US11515033B2
Systems and techniques that facilitate an augmented inspector interface with targeted, context-driven algorithms are provided. In various embodiments, a magnification component can magnify a portion of a medical image. In various embodiments, a recognition component can recognize an anatomical structure depicted in the portion of the medical image. In various embodiments, a recommendation component can recommend one or more sets of computing algorithms or computing operations related to the anatomical structure. In various embodiments, a menu component can display the one or more recommended sets of computing algorithms or computing operations in a drop-down menu.
US11515032B2
An MRI image processing and analysis system may identify instances of structure in MRI flow data, e.g., coherency, derive contours and/or clinical markers based on the identified structures. The system may be remotely located from one or more MRI acquisition systems, and perform: error detection and/or correction on MRI data sets (e.g., phase error correction, phase aliasing, signal unwrapping, and/or on other artifacts); segmentation; visualization of flow (e.g., velocity, arterial versus venous flow, shunts) superimposed on anatomical structure, quantification; verification; and/or generation of patient specific 4-D flow protocols. A protected health information (PHI) service is provided which de-identifies medical study data and allows medical providers to control PHI data, and uploads the de-identified data to an analytics service provider (ASP) system. A web application is provided which merges the PHI data with the de-identified data while keeping control of the PHI data with the medical provider.
US11515031B2
A medical image-processing apparatus according to an embodiment includes processing circuitry configured to determine a position of a feature point of a device in a first X-ray image, and generate a superimposed image in which a 3D model expressing the device is superimposed on the first X-ray image or a second X-ray image that is acquired later than the first X-ray image. The processing circuitry is configured to superimpose the 3D model on the first X-ray image or the second X-ray image at a position based on the position of the feature point.
US11515018B2
An AI record matching system includes processors that may compare patient records using one or more rules, criteria, or parameters and determine whether any of the patient records include different demographic information but include same medical information for a same person based on comparing the patient records using the one or more rules, criteria, or parameters. The processors may receive feedback data indicating an overmatching of the patient records to the same person or an undermatching of the patient records to the same person. The processors may be trained by modifying the one or more rules, criteria, or parameters based on the feedback data. The processors may iteratively repeat one or more of examining the patient records, determining whether any of the patient records include the different demographic information but the same medical information for the same person, receiving the feedback data, and training the one or more processors.
US11515007B2
The invention relates to an in silico screening method to identify candidate excipients for reducing aggregation of a protein in a formulation. The method combines computational molecular modeling and molecular dynamics simulations to identify sites on a protein where non-specific self-interaction and interaction of different test excipients may occur, determine the relative binding energies of such interactions, and select one or more test excipients that meet specified interaction criteria for use as candidate excipients in empirical screening studies.
US11515006B2
Embodiments are directed to systems and methods for pathogen detection using next-generation sequencing (NGS) analysis of a sample. Embodiments may apply alignment algorithms (e.g., SNAP and/or RAPSearch alignment algorithms) to align individual sequence reads from a sample in a next-generation sequencing (NGS) dataset against reference genome entries in a classified reference genome database. Embodiments of the present invention may include classifying, filtering, and displaying results to a clinician that can then quickly and easily obtain the results of the sequencing to identify a pathogen or other genetic material in a sample that is being tested. A negative sample and a corresponding database can be used to remove contaminants from a list of candidate pathogens. Thus, embodiments are directed to a system that is configured to filter the results of a sequencing alignment and classify a sample quickly.
US11514999B2
Embodiments provide a scheme for parametric PV-level modeling and an optimal read threshold voltage estimation in a memory system. A controller performs read operations on cells using read threshold voltages; generates CMF samples based on the read operations; and receives first and second CDF values, which correspond to CMF samples, each CDF value representing a skew normal distribution. The controller estimates first and second probability distribution parameter sets corresponding to the first and second CDF values, respectively; determines first and second PDF values using the first and second probability distribution parameter sets, respectively; and estimates, as an optimal read threshold voltage, a read threshold voltage corresponding to a cross-point of the first and second PDF values.
US11514998B2
An electronic device includes a core circuit configured to store write data and a write parity after outputting read data and a read parity in a data masking operation. The electronic device also includes an error correction circuit configured to correct an error included in the read data, based on the read parity; generate the write parity from the error-corrected read data, input data, and masking data; and generate the write data from the error-uncorrected read data, the input data, and the masking data.
US11514996B2
A memory chip may include: a plurality of memory banks; a data storage configured to store access information indicative of access operations for one or more segments of the plurality of memory banks; and a refresh controller configured to perform a refresh operation of the one or more segments based, at least in part, on the stored access information.
US11514983B2
Systems, methods and apparatus to determine a programming mode of a set of memory cells without having bit values stored in the memory cells to include an identifier of the programming mode. During the test of which of the memory cells in the set is in a lowest voltage region, which is a common operation for reading the memory cells programmed in different mode, the statistics of the memory cells found to be in the lowest voltage region can be compared to the known, different behaviors of the memory cell set programmed in different modes. A match with the behavior of one of the modes can be used to identify the matching mode as the programming mode of the set of memory cells.
US11514981B1
The method includes setting conductances for corresponding non-volatile memory (NVM) devices of a cross-bar array to zero. The method further includes determining a plurality of pulse-widths for the corresponding plurality of NVM devices based on a corresponding plurality of programming errors. Additionally, the method includes programming the NVM devices using the determined pulse-widths. Also, the method includes measuring actual conductances for the corresponding NVM devices. Further, the method includes adjusting scaling factors for the corresponding NVM devices based on the actual conductances and the corresponding programming errors. Additionally, the method includes programming the corresponding NVM devices based on the determined pulse-widths and the scaling factors.
US11514979B2
Various implementations described herein are related to a device with a wordline driver that provides a wordline signal to a wordline based on a row selection signal and a row clock signal. The device may have row selector logic that provides the row selection signal to the wordline driver based on first input signals in a periphery voltage domain. The device may also have level shifter circuitry that provides the row clock signal to the wordline driver in a core voltage domain based on second input signals in the periphery voltage domain.
US11514977B2
Memory device data-access schemes are disclosed. Various embodiments may include a memory device including a first column plane, a second column plane, and a data-steering circuit. The first column plane may include a first edge, a second edge, and a first number of digit lines arranged between the first edge and the second edge. The second column plane may include a third edge positioned adjacent to the second edge, a fourth edge, and a second number of digit lines arranged between the third edge and the fourth edge. The data-steering circuit may be configured to logically relate a first digit line of the first number of digit lines to a second digit line of the second number of digit lines, the first digit line proximate to the first edge and the second digit line proximate to the fourth edge. Associated systems and methods are also disclosed.
US11514976B2
The present technology includes a memory device which includes a plurality of planes in which data is stored, a peripheral circuit configured to perform operations on the plurality of planes, micro-control circuits configured to control the peripheral circuit so that the operations on the plurality of planes are independently performed, and a memory manager including a control memory in which different control codes for controlling the peripheral circuit are stored, and configured to output the control codes to the micro-control circuits, wherein the memory manager is configured to sequentially output a selected control code among the control codes to the micro-control circuits respectively corresponding to the planes.
US11514973B2
A memory device is provided. The memory device includes a cell array having memory cells; n word lines sequentially arranged and including a first word line, an n-th word line, and word lines interposed between the first word line and the n-th word line; bit lines; a first power node located adjacent to the first word line; a second power node located adjacent to the n-th word line; a first switch connected between the first power node and the cell array; a write driver located adjacent to the n-th word line and connected to the bit lines; and a switch controller configured to control the first switch to isolate the first power node from the memory cells during a write operation on memory cells connected to the first word line.
US11514970B2
A memory device according to an embodiment includes first and second interconnects, memory cells, and a control circuit. In a first process, the control circuit applies a write voltage of a first direction to a memory cell coupled to selected first and second interconnects, and applies a write voltage of a second direction to a memory cell coupled to the selected first interconnect and a non-selected second interconnect. In second processes of first to m-th trial processes, the control circuit applies the write voltage of the second direction to the memory cell coupled to the selected first and second interconnects, and omits a write operation in which the memory cell coupled to the selected first interconnect and the non-selected second interconnect is targeted.
US11514969B2
Methods, systems, and devices for an arbitrated sense amplifier are described. A memory device may couple a memory cell to a first node via a digit line and may couple the first node to a second node. If a voltage at the second node is associated with a first logic value stored at the memory cell, the memory device may couple the second node with a third node and may charge the third node according to the voltage. However, if the voltage at the second node is associated with a second logic value stored at the memory cell, the memory device may not couple the second node with the third node. The memory device may compare the resulting voltage at the third node with a reference voltage and may generate a signal indicative of a logic value stored by the memory cell.
US11514966B1
A high-density low voltage ferroelectric (or paraelectric) memory bit-cell that includes a planar ferroelectric or paraelectric capacitor. The memory bit-cell comprises 1T1C configuration, where a plate-line is parallel to a word-line, or the plate-line is parallel to a bit-line. The memory bit-cell can be 1TnC, where ‘n’ is a number. In a 1TnC bit-cell, the capacitors are vertically stacked allowing for multiple values to be stored in a single bit-cell. The memory bit-cell can be multi-element FE gain bit-cell. In a multi-element FE gain bit-cell, data sensing is done with signal amplified by a gain transistor in the bit-cell. As such, higher storage density is realized using multi-element FE gain bit-cells. In some examples, the 1T1C, 1TnC, and multi-element FE gain bit-cells are multi-level bit-cells. To realize multi-level bit-cells, the capacitor is placed in a partially switched polarization state by applying different voltage levels or different time pulse widths at the same voltage level.
US11514957B2
The present disclosure includes apparatuses and methods for bank to bank data transfer. An example apparatus includes a plurality of banks of memory cells, an internal bus configured to transfer data between the plurality of banks and an external bus interface, and a bank-to-bank transfer bus configured to transfer data between the plurality of banks.
US11514952B2
A device disclosed includes first and second rows of memory cells, a first data line, and a first continuous data line. The first and second rows of memory cells are arranged in a first sub-bank and a second sub-bank, separated from the first sub-bank, respectively. The first data line is arranged across the first sub-bank and coupled to a first memory cell in the first row of memory cells. The first continuous data line includes a first portion arranged across the first sub-bank and a second portion arranged across the second sub-bank. The first continuous data line is coupled to a second memory cell in the second row of memory cells. The first portion of the first continuous data line is disposed in a first metal layer. The first data line and the second portion of the first continuous data line are in a second metal layer.
US11514950B2
A hard disk drive includes a base deck with a floor portion and a side wall portion. The floor portion extends between an upper surface and a bottom surface, and the side wall portion extends from the floor portion. A top cover is coupled to the base deck and includes a ceiling portion and a wall portion. The hard disk drive includes a weld that directly couples the wall portion of the top cover to the floor portion of the base deck.
US11514949B2
A method for processing video data is performed by a data processing unit (DPU). The method includes obtaining, by the DPU of an edge device, video data; processing the video data to obtain video data chunks and indexing attributes; generating retention and staging metadata based on the video data chunks and the video processing engine outcomes, and the retention and staging metadata specifies retention and staging information associated with the video data chunks; associating the retention and staging metadata with the video data chunks; and storing the retention and staging metadata and the video data chunks in appropriate storages based on the retention and staging metadata.
US11514945B2
A lubricant for a magnetic recording medium capable of forming a lubricant layer having excellent adhesion to a protective layer is provided. A lubricant for a magnetic recording medium contains a fluorine-containing ether compound in which a group having an ethylenic carbon-carbon double bond is disposed at one or both terminals of a perfluoroalkyl polyether chain. It is preferable that the group having the ethylenic carbon-carbon double bond is disposed at one terminal of the perfluoroalkyl polyether chain, and a hydroxyl group is disposed at other terminal. It is preferable that the lubricant for a magnetic recording medium contains a compound in which one or more functional groups selected from a hydroxyl group, an amino group, an amido group and a carboxyl group is disposed at one or both terminals of a perfluoroalkyl polyether chain.
US11514941B2
A magnetic recording medium used on a record/playback device with a minimum recording wavelength or 50 nm or shorter, the magnetic recording medium including a magnetic layer that contains a spinel-type ferrite magnetic powder, the magnetic layer having an average thickness of 85 nm or smaller, and the magnetic layer having a saturation flux density of 1600 Gauss or larger and 2000 Gauss or smaller.
US11514938B2
A data storage device is disclosed comprising at least one head configured to access a magnetic tape. The head is positioned at an idle location along a length of the magnetic tape when entering an idle mode, wherein the idle location reduces a wake latency associated with accessing the magnetic tape when exiting the idle mode.
US11514933B1
The present disclosure generally relates to read heads having dual free layer (DFL) sensors. The read head has a sensor disposed between two shields. The sensor is a DFL sensor and has a surface at the media facing surface (MFS). Recessed from the DFL sensor, and from the MFS, is a rear hard bias (RHB) structure. The RHB structure is disposed between the shields as well. In between the DFL sensor and the RHB structure is insulating material. The RHB is disposed on the insulating material. The RHB includes a RHB seed layer as well as a RHB bulk layer. The RHB bulk layer includes a first bulk layer and a second bulk layer, the first bulk layer having a different density relative to the second bulk layer.
US11514925B2
Operations of a method include receiving a request to enhance a new source audio. Responsive to the request, the new source audio is input into a prediction model that was previously trained. Training the prediction model includes providing a generative adversarial network including the prediction model and a discriminator. Training data is obtained including tuples of source audios and target audios, each tuple including a source audio and a corresponding target audio. During training, the prediction model generates predicted audios based on the source audios. Training further includes applying a loss function to the predicted audios and the target audios, where the loss function incorporates a combination of a spectrogram loss and an adversarial loss. The prediction model is updated to optimize that loss function. After training, based on the new source audio, the prediction model generates a new predicted audio as an enhanced version of the new source audio.
US11514920B2
There are disclosed methods and systems for determining a speaker of a set of registered users associated with a voice-controllable device. The method is executable by an electronic device configured to execute a Machine Learning Algorithm (MLA). The method comprises executing the MLA to determine a first probability parameter indicative of the speaker of the user utterance being one of the set of registered users; executing a user frequency analysis to generate, for each given one of the set of registered users, a second probability parameter the being an apriori frequency based probability; generating, for the electronic device, for each given one of the set of registered users an amalgamated probability based on the first probability and the second probability associated therewith; selecting the given one of the set of registered users as the speaker of the user utterance based on the amalgamated probability value.
US11514919B1
Techniques are described for generating a custom voice for a virtual agent. In one implementations, a method includes receiving information identifying a customer contacting a call center. The method includes selecting a voice for a virtual agent based on information about the customer. The method also includes assigning the voice to the virtual agent during communications with the customer.
US11514917B2
An electronic device is provided, which includes a user interface, at least one communication module, a microphone, at least one speaker, at least one processor operatively connected with the user interface, the at least one communication module, the microphone, and the at least one speaker, and at least one memory operatively connected with the at least one processor, wherein the at least one memory stores instructions, which when executed, instruct the at least one processor to while the electronic device is wiredly or wirelessly connected with an access point (AP) connected with at least one external electronic device, after receiving, through the microphone, part of a wake-up utterance to invoke a voice-based intelligent assistant service, broadcast identification information about the electronic device and receive identification information broadcast from the external electronic device, after receiving the whole wake-up utterance through the microphone, individually transmit first information related to the wake-up utterance received through the microphone to the at least one external electronic device and individually receive, from the external electronic device, second information related to the wake-up utterance received by the at least one external electronic device, and determine whether to transmit voice information received after the wake-up utterance to an external server based on at least part of the first information and the second information. Other various embodiments are possible as well.
US11514916B2
A server for supporting speech recognition of a device and an operation method of the server. The server and method identify a plurality of estimated character strings from the first character string and obtain a second character string, based on the plurality of estimated character strings, and transmit the second character string to the device. The first character string is output from a speech signal input to the device, via speech recognition.
US11514914B2
Systems and methods for an intelligent virtual assistant for meetings are disclosed. In one embodiment, a system for an intelligent virtual assistant for meeting may include a server comprising at least one computer processor executing a virtual assistant computer program; a communication server in communication with the server; and a plurality of communication devices in communication with the server and the communication server, wherein the communication server facilitates an electronic meeting with a plurality of attendees via the plurality of communication devices. The virtual assistant may receive at least an audio feed and a video feed of the electronic meeting in real-time, may transcribe the audio feed using a speech-recognition algorithm, may provide the transcription to at least one of the plurality of attendees, may receive an edited transcription, and may update the speech recognition algorithm based on the edited transcription.
US11514904B2
Methods, computer program products, and systems are presented. The method computer program products, and systems can include, for instance: receiving, from a user, voice data defining a candidate directive invoking vocal utterance for invoking a directive to execute a first text based command to perform a first computer function of a computer system, wherein the candidate directive invoking vocal utterance includes at least one word or phrase of the text based command, wherein the computer system is configured to perform the first computer function in response to the first text based command and wherein the computer system is configured to perform a second computer function in response to a second text based command; determining, based on machine logic, whether a word or phrase of the candidate vocal utterance sounds confusingly similar to a speech rendering of a word or phrase defining the second text based command.
US11514903B2
The present technology relates to an information processing device and an information processing method that make it possible to generate interaction data with less cost. Provided is the information processing device including a processor that generates, on the basis of interaction history information, a coupling context to be coupled to a context of interest to be noticed among a plurality of contexts. This makes it possible to generate interaction data with less cost. The present technology is applicable as server-side service of a voice interaction system, for example.
US11514893B2
Techniques performed by a data processing system for processing voice content received from a user herein include receiving a first audio input from a user comprising spoken content, analyzing the first audio input using one or more natural language processing models to produce a first textual output comprising a textual representation of the first audio input, analyzing the first textual output using one or more machine learning models to determine first context information of the first textual output, and processing the first textual output in the application based on the first context information.
US11514891B2
A named entity recognition method, a named entity recognition equipment and a medium are disclosed, the method including: acquiring a voice signal; extracting a voice feature vector in the voice signal; extracting, based on a literalness result after voice recognition is performed on the voice signal, a literalness feature vector in the literalness result; splicing the voice feature vector and the literalness feature vector to obtain a composite feature vector of each word in the voice signal; processing the composite feature vector of each word in the voice signal through a deep learning model to obtain a named entity recognition result.
US11514890B2
According to an embodiment, disclosed is an electronic device including a speaker, a microphone, a communication interface, a processor operatively connected to the speaker, the microphone, and the communication interface, and a memory operatively connected to the processor. The memory stores instructions that, when executed, cause the processor to receive a first utterance through the microphone, to determine a speaker model by performing speaker recognition on the first utterance, to receive a second utterance through the microphone after the first utterance is received, to detect an end-point of the second utterance, at least partially using the determined speaker model. Besides, various embodiments as understood from the specification are also possible.
US11514884B2
A driving sound library provides driving sounds classified in various themes to a user by analyzing frequency characteristics and temporal characteristics of sound sources classified into categories and determining a chord corresponding to each sound source based on the frequency characteristics and the time characteristics. Modulated sound sources in which each sound source is modulated are generated by applying a chord corresponding to each sound source. The driving sound sources are generated using the sound sources and the modulated sound sources as input data. Pitches of the driving sound sources are then changed based on the driving sound sources and engine sound orders corresponding to an engine RPM of a preset range. Scores for each theme for the driving sounds are generated.
US11514881B2
A vehicle for blocking a virtual engine sound that is introduced into the vehicle includes: a speed sensor configured to detect a travelling speed of the vehicle; a virtual engine sound system (VESS) including a first speaker and a second speaker; and a controller configured to control the VESS based on the travelling speed, wherein the controller is configured to: upon the vehicle being in a stopped state, control the VESS such that the first speaker outputs a virtual engine sound and the second speaker outputs a sound having an inverse phase of the virtual engine sound.
US11514865B2
A driving circuit includes at least one pixel circuit and a control circuit. A pixel circuit is configured to write a first data signal in response to a scan signal, and generate a first driving signal according to a first signal and the first data signal. The control circuit is configured to monitor the first driving signal and provide another first data signal to the pixel circuit according to a second data signal and the first driving signal. The pixel circuit is further configured to provide another first driving signal to a light-emitting device according to the first signal and the another first data signal, and in response to an enable signal of the enable signal terminal, provide a second driving signal to the light-emitting device according to a second signal and the another first data signal.
US11514864B2
A display device includes a display panel including a plurality of pixels connected to data lines and sensing lines, a data driver including a plurality of buffer amplifiers which supplies a first sensing voltage to the data lines during a first sensing period and a sensor which receives a first sensing signal from the pixels through the sensing lines during the first sensing period, and a global amplifier which supplies a second sensing voltage to the data lines during a second sensing period different from the first sensing period. The sensor receives a second sensing signal corresponding to the second sensing voltage from the pixels through the sensing lines during the second sensing period, and generates compensation data based on a difference value between the first sensing signal and the second sensing signal.
US11514861B2
A display device includes a display panel having a curved side or a polygonal side, the display panel including a plurality of pixels in a display region, a gate driver including a plurality of normal stages connected to each other for outputting gate signals to the pixels via a plurality of gate lines, and a plurality of dummy stages between some of the normal stages, and a data driver providing data signals to the pixels via a plurality of data lines.
US11514860B2
A display device includes a display panel including scan lines, first signal lines connected to the scan lines in a first pixel block, second signal lines connected to the scan lines in a second pixel block, third signal lines connected to the scan lines in a third pixel block; a first scan driver supplying a first output signal to the first signal lines based on a first sub-clock signal; a second scan driver supplying a second output signal to the second signal lines based on a second sub-clock signal; a third scan driver supplying a third output signal to the third signal lines based on and a third sub-clock signal; and a timing controller. Changes in pulse widths of the first to third output signals are different in one frame period.
US11514859B2
A display apparatus and a multi-screen display apparatus including the display apparatus are provided. The display apparatus includes a substrate including a display portion, a plurality of pixels connected to a gate line and a data line disposed in the display portion, and a gate driving circuit disposed in the display portion to drive the gate line. The gate driving circuit includes a stage circuit unit including a plurality of stage circuits respectively disposed in a plurality of division regions defined in the display portion, and a circuit repair portion configured to repair at least one of the plurality of stage circuits.
US11514858B2
A display device and a driving method for a display device are provided. The display device uses a second storage capacitor and stably moves the threshold voltage of the driving transistor to a positive value in a diode-connected driving circuit. Accordingly, a compensation performance of a threshold voltage of a driving transistor may be improved.
US11514855B2
A display device includes a pixel, wherein the pixel includes a light emitting element, a first transistor connected to a first power line and the light emitting element and controlled by a voltage of a first node, a second transistor connected to a data line and the first transistor and controlled by an i-th scan signal, a third-first transistor connected to the first transistor and a second node and controlled by a first control signal, a third transistor connected to the second node and the first node and controlled by a second control signal, and a dummy transistor including a first electrode receiving a reference voltage, a second electrode connected to the second node, and a control electrode connected to an emission line.
US11514852B2
A pixel array is provided. The pixel array includes a plurality of red pixels, a plurality of green pixels, and a plurality of blue pixels. Each green pixel includes a light emitting diode (LED), a first transistor, a second transistor, a third transistor, and a fourth transistor. The LED receives a system low voltage. The first transistor receives a first data signal and a first scan signal. The second transistor is coupled to a second end of the first transistor and the anode of the light emitting diode. The third transistor receives a system high voltage and a first control signal, and is coupled to a first end of the second transistor. The fourth transistor is coupled to the anode of the light-emitting diode of an adjacent green pixel, a control terminal of the third transistor, and the anode of the light-emitting diode.
US11514849B2
A display device and a driving method thereof are disclosed, and the display device includes a first pixel connected to a first data line, a first scan line, and a first power source line, emitting light in a first period, and not emitting light in a second period following the first period; a second pixel connected to a second data line, the first scan line, and the first power source line, not emitting light in the first period, and emitting light in the second period; a current sensor sensing a current flowing through the first power source line in the first period to provide a first sensing current value, and sensing the current flowing through the first power source line in the second period to provide a second sensing current value; and a memory storing a first block target current value corresponding to the first sensing current value and a second block target current value corresponding to the second sensing current value.
US11514846B2
A display device includes a light-emitting diode including a first conductivity-type semiconductor, an active layer, and a second conductivity-type semiconductor; a first voltage line to which a first voltage is applied; a second voltage line to which a second voltage is applied; a first transistor including a source electrode electrically connected to the first voltage line and a drain electrode electrically connected to a first electrode of the light-emitting diode and to the first conductivity-type semiconductor; a second transistor including a drain electrode electrically connected to a gate electrode of the first transistor and a source electrode electrically connected to a data line to apply a data signal; a capacitor electrically connected to the gate electrode of the first transistor and the first electrode; and a third transistor including a source electrode electrically connected to the second voltage line and a drain electrode electrically connected to the first electrode.
US11514823B2
A flexible display device is disclosed. The flexible display device includes a first body, a second body, a flexible display, a first rack, a second rack, a first gear, and a second gear. The first gear and the second gear rotate in conjunction with each other. The flexible display is divided into a first region and a second region, and the second rack forms a continuous loop together with the second region of the flexible display. Accordingly, when the second body slides with respect to the first body, tension can be stably applied to the flexible display, and the flexible display is prevented from being loosened.
US11514822B2
A product display in accordance with the present disclosure includes a display header and a product-support structure. The display header is coupled to the product-support structure for showing product indicia related to products stored in the product-support structure to a customer at a retail location.
US11514818B2
A system and method for characterizing, selecting, ordering and rendering discrete elements of digitized video content to teach communications and pedagogic skills. Each of a plurality of observed or computer-generated instances of modeling of distinguishable teaching skills are recorded as digitized assets. Microskills are identified and deconstructed in the abstract from one or more of the visual and audible recordings of teaching skills modeling moments. Identifiers of microskills are associated by a human editor with recorded modeling instances and/or portions thereof. Modeling presentations are dynamically generated by a user asserting one or more microskill identifiers and a network-enabled selection, ordering and rendering of portions of modeling instances that are associated with the asserted microskill identifiers.
US11514817B2
The present invention discloses completely digitized, smart, interactive and connected system (100) for braille learning. The invention also provides platform for consuming coupled audio-braille tactile lessons that include voice and braille data input or output serving as educational tool for visually challenged. The smart interactive system comprises a braille keyboard (117), a digital braille 10 slate (116), a proximity touch sensor (120) for input, a large braille display (110) and standard braille display (108), a vibration motor (119) and a speaker (113) for haptic and audio data output. The digital braille slate (116) gives both mechanical tactile feedback and audio feedback via speaker (115) as each braille dots are pressed using the stylus (306). The system (100) is connected to the internet 15 allowing for remote software and content updates and upload of data on usage metrics.
US11514812B2
The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for automatically assisting physical activities. The system may include a body condition monitoring unit, and an autonomous companion unit. The body condition monitoring unit may obtain body condition data of a user. The autonomous companion unit may be automatically move alongside the user and guide the user. The autonomous companion unit may include a transporting subunit, a plurality of sensors, and a controller subunit. The transporting subunit may be enable the movement of the autonomous companion unit. The plurality of sensors may obtain surroundings data associated with the autonomous companion unit. The controller subunit may control the transporting subunit to move the autonomous companion unit according to a target movement plan. The target movement plan may include a target route and a target speed profile, which are based on a preliminary movement plan, the surroundings data, and the body condition data.
US11514803B2
A vehicle includes a controller that may be configured to, responsive to receiving a delivery request associated with a drone, periodically transmit a current location, trip route information, and acceleration data of the vehicle to guide the drone to a rendezvous location, and responsive to receiving a proximity notification associated with the drone, open a delivery opening of the vehicle.
US11514801B2
A flight control method, device and system are provided. The method includes: sending a first message to a base station, wherein the first message is a message for requesting a radio resource control (RRC) connection, and the first message carries an aircraft identifier; receiving a second message sent by the base station, wherein the second message is a message for notifying the aircraft that the RRC connection is successful, and the second message carries a no-fly zone range; and performing a stop-flight operation when the position of the aircraft is within the no-fly zone range.
US11514797B2
Methods, devices and systems are provided for harmonizing output display characteristics of one component with those of other components onboard a vehicle, such as an aircraft. A line-replaceable unit (LRU) suitable includes a display driver to be coupled to a display command bus, a data storage element to maintain calibration information for the display driver, and a control module coupled to the display driver and the data storage element to identify a current state of an input command signal from the display command bus, identify an adjustment for the display driver based on the calibration information using the current state of the input command signal, and automatically operate the display driver in accordance with the adjustment.
US11514781B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide methods, computer program products, and systems. Embodiments of the present invention can allocate a dedicated traffic channel to a plurality of connected devices. Embodiments of the present invention can dynamically determine an appropriate visualization for one or more connected devices of the plurality of connected devices based on received information. Embodiments of the present invention render the dynamically determined appropriate visualization for the one or more connected devices of the plurality of connected devices using the dedicated traffic channel.
US11514778B2
A system and method for collecting, processing, storing, or transmitting traffic data. A localized data collection module may retrieve, receive, or intercept traffic data through or from hardware installed in a traffic control cabinet adjacent an intersection or other roadway feature of interest. Data which may have previously been confined to a closed loop traffic control system may be remotely accessible for traffic operations control or monitoring via a network connected server and/or cloud architecture.
US11514775B2
A remote switch device can be attached to a mounting interface for firearm accessories, such as a Picatinny rail interface, and used to operate power-consuming firearm accessories (e.g., an illumination device, a laser aiming module, etc.) connected thereto by a suitably configured flexible cable, or wireless transceiver. An example remote switch device comprises: a housing configured to engage with a mounting interface for firearm accessories; a first switch configured to operate at least one connected power-consuming firearm accessory, the first switch includes a force sensing resistor; and a cable or wireless transceiver configured to connect the first switch to at least one power-consuming firearm accessory. The first switch is positioned substantially parallel to the mounting interface for firearm accessories while the housing is secured thereto.
US11514766B1
Storage units including platforms that are outfitted with RFID antennas and auxiliary sensors detect changes in loading on the platforms based on changes in loading determined by the auxiliary sensors or changes in signals received by the RFID antennas. The platforms include surfaces for receiving items tagged with RFID transmitters thereon, such as items of common types and variable weights. An interaction involving the placement of an item on the platform, or the removal of the item from the platform, is detected by the auxiliary sensors. The energization of an RFID field is triggered in response to the detected interaction, and an item is identified where an RFID signal transmitted by the item is present at one time and absent at another time.
US11514764B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage mediums, for a smartlock device that can be integrated in a door at a property. The smartlock device includes a locking mechanism configured to lock the door and to unlock the door. The device includes a radio device and a sensor that determines a first temperature of the smartlock device and a second temperature of a room that is accessible via the door. The radio device is operable to: i) receive parameter signals from the sensor indicating each of the first and second temperatures; ii) transmit data that includes the first and second temperatures to a monitoring system; and iii) receive a command to cause the locking mechanism to unlock the door based on information from the monitoring system. The information includes a determined routing of occupants at the property and is presented on a display of the device.
US11514759B2
A system and method for concurrently wagering on multiple past events such as sports events that may include retrieving data about multiple events that occurred in the past that included multiple participants. The data may include information about the participants as well as pre-event rankings, and final or post-event rankings ordering the results with respect to other participants in the same event. A user may adjust the pre-event rankings or accept them as-is. The user's rankings for the participants of the events may be submitted, and a prize calculated based on the difference between the predicted rankings submitted by the user, and the final rankings of the participants based on actual past events. Various terminals, terminal configurations, and user interface aspects are also disclosed.
US11514758B2
A system and method is provided for enabling an online user to place bets concerning incidents occurring during a game or sports event. This is done by providing a portal for a user to place a bet predicated on a defined incident occurring during a predetermined time segment of the event. The platform includes a module for calculating odds and prize returns for said incident to occur during said sports event or game in response to a user request, a GUI presentation and a settlement engine.
US11514757B2
A bingo gaming system, machine, and method include a main bingo game, a feature bingo game, a main reel game associated with the main bingo game, and a feature reel game associated with the feature bingo game. The main reel game simulates outcomes of the main bingo game. The feature reel game simulates outcomes of the feature bingo game. A feature bingo game may be triggered by a main bingo game outcome. Before the feature bingo game begins, a player may be given an opportunity to select a volatility option for the feature bingo game. The volatility selection may impact the probability of winning the feature bingo game (and/or feature reel game), as well as the reward(s) associated with winning the feature bingo game (and/or feature reel game).
US11514746B2
A local electronic gaming device may include a display system, an interface system and a control system that includes one or more processors. The control system may cause the display system to present visual effects corresponding to a metamorphic image, which may correspond to an award. The visual effects may include changes to the metamorphic image in response to local game event data corresponding to one or more games presented on the local gaming device and in response to networked gaming device game event data corresponding to one or more games presented on one or more other gaming devices.
US11514735B2
The present disclosure provides systems and techniques for authenticating biometric data while protecting user privacy. Aspects of the present disclosure include collecting biometric query data at a biometric sensor of the gun, generating a set of query features from the biometric query data, each query feature of the set of query features including a first number of dimensions, generating a projection matrix, each element of the projection matrix being drawn independently from an identical distribution having zero mean and unit variance, transforming the set of query features into a transformed set of query features according to the projection matrix, retrieving a transformed set of enrollment features from memory of the gun, identifying a data match based on the transformed set of query features and the transformed set of enrollment features satisfying a similarity threshold, and unlocking the gun in response to the identifying the data match.
US11514734B2
Release mechanism (10) for an electronic locking system (156), wherein the release mechanism (10) is configured such that an input member (14) and an output member (16) are locked against relative rotation and can rotate together within a locking ring opening (22) when a locking member (20) is located in an input member recess (42) and in an output member recess (46), and such that the output member (16) is released to rotate relative to the input member (14) when the locking member (20) is located in the output member recess (46) and in a locking ring recess (26). A freewheel mechanism (66) and assemblies (98) for an electronic locking system (156) are also provided.
US11514731B2
A method and system for remote vehicle diagnostics are provided. The method is applicable to a remote vehicle diagnostic system including a vehicle diagnostic terminal and a vehicle connector. A remote communication connection between the vehicle diagnostic terminal and the vehicle connector is established via a preset programming interface. The vehicle diagnostic terminal receives diagnostic instruction data of a diagnostic application. The vehicle diagnostic terminal transmits the diagnostic instruction data to the vehicle connector via the preset programming interface by way of the remote communication. The vehicle connector converts the diagnostic instruction data into first data in a first data format, and performs a diagnostic operation corresponding to the first data, where the first data format is readable by a vehicle.
US11514730B2
In a hybrid vehicle, each of an engine and an MG1 is mechanically coupled to a drive wheel with a planetary gear being interposed. The planetary gear and an MG2 are configured such that motive power output from the planetary gear and motive power output from the MG2 are transmitted to the drive wheel as being combined. A controller makes WGV diagnosis for diagnosing whether or not a waste gate valve is normally controllable by issuing an instruction to a WGV actuator while the controller stops combustion in the engine and controls the MG1 and the MG2 in coordination to perform motoring of the engine during traveling of the hybrid vehicle.
US11514726B2
Systems and methods for integrating cameras and phased array antennas for use in electronic toll charge (ETC) are disclosed. In one aspect, an ETC system includes a camera including a lens and configured to capture an image indicative of a position of a vehicle and a plurality of antennas formed in a ring around the lens of the camera. The system further includes control circuitry configured to: determine the position of the vehicle based on the image captured by the camera, adjust the antennas for beamforming based on the position of the vehicle, and wirelessly communicate with an on board device (OBU) of the vehicle via the beamforming provided by the adjusted antennas.
US11514720B2
The disclosure relates to systems, methods and programs for geometrically constrained, unsupervised training of convolutional autoencoders on unlabeled images for extracting eye landmarks. Disclosed systems for unsupervised deep learning of gaze estimation in eyes' image data are implementable in a computerized system. Disclosed methods include capturing an unlabeled image comprising the eye region of a user; and training a plurality of convolutional autoencoders on the unlabeled image comprising the eye region of a user using an initial geometrically regularized loss function to determine a plurality of eye landmarks.
US11514716B2
Examples of the present disclosure provide a face matching method and a face matching apparatus, and a storage medium. The face matching method includes: obtaining a first attribute of first face information which is to be matched; determining one or more preferential matching ranges based on the first attribute; and comparing the first face information with second face information in the one or more preferential matching ranges.
US11514706B2
A method for detecting gesture key points can include: acquiring a target image to be detected; determining a gesture category according to the target image, the gesture category being a category of a gesture contained in the target image; determining a target key point detection model corresponding to the gesture category from a plurality of key point detection models; and performing a key point detection on the target image by the target key point detection model.
US11514704B2
A video capture and processing system includes a memory configured to store a pose database. The pose database includes poses that indicate a start or stoppage in an event. The system also includes a processor operatively coupled to the memory. The processor is configured to generate a pose of an individual in a video frame of captured video of the event. The pose can be three-dimensional pose or a two-dimensional pose. The processor is also configured to determine, based on the pose database, whether the pose of the individual indicates a start or a stoppage in the event. The processor is further configured to control an upload of video of the event based on the determination of whether the pose indicates the start or the stoppage in the event.
US11514703B2
In order to detect an object by discriminating the object in accordance with the state of the object, a detection device comprises: a detection unit configured to detect a plurality of portions of an object contained in a frame image of a moving image; an intrusion determination unit configured to determine that the object has intruded into a preset area of the frame image; and a determination unit configured to determine whether to notify a determination result of the intrusion determination unit, in accordance with whether portions detected by the detection unit include a predetermined portion.
US11514701B2
Techniques for machine-based identification of objects extracted from text documents in natural language are disclosed. An example method may comprise: identifying matching pairs of one or more information objects corresponding to a real world object, one information object from the document and at least one information object from the document storage for a combination of global identification patterns that exist in the document and in the document storage; ascertaining consistency of the matching pairs and determining which of the one or more information objects in the document are suitable for merging into the document storage; and adding the one or more information objects from the document to the document storage to associate information objects corresponding to the real world object.
US11514691B2
A computer system trains a machine learning model. A vector representation is generated for each document in a collection of documents. The documents are clustered based on the vector representations of the documents to produce a plurality of clusters. A training set is produced by selecting one or more documents from each cluster, wherein the selected documents represent a sample of the collection of documents to train the machine learning model. The machine learning model is trained by applying the training set to the machine learning model. Embodiments of the present invention further include a method and program product for training a machine learning model in substantially the same manner described above.
US11514689B2
Disclosed is a system, method, and devices as system elements to recognize an object by an object recognizing system including an imaging device and a moving assembly to move the imaging device around the object, to form a certified visual model of the object to be recognized. Especially the disclosure relates to gemstone imaging by an imaging method including photographing a target, in an illumination, by a camera, to obtain at least one image of the targeted object to be recognized.
US11514688B2
A machine-implemented method for automated detection of drowsiness, which includes receiving from an imaging device directed at the face of an operator a series of images of the face of the operator onto processing hardware, on the processor detecting facial landmarks of the operator from the series of images to determine the level of talking by the operator, the level of yawning of the operator, the PERCLOS of the operator, on the processor detecting the facial pose of the operator from the series of images to determine the level of gaze fixation by the operator, on the processor calculating the level of drowsiness of the operator by ensembling the level of talking by the operator, the level of yawning of the operator, the PERCLOS of the operator and the level of gaze fixation by the operator, and generating an alarm when the calculated level of drowsiness of the operator exceeds a predefined value.
US11514684B2
A vehicle assembly system includes a vehicle chassis of a vehicle; at least one object sensor mounted to the vehicle chassis, where the at least one object sensor generates sensor data based on at least one detected object; a vehicle controller mounted to the vehicle chassis and configured to receive the sensor data from the at least one object sensor, where, during assembly, the vehicle controller is configured with production control software that enables the vehicle controller to generate production object data from the sensor data, monitor for a safety event based on the production object data, and generate a safety event signal in response to detecting the safety event; and a safety controller configured to receive the safety event signal from the vehicle controller and alter a movement of a surveilled machine corresponding to the safety event.
US11514677B2
Systems and methods are presented for detecting physical contacts effectuated by actions performed by an entity participating in an event. An action, performed by the entity, is detected based on a sequence of pose data associated with the entity's performance in the event. A contact with another entity in the event is detected based on data associated with the detected action. The action and the contact detections are employed by neural-network based detectors.
US11514675B2
Embodiments of a soil mapping process include the step or process of receiving georeferenced field images of vegetation within an imaged crop field, the georeferenced field images transmitted from a field imaging source to an image-based soil mapping system. The image-based soil mapping system visually analyzes the georeferenced field images to identify and categorize non-crop vegetation distributions present within the imaged crop field; compiles a soil characteristic map for the imaged crop field based, at least in part, on a comparison between the non-crop vegetation distributions and data stored in a first database correlating different categories of non-crop vegetation with variations in one or more soil characteristics; and then provides the soil characteristic map for user viewing on a display device.
US11514674B2
Techniques are described for using computing devices to perform automated operations for determining the acquisition location of an image using an analysis of the image's visual contents. In at least some situations, images to be analyzed include panorama images acquired at acquisition locations in an interior of a multi-room building, and the determined acquisition location information includes a location on a floor plan of the building and in some cases orientation direction information—in at least some such situations, the acquisition location determination is performed without having or using information from any distance-measuring devices about distances from an image's acquisition location to objects in the surrounding building. The acquisition location information may be used in various automated manners, including for controlling navigation of devices (e.g., autonomous vehicles), for display on one or more client devices in corresponding graphical user interfaces, etc.
US11514672B2
Provided are methods, systems, and devices for generating semantic objects and an output based on the detection or recognition of the state of an environment that includes objects. State data, based in part on sensor output, can be received from one or more sensors that detect a state of an environment including objects. Based in part on the state data, semantic objects are generated. The semantic objects can correspond to the objects and include a set of attributes. Based in part on the set of attributes of the semantic objects, one or more operating modes, associated with the semantic objects can be determined. Based in part on the one or more operating modes, object outputs associated with the semantic objects can be generated. The object outputs can include one or more visual indications or one or more audio indications.
US11514668B2
A method for situation awareness is provided. The method comprises: preparing a neural network trained by a learning set, wherein the learning set includes a plurality of maritime images and maritime information including object type information which includes a first type index for a vessel, a second type index for a water surface and a third type index for a ground surface, and distance level information which includes a first level index indicating that a distance is undefined, a second level index indicating a first distance range and a third level index indicating a second distance range greater than the first distance range; obtaining a target maritime image generated from a camera; and determining a distance of a target vessel based on the distance level index of the maritime information being outputted from the neural network which receives the target maritime image and having the first type index.
US11514667B1
A method and an apparatus for camera-free light field video processing with all-optical neural network are disclosed. The method includes: mapping the light field video by a digital micro-mirror device (DMD) and an optical fiber coupler, a two-dimensional 2D spatial optical signal into a one-dimensional 1D input optical signal; realizing a multiply-accumulate computing model in a structure of all-optical recurrent neural network structure, and processing the 1D input signal to obtain the processed signal; and receiving the processed signal and outputting an electronic signal by a photodetector, or receiving the processed signal by a relay optical fiber for relay transmission of the processed signal. The method and system here realize light field video processing without the use of a camera and the whole system is all-optical, thus possessing the advantage in computing speed and energy-efficiency.
US11514663B2
Provided are a reception apparatus, a reception system, a reception method, and a storage medium that can naturally provide a personal conversation in accordance with a user without requiring the user to register the personal information thereof in advance. A disclosure includes a face information acquisition unit that acquires face information of a user; a face matching unit that matches, against face information of one user, the face information registered in a user information database in which user information including the face information of the user and the reception information is registered; and a user information management unit that, when a result of matching of the face information performed by the face matching unit is unmatched, registers the user information of the one user to the user information database.
US11514662B2
In examples, a relative skin reflectance of a captured image of a subject is determined. The determination selects from the captured image pixels of the subject's face and pixels in the background and normalizes luminance values of the skin pixels using the background pixels. The relative skin reflectance value is determined for the captured image, based on the normalized luminance values of the skin pixels. Optionally the relative skin reflectance value is qualified, based on thresholds of skin reflectance values, as suitable for biometric use. Optionally, a non-qualifying captured image is flagged and, optionally, another image is acquired, or the non-conforming image is processed further to transform the image into a suitable image for biometric analysis.
US11514659B2
In some examples, a retroreflective article may include a retroreflective substrate, and an optical pattern embodied on the retroreflective substrate. The optical pattern may include a first optical sub-pattern and a second optical sub-pattern, wherein the optical pattern represents a set of information that is interpretable based on a combination of the first optical sub-pattern that is visible in a first light spectrum and the second optical sub-pattern that is visible in a second light spectrum. The first and second light spectra may be different.
US11514654B1
Methods and systems are presented for determining a virtual focus model for a camera apparatus, the camera apparatus comprising one or more image capture elements and one or more optics device through which light in an optical path passes from a stage environment to at least one of the one or more image capture elements, the stage environment including virtual scene display for displaying a virtual scene.
US11514647B1
A non-transitory computer readable medium that stores instructions that once executed by a computer cause the computer to execute the stages of: calculating a first function that represents an object that is three dimensional; calculating a second function that is a convolution or an approximated convolution of (a) the first function applied on points of the object, and (b) an other function that is the first function composed with a function that sends points of the object to opposite points; wherein the second function is translation invariant; and calculating the translation and rotation invariant features of the query object, based on the second function.
US11514646B2
Device, system, and method of generating a reduced-size volumetric dataset. A method includes receiving a plurality of three-dimensional volumetric datasets that correspond to a particular object; and generating, from that plurality of three-dimensional volumetric datasets, a single uniform mesh dataset that corresponds to that particular object. The size of that single uniform mesh dataset is less than ¼ of the aggregate size of the plurality of three-dimensional volumetric datasets. The resulting uniform mesh is temporally coherent, and can be used for animating that object, as well as for introducing modifications to that object or to clothing or garments worn by that object.
US11514642B2
A method using a two-dimensional (2D) image representation of three-dimensional (3D) geometric objects in a machine learning framework has been developed. The method includes generating a single 2D geometry image corresponding to a 3D object model, and providing the single geometry image as input to a shape analysis task to enable shape analysis of the 3D object model based only on information encoded in the single 2D geometry image in the machine learning framework.
US11514632B2
This disclosure describes methods, non-transitory computer readable storage media, and systems that utilize a contrastive perceptual loss to modify neural networks for generating synthetic digital content items. For example, the disclosed systems generate a synthetic digital content item based on a guide input to a generative neural network. The disclosed systems utilize an encoder neural network to generate encoded representations of the synthetic digital content item and a corresponding ground-truth digital content item. Additionally, the disclosed systems sample patches from the encoded representations of the encoded digital content items and then determine a contrastive loss based on the perceptual distances between the patches in the encoded representations. Furthermore, the disclosed systems jointly update the parameters of the generative neural network and the encoder neural network utilizing the contrastive loss.
US11514626B2
An artificial intelligence and machine learning system and method for image generation. The method comprising receiving a word comprising language characters, processing each of the characters in the word into visual elements, generating an image using the visual elements of the characters. The AI system may receive a name of a person such as ‘Amy’ and may process the name into visual elements that when positioned and oriented relative to each other, form a face. The letter ‘a’ may be used as the outline of the face, the letter ‘m’ positioned within the ‘a’ may be used to depict closed eyes and the letter ‘y’ positioned within the ‘a’ and below the ‘m’ may be used to depict a nose and mouth.
US11514622B2
An apparatus for incremental motion correction in medical imaging. The apparatus for motion correction in magnetic resonance imaging includes processing circuitry configured to estimate an intermediate image from a first section of k-space, the first section of the k-space corresponding to acquisition time points within a magnetic resonance scan of a subject, the corresponding acquisition time points within the magnetic resonance scan being associated with shots of the k-space determined to have minimal motion, estimate motion parameters of a second section of the k-space using the estimated intermediate image, combine data from the first section of the k-space with data from the second section of the k-space according to the estimated motion parameters, and reconstruct the combined data of the k-space to generate a final image.
US11514621B2
The disclosure provides a low-dose image reconstruction method and system based on prior anatomical structure difference. The method includes: determining the weights of different parts in the low-dose image based on prior information of anatomical structure differences; constructing a generative network being taking the low-dose image as input extract features, and integrating the weights of the different parts in the feature extraction process, outputting a predicted image; constructing a determining network being taking the predicted image and standard-dose image as input, to distinguish the authenticity of the predicted image and standard-dose image as the first optimization goal, and identifying different parts of the predicted image as the second optimization goal, collaboratively training the generative network and the determining network to obtain the mapping relationship between the low-dose image and the standard-dose image; and reconstructing the low-dose image by using the obtained mapping relationship. The disclosure can obtain more accurate high-definition images.
US11514616B2
In a system for providing augmented reality to a person disposed in a real-world, physical environment, a camera is configured to capture multiple real-world images of a physical environment. The system includes a processor configured to use the real-world images to generate multiple images of a virtual object that correspond to the multiple real-world images. The system further includes a display configured to display to the person in real time, a succession of the generated images that correspond to then-current multiple real-world images, such that the person perceives the virtual object to be positioned within the physical environment.
US11514612B2
A method of point cloud geometry decoding in a point cloud decoder is provided. In the method, first signaling information is received from a coded bitstream for a point cloud that includes a set of points in a three-dimensional (3D) space. The first signaling information indicates partition information of the point cloud. Second signaling information is determined based on the first signaling information indicating a first value. The second signaling information is indicative of a partition mode of the set of points in the 3D space. Further, the partition mode of the set of points in the 3D space is determined based on the second signaling information. The point cloud is reconstructed subsequently based on the partition mode.
US11514597B1
The disclosure presents novel methods to conduct aerial surveying, inspection and measurements with higher accuracy in a fast and easy way, comprising: (1) flying a drone with an accelerometer, gyro, and camera sensors over a target object; (2) capturing a first aerial image at a first position; (3) capturing a second aerial image at a second position, wherein the second position has a horizontal and vertical displacement from the first position; (4) calculating the displacements between the first and second location using a sensor fusion estimation algorithm from the position sensors' data; (5) solving for the pixel depth information of the aerial images by using a single-camera stereophotogrammetry algorithm with the relative altitude and horizontal distance; (6) deriving the ground sample distance (GSD) of each pixel from the calculated depth information; (7) using the image pixel GSD values to compute any geometric properties of the target objects.
US11514595B2
A depth acquisition device includes a memory and a processor. The processor performs; acquiring timing information indicating a timing at which a light source irradiates a subject with infrared light; acquiring an infrared light image stored in the memory, the infrared light image being generated by imaging a scene including the subject with the infrared light according to the timing indicated by the timing information; acquiring a visible light image stored in the memory, the visible light image being generated by imaging a substantially same scene as that of the infrared light image, with visible light from a substantially same viewpoint and at a substantially same imaging time of those of the infrared light image; detecting a dust region showing dust from the infrared light image; and estimating a depth of the dust region based on the infrared light image, the visible light image, and the dust region.
US11514594B2
Various embodiments of a 3D+imaging system include a focal plane array with in-pixel analog storage elements. In embodiments, an analog pixel circuit is disclosed for use with an array of photodetectors for a sub-frame composite imaging system. In embodiments, a composite imaging system is capable of determining per-pixel depth, white point and black point for a sensor and/or a scene that is stationary or in motion. Examples of applications for the 3D+imaging system include advanced imaging for vehicles, as well as for industrial and smart phone imaging. an extended dynamic range imaging technique is used in imaging to reproduce a greater dynamic range of luminosity.
US11514591B2
A system is configured to perform operations includes accessing a set of model points of a model of an anatomic structure of a patient, the model points being associated with a model space. A set of measured points of the anatomic structure of the patient are collected, the measured points being associated with a patient space. The set of model points are registered to the set of measured points using a first set of initial parameters to generate a first transformation. One or more sets of perturbed initial parameters are generated based on the first set of initial parameters. One or more perturbed registration processes are performed to register the set of model points to the set of measured points using the one or more sets of perturbed initial parameters respectively to generate corresponding perturbed transformations. A registration quality indicator is generated based on the first transformation and the one or more perturbed transformations.
US11514589B2
The invention relates to a method and a device for determining at least one mechanical property of at least one object, wherein the at least one object is subjected to at least one interaction which influences a movement state of the at least one object, wherein the at least one interaction is selected such that the movement state effectuated by the interaction is a function of the at least one mechanical property, wherein the at least one object is observed using at least one camera, wherein the movement state is determined from images recorded by the at least one camera and wherein the at least one mechanical property of the at least one object is determined from the movement state thus determined.
US11514572B2
The invention provides methods and apparatus for image processing that perform image segmentation on data sets in two- and/or three-dimensions so as to resolve structures that have the same or similar grey values (and that would otherwise render with the same or similar intensity values) and that, thereby, facilitate visualization and processing of those data sets.
US11514563B2
The present disclosure relates to combination of images. A method according to an embodiment comprises: receiving a visual image and an infrared (IR) image of a scene and for a portion of said IR image extracting high spatial frequency content from a corresponding portion of said visual image. The method according to the embodiment further comprises combining said extracted high spatial frequency content from said portion of the visual image with said portion of the IR image, to generate a combined image, wherein the contrast and/or resolution in the portion of the IR image is increased compared to the contrast and/or resolution of said received IR image.
US11514560B2
A method of correcting image latency in implementing augmented reality includes receiving a first image including frames, in which a time point and a pose of an electronic apparatus for each frame are recorded, from an external apparatus; rendering the first image; receiving first data corresponding to a first time point of a first frame; receiving second data corresponding to a second time point of a second frame; calculating a respective pose of the electronic apparatus for each scan line of a second image based on the first data and the second data; calculating a pixel shift for each pixel in each scan line based on the respective pose calculated for each scan line; generating the second image by correcting the first image based on the pixel shift; and transmitting the second image to the external apparatus.
US11514549B2
A method for graphics processing including rendering graphics for an application using a plurality of graphics processing units (GPUs). The method including dividing responsibility for rendering geometry of the graphics between the GPUs based on screen regions, each GPU having a corresponding division of the responsibility which is known to the GPUs. The method including determining a Z-value for a piece of geometry during a pre-pass phase of rendering at a first GPU for an image, wherein the piece of geometry overlaps a first screen region for which the first GPU has a division of responsibility. The method including comparing the Z-value against a Z-buffer value for the piece of geometry. The method including generating information including a result of the comparing the Z-value against the Z-buffer value for use by the GPU when rendering the piece of geometry during a full render phase of rendering.
US11514541B2
Methods, systems, apparatus, and computer program products are provided. In an example embodiment, a method is provided comprising receiving input identifying load information corresponding to a load to be inserted into a transportation plan. The transportation plan comprises a plurality of transportation schedules, each schedule comprising a plurality of transportation movements. The method further comprises identifying an available movement network comprising portions of transportation schedules having open capacity, each portion of a transportation schedule having open capacity being a potential leg of a path from the origin location to the destination location; determining potential solutions for transporting the load from the origin location to the destination location by combining one or more legs to determine a path of open capacity movements from the origin location to at least part way to the destination location; and providing one or more potential solutions for display via a user interface.
US11514531B2
A system for autonomous risk assessment and quantification for insurance policies for computer and information technology related risks, including but not limited to losses due to system availability, cloud computing failures, current and past data breaches, and data integrity issues. The system will use a variety of current risk information to assess the likelihood of operational interruption or loss due to both accidental issues and malicious activity. Based on these assessments, the system will be able to autonomously issue policies, adjust premium pricing, process claims, and seek re-insurance opportunities with a minimum of human input.
US11514527B2
In some embodiments, the present invention provides for an exemplary inventive system that may include executable program code and a computer processor which, when executing the particular program code, is configured to perform operations of: receiving, for a population of energy consuming physical assets, asset-specific historical data and asset-specific current energy consumption data from utility meter(s), sensor(s), or both; determining, for each respective physical asset category, each respective frequency of breakdowns and each respective average severity of each breakdown; determining, an adjusted breakdown loss value per each physical asset for each respective physical asset category; determining a respective average current energy consumption value per each physical asset for each respective physical asset category; associating each respective energy consuming location to a particular physical asset category; generating, based on usage-based breakdown insurance premium value of the respective energy consuming location, an electronic alert configured to affect the location-specific level of energy usage of the at least one energy consuming physical asset.
US11514517B2
Systems and processes for the gamification of data, including providing scenarios and actionable elements to execute a preferred scenario. Embodiments can include a credit modification software tool that is configured to automate the transmission of one or more messages to effectuate modification of a credit score associated with a user. The system can determine accounts eligible for improvements, application amounts, time to apply, and determine the effect on user's credit score. Embodiments can include scenarios for increasing a user's credit score where funds are not available by applying for a loan to reduce rolling debts, thereby providing a net increase credit score. Loans can be negotiated based on the resulting credit score and autonomously implement. A universal payment system is disclosed to retrieve data and determine a transaction model, which determines the accounts to be used, in which order, and how much to be applied, in order to benefit a credit score.
US11514516B2
Provided are a system, a method, and a program of banking operation support for supporting execution of accurate and efficient banking operations. A control unit (21) of a support server (20) acquires external state information, a financial transaction condition, customer state information, and a financial transaction state of the same time period, from a back-end system (40); performs machine learning using a data set made up of the acquired pieces of information as learning data, and generates a customer action prediction model which associates the financial transaction condition with the financial transaction state; and calculates, for a current external state and a current customer state, a financial transaction condition corresponding to a target value of a transaction state using the customer action prediction model.
US11514511B2
Systems and methods include a computer-implemented method for autonomous bidder solicitation and selection. A pro forma contract defined by a variables matrix of variables is created from a received procurement request. The web is scraped to identify potential bidders based on the variables. Suppliers are registered, including obtaining, through an on-line registration process, supplier registration information including commercial license information and bank account information for each supplier. Supplier registration information of the suppliers is authenticated. Bidders for the contract are selected, including creating a bidder list identifying suppliers who are to be invited to participate in bidding. Solicitations of interest are issued to bidders identified in the bidder list, the solicitations of interest including a statement of work. Bidding parties are evaluated to identify qualified bidders. A winning bidder is selected from the bidding parties. A final contract is created for the winning bidder.
US11514507B2
A method, system, and computer program product for generating a mixed reality simulation is provided. The method includes receiving permission to generate product simulations for a targeted product requested by a user. Current data and historical data associated with the targeted product is received and predicted conditions for the targeted product are generated. Multiple virtual images of the targeted product are generated based on the predicted conditions. The multiple virtual images represent an augmented reality based series of images that predict a progression of physical change over time of the targeted product resulting from exposure to environmental conditions. The multiple virtual images are presented to the user via a virtual user interface of an augmented reality hardware device.
US11514487B1
The disclosed system may include a non-transitory memory and one or more hardware processors configured to execute instructions from the non-transitory memory to perform operations including determining online data and offline data from a mobile application, wherein the online data is determined based on the mobile application being online and the offline data is determined based on the mobile application being offline, determining travel distance data from a remote device associated with the vehicle, aggregating at least a portion of the online data, at least a portion of the offline data, and at least a portion of the travel distance data, generating data associated with the aggregation of the portion of the online data, the portion of the offline data, and the portion of the travel distance data, and causing the mobile application to display the generated data. Other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are disclosed.
US11514482B2
Systems and methods for estimating a remaining value for a host vehicle. In one embodiment, a computer-implemented method for estimating a remaining value for a vehicle includes receiving sensor data for the vehicle associated with an impact event. For example, the sensor data includes timing data for the impact event. The computer-implemented method also includes determining a damage level based on the sensor data. The computer-implemented method further includes monitoring travel behavior of the vehicle for a predetermined amount of time after the impact event. The computer-implemented method yet further includes estimating a remaining value for the vehicle based on the damage level and the travel behavior of the vehicle.
US11514476B2
Methods and systems to identify a user across multiple browsers and machines are described. In some embodiments, a web request is received at a retrieval service from a browser. The web request may include a request to access a retrieval service website of the retrieval service and may be initiated by a redirection of the browser from a requesting service to the retrieval service. A unique identifier associated with a user logged in to an account of the retrieval service may be determined. The user may be logged in to the account via the browser. A redirect request is sent from the retrieval service to the browser. The redirect may include the unique identifier and may redirect the browser from the retrieval service website to the requesting service. The unique identifier may be used by the requesting service to perform additional functionality specific to the user.
US11514475B2
Systems, methods, and computer program products are provided for location-based distribution of data. One or more sets of data from one of a plurality of partner systems are received and stored, each set of data including at least one of a location data and a range. Application information associated with each application of a plurality of applications stored on respective mobile device is retrieved. The application information includes at least application location information. A pool of eligible applications are identified from the plurality of applications, based on the application location information of each of the plurality of applications and at least one of the location data and range of one of the one or more sets of data. A message is generated for each of the applications in the pool of eligible applications, the message including at least a portion of the one of the one or more sets of data. The respective messages are transmitted over a communications network to the applications in the pool of eligible applications.
US11514471B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for determining a plurality of context-based subscription products in a ride-hailing platform are described. An exemplary method may include: determining a plurality of transportation contexts to which a plurality of context-based subscription products are applicable; obtaining a plurality of historical trip-requesting sessions between a plurality of riders and the ride-hailing platform, and a plurality of historical subscription products offered to the plurality of riders; constructing at least one key performance indicator (KPI) model that predicts a reward for the ride-hailing platform offering the plurality of context-based subscription products to the plurality of riders; constructing an optimization model to maximize a weighted sum of the at least one KPI model; and determining optimal values of the plurality of parameter vectors corresponding to the plurality of context-based subscription products.
US11514459B2
Tamper-proofing and secure identity validation techniques in a transaction processing system and secure electronic payment techniques are disclosed. A tamper-proof transaction processing device is provided and comprises at least two different strength adhesives to secure parts of the device together and a housing comprising at least a first and second protective layer. An electronic component comprising a secure element chip storing unique information relating to the chip is located between the first and second protective layer in the housing. In another aspect, a transaction processing system includes a payment instrument that is configured to approve only negative value and/or zero value transaction requests. Another aspect provides an identity card checking system and method where the identity card is brought into proximity of a data processing device and identity information is displayed on the screen of the data processing device for the period of time while the card is in proximity.
US11514451B2
A financial transaction method includes receiving a request to perform a financial transaction at a financial institution, generating a single-use transaction key for the financial transaction, and storing at least a first portion of the transaction key in a storage medium. The transaction key is transmitted to a user that requested the financial transaction, and an authorization request including at least a second portion of the transaction key is received from a merchant. The second portion of the transaction key received from the merchant is compared to the first portion of the transaction key to determine if the transaction should be authorized. An authorization message is transmitted to the merchant if the second portion of the transaction key received from the merchant matches the first portion of the transaction key. The financial transaction is funded from an account of the user if the financial transaction is authorized.
US11514450B2
A system and method for making payments using an application installed on a mobile device, which has access to at least one source of funds. Said application interacts with a Point of Sale (POS) terminal through an application server. The user “checks-in” from the mobile application into said application server and the POS terminal sends a verification request to said application server, where the user confirms payment for a purchase. An Electronic Funds Transfer processing and switching system requests authorization from an issuer for completing said payment and provides confirmation of the transaction being authorized to the application server. The application server then notifies the mobile application and the POS terminal that the transaction has been completed in order to update the transaction records. A receipt of the transaction details may be printed or sent by email to the user.
US11514446B2
One or more implementations of the present specification provide a method and apparatus for starting a smart contract, an electronic device, and a storage medium. The method is applied in a blockchain node, and can include: running a timing start logic defined in a chain code, the timing start logic configured to determine a start moment of a target smart contract, and start the target smart contract when a current moment reaches the start moment.
US11514441B2
A decentralized property system and method allow ownership rights to be transferred directly from one party to another without requiring a central authority to operate or secure the system. Digital signatures provide a method to issue and transfer titles (“bitmarks”) within the system. Using a blockchain algorithm, distributed consensus on asset ownership can be achieved.
US11514434B2
Techniques for providing a localized blockchain that uses a mesh network to facilitate transactions for a localized event are provided. An electronic device can receive data from a localized mesh network to establish the device as a node on the localized mesh network. The established node can generate a cryptocurrency wallet that can be loaded with an initial amount of localized cryptocurrency tokens from a total amount of localized cryptocurrency tokens. The total amount of localized cryptocurrency tokens can be previously mined by a central authority of the localized mesh network. The established node can conduct transactions within the localized mesh network utilizing the localized cryptocurrency tokens. The established node can receive a portion of a cryptocurrency token for transmitting transactional data to a next nearest node on the localized mesh network to help facilitate a transaction involving other nodes on the network.
US11514432B2
Embodiments provide a method of integrating a loyalty program with a payment card of a customer. In some implementations, the method includes sending, by a merchant terminal, a payment transaction request to a server system associated with a payment network. The payment transaction request includes a payment transaction amount to be paid to a merchant account from an issuer account of the customer and a consumer identifier linked to the loyalty program associated with the merchant loyalty card. The method includes receiving a notification comprising a payment transaction approval message and a machine-readable script through the payment network. The machine-readable script comprises the consumer identifier and is executable by the merchant terminal. The method further includes storing the consumer identifier associated with the merchant loyalty card with existing customer data in the payment card of the customer by executing the machine-readable script thereby integrating the loyalty program with the payment card.
US11514427B2
A wireless tag is integrated into a reusable bag. The tag is registered to a payment account. During a transaction, a unique identifier for the tag is wirelessly acquired from the bag and linked to the payment account. When checkout for the transaction is required, the transaction price for the transaction is charged against the linked account without requiring any additional payment screens or payment interfaces at a transaction terminal where the transaction is being processed. In an embodiment, custom use, price, item type, store type, and/or weight restrictions with respect to the transaction and registered with the tag are enforced during checkout by the transaction terminal.
US11514420B2
According to one embodiment, a code reader includes an interface, a scanner, and a processor. The interface transmits and receives data to and from an external device. The scanner reads a code from an item. The processor extracts a portion of code information obtained from the code read by the scanner and transmits the portion of the code information to the external device through the interface.
US11514403B2
A device may receive assessment scores for a candidate associated with an entity and performance data identifying performance metrics and time periods associated with existing members of the entity. The device may process the assessment scores and the performance data, with an attrition model, to identify attrition scores for the candidate and confidences of the attrition scores, and may calculate a final attrition score based on the attrition scores. The device may process the assessment scores and the performance data, with a performance model, to identify performance scores for the candidate and confidences of the performance scores, and may calculate a final performance score based on the performance scores. The device may calculate an overall score based on the final attrition score and the final performance score, and may perform one or more actions based on the overall score.
US11514395B2
A computer-implemented method for determining cost efficient order fulfillment system. A list of items is received in a purchase order for delivery. A quality score comprising a shipping history score, an inventory accuracy score, and a handling score is calculated for each retail location. The retail location with the lowest cost and the highest quality score is selected to ship the order.
US11514394B1
A method for controlling a package delivery sorting system onboard a vehicle includes loading, onboard a package sorting platform, a first package comprising a first fiducial marker, the package sorting platform disposed in a cargo hold of the package delivery vehicle, determining, via a processor, a package identity based on the first fiducial marker, determining, via the processor and based on the fiducial marker, a first package pose comprising a first package position and a first package orientation with respect to the package sorting platform, defining, via the processor, a first package geometry associated with the first package, and causing the sorting platform to position the first package, via the processor, to a second first package pose.
US11514390B2
A delivery system including a vehicle in which a package addressed to a specific user is stored, and a moving body deployed at a delivery site of the package: the moving body including: a first memory, and a first processor that is connected to the first memory; and the first processor being configured to: transmit and receive predetermined information, and perform control, in a case in which the vehicle is proximate to the delivery site, to move the moving body from the delivery site toward the vehicle, to retrieve the package, and then to move the moving body back to the delivery site.
US11514376B2
An airline ticket sales system having a stock recording unit retaining a stock of flights, and a destination candidate extraction unit including: receiving an input of at least one condition from a user via an information processing terminal, information about a destination airport being excluded from the condition; acquiring, from the stock recording unit, information about outbound candidate flights and inbound candidate flights satisfying the condition; extracting, as candidate airports, a predetermined number from airports common to arrival airports of the outbound candidate flights and departure airports of the inbound candidate flights; selecting, based on a predetermined criterion, one from round-trip candidate flights composed of combinations of the outbound candidate flights and the inbound candidate flights among the departure airports of the outbound candidate flights specified by the condition and the respective candidate airports; and regarding the selected one as a to-be-sold round-trip flight.
US11514373B2
The bionic computing system includes a perception subsystem, an attention subsystem, and a temporal-spatial awareness subsystem. The perception subsystem has several perceptual devices for detecting objects from sequences of sensory data and generating an object record for each object. The attention subsystem adjusts the object records by re-identifying the tracking identities across sensory devices, generates several object associations, generate several location associations, and generates several motion implications. The temporal-spatial awareness subsystem organizes and retains the object records in a working memory space. The perception subsystem identifies several basic events from each sensory datum of the same perceptual device, the attention subsystem identifies an episodic event by determining that a portion of the basic events from the same sensory device within a temporal window conform to a pattern, and the temporal-spatial awareness subsystem identifies a complex event according the detected episodic event and the object records in the working memory space.
US11514371B2
In one embodiment, a computing system may receive an uncompressed image from a camera. The computing system may generate a compressed image by performing a compression process on the uncompressed image, wherein a decompressed image may be generated as a byproduct during the compression process. The computing system may send the decompressed image to a machine-learning model that was trained using decompressed images. The computing system may generate, by the machine-learning model, an output based on the decompressed image. The computing system may provide operational instructions to a vehicle based on the output.
US11514369B2
Systems and methods are described for interpreting machine learning model predictions. An example method includes: providing a machine learning model configured to receive a plurality of features as input and provide a prediction as output, wherein the plurality of features includes an engineered feature including a combination of two or more parent features; calculating a Shapley value for each feature in the plurality of features; and allocating a respective portion of the Shapley value for the engineered feature to each of the two or more parent features.
US11514366B2
A computing system receives decrypts learned parameters of a computer-implemented predictive model stored in a computer-readable, non-volatile data store upon instantiation of a model process in volatile memory of the computing system. The predictive model is parameterized by learned parameters that are based upon private data of a user, wherein the learned parameters of the predictive model have been encrypted subsequent to training of the predictive model based upon the private data of the user. The computing system receives a request for a prediction associated with the user. Upon authorizing the request, the computing identifies the predictive model. The computing system, by way of the model process, generates the prediction based upon the request and the predictive model. The computing system outputs the prediction to a computing device associated with the user.
US11514359B2
Provided is a distributed machine learning device which can efficiently converge a plurality of parameters. The distributed machine learning device includes: block configuration determination unit that determines a plurality of configurations of blocks each being a subset of a plurality of parameters used for a prediction model, and acquires a change amount of each subset of parameters belonging to the block, based on a result of executing processing of optimizing the plurality of parameters, and changes an element of the subset of the parameters in the block, based on the acquired change amount.
US11514358B2
An artificial intelligence device is disclosed. In an embodiment, the artificial intelligence device includes a sensor configured to acquire an output value according to control of a control system, and an artificial intelligence unit comprising one or more processors configured to obtain one or more updated parameters of a control function of the control system based on the output value using reinforcement learning, and update the control function for providing a control value to the control system with the one or more updated parameters.
US11514356B2
A machine learning (ML) model publisher can, responsive to an indication that a ML model is ready for publication, generate a publication request form or page on a user device. The ML model publisher can be invoked from within a ML modeling application. Responsive to an instruction received through the publication request form or page, the ML model publisher can access a data structure in memory used in training the ML model and populate the publication request form or page with attributes required by the ML model to run. Responsive to activation of a single-click publication actuator, the ML model publisher can publish the ML model directly from the ML modeling application to a target computing system by providing, to the target computing system, a path to a repository location where the ML model is stored and information on the attributes required by the ML model to run.
US11514353B2
Training and/or utilizing a machine learning model to generate request agnostic predicted interaction scores for electronic communications, and to utilization of request agnostic predicted interaction scores in determining whether, and/or how, to provide corresponding electronic communications to a client device in response to a request. A request agnostic predicted interaction score for an electronic communication provides an indication of quality of the communication, and is generated independent of corresponding request(s) for which it is utilized. In many implementations, a request agnostic predicted interaction score for an electronic communication is generated “offline” relative to corresponding request(s) for which it is utilized, and is pre-indexed with (or otherwise assigned to) the electronic communication. This enables fast and efficient retrieval, and utilization, of the request agnostic interaction score by computing device(s), when the electronic communication is responsive to a request.
US11514349B1
In some embodiments, an apparatus includes a geometric aggregator that receives data for a set of time periods and a location. The data has a first set of first metric values and a set of second metric values for each time period and lacks a mixture of Gaussian distributions. The geometric aggregator calculates a geometric aggregation of the data for each time period to produce a first metric value from a second set of first metric values, having a mixture of Gaussian distributions. The apparatus includes a Gaussian mixture model that predicts a set of Gaussian distributions, each uniquely associated with a season, within a set of histogram values for the data based on the second set of first metric values. The apparatus includes a presentation portion that produces a set of adjusted first metric values based on the set of histogram values, each uniquely associated with a season.
US11514343B2
Simulated degraded sensor data may be generated for use in training a model. For instance, first sensor data collected by a sensor of a perception system of an autonomous vehicle may be received and converted into the simulated degraded sensor data for a particular degrading condition, such as a weather-related degrading condition. Then, the simulated degraded sensor data may be used to train a model for evaluating performance of the perception system to detect objects external to the autonomous vehicle under one or more conditions.
US11514333B2
A computing device receives a message including a request for a recommendation. A representation of a hypothetical ideal recommendation to provide in response to the message is determined based on the message content. Data regarding entities that are potential recommendations are retrieved from a data store, the data regarding each entity including a representation of the entity (e.g., a vector) derived from factual information about the entity and opinions of other users of the entity. Ranking scores are determined for at least a subset of the entities based on the difference between the entity representations and the representation of the hypothetical ideal recommendation. An entity to recommend is selected based on the ranking scores and a reply to the message is sent that identifies the selected entity.
US11514319B2
According to one aspect, action prediction may be implemented via a spatio-temporal feature pyramid graph convolutional network (ST-FP-GCN) including a first pyramid layer, a second pyramid layer, a third pyramid layer, etc. The first pyramid layer may include a first graph convolution network (GCN), a fusion gate, and a first long-short-term-memory (LSTM) gate. The second pyramid layer may include a first convolution operator, a first summation operator, a first mask pool operator, a second GCN, a first upsampling operator, and a second LSTM gate. An output summation operator may sum a first LSTM output and a second LSTM output to generate an output indicative of an action prediction for an inputted image sequence and an inputted pose sequence.
US11514318B2
Examples described herein provide a computer-implemented method that includes training, by one or more processing devices, a first neural network for classification based on training data in accordance with a first learning objective, the first neural network producing an intermediate feature function and a final feature function as outputs. The computer-implemented method further includes training, by the one or more processing devices, a second neural network for classification based on the intermediate feature function and the final feature function and further based at least in part on target task samples in accordance with a second learning objective. Training the second neural network includes computing maximal correlation functions of each of the intermediate feature function, the final feature function, and the target task samples.
US11514315B2
A deep neural network training method and apparatus and a computer device are provided. The deep neural network training method includes: obtaining task attributes of nodes in a current network layer in a tree-like network topology (S101); performing cluster analysis on the nodes in the current network layer based on the task attributes of the nodes in the current network layer and extracting a common part of task attributes of multiple nodes in a same category as a task attribute for a parent node of the multiple nodes (S102); training a network parameter of each parent node based on a task attribute of this parent node (S103); and determining that training of a deep neural network corresponding to the tree-like network topology is completed, after completion of training of all nodes in all network layers (S104). The operation efficiency of deep learning can be improved through this solution.
US11514314B2
An approach for altering alter training data and training process associated with a neural network to emulate environmental noise and operational instrument error by using the concepts of shots to sample within a squeezed space model, wherein shots are an uncertainty index that is the average of all shots from a sampling, is disclosed. The approach leverages a squeeze theorem to create a squeezed space model based on the regression of the upper and lower bound associated with the environmental noise and instrument error. The approach calculates an average noise index based on the squeezed space model, wherein the index is used to alter the training data and process.
US11514312B2
Aspects of the present disclosure relate to a computer-implemented method of processing data portion. The method comprises processing a first data portion in a convolutional neural network to generate a first input to an activation function in the convolutional neural network; providing a first output by applying the activation function to the first input; and storing an indicator, representative of the first input to the activation function, for the first data portion. The method further comprises determining whether to provide a second output by applying the activation function to a second input, generated from a second data portion, based at least in part on an evaluation of the indicator for the first data portion.
US11514305B1
A neural network method, comprising: modeling an environment; implementing a policy based on the modeled environment, to perform an action by an agent within the environment, having at least one estimated dynamic parameter; receiving an observation and a temporally-associated cost or reward based on operation of the agent in the environment controlled according to the policy; and updating the policy, dependent on the received observation and the temporally-associated cost or reward, to improve the policy to optimize an expected future cumulative cost or reward. The policy may represent a set of parameters defining an artificial neural network having a plurality of hierarchical layers and having at least one layer which receives inputs representing aspects of the received observation indirectly from other neurons, and produce outputs to other neurons which indirectly implement the policy, the plurality of hierarchical layers being trained according to respectfully distinct training criteria.
US11514304B2
An approach for continuously provisioning machine learning models, executed by one or more computer nodes to provide a future prediction in response to a request from one or more client devices, is provided. The approach generates, by the one or more computer nodes, a machine learning model. The approach determines, by the one or more computer nodes, whether the machine learning model is a new model. In response to determining the machine learning model is not the new model, the approach retrieves, by the one or more computer nodes, one or more model containers with an associated model to a new persistent model. The approach determines, by the one or more computer nodes, a difference between the associated model and the new persistent model. Further, in response to determining the machine learning model is the new model, the approach generates, by the one or more computer nodes, one or more model containers.
US11514302B2
A programmable impedance element consists of a plurality of nominally identical two-port elements, each two-port element having an impedance element and two switches, the two-port elements arranged in a chain fashion with a structured set of switches such that a range of impedances can be obtained from each cell by dynamically changing the connections between the impedance elements in the cell. The common cell is constructed by connecting the nominally identical two-port impedance elements in a way that the number of possible combinations of the impedance elements is reduced to the subset of all possible combinations that uses the minimum possible number of connections. This structure allows the creation of matched impedances using industry standard devices. The connections between impedance elements are switches that may be “field-programmable,” i.e., that may be set on the chip after manufacture and configured during operation of the circuit, or alternatively may be mask programmable.
US11514298B2
High-framerate real-time spatiotemporal disparity mechanisms on neuromorphic hardware are provided. In various embodiments, a first and second spiking input sensor each output a time series of spikes corresponding to a plurality of frames. A neurosynaptic network is configured to receive the time series of spikes corresponding to the plurality of frames; accumulate the time series of spikes in a ring buffer, thereby creating a plurality of temporal scales; for each corresponding pair of frames from the first and second spiking input sensors, determining a mapping of pixels in one of the pair of frames to pixels in the other of the pair of frames based on similarity; based on the pixel mapping, determining a disparity map.
US11514296B2
Output method and apparatus for multiple neural network, server and computer readable storage medium
The present disclosure provides an output method for multiple neural networks. The method includes dividing an operator operation process for each of the neural networks or operator operation processes for part of the neural networks into multiple times of executions according to a preset ratio of output frame rates among the multiple neural networks; and executing the operator operation processes for the multiple neural networks sequentially by switching among the networks, such that the multiple neural networks output uniformly and satisfy the preset ratio of output frame rates.
US11514279B2
A printing apparatus includes a pattern extracting unit for, based on a comparison between first image data representing a pattern and second image data generated by imaging a fabric transported, extracting a pattern region from the second image data, a printing image generation unit for arranging third image data representing an image to be printed overlaid on the pattern so that the third image data matches the pattern region to generate printing image data, and a printing control unit for causing a printing unit to print the printing image data on the fabric transported.
US11514278B2
Embodiments of the present invention are directed to facilitating data preprocessing for machine learning. In accordance with aspects of the present disclosure, a training set of data is accessed. A preprocessing query specifying a set of preprocessing parameter values that indicate a manner in which to preprocess the training set of data is received. Based on the preprocessing query, a preprocessing operation is performed to preprocess the training set of data in accordance with the set of preprocessing parameter values to obtain a set of preprocessed data. The set of preprocessed data can be provided for presentation as a preview. Based on an acceptance of the set of preprocessed data, the set of preprocessed data is used to train a machine learning model that can be subsequently used to predict data.
US11514277B2
A sensing system including multiple sensor node devices and an analysis device, wherein: each of the multiple sensor node devices has a sensor that measures a measurement target and acquires data values, a learning unit that, based on the data values, learns a model used to estimate the data values at an installation position of the sensor, and a communication unit that transmits learning result data indicating a learning result from the learning unit; and the analysis device has a spatial analysis unit that estimates a spatial distribution of the data values based on the learning result data from each of the multiple sensor node devices and the installation positions of the respective sensor node devices.
US11514276B2
A method and system for identifying recurrent stops of a vehicle fleet having a plurality of vehicles. The method comprises retrieving historical GPS tracks of the vehicle fleet over a period of time; detecting stops made by the vehicle fleet along travelled routes that are associated with the historical GPS tracks; constructing a coverage area that covers the travelled routes; discretizing the coverage area into a plurality of cells; determining whether a cell is a recurrent stop based on a fleet stay period associated with that cell; and classifying a determined recurrent stop into a plurality of categories.
US11514271B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for automatically adjusting strategies. One of the methods includes: determining one or more characteristics of a plurality of complaints, wherein each of the complaints corresponds to an order; classifying the plurality of complaints into a plurality of categories based on the one or more characteristics by using a trained classifier; selecting a category from the plurality of categories based on a number of complaints in the selected category; from a group of strategies each associated with one or more conditions and one or more actions, identifying a candidate strategy causing the complaints of the selected category, wherein the one or more actions are executed in response to the one or more conditions being satisfied; and optimizing the candidate strategy using a reinforcement learning model at least based on a plurality of historical orders.
US11514264B2
A method for training a classification model includes: performing training on the classification model using first and second sample sets, to calculate a classification loss; extracting a weight vector and a feature vector of each sample; calculating a mean weight vector and a mean feature vector of all samples in the first sample set; calculating a weight loss based on a difference of the weight vector of each sample in the second sample set from the mean weight vector, and calculating a feature loss based on a difference of a feature vector of each sample in the second sample set from the mean feature vector; calculating a total loss of the classification model based on the classification loss and at least one of the feature loss and the weight loss; and adjusting a parameter of the classification model until a predetermined condition is satisfied.
US11514260B2
Information recommendation methods are provided. Image information corresponding to an image is obtained by processing circuitry. The image is associated with a user identifier. A user tag set corresponding to the user identifier and the image information is generated. A feature vector corresponding to user tags in the user tag set and the image information is formed. The feature vector is processed according to a trained information recommendation model, to obtain a recommendation parameter of to-be-recommended information. A recommendation of the to-be-recommended information is provided to a terminal corresponding to the user identifier according to the recommendation parameter.
US11514251B2
In an implementation, a method for detecting anomalies in textual items is provided. The method includes: receiving a first plurality of textual items by a computing device; training a language model using the received first plurality of textual items by the computing device; after training the language model, receiving a second plurality of textual items by the computing device; calculating a cross-entropy for each textual item in the second plurality of textual items by the computing device using the language model; and detecting an anomaly in at least one of the textual items of the second plurality of textual items by the computing device using the calculated cross-entropies.
US11514250B2
Computer-based natural language understanding of input and output for a computer interlocutor is improved using a method of classifying conversation segments from transcribed conversations. The improvement includes one or more methods of splitting transcribed conversations into groups related to a conversation ontology using metadata; identifying dominant paths of conversational behavior by counting the frequency of occurrences of the behavior for a given path; creating a conversation model comprising conversation behaviors, metadata, and dominant paths; and using the conversation model to assign a probability score for a matched input to the computer interlocutor or a generated output from the computer interlocutor.
US11514244B2
Techniques and systems are described to model and extract knowledge from images. A digital medium environment is configured to learn and use a model to compute a descriptive summarization of an input image automatically and without user intervention. Training data is obtained to train a model using machine learning in order to generate a structured image representation that serves as the descriptive summarization of an input image. The images and associated text are processed to extract structured semantic knowledge from the text, which is then associated with the images. The structured semantic knowledge is processed along with corresponding images to train a model using machine learning such that the model describes a relationship between text features within the structured semantic knowledge. Once the model is learned, the model is usable to process input images to generate a structured image representation of the image.
US11514241B2
An apparatus, computer-readable medium, and computer-implemented method for transforming a hierarchical document object model (DOM) to filter non-rendered elements, including parsing elements in a hierarchical DOM to identify one or more tags, any properties, and any values of the elements, removing invisible elements determined based on properties of each invisible element, each invisible element comprising an element of the DOM that is hidden from a user when the DOM is rendered, removing empty elements based on the tags of each element, each empty element comprising a tag without any associated values, identifying remaining elements of the hierarchical DOM that have parent elements that have been removed from the hierarchical DOM, and re-parenting the remaining elements to new parent elements remaining in the hierarchical DOM based on traversing the hierarchical DOM from each of the remaining elements.
US11514237B2
A computer software program for improving electronic spreadsheets to manage and control scenarios. The program provides methods for the user to record specific changes made to selected value of cells in the spreadsheet. Each recorded item can be dragged and re-ordered via a graphical user interface (GUI) to build up a scenario script. The script can be executed whereby the spreadsheet is updated with the recorded items. The method allows complex scenarios to be played back in step by incremental step, modified, re-ordered, corrected, and re-played while generating user-defined output reports & charts detailing each step change. The method provides a detailed information trail of all value changes made to the spreadsheet suitable for an independent third-party review. Different scenario components can be recorded in parallel by multiple users and then merged to produce a complete solution. The method is scalable and suitable for scenarios requiring thousands of cell value updates (subject to available computer memory, operating system limitations, and calculation time constraints).
US11514235B2
Systems and methods for generating and annotating cell documents include extracting tables from a document using a table extraction engine. Headers are extracted for each of the tables using a header detection engine. Cells are extracted from each of the tables using a cell extraction engine. A cell document is generated for each of the cells which are each correlated to corresponding portions of the headers, each cell document recording the correlation between the cells and the headers. Each cell document is annotated to generate annotated cell documents with a cell recognition model trained to perform natural language processing on the cell documents by classifying each term in each of the cell documents and extracting relationships between the terms of each of the cell documents.
US11514232B2
An example method facilitates modification and generation of User Interface (UI) display screens for webpages and web applications, such as process-based software applications. The example method includes receiving a first signal to access a webpage that includes a static UI display screen for a web application; serving the webpage in response to the signal; detecting the dynamic configuration functionality associated with the webpage, wherein the configuration functionality includes code and UI metadata provided in or with a dynamic layout file, the code and UI metadata including one or more rules and specifications for configuring schema used to generate rendering instructions for the dynamic part of the webpage.
US11514229B2
Systems and methods for document processing are discussed herein. In certain embodiments, novel document processor programs may allow for a knowledge worker to concentrate on the content of a document, rather than its formatting. Such programs may separately store layout and/or typesetting information from content, allowing for their combination after the content is created. Novel data structures and techniques are provided to permit the use of advanced version control, collaboration techniques and team/or workflows. User interfaces are also disclosed which dynamically adapt to a document type and/or a portion of a document being edited. Such features may significantly increase knowledge worker drafting efficiency.
US11514227B2
Method for displaying a message summary by analyzing the message to identify a sending institution and a message type. A message cluster is determined from the sending institution and repository of messages for multiple users. Extracted items can be identified in the message using the message type. Then the message summary can be generated using the extracted items, the message cluster, and the message structure. These summaries can be used to efficiently summarize a large volume of messages compactly.
US11514225B2
The present application discloses a verification platform for a system on chip and a verification method thereof, the method comprises: constructing a simulation verification environment for the system on chip; creating a bus function model unit, and binding the bus function model unit to the same interface at which a central processing unit being connected to the bus; creating an Universal Verification Methodology test instance, and performing the Universal Verification Methodology test instance by the bus function model unit to implement the system on chip test; creating a plurality of software test instances; and compiling the software test instances, and performing the compiled software test instances by the central processing unit to implement the system on chip test.
US11514223B2
Systems and methods are described to accurately extract device parameters and optimize the design of macroscopic superconducting structures, for example qubits. This method presents the advantage of reusing existing plaquettes to simulate different processor topologies. The physical elements of a qubits are extracted via plurality of plaquettes. Each plaquette contains at least one physical element of the qubit design and has two ports on each side. Each plaquette is concatenated to at least one other plaquette via two ports. The values of inductance (L), capacitance (C) and mutual inductance (M) and quantum critical point of the qubit design can be computed. Changing the physical elements of the qubit design and iterating the method allows to effortlessly refine the qubit design.
US11514221B2
A method of designing a 3D Integrated Circuit including: partitioning at least one design into at least a first and a second level, where the first level includes logic and the second level includes memory; then performing a first placement of the second level using a placer executed by a computer, the placer is a part of a Computer Aided Design tool, where the 3D Integrated Circuit includes a plurality of connections between the first level and the second level; and performing a second placement of the first level based on the first placement, where memory includes a first memory array, the logic includes a first logic circuit configured so as to write data to first memory array. Performing the first placement includes placing the first memory array, and where performing the second placement includes placing the first logic circuit based on the first placement of the first memory array.
US11514210B2
Systems and methods for optimizing a lattice structure design are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, a method for optimizing a lattice structure design can include (i) modeling the lattice structure with a component-wise reduced-order model (CWROM) and (ii) optimizing the CWROM based on a selected criterion using a topology optimization algorithm for lattice design. The selected criterion can include a boundary condition and a load applied to the lattice structure. By modeling the lattice structure as a CWROM, the optimization process can be very fast while still permitting the accurate computation of physical quantities of the lattice structure.
US11514209B1
Circuitry and processes are disclosed that use conventional electronic circuits (comprising, for example, phase locked loops, pulse width modulators, phase modulators, digital logic gates, etc.) to enable quantum algorithms. Such circuitry and processes achieve the requirement for non-quantum devices to enable quantum algorithms: the tensor product entanglement of signals representing quantum states. Such circuitry and processes are readily usable by current Electronic Design Automation tools, to design, verify and emulate applications such as fast, very large number factoring for use in decryption. Also, the independent Claims concisely signify embodiments of the claimed inventions.
US11514195B2
A method may include, in an information handling system having a backplane comprising a plurality of connectors, each connector configured to receive an input/output device, and a motherboard communicatively coupled to the backplane via a cable having a presence detection wire configured to transmit presence detection information associated with the plurality of connectors and further having a plurality of data transmission wires: during a discrete mode, monitoring for an indicator from the backplane via the presence detection wire to determine if the backplane is configured for communication of serial presence detection information regarding the plurality of connectors and enter a serial mode in response to receiving the indicator; during the serial mode, receiving via the presence detection wire serialized frames including serialized presence detection information regarding input/output devices received in the plurality of connectors; and deserializing the serialized presence detection information and communicating deserialized presence detection information to a host controller configured to communicate with input/output devices received in the plurality of connectors via the plurality of data transmission wires.
US11514188B1
Systems and methods for serving subject access requests (SARs) are disclosed. A network connection is established with a user. An SAR, including at least one piece of personal data corresponding to an entity associated with said user, is received from the user via the network connection. Text data is extracted from a plurality of data objects, the data objects including personal data associated with the user. The text data is then processed to identify instances of names and instances of personal data within the text data. Associations are generated between identified names and identified personal data. A subset of the identified personal data that corresponds to the entity is identified based on the associations. A response to the SAR is provided, based at least in part on the identified personal data corresponding to the entity.
US11514184B1
Techniques for database query information protection using skeletons are described. An agent installed on a host computing device with a database instance obtains queries executed by the database instance and skeletonizes the queries to remove sensitive data from them. The agent identifies references within the queries, obtains structural definitions for the references, and inserts placeholders into the queries in place of the references and relates the placeholders to the definitions. The query skeletons and/or similarly-constructed execution plan skeletons may be analyzed to identify modifications to queries and/or the database instance to improve query processing.
US11514166B2
A method may include, in an information handling system comprising a basic input/output system (BIOS) embodied in non-transitory computer-readable media and configured to be the first code executed by a processor when the information handling system is booted and configured to initialize components of the information handling system into a known state: receiving an indication of installation of a protocol by a producer driver of a plurality of protocol drivers integral to the BIOS, storing metadata regarding the protocol in a protocol database of the BIOS, receiving a request to consume the protocol by a consumer driver of the plurality of protocol drivers, and obfuscating the metadata stored in the protocol database from the consumer driver to prevent the consumer driver from uninstalling the protocol.
US11514164B2
The embodiments herein provide a secure computing resource set identification, evaluation, and management arrangement, employing in various embodiments some or all of the following highly reliable identity related means to establish, register, publish and securely employ user computing arrangement resources in satisfaction of user set target contextual purposes. Systems and methods may include, as applicable, software and hardware implementations for Identity Firewalls; Awareness Managers; Contextual Purpose Firewall Frameworks for situationally germane resource usage related security, provisioning, isolation, constraining, and operational management; liveness biometric, and assiduous environmental, evaluation and authentication techniques; Repute systems and methods assertion and fact ecosphere; standardized and interoperable contextual purpose related expression systems and methods; purpose related computing arrangement resource and related information management systems and methods, including situational contextual identity management systems and methods; and/or the like.
US11514162B1
Systems and methods for malware filtering are provided herein. In some embodiments, a system having one or more processors is configured to: retrieve a file downloaded to a user device; break the downloaded file into a plurality of chunks; scan the plurality of chunks to identify potentially malicious chunks; predict whether the downloaded file is malicious based on the scan of the plurality of chunks; and determine whether the downloaded file is malicious based on the prediction.
US11514161B2
Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture for detecting malware via analysis of a screen capture are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a process detector to detect execution of a macro-executing process. An image capturer is to, in response to detection of the macro-execution process, capture an image of a user interface of the macro-executing process. A similarity analyzer is to analyze the image to determine an image similarity to a stored image in a repository of malicious macro interfaces. A responder is to perform a responsive action in response to the image similarity meeting or exceeding a similarity threshold.
US11514160B2
Disclosed herein are systems and methods for determining a coefficient of harmfulness of a file using a trained learning model. In one aspect, an exemplary method includes forming a first vector containing a plurality of attributes of a known malicious file. A learning model is trained using the first vector to identify a plurality of significant attributes that influence identification of the malicious file. A second vector is formed containing a plurality of attributes of known safe files. The learning model is trained using the second vector to identify attributes insignificant to the identification of the malicious file. An unknown file is analyzed by the learning model. The learning model outputs a numerical value identifying a coefficient of harmfulness relating to a probability that the unknown file will prove to be harmful.
US11514157B2
Some embodiments provide a method for a device having multiple users. The method identifies a process installed on the device that requires an isolated storage in a file system of the device. For each of a set of the users of the electronic device, the method assigns at least one container for use by the process within a user-specific section of the file system. The containers assigned to the process in a section of the file system specific to a particular user are only accessible by the process when the particular user is logged into the device. The method assigns at least one container for use by the process within a non-user-specific section of the file system. The containers assigned to the process within the non-user-specific section of the file system are accessible by the process irrespective of which user is logged into the device.
US11514153B2
The present invention provides a method of registering a new user of an online system is disclosed. A base grid is created. The user provides a passcode that includes an indication of an ordered set of cells a grid. A grid salt, user identifying information, and a passcode identifier is generated. The passcode identifier is then split into at least three parts using a secret sharing algorithm wherein three of the parts are required to regenerate the passcode identifier. First and second parts are stored in first and second locations in an array and a third part is stored in a third location with user identifying information. The first and second parts are indexed using X-OTC and Y-OTC. A user token containing the position of the first and second parts in the array is passed to the user.
US11514151B2
Method, apparatus and computer program product for multi-device user authentication are described herein. For example, the apparatus includes at least one processor and at least one non-transitory memory including program code. The at least one non-transitory memory and the program code are configured to, with the at least one processor, identify, on a first computing device, a first active interface session associated with one or more active authentication conditions each configured to enable access to a group-based communication interface of a group-based communication system; cause a first computing device to present an authentication command interface for the first active interface session; receive an interface session request from a second computing device indicating electronic communication by the second computing device with the authentication command interface; and cause the second computing device to execute limited user authentication routines each configured to enable a respective active authentication condition on the second computing device.
US11514150B2
Provided is an artificial intelligence (AI) system simulating functions of a human brain, such as recognition and decision, by using a machine learning algorithm, such as deep-learning. Image display apparatuses are more convenient for a user, by performing user authentication by using an authentication image set generated based on an object recognized from content viewed by the user.
US11514148B2
A password input system equipped with a security setting function is disclosed. The system includes one input unit configured to receive an input from user; an output unit configured to output a current state and result; a dedicated communication port configured to transmit and receive data to and from a password adaptor; a memory configured to save a program for security setting function; and a processor configured to execute the program saved in memory. When the processor waits for an input of a password from user and simultaneously password adaptor is coupled to dedicated communication port, the processor receives a password through communication with password adaptor and compares received password with a pre-saved password, and when the received password matches the pre-saved password, the processor unlocks a secure state without further inputting a password.
US11514147B2
In some examples, a security application may monitor data received from one or more of sensors of a computing device, one or more input devices of the computing device, or one or more biometric sensors of a smartwatch that is connected to the computing device. If the user is not logged in and the user that is carrying the computing device has an uneven gait or is stumbling, the security app may, when the user initiates a login process, gather additional data, such as, from the sensors, the smartwatch, or both. If the user makes too many errors, based on data from the input devices, when attempting to login or after logging in, the security application may gather additional data. If the additional data indicates that the user may be under the influence of prescription or recreational drugs or alcohol, the user may be prevented from logging in.
US11514141B2
A method for verifying a discovery of a geocache positioned at one or more physical locations is disclosed. The method comprises providing a first location information corresponding to a first geocache located at a first physical position; receiving from a user device a target credential corresponding to the geocache, wherein the target credential comprises a dynamically varying identifier associated with the geocache; determining a validation credential associated with the geocache; comparing the target credential with the validation credential; and determining whether the geocache was discovered.
US11514140B2
In general, the invention relates to a method for managing data. The method includes obtaining a data set from a local data system, identifying an audit tag associated with the data set, generating a table entry for a data registration table based on the data set and the audit tag, and storing the table entry in the data registration table, wherein the data registration table is stored in a data tracking service.
US11514139B1
Methods and systems are disclosed for managing registrations of computers. The methods and systems provide a registration tool that may be used to automatically register the computers. For each computer to be registered, information uniquely identifying the computer is collected and sent to a remote registration server. The information is then used by the remote registration server to perform the registration on behalf of the computer. The registration may be with a software vendor, a third-party database, or with the remote registration server itself in some cases. The registration server thereafter returns a registration code or other information to the computer to complete the registration. Such an arrangement allows the registration process to be controlled from a central location.
US11514137B1
An improved alternative therapy identification system increases the efficiency for obtaining information for alternative therapies. The alternative therapy identification system automates alternative therapy identification information from both a product level and a drug cost level. The improved alternative therapy identification system may also increase the efficiency by improving alternative therapy selection to occur at the prescriber level.
US11514132B2
Aspects of the present disclosure involve systems and methods for performing operations comprising: retrieving, from a content management system (CMS), website generation data that references a data model type stored on the CMS; importing, by a migration agent from the CMS, definition of the data model type referenced by the website generation data as a local version of the data model type; detecting, by the migration agent, a change to a property of the local version of the data model type; and generating, by the migration agent, a migration script to migrate the change to the property of the local version of data model type to the data model type stored on the CMS.
US11514130B2
Systems, methods, and devices enable the display of native and web components of application. Devices are capable of identifying at least one native component and a plurality of web components that includes a first web component and a second web component, wherein the at least one native component and the plurality of web components are configured to be displayed on a user interface screen. Devices are also capable of generating an image of the first web component and an image of the second web component, displaying the at least one native component at a location on the user interface screen that is between the image of the first web component and the image of the second web component.
US11514125B1
Devices and techniques are generally described for ranking of search results based on multiple objectives. A first ranking for a plurality of search results is determined using a first machine learning model optimized for a first objective for ranking search results. A second objective for ranking search results is determined. A constraint is determined for the at least one second objective. The first machine learning model is iteratively updated to generate an updated machine learning model by minimizing a cost of the first objective subject to the constraint, wherein violations of the constraint are penalized using a penalty term. A second ranking for the plurality of search results is determined using the updated machine learning model. The search results of the second ranking are reordered relative to the search results of the first ranking.
US11514118B2
The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media for an affinity networking system. In particular, the disclosed systems can determine and facilitate event-centric digital association among users and other entities (e.g., companies) based on event information, user profile information, company information, and private digital clip notes maintained for individual users. In addition, the disclosed systems can generate a digital event (e.g., for a seminar or a convention for users to attend) and can manage registration for the event based on user interactions via client devices. Further, the disclosed systems can enable a client device to create searchable private digital clip notes for co-users, events, or other entities.
US11514115B2
In an example, a plurality of potential feed objects are obtained. An identification of a user performing a navigation command in a user interface is also obtained, the navigation command causing a feed to be displayed or updated. The identification of the user and the plurality of potential feed objects are fed to a machine learned feed object ranking model, the feed object ranking model having been trained via a machine learning algorithm to calculate a score for each of the potential feed objects, the score being based on a combination of a likelihood that the user will perform an interaction, via the user interface, on the potential feed object, likelihoods that the user's interaction will cause one or more downstream events by other users, and a value of the one or more downstream events to a social networking service. The plurality of feed objects are ranked by their scores.
US11514114B2
A method for providing contextual information to a user during a browsing session includes maintaining a user-centric graph including a plurality of user-centric facts associated with the user and derived from interaction by the user with a plurality of different computer services. The method further includes recognizing a context of interaction with a browser application by a user. The method further includes identifying assistive information pertaining to the context, and displaying the assistive information to the user. The assistive information may be based at least on one or more user-centric facts in the user-centric graph.
US11514104B2
Example techniques involve suggesting an application of a streaming audio service via an application of a media playback system. An example implementation involves a mobile device displaying, via a control application of a media playback system, a library control comprising indicators representing respective media items of a particular streaming audio service. The mobile device receives, via the library control, input data indicating a selection of an indicator representing a particular media item. The mobile device sends instructions to cause a playback device to play back the particular media item. While the playback device is playing back the particular media item, the mobile device displays, via the control application, a control representing an application of the particular streaming audio service. The mobile device receives input data indicating a selection of the control representing the application of the particular streaming audio service and causes the mobile device to download the application.
US11514074B2
A method and system for processing query requests, including receiving, at a secondary site, a query request from a client and executing the query request to obtain an archive replica package (ARP). The method further includes making a determination that a record associated with the ARP is not stored at the secondary site and based on the determination, transmitting a request to a primary site. The method further includes, in response to the request to the primary site, receiving an archive package and a record where the archive package is associated with the record, and providing the first record to the client.
US11514065B2
Techniques for accessing implicit information that is used by, but not explicitly persisted in, a computer system are disclosed. In some embodiments, a method comprises: storing a schema for a relational database, the schema indicating relationships between tables of the relational database; persisting explicit data concerning a data subject in at least one of the tables; processing the explicit data using a software application, the processing of the explicit data comprising: inferring implicit information based on the explicit data and the schema; and using the implicit information by the software application; receiving a request for a report of personal data concerning the data subject; and in response to the request, generating the report, the generating of the report comprising: inferring the implicit information based on the explicit data and the schema; and including the explicit data and the implicit information in the generated report.
US11514064B2
Resource provisioning systems and methods are described. In an embodiment, a system includes a plurality of shared storage devices collectively storing database data, an execution platform, and a compute service manager. The compute service manager is configured to determine a task to be executed in response to a trigger event and determine a query plan for executing the task, wherein the query plan comprises a plurality of discrete subtasks. The compute service manager is further configured to assign the plurality of discrete subtasks to one or more nodes of a plurality of nodes of the execution platform, determine whether execution of the task is complete, and in response to determining the execution of the task is complete, store a record in the plurality of shared storage devices indicating the task was completed.
US11514058B2
Examples of the present disclosure describe systems and methods relating to context rules in a graph or isolated collection. In an example, information in an isolated collection may be associated with one or more contexts. The information may be represented within the isolated collection based on one or more rules, and one or more of the rules may be associated with one or more contexts to which the information relates, thereby indicating a context association. A context association may indicate a positive, negative, or other relationship between one or more rules and one or more contexts. Based on the context association, information within the isolated collection may be adapted to generate different views of the isolated collection for different contexts. As such, relevant, useful, or actionable information may be included or emphasized, while information that is not as relevant, useful, or actionable may be omitted or deemphasized.
US11514055B2
Techniques are described for querying on hybrid formats and storages by a DBMS to leverage faster mirror format (MF) data and completeness of persistent format (PF) data. In an embodiment, the DBMS receives a query that specifies both in-memory and disk-only columns. The DBMS identifies that a scan-based operation is referencing an in-memory column stored within both MF and PF data. The DBMS may initiate performing the operation on the in-memory column on one of the formats of data. While doing so, the DBMS may determine that the actual improvement metric for the operation on the selected format data is not achieving the desired improvement. If so, the DBMS may dynamically switch the performing of the scan-based operation to the other format of the same data.
US11514054B1
Supervised partitioning is used to perform record matching. A request to identify matches between records is received. A graph representation that indicates similarities between the records is partitioned and an evaluation of the partitioning is performed according to a supervised machine learning technique to generate a confidence value in the partitioning. An indication of equivalent records according to the partitioning and the confidence value of the partitioning may be provided.
US11514038B2
A method for global optimization is disclosed. The method may include receiving a search request that may include an input. The method may further determine an amount of rotations necessary to perform the search request with a Grover Search algorithm. Then, the method may include determining that the amount of rotations is less than a predefined amount. Further, the method may generate one or more quantum walks. The one or more quantum walks and the Grover Search algorithm may be used to generated a global optimization algorithm. The method may then execute the global optimization algorithm to identify the input.
US11514031B2
A system for a product navigator is provided. The system receives a search string at a business-type classification interface on an interactive user display. A search type associated with the search string may be determined based on a search type selection from a plurality of search types. A search of a database may be initiated for an entry matching the search string according to the search type, where the entry has corresponding business-type classification data including a brief classification description, an extended classification description, and an associated classification code. The brief classification description and the extended classification description may be output on the interactive user display based on receiving the corresponding business-type classification data from the database. A confirmation request may be presented on the interactive user display and a classification code field populated with the associated classification code based on receiving an affirmative response to the confirmation request.
US11514027B2
Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for storing a large object (LOB) in a database. An embodiment operates by identifying the LOB to be stored in an on-disk store of the database and determining the size of the LOB. Thereafter, an index vector for the on-disk store to include an identifier corresponding to the LOB is created. Additionally, a dictionary for the on-disk store to include a copy of the identifier and corresponding LOB data is also created. The LOB data corresponds to the LOB itself or a LOB location inside of the on-disk store based on the LOB's size.
US11514018B2
The invention includes a method for monitoring an automated plant having at least one field device, wherein a first cloud-capable database, having a first data configuration and containing field device related data including measured values, parameter values, identification data, and diagnostic status of the field device, wherein a second cloud-capable database having a second data configuration incompatible with the first data configuration, and wherein the first and the second data configurations define file formats of the data, the method comprises: retrieving at least a part of the data contained in the first database by means of a data conversion unit, especially an edge device or a gateway; converting the retrieved data into a format conforming to the second data configuration; and storing the converted data in the second database. The invention further includes a data conversion unit, which is embodied for executing the method of the invention.
US11514009B2
In a pipeline of operations having a terminating operation and a source operation, a builder is built corresponding to the terminating operation. The builder may also correspond to one or more intermediate operations. A database query is generated corresponding to the builder and is sent to a database or a data source for efficient access to the database.
US11514000B2
Embodiments relate to providing a multi-cloud, multi-region, parallel file system cluster service with replication between file system storage nodes. In some embodiments, a first file system storage node of a file system storage cluster receives a request from a client device to write data to a first file system stored on the first file system storage node. In response to the request to write the data to the first file system, a plurality of servers of the first file system storage node writes, in parallel, the data to the first file system and sends instructions to a second file system storage node of the file system storage cluster for writing the data to a second file system stored on the second file system storage node.
US11513997B2
Techniques are provided for utilizing snapshot longevity information to manage snapshots in a snapshot-enabled storage system. A snapshot management system generates a snapshot volume tree which comprises snapshots associated with a given storage volume. The snapshot management system obtains a snapshot policy associated with the given storage volume, which comprises a snapshot creation and retention schedule that specifies retention lifespans of the snapshots. The snapshot policy is evaluated to automatically determine and assign respective longevity ranking values for the snapshots within the snapshot volume tree, wherein the longevity ranking value of a given snapshot represents a retention lifespan of the given snapshot as compared to retention lifespans of other snapshots as represented by their respective longevity ranking values. When a snapshot is deleted, the assigned longevity ranking values of the snapshots are utilized to select a snapshot to assume ownership of uniquely-written data that is owned by the deleted snapshot.
US11513987B2
A system includes a memory including a plurality of rings, an endpoint associated with a ring of the plurality of rings, and a gateway. The gateway is configured to receive a notification from the endpoint regarding a packet made available in the ring associated with the endpoint, access the ring with an RDMA read request, retrieve the packet made available in the ring, and forward the packet on an external network.
US11513984B2
In an aspect of the disclosure, a method, a computer-readable medium, and a computer system are provided. The computer system includes a baseboard management controller (BMC). The BMC receives a first message from a first remote device on a management network. The BMC determines whether the first message is directed to a storage service or fabric service running on a host of the BMC. The host is a storage device. The BMC extracts a service management command from the first message, when the first message is directed to the storage service or fabric service. The BMC sends, through a BMC communication channel to the host, a second message containing the service management command to the host. The BMC communication channel established for communicating baseboard management commands between the BMC and the host.
US11513982B2
Recommending configuration changes may include: receiving a decision tree comprising levels of nodes, wherein the decision tree includes leaf nodes each representing a different one of a plurality of hardware configurations, wherein a first leaf represents a first hardware configuration and the first leaf node is associated with a set of I/O workload features denoting a I/O workload of a first system having the first hardware configuration, wherein the set of I/O workload features is associated with an action from the first leaf node to a second leaf node, wherein the second leaf node represents a second hardware configuration and the action represents a hardware configuration change made to transition from the first to the second hardware configuration; and performing processing that determines, using the decision tree, a recommendation for a hardware configuration change for a second system having the first hardware configuration represented by the first leaf node.
US11513980B2
A method for performing access management of a memory device with aid of a Universal Asynchronous Receiver-Transmitter (UART) connection and associated apparatus are provided. The method may include: utilizing a UART of a memory controller within the memory device to receive a set of intermediate commands corresponding to a set of operating commands through the UART connection between the memory device and a host device, wherein before sending the set of intermediate commands to the controller through the UART connection, the host device converts the set of operating commands into the set of intermediate commands; converting the set of intermediate commands into the set of operating commands according to a command mapping table; and accessing a non-volatile (NV) memory within the memory device with the set of operating commands for the host device, and sending a response to the host device through the UART connection.
US11513978B2
Devices and methods are disclosed for detecting which of a multiple ports of a storage device is connected to a host system using a shared detection line. In certain embodiments, a storage device includes non-volatile memory, a first data port, a second data port having a faster data transfer speed, a shared detection line, and control circuitry. The control circuitry can be configured to detect voltage on the shared detection line in response to a connection of at least one of the first data port and the second data port to the host system, determine which of the first data port or the second data port is connected to the host system, and establish a data connection with the host system at the first data transfer speed or the second data transfer speed based on the port connected to the host system.
US11513970B2
Virtual memory address space is divided according to areas of the virtual memory address and allocating some areas to low-cost volatile memory (such as RAM) when the memory areas are not required by an application to be stored in non-volatile memory, such as NVDIMM. A loader mechanism creates and maintains a layout address table in non-volatile memory for recovery from an unexpected reset.
US11513964B2
A data-relationship-based FAST cache system includes a storage controller that is coupled to first storage device(s) and second storage device(s). The storage controller identifies a relationship between first data stored in the first storage device(s) and second data stored in the first storage device (s), with the relationship based on a difference between a first number of accesses of the first data associated with a first time period and a second number of accesses of the second data associated with the first time period being within an access difference threshold range. Subsequent to identifying the relationship, the storage controller determines that the first data has been accessed in the first storage device(s) a number of times within a second time period that exceeds a FAST cache threshold and, in response, moves both the first data and the second data to the second storage device(s) based on the relationship.
US11513958B1
Managing a cache includes parsing a physical address of a data block to determine a partition identifier (ID) and a tag; the partition ID compared against a partition table storing partition IDs. The partition table indicates at least one way partition and at least one set partition corresponding to the partition ID. Based on the partition table, a way partition is determined at which to store the data block, corresponding to a subset of columns of a cache and, based on the partition table and the tag, a set partition is determined at which to store the data block, corresponding to a subset of rows of the cache. A cache address is generated for the data block within a first region of the cache corresponding to an intersection of the way partition and the set partition. The data block is stored to the cache according to the cache address.
US11513955B2
A memory module is operable in a memory system with a memory controller. The memory module comprises a module control device to receive command signals and a system clock from the memory controller and to output a module clock, module C/A signals and data buffer control signals. The module C/A signals are provided to memory devices organized in one or more ranks, while the data buffer control signals, together with the module clock, are provided to a plurality of buffer circuits corresponding to respective groups of memory devices and are used to control data paths in the buffer circuits. The plurality of buffer circuits include clock regeneration circuits to regenerate clock signals with programmable delays from the module clock. The regenerated clock signals are provided to respective groups of memory devices so as to locally sync the buffer circuits with respective groups of memory devices.
US11513945B2
The present disclosure includes apparatuses and methods related to shifting data. An example apparatus comprises a cache coupled to an array of memory cells and a controller. The controller is configured to perform a first operation beginning at a first address to transfer data from the array of memory cells to the cache, and perform a second operation concurrently with the first operation, the second operation beginning at a second address.
US11513938B2
Methods, apparatus, and processor-readable storage media for determining capacity in storage systems using machine learning techniques are provided herein. An example computer-implemented method includes obtaining capacity-related data from a storage system; forecasting, for a given temporal period, capacity of one or more storage objects of the storage system by applying machine learning techniques to at least a portion of the capacity-related data; aggregating the forecasted capacity for at least portions of the one or more storage objects; determining, based on the aggregated forecasted capacity of the storage objects, whether at least a portion of the storage system will run out of capacity in connection with the given temporal period; and performing one or more automated actions based at least in part on the determination as to whether the at least a portion of the at least one storage system will run out of capacity.
US11513928B2
A variable power bus (VPB) cable, such as a USB Type-C cable, is validated for actual current capacity with respect to a specified power rating for the cable. The power cable validation is performed when the cable is connected to a power storage adapter and a portable information handling system. The validation includes, prior to negotiating a power delivery contract for electrical power to be supplied to the information handling system from the VPB port via the VPB cable, applying a first voltage to the VPB cable to identify a first indication of a current capacity of the VPB cable; and when the first indication confirms that the current capacity of the VPB cable corresponds to a specified power rating for the VPB cable, enabling the power delivery contract to be negotiated according to the specified power rating, otherwise blocking the power delivery contract using the VPB cable.
US11513917B2
A database can be instantly recovered by a cluster mapped to the database. Nodes of the cluster are mapped over channels to directories of the database. Scripts are generated from one or more templates that specify the order and values to be executed to perform a database job, such as database recovery. To recover the database, a template is executed that generates and populates scripts, which are processed on the host of the database to recover the database in a nearly instant manner without transferring data files.
US11513915B2
A backup management system for providing data integrity services to an application host that hosts an application that uses application data includes storage for storing threshold values for creating an application backup and a processor programmed to monitor: a rate of change associated with the application data, and an input-output rate of the application data; make a determination, based on the threshold values, the rate of change, and the input-output rate, that an unscheduled backup for the application is to be generated; obtain a micro-backup for the application in response to the determination; and obtain a restoration ready backup for the application using the micro-backup and at least one previously generated backup.
US11513912B2
Application discovery from access patterns is disclosed. Access histories from multiple servers are collected and stored at a warehouse, which may be part of a data protection system. A time series analysis is performed on the access history to identify consistency groups and applications from the perspective of devices and storage arrays. Data protection operations such as backup operations can then be performed on the basis of devices or storage in storage arrays or other arrangements that pertain to specific consistency groups or to specific applications.
US11513906B2
Methods and systems for data backup are described. According to some embodiments, the method includes in response to receiving a request for database instance discovery, retrieving backup history information. The method further includes filtering the backup history information to obtain selected backup information. The method further includes sending an instance discovery response that includes the selected backup information. The method further includes generating one or more protection policies based on the selected backup information.
US11513902B1
Embodiments provide for a primary storage array having multiple storage tiers. The multiple storage tiers include one or more performance tiers and at least one deduplicated storage tier storing deduplicated data. One embodiment provides for a data storage system including the storage array and an I/O engine to manage I/O requests for the storage array. The data storage system additionally includes a virtual execution environment to execute a virtual backup engine, the virtual backup engine to generate backup data for the one or more storage tiers of primary storage and deduplicate the backup data and a resource manager to manage a resource allocation to the virtual backup engine based on a hint received from the virtual backup engine, the hint associated with a backup operation that has a characterization selected from a set including computationally intensive and I/O intensive.
US11513901B2
Embodiments are described for a heuristic configuration selection process as part of or accessible by the backup management process. This processing component provides a method to automatically determine the configuration parameters needed to obtain optimal performance for a given backup/restore job. This process involves identifying key parameters that determine backup performance and suggest means to derive and incorporate those configurable parameters into the backup software automatically. Embodiments can be applied to stream based backups, or other types of backup software as well.
US11513898B2
A distributed storage system includes a plurality of nodes comprising a first node, wherein a total number of nodes in the distributed storage system is represented by n, wherein a file stored in the distributed storage system is recovered from a subset of a number of nodes represented by k upon a file failure on a node in the distributed storage system, and wherein a failed node in the plurality of nodes is recovered from a number of helper nodes of the plurality of nodes represented by d. Upon detecting a failure in the first node, each helper node of the number of helper nodes is configured to determine a repair-encoder matrix, multiply a content matrix by the repair-encoder matrix to obtain a repair matrix, extract each linearly independent column of the repair matrix, and send the linearly independent columns of the repair matrix to the first node.
US11513897B2
Inventive aspects include a polar code encoding system, which includes a partitioning unit to receive and partition input data into partitioned input data units. Encoders encode the partitioned input data units, and generate encoded partitioned input data units. Multiplier units perform matrix multiplication on the partitioned input data units and generator matrices, and generate matrix products. Adder units perform matrix addition on the encoded partitioned input data units and the matrix products. A combining unit combines outputs of the encoders into a target code word X. The target code word X may be a length-N code word X, where N=N1+N2+ . . . +Nm, where each of N1, N2, through Nm are a power of two (2).
US11513894B2
Various implementations described herein relate to systems and methods for decoding data stored in a non-volatile storage device, including determining error candidates and determining whether at least one first error candidate from the error candidates is found based on two of the component codes agreeing on a same error candidate. In addition, whether at least one second error candidate is found based on two of the component codes agreeing on a same error candidate is determined in response to implementing a suggested correction at one of the error candidates. Errors in the data are corrected based on at least one of whether the at least one first error candidate is found or whether the at least one second error candidate is found.
US11513893B2
A system includes a compute circuit that preemptively performs a computation on a data word before receiving an indication of data errors from an error checking and correction (ECC) circuit. The ECC circuit reads the data word from a memory array and performs error detection and error correction on the data word. The compute circuit reads the data word and performs the computation on the data word to generate an output value, without waiting for the ECC circuit to check and correct the data word. In response to error detection in the data word by the ECC circuit, the compute circuit delays outputting the output value until correction of the output value in accordance with the error detection by the ECC circuit.
US11513891B2
Various implementations described herein relate to systems and methods for providing data protection and recovery for drive failures, including receiving, by a storage device, a write request from a host operatively coupled to a storage device, and determining, by the storage device instead of the host, an XOR result by performing an XOR operation of new data and existing data. The new data is received from the host. The existing data is stored in the non-volatile storage.
US11513888B2
A data processing device includes a plurality of variable nodes configured to receive and store a plurality of target bits; a plurality of check nodes each configured to receive stored target bits from one or more corresponding variable nodes of the plurality of variable nodes, check whether received target bits have an error bit, and transmit a check result to the corresponding variable nodes; and a group state value manager configured to determine group state values of variable node groups into which the plurality of variable nodes are grouped.
US11513886B2
A system for managing one or more robots is provided. The system is configured to resolve the one or more issues or faults that lead to failure of execution of one or more automation processes executed by the one or more robots. The system is configured to receive information of an issue associated with at least one robot of the one or more robots and further configured to obtain job log data, associated with the at least one robot, for the issue. The system is further configured to determine, using a trained machine learning model, a corrective action, and its associated confidence score for resolving the received issue, based on the job log data and an analysis performed by the trained machine learning model. Further, system performs the corrective action based on the confidence score and the analysis, for managing the one or more robots.
US11513885B2
An embodiment may involve, based on a pre-defined trigger associated with a particular application, reading error data from a resource that is used by the particular application, wherein persistent storage contains definitions of a plurality of error scenarios, a plurality of fix scripts, and associations between each of the plurality of error scenarios and one or more of the plurality of fix scripts; applying one or more rules to the error data, wherein the rules involve pattern matching or parsing; based on applying the one or more rules, determining a particular error scenario represented in the error data, wherein the particular error scenario is one of the plurality of error scenarios; determining, based on the associations, a particular fix script associated with the particular error scenario, wherein the particular fix script is one of the plurality of fix scripts; and causing execution of the particular fix script.
US11513881B2
The invention relates to a method for detecting a multimedia communication problem. In one aspect, this is implemented by an execution entity, in a processing phase. A message(s) is received that belongs to at least one stream to be monitored relating to at least one media stream. A correspondence between the received message(s) and rule(s) associated with a stream(s) to be monitored is verified. If verified an error detection massage is sent to a checking entity separate from the execution entity, via a rule management entity.
US11513879B2
Weak erase detection and mitigation techniques are provided that detect permanent failures in solid-state storage devices. One exemplary method comprises obtaining an erase fail bits metric for a solid-state storage device; and detecting a permanent failure in at least a portion of the solid-state storage device causing weak erase failure mode by comparing the erase fail bit metric to a predefined fail bits threshold. In at least one embodiment, the method also comprises mitigating for the permanent failure causing the weak erase failure mode for one or more cells of the solid-state storage device. The mitigating for the permanent failure comprises, for example, changing a status of the one or more cells to a defective state and/or a retired state. The detection of the permanent failure causing the weak erase failure mode comprises, for example, detecting the weak erase failure mode without an erase failure.
US11513878B2
Aspects of the disclosure relate to the field of detecting a behavioral anomaly in an application. In one exemplary aspect, a method may comprise retrieving and identifying at least one key metric from historical usage information for an application on a computing device. The method may comprise generating a regression model configured to predict usage behavior associated with the application and generating a statistical model configured to identify outliers in the data associated with the at least one key metric. The method may comprise receiving usage information in real-time for the application. The method may comprise predicting, using the regression model, a usage pattern for the application indicating expected values of the at least one key metric. In response to determining that the usage information does not correspond to the predicted usage pattern and does not comprise a known outlier, the method may comprise detecting the behavioral anomaly.
US11513867B2
A system and method of supporting point-to-point synchronization among processes/nodes implementing different hardware barriers in a tuple space/coordinated namespace (CNS) extended memory storage architecture. The system-wide CNS provides an efficient means for storing data, communications, and coordination within applications and workflows implementing barriers in a multi-tier, multi-nodal tree hierarchy. The system provides a hardware accelerated mechanism to support barriers between the participating processes. Also architected is a tree structure for a barrier processing method where processes are mapped to nodes of a tree, e.g., a tree of degree k, to provide an efficient way of scaling the number of processes in a tuple space/coordination namespace.
US11513866B1
The present teaching relates to managing computing resources. In one example, information about resource utilization on a computing node is received from the computing node. Available resource on the computing node is determined based on the information. A model generated in accordance with reinforcement learning based on simulated training data is obtained. An adjusted available resource is generated based on the available resource and the model with respect to the computing node. The adjusted available resource is sent to a scheduler for scheduling one or more jobs to be executed on the computing node based on the adjusted available resource.
US11513847B2
A method includes: dequeuing a signal primitive from a signaling command queue in the set of command queues, the signal primitive pointing to a waiting command queue; in response to the signal primitive pointing to the waiting command queue, incrementing a number of pending signal primitives in the signal-wait counter matrix; dequeuing a wait primitive from the waiting command queue, the wait primitive pointing to the signaling command queue; in response to the wait primitive pointing to the signaling command queue, accessing the register to read the number of pending signal primitives; in response to the number of pending signal primitives indicating at least one pending signal primitive: decrementing the number of pending signal primitives; and dequeuing an instruction from the waiting command queue; and dispatching a control signal representing the instruction to a resource.
US11513840B2
Representative apparatus, method, and system embodiments are disclosed for a self-scheduling processor which also provides additional functionality. Representative embodiments include a self-scheduling processor, comprising: a processor core adapted to execute a received instruction; and a core control circuit adapted to automatically schedule an instruction for execution by the processor core in response to a received work descriptor data packet. In another embodiment, the core control circuit is also adapted to schedule a fiber create instruction for execution by the processor core, to reserve a predetermined amount of memory space in a thread control memory to store return arguments, and to generate one or more work descriptor data packets to another processor or hybrid threading fabric circuit for execution of a corresponding plurality of execution threads. Event processing, data path management, system calls, memory requests, and other new instructions are also disclosed.
US11513826B2
Methods and systems provide a library of various language bindings for application programming interface enabled network devices. The library is generated on-demand based on respective capabilities of a target network device. In these methods, a computing device obtains a selection of a target network device among a plurality of network devices and one or more data models that represent capabilities of the target network device. The computing device generates a library of one or more object models, each of which respectively corresponds to one of the one or more data models. The one or more object models define command line options for interfacing with the target network device. In these methods, the computing device provides a language shell for interacting with the target network device based on the one or more object models in the library.
US11513822B1
Classification and visualization of user interactions with an interactive computing platform is provided by applying machine learning (ML) model(s) to user transcripts, the ML model(s) trained to classify interactions with an interactive computing platform, the user transcripts including user interactions between users and the interactive computing platform in progression of the users through tasks based on the user interactions, where the applying classifies the user interactions and identifies features of the user interactions, and building and providing a graphical user interface (GUI) of graphical elements for display on a display device, the graphical elements presenting visualizations of the user interactions and the identified features thereof relative to the tasks and progression of the users therethrough, the GUI including, for each of the tasks, a respective task element that reflects identified features of a set of user interactions of user(s) in progressing through that task.
US11513817B2
A determination is made whether an incident that affects one configuration item in a plurality of configuration items within an information technology environment impacts at least one event for at least one other configuration item in the plurality of configuration items. In response to determining that the incident does impact at least one event on at least one other configuration item, one or more pre-defined actions to execute on the at least one other configuration item are identified. The identified one or more pre-defined actions are executed on the at least one other configuration item.
US11513809B2
A network boot of a platform-specific operating system kernel is performed from a compressed platform-specific operating system kernel. The platform-specific operating system kernel, when booted, dynamically builds from the compressed platform-specific operating system kernel a bootable file system and boots application code. An application is loaded from the bootable file system.
US11513805B2
A computer architecture employs multiple special-purpose processors having different affinities for program execution to execute substantial portions of general-purpose programs to provide improved performance with respect to a general-purpose processor executing the general-purpose program alone.
US11513804B2
A semiconductor device comprising a processor having a pipelined architecture and a pipeline flattener and a method for operating a pipeline flattener in a semiconductor device are provided. The processor comprises a pipeline having a plurality of pipeline stages and a plurality of pipeline registers that are coupled between the pipeline stages. The pipeline flattener comprises a plurality of trigger registers for storing a trigger, wherein the trigger registers are coupled between the pipeline stages.
US11513802B2
An electronic device includes a processor having a micro-operation queue, multiple scheduler entries, and scheduler compression logic. When a pair of micro-operations in the micro-operation queue is compressible in accordance with one or more compressibility rules, the scheduler compression logic acquires the pair of micro-operations from the micro-operation queue and stores information from both micro-operations of the pair of micro-operations into different portions in a single scheduler entry. In this way, the scheduler compression logic compresses the pair of micro-operations into the single scheduler entry.
US11513799B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to chained buffers in a neural processor circuit. The neural processor circuit includes multiple neural engines, a planar engine, a buffer memory, and a flow control circuit. At least one neural engine operates as a first producer of first data or a first consumer of second data. The planar engine operates as a second consumer receiving the first data from the first producer or a second producer sending the second data to the first consumer. Data flow between the at least one neural engine and the planar engine is controlled using at least a subset of buffers in the buffer memory operating as at least one chained buffer that chains flow of the first data and the second data between the at least one neural engine and the planar engine.
US11513795B2
A method may include, in an operating system, implementing a sensor hub in firmware of a platform controller hub of an information handling system, the sensor hub configured to implement a plurality of sensor physical microdrivers, each of the plurality of sensor physical microdrivers corresponding to a respective sensor of a plurality of sensors and configured to communicate a signal representing a physical quantity sensed by the respective sensor; a plurality of algorithm microdrivers implemented as virtual microdrivers, each of the plurality of algorithm microdrivers corresponding to a respective sensor physical microdriver of the plurality of sensor physical microdrivers; and a user-awareness arbitration microdriver implemented as a virtual microdriver and configured to receive an arbitration policy for user awareness detection, receive sensor information from the plurality of algorithm microdrivers, and based on the arbitration policy, apply arbitration logic to the sensor information to determine a user awareness.
US11513777B2
One or more lines of computer code are accessed. An electronic dictionary file is retrieved in response to the accessing of the computer code. The electronic dictionary file contains definitions for a plurality of commands or terms associated with the one or more lines of computer code. Based on the definitions contained in the electronic dictionary file, the one or more lines of computer code are parsed. An output is generated based on the parsing of the computer code. The output contains information explaining the one or more lines of computer code or an intended result of an execution thereof.
US11513774B2
A neural transformer model with attention is trained to predict candidates to complete a line of source code with a zero-inference capability. The model is trained on an unsupervised training dataset that includes features from source code written in multiple programming languages. The features include a file-level context and a local context, where the file-level context includes a global context, a class context, a function context, and/or a method context for each class, function and/or method of the source code programs used in the training dataset. The local context includes method bodies, function bodies, and/or stand-alone code of main method routines. From these features, the model is able to learn to predict an ordered sequence of code elements that complete a line of source code in a programming language seen and not seen during training.
US11513768B2
An information processing device including a specifying unit configured to, based on a speech of a user, specify a selected spot that is intended by the user from visual information that is displayed, wherein the specifying unit is configured to specify the selected spot based on a non-verbal action and a verbal action of the user, is provided. Furthermore, an information processing method including, by a processor, based on a speech of a user, specifying a selected spot that is intended by the user from visual information that is displayed, wherein the specifying includes specifying the selected spot based on a non-verbal action and a verbal action of the user, is provided.
US11513765B2
There is provided a Bluetooth audio system including a gateway, a primary device and at least one slave device. The gateway and the primary device communicate Bluetooth packets therebetween based on the standard Bluetooth communication protocol. The at least one slave device accomplishes synchronization with the primary device using a user-defined Bluetooth communication protocol so as to listen or snoop the Bluetooth packets exchanged between the gateway and the primary device.
US11513764B2
A wireless enabled load control device having integrated voice control is disclosed. The load control device may be connected to a variety of local and remote devices, including lighting devices and smart appliances, as well as various cloud service platforms. The load control device may receive a voice command from a user. The load control device may transmit the voice command to a first cloud service platform for processing to determine an instruction included in the voice command. The determined instruction may be provided to a second cloud service platform connected to the first cloud service platform. The first and second cloud service platforms may be connected to a device to be controlled based on the voice command. The cloud service platforms can adjust an operation of the device based on the determined instruction.
US11513759B1
Devices, systems, and methods are provided for using a soundmark to indicate availability of supplemental content. A method may include presenting, by a device, first narrated content from a first audio file. The method may include presenting a soundmark, the soundmark indicating that second narrated content from a second audio file is available for presentation. The method may include receiving a request to present the second narrated content, and causing presentation of the second audio file.
US11513754B2
Presenting first drawer area on a first display device in an instrument panel of a vehicle, the first drawer area presented in an extended state; presenting second drawer area on a second display device in the instrument panel of the vehicle, the second drawer area presented in a retracted state; receiving first transition command regarding the first and second drawer areas; and in response to receiving the first transition command: presenting the first drawer area in the retracted state on the first display device, wherein the first content is not visible in the first drawer area in the retracted state; and presenting the second drawer area in the extended state on the second display device, wherein the first content of the first application is visible in the second drawer area.
US11513752B2
A printing control apparatus includes a transmission unit configured to transmit, to a transmission destination corresponding to any one of a plurality of different regions where a predetermined cloud print service is provided, a registration request to register the printing control apparatus in the predetermined cloud print service, and a setting unit configured to set the transmission destination.
US11513737B2
Data overflows can be prevented in edge computing systems. For example, an edge computing system (ECS) can include a memory buffer for storing incoming data from client devices. The ECS can also include a local storage device. The ECS can determine that an amount of available storage space in the local storage device is less than a predefined threshold amount. Based on determining that the amount of available storage space is less than the predefined threshold amount, the ECS can prevent the incoming data from being retrieved from the memory buffer. And based on determining that the amount of available storage space is greater than or equal to the predefined threshold amount, the ECS can retrieve the incoming data from the memory buffer and store the incoming data in the local storage device. This may prevent data overflows associated with the local storage device.
US11513731B2
A method, computer program product, and computing system for selecting target volumes within a storage system that are currently accessible to computing devices via first storage protocol paths via a first storage protocol for accessing via second storage protocol paths via a second storage protocol. For each of the selected target volumes, a first storage protocol identifier specific to each selected target volume may be associated with a second storage protocol identifier specific to each selected target volume. The first storage protocol paths and the second storage protocol paths may be grouped into a multipath group based upon the association between the first storage protocol identifier and the second storage protocol identifier. Access between the computing devices and the selected target volumes may be switched from the first storage protocol paths to the second storage protocol paths without application disruption and across multiple host platforms, including host-clusters.
US11513729B1
A computer-based system and method for providing a distributed write buffer in a storage system, including: obtaining a write request at a primary storage server to store data associated with the write request in a non-volatile storage of the primary storage server; and storing the data associated with the write request in a persistent memory of the primary storage server or in a persistent memory of an auxiliary storage server based on presence of persistent memory space in the primary storage server. The write request may be acknowledged by the primary storage server after storing the data associated with the write request in the persistent memory of the primary storage server or in the persistent memory of the auxiliary storage server.
US11513717B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for online rehydration. One of the methods includes intercepting a request issued by a virtual computing instance to a primary storage system, wherein the request identifies first data stored in the primary storage system; determining whether the first data has been rehydrated by a rehydration system; and in response to determining that at least a first portion of the first data has not been rehydrated by the rehydration system: submitting, to the rehydration system, a rehydration request that identifies the first portion of the first data that has not been rehydrated; obtaining, from the rehydration system, a response that includes a copy of the first portion of the first data, wherein the rehydration system has obtained the copy from a backup storage system; and responding to the request using the copy of the first portion of the first data.
US11513716B2
A technique for maintaining synchronization between two arrays includes assigning one array to be a preferred array and the other array to be a non-preferred array. When write requests are received at the preferred array, the writes are applied locally first and then applied remotely. However, when write requests are received at the non-preferred array, such writes are applied remotely first and then applied locally. Thus, writes are applied first on the preferred array and then on the non-preferred array, regardless of whether the writes are initially received at the preferred array or the non-preferred array.
US11513714B2
Data migration from a legacy data storage system into an ordered event stream (OES) data storage system is disclosed. In contrast to conventional techniques, the disclosed subject matter can provide for migrating legacy data into a first portion of a vintage OES (VOES) and new data, intended for the legacy data storage system during the migration process, into a second portion of the VOES. The first and second portions of the VOES can then be linked at completion of the migration process. Avoiding writing new data to the legacy data storage system prior to migration enables a corresponding reduction in data access disruption. Moreover, event sequencing by separating migrated legacy events from new events can preserving event order. Scaling of vintage streams can be supported. Vintage streams can support function calls to a single VOES in contrast to the more conventional use of multiple streams.
US11513703B2
Electronic systems might include a plurality of groups of memory cells and a controller for access of the plurality of groups of memory cells that is configured to cause the electronic system to determine whether a reliability of a particular group of memory cells having a particular reliability rank allocated for storing data of a particular data level at a particular memory density is less than a target reliability, and, if so, determine whether the reliability of the particular group of memory cells at a reduced memory density is less than the target reliability, and, in response to determining that the reliability of the particular group of memory cells at the reduced density is less than the target reliability, allocate the particular group of memory cells for storing data of a lower data level and allocate a different group of memory cells for storing data of the particular data level.
US11513701B2
A method, computer program product, and computing system for during a high IOPs period, receiving content to be written to a storage system; storing the content to a specific location within a storage device associated with the storage system; updating a temporary map to include an entry that defines the specific location of the content; and during a subsequent period, binding the content with respect to the storage device.
US11513695B2
A method for data synchronization includes identifying a replaced component amongst a plurality of components in a storage system, establishing a quorum amongst the plurality of components in the storage system, and updating vital product data stored on the replaced component based at least in part on the quorum established amongst the plurality of components in the storage system. A computer program product for data synchronization includes one or more computer readable storage media and program instructions collectively stored on the one or more computer readable storage media. The program instructions include program instructions to perform the foregoing method. A system includes a processor and logic integrated with the processor, executable by the processor, or integrated with and executable by the processor. The logic is configured to perform the foregoing method.
US11513690B2
Techniques for determining service levels may include receiving an I/O operation at a target port of a data storage system, where the I/O operation is sent from an initiator port of a host and directed to a storage object in a first storage group. The initiator port may be included in a first initiator group and the target port may be included in a first port group. The I/O operation may be assigned a service level using a table of a service levels specified for different triples. Each triple may identify an initiator groups, a storage group and a port group. Assigning the service level may include determining a first of the triples that matches the first storage group, the first initiator group and the first port group, wherein the first triple is associated with the service level.
US11513681B2
A storage system comprises stripes, extents comprised in one stripe among the stripes residing on storage devices in the storage system, respectively. A failed stripe is determined among the stripes, the failed stripe comprising a group of failed extents residing on a group of failed storage devices, respectively, a number of failed storage devices in the group being less than or equal to parity width of the storage system. Distribution of the group of failed extents in the failed stripe is obtained. A rebuild parameter for rebuilding data in the failed stripe is generated based on the obtained distribution. The generated rebuild parameter is stored for rebuilding the storage system. Accordingly, a rebuild parameter generated for one failed stripe is reused for other failed stripe with the same distribution. The performance of rebuild operations may be improved, and time of rebuild operations may be reduced.
US11513678B2
A presentation system capable of detecting one or more gestures and contacts on a touch sensitive display. The presentation system can displaying indicia of such contacts, such as when a user writes with a fingertip, and can remove or alter such indicia responsive to other gestures and contacts. The system can accurately distinguish between types of gestures detected, such as between a writing gesture and an erasing gesture, on both large and small touch sensitive displays, thereby obviating the need for a user to make additional selective inputs to transition from one type of gesture to another. The system can determine how long to keep user annotations displayed during a presentation, based on the nature of the gesture used to make the annotations and the context in which they are made.
US11513677B2
An electronic device displays a messaging interface. The messaging user interface includes a search affordance and a conversation between a user of the device and another user. While displaying the messaging interface, the device detects activation of the search affordance. In response, the device ceases displaying the messaging interface and displays a search interface. The search user interface includes a search field and categorized content items. The categorized content items include a content item stored on the device and a content item from the Internet. While displaying the search interface, the device detects selection of a first item in the categorized content items; and, afterwards, displays the first item in the conversation. The device transmits the first item to the device that corresponds to the other user in the messaging session. The other user's device displays the item in a conversation that corresponds to the messaging session.
US11513670B2
A User Interface (UI) interface object detection system employs an initial dataset comprising a set of images, that may include synthesized images, to train a Machine Learning (ML) engine to generate an initial trained model. A data point generator is employed to generate an updated synthesized image set which is used to further train the ML engine. The data point generator may employ images generated by an application program as a reference by which to generate the updated synthesized image set. The images generated by the application program may be tagged in advance. Alternatively, or in addition, the images generated by the application program may be captured dynamically by a user using the application program.
US11513669B2
Methods, devices, and systems related to a user interface for modifying pictures are described. Modifying pictures can include placing an image of a picture in a different picture, replacing an image of the picture with a different image, deleting an image from the picture, and/or storing an image from the picture. In an example, a method can include displaying a first picture on a user interface of a mobile device, receiving, on the user interface, a selection of at least one foreground image included in the first picture, receiving, on the user interface, a selection of a background image included in a library of images, and displaying, on a user interface, a second picture including the at least one selected foreground image and the selected background image responsive to receiving the selection of the at least one foreground image followed by the selection of the background image.
US11513666B2
A method for profile matching includes receiving a plurality of user profiles, each user profile comprising traits of a respective user. The method includes receiving a preference indication for a first user profile of the plurality of user profiles. The method also includes determining a potential match user profile of the plurality of user profiles based on the preference indication for the first user profile. The method also includes presenting the potential match user profile to a second user.
US11513661B2
An electronic device includes a touch-sensitive surface, a display, and a camera sensor. The device displays a message region for displaying a message conversation and receives a request to add media to the message conversation. Responsive to receiving the request, the device displays a media selection interface concurrently with at least a portion of the message conversation. The media selection interface includes a plurality of affordances for selecting media for addition to the message conversation, the plurality of affordances includes a live preview affordance, at least a subset of the plurality of affordances includes thumbnail representations of media available for adding to the message conversation, and the live preview affordance is associated with a live camera preview. Responsive to detecting selection of the live preview affordance, the device captures a new image based on the live camera preview and selects the new image for addition to the message conversation.
US11513660B2
An aspect of the invention hereby presented provides a means to display a first set of, for instance, documents in conjunction with a second set of documents when the second set of documents would not necessarily fit in the query used to select the documents of the first set of documents and/or would not necessarily fit the collation of the first set of documents. The second set of documents so located in relationship with the first set of documents having a beneficial effect for the understanding of the first set of documents. A system and a GUI thereof is also hereby presented.
US11513644B2
Various embodiments provide a thin and lightweight organic light-emitting display device having a touch sensor. The organic light-emitting display device having a touch sensor includes a touch-sensing line and a touch-driving line disposed on an encapsulation stack so as to overlap each other. The touch-sensing line and the touch-driving line overlap each other in a location in which an organic touch dielectric film and an inorganic touch dielectric film are disposed therebetween, thereby preventing the generation of spots in the event of degeneration of the organic touch dielectric film and preventing damage to the organic touch dielectric film.
US11513642B2
A capacitive electronic pen includes a housing, a core body, and a peripheral electrode. In the capacitive electronic pen, the core body includes an electrode core formed of a conductor having a spherical section and a shaft center section. The spherical section of the electrode core is not surrounded by the peripheral electrode and is disposed on a tip (distal) end of the capacitive electronic pen protruding from one opening in the axial direction of the housing. The shaft center section of the electrode core has multiple portions that vary in thickness (a cross-section size) including a thin portion, which coupled with the spherical section, and a thick portion. When the core body is fitted to the core body holder, at least a portion of the shaft center section of the electrode core is thinner than the diameter of the spherical section of the electrode core.
US11513641B2
Embodiments described herein is able to provide a touch display device, an active pen, a touch system, a touch circuit, and a pen recognition method capable of efficiently providing a display function, a touch-sensing function, and a pen-touch-sensing function.
US11513635B2
A processing system for an input device comprises sensor circuitry. The sensor circuitry is configured to operate sensor electrodes for input sensing during a first sensing frame. During a first period of the first sensing frame the sensor circuitry is configured to drive a first portion of the sensor electrodes with a sensing signal, drive a second portion of the sensor electrodes with a guarding signal, and drive a third portion of the sensor electrodes with a reference signal. The guarding signal and the sensing signal have at least one characteristic in common selected from the group consisting of amplitude, phase and frequency. The third portion of the sensor electrodes overlaps a first gate line of a display panel selected for updating during the first period.
US11513631B1
A touch-sensitive display device includes one or more touch-sensitive displays each including a plurality of touch-sensitive electrodes. A free touch-sensitive electrode is identified on the one or more touch-sensitive displays that is (1) at least temporarily unaffected by proximity of one or more input objects to the one or more touch-sensitive displays, and (2) affected by an electrical noise caused by display of image content on the one or more touch-sensitive displays. The electrical noise affecting the free touch-sensitive electrode is measured. Based at least in part on the measured electrical noise affecting the free touch-sensitive electrode, and using a trained neural network, an amount of electrical noise caused by the display of image content that is affecting an occupied touch-sensitive electrode is estimated, the occupied touch-sensitive electrode being affected by proximity of the one or more input objects to the one or more touch-sensitive displays.
US11513630B2
A touch operation sensing device configured to be added to an electronic device, the electronic device including a touch member disposed in a housing and having conductivity, the touch operation sensing device includes an oscillation circuit disposed on an internal side of the touch member and including an inductor element and a capacitor element to generate an oscillation signal in response to changed impedance during a touch operation through the touch member, and an insulating member disposed between a first terminal of the inductor element and the touch member, and between a second terminal of the inductor element and the touch member.
US11513621B2
A display apparatus includes: a display panel, a guide panel coupled to a rear surface of the display panel, a main frame coupled to the guide panel, and a force sensor module disposed between the guide panel and the main frame. The force sensor module includes: a sensor bar including one or more sensor rods, the one or more sensor rods extending from a central portion of the main frame toward a peripheral portion of the main frame, and a strain gauge provided at each of the one or more sensor rods.
US11513615B2
The present disclosure discloses a digital electromagnetic stylus. The electromagnetic styluses include a system-on-chip unit, a transceiver unit, a first rectifier and filter unit, a second rectifier and filter unit, a pressure and key detection unit, and a transmission control unit. The system-on-chip unit, the transmission control unit, and the transceiver unit are connected in sequence. The first rectifier and filter unit and the second rectifier and filter unit are connected in parallel between the system-on-chip unit and the transceiver unit. The pressure and key detection unit is connected to the system-on-chip unit. The present discloses further provides an input system, and a method for controlling the same.
US11513614B2
A writing instrument having a plurality of retraction mechanisms, wherein each of the plurality of retraction mechanisms is configured to actuate a respective retractable writing tip, each retraction mechanism being configured to produce a different predetermined sound that is suitable for being detected by an electronic device, and each of the different predetermined sounds is configured to communicate a different command to the electronic device.
US11513611B2
An interface device includes a movable button connected to a frame structure by resilient structures positioned laterally between the button and the frame structure. Multiple layers or diaphragms of material can be used to make the button, frame, and resilient structures. Movement of the button can trigger a switch or sensor in a manner allowing an electronic device to detect interaction with the button. The interface device can be implemented in an electronic device such as a keyboard that has a low number of parts yet also providing tactile, stabilized key travel, support for various sensor or switch types for the keys, and, in some cases, haptic feedback.
US11513604B2
In aspects of selectable response options displayed based-on device grip position, a wireless device has a display screen to display an incoming notification associated with a device application, and actionable responses are associated with the incoming notification. The wireless device implements a grip detection module to detect a device grip position of a user grip holding the wireless device. The wireless device also implements a notification control module to determine the actionable responses of the incoming notification. The notification control module can also initiate to display selectable response options corresponding to the actionable responses associated with the incoming notification, where the selectable response options are displayable along a display edge of the display screen proximate the device grip position. In implementations, the display screen includes a curved edge display region, and the selectable response options are displayable within the curved edge display region of the display screen.
US11513603B2
A system for interpreting gestures may include one or more processors, at least three Doppler radar devices, and a memory device. The memory device may have a receiving module, a cube generating module, and a classifying module. The receiving module may include instructions that cause the one or more processors to receive Doppler information from the at least three Doppler radar devices. The cube generating module may include instructions that cause the one or more processors to generate a micro-Doppler cube by projecting Doppler information in X, Y, and Z-directions over a period of time into the micro-Doppler cube. The classifying module may include instructions that cause the one or more processors to classify one or more gestures performed by an extremity when located in the volume into a category of a plurality of categories based on the micro-Doppler cube.
US11513596B2
Described herein is a system and method for controlling a computing system by an AI network based upon an electroencephalograph (EEG) signal from a user. The user's EEG signals are first detected as the user operates an existing controller, during which time the associated artificial intelligence (AI) system learns by correlating the EEG signals with the commands received from the controller. Once the AI system determines that there is sufficient correlation to predict the user's actions, it can take control of the computing system and initiate commands based upon the user's EEG signal in place of the user's actions with the controller. At this point, weights in the AI network may be locked so that further commands from the controller, or the lack thereof, do not reduce correlation with the EEG signals. In some embodiments, the AI network may initiate commands faster than the user would be able to do.
US11513595B2
An electronic garment with a textile element, in particular a glove, a hand cover, a gauntlet or the like, with a first hook-and-loop fastener member firmly connected to the textile element and with an electronic unit comprising a reading unit for reading a code, wherein the electronic unit comprises a trigger that is electrically connected to the reading unit via an electric line, wherein the reading unit for reading the code starts upon actuation of the trigger, wherein the electronic unit comprises a second hook-and-loop fastener part, wherein, in a working position, a hook strip is firmly connected to a loop strip and thus, the electronic unit is firmly connected to the textile element, and wherein, in a pause position, the hook strip is detached from the loop strip and thus, the electronic unit is separated from the textile element.
US11513593B2
The disclosure relates to systems, methods and programs for anatomically-constrained gaze estimation. More specifically, the disclosure is directed to systems, methods and programs for providing a point of reference (PoR) in a 3D field and/or 2D plane, based on 6 DOF head pose constrained by the eyeball center being fixed in a common 3D coordinate system.
US11513587B2
A head-mounted display device includes a mounting portion configured to be attached to a head of a user, an image display unit disposed in the mounting portion and configured to display an image to be visually recognized by the user, a state detection unit configured to detect a first state in which the mounting portion is attached to the head and a second state in which the mounting portion is detached from the head, and a display control unit configured to cause the image display unit to stop displaying an image when the state detection unit detects the second state.
US11513586B2
Disclosed in the present application are a control device, method and equipment for a processor. The control device for the processor comprises: an arithmetic circuit and a memory, the arithmetic circuit being connected to the memory. The arithmetic circuit is used to output a control signal according to acquired sensor data, and the control signal is used to control a processor. The control device, method and equipment for the processor according to the present invention may be used to determine whether it is necessary to start the processor according to preset key information, or whether it is necessary to reduce the energy consumption of a processor which is currently in operation, thereby improving endurance.
US11513585B1
In one embodiment, a system includes power management control that controls a duty cycle of a processor to manage power. The duty cycle may be the amount of time that the processor is powered on as a percentage of the total time. By frequently powering up and powering down the processor during a period of time, the power consumption of the processor may be controlled while providing the perception that the processor is continuously available. For example, the processor may be a graphics processing unit (GPU), and the period of time over which the duty cycle is managed may be a frame to be displayed on the display screen viewed by a user of the system.
US11513578B1
A power management system for a headset includes a step-up converter and a step-down converter. The step-up converter increases the voltage and decreases the current supplied by the power supply. The power is transmitted via transmission lines at the increased voltage. The step-down converter decreases the voltage to a suitable level for various components of a power rail assembly. The power lost in the transmission lines is proportional to the square of the current. The power saved by transmission at a lower current in the transmission lines is greater than the power lost by the step-up converter and the step-down converter.
US11513574B2
A system and method are provided for controlling a reset procedure. The system has a plurality of power domains, where each power domain comprises a plurality of components, and a plurality of power controllers, wherein each power controller has at last one associated power domain and is arranged to control a supply of power to each associated power domain. The plurality of power controllers are arranged in a hierarchical arrangement comprising two or more hierarchical levels. A given power controller at a given hierarchical level is arranged to implement a reset procedure requiring a reset to be performed in a given reset domain, where the given reset domain comprises at least a subset of the components provided in multiple power domains associated with multiple power controllers provided in at least one hierarchical level below the given hierarchical level. The given power controller is arranged to initiate a reset procedure by issuing a reset entry request for receipt by each of the multiple power controllers. Each power controller is arranged, on accepting the reset entry request, to perform a reset preparation procedure in respect of each associated power domain within the multiple power domains, and then to issue a response signal to confirm that the reset preparation procedure has been performed. In response to detecting that the response signal has been issued by each of the multiple power controllers, the given power controller asserts a reset signal to the multiple power domains providing components of the given reset domain in order to cause the reset to be performed in a synchronised manner in respect of all of the components in the given reset domain.
US11513573B2
A system includes a display panel, a temperature sensor configured to measure a temperature of the display panel, a thermoelectric device coupled to the display panel and configured to transfer heat to or from the display panel, and a controller electrically coupled to the temperature sensor and the thermoelectric device. The controller is configured to receive the measured temperature of the display panel and, based on the measured temperature of the display panel, send a second signal to the thermoelectric device to cause the thermoelectric device to remove a first quantity of heat from the display panel or send a third signal to the thermoelectric device to cause the thermoelectric device to provide a second quantity of heat to the display panel.
US11513569B1
An information handling system to wirelessly transmit and receive data at an antenna may include a processor; a memory; a power management unit; a display housing containing components of the information handling system, the display housing including a handle and a handle lug to secure the handle to the display housing; a wireless adapter and an antenna to transmit data wirelessly via a WLAN antenna; and handle lug parasitic coupling device operatively coupled to the handle lug to parasitically couple the WLAN antenna to a handle lug parasitic coupling device and handle lug to create a multi-band WLAN antenna.
US11513568B2
A portable information handling system structure located between housing hinges along one side of the housing has first and second antenna disposed at opposing ends with a cooling fan between the first and second antenna and over the antenna structure to isolate the first and second antenna. In one embodiment, a parasitic element disposed between the first and second antenna and under the cooling fan has resonance tuned to isolate wireless signals of a frequency supported by the first and second antenna.
US11513555B2
A display apparatus includes a display area and a folding area; a display panel; a digitizer disposed below the display panel; a sagging prevention member disposed in a portion below the display panel overlapping the folding area; and a lower cover disposed below the sagging prevention member.
US11513554B1
An electronic device may have a housing. A pixel array may be mounted in the housing to display an image. The pixel array may have a central portion surrounded by a peripheral portion. Display cover layer structures may overlap the pixel array. A central portion of the display cover layer structures may overlap the central portion of the pixel array. A peripheral portion of the display cover layer structures may overlap the peripheral portion of the pixel array. A border structure of image transport material may be interposed between the peripheral portion of the pixel array and the peripheral portion of the display cover structures. The image transport material may be omitted from the central portion of the pixel array. The image transport material may be formed from a coherent fiber bundle or Anderson localization material.
US11513550B1
A foldable pedal apparatus of a vehicle may have a configuration in which an accelerator pedal assembly and a brake pedal assembly are rotated in a rearward direction from a vehicle body panel and are popped-up to be exposed toward a driver to allow the pedal assemblies to be capable of being controlled when in a situation of manual driving mode, and in which the pedal assemblies are rotated in a frontward direction and are inserted in respective panel grooves of the vehicle body panel so that the pedal assemblies are in a hidden state where exposure thereof toward the driver is blocked to allow the pedal assemblies to be unable to be controlled in a situation of autonomous driving mode where the driver does not directly drive.
US11513548B2
An apparatus and method for tracking maximum power are disclosed. The apparatus is configured to track a maximum power at a certain node of an electronic circuit, adjust an impedance of the electronic circuit such that power at the node is maximal, and adjust an impedance of the electronic circuit by comparing power at two points in time to increase power. The apparatus for tracking a maximum power, includes a charge sharing capacitor connected to an initial capacitor in parallel, a first switch disposed between the initial capacitor and an energy harvesting power supply, a second switch disposed between the initial capacitor and the charge sharing capacitor, a third switch disposed between the energy harvesting power supply and a comparator, and a switched-capacitor power converting circuit configured to control the initial capacitor.
US11513547B2
A method and system of controlling the time dependent transfer of electrical power between a first electrical network and a second electrical network is disclosed. The first electrical network is operable to provide instantaneous electrical power to the second electrical network located at a location, the second electrical network includes electrical generating capacity at the location based on stored energy accessible at the location. The method and system involves receiving at the second electrical network pricing information from the first electrical network, the pricing information associated with the future supply of electrical power by the first electrical network to the second electrical network and then modifying substantially in real time the transfer of electrical power between the first and second electrical networks in accordance with the pricing information and the electricity demand characteristics of the location.
US11513537B2
In an example, a method may assign a first drone of a drone network a first task, the first task may instruct the first drone to transport a first package to a first destination in a geographic area. The method may receive roadway traffic data for a plurality of roadway vehicles in the geographic area; determine, based on the roadway traffic data and during transit of the first package to the first destination by the first drone, to transfer the first package to a second drone in the drone network; and transfer the first package to the second drone in the drone network.
US11513533B2
Methods and systems are provided for belief space planning for multiple robots at an initial belief state, for reducing belief space uncertainty, including receiving multiple, candidate, multi-robot paths, each including one or more pose constraints; generating a candidate factor graph for each candidate multi-robot path, and generating from each candidate factor graph a topology graph; calculating a signature metric from each topology graph, wherein the signature metric is one of a Von Neumann (VN) metric and a spanning tree (ST) metric; selecting a multi-robot path having the greatest signature metric from among the candidate, multi-robot paths; and instructing the multiple robots to proceed according to the selected multi-robot path.
US11513532B2
A robot can include a cart to receive one or more objects; a camera sensor to photograph a periphery of the robot and capture an image of a user of the robot; a handle assembly coupled to the cart; a moving part to move the robot; a force sensor to sense a force applied to the handle assembly; and a controller configured to generate physical characteristics information on physical characteristics of the user of the robot based on the image of the user, and adjust at least one of a moving direction of the robot, a moving speed of the moving part and a value of torque applied to a motor of the moving part, based on the physical characteristics information and a magnitude of the force applied to the handle assembly sensed by the force sensor.
US11513527B2
A vehicle control device is a vehicle control device mounted in a vehicle and includes an information provider configured to transmit information on a route from a parking position to a boarding position of the vehicle to a terminal device.
US11513524B2
In various embodiments, three-dimensional models of terrestrial structures are developed and scaled utilizing images acquired during the flight path of an unmanned aerial vehicle.
US11513515B2
A method includes receiving, at a mobile hub device, communications including location-specific risk data and a task assignment. The method also includes generating an output indicating dispatch coordinates. The dispatch coordinates identifying a dispatch location from which to dispatch, from the mobile hub device, one or more unmanned vehicles to perform a task of the task assignment.
US11513512B2
A remote driving service processing device includes: a general user terminal by which a requester applies for a remote driving service for moving a vehicle to a destination; a remote control terminal by which a remote driver remotely control the vehicle and sends a remote driving service termination permission request for terminating the remote driving service when the vehicle is having difficulty reaching the destination; and a server that sends a termination approval to the remote control terminal and terminates the remote driving service when (i) transferring the remote driving service termination permission request received from the remote control terminal to the general user terminal, and (ii) receiving a remote driving service termination consent, which is a response to the remote driving service termination permission request, from the general user terminal.
US11513505B2
Methods, apparatuses, systems, and computer program products for facilitating human intervention in an autonomous device are disclosed. In a particular embodiment, a method of facilitating human intervention in an autonomous device includes a service controller selecting from a first plurality of human interventionists, by a service controller, a first set of human interventionists to respond to a request associated with an autonomous device; transmitting, by the service controller, the request to a first set of interventionist devices, each interventionist device of the first set of interventionist devices associated with a particular human interventionist in the first set of human interventionists; and receiving from the first set of interventionist devices, by the service controller, a first set of interventionist responses to the request.
US11513503B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium for communicating between an operational asset and a backend network that include the actions of receiving first data from an operational asset through a first communication interface that is configured to communicate with an operational asset, and where the first data is formatted according to a first data format that is specific to the operational asset. Processing the first data according to an asset template to generate second data, where the second data includes the first data and being formatted according to a second data format that is specific to the backend network. Causing the second data to be transmitted to the backend network by a second communication interface that is configured to communicate with a backend network.
US11513496B2
A method of monitoring and controlling an industrial process includes capturing images of a non-sensible process condition of the industrial process with an image capture device, receiving the images of the non-sensible process condition with a computer system, and converting each image into a corresponding numeric value with a machine learning model stored in and operable by the computer system. The corresponding numeric value is then received and compared to a predetermined numeric value for the non-sensible process condition with a closed-loop controller, and an actuator operates with the closed-loop controller to adjust operation of the industrial process when the corresponding numeric value fails to match the predetermined numeric value or is outside of a defined threshold near the predetermined numeric value.
US11513494B2
In an example, a method includes receiving, at least one processor, a mesh model for an object, a first transformation matrix to apply to the mesh model to describe a first object for generation in additive manufacturing and a second transformation matrix to apply to the mesh model to describe a second object for generation in additive manufacturing. The method may further include determining, by at least one processor, if the first and second transformation matrices describe transformations which are equivalent in terms of mesh errors and, if so, inspecting the mesh model for mesh errors once for both the first and second transformation matrices.
US11513489B2
A variable air volume controller includes a communications interface and a processing circuit. The communications interface is configured to facilitate communication with an external device and building equipment. The processing circuit is configured to store a plurality of predefined, selectable-applications; receive a selection of one of the plurality of predefined, selectable-applications; and implement the selected application such that the building equipment is controlled according to the selected application.
US11513486B2
A building automation system may control ultraviolet lights to intelligently disinfect susceptible environments based on occupant density. The system comprises multiple occupancy sensors, a disinfection environment tracking engine, and an ultraviolet light control engine. The multiple occupancy sensors generate real time occupancy data associated with multiple objects detected within an area. The disinfection environment tracking engine determines real time occupant density of the multiple objects detected within the area based on the real time occupancy data generated by the multiple occupancy sensors. The ultraviolet light control engine controls operation of one or more ultraviolet lights to disinfect the area based on the real time occupant density determined by the disinfection environment tracking engine.
US11513473B2
Provided is a waveguide having a light diffraction unit that diffracts incident light by a multiplex-recorded hologram, in which, in the light diffraction unit, a plurality of holograms having different angles with respect to an incident surface of the waveguide are formed, and when certain parallel light beams are incident, different wavelengths are diffracted by the plurality of holograms.
US11513468B2
A developing cartridge includes a storage medium. A first contact portion is provided in a photoconductor unit and configured to be electrically connected to the storage medium. A second contact portion is provided in an apparatus body. The photoconductor unit is configured to, in a case of attaching the photoconductor unit to the apparatus body, move from a first position to a second position while being guided by a guide member and then move from the second position to a third position below the second position. At least one of the first contact portion and the second contact portion is capable of being displaced such that engagement between the first contact portion and the second contact portion is performed while the photoconductor unit moves by being guided by the guide member, and the engagement is maintained while the photoconductor unit moves from the second position to the third position.
US11513463B2
A charge removing unit emits light onto a surface of an image bearing member for removing charge on the surface. The charge removing unit includes a light source configured to emit the light, and a light guide that is configured to guide the light to irradiate the surface of the image bearing member with the light and has a cylindrical shape extending in an axial direction of the image bearing member. At both ends in a longitudinal direction of the light guide, one end portion and another end portion are respectively provided. The light is introduced to the one end portion. The another end portion includes an inclined surface inclining in a direction from the one end portion to the another end portion, toward a central axis of a circumference of the light guide.
US11513462B2
An image forming apparatus includes: a hardware processor that: estimates a remaining amount of toner in a cartridge; registers a required replacement time corresponding to a time required by an operator to replace the cartridge; calculates a toner consumption speed when an image is printed, on the basis of data of the image to be printed and a printing speed when the image is printed; predicts a first timing at which the cartridge reaches a toner runout state during printing of the image, on the basis of the remaining amount of toner and the toner consumption speed; and makes notification for prompting the operator to replace the cartridge at a second timing before the first timing by the required replacement time.
US11513437B2
Extreme ultraviolet (EUV) mask blanks, methods for their manufacture and production systems therefor are disclosed. The EUV mask blanks comprise a substrate; a multilayer stack of reflective layers on the substrate; a capping layer on the multilayer stack of reflecting layers; and an absorber layer on the capping layer, the absorber layer comprising an alloy selected from an alloy of ruthenium (Ru) and silicon (Si); an alloy tantalum (Ta) and platinum (Pt); and an alloy of ruthenium (Ru) and molybdenum (Mo).
US11513436B2
An apparatus includes a first emitter configured to emit first color light, a second emitter configured to emit second color light, a plate configured to diffuse the first color light and the second color light, a first lens configured to collimate the diffused first color light, and a second lens configured to collimate the diffused second color light. A predetermined condition is satisfied.
US11513430B2
A reflector includes a reflective film and a substrate, wherein the reflective film is attached to the substrate. Also, an optical system of an LCD (liquid crystal display) projector includes a first reflector, a second reflector, an LED (light emitting diode) light source, a condenser, a collimating lens, an LCD light valve, a field lens and a projection lens, wherein the LED light source, the condenser, the first reflector, the collimating lens, the LCD light valve, the field lens, the second reflector and the projection lens are set in sequence according to a direction of light. The reflector is significantly improved in the reflection efficiency while maintaining the low cost, or the reflector is significantly reduced in the manufacturing cost while achieving the high reflection efficiency, so that the output brightness and the photoelectric efficiency of the projector including the reflector with low cost, which has a very positive effect.
US11513429B2
A camera accessory attachable to and detachable from a bottom surface of a camera includes an accessory body, a fastening member configured to attach the accessory body to the bottom surface, an opening that allows a battery to be inserted into and ejected from the camera while the accessory body is attached to the bottom surface, and an accessory lid member attached to the accessory body and movable between an open position for opening the opening and a closed position for closing the opening.
US11513426B2
Provided is a lens apparatus attachable and removable to a camera apparatus, the lens apparatus comprising a communication device configured to transmit, to an external device, information for light amount compensation of image data obtained by image pickup in the camera apparatus, in which the information includes information of a coefficient A0 of a term of 0-th-order with respect to an image height in a polynomial of n-th-order with respect to the image height, and in which a conditional expression 0.7
US11513414B2
An electro-optic display having a viewing surface through which a user views the display, a bistable, electrophoretic medium, and at least one electrode arranged to apply an electric field to the electrophoretic medium, the display further comprising at least 10 micromoles per square meter of the viewing surface of at least one compound having an oxidation potential more negative that about 150 mV with respect to a standard hydrogen electrode, as measured at pH 8, where the compound is a sulfite salt or a salt of titanium (III), vanadium (II), iron (II), cobalt (II) or copper (I), a hydroquinone, a catechol, a dihydropyridine or a metallocene.
US11513413B2
An electro-optic device comprising electrophoretic medium including a dispersion of a plurality of particles in a fluid configured to migrate within the fluid in a direction responsive to an applied electric field. The plurality of particles include a first type of particles having a first charge of a first charge polarity, a second type of particles having a second charge of a second charge polarity, and a third type of particles having a third charge of the second charge polarity. The first charge polarity is opposite to the second charge polarity, and the third type of particles are configured to migrate within the fluid in a direction responsive to an applied magnetic field gradient.
US11513412B2
A tintable window is described having a tintable coating, e.g., an electrochromic device coating, for regulating light transmitted through the window. In some embodiments, the window has a transparent display in the window's viewable region. Transparent displays may be substantially transparent when not in use, or when the window is viewed in a direction facing away from the transparent display. Windows may have sensors for receiving user commands and/or for monitoring environmental conditions. Transparent displays can display graphical user interfaces to, e.g., control window functions. Windows, as described herein, offer an alternative display to conventional projectors, TVs, and monitors. Windows may also be configured to receive, transmit, or block wireless communications from passing through the window. A window control system may share computational resources between controllers (e.g., at different windows). In some cases, the computational resources of the window control system are utilized by other building systems and devices.
US11513407B2
An array substrate and a display device are provided, and the array substrate includes a base substrate and includes a pixel array and an auxiliary conductive structure which are on the base substrate; the pixel array includes a plurality of pixel units arranged in an array and a plurality of pixel electrodes, and each of the plurality of pixel units includes at least one of the plurality of pixel electrodes; the auxiliary conductive structure surrounds at least one of the plurality of pixel electrodes and is insulated from the plurality of pixel electrodes; a resistivity of a material of the auxiliary conductive structure is less than or equal to a resistivity of a material of the at least one of the plurality of the pixel electrodes.
US11513404B2
According to one embodiment, a display device includes a first display portion including a first pixel, a second display portion including a second pixel, a first light shield surrounding the first display portion and the second display portion, a second light shield disposed between the first display portion and the second display portion, a liquid crystal layer disposed in the first display portion and the second display portion, a first sealant overlapping the first light shield and sealing the liquid crystal layer in the first display portion and the second display portion, and a second sealant overlapping the second light shield. The second sealant has at least one opening through which the first display portion and the second display portion communicate.
US11513400B2
A pixel array substrate including a substrate, a plurality of pixel structures, and a flat layer is provided. The pixel structures are correspondingly disposed in pixel regions of the substrate. At least one of pixel structure includes an active element, a reflective electrode, and an auxiliary electrode. The reflective electrode is electrically connected to the active element. The auxiliary electrode is electrically connected to the reflective electrode and the active element. A vertical projection of the reflective electrode on the substrate overlaps a vertical projection of the auxiliary electrode on the substrate. An area of the vertical projection of the reflective electrode on the substrate is not greater than an area of the vertical projection of the auxiliary electrode on the substrate. The flat layer is disposed between the auxiliary electrode and the active element. A display device by using the pixel array substrate is also provided.
US11513397B2
A manufacturing method of a liquid crystal display panel includes vertically irradiating a first substrate and a second substrate with ultraviolet light for alignment. An energy compensation device is formed and/or placed in an irradiation direction of the ultraviolet light. An angle difference of pretilt angles between liquid crystal molecules inside the first substrate and liquid crystal molecules inside the second substrate is greater than a preset angle. An energy intensity inside the first substrate or inside the second substrate is controlled by the energy compensation device, so that pretilt angle difference between the liquid crystal molecules inside the first substrate and the liquid crystal molecules inside the second substrate is large.
US11513382B2
Provided is a display device including a window layer including a transmission area and a bezel area adjacent to the transmission area, a color layer under the bezel area, an adhesive layer under the transmission area, and a display panel under the adhesive layer, wherein the color layer and the adhesive layer may not overlap in a direction perpendicular to the transmission area.
US11513376B2
A electronic method, includes receiving, by a graphene structure, a SPP mode of a particular frequency. The electronic method includes receiving, by the graphene structure, a driving microwave voltage. The electronic method includes generating, by the graphene structure, an entanglement between optical and voltage fields.
US11513369B2
The present invention provides magnetic eyeglasses attachments comprising decorative elements and/or functional elements including lenses. Also provided are methods of producing the magnetic eyeglasses attachments.
US11513367B2
A scleral contact lens has a core containing an optical filter. The core and/or the optical filter may comprise oxygen impermeable material, such that an overall oxygen permeability of the core is insufficient to oxygenate a user's cornea when wearing the contact lens. To provide oxygenation to the user's cornea, the contact lens further comprises an outer covering, and an inner covering, each corresponding to a thin layer of gas-permeable material shaped to form a respective manifold between the covering and the core. Oxygen from an outside environment passes through the outer covering to reach the outer manifold, through an air path formed within the core to the inner manifold, and through the inner covering to reach the cornea of the user's eye.
US11513363B2
A speckle elimination apparatus, a laser light source and a laser projection system, the speckle elimination apparatus comprising a wave plate (100) and a transmission plate (200) respectively arranged on a laser beam light path, the wave plate (100) and the transmission plate (200) having similar refractive indices and closely arranged adjacent sides, the wave plate (100) being arranged so that an incident surface allows a portion of an incident laser beam to pass through, the transmission plate (200) being arranged so that an incident surface allows the remainder of the incident laser beam to pass through, the portion of the incident laser beam being 25%-75% of the incident laser beam. The speckle elimination apparatus eliminates the phenomenon of laser speckle, and prevents stray light from being produced during laser speckle elimination.
US11513343B2
Methods and systems for capturing image information of an environment using a laser scanner are described. The systems include a rotatable mirror arranged to direct light received onto an imaging camera of the laser scanner. The mirror is rotatable relative to the imaging camera and the camera is stationary relative to a rotational axis of the mirror. The methods include rotating the mirror relative to the camera and capturing, via the camera, an image containing image information of the received light. Each pixel of the image contains image information of an accumulation of the received light along a corresponding trajectory during a mirror rotation and each individual trajectory has a trajectory that crosses another of the individual trajectories within the image.
US11513330B2
Disclosed is a technology for illuminating a specimen in a desired uniform illumination pattern and capturing an image of a wide field of view in a low background illumination environment. Provided, for example, is a fluorescence microscope apparatus including a first illumination optics, a second illumination optics, and an imaging optics. The first illumination optics includes a first light source for exciting fluorescence in a specimen, a spatial light modulation element, and a first illumination optical member for uniformly illuminating the spatial light modulation element. The second illumination optics includes a second illumination optical member for forming an image of a light beam from the spatial light modulation element on a specimen surface. The imaging optics includes an imaging optical member and an imaging element. The imaging optical member captures an image of the specimen surface.
US11513327B2
Upstream a microscope objective lens, a polarization direction of a light beam is tilted with a first electro-optical deflector between a first polarization direction with which the light beam is deflected by a first polarization beam splitter by a first angle and a second polarization direction with which it is deflected by a second angle. With a second electro-optical deflector, the polarization direction of the light beam is tilted between a third polarization direction with which the light beam is deflected by a second polarization beam splitter by a third angle and a fourth polarization direction with which it is deflected by a fourth angle. By rotating the polarization direction of the light beam by means of the first and second electro-optical deflectors in a coordinated way the light beam is tilted about a fixed point in a pupil of the objective lens.
US11513319B2
There is provided an imaging lens with excellent optical characteristics which satisfies demand of wide field of view, low profile and low F-number. An imaging lens comprises, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens with positive or negative refractive power in a paraxial region, a second lens with positive or negative refractive power in a paraxial region, a third lens with positive refractive power in a paraxial region, a fourth lens with negative refractive power in a paraxial region, a fifth lens with positive refractive power in a paraxial region, a sixth lens with positive refractive power in a paraxial region, and a seventh lens with negative refractive power.
US11513312B2
A lens drive device, including a lens support, a coil winded at a periphery of the lens support; a screening can is covered outside the lens support; a driving magnets is respectively provided on opposite two inner sidewalls of the screening can; a Printed Circuit Board board (PCB board) is provided on a sidewall at another side of the screening can; a Hall chip is provided on the PCB board; a Hall magnet back gasket and a Hall magnet are provided at corresponding positions of the lens support; and the PCB board and the Hall chip thereon and the Hall magnet form a lens position detection unit. Since the driving magnets and the Hall magnet are not hindered to each other in a configuration structure, no obstacle is produced to assembly work, and the further miniaturization and thinning of the lens drive device also become possible.
US11513303B2
Fiber distribution systems, terminals and tap boxes that provide a reconfigurable and expandable system of hardened connections. An aerial terminal may include at least one feeder port and a plurality of distribution ports, each of the at least one feeder port and the plurality of distribution ports being sealable ports configured to receive one of a duct and a connector, where the connector is configured to interface with a drop type cable. The terminal may include an expandable module configured to receive a splitter. The terminal may be configured to receive a fiber through the feeder port and to output a plurality of fibers through the plurality of distribution ports.
US11513301B2
A chip-scale transceiver includes an interposer having microspring electrical contacts disposed on the interposer substrate. At least one electronic chip and at least one optoelectronic chip are electrically coupled to the interposer through the microsprings. The electronic chip includes at least one of an amplifier array and a laser driver array. First electrical contact pads arranged to make electrical contact with the first microsprings of the interposer. The optoelectronic chip includes at least one of a laser array and a photodetector array. Second electrical contact pads arranged to make electrical contact with the second microsprings of the interposer are disposed on the optoelectronic chip substrate. The transceiver has an area less than or equal to 0.17 mm2 per Gbps.
US11513297B2
A telecommunications module defines an interior with separate right and left chambers. An optical component is housed within the left chamber. Signal input and output locations are exposed to the right chamber. The right chamber allows excess fiber to accumulate without bending in a radius smaller than a minimum bend radius. A dual-layered cable management structure is positioned within the right chamber that defines a lower cable-wrapping level and a separate upper cable-wrapping level. The upper cable-wrapping level is defined by a removable cable retainer mounted on a spool defining the lower-cable wrapping level. Cabling carrying the input and output signals are passed between the right and left chambers before and after being processed by the optical component.
US11513294B2
There is described an optical fiber coupler generally having: a first optical fiber having a longitudinally extending multimode guiding region and a first taper portion longitudinally extending between first and second locations of the first optical fiber, the first taper portion having a dimension progressively decreasing along a first taper direction from the first location to the second location; a second optical fiber having a longitudinally extending multimode guiding region and a second taper portion longitudinally extending between third and fourth locations of the second optical fiber, the second taper portion having a dimension progressively decreasing along a second taper direction from the third location to the fourth location; and a coupling region where at least a portion of the first taper portion is optically coupled to a portion of the second taper portion, with the first and second taper directions being opposite to one another.
US11513290B2
A strip stop mechanism for a fiber stripping machine including a channel for receiving an optical fiber. The strip stop mechanism can include a lever operably mounted to the fiber stripping machine, the lever extending between a first end and a second end and being rotatable between a first position and a second position. When the lever is in the first position, the first end of the lever resides within the channel to provide an end stop for the optical fiber. When the lever is in the second position, the first end of the lever is at least partially withdrawn from the channel and the fiber stripping machine is activated. A second end of the lever can be configured to depress an activation button of the fiber stripping machine once the first end of the lever is at least partially removed from the channel.
US11513289B1
A structure of a silicon photonics device for LIDAR includes a first insulating structure and a second insulating structure disposed above one or more etched silicon structures overlying a substrate member. A metal layer is disposed above the first insulating structure without a prior deposition of a diffusion barrier and adhesion layer. A thin insulating structure is disposed above the second insulating structure. A first configuration of the metal layer, the first insulating structure and the one or more etched silicon structures forms a free-space coupler. A second configuration of the thin insulating structure above the second insulating structure forms an edge coupler.
US11513282B2
A sensor (10) comprises a waveguide (20) having a longitudinal axis and an end face (21), the waveguide (20) comprising a Bragg grating (23). The sensor comprises at least one reflector (24) on the end face (21) of the waveguide (20). An optical resonator (25) is formed by the Bragg grating (23), the at least one reflector (24), and an inner portion of the optical resonator (25) between the Bragg grating (23) and the at least one reflector (24). The inner portion of the optical resonator (25) extends within a portion of the waveguide (20). The sensor (10) comprises a detector (32) configured to detect at least one spectral characteristic of the optical resonator (25) or a change of at least one spectral characteristic of the optical resonator (25).
US11513279B2
A lighting device including: a light guide having a first side surface extending in a first direction and a second side surface opposing to the first side surface and extending in the first direction, a first LED being disposed at the first side surface, a second LED being disposed at the second side surface; in which a first area extends in the first direction and a second area extends in the second direction in the light guide; a prism sheet is disposed on the light guide; a prism extending in the first direction and arranged in the second direction is formed on the prism sheet; a first surface of the prism has a first angle with normal direction of the second prism sheet; a second surface of the prism has a second angle with normal direction of the second prism sheet; the first angle is larger than the second angle.
US11513278B2
A lighting device includes a plurality of first lighting units emitting a first output light. Each of the first lighting units includes a first light source, a first reflective layer, and a first light converting structure. The first light source is configured to provide the first output light. The first reflective layer is configured to reflect the first output light. The first light converting structure is configured to convert the first output light. The first output light has a sub peak between 400 nm and 500 nm and a main peak between 590 nm and 780 nm, and a normal intensity of the sub peak is greater than a tilt intensity of the sub peak. The normal intensity is measured along a normal direction, the tilt intensity is measured along a tilt direction, and the normal direction is different from the tilt direction.
US11513276B2
Provided are a light guide plate, an area light source device, a display device, and manufacturing method for the light guide plate such that the occurrence of uneven luminance is suppressed. The light guide plate (12) is characterized in that the light guide plate has a light entrance surface (12a) through which light enters, a light exit surface (12c) intersecting with the light entrance surface (12a) and through which light is output, and an opposite surface (12b) facing the light entrance surface (12a), wherein the light entering through the light entrance surface (12a) is guided to the opposite surface (12b) side and output from the light exit surface (12c), and the refractive index Nx in a direction perpendicular to the light entrance surface (12a) is higher than the refractive index Ny in a direction parallel to the light exit surface (12c) and parallel to the light entrance surface (12a).
US11513272B2
A wire grid polarizer (WGP) can have a conformal-coating to protect the WGP from at least one of the following: corrosion, dust, and damage due to tensile forces in a liquid on the WGP. The conformal-coating can include a silane conformal-coating with chemical formula (1), chemical formula (2), or combinations thereof: A method of applying a conformal-coating over a WGP can include exposing the WGP to Si(R1)d(R2)e(R3)g. In the above WGP and method, X can be a bond to the ribs; each R1 can be a hydrophobic group; each R3, if any, can be any chemical element or group; d can be 1, 2, or 3, e can be 1, 2, or 3, g can be 0, 1, or 2, and d+e+g=4; R2 can be a silane-reactive-group; and each R6 can be an alkyl group, an aryl group, or combinations thereof.
US11513269B2
The present invention provides a manufacturing method of a color film substrate and the color film substrate. The manufacturing method includes providing a substrate; forming a first photoresist layer on a first sub-pixel region; forming a quantum dot layer on the substrate, wherein light emission colors of at least two types of quantum dots are respectively different from a light emission color of the first photoresist layer; forming a second photoresist layer and a third photoresist layer on the quantum dot layer in order; and quenching the quantum dot layer to invalidate unshielded quantum dots of the quantum dot layer.
US11513266B2
System, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to a camera system. In one embodiment, the camera system includes a lens to receive light associated with an object and a first component, operatively connected to the lens, that inverts the light. The camera system also includes a second component, operatively connected to the first component, that resolves an angle of the light. A detector array, operatively connected to the second component, senses the light using a pixel to form an image to estimate depth of the object.
US11513264B2
Methods are provided for forming a particular multi-layer micron-sized particle that is substantially transparent, yet that exhibits selectable coloration based on its physical properties. The disclosed physical properties of the particle are controllably selectable refractive indices to provide an opaque-appearing energy transmissive material when pluralities of the particles are suspended in a substantially transparent matrix material. Multiply-layered (up to 30+ constituent layers) particles result in an overall particle diameter of less than 5 microns. The material suspensions render the particles deliverable as aspirated or aerosol compositions onto substrates to form layers that selectively scatter specific wavelengths of electromagnetic energy while allowing remaining wavelengths of the incident energy to pass. The disclosed particles and material compositions uniquely implement optical light scattering techniques in energy (or light) transmissive layers that appear selectively opaque, while allowing 80+% of the energy impinging on the light incident side to pass through the layers.
US11513259B1
An actuator includes a primary electrode, a secondary electrode overlapping at least a portion of the primary electrode, a nanovoided polymer layer disposed between and abutting the primary electrode and the secondary electrode, the nanovoided polymer layer having a plurality of nanovoids dispersed throughout a polymer matrix, and a sealing layer at least partially encapsulating the nanovoided polymer layer, where the nanovoids include a fill gas.
US11513258B2
Provided is a spectacle lens, having a lens substrate including a blue light absorbable compound, and a multilayer film including a chromium layer with a film thickness of 1.0 to 10.0 nm, blue light cut rate being 21.0% or more, a dominant wavelength measured at the object side surface of the spectacle lens falling within a range of 500.0 to 550.0 nm, and a dominant wavelength measured at the eyeball side surface of the spectacle lens falling within a range of 500.0 to 550.0 nm.
US11513257B2
The invention relates to an ophthalmic product which comprises a sealed and autoclave-sterilized lens package including (1) a post-autoclave packaging solution containing a polymeric surfactant having an HLB value of from about 11 to about 16 and a Mn of from about 800 to about 20,000 Daltons and (2) a readily-usable silicone hydrogel (SiHy) contact lens immersed in the packaging solution. The readily-usable SiHy contact lens comprises the polymeric surfactant thereon providing an excellent wettability to the readily-usable SiHy contact lens directly out of the lens package, and also the leachable polymeric surfactant which is physically distributed in the polymer matrix of the SiHy contact lens and can be released to the eye of a patient for at least 7 days of daily wear and to replenish the lens surface-bound polymeric surfactant to provide sustainable wettabilities to the contact lens and the eye.
US11513235B2
An apparatus for vector tracking a plurality of satellite signals received by a Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) receiver from a plurality of satellites and a method for use thereof. The apparatus comprises: a hypothesis determiner configured to determine a most likely velocity hypothesis from a plurality of velocity hypotheses based on a plurality of correlation values, and to transfer data related to the most likely velocity hypothesis to a navigation engine of the GNSS receiver for tracking the satellite signals, wherein the plurality of velocity hypotheses have been generated based on a navigation engine output indicative of a current and/or a previous extended velocity solution for the GNSS receiver; and wherein the plurality of correlation values have been determined by a plurality of correlators and represent correlations between a plurality of first signals each comprising an expected Doppler shift derived from one of the plurality of velocity hypotheses, and a plurality of second signals each comprising a true Doppler shift derived from one of the plurality of satellite signals.
US11513233B2
The present disclosure describes systems and methods for escorting small unmanned aircraft (herein drones). An escorting drone approaches the escorted drone and transmits to it an escort signal. In an embodiment, the escort signal is a GNSS signal fashioned to be the same as the GNSS signal that would be received by the escorted drone, other than being slightly stronger in signal strength and having slightly altered component delays. In another embodiment, the escort signal is a radio frequency control channel signal. Escorting may be utilized to guide a drone from a preprogrammed point to a docking zone in a droneport; to guide a drone though an urban canyon or inside a building where GNSS signals are not reliably received; to retrieve a drone with which communications has been lost; or to escort a drone to safety out of a no-flight zone such as around an airport.
US11513224B2
At least one beam of an optical wave is transmitted along a transmission angle toward a target location from a send aperture of a transmitter. A collected optical wave is received at receive apertures of two or more receivers. Each receiver comprises: a receive aperture arranged in proximity to at least one of the send aperture or a receive aperture of a different receiver, an optical phased array within the receive aperture, which receives at least a portion of a collected optical wave arriving at the receive aperture along a respective collection angle, and a detector that provides a signal based on the received portion of the collected optical wave. An estimated distance associated with the collected optical wave is determined based on a combination that includes a respective component corresponding to each of two or more of the signals provided from the detectors of the two or more receivers.
US11513223B2
A ladar system and related method are disclosed where the system includes a ladar transmitter and a ladar receiver. The ladar transmitter transmits ladar pulses into a field of view, and the ladar receiver receives ladar pulse returns from objects in the field of view. The ladar receiver comprises a cross-receiver, the cross-receiver comprising a first 1D array of photodetector cells and a second 1D array of photodetector cells that are oriented differently relative to each other.
US11513220B2
A proximity sensor includes a printed circuit board substrate, a semiconductor die, electrical connectors, a lens, a light emitting assembly, and an encapsulating layer. The semiconductor die is positioned over the printed circuit board substrate with its upper surface facing away from the printed circuit board substrate. Each of the electrical connectors is in electrical communication with a contact pad of the semiconductor die and a respective contact pad of the printed circuit board substrate. The lens is positioned over a sensor area of the semiconductor die. The light emitting assembly includes a light emitting device having a light emitting area, a lens positioned over the light emitting area, and contact pads facing the printed circuit board substrate. The encapsulating layer is positioned on the printed circuit board substrate, at least one of the electrical connectors, the semiconductor die, the lens, and the light emitting assembly.
US11513216B1
Techniques for calibrating presence-detection devices to account for various factors that can affect the presence-detection devices' ability to detect movement. Presence-detection devices may detect movement of a person in an environment by emitting ultrasonic signals into the environment, and characterizing the change in the frequency, or the Doppler shift, of the reflections of the ultrasonic signals off the person caused by the movement of the person. However, factors such as environmental acoustic conditions, noise sources, etc., may affect the ability of the presence-detection devices to detect movement. To calibrate for these factors, the presence-detection devices may use a loudspeaker to emit an ultrasonic sweep signal that spans different frequencies in an ultrasonic frequency range. The presence-detection devices may generate audio data using a microphone that represents the ultrasonic sweep signal, and analyze that audio data to determine an optimal frequency range and/or transmission power for subsequent ultrasonic signal transmissions.
US11513215B2
Disclosed is a SONAR system operable to transmit a pair of pulses including an up-chirp signal and a down-chirp signal wherein the down-chirp signal is a time-reversed version of the up-chirp signal. Also disclosed is a related method of operation.
US11513208B2
A method for estimating a spin of a projectile, the method comprising obtaining from a radar transceiver a first time series comprising observations of a radial velocity of the projectile relative to the radar transceiver, calculating, from the first time series, a center velocity of the projectile, extracting from the first time series a second time series comprising a variation in the first time series around the calculated center velocity estimating a frequency of the second time series, and determining the spin of the projectile WO based on the estimated frequency of the second time series.
US11513206B2
Exemplary aspects are directed to circuitry that assesses and differentiates a set of targeted data and updates a high-level bin with a numerical value indicating the number of data elements that compared successfully with a predefined value range defined for each bin. A cumulative sum of the high-level bins may then be calculated. Following, a target threshold may be compared to the cumulative sum at each bin and then providing an indication upon discovering a cumulative sum exceeding the threshold. The targeted data may be further refined by changing (through circuitry or other intervention) the predefined range values and then reprocessing the targeted data.
US11513176B2
The disclosure relates to a hybrid orthogonal signal generator, a coil transmission front-end device, an RF coil system, and an MRI system. The hybrid orthogonal signal generator has an input end for receiving an RF signal, generates a hybrid orthogonal excitation signal on the basis of the RF signal, and provides the hybrid orthogonal excitation signal by means of an output end of the hybrid orthogonal signal generator, and comprises: a first conductor, arranged in a plane and being arc-shaped; and a second conductor having mutual inductance with the first conductor, the second conductor being connected between the input end and output end, wherein the first conductor and second conductor are parallel and arranged as mirror images of each other. The hybrid orthogonal signal generator has a compact size and is suitable for providing hybrid orthogonal excitation signals for an MRI system with a low field strength.
US11513171B2
A magnetic sensor device includes a switching region defined by a switching range and a variation range, the switching range being set in a stroke direction of a magnet generating a radial magnetic field and defined by a start position and an end position for switching of the state, and the variation range being set in a direction intersecting the stroke direction and being a range of variation in the position of the magnet, and a magnetic sensor including plural first divided elements that are formed by dividing a first circular magneto-resistive element and are consecutively rotated and rearranged around the switching region such that change in a magnetoresistance value due to the magnetic field of the magnet in the switching region increases from the start position to the end position.
US11513165B2
A power semiconductor module including at least first and second power semiconductor elements, includes a first terminal, a first gate terminal, a second terminal, a second gate terminal, a third terminal and a common terminal. The first terminal connected to a first electrode of the first power semiconductor element. The first gate terminal connected to a gate of the first power semiconductor element. The second terminal connected to a first electrode of the second power semiconductor element. The second gate terminal connected to a gate of the second power semiconductor element. The third terminal connected to a second electrode of the first power semiconductor element and a second electrode of the second power semiconductor element. The common terminal that is connected to the first gate terminal through a first resistor and is connected to the second gate terminal through a second resistor.
US11513156B2
A voltage determinator which determines a battery voltage using a voltage determination circuit and is configured to output the determination voltage to a corrector in a separate body includes a characteristics signal generation circuit that is configured to output a characteristics signal indicating characteristics of the voltage determination circuit to the corrector.
US11513137B2
A device for measuring at least one physical quantity includes a direct voltage source and a measuring sensor coupled to the voltage source, which sensor is configured to measure a physical quantity. A current regulator is connected between the direct voltage source and the measuring sensor, and a voltmeter is connected in parallel with the measuring sensor so that a voltage detected by the voltmeter is indicative of the measured quantity.
US11513132B2
The present disclosure is directed to methods reagents and kits for solid phase extraction, derivatization with crown ether containing derivatizing agents, and mass spectrometry of the derivatized analytes.
US11513131B2
The invention, in some aspects, relates to methods for diagnosing cardiovascular disease, and/or detecting cardiovascular disease in a patient, and more particularly to methods of using blood-based biomarkers and their combinations to identify patients at risk of having cardiovascular disease (e.g., coronary atherosclerosis).
US11513126B2
Kits and methods of using the kits for analyzing macromolecules, including peptides, polypeptides, and proteins, employing nucleic acid encoding are disclosed. The sample analysis kits employ nucleic acid encoding and/or nucleic acid recording of a molecular interaction and/or reaction, such as recognition events (e.g., between an antigen and an antibody, between a modified terminal amino acid residue, or between a small molecule or peptide therapeutic and a target, etc.). Additional barcoding reagents, such as those for cycle-specific barcoding (e.g., “clocking”), compartment barcoding, combinatorial barcoding, spatial barcoding, or any combination thereof, may be included in the kits. The sample may comprise macromolecules, including peptides, polypeptides, and proteins, and the recording may generate molecular interaction and/or reaction information, and/or polypeptide sequence information. The kits may be used in high-throughput, multiplexed, and/or automated analysis, and are suitable for analysis of a proteome or subset thereof.
US11513120B2
The present invention relates to nucleic acid molecules comprising a nucleic acid sequence encoding a membrane-bound biotin mimetic peptide (BMP) or biotin acceptor peptide (BAP). The invention also relates to a method for selection of high producer cells secreting a protein of interest.
US11513108B2
A system and method provides a more precise mole delivery amount of a process gas, for each pulse of a pulse gas delivery, by measuring a concentration of the process gas and controlling the amount of gas mixture delivered in a pulse of gas flow based on the received concentration of the process gas. The control of mole delivery amount for each pulse can be achieved by adjusting flow setpoint, pulse duration, or both.
US11513098B2
We describe a method and apparatus for detecting humidity using a Field Asymmetric Ion Mobility Spectrometry (FAIMS) system. The system may comprise an ionizer for generating ions within a gas sample, wherein each ion has an associated ion mobility; an ion filter for separating the ions by applying a compensation field and a dispersion field to the generated ions; a detector for detecting an output from the ion filter; and a processor. The processor may be configured to extract a spectrum of peak intensity of the detected output as a function of the compensation field and the dispersion field; calculate a turning point for the extracted spectrum; determine operating parameters of the field asymmetric ion mobility system; obtain, from a database, a plurality of known turning points each of which have an associated humidity and each of which were obtained using a field asymmetric ion mobility system having operating parameters aligned with the determined operating parameters; and determine the humidity by comparing the calculated turning point with known turning points.
US11513093B2
An electronic panel includes a base substrate having a first area, a second area adjacent to the first area, and a third area adjacent to the second area, a plurality of sensing electrodes in the second area, a plurality of sensing lines in the third area and electrically connected to the plurality of sensing electrodes, a crack sensing pattern in the first area and spaced apart from the plurality of sensing electrodes, a crack sensing line in the third area and spaced apart from the plurality of sensing lines, and a connection line connecting the crack sensing pattern to the crack sensing line via the second area and including a floating portion, wherein the floating portion is at the same layer as the crack sensing pattern and is spaced apart from the plurality of sensing electrodes.
US11513088B1
A method, system and device for comprehensively characterizing a lower limit of oil accumulation of a deep marine carbonate reservoir is provided, aiming to solve the problem that the prior art cannot: accurately determine the lower limit of oil accumulation of the deep marine carbonate reservoir, which leads to the difficulty in predicting and identifying deep effective reservoirs. The method includes: determining lower limit porosity and permeability for oil accumulation based on a boundary line; determining lower limit porosity and permeability for oil accumulation based on a movable oil ratio of a core sample; determining a lower limit pore throat radius for oil accumulation based on a mercury injection experiment; and comprehensively characterizing the lower limit of oil accumulation of a deep marine carbonate reservoir to be predicted. The method, system and device can predict and identify deep effective reservoirs.
US11513087B2
Systems and methods of providing a probe spot in multiple modes of operation of a charged-particle beam apparatus are disclosed. The method may comprise activating a charged-particle source to generate a primary charged-particle beam and selecting between a first mode and a second mode of operation of the charged-particle beam apparatus. In the flooding mode, the condenser lens may focus at least a first portion of the primary charged-particle beam passing through an aperture of the aperture plate to form a second portion of the primary charged-particle beam, and substantially all of the second portion is used to flood a surface of a sample. In the inspection mode, the condenser lens may focus a first portion of the primary charged-particle beam such that the aperture of the aperture plate blocks off peripheral charged-particles to form the second portion of the primary charged-particle beam used to inspect the sample surface.
US11513069B2
Systems for measuring a concentration of a target species include a first and second tunable diode laser generating laser light at a respective first and second wavelength each corresponding to respective absorption lines of the target species. A first optical fiber is optically coupled to the first tunable diode laser, and does not support a fundamental mode at the second wavelength. A second optical fiber is coupled to the second tunable diode laser and does not support a fundamental mode at the first wavelength. A fiber bundle includes respective distal ends of the first and second optical fibers, which are stripped of their respective coatings and arranged with their claddings adjacent to each other. A pitch head is configured to project respective optical beams from the fiber bundle through a measurement zone. A catch head located across the measurement zone receives the projected beams and directs them to a sensor.
US11513057B2
High-throughput methods and systems for using morphological and/or autofluorescence signatures of cells to characterize unknown cell/tissue types within a forensic sample are provided. Machine learning algorithms are used to correlate morphological and/or autofluorescence signatures to characteristics such as cell type.
US11513055B2
A crystal for flow cytometry with dual laser beams is disclosed. The crystal is a birefringent crystal comprising a material composition including a quartz mineral having a face side including a face angle of ninety degrees plus or minus one tenth of a degree; a wedge side that is substantially perpendicular to the face side, wherein the wedge side includes a wedge angle of two degrees plus or minus one tenth of a degree; and a major side that is substantially perpendicular to the face side and the wedge side. The major side includes a thickness of one and one-half millimeter plus or minus one tenth of a millimeter. A polarized light beam entering the birefringent crystal at an incident angle is separated into an ordinary light beam and an extraordinary light beam.
US11513051B1
The present invention discloses a shale stress sensitivity testing device and method. The testing device comprises a support table. The left and right ends of the upper surface of the support table are respectively provided with a left side plate and a right side plate. The top of the left and right side plates are connected with the left and right ends of the top plate. The chucks of the clamps are capable of reciprocating motion in the horizontal direction and circular motion in the front-rear direction. The present invention can change the intensity and direction of the effective stress of the rock sample, and determine the permeability of the rock sample under different effective stresses, thus enabling comprehensive testing of the stress sensitivity of shale in different directions and enhancing the accuracy of shale stress sensitivity testing.
US11513043B2
The present invention discloses a double cantilever beam-encoding lead screw combined sensing tensile test method and machine. The double cantilever beam-encoding lead screw combined sensing tensile test machine comprises a main frame, a standard, a test piece and a microcomputer numerical control unit. The main frame is a force-deformation combined sensing mechanism composed of a double cantilever beam sensor, an encoding lead screw and a drive device. The double cantilever beam sensor is composed of a fixed cantilever beam sensor and a movable cantilever beam sensor. The encoding lead screw is composed of a drive lead screw and a tristate encoder. The double cantilever beam sensor matches with the encoding lead screw to achieve three functions, namely, test piece clamping, force sensing and deformation sensing, as well as to measure the size of the test piece.
US11513040B2
A sample staining device, comprising a staining platform provided with a staining solution and cleaning solution supply part; glass slide support structures located on either side of the staining platform and forming a certain clearance between a glass slide and the staining platform; and a glass slide driving mechanism that enables the glass slide to move while maintaining a certain clearance from the staining platform. When said device works, a staining solution is supplied to the staining platform, and a convex liquid surface is formed due to surface tension; when the glass slide moves to the convex liquid surface of the staining solution, the staining solution infiltrates and diffuses in the clearance formed between the staining platform and the glass slide to cover the glass slide so as to stain a sample; and after the glass slide is stained, a cleaning solution is supplied to clean the residual staining solution.
US11513039B2
Techniques and systems are disclosed for a bioassay that is an in vitro mimic of peripheral nerve generation using the sensory neurons that innervate the peripheral nervous system. In some embodiments, the techniques may assist in detecting the bioactivity or potency of nerve grafts (e.g., processed, acellular human allografts) for fostering or supporting peripheral nerve regeneration. In various embodiments, techniques comprise affixing neurons (e.g., a DRG) to a nerve graft segment to form a test construct; culturing the test construct in a medium; analyzing the test construct to indicate the amount of outgrowing nerve structure; and determining the potency of the nerve graft from a metric derived from the analysis. In some embodiments, techniques and materials may be used to test the effect of a varied test condition on nerve growth.
US11513035B2
An apparatus for detecting a transient event in an operating machine, the apparatus comprising: a controller configured to control performance of the following steps: a measurement step comprising measuring a periodic signal from a machine; a processing step comprising synchronously processing the periodic signal to track the primary frequency; a filtering step comprising removing the primary periodic component and its harmonics from the periodic signal to yield a filtered dataset; an integration step comprising integrating the filtered dataset over the remaining frequencies to yield an integrated dataset representing the periodic energy at frequencies other than the primary frequency and its harmonics; an analysis step comprising identifying a short-term transient in the integrated dataset to identify a transient disruption in the operation of the machine.
US11513028B2
An apparatus for sensing an elastic deformation of a hollow element, wherein the apparatus comprises at least one sensor that is arranged in a watertight capsule which is connected in a watertight manner to a connector device comprising at least one watertight electrical connector that is electrically connected to the at least one sensor, the at least one watertight electrical connector forming a first waterproof barrier of the connector device between an outside of the watertight capsule and the at least one sensor, and wherein the connector device comprises at least one further waterproof barrier that is formed between the first waterproof barrier and the at least one sensor.
US11513025B1
A leak detection system for plumbing fixtures may include a dual channel system (700) having two channels of water flow to measure fluid flow that is both intentional and accidental. A disclosed embodiment may include a body (710) that is sometimes fastened to a top plate (715) sometimes fastened with socket head cap screws (717). The dual fluid channels may comprise a lower default or first flow path (790). Water flowing though the lower or default path may pass through a paddle wheel assembly (760) and paddle wheel (762) wherein flow rate may be measured by a myriad of systems including magnets or other sensors deposed on the distal ends of the paddle wheel spokes. A leak detection system may also include a single channel system (800) with a flap system. Disclosed systems may include other types of leak measuring devices.
US11513008B2
A stretchable sensor is provided. The stretchable sensor includes a first stretchable electrode including a first elastomer and a first conductor dispersed in the first elastomer, a stretchable active layer formed on the first stretchable electrode and including a third elastomer and an ion conductor dispersed in the third elastomer, and a second stretchable electrode formed on the stretchable active layer and including a second elastomer and a second conductor dispersed in the second elastomer. The stretchable sensor is effectively capable of sensing a temperature without being affected by strain and recognizing strain without being affected by temperature.
US11513001B2
A module comprises a display element, a first polarizing element, a light sensor, a transparent layer, and a second polarizing element. The display element emits a display light source. The first polarizing element covers the display element, and blocks a first phase portion of the display light source and allows a second phase portion of the display light source to penetrate. The transparent layer covers the first polarizing element. The light sensor is disposed on one side of the display element or the first polarizing element. The second polarizing element is disposed between the light sensor and the transparent layer and blocks a second phase portion of the display light source.
US11512998B2
Systems and methods are provided for an air flow sensor assembly for a medical gas flow device. In one embodiment, a system for an air flow sensor assembly for a medical gas flow device includes an air flow passage having a flexible reed positioned therein, the flexible reed fixedly coupled to the air flow passage via an attachment point and having an edge smaller than an inner passage wall of the air flow passage, a planar surface of the flexible reed extending into a flow path of air flow through the air flow passage, and a strain gauge coupled to the planar surface of the flexible reed.
US11512985B2
A timing apparatus, system, and method are provided to determine a position of a rotating object in a device, such as an engine, and control the device according to the determined position of the rotating object. Light is emitted from a light source onto a reflecting region on a portion of the rotating object. Light is reflected off the reflecting region of the rotating object and detected as the rotating object rotates. Intensity of the reflected light is measured, via a microcontroller, and the position of the rotating object is determined according to the intensity of the detected light. A signal is generated that corresponds to the intensity of the detected light associated with the determined position of the rotating shaft. The reflecting region has a feature configured to effect a change in the intensity of the reflected light as the rotating object rotates. The microcontroller is configured to determine the determined position and to utilize the determined position and the change in the signal to control operating characteristics of the device.
US11512977B2
A redundant resolver is configured of a stator and a rotor that form a pair, wherein the rotor is a rotor with a shaft angle multiplier of Nx having Nx (Nx is a natural number) salient poles, the stator is such that n teeth T1 to Tn, where n is a natural number, are disposed sequentially in a circumferential direction, configuring M systems by being divided into M in the circumferential direction, and having an angle of 360/M degrees when angles of the teeth configuring one system are totaled, a one-phase excitation winding and a two-phase output winding are wound around each of the teeth T1 to Tn, excitation signals of the same frequency are applied by differing excitation circuits to the respective excitation windings, an output order per system is Nout (Nout is a natural number), and an abnormality is detected based on output signals of the M systems.
US11512976B2
The disclosure discloses a latitude-free initial alignment method under a swaying base based on gradient descent optimization. Firstly, swaying base latitude-free alignment is regarded as a Wahba attitude determination problem to inhibit device noise interference, and an objective function is established based on a gravitational acceleration vector under an earth system; then an exact solution of the objective function is obtained through a gradient descent optimization method, and inertial system conversion quaternion estimation is achieved under the latitude-free condition; and finally, an attitude quaternion is determined by only using information of an accelerometer and a gyroscope of a strapdown attitude heading reference system, and therefore latitude-free initial alignment under the swaying base is achieved. The disclosure can solve the problem that initial alignment cannot be accomplished with unknown latitude under the swaying base, and thus the application range of the strapdown attitude heading reference system is ensured.
US11512972B2
System and method for communicating possible travel paths through head scanning and sound modulation
A method and system that provides navigational related audio or haptic feedback to a user traversing a route by mapping an initial route for a user to traverse, the initial route having paths and intersections; determining a current location of the user; inputting a route characteristic change of the initial route; determining possible paths associated with an intersection for the user to traverse when the current location of the user is within the predetermined distance of the intersection; ranking the determined possible paths based upon the initial route and the inputted route characteristic change; determining the head direction of the user when the current location of the user is within the predetermined distance of an intersection; determining which of the possible paths corresponds to the calculated head direction of the user; and providing an audio/haptic cue to the user based upon the ranking of the determined possible path corresponding to the determined head direction of the user.
US11512967B2
Technologies disclosed herein facilitate identification of a trip route from an origin of a user to a desired destination of the user, wherein the trip route includes multiple transportation modalities, at least one of which is an autonomous vehicle (AV), and dispatching of the AV to a pickup location for the user in connection with providing transportation to the user along a portion of the identified trip route.
US11512962B2
An onboard device 1 acquires, from map DB 10 including voxel data, reliability information included in the voxel data corresponding to voxels around the route when determining that the accuracy of an estimated position has decreased. Then, on the basis of the acquired reliability information, the onboard device 1 sets a voxel suitable for estimating the own vehicle position as a reference voxel Btag. Then, the onboard device 1 output, to an electronic control device of the vehicle, control information for correcting the target track of the vehicle so as for the vehicle to pass the position suitable for measuring the reference voxel Btag.
US11512961B2
A method and system of maintaining a trained neural network for mobile device indoor navigation and positioning. The method comprises, based on magnetic parameters acquired from a plurality of mobile devices acquired at a set of positions within an indoor area, accumulating the magnetic parameters in accordance with a trained neural network-based magnetic fingerprint dataset in a fingerprint database of the indoor area; and when a density of points represented by the set of positions having accumulated magnetic parameters exceeds a deployment threshold density, deploying the magnetic fingerprint dataset within a fingerprint map for mobile device navigation of the indoor area, the fingerprint map encompassing the set of positions.
US11512957B2
A surveying instrument include a monopod installed on a reference point and a surveying instrument main body provided on the monopod, wherein the surveying instrument main body includes a measuring direction image pickup module which acquires first image including an object, a distance measuring unit which measures a distance to the object, a measuring direction detecting module which detects a measuring direction, a time detector which generates a reference time signal and an arithmetic control module, the arithmetic control module associates a distance measurement result with the reference time signal, associates a measuring direction with the reference time signal, and associates the first image with the reference time signal, associates an image change, the measuring direction, and a distance measurement result with each other based on the reference time signal, calculates a measuring direction in the distance measurement and determines a position of a measurement part of the object.
US11512953B2
A method for determining an altitude of a moving object includes obtaining pressure-dependent data from a plurality of sensors and computing the altitude of the moving object based on the pressure-dependent data from the plurality of sensors. Each of the sensors is mounted on the moving object with a respective primary orientation direction, and the primary orientation directions of at least two of the sensors are different.
US11512950B2
The invention relates to a method for estimating a current wheel circumference of at least one wheel arranged on a vehicle, said method comprising: determining a reference speed of the vehicle at a point in time by means of a reference apparatus, detecting a wheel rotational speed of the at least one wheel at said point in time by means of a wheel rotational speed sensor, estimating a single wheel-circumference value based on the determined reference speed and the detected wheel rotational speed for said point in time by means of a calculation apparatus, storing at least the estimated single wheel-circumference value in a circular buffer for said point in time, estimating a current wheel circumference based on the single wheel-circumference values stored in the circular buffer by the calculation apparatus, outputting the estimated current wheel circumference as a wheel circumference signal.
US11512942B2
A displacement detection device is capable of stably and accurately detecting an amount of displacement. A polarization maintaining fiber has a length not to be equal to a length obtained by dividing, a product of an integral multiple of twice a length of a resonator times a refractive index of the resonator and a beat length obtained from a difference between propagation constants of two polarization modes, by a wavelength of the light source, is selected from a range including a length equal to the above length. The polarization maintaining fiber includes multiple polarization maintaining fibers fitted to each other by removable connectors.
US11512932B2
The invention relates to a dual detector with a detection head (10), comprising:—a platform (11) and—an induction sensor fastened to the platform (11) and comprising a transmitter coil (12) and a receiver coil (13), the transmitter coil (12) and the receiver coil (13) each forming a loop, the loop of the transmitter coil (12) overlapping the loop of the receiver coil (13) at least partially so as to form a coupling zone (14), the coupling zone (14) being elongated in a first longitudinal direction defining a first axis (X1), the handle (20) extending in a plan (P1) normal to the platform (11) and the first axis (X1) of the coupling zone (14) being transverse to this plane (X1).
US11512930B2
A reactive armor unit has a first explosion center and a second explosion center, the unit being configured with a predetermined distance between the first and the second explosion centers.
US11512928B2
An adjustable reflex sight comprising an elongated sight housing comprising an outer tube and an inner tube pivotably mounted within the outer tube and holding an optical element for pivoting movement therewith, a sight adjustment mechanism mounted to the housing having an adjustable member movably mounted within the adjustment mechanism for altering a tilt angle of the inner tube in relation to the outer tube thereby adjusting the sight, a first adjustment device interlinked with a second adjustment device, wherein the first adjustment device is adjustably positionable about an axis of rotation for actuating said adjustable member, thereby altering the tilt angle of the inner tube, and the second adjustment device is adjustably positionable about the axis of rotation, such that the interlinked first adjustment device and the adjustable member are moved along the axis of rotation in response to rotation of the second adjustment device.
US11512922B2
An apparatus is described that is operable between a raised and lowered position for lifting an object without pivot or rotational joints. The apparatus may include an arrow rest for use with an archery bow, wherein the arrow rest has arrow support members operable to form a v-shaped arrow supporting notch, wherein the support members slide in a non-pivotal, non-rotational manner to vary a depth of the v-shaped notch. The support members are oriented to slide between a raised and lowered position. The arrow rest is suitable for coupling to the bow in a manner so that as the bow string is drawn the support members raise the arrow into a shooting position, and when the bow string is released the support members slide away from the arrow to avoid contact between the arrow and support members. Further, the arrow rest is adjustable to accommodate various diameter arrow shafts and to adjust the lateral and vertical orientation of the arrow shaft relative to the riser.
US11512920B1
An ambidextrous bolt catch having at least some of a bolt release lever having a bolt release projection, wherein the bolt release lever is rotatable between an engaged position and a disengaged position; and a bolt catch having a bolt catch recess, wherein at least a portion of the bolt release projection is received within at least a portion of the bolt catch recess, wherein the bolt catch is rotatable between an engaged position and a disengaged position, and wherein rotational movement of the bolt release lever produces rotational movement of the bolt catch, via interaction of at least a portion of the bolt release projection and at least a portion of the bolt catch recess.
US11512914B2
A firearm shell casing catching system for collecting casings ejected from a firearm includes a mounting assembly, casing deflector, and a hopper.
US11512908B2
An evaporator element is provided and includes a body defining channels, each of which includes grooves respectively delimited by first and second interior facing sidewalls of the body which form a base and an apex with an apex angle opposite the base and defined such that, for a fluid flow moving through one of the channels in a microgravity environment a portion of the fluid flow in a liquid phase within a groove of the channel will move in the groove from the base to the apex and a portion of the fluid flow in a vapor phase within a groove of the channel will move in the groove from the apex to the base.
US11512906B2
A system and a method for heating source fluid, comprising: a turbine-electric generator transport comprising: an inlet plenum and an exhaust collector; a turbine connected to the inlet plenum and the exhaust collector; and an electric-generator coupled to the turbine; an exhaust heat recovery transport comprising: a combustion air connection coupled to the inlet plenum; an exhaust air connection coupled to the exhaust collector; a heat transfer assembly coupled to the exhaust air connection; and a fluid system coupled to the heat transfer assembly; an inlet and exhaust transport comprising: an air inlet filter housing coupled to the combustion air connection; and an exhaust stack coupled to the exhaust air connection.
US11512901B2
Disclosed herein is a heat exchanger apparatus comprising a heat exchanger tube having an inlet valve and an outlet valve. When the valves are open, the refrigerant can flow through the heat exchanger tube, and when the valves are closed, refrigerant can be stored in the heat exchanger tube, thereby reducing the effective heat exchange surface area of the heat exchanger apparatus.
US11512900B2
A large scale field erected air cooled industrial steam condenser having heat exchanger panels independently loaded into and supported in a heat exchange frame section. A bottom bonnet runs along the bottom length of each heat exchanger panel for delivering steam to the bottom end of condenser tubes in the heat exchange panel and for receiving condensate formed in those same tubes. The tops of the tubes are connected to a top bonnet. Uncondensed steam and non-condensables are drawn into the top bonnet from the condenser tubes. A steam distribution manifold is suspended from the heat exchange section frame perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the heat exchange panels and beneath a center point of the heat exchange panels and delivers steam to each heat exchange panel via a single steam inlet located at a center point of each bottom bonnet.
US11512899B2
Disclosed is a blast furnace apparatus includes: a rotating chute; a plurality of tuyeres; a profile measurement device configured to measure surface profiles of a burden charged into the blast furnace through the rotating chute; and a blowing amount controller configured to control a blowing amount of at least one of hot blast or pulverized coal in each of the plurality of tuyeres, in which the profile measurement device includes: a radio wave distance meter installed on the blast furnace top and configured to measure the distance to the surface of the burden charged; and an arithmetic unit configured to derive the surface profiles of the burden on a basis of distance data for the entire blast furnace related to distances to the surface of the burden obtained by scanning a detection wave of the radio wave distance meter in the blast furnace in a circumferential direction.
US11512896B2
A refrigerator appliance, as provided herein, may include a cabinet, a door, and a camera module. The cabinet may define a chilled chamber. The door may be rotatably hinged to the cabinet to provide selective access to the chilled chamber. The camera module may be movably mounted to the cabinet (e.g., above a support shelf). The camera module may be movable on the cabinet along a predefined direction between a retracted position proximal to a first end of the cabinet and an extended position proximal to a second end of the cabinet. The camera module may be directed at the chilled chamber in the extended position to capture an image thereof.
US11512892B2
A refrigerator includes a cabinet having an inner casing, an outer casing, and a thermal insulation space located between the inner casing and the outer casing and filled with a thermal insulation material, to form a pair of thermal insulation walls disposed opposite to each other. The thermal insulation walls have recesses formed in the inner casing and opened forward. A beam bridges the pair of thermal insulation walls, the beam including insert portions disposed on two ends and respectively inserted into the corresponding recesses. A first fixing mechanism is at least partially located in the recess and fixes the insert portion to the thermal insulation wall, which not only facilitates the assembly of the beam and improves production efficiency, but also is beneficial to improving a weight capacity of the beam.
US11512887B2
A refrigerator includes a cabinet having a first storage compartment and a second storage compartment, and a cooling module removably mounted to the cabinet. The cooling module includes an evaporator, a condenser, and a compressor. A first cold air duct extends from the first storage compartment and is configured to allow a portion of the cooling module in which the evaporator is arranged, to communicate with the first storage compartment when the cooling module is coupled to the cabinet, and a second cold air duct is different from the first cold air duct and extends from the second storage compartment. The second cold air duct is configured to allow the portion of the cooling module in which the evaporator is arranged, to communicate with the second storage compartment.
US11512880B2
A refrigeration cycle apparatus includes a first refrigerant circuit including a first compressor, a first heat exchanger, a first refrigerant flow path of a second heat exchanger, a first expansion device, a third heat exchanger, and a second refrigerant flow path of a fourth heat exchanger, and a second refrigerant circuit including a second compressor, a fifth heat exchanger, a second expansion device, a third refrigerant flow path of the second heat exchanger, and a fourth refrigerant flow path of the fourth heat exchanger, a first refrigerant flows through, in order, the first compressor, the first heat exchanger, the first refrigerant flow path, the first expansion device, the third heat exchanger, and the second refrigerant flow path, the second refrigerant flows through, in order, the second compressor, the fifth heat exchanger, the second expansion device, the third refrigerant flow path, and the fourth refrigerant flow path.
US11512875B2
A laser based water heating element formed from at least two components, e.g., a shaft and a laser beam generator, wherein the shaft and laser beam generator of the laser based water heating element are axially aligned, i.e., the shaft is centered on the laser beam generator, where the laser beam generator is a self-contained green, infrared and red-line laser module with an integrated laser driver circuit, optics and laser diode such that, in operation, the laser beam generator generates a laser beam with an output power that is sufficient to cause the shaft to generate radiant heat and thereby cause the temperature of water within a water heater to rise.
US11512870B2
A vent register includes a front plate having a perforated section for allowing airflow through the front plate, and a plurality of sidewalls perpendicularly extending from a side of the front plate and forming a sleeve for insertion into an opening of a ventilation duct. A first bow-spring is attached to a first sidewall of the plurality of sidewalls and a second bow-spring is attached to a second sidewall, the second sidewall being opposite the first sidewall. The first and second bow-springs are each respectively spring-tempered wires, the first bow-spring being attached at both ends to the first sidewall and the second bow-spring being attached at both ends to the second sidewall. Each of the first and second bow-springs forms a U-shape wing respectively extending from the and second sidewalls. The bow-springs include friction increasing means on at least a center portion for securing the register vent in the opening.
US11512863B2
A method of operating an HVAC system using a controller includes predicting a first predicted temperature of an enclosed space during an unoccupied time with the HVAC system off. The controller determines if the first predicted temperature is less than a set-point temperature. Responsive to a determination that the first predicted temperature is less than the set-point temperature, the controller predicts a second predicted temperature of the enclosed space if the HVAC system is operated for a first runtime. The controller determines if the second predicted temperature is less than the set-point temperature and, responsive to a determination that the second predicted temperature is not less than the set-point temperature, the controller operates the HVAC system for the first runtime.
US11512861B2
A computer-implemented method for anomaly detection in a data processing system comprising a processor and a memory comprising instructions which are executed by the processor, the method including: receiving, by the processor, a real-time airflow pattern detected from an airflow alerter, wherein the real-time airflow pattern is generated by a heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) system in a particular facility; comparing, by the processor, the real-time airflow pattern to a predetermined airflow pattern for the HVAC system; and when the real-time airflow pattern is different from the predetermined airflow pattern, receiving, by the processor, an alert message indicating an anomaly from the airflow alerter.
US11512858B2
An air conditioning apparatus according to an aspect of the invention includes: an air conditioner that has a heat pump; a humidity controller of a wet desiccant type; an air transport flow path through which air discharged from the air conditioner is transported to the humidity controller; and a control unit that includes an air conditioner temperature control unit controlling a temperature of air discharged from the air conditioner and a humidity controller humidity control unit controlling a humidity of air discharged from the humidity controller. The air conditioner supplies the air, the temperature of which is controlled, to the humidity controller via the air transport flow path and the humidity controller discharges the air, the humidity of which is controlled, into a room.
US11512845B2
A lighting apparatus includes a light head, a driver box, multiple separating columns and a light source module. The light head has an Edison cap and a head body. The head body has a rotatable connector. The driver box has a first side and a second side for containing a driver circuit. The first side of the driver box has a fixing unit corresponding to the rotatable connector of the head body to selectively attach or detach the light head from the driver box by rotating the rotatable connector with respect to the fixing unit. The light source plate has a light source plate mounted with LED modules. The light source plate is fixed to the driver box with the multiple separating columns. The separating columns form an air gap between the driver box and the light source for heat dissipation.
US11512844B1
Described herein is an illuminating device with reflector. Said device includes a heat sink insert moulded cylindrical plastic housing, and a circular metal core printed circuit board, MCPCB, mounted on a circular slot provided on a top inner end of the housing, the circular MCPCB having light emitting diodes (LEDs), wherein LEDs mounted in a circular manner near peripheral region of a top surface of the MCPCB and having electronic components mounted in a central region of the top surface of the MCPCB. Further said device includes a cylindrical reflector fixed on the top surface of the MCPCB with its cylindrical wall lying between the LEDs and the electronic components; and a diffuser connecting a top surface of the cylindrical reflector with the top inner end of the housing, wherein lower end of said plastic housing connected with a holder.
US11512830B2
A light emitting system includes at least one light pipe, at least one light source disposed at least partially within an interior of the system, at least one mask, and a lens substantially enclosing the interior of the system, the at least one light pipe, and the at least one light source, the lens having an inner surface, an outer surface disposed opposite the inner surface and at least one of a continuous transparent or translucent coating on the outer surface.
US11512829B2
Reliability of an in-vehicle headlight is improved by changing a light distribution pattern without using any mechanical configuration. The in-vehicle headlight includes a laser light source, a spatial light modulator, a spatial-light-modulator controller, and a projection lens. The laser light source emits a laser light beam. The spatial light modulator modulates a phase distribution of the laser light beam emitted by the laser light source. The spatial-light-modulator controller is provided in a headlight controller, and controls the spatial light modulator. The spatial-light-modulator controller controls the spatial light modulator so as to modulate the phase distribution of the laser light beam, and changes the light distribution pattern projected from the projection lens.
US11512826B2
Solar-powered lighting devices that may be portable and/or collapsible are described. The devices may include a housing including a first wall, a second wall, and one or more side walls between the first wall and the second wall, at least one solar panel to generate solar energy, and a rechargeable battery to store the solar energy generated. The devices may include a plurality of operating modes for controlling lights within the housing, and a microprocessor for controlling the operating modes.
US11512821B2
There is provided a system for evaluating an ultraviolet-protection product to be applied to skin, including a light source generating an output beam and a spacer mountable to the light source for maintaining a fixed distance between the light source and the skin. The spacer includes a mounting bracket engageable with the light source and a frame mechanically connected to the mounting bracket and extending longitudinally outwardly from the mounting bracket, the frame comprising an outer periphery, an inner periphery and a skin-contacting portion, the inner periphery defining a hollow region therein, such that when the skin-contacting portion is engaged with the skin, the beam passes through the hollow region and interacts with the skin at an illumination plane to define an illuminated area confined within the hollow region, the ultraviolet-protection product remaining substantially unaffected in the illuminated area upon relative movement of the skin with respect to the frame.
US11512820B2
A stand light includes a body having a main center shaft and a sleeve movably supported on the main center shaft. The stand light additionally includes a head assembly supported by the main body and including a light source, and a plurality of legs pivotally coupled to the body. The plurality of legs is movable with the sleeve from a collapsed position to an extended position, in which distal ends of the plurality of legs are moved away from the body. A first leg of the plurality of legs includes a first handle portion and a second leg of the plurality of legs includes a second handle portion. When the plurality of legs is in the collapsed position, the first handle portion and the second handle portion are positioned adjacent to each other to form a handle configured to be grasped by a user.
US11512803B2
A catch basin comprising a circular collar with a first internal diameter, configured to receive a downwardly extending circular drain pipe. A sump for receiving downward water flow from the circular collar is integrally formed with the circular collar, the sump being shaped to include two differently shaped cylindrical portions. The shape of the sump facilitates both the ability to stack multiple units of the sump one upon another for packaging, shipping, and sale. The shape of the sump also facilitates the ability to remove an internal stub attached to the sump, to improve water flow in the remaining structure.
US11512787B2
A valve for inflating and deflating an inflatable element includes a valve housing fluid connected to the inflatable element, an at least one hole extending through the valve housing and accommodated to let a fluid flow in and out the valve housing for inflating and deflating the inflatable element, and a flap disposed next to the at least one hole inside the valve housing, such that the flap covers the at least one hole and behaves as a flap when inflating the inflatable element. The flap is inflatable and is fluid connected with a nozzle disposed outside the valve housing. The inflatable flap, when inflated, uncovers the at least one hole releasing a fluid flow through the at least one hole for deflating the inflatable element.
US11512783B2
A gate valve for controlling a flow of a fluid. The gate valve includes a valve body with a first seat pocket and a flow bore, a gate which is movable so as to intersect the flow bore, a seat with a gate end and a body end, a plate with an opening which is positionable on the seat at the gate end, and a plate retainer which is positionable between the seat and the plate so as to prevent an axial movement between the seat and the plate with respect to an axis of the flow bore. The flow bore extends through the valve body for the flow of the fluid. The gate end is arranged to face the gate, and the body end is positionable within the first seat pocket of the valve body.
US11512768B2
A belt pulley structure of an engine is provided to prevent abnormal noise from generating between a belt pulley and a torsional vibration damper. The belt pulley structure includes a stepped portion that is formed in a shape that blocks a cavity in a radial direction thereof. The cavity is formed at a portion where a belt pulley and a torsional vibration damper face each other.
US11512767B2
A resin gear includes an annular metal bush and an annular resin member provided around the metal bush. The metal bush and the resin member are disposed so as to be relatively rotatable in a direction of rotation of the resin gear. A plurality of spaces entering an outer peripheral surface of the metal bush and an inner peripheral surface of the resin member are formed, so as to be aligned along the direction of rotation, between the metal bush and the resin member. The space has, in at least one end portion in an axial direction of the resin gear, inner surfaces intersecting with the axial direction. An elastic member is disposed in the space. The elastic member engages with the inner surfaces.
US11512764B2
A tool changing system with rigidity improved belt moving mechanism includes a pedestal, a sliding base, a driving unit, a positioning belt, and a transmission belt. The sliding base is disposed on the pedestal, and reciprocatively moves along a linear direction. The driving unit is disposed on the sliding base. The positioning belt and the transmission belt are disposed on the pedestal and include a gear rack, respectively. A detouring section of the transmission belt is separated from the positioning belt, and transmissibly meshed with the driving wheel of the driving unit. When the driving wheel rotates, the detouring section is driven to continuously shift on the transmission belt, and the sliding base is simultaneously driven to slide on the pedestal along the linear direction. Thus, a combination of the positioning belt and the transmission belt achieves an improved rigidity.
US11512750B2
An electromechanical brake apparatus includes a housing supporting an inboard brake pad and an oppositely facing outboard brake pad for selective frictional contact with a rotor interposed longitudinally therebetween. The housing includes a mechanism cavity located longitudinally between the inboard pad and a motor having a motor output shaft. An adjuster ramp assembly indirectly receives torque from the motor. A spindle is operatively connected with the adjuster ramp assembly to indirectly receive torque from the motor therethrough. A leading ramp assembly is configured to transmit applied torque from the motor to the adjuster ramp assembly. The leading ramp assembly receives stepped-up torque from the motor via the motor output shaft and a ball thrust bearing at least partially located radially between the motor output shaft and an actuator ramp of the leading ramp assembly.
US11512745B2
A self-adjusting clutch actuator includes a transmission element displaceable in a displacement direction; and a compensation mechanism having a piston displaceable in the displacement direction of the transmission element. The compensation mechanism allows a first relative displacement (X) of the transmission element relative to the piston in the displacement direction when there is no actuating force in the clutch actuator, and blocks the first relative displacement (X) when an actuating force is introduced into the clutch actuator by bringing a frictional element (4) into contact with a counter-element. The frictional element (4) is designed for a second relative displacement (Y) relative to the counter-element when the first relative displacement (X) is not blocked by the compensation mechanism (22). A translatory mechanism provided between the transmission element (1) and the piston (2) is designed to cause the second relative movement (Y), by the first relative displacement (X) relative to the counter-element.
US11512744B2
An excessive torque releasing type clutch apparatus comprises an outer ring, an inner ring arranged radially inside and coaxially with the outer ring and rotatably relative to the outer ring, a torque transmitting portion capable of transmitting torque between the outer ring and the inner ring, and a restricting mechanism for restricting excessive torque from being input from an input torque transmitting member to a driving ring of the outer ring and the inner ring and restricting excessive inverse torque that is input to a driven ring of the outer ring and the inner ring from being input to the input torque transmitting member. Treatment steps for securing strength of constituent members of the clutch apparatus in manufacturing be simplified or omitted.
US11512743B2
A constant velocity universal joint includes outer and inner joint members configured to transmit torque therebetween through intermediation of balls while allowing angular displacement. A power transmission shaft is coupled to the inner joint member. A mounting and dismounting mechanism configured to mount and dismount the power transmission shaft to and from the inner joint member is provided between the inner joint member and the power transmission shaft. The mounting and dismounting mechanism includes a tubular member inserted externally on the power transmission shaft so as to extend from the inner joint member, a fixing member received in the tubular member, and an annular member arranged on an outer periphery of the tubular member. The fixing member is moved in the radial direction along with movement of the annular member in the axial direction so that the fixing member is mountable to and dismountable from the power transmission shaft.
US11512741B2
Disclosed is a packaging sleeve for a full complement needle roller bearing, wherein the packing sleeve is adapted to accommodate at least one set of needles of a full complement needle roller bearing, and wherein the packaging sleeve comprises an outer cylindrical sleeve, wherein a shoulder is arranged on an inner surface of the outer cylindrical sleeve so that the set of needles abut against the shoulder when being arranged in the outer cylindrical sleeve. Furthermore, a packaging sleeve arrangement including such a packaging sleeve and a method for mounting a packaging sleeve are disclosed.
US11512740B2
A combined electrical insulator and conductor assembly for a bearing disposable between a shaft and a housing includes an annular insulator disposable about the bearing outer ring and configured to prevent electric current flow between the outer ring and the housing and including a plurality of projections extending axially along and spaced circumferentially about a centerline. A conductor includes a conductive disk with an outer radial end engageable with the housing inner surface, an inner radial end defining a central opening for receiving the shaft and openings each receiving a separate one of the plurality of projections of the insulator such that the disk is axially displaceable relative to the insulator. An annular conductive brush subassembly is coupled with the conductive disk and includes a plurality of electrically conductive fibers contactable with the shaft outer surface so as to provide a conductive path between the shaft and the disk.
US11512738B2
A metallic-composite joint fitting is provided. The fitting may comprise a frustoconical internal bearing having a bore, a conical sleeve configured to be disposed about the frustoconical internal bearing, a composite structure configured to couple between the frustoconical internal bearing and the conical sleeve, a metallic end fitting configured to be disposed within the bore and couple to the frustoconical internal bearing, and an external nut configured to couple to the metallic end fitting and the conical sleeve, wherein at least one of the frustoconical internal bearing or the conical sleeve comprises a flanged portion mutually configured to couple the conical sleeve to the frustoconical internal bearing via a locking ring.
US11512737B2
A v-clamp is used to join tubular bodies having end flanges in order to form a joint therebetween. Such tubular bodies are employed in heavy-duty and moderate and light-duty applications including, but not limited to, industrial, oil and gas, sewage, agriculture, and automotive applications. The v-clamp can include a band, a closure mechanism, and a set of bearings. The v-clamp may furnish a more evenly and uniformly distributed clamping force around a circumference of the v-clamp and to the tubular body end flanges than previously demonstrated.
US11512732B2
A tolerance compensation arrangement for fastening first and second components with automatic or self-acting compensation of tolerances in the spacing between the components. The arrangement includes a base element having first and second metal elements with inner threads. An adjustment unit includes a threaded sleeve with an outer thread and a dragging unit at least partially arranged in the threaded sleeve. The outer thread forms a first thread pairing of a first thread direction with the inner thread of the first metal element. A fastening screw can be screwed into the inner thread of the second metal element via a second thread pairing of a second thread direction opposite to the first thread direction. The fastening screw can be connected to the adjustment unit via the dragging unit so that, during the rotation of the fastening screw, the adjustment unit co-rotates and is moved into abutment with the first component.
US11512722B2
A panel attachment structure for a wearable article manufacturing equipment includes: lower and upper panels vertically arranged while separated up-and-down; a first processing section and a first driving section respectively attached to a front face and a back face of the lower panel; a second processing section and a second driving section respectively attached to a front face and a back face of the upper panel; a base horizontally arranged under the lower panel; and a pair of pillars raised from the base, wherein, in the structure, the lower and upper panels are removably fixed to the pillars while being supported by the respective lower and upper parts of the pillars, and each pillar has a support section, provided between the upper and lower panels and supporting the load of the upper panel.
US11512712B2
A pump assembly includes at least one rotatingly driven impeller (14) and at least one valve element (18) which is rotatable about a rotation axis (X) between at least two switching positions. The valve element (18) includes a first face side (22) which extends transversely to the rotation axis of the valve element. A suction opening (24), which is engaged with a suction port (26) of the impeller (14), is formed in this first face side in a central region. The first face side (22) includes a pressure surface which surrounds the suction opening (24) and is adjacent to a delivery chamber (28) which surrounds the impeller (14).
US11512710B2
When an apex of a first blade element projecting from the positive pressure surface is A, a distance from the center axis to the apex A is r, and a point having the distance r from the center axis on a front edge in the rotation direction of the first blade element is B, the first blade element among the blade elements that is arranged on a front edge side in the rotation direction of the blade, is formed to have a blade angle equal to or larger than a predetermined first angle and equal to or smaller than a second angle that is larger than the first angle, the blade angle being formed by a direction along a chord of the first blade element along a direction that connects the apex A with the point B, and a plane orthogonal to the center axis.
US11512708B1
An impeller for a viscous flow fan includes a hub having a longitudinal axis, and a plurality of ring-shaped wave blades disposed about and coupled to a perimeter of the hub, the wave blades disposed in a parallel and spaced apart from one another along the longitudinal axis by a blade gap. Each wave blade includes a center coincident with the longitudinal axis, an inner perimeter, an outer perimeter, and a wave-like cross-section about the perimeter of the hub in a direction perpendicular to the longitudinal axis, wherein at least a portion of the inner perimeter of at least one of the wave blades is spaced from the perimeter of the hub to form an air intake gap.
US11512704B2
A counter-rotating axial air moving device includes a front rotor and a rear rotor. The front rotor includes a front hub and a plurality of front blades, and the number of the front blades is equal to or greater than 7 and equal to or less than 11. The rear rotor is disposed on the downstream side of the front rotor. The rear rotor includes a rear hub and a plurality of rear blades, and the number of the rear blades is equal to or greater than 6 and equal to or less than 10. The front rotor and the rear rotor are stacked with each other with a total thickness and a diameter. The ratio of the total thickness to the diameter is equal to or more than 0.91 and equal to or less than 1.5.
US11512701B2
A cutting system for a grinding pump, including a cutting disc attached to the pump near an inlet and having a cutting surface with multiple cutting orifices, and a rotating cutter attached to the rotating shaft of the pump and having two cutting blades, each blade having a cutting edge on a forward-facing side of the rotating cutter. The rotating cutter is located on the upstream side of the cutting disc, and cooperates with the cutting orifices of the cutting disc to perform cutting actions. Each cutting orifice has a hole extending from the cutting surface through the cutting disc to form a feeding orifice, and a cutting protrusion protruding from the cutting surface and surrounding the hole region. The multiple cutting orifices define recessed areas of the cutting surface between the cutting orifices. The cutting system can prevent uncut floating matters from being trapped, and is effective and safe.
US11512697B2
A method for determining a flow volume of a fluid delivered by a pump. The flow volume is determined as a function of predefined pump information depending on a pump geometry, rotation speed information, which correlates with the rotation speed of the pump, and pressure information, which correlates with a differential pressure at the pump.
US11512691B2
A microfluidic chip orients and isolates components in a sample fluid mixture by two step focusing, where sheath fluids compress the sample fluid mixture in a sample input channel in one direction, such that the sample fluid mixture becomes a narrower stream bounded by the sheath fluids, and by having the sheath fluids compress the sample fluid mixture in a second direction further downstream, such that the components are compressed and oriented in a selected direction to pass through an interrogation chamber in single file formation for identification and separation by various methods. The isolation mechanism utilizes external, stacked piezoelectric actuator assemblies disposed on a microfluidic chip holder, or piezoelectric actuator assemblies on-chip, so that the actuator assemblies are triggered by an electronic signal to actuate jet chambers on either side of the sample input channel, to jet selected components in the sample input channel into one of the output channels.
US11512688B2
A module for a vacuum pumping and/or abatement system. The module comprises a frame defining a space, a plurality of facilities inputs configured to receive facilities from a facilities supply, a plurality of facilities outputs configured to output the received facilities out of the module, and a plurality of facilities connection lines located at least partially within the space defined by the frame. The plurality of facilities connection lines connect the facilities inputs to the facilities outputs. The module further comprises a controller configured to control supply of facilities received at the facilities inputs out of the facilities outputs; and control operation of one or more vacuum pumping and/or abatement apparatuses remote from the module.
US11512683B2
A mobile source of electricity is converted from a transportation mode to an operational mode. A turbine disposed on the mobile source of electricity is operated to generate electricity in the operational mode. A first control valve is operated to feed a cooling agent from a cooling agent source into a heat transfer apparatus disposed in an air intake flow path of the turbine to cool intake air. A second control valve is operated to vent from the heat transfer apparatus, the cooling agent that is heated by absorbing heat from the intake air flowing through the air intake flow path. A controller controls the first and second control valves to maintain the cooling agent having predetermined properties in the heat transfer apparatus.
US11512673B1
Interference between an intake manifold and a fuel pipe during a vehicle front collision is prevented in an engine which is longitudinally mounted in an engine room. A vehicle component is arranged on the front side of the intake manifold, and the fuel pipe is arranged on the rear side of the intake manifold. The intake manifold includes a plurality of independent intake pipe portions arranged side by side in the vehicle front-rear direction which branch for each of the cylinders of the engine; and a plurality of coupling portions that each couple adjacent independent intake pipe portions to each other in an integral manner A first coupling portion of the plurality of coupling portions positioned on the frontmost side has a lower rigidity than a third coupling portion of the plurality of coupling portions positioned the rearmost side.
US11512672B2
The invention relates to an internal combustion engine system. The system includes a mixing unit comprising a four-way valve. The four-way valve having a first inlet connected to the EGR line, a second inlet connected to the air inlet line, a first outlet connected to the first intake manifold and a second outlet connected to the second intake manifold. The four-way valve is designed so that, in said normal operating mode, the intake gases supplied to the first intake manifold and to the second intake manifold have approximately the same proportion of exhaust gas and fresh air and so that, in said cylinder deactivation mode, the intake gas supplied to the first intake manifold only includes exhaust gas and the fresh air is directed exclusively to the second intake manifold.
US11512663B2
An engine is provided, which includes a combustion chamber defined by a piston crown surface, an inner wall surface of a cylinder, and a pentroof ceiling surface formed in a cylinder head, and an ignition part of a spark plug disposed at the ceiling surface to achieve flame propagation combustion inside the combustion chamber. A cavity recessed in a spherical cap shape is formed in a central area of the crown surface. An opening of an intake port is formed in the ceiling surface (intake side) and an opening of an exhaust port is formed in the ceiling surface (exhaust side). When seen in a cross-sectional view taken along a cylinder axis, the ignition part is located above the cavity to be offset toward the exhaust side with respect to a cylinder axial line whereas a cavity center point is located to be offset toward the intake side.
US11512656B2
A method for operating an oxycombustion engine system includes passing a nitrogen-depleted gas, a fuel, and a recycled exhaust gas into a combustion chamber, combusting a mixture of the nitrogen-depleted gas, the fuel, and the recycled exhaust gas, thereby producing an exhaust gas including carbon dioxide, detecting a pressure of the recycled exhaust gas passed to the combustion chamber, determining whether the detected pressure of the recycled exhaust gas is less than a configurable pressure threshold, and in response to determining that the detected pressure of the recycled exhaust gas is less than the configurable pressure threshold, increasing the pressure of the recycled exhaust gas passed to the combustion chamber.
US11512654B2
The present invention relates to a method for controlling injection of a gaseous fuel, such as hydrogen or a hydrogen based gas, and a water-based fluid medium into a combustion engine. The method comprises the steps of: in a first operational mode injecting the gaseous fuel and optionally a water based fluid medium into a combustion chamber of the engine at a relatively high pressure; in a second operational mode injecting water as liquid into engine to reduce the temperature and pressure inside the combustion chamber, and injecting the gaseous fuel into the combustion chamber at a relatively low pressure.
US11512652B2
An internal combustion engine system includes an internal combustion engine, a controller, and an increased brake load event communicator. The internal combustion engine includes a first cylinder and a first cylinder deactivation prevention mechanism. The first cylinder is configured to be selectively activated and deactivated. The first cylinder deactivation prevention mechanism is configured to selectively prevent the first cylinder from being deactivated. The controller is communicable with the first cylinder deactivation prevention mechanism. The controller includes an increased brake load event detection module that is configured to selectively control the first cylinder deactivation prevention mechanism to prevent the first cylinder from being deactivated. The increased brake load event communicator is communicable with the controller. The increased brake load event detection module is configured to control the first cylinder deactivation prevention mechanism to prevent the first cylinder from being deactivated based on a communication from the increased brake load event communicator.
US11512649B2
Methods for controlling actuating components of turbine engines using an adaptive damping lag filter are provided. The adaptive filter includes features that filter out insignificant changes in actuator demand, respond to fast transient conditions to follow demanded position of the actuating component more closely, and adapts the gain of the output position to avoid stall conditions.
US11512645B2
A solid-propellant gas generator assembly may comprise a bulkhead having an orifice disposed in a housing. The bulkhead may be disposed between a first end and a second end of the housing. The bulkhead and the first end may define a propellant cavity. The bulkhead and the second end may define a pressure chamber. A fast burning solid-propellant may be disposed in the propellant cavity. The solid-propellant gas generator assembly may be configured to replace a slow burning solid-propellant gas generator system in a solid-propellent gas generator system.
US11512638B2
A surface heat-exchanger for a turbojet engine nacelle between a fluid (C) to be cooled down and air (F) includes a circulation duct of the fluid (C) to be cooled down disposed in contact with air. The circulation duct includes a plurality of channels extending substantially in the same direction with a distance (D) between two adjacent channels between two and five times the width (L) of the channels, each channel having a wall with an area intended to be in contact with air and an area opposite to the area intended to be in contact with air.
US11512637B2
An interdigitated turbine assembly for a gas turbine engine, the interdigitated turbine assembly including a first turbine rotor assembly interdigitated with a second turbine rotor assembly. A first static frame is positioned forward of the first turbine rotor assembly and the second turbine rotor assembly. The first turbine rotor assembly is operably coupled to an inner rotatable component of a gear assembly. The second turbine rotor assembly is operably coupled to an outer rotatable component of the gear assembly. The static structure is connected to the first static frame. A driveshaft is operably coupled to the outer rotatable component. A first bearing assembly is operably coupled to the driveshaft and the first static frame. A second bearing assembly is operably coupled to the first static frame and first turbine rotor assembly. A third bearing assembly is operably coupled to the first turbine rotor assembly and the second turbine rotor assembly.
US11512633B2
A turbocharger is used within a vehicle and includes an electronic actuator assembly. The electronic actuator assembly includes an actuator housing coupled to at least one of the turbine housing, the compressor housing, and the bearing housing, and an accelerometer coupled to the actuator housing. The accelerometer is adapted to detect vibration of at least one of the turbine housing, the compressor housing, the bearing housing, and the actuator housing thereby obtaining acceleration data of at least one of the turbine housing, the compressor housing, the bearing housing, and the actuator housing to determine rotational speed of the turbocharger shaft. Another embodiment includes a vibration detection assembly having an accelerometer coupled to a vehicle component and the vehicle component is one or more of a turbocharger, a valve assembly, an electronically driven compressor, and a turbocharger having an integral electric motor.
US11512632B2
A power generation transport includes a gas turbine, an inlet plenum coupled to an intake of the gas turbine, a generator driven by the gas turbine, and an air intake and exhaust module including an air inlet filter housing, an intake air duct coupled to the housing at a first end and to the inlet plenum at a second end, and an exhaust collector coupled to an exhaust of the gas turbine. The transport further includes at least one base frame. The frame mounts and aligns the gas turbine, the inlet plenum, the generator, and the air intake and exhaust module. The intake air duct is mounted on the base frame so as to be disposed underneath the gas turbine, and extend along the base frame from an exhaust end side of the gas turbine to an intake end side, in a longitudinal direction of the power generation transport.
US11512630B2
A method for controlling operation of an opposed piston engine is provided, comprising: determining a direction of rotation of the engine; comparing the determined direction of rotation to a correct direction of rotation of the engine; and responding to the determined direction of rotation being different from the correct direction of rotation by taking corrective action.
US11512624B1
Methods and systems are provided for an engine, including an engine cylinder coupled to a cylinder head, and a pre-chamber. The pre-chamber includes a first end proximal to the cylinder head, a spark gap, and pre-chamber walls enclosing an internal volume including a dead volume. The dead volume includes all of the internal volume positioned between the first end and the spark gap. A moveable element is positioned in the internal volume and fluidly coupled to the dead volume, wherein moving the moveable element changes a ratio of the dead volume to the internal volume. In this way, combustion conditions may be enhanced at a plurality of engine conditions.
US11512620B2
A device for treating exhaust gases which is designed for electrically contacting a plurality of conductor tracks, which are arranged within an interior space that is surrounded by an outer wall of the device, through the outer wall. One or more electrodes which may be electrically contacted through the outer wall are arranged in the interior space, each of which electrodes electrically contacts two or more of the conductor tracks in the interior space.
US11512617B2
A diffuser for a jet pump of a separator comprises an inlet defining a first flow area; an outlet in fluid communication with the inlet through which fluid exits the diffuser, in which a flow path extends from the inlet to the outlet, and in which the outlet defines a second flow area greater than the first flow area so that a velocity of fluid flowing through the inlet is greater than a velocity of fluid flowing through the outlet; and a communication port extending through a wall of the diffuser with an inlet in communication with an interior of the diffuser and an outlet in communication with an exterior of the diffuser, in which the communication port inlet is between the diffuser inlet and the diffuser outlet, so that contaminants separated from the fluid stream are removed through the communication port.
US11512616B2
The present disclosure describes an oil pan structure including a storing portion that stores oil for an internal combustion engine. The storing portion includes a shallow bottom portion, a deep bottom portion deeper than the shallow bottom portion, and a connection surface that connects the shallow bottom portion and the deep bottom portion between the shallow bottom portion and the deep bottom portion. A side wall is formed at a position facing the connection surface with the shallow bottom portion interposed between the side wall and the connection surface. A rib is formed on a back surface of the shallow bottom portion so as to extend from one side or another side of the side wall in a width direction of the shallow bottom portion toward an end portion of the connection surface on an opposite side in the width direction.
US11512615B2
An evaluation of the oil level of an aircraft engine tank from doses of oil delivered from another tank by a pump can be checked by comparing the evaluation of the volume provided by a sensor associated with the engine tank with an estimation of the volume extracted from the aircraft rank, either by another level sensor associated with this tank, or directly from the control of the pump. This comparison is made by a module capable of notifying staff of the need to check or maintain the device, and in particular to check if the sensor is operating correctly. Application to aeronautics, in particular to devices wherein a single aircraft tank supplies all the engine tanks.
US11512606B1
The electrical power generation system including a micro-turbine including a combustor, a first stage turbine configured to be driven by a combustor exhaust from the combustor, at least one compressor operably connected to the combustor to provide a compressed airflow to the combustor, a catalytic converter configured convert the combustor exhaust to a catalytic exhaust that includes at least exothermic heat, a second stage turbine configured to be driven by the catalytic exhaust from the catalytic converter, and one or more shafts connecting the first stage turbine and the second stage turbine to the at least one compressor such that rotation of the first stage turbine and the second stage turbine drives rotation of the at least one compressor.
US11512604B1
A vane assembly includes a platform. A vane cover is arranged adjacent the platform. The vane cover has a protrusion that provides a spring land. The spring land is arranged at an angle relative to the vane cover. A spring assembly has a plunger. The plunger is in contact with the spring land.
US11512596B2
A vane arc segment includes an airfoil fairing that has a platform and an airfoil section that extends therefrom. The platform defines periphery edge faces, a gaspath face, and a non-gaspath face. The platform has a flange that projects radially from the non-gaspath face. The flange defines a forward flange face, an aft flange face, and a radial flange face. The flange has an end portion adjacent one of the periphery edges. The end portion includes a step that defines a radial step face that is radially intermediate the radial flange face and the non-gaspath face.
US11512594B2
A system for modulating airflow into a bore defined by a rotor of a gas turbine engine defining an axial direction, a circumferential direction, and a radial direction is provided. The system includes a movable member positioned forward of a first stage of rotor blades of the rotor. The movable member is movable between at least a first position and a second position to modulate airflow into the bore via a plurality of opening in fluid communication with the bore.
US11512590B2
Systems and methods are provided for gathering and segregation of oil extracted from a resource fields with a plurality of disparate sources in relatively close proximity. Instead of assigning a quality and/or destination for crude oil from an extraction source based on the origin of the crude oil, the crude oil can be characterized while still in local storage at or near the wellhead prior to transport to a refinery, a shipping or pipeline terminal, or another type destination for crude oil. Based on the characterization, one or more characteristics of the crude oil can be used to assign the crude oil to one of a plurality of destinations. The crude oil can then be transported to the assigned destination.
US11512588B2
A drilling dynamics data recorder is positioned within a slot in a downhole tool. The drilling dynamics data recorder may include a sensor package, the sensor package including one or more drilling dynamics sensors and a processor, the processor in data communication with the one or more drilling dynamics sensors. The drilling dynamics data recorder may also include a memory module, the memory module in data communication with the one or more drilling dynamics sensors and a communication port, the communication port in data communication with the memory module. The drilling dynamics data recorder may further include an electrical energy source, the electrical energy source in electrical communication with the memory module, the one or more drilling dynamics sensors, and the processor.
US11512583B2
Aspects of the subject technology relate to a sensor for a downhole tool. The downhole tool can include a collar and a sensor. The sensor can be secured to the collar for measuring one or more operational characteristics of the downhole tool during operation of the downhole tool. The sensor can include a substrate. The sensor can also include a plurality of strain gauges disposed on the substrate. The plurality of strain gauges can be configured to measure axial strains and torsional strains on the collar for measuring the one or more operational characteristics of the downhole tool.
US11512581B2
A method includes attaching a fiber optic cable to a cementing tool configured to attach to a cementing plug displace cement in a hydrocarbon well. The method can also include deploying the cementing tool in the hydrocarbon well to cause the cementing plug to begin releasing cement to form to displace cement to form a cement sheath in the hydrocarbon well. Additionally, the method can also include receiving, by a sensor receiver at a wellhead of the hydrocarbon well, a signal with cementing data as the cement sheath cures. Furthermore, the method can also include determining whether the cement sheath is curing properly. A system and a non-transitory computer readable medium are also provided.
US11512580B2
Systems and methods include a method for generating a real-time reservoir porosity log. Historical gas-porosity data is received from previously-drilled and logged wells. The historical gas-porosity data identifies relationships between gas measurements obtained during drilling and reservoir porosity determined after drilling. A gas-porosity model is trained using machine learning and the historical gas-porosity data. Real-time gas measurements are obtained during drilling of a new well. A real-time reservoir porosity log is generated for the new well using the gas-porosity model and real-time gas measurements.
US11512577B2
An apparatus and method of operating a drilling system with a directional guidance system and a drilling operation system is described. The directional guidance system and drilling operation system may engage in bi-directional communication during a slide drilling operation. This communication may be continual during the drilling operation. Parameters of the drilling instructions and the drilling operation system may be changed in response to these communications resulting in new instructions and changed slide drilling operations.
US11512574B1
Techniques of the present disclosure relate to proppant flowback control using a plug and perf completion. A method comprises disposing a resin in at least one cluster of fractures of a stage; disposing an activator for the resin in the stage; displacing the activator from the wellbore and into the at least one cluster of the stage with a plug attached to a perforating apparatus; setting the plug such that the resin and the activator are contained in the stage; and perforating a subsequent stage.
US11512571B2
Systems and methods for identifying a status of components of hydraulic fracturing units including a prime mover and a hydraulic fracturing pump to pump fracturing fluid into a wellhead via a manifold may include a diagnostic control assembly. The diagnostic control assembly may include sensors associated with the hydraulic fracturing units or the manifold, and a supervisory control unit to determine whether the sensors are generating signals outside a calibration range, determine whether a fluid parameter associated with an auxiliary system of the hydraulic fracturing units is indicative of a fluid-related problem, determine whether lubrication associated with the prime mover, the hydraulic fracturing pump, or a transmission of the hydraulic fracturing units has a lubrication fluid temperature greater than a maximum lubrication temperature, or determine an extent to which a heat exchanger assembly associated with the hydraulic fracturing units is cooling fluid passing through the heat exchanger assembly.
US11512568B2
Systems and methods of the present disclosure generally relate to monitoring, evaluating, and controlling fracture geometry during a hydraulic fracturing operation, in real time. A method comprises measuring a signal representing a condition in a wellbore; inputting the signal into a model for estimating a dimension of a dominant fracture; determining the dimension of the dominant fracture; determining a target dimension for the dominant fracture; and minimizing a difference between the dimension of the dominant fracture and the target dimension in real time, by adjusting at least an injection pressure or flow rate of a hydraulic fracturing fluid into the wellbore.
US11512557B2
Measurement data including data of a sand production rate from a sand metering sensor, pressure data from a pressure sensor, and data of a metal loss value from a metal loss sensor is obtained. A maximum sand erosional velocity ratio and a pressure drawdown are determined. An optimum choke valve setting is determined based on a predefined correlation between the sand production rate, the pressure drawdown, and the maximum sand erosional velocity ratio, in response to determining that the maximum sand erosional velocity ratio is not within a predetermined maximum sand erosional velocity ratio limit. An updated pressure drawdown produced by the determined optimum choke valve setting is within a predetermined pressure drawdown operating window. The surface choke valve is set based on the determined optimum choke valve setting. The well is shutdown by triggering an emergency shutdown device in response to determining that the obtained metal loss value has reached a predefined metal loss limit value.
US11512549B2
A valve assembly is installed within a wellhead such as a conventional tubing hanger or casing hanger used to suspend pipe or other tubular goods in a well. A seal bushing assembly is installed in a tubing head assembly or other wellhead component. A hanger valve assembly is stung into the seal bushing assembly and includes a valve that can be selectively opened or closed. In the open position, the valve does not restrict a central flow path diameter through the hanger and wellhead. In the closed position, the valve contains pressure and/or fluid flow and fully seals against wellbore pressure acting on the valve. A wellhead adapter covers the hanger valve assembly and provides an attachment point for a conventional Christmas tree or other wellhead equipment.
US11512547B2
A dump bailer includes a bailer body defining an interior space for conveying cement slurry downhole. A dump release mechanism is operatively connected to the bailer body for releasing cement slurry from the interior space. An agitator is operatively connected to the bailer body for agitating cement slurry in the interior space. In general, in another aspect, the disclosed embodiments relate to a method of delivering cement slurry to a downhole position in a well bore. The method includes a running a bailer downhole in a well bore, wherein cement slurry is housed within the bailer. The method includes agitating the cement slurry within the bailer and releasing the cement slurry from the bailer into the well bore.
