction of the first input sequence and the first input sequence, and between the prediction of the first input sequence style and the first input sequence style.
US11501158B2
Aspects for vector operations in neural network are described herein. The aspects may include a controller unit configured to receive an instruction to generate a random vector that includes one or more elements. The instruction may include a predetermined distribution, a count of the elements, and an address of the random vector. The aspects may further include a computation module configured to generate the one or more elements, wherein the one or more elements are subject to the predetermined distribution.
US11501155B2
Methods, apparatus, and processor-readable storage media for learning machine behavior related to install base information and determining event sequences based thereon are provided herein. An example computer-implemented method includes parsing data storage information based at least in part on parameters related to install base information comprising temporal parameters and event-related parameters; formatting the parsed set of data storage information into a parsed set of sequential data storage information compatible with a neural network model; training the neural network model using the parsed set of sequential data storage information and additional training parameters; predicting, by applying the trained neural network model to the parsed set of sequential data storage information, a future data unavailability event and/or a future data loss event; and outputting an alert based at least in part on the predicted future data unavailability event and/or predicted future data loss event.
US11501154B2
A sensor transformation attention network (STAN) model including sensors, attention modules, a merge module and a task-specific module is provided. The attention modules calculate attention scores of feature vectors corresponding to the input signals collected by the sensors. The merge module calculates attention values of the attention scores, and generates a merged transformation vector based on the attention values and the feature vectors. The task-specific module classifies the merged transformation vector.
US11501147B1
A disclosed computer-implemented method may include maintaining, within a local memory device (LMD) included in a hardware accelerator (1) a filter matrix corresponding to a filter location included in each of a set of filters of a convolutional layer of an artificial neural network (ANN), and (2) a set of activation vectors corresponding to an active region of an activation volume input into the convolutional layer. The method may also include determining that the active region of the activation volume is contiguous with a padding region associated with at least a portion of the activation volume. The method may further include directing a matrix multiplication unit (MMU) included in the hardware accelerator to execute a matrix multiplication operation (MMO) using the filter matrix and an activation matrix that may include (1) the set of activation vectors, and (2) at least one padding vector corresponding to the padding region.
US11501145B1
In one example, a neural network accelerator executes instructions to: load a first weight data element of an array of weight data elements from a memory into a systolic array; extract, from the instructions, information indicating a first number of input data elements to be obtained from a first address of the memory and a second number of input data elements to be skipped between adjacent input data elements to be obtained, the first address being based on first coordinates of the first weight data element, and the first and second numbers being based on a stride of a convolution operation; based on the information, obtain first input data elements from the first address of the memory; and control the systolic array to perform first computations based on the first weight data element and the first input data elements to generate first output data elements of an output data array.
US11501136B2
Systems, methods, and computer program products for determining an attack on a neural network. A data sample is received at a first classifier neural network and at a watermark classifier neural network, wherein the first classifier neural network is trained using a first dataset and a watermark dataset. The first classifier neural network determines a classification label for the data sample. A watermark classifier neural network determines a watermark classification label for the data sample. A data sample is determined as an adversarial data sample based on the classification label for the data sample and the watermark classification label for the data sample.
US11501134B2
Disclosed is a convolution operator system for performing a convolution operation concurrently on an image. An input router receives image data. A controller allocates image data to a set of computing blocks based on the size of the image data and number of available computing blocks. Each computing block produces a convolution output corresponding to each row of the image. The controller allocates a plurality of group having one or more computing blocks to generate a set of convolution output. Further, a pipeline adder aggregates the set of convolution output to produce an aggregated convolution output. An output router transmits either the convolution output or the aggregated convolution output for performing subsequent convolution operation to generate a convolution result for the image data.
US11501131B2
A memory-centric neural network system and operating method thereof includes: a processing unit; semiconductor memory devices coupled to the processing unit, the semiconductor memory devices containing instructions executed by the processing unit; a weight matrix constructed with rows and columns of memory cells, inputs of the memory cells of a same row being connected to one of axons, outputs of the memory cells of a same column being connected to one of neurons; timestamp registers registering timestamps of the axons and the neurons; and a lookup table containing adjusting values indexed in accordance with the timestamps, wherein the processing unit updates the weight matrix in accordance with the adjusting values.
US11501130B2
A memory-centric neural network system and operating method thereof includes: a processing unit; semiconductor memory devices coupled to the processing unit, the semiconductor memory devices containing instructions executed by the processing unit; a weight matrix constructed with rows and columns of memory cells, inputs of the memory cells of a same row being connected to one of axons, outputs of the memory cells of a same column being connected to one of neurons; timestamp registers registering timestamps of the axons and the neurons; and a lookup table containing adjusting values indexed in accordance with the timestamps, wherein the processing unit updates the weight matrix in accordance with the adjusting values.
US11501124B2
A measuring device includes a first roller pair, a colorimetric unit, a second roller pair, a third roller pair, a motor, and a torque limiter. The third roller pair is driven at a first speed before a trailing end of the sheet with respect to a sheet feeding direction passes through the first roller pair and is driven at a second speed higher than the first speed after the trailing end of the sheet passes through the first roller pair. The first speed is set so as to be equal to the peripheral speed of the first roller pair. The second speed is set so as to be equal to a peripheral speed of the second roller pair in a state in which a slip of the torque limiter is not caused.
US11501117B2
In order to classify a current waveform of current estimated to be supplied to the same electric instrument, even when an operation mode of an operating electric instrument is unknown, a classification computer includes: a first classification unit to perform first classification of each piece of set information by information being included in each piece of the set information being a combination of waveform information and on/off information, and representing a similarity degree of the waveform information; a second classification unit to perform second classification of each piece of the set information by information being included in each piece of the set information and representing a similarity degree of the on/off information; and a third classification unit to classify the set information by a classification result related to the first classification and the second classification.
US11501095B2
Disclosed is a system and method for wirelessly monitoring 5 process conditions within a reactor vessel. A plurality of sensor-enabled radio frequency identification (RFID) tags are disposed at unspecified or random locations throughout a catalyst bed of a vessel and are used to measure various conditions within the vessel. The sensor-enabled RFID tags are encoded with individual identification codes and are wirelessly linked to multiple 10 transceivers. The use of multiple transceivers allows for the application of triangulation methods to identify the location of each of the sensor-enabled RFID tags in three dimensional space and for the interrogation of each sensor-enabled RFID tag to receive responsive transponder signals that carry information representative of the sensed condition within the reactor.
US11501094B2
Vehicle mounted Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) systems and associated methods are provided. An example vehicle mounted RFID system is configured to operate an RFID system in a high-power mode. The example vehicle mounted RFID system is further configured to determine that an operating state of a vehicle switched from an active charging state to an inactive state. The example vehicle mounted RFID system is further configured to, in response to determine that the operating state of the vehicle switched from the active charging state to the inactive state, initialize a timer for a period of time. The example vehicle mounted RFID system is further configured to, in response to an elapse of the period of time, switch the RFID system to a low-power mode.
US11501078B2
A method for natural language, includes: determining a slot tagging result output by a Bi-directional Long Short-Term Memory-Conditional Random Field algorithm (BiLSTM-CRF) model after slot tagging on conversation data input by a user; determining reward information based on the slot tagging result and a reward of the user for the slot tagging result; and performing reinforcement learning on the BiLSTM-CRF model according to the reward information.
US11501067B1
Systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer program products are disclosed for screening data instances based on a target text of a target corpus. A screening device analyzes a target corpus to generate at least two term dictionaries for the target corpus. The screening apparatus, based on a frequency of a term in the target corpus, determines a term weight for the term; for each data instance, determines term scores for the data instance and the target text based on the term weights; filters the data instances based on the term scores, to generate a short list of data instances; determines term similarity scores between each data instance of the short list and target text based on the term weights; and provides a data instance determined to likely correspond to the target text and an indication of the corresponding term similarity score(s). A term is a word or an n-gram.
US11501059B2
Embodiments for managing an electronic document by one or more processors are described. An entry for a first of a plurality of fillable fields of an electronic document is received. A recommended entry for at least a second of the plurality of fillable fields is determined based on at least one data source associated with a user. A signal representative of the determined recommended entry for the at least a second of the plurality of fillable fields is generated.
US11501058B2
A text stream source is accessed that includes a plurality of text content items. Unique word groupings are determined for the plurality of text content items. A burst detection algorithm is executed to determine word groupings that are currently bursting and that started within a specified time period. Based on the word groupings, an issue is determined based on identifying a set of texts forming at least one clique.
US11501057B2
Methods and systems for enabling file attachments in a mobile calendar application are presented. In some embodiments, a mobile device may receive a message comprising an electronic calendar invitation and an electronic file attachment. The mobile device may generate an association between the electronic file attachment received in the message and a calendar event in an electronic calendar mobile application executing on the mobile computing device, wherein the calendar event is associated with the electronic calendar invitation. In response to receiving a selection to display the calendar event in the electronic calendar mobile application, the mobile device may generate a display of the calendar event comprising a display of the associated electronic file attachment in the electronic calendar mobile application.
US11501051B2
A memory device includes at least one bit line, at least one word line, and at least one memory cell comprising a capacitor and a transistor. The transistor has a gate terminal coupled to the word line, a first terminal, and a second terminal. The capacitor has a first end coupled to the first terminal of the transistor, a second end coupled to the bit line, and an insulating material between the first end and the second end. The insulating material is configured to break down under a predetermined break-down voltage or higher applied between the first end and the second end.
US11501049B1
The present disclosure relates to a computer-implemented method for use in an electronic design. Embodiments may include performing, using a processor, a simulation of a multi-layered electronic structure and extracting a circuit model of the multi-layered electronic structure, wherein the circuit model includes at least two plates. Embodiments may also include extracting one or more parasitic parameters of at least one via associated with the circuit model and calculating a coupling coefficient associated with a controlled source of the circuit model. Embodiments may further include extracting a transmission line mode from the circuit model and linking the circuit model, at least one via, and the transmission line mode to an external circuit to generate a modeled system. Embodiments may also include solving the modeled system using a modified nodal analysis.
US11501046B2
A system is provided to validate a computer processor. The system includes a computing system configured to obtain core dump data including executable instructions corresponding to a code stored in a legacy processor. An instruction-level simulator is installed in the computing system and is configured to simulate the executable instructions to generate a plurality of instruction traces. The system further includes a pre-silicon chip model simulator configured to execute the instruction traces to generate performance data. The computer processor is verified based at least in part on the performance data.
US11501045B2
A method for analyzing a simulation of the execution of a quantum circuit includes: a step of post-selecting one or more particular values of one or more qubits at one or more steps of the simulation; a step of setting filtration that sets the value of one or more quantum states of the quantum state vector(s) derived from the post-selection(s) of qubits; a step of analyzing the part of the simulation that corresponds to the post-selection(s) of qubits and to the quantum state vector(s) filtered.
US11501037B2
A method for designing microstructures includes receiving at least one material property constraint for a design of at least one microstructure, the at least one microstructure configured to be a part of a larger macrostructure. At least one neighborhood connectivity constraint for the design of the at least one microstructure is received. One or more designs of the at least one microstructure is generated using a generative adversarial network (GAN) that is based on the at least one material property constraint and the at least one neighborhood connectivity constraint.
US11501033B2
A computer-implemented method for converting an architecture specification of a system to one or more functional performance requirements textual statements describing one or more functions of the system is provided. The computer-implemented method includes obtaining the architecture specification based on a predefined architecture model diagram type, wherein the architecture specification comprises a plurality of interconnected functional portions that describe the one or more functions of the system; mapping one or more of the plurality of interconnected functional portions to one or more portions of the one or more functional performance requirements textual statements based on a predefined format of a template functional performance requirements textual statement; and creating the one or more functional performance requirements textual statements based on the mapping.
US11501032B2
Methods are provided for designing a structure with developable surfaces using a surface developability constraint. The surface developability constraint is developed based on the discovery of a sufficient condition for surface piecewise developability, namely surface normal directions lie on a small, finite number of planes. Automated methods and algorithms may include providing a design domain and a characteristic function of a material in the design domain to be optimized. The methods include defining a nodal density of the material, and determining surface normal directions of a plurality of planes. A density gradient that describes the surface normal directions is then determined. The methods include performing a topology optimization process on the design domain using a surface developability constraint that is based, at least in part, on the characteristic function. A geometric domain is then created for the structure using results from the topology optimization.
US11501011B2
Method for defining policy across information model exposed via an application programming interface
A method for defining a policy for providing access to a system is provided. The method includes: identifying, for each of a plurality of information classes within an information model, at least one respective information attribute; defining, for at least one of the at least one respective information attribute, a respective predicate filter function; determining, based on the defined at least one respective predicate filter function, at least one access rule that relates to a corresponding information attribute; defining the policy with respect to each of the plurality of information classes based on the constructed API and each of the determined at least one access rule; and constructing an application programming interface (API) for the information model based on the defined policy. The API may be augmented by updating parameters based on the defined policy.
US11501003B2
A computing system and method to implement a three-dimensional virtual reality world having user created virtual objects. During the creation of a virtual object, a user of the virtual reality world identifies components and/or resources of the virtual object, such as a mesh model defining the shape of the virtual object, an image specifying the appearance of the virtual object, and a script defining the run time behavior of the virtual object. The computer system examines the components and/or resources duration the creation process of the virtual object to detect and/or address security threats and/or performance hurdles. Before the approval of the publication of the virtual object in the virtual world, the computer system performs a simulation of the rendering of the virtual object to detect security threats and evaluate performance impacts.
US11500999B2
An approach is provided that retrieves organization information that pertains to a computer system operated by an organization and a set of current cyber security threat data that pertains to the organization. A security simulation is generated based on the current cyber security threat data and the organization data with the simulation including any number of decision-linked simulation segments. The simulation is then performed during which a user makes decisions based on the decision-linked simulation segments. The result of the simulation is an evaluated cyber security threat that corresponds to the organization's computer system.
US11500998B2
A method is described for measuring the vulnerability of an AI module to spoofing attempts, including the classification and/or regression onto which the AI module maps the update data set is ascertained as an unperturbed result for a predefined data set in the input space E; at least one perturbation S having a dimensionality d
US11500990B2
A computer-implemented method for determining an origin of a target source code for a computer program or a part thereof. The method involves: Searching a plurality of software archives from different sources in a global computer network to find occurrences of the target source code among code files in said software archives. For every found occurrence of the target source code, the method further involves collecting key information about the matching source code files and, from the key information collected a frequency map is built that contains, for each keyword found in the key information, a keyword count value being indicative of the number of times the keyword occurs in the key information. The method may further involves applying a scoring scheme to the matching source code files based on the built frequency map (310), determining a highest score (Vmax) among the matching source code files after the scoring scheme has been applied, and determining the origin of the target source code as the matching source code file having the highest score.
US11500987B2
Provided is an incident effect range estimation device which estimates the range of the effect of an incident and shortens incident handling time. This incident effect range estimation device is provided with an incident origin log acquisition unit which acquires log information for the incident-originating device which is related to the occurrence of the incident, a communication destination log acquisition unit which acquires, on the basis of the log information for the incident-originating device, log information for a communication destination device which is the communication destination of the incident-originating device, and an effect range estimation unit which estimates the range of the effect of the incident on the basis of the communication destination device. The range of the effect of the incident can thereby be estimated automatically, and thus incident handling time can be shortened significantly.
US11500973B2
A computer-implemented authentication method, the method comprising: matching a brain pattern sequence with a predetermined password to allow access to a system, wherein the brain pattern sequence is calculated by analyzing a signal slope of a slope threshold of the brain activity to determine a timing and a duration of the brain activity.
US11500972B2
A system and method for media content management include creating, via a digital vault, a container file comprising media content submitted by a user and content metadata; verifying, via the digital vault, a completeness of the content metadata associated with the media content in the container file; classifying, via the digital vault, the container file based on the completeness of the media content; and capturing, via the digital vault, event metadata when a second user gains access to the container file, the event metadata comprising identification of the second user, an activation timestamp, a duration of access, portions of the container file accessed, and changes to the container file.
US11500971B2
Systems and methods relating to a platform for creating, monitoring, updating, and executing legal agreements for data files such as a collaborate digital media file using associated metadata. The platform enables music publishing agreements to be generated automatically by taking metadata from a DAW (digital audio workstation) that reflects the activity and contributions of each author associated with a file. Authorship metadata can be recorded on a ledger or blockchain by the platform. The platform enables calculation and disbursement of royalties to be automated by algorithmic determination of terms of an authenticated smart contract using authorship metadata for an associated media file generating the royalty. Authors may concurrently contribute from across a variety of different DAWs, local and remote, and computing resources may be distributed by the platform.
US11500963B2
A method of performing Principal Component Analysis is provided. The method includes receiving, by a computing device, evolving data for processing/visualization. The method further includes, by the computing device, a dimensionality for reducing of the evolving data using the PCA, wherein the PCA is performed on analog crossbar hardware. The method also includes using, by the computing device, the evolving data for visualization having the dimensionality thereof reduced by the principal component analysis for a further application.
US11500952B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus for determining that a native application limits access to the native application using account credential requirements, the native application generating an application environment for display on a user device within the native application and operating independent of a browser application that can operate on the user device; obtaining a set of account credentials for indexing environment instances of the native application; instantiating the native application with the set of account credentials; and accessing environment instances of the native application, and for each of the environment instances: generating environment instance data describing content of the environment instance, the content described by the environment instance data including text that a user device displays on the environment instance when the user device displays the environment instance; and indexing the environment instance data for the native application in an index that is searchable by a search engine.
US11500949B2
A method, computer system, and a computer program product for matching one or more users is provided. The present invention may include collecting a user's information. The present invention may include determining that there is an overlap between the user's information and information contained within a knowledge base. The present invention may include ranking one or more matches of the user. The present invention may include displaying the ranked one or more matches to the user. The present invention may include collecting feedback from the user.
US11500941B2
A computer system is provided for retrospectively processing a data structure that includes a plurality of entries. The computer system determines if certain data transactions requests that have been recorded in the data structure could have been executed differently (e.g., by being processed at an earlier point in time). For a given entry in the data structure, the system determines if data transaction request could have at least partly succeeded against a prior recorded state of at least one of two ordered lists of pending data transaction requests. Another entry is then found that caused the initial entry to fail in execution and a time delta is stored between the timestamp of the another entry and the timestamp of the initial entry.
US11500940B2
A method, system and computer program product are provided. For each keyword that is visible on a display device, scanning the content that is stored on a user device, or is accessed from a network connection to identify and extract keywords. Further provided is cross-referencing the extracted keywords with a corpus of scored keywords. Based on the extracted keywords being found in the corpus of scored keywords, expanding and/or abridging any of the extracted keywords based on a score in the corpus of scored keywords prior to displaying the modified content on the display device. wherein the extracted keywords match a keyword in the corpus.
US11500936B2
Systems and methods for performing structure and attribute based graph partitioning. An exemplary system can receive a plurality of transactions, with each transaction identifying a point of sale and an item exchanged by the transaction. The system can generate a structure graph of the plurality of transactions and receive a request to partition the structure graph into sub-categories. The system can then retrieve, from a database, attributes of each respective structure vertex in the structure vertices. Using those attributes and the structure graph, the system can generate a structure-attribute graph. The system can then generate a unified neighborhood matrix of the structure-attribute graph; and partition the structure graph based on the unified neighborhood matrix.
US11500935B2
A method for traversing hierarchical data is provided. The method may include generating, based on a source table stored in a database, an index for traversing a graph corresponding to the source table. The source table may identify a parent node for each node in the graph. The generating of the index may include iterating over the source table to generate an inner node map. The inner node map may include at least one mapping identifying one or more children nodes descending from an inner node in the graph. The graph may be traversed based at least on the index. The index may enable the graph to be traversed depth first starting from a root node of the graph and continuing to a first child node descending from the root node of the graph. Related systems and articles of manufacture, including computer program products, are also provided.
US11500926B2
A system for multi-tier visual recognition comprises a processor and a memory. The processor is configured to calculate a rank for each of a plurality of object models. The plurality of object models are used for visual recognition. Each of the plurality of object models has a size. The processor is configured to divide the plurality of object models into a plurality of sets based at least in part on the rank for each of the plurality of object models, and provide a first set of the plurality of sets to a first tier and a second set of the plurality of sets to a second tier. The memory coupled to the processor and configured to provide the processor with instructions.
US11500922B2
According to one embodiment, a computer-implemented method includes obtaining a sensory profile, identifying an occurrence of a sensory aspect event affecting a user, comparing the sensory aspect event to the sensory profile, determining from comparing the sensory profile, whether the sensory aspect event is a positive sensory aspect, and countering and/or adjusting the sensory aspect event in response to determining the sensory aspect event is not a positive sensory aspect.
US11500917B2
The present disclosure provides method and apparatus for providing a summary of a multimedia document in a session. In some implementations, a message may be received from a user in a session and the session is between the user and an electronic conversational agent. The multimedia document may be obtained based at least on the message. The emotion information in the multimedia document may be extracted. The summary of the multimedia document may be generated based at least on the message and the extracted emotion information. A response including the generated summary of the multimedia document may be provided to the user.
US11500909B1
Techniques for communicating with a third-party management database are described herein. According to an embodiment, a computer receives a search-style query, searches the third-party management database, retrieves multiple computer-readable database search strings, displays the computer-readable database search strings, and receives a selected computer-readable database search string. The computer may receive data associated with one or more third party surveys, and questions and answer options may be displayed according to various metadata attributes associated with previously-selected answer options.
US11500905B2
A computer processor generates a topic-based dataset based on parsing content received from a plurality of information sources, which includes historical data and scientific data, associated with a location of a natural resource. The processor generates a plurality of clusters, respectively corresponding to like-topic data of the topic-based dataset. The processor determines a plurality of hypotheses, respectively corresponding to the plurality of clusters of the like-topic data, wherein the plurality of hypotheses are based on features associated with each of the plurality of clusters of the like-topic data. The processor combines pairs of clusters, based on a similarity heuristic applied to the one or more pairs of clusters, and the processor determines a plurality of probabilities respectively corresponding to a validity of each hypothesis of the plurality of hypotheses, associated with the location of a natural resource.
US11500904B2
A connected device at a client network implements a local data classification service for classifying data based on a data classification service of a remote provider network. The local data classification service receives a request to classify data at one or more data sources of the client network. The request is initiated from a client device of the client network according to a management interface for a data classification service of a remote provider network (e.g., using the same API request used by the remote classification service). The local data classification service obtains at least some of the data from the one or more data sources of the client network. The local data classification service classifies the obtained data according to different types of sensitivity using the data classification engine in the execution environment without the data being exposed outside of a data isolation boundary of the client network.
US11500901B2
An apparatus for a local area network includes a management communications bus, and at one of a plurality of logic nodes, logic circuitry. The management communications bus is for communication among the plurality of logic nodes, wherein respective node addresses for the plurality of logic nodes are conveyed using the management communications bus. The logic circuitry communicates information in a data/address field of the communications protocol with another of the plurality of logic nodes with reference to a subset of the predetermined set of patterned data bits in the data/address field to synchronize the transactions.
US11500900B2
A method and apparatus managing a set of processors for a set of queries is described. In an exemplary embodiment, a device receives a set of queries for a data warehouse, the set of queries including one or more queries to be processed by the data warehouse. The device further provisions a set of processors from a first plurality of processors, where the set of processors to process the set of queries, and a set of storage resources to store data for the set of queries. In addition, the device monitors a utilization of the set of processors as the set of processors processes the set of queries. The device additionally updates a number of the processors in the set of processors provisioned based on the utilization. Furthermore, the device processes the set of queries using the updated set of processors.
US11500891B2
At a computer system a number of interrelated block object specifications are generated according to user placement of data field icons on a canvas region. Each block object specification includes a layout type, a mark type, and one or more visual encodings. For each block object specification, a respective query is generated according to the user-selected data field icons that specify the visual encodings for the respective block object specification. Each query is executed to retrieve a respective set of tuples from the data source. Each tuple comprises data values for data fields corresponding to the user-selected data field icons. A data visualization is generated in accordance with the layout type, the mark type, and the visual encodings specified in each of the block object specifications, wherein each tuple in each of the respective set of tuples is represented as a visual mark in the data visualization.
US11500890B2
The present invention provides a search capability to allow a user to easily locate a preference control, file, folder, control, or other system resource or data item associated with a search result. In one embodiment, a user enters a search term (or a portion thereof) in a search field associated with one or more resource types that may be searched. The user may be presented with a pop-up menu containing a list of likely matches. The user selects the desired preference control from the pop-up menu, and the corresponding preference pane, or other container, containing the selected data item, control, or other resource is displayed. In one aspect, as the user enters the search term (or portion thereof), certain icons are highlighted. Specifically, those icons that represent containers containing matching data items (such as preference panes having controls that match the search term) are highlighted. Different types of highlighting can be used depending on the degree of certainty as to which container is likely to contain the correct match.
US11500888B2
A method for anomaly detection of cloud services based on mining time-evolving graphs includes steps of receiving tracing data for a plurality of micro-services of the deployed cloud service, wherein the tracing data defines relationships between the plurality of micro-services of the deployed cloud service at a plurality of different time intervals, computing a functional graph based on the tracing data for each of the plurality of different time intervals, wherein nodes of each functional graph include the plurality of micro-services and wherein links between the nodes represent relationships between the plurality of micro-services, comparing the functional graphs for each of the plurality of time intervals to determine an anomaly score for each of the functional graphs, and detecting a presence of one or more anomalies based on the anomaly scores.
US11500885B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for generating an insight, comprising: receiving a request to generate an insight for a document from a user associated with the document; receiving the document; generating a tree based on the document; parsing the tree based on a set of rules to generate a set of results associated with the tree; mapping the set of results to a subset of insight elements of a set of insight elements associated with a set of trees including the tree; providing, to a first machine-learning model, the subset of insight elements; receiving, from the first machine-learning model, an insight for the document based on the subset of insight elements; and returning the insight for the document to the user.
US11500872B2
A graph database for outbreak tracking and management is disclosed. In an example embodiment, an outbreak management system includes a memory device storing instructions that define a graph database for disease outbreak tracking. The instructions specify for a given host that a host node is created and an episode node is connected to the host node via a ‘case’ link. The episode node is associated with episode parameters that are related to a disease classification of the host. In addition, the instructions specify that an outbreak node is connected to the episode node via a ‘part of’ link to indicate that the host has become part of an outbreak of the disease. The outbreak node is connected to a definition node via a ‘defined as’ link. The definition node specifies disease parameters of the disease that is related to the outbreak node.
US11500871B1
A computer-implemented method is disclosed that includes operations of receiving a query to be executed, the query including an indication of a data source at which input data is be to obtained, wherein the query is to be executed on the input data, determining a schema of the input data, determining fields of the input data that are required for execution of the query by analyzing a sequence of operators forming the query, determining one or more alterations to the query to improve efficiency of the execution of the query based on the fields of input data required for the execution, and generating an altered query be altering the query in accordance with the one or more alterations. The method may further include converting the query to a directed acyclic graph (DAG) and providing the DAG to a distributed processing engine configured to execute the DAG.
US11500870B1
An approach is provided for optimizing a system resource of a cloud database. Components of a database system are divided into micro-systems according to functions and execution levels. A cluster analysis of the micro-systems and an analysis of workload patterns are performed. Different combinations of the micro-systems are generated. Images of the micro-systems and of the different combinations of the micro-systems are generated. A query is received and analyzed at a current layer specifying a set of micro-systems specified by a function of the database system. Service(s) associated with micro-system(s) specified by next layer(s) are pre-loaded and activated. A partial execution of the query is performed and a result of the query is generated at a selected edge or client side, where the selection is based on the analysis of the workload patterns.
US11500864B2
Provided are techniques for generating highlight queries. Data is analyzed using one or more schemas to identify patterns and frequencies of the patterns in the data. The patterns and the frequencies of the patterns are stored in a global patterns structure. A graph is analyzed to identify one or more of the patterns in the global patterns structure that are present in the graph and in which frequencies. The identified one or more of the patterns in the global patterns structure that are present in the graph are added to a per-user patterns structure with the frequencies of those patterns. The patterns in the per-user patterns structure are scored. A subset of the patterns in the per-user patterns structure that have scores above a threshold are selected as highlight queries. The selected subset of the patterns are executed as highlight queries to generate results, and the results are returned.
US11500859B2
Described herein is a system and method for propagating modifications in flows. In an embodiment, a central system activates a master process (e.g., master flow), including a sub-process (e.g., sub-flow) and a pre-programmed object (e.g., component). The master process is configured to execute a task using the sub-process and pre-programmed object. The central system initializes a variable corresponding to the master process. The central system further identifies a metadata object using the variable. The metadata object defines a runtime configuration of the master process and sub-process. The central system receives a modification to a setting of the metadata object and propagates the modification of setting in the metadata object to the master process and sub-process.
US11500847B2
Real-time forensic instrumentation comprising: a monitoring hook into the notification interface of an operating system; a forensic artifact filter to evaluate events received via the real-time monitoring hook to determine if an event represents a change to a forensic artifact; and a forensic interpreter subsystem to: based on the forensic artifact filter output, collect forensic metadata associated with the forensic artifact and apply a forensic analysis to the forensic artifact to generate a result; generate a forensically interpreted activity for the event, the forensically interpreted activity comprising the forensic metadata, the result of the forensic analysis and a description of a first activity by a user with respect to the forensic artifact; and store the forensically interpreted activity in a digital forensics store.
US11500836B2
System and methods are provided for creating a tenant of a database system, the tenant to have tenant data stored in an immutable storage of the database system associated with a tenant identifier. A request may be received at the database system to create a new tenant. A template tenant metadata of a template tenant may be selected at the database system to create the new tenant based on the received request. A new tenant identifier may be created at the database system based on the selected template tenant metadata. The new tenant may be created by associating the new tenant identifier with a snapshot of at least a portion of the template tenant metadata at a point in time when the template tenant metadata is made accessible to the new tenant. Systems and methods are also provided for removing a tenant of a database system by removing references to a tenant identifier.
US11500833B2
A DBMS manages a high-performance accelerated database that is synchronized with a conventional client database. The accelerated database contains both “regular” accelerated tables, which each duplicate a table of the client database, and accelerator-only tables (AOTs) that are unique to the accelerated database and that may be used for analytical purposes. AOT rows are archived by moving the rows to a dedicated accelerator-only archive stored in the accelerated database. When a user query attempts to access accelerator-only data, the DBMS rewrites the query to adapt the requested operations to the accelerated database's partitioned archive/non-archive structure. The rewritten query specifies steps for accessing archived and non-archived accelerator-only data without forcing the DBMS front-end to generate a merged view of archived and non-archived accelerator-only data. If the accelerator-only archives are stored in a read-only format, the rewriting also adds predictive operations that prevent queries from altering the archives.
US11500824B1
A proxy server acts as an intermediary between a database client and a database server. The proxy server is configured with a set of user-defined rules. When a request is received from the database client, the proxy server may apply rules that modify, route, reject, log, or pass the request to the database server. Individual rules may be based on attributes of the client computer system, database server, or the request itself. In one embodiment, a rule may be used to translate a request from a format provided by the client into a format preferred by a destination database. In one embodiment, a rule may route a particular request to one of a number of databases based on the nature of the request.
US11500823B2
Container-image layers can be managed. For example, a computing device can determine a first score for a first layer of a container image and a second score for a second layer of the container image. The computing device can determine that the first score corresponds to a first storage destination among several possible storage destinations. The computing device can also determine that the second score corresponds to a second storage destination among the possible storage destinations. The second storage destination can be different from the first storage destination. The computing device can then store (i) the first layer in the first storage destination based on the first layer being correlated to the first score, and (ii) the second layer in the second storage destination based on the second layer being correlated to the second score.
US11500821B2
A client machine writes to a virtual disk on a remote storage platform. Metadata is generated and stored in replicas on different nodes of the storage platform. A modified log-structured merge tree is used to store and compact string-sorted tables of metadata. During file storage and compaction, a consistent file identification scheme is used across all metadata nodes. A fingerprint file is calculated for each SST (metadata) file on disk that includes hash values corresponding to regions of the SST file. To synchronize, the fingerprint files of two SST files are compared, and if any hash values are missing from a fingerprint file then the key-value-timestamp triplets corresponding to these missing hash values are sent to the SST file that is missing them. The SST file is compacted with the missing triplets to create a new version of the SST file. The synchronization is bi-directional as between distinct computer nodes.
US11500800B2
Provided is a semiconductor device and a semiconductor system. A semiconductor device can include a command priority policy manager circuit which generates command priority policy information including a command priority compliance policy for a command directed to a device. A host interface circuit can be coupled to the command priority policy manager circuit to receive the command priority policy information from the command priority policy manager circuit, where the host interface circuit operable to transmit the command priority policy information via an electrical interface to the device.
US11500799B2
A technique manages input/output(I/O)-critical tasks and background tasks within a computer device. The technique involves identifying tasks on the computer device as I/O-critical tasks and background tasks, accessing a ready task list that indicates any ready I/O-critical tasks and any ready background tasks, and based on the accessed ready task list, performing the tasks on the computer device. Such a technique enables the computer device to make better decisions that reduce I/O latencies while still efficiently utilizing central processing unit (CPU) cycles.
US11500793B2
According to one embodiment, a memory system includes a first chip and a second chip. The second chip is bonded with the first chip. The memory system includes a semiconductor memory device and a memory controller. The semiconductor memory device includes a memory cell array, a peripheral circuit, and an input/output module. The memory controller is configured to receive an instruction from an external host device and control the semiconductor memory device via the input/output module. The first chip includes the memory cell array. The second chip includes the peripheral circuit, the input/output module, and the memory controller.
US11500782B2
Methods, systems, and devices for recovery of logical-to-physical (L2P) table information for a memory device are described. A memory system may detect an error in one or more pointers of the L2P table using an error detecting code that is uncorrectable using the code. The memory system may determine a set of candidate codewords for the set of bits, where each of the candidate codewords includes one or more corresponding candidate pointers, and check whether a candidate codeword is correct based on whether a logical address corresponding to a candidate pointer of the candidate codeword matches a logical address stored as metadata for a set of data at a physical address pointed to by the candidate pointer. The memory system may limit the set of candidate codewords or order the candidate codewords for evaluate to reduce a latency associated with identifying a correct candidate codeword.
US11500776B2
A data write system includes a processor circuit, a first memory, at least one register, and a second memory. The first memory is coupled to the processor circuit. The at least one register is configured to define at least one range. The second memory is coupled to the first memory. If a cache miss occurs and an access address of a reading command is in the at least one range in the second memory, a predetermined amount of data corresponding to the access address is written from the second memory into at least one first way of the first memory.
US11500772B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure generally relate to a target device handling overlap write commands. In one embodiment, a target device includes a non-volatile memory and a controller coupled to the non-volatile memory. The controller includes a random accumulated buffer, a sequential accumulated buffer, and an overlap accumulated buffer. The controller is configured to receive a new write command, classify the new write command, and write data associated with the new write command to one of the random accumulated buffer, the sequential accumulated buffer, or the overlap accumulated buffer. Once the overlap accumulated buffer becomes available, the controller first flushes to the non-volatile memory the data in the random accumulated buffer and the sequential accumulated buffer that was received prior in sequence to the data in the overlap accumulated buffer. The controller then flushes the available overlap accumulated buffer, ensuring that new write commands override prior write commands.
US11500771B2
Disclosed are a memory system, a memory controller, and a method of operating the memory system. The memory system performs an operation of recovering system data lost due to SPO when an SPO recovery operation is performed, and flushes recovered system data into the memory device after a first time point at which the operation of recovering the system data is completed and before a second time point at which a power off preparation request is received from a host.
US11500769B2
Methods, systems, and devices for valid data identification for garbage collection are described. In connection with writing data to a block of memory cells, a memory system may identify a portion of a logical address space that includes a logical address for the data. The memory system may set a bit of a bitmap, which may indicate that the block includes data having a logical address within a portion of the logical address space corresponding to the bit. The logical address space may be divided into any quantity of portions, each corresponding to a different subset of a logical-to-physical (L2P) table, and the bitmap may include any quantity of corresponding bits. To perform garbage collection on the block, the bitmap may be used to identify one or more subsets of the L2P table to evaluate to determine whether different sets of data within the block are valid or invalid.
US11500761B1
Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for analysis of code coverage differences across environments are disclosed. A code coverage profiling system determines a first code coverage profile associated with execution of program code in a first environment. The first code coverage profile indicates one or more portions of the program code that were executed in the first environment. The code coverage profiling system determines a second code coverage profile associated with execution of the program code in a second environment. The second code coverage profile indicates one or more portions of the program code that were executed in the second environment. The code coverage profiling system performs a comparison of the first code coverage profile and the second code coverage profile. The comparison determines a difference between the portions of the program code that were executed in the first and second environments.
US11500753B2
A storage device is disclosed. A first storage media may store data. The first storage media may be of a first storage type, and may be organized into at least two blocks. A second storage media may also store data. The second storage media may be of a second storage type different from the first type, and may also be organized into at least two blocks. A controller may manage reading data from and writing data to the first storage media and the second storage media. Metadata storage may store device-based log data for errors in the storage device. The drive-based log data for errors may include a unified log data for the first storage media and the second storage media. An identification circuit may identify a suspect block in the at least two blocks in the first storage media and the second storage media, responsive to the unified log data. Parameters for the first storage media and the second storage media may be derived from a unified parameter in the unified log data in proportion to the number of write operations and the number of read operations to each storage media, relative to the number of write operations and the number of read operations of the storage device.
US11500750B2
Methods and systems for a networked storage environment are provided. One method includes maintaining by a processor of a management console, a plurality of structured objects representing a plurality of resources in a networked storage system for storing and retrieving client data from a plurality of storage devices; receiving by the processor unstructured data from an application programming interface (API) associated with a resource of the networked storage system; parsing by the processor, the unstructured data and generating an identifier hash value based on uniquely identifying fields of the unstructured data for an unstructured object; and generating by the processor a logical index with a configuration index and a performance index for the unstructured object identified by the identifier hash value for responding to user requests for performance information regarding the unstructured object.
US11500747B2
A computing system initialization system includes a computing device that is coupled to a management device and that includes a processing system having at least one register storing debug-message-display-determination instructions, and a memory system that is coupled to the processing system and that includes Basic Input/Output System (BIOS) instructions that, when executed by the processing system, cause the processing system to provide a BIOS engine. The BIOS engine begins initialization operations and, during those initialization operations, generates at least one first debug message. The BIOS engine then accesses the at least one register included in the processing system to execute the debug-message-display-determination instructions and, in response, determines that the at least one first debug message should be displayed. In response, the BIOS engine transmits the at least one first debug message to the management device such that the management device displays the at least one first debug message.
US11500737B2
A network element includes multiple ports configured to communicate over a network, a buffer memory, a snapshot memory, and circuitry. The circuitry is configured to forward packets between the ports, to temporarily store information associated with the packets in the buffer memory, to continuously write at least part of the information to the snapshot memory concurrently with storage of the information in the buffer memory, and, in response to at least one predefined diagnostic event, to stop writing of the information to the snapshot memory, so as to create in the snapshot memory a coherent snapshot corresponding to a time of the diagnostic event.
US11500731B2
A distributed, transactional database uses timestamps, such as logical clock values, for entry versioning and transaction management in the database. To write to the database, a service requests a timestamp to be inserted into the database with a new version of data. During a backup procedure, a cleanup process is paused, issuing new timestamps is paused, and a backup timestamp is generated, which results in an effective backup copy. During a restore of a backup, a snapshot of the database is loaded and any entries older than the backup timestamp are deleted, which ensures that a consistent restore has occurred.
US11500724B1
Providing for increased flexibility for large scale parity, the including: writing data to a storage system, including utilizing a first data protection scheme; identifying, for storage media in the storage system, characteristics of the storage media; identifying, in dependence up the characteristics for the storage media, a second data protection scheme to use for the data; and writing the data to the to the storage system utilizing the second data protection scheme.
US11500719B1
To improve the reliability of a memory system, data and error correction codes associated with the data can be stored in a first memory. Parity bits calculated over data bits in the first memory can be stored in a second memory. The parity bits in the second memory can be used to recover errors that are uncorrectable by the error correction codes. The first memory can be implemented, for example, using an emerging memory technology, while the second memory can be implement using a different memory technology.
US11500704B2
An information handling system operating an intelligent real time listen and load balance system comprising a processor training a triggering event correlating neural network to identify a correlation between changes made to a dataset during previous triggering events and previous executions of a triggered integration process, based on previous co-occurrences of the triggering event dataset changes and the triggered integration process executions, determining that current changes to the dataset during a current triggering event correlates to the triggered integration process, indicating new or modified data requires execution of the triggered integration process, and determining predicted triggered integration process execution metrics for a plurality of cloud computing nodes based on received performance metrics for the plurality of cloud computing nodes. The processor may also identify an optimal cloud computing node by comparing the predicted execution metrics for each of the cloud computing nodes for execution of the triggered integration process.
US11500701B1
A global queue service of a provider network allows clients to automatically replicate a queue to another queue of one or more other regions (creating a global queue). A local instance of the service receives a send request from a producer. In response, the local instance stores a message in a local queue and replicates the send request to a remote queue of a remote instance of the global queue service (e.g., at another region). The local instance receives a receive request from a consumer and sends the message to the consumer (without replicating the request to the remote queue). The local instance then receives a delete request from a consumer. In response, the local instance deletes the message from the local queue and replicates the delete request to the remote queue. The local instance also receives replicated requests from the remote instance and in response, applies them locally.
US11500697B2
A system maintains a knowledge layout to support the analysis of active events and determination of epicenter and aftershock nodes via an event reach stack. At an input layer of the event reach stack, the system may receive active event data. At a semantic layer, the system may parse the active event data to determine event phrases. Based on the event phrases, the system may identify epicenter nodes directly affected by the active event. At an analytic model layer, the system may successively determine aftershock nodes by traversing the knowledge layout outward from the epicenter nodes. The system then directs the response to the active event to the aftershock and epicenter nodes, via action at a focus response layer of the event reach stack.
US11500691B2
Examples described herein include systems and methods for efficiently scaling an SDDC. An example method can include storing resource utilization information for a variety of resources of the SDDC. The example method can also include predicting a future resource utilization rate for the resources and determining that a predicted utilization rate is outside of a desired range. The system can determine how long it would take to perform the scaling, including adding or removing a host and performing related functions such as load balancing or data transfers. The system can also determine how long the scaling is predicted to benefit the SDDC to ensure that the benefit is sufficient to undergo the scaling operation. If the expected benefit is greater than the benefit threshold, the system can perform the scaling operation.
US11500690B2
A method for dynamic load balancing between nodes in a network centric process control system. The network centric process control system includes a plurality of nodes and each node includes control service components, where each control service component is a separate executable running in a separate operating system process as provided by a real time operating system of each node. The method is performed by a node manager of a node, and the method includes negotiating a load balancing master role between the plurality of nodes, wherein the negotiating is based on an indication of the plurality of nodes representing load balancing cluster nodes, subscribing, in the negotiated load balancing master role, to a load balancing information from nodes of the load balancing cluster nodes, and reallocating, in the negotiated load balancing master role, one or more control logic tasks from one node to another node of the plurality of nodes based on the subscribed load balancing information. A node manager, a computer program, and a computer program product thereof are also presented.
US11500689B2
A communication method includes monitoring, by a shared agent, shared memory, wherein the shared memory is used by a first application, wherein the first application runs on a virtual device, wherein the virtual device is located on a host, wherein the shared memory belongs to a part of memory of the host and does not belong to memory specified by the host for the virtual device, and wherein the shared agent is disposed on the host independent of the virtual device, determining, by the shared agent, whether data of the first application is written to the shared memory, reading, by the shared agent, the data from the shared memory and sending the data to a second application in response to the data of the first application is written to the shared memory, wherein the second application is a data sharing party specified by the first application.
US11500679B2
A method for operating a controller, including: executing a first task-program in a first time pattern of first time-slots, performing a second task-program in a second time pattern of second time-slots, ascertaining a status variable, indicating whether a result of the first task-program is released, ascertaining the result of the first task-program in an instantaneous first time-slot and transmitted in this slot to a memory area assigned to the second task-program, the second task-program ascertains a second result as a function of the status variable value and the result of the first task-program, the status variable value is transmitted in the instantaneous time-slot to a status memory area assigned to the second task-program, the result of the first task-program and the status variables values are ascertained and transmitted after the beginning of execution of the first task-program and before another execution of the first task-program.
US11500667B2
One example method to support Internet small computer system interface (iSCSI) services in a distributed storage system of a virtualization system may include receiving a notification of a change event associated with a global virtual Internet Protocol (VIP) object, wherein the global VIP object is associated with a virtual IP address for the iSCSI services. The method may also include in response to a first determination that the first host machine does not own the global VIP object and in response to a second determination that the first host machine gains ownership of the global VIP object based on the notification, locking the global VIP object and binding the virtual IP address to the first host machine.
US11500666B2
A container isolation method for a netlink resource includes receiving, by a kernel executed by a processor, a trigger instruction from an application program. The method also includes creating, by the kernel according to the trigger instruction, a container corresponding to the application program, creating a netlink namespace for the container, and sending a notification to the application program indicating that the netlink namespace is created. The method further includes receiving, by the kernel, a netlink message from the container, wherein the netlink message comprises entries generated when the container runs. The method additionally includes storing, by the kernel, the entries based on an identifier of the netlink namespace for the container, to send an entry required by the container to user space of the container.
US11500661B2
A snapshot handler is registered with an event monitoring subsystem of a process virtual machine, the registering specifying a trigger event of the snapshot handler, wherein the trigger event comprises execution of a specified portion of an application executing in the process virtual machine, the trigger event specified externally from a source code of the application. Responsive to the event monitoring subsystem detecting an occurrence of the trigger event, the snapshot handler is executed, storing data of an execution state of the process virtual machine at a time of occurrence of the trigger event.
US11500659B2
The disclosure provides an approach for processing frames of a virtualized desktop to improve accessibility for users, such as users with disabilities. The approach involves processing frames by an accessibility engine that is located on a client device of the user. The virtualized desktop runs on a virtual machine that is remote to the client device. The location of the accessibility engine on the client device allows advantages such as the ability to process frames that indicate a non-operational virtual machine.
US11500656B2
Systems and methods including one or more processors and one or more non-transitory computer readable storage devices storing computing instructions configured to run on the one or more processing modules and perform: gathering first data comprising first interactions of a user with a first graphical user interface; storing the first data comprising the first interactions of the user with the first graphical user interface as at least one first vector by adding to the at least one first vector for each level of a hierarchical categorization of the first user interface; gathering second data comprising second interactions of the user with a second graphical user interface; storing the second data comprising the second interactions of the user with the second graphical user interface as at least one second vector; determining an intent of the user using the at least one first vector, the at least one second vector, and a predictive algorithm; and transmitting instructions to display a third graphical user interface for the user based upon the intent of the user. Other embodiments are disclosed herein.
US11500655B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs stored on computer-readable media, for inline and contextual delivery of content, which may include content selectively determined using private database content. In some implementations, interface data indicating text of a user interface of a electronic device is obtained. A particular term in the text of the user interface of the electronic device is determined to satisfy one or more criteria. Based on determining that the particular term satisfies the one or more criteria, the particular term is annotated to alter the appearance of the particular term in the user interface. After annotating the particular term, user interaction with the annotated term is detected and a card is provided for display in the user interface. The card can include information that corresponds to the term and that was determined using content from a private database for an organization of the user.
US11500647B2
A BIOS may include a plurality of BIOS attributes associated with the information handling system, each attribute of the plurality of BIOS attributes having metadata defining a priority for such attribute. The BIOS may also include an attribute engine configured to execute a preboot process prior to booting of an operating system of the information handling system, wherein the preboot process is configured to identify boot-critical attributes of the plurality of BIOS attributes based on the metadata and load the boot-critical attributes. The attribute engine may also execute a steady-state process after booting of the operating system of the information handling system, wherein the steady-state process is configured to load attributes of the plurality of BIOS attributes other than the boot-critical attributes in an order based on the metadata.
US11500646B1
A system, method, and computer-readable medium are disclosed for performing a customer operating system installation operation. The customer operating system installation operation includes performing a customer operating system installation operation onto an information handling system, comprising: performing a customer operating system installation operation; and, performing a UEFI boot entry operation, the UEFI boot entry operation accessing a UEFI boot entry when performing the customer operating system installation operation, the UEFI boot entry operation providing a communication abstraction between a manufacturing operating system and the customer operating system.
US11500637B2
Disclosed in some examples are methods, systems, devices, memory controllers, memory dies, memory devices, and machine-readable mediums that allow for efficient updating of software instructions of the memory die. In some examples, the controller of the memory device may cause the software instructions of one or more memory dies to be updated by causing the page buffers of the one or more memory dies to be loaded with updated software instructions and subsequently issuing a command to the memory die to update the software instructions from the page buffer.
US11500635B2
A heterogeneous microprocessor configured to perform classification on an input signal. The heterogeneous microprocessor includes a die with a central processing unit (CPU) a programmable feature-extraction accelerator (FEA) and a classifier. The FEA is configured to perform feature extraction on the input signal to generate feature data. The classifier is configured to perform classification on the feature data and the CPU is configured to provide processing after classification. The FEA may be configured with a plurality of Gene-Computation (GC) Cores. The FEA may be configured for genetic programing with gene depth constraints, gene number constraints and base function constraints. The classifier may be a support-vector machine accelerator (SVMA). The SVMA may include training data based on error-affected feature data. The heterogeneous microprocessor may also include an automatic-programming & classifier training module. An automatic-programming & classifier training module may be configured to receive input-output feature data and training labels and generate gene code and a classifier model.
US11500630B2
An embodiment of the invention is a processor including execution circuitry to, in response to a decoded instruction, convert a half-precision floating-point value to a single-precision floating-point value and store the single-precision floating-point value in each of the plurality of element locations of a destination register. The processor also includes a decoder and the destination register. The decoder is to decode an instruction to generate the decoded instruction.
US11500621B2
Methods, apparatus and computer software product for optimization of data transfer between two memories includes determining access to master data stored in one memory and/or to local data stored in another memory such that either or both of the size of total data transferred and the number of data transfers required to transfer the total data can be minimized. The master and/or local accesses are based on, at least in part, respective structures of the master and local data.
US11500614B2
An embodiment of the invention may include a method of forming and a resulting multiply-and-accumulate device. The device may include a capacitor in a second region. The capacitor comprises a dielectric located between a first metal contact and a second metal contact. The device may include a stacked nanosheet device in the first region from the nanosheet. The stacked nanosheet device may include a top transistor and a bottom transistor in contact with the first metal contact. The device may include a nanosheet device in the third region, wherein a source/drain of a transistor of the nanosheet device is in contact with the first metal contact.
US11500613B2
A memory unit with a multiply-accumulate assist scheme for a plurality of multi-bit convolutional neural network based computing-in-memory applications is controlled by a reference voltage, a word line and a multi-bit input voltage. The memory unit includes a non-volatile memory cell, a voltage divider and a voltage keeper. The non-volatile memory cell is controlled by the word line and stores a weight. The voltage divider includes a data line and generates a charge current on the data line according to the reference voltage, and a voltage level of the data line is generated by the non-volatile memory cell and the charge current. The voltage keeper generates an output current on an output node according to the multi-bit input voltage and the voltage level of the data line, and the output current is corresponding to the multi-bit input voltage multiplied by the weight.
US11500606B2
The embodiments of the present disclosure provide an AR display device and method. The device includes a terminal and an AR wearable device. The terminal is configured to: configure the AR wearable device as an extended display device of the terminal to put the AR wearable device and a display screen of the terminal in a dual-screen heterogeneous display mode; and transmit image data to the AR wearable device to allow the AR wearable device to display the image data.
US11500595B2
A method for printing documents with security elements carried out by two separate, computer-supported systems. The computer-supported systems each have a printing system with a printing machine and a security system that perform steps of preparing a document with placeholders for the security elements in the image data by the computer of the security system, and transmitting the document to the printing system. The image data is converted into an output color space of the printing machine by the computer of the printing system, and the document is transmitted to the security system. The security elements are generated, and replacement of the placeholders with the security elements by the computer of the security system is performed. The document is transmitted to the printing system. The finished document is printed with the security elements by the printing machine of the printing system.
US11500588B2
A data structure is stored that includes a slope value corresponding to each die temperature of a set of die temperatures, where the slope value represents a change of a read voltage level as a function of a delay time of a memory sub-system. Using the data structure, a stored slope value corresponding to a measured die temperature is identified. An adjusted read voltage level is determined based at least in part on the stored slope value. The read command is executed using the adjusted read voltage level.
US11500586B2
The present invention provides a data read-write method and apparatus and a circular queue. The method includes: obtaining an offset position of a write pointer from a queue head of a circular queue; determining an offset position of a read pointer according to the offset position of the write pointer; and reading data from the circular queue according to the offset position of the read pointer. Single input multiple output of share memory is implemented, and therefore a plurality of read threads may read data from the circular queue in parallel, thereby effectively improving read-write efficiency of data, and reducing memory consumption.
US11500582B2
Embodiments can include a scan of data associated with programmed memory cells is performed. The scan of data results in a bit error count (BEC) histogram. A trigger margin is determined from the BEC histogram. The determined trigger margin and a target trigger margin are compared. In response to the determined trigger margin being different than the target trigger margin, one or more program step characteristics is adjusted to adjust the determined trigger margin toward the target trigger margin.
US11500580B2
According to one embodiment, a memory system includes a first memory and a controller. The controller includes first and second decoders, first and second circuits, a register, and a switching circuit. The first and second decoders decode first and second commands respectively, which include first and second addresses respectively. The first and second circuits access the first memory using the first and second addresses respectively. A value stored in the register is changeable by a host. The switching circuit switches between the first and second circuits to access the first memory according to the value in the register.
US11500579B1
A method, computer program product, and computing system for receiving a plurality of discrete write requests on a first computing device until the end of a consolidation window; combining the plurality of discrete write requests received into a consolidated write request; and transmitting the consolidated write request to a second computing device.
US11500576B2
A non-volatile memory module in parallel architecture is described. It includes memory function and data storage function in a single module. It enables host system to use memory bus to access storage devices and to use the same memory command protocol for storage device access. The parallel architecture enables contents in memory devices and storage devices to be exchanged freely on module under the control of host memory controller to boost performance of computer and to retain data even if power to computer is shut off. The configuration of non-volatile memory module can be partitioned or expanded into multiple independent channels on module seamlessly with or without ECC supports.
US11500567B2
One or more parameters indicative of a request to segment the memory device into multiple partitions for use by a host system are received. Responsive to receiving the one or more parameters indicative of the request to segment the memory device into multiple partitions, a first partition is configured with one or more configuration settings based on the one or more parameters. Configuring the first partition includes determining a memory type from multiple memory types based on the one or more parameters, and configuring the first partition to operate as the determined memory type. The memory types define a number of bits that a memory cell of the first partition is to store.
US11500565B2
Systems and methods for managing library-based memory deduplication are disclosed. In one implementation, a processing device may start a first instance of an application on a host computer system. Responsive to detecting that the first instance completed an initialization stage, the processing device may create a data structure referencing a first plurality of memory pages created by the first instance of the application. The processing device may further identify, among a second plurality of memory pages associated with the application, a first memory page. The processing device may also identify, among the first plurality of memory pages referenced by the data structure, a second memory page identical to the first memory page. The processing device may further modify a pointer referencing the first memory page to reference the second memory page and may release the first memory page.
US11500563B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a memory system and an operating method thereof. According to the embodiments of the present disclosure, the memory system may, when setting a firmware as a target firmware, generate a plurality of test commands to test the target firmware, test the target firmware by processing the plurality of test commands, and randomly generate logical block address (LBA) values corresponding to each of the plurality of test commands based on a seed value corresponding to each of the plurality of test commands.
US11500561B1
Methods, systems, and devices for masked training and analysis with a memory array are described. A memory device may operate in a first mode in which a maximum transition avoidance (MTA) decoder for a memory array of the memory device is disabled. During the first mode, the memory device may couple an input node of the MTA decoder with a first output node of a first decoder, such as a first pulse amplitude modulation (PAM) decoder. The memory device may operate in a second mode in which the MTA decoder for the memory array is enabled. During the second mode, the memory device may couple the input node of the MTA decoder with a second output node of a second decoder, such as a second PAM decoder.
US11500558B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to dynamically adjusting storage device system configurations. Information from one or more storage devices is collected. Dynamic adjustment of each storage device's system configuration is enabled based on the information. The information can include performance data, telemetry data, system configuration data, component configuration data, change events/commands, and/or alerts. Each storage device's components can be monitored with at least one daemon. Information patterns can be identified. The patterns can be matched to spikes in data traffic and/or storage device performance. The matched patterns and spikes can be correlated with each storage device's performance and errors. Storage device system configuration adjustment options can be determined. Rules for each option can be generated. Dynamic adjustment of each storage device's system configuration based on the generated one or more rules can be enabled.
US11500553B2
A processor can determine that a set of the memory cells is controlled by signals from a first portal. The processor can determine a function of a second portal in a relationship between the first portal and the second portal. The processor can cause, in response to a determination that the function of the second portal is a specific function, a memory control circuitry to be configured so that a subset, of the set, is controlled also by signals from the second portal. The processor can determine a function of a third portal in a relationship between the first portal and the third portal. The processor can cause, in response to a determination that the function of the third portal is the specific function, the memory control circuitry to be configured so that the subset, of the set, is controlled also by signals from the third portal.
US11500551B2
Provided is a control method of controlling locking or unlocking of storage using a blockchain. The control method includes: determining, when first request information indicating a lock/unlock request, that is a lock request or an unlock request, is received from a terminal, whether a keyholder identified by reading keyholder information stored in the blockchain matches an owner of the terminal that has transmitted the first request information, the keyholder information indicating a person having the authority to lock or unlock the storage; performing lock/unlock processing when the keyholder is determined to match the owner, the lock/unlock processing being processing for causing the storage to lock or unlock in accordance with the first request information; and performing first storage processing after the lock/unlock processing is performed, the first storage processing being processing of storing, in the blockchain, transaction data indicating that the lock/unlock processing has been performed.
US11500549B2
Secure access to data on a storage system via direct connection to an internal fabric of the storage system may be provided. A storage system interface (SSI) may validate each I/O communication originating on the host system before allowing a corresponding I/O communication to be transmitted on the internal fabric. The validation may include applying predefined rules and/or ensuring that the I/O communication conforms to one or more technologies, e.g., NVMe. The SSI may be configured to encrypt I/O communications originating on a host system and to decrypt I/O communications received from the storage system, for example, in embodiments in which data is encrypted in flight from the host system to physical storage devices, and data may be encrypted at rest in memory of the storage system and/or on physical storage devices.
US11500547B2
Systems and methods presented herein provide for mitigating errors in a storage device. In one embodiment, a storage system includes a storage device comprising a plurality of storage areas operable to store data, and a controller operable to evaluate operating conditions of the storage device, to perform a background scan on a first of the storage areas to characterize a read retention of the first storage area, and to adjust a read signal of the first storage area based on the characterized read retention and the operating conditions of the storage device.
US11500537B2
Disclosed is an electronic device. An electronic device comprises: a display provided at a front surface of the electronic device; a storage; a communication interface including a circuit; and a processor for providing a board screen on the display, identifying a display size of an image on the basis of resolution information of the image when the image is received through the communication interface, adding the image onto the board screen on the basis of the identified display size, adjusting at least one of a display location or a display size of the image to correspond to a first touch input when the first touch input with respect to the image is detected, and adding a drawing object corresponding to a second touch input onto the board screen when the second touch input with respect to the board screen is detected.
US11500530B2
In one general aspect, a method can include displaying, on a display device included in a computing device, content in an application executing on the computing device, and determining that the computing device is proximate to a videoconferencing system. The method can further include displaying, in a user interface on the display device, at least one identifier associated with a videoconference, receiving a selection of the at least one identifier, and initiating the videoconference on the videoconferencing system in response to receiving the selection of the at least one identifier. The videoconference on the videoconferencing system can be initiated such that the content is provided for display on a display device included in the videoconferencing system.
US11500526B2
Implementations of various computer methods to couple a computerized ball device which acts as a mobile computing device to record the users environment and project light towards waveguide eyeglasses or contacts which then allows a user to view imbedded light structure holograms in the waveguide while viewing the actual world. The computer ball device additionally has the ability to be docked in a drone cradle which creates a database map of the user's environment while not being utilized by the user for an immediate task. The device may also attach to a wrist band for mobility. The device also has the ability to couple the projected light structures so that a plurality of users may view the same light structure content to build an environment of trust. The device decouples the traditional design of head mounted virtual and mixed reality that place together the camera with the head mounted device.
US11500514B2
An enhanced control, in which a guide line is defined relative to an object in a user interface, items aligned with the guide line are displayed without obscuring the object. A selected item is output based on receiving a selection of one of the displayed items.
US11500512B2
A tracking device tracks hand motion of a user. An output device, for example an augmented reality headset or a virtual reality headset, is configured for the output of virtual elements in augmented or virtual reality. A processor recognizes a first gesture when the user turns a palm of a first hand towards his face. The processor then displays a set of virtual elements above the palm of the first hand, the virtual elements being arranged above each other like a card deck, using the output device. In other words, the virtual elements are visualized as cards on the palm of the first hand. In most embodiments, the virtual elements are attached to at least one of the user's hands. The method provides a user interface for hand interaction with virtual elements, for example for viewing a content gallery or data exploration.
US11500509B2
According to an aspect of an exemplary embodiment, an image display method may include displaying, on a display, an item list including a plurality of items and a cursor; detecting a user input for moving the cursor; and moving the cursor based on the user input and changing a property of at least one item of the plurality of items included in the item list based on a spatial relationship between the at least one item and the cursor.
US11500505B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a touch substrate and a touch display device. In the touch substrate, the first touch control electrodes are provided with the shadow elimination structures at the first intersections, and the orthographic projections of the shadow elimination structures on the base substrate cover the orthographic projections of the connection through holes on the base substrate, so that shadows of the connection through holes can be shielded by the shadow elimination structures, when the user watches the touch substrate from the side, away from the signal line layer, of the base substrate, and thus the ghosting shadow problem of the connection through holes can be resolved.
US11500500B2
A touch component and a touch display device are provided. At least one of a first electrode or a second electrode is provided with a hollow portion, thereby reducing a parasitic capacitance formed between at least one of the first electrode or the second electrode and a cathode of an organic light emitting diode array layer.
US11500495B2
A touch display device according to one embodiment of the present disclosure includes a first drive integrated circuit configured to output a source signal and receives a touch sensing signal, and a second drive integrated circuit configured to output the source signal, wherein the first drive integrated circuit outputs the source signal in a display mode and receives the touch sensing signal in a touch sensing mode, the second drive integrated circuit outputs the source signal in the display mode, and the first drive integrated circuit and the second drive integrated circuit have the same resistance value in the display mode.
US11500484B2
A display device includes a display substrate in which a plurality of sub-pixel areas is defined, a light-emitting diode (“LED”) on the display substrate, a touch sensor electrode on the display substrate and including at least one touch electrode, and a bank separating the plurality of the sub-pixel areas, where each of the plurality of the sub-pixel areas may include a first area in which the LED is disposed and a second area in which the touch sensor electrode is disposed.
US11500480B2
A computer input device including a housing including a first side and a second side that is spaced apart from the first side, and a ball partially positioned within and rotatable relative to the housing. At least a portion of the ball extends through an aperture in the first side. The computer input device also includes a user-operable actuator accessible from the second side of the housing and configured to eject the ball from the housing.
US11500478B2
A method includes determining a physical location of each of a plurality of peripheral devices communicatively coupled to a host computing device, the each of the plurality of peripheral devices including a computer mouse; generating a lighting sequence configured to activate visual output elements on the each of the plurality of peripheral devices; and modifying the lighting sequence based on the physical location of the computer mouse relative to at least one of the other plurality of peripheral devices. In some aspects, the plurality of peripheral devices further includes a mouse pad, and modifying the lighting sequence for the computer mouse is based on the location of the computer mouse relative to its position on the mouse pad. In some cases, modifying the lighting sequence for the computer mouse is based on the location of the computer mouse relative to its position to the other plurality of peripheral devices.
US11500471B2
A personal mobility includes a recognizer configured to recognize a surrounding situation, a transceiver configured to communicate with a wearable electronic device, and a controller configured to recognize the surrounding situation when receiving a user's gesture information through the transceiver, generate first hand signal information based on the recognized surrounding situation, recognize a changed surrounding situation in response to the first hand signal information, and generate second hand signal information based on the changed surrounding situation.
US11500464B2
Disclosed herein are interface devices and systems. In one aspect, a haptic interface device includes at least one position detection module configured to determine positional data for determining a position of at least one portion of at least one body part of the user; at least one tensile element or compressive element coupled to the at least one body part and configured to produce at least one of: a predetermined range of motion and applied force to a coupled body part; and at least one haptic feedback module configured to produce force feedback or tactile sensation to the at least one body part, the feedback module comprising: at least one motion control module configured to control motion of the at least one body part; and at least one force sensor configured to determine applied force data generated from the at least one body part. Also disclosed herein are methods for using the disclosed devices and systems.
US11500454B2
The technical problem of providing user interface elements that can be activated without physical contact with any specific device is addressed by configuring an augmented reality component to display a touchless user selectable element that can be activated in response to detecting collision of an object from the output of a digital image sensor of a camera with a user selectable element. The augmented reality component detects collision of the touchless user selectable element with an object from the person image, such as a hand object, and, in response, triggers a predetermined action, such as, for example, starting or stopping recording of the output of a digital image sensor or capturing a still image of the output of a digital image sensor.
US11500443B2
A system and method for energy conservation in a virtual universe, the method comprising: determining, at a server, available energy conservation options associated with an avatar of the virtual universe; determining, at the server, selected energy conservation options of the available energy conservation options; and applying, at the server, the selected energy conservation options to portions of the virtual universe associated with the avatar.
US11500442B2
Numerous embodiments are disclosed for converting neuron current output by a vector-by-matrix multiplication (VMM) array into neuron current-based time pulses and providing such pulses as an input to another VMM array within an artificial neural network. Numerous embodiments are disclosed for converting the neuron current-based time pulses into analog current or voltage values if an analog input is needed for the VMM array.
US11500435B2
Custom cooling strategies may be implemented for different regions in computers, servers, and other information handling systems. Chassis architecture may have multiple cooling fans, with each fan cooling a different region via dedicated duct work. A user or administrator may thus implement different cooling strategies for internal components, based on different thermal curves defined for each different region.
US11500432B2
A display device according to an exemplary embodiment includes: a display panel; and a flexible printed circuit board that is connected to the display panel, wherein the display panel includes: a substrate that includes a display area including a plurality of pixels, and a non-display area which is a remaining area of the substrate; an insulation pattern that is disposed along one edge of the display panel and overlaps the flexible printed circuit board; and a data pad that is disposed between the display area and the insulation pattern.
US11500428B2
A hinge module is provided, including a first bracket, a guiding rod movably assembled to the first bracket, an elastic member connected between the first bracket and the guiding rod, a second bracket pivotally connected to the guiding rod, and a linking rod pivotally connected between the first and the second brackets. In a process of the first and the second brackets rotating relative to each other, the guiding rod moves relative to the first bracket to deform the elastic member. A portable electronic device is also provided.
US11500419B1
An example stand for an electronic device, includes a base, a column extending upward from the base, and an interface coupled to the column to engage with the electronic device to suspend the electronic device from the column. In addition, the stand includes a ringed light array coupled to the column that includes an outer diameter that is larger than the larger of a width and a length of the interface.
US11500415B2
A laptop computer and a chassis thereof are disclosed. The chassis comprises a display case, a host case, a shielding member and a connecting member. The display case includes an upper cover having a first notch and a screen frame connected with the upper cover. The host case includes a keyboard frame having a second notch and a bottom cover having a third notch. The bottom cover is connected with the keyboard frame. The first, second and third notches together form an accommodation space to accommodate at least one pivot structure. The display case is rotatable relative to the host case through the pivot structure. The shielding member is configured to cover at least part of the first notch. The connecting member is disposed between the display case and the host case, and located in the accommodation space. The pivot structure is located in the connecting member.
US11500412B2
A circuit system includes an interposer that has a first clock network and first and second integrated circuit dies that are mounted on the interposer. The first integrated circuit die includes a phase detector circuit, an adjustable delay circuit that generates a second clock signal in response to a first clock signal received from the first clock network, and a second clock network that generates a third clock signal in response to the second clock signal. The second integrated circuit die comprises a third clock network that generates a fourth clock signal in response to the first clock signal received from the first clock network. The phase detector circuit controls a delay provided by the adjustable delay circuit to the second clock signal based on a phase comparison between phases of the third and fourth clock signals.
US11500408B2
Provided is a reference voltage circuit including a first MOS transistor to a sixth MOS transistor, a first resistor and a second resistor, a current source circuit, and an output terminal. Five of the transistors form a differential transconductance amplifier, and an input transistor of the differential transconductance amplifier operates in the manner of weak inversion operation.
US11500398B2
The invention relates to an intelligent safety valve comprising a valve body having a first valve inlet, a valve outlet and a first sensor compartment, the first sensor compartment including a first sensor assembly, the first sensor compartment being arranged in the valve body, a first closing unit suitable for closing the intelligent safety valve, an actuator mechanically connected to the first closing unit in order to close the first closing unit, and a control unit which is connected to the actuator and is suitable for controlling the actuator, wherein the control unit is connected to the first sensor assembly in order to evaluate sets of measured values from the first sensor assembly, and wherein the first sensor assembly comprises at least one analysis sensor, for example a pH sensor, a conductivity sensor or an oxygen sensor.
US11500396B2
An electronic monitoring and protection system which obtains permission from each of a plurality of users to access security data from one or more monitoring devices. The electronic monitoring and protection system using the security data to determine a threat level posed to a person to be protected, and initiating an action if the threat level exceeds a predetermined threshold.
US11500394B2
An example method includes: receiving information indicative of a desired aircraft cruise insertion point comprising achieving a desired cruise altitude for an aircraft within a predetermined period of time from departure, or within a predetermined distance from departure; determining a desired airspeed for the aircraft; prior to a flight of the aircraft, determining, based on the desired airspeed and the desired aircraft cruise insertion point, a climb trajectory for the aircraft; and during a climb flight phase of the aircraft, varying climb thrust of an engine of the aircraft to follow the climb trajectory and achieve the desired aircraft cruise insertion point.
US11500381B2
A stopping position control device according to an embodiment includes a sitting position specifying unit configured to specify a sitting position of a user who gets off a vehicle next, the vehicle being subjected to automatic driving control, and a stopping position determination unit configured to determine a stopping position of the vehicle, at which the user gets off the vehicle, corresponding to the sitting position of the user.
US11500377B1
According to certain aspects, a computer-implemented method for operating an autonomous or semi-autonomous vehicle may be provided. With the customer's permission, an identity of a vehicle operator may be identified and a vehicle operator profile may be retrieved. Operating data regarding autonomous operation features operating the vehicle may be received from vehicle-mounted sensors. When a request to disable an autonomous feature is received, a risk level for the autonomous feature is determined and compared with a driver behavior setting for the autonomous feature stored in the vehicle operator profile. Based upon the risk level comparison, the autonomous vehicle retains control of vehicle or the autonomous feature is disengaged depending upon which is the safer driver—the autonomous vehicle or the vehicle human occupant. As a result, unsafe disengagement of self-driving functionality for autonomous vehicles may be alleviated. Insurance discounts may be provided for autonomous vehicles having this safety functionality.
US11500372B2
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are provided for determining operator availability to provide remote assistance to an autonomous vehicle, determining which of a first plurality of routes will provide a positive ride experience based on the operator availability, and selecting a route of the first plurality of routes for a user based on the determining of which of the first plurality of routes will provide a positive ride experience.
US11500357B2
A computing system is configured to analyze both measurement data and indicator data as big data aggregated in measurement database and indicator database by deep learning for each lot of a part or for each lot of a finished product and a part pre-associated with each other, and also for each consolidation target between bases subordinate to the same start point corresponding to identification information that specifies a business user of the computing system. Analysis target layers by the deep learning are a three-layer serial hierarchical structure containing a production condition layer and an environment condition layer as a start point for analysis of a part layer, or a four-layer serial hierarchical structure containing a part layer, a production condition layer, and an environment condition layer as a start point for analysis of a finished product layer.
US11500348B2
A method includes determining, by a field instrument in an industrial process and control system, a Highway Addressable Remote Transducer (HART) mode of the field instrument. The method also includes, upon a determination, by the field instrument, that the HART mode is a HART On Demand mode, listening for a HART data signal from a HART master device; when the HART data signal is detected, communicating with the HART master device according to a HART protocol; and when the HART data signal is not detected, diverting a current supply allocated for HART communication to a BLUETOOTH Low Energy (BLE) transceiver for use in BLE communication, and communicating according to a BLE protocol.
US11500345B2
An electrical control system, in particular for home automation systems, includes at least one electronic switching device including a switching module (10) which includes a switching circuit, including at least one controlled switch which allows a selective implementation of a switch configuration, a diverter configuration or an inverter configuration and a plurality of terminals which allow the connection of the switching module to an external electrical system. The switching module allows selective application of the switch configuration of the switching circuit or diverter configuration of the switching circuit or inverter configuration of the switching circuit to terminals in a partial way, or total way, or to implement a total separation to said terminals.
US11500337B2
A method and system for reinforcement learning can include an actor-critic framework comprising an actor and a critic, the actor comprising an actor network and the critic comprising a critic network; and a controller comprising a neural network embedded in the actor-critic framework and which can be tuned according to reinforcement learning based tuning including anti-windup tuning.
US11500335B2
An electronic timepiece includes a first display section including a first rotatable part and a processor. In the first display section, a predetermined number of display contents being a same display content is simultaneously displayed at predetermined angle intervals in a rotation angle range of the first rotatable part, wherein the predetermined number is two or more. The first display section makes a display pattern that shows change in the display content appear the predetermined number of times cyclically according to rotation of the first rotatable part. When causing the first display section to display a first display content of first display contents included in the display pattern, the processor selects an angular position from angular positions for the first display content in the predetermined number of display patterns, and causes the first rotatable part to rotate to the selected angular position.
US11500332B2
A display system comprising a first plurality of pixels, a second plurality of pixels, a first Fourier transform lens and a second Fourier transform lens. The first plurality of pixels is arranged ranged to display first holographic data corresponding to a first holographic reconstruction and receive light of a first wavelength. The a second plurality of pixels is arranged to display second holographic data corresponding to a second holographic reconstruction and receive light of a second wavelength. The first Fourier transform lens is arranged to receive spatially modulated light having a first wavelength from the first plurality of pixels and perform an optical Fourier transform of the received light to form the first holographic reconstruction at a replay plane, wherein the first holographic reconstruction is formed of light at the first wavelength. The second Fourier transform lens is arranged to receive spatially modulated light having a second wavelength from the second plurality of pixels and perform an optical Fourier transform of the received light to form the second holographic reconstruction at the replay plane, wherein the second holographic reconstruction is formed of light at the second wavelength. The optical path length from the first Fourier transform lens to the replay plane is not equal to the optical path length from the second Fourier transform lens to the replay plane.
US11500327B2
A cartridge includes a frame and a developing roller for developing a latent image on the electrophotographic photosensitive drum. The cartridge also includes a coupling member having a rotational force receiving portion to receive a rotational force to be transmitted to the developing roller. First and second force receiving portions are provided on the frame. The coupling member is movable relative to the roller axis between a first position in which the coupling axis is substantially parallel to the roller axis and a second position different from the first position.
US11500315B2
A heating device includes a heater and a feeding member. The heater includes a base and an electrode mounted on an electrode mounting face of the base. The feeding member includes a connector terminal and a restrictor. The connector terminal contacts the electrode. The restrictor engages the heater and restricts displacement of the feeding member relative to the heater.
US11500310B2
An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit and a belt conveyance apparatus. The belt conveyance apparatus includes a transfer belt, a tension roller, a movement mechanism, and a drive unit. A toner image on an image bearing member is transferred to the transfer belt in tension from the tension roller. The movement mechanism moves the tension roller to apply tension to, and release tension from, the transfer belt. The drive unit is disposed in a width direction and drives the transfer belt. The movement mechanism includes an attachment portion disposed on a side opposite the drive unit in the width direction and to which a handle member that operates the movement mechanism is detachably attached. The movement mechanism is configured such that the belt conveyance apparatus is attached to an image forming apparatus body in a state in which the handle member is detached from the attachment portion.
US11500308B2
An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit configured to form a toner image on an image bearing member, a first unit including an intermediate transfer belt on which the toner image is transferred from the image bearing member and a first roller disposed in contact with an inner surface of the intermediate transfer belt to stretch the intermediate transfer belt, the first unit being drawable from a main body of the image forming apparatus, a second unit including a second roller configured to form, with the first roller, a transfer nip portion in which the toner image is transferred from the intermediate transfer belt to a recording material, the second unit being drawable from the main body, and a high-voltage circuit board disposed in the second unit and configured to apply a voltage to the first roller.
US11500306B2
An image forming apparatus includes a toner container, a toner conveyance portion, a container attachment portion, and a biasing mechanism. The toner container has a toner outflow port at a tip portion thereof. The toner conveyance portion is provided in the toner container and conveys toner in the toner container toward the toner outflow port. The container attachment portion supports the toner container. The biasing mechanism applies a biasing force to change the toner container from a horizontal attitude to an inclined attitude in accordance with a toner conveyance operation of the toner conveyance portion. When the toner container is in the inclined attitude, the toner outflow port faces diagonally downward.
US11500299B2
In a method executed in an exposure apparatus, a focus control effective region and a focus control exclusion region are set based on an exposure map and a chip area layout within an exposure area. Focus-leveling data are measured over a wafer. A photo resist layer on the wafer is exposed with an exposure light. When a chip area of a plurality of chip areas of the exposure area is located within an effective region of a wafer, the chip area is included in the focus control effective region, and when a part of or all of a chip area of the plurality of chip areas is located on or outside a periphery of the effective region of the wafer, the chip area is included in the focus control exclusion region In the exposing, a focus-leveling is controlled by using the focus-leveling data measured at the focus control effective region.
US11500294B2
When replacing a mirror in a projection exposure apparatus, a mirror for replacement is initially removed (41). Position- and orientation data of the removed mirror for replacement are measured (43) by a position -and orientation data measuring device. Furthermore, position- and orientation data of a replacement mirror, to be inserted in place of the mirror for replacement, are measured (46) using the position- and orientation data measuring device. Bearing points of the replacement mirror are reworked (48) on the basis of ascertained differences between, firstly, the position- and orientation data of the mirror for replacement and, secondly, the position- and orientation data of the replacement mirror. The reworked replacement mirror is installed (54). This yields a mirror replacement method, in which an adjustment outlay of the replacement mirror in the projection exposure apparatus is reduced.
US11500289B2
A positive resist composition comprising a base polymer comprising recurring units having a nitrogen-containing tertiary ester structure exhibits a high sensitivity, high resolution, low edge roughness (LER, LWR) and small size variation, and forms a pattern of good profile after exposure and development.
US11500286B2
Provided are a photosensitive resin composition including: a binder; a polymerizable monomer; a polymerization initiator; a pigment; and a solvent, in which the polymerizable monomer includes a difunctional polymerizable monomer having a molecular weight equal to or smaller than 500, and a content of the difunctional polymerizable monomer having a molecular weight equal to or smaller than 500 is equal to or greater than 50% by mass with respect to a total mass of the polymerizable monomer, a transfer film, a decorative pattern, and a touch panel.
US11500281B2
A reflective film coated substrate includes a substrate having two main surfaces opposite to each other and end faces connected to outer edges of the two main surfaces; and a reflective film formed on one of the main surfaces and extending onto at least part of the end faces. The reflective film on the main surface has a multilayer structure including low refractive index layers and high refractive index layers alternately formed. The reflective film which extends onto the end faces has a single-layer structure containing a first element higher in content than any other element in the low refractive index layers and a second element higher in content than any other element in the high refractive index layers.
US11500275B2
A light emitting device includes: at least one semiconductor laser element; and a light-transmissive member including: an upper surface, a lower surface, and a light-transmissive region through which laser light emitted from the at least one semiconductor laser element is transmitted from the lower surface to the upper surface, wherein: at least the light-transmissive region is made of sapphire, the light-transmissive member includes an incident surface on which the laser light is incident, the incident surface being an a-plane of the sapphire, and the light-transmissive member is oriented such that a polarization direction of the laser light incident on the incident surface is parallel or perpendicular to a c-axis of the sapphire in a top view.
US11500274B2
A projector includes a housing, a fan, a first heat dissipation fin group, a second heat dissipation fin group, and at least one heat generation assembly. The housing includes a first air entry, a second air entry, and a first air exit. The fan, the first and second heat dissipation fin groups, and the heat generation assembly are disposed in the housing. The fan is located between the first and second heat dissipation fin groups. The fan includes a first air inlet, a second air inlet, and an air outlet disposed corresponding to the first air exit. The first heat dissipation fin group is located between the first air entry and the first air inlet. The second heat dissipation fin group is located between the second air entry and the second air inlet. The heat generation assembly is connected to the first and second heat dissipation fin groups.
US11500272B2
A biaxial tilting device includes: a frame body; and a tilting and driving mechanism configured to drive a member to be tilted so as to be tilted in the frame body, wherein, in an XYZ orthogonal coordinate system, the frame body includes a first gimbal frame opposed to two of the side surfaces of the member to be tilted, each extending in a Y-Z plane direction, and a second gimbal frame opposed to other two of the side surfaces of the member to be tilted, each extending in an X-Z plane direction, and wherein the first gimbal frame is coupled to an external member, the second gimbal frame is coupled to the member to be tilted in a tillable manner, and the first gimbal frame and the second gimbal frame are coupled to each other in a tiltable manner.
US11500266B2
A lens apparatus includes an imaging optical system, a storage unit configured to store aperture information about the imaging optical system, and a transmission unit configured to transmit the aperture information to an imaging apparatus, wherein the aperture information is determined based on a shape parameter representing a shape of an aperture which defines an outer edge of a light flux passing through the imaging optical system.
