US11527364B2
A multilayer ceramic electronic component includes multilayer ceramic electronic component bodies which each include a multilayer body and first and second outer electrodes provided on both end surfaces of the multilayer body. The multilayer ceramic electronic component also includes a first metal terminal connected to the first outer electrodes and a second metal terminal connected to the second outer electrodes. Each multilayer ceramic electronic component body includes a dimension in a lamination direction that is less than a dimension in a width direction, and is positioned so that one of the first and second side surfaces faces a mounting surface. The first and second metal terminals extend between the first and second outer electrodes of the multilayer ceramic electronic component bodies. The multilayer bodies, first and second outer electrodes, and at least portions of the first and second metal terminals are covered by a cover material.
US11527363B2
A multilayer ceramic electronic component includes a ceramic body having first and second surfaces opposing each other in a first direction, third and fourth surfaces opposing each other in a second direction, and fifth and sixth surfaces opposing each other in a third direction; and an external electrode disposed on one of the third and fourth surfaces and extending onto the first and second surfaces of. A relational expression of 0.9≤A/BW<1.0 is satisfied, where a shortest distance, in the second direction, from an end portion of the ceramic body which the external electrode is disposed at to an end portion of the external electrode disposed on one of the first and second surfaces, is denoted by “A”, and a longest distance, in the second direction, from the end portion of the ceramic body to the end portion of the external electrode, is denoted by “BW”.
US11527362B2
A multi-layer ceramic capacitor includes: a first region including a polycrystal including, as a main component, crystal grains free from intragranular pores; a second region that includes a polycrystal including, as a main component, crystal grains including intragranular pores and includes a higher content of silicon than a content of silicon in the first region; a capacitance forming unit including ceramic layers laminated along a first direction, and internal electrodes disposed between the ceramic layers; and a protective portion including a cover that covers the capacitance forming unit and constitutes a main surface facing in the first direction, a side margin constituting a side surface facing in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction, and a ridge constituting a connection portion, the connection portion connecting the main surface and the side surface to each other. The ceramic layers include the first region. The ridge includes the second region.
US11527354B2
This application provides a magnetic integrated device, a power conversion circuit, a charger, and an electric vehicle, and pertains to the field of power electronics technologies. The magnetic integrated device includes a magnetic core, a first transformer winding, and a second transformer winding, where the first transformer winding and the second transformer winding are separated and wound, and a first air gap is formed at separation. A magnetic line may pass through the first air gap to form leakage inductance, and the leakage inductance may be equivalent to resonant inductance in the power conversion circuit. Therefore, there is no need to separately dispose an inductor winding in the magnetic integrated device. This effectively reduces a volume and a weight of the magnetic integrated device. In addition, the power conversion circuit that uses the magnetic integrated device also has a relatively small volume and relatively high-power density.
US11527347B2
A tunable inductor arrangeable on a chip or substrate comprises a first winding part connected at one end to a first input of the tunable inductor arrangement, a second winding part connected at one end to the other end of the first winding part, a third winding part connected at one end to a second input of the tunable inductor arrangement, a fourth winding part connected at one end to the other end of the third winding part, and a switch arrangement arranged. The switch arrangement tunes the tunable inductor by selectively connecting the first and fourth winding parts in parallel and the second and third winding parts in parallel, with the parallel couplings in series between the first and second inputs, or connecting the first, second, fourth and third winding parts in series between the first and second inputs. Corresponding transceivers, communication devices, methods and computer programs are disclosed.
US11527343B2
Charging method for a superconductor magnet system with reduced stray field, weight and space includes: arranging the system within a charger magnet bore; with Tmain>Tmaincrit and Tshield>Tshieldcrit, applying a current Icharger to the charger magnet and increasing Icharger to a first current I1>0; lowering a main superconductor bulk magnet temperature Tmain to an operation temperature Tmainop, with Tmainop
US11527340B2
The present invention relates to an RFeB-based sintered magnet having a composition including: 24-31% by mass of at least one element selected from the group consisting of Nd, Pr, La and Ce; 0.1-6.5% by mass of at least one element selected from the group consisting of Dy and Tb; 0.8-1.4% by mass of B; 0.03-0.2% by mass of at least one element selected from the group consisting of Zr, Ti, Hf and Nb; 0.8-5.5% by mass of Co; 0.1-1.0% by mass of Cu; and 0.1-1.0% by mass of Al, with a remainder being Fe and unavoidable impurities, in which the composition has a total content of Cu and Al being higher than 0.5% by mass.
US11527328B2
An information processing method includes deducing a diagnosis name derived from a medical image on the basis of an image feature amount corresponding to a value indicating a feature of a medical image, deducing an image finding representing a feature of the medical image on the basis of the image feature amount, and presenting the image finding deduced in the deducing the image finding which is affected by an image feature amount common to the image feature amount that has affected the deduction of the diagnosis name in the deducing the diagnosis name and the diagnosis name to a user.
US11527325B2
An analysis apparatus comprises: a generation module configured to generate a second piece of input data having a weight for a first feature item of a patient based on: a first piece of input data relating to the first feature item; a second feature item relating to a transition to a prediction target in a clinical pathway relating to a process for diagnosis or treatment; and a clinical terminology indicating relevance between medical terms; a neural network configured to output, when being supplied with the first piece of input data and the second piece of input data generated, a prediction result for the prediction target in the clinical pathway and importance of the first feature item; an edit module configured to edit the clinical pathway based on the prediction result and the importance output from the neural network; and an output module configured to output an edit result.
US11527317B2
The invention provides a system and method for the Interactive input of information and generation of data that may provide for provision of meal plans and an optimizer score to optimize human health goals through nutrient consumption to enhance body functions, health goals and disease prevention. A computer system may be provided to communicate using a communication network that may provide software configured to develop a user profile based upon user information entered by the user including in connection with health goals, health information and meal, raw food and ingredients that may be developed by the software based upon user information and searching of the data bases of the present invention.
US11527316B2
The present disclosure generally relates to health-related user interfaces. In some embodiments, user interfaces for managing health-related data are described. In some embodiments, user interfaces for viewing health data are described. In some embodiments, user interfaces related to sharing health data are described.
US11527313B1
Embodiments in the present disclosure relate generally to computer network architectures for machine learning, artificial intelligence, and the automatic development of patient care groupings of patient data. Embodiments of computer network architecture automatically generate care grouping, and organize and analyse patient care data accordingly, and generate and transmit reports of the care grouping definitions, data, and analysis. Embodiments may generate care groupings either occasionally on demand, or periodically, or as triggered by events such as an update of available data. Embodiments may include a combination system databases with data provided by system users, and third-party databases to generate the patient care groupings, including social media data, financial data, socio-economic data, medical data, search engine data, e-commerce site data, and other databases.
US11527312B2
Instructions (108) cause a processor (104) to: classify a clinical report for a subject under evaluation by one of anatomical organ or disease; identify and retrieve clinical reports for the same subject from the healthcare data source(s); group the retrieved clinical report by one of anatomical organ or disease; select a group of the clinical report, wherein the group includes reports for a same or related one of the anatomical organ or the disease; build a model that predicts semantic relationships between nodes in the reports in the selected group of reports based on one or more of extracted parameters or keywords; compare one of the parameter values or the keywords across the reports using the model; construct a graphical timeline of the reports; highlight differences in the parameter values or the keywords based on a result of the compare; and visually present the graphical timeline with the highlighted differences.
US11527310B2
Systems and methods of a cipher-based system for tracking a patient within a clinical pharmacy workflow, the system includes providing a meshed network having patient devices that communicate patient data with aggregators. The patient devices and aggregators located within the space form a meshed network, the aggregators communicate data to a computer in communication with a cloud-based network. A patient device with a mobile application wirelessly communicates with an internet system in communication with the cloud-based network. Receiving by the computer, information about the user patient device entering the meshed network by wireless tags positioned within the space. Information is obtained by the patient devices during a recognition process by wirelessly transmitting messages between the wireless tags to aggregators, and then wirelessly transmitting information from the aggregators to the computer, the computer communicates with the cloud-based network, the cloud-based network communicates with healthcare administrator systems via jointly defined API interface.
US11527308B2
A composite novelty method approach to deceptive problems where a secondary objective is available to diversify the search is described. In such cases, composite objectives focus the search on the most useful tradeoffs and allow escaping deceptive areas. Novelty-based selection increases exploration in the focus area, leading to better solutions, faster and more consistently and it can be combined with other fitness-based methods.
US11527300B2
A method, apparatus, and system for level dependent error correction code protection in multi-level non-volatile memory. A write command to write data to a non-volatile memory array may be received. At least one multi-level page of multi-level storage cells may be determined for the write data. A coding rate for the write data of the at least one multi-level page may be determined based on an attribute of the at least one multi-level page. An ECC codeword may be generated that satisfies the coding rate and includes the write data. The ECC codeword may then be stored on the at least one multi-level page.
US11527298B1
An on-chip memory diagnostic (OCMD) circuit may instruct a set of built-in self-test (BIST) engines to execute BIST on memories associated with the set of BIST engines. Next, results of executing BIST on the memories may be received from the set of BIST engines. A set of memory failures may then be identified in the memories based on the results. Next, one or more BIST engines in the set of BIST engines may be instructed to collect diagnostic data for each memory failure. A set of diagnostic data may then be received for the set of memory failures. Next, the set of diagnostic data may be stored in an on-chip data container. The set of diagnostic data may then be provided via a communication channel.
US11527294B2
A system includes a memory device including a plurality of groups of memory cells and a processing device that is operatively coupled to the memory device. The processing device is to receive a request to determine a reliability of the plurality of groups of memory cells. The processing device is further to perform, in response to receipt of the request, a scan operation on a sample portion of the plurality of groups of memory cells to determine a reliability of the sample portion that is representative of the reliability of the plurality of groups of memory cells.
US11527293B2
A nonvolatile memory device includes cell strings commonly connected between bitlines and a source line where the cell strings are grouped into memory blocks. During a precharge period, channels of the cell strings of a selected memory block are precharged by applying a gate induced drain leakage (GIDL) on voltage to gates of GIDL transistors included in the cell strings of the selected memory block where the GIDL on voltage has a voltage level to induce GIDL. During the precharge period, precharge of channels of the cell strings of an unselected memory block are prevented by controlling a gate voltage of GIDL transistors included in the cell strings of the unselected memory block to prevent the GIDL. During a program execution period after the precharge period, memory cells of the selected memory block connected to a selected wordline are programmed by applying a program voltage to the selected wordline.
US11527292B2
In certain aspects, a memory device includes an array of memory cells including a plurality of rows of memory cells, a plurality of word lines respectively coupled to the plurality of rows of memory cells, and a peripheral circuit coupled to the plurality of word lines and configured to perform an erase operation on a selected row of memory cells of the plurality of rows of memory cells. The selected row of memory cells is coupled to a selected word line. To perform the erase operation, the peripheral circuit is configured to discharge an unselected word line coupled to an unselected row of memory cells of the plurality of rows of memory cells from an initial voltage to a discharge voltage in a first time period, and float the unselected word line in a second time period after the first time period.
US11527275B2
Some embodiments relate to a memory device. The memory device includes a magnetoresistive random-access memory (MRAM) cell comprising a magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ). The MTJ device comprises a stack of layers, comprising a bottom electrode disposed over a substrate. A seed layer disposed over the bottom electrode. A buffer layer is disposed between the bottom electrode and the seed layer. The buffer layer prevents diffusion of a diffusive species from the bottom electrode to the seed layer.
US11527266B2
A method includes receiving video segments from a transcoder of a media device. The video segments are associated with multimedia content. The method further includes detecting, during a delay associated with the multimedia content and using an artificial intelligence (AI) technique, a particular representation in at least one of the video segments. The method further includes generating metadata associated with the particular representation and sending the metadata to a multimedia player to enable the multimedia player to modify playback of the multimedia content based on the metadata.
US11527264B2
The disclosed computer-implemented method includes determining that audio quality is to be adjusted for a multimedia streaming connection over which audio data and video data are being streamed to a content player. The audio data is streamed at a specified audio quality level and the video data is streamed at a specified video quality level. The method also includes determining that a specified minimum video quality level is to be maintained while adjusting the audio quality level. Still further, the method includes dynamically adjusting the audio quality level of the multimedia streaming connection while maintaining the video quality level of the multimedia streaming connection at at least the specified minimum video quality level. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
US11527262B2
A disk device includes a plurality of magnetic disks, a plurality of magnetic heads, a first actuator assembly having a plurality of arms and a plurality of suspension assemblies for the magnetic heads and supported to be rotatable about a support shaft, a second actuator assembly having a plurality of arms and a plurality of suspension assemblies for the magnetic heads and supported to be rotatable about the support shaft, and a protective member formed from a material different from a material for the arms. The protective member is provided on a tip end portion of at least one of a first arm closest to the second actuator assembly among the of arms in the first actuator assembly and a second arm closest to the first actuator assembly among the arms in the second actuator assembly.
US11527261B2
A storage element is provided. The storage element includes a memory layer; a fixed magnetization layer; an intermediate layer including a non-magnetic material; wherein the intermediate layer is provided between the memory layer and the fixed magnetization layer; wherein the fixed magnetization layer includes at least a first magnetic layer, a second magnetic layer, and a non-magnetic layer, and wherein the first magnetic layer includes a CoFeB composition. A memory apparatus and a magnetic head are also provided.
US11527258B2
A notification system includes: detection means (110) for detecting an acoustic event from voice data transmitted from a communication terminal held by a target person; and notification means (120) for sending a predetermined notification when the detection means (110) has detected the acoustic event. Accordingly, it is possible to determine the state of a target person regardless of the state of this person. Further, when the difference between an acoustic pattern of the voice data transmitted from the communication terminal and acoustic patterns registered in advance is outside a predetermined range, a management server (101) does not send a notification, whereby it is possible to prevent communication traffic from being increased based on unnecessary notifications.
US11527251B1
Systems, apparatuses, and methods for capturing voice messages are provided. In one embodiment, a method can include receiving, by one or more processors of a mobile user device, a user input indicative of a voice message at a first time. The method can further include identifying contextual data indicative of one or more computing devices within proximity of the mobile user device. The method can include providing a set of data for storage in one or more memory devices of the mobile user device. The set of data can indicate the voice message and the contextual data indicative of the computing devices. The method can further include providing an output indicative of the voice message and the contextual data to one or more secure computing devices at a second time.
US11527247B2
Provided are a computing device and a method of operating the same. The computing device may include a memory storing one or more instructions, and a processor configured to execute the one or more instructions stored in the memory to recognize a trigger word for another voice assistant, and analyze a response of the other voice assistant to a speech given to the other voice assistant. The computing device simulates an operation performed to correspond to the speech, and performs a subsequent operation, based on a result of the simulating and a result of the analyzing of the response of the other voice assistant.
US11527239B2
Systems, devices, and methods are described herein for distributing syndicated content or content with one or more distribution restrictions. In one aspect, a method may include assigning a unique ID to a plurality of content items, where the unique ID of at least one of the content items is associated with one or more property distribution restrictions. The method may further include streaming in a video stream the content items to at least two properties and monitoring the unique IDs of the plurality of content items streamed in the video stream to detect least one content item associated with the one or more property distribution restrictions. The distribution of the least one content item associated with the one or more property distribution restrictions may be blocked from the one or more properties concurrently with streaming the video stream, based on the one or more property distribution restrictions.
US11527235B2
Text independent speaker recognition models can be utilized by an automated assistant to verify a particular user spoke a spoken utterance and/or to identify the user who spoke a spoken utterance. Implementations can include automatically updating a speaker embedding for a particular user based on previous utterances by the particular user. Additionally or alternatively, implementations can include verifying a particular user spoke a spoken utterance using output generated by both a text independent speaker recognition model as well as a text dependent speaker recognition model. Furthermore, implementations can additionally or alternatively include prefetching content for several users associated with a spoken utterance prior to determining which user spoke the spoken utterance.
US11527227B2
A sound isolation assembly comprising: a center ferrule; a top grommet isolator; a bottom grommet isolator; a spring; and a furring channel engagement portion. The sound isolation assembly is configured to engage with a structure and a furring channel, which itself is connected to a ceiling panel, such that the noise passing from one floor to the other is lessened as compared to a control system that does not use the sound isolation assembly. The spring may be steel and the grommet isolators may be rubber or the like, and the combination of the steel spring and grommet isolators reduces noise.
US11527225B2
Different aspects of the invention implement a sensor module that can be configured as a keyboard module or as a pedal module, allowing to connect a plurality of keyboard and pedal modules to assemble a configuration to the user's liking, such as, for example, the usual configuration of an 87-key piano together with two pedals. The sensor module transmits information about detected key or pedal strokes to a computer application for playback, either aural or visual. At the same time, the sensor module allows, both in the keyboard module and pedal module configuration, to transmit the feeling of playing a real piano.
US11527223B2
A method for generating a musical score based on user performance during playing a keyboard instrument may include detecting a status change of a plurality of execution devices of the keyboard instrument. The method may include generating a first signal according to the detected status change. The method may include generating a second signal indicating a plurality of timestamps. The method may include determining a tune of the musical score based on the first signal. The method may include determining a rhythm of the musical score based on the second signal. The method may further include generating the musical score based on the tune and the rhythm of the musical score.
US11527222B1
A device for altering the musical sounds produced by string instruments is disclosed. The device is adapted to be reversibly wrapped around and attached to a set of strings of a string instrument. The device includes a top portion and a bottom portion; an exterior surface and an interior surface; a sound altering material located on the interior surface at a location that is configured to make contact with the set of strings when the device is attached to a string instrument; one or more compartments located on the exterior surface that are configured to receive and hold a pick; and an aperture located on the exterior surface that is configured to receive and hold a string instrument tuner.
US11527221B2
Provided herein is technology for displaying, reposition, and/or formatting graphics on a display. The technology includes receiving a graphics stream in a first playout format that includes a first display resolution and first display layout. The technology also includes determining a second playout format that includes a second display resolution and a second display layout. The technology further determines an area of importance within the first display layout given the first display layout, second display resolution, and second display layout. A preferred position within the second display layout is determined so that the preferred position is a location in the second display layout that is in a relatively similar location as the area of importance in the first display layout. The first playout format is converted into the second playout format using the area of importance and preferred position. Finally, the graphics stream is displayed in the second playout format.
US11527216B2
A system for rendering color images on an electro-optic display when the electro-optic display has a color gamut with a limited palette of primary colors, and/or the gamut is poorly structured (i.e., not a spheroid or obloid). The system uses an iterative process to identify the best color for a given pixel from a palette that is modified to diffuse the color error over the entire electro-optic display. The system additionally accounts for variations in color that are caused by cross-talk between nearby pixels.
US11527212B2
A dynamic image enhancement method and device using backlight adjustment, and a computer apparatus. The method comprises: acquiring coding information carried by display content; acquiring an optical indicator parameter of a display; parsing the display content according to the coding information and the optical indicator parameter, and acquiring information of current display content; performing analysis and computation according to the information of the display content, and acquiring analysis data; acquiring a first detail statistics weight and a second detail statistics weight according to the analysis data; acquiring a backlight control parameter and a signal control curve according to the first detail statistics weight and the second detail statistics weight; and adjusting the detail of a current image according to the backlight control parameter and the signal control curve.
US11527209B2
A display system may include a memory external to a pixel that stores a first digital data value, a memory internal to the pixel that stores a second digital data signal, where a combination of the first digital data signal and the second digital data signal may indicate a target gray level assigned to the pixel for a particular image frame. The pixel may be driven for a first duration of time according to the first digital data signal and for a second duration of time according to the second digital data signal.
US11527202B2
A display device according to an exemplary embodiment includes: a display panel including a plurality of pixels; a plurality of source boards connected to the display panel; a power control board connected to the source board and configured to supply a power voltage to the plurality of pixels; and a control board configured to control an output of voltages supplied to the source board according to a control signal transmitted by the power control board.
US11527200B2
A pixel circuit of a display device Includes: an electro-optical element; a drive transistor; a write control transistor; a threshold compensation transistor; two light emission control transistors; a first initialization transistor having a first conduction terminal connected to a gate terminal of the drive transistor, a second conduction terminal to which an initialization voltage is applied, and a gate terminal connected to a first initialization control line; and a capacitor provided between a first conductive member and the gate terminal of the drive transistor. In a non-light emission period, time during which a voltage of the first initialization control line is at an on-level is longer than a period during which a voltage of a scanning line is at the on-level. As a result, a display device capable of sufficiently initializing the gate terminal of the drive transistor is provided.
US11527194B2
An electronic device including a plurality of light-emitting units, a driving circuit, and a controlling circuit is provided. The driving circuit is configured to drive at least one of the light-emitting units. The controlling circuit is configured to control the driving circuit. The plurality of light-emitting units, the driving circuit, and the controlling circuit are respectively disposed on different substrates.
US11527176B2
A method for providing markings, in particular, homologation markings, of a component, at least one communication element, which is situated on the component or integrated into the component, being read out visually, electronically or electromagnetically, at least one code being ascertained as a result of the read-out of the communication element, and the ascertained code being used for digitally retrieving and outputting the markings of the component. A component system is also described.
US11527172B2
A system and methods are disclosed for enabling users to attach a tag and highlight in a single action or activity to a select piece or portion of text in digital content (e.g., in a digital book or other content provided for viewing on an electronic device). In some implementations, the teacher may associate a tag with a particular text in the assignment, push the assignment embedding the tag to one or more students, and the tag becomes automatically visible to the one or more students through their highlight menu when they open up the assignment for completion. In some implementations, with this single activity, users may easily share tasks, comments etc., with ease. One or more other activities are also used among teachers and students to create and execute assignments with efficiency.
US11527171B2
Systems, methods and apparatus for multi-realm, computer-generated reality systems are disclosed. A method for managing a multi-realm, computer-generated reality includes determining one or more variances between each activity of a first participant and a corresponding baseline activity for each of a plurality of activities associated with traversal of a managed reality system during a session, and quantifying the one or more variances to obtain a performance metric. The method includes combining at least one performance metric for each activity of the first participant to obtain a session performance measurement for the first participant.
US11527168B2
A method for creating an assessment within a multi-disciplined learning tool regarding a topic includes deriving a first set of knowledge test-points for a first learning object regarding the topic based on a first set of knowledge bullet-points, an illustrative asset, and a first descriptive asset of the first learning object. The method further includes deriving a second set of knowledge test-points for a second learning object regarding the topic based on a second set of knowledge bullet-points, the illustrative asset, and a second descriptive asset of the second learning object. The method further includes generating a knowledge assessment asset based on the first and second knowledge test-points.
US11527166B2
Concepts and technologies disclosed herein are directed to intelligent drone traffic management via a radio access network (“RAN”). As disclosed herein, a RAN node, such as an eNodeB, can receive, from a drone, a flight configuration. The flight configuration can include a drone ID and a drone route. The RAN node can determine whether capacity is available in an airspace associated with the RAN node. In response to determining that capacity is available in the airspace associated with the RAN node, the RAN node can add the drone ID to a queue of drones awaiting use of the airspace associated with the RAN node. When the drone ID is next in the queue of drones awaiting use of the airspace associated with the RAN node, the RAN node can instruct the drone to fly through at least a portion of the airspace in accordance with the drone route.
US11527162B2
Novel techniques are described for usage tracking for shared dockless personal transport vehicles (PTVs) over one or more communications networks. Features encourage desired interactions between consumers and PTVs, such as by encouraging consumers to park the PTVs in a desirable condition and in desirable locations. For example, embodiments obtain location data from at least one sensor (e.g., a camera of a smart phone) indicating a parked location of a PTV of a fleet of shared PTVs. A set of parked location attributes is computed in accordance with the obtained location data, and an arbitration determination is computed indicating whether the set of parked location attributes meets a stored set of acceptance criteria. In accordance with a favorable computed arbitration determination, embodiments can output lock control data for a vehicle lock of the PTV (e.g., to lock the PTV in its parked location).
US11527160B2
A system for infrastructure system calibration includes a sensor configured to be mounted to an infrastructure component and configured to detect an object. A corner reflector has an optical pattern and is arranged within a field of view of the sensor. The corner reflector has three surfaces that meet at a point.
US11527156B2
Systems and methods of traffic light detection/perception are provided for detecting traffic lights states and/or transitions for different traffic light layouts. Basic traffic light information can be obtained regarding, e.g., the existence of a traffic light(s) at an intersection being approached by a vehicle, and which bulb(s) may apply to/control a particular lane of traffic at the intersection. Based on that information, bulb-specific or bulbwise detection can be performed. Upon determining the existence of a traffic light, specific bulbs within or making up the traffic light can be detected, and their various states can be predicted or estimated relative to a corresponding bulb group. The various states can then be simplified and output as a message(s) upon which autonomous control of a vehicle can be based.
US11527151B2
A system and a method for monitoring route devices in a transportation network includes one or more processors to receive sensed traffic control device information from first vehicle systems in a transportation network formed from interconnected routes. The sensed traffic control device information indicates states of traffic control devised at intersections between the routes in the transportation network. The one or more processors determine whether the sensed traffic control device information conflicts with stored traffic control device information stored in a database accessible by the one or more processors. The one or more processors send one or more bulletins to one or more second vehicle systems to change movement of the one or more second vehicle systems responsive to determining that the sensed traffic control device information conflicts with the stored traffic control device information.
US11527144B2
Apparatus for recognizing left-behind objects 2 has a sensor device 3 designed to generate sensor signals 4 upon sensing a left-behind object 2, a control unit 5 designed to receive and process the sensor signals 4 and generate control signals 6 in reaction to the processed sensor signals 4, and a warning device 7, designed to receive the control signals 6 and output a warning signal 8 in reaction to the received control signals 6. A module arrangement 13 of individual component units having pairs of LED sensors and emitters may be arranged in a vehicle 14 to scan a storage region.
US11527142B2
A system for monitoring health and safety of workers in a manufacturing facility is presented. The system includes a user interface, a set of sensors, a database, management software and/or a health monitoring system, among other components. The system is configured to monitor health of workers using biometric data gathered by the set of sensors. In one or more arrangements, the system also tracks the position and motion of the worker. In one or more arrangements, the data gathered is aggregated in a database for datamining purposes so as to facilitate health monitoring and mitigation of identified illness. The system may be configured to screen and identify workers who are not in normal health. The system may be configured to screen workers health when clocking into or out of the time keeping system. The system may be configured to perform contact tracing.
US11527123B2
Provided is a coin delivery device including a disc including a concave portion that holds a plurality of coins in a storage container one by one. A first concave portion that holds at least coins having a diameter equal to or larger than a first diameter, and a second concave portion that holds coins having a diameter less than a second diameter are provided in the disc. The first concave portion does not perform holding of coins having a small diameter or delivery of the coins to the next step, and the second concave portion performs holding of coins having a small diameter or delivery of the coins to the next step. Since the first concave portion does not hold two coins, and two coins are not put into the second concave portion, coins can be appropriately sent out one by one to the next step.
US11527114B2
A transceiver for a CAN bus system and a method for detecting a short circuit using a CAN transceiver. The transceiver includes a transmitter for transmitting a transmission signal to a first bus wire of a bus of the bus system, exclusive, collision-free access to the bus of the bus system of a user station being at least temporarily ensured in the bus system, and for transmitting the transmission signal to a second bus wire of the bus, a receiver for receiving the bus signal transmitted on the bus wires, and a diagnostic unit for detecting a short circuit in the bus system, the diagnostic unit being designed to carry out a diagnosis only in a predetermined communication phase of the bus signal.
US11527112B2
A vehicle allocation method and system are provided. Vehicle diagnostic data is received from vehicle-computing devices placed in vehicles. A diagnostic score is determined for each vehicle. A request for booking a ride is received from a customer device of a customer. A fare for the ride is determined for the vehicles. Options are transmitted to the customer device to select a vehicle for the ride based on the options. A customer selection is received from the customer device. A vehicle is allocated to the ride based on the customer selection.
US11527105B2
A system and method for performing distributed facial recognition divides processing steps between a user engagement device/robot, having lower processing power, and a remotely located server, having significantly more processing power. Images captured by the user engagement device/robot are processed at the device/robot by applying a first set of image processing steps that includes applying a first face detection. First processed images having at least one detected face is transmitted to the server, whereat a second set of image processing steps are applied to determine a stored user facial image matching the detected face of the first processed image. At least one user property associated to the given matching user facial image is then transmitted to the user engagement device/robot. An interactive action personalized to the user can further be performed at the user engagement device/robot.
US11527103B2
An auxiliary filtering device for face recognition is provided. The auxiliary filtering device is used to exclude an ineligible object to be identified according to the relative relationship between object distances and image sizes, the image variation with time and/or the feature difference between images captured by different cameras to prevent the possibility of cracking the face recognition by using a photo or a video.
US11527099B2
A minutia features generation apparatus comprises: an input part to input an image formed as a curved stripe pattern by a ridge line(s); a generation part to generate a skeleton image formed by extracting a skeleton(s) from the image; an extraction part to extract a plurality of minutiae from the skeleton image; and a calculation part configured to calculate a relation minutia feature(s) representing relationship between a first minutia and a second minutia among the plurality of minutiae, wherein the calculation part calculates as one of the relation minutia features defined by a crossing count of the skeleton(s) and a straight line connecting from the second minutia to a nearest neighbor point which is a point on a trace line traced by tracing starting from the first minutia, which point is located at a shortest line distance from the second minutia.
US11527097B2
An electronic device and method are disclosed herein. The electronic device includes a display, a biometric sensor, and at least one processor. The processor implements the method, including: when a touch input is detected to the display within the biometric sensing area, increase a brightness of a first pixel group within the biometric sensing area to a first brightness level, and execute at least one of maintaining and changing display of a second pixel group outside the biometric sensing area and, wherein the at least one of maintaining and changing display of the second pixel group includes one of: executing a black state in which display through the second pixel group is disabled, and changing a display attribute for the second pixel group such that a load on the second pixel group is reduced.
US11527070B2
Example apparatus disclosed herein include a memory and a processor to execute instructions to identify a first set of face rectangles and a second set of face rectangles in a frame pair of image data corresponding to a media environment, the first set of face rectangles corresponding to a first image sensor and the second set of face rectangles corresponding to a second image sensor, remove first face rectangles from the first set of face rectangles and the second set of face rectangles when the first face rectangles are determined to correspond to false positive face detections, group second face rectangles that remain in the first set of face rectangles and the second set of face rectangles after removal of the first face rectangles to form groups of face rectangles, and generate a count of people identified in the media environment based on a number of the groups.
US11527067B2
An electronic device according to an embodiment disclosed herein may include a memory including at least one instruction and a processor. By executing the at least one instruction, the processor may check feature information corresponding to a video and including at least one of an appearance-related feature value and a motion-related feature value from the video, calculate at least one of a starting score related to a starting point of an action instance, an ending score related to an ending point of an action instance, and a relatedness score between action instances on the basis of the feature information corresponding to the video, the action instances being included in the video, and generate an action proposal included in the video on the basis of the at least one score.
US11527064B1
2D and 3D data of a scene are linked by associating points in the 3D data with corresponding points in multiple different 2D images within the 2D data. Labels assigned to points in either data can be propagated to the other data. Labels propagated to a point in the 3D data are aggregated, and the labels ranked highest are kept and propagated back to the 2D images. 3D data including labels produced in this manner allow partially obscured objects in certain views to be more accurately identified. Thus, an object can be manipulated in all 2D views of the 2D data in which the object is at least partially visible, in order to digitally remove, alter, or replace it.
US11527062B2
A computer-implemented method for determining field boundaries and crop forecasts in each field is provided. The method includes deriving vegetation indices for each geo-spatial pixel of each image of multi-spectral imagery at a plurality of points in time, constructing minimum bounding boxes for each image according to the vegetation indices, and generating, based on a neural network analysis of each image and the minimum bounding boxes, a geo-spatial plot of crops including a predicted plot of future crop usage for an area including each field in the multi-spectral imagery.
US11527057B2
A license plate recognition system includes an image capturing module, a license plate detection module, a segment extraction module, a character classification module, and a character recognition module. The image capturing module is for capturing an image. The license plate detection module is for receiving the image and to identify a license plate in the image. The segment extraction module is for extracting a sequence of character segments on the license plate. The character classification module is for computing a probability of each possible character in each character segment. The character recognition module is for identifying permissible characters for the each character segment according to a syntax of the sequence of character segments, and to identify a character having a highest probability among the permissible characters as a selected character for the each character segment.
US11527054B2
An apparatus of this invention is directed to an information processing apparatus that effectively counts, on a type basis, articles of a plurality of types displayed in a depth direction on a display shelf. The information processing apparatus includes a display count acquirer that acquires display count information of articles using article presence/absence sensors provided on the display shelf on which the articles are placed, an article identifier that acquires article identification information capable of identifying the types of articles based on an image acquired by capturing the display shelf, and a display recognizer that recognizes, based on the display count information and the article identification information, display count of each type of the articles.
US11527053B2
An image processing method and an image processing apparatus are provided. The image processing method includes acquiring information of a first region of interest (ROI) in a first frame, estimating information of a second ROI in a second frame that is received after the first frame, based on the acquired information of the first ROI, and sequentially storing, in a memory, subframes that are a portion of the second frame, each of the subframes being a line of the second frame. The image processing method further includes determining whether a portion of the stored subframes includes the second ROI, based on the estimated information of the second ROI, and based on the portion of the stored subframes being determined to include the second ROI, processing the portion of the stored subframes.
US11527043B2
Providing selectable virtual reality (VR) viewpoints within a VR environment is disclosed. In one embodiment, a network computing device provides downloadable VR content that defines a VR environment comprising a plurality of viewpoints. The plurality of viewpoints may include, as non-limiting examples, one or more viewpoints corresponding to one or more VR participants within the VR environment, and/or one or more predefined non-participant viewpoints. The network computing device receives a viewpoint selection indication from a client computing device of a spectator of the VR environment, wherein the viewpoint selection indication corresponds to a selected viewpoint of the plurality of viewpoints. The network computing device then transmits, to the client computing device, a pose data stream comprising pose data corresponding to the selected viewpoint. The client computing device may then display the VR environment based on the VR content and the pose data corresponding to the selected viewpoint.
US11527040B2
A method and system for culling a patch of surface data from one or more tiles in a tile based computer graphics system. A rendering space is divided into a plurality of tiles and a patch of surface data read. Then, at least a portion of the patch is analysed to determine data representing a bounding depth value evaluated over at least one tile. This may comprise tessellating the patch of surface data to derive a plurality of tessellated primitives and analysing at least some of the tessellated primitives. For each tile within which the patch is located, the data representing the bounding depth value is then used to determine whether the patch is hidden in the tile, and at least a portion of the patch is rendered, if the patch is determined not to be hidden in at least one tile.
US11527037B2
Position based media pipeline systems and methods for volumetric displays provide content to a volumetric display having at least two pixels arranged in a 3D coordinate space. A three-dimensional (3D) pixel position dataset and a 3D animation are provided and a first volume representation based on the 3D animation is created. A second volume is created based on the first volume and including color data. A texture atlas is assembled based on the second volume and volumetric image data is generated based on the texture atlas. The position based media pipeline outputs the volumetric image data to one or more graphic controllers. The volumetric image data can be output whereby a user can preview the volumetric image data in addition to output to the volumetric display.
US11527030B2
The present invention relates to a computer implemented system for animating a virtual object or digital entity. It has particular relevance to animation using biologically based models, or behavioural models particularly neurobehavioural models. There is provided a plurality of modules having a computational element and a graphical element. The modules are arranged in a required structure and have at least one variable and being associated with at least one connector. The connectors link variables between modules across the structure, and the modules together provide a neurobehavioural model. There is also provided a method of controlling a digital entity in response to an external stimulus.
US11527027B2
Systems and methods for creating a collaborative video campaign comprise establishing the campaign via a graphical user interface of a computing device by automatically authorizing one or more individuals each having image capture devices as remote contributors to contribute videos to the campaign based upon a meeting of one or more pre-determined criteria; setting up the campaign to automatically begin based upon the meeting of the one or more pre-determined criteria; creating, via the graphical user interface of the computing device, a list of shot templates for desired videos for collection through the campaign, generating a notification regarding the automatic authorization of the one or more individuals from the graphical user interface, and; sending the notification regarding the automatic authorization through a remote server to the one or more image capture devices of the one or more remote contributors.
US11527026B2
To measure a body size with increased convenience, a body measurement device including a camera configured to capture an image that includes an RGB image and a depth image, a display, and a controller configured to acquire a source image that includes a skeleton image and a body line image of a user based on the captured image, acquire a body size including a body height based on the source image, and control the display to display the body size is provided.
US11527017B1
An editing system may dynamically and intelligently determine which data points to remove, replace, and/or modify from a point cloud space so that more features, color information, and/or detail of the point cloud are preserved after decimation. The system may receive data points that are distributed in space, and may select one or more elements of the data points on which to base the decimation. For instance, the system may decimate a first subset of the data points by a first amount based on a first difference in values defined for the one or more elements of the first subset of data points, and may decimate a different second subset of the data points by a different second amount based on a second difference in values defined for the one or more elements of the second subset of data points.
US11527010B2
A position where a user is located can be estimated easily and quickly. When a hold detection unit 122 detects that the user holds a mobile terminal 100 by hand to use the mobile terminal 100 that is held by at least one hand of the user when used by the user and has a camera 130 on the surface facing the ceiling when used by the user, the estimation unit 240 estimates a position where a ceiling is located as the position where the user is located by using an image of the ceiling captured by the camera 130.
US11526995B2
This disclosure relates to techniques for generating robust depth estimations for captured images using semantic segmentation. Semantic segmentation may be defined as a process of creating a mask over an image, wherein pixels are segmented into a predefined set of semantic classes. Such segmentations may be binary (e.g., a ‘person pixel’ or a ‘non-person pixel’) or multi-class (e.g., a pixel may be labelled as: ‘person,’ ‘dog,’ ‘cat,’ etc.). As semantic segmentation techniques grow in accuracy and adoption, it is becoming increasingly important to develop methods of utilizing such segmentations and developing flexible techniques for integrating segmentation information into existing computer vision applications, such as depth and/or disparity estimation, to yield improved results in a wide range of image capture scenarios. In some embodiments, an optimization framework may be employed to optimize a camera device's initial scene depth/disparity estimates that employs both semantic segmentation and color regularization in a robust fashion.
US11526991B2
In medical examination of breast cancer, a lesion computer-aided detection is performed in real time and with high accuracy, and a burden on a medical worker is reduced. A medical image processing apparatus that processes a medical image includes: a detection unit configured to detect a lesion candidate region; a validity evaluation unit configured to evaluate validity of the lesion candidate region by using a normal tissue region corresponding to the detected lesion candidate region; and a display unit configured to determine display content to a user by using an evaluation result.
US11526982B2
An image processing device disclosed in the present specification includes a display control unit configured to display, on a display unit, an image obtained by visualizing functional information related to optical characteristics of a subject based on a photoacoustic signal obtained by receiving a photoacoustic wave generated in the subject by irradiating the subject with light, and a correction unit configured to correct the functional information of the image displayed on the display unit based on a first image value of the functional information of the image displayed on the display unit and a second image value of the functional information.
US11526979B2
There are provided system and method of classifying defects in a specimen. The method includes: obtaining one or more defect clusters detected on a defect map of the specimen, each cluster characterized by a set of cluster attributes comprising spatial attributes including spatial density indicative of density of defects in one or more regions accommodating the cluster, each given defect cluster being detected at least based on the spatial density thereof meeting a criterion. The defect map also comprises non-clustered defects. Defects of interest (DOI) are identified in each cluster by performing respective defect filtrations for each cluster and non-clustered defects.
US11526976B2
A first image of an electronic device is captured and processed in order to identify the electronic device. After identifying the electronic device, information is downloaded to a mobile device including specific wiring instructions for connecting the electronic device, which are superimposed onto an image of the electronic device to guide a user of the mobile device in wiring the electronic device. A second image of an at least partially wired electronic device may be captured and processed to ascertain whether there are any wiring errors. When wiring errors are found by the remote server, the mobile device receives a message from the remote server indicating the wiring errors that were found.
US11526974B2
A method for photographing an image performed by a computer device according to an embodiment of the present application includes obtaining a screen division value for photographing an image, classifying a photographing screen into a plurality of sections based on the screen division value, photographing a first image by focusing a first section among the plurality of sections, photographing a second image by focusing a second section among the plurality of sections and transmitting the first image and the second image to a server. According to the method, it is capable of reading whether an image is actually photographed without having a separate ToF module, and applicable to an outdoor environment on which interference from other light rays is strong.
US11526972B2
Described herein are technologies related to correcting image degradations in images. An image is received, and values for features that are usable to correct for image degradation associated with blur, noise, and low light conditions are generated by separate encoders based upon the received image. A fusion network learned by way of network architecture search fuses these values, and the fused values are employed to generate an improved image, such that the image degradations associated with blur, noise, and low light conditions are simultaneously corrected.
US11526970B2
A system and method for processing an input video while maintaining temporal consistency across video frames is provided. The method includes converting the input video from a first frame rate to a second frame rate, wherein the second frame rate is a faster frame rate than the first frame rate; generating processed frames of the input video at the second frame rate; and aggregating the processed frames using temporal sliding window aggregation to yield a processed output video at a third frame rate.
US11526969B2
A multi-spectrum based image fusion apparatus is disclosed, which includes a light acquisition device, an image processor, and an image sensor having five types of photosensitive channels. The five types of photosensitive channels including red, green and blue RGB channels, an infrared IR channel and a full-band W channel. The light acquisition device acquires target light corresponding to incident light. The image sensor converts the target light into an image signal through the RGB channels, the IR channel and the W channel. The image processor analyzes the image signal into RGB color signals and a brightness signal, and fuses the RGB color signals and the brightness signal to obtain a fused image. The collection of the channels based on which the RGB color signals and the brightness signal are obtained includes the five types of photosensitive channels.
US11526954B2
Embodiments described herein provide a user interface for interacting with a smart contract deployed to a blockchain. The user interface is custom-generated for each party to the smart contract. In particular, representations of actions that a particular party is enabled to perform and/or has already taken with respect to the smart contract are provided to that party via a user interface. A user experience generator queries the smart contract itself to determine which representations are to be provided to each party. The smart contract comprises functions and/or user experience annotations that indicate to the user experience generator which user interface representations should be provided to a particular user based on the party identity and/or the smart contract's state. The smart contract provides an event notification to the user experience generator, which prompts the user experience generator to query the smart contract to determine the allowed actions for a particular user.
US11526953B2
Aspects of the subject matter described in this specification are embodied in systems and methods that utilize machine-learning techniques to evaluate clinical trial data using one or more learning models trained to identify anomalies representing adverse events associated with a clinical trial investigation. In some implementations, investigation data collected at a clinical trial site is obtained. A set of models corresponding to the clinical trial site is selected. Each model included in the set of models is trained to identify, based on historical investigation data collected at the clinical trial site, a distinct set of one or more indicators that indicate a compliance risk associated with the investigation data. A score for the clinical trial site is determined based on the investigation data relative to the historical investigation data. The score represents a likelihood that the investigation data is associated with at least one indicator representing the compliance risk.
US11526951B2
A system may include one or more processor and memory coupled with the one or more processors that effectuates operations. The operations may include generating an interface (e.g., graphical) for a second user for a second profile to order food associated with a first profile of a first user during a period, wherein the period is designated by the first user; receiving an indication of a first order of food associated the first profile during the period; sending instructions to prepare the first order of food; receiving an indication that the first order is paid by an account associated with the first profile; receiving an indication of an address to deliver the food and an indication not to expose the address to the first profile (e.g., keep private, such as do NOT display or send the address); and sending instructions to display the progress in delivering the food to the address.
US11526950B1
A service engine determines that an entity meets a first nexus establishment condition for a first domain and a second nexus establishment condition for a second domain. The service engine then computes a first selected resource for the first domain and a second selected resource for the second domain. When the service engine determines that the entity no longer meets the second nexus establishment condition for the second domain, the service engine determines a nexus-ending date for the second domain. Prior to the nexus-ending date being satisfied, the service engine continues to compute the first selected resource for the first domain and the second selected resource for the second domain. In response to the nexus-ending date being satisfied, the service engine computes the first selected resource for the first domain but does not compute the second selected resource for the second domain.
US11526948B1
A computer system and method for processing insurance claim data to identify and recommend insurance policy modifications using informatic data from one or more informatic sensor devices relating to a dwelling. Analytical analysis is performed on the received informatic data to determine a dwelling assessment value regarding an insurance risk relating to the dwelling. Electronic data relating to an insurance policy associated with the dwelling is received by a computer processor and is electronically analyzed to determine insurance coverage and liability values for the dwelling as prescribed by the insurance policy. Predefined business rules are utilized by a computer processor using at least the dwelling assessment value and the determined insurance coverage and liability values for the dwelling to determine, and preferably recommend, one or more insurance products for inclusion with the insurance policy to mitigate insuree liability regarding the dwelling.
US11526946B2
A method, system and computer-readable medium are provided for facilitating a virtual inspection of an insurable area, the method including the steps of receiving an indication of a request from a user at a user mobile device to perform a virtual inspection of an insurable area, determining one or more information items needed with respect to the insurable area, providing a set of instructions to the user at the mobile device for capturing one or more image items based on the determined one or more information items, receiving a set of image items from the mobile device in response to the instructions and providing an insurance decision for the insurable area based on the received set of image items.
US11526943B1
System and techniques for delayed transaction matching are described herein. A received transaction request, that includes an original value used to match against another transaction request, has the original value modified to create a modified value that is less likely to match another transaction request. A data structure entry is written for the transaction request with corresponding value field in the entry including the modified value. After a time period, or a delay period, is elapsed, the entry is rewritten to change the modified value to the original value of the transaction request to end the delay applied to the transaction request.
US11526941B2
A method for generating a data structure, the data structure being used to generate an HLC or OHLC type symbol, the method includes receiving a plurality of prices, each price corresponding to a unique time within a time period, determining, from the received plurality of the prices, an open price corresponding to a start of the time period, a highest price corresponding to a first time within the time period, a lowest price corresponding to a second time within the time period, and a close price corresponding to an end of the time period, calculating a highest symbol position value indicating when the first time occurred between the start of the time period and the end of the time period, calculating a lowest symbol position value indicating when the second time occurred between the start of the time period and the end of the time period, and storing the time period, the open price, the highest price, the lowest price, the close price, the highest symbol position value, and the lowest symbol position value in association with one another in the data structure on a non-transitory computer readable medium.
US11526938B2
An embodiment of a method of providing financial data to a financial instrument smart contract in a distributed ledger system includes: receiving, by an oracle smart contract in the distributed ledger system, a transaction from the financial instrument smart contract, the transaction including registration data having an identification of financial data to be delivered and an identification of a schedule on which to deliver the financial data; generating a transaction including the financial data; and transmitting the generated transaction to at least one distributed node of the distributed ledger system according to the requested schedule.
US11526926B2
An information server determines, after receiving a service request from a user and based on first record information about the user registered with the information server, second record information about the user registered with a service apparatus providing selected service data information, which implements one-way communication of the record information about the user registered with the service apparatus to the information server. A subsequent information server may process service data by directly using the determined second record information about the user and the selected service data information. On the basis of ensuring that the user enjoys member benefits provided by the service apparatus, and without requiring the user to log into the information server and perform searching again, the number of times of interaction of the user with the server is reduced, and the user operation is simplified.
US11526920B2
A server automatically generates a response on behalf of second users to a request received from a first user. A first stage of matching is performed that includes determining which of the second users match a requested location and request type. A second stage of matching is performed for each second user that includes computing a value that quantifies a likelihood of the first user selecting that second user to fulfill the request, and determining a capacity of the second user to fulfill the request. Some of the second users are selected based at least in part on the computed value and the determined capacity of each of the second users. A response is automatically generating for each of the selected second users. The generated responses are transmitted to the first user.
US11526911B2
A method comprises providing an interface permitting a first user to control activation of a mobile information channel through which the first user can share access to content with a plurality of additional users, activating the mobile information channel responsive to input received from the first user via the interface, inserting content provided by the first user into the mobile information channel, receiving additional content relating to the mobile information channel from one or more of said additional users via one or more respective mobile devices associated with at least one wireless network, inserting at least a portion of the additional content into the mobile information channel, and integrating into the mobile information channel information associated with at least one wireless networking functionality of said at least one wireless network.
US11526899B2
Systems and methods for dynamic demand sensing in a supply chain in which constantly-updated data is used to select a machine learning model or retrain a pre-selected machine learning model, for forecasting sales of a product at a specific location. The updated data includes product information and geographic information.
US11526894B2
Systems and methods for universal item returns. A universal returns systems allows a user the ability to return an item via a distribution network whether the item was purchased at a retail location, delivered by the distribution network, or delivered by another entity. The universal returns system comprises a user interface a return request. Based on the return request, the system obtains transaction information, provides a return code, and allows scheduling item pick-up.
US11526884B2
A system and method for mobile device verification for an electronic application before providing a digital pass to an approved customer is disclosed. The method and system receives, at a store's customer credit application computer, an application for a new account, the application including a contact information for a customer's mobile device providing, from the store's customer credit application computer, the contact information for the customer's mobile device to a verification system to authenticate the customer's mobile device providing, from a credit account provider, a text to the customer's mobile device, the text causing the customer's mobile device to be subjected to a second authentication; receiving, at the customer's mobile device, a message that includes a link to the digital pass; and utilizing the link to receive the digital pass at a mobile wallet of the customer's mobile device.
US11526873B1
A method performed by an issuer computing system includes receiving identification information for a customer from a retailer computing system. The customer is pre-approved for a payment account based on the identification information. A request to open the pre-approved payment account is received. Account registration information for opening the payment account and a mobile device identifier associated with the customer is received. The customer is approved for opening the payment account based on the account registration information. The payment account is established for the customer. Establishing the payment account includes generating a payment token for the payment account. In response to establishing the payment account, the payment token is automatically provisioned to a mobile wallet associated with the mobile device based on the mobile device identifier.
US11526872B2
Systems and methods for secure and efficient transaction resolution and execution are provided. A method may include capturing, via a camera embedded in a smart card, an image of an object. The object may be associated with one of a plurality of service categories. The method may include processing the image and determining the service category, from the plurality of service categories, which is associated with the object. The method may also include determining a service provider that provides the service of the service category for a user associated with the smart card, and determining a monetary balance owed by the user to the service provider for the service. The method may also include executing a payment, via a wireless communication element that is embedded in the smart card, in the amount of the monetary balance, from an account associated with the user to the service provider.
US11526867B2
In an example embodiment, a method for push payment decision routing in relation to a transaction is provided. An example method comprises issuing a virtual payment identifier to a mobile device and receiving payment rules from a mobile device. The user-defined rules include parameters for invoking at least one push payment to be made via the virtual payment identifier for the transaction. Instructions to implement or pay for the transaction as a pull payment are received and, based on the rules, the transaction is completed or paid for a push payment.
US11526864B2
Alternative service access with operations including determining that a system has met a plurality of criteria, including the system having a battery level below a threshold, identifying a merchant, generating an authentication token for authorizing a payment using a payment provider, and sending the authentication token to the payment provider.
US11526862B2
Certain example embodiments provide systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for an interactive information technology (IT) kiosk that can be used to access IT services (e.g., live IT services) for computing hardware. For example, the interactive IT kiosk may include various ports for connecting computing hardware to establish a connection to a service center and/or to provide diagnostic data to the service center, a video camera, a display screen (e.g., a touchscreen display), a microphone, and/or the like. These hardware components may allow for a service center to provide IT services related to the computing hardware in real-time and may allow for real-time communication with a user of the interactive IT kiosk without consuming additional computing resources of the computing hardware.
US11526853B2
Techniques of configuring settings for automatic update of calendar items in an electronic calendar systems are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a server can receive and store update configuration records indicating that a change to a start date, start time, an end date, an end time, or location of a meeting would render a meeting update actionable. Upon receiving an incoming meeting update, the server can determine whether the incoming meeting update contains a change to one of a start date, start time, an end date, an end time or location. If true, the server can automatically modify, without any input from the recipient, a scheduled meeting appointment in the calendar folder of the recipient according to the received incoming meeting update.
US11526844B2
The present disclosure describes a computer-implemented method that includes: accessing data encoding historical records involving a plurality of materials within an enterprise network, the historical records indicating a consumption pattern of each material as well as a delivery pattern of each material; based on the consumption pattern, identifying one or more hubs to stock the plurality of materials for multiple customer plants in one or more regions of an enterprise network; based on the consumption pattern of each material, determining a quantity level for stocking the material at the one or more hubs to respond to a demand for the material from the one or more of the customer plants in the one or more regions; and based on the delivery pattern of each material, monitoring an estimated lead time to respond to the demand for the material being stocked at the one or more hubs and at the quantity level.
US11526843B2
A method for identifying a product removed from a cabinet includes detecting visual characteristics of the product removed from the cabinet by a camera within the cabinet. The method may include detecting an identifier on the product removed from the cabinet by an identifier sensor, and comparing the visual characteristics and the identifier to a database of product information. The product removed from the cabinet may be identified based on the comparison of the visual characteristics and the identifier to the database of product information.
US11526837B2
A delivery system for delivering a package to a delivery destination using a moving body, including a weather information acquiring unit that acquires weather information including information concerning weather at the delivery destination; and a judging unit that judges whether delivery of the package to the delivery destination by the moving body is possible, based on the weather information acquired by the weather information acquiring unit.
US11526829B1
Business management systems include business system platforms such as project management trackers, employee engagement software and so on. The system obtains inputs about an employee from at least one business system platform and estimates flight event risk status of the employee. Feedback is obtained from to make adjustments or corrections to the flight event risk status. The estimation involves the use of machine learning regression model that includes historical data and will also constantly update itself based on the feedback and the updated flight event risk status. The system also includes a tone analyzer to analyze the tone of messages posted by groups of employees in an organization. The groups of employees may belong to a business vertical, members of a club, project team, or the entire organization.
US11526827B2
Non-intrusive monitoring and workflow assessment to optimize manufacturing environments are described herein. The systems and method combines computer vision and energy load disaggregation to track worker activity and equipment usage and status. These events are then correlated to optimize workflows and energy efficiency.
US11526816B2
Systems and methods for controlling autonomous vehicles are provided. Assisted autonomy tasks facilitated by operators for a plurality of autonomous vehicles can be tracked in order to generate operator attributes for each of a plurality of operators. The attributes for an operator can be based on tracking one or more respective assisted autonomy tasks facilitated by the operator. The operator attributes can be used to facilitate enhanced remote operations for autonomous vehicles. For example, request parameters can be obtained in response to a request for remote assistance associated with an autonomous vehicle. An operator can be selected to assist with autonomy tasks for the autonomous vehicle based at least in part on the operator attributes for the operator and the request parameters associated with the request. Remote assistance for the first autonomous vehicle can be initiated, facilitated by the first operator in response to the request for remote assistance.
US11526812B2
An apparatus has a memory storing a reinforcement learning policy with an optimization component and a data collection component. The apparatus has a regularization component which applies regularization selectively between the optimization component of the reinforcement learning policy and the data collection component of the reinforcement learning policy. A processor carries out a reinforcement learning process by: triggering execution of an agent according to the policy and with respect to a first task; observing values of variables comprising: an observation space of the agent, an action of the agent; and updating the policy using reinforcement learning according to the observed values and taking into account the regularization.
US11526808B2
A method may include applying, to a corpus of data, a first machine learning technique to identify candidate domains of an ontology mapping brain structure to mental function. The corpus of data may include textual data describing a plurality of mental functions and spatial data corresponding to a plurality of brain structures. A second machine technique may be applied to optimize a quantity of domains included in the ontology and/or a quantity of mental function terms included in each domain. The ontology may be applied to phenotype an electronic medical record and predict a clinical outcome for a patient associated with the electronic medical record. Related systems and articles of manufacture, including computer program products, are also provided.
US11526790B2
Embodiments determine anomalies in sensor data generated by a sensor by receiving an evaluation time window of clean sensor data generated by the sensor. Embodiments receive a threshold value for determining anomalies. When the clean sensor data has a cyclic pattern, embodiments divide the evaluation time window into a plurality of segments of equal length, wherein each equal length comprises the cyclic pattern. When the clean sensor data does not have the cyclic pattern, embodiments divide the evaluation time window into a pre-defined number of plurality of segments of equal length. Embodiments convert the evaluation time window and each of the plurality of segments into corresponding curves using Kernel Density Estimation (“KDE”). For each of the plurality of segments, embodiments determine a Kullback-Leibler (“KL”) divergence value between corresponding curves of the segment and the evaluation time window to generate a plurality of KL divergence values.
US11526788B2
An approach for determining a veracity of a reported event is provided. In an embodiment, a set of predictor variables is retrieved from a selected use case. Each of these predictor values is a condition that indicates the veracity of the reported event. In addition, a set of hidden predictor variables is generated from a set of unstructured documents related to the reported event using a hidden Markov model that is based on the predictor variables using a cognitive system. These hidden predictor variables are combined with the set of predictor variables to generate a set of updated predictor variables. These updated predictor variables are used by the cognitive system to return a determination of the veracity of the reported event.
US11526785B2
Techniques for performing predictability-driven compression of training data sets used for machine learning (ML) are provided. In one set of embodiments, a computer system can receive a training data set comprising a plurality of data instances and can train an ML model using the plurality of data instances, the training resulting in a trained version of the ML model. The computer system can further generate prediction metadata for each data instance in the plurality of data instances using the trained version of the ML model and can compute a predictability measure for each data instance based on the prediction metadata, the predictability measure indicating a training value of the data instance. The computer system can then filter one or more data instances from the plurality of data instances based on the computed predictability measures, the filtering resulting in a compressed version of the training data set.
US11526778B2
Aspects of the present disclosure provide for future user device preference prediction based on telecom data. In one aspect, a computer-implemented method includes collecting the telecom data from at least one node of a wireless communication network, where the telecom data includes records for a plurality of occurrences of user interaction with the wireless communication network via a respective current user device. The telecom data is then applied to a predictive model to obtain a prediction of future user device preferences. The prediction of the future user device preferences may include an indication that a user will switch from the respective current user device to another user device for future use with the wireless communication network. The method further includes performing an action with respect to the wireless communication network in response to the prediction of future user device preferences.
US11526776B1
A system and method for generating predictions of geopolitical events is provided. Predictions may be generated by retrieving relevant metadata associated with a content item and evaluating one or more signals representative of the same.
US11526775B2
The disclosed technology includes systems and methods for automatically generating a dynamic system context diagram based on machine-readable code. A method can include receiving, at a rules engine, machine-readable code describing interactions among a plurality of applications in software architecture, evaluating, with the rules engine in communication with a system of record (SoR), compliance of the interactions among the plurality of applications according to the SoR, identifying, with the rules engine, and based on compliance evaluation, one or more dependencies among the plurality of applications, generating, with an output engine, a system context diagram image comprising a graphical representation of the plurality of applications with associated interactions and dependencies, and outputting, for display, the system context diagram image.
US11526774B2
Disclosed is a method for automatically compressing multi-task oriented pre-trained language model and a platform thereof. According to the method, a meta-network of a structure generator is designed, a knowledge distillation coding vector is constructed based on a knowledge distillation method of Transformer layer sampling, and a distillation structure model corresponding to a currently input coding vector is generated by using the structure generator; at the same time, a Bernoulli distribution sampling method is provided for training the structure generator; in each iteration, each encoder unit is transferred by Bernoulli distribution sampling to form a corresponding coding vector; by changing the coding vector input to the structure generator and a small batch of training data, the structure generator and the corresponding distillation structure are jointly trained, and a structure generator capable of generating weights for different distillation structures can be acquired.
US11526771B2
A big data analysis system may include a big data repository communicatively coupled to a data accumulation server and a predictive graph processing system. The data accumulation server may be configured to receive information from a plurality of data sources, the information corresponding to user interaction with one or more computing devices associated with an organization via a networked computing system, store the information received from the plurality of sources in the big data repository; and monitor the plurality of data sources to update the data stored in the big data repository. The predictive graph processing system is configured to receive information stored in the big data repository, transform the information received from the big data repository into a predictive graph data set based on a predictive model, and store the predictive graph data set to a visualization data repository.
US11526769B2
A controller, responsive to detecting geospatial and temporal information associated with a mention of an entity in a document, for converting the geospatial information into a specified geospatial format and the temporal information into a specified temporal format. The controller for computing prefix-based geospatial values for the converted geospatial information and prefix-based temporal values for the converted temporal information. The controller for encoding an entry in a knowledge graph for the mention of the entity from the document with the prefix-based geospatial values and the prefix-based temporal values, wherein each digit of the prefix-based geospatial values and the prefix-based temporal values in the knowledge graph that matches another one or more prefix-based geospatial values and another one or more prefix-based temporal values in another entry for another entity mention in the knowledge graph reflects a degree of granularity of geotemporal proximity of the entity and the another entity.
US11526765B2
Various embodiments of systems and methods for attention models with random features for multi-layered graph embeddings are disclosed.
US11526763B2
A neuromorphic system includes a first neuromorphic layer configured to perform a forward operation with an input signal and a first weight, a first operation circuit configured to perform a first operation on a result of the forward operation of the first neuromorphic layer, a second neuromorphic layer configured to perform a forward operation with an output signal of the first operation circuit and a second weight, a second operation circuit configured to perform a second operation on a result of the forward operation of the second neuromorphic layer, a first weight adjustment amount calculation circuit configured to calculate a first weight adjustment amount, and a second weight adjustment amount calculation circuit configured to calculate a second weight adjustment amount.
US11526749B2
A method and system for activity classification. A pressure sensor receives input data resulting from physical activity of a subject performing an activity. The input data includes pressure data from at least one pressure sensor, and may include other data acquired through other types of sensors. A deep learning neural network is applied to the input data for identifying the activity. The neural network is trained with reference to training data from a training database. The training data may include empirical data from a database of previous data of corresponding activities, synthesized data prepared from the empirical data or simulated data. The training data may include data from physical activity of the subject being monitored by the system. Different aspects of the neural network may be trained with reference to the training data, and some aspects may be locked or opened depending on the application and the circumstances.
US11526747B2
A system for training a deep learning system to detect engine knock with accuracy associated with high fidelity knock detection sensors despite using data from a low fidelity knock detection sensor. The system includes an engine, a high fidelity knock detection sensor, a low fidelity knock detection sensor, and an electronic processor. The electronic processor is configured to receive first data from the high fidelity knock detection sensor. The electronic processor is also configured to receive second data from the low fidelity knock detection sensor. The electronic processor is further configured to map the first data to the second data, train the deep learning system, using training data including the mapped data, to determine a predicted peak pressure using data from the low fidelity knock detection sensor, receive third data from the low fidelity knock detection sensor, and using the third data, determine the predicted peak pressure.
US11526744B2
Methods, apparatuses, and embodiments related to a technique for monitoring construction of a structure. In an example, a robot with a sensor, such as a LIDAR device, enters a building and obtains sensor readings of the building. The sensor data is analyzed and components related to the building are identified. The components are mapped to corresponding components of an architect's three dimensional design of the building, and the installation of the components is checked for accuracy. When a discrepancy above a certain threshold is detected, an error is flagged and project managers are notified. Construction progress updates do not give credit for completed construction that includes an error, resulting in improved accuracy progress updates and corresponding improved accuracy for project schedule and cost estimates.
US11526733B2
Systems, architectures, and approaches for use with neural networks. An execution block and a system architecture using a novel execution block are disclosed along with how such an execution block can be used. The execution block uses a fully connected stack of layers and parameters of this fully connected stack of layers are shared. The fully connected nature of the block and on-the-fly generated parameters allow for bypassing specialized training data sets. The system may be trained using non-task-specific training data sets and this allows the system to transfer what is learned to execute a different task. Thus, instead of having to obtain a specialized training data set for a specific task, a more generic training data set can be used to train and prepare the system for that specific task. Results have shown that performance is as good as than the state of the art in providing solutions.
US11526731B2
A new approach is proposed to support efficient convolution for deep learning by vectorizing multi-dimensional input data for multi-dimensional fast Fourier transform (FFT) and direct memory access (DMA) for data transfer. Specifically, a deep learning processor (DLP) includes a plurality of tensor engines each configured to perform convolution operations by applying one or more kernels on multi-dimensional input data for pattern recognition and classification based on a neural network, wherein each tensor engine includes, among other components, one or more vector processing engines each configured to vectorize the multi-dimensional input data at each layer of the neural network to generate a plurality of vectors and to perform multi-dimensional FFT on the generated vectors and/or the kernels to create output for the convolution operations. Each tensor engine further includes a data engine configured to prefetch the multi-dimensional data and/or the kernels to both on-chip and external memories via DMA.
US11526723B2
A pixel feature vector extraction system for extracting multi-scale features contains a cellular neural networks (CNN) based integrated circuit (IC) for extracting pixel feature vector out of input imagery data by performing convolution operations using pre-trained filter coefficients of ordered convolutional layers in a deep learning model. The ordered convolutional layers are organized in a number of groups with each group followed by a pooling layer. Each group is configured for a different size of feature map. Pixel feature vector contains a combination of feature maps from at least two groups, for example, concatenation of the feature maps. The first group of the at least two groups contains the largest size of the feature maps amongst all of the at least two groups. Feature maps of the remaining of the at least two groups are modified to match the size of the feature map of the first group.
US11526721B1
A vehicle can capture data that can be converted into a synthetic scenario for use in a simulator. Objects can be identified in the data and attribute data associated with the objects can be determined. Updated attribute data may be determined based on confidence values and/or distance measurements associated with the attribute data. The object and attribute data may be used to generate synthetic scenarios of a simulated environment, including simulated objects that traverse the environment and perform actions based on the attribute data associated with the simulated objects, the captured data, and/or interactions within the simulated environment. The scenarios can be used for testing and validating interactions and responses of a vehicle controller within the simulated environment.
US11526716B2
A server is used to receive a barcode generation request sent by an end-user device. The server is used to generate, based on the barcode generation request, at least two pieces of barcode information by using at least two code systems, respectively. The server is used to transmit a barcode generation response to the end-user device, where the barcode generation response includes the at least two pieces of barcode information, where the barcode generation response causes an application running on the end-user device to display on the end-user device, alternately, a respective barcode image corresponding to each piece of the at least two pieces of barcode information.
US11526712B2
A training method for an image fusion processing model is provided. The method includes: obtaining an image set, and compressing the image set, updating a parameter of an encoder of a single image processing model and a parameter of a decoder of the single image processing model according to a single to-be-replaced face in the original image set, and updating parameters of an encoder and a decoder that are of the image fusion processing model according to different to-be-replaced faces and different target faces that are in the original image set while the parameters of the encoder and the decoder that are of the single image processing model remain unchanged. An image processing method and apparatus for an image fusion processing model, an electronic device, and a storage medium are further provided.
US11526709B2
An information processing method in which an object of interest is classified using node group information defining a node group having modeled a scheme of classification as a tree structure and having grouped nodes possessing a same parent node, comprises: setting depth information for determining whether to perform classification for a particular node group when sequentially traversing node groups from the parent node using the node group information to classify the object of interest; and classifying the object of interest by sequentially traversing node groups from the parent node using the node group information, and providing a classification result, wherein classifying the object of interest varies a depth up to which node groups are sequentially traversed from the parent node to classify the object of interest, in accordance with setting of the depth information.
US11526708B2
An information processing device includes a processor. The processor obtains an input image, inputs the input image to a machine learning model that executes classification likelihood calculation processing to obtain, for each of candidate objects in the input image, likelihoods of belonging to the plurality of classes, executes first determination on whether or not each of the candidate objects is classified as a first class of the plurality of classes using a likelihood of belonging to the first class that is a likelihood having a negative correlation with likelihoods of belonging to other classes, executes second determination on whether or not each of the candidate objects that have been determined in the first determination as a non-first class is classified as the other classes, and outputting a result of classifying the candidate objects included in the input image using a result of the second determination.
US11526701B2
A method and system for performing semi or fully automatic data imbalance detection and correction in training a machine-learning (ML) model includes receiving a request to train the ML model, receiving access to a dataset for use in training the ML model, identifying a feature of the dataset for which data imbalance detection is to be performed, examining the dataset to determine a distribution of the feature across the dataset, determining if the distribution of the feature across the dataset indicates data imbalance, upon determining that the distribution of the feature across the dataset indicates data imbalance, identifying a desired distribution for the identified feature, selecting a subset of the dataset that corresponds with the selected feature and the desired distribution, and using the subset to train the ML model.
US11526696B2
A model maintenance device according to an embodiment performs maintenance of a model for pattern recognition used in label estimation of target data for recognition. The model maintenance device includes a generating unit, an evaluating unit, and an updating determining unit. The generating unit generates a new model using learning data. The evaluating unit evaluates the performance of the new model using evaluation data classified into a first group, from among evaluation data classified into a plurality of groups, and calculates a first performance evaluation value; and evaluates performance of the new model using evaluation data classified into a second group, from among the evaluation data classified into a plurality of groups, and calculates a second performance evaluation value. Based on the first performance evaluation value and the second performance evaluation value, the updating determining unit determines whether or not the existing model should be updated with the new model.
US11526689B2
Few-shot learning of repetitive human tasks is performed. Sliding window-based temporal segmentation is performed of sensor data for a plurality of cycles of a repetitive task. Motion alignment is performed of the plurality of cycles, the motion alignment mapping portions of the plurality of cycles to corresponding portions of other of the plurality of cycles. Categories are constructed for each of the corresponding portions of the plurality of cycles according to the motion alignment. Meta-training is performed to teach a model according to data sampled from a labeled set of human motions and the categories for each of the corresponding portions, the model utilizing a bidirectional long short-term memory (LSTM) network to account for length variation between the plurality of cycles. The model is used to perform temporal segmentation on a data stream of sensor data in real time for predicting motion windows within the data stream.
US11526683B2
One embodiment of the present invention relates to a method for a reader to transmit and receive a signal to and from a tag, the method comprising: a step in which a first reader transmits a first signal to a tag; and a step in which the first reader receives the first signal reflected on the tag. The timing for the first reader to transmit the first signal is determined by using an offset value based on an ID related to the first reader.
US11526682B2
One example embodiment is a device which includes a non-conductive substrate and at least one touchpoint. The substrate has an external surface. The touchpoint includes a conductive pad disposed on the external surface, and a conductive line that has a first end and a second end. The first end makes electrical contact with the conductive pad and the second end extends spatially away from the first end to a pre-determined distance. When the external surface of the non-conductive substrate is placed in proximity to a touch surface, the conductive pad triggers a touch event on the touch surface such that a coordinate of the conductive pad relative to the touch surface is determined.
US11526679B2
Systems and methods are provided for facilitating the building and use of natural language understanding models. The systems and methods identify a plurality of tokens and use them to generate one or more pre-trained natural language models using a transformer. The transformer disentangles the content embedding and positional embedding in the computation of its attention matrix. Systems and methods are also provided to facilitate self-training of the pre-trained natural language model by utilizing multi-step decoding to better reconstruct masked tokens and improve pre-training convergence.
US11526664B2
Embodiments of this application provide a message digest generation method and apparatus, and a storage medium. The generation method is performed by an electronic device, and includes: obtaining a plurality of associated messages from a to-be-processed message set; generating a function label distribution model, a sentiment label distribution model, a word category label distribution model, and a word sentiment polarity label distribution model corresponding to each of the plurality of associated messages; determining, based on the function label distribution model, the sentiment label distribution model, the word category label distribution model, and the word sentiment polarity label distribution model, a distribution probability that a category of a word included in the plurality of associated messages is a subject content word; and generating a digest of the plurality of associated messages according to the distribution probability of the subject content word.
US11526650B1
A system includes one or more processors and a computer storage medium storing instructions that cause a machine to perform operations including accessing an integrated circuit (IC) design including an initial clock tree. The operations include selecting a first driver to evaluate for resizing, the first driver being a first size and having a first leakage current and determining a baseline power consumption measurement of clock tree based on the first size and the first leakage current of the first driver. The operations include identifying a plurality of replacement drivers to replace the first driver and determining a power consumption measurement for a second driver. Based on determining that the power consumption measurement for the second driver is less than the baseline power consumption measurement replacing the first driver with the second driver and generating a layout instance based on the second driver.
US11526649B2
A method of making an integrated circuit includes operations to identify reverse signal nets of the circuit layout, determine the parasitic capacitance in conductive lines, and determine how to adjust an integrated circuit layout to reduce the parasitic capacitance of the conductive lines to the reverse signal net. The method further includes an operation to determine whether to move one of the conductive lines in the integrated circuit layout, an operation to determine whether to insert an isolation structure between the conductive lines of the reverse signal net having parasitic capacitance, and operations to adjust the layout by moving a conductive line.
US11526644B2
The disclosure provides using test processors to provide a more flexible solution compared to the existing DFX blocks that are used for controlling test networks in chips. The test processors provide a highly flexible solution since programming of the test processors can be changed at any time; even after manufacturing, and can support practically an unlimited number of core chips in any configuration. The high flexibility provided via the test processors can reduce engineering effort needed in design and verification, accelerate schedules, and may prevent additional tapeouts in case of DFX design bugs. By making debug and diagnosis easier by providing an opportunity to change debug behavior as needed, the time-to-market timeline can be accelerated. Accordingly, the disclosure provides a chip with a test processor, a multi-chip processing system with a test processor, and a method of designing a chip having a test processor.
US11526643B1
Formal verification methods are used to solve a valid model of a design-under-test (DUT) to enumerate valid coverage points based on an architectural specification of the DUT. A formal solver can be queried to solve for valid solutions by crossing one or more fields of a variable. After each valid solve, values of the variable fields can be recorded and a count for number of valid solutions can be incremented. A new rule can be added to the solving process after each valid solve to invalidate the recorded values of the variable fields for subsequent solves. The count for the number of valid solutions can provide a running total of the valid solutions found for the query. Results of the query can be processed to convert the recorded values to provide the enumerated coverage points. The enumerated coverage points can be converted to test cases for running simulations on the DUT.
US11526641B2
Some aspects of this disclosure are directed to implementing formal gated clock conversion for field programmable gate array (FPGA) synthesis. For example, some aspects of this disclosure relate to a method, including receiving network representation of a circuit design, determining a gated clock function corresponding to a target component of the network representation, and constructing an edge function based at least in part on the gated clock function. The method further includes performing a minimization of the edge function, and in response to a determination that the minimization of the edge function comprises a first term and a second term, providing a clock enable signal to the target component based on the first term, and providing a clock signal to the target component based on the second term.
US11526639B2
A fractional-order KiBaM battery model considering nonlinear capacity characteristics and a parameter identification method includes a temporary capacity portion and an available capacity portion for describing nonlinear capacity characteristics of a battery, wherein the temporary capacity portion represents the power that can be directly obtained during the discharge, indicating the state of charge (SOC) of the battery; the available capacity portion represents the power that cannot be directly obtained, and such two portions are connected; when the battery is discharged, the load current i flows out from the temporary capacity portion, and a power passing rate coefficient of such capacity portions is obtained; and the nonlinear capacity effect and recovery effect of the battery are denoted by the height ratio of the temporary capacity and available capacity portions in view of the magnitude of the fractional order of battery capacity characteristics.
US11526637B2
An information processing apparatus includes a receiving unit configured to receive input of shape data of a device that is a subject of a thermal analysis, a selection unit configured to select a modeling method for a component included in the device, a generation unit configured to generate a thermal network model of the component from the shape data based on the selected modeling method, an addition unit configured to add a node and an element to the thermal network model, a setting unit configured to set a boundary condition to the thermal network model, a determination unit configured to determine a physical quantity of the thermal network model, and a display unit configured to display the determined physical quantity.
US11526636B2
Methods and systems relating to the design and testing of systems that include hinged flight control surfaces of aircraft are disclosed. The systems and methods disclosed herein make use of a structural model representing a structural environment of the system in a relatively simple manner. In various embodiments, the structural model comprises one or more actuation branches having a common linear actuation direction, a load mass, and a massless connector representative of a hinge line of the flight control surface. The massless connector is connected to and disposed between the one or more actuation branches and the load mass and is movable along the common linear actuation direction so that linear movement of the massless connector is correlated to rotational movement of the hinged flight control surface.
US11526629B2
The disclosure herein describes a method and a system for providing data privacy based on customized cookie consent. The proposed customized cookie consent system enables user's data privacy by facilitating the user to customize a plurality of features for each individual cookie, wherein a cookie is customized for multiple features that includes a consent and expiry customization, a drill down at individual cookie, an online masking unmasking cookie data—an offline masking-unmasking cookie data, a consent lineage and a data subject rights for cookie data that further include data access, data portability, right to erasure based on machine learning techniques. Further the customized cookie consent system also provides recommendation for data privacy and obscured cookies using machine learning techniques.
US11526618B2
A method may include transferring data from a host to an encryption offload engine through an interconnect fabric, encrypting the data from the host at the encryption offload engine, and transferring the encrypted data from the encryption offload engine to a storage device through a peer-to-peer connection in the interconnect fabric. The method may further include transferring the encrypted data from the storage device to the encryption offload engine through a peer-to-peer connection in the interconnect fabric, decrypting the encrypted data from the storage device at the encryption offload engine, and transferring the decrypted data to the host through the interconnect fabric. The method may further include transferring the encrypted data from the storage device to the host, and verifying the encryption of the encrypted data at the host.
US11526613B2
A computer system has a separation mechanism which enforces separation between at least two execution environments such that one execution environment is a gatekeeper which interposes on all communications of the other execution environment. The computer system has an attestation mechanism which enables the gatekeeper to attest to properties of the at least two execution environments. A first one of the execution environments runs application specific code which may contain security vulnerabilities. The gatekeeper is configured to enforce an input output policy on the first execution environment by interposing on all communication to and from the first execution environment by forwarding, modifying or dropping individual ones of the communications according to the policy. The gatekeeper provides evidence of attestation both for the application specific code and the policy.
US11526610B2
A method and apparatus utilize a peer-to-peer network of security nodes collectively adhering to a protocol for inter-node communication. The system is comprised a plurality of first security nodes, at least one second security node, and at least one third security node. The plurality of first security nodes receive at least one of pre-trained detection models and rules, monitor at least one of a blockchain and connected devices for malicious behavior based on the received at least one of pre-trained detection models and rules, and report the malicious behavior. The at least one second security node creates and communicates the at least one of pre-trained detection models and rules to the plurality of first security nodes. The at least one third security node is informed by the at least one second security node of the reported malicious behavior.
US11526608B2
Methods and systems for determining an affiliation of a given software with target software are provided. The method comprises: receiving a software source code of the given software; executing the software source code in an isolated program environment to identify at least one outgoing request of the given software, the at least one outgoing request being indicative of at least one respective function of the software source code; generating, based on the at least one outgoing request, a respective function identifier associated with the at least one respective function; applying at least one classifier to the respective function identifier to determine a likelihood parameter indicative of the given software being affiliated to a respective target software; in response to the likelihood parameter being equal to or greater than a predetermined likelihood parameter threshold: identifying the given software as being affiliated to the respective target software.
US11526603B2
Disclosed herein is a system that implements a model for automatic discovery and identification of a person who is most relevant to handle a notification generated for a resource based on a triggered event. The model accesses an activity log for the resource to identify operations that are relevant to a type of the event. The operations are performed by different users (e.g., owners of the shared resource). The model then calculates an operation relevance score for each of the operations and a user relevance score for each of the different users. The user relevance scores are used to identify a most relevant person from the different users. Contact information for the most relevant person (e.g., name, email address, phone number) is added to the notification so that a person that first views the notification can efficiently forward the notification to the person best positioned to deal with the event.
US11526601B2
A method for detecting and/or preventing an adversarial attack against a target machine learning model may be provided. The method may include training, based at least on training data, a defender machine learning model to enable the defender machine learning model to identify malicious input samples. The trained defender machine learning model may be deployed at the target machine learning model. The trained defender machine learning model may be coupled with the target machine learning model to at least determine whether an input sample received at the target machine learning model is a malicious input sample and/or a legitimate input sample. Related systems and articles of manufacture, including computer program products, are also provided.
US11526599B2
One or more computer processors collect logs containing one or more admission requests associated with a new application installation in an empty namespace, wherein the empty namespace is a sandbox representative of a production environment. The one or more computer processors classify the one or more admission requests according to a set of conditions indicating respective levels of trust. The one or more computer processors create a set of candidates for signing containing admissions requests that are classified unsigned. The one or more computer processors generate a security policy for each candidate for signing in the set of candidates for signing.
US11526589B2
A wearable device includes an audio system. In one embodiment, the audio system includes a sensor array that includes a plurality of acoustic sensors. When a user wears the wearable device, the audio system determines an acoustic transfer function for the user based upon detected sounds within a local area surrounding the sensor array. Because the acoustic transfer function is based upon the size, shape, and density of the user's body (e.g., the user's head), different acoustic transfer functions will be determined for different users. The determined acoustic transfer functions are compared with stored acoustic transfer functions of known users in order to authenticate the user of the wearable device.
US11526587B2
A user of a client can access an application using privileged credentials without having direct access to or knowledge of the privileged credentials. The user's access to the application can also be monitored using a custom protocol including recording the user's interactions with the application while logged in with the privileged credentials.
US11526586B2
The herein disclosed technology provides methods and systems that utilize machine learning solutions to identify web-based channels that are sources pirated copyright material, such as by using a machine learning classifier that is trained on historical copyright piracy data and channel features that may be determined and analyzed for each of a collection of channels without analyzing video or audio content of the channel.
US11526573B1
Example embodiments include a controlled content repository, wherein the controlled content repository is accessible according to an access protocol, wherein the access protocol comprises at least one set of access rules, wherein the access protocol enables determining if first data associated with a first object and second data associated with a second object can be made available to a first computing device; a data structure for storing a first object and a second object; and a controlling computing device, in communication with the controlled content repository, for providing the first data associated with the first object and the second data associated with the second object to the first computing device after determining that the first data associated with the first object and the second data associated with the second object is authorized to be made available to the first computing device in accordance with the access protocol.
US11526569B2
Aspects of the technology evaluate places that are familiar to a given user in order to provide contextualized location information about other places of interest. This may include evaluating the actual number of visits by the given user to one or more locations in a given geographical area. For instance, places that have been visited a sufficient number of times within a particular timeframe are identified as personal landmarks for that user. Thus, when the user searches for a specific place or otherwise requests results that fit a query, the system can use the personalized landmark information to help rank search results and to provide location cues to aid the user to quickly and efficiently arrive at the location of the search result. Personal landmarks are necessarily familiar to the user, and thus can reduce the number of turn-by-turn directions or simplify the graphical interface of the client device.
US11526560B2
As typical databases evolve and the schema defining the stored data changes, difficulties arise in interfacing with the database and compatibility to applications may be lost. Provided for are methods for retrieving data stored in a database using versioned reference perspectives of edges, which define relationships between nodes. The methods provide for backwards-compatibility in accessing node-data stored in accordance with a pre-defined schema based upon a request including a version identifier. Also provided for are backend systems, frontend systems, and industrial machines for the manipulation of work products.
US11526556B2
One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods for presenting content of an application are provided. For example, a first content interface, associated with an application, may be displayed using a first device. First activity performed using the first content interface may be detected. The first activity may be analyzed to generate a first activity profile associated with the first content interface. A first request to access the application may be received from the first device. The first activity profile may be selected from a plurality of activity profiles associated with the user account, based upon a determination that the first request is associated with the first content interface. Content items of the content items database may be prioritized, based upon the first activity profile, to generate a list of content items associated with the first content interface. The list of content items may be displayed by the first device.
US11526554B2
The subject matter of this specification generally relates to preventing the distribution of forbidden network content. In one aspect, a system includes a front-end server that receives content for distribution over a data communication network. The back-end server identifies, in the query log, a set of received queries for which a given forbidden term was used to identify a search result in response to the received query even though the given forbidden term was not included in queries included in the set of received queries. The back-end server classifies, as variants of the given forbidden term, a term from one or more queries in the set of received queries that caused a search engine to use the given forbidden term to identify one or more search results in response to the one or more queries and prevents distribution of content that includes a variant.
US11526553B2
Described are systems and methods for automatically generating, by a computing device, a regular expression that matches a list of input strings. A method includes identifying a set of baseline regular expression classes that match a portion of an input string of the list of input strings. The method further generates a current regular expression as a sequence of baseline regular expression classes from the set of baseline regular expression classes based on matching baseline regular expression classes to characters of a first input string of the list of input strings. The method further determines whether the current regular expression matches all input strings of the list of input strings, and if it does not, the method regenerates a portion of the current regular expression that occurs after an earliest character, in order, of one of the one or more input strings, that does not match the current regular expression.
US11526550B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a system for building intelligent data communications. The system is configured for performing frequency based extraction of data from at least one entity data source, indexing the data extracted from the at least one entity data source, in response to indexing the data, correlating the data extracted from the at least one entity data source, receiving a data input from a user, in response to receiving the data input, generating at least one data output based on indexed and correlated data, and presenting the at least one data output to the user.
US11526549B2
Methods, systems, and techniques for performing a facet search include receiving facet search commencement user input indicating that a search for a facet is to commence; in response to the facet search commencement user input, searching one or more video recordings for the facet; and displaying, on a display, facet image search results depicting the facet, wherein the facet image search results are selected from the one or more video recordings. An artificial neural network may be used for the facet search, and that network may be trained by generating a facet image training set that comprises training images, with the training images depicting a type of facet common to the training images; and training, by using the facet image training set, that neural network to classify the type of facet when a sample image comprising the type of facet is input to that network.
US11526545B2
A method of processing a cover page image of multimedia information, a client and an electronic device are provided. The method includes acquiring initial cover page images of N pieces of second multimedia information following first multimedia information, where the first multimedia information is displayed on a current display interface of the client, the N pieces of second multimedia information are not displayed on the current display interface of the client, and N is an integer greater than or equal to 1, performing a super-resolution processing on the initial cover page images of the N pieces of second multimedia information, to obtain super-resolution cover page images of the N pieces of second multimedia information, and displaying the super-resolution cover page images of the second multimedia information, in a case that the second multimedia information enters the current display interface.
US11526541B1
A knowledge base is collaboratively developed by receiving language input from at least one editor, featurizing it into language elements, extracting predicate sets that are missing predicate arguments, querying editors for input regarding the missing arguments, and updating the knowledge base with suitable predicate arguments and other language elements provided by the editors.
US11526530B2
Provide is a visualization system that enables generation of a “dashboard” of individual visualizations. In further embodiments, the system enables users to quickly and easily generate these visualizations and integrate complex filters, queries, aggregations, etc., with simple UI input. The visualizations can be provided as a service that requests information from an underlying database. The database itself may also be hosted as a service, permitting granular and native database functions layered with the visualization architecture. The system can support additional functionality and access management to generate visualizations that can be shared with other users and/or integrated into websites, blogs, etc. The system can handle the complex logic, data interactions, dynamic data transformation, dynamic authorization, etc., needed to manage data rules (e.g., access rules layered over database permission based control, summarization/aggregation requirements, etc.) for any data being rendered in individual visualization and/or the dashboard of multiple visualizations.
US11526526B2
In some embodiments, a program generates a query for a set of data from a dataset. The dataset includes a set of measures and a plurality of dimensions for categorizing the set of measures. The set of data includes a set of locations and measure values for a measure in the set of measures categorized according to a dimension in the plurality of dimensions. The program further sends the query to a computing system configured to manage the dataset. The program also receives the set of data from the computing system. The program further renders a visualization comprising a set of visual elements. Each visual element is configured to present a set of measure values for the measure associated with a location in the set of locations. The set of measure values are categorized according to the dimension. The program also presents the visualization on a display of the device.
US11526523B2
At least some embodiments are directed to an entity matching detection system. The entity matching detection system includes a latent similarity identification machine learning model that receives one or more data records and generates a final similarity score indicative of a latent similarity between the one or more data records and a second data record. The entity matching detection system can identify lexical and semantic similarities between attribute values and can analyze and compute similarity scores for direct-linked attribute values and cross-linked attribute values extracted from different data records.
US11526515B2
Techniques include integrating a custom ontology into a semantic search function, the semantic search function being configured to perform a semantic search over a corpus enriched with a separate ontology. The semantic search function is executed using the custom ontology to perform the semantic search of the corpus. Results are generated from the semantic search of the corpus based on input received by the semantic search function.
US11526510B2
Methods and systems are provided for searching time series information in a distributed data processing system. A method of processing a semantic search query comprises receiving a structured search query, processing the structured search query to deconstruct into query elements, identifying a set of connected elements based on the query elements, processing a time series data structure of the identified set of connected elements to determine a command data element, utilizing the command data element to process the time series data structure of the identified set of connected elements, annotating the time series data structure of each of the identified set of connected elements to form a queried data set, and providing the queried data set.
US11526509B2
An embodiment of the invention may include a method, computer program product and system for processing a natural language query. An embodiment may include receiving text of the natural language query. An embodiment may include extracting a set of features from the text through natural language processing. An embodiment may include generating a structured query based on the set of features. An embodiment may include normalizing the text to create a normalized natural language query. An embodiment may include executing a search of a corpus via the structured query and the normalized natural language query. An embodiment may include returning results of the search.
US11526506B2
A system a module that is configured to cause a processor to obtain a set of file references that are configured to access files associated with a first computing system, where the set of file references include a references to the target file and one or more source files. The module is further configured to cause the processor to retrieve the target file and the one or more source files and to partition the target file and the one or more source files into respective first set of tokens and second set of tokens. The module is further configured to cause the processor to identify, based on the first set of tokens and the second set of tokens, at least one source file of the one or more source files that contain a threshold quantity of tokens of the target file.
US11526501B2
The present disclosure relates to a method comprising incorporating a utilization level field for a set of materialized views of database system in a database catalog of the database system. A computer process may be generated to run during a defined time period on a spare host of the database system. The computer process is configured to monitor utilization of the set of materialized views and to collect data of utilized materialized views in a dedicated registry. A check if each materialized view of the set of materialized views is present in the registry may be periodically be performed. The utilization level of a materialized view may be adapted based on its collected data in the registry. A check in catalog utilization levels of the set of materialized views may periodically be performed and based on the utilization levels utilization of the set of materialized views may be adapted.
US11526499B2
An example system includes a processor to receive updates for a database of a publish and subscribe system. The processor is to generate an optimistic update based on the received updates. The processor is also to adaptively update the database using the optimistic update. In some examples, the processor generates a bulk optimistic update based on the optimistic update and adaptively updates the database using the bulk optimistic update or a read-modify-write sequence.
US11526495B2
A method and apparatus for processing a write-ahead log (WAL) in a storage device that records a WAL set key-value pair and a status key-value pair include determining a status of the WAL set key-value pair based on the status key-value pair, replaying all uncompleted WALs in the WAL set key-value pair when the status of the WAL set key-value pair is in a sealed state, modifying, in the status key-value pair, the status of the WAL set key-value from the sealed state to a completed state, and deleting the WAL set key-value pair in the completed state.
US11526492B2
A method of providing data stored in a network device to a subscriber, the method including providing a central database including data stored in a table, maintaining a sorted list for the table in the publisher, and generating a modification and a modification identifier for the table with the publisher. The method further including inserting the modification into the table in the central database based on the modification identifier, receiving a command from the subscribed for the table, and providing the table to the subscriber from the central database.
US11526484B2
Systems and methods are disclosed herein for processing one or more document and/or hierarchal project. For example, a system is disclosed having memory storing the document as a data file comprising content data. The system also includes at least one processor coupled to the at least one memory and configured to designate a portion of the content data as micro content; receive user input providing a phrase; and generate a phrase map configured to associate the phrase with the designated micro content and store the phrase map as phrase map data, the phrase map data comprising at least the phrase associated with a reference indicative of the associated micro content.
US11526483B2
Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture to build a storage architecture for graph data are disclosed herein. Disclosed example apparatus include a neighbor identifier to identify respective sets of neighboring vertices of a graph. The neighboring vertices included in the respective sets are adjacent to respective ones of a plurality of vertices of the graph and respective sets of neighboring vertices are represented as respective lists of neighboring vertex identifiers. The apparatus also includes an element creator to create, in a cache memory, an array of elements that are unpopulated. The array elements have lengths equal to a length of a cache line. In addition, the apparatus includes an element populater to populate the elements with neighboring vertex identifiers. Each of the elements store neighboring vertex identifiers of respective ones of the list of neighboring vertex identifiers.
US11526482B2
Methods and apparatus are disclosed to automatically timestamp events within streaming machine data. The streaming machine data is broken into a set of events using breaking rules. Each event can be analyzed by iterating over own time stamp format patterns from a list of known time stamp format patterns to determine whether a matching pattern exists in the event. When an individual event broken out from the streaming machine data includes time information according to at least one known time stamp format pattern of the list of known time stamp format patterns, a timestamp can be created for the event by extracting a time value from event ng the matching pattern determined to exist in the event.
US11526481B2
A contextual index compendium that includes contextual index item generation rules that define document index entry generation transforms usable to transform text of the documents into embedded document index entries of document indexes within the documents is obtained by a processor. Using the document index entry generation transforms defined within the contextual index item generation rules in association with a document that includes embedded document index entries that are both embedded at locations of associated text distributed throughout the document and added as part of a document index within the document, new text of the document is programmatically transformed into at least one new document index entry in response to determining that at least one portion of the new text includes candidate text that is not already indexed within the existing embedded document index entries and the document index within the document.
US11526479B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to systems and methods for preparing a data set for searching. In addition, embodiments of the present disclosure relate to solutions for configuring a storage infrastructure and indexing process for a data set.
US11526473B2
A database is selected from a plurality of databases included in the distributed database cluster. A shard map of the database is acquired, wherein the shard map includes a distribution of a plurality of shards on the plurality of nodes, and one or more nodes of the plurality of nodes each includes at least one shard of an old version of the database to be upgraded to a new version. A sustainable serviceability of the database corresponding to each of the one or more nodes is predicted according to the shard map based on the assumption that the at least one shard of each of the one or more nodes has been upgraded from the old version to the new version.
US11526470B2
Methods, systems, and devices for data validation are described. A user may store a set of data records on a source database and backup the set of data records at a target database through a data migration. A migration and validation server may initiate the data migration. After the data migration is complete, the migration and validation server may perform a validation process that includes comparing a calculated hash value from the source database and the target database that is based on unique identifiers and timestamps for each data record in the set of data records migrated from the source database to the target database. The migration and validation server may determine if the data migration was successful (e.g., the data was transferred correctly) if the hash value calculated for the data records at the target database equals the hash value calculated for the data records at the source database.
US11526467B2
An example operation may include one or more of receive a document identifier (ID), retrieve a document from a storage based on the ID, generate a hash of the document, and compare the hash of the document under the ID against a hash of the document stored on the blockchain for verification.
US11526463B2
Analog processors for solving various computational problems are provided. Such analog processors comprise a plurality of quantum devices, arranged in a lattice, together with a plurality of coupling devices. The analog processors further comprise bias control systems each configured to apply a local effective bias on a corresponding quantum device. A set of coupling devices in the plurality of coupling devices is configured to couple nearest-neighbor quantum devices in the lattice. Another set of coupling devices is configured to couple next-nearest neighbor quantum devices. The analog processors further comprise a plurality of coupling control systems each configured to tune the coupling value of a corresponding coupling device in the plurality of coupling devices to a coupling. Such quantum processors further comprise a set of readout devices each configured to measure the information from a corresponding quantum device in the plurality of quantum devices.
US11526461B2
According to certain general aspects, the present embodiments relate generally to securing communication between ECUs. Example implementations can include a method of securely transmitting Controller Area Network (CAN) protocol frames via a CAN controller.
US11526456B1
A method and a system for filtering process I/O operations are provided herein. The system may include: a memory component configured to store computer implementable instructions; and, a processor configured to implement the computer implementable instructions, such that the system is arranged to: determine that a process is queued for initiation on the system; correlate the process with one or more predefined policies; and filter the process by blocking or permitting the process from completing I.O operations on the system according to the one or more predefined policies, wherein the computer implementable instructions are implemented in a kernel-mode of the system.
US11526451B2
Embodiments are directed to providing a secure address translation service. An embodiment of a system includes a memory device to store memory data in a plurality of physical pages shared by a plurality of devices, a first table to map each page of memory to an associated bundle identifier (ID) that identifies one or more devices having access to a page of memory, a second table to map each bundle ID to page access permissions that define access to one or more pages associated with a bundle ID and a translation agent to receive requests from the plurality of devices to perform memory operations on the memory and determine page access permissions for requests received from the plurality of devices using the first table and the second table.
US11526448B2
An apparatus is described. The apparatus includes a memory controller to interface with a multi-level memory, where, an upper level of the multi-level memory is to act as a cache for a lower level of the multi-level memory. The memory controller has circuitry to determine: i) an original address of a slot in the upper level of memory from an address of a memory request in a direct mapped fashion; ii) a miss in the cache for the request because the slot is pinned with data from another address that competes with the address; iii) a partner slot of the slot in the cache in response to the miss; iv) whether there is a hit or miss in the partner slot in the cache for the request.
US11526446B1
Modifications to caching performed between different services may be determined. A history of requests and responses between the different services may be obtained. The history may be evaluated to determine respective frequencies of parameters between the services. The frequencies of parameters may be evaluated to determine one or more modifications to caching among the different services. The modifications may be provided in order to be applied to change caching performance for subsequent requests.
US11526444B2
A method for facilitating predictive caching of data is provided. The method includes retrieving raw data relating to user activity for a plurality of users, the user activity including a history of web resources accessed by a user; converting the raw data into a structured data set based on a predetermined criterion; generating a model based on the structured data set; training the model by using a training data set, the training data set including the user activity for a predetermined period of time; determining, by using the trained model, a predicted first web resource for the user; and automatically caching, in a memory, the predicted first web resource.
US11526432B2
There is provided a parallel processing device which allows consecutive parallel data processing to be performed. The parallel processing device includes: a plurality of addition units configured to selectively receive input data among output data from the plurality of input units according to configuration values for each addition unit of the plurality of addition units, and perform addition operation for the input data in parallel; and the plurality of the delay units configured to delay input data for one cycle. Each delay unit of the plurality of the delay units delays output data from each addition unit of the plurality of addition units and outputs the delayed output data to each input unit of the plurality of input units.
US11526429B1
Technologies are described for identifying critical methods in a software code base. The critical methods are identified using a call graph that is generated from the software code base. The call graph comprises method nodes that correspond to the methods of the software code base. One or more algorithms are applied to the call graph to calculate values for the method nodes of the call graph. The one or more algorithms comprise a betweenness centrality algorithm, a harmonic closeness centrality algorithm, or a NodeRank centrality algorithm. From the values generated by the algorithms, criticality scores are determined for the method nodes. The criticality scores are then used to determine which of the method nodes are critical method nodes. Indications of the critical method nodes can be output.
US11526421B2
A dynamic experimentation evaluation system provides a framework in which a continuous stream of metric data is monitored to establish a causal relationship between changes in a software program and the effect of user-observable behavior. In one aspect, an A/B test is performed continuously on a stream of metric data representing the usage of a control version of software product and the usage of a treatment version of the software product. A sequential probability ratio test (SPRT) is used as the test statistic to determine when to terminate the test and produce results within a specific confidence interval and controlled error rate.
US11526414B2
In one aspect, a first device may download at least one disk image and then provide the disk image to second and third devices through a fourth device that controls connections to the second and third devices. The first device may then run computer diagnostics concurrently on the second and third devices through the fourth device and using the image provided to each of the second and third devices. In some examples, communication between the devices may occur using USB ports.
US11526405B1
Performing disaster recovery in a cloud-based storage system, including: creating, by a storage system a snapshot of a dataset; uploading, from the storage system to a cloud computing environment, the snapshot; storing, by the cloud computing environment, the snapshot; detecting, by the cloud computing environment, that the dataset is not available on the storage system; and creating, by the cloud computing environment using the snapshot that is stored within the cloud computing environment, a cloud-based storage system that includes the dataset.
US11526402B2
Disclosed is a server. A server according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a gatherer configured to receive a file collection list from an external server, at least one wagon configured to collect data from the external server based on the file collection list received from the gatherer, a historian file configured to store a transmission history or a file collection history, and a destination folder configured to store the data collected by the wagon, and the wagon is further configured to, when an error occurs during data collection, collect data for a file again in which the error occurs. Accordingly, it is possible to quickly collect data again when an error occurs.
US11526400B2
When a restart event is detected within a technology landscape, restart-impacted performance metrics and non-restart-impacted performance metrics may be identified. The non-restart-impacted performance metrics may continue to be included within a performance characterization of the technology landscape. The restart-impacted performance metrics may be monitored, while being excluded from the performance characterization. The restart-impacted performance metric of the restart-impacted performance metrics may be transitioned to a non-restart-impacted performance metric, based on a monitored value of the restart-impacted performance metric following the restart event.
US11526398B1
A method includes determining, by a computing device of a storage network, a pillar width to decode threshold ratio of a dispersed storage error encoding function based on routing path performance information of a set of routing paths with respect to a set of storage units of the storage network. The method further includes dispersed storage error encoding a data object in accordance with the pillar width to decode threshold ratio to produce a plurality of sets of encoded data slices. The method further includes sending the plurality of sets of encoded data slices to the set of storage units via the set of routing paths for storage therein.
US11526397B2
A method performed by a controller of a solid state drive (SSD) comprising receiving from a host a write request to store write data in a nonvolatile semiconductor storage device of the SSD. The method also comprises identifying a first codeword and a second codeword stored in the nonvolatile storage device, the first codeword and the second codeword configured to store write data corresponding to the write request. Responsive to the write request, the method comprises writing a first portion of the write data to the first codeword and writing a second portion of the write data to the second codeword, and sending a message to the host once the write data has been written to the nonvolatile semiconductor storage device. The first and second codewords are adjacently stored, and the write data has a length that is greater than the length of the first and second codewords.
US11526395B2
A read operation to retrieve data stored at a memory device is performed. Whether the data retrieved from the memory device includes an error that is not correctable is determined. Responsive to determining that the data retrieved from the memory device comprises the error that is not correctable, a buffer in a data path along which a write operation was performed to write the data at the memory device is searched for the data.
US11526388B2
Disclosed here is a system to automatically predict and reduce hardware related outages. The system can obtain a performance indicator associated with a wireless telecommunication network including a system performance indicator or an application log, along with a machine learning model trained to predict and resolve a hardware error based on the performance indicator. The machine learning model can detect an anomaly associated with the performance indicator by detecting an infrequent occurrence in the performance indicator. The machine learning model can determine whether the anomaly is similar to a prior anomaly indicating a prior hardware error. Upon determining that the anomaly is similar to the prior hardware error, the machine learning model can predict an occurrence of the hardware error.
US11526383B2
There is a need for more effective and efficient constrained-optimization-based operational load balancing. In one example, a method comprises determining constraint-satisfying operator-unit mapping arrangements that satisfy an operator unity constraint and an operator capacity constraint; for each constraint-satisfying operator-unit mapping arrangement, determining an arrangement utility measure; processing each arrangement utility measure using an optimization-based ensemble machine learning model that is configured to determine an optimal operator-unit mapping arrangement of the plurality of constraint-satisfying operator-unit mapping arrangements; and performing one or more operational load balancing operations based on the optimal operator-unit mapping arrangement.
US11526381B2
A system and method of altering computer resource allocation may include receiving a first time-series metric describing a processes; receiving a second time-series resource metric describing a computer resource; and analyzing the first time-series metric and the second time-series resource metric as an independent and a dependent variable to determine a gradient coefficient defining the ratio of the rate of change between the first time-series metric and the second time-series resource metric. The result may be used to predict resource usage, and to provision or allocate the resource accordingly.
US11526379B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method for building an application. According to the method, a request is received from a building environment to acquire at least one component for executing at least one function of at least one feature of the application. The at least one feature is to be deployed to at least one target node in a distributed service platform comprising a plurality of nodes. The at least one target node and the at least one component are determined based on the request. The at least one component is acquired from the at least one target node. The at least one component is sent to the building environment for building the at least one feature.
US11526373B2
Concepts and technologies directed to agentless personal firewall security in virtualized datacenters are disclosed herein. Embodiments can include a computer system that can host a hypervisor via a memory and a processor. Upon execution, the processor can cause the computer system to perform operations. The operations can include receiving an inbound communication request to a virtual machine associated with the hypervisor. The operations also can include identifying a virtual port associated with the virtual machine based on the inbound communication request. The operations can include determining that the inbound communication request lacks an identity of a virtual application process that executes on the virtual machine. The operation also can include building a virtual machine memory map. The operation also can include forcing exposure of the virtual application process based on the virtual machine memory map.
US11526372B2
Certain embodiments described herein are generally directed to handling a hypervisor restart event in a distributed network system. Embodiments include receiving, by a central controller, a session identifier from a first hypervisor. Embodiments further include comparing, by the central controller, the session identifier to a stored session identifier associated with the first hypervisor. Embodiments further include determining, by the central controller based on the session identifier not matching the stored session identifier associated with the first hypervisor, that the first hypervisor has restarted. Embodiments further include updating, by the central controller, the stored session identifier associated with the first hypervisor to match the session identifier. Embodiments further include identifying, by the central controller, a second hypervisor that is associated with the first hypervisor. Embodiments further include sending, by the central controller, a notification to the second hypervisor that the first hypervisor has restarted.
US11526369B2
A computerized personal assistant communicatively couples to a computer database including a plurality of available skills for the computerized personal assistant. The computerized personal assistant recognizes a current context of the user. The computerized personal assistant operates a previously-trained machine learning classifier to assess a match confidence for a candidate skill, the match confidence indicating a quality of match between the current context and a reference context previously associated with the candidate skill. The computerized personal assistant executes instructions defining an assistive action associated with the candidate skill responsive to the match confidence exceeding a predefined match confidence threshold. The computerized personal assistant executes the instructions defining a complementary help action associated with the candidate skill responsive to the match confidence not exceeding the predefined match confidence threshold.
US11526368B2
Systems and processes for operating an intelligent automated assistant in a messaging environment are provided. In one example process, a graphical user interface (GUI) having a plurality of previous messages between a user of the electronic device and the digital assistant can be displayed on a display. The plurality of previous messages can be presented in a conversational view. User input can be received and in response to receiving the user input, the user input can be displayed as a first message in the GUI. A contextual state of the electronic device corresponding to the displayed user input can be stored. The process can cause an action to be performed in accordance with a user intent derived from the user input. A response based on the action can be displayed as a second message in the GUI.
US11526366B2
In a method for dynamically binding data in an application, an expression describing a relation between a first property of a first data of the application to a first property of a second data of the application is received. A binding is created between the first data and the second data based on the relation. A change is propagated to the first property of the second data based on a change to the first property of the first data. The receiving the expression and the creating the binding are repeated to create a plurality of bindings based on a plurality of expressions, and the receiving the expression and the creating the binding occur dynamically during an execution of the application.
US11526363B2
An electronic apparatus includes: a memory; a storage configured to store a first operating system; and a processor configured to: perform booting by loading the first operating system stored in the storage to the memory, and store data, obtained based on the first operating system running, in the storage, load an obtained second operating system and the data stored in the storage to the memory, identify operation compatibility between the second operating system and the data loaded to the memory, perform booting by loading the second operating system to the memory, based on identification of normal operation compatibility, and perform booting by loading the first operating system to the memory, based on identification of abnormal operation compatibility.
US11526362B2
A computing device saves storage space by foregoing writing the payloads for batches of feature files to local storage and then automatically downloading payloads for individual batches of feature files as associated features are called upon. In various embodiments, an operating system (OS) that includes both frequently used and infrequently used features is executing on the computing device. Batches of feature files for the frequently used features of the OS may be hydrated on the computing device whereas batches of feature files for the infrequently used features of the OS may be left dehydrated on the computing device. When an infrequently used feature is requested, the computing device automatically downloads a corresponding batch of feature files. Then, the computing device may fulfill the request by implementing the infrequently used feature. Thus, predetermined batches of feature files remain immediately accessible at the computing device without consuming storage space unless called upon.
US11526361B2
Devices and techniques for variable pipeline length in a barrel-multithreaded processor are described herein. A completion time for an instruction can be determined prior to insertion into a pipeline of a processor. A conflict between the instruction and a different instruction based on the completion time can be detected. Here, the different instruction is already in the pipeline and the conflict detected when the completion time equals the previously determined completion time for the different instruction. A difference between the completion time and an unconflicted completion time can then be calculated and completion of the instruction delayed by the difference.
US11526342B2
At a time after receiving a request to cancel and rollback an update request for a computer system, one or more computer resources within a computer system invoke one or more computer system capabilities at least to cancel computer system operations to update the computer. When the computer system operations to update the computer system are cancelled, one or more computer resources within a computer system invoke one or more computer system capabilities at least to roll back the computer system to a previous good state.
US11526336B2
Operations may include obtaining source code describing an optimization problem. The operations may include identifying problem parameters associated with the optimization problem such that a specialized computing system may be enabled to solve the optimization problem. The operations may include extracting one or more first parameters of the problem parameters from the source code. The operations may include identifying one or more second parameters of the problem parameters that are not included in the source code. A user may be prompted via a GUI for input relating to the one or more second parameters. The operations may include compiling the extracted first parameters and the user-provided second parameters as input parameters of the specialized computing system. The operations may include providing the input parameters to the specialized computing system such that the specialized computing system is able to solve the optimization problem.
US11526332B2
A method facilitates development of instructions in a precise syntax, such as built-in functions of a computational system such as a spreadsheet application, using natural language (NL) input. A user may enter NL input in a workspace. An NL processing system may process the NL input to generate instruction(s) in a precise syntax that corresponds to the NL input. The instruction(s) in the precise syntax then may be included in the workspace.
US11526327B2
Systems and methods are described for recognizing and responding to commands. A system may receive voice data and determine an intended command. The system may then determine a position and viewpoint orientation of the user to be able to determine one or more digital assets associated with the user. The system may then determine a current state associated with each digital asset of the one or more digital assets to be able to determine at least one digital asset that is configured to process the command. The system can then apply the command to at least a first digital asset of the at least one digital asset that is configured to process the command.
US11526322B2
The present disclosure provides technologies that enable users to graphically merge content displayed on a first computing device with content displayed on a second computing device by the use of a simplified gesture. For example, a user can hold a portable computer displaying content up to a screen of another computer displaying other content. The user can position the portable computer to align the rendering of the content with a rendering of the other content. Measurements of the alignment are processed to determine a location that is used to graphically merge the content of the portable computer at a specific location within the other content. A scaling factor can be used to control the size of the content that is placed within the other content. The scaling factor can be based on a user gesture, preference data, or knowledge of a computing device.
US11526321B2
A display device has a plurality of display panels (21) together forming a single display screen, where each display panel (21) is connected to a display controller (24) which receives display data of a portion of a complete image for display on the display panel (21). The complete image (S1) includes one or more bounded regions (S2, S3, S4, S5) of display data. Each display controller (21) also receives position information relating to a change in lateral position and/or stacking order position of one or more bounded regions that are to be displayed at least partly on that display panel (21). If the display controller (24) determines that it does not have knowledge of display data in the bounded region (S2, S3, S4, S5) to be displayed on the display panel for which the position information was received, it obtains that knowledge from another display controller (24) that has such knowledge. The display controller (24) then processes the display data for the portion of the complete image utilising the knowledge obtained from another display controller (24), and outputs the processed display data for the portion of the complete image to the corresponding display panel (21).
US11526313B2
A roll of media having a core encircled by a length of media units adhered to a liner, the roll of media having the liner having a width across a shortest dimension of the liner, a perforation pattern in the liner configured to react to a tear in the liner by redirecting the tear towards a center line of the perforation pattern; the perforation pattern having a plurality of perforated lines in the liner, wherein each perforated line comprises a series of die-cuts, wherein the perforation pattern comprises a center-line perforation and a plurality of perforations on either side of the center-line perforation.
US11526307B2
Embodiments of the disclosure provide a method capable of executing all print jobs stored in an image processing apparatus and associated with a user without troubling the user. A button capable of executing all print jobs associated with a login user is displayed on a display unit of the image processing apparatus.
US11526302B2
Memory module, computing device, and methods of reading and writing data to the memory module are disclosed. A memory module, comprises one or more dynamic random-access memories (DRAMs); and a processor configured to select a Central Processing Unit (CPU) or the Processor to communicate with the one or more DRAMs via a memory interface.
US11526300B2
A data storage device includes a memory device and a controller coupled to the memory device. The controller is configured to set a decoder in data mode, read host memory buffer data and hashes from a host memory buffer, generate a first calculated hash, set the decoder in hash mode, generate a second calculated hash, and determine whether the second calculated hash is the same as a root hash. The controller is further configured to set an encoder in data mode, generate a first new hash, write new data and the first new hash to a host memory buffer, set the encoder to hash mode, calculate a second new hash, and update a root hash with the second new hash.
US11526295B2
A first operating characteristic and a second operating characteristic of a memory sub-system are determined. A write-to-read delay time is set in view of the first operating characteristic and the second operating characteristic. A read operation associated with a memory unit is executed following a period of at least the write-to-read delay time from a time of an execution of a write operation associated with the memory unit.
US11526289B2
Apparatuses and methods can be related to supplementing AI processing in memory. An accelerator and/or a host can perform AI processing. Some of the operations comprising the AI processing can be performed by a memory device instead of by an accelerator and/or a host. The memory device can perform AI processing in conjunction with the host and/or accelerator.
US11526283B1
An apparatus in an illustrative embodiment comprises at least one processing device comprising a processor and a memory, with the processor coupled to the memory. The at least one processing device is configured to receive in a storage system, from a host device, information that identifies (i) a particular virtual machine implemented by the host device and (ii) a key specific to the virtual machine, to utilize at least a portion of the received information to obtain in the storage system the key specific to the virtual machine from a key management server external to the storage system, to store the obtained key in the storage system in association with one or more parts of the received information, and to utilize the obtained key to process input-output operations that are received in the storage system from the host device and that are identified as being associated with the virtual machine.
US11526282B2
Devices, systems and methods for enhancing aircraft maintenance are disclosed. An exemplary method for improving dataloading in an airplane includes retrieving, from an in-flight entertainment connectivity (IFEC) system, at least one avionics software, the IFEC system comprising a mass storage device comprising a first storage segment and a second storage segment, the first storage segment being a secure storage segment configured to store the at least one avionics software, and the second storage segment being configured to store media content, and loading, using a wireless network converter coupled to a wired legacy port, the at least one avionics software onto a target avionics system.
US11526277B2
Devices and techniques for adjustable memory device write performance are described herein. An accelerated write request can be received at a memory device from a controller of the memory device. The memory device can identify that a target block for external writes is opened as a multi-level cell block. The memory device can then write data for the accelerated write request to the target block using a single-level cell encoding.
US11526272B2
A method for interactive image caricaturing by an electronic device is described. The method includes detecting at least one feature location of an image. The method further includes generating, based on the at least one feature location, an image mesh that comprises a grid of at least one horizontal line and at least one vertical line. The method additionally includes obtaining a gesture input. The method also includes determining at least one caricature action based on the at least one gesture input. The method further includes generating a caricature image based on the image mesh, the at least one caricature action and the image.
US11526271B2
A system and method for capturing an electronic signature from a mouse, signature pad, or other input device is disclosed. The system comprises: a signer interface and a separate user interface. The signer interface is configured to present text to a signer via the input device and receive position data representing the points of an electronic signature. The user interface is configured to: select a document for signature based on input from a user, define at least one signature insertion area in the document, define at least one signature capture window, enable the input of position data from the signer interface when the at least one signature capture window is defined, draw at least one signature in the at least one signature capture window; map the at least one signature from the at least one signature capture window to the at least one signature insertion area in the document, and disable the input from the signer interface when the at least one signature is integrated in the document.
US11526257B2
A display device displays device information in a navigation tree, whose nodes are each assigned to apparatus parts, apparatuses and/or apparatus groups, such that the apparatus information with a node that is superordinate both to the node which is assigned to a source of the apparatus information, and to a currently selected node.
US11526254B2
An information processing apparatus includes a display unit and a control unit, the display unit performs list display of plural pieces of information by dividing the plural pieces of information into plural pages in a case where the pieces of information corresponding to a number, which is equal to or larger than a predetermined limit, exist in a folder within a server that stores the plural pieces of information, and the control unit performs display control of performing the list display on the display unit by adding designated information to information in a predetermined location, in a case where the designated information does not exist in a selected page.
US11526245B2
A touch panel equipment for air conditioning has a plurality of electrodes arranged in two-dimensional matrix, a touch sensing IC for scanning capacitance of the electrodes, and a touch panel controller for deciding a touch position from the capacitance sensed by said touch sensing IC. The touch panel controller resets the touch sensing IC when the capacitance of the electrodes located in a check area is not changed during predetermined threshold timings, and does not reset the touch sensing IC when the capacitance of the electrodes located in the check area is changed within the threshold timings. As the touch panel controller resets the touch sensing IC due to the change of the capacitance value of the electrodes located in the check area, the resetting operation is operated automatically so that the touch panel equipment could avoid the user's external work.
US11526237B1
A touch sensing apparatus includes a coordinate calculator configured to count a current number of touches and calculate an estimated number of touches, by the unit of touch group, by using touch data including touch coordinates of a plurality of touch electrodes, and detect a discontinuous touch corresponding to a touch group in which the current number of touches and the estimated number of touches are not the same; and a touch data generator configured to generate the touch data including corrected coordinate data.
US11526233B2
A method for controlling touch screen, apparatus and device, a storage medium and a processor are provided, the method including that: a detection result is acquired, the detection result is used for representing whether a touch behavior over a touch panel of a touch screen exists; a feedback signal is determined according to the detection result; and a working mode of the touch screen is controlled according to the feedback signal.
US11526231B2
A touch display screen and a display device thereof are provided. By extending a first conductive line to a first side and a second conductive line to a second side, the first conductive line and the second conductive line corresponding to a first self-capacitance electrode and a second self-capacitance electrode in a touch module can be changed from a traditional vertical arrangement to a horizontal arrangement. Meanwhile, conductive lines on two sides are led out from opposite sides, thereby reducing a blind region of a touch screen and enhancing touch performance of the touch screen.
US11526229B2
A sensing device having a hover mode is provided. The sensing device includes a substrate; and a plurality of sensing electrodes, disposed on the substrate, and defined as a plurality of hovering units in the hover mode, wherein the plurality of hovering units comprise a first hovering unit, and sensing electrodes with signals in the first hovering unit form a first identification pattern.
US11526225B2
A touch structure includes at least one touch electrode strip, and each touch electrode strip includes a plurality of electrically connected touch electrodes. At least one touch electrode includes a first conductive layer, a second insulating layer, a second conductive layer and at least one conductive connection portion. The first conductive layer includes at least one conductive unit. The second insulating layer covers the first conductive layer, and the second insulating layer is provided with at least one through hole therein to expose a portion of each first conductive unit. The second conductive layer is formed on the second insulating layer, and the second conductive layer includes at least one second conductive unit. Each conductive connection portion is disposed in one through hole, and two ends of the conductive connection portion are connected to one second conductive unit and one first conductive unit, respectively.
US11526222B2
A foldable display screen and an assembling method thereof, and a display apparatus are provided. The foldable display screen includes: a display panel; a touch sensing panel, located on a side of the display panel; a first optical adhesive layer, located on a side of the touch sensing panel away from the display panel; and a second optical adhesive layer, located between the display panel and the touch sensing panel; a thickness of the first optical adhesive layer and a thickness of the second optical adhesive layer are both 20 μm to 200 μm; and at a working temperature, an elastic modulus of the first optical adhesive layer and an elastic modulus of the second optical adhesive layer are both less than 1 Mpa.
US11526215B2
An aspect of the present disclosure provides for determining characters inputted. In an embodiment, a key activated among one or more keys of a keyboard and a sensor activated among one or more sensors associated with one or more fingers are identified. An element or a special function corresponding to the key activated and an element or a special function corresponding to the sensor activated are determined. A character is determined based on the element or the special function corresponding to the key activated and the element or the special function corresponding to the sensor activated. A first set of elements of an Indic language and a first set of special functions are assigned to the one or more keys of the keyboard, and a second set of elements of the Indic language and a second set of special functions are assigned to the one or more sensors.
US11526214B2
Systems that detect a positional relationship between an informal processing device and an external keyboard are disclosed. A system includes an external keyboard including a first communication unit, an incoming coil disposed inside thereof, and an input controller configured to control the first communication unit to transmit operating information indicating an input operation from a user, information processing device including a second communication unit configured to communicate with the first communication unit, a planar portion on which the keyboard is mountable, and a feeding coil disposed below the planar portion, the feeding coil configured to supply electricity to the incoming coil by an electromagnetically induced coupling, and a position detector configured to detect a positional relationship between the planar portion and the keyboard based on a coupling strength of the electromagnetically induced coupling between the feeding coil and the incoming coil. Similar apparatus and methods are also provided.
US11526213B2
A multi-functional human interface device includes a control unit and a first multi-functional input button. The first multi-functional input button includes a cover unit configured to receive a touch input of a user's finger, an electrode unit including a transmitter and a receiver to form an electric field, an elastic unit configured to move from a first height to a second height when a first pressure is applied from the cover unit and configured to move back to the first height when the first pressure from the cover unit is released, and a switch unit configured to generate an electric signal representing an input of a predetermined letter.
US11526207B2
A tracker 30 for a Head-Mounted Display, HMD, unit is provided. The tracker 30 comprises a carrier element 10 carrying one or more markers 16a, 16b that are configured to permit determining a position of the tracker 30. The carrier element 10 comprises at least one magnetic element 32 configured to cooperate with at least one magnetic element 22 provided on the HMD unit 62, or on a base element 20 that is to be fixed to the HMD unit 62, for detachably attaching the carrier element 10 to the HMD unit 62.
US11526202B2
In a method of checking normal input power and load of a programmable AC power distributor in its power-on state, indicator lights are installed in an output ON button and an output OFF button. During power ON, a master switch is switched to an ON position to detect the input power and obtain a detection result through a change of the indicator light in the output OFF button, and then the output ON button is pressed to check the power-on state of the load and obtain a detection result by outputting the change of the indicator light of the button. Therefore, users can instantly know whether the input power and load are in a normal state during the operation of turning on the power distributor, and this method makes the operation of the power distributor safer and more convenient, and ensures a high quality of power supply.
US11526187B2
Aspects of the disclosure include a device comprising an energy storage device configured to provide first power having a first voltage level, a voltage regulator coupled to the energy storage device and configured to receive the first power and regulate the first power to generate regulated power having a set output regulated voltage level, and bias circuitry coupled to the voltage regulator and including an output branch to output a bias current, and a feedback branch to control the bias current, the feedback branch including a bias-boosting component configured to be in an active mode responsive to the first voltage level being below the set output regulated voltage level and to be in an inactive mode responsive to the first voltage level being at or above the set output regulated voltage level.
US11526183B2
This disclosure relates to technologies for a sensor network, machine-to-machine (M2M) communication, machine type communication (MTC), and Internet of Things (IoT). This disclosure can be utilized in intelligent services based on the above technologies, such as smart homes, smart buildings, smart cities, smart cars or connected cars, health care, digital education, retail sales, security and safety related services, etc. This disclosure relates to a method for generating an instruction for controlling equipment on the basis of biometric information, comprising: a step of obtaining at least one biometric information; a step of determining whether to calculate a calorific value by using stored biometric information and the obtained biometric information, and calculating the calorific value by using the stored biometric information and the obtained biometric information according to the determined result; and generating an instruction for controlling the equipment on the basis of the calculated calorific value.
US11526182B2
Devices, including robotic devices, operating in viscous fluid flow can use passive sensor data collected to represent fluid parameters at an instant in time to derive information about the flow, the motion and position of the device, and parameters of the physical system constraining the flow. Using quasi-static analysis techniques, and appropriate feature selection for machine learning, very accurate determinations can be made, generally in real time, with very modest computational requirements. These determinations can then be used to map systems, navigate devices through a system, or otherwise control the actions of, e.g., robotic devices for clean-up, leak detection, or other functions.
US11526169B2
Various aspects provide for a propulsion system (200) for a ship (100) comprising at least first and second thrusters (205, 206) and first and second directors (220, 720), wherein a computing platform (300) is coupled to the thrusters and directors being configured to receive desired longitudinal and lateral headings (750, 760) and determine a configuration of the propulsion system that is expected to propel the ship in the desired longitudinal and lateral headings.
US11526168B2
To implement robotic inspection of an in-service tank through the lower wall, a launch system is operatively coupled to the in-service tank carrying a multiphase fluid separated into a first fluid phase settled at the bottom of the in-service tank and a second fluid phase floating above the first fluid phase. The launch system includes multiple valves and is coupled to the bottom of the in-service tank. By operating the launch system, a robotic tank inspection device is introduced into the first fluid phase in the in-service tank while bypassing the second fluid phase. By operating the robotic tank inspection device, the bottom of the in-service tank is inspected for corrosion.
US11526165B1
A system includes one or more processors that are configured to receive data from one or more sensors, to determine whether one or more characteristics of a driver or an occupant indicate driving control of a vehicle should transfer from the driver based on the data, and to enable a remote operator to control operation of the vehicle in response to determining that the driving control should transfer from the driver.
US11526155B2
Computer-based methods and systems provide automated batch data alignment for a batch production industrial process. An example embodiment selects a reference batch from batch data for a subject industrial process and configures batch alignment settings. In turn, a seed model configured to predict alignment quality given settings for one or more alignment hyperparameters is constructed. Collectively the selected reference batch, the configured batch alignment settings, the constructed seed model, and a set of representative batches, representative of the batch data for the industrial process, are used to perform at least one of: (i) automated active learning, (ii) interactive active learning, and (iii) guided learning to determine settings for the one or more alignment hyperparameters. Then, a batch alignment is performed using the determined settings for the one or more alignment hyperparameters and the configured batch alignment settings. The resulting aligned batch data of the subject industrial process enables improved modeling and control of batch productions by the subject industrial process.
US11526148B2
A control apparatus for performing control processing and user period processing within a control period for an industrial machine includes processing circuitry that sets content of the control processing, and sets an upper limit of the user period processing. The user period processing is different from the control processing.
US11526147B2
Systems and methods for human-machine interaction. An adaptive behavioral control system of a human-machine interaction system controls an interaction sub-system to perform a plurality of actions for a first action type in accordance with a computer-behavioral policy, each action being a different alternative action for the action type. The adaptive behavioral control system detects a human reaction of an interaction participant to the performance of each action of the first action type from data received from a human reaction detection sub-system. The adaptive behavioral control system stores information indicating each detected human reaction in association with information identifying the associated action. In a case where stored information indicating detected human reactions for the first action type satisfy an update condition, the adaptive behavioral control system updates the computer-behavioral policy for the first action type.
US11526145B2
A method for controlling a controlled system by a control device, the method may include transmitting multiple actuation signals to multiple degree of freedom (DOF) points of the controlled system; wherein the multiple actuation signals comprise multiple alternating current (AC) components that are mutually orthogonal, measuring at least one feedback signal from at least one probe point of the controlled system; wherein a number of DOF points exceeds a number of the at least one probe point; determining, based upon the at least one feedback signal, values of line search pulses to be sent to the multiple DOF points during at least one line search iteration; and performing the at least one line search iteration.
US11526142B2
Operational historian system retrieving summary data values and source data values based on alignment between a summarization cycle duration and a query cycle duration. A retrieval service process executing on a historian device utilizes a summarization cycle duration, including start and/or end times thereof, and a query cycle duration, including start and/or end times thereof, to determine whether to retrieve, via a communications network, source tag data and/or summary tag data from memory storage devices.
US11526135B2
A system delays input clock signals using time-to-digital converters (TDCs) to convert edges or the clock signals to digital values and storing the digital values in a memory. The digital values are retrieved from the memory based on a desired delay. A time counter used by the TDCs to determine the edges is also used determine the delay. The accuracy and range of the delay depends on the time counter and size of the memory.
US11526129B1
An interference structure having a nanovoided hologram material is described. The nanovoided hologram material may have an index of refraction difference of approximately 0.4. The interference structure may include about 10% to 90% nanovoids by volume. The interference structure may be formed using a mixture of a monomer, an initiator, and solvent. The mixture may be disposed on a substrate and irradiated with two sources of light spaced apart from each other and shining on the same region of the mixture to generate an interference pattern in the mixture, leading to the selective polymerization of regions of the mixture where there is constructive interference of light. Various other devices, methods, and systems are also disclosed.
US11526109B2
In an image forming apparatus, a controller performs processes in accordance with an operation mode settable to one of a first subscription mode and a second subscription mode. The first subscription mode corresponds to a first subscription in which a specific-color cartridge is a subscription subject and a non-specific-color cartridge is not the subscription subject. The second subscription mode corresponds to a second subscription in which both the specific-color cartridge and the non-specific-color cartridge are the subscription subject. The controller performs restricting usage of the non-specific-color cartridge in a case where the first subscription mode is set as the operation mode and the type information of the non-specific-color cartridge indicates the subscription type, compared to a case where the second subscription mode is set as the operation mode and the type information of the non-specific-color cartridge indicates the subscription type.
US11526108B2
An image processing apparatus includes an image forming unit configured to form an image on a sheet, a heating device including a belt that contacts the sheet and a plurality of heating elements for heating the belt, a pressure roller configured to press the sheet against the belt, a voltage detection circuit configured to measure a voltage applied to the heating elements, and a controller configured to determine whether at least one of the heating elements is abnormal according to a voltage drop value that is based on voltages measured by the voltage detection unit before and after the plurality of heating elements is energized.
US11526106B2
An image forming apparatus includes: an image forming unit configured to form an image on a sheet; a conveyance unit configured to convey the sheet having the image formed thereon along a conveyance path; a reading unit configured to read the image on the sheet conveyed to the conveyance path; and a controller configured to: receive a user-designated number of sheets as a condition for a timing at which the image forming unit forms a mark during a period in which a print job for forming a plurality of images on a plurality of sheets is being executed; control, when the print job is executed, the image forming unit to form the mark after the images are formed on sheets of a predetermined number smaller than a threshold number of sheets in a case in which the user-designated number of sheets is larger than the threshold number of sheets.
US11526103B2
An image forming apparatus includes a first image forming portion, a second image forming portion, a belt, a charging voltage applying portion, and a transfer voltage applying portion. With respect to a movement direction of a recording material, the first image forming portion is provided upstream of the second image forming portion. In an image forming operation, a potential difference between a first transfer voltage and a potential at a first transfer portion, which is formed on a first image bearing member and does not form the image, is greater than a potential difference between a second transfer voltage and a potential at a second transfer portion, which is formed on a second image bearing member and does not form an image.
US11526086B2
A metrology tool may include an illumination sub-system to illuminate sample within two or more acquisition fields with two or more illumination beams, where the two or more acquisition fields are distributed along a scan direction in a non-overlapping configuration, and where a translation stage translates a metrology target on the sample along the scan direction sequentially through the two or more acquisition fields. The metrology tool may further include an imaging sub-system to image the two or more acquisition fields while the sample is scanned along the scan direction. The imaging sub-system may include a field-repositioning optical relay to relay images of the two or more acquisition fields to a scanning detector including one or more pixel columns distributed along a column direction, where the field-repositioning optical relay positions the images of the two or more acquisition fields on the scanning detector along the column direction.
US11526084B2
Methods and apparatus for determining a subset of a plurality of relationships between a plurality of parameters describing operation of a lithographic apparatus, the method comprising: determining a first set of data describing first relationships between a plurality of parameters of a reference apparatus; based on one or more measurements, determining a second set of data describing second relationships between the plurality of parameters of the reference or a further apparatus; comparing the first set of data and the second set of data; and selecting from the second set of data a subset of the second relationships based on differences between the first set of data and the second set of data.
US11526080B2
A photoresist coating device includes a liquid vaporization module and a photoresist coating module. The liquid vaporization module is for converting a liquid photoresist into a gaseous photoresist and conveying the gaseous photoresist to a photoresist coating module. The photoresist coating module comprises a vapor coating unit, a cover plate and a carrying table, in which the vapor coating unit comprises a vapor channel and a vapor spray hole, in which the vapor spray hole is provided through the cover plate; the carrying table is for loading a substrate; and the cover plate is provided on a side of the carrying table close to the substrate. The vapor coating unit acquires the gaseous photoresist through the vapor channel and conveys the gaseous photoresist to a surface to be coated of the substrate on the carrying table through the vapor spray hole to form a photoresist coating.
US11526068B2
A camera supporting base includes a mounting platform with a mounting surface, a lower surface, and a recess area. The mounting surface is raised above and non-coplanar with the lower surface of the mounting platform. The camera supporting base also includes a pliable mass surrounding the mounting platform. The mounting surface of the mounting platform is recessed below a highest contour of the pliable mass.
US11526060B2
The present disclosure relates to a display device including a substrate, a gate line on the substrate, a data line crossing the gate line, a pixel connected to the gate line and the data line, and a dummy data line disposed at an edge on the substrate and crossing the gate line, wherein the dummy data line includes openings that is disposed on a portion that is near an overlapping portion with the gate line, and portions of the dummy data line separated by the openings are electrically insulated from each other.
US11526058B2
This application discloses a display panel and a display apparatus. The display panel includes a common electrode cable, an active switch, and a signal cable. The signal cable is overlapped with the active switch to form a first overlapping region, and a first extension cable and a second extension cable of the common electrode cable are connected to the signal cable to form a second overlapping region and a third overlapping region.
US11526056B2
A display device is described that includes an optical member such as a camera. According to an exemplary embodiment, the display device includes: a substrate that overlaps a light transmission area, a display area that surrounds the light transmission area, and a boundary area that is disposed between the light transmission area and the display area; a first light blocking member that is disposed on the substrate and overlaps the boundary area; a window that overlaps the substrate; and a second light blocking member that is disposed between the first light blocking member and the window, and overlaps the boundary area, wherein the first light blocking member includes a first opening that overlaps the light transmission area, the second light blocking member includes a second opening that overlaps the light transmission area, and a diameter of the first opening is larger than a diameter of the second opening.
US11526050B2
A display device is provided. The display device includes a first substrate, a first display structure disposed on the first substrate and a second display structure disposed on the first substrate. The first display structure and the second display structure are different from each other and are selected from a liquid-crystal display, an organic light-emitting diode display, an inorganic light-emitting diode display or a laser display. The display device also includes a first polarizing structure. The first polarizing structure is disposed on the first display structure and the second display structure.
US11526049B2
A method of forming a structural color filter includes: depositing a first metal layer on a surface of a substrate by applying an electric potential to the substrate; depositing a first dielectric layer on the first metal layer by contacting the first metal layer with a second electrolyte; and depositing a second metal layer on the first dielectric layer. The surface of the substrate is in contact with a first electrolyte; the first electrolyte comprises a first precursor, an electrochemical reaction of the first precursor at the surface of the substrate is driven by the electric potential; the depositing the first metal layer on the surface of the substrate is performed at a temperature of less than or equal to 50° C. The second electrolyte comprises a second precursor of a first dielectric material of the first dielectric layer.
US11526047B2
A display device includes: a backlight unit, a camera hole penetrating the backlight unit, a camera in the camera hole, a liquid crystal panel on the backlight unit, the liquid crystal panel including a transparent portion on the camera hole, and at least one light-blocking member in the camera hole, the at least one light-blocking member being configured to reduce one or more of: light leakage from the camera hole and introduction of impurities into the camera hole.
US11526044B2
Systems and methods for modifying display unit operations based on orientation are provided. A controller receives orientation data from an orientation detection device and commands operations of a thermal management system based, at least in part, on the received orientation data. A solar angle relative to the electronic display may be determined based on a location, a date, a time, and the orientation data. Cooling may be modified based on solar angle relative to the electronic display. The orientation data may be used to check installation, determine damage, or position of display unit components.
US11526042B2
A flexible display panel includes a flexible substrate including a first region including a display region and having a curved display surface, and a plurality of non-display regions that is located outside the display region and including a second region located outside the first region and folded in a direction different from a display direction of the first region, and an encapsulation member for encapsulating the display region along the curved display surface.
US11526035B2
A polarization scrambler using a retardance element (RE) is disclosed. The polarization scrambler may include an optical fiber input to transmit an optical signal, and a beam expander to receive and expand the optical signal to create an expanded optical signal. The polarization scrambler may include a retardance element (RE) to cause a polarization scrambling effect on the expanded optical signal and to create a scrambled expanded optical signal. The polarization scrambler may include a beam reducer to receive and reduce the scrambled expanded optical signal to create a scrambled optical signal. The polarization scrambler may include an optical fiber output to receive scrambled optical signal. The optical fiber output may transmit the scrambled optical signal to one or more downstream optical components.
US11526033B2
This hearing device, for example, includes a vibrator for transmitting vibration corresponding to a voice signal to the nasal bone of a user to let the user hear sound. The hearing device may further preferably include an eyeglass-type housing for carrying the vibrator in a position at which a nose pad is provided. The hearing device may also preferably incorporate a voice signal reception unit for receiving, wirelessly or by wire, a voice signal generated by an external sound source, or an internal sound source for self-generating a voice signal. When implementation as a hearing aid or a sound collector is contemplated, the external sound source or the internal sound source may preferably be a microphone for collecting ambient sound.
US11526028B2
The invention is to provide an ophthalmic lens comprising a lens body and an antimicrobial hydrophilic layer thereon and a manufacturing method thereof, wherein the antimicrobial hydrophilic layer comprises a polydopamine layer and a zwitterionic polymer non-covalently bonded on the polydopamine layer, and the zwitterionic polymer can be selected from one of the group consisting of phosphorylcholine polymer, sulfobetaine polymer, carboxybetaine polymer, mixed-charge polymer and a combination thereof.
US11526014B2
A near eye display apparatus includes: a lens having a viewing area, the lens comprising a waveguide having a waveguide input and a waveguide output optically coupled to the viewing area; an optical projector having a projector output, the optical projector comprising an illumination source optically coupled to the optical prism element and configured to provide illumination light into the optical prism element at a particular direction, a spatial light modulator optically coupled to the optical prism element and configured to receive the illumination light from the optical prism element and to reflect patterned light, the optical prism element configured to provide the patterned light to the projector output at the particular direction; and an optical folding element optically coupled between the projector output and the waveguide input, the optical folding element configured to fold an optical path of the patterned light in at least two different directions.
US11526012B2
There is provided a method of operating a wearable heads-up display, which display includes a light source, a light guide, and an incoupler carried by the light guide. The method includes emitting first and second beams having first and second wavelengths respectively, directing the first and second beams towards the incoupler, and directing, by the incoupler, at least a portion of the first and second beams into the light guide. Moreover the method includes internally reflecting, by the light guide, the portions of the first and second beams to form first and second reflected beams respectively. The first and second beams respectively may have first and second incoupling losses. Furthermore, the method includes adjusting a beam characteristic of at least one of the first and second beams to control a difference between their respective incoupling losses.
US11526010B2
A head mounted display device including a first image capturing unit and a second image capturing unit different from the first image capturing unit comprises a first generation unit configured to generate, based on a signal representing an image output timing of the first image capturing unit, a first signal for controlling a start of exposure of the second image capturing unit, and supply the generated first signal to the second image capturing unit, and a second generation unit configured to generate, based on the signal representing the image output timing of the first image capturing unit, a second signal for controlling a start of measurement of a sensor that measures a position and orientation of the sensor, and supply the generated second signal to the sensor.
US11525997B2
An array of more than one digital micro-camera, along with the use of patterned illumination and a digital post-processing operation, jointly create a multi-camera patterned illumination (MCPI) microscope. Each micro-camera includes its own unique lens system and detector. The field-over-view of each micro-camera unit at least partially overlaps with the field-of-view of one or more other micro-camera units within the array. The entire field-of-view of a sample of interest is imaged by the entire array of micro-cameras in a single snapshot. In addition, the MCPI system uses patterned optical illumination to improve its effective resolution. The MCPI system captures one or more images as the patterned optical illumination changes its distribution across space and/or angle at the sample. Then, the MCPI system digitally combines the acquired image sequence using a unique post-processing algorithm.
US11525988B2
An arrangement for increasing resolution of a laser scanning microscope has a simplified adjustment and lower susceptibility to errors. The pupil beam from the laser scanning microscope is coupled into a shortened common path interferometer, to make wavefronts of a pupil image mirrored at at least one axis and wavefronts of an unchanged pupil image interfere. The area of a pupil from the pupil beam is split into two complementary portions P and Q producing two partial beams separately supplied to at least one beam deflection means by total-internal reflection along the common path interferometer. The light of the interferometer branches from transmitted light of the one interferometer branch and reflected light of the other interferometer branch is made to interfere at a partly transmissive beam splitter layer to cause constructive interference C and destructive interference D of the wavefronts from the two different portions P and Q of the pupil.
US11525983B2
The present disclosure a camera optical lens is provided including, 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 negative refractive power; a fourth lens having a positive refractive power; and a fifth lens having a negative refractive power. The camera optical lens satisfies following conditions: 0.40≤f1/f≤0.48; −0.75≤f2/f≤−0.50; 1.20≤f4/f≤3.20; −1.40≤f5/f≤−1.10; 6.00≤d1/d2≤8.00; 0.80≤(R5+R6)/(R5−R6)≤6.50; and 3.00≤(R7+R8)/(R7−R8)≤10.00. The camera optical lens can achieve good optical performance while meeting the design requirements for long focal length and ultra-thinness.
US11525978B2
A variable focal length lens apparatus is provided with a variable focal length lens in which a focusing position periodically changes in response to a drive signal that is input; a light source that emits detection light at an object via the variable focal length lens; an photodetector that receives the detection light that is reflected by the object, and outputs a light detection signal; a signal processor that, based on the light detection signal that is input, outputs a light emission signal that is synchronized to a focusing time point where the detection light is focused on a surface of the object; an illuminator that provides pulse illumination to the object with illuminating light, based on the light emission signal that is input; and an image capturer that captures an image of the object through the variable focal length lens.
US11525965B2
A new fiber optic connector provides a smaller form factor by including two ferrule assemblies in a housing. The housing accepts a push-pull mechanism that allows for insertion and removal from a carrier as well as an adapter. The push-pull mechanism may also include a flexure member to return the push-pull mechanism. Polarity of the fiber optic connector may also be selected by use of the push-pull mechanism.
US11525960B2
An optical fiber module is disclosed. The optical fiber module includes a first optical fiber as an MCF, a plurality of second optical fibers as MCFs, a first unit, and a second unit. The first unit has an hole holding the first optical fiber and a plurality of holes respectively holding the second optical fibers. These holes are independent of each other. Each optical fiber has a first part and a second part. An outer surface of a cladding of the first part is coated with a resin. An outer surface of a cladding of the second part is exposed from the resin. The first unit holds the first part. The second unit holds the second part. A boundary between the first part and the second part is positioned in a space between the first unit and the second unit.
US11525952B2
A light guide plate includes a main body, stripe structures, and light-adjusting structures. The main body includes a light-incident surface and an optical surface. The stripe structures are disposed on the optical surface. The light-adjusting structures are disposed between two adjacent stripe structures. Each of the light-adjusting structures includes a first light active surface and a second light active surface. The first light active surface faces towards the light-incident surface. The second light active surface faces towards an opposite light-incident surface. The first light active surface and the second light active surface are inclined towards different directions and formed a non-symmetrical shape. A first included angle is formed between the first light active surface and the optical surface. A second included angle is formed between the second light active surface and the optical surface. The first included angle and the second included angle are acute angles.
US11525948B2
An optical sheet includes a first wedge layer having a first refractive index and including a wedge-shaped prism pattern including an inclined surface having an inclination angle with respect to a plane defined by a first direction and a second direction perpendicular to the first direction and a vertical surface extending in a third direction perpendicular to the first direction and the second direction, a second wedge layer disposed on the first wedge layer and having a second refractive index greater than the first refractive index, and a light blocking pattern disposed between the first wedge layer and the second wedge layer and including a first surface that contacts with the vertical surface and a second surface inclined to have the inclination angle with respect to the plane while contacting with the inclined surface.
US11525947B2
Provided is a Fresnel lens and display device with such Fresnel lens, the Fresnel lens includes an entrance plane and an exit plane with multiple bump units. The bump units include a First Bump Unit, a Second Bump Unit, and a Third Bump Unit; on one side of the central axis of said lens, the First Bump Unit, Second Bump Unit and Third Bump Unit are placed successively along the radiation direction from the central axis toward the lens edge; on the other side of the central axis of said lens, the First Bump Unit, Second Bump Unit and Third Bump Unit are also placed successively along the radiation direction from the central axis toward the lens edge. The Bump Units on both sides of the central axis of the lens are symmetrical.
US11525944B1
Disclosed are optical systems that vary the refractive index of at least one relatively angled transmissive surface to reduce reflections. Embodiments include at least one optical component with relatively angled surface portions that are transmissive to electromagnetic radiation (EMR). In certain embodiments, an electrically conductive layer reflective to EMR and an anti-reflective coating are proximate the optical component. The anti-reflective coating includes a gradient-index (GRIN) layer with an index of refraction that varies across a length to increase propagation of EMR at a predetermined angle of incidence to prevent reflection of the EMR between the angled transmissive surfaces.
US11525938B2
Disclosed is an ocean bottom electromagnetic acquisition station communication apparatus and method. The ocean bottom electromagnetic acquisition station communication apparatus includes: ocean bottom electromagnetic acquisition stations (1) for acquiring ocean bottom electromagnetic information; a control terminal (2) for sending control signals; and a relay timing module (3) connected to the ocean bottom electromagnetic acquisition stations (1) and the control terminal (2) and used for processing the ocean bottom electromagnetic acquisition stations (1) on the basis of the control signals before placement. The ocean bottom electromagnetic acquisition station communication apparatus in the present disclosure has a simple structure, and a plurality of ocean bottom electromagnetic acquisition stations (1) are controlled by means of the relay timing module (3) between the control terminal (2) and the ocean bottom electromagnetic acquisition stations (1), such that structures of the ocean bottom electromagnetic acquisition stations (1) are simplified.
US11525937B2
A registration system for classifying an object, comprising a sensor unit, an evaluation unit, a memory unit and a data-processing unit. The evaluation unit determines a structure data set or a temporal sequence of structure data sets of the object to be registered from a temporal progression of the radiation captured by the sensor assembly. The memory unit stores association rules, each associated with a set of situation parameters. The data-processing unit accesses the structure data set or a temporal sequence of structure data sets, the current situation parameter set, and the association rule associated with the current parameter set and to associate an object with an object class on the basis of the structure data set associated with the object or a temporal sequence of structure data sets by using an association rule associated with the current situation parameter set and received from the memory unit.
US11525936B2
Reducing casing wave effects on sonic logging data by positioning two or more receivers in a borehole in a subsurface formation; receiving, at two or more receivers in a borehole in a subsurface formation, a first signal associated with a first acoustic signal originating from a first transmitter position; receiving, at the two or more receivers, a second signal associated with a second acoustic signal originating from a second transmitter position; creating a dataset based on the first signal and the second signal; identifying casing wave signals in the dataset based at least in part on the second signal; calculating inverse-phase casing wave signals based at least in part on the casing wave signals and the second signal; and reducing effects of the casing wave signals on the dataset using the inverse-phase casing wave signals.
US11525931B2
A system for monitoring intensity of a particle beam can include one or more radio-frequency (RF) detectors coupled to a signal analyzer that can be placed outside the radiation field of the particle beam. Each RF detector can include a gas-filled RF cavity coupled to one or more gas-filled waveguides. The signal analyzer can self-calibrate before the particle beam is turned on for determining one or more absolute intensities of the particle beam when the particle beam is present.
US11525930B2
The present specification describes an X-ray detector that includes at least one scintillator screen for absorbing incident X rays and emitting corresponding light rays, a wavelength shifting sheet (WSS) coupled with the at least one scintillator screen for shifting the emitted light rays, at least one wavelength shifting fiber (WSF) coupled with at least one edge of the WSS for collecting the shifted light rays, and a photodetector for detecting the collected light rays.
US11525922B2
An image sensor may include a first photo gate and a second photo gate each extending substantially in parallel in a first direction, the first photo gate and the second photo gate isolated from direct contact with each other in a second direction, the second direction substantially orthogonal to the first direction, a first overflow gate between the first photo gate and the second photo gate, the first overflow gate extending in the first direction, a first charge collection region on the first photo gate, a second charge collection region on the second photo gate and isolated from direct contact with the first charge collection region in the second direction, a first floating diffusion region that may receive first charge from the first charge collection region and output the first charge, and a second floating diffusion region that may receive second charge from the second charge collection region and output the second charge.
US11525916B2
A light detection and ranging (LIDAR) apparatus includes an optical source to emit an optical beam, and free-space optics coupled with the optical source. The free space optics include a photodetector and other optical components to direct a propagated portion of the optical beam or a reflected portion of the optical beam toward the photodetector as a local oscillator signal, and to transmit the optical beam toward a target environment.
US11525915B2
At least one beam of an optical wave is transmitted along a transmission angle toward a target location from a send aperture of a transmitter. The optical wave comprises at least a first portion, and a second portion having a different characteristic from a characteristic of the first portion. Two or more receivers include at least one receiver comprising: a receive aperture arranged in proximity to at least one of the send aperture or a receive aperture of a different receiver, an optical phased array within the receive aperture, the optical phased array being configured to receive at least a portion of a collected optical wave arriving at the receive aperture along a respective collection angle, and a filter configured to filter the received portion of the collected optical wave according to the characteristic of the first portion of the optical wave.
US11525906B2
A multi-modal sensor system includes: an underlying sensor system; a polarization camera system configured to capture polarization raw frames corresponding to a plurality of different polarization states; and a processing system including a processor and memory, the processing system being configured to control the underlying sensor system and the polarization camera system, the memory storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to: control the underlying sensor system to perform sensing on a scene and the polarization camera system to capture a plurality of polarization raw frames of the scene; extract first tensors in polarization representation spaces based on the plurality of polarization raw frames; and compute a characterization output based on an output of the underlying sensor system and the first tensors in polarization representation spaces.
US11525905B2
A LIDAR device for detecting an object in the surroundings, including at least one transmitter for emitting electromagnetic radiation into the surroundings; at least one rotating deflection unit for deflecting the emitted electromagnetic radiation; at least one detection lens system for receiving electromagnetic radiation which has been reflected by the object in the surroundings, and for directing the received electromagnetic radiation at a first detector unit; at least one second detector unit; and at least one diffractive optical element. The at least one diffractive optical element includes at least one first diffraction area and at least one second diffraction area, an at least first diffraction efficiency assigned to the at least first diffraction area being different from an at least second diffraction efficiency assigned to the at least second diffraction area.
US11525903B2
A lidar system is described for a vehicle for scanning a surrounding area of the vehicle using laser beams, including a transmitting device having a laser beam source which is designed to emit laser beams into the surrounding area of the vehicle, a receiving device having at least one detector for detecting the laser beams reflected in the surrounding area and having at least one first filter that is connectible in front of the detector, wherein the at least one first filter is designed as an intensity filter for specifically absorbing background radiation. A method for operating a lidar system and a computer program are also described.
US11525902B2
A time-of-flight ranging device suitable for indirect time-of-flight ranging is provided. The time-of-flight ranging device includes a light emitting module, a first sensing pixel, a second sensing pixel, a differential readout circuit, and a processing circuit. The light emitting module emits a light pulse to a sensing target, so that the sensing target reflects a reflected light pulse. The first sensing pixel generates a first sensing signal and a second sensing signal. The second sensing pixel generates a third sensing signal and a fourth sensing signal. The differential readout circuit generates first digital data according to the first sensing signal and the third sensing signal and generates second digital data according to the second sensing signal and the fourth sensing signal. The processing circuit calculates a distance between the time-of-flight ranging device and the sensing target according to the first digital data and the second digital data.
US11525898B2
An optical device includes: a light source that emits laser light; an optical waveguide element positioned on the optical path of the laser light; a first member positioned on the optical path, and has a bottom surface that faces the optical waveguide element, and a side surface that is rotationally symmetric about the optical path; and a control circuit. The optical waveguide element includes: a first grating that includes a plurality of portions arranged in the radial direction and having mutually different refractive indices, and that causes a portion of the laser light that is incident to be propagated in the radial direction within the optical waveguide element; and a second grating that includes a plurality of portions arranged outside the first grating, arranged in the radial direction, and having mutually different refractive indices, and that causes light to be emitted from the optical waveguide element.
US11525893B2
An optical sensor device has a transmission unit for emitting light, a receiving unit for light emitted by the transmission unit, and an evaluation unit for evaluating a receive signal, which is based on the received light, wherein the emitted light is designed as a light pulse which is based on a transmission signal, which has a signal shape with a rising and/or falling flank, wherein the receive signal has substantially the same signal shape as the transmission signal, wherein the evaluation unit is suitable for scanning the receive signal at at least one scanning point in its rising and/or falling flank.
US11525888B2
A self-diagnosis device of a radar system or a phased-array antenna module including a general-purpose multi-channel IC and a transmission phase shifter IC having a plurality of transmission output terminals and reception terminals is configured to perform a self-diagnosis of the transmission phase shifter by utilizing a signal that is generatable by the general-purpose multi-channel IC, which is enabled by a built-in self-test circuit that (A) generates a self-diagnosis monitor signal converted into a low frequency band, which is a mixture of (i) a self-diagnosis signal generated from (a) a third output signal and a fourth output signal output in sync from same PLL with (b) a first output signal to be supplied to a reception frequency converter of the general-purpose multi-channel IC, and (ii) a composite signal of the transmission channel, and (B) analyzes a phase of the self-diagnosis monitor signal.
US11525887B2
A system for intelligently implementing an autonomous agent that includes an autonomous agent, a plurality of infrastructure devices, and a communication interface. A method for intelligently calibrating infrastructure (sensing) devices using onboard sensors of an autonomous agent includes identifying a state of calibration of an infrastructure device, collecting observation data from one or more data sources, identifying or selecting mutually optimal observation data, specifically localizing a subject autonomous agent based on granular mutually optimal observation data, identifying dissonance in observation data from a perspective of a subject infrastructure device, and recalibrating a subject infrastructure device.
US11525886B2
A novel and useful system and method by which radar angle and range resolution are significantly improved without increasing complexity in critical hardware parts. A multi-pulse methodology is described in which each pulse contains partial angular and range information consisting of a portion of the total CPI bandwidth, termed multiband chirp. Each chirp has significantly reduced fractional bandwidth relative to monoband processing. Each chirp contains angular information that fills only a portion of the ‘virtual array’, while the full virtual array information is contained across the CPI. This is done using only a single transmission antenna per pulse, thus significantly simplifying MIMO hardware realization, referred to as antenna-multiplexing (AM). Techniques for generating the multiband chirps as well as receiving and generating improved fine range-Doppler data maps. A windowing technique deployed in the transmitter as opposed to the receiver is also disclosed.
US11525879B2
A nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) system is configured to detect combinatorial signatures stemming from homonuclear and heteronuclear J-couplings. The system comprises a pre-polarization system, a detector, and NMR electronics, wherein the detector includes an NMR magnet with a magnetic field of strength between 300 mT and 10 μT.
US11525878B1
A superconductor magnetic field effect transistor. The superconductor magnetic field effect transistor may include a sheet of a superconducting material; and a solenoid. The sheet may be substantially flat, and the solenoid may include a plurality of turns, each of the turns being substantially parallel to the sheet. The superconducting material may be a type-II superconducting material.
US11525852B2
A method, system and apparatus for compensating for non-ideal isotropic behavior of a field probe are disclosed. A method includes, during a calibration procedure, for each of a plurality of positions of the field probe relative to a source, each position denoted by a set of angles (θ, ϕ), performing the following steps: measuring a field by the sensors of the probe, storing the measurements and the set of angles (θ, ϕ) for each measurement, computing a correction factor for the set of angles (θ, ϕ) based on the measurement, and storing the correction factors. During a measurement procedure, each sensor measures a component of the field. A set of angles is determined based on the sensor measurements, and a correction factor is determined based on the set of angles. The correction factor may then be multiplied by the sensor measurements to obtain the corrected field measurements.
US11525851B2
A digital integrated circuit includes first areas of a substrate which incorporate digital functions and second areas of the substrate which are filler between first areas. A capacitance is provided by interdigitated metal-insulator-metal structures formed from a metallization level above the substrate. The structures of the capacitance are vertically aligned with one or more of the second areas.
US11525848B2
The present disclosure discloses a current detecting circuit of a power converter, which includes a transformer including: a magnetic core, a primary winding and a secondary winding, the primary winding and the secondary winding being coupled through the magnetic core, and a combination of the primary winding, the secondary winding and the magnetic core being used to transmit a main power of the power converter, the current detecting circuit includes: an auxiliary winding coupled to the secondary winding, the auxiliary winding and the secondary winding having the same number of turns and their dotted terminals being connected; and an impeder, one end thereof being coupled to the auxiliary winding to form a series branch, which is coupled in parallel to the secondary winding, and a terminal voltage of the impeder after being filtered being proportional to a magnitude of an output current of the power converter.
US11525841B2
A system comprises a particle sensor assembly, which includes a light source that transmits a light beam into an external interrogation air region; a set of receive optics that provides a receive channel, the receive optics configured to collect a scattered portion of the light beam from a particle in the interrogation air region; and an optical detector that receives the collected scattered portion. The optical detector measures a signal intensity as a function of time from the scattered portion, with the signal intensity indicating a particle size and a signal duration indicating motion of the particle through the interrogation air region. A processor is in communication with the optical detector and is operative to determine a transit time of the particle through the interrogation air region based on the signal duration, and compute an airspeed based on parameters comprising the transit time and a size of the light beam.
US11525839B2
A method for detecting a liquid surface of a liquid sample with a pipetting tip, the method includes receiving an indication of a capacitance of the pipetting tip, and determining, based on a rate of change of the indication of the capacitance rising above a first preselected threshold, that the pipetting tip has come into contact with the liquid surface. The method also includes determining, based on the rate of change of the indication of the capacitance falling below a second preselected threshold, that the pipetting tip has lost contact with the liquid surface.
US11525822B2
A method of monitoring a subterranean operation includes sampling fluid from a borehole during the operation, and estimating, in near real time, a concentration of one or more gases in the sampled fluid and an isotope composition of the sampled fluid. The method also includes identifying an operational inefficiency in the operation based on the isotope composition associated with the one or more gases, and performing, during the operation, at least one of: alerting an operator and adjusting an operational parameter of the operation, based on identifying the operational inefficiency.
US11525820B2
In examples, a method of manufacturing a fluid sensing package comprises coupling a semiconductor die to a first set of conductive terminals; positioning the semiconductor die within a socket, a fluid probe extending through a probe orifice in a lid of the socket; positioning a ring of the fluid probe on a fluid sensing portion of the semiconductor die by closing the lid of the socket; and using the fluid probe to apply fluid to an area of the fluid sensing portion circumscribed by the ring.
US11525819B1
In some embodiments, data from multiple vehicle-based natural gas leak detection survey runs are used by computer-implemented machine learning systems to generate a list of natural gas leaks ranked by hazard level. A risk model embodies training data having known hazard levels, and is used to classify newly-discovered leaks. Hazard levels may be expressed by continuous variables, and/or probabilities that a given leak fits within a predefined category of hazard (e.g. Grades 1-3). Each leak is represented by a cluster of leak indications (peaks) originating from a common leak sources. Hazard-predictive features may include maximum, minimum, mean, and/or median CH4/amplitude of aggregated leak indications; estimated leak flow rate, determined from an average of leak indications in a cluster; likelihood of leak being natural gas based on other indicator data (e.g. ethane concentration); probability the leak was detected on a given pass; and estimated distance to leak source.
US11525817B2
The present disclosure relates to a measuring arrangement for measuring an ozone content in a measured medium, including: a first sensor surface and a second sensor surface; a first cover element adjacent the first sensor surface and including an ozone binder that binds ozone without releasing oxygen or any species further reacting to form oxygen; a second cover element adjacent the second sensor surface and including an ozone converter that reacts with ozone to form oxygen; a measuring sensor configured to generate a first measurement signal dependent on the oxygen concentration at the first sensor surface and a second measurement signal dependent on the oxygen concentration at the second sensor surface; and an electronic evaluation unit configured to determine the ozone content in the measured medium based on the first and the second measurement signals.
US11525816B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide methods and apparatus for closed-loop control of a system using one or more electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) sensors located on-site. With such EPR sensors, a change can be applied to the system, the EPR sensors can measure the effect(s) of the change, and then adjustments can be made in real-time. This feedback process may be repeated continuously to control the system.
US11525811B2
A sound source device and a signal receiver are disposed at first and second ports of a target object, respectively. A sound of a specific frequency of the sound source device is introduced into the target object to generate a resonant sound wave. A computer simulates a signal generated when the resonant sound wave is received by the signal receiver and regarding the signal as reference information. The reference information comprises first data having characteristics of the resonant sound wave, and data having features of an imaginary defect formed on the target object. The features of the imaginary defect correspond to the characteristics of the resonant sound wave. When the target object has a real defect, the sound of the specific frequency of the sound source device is introduced into the target object. Features of the real defect are derived by comparing the first data with the second data.
US11525809B2
An apparatus, system, and method for the detection of contents within a container includes a plurality of transducers mounted on an exterior surface of the container. A plurality of acoustic signals is transmitted into the container, and an echo is generated when the signals contact an object. The echo is received at a transducer and a processor analyzes the echo to detect the object. Similarly, two acoustic transducers can be used to angularly transmit the signal into a container. The signal reflects off a sediment surface and is received at another acoustic transducer. The reflection signal can be used to analyze a sediment surface within the container.
US11525806B2
A sensor probe for analysis of a fluid includes a base, and a pair of electrodes and a pair of shield members protruding from the base for insertion into the fluid. The electrodes have electrical oscillations generated therein for measurement of electromagnetic properties of the fluid, such as permittivity. The shield members are disposed outside the electrodes and have a dual purpose of electromagnetically shielding the electrodes and having vibrations generated therein for measurement of physical parameters of the fluid, such as density or viscosity. Thus, the single sensor probe can provide measurements of both electromagnetic properties and physical properties of the fluid.
US11525794B2
A uniformity property acquisition apparatus is the uniformity property acquisition apparatus configured to acquires a uniformity property of a mixture in which an insoluble solid matter is mixed in liquid, and the uniformity property acquisition apparatus includes: a pair of electrodes configured to apply the AC signal to the mixture; measurement unit configured to measure impedance of the mixture on the basis of a response signal flowing through the mixture when the AC signal is applied to the mixture; and processing unit configured to acquire the uniformity property of the mixture on the basis of the impedance measured by the measurement unit.
US11525788B2
A computer-implemented method comprising: controlling input of data quantifying damage received by a compressor of a gas turbine engine into a first machine learning algorithm; receiving data quantifying a first operating parameter of the compressor as an output of the first machine learning algorithm; and determining operability of the compressor by comparing the received data quantifying the first operating parameter of the compressor with a threshold.
US11525786B2
An apparatus and method to determine a property of a substrate by measuring, in the pupil plane of a high numerical aperture lens, an angle-resolved spectrum as a result of radiation being reflected off the substrate. The property may be angle and wavelength dependent and may include the intensity of TM- and TE-polarized radiation and their relative phase difference.
US11525780B2
The invention concerns a method for measuring the concentration of a substance or mixture of substances and/or determining the level in a fluid with intrinsic fluorescence, preferably fuel systems. The invention also refers to the optical device suitable for implementing the method, which comprises a unit which generates light for excitation of the sample; a unit of detection of the signal emitted by the sample and a unit of signal processing. The device and method by which it is implemented also allow the determination of the spatial distribution of the substance or mixture of liquid substances and/or the fluid level in a container. One of the main applications is the measurement of the concentration of oxygen in the fuel tank of aircrafts, based on the measurement of the intrinsic fluorescence of the fuel.
US11525760B2
The present invention provides methods for controllably forming a layer of amorphous ice and other amorphous solids on a substrate, and also provides cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) sample preparation methods and systems that utilize in vacuo formation of amorphous ice and other solids. Formation of the amorphous solid layer can be independent of the deposition of sample molecules to be analyzed using electron microscopy, and allows for the generation of a uniformly thick layer. Optionally, mass spectrometry instruments are used to generate and purify molecules deposited on the generated amorphous solid layer. The techniques and systems described herein can deliver near ideal cryo-EM sample preparation to greatly increase resolution, sensitivity, scope, and throughput of cryo-EM protein imaging, and therefore greatly impact the field of structural biology.
US11525759B2
Paraffin-embedded tissue is prepared removing paraffin from the tissue. The paraffin is removed by generating an electric field effective to produce plasma and direct charged species of the plasma to the paraffin, thereby rendering the paraffin responsive to the electric field. The electric field may move the paraffin out from the tissue due to electrostatic force. Movement of the paraffin may be assisted by moving an electrode utilized to generate the electric field relative to the paraffin. Movement of the paraffin also may be assisted by applying a solvent and/or heat energy to the tissue.
US11525753B2
A contact vibration detection device 100 for detecting contact vibration due to contact between a rotational shaft 12 and a stationary part 13 includes: a rotation waveform determination unit 101 configured to determine a rotation waveform of the rotational shaft 12 based on displacement of the rotational shaft 12 during rotation; a parameter change detection unit 102 configured to detect a change in a parameter of at least one of an effective value of the rotation waveform or a phase angle of the rotation waveform; and a contact vibration determination unit 103 configured to determine whether the contact vibration occurs based on presence or absence of the change in the parameter.
US11525746B2
An electronic apparatus includes a base substrate including a planar part and a folding part, which is connected to a side of the planar part and is foldable along a folding axis extending in a predetermined direction, where the base substrate includes a front surface including an active region and a peripheral region adjacent to the active region, when viewed from a plan view in a thickness thereof, a plurality of pixels disposed on the front surface and in the active region, an encapsulation layer covering the pixels, a strain-sensing pattern disposed on the front surface, in the active region, and on the folding part, and a plurality of pixel pads disposed on the peripheral region. The strain-sensing pattern is disposed between the base substrate and the encapsulation layer.
US11525729B2
A projection device and a household appliance are provided. The projection device includes a casing, a lens component, and a pattern lighting module. An opening is disposed at a front end of the casing. The lens component is disposed inside an accommodating space of the casing and fixed on the casing, and the lens component corresponds to the opening. The pattern lighting module is disposed inside the accommodating space of the casing and fixed on the casing, and the pattern lighting module corresponds to the lens component. The pattern lighting module emits at least one patterned light beam that passes through the lens component and the opening sequentially.
US11525724B2
A sight glass column is described. The sight glass column is configured to be indirectly attachable to a machine via a machine connector such that machine fluid is transferable from the machine to the sight glass column. The sight glass column further has a remote sensing port, and a lockable oil level ring.
US11525719B2
Systems and methods are provided for estimating the flow velocity of a multi-phase flow in a pipe using injected microbubbles in combination with ultrasonic signals produced by transducers external to the pipe. The transducers can be located so that one transducer/receiver pair is downstream from a second pair by a separation distance. The receivers can preferably be located in alignment with the transducers for receiving a desirable amount of signal emitted from microbubbles that are excited by absorption of energy from a signal generated by a transducer. The frequency of the signal emitted by the microbubbles can correspond to a harmonic and/or sub-harmonic of the frequency of the signal generated by the transducer. In order to improve the signal-to-noise ratio, frequencies corresponding to a primary frequency emitted by a transducer can be filtered out.
US11525718B2
An ultrasonic measuring device for the measurement of a flow of a fluid, includes a measuring tube, a first chamber and a second chamber. The measuring tube has a central axis, which defines a flow direction for the fluid; The first chamber has a first ultrasonic transducer arranged therein. The second chamber has a second ultrasonic transducer arranged therein. The measuring tube includes an inlet and an outlet for the fluid. The first ultrasonic transducer and the second ultrasonic transducer bound a rectilinear measuring section for the fluid, the first chamber and the second chamber being configured and arranged such that the fluid is capable of flowing around each of them. The first ultrasonic transducer and the second ultrasonic transducer are arranged such that the measuring section extends in the flow direction.
US11525717B2
Vibration-based flowmeters are useable in inaccessible nuclear reactor spaces. Pipe-organ-type flowmeters include a passage with an opening constricted, and subsequent widening section. An extension and outlet that create turbulence in the flow at the outlet create a standing wave and vibration in the extension and/or entire flowmeter. A flow rate of the fluid through the flowmeter can be calculated using length of the passage and/or known properties of the fluid. Multiple flowmeters of customized physical properties and types are useable together.
US11525702B2
A sensor system for determining at least one rotation characteristic of an element rotating about at least one rotation axis includes at least one sensor wheel having a profile and being connectable to the rotating element; and at least one inductive position sensor including at least one coil arrangement that includes at least one excitation coil and at least two receiver coils, where at least in sections of the at least two receiver coils have a sinusoidal shape.
US11525700B2
An electronic timepiece includes a detection axis calibration unit configured to execute first calibration processing of calibrating an axial direction and second calibration processing of calibrating a direction along a third detection axis, the second calibrating processing being executed after first calibration processing, a mode setting unit configured to set a first measurement mode when second calibration processing is not completed after completion of the first calibration processing, and set a second measurement mode when the second calibration processing is completed, a first azimuth calculation unit configured to calculate an azimuth, based on detected values of a three-axis magnetic sensor in two axial directions, when the first measurement mode is set, and a second azimuth calculation unit configured to calculate an azimuth, based on detected values of the three-axis magnetic sensor in three axial directions and a detected value of a inclination sensor, when the second measurement mode is set.
US11525690B2
System and methods are provided for calculating a lane maneuver delay for different lane maneuvers and different road segments at different times of the day to generate a predicted lane maneuver delay for use in routing and navigation services. A lane-level map-matcher identifies the lane a vehicle is driving on using positional sensors. Sensor data is obtained from vehicle sensors using the left-turn and right-turn signal lights sensor. A lane maneuver delay value is calculated from the time period a left-turn or right-turn signaling light was kept on before a vehicle completed a lane maneuver. The lane maneuver delay values are aggregated to generate a predicted lane maneuver delay that may be used in lane level routing instructions.
US11525686B2
A method and system for deploying a calibrated positioning map of an area. The method, executed in a processor of a server computing device, comprises deploying a crowd sourced magnetic fingerprint map for mobile device localization during traversal of the indoor area, accumulating received signal strength (RSS) measurements in forming a RSS fingerprint map using crowd sourced RSS measurements during the deploying, and switching, responsive to identifying desirability of a change in the mobile device localization within the indoor area, from the crowd sourced magnetic fingerprint map to the RSS fingerprint map as basis for localizing the mobile device.
US11525683B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide systems and methods to eliminate (or filter) drift for dynamics model based localization of multirotors. The dynamics equations require drag modelling, which is dependent on velocity, to generate vehicles' acceleration along the body axis. The present disclosure considers the drag contribution, at velocity level, as a low frequency component. Incorrect or nonmodelling of this low frequency component leads to drift at velocity level. This drift can then be removed through a high pass filter to obtain drift free velocity data for pose estimation and better localization thereof.
US11525682B2
A host vehicle position estimation device includes an observation position estimation unit configured to estimate an observation position of the vehicle based on a result of recognition of the target object performed, a prediction position calculation unit configured to calculate a prediction position of the vehicle from a result of estimation of the host vehicle position in the past based on a result of measurement performed by an internal sensor, a host vehicle position estimation unit configured to estimate the host vehicle position based on the observation position and the prediction position. The host vehicle position estimation unit is configured to give more weighting to the prediction position in the estimation of the host vehicle position such that the host vehicle position is estimated to be close to the prediction position if it is determined that a result of estimation of the host vehicle position is unsteady.
US11525669B2
A laser projection module is provided. The laser projection module includes a substrate assembly, a lens barrel assembly, a light source, a diffractive optical element and a collimation element. The lens barrel assembly includes a lens barrel and a stop member connected to the lens barrel. The lens barrel is disposed on the substrate assembly and configured to define a receiving cavity together with the substrate assembly. The light source is disposed on the substrate assembly, accommodated in the receiving cavity, and configured to emit laser to the receiving cavity. The diffractive optical element and the collimation element are accommodated in the receiving cavity. The light source, the collimation element and the diffractive optical element are sequentially disposed in an optical path of the light source. The stop member is configured to prevent the diffractive optical element from moving in a light-emitting direction of the laser projection module.
US11525666B2
In an aspect, a method for imaging a target comprises steps of: performing optical coherence tomography (OCT) scanning on the target with one or more beams of source light, the one or more beams of source light comprising a plurality of wavelengths; wherein performing OCT scanning comprises: providing the source light to a reference optical path and to a sample optical path, wherein providing the source light to a sample optical path comprises illuminating the target with the source light; and recording interference data corresponding to an interaction of a light from the reference optical path and a light from the sample optical path; processing the interference data; and identifying blood or one or more blood-features in the target based on an optical attenuation of light in or associated with the sample optical path by the blood or the one or more blood-features.
US11525657B2
A measuring wheel may include a wheel assembly comprising a first wheel and a second wheel, a handle operably coupled to a shaft, a housing to which the shaft and the wheel assembly are operably coupled, and a fixed stand disposed at a portion of the housing substantially between the first and second wheels.
US11525656B2
A tape rule comprises a blade, a reel, a spring, a lock, and a housing. The blade comprises a substrate and a coating. The coating is configured to provide color, environmental protection, and/or abrasion resistance. In some embodiments, (1) the coating is formed from non-polymer materials; (2) the blade comprises reinforcements metallurgically bonded to the blade at or near a free end; (3) measurement indicia comprise laser marked portions of the substrate that create color contrasts with other portions of the substrate; (4) the measurement indicia comprise portions of the substrate visible through gaps in the coating; (5) the measurement indicia comprise voids in the substrate filled with a coating material having a contrasting color; and/or (6) the substrate has a surface texture configured to change an appearance of the coating relative to an appearance of the coating on an as-rolled surface finish of the metal substrate.
US11525649B1
Several examples of a dual remote control and crew-served weapon station are described herein that uniquely provide different operating modes, any one of which can be quickly and efficiently selected based on outputs from various system sensors (e.g., switches and buttons). For example, a first operating mode is a mode in which the weapon is remotely steered and fired (e.g., remote controlled). A second operating mode is a mode in which a weapon cradle is stabilized by a gimbal and the weapon is aimed and fired by a local operator (e.g., crew-served stabilized). A third operating mode is a mode in which the cradle is manually steered and the weapon is fired by the local operator (e.g., full manual).
US11525643B2
Firearms and bolt mechanisms are disclosed herein. The firearm can include a bolt assembly configured to provide leverage for extracting a cartridge. The bolt body can include a main cylindrical body, handle, and a pivot pin extending through a portion of the handle within the cylindrical body. The handle can be rotated relative to the main cylindrical body to push the bolt assembly along an internal passageway of the receiver.
US11525636B2
A loop heat pipe includes a reservoir, an evaporator adjacent to the reservoir, and a condenser including a condenser inlet and a condenser outlet. The loop heat pipe further includes a vapor transport line connecting the evaporator to the condenser inlet, a liquid transport line connecting the condenser outlet to the evaporator, and a vapor bypass joining the vapor transport line near the condenser inlet and joining the liquid transport line near the condenser outlet. The vapor bypass includes a vapor bypass housing. The vapor bypass housing includes a temperature. The loop heat pipe also includes a thermally-controlled connection between the vapor bypass housing and the condenser, and a thermal controller connected to the thermally-controlled connection and regulating the temperature of the vapor bypass housing via the thermally-controlled connection.
US11525633B2
A heat exchanger with a monocoque structure transfers heat between a first fluid and a second fluid. The heat exchanger in has a plurality of tubes through which the first fluid may flow in a direction, each of the plurality of tubes has a first mouth end, an N opposing second mouth end and a waist region between the first mouth end and the second mouth end. The heat exchanger also has one or more interconnected fluid channels through which the second fluid may flow, the one or more fluid channels lay generally in a plane, the plurality of tubes and the one or more fluid channels interleave such that heat may be transferred between the plurality of tubes and the one or more fluid channels, and the direction of flow of the first fluid is generally perpendicular to the plane of the one or more fluid channels.
US11525632B2
A heat dissipation device is configured for a working fluid to flow therethrough. The heat dissipation device includes a base, at least one heat dissipation fin, and at least one fluid replenisher. The base has at least one internal channel configured for the working fluid to flow therethrough. The at least one heat dissipation fin having an extension channel and an inlet and an outlet is in fluid communication with the extension channel. The at least one heat dissipation fin is inserted into one side of the base, and the extension channel is communicated with the at least one internal channel through the inlet and the outlet. The at least one fluid replenisher is connected to at least one internal channel.
US11525622B2
The present disclosure provides system for sealing a refrigerated galley of an aircraft. The system includes a door, and a seal assembly positioned at a bottom surface of the door. The seal assembly includes (i) a housing coupled to the bottom surface of the door, (ii) a seal positioned at least partially in the housing, wherein the seal is moveable relative to the housing and the door, (iii) a biasing mechanism coupled to the housing and the seal and configured to hold the seal in a relaxed state by applying a biasing force to the seal in a direction away from a floor surface of the refrigerated galley, and (iv) an activation mechanism coupled to the housing. The activation mechanism is configured to transition the seal from the relaxed state to a compressed state in response to a rotation of the door from an open position to a closed position.
US11525621B2
A gasket is positioned on an icebox within a refrigerator appliance. The gasket includes a first lateral edge spaced apart from a second lateral edge. The first lateral edge has a first height and the second lateral edge has a second height. The first height is greater than the second height. A longitudinal edge extends between and is integrally formed with the first and second lateral edges. The longitudinal edge tapers from the first height to the second height. The second lateral edge is positioned proximate a hinge assembly of an appliance door.
US11525615B2
A refrigerator utilizes in some instances an icemaker having a tandem arrangement of storage bins. A first storage bin receives ice produced by an icemaker and includes a reversible ice mover that when operated in a first direction feeds an ice dispenser, and when operated in a second direction feeds a second storage bin disposed below the first storage bin. A refrigerator may also in another aspect include an externally-accessible ice dispenser having a dispenser recess portion that is removable from the refrigerator when the doors of the refrigerator are closed, e.g., for the purpose of accessing an ice storage bin.
US11525614B2
A control method of a refrigerator includes: determining whether a first temperature of a refrigerating compartment satisfies a first temperature condition; based the first temperature satisfying the first temperature condition, determining whether a second temperature of a freezing compartment satisfies a second temperature condition; based on the second temperature satisfying the second temperature condition, determining (i) whether a third temperature of an ice making compartment satisfies a third temperature condition and (ii) whether a driving time for ice making has passed; maintaining operation of a compressor while determining (i) whether the second temperature satisfies the second temperature condition, (ii) whether the third temperature satisfies the third temperature condition, and (iii) whether the driving time has passed; and stopping operation of the compressor based on at least one of (i) a determination that the third temperature satisfies the third temperature condition or (ii) a determination that the driving time has passed.
US11525611B2
A refrigerant cycle device includes a compressor, a radiator, a first expansion valve, a second expansion valve, a first evaporator, a second evaporator, and a controller. The controller is configured to switch between a first evaporator priority control and a second evaporator priority control. During the first evaporator priority control, the controller controls a throttle opening of the second expansion valve based on at least one of a temperature of a first evaporator, a temperature of a refrigerant flowing through the first evaporator, and a temperature of an air having exchanged heat in the first evaporator. During the second evaporator priority mode, the controller controls the throttle opening based on a refrigerant state of the second evaporator. When the at least one of the temperatures is equal to or greater than a switching temperature, the second priority mode is switched to the first priority mode.
US11525587B2
A humidifier having a multiplicity of metallic flow plates and a multiplicity of water transfer membranes, in particular for humidifying process gas for an electrochemical system or for HVAC applications is described. The humidifier has a construction in which the metallic flow plates and the water transfer membranes are arranged such that in each case at most one of the single-layer flow plates is arranged between adjacent water transfer membranes of the stack; and at least one of the water transfer membranes is in each case accommodated in a sealing manner, in particular clamped in a sealing manner, between the mutually facing sealing lines of adjacent flow plates of the stack. The humidifier has lower production costs, greater efficiency and lower weight.
US11525572B2
Some embodiments of the disclosure provide a steam generator and a car washer with the steam generator. The steam generator includes: a boiler having a combustion chamber. The steam generator further includes: a windproof cover, at least a part of an ignition device of the steam generator being located in the windproof cover; an igniting cover, at least a part of the igniting cover being located in the combustion chamber, and an outlet of the windproof cover being located in the igniting cover; an air inlet grating, the air inlet grating being provided around the windproof cover and connected with the windproof cover, and the air inlet grating being located on an inner side of an air inlet of the igniting cover, to prevent airflow in the igniting cover from flowing out from the inlet of the igniting cover.
US11525569B2
A paint applicator assembly includes a frame having a base. The base has a forward side, a first lateral side, and a second lateral side opposite the first lateral side. A light assembly is supported by the frame. The light assembly includes a printed circuit board having a forward side portion positioned proximate the forward side of the base. The light assembly further includes a plurality of light sources supported on the printed circuit board. The plurality of light sources includes a first light source and a second light source positioned on the forward side portion. The first light source is configured to direct light along a first direction, and the second light source is configured to direct light along a second direction that is different than the first direction.
US11525565B1
A Christmas tree stand connecting structure and an LED decorative lamp are disclosed. The Christmas tree stand connecting structure includes a fixed disc and an LED decorative lamp, wherein a side wall of the fixed disc is movably connected with a supporting frame. A top of the fixed disc is equipped with a connecting mechanism, wherein an angle adjusting assembly is arranged in the connecting mechanism. The connecting mechanism includes a connecting part, a positioning part, a connecting end, a connecting line, and a connecting port. The connecting part is assembled through the positioning part on a bottom of the connecting part and the positioning slot in a top. In a mounting process, a blocking part inside a matching slot is jacked to two sides through a semicircular structure on the top for a clamping part to clamp and fix a side wall of the blocking part.
US11525556B2
A light emitting device includes a substrate, a plurality of light sources, a partitioning member and a diffuser sheet. The light sources are disposed on an upper surface of the substrate. The partitioning member is disposed on the upper surface of the substrate and including top parts. The partitioning member is reflective. The diffuser sheet is in contact with the top parts of the partitioning member.
US11525554B2
An irradiation unit is disclosed that includes a pump radiation source for emitting pump radiation in the form of a beam, a conversion element for at least partially converting the pump radiation into conversion radiation, and a support on which the conversion element is situated. The support accommodates a through-hole through which the beam including the pump radiation is incident on an incident surface of the conversion element, the though-hole being laterally delimited by an inner wall face of the support, at least one portion of the face tapering in the direction of the incident surface. During operation, the pump radiation conducted in the beam is at least intermittently at least in part, incident on the inner wall face of the support and is reflected thereby onto the incident surface.
US11525541B2
A target stand having a base, a vertical beam extending upwardly from the base, a crossbeam, a locking and rotation assembly having a first portion engaged for vertical movement with the vertical beam and a second portion attached to the crossbeam, the first portion attached to the second portion with a pivot bolt, wherein the crossbeam is configured to be disposed in a first locked horizontal position using the locking and rotation assembly, and wherein the crossbeam is rotatable about the pivot bolt to move into a first non-horizontal position.
US11525540B2
Provided is a display apparatus having a structure excellent in workability upon installation. The display apparatus includes: a display section; and a supporting structure that is to be mounted on a wall surface and supports the display section. The supporting structure includes a support that supports the display section from below in a vertical direction, and an inclination adjusting mechanism provided at the support and configured to adjust an inclination of the display section with respect to the vertical direction.
US11525536B2
A sealing device is provided for sealing a transition between a main line and a branch line. An insert has a main part disposed in the main line. A connector is disposed in the branch line. A first expandable inner sleeve for bracing the main part in the main fine is provided, as well as at least a second expandable inner sleeve for bracing the connector in the branch line. An inner sleeve having a locking device is also provided.
US11525523B2
Techniques for diagnosing failures in a digital solenoid I/P converter are provided herein. A controller of the I/P converter may apply a fixed voltage to an I/P coil of the I/P converter, causing an armature to move from an off-position to an on-position in a properly-functioning I/P converter. The controller may receive an indication of whether a digital logic line trip has occurred, indicating that a current for the I/P coil has reached a desired maximum current level. The controller may remove the fixed voltage applied to the I/P coil when the maximum current level is reached or when a threshold period of time has elapsed from the application of the fixed voltage to the I/P coil. The controller may diagnose, based on whether the digital logic line trip occurred prior to removing the fixed voltage, a failure in the I/P converter.
US11525517B2
A slide valve having a valve disc that is slidably movable between a fully-retracted fully-open position and a fully-extended fully-closed tight shutoff position by an actuating stem. The actuating stem is flexibly coupled to the valve disc. The valve disc is selectively modulated between the fully-extended fully-closed tight shutoff position and a partially-retracted non-tight shutoff position to prevent sticking of the valve disc in the fully-extended fully-closed tight shutoff position.
US11525511B2
A film-integrated gasket is provided in which a gasket body is supported by a gasket support body formed of a resin film and a film thickness t2 at a position where the gasket body is supported is set to be smaller than a film thickness t1 at an adjacent position thereto so as to satisfy a demand for low reaction force by reducing the compression ratio in the thickness directional in mounting. The film-integrated gasket can be provided with a portion compressed in the thickness direction at the position where the gasket body is supported, so that the portion sets a thickness difference. The film-integrated gasket can alternatively be provided with a portion where a plurality of resin films is stacked at an adjacent position to the position where the gasket main body is supported, so that the portion sets a thickness difference.
US11525502B2
A circular wave drive system is provided. In one aspect, the circular wave drive includes a compliant input ring gear having an inner surface having internal input ring gear teeth; an input cycloidal disc having an outer surface having external input cycloidal disc gear teeth oriented on the outer surface, and wherein the external input cycloidal disc gear teeth at least partially engage the internal input ring gear teeth; a compliant primary drive gear having an outer surface having external primary drive gear teeth; an eccentric motion generator including an eccentric portion and a non-eccentric portion and wherein a centerline of the eccentric portion and the non-eccentric portion are offset from one another; and an output cycloidal disc having an inner surface with internal output cycloidal disc teeth, and wherein the internal output cycloidal disc teeth at least partially engage the external primary drive gear teeth.
US11525474B1
A cost-effective anchor member formed of sheet metal for use with a compression style fastener device for securing equipment such as hog penning and gates to a slatted floor, the anchor member having an elongated body with a curved center section and opposed inclined sections extending upwardly and outwardly from the center section, and a cutout formed in the curved center section in which an internally threaded attachment member is secured against rotating, wherein in use the anchor member is positioned extending laterally against the underside of the slatted floor with spaced apart contact locations supporting the anchor member and providing improved stability.
US11525466B2
A valve, having a valve housing, in which a housing interior is formed, in which a movable valve slide is located. The valve slide is impinged upon by a compression spring that is supported via a supporting element on the valve housing. The supporting element has a supporting wall, from which a plurality of supporting arms protrudes, which axially overlap the valve slide in each axial position. On the supporting arms guide surfaces are formed for linear guidance of the valve slide. The supporting arms are springily deflectable and in each case have a radial support surface, with which they are supported on the valve housing.
US11525465B2
The present disclosure relates to a miniature pressure compensating device (10), for balancing pressure fluctuations in a hydraulic system, comprising at least one shell (12), at least one hollow hydraulic cylinder (16), at least one reciprocating piston (26) and at least one non-return valve (NRV) (28). The hydraulic cylinder (16) comprises at least one dual charging valve port (22) for facilitating charging of both said compressible and incompressible fluid and at least one built-in two-tier scaling mechanism (24) comprising at least one metal-to-metal seal (24a) and at least one secondary seal (24b) to achieve effective isolation of the incompressible and compressible fluids. The present miniature pressure compensating device (10) has a volume below 13 cc.
US11525460B2
Method to assemble a water pump with an impeller driven by an electrical machine comprising a housing cap and a volute with an inlet and an outlet and a boot hosting a stator and a rotor of the electrical machine and an electronic board mounted at the side apart from the impeller and covered by the cap housing, the boot having a radial extending rim comprising at least slots defined by the following steps: connecting the volute to the boot by inserting axial hooks in the boot's slots, twisting the volute versus the boot to fix the axial hooks, inserting radial hooks of the cap housing in the same slots.
US11525454B2
A process for optimizing the design of a semi-open centrifugal pump impeller involves the steps of, reducing the number of long blades and adding a medium length splitter blade and a short length splitter blade having varying circumferential distances between any two optimized long blades. Each medium length and short length splitter blade have the same outlet position, profile and thickness as the optimized long blade; however, the medium length and short length splitter blades have different inlet positions relative to the optimized long blade. The long blade, medium length splitter blade and short length splitter blade are arranged in circumferential sequence along the direction of rotation of the impeller. This optimization improves various problems arising from the original semi-open centrifugal pumps, including low efficiency, significant loss at the inlet, inlet cavitation, separation of boundary layers at the blade inlets, narrow lift range of the dead point and excessive noise.
US11525447B2
A slim pump according to the present invention includes a frame, a shaft-coupling portion, a stator, and an impeller. The frame includes an interior separated by a partitioning board into a first chamber and a second chamber. A flow inlet intercommunicates with the first chamber and a flow outlet intercommunicates with the second chamber. The first chamber is intercommunicated with the second chamber via a communication hole of the partitioning board. The shaft-coupling portion is located in the frame. The stator is disposed around the shaft-coupling portion and is located within an axial extent of the first chamber. The stator is axially aligned with the communication hole. The impeller includes a plurality of blades and an inlet opening located in the second chamber. The inlet opening faces and axially aligns with the communication hole.
US11525438B2
Shape memory alloy (SMA) actuators and thermal management systems including the same. An SMA actuator includes an SMA lifting tube and a process fluid conduit configured to convey a process fluid through the SMA lifting tube. The SMA actuator assumes a conformation that is based on the temperature of the process fluid. The SMA lifting tube includes a first end and a second end configured to translate relative to the first end at least partially along a lateral direction. A thermal management system is configured to regulate a temperature of a process fluid. The thermal management system includes a heat exchanger that at least partially defines a heat transfer region, a process fluid conduit configured to convey the process fluid through the heat transfer region, and an actuator assembly including the SMA actuator. The actuator assembly is configured to selectively position the heat exchanger within a thermal management fluid flow.
US11525432B2
A method for operating a wind turbine for generating electrical power from wind, wherein the wind turbine has an aerodynamic rotor with a rotor hub and rotor blades of which the blade angle is adjustable, and the aerodynamic rotor can be operated with a variable rotation speed, and the wind turbine has a generator, which is coupled to the aerodynamic rotor, for the purpose of generating a generator power, wherein the generator can be operated with a variable generator torque, comprising the steps of: determining a loading variable which indicates a loading on the wind turbine by the wind, and reducing the rotation speed and/or the generator power in a loading mode depending on the loading variable, wherein at least one force variable that acts on the wind turbine is used for determining the loading variable or as the loading variable.
US11525431B2
A method of controlling a wind turbine for the avoidance of edgewise vibrations. The method comprises the steps of determining a whirling mode frequency of a rotor blade of the wind turbine; determining a rotational frequency of the rotor blade corresponding to the speed of the rotor blade; determining a threshold value for the whirling mode frequency based on the rotational frequency; and, reducing the speed of the rotor blade if the whirling mode frequency substantially equals or is less than the threshold value.
US11525402B2
A propulsion system is provided and includes a solid hydride storage unit from which gaseous hydrogen fuel is drawn, an engine comprising a combustion chamber and a piping system to draw the gaseous hydrogen fuel from the solid hydride storage unit, the piping system being interposed between the solid hydride storage unit and the combustion chamber. The combustion chamber is receptive of the gaseous hydrogen fuel drawn from the solid hydride storage unit by the piping system and is configured to combust the gaseous hydrogen fuel to drive an operation of the engine.
US11525397B2
A gas turbine component includes an ejection circuit for removing debris from cooling air flowing through a gas turbine component. The gas turbine component includes: an impingement insert and a debris ejection circuit. The impingement insert, which is disposed within a cavity in the component, includes an end wall and distribution holes for directing cooling air against a wall of the cavity. The debris ejection circuit includes: a bypass aperture defined in the end wall, which fluidly couples an interior of the impingement insert and an end section of the cavity; and an ejection channel, which fluidly couples the end section of the cavity to the wheelspace cavity or the hot gas path. A pressure differential between the interior of the impingement insert and the wheelspace cavity or hot gas path directs debris in the cooling air through the bypass aperture and the ejection channel.
US11525396B2
A gas turbine engine includes combustion apparatus defining a volume, a compressor, a cooling air supply feed from the compressor, and a Helmholtz resonator. The Helmholtz resonator has a neck and a chamber having an attenuation volume and which is in fluid communication with the attenuation volume, the cooling air supply feed is connected to the Helmholtz resonator and includes a valve arrangement. In a first engine operating condition, the valve arrangement is closed and the Helmholtz resonator attenuates acoustic frequencies in a first range and, in a second engine operating condition, the valve arrangement is open whereby cooling air purges the attenuation volume and the Helmholtz resonator attenuates acoustic frequencies in a second range.
US11525395B2
As seen in a section parallel to a central axis of a shaft and including the center of gravity of a valve surface, with respect to the center of gravity, an end of the valve surface on the side of a first shaft direction is located on the side of a first direction in a direction orthogonal to the central axis of the shaft. As seen in a section orthogonal to the central axis of the shaft and including the center of gravity when the central axis of the shaft and a central axis of a through-hole coincide with each other, with respect to the center of gravity, an end of the valve surface on the side of a second direction in a direction along the valve seat surface is located on the side of the first direction in a direction orthogonal to the valve seat surface.
US11525382B2
The present invention relates to a method for analysing the operation of an anti-pollution system for a motor vehicle (1) with an internal combustion engine, said vehicle (1) comprising at least one sensor for measuring (110) a parameter of the vehicle (1) and an analysis computation means (140) directly connected to said measuring sensor (110), said analysis computation means (140) comprising a memory area, said method being characterised in that it comprises a step for using the measuring sensor (110) to measure at least one parameter of the vehicle (1), a step for using the measuring sensor (110) to transmit at least one digital datum representative of the measured value of the parameter to the analysis computation means (140) and a step for using the analysis computation means (140) to compare said digital datum with a predetermined range of values representative of an operation of the anti-pollution system according to a predetermined standard.
US11525379B2
An exhaust-gas tract for a motor vehicle has an exhaust-gas burner that includes an air inlet connection for the introduction of air into the exhaust-gas burner. The air inlet connection has a connection piece in which a check valve for the closure of the connection piece is arranged. The air inlet connection has an air inlet flange which connects the connection piece to a combustion chamber of the exhaust-gas burner and which seals off the combustion chamber. A motor vehicle incorporates the exhaust-gas tract.
US11525365B2
A front fan turbomachine includes an annular separating wall having a slat for separating an air flow between a primary flow and a secondary flow, the slat having a leading edge; inlet guide vanes (IGV) for guiding the primary flow and outlet guide vanes (OGV) blades for guiding the secondary flow. The leading edge of the slat has a serrated profile having a succession of teeth and depressions.
US11525363B2
A turbine wheel that retains a fixation wire to inhibit the movement of turbine rotor blades along mating grooves includes: multiple tab sections that form housing sections that house part of the fixation wire; and a wire retention pin to retain the fixation wire in the housing sections. The tab section has a pin slot extending from the radially inner end toward the radially outward side. The wire retention pin has a first pin section having a width smaller than the pin slot and a second pin section having a width larger than the pin slot. The first pin section has multiple divided pieces. The wire retention pin is arranged such that the first pin section is positioned in the pin slot and the second pin section is positioned in the housing section, and is fixed to the tab section with the divided pieces bent outward.
US11525362B2
A turbine vane and a turbine blade are provided. Each of the turbine vane and the turbine blade may include a sidewall configured to form an airfoil and include a leading edge and a trailing edge, a partition wall configured to partition an internal space of the sidewall to form a plurality of cooling channels, and a metering plate configured to block inlet parts of the cooling channels and include cooling holes communicating with respective cooling channels. The metering plate may include a first cooling hole formed in the inlet part of each of the cooling channels and a second cooling hole formed, at a position close to the leading edge, in the inlet part of the cooling channel adjacent to the leading edge among the plurality of cooling channels.
US11525360B2
A blade of a high-pressure turbine of a turboshaft engine, the blade including an airfoil extending in a spanwise direction, terminating in an apex and having a suction wall and a pressure wall joined by a leading edge and joined by a trailing edge. The blade further includes an internal cooling circuit having only an upstream duct and a central chamber for cooling the blade by circulating air. The upstream duct and the central chamber are separately supplied with air. The upstream duct being dedicated to the cooling of the leading edge and the suction wall, and the central chamber being dedicated to the cooling of the pressure wall and the trailing edge and being provided with bridge elements each connecting the pressure wall and the suction wall.
US11525358B2
A rotary assembly for an aircraft engine is disclosed. A shaft is mounted for rotation about a central axis and a rotary part is mounted on the shaft for common rotation therewith. The rotary part has an axial end portion extending away from a center of mass of the rotary part, the axial end portion having a radial thickness smaller than that of the rotary part at an axial location aligned with the center of mass. The shaft and the rotary part have an interface defining an interference fit between the shaft and the axial end portion of the rotary part. The interface is located at a distance along the central axis from the center of mass. An undercut is defined in the rotary part. The undercut extends axially from adjacent the interface towards the center of mass.
US11525354B2
Apparatus and method for reducing pressure pulsations within drilling mud being pumped downhole by a plurality of pumps to thereby improve quality of mud-pulse telemetry. The apparatus may include a position sensor disposed in association with each pump and operable to generate a position signal indicative of operational timing of a corresponding one of the pumps, a surface telemetry device fluidly connected with the drilling mud and operable to output a telemetry quality signal indicative of the quality of mud-pulse telemetry, and a controller communicatively connected with the pumps, the position sensors, and the surface telemetry device. The controller may be operable to receive the position signal and the telemetry quality signal, and cause the pumps to change relative operational timing of the pumps based on the position signal and the telemetry quality signal to improve the quality of mud-pulse telemetry.
US11525352B2
A method may include obtaining a request to determine automatically a depth of a formation top for a well in a geological region of interest. The method may include obtaining various well logs regarding the well and various wells in the geological region of interest. The method may include determining various depth values using the various well logs and a statistical interpolation method. The method may further include determining a final depth of the well using the various depth values and a searching method.
US11525351B2
An apparatus and method for measuring position and magnitude of downhole mechanical friction. The apparatus comprises sensors that reside along, or in-line with, a section of equipment that is installed or removed from a wellbore. The sensing device is configured measure relative to the wellbore during a work-over or other well intervention procedures where said section of equipment (tubing, rods, drill pipe, etc.) is installed in, or removed from, the wellbore. Recorded measurements are then processed to correct for dynamic forces to provide a measure of friction through the portions of the wellbore where said equipment travels. The sensing can be done near the source of friction, or at some distance through a mechanical connection. A method for determining depth and magnitude of downhole friction is also provided. Additionally, a method for applying the map of wellbore friction to the design and analysis of a rod actuated pump is presented.
US11525350B2
Disclosed is an acoustic sensor system comprising an electrical connector, at least one transducer connected to the electrical connector, a fluid compensating piston connected to the electrical connector, a housing having the electrical connector, the at least one transducer, and the fluid compensating piston arranged in a linear arrangement, and a collar having the housing mounted along an interior surface of the collar.
US11525348B2
A solids collector is disposed at an end of a tubing in a wellbore. At a top of the solids collector, a reservoir fluid stream carrying solids is separated into a solids-liquid stream that is reversed into an annulus in the solids collector and a gas stream that continues to move uphole in the wellbore. At an end of the annulus in the solids collector, the solids-liquid stream is separated into a liquid stream that moves up the tubing and solids that are accumulated in the solids collector.
US11525336B2
A nozzle for mitigating against solvent flashing in a solvent-assisted hydrocarbon extraction process comprises a fluid passage extending between an inlet and an outlet, wherein the fluid passage comprises a converging region, a throat, and a diverging region, and wherein at least the converging region is provided with a gradually reducing internal diameter. Preferably, the angle of convergence of the converging region is equal to or less than about 5 degrees.
US11525329B2
A plug for plugging wells, and in particular oil and gas wells, is provided. The plug has a plug body formed from an outer metal tube of a reduced thickness. The plug also has reinforcement means, attached to an inner surface of the outer tube, that give the plug a cross-sectional structural strength that is at least equivalent to that of a thicker metal tube. The plug has a central heater receiving void located along the axis of the plug to enable a plug deployment heater to be received therein. Also provided is a plug assembly with a variable cross-sectional area in a plane perpendicular to the plane in which the assembly is deployed during the plugging of underground conduits.
US11525323B2
An annular seal configured to prevent fluid from outside the wellbore from entering a well head stuffing box and tripping an anti-pollution control device. The seal comprising an elastomeric material and having a seam configured to allow the seal to installed on or in a stuffing box without dismantling well-head equipment.
US11525319B2
A gas operated setting tool comprising a piston rod and an outer tool assembly having a hollow interior within which the piston rod is disposed coaxially. The outer tool assembly comprises a top cap connected to the cylinder's upper end and a bottom connector connected to the cylinder's lower end. The piston rod comprises an upper section to which a firing head attaches and a lower section to which a setting adapter attaches. The piston section's exterior surface fits within and is sealed against the cylinder's interior surface. The piston rod has a hollow power charge chamber and port holes that open into the bottom connector's upper surface. A shear ring engages a counterpart surface feature to prevents axial movement of the outer tool assembly relative to the piston rod until the power charge has fired and sheared the shear ring.
US11525317B2
A fluid flow system may comprise an input line connected to a drilling system, one or more fluid flow lines connected to the input line, and an output line connected to the one or more fluid flow lines. The system may further include one or more valves disposed in each of the one or more fluid flow lines and one or more pressure sensors disposed in each of the one or more fluid flow lines. A method for controlling a fluid flow system may comprise moving a drilling fluid from a borehole into an input line of the fluid flow system, directing the drilling fluid through the input line into a fluid flow line, measuring a first pressure at a first pressure sensor in the fluid flow line, and measuring a second pressure at a second pressure sensor in the fluid flow line.
US11525307B2
A fluid pulse generator can include a fluid motor and a bypass flow path in fluid communication with an inlet and an outlet, and a flow control device configured to permit flow through the bypass flow path in response to a predetermined pressure differential applied across the flow control device. A method of generating fluid pulses can include flowing a fluid through a fluid pulse generator, thereby generating fluid pulses, and then applying a predetermined pressure differential from an inlet to an outlet of the fluid pulse generator, thereby permitting flow of the fluid through the fluid pulse generator without generating the fluid pulses. A fluid pulse generation system can include a fluid pulse generator with a fluid motor, a variable flow restrictor, and a bypass flow path. A predetermined pressure differential applied across the fluid motor permits the flow of the fluid through the bypass flow path.
US11525305B2
A ladder safety stabilizer is a telescopically adjustable device that attaches to the rung of a ladder on one end and to the building that the ladder is leaning against at the other end to prevent the feet of the ladder from sliding while a user is climbing, and to provide a second stabilization point in addition to the feet of the ladder to provide greater ladder stability, increased safety, and reduced accident risk.
US11525301B2
A window cover may include a cover body, a mounting feature, a first roll-up-securing feature, a second roll-up-securing feature, a pull-strap, and a weight. The cover body can be moved between a rolled-up position and a deployed position. The mounting feature may be secured to a first side of the cover body and can attach the cover body above a window. The first roll-up-securing feature is secured to a second side of the cover body. The second roll-up-securing feature is secured to the first side of the cover body and is configured to engage the first roll-up-securing feature to retain the cover body in the rolled-up position. The pull-strap may be attached to the first side of the cover body and is accessible when the cover body is in the rolled-up position.
US11525284B2
A lockout device is able to secure a door on a panel. The lockout device includes a housing and a flexible line. The housing has a first mounting portion adapted for securement to one side of the panel and the flexible line has on one end thereof a second mounting portion adapted for securement to another side of the panel from the first mounting portion. The housing further supports at least one line engagement element and the flexible line extends through at least a portion of the housing including the at least one line engagement element for selective engagement therewith. In use, the mounting portions may be affixed or attached to opposing sides or edges of the panel, the flexible line drawn taut, and the line engagement element(s) of the housing used to engage the flexible line to hold it in positon with respect to the housing.
US11525279B2
Handle device for operating doors, windows and the like. The handle device comprises a first element (3, 103), which is rotatable about an axis of rotation, a second element (8, 108), and a coupling device (10, 110) which is arranged to selectively allow and prevent relative rotation about the axis of rotation between the first and the second element. The coupling device comprises a first coupling member (11, 111) which is connected to or forming an integral part of the first element. A second coupling member (12) is connected to or forming an integral part of the second element (112). At least one engaging member (13, 13, 113, 114) is movable between an engagement position in which it simultaneously engages the first and the second coupling members to thereby prevent relative rotation between the first and second element and a release position in which it is disengaged from at least one of the first and second coupling members to thereby allow relative rotation between the first and second element. An actuator (22, 122) is arranged to move the engaging member between the engagement position and the release position. The engaging member (13, 14, 113, 114) is pivotally mounted to the first coupling member (11,111) and arranged to pivotally move between the engagement position and the release position.
US11525275B2
A reconfigurable vacuum attachment may include a bell-shaped housing. The bell-shaped housing may have a bell-opening and a hose-interface. The hose-interface may be configured to hydraulically couple with a vacuum hose. A skimmer-plate may be attachable to the bell-opening and include a skimmer-aperture extending through the skimmer-plate. The reconfigurable vacuum attachment may further include a removable brush assembly. The brush assembly may host a rotatable brush coupled to a brush driver. The brush driver may be configured to hydraulically couple with the vacuum hose and convert water flow into a torque and spin the bristles. A buoy may be attached to the housing allowing the reconfigurable vacuum attachment to be used as a pool skimmer. The reconfigurable vacuum attachment is useful for skimming a pool surface and dislodging and vacuuming matter from a pool wall.
US11525266B2
A snow and ice melt system for a roof may feature heat plates which protect and contact heat cable to distribute heat over a wider area than cable alone. Bends in the plates create attachment structures by which the plates are assembled and by which heat cable is contained.
US11525262B2
The present disclosure is directed to climbing wall assemblies having a variety of improvements. For instance, the climbing wall assemblies may include connectors to attach the surface panels to the framework, in which the connectors may be mounted substantially anywhere along the front of the framework and at substantially any angle, providing for the securement of climbing panels in various geometries. The climbing wall assemblies may also include braces that may easily be adjusted to a desired length and configuration during construction of a climbing wall. The climbing wall assemblies may also include variable-angle, integral front posts, which provide for the easy and stable securement of climbing panels in various geometries. These improvements provide climbing wall assemblies that may be easily assembled to produce a desirable climbing wall structure having few framework components.
US11525260B2
The disclosure presents a formwork system which utilizes Fiber Reinforced Polymer (FRP) panels to create modular segments to form and reinforce concrete subgrade structures. The segments may be rearranged and bonded together to conform to intended dimensions of many subgrade structures. The segments are manufactured by cast molding, bonding or vacuum forming. The segments may include integrated FRP stanchions to prevent deflection of the panels during concrete placement. The stanchions also may be used for positioning structural steel or FRP rebar. FRP bars are permanently bonded to the interior sides of the panels inside the segments. In use, the assembled segments are filled with concrete. After the concrete is cured, the segments remain in place and function as external protection and reinforcement for the cured concrete.
US11525256B2
An enclosure member for a building structure comprising a planar laminate having a first facing layer; a layer of foam having a first face and a second opposing face; and a second facing layer; where the first facing layer is fastened to the first face of the layer of foam, and the second facing layer is fastened to the second opposing face of the layer of foam. An edge of the enclosure is provided with a perimeter structure that can perform one or more of a sealing function, an edge reinforcement function and a pivotable joining function with another enclosure, in accordance with the particular embodiment.
US11525253B2
A first cleaning nozzle and a second cleaning nozzle configured to be capable of being advanced and retracted and perform private part cleaning on a human body in an advanced state; a shutter configured to open and close an opening through which the first cleaning nozzle and the second cleaning nozzle are advanced and retracted; and a shutter water film forming portion configured to supply water to a front surface of a shutter main body of the shutter to form a water film are provided.
US11525249B1
A top spray-water outlet device includes a top spray body, a switching device, clamping jaws, and elastic members. A water inlet, a shower water outlet and two top-spray water outlets are provided in the middle of an upper end of the top spray body. The water inlet is respectively connected to the shower water outlet and the top-spray water outlets. The switching device is arranged on one side above the top spray body. Upper and lower surfaces of the clamping jaw are respectively provided with a rotating shaft and a number of water outlet holes. The rotating shaft is rotatably fitted at the top-spray water outlet and is movably sealed. A water inlet hole is provided above the rotating shaft. The clamping jaws can function as a clamping mechanism to fix the hand shower and also as a water outlet device to spray water in this way.
US11525244B2
A display device for a shovel that includes an attachment including a boom, an arm, and an end attachment includes an operation analysis start input part and an operation analysis check input part. The operation analysis start input part is configured to be operated to start an operation analysis of the shovel and store the history of the operation analysis. The operation analysis check input part is configured to be operated to display the result of the operation analysis.
US11525238B2
A work machine includes a mechanical arm. A work implement is coupled to the mechanical arm to receive a load. A hydraulic actuator moves the arm between a lower position and an upper position, wherein a distance between the lower position and the upper position is a travel distance of the mechanical arm. A sensor unit is configured to sense the load in the work implement. A valve is in fluid communication with the hydraulic actuator for supplying a fluid output to the hydraulic actuator. A controller is in communication with the valve and the sensor unit. The controller is configured to transmit a control signal to the valve to adjust the fluid output to the hydraulic actuator. The controller is also configured to adjust the upper position to reduce the travel distance in response to the load being at or above a threshold value.
US11525232B2
A modular foundation support system includes modular foundation support components including self-aligning and torque transmitting coupler features wherein a plurality of axially elongated ribs are aligned with a plurality of axially elongated ribs to rotationally interlocke the modular foundation support components to one another.
US11525230B2
A method for the reduction of liquefaction potential within soil of a stratum located a distance deep below a foundation of a structure through the injection of a two-part polyurethane liquid forming a polymer foam.
US11525223B2
An aggregate spreading device includes a hopper, a conveyor system disposed below the hopper, and a spreader system extending from at least one side of the aggregate spreading device and configured to receive aggregate from the conveyor system. The spreader system includes a vertical support coupled to a frame of the aggregate spreading device, a first wall extending from a first end attached to the vertical support, and a second wall extending from a second end of the first wall. A lift actuator is configured to adjust the vertical placement of the spreader system and causing the first and second walls to move vertically.
US11525218B2
A barrier coating composition is disclosed including 30-70 weight-% of a styrene (meth)acrylate copolymer, polymerised in the presence of a stabiliser, and the styrene (meth)acrylate copolymer having a glass transition temperature Tg≤20° C., preferably ≤10° C., 30-70 weight-% of a polyvinyl alcohol, and at most 5.0 weight-% of a cross-linker, reacting with —OH or —COOH groups. Further disclosed is a sheet-like product coated with the coating composition.
US11525217B2
A coated paper or paperboard structure includes a paper or paperboard substrate and a basecoat applied to the paper or paperboard substrate to yield a basecoat outer surface. The basecoat includes a water-soluble polymer binder and pigment.
US11525215B2
A film is made from a wet laid product containing cellulose fibers and cellulose ester fibers and a plasticizer. The film can be made by heat pressing the wet laid sheet to form a film having a continuous phase of cellulose ester resin and a discontinuous phase of cellulose fibers.
US11525213B2
A method for producing an edge protector on a clothing for a machine producing or finishing a fibrous, paper, cardboard or tissue web, includes providing a clothing formed substantially from a woven fabric with crossing weft and warp threads and opposite side edges, applying a film strip onto a surface of one side edge and, immediately before bringing the film strip into contact with the clothing, surfaces of the film strip and the clothing facing each other are heated to slightly melt the surfaces. A pressing force exerted on the film strip applied to the surface of one of the side edges, results in the film strip penetrating at least partially into the woven fabric. That side edge of the clothing with the film strip is cooled, resulting in a stable, particularly integrally joined and form-locking connection between the film strip and the side edge of the clothing.
US11525200B2
A water reuse system and controller for controlling water levels, temperature, and quality in the rinse water reuse system and methods of using the same, in order to optimize water usage. More particularly, the application pertains to a controller and methods of using the controller to regulate water levels and water quality in a water reuse system. As part of detailing the controller and methods of using the same, an apparatus for a water reuse system is also provided.
US11525182B2
A steel sheet is provided with a coating having at least one layer of zinc and a top layer of paint applied by cataphoresis. The zinc layer is deposited by a jet vapor deposition process in a deposition chamber maintained at a pressure between 6·10−2 mbar and 2·10−1 mbar. A fabrication method and an installation are also provided.
US11525168B2
A cored wire for refining molten metal includes a reactive core material that is in the form of a solid rod. A non-reactive particulate material radially surrounds the solid core material, and an exterior metal jacket radially surrounds the particulate material. The particulate material may include wood or other material that when introduced into the molten metal, undergoes thermal decomposition to release carbon dioxide, hydrocarbons, or combinations thereof as a shroud around the core material.
US11525165B2
The present invention relates to a method of treatment and method of therapy selection for patient suffering from cancer. The inventors provide the first demonstration of a dual role of IRE1 downstream signaling in cancer. Indeed, the inventors demonstrate that the modulation of IRE1 signaling characteristics in GBM cells controls tumor aggressiveness. Furthermore, the inventors provide evidence supporting a novel concept where IRE-downstream signals play combined/integrated roles in cancer development, where XBP1s provides pro-tumoral signals, whereas RIDD of mRNA and miR17 rather elicits anti-tumoral features. Their data, obtained using established cell lines, patient tumor samples and primary GBM lines, depict a complex scenario where IRE1 signaling orchestrates distinct aspects of GBM biology. In particular, the invention relates to a method for predicting whether a subject will be eligible to a treatment with an IRE1 RNase inhibitor.
US11525157B2
Disclosed herein are methods and systems for correcting errors in sample amplification, including the errors occurred in determining the number of targets in samples. In some embodiments, the method comprises: stochastically barcoding a plurality of targets in the samples using oligonucleotides comprising stochastic barcodes to generate stochastically barcoded targets; contacting one or more defined barcoded primers with each of the one or more samples; and determining an amplification noise.
US11525153B2
Described herein are methods, systems, and non-transitory computer-readable media to non-destructively acquire three-dimensional profiles of cellular microbiological samples growing on the surface of a solid growth medium. Acquisitions can be performed by an optical microscope that includes a vertical scanning interferometer. The three-dimensional profiles can enable measurement of sample parameters of microcolonies, which can be made of microbial colony forming units. The methods and systems enable early and rapid detection and quantification of microbes.
US11525148B2
This document relates to using bidirectional, multi-enzymatic scaffolds to biosynthesize cannabinoids in recombinant hosts.
US11525138B2
The invention relates to double-stranded ribonucleic acid (dsRNA) compositions targeting the ANGPTL3 gene, as well as methods of inhibiting expression of ANGPTL3 and methods of treating subjects having a disorder of lipid metabolism, such as hyperlipidemia or hypertriglyceridemia, using such dsRNA compositions.
US11525137B2
Disclosed herein are polynucleic acid molecules, pharmaceutical compositions, and methods for treating Facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy.
US11525119B2
Embodiments disclosed here are production methods and compositions of engineered immune cells, such as B or T lymphocytes, from limited lineage myeloid progenitor cells, or from pluripotent stem cells, or from multilineage hematopoietic progenitor cells comprising the addition of various cell differentiation transcription factors and inhibiting epigenetic histone methylations in said cells.
US11525117B2
The present disclosure relates to microbial stem cell technology that enables a growing microbial culture to stably maintain two or more distinct cell types in a ratio that can be genetically programmed and/or dynamically controlled during cultivation. It is contemplated that embodiments described herein can be utilized to increase product yield in microbial fermentations and advanced engineering of biomaterials using genetically engineered microbial cells, among others.
US11525109B2
The invention concerns a strain of Saccharomyces bayanus subsp. uvarum identified as SERIUS and deposited at the DBVPG with deposit number 36P. The invention further concerns the use of the strain of Saccharomyces bayanus subsp. uvarum identified as SERIUS (DBVPG 36P) as a food inoculate in the production of foods obtained through alcoholic fermentation, and a selection method for yeast strains of the group Saccharomyces adapted to alcoholic fermentation, particularly of grape, consisting of an isolation step for such yeasts from flowers.
US11525102B2
The disclosure relates to a biobased metal-working fluid (MWF) composition and method for making same, and more particularly metal-working fluid with biobased lubricants with improved emulsion stability. At least 50 wt. % of the base oil component in the MWF concentrate is a plant-derived liquid decarboxylated rosin acid oil (“DCR”). The DCR comprises 50 to 100 wt. % of tricyclic compounds having 18-20 carbon atoms, one or more C═C groups, and m/z (mass/charge) value of 220-280; an oxygen content of <5%; a density of 0.9 to 1.0 g/cm3 at 20° C.; and an acid value of <10 mg KOH/g. The resulting MWF is characterized as having comparable if not better performance compared to a MWF containing only mineral oil (e.g., Group I or Group II).
US11525100B2
The incorporation of highly refined, low viscosity index base oils along with a polymeric thickener produces a final readily biodegradable fluid with a significantly high viscosity. The present invention allows the formulation of a high viscosity readily biodegradable fluid where the vast majority of the fluid is mineral oil. Previous uses of mineral oils only allowed for formulation of substantially lower viscosity readily biodegradable fluids.
US11525089B2
Coke oven corbel structures are provided with a multiple number of stacked refractory slabs defining a corresponding multiple number of tiers of the corbel structure, The multiple number of stacked refractory slabs define a pair of substantially vertically oriented central fuel gas passageways and pairs of combustion air passageways laterally of a respective one of the central fuel gas passageways. A plurality of vertically stacked fuel gas blocks each defining a central fuel gas conduit may be positioned within each of the central fuel gas passageways.
US11525076B2
The present disclosure provides a composition comprising a refrigerant characterized by having a coefficient of performance (COP) and a refrigerating capacity equivalent to or higher than those of R404A, and having a sufficiently low GWP. Specifically, the present disclosure provides a composition comprising a refrigerant, the refrigerant comprising trans-1,2-difluoroethylene (HFO-1132 (E)) and 2,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene (HFO-1234yf), wherein HFO-1132 (E) is present in an amount of 35.0 to 65.0 mass %, and HFO-1234yf is present in an amount of 65.0 to 35.0 mass %, based on the total mass of HFO-1132 (E) and HFO-1234yf, and wherein the refrigerant is for use in operating a refrigeration cycle in which the evaporation temperature is −75 to −5° C.
US11525072B2
A chemical mechanical polishing (CMP) slurry composition includes an oxidant including oxygen, and an abrasive particle having a core structure encapsulated by a shell structure. The core structure includes a first compound and the shell structure includes a second compound different from the first compound, where a diameter of the core structure is greater than a thickness of the shell structure, and where the first compound is configured to react with the oxidant to form a reactive oxygen species.
US11525066B2
A flake-less molecular ink suitable for printing (e.g. screen printing) conductive traces on a substrate has 30-60 wt % of a C8-C12 silver carboxylate and 0.1-10 wt % of a polymeric binder, or 5-75 wt % of bis(2-ethyl-1-hexylamine) copper (II) formate, bis(octylamine) copper (II) formate or tris(octylamine) copper (II) formate and 0.25-10 wt % of a polymeric binder, and balance of at least one organic solvent, wherein the binder has ethyl cellulose, and the ethyl cellulose has an average weight molecular weight in a range of 60,000-95,000 g/mol and a bimodal molecular weight distribution.
US11525062B2
A modified pigment for radiation curable gravure ink, comprising a pigment and inorganic oxide nanoparticles coated on the surface of the pigment, wherein the DBP oil absorption is 150 ml/100 g-250 ml/100 g, the particle size is 0.01 μm-1 μm, and the pH value is 4.5-10.
US11525054B2
A multiple component anhydride-free, thermosetting epoxy resin composition comprising, (A) at least one epoxy resin, and (B) at least one curing agent selected from the group of (b1) a polyetheramine of the formula (1) (Formula (1)), wherein x is a number of from 2 to 8, and (b2) a polyetheramine with at least one terminal end group of the formula (2) (Formula (2)), and (C) at least one epoxy silane, is, in particular, suitable for the manufacture of instrument transformers and dry-type transformers by casting, potting and encapsulation processes, wherein said articles exhibit good mechanical, electrical and dielectrical properties.
US11525050B2
A polymer composition is provided with improved stress whitening resistance, having at least one thermoplastic polymer material and a dielectric liquid. A process for preparing the polymer composition, a cable having at least one electrically insulating layer obtained from the polymer composition, and a process for preparing the cable are also provided.
US11525042B2
The invention is directed to a composite material comprising a biofabricated material and a secondary component. The secondary component may be a porous material, such as a sheet of paper, cellulose, or fabric that has been coated or otherwise contacted with the biofabricated material. The biofabricated material comprises a uniform network of crosslinked collagen fibrilsand provides strength, elasticity and an aesthetic appearance to the composite material.
US11525041B2
A process for the synthesis of a granular polymer, the process comprising (a) providing an active polymerization mixture that includes polymer, monomer, catalyst and optional solvent; (b) introducing a hydroxy-containing diaryl acetyl compound to the active polymerization mixture to thereby provide an inactive polymer mixture; (c) separating the polymer solution into a first stream and a second stream, where the first stream includes the polymer and the hydroxy-containing diaryl acetyl compound, and the second stream includes the monomer and the optional solvent; and (d) fabricating granules from the first stream.
US11525030B2
A method for preparing a biogenic guanidine complex, the method including: mixing dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) with water in a volume ratio thereof of 1:1 to yield a solvent DMSO-H2O; adding organic guanidine (G) and a compound MX2 in a molar ratio G/MX2=1:1 or 2:1 to the solvent DMSO-H2O, where the organic guanidine (G) is selected from arginine (Arg), guanidinoacetic acid (Gaa), creatine (Cra), creatinine (Cran), guanine (Gua), and agmatine (Agm); M represents Fe2+, Mg2+, or Zn2+; and X represents Cl−, CH3COO−, or CH3CH(OH)COO−; stirring the solvent DMSO-H2O containing the organic guanidine and the compound MX2; recycling the solvent DMSO-H2O through vacuum distillation and obtaining a solid; transferring the solid to a Buchner funnel, and washing the solid with deionized water and ethanol consecutively; and removing the deionized water and ethanol through vacuum filtration, and drying the solid. Biogenic guanidine complex can be used for production of Polyethylene terephthalate or Poly(ethylene isophthalate-co-terephthalate).
US11525017B2
A slurry polymerization process for the preparation of polyethylene in a reactor cascade of two or more polymerization reactors wherein monomers are polymerized in the polymerization reactors which include a reactor outlet arranged in each reactor bottom for feeding a reactor slurry to a subsequent polymerization reactor and for emptying the polymerization reactor.
US11525016B2
Provided herein are purified hemicellulose compositions, sweetener compositions including purified hemicellulose compositions, as well as methods for making the same. Also provided are uses of the compositions.
US11525005B2
Provided are an anti-CD40 antibody, an antigen binding fragment thereof, and a medical use thereof. Also provided are a chimeric antibody and a humanized antibody including a CDR region of the anti-CD40 antibody, a pharmaceutical composition including the human anti-CD40 antibody and the antigen binding fragment thereof, and an application thereof as an anti-cancer drug. In particular, provided are a humanized anti-CD40 antibody, and an application thereof in preparation of a drug to treat a CD40-mediated disease or disorder.
US11525004B2
Disclosed are compositions and methods for targeted treatment of CD123-expressing cancers. In particular, recombinant antibodies are disclosed that are able to engage T-cells to destroy CD123-expressing malignant cells.
US11525002B2
The present disclosure is directed to antibodies binding to PD-L1 and methods of using such antibodies to treat cancers, such as those that express or overexpress PD-L1.
US11525001B2
Anti-CD8 antibodies, radiolabeled anti-CD8 antibodies, fluorescently labeled anti-CD8 antibodies and their use in imaging are provided herein. Included are methods of detecting the presence of CD8 proteins in a subject or sample.
US11525000B2
The invention provides antagonistic and agonistic anti-human VISTA antibodies and antibody fragments. These antagonist antibodies and antibody fragments may be used to inhibit or block VISTA's suppressive effects on T cell immunity and thereby promote T cell immunity. These agonist antibodies and antibody fragments may be used to potentiate or enhance or mimic VISTA's suppressive effects on T cell immunity and thereby suppress T cell immunity. These antagonist antibodies and antibody fragments are especially useful in the treatment of cancer and infectious conditions. These agonist antibodies and antibody fragments are especially useful in the treatment of autoimmunity, allergy, inflammatory conditions, GVHD, sepsis and transplant recipients. Screening assays for identifying these agonists are also provided.
US11524993B2
Binding molecules, including bispecific antibodies that include at least two anti-influenza binding domains are disclosed, including binding molecules having a first binding domain that specifically binds influenza A virus and a second binding domain that specifically binds influenza B virus.
US11524992B2
Provided herein are polypeptides which include tenth fibronectin type III domains (10Fn3) that bind to glypican-3. Also provided are fusion molecules comprising a 10Fn3 domain that bind to glypican-3 for use in diagnostic and therapeutic applications. Glypican-3 10Fn3 drug conjugates are also provided.
US11524989B2
The present invention provides novel compounds comprising an antigen of AML cells, and uses thereof.
US11524974B2
Method of forming colloidal lignin particles, comprising the step of dissolving lignin in a mixture of organic solvents, feeding of the said solution into water, and forming acolloidal dispersion of lignin. The used solvents are recovered with methods such as distillation and reused in the process. Water is removed from the colloidal dispersion by ultrafiltration and reused in the process. The concentrated colloidal dispersion is dried by spray drying. The invention can be used in applications where the colloidal nature of lignin will afford an advantage over bulk lignin.
US11524973B2
Described herein are metal compounds and methods of fabricating semiconductor devices using the same. The metal compounds include a material of Chemical Formula 1.
US11524964B2
The present disclosure relates to processes for preparing (3S,4R)-3-ethyl-4-(3H-imidazo[1,2-a]pyrrolo[2,3-e]pyrazin-8-yl)-N-(2,2,2-trifluoroethyl)pyrrolidine-1-carboxamide, solid state forms thereof, and corresponding pharmaceutical compositions, methods of treatment (including treatment of rheumatoid arthritis and various spondyloarthritic conditions, including types of axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA)), kits, methods of synthesis, and products-by-process. In various aspects, provided are methods for treating active non-radiographic axSpA (nr-axSpA) and methods for treating active ankylosing spondylitis (AS).
US11524962B2
Substituted pyrrolo[2,3-d]pyrimidines as inhibitors of protein arginine methyl transferase 5 (PRMT5)
The disclosure is directed to compounds of Formula (I) and Formula (II). Formula (I) and Formula (II) and pharmaceutically acceptable salts or solvates thereof. Pharmaceutical compositions comprising compounds of Formula (I) or Formula (II), as well as methods of their use and preparation, are also described.
US11524960B2
The present disclosure provides for compounds according to Formula I or Formula II and their pharmaceutically acceptable salts, stereoisomers, and/or tautomers thereof. Also provided are pharmaceutical compositions and the compounds of formulae I and II for use in methods of treating cancers, via inhibition of MAT2A, including some cancers in which the gene encoding methylthioadenosine phosphorylase (MTAP) is deleted and/or not fully functioning.
US11524957B2
The present invention provides processes and synthetic intermediates for the synthesis of 2-[(2S)-1-azabicyclo[2.2.2]oct-2-yl]-6-(3-methyl-1H-pyrazol-4-yl)thieno[3,2-d]pyrimidin-4 {3H)-one or a salt, hydrate, or tautomer thereof, or any combination thereof, which are Cdc7 kinase inhibitors, and are useful for the treatment of disorders of cell proliferation, particularly cancer, and other disorders associated with Cdc7 activity.
US11524956B2
The invention provides alkyne substituted quinazoline compounds, such as compounds of the formula (I), which are irreversible ErbB kinase inhibitors. The compounds are useful in the treatment of diseases and disorders where ErbB kinase activity is implicated such as a hyperproliferative disorder (e.g., cancer).
US11524949B2
Pharmaceutical Degraders and Degrons for use in therapeutic applications are described herein.
US11524936B2
A chemical compound of formula (I), and specific compositions including 3-methylthiopropionaldehyde, 3-methylthiopropane-1,1-diol, a compound of formula I and water, and processes for producing same and also the use of same may be used for the production of 2-hydroxy-4-(methylthio)butyronitrile, methionine hydantoin, methionine. Protected forms may be used for the storage and/or transport of 3-methylthiopropionaldehyde.
US11524935B2
The invention is directed to a method of treating attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in a subject, comprising administering a therapeutically effective amount of a carbamoyl compound, or pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof.
US11524929B2
Provided is a method with which an α-allylated cycloalkanone is obtained from a cyclic compound cycloalkanone used as a starting material. The method is a method for producing an α-allylated cycloalkanone represented by General Formula (III), and the method includes: a step 1: reacting a compound represented by General Formula (I) and alcohol having 1 or more and 4 or less of carbon atoms in the presence of a first acid catalyst and optionally a dehydrating agent; and a step 2: reacting a crude product obtained in the step 1 and a compound represented by General Formula (II) in the presence of a second acid catalyst to produce an α-allylated cycloalkanone represented by General Formula (III). The step 1 and the step 2 are consecutively performed. In the formulae above, the group -A1- (it should be noted that the front bond refers to a bond that binds to the carbon atom C1 and the back bond refers to a bond that binds to the carbon atom C2) is an alkylene group having 4 or more and 20 or less of carbon atoms that optionally contains a hetero atom and optionally has a substituent, and R4 is a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group having 1 or more and 4 or less of carbon atoms.
US11524920B2
An optical fiber coating apparatus that provides increased gyre stability and reduced gyre strength, thereby providing a more reliable coating application process during fiber drawing includes a cone-only coating die having a conical entrance portion with a tapered wall angled at a half angle α, wherein 2°≤α≤25°, and a cone height L1 less than 2.2 mm, and a cylindrical portion having an inner diameter of d2, wherein 0.1 mm≤d2≤0.5 mm and a cylindrical height of L2, wherein 0.05 mm≤L2≤1.25 mm; a guide die having an optical fiber exit, the guide die disposed adjacent the cone-only coating die such that a wetted length (L5) between the optical fiber exit of the guide die and the entrance of the cone-only coating die is from 1 mm to 5 mm; and a holder for holding the cone-only coating die and the guide die in a fixed relationship defining a coating chamber between the guide die and the cone-only coating die, the coating chamber having an inner radius L6 from the optical fiber axis to an inner wall of the holder that is from 3 mm to 10 mm.
US11524918B2
Glass fibers formed from the inventive composition may be used in applications that require high stiffness and have a specific modulus between 34 and 40 MJ/kg. Such applications include woven fabrics for use in forming wind turbine blades and aerospace structures.
US11524914B1
A method and apparatus for forming a container parison and container are disclosed. The method of forming a container parison in accordance with one aspect of the disclosure includes receiving molten glass in a forming mold having an open upper end, an open lower end, a forming chamber between the open upper and lower ends; supporting the molten glass in the forming mold at the open lower end thereof; and pressing the molten glass in the forming mold with a plunger to form a parison suspended downwardly from the neck finish and out of the open lower end of the mold.
US11524908B2
A reject valve of a reverse osmosis device, which is especially suited for brackish water reverse osmosis devices, which require a low system pressure less than 15bar. The valve keeps the system pressure substantially constant in a pre-defined range of the reject volume. The size of the inflow channel is adjusted by a spring-operated cone, which never entirely closes the channel, which forms a constant throttle until the pressure of the inflow has risen to approximately three quarters of the pressure arranged by the spring and prevailing at maximum volume of the reject flow. This operation is arranged structurally such that onto the shaft of the cone is fixedly supported a transverse plate abutting the inner wall of the body, which as pressed by the compression spring is supported by the end of an element connected to the end of the body, wherein the cone is in its lowest position.
US11524904B2
A method of rapid treatment of heavy metal sludge and preparation of ferrite magnets comprises following steps of: providing a sludge, the sludge at least having zinc metal and ferrous metal; adding an iron-containing substance to the sludge; pickling the sludge and the iron-containing substance with sulfuric acid to obtain a pickling solution with zinc ions and iron ions; neutralizing the pickling solution with sodium hydroxide to form hydroxide precipitates; and airing and heating the neutralized pickling solution by an ultrasonic-microwave method so that the hydroxide precipitates undergoing a ferrite magnet reaction, thereby obtaining ferrite magnets with a spathic structure.
US11524899B2
Disclosed is a system and method related to removal of carbon from carbon dioxide via the use of plasma arc heating techniques. The method involves generating C atoms and H atoms from CxHy. The method involves generating graphite and H2 from the C atoms and H atoms, and extracting the graphite. The method involves quenching the H2 with CxHy. The method involves receiving, at a generator, the quenched the H2 and CYHy and generating electricity. The method involves generating a concentrated stream of H2 from the quenched H2 and CxHy. The method involves receiving CO2 and the concentrated stream of H2 and generating C, O, and H atoms. The method involves receiving the C, O, and H atoms and generating graphite, wherein the graphite is extracted. In the hydrocarbon CxHy: x is an integer 1, 2, 3, . . . , and y=2x+2.
US11524894B2
A process and a plant are proposed for producing a synthesis gas including hydrogen and carbon oxides by partial oxidation of carbon-containing fuel in the presence of an oxygen-containing oxidant and a moderator, wherein the obtained raw synthesis gas is laden with soot particles. According to the invention the cooling of the raw synthesis gas is carried out using a crossflow heat exchanger, a shell and tube heat exchanger or a spiral heat exchanger, wherein the carbon-containing input stream or the oxidant stream or the moderator stream or a plurality of these streams serve as the first coolant and are thus preheated before introduction into the partial oxidation plant.
US11524891B2
A microfabricated structure includes a perforated stator; a first isolation layer on a first surface of the perforated stator; a second isolation layer on a second surface of the perforated stator; a first membrane on the first isolation layer; a second membrane on the second isolation layer; and a pillar coupled between the first membrane and the second membrane, wherein the first isolation layer includes a first tapered edge portion having a common surface with the first membrane, wherein the second isolation layer includes a first tapered edge portion having a common surface with the second membrane, and wherein an endpoint of the first tapered edge portion of the first isolation layer is laterally offset with respect to an endpoint of the first tapered edge portion of the second isolation layer.
US11524888B1
A system for recovering fuel vapor during delivery of fuel by a mobile fueler includes a storage tank covered with a layer of insulation, a supply pump connected to the storage tank for delivering fuel therefrom, and a fuel dispensing assembly, preferably a coaxial hose and nozzle, including a supply outlet for delivering fuel to a vehicle being fueled, and a vapor recovery inlet proximate the supply outlet. A diverter valve diverts a portion of the fuel in the supply line, and a vacuum jet pump is connected to the storage tank and, by a vapor line, to the vapor recovery inlet, which is driven by the diverted fuel to create a vacuum in the vapor line to draw vapor into the vapor recovery inlet, through the vapor line, and into the storage tank.
US11524887B2
A liquid container tilting apparatus designed for household and commercial use; made from a resilient material, capable of automatically tilting to a maximum tilt angle to optimize the draining of the last 1-6 cups of liquid from the container. As the liquid from the container drains, the tilting angle increases. The tilting apparatus is made of a base, a platform lever and a basket. The platform lever is part of the base. The basket holds the liquid container securely to the platform lever. The liquid container tilting apparatus can be cleaned and stored inside the liquid container or hung.
US11524865B2
Systems, apparatuses, and methods are described for a vertical platform lift assembly control system are disclosed. The control system may provide a method for monitoring sensors for the vertical platform lift, and may determine operating modes and fault conditions from the sensor data. An indicator system for the vertical platform lift may provide user feedback based on sensor data and the status of the control system.
US11524855B2
In some examples, a sheet processing machine includes at least one sensor device that includes at least two sensors configured as a camera. The sheet processing machine further includes at least one infeed system. The at least one sensor device is configured to control, by open-loop control and/or closed-loop control, at least one servo drive of the infeed system as a function of at least one sheet of sheets being detected by the at least two sensors. The at least two sensors are configured to selectively detect at least one edge and/or printing mark of the sheets. Some examples likewise relate to a method for controlling, by open-loop control and/or closed-loop control, at least one component of a sheet processing machine.
US11524852B2
A pull-in apparatus configured to pull in a unit toward a predetermined position in an apparatus body includes an arm member, a restriction member, a first action portion and a second action portion. The restriction member is movable between a lock position at which the restriction member restricts movement of the arm member in a first direction and a lock-release position at which the restriction member allows the movement of the arm member in the first direction. Movement of the restriction member from the lock position toward the lock-release position is restricted in a state in which the arm member is at a stand-by position, and is allowed in a state in which the arm member has been moved from the stand-by position in a second direction.
US11524851B2
A system for transporting containers using heavy goods vehicles having a separate operating region in which the heavy goods vehicles can be operated includes at least one first lane for at least one external heavy goods vehicle, and at least one second lane for at least one internal heavy goods vehicle are reserved in the separate operating region. The heavy goods vehicles can be operated together in a mixed traffic situation, and the first and second lanes are each guided through a transition region of a handling unit of a storage region and each arranged laterally in relation tothe storage region.
US11524848B2
In a method for determining the elongation of segments of a chain of a chain drive during operation, a plurality of measured values is determined at different positions of the chain. A plurality of length values is determined from the plurality of measured values and a position of the segments of the chain is determined. The length values are assigned to the segments of the chain, with the length of the segments of the chain being smaller than the length of the chain.
US11524844B2
A storage system is disclosed where goods can be stored in containers and the containers are stored in stacks. Above the stacks runs a grid network of rails (e.g., tracks) on which load handling devices can run. To take containers from the stacks and deposit then at alternative locations in the stacks or deposit then at stations where goods may be picked. The framework may be provided with one or more of the following exemplary services: power, power control, heating, lighting, cooling, sensors, and data logging devices. The provision of these services within the framework rather than across the system as a whole, can allow for flexibility in storage whilst reducing cost and inefficiency.
US11524842B2
An embodiment relates to a trash collection device comprising a trash receptacle with a unique identification and an opening to receive a class of trash; an identification scanner for recognizing a user; a trash item counter; a fill level sensor; a display configured to interact with the user; a compactor; a solar panel configured to charge a battery; a data communicator configured to communicate date to a cloud storage; a processor configured to generate incentive for the user; wherein the trash collection device is configured to be modular and configurable to connect with another similar trash collection device to enable to collect additional trash class and is configured to interact with each other through a common software. The device, method and system are further used to generate recycling analytics by using the stored data to provide incentives to users and to facilitate planning of downstream operations.
US11524833B2
An insulating container can be configured to retain a volume of liquid, and include a canister having a first inner wall having a first end having an opening extending into an internal reservoir, and a second outer wall forming an outer shell. The opening can be sealed by a spout adapter, the spout adapter having a spout channel extending between the internal reservoir and a spout opening, smaller than the opening of the canister. The spout opening may be sealed with a cap having a magnetic top surface, and the spout adapter may be further removably coupled to a lid that may be used as a cup into which a volume of the liquid can be poured.
US11524818B2
A one-piece molded container comprising a lid and a container body is provided. The container body and lid are connected by a living hinge. The container body has interior protrusions extending from a bottom portion in an interior of the container body to limit nesting of the containers. The container body has a recess on a bottom portion on an exterior portion of the container and a dual-prong lid-locking mechanism, the lid-locking mechanism including a first prong, a second prong being a tamper-evident tearaway portion, and a protrusion extending downwardly from an interior portion of the lid.
US11524798B2
A ducted fan unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) docking station is provided. The docking station comprises: a guide sized to receive a ducted fan UAV; and a housing communicatively coupled to the guide. The housing comprises: a storage assembly comprising: at least one compartment sized to store the UAV; and at least one dampening system coupled to the at least one storage compartment for cushioning the UAV.
US11524779B2
The invention relates to an aircraft for takeoff and landing on water or on land. The aircraft comprises a fuselage and a spring-mounted landing gear. Landing gear wheels are mountable on the landing gear for takeoff and landing on land. Furthermore, the aircraft comprises a floating device coupleable to the landing gear of the aircraft via a connecting device. The floating device is configured such that the hydrostatic lifting force of the floating device is greater than the maximum takeoff weight of the aircraft.
US11524775B2
A rotor-wing assembly includes a motor, a propeller, and a connection assembly connecting the propeller to the motor. The motor includes a rotating portion. The connection assembly includes a locking member and a reinforcing member arranged between the propeller and the motor. The locking member locks the propeller to the rotating portion. A first end of the reinforcing member is mounted at the rotating portion. A second end of the reinforcing member opposite to the first end is engaged with the locking member, to reinforce the locking member to lock the propeller to the rotating portion.
US11524774B2
The present invention provides a power device generating greater propelling force and finds that traditional power devices do not include all propelling forces based on the fundamental core propelling force source problem. External pressure is guided to the traditional power devices since the inner speed is higher the outer speed, power consumption for overcoming fluid resistance is high, and mutual contradiction results are obtained. The unique difference between the present invention and general common sense lies in opposite fluid pressure directions; inner fluid channels and outer fluid channels with higher flow speeds are formed to generate pressure differences which guides the fluid pressure to the outside and serve as propelling force, and thus the present invention creatively finds three propelling force sources, two lifting force or propelling force sources of helicopters or airplanes driven by propellers and two propelling force sources for sufficient burning of fuel in combustion chambers of engines.
US11524773B2
A drone includes a surrounding cage which can be disassembled from a propeller-carrying internal base. In another aspect, a drone includes at least one fastening clip which attaches arcuate external ribs to a periphery of a central and internal frame, whereafter the fastening clip can be removed for disassembly of the ribs from the frame. Yet another aspect provides a flying drone employs a fastening clip including a snap fit and a generally U-shaped body. A further embodiment has a flying drone with at least one light externally mounted adjacent a periphery of a central propeller-carrying base, located between a pair of external ribs.
US11524772B1
Apparatus and associated methodology contemplating an emergency flotation system for floating a flying machine on a body of water. The system includes a water sensor mounted to the flying machine. An inflation device is configured to produce an appropriate amount of pressurized gas in response to the water sensor detecting a presence of water. An inflatable flotation device is in fluid communication with the inflation device, to receive the pressurized gas and thereby become inflated. The flotation device is configured, when inflated, to impart a buoyant force to the flying machine in the water.
US11524770B2
A panel for an active laminar flow control arrangement may comprise a longitudinal wall and one or more division walls extending from the longitudinal wall and extending between the first end and the second end. The panel may be coupled to a nacelle outer skin via a plurality of adhesive fasteners pre-installed onto an inner surface of the outer skin and onto stiffeners and/or stringers associated with the outer skin.
US11524763B2
An example floor panel for a flooring system in a passenger vehicle includes a top sheet, a bottom sheet, a body situated between the top sheet and the bottom sheet, and an interlocking feature that extends outward from the body for slidably engaging an adjacent floor panel. An example flooring system in a passenger vehicle includes a first set of floor panels including panels rigidly attached to a structure of the passenger vehicle, and a second set of floor panels and each floor panel of the second set of floor panels has an interlocking feature for slidably engaging an adjacent floor panel and for enabling lateral relative motion to occur and restricting vertical relative motion between panels of the second set of floor panels and a respective adjacent floor panel.
US11524758B2
A paddle assistance and propulsion system for use with personal watercraft is disclosed. The paddle assistance and propulsion system may include different mounting techniques that allow a propulsion device (e.g., a motor) to be coupled to various types of personal watercraft. Some mounting techniques may include the use of magnets to couple a motor-side mount to a boat-side mount. The paddle assistance and propulsion system may also utilize a variety of sensors in combination with control systems to provide various types of paddle assistance and different types of paddle assistance modes for the user of the personal watercraft.
US11524757B1
A field configurable autonomous vehicle includes modular elements and attachable components. The vehicle can be assembled from these modular elements and components to meet desired mission and performance characteristics without the need to purchase specially designed vehicles for each mission. The vehicle can include a mechanisms that magnetically attaches to a ferry vehicle for transport to the location of use.
US11524754B2
The invention provides a light guide element comprising a light guide and a layer element, wherein the light guide comprises a light guide face and wherein the layer element comprises an optical layer, wherein said optical layer is in contact with at least part of the light guide face, wherein the optical layer has a first index of refraction (n1) smaller than the refractive index of seawater, wherein the light guide comprises a UV radiation transmissive light guide material.
US11524751B2
The present disclosure generally pertains to a lateral displacement surf system and methods of laterally displacing a watercraft to generate wake. The lateral displacement system includes at least one pair of foils configured to be extended from a hull on a first side of the watercraft at a level of approximately the waterline. Upon forward movement of the watercraft with extended foils, the watercraft is rotated about its vertical axis toward the first side and generates waves sufficient for the conduction watersport activities on a second side of the watercraft. In some instances, foils are built into the hull and extended from this position, while in other instances the foils are attached to the hull using attachment structures. Rotation of the foils about an axis of rotation approximately perpendicular to a longitudinal axis of the watercraft alters the angle of attack of the foils relative to the waterline.
US11524741B2
A sensor wheel for a human-powered vehicle comprises a wheel body and an attachment part. The wheel body is configured to be rotatable relative to a vehicle body of the human-powered vehicle about a rotational axis along with a rotational hub of the human-powered vehicle. The wheel body includes a plurality of openings spaced apart from each other in a circumferential direction with respect to the rotational axis. The attachment part is configured to be operatively coupled to the rotational hub. At least one opening of the plurality of openings has a radial length defined radially with respect to the rotational axis. The radial length is equal to or larger than 8 mm.
