US11521548B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a display device and a driving method of the display device. More particularly, a subpixel includes a first control transistor for controlling a connection between a body of a driving transistor and a first node of the driving transistor, and a second control transistor for controlling a connection between the body of the driving transistor and a second node of the driving transistor, so that it is possible to improve mobility and on-current performance while increasing a S-factor of the driving transistor.
US11521546B2
A display device comprises pixels, an emission control driver, a scan driver, and a timing controller for selecting whether the display device is to operate in a first display mode in which the display device is driven at a first frequency or a second display mode in which the display device is driven at a second frequency lower than the first frequency based on input image data. The first display mode comprises first frame periods, and the second display mode comprises second frame periods having at least two sub-frames having a period equal to the first frame period. A total time required to supply the scan signals to the scan lines in one first frame period of the first frame periods and a total time required to supply the scan signals to the scan lines in one second frame period of the second frame periods are substantially same.
US11521539B2
A scanning drive circuit, a driving method, a display panel, and a display apparatus are provided. The scanning drive circuit includes 1st to nth shift registers cascaded sequentially. Each shift register includes a pull-down unit, a pull-up unit, and first and second output units. The first output unit is electrically connected to a second supply voltage terminal and a first clock signal output terminal, and configured to output a level to a first output terminal based on levels of a second node and a third node. The second output unit is electrically connected to a third supply voltage terminal and a second clock signal output terminal, and configured to output a level to a second output terminal based on the levels of the second node and a fourth node. The first and the second output terminals of each shift register output effective levels sequentially.
US11521537B2
To enable better color and in particular color saturation control for HDR image handling systems which need to do luminance dynamic range conversion, e.g. from a SDR image to an image optimized for rendering on a display of higher display peak brightness and dynamic range, the inventors invented an apparatus (400) for processing a color saturation (C′bL, C′rL) of an input color (Y′L, C′bL, C′rL) of an input image (Im_RLDR) to yield an output color (Y′M, Cb′M, Cr′M) of an output image (Im3000nit) corresponding to the input image, which output image is a re-grading of the input image characterized by the fact that its pixel colors have a different normalized luminance position (Y2) compared to the normalized luminance positions of the input colors (Y1), the normalized luminances being defined as the luminance of a pixel divided by the respective maximal codeable luminance of the image's luminance representation, whereby the ratio of the maximum codeable luminance of the input image and the maximum codeable luminance of the output image is at least 4 or larger, or ¼th or smaller, the apparatus comprising: a receiver (206) arranged to receive a luminance mapping function (F_L_s2h) defining a mapping between the luminance of the input color (Y′L) and a reference luminance (L′_HDR), and an initial saturation processing function (F_sat) defining saturation boost values (b) for different values of the luminance of the input color (Y′L); a display tuning unit (1009) arranged to calculate a display tuned luminance mapping function (F_L_da) based on the luminance mapping function (F_L_s2h) and at least one of a display peak brightness (PB_D) and a minimum discernable black (MB_D); a luminance processor (401) arranged to apply the display tuned luminance mapping function (F_L_da) to determine an output luminance (Y′M) from the input luminance (Y′L) of the input color; and a saturation processing unit (410, 411), arranged to map the input color saturation (C′bL, C′rL) to the color saturation (Cb′M, Cr′M) of the output color on the basis of a saturation processing strategy which specifies saturation multipliers for the normalized luminance values (Y_norm); characterized in that the apparatus further comprises a saturation factor determination unit (402) arranged to calculate a final saturation processing strategy (b; Bcorr) based on the initial saturation processing strategy (F_sat) and based on a secondary luminance value (Y′_H) which is derivable from the output luminance (Y′M) by applying a luminance mapping function (F_M2H) based on the luminance mapping function (F_L_s2h), and wherein the saturation processing unit is arranged to calculate the color saturation (Cb′M, Cr′M) of the output color by applying the final saturation processing strategy (b; Bcorr).
US11521531B2
A display device includes a display panel including a plurality of pixels, and a panel driver including N registers, where N is an integer greater than 1. The panel driver is configured to divide the display panel into N first detection regions, to perform a first still image detection operation on each of the N first detection regions by using the N registers, to divide the display panel into N second detection regions different from the N first detection regions by using a result of the first still image detection operation, and to perform a second still image detection operation on each of the N second detection regions by using the N registers.
US11521530B2
A display panel including a gate driver on array (GOA) circuit region is provided. The GOA circuit region includes cascaded n-staged GOA circuit units and N high-frequency clock signal lines; each of the staged GOA circuit units is electrically connected to one of the N high-frequency clock signal lines through a signal connection line; the display panel further includes at least two compensation unit groups, which are positioned in a region where the N high frequency clock signal lines are positioned. By setting a compensation unit in the region where the high-frequency clock signal lines are positioned, a problem of a wider GOA region is solved.
US11521528B2
A gate driver on array (GOA) circuit and a display panel including the same are provided. The GOA circuit includes: a GOA drive signal line including a voltage common (VCOM) signal line, a start vertical (STV) signal line, a reference voltage (VSS) signal line, and a low-frequency clock (LC) signal line; and a GOA protection circuit, wherein an end of the GOA protection circuit is connected to the VCOM signal line, and another end thereof is electrically connected to the STV signal line, the VSS signal line, and the LC signal line.
US11521516B2
In certain embodiments, nuance-based augmentation of gesture may be facilitated. In some embodiments, a video stream depicting sign language gestures of an individual may be obtained via a wearable device associated with a user. A textual translation of the sign language gestures in the video stream may be determined. Emphasis information related to the sign language gestures may be identified based on an intensity of the sign language gestures. One or more display characteristics may be determined based on the emphasis information. The textual translation may be caused to be displayed to the user via the wearable device according to the one or more display characteristics. In some embodiments, a unique voice profile for the individual may be determined. A spoken translation of the sign language gestures may be generated according to the textual translation, the unique voice profile, and the emphasis information.
US11521515B2
A method and a wearable system which includes distance sensors, cameras and headsets, which all gather data about a blind or visually impaired person's surroundings and are all connected to a portable personal communication device, the device being configured to use scenario-based algorithms and an A.I to process the data and transmit sound instructions to the blind or visually impaired person to enable him/her to independently navigate and deal with his/her environment by provision of identification of objects and reading of local texts.
US11521513B2
A real-time virtual reality welding system including a programmable processor-based subsystem, a spatial tracker operatively connected to the programmable processor-based subsystem, at least one mock welding tool capable of being spatially tracked by the spatial tracker, and at least one display device operatively connected to the programmable processor-based subsystem. The system is capable of simulating, in virtual reality space, a weld puddle having real-time molten metal fluidity and heat dissipation characteristics. The system is further capable of importing data into the virtual reality welding system and analyzing the data to characterize a student welder's progress and to provide training.
US11521512B2
Systems are disclosed relating to a mobile device mounted to a welding helmet such that a wearer of the welding helmet can see a display of the mobile device when wearing the welding helmet. In some examples, the mobile device is mounted such that a camera of the mobile device is unobscured and positioned at approximately eye level, facing the same way the wearer's eyes are facing. In some examples, the simulated training environment may be presented to the user via the display screen of the mobile device, using images captured by the camera of the mobile device, when the mobile device is so mounted to the welding helmet.
US11521508B2
A pegboard of the present disclosure includes: a main device including multiple unit modules; a board plate including multiple receiving portions; and multiple pegs to be inserted into the multiple receiving portions, and the multiple unit modules include multiple sensor modules configured to sense whether the multiple pegs are inserted into the multiple receiving portions and multiple light source modules configured to output light to the multiple receiving portions.
US11521505B2
Disclosed are mortise and tenon joint structures for Chinese characters formed by building members having the same or different configurations, and a method for inputting Chinese characters by using the building members. The Chinese characters are de-structured such that each Chinese character consists one or more radicals which are formed by the mortise and tenon joint structures or variants thereof. The variants of the mortise and tenon joint structures are formed by shift, rotation or combination of shift and rotation of the building members of the mortise and tenon joint structures. This establishes an inputting method between the Latin letters and Chinese characters.
US11521501B2
The present disclosure provides a method, an apparatus and a system for operating waypoint, a ground station and a computer readable storage medium. The method includes: displaying an icon of a flight manner related to the waypoint; determining, based on a first touch operation of a user on the icon of the flight manner, the flight manner related to the waypoint; and sending the flight manner to an aircraft, so that the aircraft flies based on the flight manner at the waypoint. In this way, the user can select the flight manner on the waypoint of the aircraft by himself in a touch operation manner, to facilitate control of the flight of the aircraft by the user, so as to facilitate flight control of the aircraft, thereby improving the experience of human-computer interaction.
US11521500B1
Techniques for range finding for an unmanned aerial system are described. As one example, an unmanned aerial system includes at least one motor to provide propulsion, a piezoelectric acoustic actuator having a resonant frequency, a piezoelectric acoustic sensor having the resonant frequency, and a controller to modulate a fixed amplitude and fixed frequency, at the resonant frequency, carrier wave according to a pseudo-random sequence of bits to produce a modulated wave sequence having a respective section of the carrier wave for each bit of the bits of the pseudo-random sequence having a first value, and a respective section of the carrier wave for each bit of the bits of the pseudo-random sequence having a second value, transmit the modulated wave sequence from the piezoelectric acoustic actuator, receive a reflected wave sequence including a reflection of the modulated wave sequence with the piezoelectric acoustic sensor, determine a delay time between the transmit and the receive of the modulated wave sequence based on the reflected wave sequence received by the piezoelectric acoustic sensor and the modulated wave sequence transmitted by the piezoelectric acoustic actuator, and modify power provided to the at least one motor based on the delay time.
US11521498B2
Systems and methods for automated unmanned aerial vehicle recognition. A multiplicity of receivers captures RF data and transmits the RF data to at least one node device. The at least one node device comprises a signal processing engine, a detection engine, a classification engine, and a direction finding engine. The at least one node device is configured with an artificial intelligence algorithm. The detection engine and classification engine are trained to detect and classify signals from unmanned vehicles and their controllers based on processed data from the signal processing engine. The direction finding engine is operable to provide lines of bearing for detected unmanned vehicles.
US11521497B2
The present invention relates to a method and a system for recognition of objects near a ship by using a deep neural network to prevent a collision with the object by recognizing a neighboring object that may be risky to the ship sailing in a restricted condition such as a foggy environment. All object movements within a predetermined radius are detected and recognized so that collision accidents with objects on the sea in an environment such as fog caused by bad weather at sea can be prevented, and a risk alarm is notified to a captain when the object is detected so that collision accidents can be remarkably reduced. In addition, peripheral environments are detected by only installing a CCTV camera so that expenses can be reduced, human negligence can be prevented, and the system can be easily constructed to prevent collisions.
US11521480B1
An intrusion detection apparatus and method thereof are provided. The intrusion detection apparatus includes a status detection device, a front-end signal processor, a delay device, and a signal sampler. The status detection device is configured to generate an indicating signal according to an opened status of the case. The front-end signal processor receives the indicating signal and performs a noise filtering function on the indicating signal so as to generate a processed indicating signal. The delay device delays the processed indicating signal to generate a delayed indicating signal. The signal sampler samples the processed indicating signal to generate a detection result according to the delayed indicating signal.
US11521479B2
Various embodiments include a fire detection system (FDS) device and methods for operating an FDS device to detect a potential fire and communicate information regarding fire detection events to a central fire detection system via a wireless communication network. Various embodiments include receiving information from one or more sensors configured to detect an indication of a possible fire, determining whether information received from the one or more sensors satisfy one or more threshold criteria indicative of a fire event, generating a fire warning message comprising a fire alarm object in response to determining that the information received from the one or more sensors satisfy one or more threshold criteria indicative of a fire event, and sending the generated fire warning message to a remote server via a communication network.
US11521474B2
Methods, systems and devices are provided for motion-activated display of messages on an activity monitoring device. In one embodiment, method for presenting a message on an activity monitoring device is provided, including the following method operations: downloading a plurality of messages to the device; detecting a stationary state of the device; detecting a movement of the device from the stationary state; in response to detecting the movement from the stationary state, selecting one of a plurality of messages, and displaying the selected message on the device.
US11521473B2
This disclosure describes, in part, an audio/video (A/V) device that includes a first camera for generating first image data and one or more second cameras for both motion detection and generating second image data. For instance, the A/V device may generate and then store the second image data in one or more buffers. The A/V device may then detect an event, such as possible motion of an object. Based on detecting the event, A/V device may cause the one or more second cameras to cease generating the second image data and cause the first camera to begin generating the first image data. The A/V device may then process the second image data and send the processed second image data to a computing system. Next, the A/V device may process the first image data and send the processed first image data to the computing system.
US11521471B2
Provided is an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and a program that can present more realistic feeling of real existence of an object to be perceived in another space using sound and vibration as main information channels. An information processing apparatus including a control unit that exercises control for acquiring vibration information and sound information sensed in another space, and outputting, from a perceptual presentation area in a space different from the another space, the vibration information and the sound information for causing presence of an object to be perceived in the another space to be perceived by a tactile sense and an auditory sense.
US11521470B2
A haptic-communication system includes a fabric, a frame that supports the fabric, and a haptic element that is integral with a textile that forms the fabric. A transition of the haptic element between first and second states thereof provides communication with a person in contact with the haptic element.
US11521462B2
A loyalty program management system associated with an enterprise location is provided. The loyalty program management system is programmed to: a) receive a plurality of input data associated with a plurality of patrons, wherein the plurality of input data represents actions of the plurality of patrons; b) determine a current location of a patron of the plurality of patrons, wherein the current location of the patron is not at the enterprise location; and c) transmit a message to a computer device associated with the patron including a prize to be awarded if the patron visits the enterprise location.
US11521452B2
A money handling machine includes: a housing; a drawer that is drawable from the housing; a locking mechanism configured to lock the drawer in the housing; an identification information acquisition unit configured to acquire identification information of an operator; and a controller configured to control the locking mechanism such that, when an error occurs in a handling unit, the drawer can be drawn from the housing subject to the identification information of the operator having been acquired by the identification information acquisition unit.
US11521451B2
A method is provided for detecting a security thread in a value document, in which magnetic data are employed for sites on the value document. The magnetic data represents a magnetic property of the value document at the site, check sites on the value document are determined employing the sites, and from the check sites, a straight line is specified, along or on which at least some of the check sites lie and which represents a location of the security thread.
US11521439B2
Management of data and software for autonomous vehicles. In an embodiment, sensor data is received. The sensor data is collected by one or more sensor systems of one or more vehicles, and submitted by a first user via at least one network. The sensor data is automatically analyzed to detect any problems with the sensor data and to enhance the sensor data, prior to publishing a description of the sensor data in an online marketplace. A graphical user interface is generated that comprises one or more screens of the online marketplace, via which a second user may view the description of the sensor data and purchase the sensor data for download via the at least one network.
US11521438B2
Systems and methods cause a component of a vehicle to activate. The systems and methods receive audio data generated by a microphone of the vehicle, where the audio data represents sound of the component. Based on the audio data, a condition of the vehicle or the component may be determined, and based on the condition, the vehicle may be commissioned for use or decommissioned.
US11521432B2
A system and method for adaptive diagnostics and data collection in a connected robot-cloud environment allows for the management and use of date from a robot or fleet of robots to ensure the efficient utilization thereof. The data is collected from the robots via a software agent and is transmitted to an interface that allows action from an end-user.
US11521429B2
A server device includes an identification information obtaining unit, a position information specifying unit, a storage unit, a percentage calculating unit, and a fare calculating unit. The identification information obtaining unit obtains operation identification information for identifying an operation of a vehicle and user identification information for identifying users who utilize the operation. The position information specifying unit specifies riding position information and drop off position information on the individual users. The storage unit stores the operation identification information, the user identification information, the riding position information, and the drop off position information in association with one another. The percentage calculating unit calculates percentages of an operation fare for the operation to be paid by the individual users. The fare calculating unit calculates amounts to be paid by the individual users.
US11521427B1
An ear detection method with deep learning pairwise model based on contextual information belongs to the field of biometric recognition technologies, and addresses a problem that an ear location cannot be found in a large scene, especially in a background image containing a whole body. The method includes: performing preprocessing and object labeling on images; modifying an Oquab network to be a local model for four classes through transfer learning and training the local model; training two pairwise models of head and ear as well as body and head based on the local model; and performing joint detection for an ear through the local model, the two pairwise models and body features. The method uses a hierarchical relationship from large to small to establish contextual information, which can reduce the interference of other features and detect the location of the ear more accurately.
US11521426B2
Cognitive enablement can include detecting sensor-generated signals received from one or more network-configured sensors, the sensor-generated signals corresponding to physical movement of an audience member during a presentation by a presenter. The sensor-generated signals can be converted to vectorized data structures for inputting to a classification model generated with machine learning. The physical movement can be classified as a prelude to a likely audience interaction, the classifying performed by the classification model based on the vectorized data structures. In response to the classifying, an audience member attribute associated with the audience member can be determined. An audience interaction can be predicted based on the audience member attribute using a prediction model generated with machine learning. A predictive alert corresponding to the predicted audience interaction can be generated. During the presentation, a user interface for displaying the predictive alert to the presenter can be generated using an electronic device.
US11521424B2
An electronic device and a control method therefor are disclosed. A control method for an electronic device according to the present disclosure comprises the steps of: when a preset event is detected, acquiring a user image by photographing a user; acquiring a facial image including the user's face from the photographed user image and storing the facial image; and when a user input for identification of the facial image is received, providing the stored facial on the basis of at least one of a time and a place.
US11521420B2
Systems and methods are described for a display device in which the recognition failure of a fingerprint recognition sensor disposed in a display area without being exposed to the outside is reduced. The display device comprises a display panel; a cover window disposed above the display panel; an optical sensor, wherein at least a part of the optical sensor is disposed under the display panel; and an infrared blocking member disposed between the optical sensor and the cover window and at least a part of which overlaps the optical sensor from above the optical sensor.
US11521419B2
A display device and a fingerprint recognition method are provided. The fingerprint recognition device includes at least two photosensitive regions receiving different colors of light, and the color of the light received by one photosensitive region corresponds to the emitted color of the light emitting sub-pixel in one color.
US11521415B2
A display device includes: a display panel including a pixel array layer on one surface of a first substrate for displaying an image; a sound generator for transmitting an ultrasound; and an ultrasonic sensor for receiving an ultrasound reflected by an object on the display panel. The sound generator and the ultrasonic sensor are on the other surface of the first substrate opposite to the one surface of the first substrate. The ultrasonic sensor includes a plurality of ultrasonic sensor units arranged in a matrix form, and the ultrasonic sensor senses the object using the reflected ultrasound received by the plurality of ultrasonic sensor units.
US11521414B2
A method for preparing a polymer composite material is provided. The method includes steps of mixing and heat-treating a first polymer, a second polymer, and a third polymer to obtain a first mixture, adding a light-transmitting material to the first mixture to obtain a second mixture, adding a nano material to the second mixture to obtain a third mixture, performing subsequent processing on the uniformly mixed third mixture to obtain the polymer composite material. The polymer composite material is configured to replace conventional protective glass in ultrasonic fingerprint recognition technology, and to improve accuracy of fingerprint recognition.
US11521411B2
A system and method for providing multi-camera 3D body part labeling and performance metrics includes receiving 2D image data and 3D depth data from a plurality image capture units (ICUs) each indicative of a scene viewed by the ICUs, the scene having at least one person, each ICU viewing the person from a different viewing position, determining 3D location data and visibility confidence level for the body parts from each ICU, using the 2D image data and the 3D depth data from each ICU, transforming the 3D location data for the body parts from each ICU to a common reference frame for body parts having at least a predetermined visibility confidence level, averaging the transformed, visible 3D body part locations from each ICU, and determining a performance metric of at least one of the body parts using the averaged 3D body part locations. The person may be a player in a sports scene.
US11521410B2
An electronic device having a biometric sensor is provided. The electronic device includes a first region including a plurality of first pixels arranged in a first manner and a second region including a plurality of second pixels arranged in a second manner, a biometric sensor disposed in at least a part of the first region, and a processor electrically coupled with the display and the biometric sensor, and configured to receive a user input through the first region, and control the biometric sensor to detect biometric information corresponding to the user input.
US11521407B2
Systems for item validation and image evaluation are provided. In some examples, a system may receive an instrument and associated data. The instrument may be received and at least one of a bill pay profile and a user profile may be retrieved. The bill pay profile and user profile may each include a plurality of previously processed instruments that have been determined to be valid and/or authentic. The instrument may be compared to the plurality of previously processed instruments to determine whether one or more elements of the instrument being evaluated match one or more corresponding elements of the plurality of previously processed instruments. Matching or non-matching elements may be identified. In some examples, one or more user interfaces may be generated displaying the instruments and including any highlighting or enhancements identifying matching or non-matching elements.
US11521394B2
Embodiments are disclosed for ground plane estimation (GPE) using a LiDAR semantic network. In an embodiment, a method comprises: obtaining a point cloud from a depth sensor of a vehicle operating in an environment; encoding the point cloud; estimating, using a deep learning network with the encoded point cloud as input, a ground plane in the environment; planning a path through the environment based on a drivable area of the estimated ground plane; and operating the vehicle, the vehicle along the path. The deep learning network includes a two-dimensional (2D) convolutional backbone, a detection head for detecting objects and a GPE head for estimating the ground plane. In an embodiment, point pillars are used to encode the point cloud.
US11521379B1
A method for flood disaster monitoring and disaster analysis based on vision transformer is provided. It includes: step (1), constructing a bi-temporal image change detection model based on vision transformer; step (2), selecting bi-temporal remote sensing images to make flood disaster labels; and step (3), performing flood monitoring and disaster analysis according to the bi-temporal image change detection model constructed in the step (1). In combination with the bi-temporal image change detection model based on an advanced vision transformer in deep learning and radar data which is not affected by time and weather and has strong penetration ability, data when floods occur can be obtained and recognition accuracy is improved.
US11521377B1
A landslide recognition method based on Laplacian pyramid remote sensing image fusion includes: performing original remote sensing image reconstruction based on extracted local features and global features of remote sensing images through a Laplacian pyramid fusion module to generate a fused image, constructing a deep learning semantic segmentation model through a semantic segmentation network, labeling the fused image to obtain a dataset of landslide disaster label map, and training the deep learning semantic segmentation model by the dataset, and then storing when a loss curve is fitted and a landslide recognition accuracy of remote sensing image of the deep learning semantics segmentation model meets a requirement by modifying a structure of the semantic segmentation network and adjusting parameters of the deep learning semantics segmentation model. Combined with the image fusion model based on Laplacian pyramid, the method can provide effective decision-making basis for prevention and mitigation of landslide disasters.
US11521371B2
In one embodiment, a method includes receiving sensor data of an environment of the vehicle generated by one or more sensors of the vehicle, the sensors comprising a camera, identifying, based on the sensor data, one or more objects in a field of view of the camera and one or more object types that correspond to the one or more objects, determining one or more target histograms that correspond to the object types, generating a processed image based on an image captured by the camera, wherein the processed image has a histogram based on the target histograms, and using the processed image to determine state information associated with the objects. The processed image may be generated by processing the image captured by the camera using a histogram matching algorithm to generate the histogram of the processed image based on the target histograms.
US11521369B1
In some implementations, a service qualification system may receive, from a user device, a set of images that depict a window. The service qualification system may perform an image-based analysis of the set of images to determine a reflectivity score associated with the window. The reflectivity score may be indicative of a quality associated with a signal of the service being received through the window. The service qualification system may determine, based on the reflectivity score, a service qualification metric that is indicative of a capability of receiving the service within the unit. The service qualification system may perform an action associated with the service qualification metric.
US11521368B2
Disclosed are a method and apparatus for presenting material, and a storage medium. The method includes acquiring at least two key points from a position of a presentation part of an object in an image; determining a preselected target point based on positions of the at least two key points; determining a target point of the image based on the preselected target point and target points of N continuous frames before the image, and presenting the material based on the target point.
US11521366B2
A data processing device comprises an analyser to analyse successive images captured by a camera and to detect an optically detectable marker in the captured images, a first location detector to detect a location of the optically detectable marker with respect to a location of the camera according to a first detection mode and to generate a first detection result, a second location detector to detect the location of the optically detectable marker with respect to the location of the camera according to a second detection mode different to the first detection mode and to generate a second detection result, and a processor to select at least one of the first detection result and the second detection result and to generate data indicative of the location of the optically detectable marker with respect to the location of the camera based on the selection.
US11521356B2
Systems and methods for maintaining a shared interactive environment include receiving, by a server, requests to register a first input device of a first user and a second input device of a second user with a shared interactive environment. The first input device may be for a first modality involving user input for an augmented reality (AR) environment, and the second input device may be for a second modality involving user input for a personal computer (PC) based virtual environment or a virtual reality (VR) environment. The server may register the first and second input device with the shared interactive environment. The server may receive inputs from a first adapter for the first modality and from a second adapter for the second modality. The inputs may be for the first and second user to use the shared interactive environment.
US11521354B2
An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to: display, in a virtual space recognized by a user, a first object at a position corresponding to a first coordinate system that is independent of the user's head movement; display, in the virtual space, a second object at a position corresponding to a second coordinate system that is dependent on the user's head movement; and change the first object to the second object in response to an operation performed by the user on the first object.
US11521353B2
The present disclosure introduces automated and repeatable processing for determining and managing volumes of objects within a digital environment. In one non-limiting example, processing of the present disclosure automatically generates volumes of static objects from associated meshes within a gaming environment. However, the present disclosure is applicable to determine a volume of any type of object within any type of digital content. From an original mesh of an object, a low-frequency volumetric mesh (reduced mesh) is automatically generated. A volume of an object may be automatically determined from analysis of the reduced mesh. Volumetric data is then be integrated within digital content for a variety of applicable use cases. For example, a reduced data set is created to approximate light sources relative to the interior of a static object (e.g., building) within a digital environment, enabling developers to create more realistic representations of lighting within that static object (e.g., building).
US11521351B2
In an example, a method includes acquiring, at a processor, a data model of an object to be generated in additive manufacturing, the data model comprising object model data representing a slice of the object model as a plurality of polygons and object property data comprising property data associated with the plurality of polygons. The slice may be inspected from a predetermined perspective at a plurality of discrete locations. It may be determined if each location is within a face of a polygon, and if so, the object property data associated with that polygon may be identified and associated with that location. The slice may further be inspected at a plurality of discrete locations along an edge of a polygon, the object property data associated with each location may be identified and associated with that location.
US11521350B2
Disclosed are a method and apparatus for processing an image, an electronic device and a storage medium. A specific implementation comprises: acquiring a matching association relationship of a feature point in each to-be-modeled image frame in a to-be-modeled image frame set, a plurality of to-be-modeled image frames in the to-be-modeled image frame set belonging to at least two different to-be-modeled image sequences; determining a first feature point set of the each to-be-modeled image frame based on the matching association relationship, the first feature point set including a first feature point, and the first feature point matching a corresponding feature point in a to-be-modeled image frame in a different to-be-modeled image sequence; and selecting, based on a number of the first feature point in the first feature point set in the each to-be-modeled image frame, a to-be-modeled image frame from the to-be-modeled image frame set for a three-dimensional reconstruction.
US11521347B2
Methods, apparatuses, mediums, and devices for generating multi-angle free-respective image data are provided. The method for generating multi-angle free-perspective image data includes: acquiring multiple synchronized images, where the multiple images have different shooting angles; determining the depth data of each image based on the multiple images; and for each of the images, storing pixel data of the image in a first field and storing depth data in a second field associated with the first field. Technical solutions in the example embodiments of the present invention may improve the user experience.
US11521346B2
An image processing apparatus obtains virtual viewpoint information indicating at least a position of a virtual viewpoint and a view direction from the virtual viewpoint and generates a virtual viewpoint image based on the virtual viewpoint information and a plurality of images captured from a plurality of viewpoints by hiding processing a specific region of the virtual viewpoint image, the specific region being determined based on that the obtained virtual viewpoint information satisfies a condition.
US11521341B1
Systems and methods for rendering a video effect to a display are described. More specifically, video data and audio data are obtained. The video data is analyzed to determine one or more attachment points of a target object that appears in the video data. The audio data is analyzed to determine audio characteristics. A video effect associated with an animation to be added to the one or more attachment points is determined based on the audio characteristics. A rendered video is generated by applying the video effect to the video data.
US11521333B2
In a camera calibration apparatus (10), an acquisition unit (11) acquires a first normal vector in an image plane and a second normal vector in the image plane respectively corresponding to a first normal vector in a world coordinate space and a second normal vector in the world coordinate space which are normal vectors with respect to a reference plane in the world coordinate space and have the same length. A projective depth calculation unit (12) calculates a projective depth vector having, as vector elements, four projective depths respectively corresponding to a start point and an end point of the first normal vector in the image plane and a start point and a end point of the second normal vector in the image plane.
US11521332B1
The method and device disclosed herein presents a method that includes capturing, by an optical sensor disposed on a device moving in an environment, a plurality of optical data at respective locations within a portion of the environment; capturing, by a wheel encoder disposed on the device, a set of encoder data corresponding to the plurality of optical data at the respective locations; determining a first relative motion based on the plurality of optical data; determining a corresponding second relative motion based on the set of encoder data. In accordance with determining that a difference between the first relative motion and the corresponding second relative motion is larger than a first threshold: increasing a counter indicating a slip event of the wheel encoder. The slip event corresponds to a wheel of the device advancing and the corresponding second relative motion being below a second threshold.
US11521331B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a method and apparatus for generating position information, a device and a medium. A specific embodiment of the method includes: acquiring an image and vehicle position information, wherein the image includes a target element; inputting the image into a pre-established depth map generation model to obtain a first depth map, wherein the focal length of sample images of sample data used during the training of the model is a sample focal length; generating a second depth map based on the sample focal length, the first depth map, and an estimated focal length of the image; determining depth information of the target element according to element position information of the target element in the image and the second depth map; and generating position information of the target element based on the vehicle position information and the depth information of the target element.
US11521324B2
Aspects of the invention include includes detecting, using a first machine learning model, a first well pad at a first location based at least in part on a first set of data comprising spectral data describing a gas emission from the first location. Detecting an environmental event within a threshold distance of the well pad. Determining a probability of damage to the first well pad from the environmental event.
US11521323B2
A bullseyes plot may be generated based on cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (CMRI) to facilitate the diagnosis and treatment of heart diseases. Described herein are systems, methods, and instrumentalities associated with bullseyes plot generation. A plurality of myocardial segments may be obtained for constructing the bullseye plot based on landmark points detected in short-axis and long-axis magnetic resonance (MR) slices of the heart and by arranging the short-axis MR slices sequentially in accordance with the order in which the slices are generated during the CMRI. The sequential order of the short-axis MR slices may be determined utilizing projected locations of the short-axis MR slices on a long-axis MR slice and respective distances of the projected locations to a landmark point of the long-axis MR slice. The myocardium and/or landmark points may be identified in the short-axis and/or long-axis MR slices using artificial neural networks.
US11521321B1
Disclosed is a system and a method for monitoring a CT scan image. A CT scan image may be resampled into a plurality of slices using a bilinear interpolation. A region of interest may be identified on each slice using an image processing technique. The region of interest may be masked on each slice using deep learning. Subsequently, a nodule may be detected as the region of interest using the deep learning. Further, a plurality of characteristics associated with the nodule may be identified. Furthermore, an emphysema may be detected in the region of interest on each slice. A malignancy risk score for the patient may be computed. A progress of the nodule may be monitored across subsequent CT scan images. Finally, a report of the patient may be generated.
US11521309B2
The presently-disclosed technology enables real-time inspection of a multitude of subcomponents of a component in parallel. For example, the component may be a semiconductor package, and the subcomponents may include through-silicon vias. One embodiment relates to a method for inspecting multiple subcomponents of a component for defects, the method comprising, for each subcomponent undergoing defect detection: extracting a subcomponent image from image data of the component; computing a transformed feature vector from the subcomponent image; computing pairwise distances from the transformed feature vector to each transformed feature vector in a training set; determining a proximity metric using said pairwise distances; and comparing the proximity metric against a proximity threshold to detect a defect in the subcomponent. Another embodiment relates to a product manufactured using a disclosed method of inspecting multiple subcomponents of a component for defects. Other embodiments, aspects and features are also disclosed.
US11521306B2
An image processing apparatus comprises a changing unit configured to change a display area of an image from a first display area to a second display area including at least a portion of the first display area, an acquiring unit configured to acquire a first value indicating luminance, in which brightness contrast is considered, in an image displayed in the first display area and a second value indicating luminance, in which brightness contrast is considered, in an image displayed in the second display area, and a correcting unit configured to correct luminance of the image displayed in the second display area based on the first value and the second value that are acquired by the acquiring unit.
US11521297B2
The present invention relates to a method for presenting object information based on augmented reality (AR) glasses, including: acquiring an object image from another device through a communication connection, the object image including an object and a background; and performing zooming operation on the object image such that a size value of the object is capable of matching a current environment, where a color which the background has makes a display system of the AR glasses not display the background. Through one or more embodiments of the present invention, the presentation of AR object information may be realized without requiring other AR software on an AR glasses side, and without relying on the capability of computing and 3D rendering parts of the AR glasses device itself.
US11521293B2
Methods are provided for creating objects in a way that permits an API client to explicitly participate in memory management for an object created using the API. Methods for managing data object memory include requesting memory requirements for an object using an API and expressly allocating a memory location for the object based on the memory requirements. Methods are also provided for cloning objects such that a state of the object remains unchanged from the original object to the cloned object or can be explicitly specified.
US11521290B2
A system and method for resolving contract disputes utilitizes one or more computing devices to receive a dispute resolution request, invite other parties to submit a response to the dispute resolution request, and submit the dispute to a plurality of delegates based on the type of dispute and the qualifications of the delegates. The delegates provide dispute resolution decisions, and a consensus algorithm is applied to the decisions to arrive at a consensus contract outcome. A record of the consensus contract outcome, including the disputed contract and the nature of the dispute are recorded on a permissioned blockchain and also optionally recorded on an external blockchain distributed ledger.
US11521289B2
A method includes receiving, by a processing device, one or more transportation parameters for a user type. The method further includes receiving, by the processing device from a client computing device associated with a user associated with the user type, a transportation request for a transportation vehicle and comparing, by the processing device, the transportation request to the one or more transportation parameters. The method further includes prohibiting, by the processing device, communication of the transportation request to one or more vehicle computing devices responsive to the transportation request not satisfying the one or more transportation parameters.
US11521287B2
A system comprising; analyzing a building model, wherein a set of wall panels are isolated from other assemblies; processing a first set of data associated with the coordinates of the wall panels; processing a second set of data associated with the assembly of the wall panels; creating a set of data associated with the assembly of the wall panel and the coordinates of a set of wall panel members; formulating an assembly of the wall panel, wherein the assembly is a predetermined organization of the wall panels based on the first set of data and the second set of data; calculating the assembly based on a set of limitations, wherein the limitations are based on the shipping vessel; manipulating the assembly, wherein the manipulated assembly is within the limitations of the shipping vessel; and generating a graphical representation of the manipulated assembly.
US11521272B2
Disclosed herein is a customized recommendation system for home assessment, in which the system comprises at least one or more databases, a computing device, and a device comprising hardware, including a processor and memory. The server device may receive a request for information on a home of a user from the computing device. The server device may identify publicly available information for the home and customer information comprising information about one or more features of the home and materials used in the home by parsing the one or more databases. By further analyzing the customer information and the publicly available information, the server device may determine one or more tips for the home and generate a customized recommendation including the one or more tips for the home. The server device may transmit the customized recommendation to the computing device associated with the user.
US11521269B2
The disclosed embodiments relate to ensuring that a selected value, selected, for example, via interaction with a graphic user interface, of a dynamically changing parameter, such as a price, is used when generating an electronic data transaction request message in a data transaction processing system, such as an electronic trading system. The data transaction processing system being a system in which data items, such as financial contracts, e.g., futures contracts, are transacted or otherwise traded by a hardware matching processor that attempts to match electronic data transaction request messages with electronic data transaction request messages counter thereto for the same one of the data items based on multiple transaction parameters. A selected value is temporarily buffered allowing the represented value to update wherein a subsequently generated transaction may be based on the buffered value rather than an updated value.
US11521268B1
Methods, computer-readable media, systems and apparatuses for determining and implementing dynamic usage-based insurance policies are presented. A cost per day and a cost per mile associated with the dynamic usage-based insurance policy may be determined. The cost per mile may be computed independently for each of a plurality of road segments comprising a trip based on a time of day that the vehicle traveled each road segment, a road type associated with each road segment. The cost per mile of each road segment of the driving trip may further include whether or not hard braking or hard cornering events were encountered during a specified cumulative driving distance that may include, at least a portion, of a plurality of driving trips. The cost per mile for each of the plurality of driving trips may be adjusted once a threshold distance has been traveled by the vehicle based on the number of hard braking events and hard cornering events occurred during that distance.
US11521264B2
Systems as described herein may visualization interest charges based on payment options. Transaction information associated with a plurality of recurring payment accounts may be received. A calendar view displaying an aggregated daily balance and an aggregated interest charge may be generated. Upon receiving a transaction request with a transaction amount, a projected aggregated daily interest charge may be generated in real-time. After detecting that the projected aggregated daily interest charge exceeds a threshold amount, an alert associated with the calendar view may be generated to recommend an alternative payment method to a user device.
US11521263B2
A computer that simulates a real-world showroom experience for a wholesale buyer is described. During operation, the computer may receive information corresponding to first user-interface activity associated with an electronic device, where the user-interface activity indicates selections of the wholesale buyer of fashion items in a first user interface. Then, the computer may generate instructions for a second user interface based at least in part on the first user-interface activity, where the second user interface corresponds to a virtual showroom of the wholesale buyer, the second user interface includes the selected fashion items and a clothes rack with available hangers, and wherein the second user interface allows the wholesale buyer to dynamically assemble one or more groups of the selected fashion items on one or more of the available hangers. Next, the computer may provide the instructions for the second user interface addressed to the electronic device.
US11521251B1
A computer-implemented method and system for streamlining interactions between a customer and a customer service representative of a company. An interaction is commenced between the customer and the customer service representative during which historical data is accessed related to the customer stored in a company controlled computer system responsive to the interaction. The historical data preferably relates to at least one product or service provided by the company to the customer. At least a part of the historical information is displayed to the customer service representative. On the display, a first tab is generated related to the historical data as is a second tab relating to a quote for a new product or service for offering to the customer. The customer service representative is thereafter enabled to switch between displaying the historical data and the quote by selecting the first or second tab, respectively, without having to save the quote.
US11521248B2
Method and system for tracking objects in an automated-checkout store based on distributed computing
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for tracking objects in a store. One of the methods includes receiving, by one or more first computing devices, data captured by one or more sensors in the store; identifying, by the one or more first computing devices, a plurality of objects based on the received data, wherein the identified objects comprise one or more persons and one or more product items; extracting, by the one or more first computing devices, a plurality of features associated with each of the identified objects; generating, by the one or more first computing devices, a digest comprising information of the extracted features associated with the identified objects; and sending, by the one or more first computing devices, the digest to one or more second computing devices for processing.
US11521245B1
A pervasive user experience capable of integrating robo-advising with human advising is discussed. Conversations and other inputs may be actively captured to identify issues with which the system may be able to assist. Inputs from multiple conversations separated in time may be correlated to identify relevant needs and goals. Recommendations and strategies may be developed and presented to the customer. When it is determined that human advising is appropriate for one or more issues, the customer may be connected to an advisor for assistance with particular issues. Transitions may be facilitated to allow customers to more efficiently return to robo-advising until human advising is again deemed appropriate.
US11521242B2
An online system uses a task async engine to coordinate task execution, such as for phased content creation, where the system enables content providers to efficiently create and publish sponsored content in multiple phases. Each phase of the content creation is represented by a draft of the content. Multiple drafts of the content are stored in a repository of the online system for optimizing content delivery and publication, such as quick identification of conflicts in a draft based on analysis of draft fragments of the draft. Objects associated with the sponsored content are stored in an object model. The connections amongst the various draft segments of a draft are stored in a hierarchy structure. Each user associated with a draft has a role, where all of the roles can contribute to the draft. The online system efficiently publishes the drafts and presents the sponsored content to its target users.
US11521219B2
Data integration and distribution systems. A system includes a graphical user interface (GUI). Weather and market data are collected. A weather symbology including symbol elements linked to segments of the collected weather data and rules for generating weather symbology instructions are stored. The GUI is generated for display on a user device. A weather symbology instruction is determined based on at least one requested symbol element indicated in a weather data request and the rules. A weather forecast dataset is created from among the collected weather data based on the weather symbology instruction. A presentation package comprising the weather forecast dataset and the collected market data is generated such that the weather forecast dataset is integrated with the collected market data. The presentation package is presented on the GUI and updated concurrent with changes at least one of the weather data, the market data and user input.
US11521218B2
The present disclosure is directed to methods and systems for determining competitive market values for an ad impression on an advertiser exchange. An engine executing on a device may receive a candidate set of inputs associated with ad impressions. The engine may determine competitive market values for an ad impression on an advertiser exchange. The engine may determine candidate clearing prices based on the candidate set of inputs and history of clearing prices on the advertiser exchange. The engine may generate, based on the candidate clearing prices, a competitive market value prediction for the ad impression on the advertiser exchange. The competitive market value prediction may comprise a distribution function of predicted clearing prices on the advertiser exchange. The engine may generate, based on the competitive market value prediction, a fair market value bid for the ad impression in the context of a specific ad campaign.
US11521215B1
A computer method and system for disseminating computerized content via an scratchpad application in which data is received at a computing device, preferably via user input. The data is displayed on the computing device, via the scratchpad application, and a subset of the data is identified which is to be copied and disseminated. A second application is identified that will receive the data subset such that at least a portion of the data will be imported to the second application.
US11521203B2
A base key that is stored at a mobile device may be received. A first dynamic key that is based on the base key may be generated. First transaction data corresponding to a first transaction associated with the mobile device may be received. Furthermore, the first dynamic key may be updated to generate a second dynamic key based on a combination of the first dynamic key and the first transaction data corresponding to the first transaction. Authentication of a second transaction associated with the mobile device may be requested based on the second dynamic key.
US11521201B2
A mobile device is provided. The mobile device includes a display unit, a sensor configured to sense user's touch done on a surface of the display unit in a disabled state of the display unit, a storage unit configured to store preset gesture information, a controller configured to enable the display unit when a user's touch operation matched with the gesture information is sensed, execute a wallet application, and display an execution screen, and a communication unit configured to transmit information for a selected payment option to an external apparatus when the payment option is selected on the execution screen and perform a payment. The payment is simply done.
US11521192B2
A settlement system with higher security which replaces a settlement system using credit cards is provided. The settlement system has a user terminal, a settlement device, and a settlement terminal. First, a user ID, a password, and upper limit amount information identifying an amount are inputted in a user terminal 100 (S912), and sent to the settlement device (S913). The settlement device performs credit determination (S922), generates temporary permission information if credit is possible (S923), and sends the temporary permission information to the user terminal (S924). The user terminal generates a one-time password (S915). The one-time password is inputted to the settlement terminal (S931). If the one-time password sent from the settlement terminal to the settlement device is identical to the one-time password created in the settlement device, the settlement device allows a user's payment (S928).
US11521191B2
A use management system comprises a moving body on which a user rides; a storage medium and an information processing apparatus, wherein the medium stores identification, a predetermined route and movement information, and the moving body includes a first reader/writer for acquiring information from the storage medium and records information onto the storage medium, starts recording the movement information regarding the moving body when the use of the moving body is started, records the movement information when the moving body deviates from the route, and writes the recorded movement information onto the storage medium when the use of the moving body is ended, and the information processing apparatus includes a second reader/writer for acquiring information from the storage medium and charges an additional fee to a user based on the movement information.
US11521176B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a service flow system and a service data processing method and apparatus. The system can include a management server, a distributed storage cluster and a block chain alliance network connected by a network, the block chain alliance network including a consensus node and at least one participant node. Through unified management of a management server, off-chain data is stored in a distributed storage cluster, then participants of each phase are defined for different projects, and the participants of the same phase of the same project share the same on-chain and off-chain data. Therefore, credible access of the participants to block chain data is solved, dynamic customizable phase management of the projects in a service flow is supported, the on-chain data and participants of each phase are strictly divided and managed, and associated management of on-chain and off-chain service flow data is also supported.
US11521175B2
A system for patient data exchange is provided and includes a plurality of sensors monitoring a patient according to a default sensor configuration, and a patient data exchange engine that receives a request comprising one or more parameters, identifies at least one applicable sensor from the plurality of sensors based on the one or more parameters, and reconfigures the at least one applicable sensor from the default sensor configuration to a different sensor configuration in accordance with the one or more parameters to generate applicable sensor data responsive to the request. In specific embodiments, the patient data exchange engine further computes a monetary value for the generated sensor data based at least on an attribute of the patient and an attribute of the sensor data.
US11521169B2
An order production method and device are provided. The method may include: dividing an order into a first sub-order and a second sub-order (201); determining a target site for delivery of the product combination (202); determining a first required time length for transporting a main product from a first warehouse to the target site and a second required time length for transporting promotional product of each second sub-order from a corresponding second warehouse to the target site (203); and determining, on the basis of the first required time length and the second required time length, a delivery time for delivering the main product from the first warehouse and a delivery time for delivering the promotional products from the second warehouse, to ensure that the time when the main product arrives at the target site is not later than the time that the promotional products arrive at the target site (204).
US11521167B2
A method is provided for monitoring a supply of a cleaning agent. The method includes performing a check of whether the supply of the cleaning agent is likely to be used up. The check is based, at least in part, on quantity information which is representative of an amount of the cleaning agent in a user's supply and on consumption information which is indicative of the user's expected consumption behavior with respect to the cleaning agent. Further, a device is provided for performing the method for monitoring the supply of the cleaning agent.
US11521151B2
The overall quality of a workforce is analyzed, scored and presented using an analysis engine that performs a multi-domain analysis on enterprise data. The analysis engine presents key information about the performance of a workforce across a range of hardware devices so as to inform different users in their unique contexts and roles within a business organization as to workforce performance. The analysis engine associates a customizable performance profile with each workforce member. Each performance profile is comprised of a plurality of performance measures. Each performance measure in turn, represents a performance metric that measures some aspect of the job duties performed by the associated workforce member, e.g., an industrial vehicle operator. The scores are aggregated into an overall performance profile score. To compute the scores, data is considered across multiple domains, e.g., by collecting and analyzing data from industrial vehicle data systems, warehouse management systems, labor management systems, etc.
US11521138B1
The method may comprise receiving historical data (e.g., mineralogy data, irrigation data, raffinate data, heat data, lift height data, geographic data on ore placement and/or blower data); training a predictive model using the historical data to create a trained predictive model; adding future assumption data to the trained predictive model; running the forecast engine for a plurality of parameters to obtain forecast data for a mining production target; comparing the forecast data for the mining production target to the actual data for the mining production target; determining deviations between the forecast data and the actual data, based on the comparing; and changing each of the plurality of parameters from the forecast data to the actual data to determine a contribution to the deviations for each of the plurality of parameters.
US11521131B2
A machine learning model can be trained using a first set of degraded images for each of a plurality of combinations and corresponding reference images, where a number of degraded images in the first set corresponding to a particular combination of the plurality of combinations is selected in accordance with a probability value associated with the particular combination. A validation process can be used to determine a loss value for each of the plurality of combinations of degradations. Updates to the probability values associated with the plurality of combinations can be calculated based on the loss values. The machine learning model can be updated using a second set of degraded images for each of the plurality of combinations, and the corresponding reference images, where a number of degraded images in the second set corresponding to the particular combination is selected based on the updated probability value.
US11521128B2
A method includes obtaining multiple data items from multiple heterogeneous data sources, where the multiple data items relate to an unmanned aerial system (UAS) flying in an area. The method also includes processing the multiple data items using a machine learning algorithm to determine a threat level of the UAS to one or more targets in the area. The method further includes outputting the threat level of the UAS for review by a user.
US11521125B2
An autoregressor that compresses input data for a specific purpose. Input data is compressed using a compression/decompression framework and by accounting for a purpose of a prediction model. The compression aspect of the framework is distributed and the decompression aspect of the framework may be centralized. The compression/decompression framework and a machine learning prediction model can be centrally trained. The compressor is distributed to nodes such that the input data can be compressed and transmitted to a central node. The model and the compression/decompression framework are continually trained on new data. This allows for lossy compression and higher compression rates while maintaining low prediction error rates.
US11521115B2
A method and system for detecting imbalanced distribution of data that may signal bias in a dataset associated with training a machine-learning (ML) model includes receiving a request to perform data imbalance detection on the dataset associated with training the machine-learning (ML) model, identifying a feature of the dataset for which data imbalance detection is to be performed and examining the dataset to determine a distribution of the feature across the dataset. The result of the determination may then be presented in a user interface element to help identify data imbalance in the dataset.
US11521113B2
In one embodiment, example systems and methods related to a manner of unifying heterogeneous datasets are provided. Multiple heterogeneous datasets containing traffic or driving data are collected. The records of the datasets are combined, and the records in the combined dataset are ordered into a plurality of time series based on timestamps associated with each record. A Bayesian learning method, such as hidden Markov models, is used to identify traffic primitives in the datasets. Each traffic primitive may include several consecutive records in the combined dataset and may correspond to particular driving actions such as turning left or right, stopping, accelerating, etc. The traffic primitives are used to create a traffic primitive index that can be queried by users or researchers for specific records. These records can be used to train or test one or more learning-based algorithms. In addition, the combined dataset can be further divided into tables corresponding to particular sensors, allowing the users or researchers to query for specific traffic primitive and sensor combinations.
US11521111B2
A device is provided. The device includes a processor and a memory configured to store instructions executable by the processor. The processor is configured to execute the instructions to extract context information from displayed data based on an application which is being executed by the device, identify an identifier from the context information, search for at least one recommended contact related to the identifier based on the identifier and a relation graph obtained by inputting information regarding a communication between a plurality of users into a first training model for determining an association between the plurality of users, identify a priority of the at least one recommended contact, and control to display the at least one recommended contact according to the priority.
US11521105B2
A machine learning device which learns fault prediction of one of a main shaft of a machine tool and a motor driving the main shaft, including a state observation unit observing a state variable including at least one of data output from a motor controller controlling the motor, data output from a detector detecting a state of the motor, and data output from a measuring device measuring a state of the one of the main shaft and the motor; a determination data obtaining unit obtaining determination data upon determining one of whether a fault has occurred in the one of the main shaft and the motor and a degree of fault; and a learning unit learning the fault prediction of the one of the main shaft and the motor in accordance with a data set generated based on a combination of the state variable and the determination data.
US11521087B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method, an electronic device, and a computer program product for processing information. According to an example embodiment, the method includes: acquiring a service request record set, each service request record in the service request record set relating to a problem encountered by a user when the user is provided with a service and a solution to the problem; constructing a language model based on a first subset in the service request record set and an initial model, the initial model being trained using a predetermined corpus and configured to determine vector representations of words and sentences in the corpus; and constructing a classification model based on a second subset in the service request record set and the language model, the classification model being capable of determining a solution to a pending problem, and the first subset being different from the second subset.
US11521084B2
A data processing system and a method for detecting an anomaly in the data processing system are provided. The method includes receiving a plurality of program counter values from a processing core of the data processing system. Each of the plurality of program counter values corresponds to an instruction being executed in the data processing system. A histogram is constructed using the plurality of program counter values. The histogram is provided to a machine learning (ML) model and used for training the ML model. If training has already been accomplished, the histogram is provided during inference operation of the ML model. The ML model and the histogram are used to detect an anomaly in the data processing system. If an anomaly is detected, an indication of the anomaly may be provided.
US11521081B2
Provided is a method for the computer-assisted creation of digital rules for monitoring a technical system. In the method, an ontology is used, which contains a plurality of classes including classes of components of the technical system and classes of operating state characteristics of the technical system and contains semantic relations between the classes. By means of a user interface, a user can formulate abstract rules by means of the classes and the semantic relations from the ontology. The abstract rules are converted into concrete rules valid for the specific technical system in an automated manner. The method has the advantage that corresponding rules no longer have to be formulated individually for individual technical systems by the user. Instead, abstract rules only have to be created one time for identical or similar technical systems.
US11521071B2
The present disclosure relates to utilizing a deep recurrent neural network for accurately performing punctuation restoration. For example, the disclosed systems can provide a sequence of words to a punctuation restoration neural network having multiple bi-directional recurrent layers and one or more neural attention mechanisms. In one or more embodiments, the punctuation restoration neural network incorporates layer-wise attentions and/or multi-head attention. The disclosed systems can utilize the punctuation restoration neural network to generate probabilities for each word, indicating the likelihood that each possible punctuation mark is associated with that word. Based on these probabilities, the disclosed systems can generate a punctuated transcript that includes punctuation before the appropriate words.
US11521063B1
A system and method for reducing laser communication terminal pointing uncertainty. The method trains an artificial neural network (ANN) with input data characterizing terminal pointing error and dependent parameters. The method inputs the trained ANN a set of data of these dependent parameters with unknown pointing error. The method uses the ANN output to apply corrections to the terminal pointing solution to reduce pointing uncertainty. The method can condition the ANN generated corrections to avoid cases where application of the ANN correction could exceed the original pointing uncertainty. This conditioning includes computing the Euclidean distance between current ANN input parameter values and values in the ANN training dataset, and bounding the allowed magnitude of the ANN pointing correction. The method can train the ANN incrementally during terminal operation for real-time updates or train the ANN offline with gathered data and implement the trained ANN on the terminal for subsequent links.
US11521060B2
A machine-learning system includes a quaternion (QT) computation engine. Input data to the QT computation engine includes quaternion values, each comprising a real component and three imaginary components, represented as a set of real-valued tensors. A single quaternion value is represented as a 1-dimensional real-valued tensor having four real-valued components, wherein a first real-valued component represents the real component of the single quaternion value, and wherein a second, a third, and a fourth real-valued component each respectively represents one of the imaginary components. A quaternion-valued vector having a size N is represented as a 2-dimensional real-valued tensor comprising N 1-dimensional real-valued tensors. A quaternion-valued matrix having N×M dimensions is represented as a 3-dimensional real-valued tensor comprising M 2-dimensional real-valued tensors comprising N 1-dimensional real-valued tensors.
US11521057B2
According to one embodiment of the present disclosure, provided is a learning system that updates a parameter for a neural network, the learning system including: a plurality of differential value calculators; and a parameter update module.
US11521054B2
An analog neuromorphic circuit is disclosed, having input voltages applied to a plurality of inputs of the analog neuromorphic circuit. The circuit also includes a plurality of resistive memories that provide a resistance to each input voltage applied to each of the inputs so that each input voltage is multiplied in parallel by the corresponding resistance of each corresponding resistive memory to generate a corresponding current for each input voltage and each corresponding current is added in parallel. The circuit also includes at least one output signal that is generated from each of the input voltages multiplied in parallel with each of the corresponding currents for each of the input voltages added in parallel. The multiplying of each input voltage with each corresponding resistance is executed simultaneously with adding each corresponding current for each input voltage.
US11521053B2
Described is a system for specifying control of a device based on a Bayesian network model. The system includes a Bayesian neuromorphic compiler having a network composition module having probabilistic computation units (PCUs) arranged in a hierarchical composition containing multi-level dependencies. The Bayesian neuromorphic compiler receives a Bayesian network model as input and produces a spiking neural network topology and configuration that implements the Bayesian network model. The network composition module learns conditional probabilities of the Bayesian network model. The system computes a conditional probability and controls a device based on the computed conditional probability.
US11521052B2
Hardware and neural architecture co-search may be performed by operations including obtaining a specification of a function and a plurality of hardware design parameters. The hardware design parameters include a memory capacity, a number of computational resources, a communication bandwidth, and a template configuration for performing neural architecture inference. The operations further include determining, for each neural architecture among a plurality of neural architectures, an overall latency of performance of inference of the neural architecture by an accelerator within the hardware design parameters. Each neural architecture having been trained to perform the function with an accuracy. The operations further include selecting, from among the plurality of neural architectures, a neural architecture based on the overall latency and the accuracy.
US11521051B2
A neural network computing engine having an array of charge-trap-transistor (CTT) elements which are utilized as analog multipliers with all weight values preprogrammed into each CTT element as a CTT threshold voltage, with multiplicator values received from the neural network inference mode. The CTT elements perform computations of a fully connected (FC) neural network with each CTT element representing a neuron. Row resistors for each row of CTT element sum output currents as partial summation results. Counted pulse generators write weight values under control of a pulse generator controller. A sequential analog fabric (SAF) feeds multiple drain voltages in parallel to the CTT array to enable parallel analog computations of neurons. Partial summation results are read by an analog-to-digital converter (ADC).
US11521050B2
A control circuit for a neural network system includes a first multiply accumulate circuit, a first neuron value storage circuit and a first processor. The first multiply accumulate circuit includes n memristive cells. The first terminals of the n memristive cells receive a supply voltage. The second terminals of the n memristive cells are connected with a first bit line. The control terminals of the n memristive cells are respectively connected with n word lines. Moreover, n neuron values of a first layer are stored in the first neuron value storage circuit. In an application phase, the first neuron value storage circuit controls the n word lines according to binary codes of the n neuron values. The first processor generates a first neuron value of a second layer.
US11521041B2
A fact validation method including the following steps: a statement to be validated is inputted and a searching is made for the statement to obtain an evidence set of the statement; a hierarchical heterogeneous graph consisting of an entity node, a sentence node and a context node is constructed based on the evidence set; the statement and the evidence set are spliced and a node is initialized to obtain feature representation of the node; the feature representation of the node is updated based on inference according to a propagation direction of a neural network of the node in the hierarchical heterogeneous graph; and an inference path for the updated feature representation of the node is built and a prediction result of the statement is output according to the inference path.
US11521036B2
A memory card and a terminal, where the memory card includes a storage device, a controller, and a memory card interface. The storage device and the controller are disposed inside a card body of the memory card. The memory card interface is disposed on the card body of the memory card. The controller is electrically coupled to the storage device and the memory card interface separately. Because a shape of the memory card is the same as that of a nano subscriber identity module (SIM) card, and a size of the memory card is the same as that of the nano SIM card, a nano SD card is provided.
US11521029B1
A computer-implemented method is provided for dosing ink in a digital printing device with multiple ink channels, when printing on a reflective substrate. A digital printing system configured with the method is also provided. Target color data of a target color to be printed on the reflective substrate is captured, including both color data and spectral reflectance data. The captured color data is processed with a printer model to output a preliminary dosing ratio for each ink channel. A digital opacity value for the target color is computed from the dosing ratio of each ink channel. A natural opacity value for the for the target color is computed from the captured spectral reflectance data, and a difference between the digital and natural opacity values is calculated. A predicted dosing ratio for each ink channel is obtained by interpolating the difference against an ink step of a diffuse ink component of the target color.
US11521022B2
Provided are methods, systems, and devices for updating a sensor based on sensor data and the semantic state associated with an area. Sensor data can be received by a computing system. The sensor data can be based on sensor outputs from sensors. The sensor data can include information associated with states of areas detected by the sensors. An estimated semantic state of one of the areas from a target sensor that can detect the states of the areas can be generated. Based on a comparison of the estimated semantic state to semantic states of the area from the sensors, an uncertainty level associated with an accuracy of the estimated semantic state can be determined. In response to the uncertainty level satisfying one or more update criteria, an updated version of the sensor data from the target sensor can be obtained.
US11521020B2
Certain aspects involve evaluating modeling algorithms whose outputs can impact machine-implemented operating environments. For instance, a computing system generates, from a comparison of a set of estimated attribute values of an attribute to a set of validation attribute values of the attribute, a discretized evaluation dataset with data values in multiple categories. The computing system computes, for a modeling algorithm used to generate the estimated attribute values, an evaluation metric. The computing system provides a host computing system with access to the evaluation metric, one or more modeling outputs generated with the modeling algorithm, or both. Providing one or more of these outputs to the host computing system can facilitate modifying one or more machine-implemented operations.
US11521018B1
Techniques are generally described for predicting text relevant to image data. In various examples, the techniques may include receiving image data comprising a first portion. The first portion of the image data may correspond to a first plurality of pixels when rendered on the display. Text data comprising a first text related to the first portion of the image data may be received. A first vector representation of the first portion of the image data may be determined. In some examples, a correspondence between the first portion of the image data and the first text may be determined based at least in part on the first vector representation. A first identifier of the first portion of image data may be stored in a data structure in association with a second identifier of the first text.
US11521011B2
A neural network model training apparatus for enhancing image detail is provided. The apparatus includes a memory and at least one processor configured to obtain a low quality input image patch and a high quality input image patch, obtain a low quality output image patch by inputting the low quality input image patch to a first neural network model, obtain a high quality output image patch by inputting the high quality input image patch to a second neural network model, and train the first neural network model based on a loss function set to reduce a difference between the low quality output image patch and the high quality input image patch, and a difference between the high quality output image patch and the high quality input image patch. The second neural network model is identical to the first neural network model.
US11521008B2
A method is performed by a computer. The method includes obtaining motion data indicating a motion change of a work vehicle, and determining an operation classification of the work vehicle from the motion data by performing image classification using a trained classification model. The motion data is generated from a plurality of images indicating the work vehicle in operation in time series.
US11521007B2
A method for configuring a set of hardware accelerators to process a CNN. In an embodiment, the method includes one or more computer processors determining a set of parameters related to a feature map to analyze at a respective layer of the CNN, the set of parameters include quantization value and respective values that describe a shape of the feature map. The method further includes configuring a set of hardware accelerators for the respective layer of the CNN. The method further includes receiving a portion of the feature map to the configured set of hardware accelerators for the respective layer of the CNN, wherein the received portion of the feature map includes a group of sequential data slices. The method further includes analyzing the group of sequential data slices among the configured set of hardware accelerators.
US11521006B2
A code reader for reading an optical code is provided that has a linear image sensor having a plurality of linear arrangements of light reception pixels for recording image data having the code and a control and evaluation unit that is configured to locate and read the code in the image data, wherein the light reception pixels have a different spectral sensitivity. Here, at least one linear arrangement is a white line whose reception pixels are sensitive to white light for recording a gray scale image and the other linear arrangements are color lines whose reception pixels are sensitive to light of only one respective color for recording a color image.
US11521005B2
The present invention relates to a container, a package, a production system, and a distribution system. The container comprises a first identification and a second identification. The first identification is unique for identifying the container and is not exposed. The second identification is unique for identifying the container and is accessible. The second identification is different from the first identification. The second identification is associated with the first identification. The distribution system comprises a processor and a memory. The memory includes instructions causing the processor to perform operations. The operations include: inputting a first identification and a second identification of a first container, wherein the first identification and the second identification are different from each other and are unique for identifying the first container, the first identification is not exposed, and the second identification is accessible; and associating the second identification and the first identification.
US11520999B2
A rendering engine and method for reducing character clutter in display of composite text formed from a first text string and a second text in a single viewing field. The composite text having foreign language text and truncated translation characters of the foreign language in which the foreign language text is embedded in area vacated by truncation of translation character strokes to enable readers to identify translation text based on remaining distinguishing character strokes with reduction of eye shift between the two text strings.
US11520990B2
Systems and methods include receiving textual data and a predicted answer to a question associated with a text object. The text object includes a structured data field of the textual data. The predicted answer includes a confidence level. The confidence level is determined by a machine learning system based at least in part on one or more models of the machine learning system and the textual data. In response to determining the confidence level being larger than or equal to a predetermined confidence threshold, the predicted answer and a reference is stored in a storage for retrieval and display. The reference indicates a location of the text object in the textual data. In response to determining the confidence level being smaller than the predetermined confidence threshold, the question and the text object associated with the question is displayed, at the user interface, to a user for inputting a true answer.
US11520984B2
There is provided a system and method for generating predictions. The predictions are generated using a model configured to associate text with at least one action associated with at least one of a plurality of applications.
US11520981B2
A method detects anomalies in a system having sensors for collecting multivariate sensor data including discrete event sequences. The method determines, using a NMT model, pairwise relationships among the sensors based on the data. The method forms sequences of characters into sentences on a per sensor basis, by treating each discrete variable in the sequences as a character in natural language. The method translates, using the NMT, the sentences of source sensors to sentences of target sensors to obtain a translation score that quantifies a pairwise relationship strength therebetween. The method aggregates the pairwise relationships into a multivariate relationship graph having nodes representing sensors and edges denoted by the translation score for a sensor pair connected thereto to represent the pairwise relationship strength therebetween. The method performs a corrective action to correct an anomaly responsive to a detection of the anomaly relating to the sensor pair.
US11520978B2
A form customization method and device, through establishment of a form information table, a form field information table and a form field option information table, the form information table and form field information table are associated by primary key and foreign key, the form field information table and form field option information table are associated by “foreign key-primary key”, so as to define the form template and complete the form design quickly and conveniently. The form is then rendered by the form template data and the corresponding CSS style. The form customization device mainly includes a form template creation unit, a form template generation and presentation unit and a form template modification unit.
US11520974B2
Techniques are disclosed for sharing user markings between digital documents and corresponding physically printed documents. The sharing is facilitated using an Augmented Reality (AR) device, such as a smartphone or a tablet. The device streams images of a page of a book on a display. The device accesses a corresponding digital document that is a digital version of content printed on the book. In an example, the digital document has a digital user marking, e.g., a comment associated with a paragraph of the digital document, wherein a corresponding paragraph of the physical book lacks any such comment. When the device streams the images of the page of the book on the display, the device appends the digital comment on the paragraph of the page of the book within the image stream. Thus, the user can view the digital comment in the AR environment, while reading the physical book.
US11520969B2
In various example embodiments, heavy document object model (DOM) elements in a heavy web page are removed directly from a DOM tree subsequent to a request being received to navigate to another web page but before the web browser actually navigates to that other web page. In one example embodiment, the heavy DOM elements are deleted from the previous page during an ‘onbeforeunload’ event using a scripting language such as Javascript, to ensure that the render of the next page starts faster.
US11520964B1
A method for assertion-based formal verification includes executing a plurality of formal verification regression runs on a model of an electronic design; for each of the regression runs, using a unique signature function, calculating and saving a unique signature value for each instantiation of a property of a plurality of properties of the model of the electronic design and a status result for that instantiation of the property in that regression run; and signing off a current version of the model of the electronic device and presenting as a status result for each the instantiations of a plurality of the properties of the current version of the model of the electronic design the preferred status result obtained for that instantiation of the property per the same unique signature value that was calculated for that instantiation of the property in previous runs of the plurality of formal verification regression runs.
US11520963B2
A system and method for formulating a sequential equivalency problem for fault (non)propagation with minimal circuit logic duplication by leveraging information about the location and nature of a fault. The system and method further apply formal checking to safety diagnoses and efficiently models simple and complex transient faults.
US11520962B1
Techniques and systems for determining an output waveform at an output of a complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) logic gate are described. Some embodiments can identify at least one set of inputs of the CMOS logic gate that, when switched together, causes multiple transistors coupled in parallel to simultaneously turn-on and drive the output of the CMOS logic gate. Next, the embodiments can determine a set of current source models that are coupled in parallel to model the CMOS logic gate when the set of inputs of the CMOS logic gate are switched together. The embodiments can then simulate the set of current source models together to determine the output waveform at the output of the CMOS logic gate when the set of inputs of the CMOS logic gate are switched together.
US11520961B2
In an approach, a processor receives an input indicative of a set of registers, the set of registers being configured for obtaining output data from a design-under-test (DUT) in a field-programmable gate array (FPGA) module. A processor executes a set of instructions for monitoring the output data in the set of registers;. A processor generates data indicative of at least one portion of changes of the output data in the set of registers during the execution of the set of instructions. A processor causes a separate machine to analyze the data via utilizing an interface to send the data to the separate machine.
US11520958B2
Methods and systems for verifying a hardware design for a multi-stage component is stall independent. The multi-stage component is configured to receive input data and generate output data by processing the input data at each of a plurality of successive stages wherein each stage is independently enabled by a set of one or more enable signals. The method comprises: for each stage of the plurality of stages from the second stage to the last stage: (a) verifying that a relevant portion of the output data of an instantiation of the hardware design is the same if the instantiation is in the same state when that stage is enabled in a cycle by any set of inputs and any subsequent stages are enabled in subsequent cycles by a first minimal sequence of inputs; and (b) verifying that the relevant portion of the output data of an instantiation of the hardware design is the same if the instantiation is in the same state (i) when that stage is enabled in a cycle and any subsequent stages are enabled in subsequent cycles by a second minimal sequence of inputs and (ii) when that stage is stalled, then that stage is enabled in the next cycle and the subsequent stages are enabled in subsequent cycles by the second minimal sequence of inputs.
US11520954B2
Reusable information is extracted from a result of executing a simulation of a plurality of models. A simulation management method for managing data for use in a simulation by a management device having a processor and a memory, the method including: executing a simulation using a model and data, by a simulator; extracting intermediate data indicating that an internal state of the model that is being simulated matches a predetermined state, by the management device; and holding the extracted intermediate data as useful intermediate data, by the management device.
US11520948B2
Systems and methods for creating electronic indoor maps from computer-assisted-design (CAD) files are disclosed. The methods involve receiving a set of CAD files relating to a facility, classifying each CAD file of the set as a site plan or a floor plan, defining one or more layers of at least one electronic map for the facility based on the set, generating an electronic map for each CAD file of the set. The electronic map includes one or more layers and each layer include at least one object. The method also involves aligning objects in the electronic map for the facility, based on the layer of the object; assigning text data in each CAD file of the set to an object in the electronic map file of that CAD file; and storing the at least one electronic map for the facility on at least one storage component.
US11520944B2
Methods for modeling of parts with lattice structures and corresponding systems and computer-readable mediums. A method includes receiving a model of an object to be manufactured. The method includes receiving a user specification of a void region within the model to create a lattice. The method includes performing a trimming operation to create a trimmed lattice by tessellating void surfaces and grouping together at least one row of connected rods to be treated as a single entity.
US11520939B2
USB traffic is intercepted between a USB device and a computer system. It is determined whether the USB device has previously had a policy associated with it as to whether USB traffic from the device should be blocked, allowed, or sanitized. In response to not having a previous policy for the USB device, a request is made for a user to be prompted to provide a policy of one of block, allow, or sanitize for the USB device. In response to a user-provided-policy, one of the following are performed: blocking the traffic, allowing the traffic, or sanitizing the traffic between the USB device and the computer system. Apparatus, methods, and computer program products are disclosed.
US11520931B2
The present invention discloses a privacy masking method using format-preserving encryption in an image security system, and a recording medium for performing the method. In a privacy masking method using format-preserving encryption in an image security system according to an aspect of the present invention, an image corresponding to a privacy region is encrypted using format-preserving encryption, so that it is possible to prevent waste of additional storage space required for encryption and to solve a problem of exposure of personal information.
US11520919B2
A solution is proposed for managing containers isolating corresponding application environments from one or more shared operating systems in a computing system. One or more relevant groups are determined among one or more candidate groups (each comprising private data in common among a plurality of the containers); the candidate groups are determined according to corresponding access commands submitted by the containers and the relevant groups are determined according to one or more relevance policies. The private data of the relevant groups are consolidated into corresponding shared data.
US11520915B2
Techniques for secure fast channel change in live content streaming are described. In some embodiments, during content preparation, a packager and/or an encoder encrypts media content items at both the service level (e.g., by encrypting a first portion of the plurality of segments with a service level access key unique to a service) and the channel level (e.g., by encrypting a second portion of the plurality of segments with a channel level access key unique to a channel associated with the service). On the receiving end, a client device (e.g., a media player) requests a service level access key prior to content acquisition. As such, a client can join any channel on a segment protected with the service level key without waiting for a license for that channel first, and the channel license can be acquired in parallel with the content acquisition during channel switching.
US11520907B1
An illustrative method includes a data protection system determining an encryption indicator for a first recovery dataset associated with a storage system, the encryption indicator representative of a likelihood that a threshold amount of data associated with the first recovery dataset is encrypted; and performing, based on the encryption indicator for the first recovery dataset, an action with respect to a second recovery dataset associated with the storage system.
US11520906B2
A computer-readable medium comprises instructions that, when executed, cause a processor to execute an untrusted workload manager to manage execution of at least one guest workload. The instructions, when executed, also cause the processor to (i) receive a request from a guest workload managed by the untrusted workload manager to access a memory using a requested guest address; (ii) obtain, from the untrusted workload manager, a translated workload manager-provided hardware physical address to correspond to the requested guest address; (iii) determine whether a stored mapping exists for the translated workload manager-provided hardware physical address; (iv) in response to finding the stored mapping, determine whether a stored expected guest address from the stored mapping matches the requested guest address; and (v) if the stored expected guest address from the stored mapping matches the requested guest address, enable the guest workload to access contents of the translated workload-manager provided hardware physical address.
US11520901B2
A method, system and product for detecting firmware vulnerabilities, including, during a testing phase of a firmware of a device, continuously polling states and activities of the device, wherein said polling is at a testing agent that is functionality separate from the firmware; correlating between at least one event that is associated with the states or the activities of the device and test results of the testing phase; based on said correlating, determining for the firmware one or more normal events and one or more abnormal events; and after the testing phase, providing indications of the one or more normal events and one or more abnormal events from the testing agent to a runtime agent, whereby said providing enables the runtime agent to protect the firmware from vulnerabilities associated with the one or more abnormal events.
US11520891B1
A computer chip, such as an System on chip (SOC), can receive firmware updates having two separate signatures; a first of the signatures is used to authenticate the firmware using a processor within the computer chip, and a second of the signatures is used by a controller, separate from the processor. A first key, used by the processor to authenticate the firmware, can be a boot key that is hardwired in the computer chip. A second key, used by the controller, can be a key that is provided to the controller at any time and is updatable. The controller can suspend the processor so that the controller can perform a first authentication of the firmware using the second signature and the second key. If the authentication is successful, the controller can release the processor, which then uses the first key and the first signature to perform a second authentication.
US11520890B2
A medical device includes at least one memory device storing data; a communication interface defining a first communication path to allow communications between the medical device and an external device or network; and a hardware key interface defining a second communication path that is separate from the first communication path. A hardware key is configured to be coupled to the meter via the second communication path defined by the hardware key interface. The data on the at least one memory device cannot be modified unless the hardware key interface is physically coupled to the hardware key. The hardware key may include a key code component and conducting lines, where the hardware key interface receives the key code via the conducting lines and the data on the at least one memory device cannot be modified unless the key code provided by the hardware key is validated.
US11520888B2
There is disclosed in one example a computing apparatus, including: a hardware platform, including a processor, a memory, and a network interface; a bucketized reputation modifier table; and instructions encoded within the memory to instruct the processor to: perform a feature-based malware analysis of an object; assign the object a malware reputation according to the feature-based malware analysis; query and receive via the network interface a complementary score for a complementary property of the object; query the bucketized reputation modifier table according to the complementary score to receive a reputation modifier for the object; adjust the object's reputation according to the reputation modifier; and take a security action according to the adjusted reputation.
US11520887B2
Client devices detect malware based on a ruleset received from a security server. To evaluate a current ruleset, an administrative client device initiates a ruleset evaluation of the malware detection ruleset. A security server partitions stored malware samples into a group of evaluation lists based on an evaluation policy. The security server then creates scanning nodes on an evaluation server according to the evaluation policy. The scanning nodes scan the malware samples of the evaluation lists using the rulesets and associate each malware sample with a rule of the ruleset based on the detections, if any. The security server analyzes the associations and optimizes the ruleset and stored malware samples. The security server sends the optimized ruleset to client devices such that they more efficiently detect malware samples.
US11520886B2
Methods, apparatuses and computer program products implement embodiments of the present invention that include protecting a computer system coupled to a storage device by storing, to the storage device, a set of protected files and one or more decoy files, wherein any modification to the decoy file indicates a cyber-attack on the computer system. Upon receiving a request from a process executing on the computing device to enumerate files stored on the storage device, the process is analyzed so as to classify the process as benign or suspicious. The protected files are enumerated to the process whether the process was classified as benign or suspicious. However, the one or more decoy files are enumerated to the process only upon process being classified as suspicious.
US11520878B2
The technology disclosed herein provides a proof-of-work key wrapping system for verifying device capabilities. An example method may include: accessing a wrapped key and a cryptographic attribute for the wrapped key from an encrypted memory region, wherein the wrapped key encodes a cryptographic key; deriving, by a processing device, the cryptographic key in view of the wrapped key and the cryptographic attribute, wherein the deriving consumes computing resources for a duration of time; using the cryptographic key to access program data; and executing, by the processing device, the program data, wherein the executed program data evaluates a condition related to the duration of time.
US11520877B2
Generally discussed herein are systems, apparatuses, and methods for cyber resiliency. An apparatus can include one or more memory devices including a plurality of instruction sets corresponding to respective application variants stored thereon, one of the application variants including an unmodified version of an application, and one of the application variants including a modified version of the application including the application altered to be resistant to a specified type of cyberattack, processing circuitry to execute the application variants based on a same input, and generate an output, and a monitor to compare output from each of the application variants, and in response to detecting that the output from an application variant of the application variants is not equal to the output from other application variants of the application variants executing a time delayed version of the application variants or restoring the application variants to a known good operating state.
US11520873B2
A method for enrolling a device in a secure network to which an information system is connected, the method comprising the steps, implemented by a trusted device connected to the secure network, of: a) receiving from a user terminal, distinct from the device to be enrolled, an authorization to connect to the device to be enrolled, b) generating cryptographic keys intended for the device to be enrolled to access the secure network, and c) transmitting the cryptographic keys to the device to be enrolled.
US11520864B2
Digital rights management systems and methods for audience measurement are disclosed. Example methods disclosed herein include enabling a media handler implemented by a media device to begin presenting first media based on a first digital license associated with the first media. Such example methods also include retrieving a second digital license different from the first digital license from a license server separate from the media device. Such example methods further include causing the media handler to perform a first media monitoring operation based on the second digital license, the first media monitoring operation being deactivated by default.
US11520852B2
A client device requests a web page via a clientless VPN. In response to the request, web page content comprising at least one script element is received at the clientless VPN. The clientless VPN inserts a wrapper function around at least a portion of the script element, forming modified web content. The client device is provided with the modified web content.
US11520848B2
Aspects of the disclosure provide methods, apparatuses, and non-transitory computer-readable storage mediums for receiving media data. One apparatus includes processing circuitry receives a media presentation description (MPD) file that includes an essential property descriptor for a dynamic adaptive streaming over hypertext transfer protocol (DASH) operation. The essential property descriptor is associated with a first session-based description (SBD) file and indicating that a part of a uniform resource locator (URL) is to be modified based on the first SBD file. The part of the URL has been generated based on a second SBD file. The processing circuitry modifies the part of the URL based on the first SBD file and receives the media data based on the modified part of the URL.
US11520841B2
An information recommendation method and a related device. The method includes: receiving first recommended information recommended by a server in a first time period, the first recommended information being information associated with a first type of information associated with viewed information of a user with a viewed amount not less than a first threshold and determined according to a first behavior record of the user; receiving second recommended information recommended by the server in a second time period; and receiving third recommended information recommended by the server in a third time period, the third recommended information being information associated with a second type of information associated with second viewed information of the user with a second viewed amount not less than a second threshold and determined according to a second behavior record of the user.
US11520839B2
A first user access, directed to a first network document, of a first user is detected. One or more first network document concepts in the first network document are detected. A first user profile of the first user is retrieved based on the first user access. A first knowledge gap of the first user is identified based on the first network document concepts and based on the first user profile. One or more additional network documents are obtained based on the one or more first network document concepts. The additional network documents include at least a first concept of the one or more first network document concepts. The first network document is modified to include at least a portion of the first concept from the one or more additional network documents. The modification is based on the first knowledge gap and on the one or more additional network documents.
US11520830B2
Techniques for generating and searching semantic flow graphs are provided that include creating, by a system operatively coupled to a processor employing a semantic flow graph creation process, a semantic flow graph based on an ontology associated with a set of subjects and a raw flow graph determined from an analysis of a data set relating to the set of subjects and searching, by the system, the semantic flow graph to determine a subset of information of the semantic flow graph that is responsive to a query based on the query and information of the semantic flow graph.
US11520829B2
A method, computer program product, and/or computer system protects a question-answer dialog system from being attacked by adversarial statements that incorrectly answer a question. A computing device accesses a plurality of adversarial statements that are capable of making an adversarial attack on a question-answer dialog system, which is trained to provide a correct answer to a specific type of question. The computing device utilizes the plurality of adversarial statements to train a machine learning model for the question-answer dialog system. The computing device then reinforces the trained machine learning model by bootstrapping adversarial policies that identify multiple types of adversarial statements onto the trained machine learning model. The computing device then utilizes the trained and bootstrapped machine learning model to avoid adversarial attacks when responding to questions submitted to the question-answer dialog system.
US11520822B2
A content model data base stores past target information, which includes past first video information acquired in advance, reference IDs, which are linked with the past target information, and which correspond to contents, and three or more levels of degrees of content association between the past target information and the reference IDs. A first acquiring unit acquires the target information from a user terminal, a first evaluation unit looks up the content model database and acquires ID information, which includes the degrees of content association between the target information and the reference IDs, and a judging unit judges the ID information. Contents that correspond to the ID information are output to the user terminal based on the result of judgment by the judging unit.
US11520821B2
Systems and methods are described for responding to a search query with a contextually relevant voice output. An illustrative method receives a search query, determines an answer to the search query, identifies a media content reference included in the search query, determines, based on the media content reference, a personality associated with the media content reference, identifies a voice profile of the personality, and generates audio output using the voice profile of the personality, the audio output including the answer to the search query.
US11520819B2
This invention discloses a computer-implemented method, caused by a server, for hierarchical causality-based stitching of content and for serving said stitched content as output content, said method comprising: tracking, and measuring, a first set of markers, for a first content consumer, consuming a first content item; tracking, and measuring, a first set of markers, for a second content consumer, consuming a second content item; receiving, by said first content consumer, a request corresponding to a marker from said first set of markers; computing a “pertinence indicator”; computing a “colliding score”; automatically collating said first content item, correlative to said first user, and a second content item, correlative to said second user, to form at least an output content, if said “pertinence indicator” is within said pre-defined rules of correlation and if said “colliding score” is within said pre-determined threshold; and serving said collated output content.
US11520814B2
This application relates to a new paradigm of data reasoning based on natural language inputs. A data structure based on the new paradigm is a canonical of a basic data structure in the shape of a triangle. The basic data structure includes a first node being a primary node, a second node being a context node, a third node being a resultant node. The basic data structure also includes a first link connecting the first and second nodes and configured to assign an attribute of abductive reasoning between the first and second nodes and a second link connecting the second and third nodes and configured to assign an attribute of inductive reasoning between the second and third nodes. The basic data structure further includes a third link connecting the first and third nodes and configured to assign an attribute of deductive reasoning between the first and third nodes.
US11520805B2
Techniques are used for replication in a storage system. The techniques may be used to provide, among other things, the determination that a data block has more than one instance in a storage system. A similarity hash for the data block is determined, and an instruction is transmitted from a source system to a target system to replicate the data block based on the similarity hash.
US11520802B2
A method comprising receiving, via a first application and from a client device, a request for a data format conversion of transaction data; responsive to receiving the request, transmitting, via the first application, a verification request comprising an institution identifier and an account identifier to a second application, receiving, via the first application from the second application, verification that the first account identifier is associated with a valid user account; converting, via the first application, a portion of the transaction data from a first format to a second format; transmitting, via the first application, an update request to the second application, receipt of the update request causing the second application to (1) select an established connection with an institution, and (2) initiate an update transaction with the institution based on the converted transaction data; receiving, via the first application, an indication that the update transaction was successful.
US11520796B2
A method for managing data processing includes receiving, from a user of a data query system, a data query for data stored in a data store in communication with the data query system. The method also includes receiving a staleness parameter indicating an upper time boundary for the data query. The upper time boundary limits a query response to data within the data store that is older than the upper time boundary. The method further includes determining whether the data stored within the data store satisfies the staleness parameter. When a portion of the data within the data store fails to satisfy the staleness parameter, the method includes generating the query response that excludes the portion of the data that fails to satisfy the staleness parameter.
US11520791B2
A system for performing cascading search includes an associative memory array, a controller, a similarity search processor and an exact match processor. The associative memory array stores a plurality of multiportion data vectors stored in at least one column of the associative memory array. Each vector has a first portion and a second portion which are aligned to each other in the column. The controller controls the associative memory array to perform a similarity search of a similarity query on the first portion and an exact search of an exact query on the second portion. The similarity match processor generates a match row including match bit indications aligned with each similarity matched column. The match row indicates which columns have first portions which match to the similarity query. The exact match processor outputs exact match columns from among the similarity matched columns which have second portions which match the exact query.
US11520790B2
In an approach for character encoding, a processor receives a first query involving an attribute, wherein the first query utilizes a value encoded in accordance with a first encoding scheme. A processor identifies a table comprising values of the attribute in a compressed format. A processor creates at least one dictionary associated with the attribute, wherein the at least one new dictionary associated with the attribute maps a compressed value to a corresponding uncompressed value. A processor executes the first query by invoking a conversion operation in a query plan of the first query for decoding one or more queried values of the attribute. A processor fills the at least one new dictionary with one or more decoded query values to create at least one full dictionary. A processors stores the at least one full dictionary in a cache using a predefined cache management policy of the cache.
US11520789B2
In some examples, a database management node updates object metadata with indicators of access frequencies of a plurality of objects in a data store that is remotely accessible by the database management node over a network. The database management node selects a subset of the plurality of objects based on the indicators, and caches the subset in the local storage.
US11520784B2
A device may receive source code from a source data structure, and may receive information associated with a target data structure. The device may analyze the source code to extract statements, and may utilize natural language processing on the statements to identify functions and keywords associated with the source data structure. The device may train a machine learning model with the functions and the keywords to generate a trained machine learning model, and may process the information associated with the target data structure, with the trained machine learning model, to transform a source query to a target query compatible with the target data structure. The device may process the target query, with a neural network model, to generate an optimized target query, and may cause data from the source data structure to be migrated to the target data structure based on the optimized target query.
US11520780B2
Systems and techniques are described for efficient, general-purpose, and potentially decentralized databases, distributed storage systems, version control systems, and/or other types of data repositories. Data is represented in a database system in such a way that any value is represented by a unique identifier which is derived from the value itself. Any database peer in the system will derive an identical identifier from the same logical value. The identifier for a value may be derived using a variety of mechanisms, including, without limitation, a hash function known to all peers in the system. The values may be organized hierarchically as a tree of nodes. Any two peers storing the same logical value will deterministically represent that value with a graph, such as the described “Prolly” tree, having the same topology and hash value, irrespective of possibly differing sequences of mutations which caused each to arrive at the same final value.
US11520779B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for digital asset management. One of the methods includes: obtaining a request for creating a digital asset corresponding to a tangible asset, wherein the request comprises one or more characteristics of the digital asset; generating a blockchain contract corresponding to the tangible asset based on the one or more characteristics of the digital asset; and deploying the generated blockchain contract on a blockchain, wherein the deployed blockchain contract is executable to issue the digital asset corresponding to the tangible asset.
US11520772B2
Methods and systems are disclosed for tracking change data in a database. A database, stored at a computer system, is accessed with a plurality of data written to fields in the database, wherein each data in the fields comprises a record header. Data is changed in at least one field of the plurality of data in the database via the computer system, wherein the changing the data changes the record header for the at least one field. A transaction identification (ID) is stored in the record header for each change to the at least one field. A flag is created in the record header signaling the change to the at least one field. Successive versions of the database are linked together such that a subscriber accessing the database can automatically view a current version of the database with the change by accessing the record header and identifying the flag.
US11520769B1
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method, system, and computer program product for block level lock on a data table. According to the method, in response to first transactional processing to be applied on a data table, one or more processors determine that first target data to be accessed during execution of the first transactional processing is comprised in a continuous range of data in the data table. One or more processors determine whether a block lock is available for locking the continuous range of data for the first transactional processing. In accordance with a determination that the block lock is available, one or more processors grant the first transactional processing with the block lock, the block lock being associated with lock information indicating the continuous range of data.
US11520755B2
The systems and methods provide for migrating database management system (DBMS) applications to cloud storage by automating a continuous replication of changes made to the DBMS from the DBMS to an associated cloud instance. For example, the systems and methods facilitate the migration of the DBMS via multiple processes performing in parallel—a process to create and provision a new machine instance (e.g., an EC2 instance), a process to clone and transfer parameters of the operating system/software of the DBMS, and a process that backs up and/or captures the application data of the DBMS. In some embodiments, the systems and methods, utilizing parallel processes, and combining outputs of the processes to a synchronization process, efficiently and quickly migrate DBMS applications to cloud storage, among other benefits.
US11520754B2
A separate, central server operating in a system including one or more database server machines and a graphical user interface displayed on a user's computer is disclosed and provides a technological improvement. In one example, computer-readable instructions are stored in computer memory on this shutdown control server. A user, such as a database administrator, may access the shutdown control server to initiate the shutdown, reboot, and/or restart of database services on one or more separate database servers. At least one advantage of such an arrangement is that the shutdown control server provides plug-and-play capabilities that may allow one or more database servers of one or more different database types to concurrently connect to the shutdown control server.
US11520751B2
System and method for information storage using blockchain databases combined with pointer databases
A system and method for information storage using blockchain and pointer databases, comprising a computer with a blockchain manager and datastore manager, and blockchain data input, which connects over a network to a distributed blockchain ledger containing information such as personally-identifying data and a datastore system containing searchable information such as a DNS system on the persons entered into the blockchain, the datastore system also containing reference numbers for each searchable block in the blockchain, such that verification or identification can both be accomplished swiftly and securely of data in the blockchain such as for data verification to verify or identify persons submitting data to such a system.
US11520750B2
A method and system for accessing a file in a global file system. The method includes sending, from a client device to a global file system storing a file, a request to access a portion of the file, wherein the global file system includes at least one object storage system and at least one server, wherein the data of the file is stored in a plurality of objects stored in the at least one object storage system; receiving a cloud file descriptor from the at least one server, wherein the cloud file descriptor includes a plurality of download tokens utilized to retrieve at least one object of the plurality of objects from the at least one object storage system, wherein the at least one object includes the requested portion of the file; and accessing the portion of the file using the cloud file descriptor.
US11520749B1
A method of performing a virtual network function (VNF) is disclosed. The method comprises forking a user plane process on a computer by a VNF process that executes on the computer, forking a control plane process on the computer by VNF process, adding blocks to a user plane blockchain by the user plane process that record user plane events, and adding blocks to a control plane blockchain by the control plane process that record control plane events. The method also comprises creating a first information package by the user plane process based on the user plane blockchain, self-terminating by the user plane process while passing the first package of information to the VNF process, creating a second information package by the control plane process based on the control plane blockchain, and self-terminating by the control plane process while passing the second package of information to the VNF process.
US11520747B2
The disclosed systems and methods are directed for detecting and resolving write-write conflicts among a plurality of transactions received from master nodes of a multi-writer database system. The method includes receiving a plurality of REDO logs and storing the plurality of REDO logs in a buffer, each REDO log associated with the one of the plurality of transactions, selecting one REDO log of the plurality of REDO logs; persisting the transaction associated with the one REDO log in a local storage when a write-write conflict is detected between the one REDO log and at least one other REDO log of the plurality of REDO logs prior to committing the transaction associated with the one REDO log; and transmitting a status of the transaction associated with the one REDO log to a global transaction manager (GTM).
US11520739B1
Computer-implemented methods and systems are disclosed for receiving and indexing a plurality of files for later querying, for dynamically generating scripts to be executed during a query of a data store, and for horizontally distributing a query and aggregating results of the distributed query.
US11520732B2
Systems and methods to select an object instance from a database storage to archive to an external storage based on an archiving configuration and attribute values of the object instance, transmit the selection to an application associated with the object instance, determine, based on a response received from the application, to archive the object instance, mark the object instance as ready for archiving, identify the object instance as ready for archiving, convert the object instance to an object notation format, transmit the converted object instance to a cloud application for storage in an external storage, in response to a determination that the storage in the external storage is successful, create an index object in the database storage including a subset of fields of the object instance and a link to the converted object instance stored in the external storage, and mark the object instance in the database storage as archived.
US11520729B2
Systems, methods, apparatus and techniques are described that provide point-to-point capabilities without the expected increase in input/output pad usage. In some examples, point-to-point data lines are provided between a host and multiple slave devices and timing of communication is controlled using a clock signal shared by the multiple slave devices. An apparatus has a plurality of bus master circuits configured to control point-to-point communication with corresponding slave devices and a clock generation circuit configured to provide pulses in a serial bus clock signal when one or more bus master circuits are in an active state, and further to idle the serial bus clock signal when all bus master circuits are idle. Each bus master circuit may be configured to communicate with its corresponding slave device in accordance with the timing provided by the serial bus clock signal that is transmitted over a common clock line to each slave device.
US11520728B2
In providing USB communication functionality over a non-USB-compliant extension medium, increased latency and processing delays may be introduced, including during configuration of endpoints. In some embodiments of the present disclosure, an upstream facing port device (UFP device) and a downstream facing port device (DFP device) are used to extend USB communication across an extension medium. In some embodiments, the UFP device extracts information from packets sent between a host device and a USB device during configuration of an endpoint. In some embodiments, the UFP device sends a synthetic NRDY packet to the host device in response to a STATUS Transaction Packet to provide the UFP device and DFP device additional time to complete configuration for servicing the endpoint.
US11520724B2
A system includes a printed circuit board (PCB) on which is disposed memory components and a processor disposed on the PCB and coupled between the memory components and a host memory controller. The processor comprises a memory channel network (MCN) memory controller to handle memory requests associated with the memory components; a local buffer; and a core coupled to the MCN memory controller and the local buffer. The core executes an operating system (OS) running a network software layer and a distributed computing framework; and an MCN driver to: receive a network packet from the network software layer; store the network packet in the local buffer; and assert a transmit polling field of the local buffer to signal to the host memory controller that the network packet is available for transmission to a host computing device.
US11520716B2
An information processing system includes a host and a storage device that transmits a first pulse signal to the host and receives a second pulse signal from the host through a transmission line. The storage device has a first register to store a value of a first parameter and correction circuit to adjust a first duty ratio of the first pulse signal according to the value of the first parameter. The host includes a first calibration processor that measures a plurality of the first duty ratios as output from the storage device for different values of the first parameter to derive a first optimum value based on the measured first duty ratios and transmit the derived first optimum value to the storage device as the value of the first parameter to be stored in the first register.
US11520711B2
Memory devices, systems including memory devices, and methods of operating memory devices are described, in which security measures may be implemented to control access to a fuse array (or other secure features) of the memory devices based on a secure access key. In some cases, a customer may define and store a user-defined access key in the fuse array. In other cases, a manufacturer of the memory device may define a manufacturer-defined access key (e.g., an access key based on fuse identification (FID), a secret access key), where a host device coupled with the memory device may obtain the manufacturer-defined access key according to certain protocols. The memory device may compare an access key included in a command directed to the memory device with either the user-defined access key or the manufacturer-defined access key to determine whether to permit or prohibit execution of the command based on the comparison.
US11520710B2
Systems and methods authenticate storage devices. In one implementation, a computer-implemented method is provided for authenticating a storage device. According to the method, a manifest that identifies a destination is receive. A transfer station reads a digital signature from the storage device. The digital signature is validated and, based on the validation of the digital signature, a transfer of one or more files from the storage device via the transfer station is authorized to the destination identified in the manifest.
US11520702B2
The present invention discloses a method and a system for managing cache memory. The system comprising a processor is configured to receive datasets from one or more applications, segregate the received datasets into one or more data blocks, identify a checkpoint from previously created checkpoints stored in a virtual cache corresponding to the one or more data blocks, wherein the checkpoints are previously created based on frequency of repetition of each of the one or more data blocks and association between the each of the one or more data blocks, recall a sequence of previously stored data blocks from main memory based on the identified checkpoint, and send the sequence of previously stored data blocks to the one or more applications for execution, thereby managing cache memory.
US11520697B2
A method for managing a memory apparatus comprising a plurality of NV memory elements is disclosed. The method includes providing a physical block of each NV memory element with a local page address linking table by obtaining a first host address and first data from a first host command, and obtaining a second host address and second data from a second host command; linking the first host address to a first page of the physical block; and linking the second host address to a second page of the physical block. A global page address linking table is built by reading the local page address linking tables and stored in a volatile memory. For the local page address linking table, a difference value of the first host address and the second host address is greater than a number of pages of the physical block.
US11520693B2
A method and apparatus for upgrading libraries in a source code program by evaluating libraries in the source code program for predetermined selection criteria specifying library performance limitations to identify at least a first library which does not meet the plurality of predetermined selection criteria and then identifying a first alternative library that is suitable for substitution for the first library so that the source code program may be automatically modified to replace the first library with the first alternative library, thereby generating a modified source code program having an upgraded library functionality.
US11520690B2
A product, system and method for automatic testing of walkthroughs. A test of a walkthrough of an application is executed, at least in part. The test includes a sequence of automated user actions, that is configured to invoke a sequence of steps of the walkthrough. A trace display of the test execution is generated. The trace display includes a visual display of events including both steps of the walkthrough and automated user actions of the test, so as to provide an interleaved display between a visual representation of the walkthrough and a visual representation of the test.
US11520689B2
One embodiment provides a system for automatic program repair (APR). The system identifies a first set of components under repair in a software system and determines, while executing an original test, second and third sets of components that are executed before and after, respectively, the first set of components. The system generates a first block of mock code that runs faster and simulates runtime behaviors of the second set of components, identifies a code region within the third set of components that affects a test result of the software system, and generates a second block of mock code that runs faster and affects the test result similarly. The system generates a fast-result test by replacing the second set of components with the first block of mock code and replacing the third set of components with the second block of mock code and performs APR by executing the fast-result test.
US11520686B2
System and method are provided for facilitating performance testing. The method includes mapping application code for an application under test to at least one performance test script to generate a functionality mapping, the test script for executing functions in the application under test, receiving build release notes, determining at least one source code change from the build release notes, and receiving volume data from a production environment for the application under test. The method also includes using the build release notes and the functionality mapping to identify the source code changes for at least one functionality to be tested and for each functionality to be tested, analyzing corresponding volume data for a period of time, and using the volume data from the production environment to generate or update a workload model for the at least one functionality to provide a framework for subsequent performance testing of the application under test.
US11520680B2
Methods, apparatus, and processor-readable storage media for predicting statistics gathering times for database activity data using machine learning techniques are provided herein. An example computer-implemented method includes obtaining activity data pertaining to at least one storage object of a given database; determining one or more times to gather statistics related to activity data pertaining to the at least one storage object of the given database by processing at least a portion of the obtained activity data using one or more machine learning techniques; and performing at least one automated action related to statistics gathering based at least in part on the one or more determined times.
US11520671B2
A host device is configured to obtain a default timeout value of the host device for the submission of an input-output (IO) operation to a storage system and to determine a first timeout value that is less than the default timeout value. The host device is further configured to submit the IO operation to the storage system along a first path using the first timeout value and to determine that the submission of the IO operation along the first path has timed out. The host device is further configured to determine a second timeout value that is greater than the first timeout value and to submit the IO operation to the storage system along a second path using the second timeout value.
US11520668B2
Vendor-neutral models of vendors' application resources are described. A host outputs capabilities of data protection operations which are specified by a vendor of an application that is installed on the host. The host inputs a vendor-neutral version of a data protection operation, based on any of the capabilities, for a resource of the application. The host uses a vendor-neutral model of the resource of the application to perform the vendor-neutral version of the data protection operation on the application resource.
US11520666B2
Methods and apparatus for protecting data. Backup copies of data are created in real time and restoration of this backup data is enabled. For example, backup repositories of files stored in a primary storage device of a computer system may be created by examining information concerning the files to determine critical fields therein, and storage of the critical fields to a critical storage device and of non-critical fields and tags that are substituted for the critical fields to a context storage device effected. Following compromise of the files stored in the primary storage device, accesses by applications may be directed to the context storage device, e.g., as a means of rapid failover, and/or for each file stored in the context storage device, record-by-record copying of such files to the primary storage device may be effected to restore the contents of the primary storage device.
US11520665B2
An intelligent method of handling incremental backups concurrent with load balancing movement. The file system uses placement tags, incremental backup requests and capacity balancing data movement to make intelligent decision to avoid affecting any backup windows for clients or backup apps. The file system tracks capacity balancing file movements inside the cluster. When switching locations of files in a cluster from one node to another, it is performed as an atomic change of switching inode attributes by the file system after the contents of the file have been copied over to the new node. During the file movement for capacity balancing, the file system handles requests for full backups differently than requests for incremental backups. The file system continues to handle virtual systhesis and fastcopy requests on the node that hosts the previous backup to ensure that the incremental backup succeeds with the expected smaller backup window from the client.
US11520659B2
A computer-implemented method includes refreshing a set of memory channels in a memory system substantially simultaneously, each memory channel refreshing a rank that is distinct from each of the other ranks being refreshed. Further, the method includes marking a memory channel from the set of memory channels as being unavailable for the rank being refreshed in the memory channel. In one or more examples, the method further includes blocking a fetch command to the memory channel for the rank being refreshed in the memory channel.
US11520655B1
A self-correcting secure computer system is provided. The computer system includes a read-only memory (ROM) device, a random access memory (RAM) device, and at least one processor in communication with the ROM device and the RAM device. The at least one processor is programmed to receive an activation signal; retrieve, from the ROM device, data to execute a first configuration including an encryption suite; execute, on the RAM device, the first configuration including the encryption suite; execute the encryption suite to generate a key; store the key at a first memory location; and delete volatile memory associated with the encryption suite.
US11520649B2
A processor may provide a machine learning model. The machine learning model may have an input and an output. The processor may receive input data. The input data may include log data of a queried storage medium and a queried media drive. The processor may provide the input data to the input of the machine learning model. The processor may determine, from the output of the machine learning model, a predicted failure cause category and a predicted failure probability assigned to the predicted failure cause category. The processor may provide a first prediction to a user.
US11520646B2
Various systems and methods for implementing a soft reset state. A server device includes processing circuitry; and at least one storage device including instructions embodied thereon, wherein the instructions, which when executed by the processing circuitry, configure the processing circuitry to perform operations of a soft reset operation, the operations to: define a soft reset state; cause a check of a secure virtual resource (SVR) of the server device, while in the soft reset state; and transition from the soft reset state in response to an event.
US11520644B2
An integrated circuit device has a processor, a software-trace message handling system, a software-trace message sink peripheral, and a hardware interconnect system. The interconnect system is capable of directing software-trace messages from the processor to the software-trace message handling system, and of directing software-trace messages from the processor to the software-trace message sink peripheral. The software-trace message sink peripheral can present an interconnect delay to the processor, when receiving a software-trace message from the processor, that is equal to or substantially equal to an interconnect delay that the software-trace message handling system would have presented to the processor if the software-trace message handling system were to have received the software-trace message.
US11520637B2
[Problem] Available resources are efficiently used even in a case in which continuous available resources cannot be secured on a cloud. [Solution] A resource reservation management apparatus 10 includes: a storage unit that stores a resource capacity and resource reservation information of a computing machine; a reservation notification unit 11 that receives, from a user terminal, reservation request information including an operating requested time period, an operating time, and a requested specification as a reservation of a master lease; a scheduling unit 12 that creates slave leases by splitting the operating time of the master lease in accordance with times corresponding to available resources indicated in the resource reservation information and sets the slave leases in the resource reservation information; a reservation management unit that detects occurrence of predetermined events including stop, shift, restart, and deletion of the created instances by referring to the resource reservation information; and an instance management unit 15 that transmits instruction information in accordance with an instance creation instruction and the detected predetermined events to the computing machine 15.
US11520634B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to requirement-based resource sharing in a computing environment. In an embodiment, a computer-implemented method is disclosed. According to the method, it is determined whether a plurality of services to be provisioned in a computing environment match with each other in resource consumption based on respective resource requirements of the plurality of services. In response to determining that the plurality of services match with each other, a resource pool is allocated in the computing environment to be shared by the plurality of services. The resource pool has a resource quota determined based on at least one of the resource requirements. The plurality of services is caused to be provisioned in the computing environment using the resource pool. In other embodiments, a computer system and a computer program product are disclosed.
US11520632B1
A method of specifying behavior among a group of computing tasks included in a request to be performed in a domain of computing resources is disclosed. Method steps include receiving, at a scheduler operably coupled to the domain, a p/f request, the received p/f request including a first group and a first relationship, the first group comprising at least a first p/f group element and a second p/f group element, the first relationship defining a desired behavior of the first and second p/f group elements with respect to each other during performance of the p/f request; determining whether the domain includes available computing resources capable of satisfying the first relationship; and in response to a determination that the domain includes available computing resources capable of satisfying the first relationship, allocating, with the scheduler, at least one available computing resource to fulfill the p/f request.
US11520629B2
The subject technology provides for dynamic task allocation for neural network models. The subject technology determines an operation performed at a node of a neural network model. The subject technology assigns an annotation to indicate whether the operation is better performed on a CPU or a GPU based at least in part on hardware capabilities of a target platform. The subject technology determines whether the neural network model includes a second layer. The subject technology, in response to determining that the neural network model includes a second layer, for each node of the second layer of the neural network model, determines a second operation performed at the node. Further the subject technology assigns a second annotation to indicate whether the second operation is better performed on the CPU or the GPU based at least in part on the hardware capabilities of the target platform.
US11520627B2
A computer implemented method of scheduling a plurality of virtual machines for execution by a physical computing infrastructure is described. The plurality of virtual machines are deployable to a subset of the physical computing infrastructure to execute a computing task. The method includes determining a subset of the infrastructure and a time period for deployment of each virtual machine, so that the virtual machines are scheduled to execute to completion over an aggregate of all time periods. The determination is based on a mathematical optimization of a risk function for each of the plurality virtual machines that corresponds to a relative risk that at least one virtual machine will fail to fully execute its task to completion.
US11520622B2
Systems and methods for processing computing jobs of a managed network are disclosed. Each of one or more worker nodes may implement a scheduler thread and a pool of worker threads. Upon waking up from a sleep state, the scheduler thread may determine a current number of jobs in an in-memory job queue that are waiting for processing by a worker thread, and may compute a job-completion rate of jobs processed by threads of the pool. Based on the job-completion rate, the scheduler thread may perform one or more of retrieving more jobs from a centralized database job queue and adding them to the in-memory job queue; removing one or more jobs from the in-memory job queue and returning them to the database job queue; leaving the in-memory job queue unchanged; or adjusting the duration of the sleep-interval timer. The scheduler thread may then return to a sleep state.
US11520616B2
Virtual servers are monitored in real-time. A group of virtual servers from virtual server events occurring within a time window is identified by a computer system in real-time. A metric is determined for the group of virtual servers by the computer system in real-time using the virtual server events occurring within the time window for the group of virtual servers. A set of actions is performed by the computer system using the metric.
US11520610B2
Embodiments described herein are generally directed towards systems and methods relating to a crowd-sourced digital assistant and system. In particular, embodiments facilitate the intuitive creation and distribution of action datasets that include computing events or tasks that can be reproduced when an associated command, stored in an action dataset, is determined received by a digital assistant device. The digital assistant device described herein can generate new action datasets, on-board new action datasets, and receive new action datasets or updates to existing action datasets. Each digital assistant device in the described system can participate in the building of action datasets, so as to crowd-source a dialect that can be understood by a digital assistant device.
US11520609B2
A technique to manage software licensing in an environment that provides virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI). A license manager is configured to receive first information identifying software applications associated with a virtual machine template used in the infrastructure, as well as second information that a user has logged into the VDI from a client device, thereby creating a VDI session. For a particular time period of interest, the license manager calculates software application usage information from the first and second information. Preferably, the software application usage information represents an application count that is based on the user and the client device “pair” when the user has the VDI session during at least some portion of the time period. The software application usage information is provided to one or more other computing systems to take a given action, such as tracking, managing, auditing, enforcing and accounting for software usage in the VDI environment.
US11520600B2
The disclosure relates to a controller area network, CAN, transceiver and a CAN controller. The CAN transceiver is configured to: compare a signal from the CAN bus with a negative threshold level; and provide a wake-up indication to the CAN controller based on the signal matching a predetermined pattern of one or more periods in which the signal is less than the negative threshold level. The CAN controller is configured to provide instructions to transmit a wake-up indication on the CAN bus.
US11520599B2
A method for controlling at least one setting of a basic input output system (BIOS) of at least one automated transaction machine (ATM) can include provisioning features of an active management technology system of a first computing device associated with an ATM. The method can also include establishing an initial trust between the first computing device and a second computing device that is remote from the first computing device, over a serial-over-lan (SOL) connection that is a feature of the active management technology system. The method can also include configuring the setting of the BIOS of the first computing device and storing a schedule for changing the setting of the BIOS. The method can also include reconfiguring the setting of the BIOS in response to the schedule stored on the database over the SOL.
US11520596B2
A storage device for booting a host computing device includes a first storage memory region having a first storage memory controller, a second storage memory region having a second storage memory controller, and a resilient boot controller. The resilient boot controller is configured to store boot code in the first storage memory region, prevent write access by the host computing device through the first storage memory controller to the first storage memory region, detect a reset of the host computing device through the input/output interface, copy at least a portion of the boot code from the first storage memory region to the second storage memory region, responsive to detection of the reset of the host computing device, and enable read access of the copied boot code by the host computing device through the second storage memory controller of the second storage memory region, responsive to the copy operation.
US11520580B2
A processor includes a plurality of execution units. At least one of the execution units is configured to repeatedly execute a first instruction based on a first field of the first instruction indicating that the first instruction is to be iteratively executed.
US11520579B1
Some embodiments provide a method for identifying runtime complexity of a policy. The method receives, through a user interface (UI), a set of code defining a particular policy. For each variable in the particular policy, the method identifies a first occurrence of the variable in the particular policy to determine a number of values assigned to the variable. Variables determined to be assigned one value are separated from variables determined to be assigned more than one value. Based on the determinations for each variable, the method calculates a set of metrics that include at least time complexity, size complexity, and count complexity for the particular policy. The method then displays, through the UI, the calculated set of metrics along with a set of one or more suggestions for optimizing the particular policy based on the calculated set of metrics.
US11520566B2
Systems, computer program products, and methods for generating and maintaining source capability objects for application components. The systems, computer program products, and methods are configured to receive a request to initiate a development process for an application, where the request identifies one or more components of the application, and cause a user device to prompt a user to select, for each component of the application, one or more source capabilities from a plurality of source capabilities. The systems, computer program products, and methods are further configured to receive, from the user device and for each component of the application, the one or more source capabilities and to generate, for each component of the application, a source capability object including information identifying the one or more source capabilities for the component.
US11520557B2
An assortment of Cognitive Load Reduction (CLR) systems is disclosed. The systems are worn by a user, rather than appearing on displays in front of the user. This arrangement allows the systems to be movable and less confining. This in turn results in the wearer employing the CLR systems in a wider variety of environments than earlier mechanisms.
US11520550B1
Device localization (e.g., ultra-wideband device localization) may be used to provide coordinated outputs and/or receive coordinated inputs using multiple devices. Providing coordinated outputs may include providing partial outputs using multiple devices, modifying an output of a device based on its position and/or orientation relative to another device, and the like. In some cases, each device of a set of multiple devices may provide a partial output, which combines with partial outputs of the remaining devices to produce a coordinated output.
US11520547B2
An image forming apparatus includes a storage unit configured to store setting values of a plurality of setting items and identification information in association with each other, a receiving unit configured to receive an acquisition request for the identification information stored in the storage unit, from a predetermined print service, and a transmission unit configured to transmit, based on the received acquisition request, the stored identification information, and information for setting a first setting item unsettable in a predetermined print service associated with the identification information, in the predetermined print service, to the predetermined print service, and not to transmit information for setting a second setting item unsettable in the predetermined print service associated with the identification information, in the predetermined print service, to the predetermined print service.
US11520545B2
A printing system includes an information processing device and a printing apparatus that is communicably connected to the information processing device, and prohibits a setting operation on the printing apparatus when the setting of the printing apparatus is performed from the information processing device.
US11520540B2
In a server device, a memory is configured to store a folder corresponding to each of a plurality of users. User permissions are set for the folder to indicate whether access to the folder is allowed. A client device is configured to perform transmitting print data to the server device. The print data is associated with identification information for identifying a user. A set of program instructions causes the server device to perform: in response to receiving the print data from the client device, storing the print data in the folder corresponding to the user identified by the identification information associated with the print data. A printer is configured to perform: receiving an input of the identification information; identifying the folder corresponding to the user identified by the identification information; acquiring the print data stored in the folder; and printing an image based on the print data.
US11520536B2
An information processing apparatus communicating with a server system capable of converting received print data into print data conforming to a print apparatus used for printing the received print data and transmits the converted print data to the printing apparatus, the information processing apparatus includes a generation unit configured to generate print data conforming to the print apparatus used for printing, a transmission unit configured to transmit the print data generated by the generation unit to the server system, and an instruction unit configured to instruct the server system to transmit the received print data to the print apparatus without converting the received print data.
US11520533B2
A printer driver communicates with a printer using a predetermined print protocol to obtain first attribute information related to printing from the printer. The print driver generates a print job conforming to the predetermined print protocol based on data received from an application and transmits the generated print job to the extension application (S606). The extension application obtains attribute information in a different form from the first attribute information (S611). The extension application displays a user interface (UI) for print settings based on at least the second attribute information (S613). The extension application generates a print job to be transmitted to the printer based on settings made via the UI and the print job received from the printer driver.
US11520527B1
An apparatus comprises a processing device. The processing device is configured to persistently store metadata pages on a plurality of storage devices. The metadata pages are organized into buckets. The processing device is configured to access a given metadata page based at least in part on a bucket identifier where the given metadata page corresponds to a given logical volume. The bucket identifier comprises a first portion comprising an indication of a given bucket range that corresponds to the given logical volume and a second portion comprising an indication of an offset into the given bucket range that corresponds to a grouping of buckets that correspond to the given logical volume. The grouping of buckets corresponds to the given logical volume. The bucket identifier further comprises a third portion comprising an indication of an offset into the grouping of buckets that corresponds to the bucket comprising the given metadata page.
US11520525B2
Methods, systems, and devices for integrating a pivot table in a logical-to-physical mapping of a memory system are described. The memory system may receive a read command and read a first entry of a first subset of mapping and a second entry of a second subset of mapping. The second entry may include at least a portion of a pivot table associated with physical addresses of a non-volatile memory device. The memory system may retrieve data from a physical address identified in the pivot table, rather than access a different portion of the logical-to-physical mapping. The memory system may transmit, to a host system, the data retrieved from the physical address identified in the pivot table.
US11520519B2
Provided herein may be a storage device and a method of operating the same. A memory controller may include a command processor configured to generate a flush command in response to a flush request and determine flush data chunks to be stored, a write operation controller configured to control memory devices to perform a first program operation of storing flush data chunks, and to perform a second program operation of storing data corresponding to a write request that is input later than the flush request, regardless of whether a response to the flush command has been provided to a host, and a flush response controller configured to, when the first program operation is completed, provide a response to the flush command to the host depending on whether responses to flush commands, input earlier than the flush command, have been provided to the host.
US11520517B2
Data traffic comprising data packets communicated between a memory sub-system and a host system is monitored by a processing device at the memory sub-system. Data packets are classified according to packet type. Log data comprising a frequency and latency information associated with each packet type is generated. The log data is stored in a memory component of the memory sub-system.
US11520503B2
A method is used for efficient storage allocation in a storage system. An infrastructure manager receives a request for storage from a first storage operating entity. The infrastructure manager identifies, from entries in a pagebin, a pagelist with sufficient available storage to satisfy the request. The infrastructure manager locks the pagebin while assigning the identified pagelist to the first storage operating entity. Upon a commitment of the identified pagelist by the first storage operating entity, the infrastructure manager unlocks the pagebin and identifies, from the entries in the pagebin, a second pagelist with sufficient available storage to satisfy a request from a second storage operating entity.
US11520500B2
A system and method for managing a reduction in capacity of a memory sub-system. An example method involving a memory sub-system: detecting a failure of a memory device of the set, wherein the memory device stores multiple bits per memory cell; sending a message to a host system indicating a reduced capacity of the set of memory devices; receiving from the host system a message to continue at the reduced capacity; and updating the set of memory devices based on the reduced capacity, wherein the updating comprises reducing a quantity of bits stored per memory cell of the memory device.
US11520498B2
Logical memory is divided into two regions. Data in the first region is always retained. The first region of memory is designated online (or powered on) and is not offlined during standby or low power mode. The second region is the rest of the memory which can be potentially placed in non-self-refresh mode during standby by offlining the memory region. Content in the second region can be moved to the first region or can be flushed to another memory managed by the operating system. When the first region does not have enough space to accommodate data from the second region, the operating system can increase the logical size of the first region. Retaining the content of the first region by putting that region in self-refresh and saving power in the second region by not putting it in self-refresh is performed by an improved Partial Array Self Refresh scheme.
US11520496B2
According to one embodiment, an electronic device connectable to a host via an interface includes a nonvolatile memory and a controller electrically connected to the nonvolatile memory and capable of processing commands issued by the host in parallel. When the electronic device is connected to the host, the controller determines, when one or more commands to be processed by one or more deadline times, respectively, are issued by the host, scheduling indicative of timings at which the one or more commands are processed, respectively, based on the one or more deadline times. The controller performs processing corresponding to the one or more commands in accordance with the scheduling.
US11520489B2
The present technology includes memory device and a method of operating the same. The memory device includes a memory block including a plurality of pages, a voltage generator configured to generate a program voltage or a verify voltage applied to a selected page among the plurality of pages, a page buffer connected to the selected page through bit lines and configured to perform a precharge operation, an evaluation operation, and a sensing operation on the bit lines during a verify operation, and a control circuit configured to store page addresses of slow pages of which a program operation speed for each is slower than an average program speed of the plurality of pages, and adjust an evaluation time of the evaluation operation according to the page addresses.
US11520474B2
This disclosure concerns the providing of media, and more particularly to the streaming of media. In accordance with an example embodiment: a portion of a day is determined; a first data message is sent to a computer server system. The first data message comprises instructions to the computer server system to return media content associated with the determined portion of the day. A second data message is received from the computer server system, the second data message comprising media content associated with the determined portion of the day. In response thereto is playback performed of the media content at the user interface of the electronic device in dependence of the determined portion of the day. While performing playback is a visual appearance parameter of the user interface adjusted according the determined portion of the day.
US11520470B2
One embodiment provides a method for graphically displaying and interacting with digital standards, the method including: displaying, on an interactive display, a digital standard interface display for displaying and interacting with information corresponding to at least one digital standard, wherein the digital standard interface display comprises a plurality of icons that are selectable by a user; wherein at least one of the plurality of icons comprises a standards category icon for displaying information related to digital standards within a category corresponding to the standards category icon; displaying a digital standard selection field in response to a user selection of one of the standards category icons; and displaying, responsive to a user providing input to the digital standard selection field, information related to a digital standard identified from the provided input and of the category type corresponding to the selected standards category icon. Other aspects are described and claimed.
US11520456B2
In some embodiments, an electronic device emphasizes and/or deemphasizes user interfaces based on the gaze of a user. In some embodiments, an electronic device defines levels of immersion for different user interfaces independently of one another. In some embodiments, an electronic device resumes display of a user interface at a previously-displayed level of immersion after (e.g., temporarily) reducing the level of immersion associated with the user interface. In some embodiments, an electronic device allows objects, people, and/or portions of an environment to be visible through a user interface displayed by the electronic device. In some embodiments, an electronic device reduces the level of immersion associated with a user interface based on characteristics of the electronic device and/or physical environment of the electronic device.
US11520453B2
A plurality of objects are arranged over a screen and are operable by a plurality of operators. Determinations are made regarding whether a first object, and a second object operated after the first object, are continuously operated or whether a relationship between the first object and the second object is within a predetermined range. An operation setting of the first object is set as an operation setting of the second object in a case where the operations are performed continuously or in a case where the relationship is within the predetermined range.
US11520449B2
An electronic apparatus includes an electronic panel including a plurality of sensing groups spaced apart from each other, and an electronic module overlapping with the electronic panel in a plan view. Each of the sensing groups includes a first sensing electrode extending in a second direction, and second sensing electrodes spaced apart from each other in the second direction, located on the same layer as the first sensing electrode, and face the first sensing electrode in a first direction. An opening overlapping with the electronic module and penetrating a first sensing group of the sensing groups is defined in the electronic panel, and at least one selected from the first sensing electrode and the second sensing electrodes of the first sensing group extends along an edge of the opening.
US11520445B1
A modular user interface unit for an appliance is provided. The modular user interface unit includes an upper film layer comprising a conductive polymer and a plurality of electrodes. The modular user interface unit also includes a circuit board with a microcontroller thereon. The circuit board is electrically coupled to the upper film layer by a conductive polymer connector. The microcontroller is configured to receive raw capacitance data from the plurality of electrodes and to detect a touch based on the raw capacitance data.
US11520444B2
A display device includes a display panel and an input sensor on the display panel, the input sensor including sensing electrodes, signal lines connected to the sensing electrodes, an insulating layer on the signal lines, and inspection lines on the insulating layer and electrically connected to each other, each of the inspection lines respectively overlapping a corresponding one of the signal lines.
US11520429B2
A three-dimensional sensing module includes a touch pressure sensing structure. The touch pressure sensing structure includes a first functional spacer layer, a first light-transmitting electrode layer coated on the first functional spacer layer, a second functional spacer layer coated on the first light-transmitting electrode layer, a second light-transmitting electrode layer coated on the second functional spacer layer, and a third functional spacer layer coated on the second light-transmitting electrode layer. Resistivities of the first, second, and third functional spacer layers are greater than resistivities of the first and second light-transmitting electrode layers.
US11520417B2
A mouse having a replaceable palm rest and a replaceable finger rest is provided. The mouse includes a mouse body, the replaceable finger rest, and the replaceable palm rest. The mouse body has two side portions opposite to each other and a rear side portion located between the two side portions. The replaceable finger rest is replaceably coupled to the side portions of the mouse body by magnetic attraction. The replaceable palm rest is replaceably coupled to the rear side portion of the mouse body by magnetic attraction. The replaceable palm rest presses downwardly against the replaceable finger rest when the replaceable palm rest is downwardly coupled to the rear side portion of the mouse body.
US11520414B2
A display system includes an HMD mounted on a head of a user, and a smartphone to which the HMD is coupled, and the smartphone includes a touch sensor that accepts a position input operation and detects coordinates of an operating position with reference to set coordinate axes, a magnetic sensor that detects an orientation of the touch sensor, and an adjustment unit that adjusts an orientation of the coordinate axes, based on a detection result of the magnetic sensor.
US11520411B1
Dual, ergonomically ideal, neutral-posture, wireless-and-programmable, joinable keys-input devices/housings (FIGS. 1A and 1B): with hinged ratcheted bases to allow additional operator-preferred keys-input planes of key-address; with hypothenar- and palm-rests; with customizable domed keys set in a customizable four-stair-stepped-key-ledges-configuration to match the natural curl and reach of operators' relaxed fingers; with the same domed keys arrayed to provide closer reach for the fingers with less extension of said fingers; with elevated and dedicated little-finger keys for ease of access; with two-way scalloped thumb-levers operable by simply dropping the relaxed thumbs; with joiner-rings for uniting the devices/housings; with built-in bolts-accesses for attachment to chair- or desk-arms; with embedded lenses for wireless transmission, projection, or remote control, or other; with integrated microphone for voice commands or recording; with a plurality of keys for possible alphanumeric input; with additional utility keys. Other embodiments obtain.
US11520408B2
The present disclosure relates to a vehicle display apparatus including: a display case; an arm plate elastically coupled to the display case; and a solenoid module, wherein the solenoid module includes: a moving core formed in a rod shape, and having both ends fixed to the arm plate; and a base core being elastically coupled to the display case, and having a coil formed therein which is wound in one direction to surround at least a portion of the moving core.
US11520405B1
The present invention relates to a Steady-State Visual Evoked Potential (SSVEP)-based stimulus detection device and a method thereof. The SSVEP-based stimulus detection device may include a sensor that acquires a multichannel ElectroEncephaloGram (EEG) signal, a storage that stores a plurality of reference signals having different stimulation frequencies, and a controller that periodically determines correlation coefficients between the plurality of reference signals and the multichannel EEG signal for a reference time, normalizes the determined plurality of correlation coefficients for stimuli, determines slopes of regression lines for stimuli by performing analysis of covariance on the normalized plurality of correlation coefficients for stimuli, and detects a stimulus intended by a user according to the determined slopes of the regression lines for stimuli.
US11520402B2
A control apparatus controls the controller device that is mounted on a hand of a user and includes a plurality of sensors exceeding the number of fingers of the user to be detected so as to detect bending and stretching of the fingers to be detected. The control apparatus identifies a width of the hand of the user, determines, on the basis of information regarding the identified width of the hand, to which sensor among the plurality of sensors each of the fingers to be detected is assigned, and uses an output of the sensor assigned to each of the fingers to be detected to identify and output a state of bending and stretching of the corresponding finger.
US11520398B2
A processor system and method is described. The processor system includes a central processing unit (CPU) comprising a register for storing a stack pointer value, a non-volatile memory coupled to the CPU and having a first non-volatile memory region configured to store instructions executable by the CPU and a second non-volatile memory region configured to store a RAM-image comprising program context data. The processor system includes a random-access memory (RAM) coupled to the CPU and having a first RAM region and a second RAM region. The processor system is configured to have a first operating mode where the RAM data values are not retained and a second operating mode where the RAM is powered on. In operation, the processor system changes from the first operating mode to the second operating mode by applying power to the RAM, setting the stack pointer value to an address in the second RAM region, copying the program context data from the second non-volatile memory region to the first RAM region, and setting the stack pointer value to an address within a segment of the first RAM region.
US11520397B2
Methods, systems, apparatuses, and computer-readable storage mediums are described for altering a power consumption of a battery-powered device. In an example system, a power monitor is configured to measure, for each of a plurality of components in the battery-powered device, a power consumption of the component during execution of an AI model that is stored on the device. A consumption analyzer is configured to predict whether a battery criterion would be satisfied during operation of the battery-powered device based on the measured power consumption of the components. In examples, operation of the device may include operation of the device in which the AI model is executed. A model retraining engine retrains the AI model if the battery criterion is not predicted to be satisfied during operation of the device, and a retrained AI model may be provided for execution on the battery-powered device.
US11520392B1
Systems and methods for operating a power source as a heating device in an Information Handling System (IHS) are described. In some embodiments, an IHS may include a processor and a memory coupled to the processor, the memory having program instructions stored thereon that, upon execution, cause the IHS to: receive an indication to increase a temperature of the IHS and, in response to the indication, concurrently set a first power supply in source mode and a second power supply in sink mode.
US11520380B2
Disclosed in various embodiments are an electronic device, the electronic device comprising: a power control circuit for controlling power supplied to at least one component of the electronic device; at least one submergence recognition circuit including a first pole connected to at least one port of the power control circuit, and a second pole connected to a ground; a processor electrically connected to the power control circuit; and a memory electrically connected to the processor, wherein the memory can be configured, during execution thereof, to store instructions for allowing the processor to: control the power control circuit such that power is supplied to the submergence recognition circuit; sense a current flowing from the submergence recognition circuit to the power control circuit; and determine, on the basis of the sensing result of the current, whether an area in which the submergence recognition circuit is arranged has been submerged.
US11520377B2
Reconfigurable touch screen computing devices with folding configurations that include flexible displays which are made up of segments that can be reconfigured from a compact state to an expanded state. The form factor of the compact state is roughly the size of a typical handheld phone, with an integrated speaker and microphone. The form factor of the expanded state is roughly the size of a tablet. Both states may provide a configuration which includes a touch screen display on a front side and a protective housing on a back side. The computing devices may further include sensors to indicate the state of configuration and mechanisms for alignment, locking, and structural support. In one embodiment, a module attached to, situated within, or otherwise associated with at least one segment may contain all or substantially all processing and memory, along with a communications system, all of which may be used in either state.
US11520376B2
Wearable electronic device and display method of wearable electronic device according to sensor data
A wearable electronic device includes a sensor module, a processor, a display controller, and a display, where the sensor is configured to: collect data, generate a sensor signal that represents a feature of data of currently collected data, and send the sensor signal to the processor, the processor is configured to: determine, according to the received sensor signal, a manner to display that is corresponding to the feature of data represented by the sensor signal and is of the display, generate a display control signal, and send the display control signal to the display controller, and the display controller is configured to control, according to the display control signal, the display to display.
US11520375B2
Provided are foldable electronic device and method for estimating bio-information by using the same. The foldable electronic device may include: a main body part including a first main body and a second main body that are configured to be folded toward each other or unfolded from each other along a fold line where the first main body and the second main body meet; an image sensor part including a first image sensor and a second image sensor which are disposed at the first main body; and a processor configured to obtain a contact image of an object from the first image sensor disposed at the first main body and obtain an image of a marker that is displayed on the second main body, from the second image sensor disposed at the first main body, when the object is in contact with the first image sensor and the main body part is folded along the fold line, and estimate bio-information based on the contact image of the object and the image of the marker.
US11520371B2
A system for clock management in an m columns×n rows array-based accelerators. Each row of the array may include a clock domain that clocks runtime clock cycles for the m processing elements. The clock domain includes a data detection and timing control circuit which is coupled to a common clock phase bus which provides a local clock source in multiple selectable phases, wherein the data detection and timing control circuit is configured to select a clock phase to clock a next clock cycle for a next concurrent data processing by the m processing elements. Each of m processing elements is coupled to access data from a first memory and a second memory and to generate respective outputs from each of the m processing elements to a corresponding m processing element of a same column in a subsequent neighboring row for the next processing in the next clock cycle.
US11520369B2
Techniques described herein address these and other issues by utilizing two or more sensors to take temperature measurements from which a temperature-differential or instantaneous temperature rate-of-change, can be determined. In turn, this can be used to make a highly accurate model of the relationship between the temperature, temperature-differential, and clock circuitry frequency, to accurately estimate the frequency rate-of-change for frequency correction/compensation.
US11520361B2
In some examples, a system includes a bus and a first power converter connected to the bus. The system also includes a second power converter connected to the bus, the second power converter having a topology different from the topology of the first power converter. The system further includes a power source and an energy storage device connected to the bus via the first and second power converters, respectively. In addition, the system includes a source controller configured to control the first power converter and a storage controller configured to control the second power converter. The system also includes a system controller configured to determine a first set point for the first power converter, transmit an indication of the first set point to the source controller, determine a second set point for the second power converter, and transmit an indication of the second set point to the storage controller.
US11520357B2
Methods and associated systems for autonomous package delivery utilize a UAS/UAV, an infrared positioning senor, and a docking station integrated with a package delivery vehicle. The UAS/UAV accepts a package for delivery from the docking station on the delivery vehicle and uploads the delivery destination. The UAS/UAV autonomously launches from its docked position on the delivery vehicle. The UAS/UAV autonomously flies to the delivery destination by means of GPS navigation. The UAS/UAV is guided in final delivery by means of a human supervised live video feed from the UAS/UAV. The UAS/UAV is assisted in the descent and delivery of the parcel by precision sensors and if necessary by means of remote human control. The UAS/UAV autonomously returns to the delivery vehicle by means of GPS navigation and precision sensors. The UAS/UAV autonomously docks with the delivery vehicle for recharging and preparation for the next delivery sequence.
US11520348B2
Disclosed herein are a method for driving a robot based on an external image, and a robot and a server implementing the same. In the method, and the robot and server implementing the same, drive of a robot is controlled further using external images acquired by camera modules installed outside the robot. To this end, a robot according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a communication unit configured to communicate with external camera modules acquiring external images including the robot that is being driven, a drive-information acquiring unit configured to acquire driving related information at the time of driving the robot, a driving unit configured to drive the robot, and a control unit configured to control the driving unit using external information including the external images received from the external camera modules and the driving related information.
US11520345B2
In various examples, a path perception ensemble is used to produce a more accurate and reliable understanding of a driving surface and/or a path there through. For example, an analysis of a plurality of path perception inputs provides testability and reliability for accurate and redundant lane mapping and/or path planning in real-time or near real-time. By incorporating a plurality of separate path perception computations, a means of metricizing path perception correctness, quality, and reliability is provided by analyzing whether and how much the individual path perception signals agree or disagree. By implementing this approach—where individual path perception inputs fail in almost independent ways—a system failure is less statistically likely. In addition, with diversity and redundancy in path perception, comfortable lane keeping on high curvature roads, under severe road conditions, and/or at complex intersections, as well as autonomous negotiation of turns at intersections, may be enabled.
US11520344B2
Control system and method for managing transport of vehicles in a warehouse. A network of cameras provide coverage over the route way network by capturing images and sending image data to a central control unit which processes the images and generates signals to control the movement of robot slaves. The control system also includes a calibration mechanism to calibrate a map of the network of routes and an obstruction matrix function. The robot slaves include a safety override mechanism to control the robot slaves autonomously and independently in case of detecting an obstacle or an unexpected hazard in a path of its movement along a route of the warehouse network.
US11520342B2
A system of a first vehicle includes sensors and a processor that performs generating of an initial trajectory along a travel route of the first vehicle, acquiring trajectories of second vehicles along the route, adjusting the initial trajectory based on the acquired trajectories of the second vehicles, and navigating the first vehicle based on the adjusted initial trajectory.
US11520331B2
Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed that provide an apparatus to analyze vehicle perspectives, the apparatus comprising a profile generator to generate a first profile of an environment based on a profile template and first data generated by a first vehicle; a data analyzer to: determine a difference between the first profile and a second profile obtained from a first one of one or more nodes in the environment; and in response to a trigger event, update the first profile based on the difference; and a vehicle control system to: in response to the trigger event, update a first perspective of the environment based on one or more of second data from the first one of the one or more nodes or the updated first profile; update a path plan for the first vehicle based on the updated first perspective; and execute the updated path plan.
US11520330B2
The present disclosure provides a sweeping robot obstacle avoidance treatment method based on free move technology, step 1 and step 2 are as following. Step 1: predetermining a sweeping robot provided with a six-axis gyroscope, a grating signal sensor, and a left-and-right-wheel electric quantity sensing unit. Step 2: performing a real-time sensing and data acquisition on an operation state of the sweeping robot by utilizing the six-axis gyroscope, the grating signal sensor, and the left-and-right wheel electric quantity sensing unit to obtain a real-time data information.
US11520327B2
A lease management method of an electric power motion apparatus includes acquiring location information, an advancement direction and a battery state of the electric power motion apparatus; additionally adjusting the advancement direction of the electric power motion apparatus to face towards the lease station such that the electric power motion apparatus faces towards the lease station based on normal adjustment and control if the electric power motion apparatus is located outside a lease range of a lease station; and additionally controlling the electric power motion apparatus to decelerate, and additionally adjusting the advancement direction of the electric power motion apparatus to face towards the lease station such that the electric power motion apparatus advances towards the lease station based on normal adjustment and control if a remaining power amount of the electric power motion apparatus approaches a power amount for returning to the lease station.
US11520320B2
A system optimizes the organization of components for the manufacture of wood products. The system includes memory devices and processing devices operatively coupled to the memory device, wherein the one or more processing devices are configured to execute computer-readable computer program code to receive a plurality of job orders for distinct wood products having varying components; optimize cutting of all components for the plurality of job orders to minimize waste of source materials, thereby resulting in a plurality of components for the plurality of job orders; track each component electronically in order to identify each component at a final cutting machine location; and affix a unique indicator on each component indicating both a receptacle and a receptacle portion corresponding to each component, thereby optimizing organization of all the components by at least one of job, distance from machine to receptacle, and distance from receptacle to assembly location.
US11520312B2
A method of controlling a motor control apparatus includes selecting one of a first option and a first additional option in a first setting item in response to a first user input via a setting sequence prior to a control-mode-finding sub-process of the setting sequence, the first setting item relating to a motor and including the first option and the first additional option, the first option being different from the first additional option. A first control mode is selected in the control-mode-finding sub-process via the setting sequence based on the first option selected in the first setting item prior to the control-mode-finding sub-process. A second control mode is selected in the control-mode-finding sub-process via the setting sequence based on the first additional option selected in the first setting item prior to the control-mode-finding sub-process. The first control mode is different from the first option and the first additional option.
US11520305B2
According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus includes a receiver, a processor and a transmitter. The receiver receives a reception signal including a value indicating a physical quantity related to operation of a control target object at a communication destination. The processor determines a state of wireless communication between the electronic apparatus and the communication destination. The processor calculates a target value for instructing operation of the control target object. The processor generates a transmission signal including a value obtained by modifying the target value. The transmitter transmits the transmission signal to the control target object.
US11520304B2
Techniques are described for facilitating automation of a self-lifting forklift. According to one or more embodiments, a system is provided that can be located on or within a forklift. The system can comprise a lifting system that provides for vertically lifting or lowering the forklift, a power supply, a memory that stores computer readable and executable components, and a processor that executes the computer readable and executable components stored in the memory. The processor can be operably couple to: a plurality of sensors that sense conditions associated with the forklift, a context component that determines context of the forklift, an analysis component that analyzes information from the plurality of sensors and the context component, and a control component that controls the forklift based on an output from the analysis component, wherein the control includes automatically lifting or lowering of the forklift.
US11520296B2
Time-to-digital converter arrangement having a first and a second time-to-digital converters. The first one is configured to determine the existence or nonexistence of an event in a recurring first measurement window. The second one is configured to determine the existence or nonexistence of the event in a recurring second measurement window. A temporal relation of the second measurement window with respect to detecting the event is time-shifted by a first offset compared to a temporal relation of the first measurement window with respect to detecting the event.
US11520286B2
A cartridge for an image forming apparatus includes: a process unit to be used to form an image; a first member including a first resin material; a second member including a second resin material having higher flame retardant capability than the first resin material; and an electrode member including a contact section configured to be supplied with power from an apparatus main body of the image forming apparatus. The electrode member is configured to electrically connect the apparatus main body to the process unit. The second resin material of the second member has a greater density than the first resin material of the first member. The contact section is located in the vicinity of the first and second members and is closer to the second member than to the first member.
US11520270B2
An imaging system with a gloss treatment device includes an endless belt, a heating portion and a pressing portion. The endless belt conveys a medium along a conveyance direction. The heating portion heats the endless belt. The pressing portion presses the endless belt against the heating portion. A nip is formed in a region where the endless belt contacts both of the pressing portion and the heating portion. The nip includes an upstream end and a downstream end in the conveyance direction, and a reference line intersects the upstream end and the downstream end of the nip. The endless belt includes a conveyance portion that is inclined toward the heating portion, in relation to the reference line associated with the nip.
US11520264B2
An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit configured to form an image on a sheet based on image forming condition, a reader configured to convey the sheet and read a test image on the sheet while the sheet is conveyed, and a controller configured to control the image forming unit to form the image and the test image on a same sheet, control the reader to read the test image on the same sheet, and generate the image forming condition for adjusting a density of an image to be formed by the image forming unit, based on a reading result of the test image by the reader.
US11520260B2
This sheet separating device 50 includes: a release member 51 provided facing a rotating member (such as a fixing belt 43) arranged on a sheet transport path, and which extends toward the surface of the rotating member; a support member 54 that supports both ends of the release member 51; and a separating tip portion 71 arranged between the release member 51 and the rotating member. The separating tip portion 71 is provided so as to make contact with the rotating member, and is swingably attached to the support member 54.
US11520259B2
A sheet discharge device includes a discharge unit including a drive roller, to be rotated by a drive source driving force, a driven roller to be driven by the drive roller, and a static elimination unit located downstream from the discharge unit in a sheet discharge direction. The discharge unit discharges a sheet out of a discharge nip portion between the drive roller and the driven roller. The static elimination unit eliminates electric charge from the sheet to be discharged. The static elimination unit includes a static elimination cloth having electroconductive fiber and facing the sheet to be discharged and includes a support member supporting the static elimination cloth. The static elimination cloth is located so that a static elimination plane of the static elimination cloth, constituting a virtual plane facing the sheet, is substantially parallel to a virtual tangent line extending from the discharge nip portion.
US11520257B2
A first protrusion is provided between an operation lever and a lock lever. The operation lever is for moving a pressure roller. The lock lever is provided for a sheet guide member for guiding a sheet that has passed through a fixing unit downstream in the sheet conveyance direction. The lock lever is for locking the sheet guide member at a position where the sheet guide member is engaged with a housing. The first protrusion protrudes from the sheet guide member toward an exterior cover. The first protrusion is provided with a second protrusion on the lock lever side of the first protrusion.
US11520253B2
An imaging system includes: a steering roller located between a first belt roller and a second belt roller, that is inclinable around a fulcrum; and a sensor to detect an amount of displacement of the steering roller due to an inclination of the steering roller. A controller may output a command signal when the amount of displacement of the steering roller exceeds a reference value.
US11520251B2
A developing device includes a developer carrier to carry a developer, and a developer conveyor to supply the developer to the developer carrier. The developer conveyor includes a shaft extending in an axial direction to rotate in a rotational direction, a helical blade having a conveying surface to convey the developer around the shaft along the axial direction, and a protrusion attached to a rear surface of the helical blade, which faces the conveying surface, and having a leading surface extending from an upstream end to a downstream end in the rotational direction of the shaft.
US11520249B2
An electrophotographic member includes an electro-conductive substrate and an elastic layer containing inorganic particles and a binder resin. The electrophotographic member has a protrusion on an outer surface of the electrophotographic member containing the inorganic particles. At least part of the inorganic particles contained in the protrusion are exposed to a surface of the protrusion, and the binder resin is present among the inorganic particles contained in the protrusion. An elastic modulus E1 of the binder resin measured at a first region in a cross-section in a thickness direction of the elastic layer is equal to or above 1000 MPa.
US11520245B2
A substrate processing apparatus and method for effectively removing an organic material such as a photoresist without using sulfuric acid are provided. The substrate processing apparatus includes a support module, in which a substrate is inverted and seated, and an ultraviolet light source is installed, wherein the substrate is arranged so that one surface of the substrate faces the support module, and the ultraviolet light source irradiates ultraviolet rays to one surface of the substrate; a nozzle installed in the support module; and a fluid supply module for supplying a fluid to one surface of the substrate through the nozzle.
US11520242B2
A liquid crystal exposure apparatus that moves a substrate supported in a noncontact manner by a noncontact holder to a projection optical system, and performs scanning exposure to the substrate equipped with: holding pads that hold a part of the substrate located at a first position above the noncontact holder; adsorption pads that hold another part of the substrate; a first drive section moves the holding pads from below the substrate direction intersecting a vertical direction, where the substrate is located at the first position held by the adsorption pads; and a second drive section that moves the adsorption pads holding the substrate, to a second position where the substrate is supported in a noncontact manner by the noncontact holder, wherein the scanning exposure, the second drive section moves the adsorption pads holding the substrate supported in a noncontact manner by the noncontact holder to the projection optical system.
US11520229B2
An imprint apparatus that performs a supply step of supplying an imprint material onto each of shot regions adjacent to each other on a substrate and, after the supply step, execute an imprint process including a contact step, a curing step, and a mold releasing step for each of the shot regions. The apparatus comprises an irradiator that irradiates the imprint material on the shot region with light in the curing step, and a light-shielding member that defines an irradiation region of the light from the irradiator, wherein the light-shielding member defines the irradiation region such that the imprint material in an end portion of a first shot region on a side of a second shot region adjacent to the first shot region is complementarily cured by light irradiation in the curing step performed on the second shot region.
US11520221B2
An illumination system, an illumination control method and a projection apparatus are provided. The illumination system includes a first laser light source providing a first laser beam, and a light splitting module. When the first laser beam is incident to the light splitting module, a first portion of the first laser beam penetrates through the light splitting module, a second portion is reflected by the light splitting module. In the first illumination mode, the first laser beam is incident to the first light splitting region to form a first proportion of the first portion and the second portion. In the second illumination mode, the first laser beam is incident to the first light splitting region to form a second proportion of the first portion and the second portion, wherein the first proportion and the second proportion are different.
US11520204B2
An electrochromic device comprising a counter electrode layer comprised of lithium metal oxide which provides a high transmission in the fully intercalated state and which is capable of long-term stability, is disclosed. Methods of making an electrochromic device comprising such a counter electrode are also disclosed.
US11520189B2
A display device includes a plurality of transparent voltage-dividing common electrodes and a plurality of pixel units. The transparent voltage-dividing common electrodes are electrically isolated from each other in a first direction. Each of the pixel units includes a first pixel electrode, a second pixel electrode, and a voltage-dividing switch. The first pixel electrode is configured to receive a data voltage. The second pixel electrode is configured to receive the data voltage. The voltage-dividing switch is configured to divide the data voltage on the second pixel electrode to one of the transparent voltage-dividing common electrodes.
US11520186B2
A liquid crystal display capable of reducing the occurrence of defective display due to variations in the initial alignment direction of a liquid crystal alignment control film in a liquid crystal display of an IPS scheme, realizing the stable liquid crystal alignment, providing excellent mass productivity, and having high image quality with a higher contrast ratio. The liquid crystal display has a liquid crystal layer disposed between a pair of substrates, at least one of the substrates being transparent, and an alignment control film formed between the liquid crystal layer and the substrate. At least one of the alignment control films 109 comprises photoreactive polyimide and/or polyamic acid provided with an alignment control ability by irradiation of substantially linearly polarized light.
US11520184B2
A color conversion display panel includes: a color conversion layer provided on a substrate and including a semiconductor nanocrystal and a scatterer; and a transmission layer provided on the substrate, wherein the semiconductor nanocrystal is included at greater than 30 wt % of an entire content of the color conversion layer, and the scatterer is included at equal to or less than 12 wt % of the entire content of the color conversion layer.
US11520182B2
A color conversion film for a backlight unit that includes an array of light emitting diodes. The color conversion film includes a substantially planar base portion, and a plurality of three-dimensional structures extending from the substantially planar base portion. Each of the three-dimensional structures has at least one sloped surface with a base angle of about 55°-75° relative to the substantially planar base portion. The color conversion film includes a material having a refractive index of about 1.5-1.7.
US11520176B2
A display device is provided and includes a first polymer substrate, a plurality of thin-film transistors, a second polymer substrate, and a liquid crystal layer. The thin-film transistors are disposed on the first polymer substrate. The second polymer substrate is disposed opposite to the first polymer substrate. The liquid crystal layer is disposed between the first polymer substrate and the second polymer substrate. The first polymer substrate has a first thickness, the second polymer substrate has a second thickness, and the first thickness is greater than the second thickness.
US11520169B2
An implementation of an optical system for expanding the field of view can include a first optical element and a second optical element. The first optical element can include a first surface and a second surface. The first surface can be configured to reflect a first light beam incident on the first surface at a first incident angle greater than a first predetermined angle, and the second surface can be configured to reflect the reflected first light beam towards a location. The second optical element can include a third surface and a fourth surface. The third surface can be configured to reflect a second light beam incident on the third surface at a second incident angle greater than a second predetermined angle, and the fourth surface can be configured to reflect the reflected second light beam towards the location. Related apparatus, systems, techniques and articles are also described.
US11520159B2
The present embodiment relates to a dual lens drive device that comprises: a housing; a first bobbin which is disposed to move in a first direction inside the housing; a second bobbin which is disposed to move in the first direction inside housing and is spaced apart from the first bobbin; a first coil which is disposed on the first bobbin; a second coil which is disposed on the second bobbin; a magnet which is disposed in the housing and faces the first coil and the second coil; a base which is disposed below the housing; a substrate which comprises a circuit member having a third coil disposed to face the magnet between the housing and the base; and a support member which movably supports the housing with respect to the substrate, wherein the housing is integrally formed.
US11520156B2
A high brightness light engine apparatus is disclosed, comprising at least one long red wavelength light source with a peak wavelength longer than 630 nm, at least one green wavelength light source and at least one blue wavelength light source. Furthermore, the long wavelength red light may be combined with short wavelength red light and green/blue lights into a co-axial light path by at least one beam combiner such as wedged dichroic mirror, X-plate dichroic mirror or a dichroic X-cube. A 3-channels/4-channels/5-channels light engine apparatus and a hybrid laser LED light engine apparatus are disclosed that comprises at least a long wavelength red light source, one blue light source, and one converted green light source, combined by a dichroic mirror together with a X-plate dichroic mirror, a wedged dichroic mirror or a dichroic X-cube without Etendue increase to achieve high brightness light engine output as high as 5000 lm.
US11520152B1
A head-mounted device may have displays that provide images. Waveguides may be used in conveying the images to eye boxes. The waveguides may overlap lenses in a glasses frame or other head-mounted support structure. The waveguides and lenses may be transparent. This allows real-world objects to be viewed from the eye boxes. Infrared-light reflectors may overlap the lenses. Gaze tracking system light sources may supply infrared light that reflects from the infrared-light reflectors to the eye boxes to illuminate a user's eyes. Gaze tracking system cameras capture gaze tracking images of the eyes from the eye boxes to track the user's gaze. Fiducials associated with the infrared-light reflectors may be monitored using the gaze tracking system cameras. This allows components such as the gaze tracking system cameras to be calibrated.
US11520151B2
An optical device includes variable optical material that alters at least one of: incident ambient light, spectral content of incident ambient light or direction of incident ambient light through the optical device in response to a stimulus provided by the device. The device can sense intensity and/or spectral characteristics of ambient light and provide appropriate stimulus to various portions of the optical device to activate the variable optical material and alter at least one of: incident ambient light, spectral content of incident ambient light or direction of incident ambient light.
US11520141B2
Provided is an optical lens. The optical lens is provided with a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, a sixth lens and a seventh lens, which are sequentially arranged from an object side to an image side along an optical axis. The first lens is a spherical lens having a negative focal power, the second lens is an aspheric lens having a meniscus shape bent towards an image surface, the third lens is an aspheric lens having a meniscus shape bent towards an object surface, the fourth lens is an aspheric lens having a positive focal power, the fifth lens is an aspheric lens having a positive focal power, the sixth lens is an aspheric lens having a negative focal power, and the seventh lens is an aspheric lens having a positive focal power.
US11520139B2
A rotating steering mirror assembly comprising a first wedge rotatable relative to a base and a second wedge rotatable relative to the first wedge to controllably tilt a mirror on an outward- or forward-facing surface of the second wedge. Respective motors can independently rotate the first and second wedges.
US11520131B2
An objective for a microscope includes a displaceable lens group for correcting a spherical aberration. The displaceable lens group is designed in so that an offset of same in the direction perpendicular to the optical axis leads to only a small coma.
US11520130B2
A catadioptric lens includes at least two optical elements arranged along an optical axis. Both optical elements are configured as a mirror having a substrate and a highly reflective coating applied to an interface of the substrate. The highly reflective coating extends from the interface of the substrate along a surface normal. At least one of the highly reflective coatings has one or a plurality of layers. The optical total layer thickness of the one layer of the plurality of layers increases radially from the inner area outward.
US11520129B2
A low magnification mode of operation of a multiple field of view optical system is based on off-axis reflective afocal assemblies with a common optical exit pupil and having a common mechanical axis of rotation which provides both field of view switching and image de-roll functions. A reflective afocal switching assembly permits variable fields of view while at the same time providing a common axis and mechanism to achieve an optical de-roll of the image. This complex arrangement provides a relatively large change in magnification for an all-reflective optical system than can image over 0.4-12.0 micron spectrum.
US11520124B2
Provided is a camera optical lens including, sequentially from an object side to an image side: a first lens having a positive refractive power; a second lens having a negative refractive power; a third lens having a positive refractive power; a fourth lens having a negative refractive power; a fifth lens having a positive refractive power; a sixth lens having a positive refractive power; and a seventh lens having a negative refractive power. The camera optical lens satisfies following conditions: 3.00≤ν1/ν2≤4.30; −5.00≤f2/f≤−2.00; and 2.50≤(R9+R10)/(R9−R10)≤15.00. The camera optical lens can achieve high optical performance while satisfying design requirements for ultra-thin, wide-angle lenses having large apertures.
US11520123B2
An optical photographing assembly includes, in order from an object side to an image side along an optical axis, a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element, a fourth lens element and a fifth lens element. The first lens element has positive refractive power. The third lens element has at least one of an object-side surface and an image-side surface being aspheric. The fourth lens element has at least one of an object-side surface and an image-side surface being aspheric. The fifth lens element has at least one of an object-side surface and an image-side surface being aspheric, wherein at least one of the object-side surface and the image-side surface of the fifth lens element includes at least one inflection point.
US11520121B2
A lens module includes a first lens having positive refractive power, a second lens having positive refractive power, a third lens having negative refractive power, a fourth lens having positive refractive power, a fifth lens having positive or negative refractive power, and a sixth lens having negative refractive power. One or more inflection points may be formed on an image-side surface of the sixth lens.
US11520119B2
The present disclosure generally relates to an electronic device accessory and a method of using such electrical device accessory to convert a built-in camera or webcam of the electronic device into an adjustable camera using the mirror reflection, allowing the built-in camera or webcam to operate, for example, as a document camera. The electronic device accessory comprises at least a foldable main body and a mirror adapted to attach to the main body. The electronic device accessory is configured to clip onto the electronic device. The electronic device includes a desktop computer, a laptop computer, a mobile phone, a tablet, an e-reader or any other electronic device that has a built-in camera. More particularly, the electronic device accessory is preferably a foldable laptop computer camera accessory.
US11520116B2
A lightweight lens barrel that includes two focus lenses. The first lens holding frame for holding a first lens L5, a first drive unit STM5 for causing the first lens holding frame to move in the optical axis direction, a second lens holding frame for holding a second lens L6, and a second drive unit STM6 for causing the second lens holding frame to move in the optical axis direction, the first lens holding frame being arranged on an inner peripheral side of the second lens holding frame.
US11520112B2
An optoelectronic device. The device comprising: a silicon-on-insulator, SOI, wafer, the SOI wafer including a cavity and an input waveguide, the input waveguide being optically coupled into the cavity; and a mirror, located within the cavity and bonded to a bed thereof, the mirror including a reflector configured to reflect light received from the input waveguide in the SOI wafer.
US11520110B2
A first optical device is adapted to couple to a second optical device along a coupling direction and includes two spaced apart pairs of leading and trailing pads, such that when the first optical device lands and slides on a landing surface of the second optical device to optically couple to the second optical device, and for each pair of leading and trailing pads, the leading pad prevents any debris on the landing surface from collecting on the trailing pad. Upon full coupling of the first optical device with the second optical device, the leading pads do not make contact with the landing surface. The first optical device may be, for example, an optical ferrule or a cradle having a recess adapted to receive an optical ferrule.
US11520100B2
A light guide is provided. The light guide includes a planar body with a first light receiving surface, a light transmission region in optical communication with the first light receiving surface, and an aperture having an inner circumferential wall defining a light emission region, the inner circumferential wall having a plurality of vertically extending flutes. Substantially all light received at the light receiving surface internally reflects through the transmission region before extraction at the emission region. A luminaire is also provided. The luminaire includes a housing, a light guide as described herein, and a plurality of point light sources in optical communication with the light receiving surface of the light guide.
US11520093B2
A polarizer stack including an absorbing polarizer and a multilayer polymeric reflective polarizer bonded together is described. The absorbing polarizer has a first block axis and the reflective polarizer has a second block axis substantially parallel to the first block axis. The reflective polarizer may be substantially free of micro-wrinkling when the polarizer stack adhered to a glass layer is heated at 95° C. for 100 hours.
US11520090B2
A diffraction device includes a ZnS member and a ZnSe member coupled to the ZnS member, and a diffraction grating is provided on the ZnSe member.
US11520084B2
A system for irradiating a microplate may include a light engine with a plurality of light sources, such as light-emitting diodes, included in one or more linear arrays. The plurality of light sources are configured to emit germicidal irradiation, which is directed to the microplate by optical components, such as optical lenses positioned on top of each well of the microplate. The linear array is linearly movable so that as the linear array scans across the microplate, the optical components direct the germicidal irradiation to a plurality of surfaces of each well.
US11520078B2
Determining a white plume control line of smoke after wet desulphurization includes: drawing a saturated air enthalpy humidity curve or equivalent; obtaining annual temperature and humidity change data of located cities or regions along with the time at the frequency of at least one datum every day; drawing the data obtained in the saturated air enthalpy humidity curve; and drawing a tangent line on the saturation curve by using each meteorological point in a chart, the right lower side of the tangent line is a de-pluming control region, the de-pluming effect superior to that at the feature meteorological point can be realized when the smoke enters the region after regulation, a region defined by the de-pluming control line and the saturation curve at a low-temperature side forms a de-pluming day number control region, and the point number falling within the region is the white plume generating day number.
US11520073B2
This disclosure describes techniques to count objects in an area. The techniques include operations comprising: receiving, from a first sensor, data that identifies a location of a first object in an area at a given point in time; receiving, from a second sensor, data that identifies a location of a second object in the area at the given point in time; and aggregating the data from the first sensor and the data from the second sensor to compute a count value indicating how many objects are present in the area at the given point in time.
US11520066B2
An ionizing radiation detector includes a first common semiconductor substrate and a first plurality of single-photon avalanche diode (SPAD) microcell structures disposed at a top face of the first common semiconductor substrate. Each SPAD microcell structure includes a first semiconductor junction that is reverse-biased beyond a first breakdown threshold. The ionizing radiation detector may also include common anode and cathode connections to each of the SPAD microcell structures that operate as an output. The ionizing radiation detector may also include control circuitry connected to the SPAD microcell structures. The control circuitry may be configured to control biasing of the SPAD microcell structures and measure electrical characteristics of a signal provided on the output. Charge drift within the first common semiconductor substrate need not be inhibited from exciting more than one of the SPAD microcell structures of the first plurality of SPAD microcell structures by isolation barriers.
US11520062B2
A radiation imaging panel is provided. The panel comprises a substrate on which a plurality of pixels each including a photoelectric conversion element are arranged, a scintillator arranged over the substrate, and a protective layer arranged so as to cover the scintillator. The scintillator includes a plurality of columnar crystals containing an alkali metal halide. The protective layer includes a resin layer containing a resin to which particles of a metal oxide are added. A thickness of the resin layer from an apex of each of the plurality of columnar crystals to an upper surface of the resin layer is not less than 10 μm and less than 30 μm, and a concentration of the particles in the resin layer is not less than 0.15 vol % and less than 7.5 vol %.
US11520055B2
A test device determines error in a fronthaul network of a radio access network. A first Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) receiver receives GNSS signals from a GNSS satellite through a reference GNSS signal distribution system (GSDS) having a known signal propagation delay. The first GNSS receiver calculates and outputs a corresponding reference One Pulse Per Second (1 PPS) signal. A second GNSS receiver receives the GNSS signals through a device under test including a GSDS having an unknown signal propagation delay. The second GNSS receiver calculates and outputs a corresponding DUT 1 PPS signal. The test device determines the unknown signal propagation delay of the DUT by comparing the reference 1 PPS signal to the DUT 1 PPS signal.
US11520047B2
A distance measuring device includes a light emission portion configured to emit light; a light receiving portion configured to receive measurement light that is emitted by the light emission portion and reflected by the measurement object, the light receiving portion comprising a plurality of pixels configured to output light reception signals that depend on the received measurement light; a plurality of determination portions configured to receive the light reception signals and to determine characteristic values from the received light reception signals, and an evaluation portion that is connected to the plurality of determination portions, the evaluation portion being configured to calculate a distance from the characteristic values determined by the determination portions. Each of the plurality of determination portions is configured to receive the light reception signals only from a plurality of non-adjacent pixels.
US11520044B2
One example system comprises a light source configured to emit light. The system also comprises a waveguide configured to guide the emitted light from a first end of the waveguide toward a second end of the waveguide. The waveguide has an output surface between the first end and the second end. The system also comprises a plurality of mirrors including a first mirror and a second mirror. The first mirror reflects a first portion of the light toward the output surface. The second mirror reflects a second portion of the light toward the output surface. The first portion propagates out of the output surface toward a scene as a first transmitted light beam. The second portion propagates out of the output surface toward the scene as a second transmitted light beam.
US11520037B2
Techniques for updating data operations in a perception system are discussed herein. A vehicle may use a perception system to capture data about an environment proximate to the vehicle. The perception system may receive state data stored in cyclic buffer of globally registered detection and occasionally converted to gridded point cloud in a local reference frame. The two-dimensional gridded point cloud may be processed using one or more neural networks to generate semantic data associated with a scene or physical environment surrounding the vehicle such that the vehicle can make environment aware operational decisions, which may improve reaction time(s) and/or safety outcomes of the autonomous vehicle.
US11520030B2
A radar system, apparatus, architecture, and method are provided for generating a mono-static virtual array aperture by using a radar control processing unit to construct a mono-static MIMO virtual array aperture from radar signals transmitted orthogonally from transmit antennas and received at each receive antennas, and to construct a mono-static MIMO forward difference virtual array aperture by performing forward difference co-array processing on the mono-static MIMO virtual array aperture to fill in holes in the mono-static MIMO virtual array aperture, thereby mitigating or suppressing spurious sidelobes caused by gaps or holes in the mono-static MIMO virtual array aperture.
US11520025B2
A method for checking a distance measuring device of a transportation vehicle wherein the distance measuring device has ultrasonic sensors. A functional impairment of at least one ultrasonic sensor, a check is performed to determine whether one of the ultrasonic sensors is maladjusted, and an often occurring source of a fault causing a functional impairment of ultrasonic sensors is considered.
US11520021B2
A light receiving device includes a light receiver including pixels and a light receiving area. The pixels are arranged in an array in a first direction and in a second direction intersecting with the first direction and each of the pixels has one light receiving element or more. The light receiving area has continuous pixels out of the pixels, outputs signals based on intensities of light received in the continuous pixels, and is changed in position in the light receiver according to a signal indicating a position in the first direction and a position in the second direction.
US11519995B1
Range-finding method, range-finding apparatus, terminal system, and computer-readable storage medium
A range-finding method, a apparatus, a terminal system, and a computer-readable storage medium are provided. The range-finding method includes: transmitting a first check code from a transmitting terminal to a receiving terminal by using a first communication technology; transmitting a modulated signal from the transmitting terminal to the receiving terminal by using a second communication technology different from the first communication technology, where the modulated signal carries a second check code; acquiring a first moment at which the modulated signal is transmitted and a second moment at which the modulated signal is received; demodulating the second check code in the modulated signal; acquiring a range-finding confidence according to the first check code and the demodulated second check code; and acquiring a measured distance between the transmitting terminal and the receiving terminal according to the first moment, the second moment, a transmission speed of the modulated signal, and the range-finding confidence.
US11519991B2
A method of medical imaging including receiving k-space data that is divided into multiple k-space data groups, selecting one of the multiple k-space data groups as a reference k-space data group, and calculating spatial transform data for each of the multiple k-space data groups by inputting the multiple k-space data groups and the reference k-space data group into a transformation estimation module. The spatial transformation estimation module is configured for outputting spatial transform data descriptive of a spatial transform between a reference k-space data group and multiple k-space data groups in response to receiving the reference k-space data group and the multiple k-space data groups as input. The method further comprises reconstructing a corrected magnetic resonance image according to the magnetic resonance imaging protocol using the multiple k-space data groups and the spatial transform data for each of the multiple k-space data groups.
US11519989B2
Devices for determining a state of a magnetic field-generating article are provided. In various embodiments, a device comprises: a single crystal diamond having a plurality of NV centers, the single crystal diamond configured to be disposed adjacent to a magnetic field-generating article, and configured to generate a fluorescent signal in response to being illuminated by a light source; a coherent light source configured to generate a light beam directed at the single crystal diamond; a microwave (MW) radiation source configured to irradiate the single crystal diamond with a MW signal; a magnetic field source configured to apply a bias magnetic field to the single crystal diamond; a photosensor configured to collect the fluorescent signal generated by the single crystal diamond; and a computing node operatively coupled to each of the coherent light source, the MW radiation source, the magnetic field source, and the photosensor.
US11519983B2
The disclosure relates to a receiving unit configured for acquiring MR signals from an examination object in a magnetic resonance device. The receiving unit may include a detector unit comprising a light source and a first optical detector, a sensor unit comprising a first optical magnetometer, a first optical waveguide connecting the sensor unit to the light source, and a second optical waveguide connecting the sensor unit to the first optical detector.
US11519982B2
A radio frequency (RF) system comprises an RF-array of antenna elements, a regulating arrangement to tune the antenna elements' impedances and a camera system to acquire image information of the RF-array. An analysis module is provided to derive operational settings such as resonant tuning settings, decoupling and impedance matchings of the antenna elements' impedances from the image information. The image information also represents the actual impedances and resonant properties of the RF-array. From the image information appropriate impedance settings can be derived that are the tuning parameters to render the RF-array resonant.
US11519973B2
An output module of an industrial control apparatus includes an output circuit controlling an electrical connection between a power supply terminal and an output terminal and a controller controlling an operation of the output circuit. The output circuit includes multiple switches, which are connected in series between the power supply terminal and the output terminal, and a voltage divider circuit outputting a divided voltage. The controller controls on/off states of the switches, and detects a short circuit of the switches based on the divided voltage. When the divided voltage detected during an off period while the multiple switches are in off states is within a normal voltage range, the controller determines that no short circuit is occurred. When the divided voltage detected during the off period is out of the normal voltage range, the controller determines that a short circuit is occurred in at least one of the switches.
US11519960B2
An integrated circuit device includes general purpose input/output (I/O) circuitry having a transmit level shifter circuit in a transmit I/O circuit and a receive level shifter circuit in a receive I/O circuit. The integrated circuit device also includes an I/O pad which couples an output of the transmit level shifter circuit to an input of the receive level shifter circuit, a counter circuit, an inverter circuit coupled between the receive level shifter circuit and the counter circuit, and a logic gate. The logic gate includes a first input coupled to an output of the inverter circuit, a second input coupled to a counter_done signal from the counter circuit, and an output coupled to provide a data_out signal to an input of the transmit level shifter circuit.
US11519952B2
An embodiment of the present disclosure provides an arc detection method, in which an apparatus detects arcs, comprising the steps of: obtaining time series data for measured values of an electric current flowing in a wire; calculating first statistical values indicating dispersion degrees with time of the measured values or dispersion degrees with time of variances of the measured values from the time series data; and determining that an arc occurs in the wire or that the possibility of arc occurrence in the wire is high in a case when at least one of the first statistical values is out of a predefined range.
US11519940B2
A current sensor that is less affected by the residual magnetization is provided. A current sensor of the present invention has a magnetic circuit that is magnetized by electric current; a first magnetic field detecting element that is positioned where a magnetic field, when the electric current is present, is directed in a same direction as a magnetic field that is caused by residual magnetization of the magnetic circuit when the electric current is not present; and a second magnetic field detecting element that is positioned where a magnetic field, when the electric current is present, is directed opposite to a direction of a magnetic field that is caused by residual magnetization of the magnetic circuit when the electric current is not present.
US11519935B2
An atomic force microscope (“AFM”) based interferometer, uses a light source, and a splitting optical interface, splitting the light beam into a signal light beam and a reference light beam. Both the signal and reference light beams are focused in the vicinity of an AFM cantilever. A beam displacer introduces a lateral displacement between the signal light beam and reference light beam, the lateral displacement being such that, in at least one plane between the beam displacer and the focusing lens structure, the center of the signal light beam is separated from the center of the reference light beam by more than half a sum of their beam diameters on that plane. A detector operates to determine differences in optical path length between the signal light beam and reference light beam to determine information about movement of the cantilever.
US11519933B2
An acceleration sensor as a physical quantity sensor includes: a substrate; a correction electrode fixed to the substrate; a detection electrode fixed to the substrate; and a moving member fixed to the substrate. The moving member has: a base part; a first anchor part fixed to the substrate; a first finger electrode extending from the base part and facing the correction electrode; a mass part provided in such a way as to be displaceable in a direction of detection of a physical quantity in relation to the substrate; and a second finger electrode extending from the mass part and facing the detection electrode. A distance between a second anchor part where the detection electrode and the substrate are fixed, and the base part, is shorter than a distance between the second anchor part and the mass part.
US11519927B2
It is intended to provide a kit or a device for the detection of lung cancer and a method for detecting lung cancer. The present invention provides a kit or a device for the detection of lung cancer, comprising a nucleic acid capable of specifically binding to a miRNA in a sample from a subject, and a method for detecting lung cancer, comprising measuring the miRNA in vitro.
US11519925B2
A digital slide scanning apparatus includes a safety light curtain that operates to disable the motor that rotates the carousel when the presence of an object (e.g., the fingers of an operator) is detected within a predetermined area of the carousel. The light curtain also operates to disable the motor that rotates the carousel when an improperly positioned glass slide or slide rack is detected. The digital slide scanning apparatus also includes a multi-color status indicator for each rack slot that indicates the rack slot location of an improperly positioned glass slide or slide rack.
US11519924B2
In order to aspire to higher sensitivity in an automatic analysis device, it is important to prevent the mixing of dust and the like in a reaction part in which a sample and a reagent react. The present invention presents an automatic analysis device that is provided with a configuration for making the pressure inside a specific block in the device such as a reaction part, or inside the device become positive. By making the pressure become positive and forming an air flow that flows out from the inside of the reaction part or the device, it is possible to limit, to a certain amount or less, the amount of dust penetrating into the reaction part.
US11519923B2
A system (1) for detecting an analyte of interest in a sample is disclosed that comprises a measurement chamber (21) for metering the sample and including a defined concentration of an activator (27) causing the generation of a product when interacting with the analyte of interest, a heating element (31) thermally coupled to the measurement chamber, a controller (33) adapted to control the heating element such that the measurement chamber is maintained at a defined temperature (Td), a sensor (35) adapted to detect said product, a timer (37) adapted to time an interaction time between the sample and the activator; and a processor (39) responsive to the sensor and the timer. The processor is adapted to, upon addition of the sample to the measurement chamber, determine an amount of the analyte of interest in the sample from a sensor signal indicative of an amount of said product in the measurement chamber provided by the sensor prior to termination of said interaction; known interaction kinetics between the analyte of interest and the activator at the defined temperature and the defined concentration; and the interaction time at time of generation of the sensor signal. A method of detecting an analyte of interest in a sample using such a system is also disclosed.
US11519911B2
A method to determine the severity of a disease of chronic inflammation in a patient, comprising the steps of (1) collection or preparation of a bodily fluid, tissue or lavage and (2) measurement of ALX receptor ligands or ALX receptor expression in the fluid, tissue, or lavage, wherein the level of ALX receptor ligands predicts a clinical outcome or choice of treatment modality, is disclosed.
US11519902B2
The present invention provides method for monitoring physiological status of an organ in a subject by monitoring morphological changes over time in transplanted tissue on an eye of the subject.
US11519900B2
A method for synchronizing data for gas samples with volatile organic compounds. The data includes chromatographic data indicative of molecule retention times. The method includes identifying or selecting marker molecules and clustering the plurality of gas samples into a plurality of clusters according to a clustering criterion. Next, a first correction of retention time deviations is performed on the data for the gas samples between clusters by using the marker molecules as anchor points to provide a coarse reduction of retention time deviations between the data. Finally, a second correction of retention time deviations is performed on the data, so as to further reduce retention time deviations between the data. The method reduces significant retention time deviations to allow, e.g., breath sample fingerprints obtained by different equipment at different times to be compared in one database for use on a digital platform.
US11519897B2
The present invention is related to computer implemented method for characterizing a target fluid of a hydrocarbon reservoir under uncertainty providing a set of fluid properties from a limited amount of information.
US11519886B2
An autosampler is switched selectively between an injecting mode where a sampling flow path is incorporated into an analysis flow path of a liquid chromatograph and a loading mode where the sampling flow path is not incorporated into the analysis flow path and injects a sample into the analysis flow path at a position farther upstream than a separation column by being switched to the injecting mode with the sample held in the sampling flow path, and includes a clog determiner configured to acquire a sending liquid pressure of a liquid sending pump that sends a mobile phase in the analysis flow path, obtain a variation value of the liquid sending pressure when the injecting mode and the loading mode are switched and determine presence or absence of a clog in a system incorporated into the analysis flow path in the injecting mode based on the obtained variation value.
US11519883B2
According to one embodiment, a structure evaluation system of the embodiments includes a plurality of sensors, an arrival time determiner, a reliability calculator, and a map generator. The plurality of sensors detect elastic waves. The arrival time determiner determines arrival times of the elastic waves using elastic waves detected by the plurality of respective sensors. The reliability calculator calculates reliabilities related to measurement waveforms of the elastic waves on the basis of the arrival times. The map generator generates a first map on the basis of the calculated reliabilities or the reliabilities and a distance.
US11519880B2
An automated device for non-destructive testing for the detection of defects of a complex tubular product includes at least one ultrasound transducer arranged to emit an ultrasound beam having an emission orientation. The automated device further includes control and processing electronics configured to define at least one ultrasound burst parameter as a function of the longitudinal and/or circumferential position of the ultrasound emission means, so as to detect defects in the tube wall. The at least one parameter being chosen from the burst emission orientation, the gain or the position of the temporal filter.
US11519876B2
Provided is an electrode for electrochemical measurement for detecting or quantitatively determining a target substance, the electrode comprising: a complex supported on a surface of the electrode, wherein the complex is a complex comprising a probe for the target substance, a quantum dot which binds to the probe and is doped with nitrogen and sulfur, and a conductive polymer nanowire in which a metal nanoparticle is embedded.
US11519862B2
The present disclosure relates to methods and systems for assessing the quality of a meat product. In certain embodiments, the present disclosure provides a method of assessing quality of a meat product, the method comprising receiving data representative of light emitted from the meat product upon application of incident light to the meat product, analysing the data to determine one or more parameters indicative of quality of the meat product, and assessing the quality of the meat product on the basis of the one or more parameters.
US11519850B2
A device for measuring oxygen saturation includes circuitry configured to determine a series resistance for a light emitting diode based on a first diode voltage at the light emitting diode for a first current, a second diode voltage at the light emitting diode for a second current, and a third diode voltage at the light emitting diode for a third current. The circuitry is further configured to determine an intensity of a received photonic signal corresponding to an output photonic signal output using the light emitting diode. The circuitry is further configured to determine an oxygen saturation level based on the intensity of the received photonic signal and the series resistance.
US11519847B2
A method is disclosed. In one example, the method includes bonding a first panel of a first material to a base panel in a first gas atmosphere, wherein multiple hermetically sealed first cavities encapsulating gas of the first gas atmosphere are formed between the first panel and the base panel. The method further includes bonding a second panel of a second material to at least one of the base panel and the first panel, wherein multiple second cavities are formed between the second panel and the at least one of the base panel and the first panel.
US11519841B2
The disclosed subject matter compensates or corrects for errors that otherwise would be present when a measurement is made on a condensation particle counting system with the only difference causing the errors being absolute pressure. The difference in absolute pressure may be due to, for example, a change in altitude in which the condensation particle counting system is located. Techniques and mechanisms are disclosed to compensate for changes in particle count, at a given particle diameter, for changes in sampled absolute pressure at which measurements are taken. Other methods and apparatuses are disclosed.
US11519840B2
A system includes a processor and a memory storing instructions executable by the processor to actuate a component upon determining that a hydrophobic coating of a surface is degraded based on a comparison of a characteristic of a liquid droplet with a threshold value.
US11519834B2
An in vitro intestinal drug disposition device (1) comprises a donor chamber (2) for a donor solution and having a bottom end (18) and a top end (19). The device (1) also comprises a receiver chamber (3) for an absorption solution and an absorption membrane (4) arranged in between and separating the chambers (2, 3). A first side (5) of the absorption membrane (4) is to be in contact with the donor solution and a second side (6) of the absorption membrane (4) is to be in contact with the absorption solution. A ratio of an internal volume of the donor chamber (2) to an area of the first membrane side (5) is equal to or smaller than 3 ml/cm2. A cross-sectional area of the donor chamber (2) at the bottom end (18) is larger than a cross-sectional area of the donor chamber (2) at the top end (19).
US11519831B2
Methods and compositions are provided for isolating protoplasts from plants and other multicellular, cell-wall containing organisms with high efficiency.
US11519829B2
An apparatus for providing an object to be medically examined by blowing is provided where air is blown into a container in which an object to be medically examined is stored, so as to make the uniform distribution state of the object to be medically examined from the inside of the container, thereby ensuring the sameness of the object to be medically examined, which is to be extracted from the container.
US11519825B2
A temperature abnormality detection system includes: measurement devices; and a processor to determine temperature abnormality using a first temperature T1, a second temperature T2, and a third temperature T3. The processor determines occurrence of temperature abnormality when any one of following conditions is satisfied: (A) T1>A0 or T2>A0 or T3>A0; (B) T1>A1 and (T2−T1>A4 or T2−T1<0) and T2>A2 and T3>A3; (C) T1>A1 and T2−T1>A4 and T3>A3; (D) T1>A1 and T2−T1>A4 and (T3−T2>A5 or T3−T1>A6); and (E) T1>A1 and T2−T1<0 and (T3−T2>A7 or T3−T1>A8), where A1
US11519818B2
A test device and a test method for dynamic characteristics of a spring-loaded safety valve are mainly used for testing opening, emission and return seat characteristics of the safety valve. The air pressure stabilizer is used for stably adjusting gas pressure in a pressure vessel. The quick start and stop device is used for controlling opening and closing of the pressure vessel. The pipeline gas mass flow detecting device is used for detecting the mass flow of the gas in a pipeline. The safety valve stem displacement detecting device is used for detecting the displacement change of a safety valve stem. The acquisition system is used for collecting, processing and saving experimental data. The device of the present invention has simple structure and high precision, and provides guarantee for the test of the dynamic characteristics of the safety valve.
US11519810B2
A recovery and recharge apparatus and method for delivering a dose of fluorescent dye to an air conditioning/HVAC system. A supply line provides for both recovering and recharging of refrigerant into the system. The supply line includes a first segment connected to the recovery and recharge unit and having a single internal conduit for channeling reclaimed refrigerant into the recovery and recharge unit and for channeling refrigerant from the reservoir. A dye compartment is fluidly connected to the first segment and includes an interior cavity with an access panel for permitting access to the cavity for receiving a fluorescent dye material. A second segment is fluidly connected to the dye compartment and has an outlet port for connecting to a low side connection on the air conditioning/HVAC system. Preferably one way valves are located on opposite sides of the dye compartment and allow recovered refrigerant to bypass the dye compartment.
US11519805B2
In a vacuum gauge that controls a temperature of a sensor section to a high temperature, a circuit board can be sufficiently cooled without applying air to the vacuum gauge from outside. The vacuum gauge includes a sensor section that communicates with a measurement space via a connection port and outputs an output signal according to a pressure in the measurement space, a heater provided around the sensor section to heat the sensor section, a circuit board arranged on a side opposite to the connection port with respect to the sensor section, a first inner case that accommodates the sensor section and the heater, a second inner case that accommodates the circuit board, and an outer case that surrounds the first inner case and the second inner case and forms a flow path, through which outside air flows, together with the first inner case and the second inner case.
US11519800B2
Disclosed are pressure sensors including a die and an application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) mounted on a top surface of a substrate. The pressure sensor can define an inner volume and a bottom opening configured to abut the substrate. The die and ASIC are mounted on the top surface of the substrate within the inner volume. The substrate defines a first aperture therethrough and the die defines a second aperture therethrough in a direction along an axis perpendicular to the substrate, the first aperture and the second aperture being aligned. Metallic barrier(s) disposed on a bottom surface of the substrate, circumferentially about the first aperture, can be at least partially coated with solder mask to reduce or prevent flow of unwanted materials past the metallic barriers and through the first aperture. The substrate can include electrical connection pads on the bottom surface configured to be in communication with a daughter board.
US11519783B2
A spectral property acquisition apparatus includes: a first conveying device to convey an object in predetermined conveying direction; a color data acquisition device including a plurality of spectroscopic sensors in the conveying direction, the plurality of spectroscopic sensors receive light emitted and reflected by the object to acquire color data on the object; a second conveying device to convey the color data acquisition device in a direction orthogonal to the conveying direction; and circuitry to estimate a spectral property of the object based on the color data. The circuitry controls the first conveying device so as to generate predetermined tension for the object in a color data acquisition area in which the color data on the object is acquired.
US11519782B2
There is provided an optical power measurement method, an offset calibration method and an optical power meter that is adapted to apply the offset calibration method. The optical power measurement method, the offset calibration method and the optical power meter are characterized in that two temperature sensors are used for more accurate predictions of the optical power offset. A first temperature sensor is positioned to read a temperature of the photodiode and a second temperature sensor is positioned to read a temperature of the PCB ground plane.
US11519781B2
An image processing device 100 includes a calculation unit 110 for calculating a solar radiation spectrum in a given area on the ground surface on the basis of an observed image of the area, a solar radiation spectrum component of the area, and the spectrum of a pure substance estimated in the area, and a conversion unit 120 for converting the observed image on the basis of the calculated solar radiation spectrum.
US11519778B2
A monitoring device is attached to a first leg portion and detects vibration generated in the first leg portion. The monitoring device includes a sensor unit including an inertial sensor, a plate for attachment of the sensor unit, a spacer in contact with the first leg portion, and a bolt for fixation, and is attached to the first leg portion by the bolt with the spacer, the plate, and the sensor sequentially stacked and the spacer is softer than the plate.
US11519777B2
In a weighing method, a weight (W) of a measured object (7) is measured. A roll angle (r) and a pitch angle (p) of a weighing scale platform (100) are read. The coordinates of a placement position (x0, z0) of the measured object are acquired. A first error (error1) caused by a weighing state according to the roll angle and the pitch angle is calculated. A second error (error2) caused by a weighing position according to the coordinates of the placement position, the roll angle (r) and the pitch angle (p) is also calculated. From these, a corrected weight (Wc) is determined.
US11519771B2
One embodiment provides a method for detecting aspiration in a clinical analyzer, including: acquiring, from a sensor, pressure measurement data; transforming the pressure measurement data into frequency domain data; generating a clean version of the frequency domain data by attenuating, using a filter, unwanted frequencies; comparing the cleaned version of the frequency domain data to one or more predetermined data points; and determining, based on the comparison, if an aspiration was properly performed. Other aspects are described and claimed herein.
US11519769B2
A control unit 3 of a flow rate control system 1 comprises: a recording unit 31 for recording measured values of a pressure sensor P and a temperature sensor T, a storage unit 32 for storing volume data between a first valve V1 and a second valve V2 corresponding to the measured value of the pressure sensor P, and an arithmetic unit 33 for calculating a flow rate based on a first pressure value P1 and a first temperature value T1 measured after opening the first valve V1 and the second valve V2 to flow a gas and then closing the first valve V1 and the second valve V2 simultaneously in a state where the gas is flowing; a second pressure value P2 and a second temperature value T2 measured after opening the first valve V1 and the second valve V2 to flow a gas, closing the second valve V2 in a state where the gas is flowing, and then closing the first valve V1 after a predetermined time Δt has elapsed; and a volume value V between the first valve V1 and the second valve V2 which corresponds to the second pressure value P2.
US11519764B2
A rotary encoder includes a detection device for detecting malfunction of the rotary encoder, a rotor, a stator, a shaft having a bearing configuration, and an axial bushing internally connected to the bearing configuration and rotatably arranged in a housing of the rotary encoder. A spring device is arranged for pre-stressing the bushing and the bearing configuration. A distancing arrangement is arranged to change an axial distance between the rotor and the stator by rotation of the bushing resulting from malfunction of the bearing configuration and by creating increased distance between the rotor and stator. The increased distance is sufficient to reduce detectability of angular positions of the shaft, as detected by the rotary encoder, to a level below a predetermined threshold.
US11519753B2
Aspects of the disclosure provide a sensing apparatus including a sensing device, a memory, and processing circuitry. The sensing device includes resonators having respective resonant frequencies. The resonators include an array of inductive coils positioned on a surface of the apparatus. The sensing device can output a signal indicating changes of the resonant frequencies caused by presence of an object proximate to the surface. The memory stores reference signals corresponding to reference objects. Each reference signal indicates changes of the resonant frequencies caused by the respective reference object proximate to the surface. The processing circuitry can receive, from the sensing device, a particular signal indicating changes of the resonant frequencies caused by presence of a particular object proximate to the surface. The processing circuitry compares the particular signal with the stored reference signals of the reference objects to determine an identity of the particular object.
US11519752B2
In accordance with one embodiment of the present disclosure, an inductive position sensor assembly is provided. The inductive sensor assembly includes a sensor and a coupler element. The sensor includes a transmitter coil having an inner diameter and an outer diameter and a receiver coil positioned within the outer diameter of the transmitter coil. The coupler element has a geometric continuous curve shape. The coupler element is positioned within the outer diameter of the transmitter coil such that a maximum diameter of the geometric continuous curve shape is the outer diameter of the transmitter coil. When the coupler element is moved, the geometric continuous curve shape of the coupler element modify an inductive coupling between the transmitter coil and the receiver coil.
US11519750B2
Systems and methods for determining a location based on a direction sign. A method includes receiving a map of a physical area that includes a plurality of nodes connected by a links, where each link represents a travel path between connected nodes and has an associated distance value. The method includes receiving image data that indicates at least a first destination point of interest (POI) associated with a first physical direction and a second destination POI associated with a second physical direction. The method includes associating the first destination POI with a first node and associating the second destination POI with a second node. The method includes determining a location node of the plurality of the nodes according to the distances and directions of shortest paths to the first and second nodes, and returning a physical location corresponding to the determined location node.
US11519740B2
A system is disclosed for managing waste services. The system may have a locating device configured to generate a signal indicative of a location of a service vehicle on a roadway, a communication device, and a controller in communication with the locating and communication devices. The controller may be configured to determine a side of the roadway at which a first target location is currently being serviced by the service vehicle, and to determine based on the signal from the locating device a proximity of the service vehicle to a second target location at which the waste services are to be performed. The second target location may be on the same side of the roadway as the first target location. The controller may also be configured to automatically provide via the communicating device an estimated time of arrival to a customer corresponding to the second target location, based on the proximity.
US11519737B2
The disclosure relates to real-time autonomous path planning for a vehicle, and to the steering of the vehicle in accordance with the path. The path is planned in accordance with a given map of the area, and the path accuracy depends, inter alia, on the resolution and accuracy of the map.
US11519733B2
A method for autonomous mower navigation includes performing a training operation for an area including identifying a GPS signal associated with a training apparatus, iteratively recording data associated geolocations of the training apparatus as the training apparatus moves along a trajectory through the area, smoothing the geolocation data associated with the trajectory, and storing the smoothed geolocation data. The method can include subsequent to the training operation, performing a greens association process including establishing a link between the autonomous mower and an RTK-GPS base, receiving by the autonomous mower correction data from the RTK-GPS base, and determining an approach angle to a work area, wherein the path the autonomous mower travels to the work zone is defined by the approach angle.
US11519728B2
A method for estimating the movement of an object moving in an ambient magnetic field. The method acquires at least one component of the magnetic field and/or an i-th derivative of the magnetic field measures at least one item of information representative of the movement of the object; evaluates the stationary or otherwise character of the magnetic field; estimates at least one component of the movement of the object using at least one equation other than magnetic linking the component of the movement of the object and the at least one acquired item of information representative of the movement of the object depending on the result of the evaluation at least one magnetic equation linking the component of the movement of the object and the at least one acquired component of the magnetic field and/or an i-th derivative of the magnetic field.
US11519724B2
Disclosed is a method for monitoring ground settlement based on computer vision. Before monitoring starts, the first image frame is captured. For one measuring point, the area of the top LED lamp is defined as a tracking template, its pixel center is the reference point for settlement calculation, and a monitoring area is defined by an estimated range. After monitoring starts, the best matched of the lamp template is searched for in the monitoring area of a second image frame. When the best matched area is obtained, its pixel center is obtained as the new lamp position, and it is selected as the new template; the pixel displacement between two adjacent image frames can be obtained by comparison. The total pixel displacement of multiple points during the monitoring period is calculated through the accumulated displacement, and the actual settlement is calculated through a pixel-physical ratio.
US11519717B2
A film thickness measuring system measures thicknesses of first films of respective first substrates by spectroscopy, captures first image data of surfaces of second substrates each having a second film to acquire first color information of the surfaces of the second substrates, and calculates a correlation between a thickness of the second film and color information of the surface of the second substrate by using the measured thickness of the first films and the first color information. When estimating a thickness of a third film of a third substrate, the film thickness measuring system acquire second color information of the surface of the third substrate by using captured image data of the third substrate, and estimates a thickness of the third film in the second region, by using the calculated correlation and the second color information.
US11519712B2
The present disclosure provides a common-path optical waveguide probe. The common-path optical waveguide probe includes an optical waveguide, a lens, and a reference reflector. The optical waveguide includes a proximal end and a distal end. The lens is coupled to the distal end. The reference reflector is positioned between the optical waveguide and the lens. The disclosure also provides a catheter and an optical coherence tomography system utilizing the common-path optical waveguide probe. The disclosure also provides methods of making and using the common-path optical waveguide probe.
US11519704B1
A monolithic bullet has a tapered nose and a cylindrical shank. The shank has a sealing boss, a groove, a case alignment boss, and a bore riding surface. The case alignment boss is adjacent the nose and has a diameter greater than the nominal groove diameter of a rifle barrel of the same caliber as the bullet. The groove is adjacent the sealing boss and has a diameter less than the nominal groove diameter of the barrel. The case alignment boss is adjacent the groove and has a diameter approximately equal to or less than the nominal groove diameter of the barrel. The bore riding surface has a diameter approximately equal to the nominal bore diameter of the barrel.
US11519700B2
A gripless, non-lethal, self-protection weapon comprises a clamshell with top and bottom shells pivotally coupled together about a rear hinge and defining a cavity therein. The clamshell has a forward opening and the top shell has a top opening. A panel is slidably carried by the top shell and selectively covers the top opening. A nozzle is carried by the clamshell at the forward opening. A cartridge is removably positioned in the cavity. The cartridge comprises a barrel with an outlet positioned at the forward opening of the clamshell; a compressed gas vessel; and a diverter to redirect compressed gas from the compressed gas vessel in a rearward direction towards an inlet of the barrel in a forward direction.
US11519698B1
A composite material for dissipating the kinetic energy of an impacting object includes a strike face oriented to receive the impacting object and a protected face oriented to be proximate a user or a protected item. A first portion includes at least a first woven fabric layer and at least a Non-Newtonian Fluid (NNF) sheet. The first portion is disposed adjacent the strike face. A second portion includes at least a second woven fiber layer, and the second portion is disposed adjacent the protected face.
US11519696B2
Trajectory estimate for a sub-sonic projectile can be derived from sampling a wake contribution of an acoustic signal detected at a multi-detector array. The wake contribution is sampled, in time, and the samples are processed to determine a bearing estimate for the projectile from which the acoustic wake derives.
US11519695B2
A firearm system includes a firearm and a computer. Electronics in the firearm determine data that includes a pathway between different points of aim of the firearm as the firearm moves. The computer receives this data and builds an image of the pathway between the different points of aim of the firearm.
US11519687B1
A grip assembly for an archery bow including an incrementally adjustable hand grip that can accommodate several customizable wrist positions for one or more archers without the use of separate attachments. The grip assembly includes a grip bed heel and a grip plate. The angle of the grip bed heel may be selectively adjusted relative to the riser by pivoting the grip bed heel. The grip plate may include an upper portion adapted to be coupled to the riser, a lower portion adapted to be coupled to the grip bed heel, and at least one flexible intermediate portion. The grip assembly can further include an adjustment mechanism for setting the angle of the grip bed heel and a securing mechanism for securing the grip bed heel in a desired angular position. The grip assembly can further include a biasing member applying a rotational counteracting force to the grip bed heel.
US11519686B1
Devices, systems and methods are described for launching a projectile. Preferred devices comprise two separate platforms that are connected by an elastic cable. Each of the platforms can be secured to one foot or shoe of a user by a strap or other fastener. Once secured, a force can be applied to a projectile that is connected to the elastic cable to thereby stretch the cable in a first direction. Once the force is removed, at least some of the elastic force of the cable can be transferred to the projectile causing the projectile to be propelled in a direction opposite to the first direction.
US11519683B2
An air gun is provided with a magazine safety system and methods of making the air gun safe utilizing the magazine. The air gun includes a magazine well protrusion (e.g., floorplate) configured to extend into the magazine well when no magazine is properly inserted into and received in the magazine well. In the extended position, the protrusion prevents actuation of the main valve of the air gun. When a magazine is properly inserted into the magazine well, the protrusion is pushed into a recessed or depressed position by the interaction of the magazine with the magazine well such that the protrusion does not prevent actuation of the main valve of the air gun.
US11519680B2
A temperature sensor for a first fluid senses a temperature of the first fluid downstream of a heat exchanger. A supply for a second fluid changes a temperature of the first fluid. The supply for the second fluid passes through the heat exchanger. A valve is positioned upstream of the said heat exchanger on the supply for the second fluid, and controls a flow rate of the second fluid diverted into a bypass line compared to a flow rate of the second fluid directed through the heat exchanger, with the three-way valve controlled by a control in response to feedback from said temperature sensor. The valve changes the respective flow rates delivered into the bypass line and through the said heat exchanger in a non-linear manner with a change in valve position. A manned spaceship is also disclosed.
US11519676B2
A refrigerator comprising a storeroom and a cold air supplier configured to supply cold air into the storeroom. Where the cold air supplier comprises a heat exchanger producing cold air, a duct accommodating the heat exchanger and defining a flow path for air to pass through the heat exchanger, and a fan generating an air flow inside the duct. Where the heat exchanger comprises a tube in which a refrigerant flows and a fin coupled to an outer surface of the tube. Where the tube is eccentrically arranged to a side of the duct.
US11519672B2
A liquid-cooled heat dissipation device is disclosed, comprising a main body, a centrifugal pump, an inlet pipe, an outlet pipe, a centrifugal fan and a motor. The main body comprises a shaft hole, liquid flow channels and airflow channels. The centrifugal pump guides a cooling liquid through the inlet pipe, main body and outlet pipe. The centrifugal fan guides air into the main body axially from the shaft hole. After passing through the centrifugal fan, the air forms centrifugal airflows and leaves the body radially through the airflow channels. With an extended flow path of the cooling liquid and the radial flow of the centrifugal airflow provided by the present invention, the temperature of the cooling liquid may be quickly reduced and the cooling effect may be improved. Thus, the structure is compact, small, light-weight, easy-to-assemble.
US11519665B2
A refrigerator drawer assembly, comprising: a drawer body, the drawer body comprising a front wall and a rear wall arranged opposite to each other along the pulling direction thereof, and defining an accommodating cavity used for placing articles, wherein the front wall is provided with two first sliding grooves extending along the horizontal direction and running along the thickness direction thereof, and the rear wall is provided with two second sliding grooves aligned with the two first sliding grooves; and two sliding partition assemblies, wherein two ends of each sliding partition assembly are inserted into a set of a first sliding groove and a second sliding groove that are aligned, and the two sliding partition assemblies are configured to be able to slide along the first sliding grooves and the second sliding grooves and are capable of sliding to a fitted state. The drawer assembly may achieve two-chamber separation and three-chamber separation of the drawer body, thereby effectively improving the user experience.
US11519655B2
The invention provides, in some aspects, a thermal energy storage and retrieval system with a cavity containing a working fluid and a heat transfer surface disposed in the cavity transverse to a gravity field and in thermal coupling with an ice that is formed from and floating in the working fluid. The heat transfer surface transfers to that ice heat from a heat transfer medium that is thermally coupled to the heat transfer surface. According to aspects of the invention in which the ice is less dense than the working fluid, the heat transfer surface is disposed above (with respect to the gravity field) a region of the cavity where that ice is formed or inlet. According to aspects of the invention in which the ice is more dense than the working fluid, the heat transfer surface is disposed below that region.
US11519653B2
A variable ice dispenser for a refrigerator utilizes a variable control suitable for varying the rate of ice dispensing by the dispenser. In some instances, the variable control includes a variable control actuator that is movable between a range of positions including a home position, and movement of the variable control actuator in a first direction from the home position causes the variable ice dispenser to dispense cubed ice while movement of the variable control actuator in a second direction from the home position causes the variable ice dispenser to dispense crushed ice. Further, in some instances, the variable control may also selectively activate the ice dispenser such that the variable control actuator controls the ice dispensing rate while the variable ice dispenser is activated. In addition, in some instances, a variable control may also include a secondary control that switches between ice and water dispensing modes.
US11519652B2
An ice maker has a bottom wall with a sensor opening. A time-of-flight sensor is supported in relation to the bottom wall such that the time-of-flight sensor can an optical pulse signal through the sensor opening toward the ice bin and subsequently detect a photon of the optical pulse signal that returns to the time-of-flight sensor through the sensor opening after reflecting off of one of a floor of the ice bin and ice in the ice bin. The time of flight sensor is configured to determine a duration between the emission of the optical pulse and the detection of the reflected photon(s). Based on the determined duration, the time-of-flight sensor or another processor can determine an amount of ice in the ice bin. The ice maker can be configured so that the time-of-flight sensor is removable, allowing a window pane of the time-of-flight sensor to be periodically cleaned.
US11519645B2
An air conditioning apparatus may include an outdoor unit through which a first fluid, such as refrigerant circulates, an indoor unit through which a second fluid, such as water circulates, a heat exchange device which is configured to connect the outdoor unit to the indoor unit and in which the first fluid and the second fluid are heat-exchanged with each other, first to third inner tubes configured to connect the outdoor unit to the heat exchange device, and a heat storage unit connected to the first to third inner tubes.
US11519643B2
An apparatus is provided that includes a first thermal device; a second thermal device: and a connection element configured to connect the first thermal device to the second thermal device.
US11519628B2
A method of operating a heating ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) system of a structure, includes collecting first sensor data corresponding to a parameter of the HVAC system, collecting second sensor data that is different than the first sensor data, and generating clustered data by clustering the first sensor data and the second sensor data into a plurality of data clusters with a controller. The method also includes forming a transactional dataset based on at least the first sensor data, the second sensor data, and the clustered data with the controller, performing association rule mining (ARM) on the transactional dataset to generate a plurality of rules for each data cluster of the plurality of data clusters with the controller, and changing an operating characteristic of the HVAC system based on the plurality of rules with the controller to optimize the parameter.
US11519625B2
Disclosed are exemplary embodiments of methods for managing temperature overshoot. In an exemplary embodiment, a method includes determining a temperature delta between two sensor temperatures reported for a space at predetermined time intervals; determining a temperature rate of change by dividing the temperature delta with a time period that elapsed between the two sensor temperatures; determining a compensation by multiplying the temperature delta and the temperature rate of change; determining a compensated temperature by adding the compensation to a sensor temperature reported for the space; and using a controller and the compensated temperature to control operation of a heating system for the space.
US11519618B1
A method of installing a dryer vent in a building exterior foundation wall during construction of the building. The dryer vent installation method comprises mounting a rigid wall plate that includes a fastener tube, the fastener tube includes outwardly facing pins. The dryer vent installation method includes mounting a removable flapper housing with mounting slots, the housing including a flapper valve. The dryer vent installation method further includes removably fastening the flapper valve housing slots to the fastener tube pins.
US11519617B2
A vent assembly is adapted to be installed over an aperture in a roof to enable ventilation. The vent assembly has a roofing panel attachable to a roof and a vent cap with attaches over the roofing panel and prevents precipitation from entering the assembly. The roofing panel has a flat panel section, an aperture perforating the panel section, a fence bounding the aperture, and a runoff cricket formed by one corner of the triangularly-shaped fence. The vent cap has a chamfered triangular shape matching that of the fence. The vent cap includes a runoff cover and interior air passages to enable air to pass from an attic space through the roofing panel and out through the vent cap. The distinctive shape of the vent assembly provides advantages in easily installing the assembly to a variety of roofs, both metallic and non-metallic.
US11519607B2
A system for controlling an appliance having a plurality of gas cooktop burners operated by a plurality of digital gas valves includes a plurality of control selectors that include illuminated displays on faces thereof for indicating to which gas cooktop burner each control selector is assigned.
US11519604B2
A combustor for a gas turbine engine includes a liner having a first surface, a second surface opposite the first surface, and defining a plurality of effusion cooling holes. At least one of the effusion cooling holes includes an inlet section and a converging section downstream of the inlet section. The at least one of the effusion cooling holes includes a metering section downstream of the converging section. The at least one of the effusion cooling holes includes an outlet section downstream of the metering section. The outlet section is proximate to the second surface. The inlet section, the converging section, the metering section and the outlet section extend along a longitudinal axis, with the inlet section asymmetrical relative to the longitudinal axis and the metering section symmetrical relative to the longitudinal axis.
US11519583B2
A lighting apparatus for vehicles, comprising a light source and comprising an optical unit for generating a specified light distribution, wherein the optical unit has an optical element with a light entry surface for coupling in light emitted by the light source and with a light exit surface, disposed at a distance from the light entry surface, for coupling out the light that has been input coupled at the light entry surface and guided along the principal light guiding direction within the optical element, wherein the optical element is embodied as a layered body with a plurality of layers, wherein at least a number of the layers respectively have sections of materials with different refractive indices.
US11519578B2
The present disclosure proposes a vehicle lamp assembly, which includes a plurality of light sources, a primary optical element, and a secondary optical element, the primary optical element includes a primary optical element body and a plurality of light incident parts, the plurality of light sources is in one-to-one correspondence with the plurality of light incident parts, the primary optical element body includes a main reflector and an edge reflector arranged on a left edge and/or right edge of the main reflector, the plurality of light incident parts includes an edge light incident part located on a left side and/or right side, at least a part of light emitted from the edge light incident part is reflected to the secondary optical element by the edge reflector, and a remaining part of the light is reflected to the secondary optical element by the main reflector.
US11519577B2
A vehicle lamp device includes a matrix-type image light source, a projection lens, an aperture stop and a vehicle lampshade. The projection lens is disposed downstream from and in a light path of the image light source, and the projection lens consists essentially of two or three lenses with refractive powers. The aperture stop is disposed between two outermost lenses respectively at two opposite ends of the projection lens. Two outermost lens surfaces at the two opposite ends of the projection lens have a first optical center and a second optical center respectively, and a distance between the first optical center and the second optical center is in a range between 30 mm and 85 mm.
US11519570B2
The disclosure discloses a lamp and a lamp assembly. The lamp has a splicing structure and a connecting side, the splicing structure is arranged on the connecting side, the splicing structure includes a first clamping groove and a second clamping groove extending in a same direction, and a notch of the first clamping groove and a notch of the second clamping groove face in opposite directions. Two lamps can be spliced through a lamp connecting module to form a lamp assembly. The lamp connecting module includes a first lamp connector and a second lamp connector, each first lamp connector can be clamped with two first clamping grooves of the two lamps at the same time, each second lamp connector can be clamped with two second clamping grooves of the two lamps at the same time, and the first lamp connector is detachably fixed with the second lamp connector.
US11519568B2
The lighting device disclosed in the embodiment of the invention includes a substrate including a metal layer; a plurality of light sources arranged in a first direction on the substrate; a plurality of protrusions having a length in the first direction on the metal layer; and a resin layer disposed on the plurality of light sources and the plurality of protrusions, wherein the metal layer includes a first metal layer electrically connected to the light source and a second metal layer coupled to the plurality of protrusions, and the first metal layer and the second metal layer are separated from each other, and the plurality of protrusions may be disposed to be spaced apart from each other in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction.
US11519567B2
An LED tube lamp comprises a glass lamp tube having a main body, two end caps coupled to a respective end of the tube, an LED light strip adhered to inner circumferential surface of the tube by first adhesive, a plurality of LED light sources mounted on a mounting region, a power supply module having a circuit board and a plurality of electronic components mounted on the circuit board, a diffusion layer covering on outer surface or inner surface of the tube, and a protective layer being disposed on surface of the strip and having a plurality of first openings for disposing the plurality of LED light sources. The strip comprises the mounting region and connecting region at an end of the strip. The circuit board is substantially parallel with axial direction of the tube, electrically connects to the connecting region, and stacks with a portion of the connecting region.
US11519560B2
An improved mechanism for evaluation of degradation criticality is described. Corresponding apparatuses, systems, methods, and computer readable media are provided. The evaluation of corrosion criticality is utilized to estimate a failure pressure of a pipeline that is subject to structural degradation (e.g., metal loss corrosion). The evaluation, in some embodiments, is utilized with a specific tool configured for controlling or otherwise regulate pipeline operations responsive to the estimated failure pressure. The evaluation is a specific technical process whereby multiple failure paths through anomalies (structural defects arising from degradation features) are utilized in concert to determine an estimated failure pressure. The failure pressure, in some embodiments, is used to control actuation of one or more valve regulator features or to guide excavation.
US11519550B2
A stabilization device for stabilizing an attachment component relative to movements of a basic component which occur outside a permitted plane of movement. The attachment component and the basic component are connected via a stabilization arrangement that includes: a first compensation arrangement for compensating rotational movements of the basic component with respect to an intermediate component, about rotational axes lying in the plane of movement, including a first compensation device which can be actuated actively, a second compensation arrangement for compensating residual linear movements of the intermediate component in a compensation direction, perpendicular to the plane of movement, in relation to the attachment component, having a second compensation device which can be actuated actively, a plurality of inertial sensors assigned to the first and/or second compensation arrangement, and a control device for actuating the compensation devices for movement compensation as a function of sensor data of the inertial sensors.
US11519548B2
The present invention provides a quick-release structure for a display, comprising a stand, a first buckle ring and a second buckle ring. The stand includes a top base, and the top base is connected with a side of a top end of a support frame, where the top base has a front cover and a rear cover that cover oppositely each other. A clamping space is provided between the front cover and the rear cover, and the front cover has an outer periphery having a plurality of notches. The first buckle ring, accommodated and limited in the clamping space in a manner that the first buckle ring can be restored after being rotated, where the first buckle ring is provided with a pushing portion passed through the first limiting hole to push the first buckle ring to be rotated.
US11519546B2
A non-motorized inspection device for inspecting a fluid pipeline, includes a monitoring device capable of generating at least one representation of the pipeline, an inertial unit capable of determining orientation data relating to the inspection device, and a means for preventing distortion of the at least one representation.
US11519544B2
The present disclosure relates to a measuring tube for conveying a liquid, comprising a tubular section and at least one tubular branch for accommodating at least one component of a measuring device. A first end region of the tubular branch is arranged at or in an opening in a wall along a longitudinal axis of the tubular section. According to the disclosure all points of at least a first portion of the wall, such as an inner surface of the wall, of the tubular section, which first portion defines the opening, are located in a plane. Furthermore, the present disclosure relates to an arrangement for determining or monitoring at least one process variable of a liquid in a pipeline, comprising a measuring device and a measuring tube of the disclosure.
US11519539B2
The present disclosure is related to bioprocessing devices, systems, and methods, and particularly to sanitary connections for bioprocessing. The devices, systems, and methods described herein can relate to the sanitary connection of flow fittings, such as reducers, with considerations for ease of assembly and sealing. In some embodiments, the system may include a flow reducer, a ferrule and a gasket. The flow reducer may include a gasket channel, an overmold channel within the gasket channel, and one or more cavities within the overmold channel. The gasket may be overmolded within the gasket channel and extending within the one or more cavities.
US11519536B2
A fluid conduit connector includes a monolithic body having a first opening at a first side and a second opening at a second side. A throughbore extends from the first opening to the second opening. A first array of holes in the first side is positioned around the first opening, each hole of the first array of holes terminating within the body. A second array of holes in the first side is positioned around the first array of holes, each hole of the second array of holes extending through the body to the second side.
US11519531B2
A ferrule for a conduit fitting includes an interior wall extending along a central axis through the ferrule so that the ferrule can be installed over a conduit end. A first axial side of the ferrule defines a first end portion, a first end camming surface disposed on the first end portion at a first angle with respect to the central axis, and a first end driven surface disposed at a second angle with respect to the central axis, the second angle being greater than the first angle. A second axial side of the ferrule defines a second end portion, a second end camming surface disposed on the second end portion at a third angle with respect to the central axis, the third angle being substantially equal to the first angle, and a second end driven surface disposed at a fourth angle with respect to the central axis, the fourth angle being substantially equal to the second angle. A central boss portion extends radially outward to define a radially outermost surface at an axial center point of the ferrule.
US11519524B2
A bracket assembly that secures a cable to a ladder rung with first and second beam flanges extending from a beam web. The bracket assembly includes a bracket and a tether connected to the bracket. The bracket has a rung attachment portion configured to receive the second beam flange and a cable attachment portion extending from the rung attachment portion. The tether has a retention pin. The tether is slidable between an initial position and a latched position. In the latched position, the retention pin moves into engagement with the rung attachment portion to engage the second beam flange thereby latching the ladder rung to the bracket assembly.
US11519489B2
Gear drive systems used with a camera comprise a housing with an electric drive gear disposed outside of the housing. A host gear is engaged with the drive gear and is rotatably disposed on a stationary shaft extending from the housing. An adapter is attached to the host gear and extends axially outwardly therefrom. A secondary gear is attached to the adapter and comprises a plurality of teeth disposed along an outside diameter. The secondary gear is releasably attached to the adapter by retaining elements and is fixed rotatably to the adapter by registration elements. The secondary gear is attached to the adapter by a push on snap-fit, and is removed from the adapter by being pulled off, thereby avoiding the need for tools to interchange a secondary gear having a desired configuration of teeth to engage a camera optical adjustment element such as a lens ring.
US11519486B2
A hydrodynamic torque converter (1) with a lock-up clutch (6) in a clutch space, (9) and with a piston (7) for activating of the lock-up clutch (6). The piston (7) separates the clutch space (9) from a piston chamber (10). The piston (7), via the application of pressure, can be moved, from a starting position in which the lock-up clutch (6) is disengaged, in the engaging direction of the lock-up clutch (6). The piston (7) has at least a closable opening (11) through which hydraulic fluid can flow from the piston chamber (10) into the clutch space (9). The opening (11) is open if either the piston (7) is away from the starting position and/or if a fluid pressure in the piston chamber (10), compared to the clutch space (9), is elevated. The closing element (12, 13) is tongue-shaped element which serves closing and opening of the opening (11).
US11519473B2
A braking band extends between an inner diameter and an outer diameter. The braking band has two plates having inner surfaces delimiting a gap, outer surfaces having opposite flat circumferential portions and a plate body having an extension in axial direction. The plates are joined by connecting elements. At least one plate has at least one projection projecting into the gap without reaching the opposite plate, forming a localized narrowing of the gap and a thickening of the plate body, creating a localized increase of the thickness of plate. The projection extends from a first connecting element to an adjacent connecting element, connecting them, and along the circumferential direction, connecting at least two adjacent connecting elements. A group of projections extends circumferentially along a discontinuous annular path, avoiding a uniform distribution in circumferential direction.
US11519470B2
An integrated brake spider and mounting bracket arrangement for a drum brake includes a brake spider with a spider mounting section, having openings through which fasteners may pass to secure the brake spider to an axle flange of a vehicle. The spider is also provided with a base section having an attachment surface for a bracket, and the bracket is secured by way of a metal fabrication process to the attachment surface of the base section and to actuator support structure adapted to support an actuator for the drum brake.
US11519469B2
A brake system for a vehicle is disclosed. The brake system includes a wheel hub, a brake disk, and a brake caliper. The wheel hub includes a hub and attachment posts. The hub defines a bore adapted to receive an axle of the vehicle. The attachment posts extend away from the hub adjacent to the bore. The attachment posts are singularly and integrally formed with the hub. The brake disk is disposed adjacent the wheel hub. The brake caliper includes a piston housing and a body. The piston housing is adapted to hold a piston. The piston housing defines mounting holes used to movably mount the brake caliper directly to the wheel hub at the attachment posts. The body is positioned radially outward of the brake disk. The piston housing and the body are integrally formed as a singular component.
US11519460B2
A hub bearing module for a lightweight suspension upright or knuckle of a vehicle, the hub bearing module including a wheel bearing and a bearing connection interface to the suspension upright or knuckle, the bearing connection interface being arranged coaxial with the rolling bearing and including a first sleeve element and a second sleeve element arranged radially outside the first sleeve element and including a composite, preferably BMC (Bulk Molding Compound) annular body having a radially inner lateral surface mechanically coupled to the first sleeve element and a radially outer lateral surface configured to mechanically and chemically couple with the suspension upright or knuckle.
US11519453B2
A threaded fastening assembly includes a nut body and a screw body. The internal thread of the nut body includes a nut thread crest and a nut thread root. The external thread of the screw body includes a screw thread crest, a screw thread root, a fourth side wall located on one side of the screw thread crest, and a fifth side wall located on the other side of the screw thread crest. A locking notch located on one side of the nut thread crest is arranged on the internal thread. The locking notch includes a first side wall and a bottom wall. One end of the first side wall is connected to the nut thread crest, and the other end of the first side wall is connected to one end of the bottom wall. The bottom wall is spirally distributed around the axis of the nut body.
US11519438B2
A method of assembling a fastener structure on a plate body is introduced. The fastener structure includes a body portion and a fastening body. The body portion has a solderable layer, and the solderable layer is soldered to a plate body. The fastening body combines movably with the body portion. The fastening body has a head and a fastening portion. The body portion or the fastening body is provided on the plate body for soldering after it is picked up by a tool so that the body portion can combine with the plate body. Also, the body portion or the fastening body combines with an assisting pickup unit, and the fastener structure is provided on the plate body for soldering after it is picked up by a tool through the assisting pickup unit so that the body portion can combine with the plate body.
US11519431B2
A hydraulic actuator is disclosed that comprises a first, fixed portion and a second portion movable relative to the first portion. The second portion comprises a hydraulic actuating device for actuating a component, and the actuator further comprises an intermediate member configured to interconnect the first portion with the second portion and permit movement of the second portion relative to the first portion. The intermediate member is configured to convey hydraulic fluid to the hydraulic actuating device of the second portion through a body of the intermediate member.
US11519430B2
A main flow path that introduces high-pressure air to an air cylinder, or discharges exhaust air therefrom, includes a sub flow path provided alongside the main flow path; an exhaust flow rate adjustment unit that suppresses the operation speed of the air cylinder by adjusting the flow rate of the exhaust air flowing through the sub flow path; and a switching valve that is connected between the air cylinder, the main flow path and the sub flow path, and that connects the main flow path and the sub flow path to the air cylinder in a switching manner. The switching valve is constituted by a spool valve.
US11519423B1
A compressor housing for a turbocharger may include an outer volute having an outer volute inner surface with a clamp groove defined therein, and an inner volute having an inner volute outer surface and an axially facing surface. The inner volute is inserted into the outer volute through the outer volute inner surface with the inner volute outer surface facing the outer volute inner surface. The inner volute is positioned with the axially facing surface disposed axially inward of the clamp groove. A clamp plate includes a radially outward portion inserted into the clamp groove and a radially inward portion extending downward past the inner volute outer surface. The clamp groove and the axially facing surface engage the clamp plate to retain the inner volute within the outer volute when an axial load is applied to the inner volute.
US11519416B2
A compressor system includes a driving unit having a drive shaft, a plurality of compressors which compress a gas, and a transmission mechanism which increases a speed of a rotation of the drive shaft and transmits the rotation to the plurality of compressors. The transmission mechanism includes a main shaft which rotates together with the drive shaft and a plurality of gear mechanisms which transmit a rotation of the main shaft to the corresponding one compressor. The gear mechanism includes an auxiliary shaft which rotates together with an auxiliary gear meshing with the main gear, a plurality of first gears which rotate together with the auxiliary shaft, an output shaft to which an output gear meshing with the first gear is fixed and which is connected to the compressor, and a first bearing which rotatably supports the auxiliary shaft, and a second bearing which rotatably supports the output shaft.
US11519411B2
A method for monitoring an oil-injected screw compressor configured to compress aspirated air by returning oil from an oil separator vessel (11) to a compression chamber (12) of a compressor block (30), for condensate formation in the oil circuit due to a too low compression discharge temperature (VET), determines a water inlet mass flow {dot over (m)}ein(t) and a water outlet mass flow {dot over (m)}aus(t) for a point in time t and determines generated condensate flow Δ{dot over (m)}w(t)={dot over (m)}ein(t)−{dot over (m)}aus(t) on the basis of difference formation.
US11519404B2
Apparatus and associated methods relate to monitoring health of a hydraulic system. A method includes monitoring pressure within the system and determining when a potential fatigue condition may occur based on counting the number of times pressure in the system has exceeded the at least one threshold. In some embodiments, strain cycle data is calculated based on a time sequence of signals generated by a hydraulic fitting, which is indicative of strain of the hydraulic fitting. An output signal indicative of the fatigue condition determined is generated. In some embodiments, the strain data includes a number of strain cycles that the time sequence of signals crosses from below a strain threshold to above the strain threshold.
US11519398B2
The invention relates to a method of venting a synthetically commutated hydraulic pump (2). The connecting fluid conduits (8, 16), connecting said synthetically commutated hydraulic pump (2) with a fluid reservoir (7) is vented at least on start-up of the synthetically commutated hydraulic pump (2), using a fluid intake device (14, 17, 20) that connects to a fixed displacement pump (3).
US11519392B2
In a first aspect, a roller pitch bearing for a wind turbine is provided. The roller pitch bearing comprises a first bearing component and a second bearing component, the first bearing component being configured to rotate with respect to the second bearing component; wherein one of the first and the second bearing components is configured to be coupled to a wind turbine blade and the other one of the first and the second bearing components is configured to be coupled to a rotor hub of a wind turbine. The roller pitch bearing further a limiting structure attached to the first bearing component, the limiting structure radially extending from the first bearing component towards the second bearing component to limit a radial movement between the bearing components. In further aspect, a rotor for a wind turbine comprising a roller pitch bearing is provided.
US11519391B2
A wind turbine having a support structure and a method for operating a wind turbine. The support structure includes a structural component and a reinforcing element. The structural component has fastening holes provided for fastening an operating means. The wind turbine can be operated in at least two states. In an operating state, the reinforcing element is screwed to the fastening portion of the structural component by screw connections which are preloaded in a defined manner using the fastening holes. In a maintenance state, the screw connections are released and the reinforcing element is removed from the structural component of the support structure. A maintenance device can be connected to the fastening portion of the structural component using the fastening holes provided for fastening a maintenance device.
US11519382B2
A wind turbine blade (2) comprising an outer shell (6) incorporating a metallic foil component (20), a conductive blade component (12) in-board of the metallic foil component (20), and a fabric sheet assembly (22) positioned between the metallic component (20) and the conductive blade component (12). The fabric sheet assembly comprises: one or more non-conductive fabric sheets (28, 30) which define first and second outer surfaces (24, 26) of the fabric sheet assembly (22); and at least one conductive thread stitch (34) penetrating a depth of the one or more fabric sheets (28, 30) and being exposed at the outer surfaces (24, 26); thereby to enable equipotential bonding between the conductive blade component (12) and the metallic foil component (20).
US11519379B1
A hydraulic power generating system includes a hydraulic motor, a bidirectional generator connected to the hydraulic motor, a hydraulic cylinder, first and second tubes, a piston structure having a piston and first and second links, and a power driving device connected to the first link. The piston divides the hydraulic cylinder into first and second chambers. The first and second links are connected to the piston and disposed through the first and second chambers, respectively. The first tube is communicated with the first chamber and the hydraulic motor. The second tube is communicated with the second chamber and the hydraulic motor. When the power driving device drives the piston toward the first chamber, hydraulic oil is pumped to the hydraulic motor for rotating the bidirectional generator. When the power driving device drives the piston toward the second chamber, the hydraulic oil is pumped to rotate the bidirectional generator reversely.
US11519374B2
An injector for injecting a fluid includes a base body having an opening and a sealing seat, a spray-orifice disk having at least one spray orifice, and a clamping ring, the spray-orifice disk being disposed in the opening of the base body, and a first nonpositive connection is provided between the spray-orifice disk and the base body, and a second nonpositive connection is provided between the base body and the clamping ring.
US11519364B2
A polymer composite composition for use in high temperature applications such as furnaces, heat shields and aeronautical jet and rocket motors. In a particular application, the disclosed composition is applied to the manufacture of rocket motor cases, or parts thereof, to provide rigid thermal protection (RTP). The polymer composite composition comprises cyanate ester resin, fine lengths of carbon fibre and refractory filler material.
US11519363B2
A gas turbine engine (10) comprising: a high pressure turbine (17); a low pressure turbine (19); a high pressure compressor (15) coupled to the high pressure turbine (17) by a high pressure shaft (27); a propulsor (23) and a low pressure compressor (14) coupled to the low pressure turbine (19) via a low pressure shaft (26) and a reduction gearbox (30); wherein the low pressure compressor (14) consists of four compressor stages (14) and defines a cruise pressure ratio of between 2.4:1 and 3.3:1; the high pressure compressor (15) defines a cruise pressure ratio of less than 17:1; and the high pressure compressor (15) and low pressure compressor (14) together define a cruise core overall pressure ratio of greater than 36:1.
US11519360B2
Various systems and methods are provided for reducing an amount of oil reaching a crankcase overpressure sensor. In one example, a system may include a cast wall protruding perpendicularly from an internal wall of crankcase, the cast wall at least partially surrounding a sensor port for a crankcase overpressure (COP) sensor, the sensor port fluidically coupled to the COP sensor via an internal passage; and a cover plate fixedly coupled to the cast wall, the cover plate parallel to the internal wall. In this way, oil may be blocked from reaching the COP sensor, while air may flow through the internal passage to the COP sensor.
US11519358B2
A diesel engine piston has a body and a crown engaged to the body with three inertially welded struts. The body includes a base extending downward opposite the crown with pin bosses having pin bores and a skirt extending downward from the base.
US11519350B2
A method comprises determining that an aftertreatment system is in a cold-operation mode; initiating a low engine-out NOx (LEON) mode by controlling a component of a vehicle containing the aftertreatment system to decrease an instantaneous engine out NOx (EONOx) amount and to increase exhaust energy relative to a normal operation mode for an engine of the vehicle; receiving information indicative of an operating status of the vehicle during the LEON mode; disengaging the LEON mode; subsequent to disengaging the LEON mode, initiating a thermal management (TM) mode for the aftertreatment system, wherein the TM mode is initiated by controlling a component of the vehicle to increase fueling to the engine for a power level by reducing engine efficiency and directing excess fuel to the aftertreatment system; receiving information indicative of an operating status of the vehicle during the TM mode; and disengaging the TM mode.
US11519343B2
A method for operating an internal combustion engine of a drive system for a motor vehicle, the internal combustion engine being designed for operation using various types of fuel, has the following steps: querying operating parameters of fuel-relevant functions of the drive system by means of a central fuel coordination device of a central engine coordination device, determining possible types of fuel for operating the internal combustion engine, based on the queried operating parameters and predefined fuel release conditions, by means of the central fuel coordination device, selecting a type of fuel for operating the internal combustion engine, based on the determined possible types of fuel and at least one predefined selection criterion, by means of the central fuel coordination device, transmitting information identifying the selected type of fuel from the central fuel coordination device to a central engine control unit of the central engine coordination device, and operating the internal combustion engine with the selected type of fuel by means of the central engine control unit.
US11519340B2
A system and method for controlling an aircraft turbine engine. The control system includes: a nominal-mode processing chain including a global corrector designed to control a speed of rotation of the turbine engine by delivering a position setpoint for a fuel metering device, and a local corrector designed to control a position of the fuel metering device by delivering a nominal-mode control current, a degraded-mode processing chain including a direct corrector designed to control the speed of rotation of the turbine engine by delivering a degraded-mode control current, and a mode management module designed to deliver, to the fuel metering device, the nominal-mode control current in the absence of failure of a position sensor measuring a position of the fuel metering device, and the degraded-mode control current in the case of failure of the position sensor.
US11519339B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for controlling surge margin in the compressor section of a gas turbine engine. A first compressor section and a second compressor section are in fluid communication with a bypass conduit. An auxiliary turbine and discharge conduit are positioned in the bypass conduit. Fluid flow from the compressor sections into the bypass conduit is controlled by bypass control valves.
US11519326B2
Disclosed is an adjustable ring shim for a planetary traction drive designed for a driven turbocharger on an engine. The adjustable ring shim has two parts that interface through a ramp feature to provide an ability to vary the overall width of the ring roller assembly of the planetary traction drive. This adjustability in the width of the ring roller allows for setting a desired preload force on the traction surfaces of the traction drive during assembly, even with variation in manufacturing of the different parts of the traction drive.
US11519324B1
Engine includes a cylinder having a peripheral wall defining a combustion chamber, a crankshaft, and a piston movable in the cylinder. Intake and exhaust valves regulate flow of an air into or combustion products out of the combustion chamber, respectively. An exhaust outlet port has an opening in the peripheral wall at a location between lowermost and uppermost piston positions, and an outlet port valve is associated with the exhaust outlet port. The exhaust stroke has a first exhaust stage in which combustion products exhaust through the exhaust outlet port when an upper surface of the piston is below the opening, and the outlet port valve opens. In a second, subsequent exhaust stage, during continued movement of the piston past the opening in the peripheral wall, the outlet port valve closes and remaining combustion products in the combustion chamber exhaust around the exhaust valve.
US11519320B2
An expansion tank arrangement is for a cooling circuit. The expansion tank arrangement has: an expansion tank having a housing with an internal volume configured to receive a cooling fluid; a fluid connection configured to connect the expansion tank to the cooling circuit for supplying the cooling fluid; and a pneumatic connection configured to connect the expansion tank to a pneumatic supply device for pressurizing the expansion tank with a pneumatic medium using a pneumatic supply line. A valve that is configured to influence the pressurization of the expansion tank is in the pneumatic supply line between the expansion tank and the pneumatic supply device.
US11519311B1
An apparatus for attachment to a tailpipe of a vehicle is disclosed herein. The apparatus includes a filter body, a honeycomb monolith, a locking collar and a removable front cover. The honeycomb monolith is composed of an adsorbent material or an absorbent material. Exhaust from the tailpipe of the vehicle is absorbed by the honeycomb monolith structure.
US11519306B2
A check valve is made of a resilient body wound in a ring form and is located in an annular flow passage. A displacement limiter includes: a limiter main body that is located on an outer side of the check valve and is configured to limit displacement of the check valve in a diameter increasing direction of the check valve; and a limiter flow passage that communicates between one side and the other side of the limiter main body in an axial direction to enable hydraulic oil to flow between the one side and the other side of the limiter main body through the limiter flow passage.
US11519302B2
An internal structure of a primary exhaust duct of a turbomachine, which has a primary wall allowing air to pass through orifices and forming an internal surface of the primary exhaust duct, an interior skin arranged inside the primary wall, and at least one separator of which a first edge region is attached to the interior skin and which has two geometries. A change from the first geometry to the second takes place when the temperature of the separator exceeds a first temperature, and the change from the second to the first takes place when the temperature of the separator drops below a second temperature. The coefficient of expansion of the separator is greater than that of the interior skin. The variation in the geometry of the separators depending on the temperature of the engine eases assembly at ambient temperature due to the compression of the separators.
US11519301B2
A safety apparatus for containing a release of energy from a tension stud of a rotor assembly, the safety apparatus including a containment member configured to pivot about a pivot location, the containment member including a retaining arm located on a first side of the pivot location and a catch located on a second side of the pivot location, wherein the containment member is movable about the pivot location to a first position in which the catch is engaged with a lip of a disc of the rotor assembly to position the retaining arm in a containment position.
US11519296B1
A bearing chamber housing for supporting a shaft of a turbomachine is provided, the bearing chamber housing including an additively built-up housing wall which bounds an oil chamber of the bearing chamber housing radially outwardly relative to an axis of rotation of the shaft, the housing wall being built up with an oil duct which has an inlet opening toward the oil chamber for admission of oil from the oil chamber into the oil duct, and which has an outlet opening for discharging the oil from the oil duct, the outlet opening being located at a different axial position and at a different circumferential position than the inlet opening, considered relative to the axis of rotation of the shaft, and the oil duct having an extent with both an axial component and a circumferential component, at least over a portion thereof.
US11519292B2
A method of detecting flame state of a combustor of a turbine engine. The method includes determining at least one of a first derivative and a second derivative of a compressor discharge pressure of a compressor of the turbine engine; determining at least one of a first derivative and a second derivative of a gas turbine exhaust gas temperature of the exhaust gases output by the turbine engine; determining at least one of a first derivative and a second derivative of a gas turbine shaft/rotor speed of the turbine engine; determining at least one of a first derivative and a second derivative of combustor dynamic pressure monitoring; and determining a flame state of a combustor of the turbine engine based on the combustor dynamic pressure monitoring, the determined derivatives of the combustion dynamics, compressor discharge pressure, gas turbine shaft/rotor speed, and gas turbine exhaust gas temperature of the exhaust gases.
US11519290B2
A variable flow rate valve mechanism includes a valve, a lock member, a valve attachment member and a spring washer. The valve includes a valve body and a valve shaft. The lock member is fixed to the valve shaft. The valve attachment member is attached to the valve shaft. The spring washer is disposed adjacent the valve attachment member. The spring washer is formed into an annular shape around an axis of the spring washer. The spring washer includes a support portion, a deformable portion and a protrusion portion. The support portion includes a seat surface and an open surface. The deformable portion is connected to the support portion and extends in an inclined manner. The deformable portion includes a contact surface and an opposite surface. The protrusion portion protrudes from at least one of the open surface of the support portion and the opposite surface of the deformable portion.
US11519287B2
A rotating machine includes a hollow casing; a rotating body rotatably supported in the casing; a stator blade fixed to an inner peripheral portion of the casing; a rotor blade fixed to an outer peripheral portion of the rotating body to be offset to the stator blade in an axial direction of the rotating body; a sealing device arranged between the inner peripheral portion and a tip of the rotor blade; a swirling flow generation chamber provided in the casing on a downstream side in a fluid flow direction from the sealing device along a circumferential direction of the rotating body; first guiding members provided in the swirling flow generation chamber along a radial direction and in a circumferential direction of the rotating body at predetermined intervals; and a second guiding member provided in the chamber along the circumferential direction while intersecting the first guiding members.
US11519285B2
A hydrostatic seal configured to be disposed between relatively rotatable components. The hydrostatic seal includes a seal carrier. The hydrostatic seal also includes a beam extending axially from a forward end to an aft end, the beam cantilevered to the seal carrier at one of the forward end and the aft end, the beam free at the other end. The hydrostatic seal further includes a bellows seal operatively coupled to the seal carrier and in contact with the beam.
US11519282B2
A seal includes a ceramic matrix composite ply having woven ceramic-based fibers in a ceramic-based matrix. The ceramic matrix composite ply has at least one bend formed about a bend axis and defines at least one rounded portion. A sealed assembly and a method of making a seal are also disclosed.
US11519279B2
A turbine vane comprising ceramic matrix composite materials includes a vane support core, an airfoil, and an end wall that at least partially defines a gas path. The turbine vane is formed from a plurality of ceramic plies or preforms that are infiltrated with ceramic matrix material to form a one-piece ceramic matrix composite turbine vane.
US11519278B2
A rotor blade retention system for a gas turbine engine includes a rotor blade connection component defining a slot, with the rotor blade connection component including a first set of electric leads. Furthermore, the rotor blade retention system includes a rotor blade having a root section received within the slot, with the rotor blade further including a second set of electric leads. In this respect, the first and second sets of electric leads are electrically coupled together to permit electric current to be supplied to the rotor blade.
US11519271B2
A rotor assembly includes a plurality of wheels and a tie bolt that extends through the plurality of wheels and applies a compressive force to the plurality of wheels. The tie bolt includes a first segment with a first stiffness and a second segment with a second stiffness to allow for thermal growth of the plurality of wheels.
US11519267B2
A method for expanding a compressed gas (GD) at a gas pressure (pD) with a reciprocating-piston machine, wherein the reciprocating-piston machine includes a piston that can move to and fro and a working chamber delimited by the movable piston. The method being carried out as follows: the compressed gas (GD) is supplied to the working chamber via an actuatable rotary slide valve, wherein the compressed gas (GD) in the working chamber is expanded in the working chamber.
US11519264B1
A method for obtaining accuracy gravity coefficients out of three orthogonally oriented accelerometer devices and a thermometer by computing, using a pre-programmed micro-control unit processor, temperature errors, bias error coefficients, sensitivity error coefficients, and orthogonality error coefficients during measurement while drilling operations. Particularly, the method uses voltage data values of the three orthogonally oriented accelerometers to compute said error coefficients which provides for zero-error positioning of the MWD tool during long-term downhole surveying as well as while facing high-shock, vibrations, and high temperatures.
US11519261B2
A sensor assembly includes a patch with a wall configured to be seated in a well casing. A sensor is mounted to the wall of the patch. The wall of the patch can define a central passage therethrough configured to allow passage of downhole tools therethrough. The wall of the patch can be expandable from a first compressed diameter to a second expanded diameter. The wall of the patch can include at least one of a corrugated expandable structure, a stretchable structure, and/or an internally trussed expandable structure, for example.
US11519256B1
A method for estimating the efficiency of hole cleaning of a well-bore during drilling operations includes (a) selecting at least one feature of the drilling operation for monitoring; (b) receiving, from a sensor, data regarding the at least one feature; (c) comparing the data to a predetermined condition for the at least one feature; (d) defining an event when the data meets the predetermined condition; (e) assigning a weight to the event based on a duration of the event; and (f) estimating an efficiency of the hole cleaning based on the event and the weight of the event. The at least one feature being selected from the list consisting of: hole angle, circulation, tight spot, static hole, and bit hydraulics.
US11519254B2
A system (e.g., an oil and/or gas production system) including a filter assembly for separating particulate materials from wellbore fluid. The filter assembly includes a flow cross and a flow bore deflector. The flow cross includes a flow block, a first passage formed in the flow block, and a second passage formed in the flow block. The first and second passages intersect. The flow bore deflector comprises a cap, an extension rod, and a deflector element. The deflector element extends at the intersection between the first and second passages to separate the particulate materials from the wellbore fluid.
US11519253B2
A method is provided which includes injecting a fluid into a wellbore; measuring, by a surface pressure sensor, a surface pressure; and measuring, by a downhole pressure sensor, a downhole pressure. A controller determines a true friction pressure based on a pressure differential between the surface pressure and the downhole pressure. A concentration of one or more components in the fluid is adjusted based on the true friction pressure to lower a total friction pressure loss.
US11519245B2
Aspects of the subject technology relate to systems and methods for controlling a hydraulic fracturing job. One or more perforations to create during a fracturing stage of a fracturing job at one or more corresponding perforation sites in a wellbore can be identified. The one or more perforations can be formed through one or more perforation devices disposed in the wellbore. Specifically, the one or more perforation devices can be selectively activated from a surface of the wellbore through a well intervention-less technique to selectively form the one or more perforations during the fracturing stage. Further, a volume of fracturing fluid can be pumped into the wellbore during the fracturing stage to form one or more first fractures in a surrounding formation through the one or more perforations.
US11519240B2
A method can include positioning a flow restrictor in a wellbore that penetrates a formation interval, then displacing the flow restrictor along the wellbore away from the surface, thereby permitting flow into an interval section from a wellbore section between the flow restrictor and the surface, blocking the flow from the wellbore section into the interval section, and displacing the flow restrictor away from the surface, thereby permitting flow from the wellbore section into another interval section farther along the wellbore from the surface. A system can include a flow restrictor that restricts flow through an annulus surrounding the flow restrictor, and plugging devices disposed in a wellbore section positioned between the flow restrictor and a surface of the well. Flow from the wellbore section into a formation interval section is permitted prior to being blocked by the plugging devices.
US11519237B2
A blowout preventer system including a lower blowout preventer stack comprising a number of hydraulic components, and a lower marine riser package comprising a first control pod and a second control pod adapted to provide, during use, redundant control of hydraulic components of the lower blowout preventer stack where the first and the second control pods are adapted to being connected, during use, to a surface control system and to be controlled, during use, by the surface control system. The blowout preventer system further including at least one additional control pod connected to at least one additional surface control system and to be controlled, during use, by the additional surface control system.
US11519232B1
A method of cleaning a downhole section of a borehole delimited by side walls of a geological formation, the borehole containing a drill pipe having a bottom hole assembly with a drill bit and an electromagnet, and an annulus situated between the side walls and the drill pipe containing cutting debris resulting from drilling. The method comprises deploying a magnetorheological drilling fluid (MR fluid) into the downhole section through the drill pipe, the MR fluid entering the annulus through openings in the bottom hole assembly activating the electromagnet in the bottom hole assembly, the activated electromagnet generating a magnetic field modifies rheological properties of the MR fluid and increasing a transport rate at which cutting debris within the annulus is carried uphole in response to the magnetic field. Methods of providing hole stability and fluid displacement are also disclosed.
US11519231B2
During a drilling operation, drilling mud is degaussed to remove magnetic interference that may disrupt measurements.
US11519216B2
A fenestration system includes a chassis formed from left and right chassis stiles, and top and bottom chassis rails. The left and right chassis stiles having an outside longitudinal groove, an outside longitudinal ridge, an inside longitudinal groove and an inside longitudinal ridge. The top and bottom chassis rails having an outside longitudinal groove, an outside longitudinal ridge, an inside longitudinal groove and an inside longitudinal ridge. Outside stile covers are configured to engage the longitudinal outside groove and the longitudinal outside ridge of the chassis stile. Inside stile covers are configured to engage the inside longitudinal groove and the inside longitudinal ridge of the chassis stile. Outside rail covers are configured to engage the longitudinal outside groove and the longitudinal outside ridge of the chassis rail. Inside rail covers are configured to engage the inside longitudinal groove and the inside longitudinal ridge of the chassis rail.
US11519209B2
A sliding doors floor handling device (20) for sliding wooden doors (10) or glass doors (72), placed next to a wall (16) and provided at the bottom with a guide (82) combined with a pin (14) protruding from the floor (48), comprises a containment shell (26), substantially parallelepiped in shape, pardy open along the upper base, in which a fork-shaped frame (44) is arranged. The parallel sections (64) of the frame (44) are provided with a hole (52) for inserting a pin (54) that supports a wheel (46) designed to touch the floor (48) when rolling. The fork-shaped frame (44) is provided with one or more elastic sheets (60) secured to the shell (26).
US11519206B2
The present utility model relates to a graphite furnace locking device, comprising: a stationary part which is provided with a locking unit, a movable part which is arranged along a first direction facing the stationary part, the movable part being provided with a latch bolt unit; wherein, the movable part may move towards the stationary part along the first direction until the latch bolt unit and the locking unit are connected and then the locking device is in a locked state; the latch bolt unit provides a first elastic force for the movable part towards the direction of the stationary part; the locking unit is used to disconnect from the latch bolt unit, and then the locking device is in an unlocked state; the latch bolt unit provides a second elastic force for the movable part in a direction away from the stationary part, and the movable part can move away from the stationary part in the first direction under the action of the second elastic force to its initial position. For the locking device of the present utility model, when it is under an unlocked state, the movable part is automatically sprung away to prevent the operator from being injured by scalding.
US11519203B2
The invention relates to an actuation device for a flap mounted moveably on a component between a closed position and an opened position, in particular for a flap mounted moveably on a housing of an automobile, comprising: a first actuation part and a second actuation part, wherein the first actuation part is to be fastened on the flap and is moved together with the flap when the flap is moved between the closed position and the opened position, and wherein the second actuation part is to be fastened on the component, locking means with a locking reception provided on the first or second actuation part and a locking element provided on the other of first or second actuation part, wherein the locking element engages in the locking reception upon a movement of the first actuation part with the flap from its opened position into its closed position, whereby the locking element holds the first actuation part against a spring pretension in a locking position on the second actuation part, and a remote unlocking device, wherein the remote unlocking device comprises drive means, which can be actuated from a place distant from the actuation parts such that the locking element is retracted from the locking reception, whereby the first actuation part, driven by the spring pretension, disengages from the second actuation part and moves together with the flap at least partially into its opened position.
US11519190B2
In an example embodiment, there is disclosed herein a wall brace comprising a floor mounting bracket, a lower main support that is coupled with the floor mounting bracket, an upper main support that slidingly engages the lower main support, an upper support bracket that is coupled with the upper main support, a wall support that is coupled with a wall support bracket that is coupled with the main support bracket. The upper main support and lower main support slide to adjust the length of the length of the wall brace. The wall support bracket can slide along the length of the lower main support to move the wall support to a desired height. A method of installing the bracket is also described.
US11519189B2
A bracket forms one or more U-channel for receiving a beam that supports a portion of a building. An adjustable structure for supporting a beam includes the bracket and a concrete footer or pier having an anchor bolt, wherein the anchor bolt has one end securely embedded within the concrete and threaded end extending upward from the concrete. A leveling nut is threaded onto the anchor bolt below a base plate of the bracket, a top nut is threaded onto the second end of the anchor bolt above the base plate, and a block is disposed between the concrete footer or pier and the base plate to support the weight of the beam. The adjustable structure enables a person to adjust the elevation of an identified portion of a building that is not level.
US11519186B2
A support structure for a frame formwork panel including a support structure and a formwork skin connected to the support structure, the support structure having two longitudinal edge girders and two transverse edge girders, wherein a corner connecting piece which is welded to the two respective edge girders is provided in at least some of the corner regions of the support structure where a longitudinal edge girder and a transverse edge girder come together.
US11519185B2
The decking anchors may have a primary portion and a secondary portion that are operatively coupled together, such as through a fastener. The primary portion may comprise one or more primary projections (e.g., first and second primary projections) and/or the secondary portion may comprise one or more secondary projections (e.g., first and second secondary projections). In a first position adjacent projections may be retracted towards each other. In the first position the anchor may be installed into a cavity of the decking panel. The anchor may be rotated into a pre-installed position, and a force is exerted on the anchor such that the projections contact the webs of the decking. In response to continued force the projections move with respect to each other such that the anchor is moved into an installed position (e.g., the adjacent projections extend with respect to each other).
US11519182B2
A fire rated glass flooring system having blast and/or seismic loading resistance, comprising: (a) a plurality of glass flooring units (100a, 100b), each unit comprising a first layer (116) of glass and a second layer (118) of glass, the two layers being positioned one above the other and separated by one or more load transferring means (120a, 120b), wherein the first layer of glass is a structural glass and the second layer of glass is a fire rated glass, and having an upper surface and an edge comprising a load-transferring means of the one or more load transferring means; (b) one or more beams (112), arranged, in use, to support the units, wherein, at a boundary between two adjacent flooring units, the two flooring units are arranged, in use, to be secured to a beam of the one or more beams; and (c) one or more expansion joints (110), each arranged, in use, at the boundary between two adjacent flooring units. Each expansion joint comprises: (i) two clips (200a, 200b), each clip being arranged, in use, to be connected to the load-transferring means in one of the two flooring units; (ii) a resilient seal (202) arranged, in use, to sit between the two clips, the seal extending substantially to the upper surface of the two units; and (iii) a drainage means (204), the drainage means being located substantially below the seal and the two clips, and arranged, in use, to capture and drain away any liquid which passes the seal.
US11519181B2
A locking arrangement, including a panel with a locking groove; an edge strip with a first form; as well as a locking element placed at least partly or entirely between the edge strip and the panel. The locking element includes a protrusion inserted in the locking groove of the panel and configured to prevent the panel from detaching from the edge strip, and a second form matching with and received by the first form of the edge strip, and configured to prevent the locking element from detaching from the edge strip. In the presented method for assembling the locking arrangement, in its first step, the locking element is placed against the panel so that the protrusion is inserted in the locking groove of the panel, after which they are installed in the edge strip.
US11519177B2
A fastener plate for use in coupling an underlayment to a roof surface is disclosed. In use, the fastener plate is arranged and configured to enable subsequently applied liquid coatings to flow through a top surface of the fastener plate and into one or more cavities so that the liquid coating seals any openings created by introduction of the fastener. In one embodiment, the fastener plate may include a top surface, a bottom surface, a fastener opening for receiving a fastener, a plurality of openings formed in the top surface, and one or more cavities positioned between the top surface and the bottom surface, the one or more cavities being in fluid communication with the plurality of openings so that the liquid coating can flow through the plurality of openings formed in the top surface and into the one or more cavities to seal any voids created by the fastener.
US11519172B2
Modified and connected foam wall structures and methods for making them are described. The wall structures include a frame, a foam panel attached to the frame, a foam layer disposed in a cavity defined by the frame, and a structural adhesive. The structural adhesive may be disposed in at least one of: (A) an aperture located within the foam layer, and (B) an aperture located between the foam layer and a frame member. In some cases, a cured structural adhesive is located between connecting members of adjacent foam wall structures.
US11519170B2
A system and corresponding method for suspending a set of panels. The system includes a mounting rail with a base having a first side and a second side. The first side of the base defines a planar surface configured to be secured against a structural support member and the second side includes a curved surface. The system also includes an alignment rail with a curved base, the alignment rail rotatably secured to the mounting rail along a pair of curved mating surfaces. The pair of curved mating surfaces is formed from the curved surface of the mounting rail and the curved base of the alignment rail. Additionally, the system includes a panel secured to the alignment rail.
US11519166B2
An apparatus guides first and second assembly components into a predetermined configuration, each assembly component including an opening. When the assembly components are aligned into the predetermined configuration, their openings align to define a cavity for receiving a stepped dowel to fasten the components together. The guiding apparatus includes a stepped dowel member having successively-smaller dowel sections, and a collar member floating around the base of the stepped dowel member. The stepped dowel member tip can be passed through the first assembly component opening and inserted into the second assembly component opening, drawing the components into the predetermined configuration. When the components are aligned into the predetermined configuration, the collar member engages the first assembly component opening and the stepped dowel member engages the second assembly component opening. The guiding apparatus can be disengaged, freeing the dowel-receiving cavity to accept a stepped dowel for fastening the assembly components together.
US11519162B1
A toilet apparatus comprising a toilet bowl with a drain passageway, and a mounting support base, a wax ring having a central opening disposed below the mounting support base, the wax ring is supported on an annular clog saver plate member having a central opening with an annular wall portion, a mounting flange plate supporting the annular clog saver plate member with an extending portion for sealing a sewer passageway. The annular wall portion includes a plurality of clog saver fins attached thereto. These clog saver fins are used to catch non-passable feminine hygiene items, disposable pampers, packaging, and clothing to prevent a sewer blockage, and removal therefrom without removing the toilet bowl, while allowing passable feminine hygiene items, fluid, tissue, toilet liners, and waste material to pass through the central openings in the wax ring, clog saver plate member and mounting flange plate, and into the sewer passageway.
US11519149B2
Provided are a pile joint, a pile coupling structure, and a pile coupling method that allow firm uniting of piles to be coupled. A joint (10) for coupling two piles (12) comprises: a tubular body (16) into which each pile (12) provided with a key (14) on a periphery thereof is inserted through an end (16A) of the body (16); and a fitting portion (22) formed on the body (16) so as to be fitted to the key (14) by the insertion and rotation of the pile (12). The fitting portion (22) is formed with: a tapered shape having a surface (22A) that is inclined so as to become distant from the end (16A) of the body (16) as the surface (22A) extends in the direction of rotation of the pile (12); or a wedge shape for fitting between a projection and a pile.
US11519136B2
A fill blocker to block a gap between two paving stones each having a side face facing each other and an outer face wherein the fill blocker prevents filling material inserted between the paving blocks to escape through the gap. The fill blocker comprising a body comprising an interior face having two abutting portions and a fill-blocking portion therebetween; and a holding component extending from the interior face adapted to be wedged between the side faces. The fill blocker is adapted to have the holding component inserted in the gap between the side faces and be wedged therein with the abutting portions abutting the outer faces of the paving stones and thereby blocking the gap.
US11519134B2
A coated paperboard having a natural appearance is disclosed which includes a barrier coating containing substantially no fluorochemical or wax, exhibiting good resistance to oil, grease, and moisture and having no tendency toward blocking.
US11519127B2
An apparatus for cleaning a fabric article includes an emitting header that emits fluid towards the fabric article and a suction header that suctions the fluid emitted by the emitting header. The suction header and the emitting header are parallel to each other and separated from each other by a space. The space is configured for positioning the fabric article in the space so that fluid emitted by the emitting header flows through the fabric article towards the suction header. A washing appliance for cleaning a fabric article includes a detergent compartment, a control system monitor, a pump, a water compartment, an emitting header that emits fluid towards the fabric article, a suction header that suctions the fluid emitted by the emitting header, a screen disposed between the emitting header and the suction header, and a servo motor in communication with at least one of the emitting header and the suction header.
US11519115B2
The subject matter of this invention is a heat distribution management device in a treatment device of yarns in movement on a means of transport, said means of transport being able to be traversed by a flow of heat at or through the of orifices, characterized in that the device comprises at least one means of sealing by coverage of at least one part of the orifices of the means of transport, said means of sealing being independent of the means of transport.
US11519112B2
A computerized sewing machine may include a workpiece supporting base, a sewing head, a workpiece moving assembly configured to move the workpiece relative to the sewing head on the workpiece supporting base. The workpiece moving assembly may be configured to drive a translational movement of the workpiece relative to the sewing head and a rotational movement of the workpiece about a longitudinal axis of the sewing head. A controller may be coupled with the workpiece moving assembly. The controller may include a memory to store computerized sewing instructions corresponding to a plurality of sewing patterns, and a processor coupled with the memory that may be configured to read the computerized sewing instructions from the at least one memory and to urge the workpiece moving assembly to move the workpiece relative to the sewing head on the workpiece supporting base in accordance with the computerized sewing instructions.
US11519109B2
A method for manufacturing a garment includes gathering customer data from a plurality of customers, the customer data being associated with respective ones of a plurality of garment orders and including customer information regarding at least one customizable garment parameter and generating a schedule for producing a plurality of customized garments including analyzing the at least one customizable garment parameter for the at least some of the plurality of garment orders. The method further includes manufacturing the plurality of customized garments according to the schedule.
US11519101B2
Method of manufacturing a regenerated cellulosic molded body, wherein the method comprises supplying a starting material which comprises cellulose and at least one foreign matter, transferring at least a part of the starting material with at least a part of the at least one foreign matter into a spinning mass which additionally contains a solvent for solving at least a part of the cellulose of the starting material in the solvent, and extruding the spinning mass to the molded body, and subsequently precipitating in a spinning bath, wherein thereby the molded body is obtained, wherein the molded body comprises cellulose and at least a part of the at least one foreign matter.
US11519100B2
Method of manufacturing a cellulose-regenerated-molded body, wherein the method comprises supplying a starting material which is manufactured by a lyocell-method and which comprises cellulose, which is manufactured by solving a cellulose source in a solvent for manufacturing a spinning mass, by extruding the spinning mass and by subsequently precipitating in a spinning bath, solving the starting material which comprises cellulose, in a solvent for manufacturing a spinning mass, and extruding, and subsequently precipitating the spinning mass in a spinning bath, wherein thereby the molded body is obtained.
US11519098B2
Silicon carbide (SiC) wafers, SiC boules, and related methods are disclosed that provide improved dislocation distributions. SiC boules are provided that demonstrate reduced dislocation densities and improved dislocation uniformity across longer boule lengths. Corresponding SiC wafers include reduced total dislocation density (TDD) values and improved TDD radial uniformity. Growth conditions for SiC crystalline materials include providing source materials in oversaturated quantities where amounts of the source materials present during growth are significantly higher than what would typically be required. Such SiC crystalline materials and related methods are suitable for providing large diameter SiC boules and corresponding SiC wafers with improved crystalline quality.
US11519084B2
The present invention discloses a membrane-less reactor design for microbial electrosynthesis of alcohols from carbon dioxide (CO2). The membrane-less reactor design thus facilitates higher and efficient CO2 transformation to alcohols via single pot microbial electrosynthesis. The reactor design operates efficiently avoiding oxygen contact at working electrode without using membrane, in turn there is an increase in CO2 solubility and its bioavailability for subsequent CO2 conversion to alcohols at faster rate. The present invention further provides a process of operation of the reactor for biotransformation of the carbon dioxide.
US11519070B2
In order to inhibit overshoot in the concentration of a source gas immediately after a gas supply period starts, there is provided a vaporization device that is equipped with a vaporization tank that holds a liquid or a solid source, a carrier gas supply path that supplies carrier gas to the vaporization tank, a source gas extraction path along which flows a source gas which is obtained by vaporizing the source and which is extracted from the vaporization tank, a concentration monitor that is provided on the source gas extraction path, and a concentration control mechanism that is provided with a fluid controller which controls a concentration of the source gas extracted from the source gas extraction path. This vaporization device alternates between supplying the source gas and stopping the supply of the source gas.
US11519069B2
A polycrystalline silicon manufacturing apparatus according to the present invention may comprise an electrode adapter that electrically connects a core wire holder and a metal electrode, wherein the electrode adapter may be non-conductive with respect to a screwing part formed in the metal electrode. A polycrystalline silicon manufacturing apparatus according to the present invention may comprise an electrode adapter that electrically connects a core wire holder and a metal electrode, wherein the electrode adapter may be fixed to the metal electrode by a fixing mechanism part, and the electrode adapter may be non-conductive with respect to the fixing mechanism part.
US11519064B1
A titanium aluminide (TiAl) coating capable of improving high-temperature oxidation resistance of titanium alloys and a preparation method thereof are provided. The TiAl coating includes α-AlF3 nanoparticles, and a content of the α-AlF3 nanoparticles is 5-30 vol. % of the TiAl coating. The preparation method of the TiAl coating includes: using a TiAl alloy target and an α-AlF3 target as raw materials, and performing magnetron sputtering on a substrate surface to prepare a coating; the magnetron sputtering is double-target co-sputtering, and a substrate temperature during the magnetron sputtering is 150° C., the TiAl alloy target is performed direct current sputtering with a power of 0.5-2 kW, and the α-AlF3 target is performed radio frequency sputtering with a power of 0.07-0.2 kW. After the coating is obtained by the double-target co-sputtering, the obtained coating is heat-treated at 600-800° C. for 5-20 h to obtain a final coating.
US11519061B2
A steel sheet includes: a predetermined chemical composition; and a steel structure represented by, in area %, first martensite in which two or more iron carbides each having a circle-equivalent diameter of 2 nm to 500 nm are contained in each lath: 20% to 95%, ferrite: 15% or less, retained austenite: 15% or less, and the balance: bainite, or second martensite in which less than two iron carbides each having a circle-equivalent diameter of 2 nm to 500 nm are contained in each lath, or the both of these, in which the total area fraction of ND//<111> orientation grains and ND//<100> orientation grains is 40% or less, and the content of solid-solution C is 0.44 ppm or more.
US11519050B2
The invention relates to a method for producing a component from a medium manganese flat steel product having 4 to less than 10 wt. % Mn, 0.0005 to 0.9 wt. % C, 0.02 to 10 wt. % Al, the remainder iron, including unavoidable steel-accompanying elements, and having a TRIP effect at room temperature. In order to produce a component, which is distinguished by very high strengths and an increased residual strain and re-shaping capacity, the flat steel product, according to the invention, is re-shaped by at least one re-shaping step to form a component and, before and/or during and/or after the at least one re-shaping step, the flat steel product is cooled down to a temperature of the flat steel product of less than room temperature to −196° C. The invention further relates to a component produced by this method and to a use for said components.
